Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1877, Page 2

haiihn e I B> SUPSRREPSINES SR 2 RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing Selects a Text from Revelation. And Discourses Most Accepta- bly ,on the Golden Reed. The Rev. Brooke Herford’s Opln-' fon of the Work and Place * of Woman. Organization of an Undenominational Churoh~~-Tabernacle Services. Bishop Morrill Preaches at Grace Church on the Fulfiliment of the Law. TIE GOLDEN REED. SERMON BY PROF. SWING. Prof. 8wing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, takiog as his text: Lot us make man in onr imaze, after our lke- ness, —Oen., 1: 20, And he that talkod with me Tind » golden reed to measnre tho city, and tho gates thercof, and the walls thereof.—ZR2eo. zxh., 10. An anclent pagan eald, #Good men aro Im- ages of the gods,” Wien the Holy Seriptures came along to the world they were found to con- tain the same fdea. * Let us make man In our 1mage, after our likeness.” When Clirlst came In subsequent times Ile appeared In the Image of man, thus conlrming egaln the Intimate relationship between Deity and humanity, It s fmpasaible for us to concolve of a God ns possessing a mind and qualitics different from the mind and quality of {deal manhood; for away from himsclf man knows of no possible’ shape of intelligence. That is, wa cannot con- ceive of amind that has no momory, no Lope, no love, no logical power, no fmagination, no scnse of right and wrong. Aind Is known only by its qualities. Remove all these known quali- ties and there Is nothing left {o be called by the name of mind or soul. It would scem Lo us therefore that all Intelligent beings, from the bighest angel to the humblest man, must be Ukencsscs of God, a8 the little Jako Is the Imagu of the ocean, as tho lower ralnbow 18 1iko the apper one. This closs and unavoldable rcscmblance be- twean the conception of n God and the hilea of man possesses a practical value. It should nob: sinply flatter a man's vanity that holslatlo image of God, but from this rescmblance might come many deop: Inferonces for tho reason,, many lessons of ife, and many consolations for the heart. Tho leason of thls mormng may ‘well bo this: that man Is & golden reed for tho measurement of tho Deitv. Not perfectly may man measure his God, but ho s authorized to move through thoe cclestial cn{, and to lu‘v’upun the gates thereof and the walls thereof bls own lnlefiect and spirit as a standard of measure- ment. Manbeing In the imageof God, theromust. be in man something of that which reposes in God. Thus the opject may bie partialy measured by its shadow. In the fossihierous rocka there ase stone models of the once living creaturca. The carth that Blled the shell a million years ago became rolld llimestone, and carrlcs atoux forover the fmage of the creaturo wnich there once turled up and_ sunk into its last flunr. Qur scientific_men dig out these casts made fn the shops of Nutureand put thein in cabinets and musenmsj the plctures of ““'“{,' long sluco passed away, In tiie sbsence of the Diety we are warranted to look at man, and in that image of the Crentor we flnd the outltucs of an inyisi- ble nnd otherwise measureless God. All think- {ug and sober hearts rcfgrc: uften that they can read and know so little about that Belng Trom ‘whom wo all came and tp whom we nll must re- turn} but this regret should be modiied by the fact that man blinselfl may be the golden reed by which the mighty city may be measured with- 1 and without, (1) The Bible warranta this kind of compara- tive study when it informs maukind that tho hwuman soul was made in the divine lkencss, and when all throuch its pages It deduces tho line of action of Uua frow the llae of action of man. Chriet says you nu{ learn the Futter's love and kinducesa ” from human love and kind- for what carthly parent, being asked Ly his chifld for bread, will give him a stoife, or beé- Ing asked for an ege, will pive him a scorplon? From the willingnuss of the earthly parent to Fl" goud gifts we inust Infer the willlneness of he Heavenly Father. Paul, too, says thero is fu_the humsn mind a luw "ol right and wroag, the copy of the divine scnse; and that on this account man is respoe- mble for bis conduct oven away from tho writ- ten Iaw of Moses and® tho pