Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1877, Page 2

, that Beceher was to preach. 'THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNIS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1877, BEECHER. The Sermon Preached Yester-, day by the Eloquent ' Divine. foody's Charch Hore than Filled to Over- llowing o Hear and See Mim. " Hundreds of Disappointed Men and ' Women Turned Away, Ho Speaks at Great Length on the Kingdom of God. On Churches, Their Creeds, and the Duty of Men and Women. A Bwarm of Brilliant Similes and Mirth-Provoking Iilustrations, AT THE CIHURCIL , AN TMMENSE CONUREGATION. Moody in his paluicst Chicago days scarcely drew a larger crowd than did the announcement A great, oyer whelming curiosity foll upon the city, and peo- ple of highaud low degree pourcd out tohearthe pulpit orator. It is improbable that a plons aux- fety to hear the Word of God, as expounded by tho theological hero, Is to be held responsible for the masses that thronged the thoroughfares. Al roads led to the Chleago Avenue Church, and almcst all tho faces wero turned toward the edifice. It may have ocearred to some of tho multitude that no ono bullding would hold so many applicants for grace, but each applicant had unllmited confidence In his or ber ability to push and shove, and so they struggled on untit ho bullding was reached, and they were stopued « by tho huge, unsympathctic doors. 1t was advertised that the }wruh would be opencd at :30, but an hour beforethat tinothe stout wooden wates trembled aud shook as the crowds surged sgainst them. The godly and + godless, the salnt an®siuner, the unco® good and the unconverted, jammed, and shoved, and trampled upon cach other’s corns, There was 1o acparating the lambs from the goats. The * hellever and the mocker, tho faithful and the skeptic, were hustled together and shaken up, until discrimination became Impracticabla and and they stood on a level planc. It was A grand ovation” to the preacher’s popularity ou the ‘peculfar side of hls reputatlon, but it can scarce- Jy be looked upon, even by the most unctious, asa great testimonial to” the workiogs of the Teylval, When at Jast the doors were opened, the audl- torlum and golleries were tilled to overflowing in ten minutes. Bmall chance there was for the man or dame who belleved in o decorous en- trance to the house of worship. “ After all,” said Beechier, in ono of his ser- mons dellvered 1o his palmier days, * After oll, tho churchis but a bospital wagon, meant only for the lame, halt, and biind, who would never reach heaveu without a lift ou tho road.”: But alas} for the blind, halt, nnd lame; sorry a UL they got yesterday in the Chicago "avenue sm-t hulance, ~ The strung apd vigorous crowded out 1lie weanker seckers alter richteousness, and the only recompeuse or sugrestion of divine fnter- ‘position lay in the palpable fact that. the siuncrs ot the tront scats, while those wno are alrcagy within the told found thelr portion of tho spir- itual feast Hinited to the smell thereof. ‘Though ten minutcs sufticed to 01l thechurch, 1t wus nearly an hour before the hordes had set- tled down to quiet, Outsido the throng appeared to be us great as before the thousapds who galued admittance had been drawn off. Still thoy poured through the streets, aud pusbed ot el for o chance. It was wonderful . how many chorlsters there were, and people whase most sunguing fricnds never claiined Yor thern ability to slog a note Insisted that way ~ e made for them, that they mizht delight the cars of the wiels with cholee selections from the Taber- uncle collection. As they stood packed In to- cry an almost fmmovable mass of humanity &t lust, the younger sons of Bellal congregated on the curbs hard by and pelted the erowd with unrewenviato mud aud tmplous onfons, Then the stdewulk gave way under tho pressure, and muny who bad cotie to learn the way to Heaven fuund their ambitlon toned toan aspiration to keep out of the sub-cellar, But there was not much damage done. The walk sank but a few uches oud then stopped. Scvernl boot-licels were erippled, and one or two plug-hats perlsh- vdeverlustingly, though thero 'is no rocord of uny bodily Injurfes. With the same mrunnclfltfy that the urchin will gaze steadily umm o chair 1n a Jdrug-store while some fellow Is belng sewed up in the back room, the erowd lingered on, un- 8ble to sec inslde or bear aword. Perhaps they . Teit it might be somewbal remunerstivo to sce those who got iu, as they came out. Whatever 1heir object, they walted until tho benediction ell. Inside, the audience sat quietly, and looked sud listencd eogerly through thic service. As some passionate hurst of eloquence rolled out there was a restless rustle, oras some Intlntely unny short stup cxcited the asscmbled risiblcs & titter ran through the church. Beeeher looked old and worn as ho ltu,aped upon the platform,. Ilis balr {s long and white, and falls on his stooping shoulders. Ils ac- tlons were weary at first, and thero was an ex- ‘pression In his éyes suggnuflng that life had be- come tresome to hlm, ~ But us ho enterud upon his scrmon the old look came back to Lis face und the fire to Ma glances, The dorsal stoop faded, and he stralechtened uy, and but for the Jicavy frost that bad fallen upon hls head, he was tho man he was five years ago befors his trouble bent hlin aud woré away his strength. s scrinon was characteristic, though scarcely ugm his old effurts. In fact, the man can no- where preach us ho preaches [rom Brooklyn's Plymouth pulpit, At Hrst by sppeared {l} at ease, a trile nervous perhaps, ik it went out #s he entered wpon his description of the Kiug- dom to Como und the Will of the Father, THE SKERMON. YOU WILLPIND THE WORDS FROM WHICH T STALL HIHAK, in the sixth chapter of Matthew, and the tenth verso: *Thy klugdom come, Thy will be done, on carth as it is in Heaven.” We pity anybody that does not know enough to say the Lord's prayer, but I never knew a pemon In my Ul thut knew enough to say it right. ‘The very Orst suntence, U you stop & mowent to ponder, 18 n- Sulte lu its outreaching. **Our Father.” What s God to you! He Is an immense, cloudy nolh- fng, out of which way come thuaderbolts by- and-by, or may not, as the aue bappens to sct -f1your mind. God Isto somoof you a mere thought of power,und = response—fear, To some of you Uod §s purely an futellectual con- ception—a metapbysical bunch sod bune di¢ of abstracts,—snd you say omnipo- tent, and owmnisclent, and < omnipresent, sud omnl everythiog, snd call it God; and to others God 1sa crowned glory afar aff, taking curc of lhmself flrst, und then taking care of His favonites, und then, §f there fs anything clse thut cun Jnnb tp und get Insido the circle of sytputhy, tantug care oL them. But huw wany are tiere whu huve a clear conception of uuiver- tul wisdum wud power, sitting central in the miverse, and boldimiz il taiugs m His bands, as the shillful diiver bolds the relus of the caslly- contruited b “that be devead ‘That Bee fug,—to how muny wen §s Ho s0 uoble, su - attractive, an 80 related s thal t of thelr woul Is, awhen les before them, to say “¥Fatl- Is bound up In that word in - earthly rel ! How much of wisdum, Duw mu:l of paticnce, how much of gentleucss, Low nush of flu‘e“lfl, how muvh of pain lor the su'ie vl destroyluge the poesibliities of pain o o larger spbere! How much that §s sweet and eraling that word brings Lo & real child of God! Aud wio uf us that transfers the whola that ks not oaly maguiticd and glorided by the Iwagina. tion, but dues it s0 that, when wo look up to Heaven, 1t is full of fatherhoud, and God thines with love out ob us. Nulooe iu a millivd that can gay the Lord’s pruyer cau go through the' first sentence . right. For it'ls ankle deep (o the men that ordiuarily ust it, whereas it s deeper thso ever plutamet soundud fu the bearts of those that use It b its utd proper epirit. B culutie cous in the same measure and Jurgeness, ¢ Hadlowed be Thy namne? —the as- piration “of unversal love, respect, veserutlon Jor the wlored love of God “Thy kingdom come”” Mun waat _‘iru:mw thiugs to come. dMuu wuut 3 long-detayed whi to comme. Meu wagy & loug-dclayed debt to come and e palde Mlen want, - ln wister epriog . i stinet tie thoug it o e Lo wl to come, Men [u August want autumn, and In aatumn winter. - Men want & thousand things to come. and a great many to Ry hut bow many people arc there that havea 1ull sense of what the contents of Gusl's King- dotn are, and then can ray, ‘* Thy Kingdom como "1 Not say It once, not eay it Sunday morning, not uyft and forzet it as'you drop a letter in the post-oflice and say, * There, that Is gnm:' nomore care for me.'! How tnany men reathe It Now, 1t ison (his subject of the Kingdom of God that I wish to speak to you to<lay. What {8 the Kingdom of God—the Kingdom of Heavenl—which are interchangeable terme, Somie say, ** Why, it ia the heavenly state that 13 to come, and tliicn there are nascent condftions in this lifc_that are to be transferred there; but the real kinzdom {8 1n the heavenly world, In some eenses this (s true. The verfected form of ife {s not un earth, but It is In the fu- ture, The perfect form of existence we call heayen, Other people think that the Kingdom of God s in the main expreased by the word Yehurch?'; that God ‘has a Church on earths that 1t includes Tlis clect; and that thereln dwells Ifs special favor, and that it is, to all In- teots and purpodes, the Kinglom of God, ns if ¢ had nothing butside of the Churchj as if our Cliristians were nothing but. old dried-up Jews over awalu, The Jew wused to think that the children of Abraham had & chance _with God, but that mo- bodv else - had; that, §f he wasn't adew, or did not submit bimself to become & )rusclvle and go Intothat door, God had nothe ng to do with him} that all the milk of Uod's kindness was for the Jew, and uot for the Gen- tile, The idea of taklng any of thelr God and partitioning it off for the Gentiles was enough to ralsc a mob any time, for they fele about it Just as you do about your prophets. 1f o man proposes to walk into your bank and divido your aecount, séme of you would feel In a yery unamiable mood about It.. Now, the Jews tad a God which was _thelr property, and the fdea of taking Ilim and giving to tho Guntilles some, to the Grecks some, and the Romans some, was what they «didn't understand. How many churches are there, calling themsclves Chirlstion, that think that Gied {s infinitely good, but that His good- neas I8 dispenscd especlally for s Cliurelr, and that thosa that arc outalde of the Church are to Him what the Jews thought the Gentlles wers to limi As If a babe. born by the side of the Gnnges was nothing to God! _As if the Indian wandering on the Y:mpu of South Ameries, was nothing to Godl As if 50,000,000 or thou- sands of millions that brcathe, suffer, slah, weep, dic, wers nothing to influite Jove, und only a handful of good Uhristians, harncssed to their own church or creed, were everythiog to od. Now, far be it from e to say that the Church ta not dear to God. My family s dear Lo ine3 but there {a not a family.in the neighborhoo that I don't think as much of, and would not, suffer as well tor. The Church contalns tho clements of power, of grandeur, and of beauty, tbat cannot be extravagantly expressed if ex- pressed cver 8o hlzhl{; Nevertheless, 1t 1s sald the Church {s God's Kingdom. It {8 no more Gudd's kingdom than the lmgg c-wagons which Jacab took down into Egypt full of corn for his sons, They were the mers food-wagons and simplements, and the Church on carth is simply an enginery by which God feeds men,—teaches, guides thein, loves them, A great many fecl as though the Kingdom of Heaven was that recreated world for which men are waiting when Christ shall come, and burn 1p the wicked and reconstruct this carth, and then that there will be a new heaven and a new carth {n which righteousness slall bo the King- dom of Heaven, Now, fn all thess notions, there fs an element of truth, but they are based upuu an old, dry fssue; you will observe In the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel, where the whole catalogue of parables llagm:n which touch the questlon of the jngdomn of Heaven, that *the Kingdom of Heaven fs .like unto n trensurc a8 fleld; tho which when a man hath found, he hideth, aud for joy thercof gooth and uelicth all that he hath, and” buyeth that feld,” —as nitich a8 to say, thers s an experlenco fo the soul of man which puts to nothinge cvers- thiug else—a joy in whose possessiun there Jsa preclousness thot he never kucw, Tlicre are “depths that are not touched by this world, and never can be. ‘There are currents that nover felt the keel of worldly Interests floating upon them,and when the Kingdom Is really daveloped {n o man, contpared with that new aud inward experience nll created things arc as a bublle. That Is simply giving lts valne, Then Lo the satne point, ** The Kingdom of hieaven s like uuto a merchantman secking goodly pearls, who, when he had found one {wnrl of grreat price, went and sold all that be ind, and went and bought it; Hke untn‘u net that was cast Intu tho sea, and gathered of every kiud, which, when it was [full, thoy drew to gliore, and sat doww, und gathered the good into morscls, und cast the bad away.” To<lay the same thing s dono. And theu Lo says nFnln, In the same place, *The Kingdum of Heaven 18 liko unto leaven which a wouan took and hid in threo mcasurcs of meal, till the wholc woa leavened;!” or, ** 1ike i mustard-sced’ which a man touk ni {n Ins fleld; which ludced I8 the leust of all aceds, bt when i ts grown itis greatest among icrbs,’ and becometha tree, so that tho birds ol the alr come and lodye i the branchea thereol,” And in another pluce our Master says when men were comior oud saylng, “*So ‘lLere, and sv, there," GGod's Kingdoin [s coming.” Ilo says that the Kingdum never comes to the vision that Is “of vbservation,” as the phraso Is translated. It is never golng to Le an objective, an exe ternal framework which a man ean look upon aud sce coming near as he woulld an arny with banners. [e soys agaln, “the Klugdom of God, 15 within you,” “Now wa betin Lo come near to tho essentlal notlon. The Kingdom uf God ls something that Is In men—In cuch man—and, ac- -cording tothese paradles, it is sometimes not only In cacli man, but it I3 sometblng that has o very - stnall orlgin, 1t {s something that develops if self by the principle of growth, by disclusure, by clevclosnmcn;. When you come to take away the narabolic form, and ‘come down to the test of uman * experience, as the way to know it, the Kingdom of Godl Is simply the predomninance in the sou) of man of right disposition. If men are, a3 Paul always saya they were, two men in onc,—the tlesh man and the splrit man, the mun represcuted by the y, aud the mun repro- seuted by tho lieart, the soul, the mind,—if inen aro two tuen, it s very certuln that in the main the tlesh man now governa the world. The law of force, tho law of the body, Is unfversal, und Is provalent, and, under all ‘dreumatances, and in cach indlvidual, the frst state of life is that he lves as un unimal, that ho {s formed as ou auimal, A babo is born, you kuow, Itis thoseed, it 18 tho nntive form of what it is afterwards to be. It erowsupas a little unle wal, Iibeging tolearu life. It beglus to learn cverything. . The understandivg opens swall and grows larger und larger, Affectlons beging small and grow larger sud larger, Sentiinoats come latest aud uro tho alowest of disclosurg lim.l}h‘l]u "“lrlk‘ 1uu: wh‘olc nfixfimul. f Tho child a ttle, 3 ping, AU U4 joyous mal, Je fecds umf seeks :hh ends by direct forvcs, Ho stnkea or s stricken. Ile crics, ho sleops, hu moans, he s Jiatle lawnb or a littlo calf, as the cuse way bo. (Laughter,] In cither case, ho i8 8 mere little aufial, no doubtwith tho instincts and tend- encica ot anluul life. Now, when education beglus, it begins to re- straln auhualism fu the prasciple of expediency, My sou, you must not throw away anythin Fou must ot Lhrow away & crumb; you ure liv- ng i & world whero you must learn to savu; you must tuke caroof what (nu have got, fu order to gut wore,” The hfld Is nuturally jm- pulsive, and you say: '3y som, you inust overrulo your temper. Never fight exeopt when you kuow you can whip, [Laughter.] Vou tnust always, everywhere,reatraln yoursell, bectuse you huve to live among men,” Ang every step, oven of the anlmal life of the chilld, the very animal developiuent, fa one that cotnes, little by lttle, little by little, aud by successive additions. : Nuw, when you come to its affectious, the child las to b etill more carcfully truiued, uud when you coine to the religlous lie as they call it, why be s all ut sea there, It is long bofors you begln to brdug 1o bear upon the cutlecionce and spiritual senso of the chlid any ndoquate fmpression, aud to give to It tormatlve power, sud atill lesa covtroll "‘f power. Now whea you look through lifo at larzo you will tind thatinen live by the forevs that belong to them in thelr lower life, ‘They aro bargain- *maokers, they are money-mukers, thoy aro workers fn stone, wuod, aud leatber; !ln:{ develop the field, they dig'the tmine, they buflg up commeres, ticy contrut the soa, they rule with a rod of lron; they wear crowns, they bear sceptres, they ure coutrolers of wen iy thelr physical relutions, That fe the way they grow -strouy, and that §s the kingdom of the world, tho kingduin of the body, the kingdom ot the aulwals. It was ussumed by Master and assumed ugniu by “the Apostle that the splrit msn was somethiog uobler and higher than this, and tnat when uny man wus brought tuto or near the Ringdom of God it was when he came out of his varthly condi- tions and surroundings, aud fith, hope, and love caing lnto ascendancy apd coutrolled tho forces of bis lower uaturé. When toose disy sithus of the ‘;rxrn man ruled bis nature the Kingdom of Gud has como to him. 1t comes fu tho frat fustance as the gralu of mustard secd, or g the leaveu which gpreads by degrecs, cast- m‘g up the stem and developing tho branchios whleraud wider by a loug successive growth uutisl the pisot” s colplete. ft T never comes us I by lghtujug stroke. It fs not de- veluped spontaueodsly suy tnurg than educution 18 produced by the swuig of & waster's hand. No uian was ever educated o schiopl xcept af- ter lung wonths and years of study. Nomea ‘thy that ever comes Into the Kingdom of Ged by any ravolution of omnipotence or any irresistible wer that takes him up miraculouely from his ower realm and puts him in the higher grado of Christian exrcflumc. Evergbudy develops spiritually lika the graln of mnstard-seed in the vegetable kingdom, Every ono begins nt the Deginning, working up fittfe by itle, and thenn little more, silently, lnvulbll!, until the religions growth s complete, Tho Kingdom of God is & gradual traneformation Inthe soul of man. By the process the whole animal na- ture fs uot extinguished, but perfectly subordi- nated to the spirit. Somo men talk abont cruci- fying thelr passions and luats. Asaflgure of speech that fs all right, but it 1s only a figare of spoech, Brint mo up from the pralrie a horso full of puwsion on which I am tomake my Journey, The first conflict Is knowing who {8 going to ride—he or I [Laughter.}. While that question 13 in fssuo It is & mntter of consid- erable fmoortance to both sides. {Renewed Inuchter.] And yot, although I may be {rritated, and feel Inclined to punish him scvere- 1y, but with curb, and above all with agility and 5 firm scat, 1 coutest the matter with him until I have broken him in, I inay say unutterable things to him: I may fcel bad towards him nt the timo: but I do not want the horss killed; I want to ride bim, 1want #0 Lo subduc him that his will shall bomy will, and his strength u:‘v strength; and, ro 10ng o8 that result {s atained, and [am uppermort, I don’t carc sbout any thing else. l.mu;mnr.r] Men’s passions are the animals they ride on, and we don’t want Lo cruclly them sous to ex- terminate them., We dow't waut to drive out appetite, or hunger, or the lustincts of the race, \Vodou't want to tako away his principle of self-lefense or combativencas, We don't want to destroy, but to break them in, and break them under, and let the nobler fn- stincta slt in the saddie m:on the back of the animal passions. Wa want to bring Into abso- lute and complete ascendency the spirit man, 1lio wan that represents the Divine nature, not the other that represeuts tho human and tho warthly nature. 1t you will turn to the fiftcenth chapter of Gallatians youwill find scontrast hetween theso two naturcs, First he describes the nature of tho flesh mon. He tells the works of the flesh manm,—ho calls him in anoth- er place the bodly man. Well, what ero tho worksl Why, uncontrolled, un- cultivated, growing wild and loose, as nine out of ten men in tho wourld do. These are the outs crappings of the bodily man: Adulterv, forni- cation, uncleanliness, lasciviouancss, !dolnua', wltehm(tr hatred, varyings, cmnlnlfon, wroth, strife, seditiod, faction, envy, murder, drunken- ness, reveling, and such like. These are tho works of tho fiesh. Now what aro the works of the spirit] Thoy are called the fruits of the spirit—the fruit which the divine spirit ripens. The flest is love, \What is the next! Joy, The fruit of the spirit is first love, und nextl liko sun< riso, Juy makes every humel { thing in nature sparklc. Then peace. Nob tho peace such as some Christisus get In chutch—not the human soul excited in ono or two facultics, and they rise o an Intense !)fl'lfl' disproportionate snd inharmo- ulpus, that Is not peace. But If, fustead of taking away tho stimulus, wo ngpl_v it to ever single one of the faculties of tho ‘human soul, 80 that there Is u uniform, Intense detight, then we get d perfect peace. There {8 no peace that does not fmply universal, harmonlous develop- ment of all tho moral and spiritual parts of our oature. When those arc all carried up to- gether, they nro like the unison of a grand choir, and the [»eu:c is tull of netinty, of vol- ume, and quality. It then becomes like the qualitles spoken” of: first, love, then joy, and then higher than joy, und sweeter, Is tho peace that comes from the cxaltation of & whole soul. Next. we coms to long-stfforing, which ia nlso sct dowe as among the Chrlstinn virtucs. Thero are various ways In which this is bornc, but thero is a_fino sensa fu_ which you can take suflering. You can say, “If He could bear a crown of thorns, ot least I can bear one of the thoras in the crown.” Then thero s ‘‘gentle- ness,’? not the gentleness ol weakncss that has not the streogth to hit hard, but tho goutleness of power that makes a volume of force and migat like n mother's touch on ancw-born babe. Then **goodness,” something distinct from all these, and although we understand 1t when we sec ity no man_ou ecarth, no poct or author hus ever described or given a delinition ot goodness. Will you glve me o definition of something that”™ works sldeways, up- wards, overy way, all _ rorts of ways, carrying warin light and sniilcs overy- where 1 Tierc Is & kindacss, a beauty, n gentic, Toving nature showing Itsclf’ soclulty froin man slumber and unlhln;a to man everywlere, tuat make lifs rosy,—that | makos it amooth, swect, and rich. There arc Imnonn Koing about whoso souls are a¢ a Wholo hand of nusi¢ to overybody that s uear them, and one dwells in thefr brésence ina bounty of hludncu verpetually, I they o, it Is twilight; they come, It 1s ‘sunlight.” Gbodness Is that wouderful attribute of ths soul which is created by the Spirit of God, and {8 one of the frults of the Splrit. Thelr faith—or, In other words, finagination—ranges not nmong physical things, but among the invisible reall- ties. Faith, meckuess, or tho power of sucha love, such uvm‘rnthy for nen as shows them that thelr wickedness agalnst you Is not so juch on attack ou you as . reason ol sorrow for them. If amanamito thea on the one cheok, do not turn the other f Fou_are blazing mad. [Laughter.] 1t is uousc, But {f a mau smite thee on the one check aud {t strikes {n this way upon tho soul; **Oht in what o realin this man must live; bow poor tho child is; 1 am sorry for him;" the sensc of his poorness aud a i'nnrnlnx to o lim good s tho [rult ol every aasanlt makes you,—n sympa- 1y pours bounty out mupon thoso thut are ol.lwlllntt you. That {s meck- nces, I nced to tell you It very partlcularly, be- cause you shall find very Nitls of It In the world, And, last of all, self-control, It 1 calied temperance, but 1o the oriinal It s self- guyernment or self-control, Now, let me go over this inventory agaln fora momnent. 1 reinember in the old times, when o revival sprung up In my boyhood, thers were certaln things huppened. In every denomim- tlon thers are the technique, the special ways of preaching, the special modes of exumin- h?g the men, tho special tests and evidences of whether thoy lhavo . passed from death When 1 wasa bo{ wo used to talc & great deal about sur ovidences. I wish there was more of that now,—maun; lxeoplu, arg con. verted so_caslly and with so [ittle—{laughter]— that it {s really an ux:gmunhh task «in thou- sands of cares to search for evidences. But let 8 man beshut up fu_thoso verses which are in the d{th chapter of Galatians—tho ones that have read. ~ Let hiin test himeelf. 41 have been converted unto what'and how much into it1 Havo I been converted Iuto jov, Into peace, {uto long-sulferiug, into gentlencss, juto guodness, Into Iaith, Intuincekness, luto untire sclf-government?” “Iow wany men are thera that bave stald o great whilo in the church und have had the uame of bd"f: eminent Chns- tians that—overy day, I had almost sald—but coutinually in their lives, when some littla of- feusy cumes and they flame out juat lka other meu, like the under man (laughter], and 1t you say to them, “Where Is your forgivcucss, where 1 your gontioness, whore ia Jour Christ-like in- nocence (" Well, there a polnt boyoud which purity ceases Lo be a virtue,” they tell you. A point thuy never came within u guu- ahot ofl They tell you clrcuuistunces alter casvd, ell,” circumatances secms to have altcred thelr case, Ll;uuumur. Men want to huve thy vame of belog Chrlstians with the liberty of acting lfke the dovll under circum- stances, [Rouowed laughter, | Now, what did conversion do for you? Iow much of love, of !:{, of pance, of long-suflering, of gentleness, goodress, lnllf», meckness—hoy wmuch of theae nave beeu duveloped tn youd bo- cauna that is just what, without auy uPIn:l, Iy meant by the ** Kingdom of Ued withln you.'" fa “wlien & man, by thu power of tho Divine Bpirit, has risen abuvs small scutiments and bas doveloped within bim the Christisn virtues and truths, The uvcml;lu experleucs of that man who has come {nto the amplitude uf the Kingdom of leaven s that the Kingdom {3 . ‘)u. liar kind of disposition that dwells in the ik BEXE 0 say that ovety alngla ong'of waut next to say that every single one'of the qualitios enupmeratéd is to I.wyduvt'lopml. pot only love. It 18 uot ouly that a man should be gentle, It 18 ot ouly that wan should be beuevolent. Hulsto haveallof them. What would &ou thiuk If 2 mun sent an order to Halnes Bros. and recelved a magniticent puno, in a tfiue cuse, and on opeuing it found all the keva there,. but on trylug 1t found that there wus only two strings {11 the wuole fustrument. Wy, itls oxactly like some of our Christisus. ‘They wre gotlen up ina floe cuse and luok all right on the outslde, Perhups oue man hus seal aud conscicnce—that is all. - Another man haos a sort of sversge kinduess und goodieas, but no conselence. Auother man has sympathy, ‘There Lius been fucl put fn him und ba has boll. «d, sud gives forth some of thoso qualitive. But whies the time of trial comes we want every key to be ropresunted by o soundiug string, "It is not enough Lo say thero are oue or twu notes We want the whola scaly flled up. It s not coough whena wun eays, *f belong to the Kiug- dom of Heaven; it ls doveloped lume.” It iy not enuugh If e has only one strivg. Thewhole catalogus must be there, Then, oq:lu. every slnglesplditual quality fa w good Clrlstidn man tuust riso to the condition of fervor. Luke- wurm ‘accs brought . oub the ost territle’ Ogure tlat was cver used in bumen literature. The wost audacloys and astounding thing thut ever was sald (o the humau languuge was that which the Amcn\)‘p— tlead writer ' 80, thon, because thou art 1ukewurm, I will vomlt theo out uf wy mouth,” Uod vowiting is a terrific ut what must be the streogth of the cunvictlon thgt ho ventured on such an illustration as thatl The soit, mild experfenca that amounts to nothing does not revresent the Kinzdom of fHeaven. Lonx virtues nre very little ueed. 1t s only wlhen virtues como up with fervor that yoi know what thetr flavor [s,—what their power fa. Love that 13 nlways falnting away docs not give any {dea of that magnlilcent disclosure of love that many waters cannot drown, that death it- self ennnot quench, The power in each of them Is Indispensablc to fts full disclosnre of their natares. More ihan that. Those qualities in the soul of man which 1 have been reading to you, which constitute this dispasition that con- atitutes tho Kingdom of God, and all of which shonld he present, and all of which should be brought up to the rnch of fervor, must all of them ba 50 habitstal that they come to be an in- voluntary disposition, To be sure, many men do o great many things involuntarily on purpose, They™ have to «do all fllln&l so at first; but no man knows auything untll-he has Jearned {t 8o that it becomes a part of him- self, aud he docs not think of it In order to bring it out. No inan has icarned to play vn an fostrument until Lic has forgoiten all about the keys, No man hos learned Lo writountil he bas falled to sce the O and docs not think how to turn it over tomakeit. A maw's hand is only the emboditent of thought, and when the mind is working it plave, and the last l.hlng the man thinks of {3 the wonls he using, or the words he Is nprlllnix, or the lincs that appear to tie cye. It 18 the sonl that Is workln(ln him spoutangously and un- cousciously, Nothing is learned untfl you have learned to forget ity and it bLecutnea ‘part and rurcel of you. No man has learned huwility hat has not pumped for it. [Laughter.] No man has learned pontleness who has not discip- lined himself, All of those qualtivs must be not only present, but must be fervent, and bes come so frec by practice that un?' ara jntul- tional, automatic—they take care of themselves, 80 that when the occaslon comes he gives out the apprupriate grace—not as something which you “have to wake up like an sleepy seutinel, but they must come forth of theriselyes, as children rush forth when they hear their father or mother coming howe, with- out walting for the servant to bring them. - And this quallty Is represented in the Scripture in this way, * Clotlied with grace.” 2o thut o man would just 08 soon think of golng naked down the strect ns without his graces, o wears themall the thne, The languags Is made stronger, *Fut on the Lord Jesus,” as If ull the aulhtles of this dress, every ons of them, were eveloped fully. and pcrk-ulrv in Him, ond wo arc to put {hem on. That s the dreas that made Him what He was, You know what Clrist says ol it? Howstands It fu thisline of ex- vosition: *Como_ unto Mo all yo that labor and are heu\r{ laden.” I men labor and aro icavy laden that are down near to the ground and are usingoaly thetr base nuture, **Come unto Mo, Learn ot Me, for I ain meek and lowly of heart, and {o #hall ud rest nnto your souls.'” Tiat {s the Invitation to come to Christ, Come and (ahoof this disposition with Him, that mude Lo what He was, Learn of Him, & sontl finding rest. Now, there Is romcthing still further. 1 havoe said thad thesoe dispositions ought, cvery one of them, to be developed to the puint of fervor that ought to be sudden and spontaue- ous, You can never know the power of theso new senthnents untll you eeo. them ncte ing together In crowds, so that thers Al not ~he one meck man with twenty scoffers, but a whole housc—father, mother, childron, and boarders—dwelling to- gether in a concondant condition, so that tho atmosphicre of tho housc shnll be that which springs from the higher dlspositions of the souts. But even that docs not tell the force of those qualities. It Is when one family, or two, or ten, or tity, n whole neighborne of them, nre Juined together so that there is really n pub- llc sentiment,—all meck, nil gentle, oflloving, all full of joy, all sparkling with {magination ana seeking ‘others’ wood, all “in hovor pre- ferrlug one unothor,” all of thom ethereal chil- dren of light; when you have acquired those qualities In supcrewinence and lhave the Lekt that Is {n man; when yon have carricl them all to that radlant Tife, giving form und harmony to them, and you bave made thom so constant that they arc spontaucous; when they are difused not only through the whole bouse in which you dwell, hut through the waole neighborhood, ?'uu ave bcfinn to experience somio sense of tholr power. But not all. not only in the whole household amd uveighbor- hoad, but when thy worle of God has a0 pre- valled that the wholo State and all it contuins proceeds upon those powers aud principles,— scllshness dead, avarlce doad, murder dead, nurxcr dead, cruelty dead, ouvies, Jealousies, lylng dead, and love, and oy, and longe-sullerlng, und gentlencss, aud Fuudnea,‘ unc” sclf-control, acting through tle court, through the Leu‘nlnmm. tlirough every slngio aveuud of busiuces,—~in the ship, in the boat, 1n the store, aud 1o the shop; when they become the wotive furces of universal human lfe—then the Kingdom of God Las come, sud the now Leaven und the new carth tn which dwell right- cousness have arrived. And that is the full disclosuro and smount of the Kingdom of lleaven in man, You will Lear with me if I muko a faw closing roflections, though [ havedetained you too long, cousidering the crowaed condition of the housé, anl am- likely ta weary you, But shull not havo the _ opportunity of wearying you ‘often, Bear with mo. First, Wl Christlsn knowledgo 14* of value, Just In proportion oa it produces the sweet, the Fencrous, the loveable dispositions of man, We hiear & groat dend suld about fundamental doee trines, Wo henr n great deal sald about tho eacreducss of theology—its value, the nocessity of watehlug [ty of Keeping it all right, We hear much said about churches, their discipiine, thelr cuouumfl. 1w not hera Lo scoft at theology, T am hot here to seoflab churches, Lam not hiere to undervalug then I am not here, curtainly, to saythcreisuovalueintiosothings, ButIum here tuapply u test of value, It ls s good tiung to have a clear and systematle view of truths, It 1a n guod thing to have o clear and rightly con- ducted body of men thut are to teach the truth, It s 8 good thing to huve o body of men like the churel recognlze moral feefing, [Ab ths momient u little buy on tho platform huegan to erv. Turnlng toward L, Mr, Beccher sald: Paor little fellow, Lo is tired, but o has not been disclplined us - you- have been to bs tou polite tu auy su.”) Dut the power of all theology fs the puwer of what it can do. Have you ever been to an agrl- cultural exhibition and geen the magnifivent in- strument thut cach monufacturer turns outd What radiunt ploughsl They are so bright that you can see yourself as it In a mirror, What magniticent reavers. Now any fariner will tell {uu that it Is not safo to plek an fustrument by he way it looks In an exlibition. The questivn I8, How does it work? "Who hus tricd itt Docs auybody kinow anytling about 1tf ‘Tho value of’a plough, or harduw, oe scythe, or sickie, Or reuncr, o wagon, iswhat it can do, uud the relative values are whicl can do the samo work best and quickest with tho leust power sppiied, Now, In regant to all - theolugy, it Is of little neceount what tho system of theology 18y the question Is, what does 1t _do, what can it do, und {t {4 to by measured by that. And all churchesand all sects are to bo ineasured by that. 11 they mako narrow, stiff, sour, Punxunt. and punching Chelstians, they are bad, I du not cars what name you mive them, It the make luree, gencrous, Puu. noble sclf-sucrificlng Christlans; Chrlstiuns 'that do vot slunder God by luukfuzu it they were st an everlusting tuneral; Curlstiaus that are the children ot lave, of juy, of peace,—uweet sno- charine Christiuns, —au:f- scct, auy church, that mukes such Christians does uot need any vindl- cation except this, Sea_what work we turn over, Sce what wo do. That tests It, for I do not care whether ou eall them Uniturians, urswcdaulmrglnm. or niversullsts, or Roman Cathollcs, or Fresbytes rluny, or Methodists, or Cougregationalists, or Buptlate, wet or dry, Righ or low, whatever dmy may he hnux ter], good workmanshlp, “not mon, Is the test. That thut lins the most pawer to tanslorm a4 wau from the domtnution of bis luwer nature to the dome fuatlon of his bigher pature; that whlch brings out of Wi uiore of the disposition of Cnrlat thatds God's sect, and unfortunately (t bay something of every oue of thew, that is, the cleet of Gods Presbyierianisin never saved any ous, and yet thero are Presbyiesian churches thut profcss to stand by the skfo of the gute of Heaven, and Methodisin pever saved anybody but: the godly men that have exemplifield fulth, self-denlal, und heroic seal and courugo have snatched willlons of brands from the bmiun: 3 l‘: 2: wh‘:u'. thoy dlll' 3‘::! nanku the scet valuables 1t 18 not how well they have got thelr creeds fixed, ¥ ® For u great many churches sre llke a great mauy houses; placed on a muagolficent coruer, bullt by u tremeudous architect, with high ceil- Iuze—so izh that you caunot see the top— wide 1 large compartmeunts, sumptuous furoiture. Obt the house fs splendid! but the people are lttlo nivgurdly, mean guats Ny- Ing around, L‘E.nu uter.| It ia not the fault of the Louse; that Is goud cnoughs but every house ought to bave somebody living I it [Lsugbter.) But churchgs often’are sepulebral, with ~cmptlncss, with coldness, with noral death lu thew, It is not that they ars sumptu- ous; it is not that they ure regulated; ftisuot that they are orthodox; it la oot that they are conformable to any imnagivary sucvesalun fromn the days of the apostivs. These things are but lMtle Inuocent lowical amusements that wen can play with, They dou't do any hurt one way or uuother, no niatter how you scttls thom, " Meu may discuss free azeacy and Ditine sovercizuty uutil they .are hoarie, provided they lvo right. If men would subject them- selves, the churches, and achools to any su posed agreciuent with Scripture; If men would subject themoclves to sny precedent, to wy rule of loglc, thoy might well say, * I will ]mlfio churelies juat tho rame ns husbandry;” that is the bost farm that brings tho best crops; that the hest’ cat catchies the most mice; tho beat miinister catches the most sinners and docsu't let them go sgain. (Laughter.] That {s the best baptism that leaves tho man cleancst fnside. [Laughter.] That Is the best church governmeat that has the tmost love and swect- ness and sutnmer In {t, That {8 the best hus- bavdry that has the most crops and thtmost grain In the best state of ripencss and perfees tion. Now_ that Is charily largo cnough, and critliism shar, enmlfih.' ov, “1L this general view of what the Kingdom of God Is be correct, it ought to throw a new meaning on working for Christ, That s one of tho cateh words of tho day. Meu are converted and they ate told to go into the vincyard and work., Everybody is con- verted. Young men, old men, boys, maldens,~ ail say hoarscly or nwcctir. as tho case may be, a piping treble or a harsh b.ux-‘ am going to work [for Christ!" That {s a very good thing to do. But pcople. work for Christ very much as country folka at afire that have never had one before in thelr house. They pitch tho looking-zlnsses .out of the window, and bring the feathier-beds down In their arma. Workling 1s all very well, but how to work dlscreetly is also something. I helleve that every man that is converted onght. to work for Chirist, but I don't believe every inan that is converted 18 obliged to hold n Bible class-meet- ing, orgo on A miesion, Thore are u great many that sre capable of developing themn- eclves into a much larger © manhood br workiog for others In the distributlon of charity, in visiting the poor, in the reformation ' of those thal are out of the way, in the instruc- tion of the ignorant, and in a thousand charita- ble forms. That Is all right. It isright pro- vided the man that gues to this work is himself {u the kingdom, DBul wlen you,.are golng out to teach mon of the Lord Jesus Ohrlst, it s not enough to teach men that 1fo was born, that e wns & boy, that Ilo was a mau, that He was a teacher, that Ho was trled In every point, that Iic was cruvificd, that He was rafsed agaln, that Hef was at the right hand of COod mak- ing intercession. Those are tremendous facts, but the teaching of Christ to men is the teaching them what Ils was made up of. " “Come to Me and learn of Me, for I-am meck and Jowly in heart,” Now, If tho firc_of the divine work 18 [reshly created In your heart, what have you of Christ that you can carry out to the pcu‘)lci What hava you that you can show them better than what they have themselves! Wiint disposition that shatl rebuke them for sin? Ah! hereds o man that kas gotten rich; aud he gob rich he- fore hio zot refined. But he understunds that the proper thing Is to have pletures In his house. 8o he izoes to Now York and buys pleturcs as ha useit to bu{. crockery,~ordera u dozeni and they vome home.—8wisa econery,—glaclers in fmpossble mountalus, amd ull sorts of tawdry. aching pletures, of which o man ehoulldl ho nehumed of 1f he conldn't maoke 100 n day. He hangs them up all aropnd his purlor, and takes his guest to see tliew, and telis i, *That plcture cost nc $100, sir.” When o man of tasta oss fn he fs a sllent spee- tator, and tries to be sincerc, and not hiurt his feolings, Now [ look Into that man’s houac, [ sce all that want of taste, but 1t would be very fmpo- lite for me to go fo him and say, ** Mr. Purac- proud, you Lhink because you have gotten rich that yoit know something about art. You don't know anything about pictures, Your Louse is tawdry. You ought to lic nahiamed of it." Wnat sort of n way to eplighton him on the sub- Jeet of pleturesl Lef me go to New York aug find an oxquisita pleturo 6n a subject with which ho {s [awmillar, arawn with such streogth of color that s degree of reflncment may up- rectate, Let me bring 1t In uleu{, and “hang t up In the parlor in the midst of the plctures, and go away and leave it,—say not a word. Tue man will g0 {n every day, an notice {gand ask, ** Wheredid that comalrom (7 He stands and looks at it v looks at it when i counes homo to dine. He comes in the even- Ing and looks at it aguin, _He takes a candlo at night and lovks nt it. The next morning b comes down to breakfast, snd lefors he tukes his coffcc ho steps fn to sco it. ‘And hoshows it to his wlie, and bis chil dgen, and his Fm:ala; and pretty soon lo says “take away thosu pletures.’” I will not be wix months beforo that one picture will put rll the athurs out of the house. Nuw to go down smong wicked men and damu them for thelr Intemperance, aud damn them for thefr profunity, aud abuse them for ticlr cursings aud ragings, and lay a rod of authority on them, |s not the way that Cuclst did when Christ was on carth and wanted the Kingdom of God to ba duveloped in the licarts of men. Hesaw a funeml coming out of- the city. There were mauy In the Hue, but ouly ono mourner. 1t waa the iother, and she was fol- luwing her only son tohis grave., AndJesuscame and touched thie bler and thé wholo procession stood still, und then, with that voice which all could hear, called him back to life aud gave him to his motber, ‘Thut 8 the way He tuught. And suother case. When the biind cane to Uim He could havo sald just as well as not, * Seal? but o didu't, 1o talked to them und led them oue of town, rrolng out with them hand {n hand, malung Himsell their companion, talklug with them all the way out, and then auolutiug their eyes, that Ife might be a wmnn smoug inen,— nilght mako Ilmscif 0 maw to mey, a8 it were, curessiug them, So,swhen tho little cluldren wanted to come, and His Disciples did not want to have them heeauso they wers not old envugh, and safd not to let them come, He was gricv (and one of the Apostica sald e wus rmnry); and when the lttlo cluldren, hearing Hls voice, bruke through and came unto Hin, He took them into iHis lap and put His arms about them. Itis said that Ho foruied them. Ile curcgsed them. Do you belleve He did not kiss them and bless them? Do you suppose tliere was a mother's heart anywhere around thery that was not open to 1lim who did sot How much do you give up of your comfort for the suko of "thuse who .ure dneouverted! 1ow mueb are you willlng to dod Wil you lay down and Iet ino walk over ycul! Iave youa viclous temper] WI you shuw them what fu [s to Lo abused? Arc you willing to autfer and not speaki Aro you willing to ba' made ug the dirt’ in the strect, aud say of this as Chrlst saids [ an the Wugy L am the road along which oxen' {cet, horses® feet,and poor men's feet, and wick- ed men's feel Arc trumpiug, tranuing, tramp- fug! 1 count myself goou forsumething, because 1 know how to lay dowu that uien winy, walk on me, that wlien I rise I may Nt them “up by my better power Into somethlng better, flow many want to work for Christ In that way, to dic ta.ghicmselves as He diod to Himself, count- {ug uthers bettor than themselved na e counted othiersd ‘That I8 the way to work for Chrlst. Rut I hear o great nany say, My situation is such that I eannot work likd other people. wish 1 could preach.” I have no doubt some {folks wish they could preach aa L .do. 8o you sco that discontent reigns, fum nover sstisfied, I wish I could preach ten tites ua well as [ do, I nover preached a sermon In my lifo that § didu't huve a mournful feeling afterwurds when I thougnt how poorly thu subject wus handled, Disconteut reacuos throughout the world, A great many say, ** Ob, if I'could preach aud ex- pound with Intinfte versatility, How lappy I should bol™ My dear fricnd, What you wunf to do is to be like Christ; nud you necd not bs o bit afraid that you are hike Himj; that yon will not bave a sphiero just as wide as you ara broad. What you let shlne underneath does pot do much “good, All that ducs do good fs that which lles in your dispusition, Now If you wro called *mother,” you have tho most precious field in the world, Bring ugyuur chil dren fn the nurturs and admonition of the Lord, and don't l)nvuce yourself what you don't wunt your chlldren to ‘do. You must be what you disire your children to be, Do by {uur children what Christ s doing by every one Ho rocelves, A man's power does not Lie in bis beiug, nor in grace. It lics in the casential elo- ment of Curist’s likevess. I how much of - the plrit. ho hms. There Is wauy a loyal nember of the Church whose life barren. Thers {8 wsoy & loyal teacher whose puplls are meagroe and pour. There ls mauy & poor wan and wany o poor womau who 1s°so full of the radiance of the spirit of Chyist Jesus that he or she catuot Ko anywhere without showlng it. Here is a cancllia—you bave seen camellia {Hmuh:u. Thuy are llke sume perfecs folks 1o Lis world: tuat are so {futalorably per- fect you gettlred of them, A camellls sy * be perfection, evere; single petal. SBwell themt! Thero un - sinell, You smell them and there is uo smell at ull, I &0 out into the gardes and pick o migsonetly und bring it fo wy bauds, You ses nothing at, all; and somcbody says, * What havo you got 1 It 18 @ very sweet, fraisrunt, unconspicuous thaing. that has such s fragrence that It docs not nee 10 be seen. Everyvody knows there is a blos- som about it. A 'candle don't requirs a golden candlestick. I it ts 3 goud caudle §i will give light. If you have the fervor aud power “of Christ in you, don't Jook for a highplace, Look for 8 place where you vau Jut yous 1izht (o a wise e For the liglt belog come and the glory of the Lord beiug upon you Uod will take carg of those whown you afe tu Lring to flim. But do not, In your Buunlity, be where youare. Be whers Curfst would be if lle was there, and not by the puwer of works, uor by the power of lpuwhl‘hut by the powerof bee lug, by \sposition, by boly swectuess, und Lol Loy, and boly love, and loly cheerfulness, wug woly suclablebess, by the nicekncss of disposi- tlon, by sell-control, by all theee qualitics, stand whers you are und Uod wil care of thusy whowm yuu are to induence. 1 have one word mure to say. 1 canuot bear to fuvite & wau to cowe to thie church, wheu | sew how the churches bive; whenlscehow many 1bings are mixed up with our tleolozy. I can~ ROt 32k biw to cowv luto the Clristlaun Mfs on “by and by hie will | the bnsls of a creed, 1 don't krow of anythiog on which I can_afford to stand oxcept 1o say *“’Thers is the Lort Jesus Christ,” and 1do ih- tito you to become like 1lim. Here Is a power by which men may be tranaformea from the most begfiurly condition up into this radlant expericnce. There {1 a divine spirit that works in the human roul, vrcclmlf'u the sun works upon the farmer's tleld. It warims the year round, Laziness doca not profit by it. Incriness docs not profit by it. ‘The shining of the spirit of God on the hearts of men fs universal and constant, and whatever good thing comes from our_highor manhood comes by the power of the Divine Spirit shed abroad upon the souls of men, And it Is in the power of aman to be transiated from the kinelom of darkncas into the kingdom of light; from the kingdom of scifiehness Into that of love and poodacss. And 1 do lovite men to come to a Christfan lifc, not that they may have this or that liberty that they aro socking, but I ask them to “come Into that noble dispositlon, that Christ-liko condition which fs real. You don't belleve fn the Bible, You don't believe - in_ Revelation, Youn don't belleve in the Church, You don't belleve in ony of these dogmas. You don’t belleve in a thousand o the enstoms of religion, Ido not stop to dis- cuss theso questions with you. Do you not be- lieve that man has a low, [mperfect,'and sclfish Theart; that he has a crucl character by naturc? Do you not belleve that you need to be trans- Iateil into a higher disposition, and that there Is onsl That Is"a fact. I should Lo sorry that thore should be & man In my presence that hadn't a father, or mother, a wife, or sister, or some earncst heart that brought him up, and who, fu his scolling, may pass by on : “Well, don't” "~ bellove In” religion, or in Christianity, but i there {s any snch il nq ag religion In this world ny mother had it do believe fn ber,? Then “you_ believe enough to be u subject of te appeal I make (o you. You believe there Is such a thing es loyalty character; that thereis such a thi in‘the hearts of n few peoplo I It Isn't {n the hearts of many. It ls to that disposition that I invite you. But you say to me perhaps, *kHow can [ undertake thin vast chango within mysel{l" The. Kingdom of Hoaven fs liko acpraln of mustard seed, Although hut of littlo size, as [ have described, and, though amall, 1t pleases God to entor into It at the sinallest point, If thero Ix one single habit that Is guilty, and rou are wilting to _cnd it, turn your face to tho Kingdom of God. Du you swear! Hreaking off that does not make n Chriatlan, but it may Brepnm tho way for it~ the next best thing?” Do you drink{ Leave it off. Have you been In the custom of conduct- Ing your business in a way that you kuow, be- fore God, s not just and honest? “Stop it nght at this moment., Perhups {t [a one thi "5’ Aro you o child of Just? Ilave you always said, “Wlen the fires burn, Iam utterly unable to control myseit?’ Thero Is a power that can saveaman in the turnaccns well as In the blood, There Is a power that Is ready to enter inand help any inan, and although, when you may be threatened by these, you have to “set your face toward the Kingdoin of God, you arg, able to say only this: ¥ Tam brunklnro avery’ known sin Just oa fast as I can In the hopa of reaching righteousncas.! Don't bo dlscouraged and supposc that you oro not & Christian until you have got it alf In, and all fnlt. Becauso a thing 1s cnough lo atart on, Ib.1s not cnuuxlll to stop on. A man has $5, and_ he says he will commenco peddilug, . Ho gues to work with his 85. Mo s not a rich mun, but he has Inid the foundation for a property by and be', Lo~ cause hecean trude on and roil it over. Itls not necessary that uvery oneshould Icad nman wholly perfected out of nainful statsinto n perfectedone, ‘There 18 no mistake greater than that. Take one step; that will be one of a sories. It, wiil- be a. begin- Ing. Oh, trust yoursclves In ho hunds of Christ's gentlcness, power, and love. [ say to the worst men nud the bust men that aro here, Turn your rlaces away from the flest toward the spirit; away from the worid and fts luwer forms, and its wicked ways, to that other life,—the soul-life, the dl!ymnlnunl life, tho lifo of love, and oy, and goodness, and peace, Lut the power ol the Spint be fn you and ahound In vou. If you m{ you can't, yon can tako thy first step, and then you can take the next, and the next. Begin, and remember that there fs Ond that thinks more of sou than you think of voursclf, and that you caunot do will do, orklug I rood pleuum. CURRENT GOSSIP. A TALL. Ter feot flew ont, and down aha came On thio trencherons feo, with a tereible thump, | That rattled her bones and ralzed o lump On the back of her heautiful head, And the crowd cried **Oh!" Ta roc her rot Though never o word she sald, But o azartied glanco at her atockings cast, iFhen wept ko a stricken sond at laat, For they weren't cardinal red, —Lirookiyn Argus. n you to will and to do of Iils — . THE BADY ELEPITANT, Germantoucn Corraspondenca Pilladelphia Times, Last Weduesday night the stable-boy (how they do hustle these poor fellows around!) gave the' elephants thelr hay. There wers. five of them—flyg a8 contented and happy clephants as over killed o keeper. In tho dead watches of tho night, when &1l nature was hushed, and the sca-llon mado unconsclous ripples {n his crystal tank, and QGermantown lay bathed In moon- beams and yollow mud, o change vame «'er the epirit of the elephantine dream. Tho blggest elephant of ‘them all, an old girl with blz cars nnd o long trunk, tossed restlcasly fu ler steep, Sho turned, she coughod, sho awoke. She rubbed her cyes wit the end of her trunk, and uwoko her sleeplug sister, Blie whispered somothing in her ear. & “#Nol ' sald tho slster. © Fact,” sald the old girl. # Why, low—=who—well, I never!" 1“? ‘ll. ““:‘L"f it {og, bright-eyed, gray: olly, frishy, romplag, 2 - backed {l'mu xfiemuanpl. ng Lixger than a doit, with a wageing tail, a velvety trunk, two big cars, aud four of tho nicest little clephant paws 1n the world. 1 had a littlc talk with the baby, for she can tulk us well us uuybody; not with her mouth ex- actly, but in other ways just ua plain,’ When 1 went up to her she grested g with* 4 Good afternuon,” ber lttle trunk and Bho suld this by ll(tkg taking hold of my hand as gently as could be, 'l‘hfl]ll-lm asked; i oo Sola o aalif * Have you suythipg in your tkcts to cal ‘This by {ucklnu nmiml of lml:'mtrunk in my two overcoat Y«wknu. auq finding nothing there but a long urticle on the relution ot mund to matter, ‘Then shic safd: 1 like potataes,” and went to cating atn littls heap of themn shat lay at her feet. Bhels aa gentlo s a lamb and as” graccful and playful as 8 kitten, 8ho hos very littlo to do with her mother, but her violent "attachinent to onsof e gentleman elephunts hus given rise to some bold” scandals fn - elephanting circles. She s ubout three foet high, very littls larger than when she was born, and will be u week old to- MOITOW, » “ [ wouldn't," said Forepaugh, * take $20,000 for that clephant. 8he’s thoe lirst onu that ever was born in America, a) bic's as healthy as uny of theut, Her mother's nameds Basll, but | huven't nuioed the Inb{ yet As ciephanta live to the respectable age of 130 ar 200 years, and the Laby is still very young, ln“lm I:'u a very good chaus tu see our uext Pres- enl A LOVER OF DOGS AND CATS, A Gernan lady of thls city, possessed of con- slderable means, and no family to provide for, appears to make It & buslness of her lifa to Juok aut for the welfare of homcless cats and fricud- less dogs. Blio has a colony of ¢ats established o a lumber yard, and two others on the prem. iscs of some fricnds, Wheoever she comes across a stray cat she places it In one of her homes for fricudlcas fclines, Every day she makes It her busiuess to visit her wards and sco that they are duly provided with water and ncat, aud the creatures of her bouuty alwaye greet ner comiug with pleasure. Evin other «ats seem to kuow ber, and whenshe approaches grect ber with marks of csteem for ber kludness of heart, Sowe time ago this lady had occaslon to wmake a visit to Europe. fore she lelt she provided for the welfare and comfort of lier cat famllics during her ahsence—leaving Aullh'len“ funds with rcliable parties to supply then with thelr dally food. IHer first busiuess after her return was to visit her wards, ount them, and seo it lh:gr werg 18 kood con- ditlon. ‘The grateful cats all met her with af- lectionate purrs and talls uplifted with Joy, snd were made to celebrate the successful coni- I‘l::llou of thelr fricud’s voyuge with sn extra meal. A TELEGRAPHIC ANECDOTE. Tho following is told by Mr. Rogers: “I think tho most curlous fuct that I bave ever beard of the uiectric telegraph was told me by tho Caslier of the Bank of England. *Oncs upun & tune,’ thea, on a certaln Saturday night, the folks at the book could not make the bal- s0ce came out correct by just £100. Thisisa very serlous matter in that establishment. Ida not mean the cgal, Lut the mistaks in arithme- tic, lxlu; [ mthn' world I:‘mm‘lm-{n wfin LTTOr balaga been W, ly :o Eeepa Mn‘:flon of clurks Lo ‘cach oico od at work sometimes 8 whole nlght, A hue and cry was of coures mado after thin £100, aa it the old lady In Threadneedlo street would hg in the Gazelte for want of It. Luckle ly, on Bunday norning, a clerk—in the middlo of a sermon, dare sy, It the truth wero known—felt n suspicion of truth flash through his mine quicker than any flash of the telegraph itself, He told the chiel cashier that perliaps the mistake might have occurred {n packing some boxes of specle for the West Indier, which had been sent Lo Bouthainpton for shipment. The suggestfon wax Imincd'aioly acted upon. Here was a race, nammnf auainag steam |—steam with cight and forty hours the start! Instantly the wires nsked, * Whether such n vessel "had loft the harborl’ *Just welghed anchor,! was the reply. ‘Stop herl? frantically shonted tho -telegraph. It was eo done. *Ifeavo up on deck certaln ane: marked g0 and so; welgh them carefully,’ They werg weighed: and onc—the delinquent—was found heavier by just one packet of a hun’red sove. relgns than it ouglit to be. *Let her go,' sald the mystorious tclegraph. The West kmllea were debited with fust £100 more, and the error waa corrected without ever looking Intu the boxes or delaylng the voynge an hour. Now, that {s what wo call doing busincss,’ FREDERICK AND FRANKLIN. * New York: Graphie, - Frederick the Great whs not ao aumirer 51 the American political system, yet he was always fricndly to the Ameriean patriots, and dfd not like the spirlt manifested by England, When ho discovered that England had hired Hessian sole dicra to be sont over to fight ngatnst hor Ameri- can colonles, he manifested Lis dislike of the worl hy levving the same, toll y»vf head on all those recrults pasaing througi his dominfons that was levied npon baucht and sold cattle. Gen, Washinuton he admtred excecdingly, and to Lim the King sent a sword of - honot- from Potsdum, with the Inseription: From tiieoldest Ueneral u tha world to the greatest.” But ha was ¢ every Inch a King.” “ilo helleved fn tho ** dl- viue right ** most emphaticatly. In an old magazine, publisticd in Philadelphiy {n 198% to which Franklin was a regulur contril- utor while he lived, I find an account of un fu- terview of our phitosopher with Frederlck while gt-ulollnung a treaty with Prusala and the United utes. * Pray, Doctor," sald Frederlck, what s the object you hope Lo obtatn fn your form of goy- criment?” ; ‘“Liberty, sire,” replied the philesopher, nrompuy' *that llbeny‘ that freedom, whicl s tho birthright ot man. Alter a littie reflection the Ring repliod: “1 was born a Prince; Iam become a King, and I will not use the power 1 posscss to tho ruln of my own trade. I was born. to com- mand,—the people were born to abey,” Yet the ll'l.'ill.( which e frecly signed with Franklin embodfed the most elevated prineiplos of futernational rights, TWO UINDU TYPES, As wo returned from Scrampore, noxt day, we found fn the only avallable carriage thers was two fat natives, sct cross-legged on tho cushlons, and, shocking to relate,. more than hall uoked. It was the firat time wo had secn Iconfess I felt a strong repugnance to enter. « « « Their lolns wers glrt about with flue, soft musling but this wasalll Iowover, it was brown akin conies in s a very tolerable substi- tute for cloting. A=half-cfad, uative has not nearly such an Indecent appearance as o whife man in tho sume condition, One of theso truv- elingcompanions was & huge man, Vi fut, with coarse featurcs -aud thick ilps; thy otlier was. as guod-looking as the first wos ut a bold aye, trom which we rather recolled. 1 am afrald womade some disrespectful remnarkis, and inmealately felt reproached when the bir man sald, with the utmost courtesy, In heautifuf high JHmdu: * Pray talk on. Wo donot un. derstand Englishs “bo not disturhed by uet Wlhen ho spoke his face lghted up, and'thero ‘was a pleasant expresslon, with n look of power und seif-respect, which mado Jiint alinost attract. tve. Dr. M. (Dr, Marray Mitchell, of Edine Lurg, the autbor's husbaid]'and lie at ence came friends. We found that the big mau was the great wan, and a very'great man, Indeed. The other was his follower. 'I'ho former was the grand hirh zuru-or priestof the Jalns, asect which lolds ‘that it is as sinful Lo kill a fly ns [t Is to kil n man,—~*In India: Sketches of Indian Lijeand Travel." 2 ALLIGATORIAL, - Conslderable cotninotion bas begn cauged at the Brighton (Eng.) Ayuarium by o singular cacapade of a youug alligator, which had been pluced, with three or four older specimens, ln apond fu the new tropleal room. The little puchyderm, which s nbout two years old and obout ecighteen, inches in length, ivas missed from {ts favorite corners The attention of the curator was directed to the intter, and. notle fng something unusual ubout the fuws of one of the larger ollizators, ko had the reptllc’s wouth gently pried open, upon’ which thu riss- Ingz little one was found to be inalde. Tho * ba- by"” was ot once withurawn. tail foromiost, sud appearcd to be none thy worse for its adventure, suving 8 somewhat seviro.abraxlon just above its left hind leg. Tho two alligators cama from South America, and lhuve sbared the. pund In pence for about six weeks, and from the gongr- ally pacltic disposition of tho larger reptilo (whicl measures over fiva feet), it {8 conjectured that the litie one haa of its own accord unaus. pecdugly crowled into its open - jawa.. The pu- thoritics, cunsiderlng the coulidence to bs rather mispluced, have provented 8 repetition of the comwvdations fn auother part ot the bullding, HIS PURPOSE. & T Delrolt Fies Piews, A policoman discovered a boy in Justico alley yesterday fu closs proximity to a carriage and bufTalo robe, and he called outs . * Boy! what are you doing berel” Reating," replied the lad, o “Was |t your purposc to atcal that buffalo robel” dentandetl the ofllcer.. . 4 No, sir, it wasu't. Thore's afellor out thero wt? wauts to lick e, and {U's my Y"nm“ to walt hero till he zpes away, and then L' purpose up homd. and got my and we'll come hacls and ralse the uwiulest trus- e:!y mit'n'uull liere you cver scen off the- gilded stuza 8 o 1Mo was permltted to wait, THE DECEMBER METEOR. Tv the Edllor of The Tridusie, MoxxouTu, I, Feb, 7.—S8ome time since £ wrote iy abservations of tho metoor of Dec. 21, 1876, which .were only cstimuted, I having no instruinent at tho timo to fake approximate ‘angles. A few dayselnve I recclved a clreular tuken from tho American Jouraal of Seience and Artssigned H. A, Newton, Having no knowl- edge of Mr, Newton, J write you to mako some correctfons which I fecl auxious and willing to thu best of my abtlity to do. Iumy former statemcgt [ estimated fts clevas tion south not lesp than.60 deg. abuve the horizon. Bince recelving circular, I constructed aquadrant ond touk the augle, remembering whcre {t passed over bnfldlnf(-‘ and found unly 44 dew, clevation, fnstesd of 0 deg, 1 alo took the anglo us it disappeared over o cloud in the cast, aud ouly found 10 ch. clovation fz- stead of 5 or 50 dei., us estlinated, whict would reduce the meteur’s clevatlon above the carth ta less than figty miles, instead of sixty .lhl’ve, luprfinhlg it to puss fifty niles south ol mouth. ‘l“:'mmnml ita coursq 233¢ deg, north of east: Qther obscrvations make its courss 15 dece north of east, which 1 am _ satistied Is approxi- 1wately vorrect, and will jucreass its spoed W near 1,000 imiles per nifpute: compared with the carth's motion, foatesd of 600 or 700 as I csti mated bofore. g 1 write you thls inthe Interest of scleuce, and ot may Use [t us you thluk bLest, Feeling & rmln wortitied at my bluvder fn estimatiog augles, § remain, truly yours, E. E. WaLticx ————— KANKAKEE. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, v the Etilor of The Tribune, KANKAKEE, 1il, ¥eb, 10.—I¢_would scem I8 your lssus of to-day that your rcporter wid laboriug under u mistake in regard toa mecting of the Congregational Church held at the el dence. of 4. B. Jolner ou Wednesday .eveniof Jast. The object of the meeting was to clet new oftivers for the cnnulnf‘ year, to arant leb ters of dismbsul Lo wny wishilng thew, totaM | steps for the protection’of our vaurch property ele, ete. ‘The organization was not disbanded nult'her was there soy dscussion lu regard tow uor was thére any proposal from the Presbyte rian Church to us to syrrrender church pm‘lwg\l tothem. The Cougregatlonal Church aud &0 clety of this place s swall, us s also the Prov bvterian Chiurch, snd there is no denyluy tbat 1( o unity could be effected it would "be bette? for both. AlzuBEs O CONOREGATIONAL URUHCH: And now from apid the cuptained twilizut o the ball-ruom’s buy window there often come: like ** music softened by the spell of distsnce, -the spfy velge af: the Norfolk “belle, protestiod "U.Kh:xhl don't ["'—Brockiyn drgus. natives [n carrlages intended for Europeans, and . not so bad as will seem to yobi, heeause the rich * Blnlu, with' very huodsome, refined features, feat hwlvhmlhu Iungeunt infaut separate - |, rothers nod ourdog, . i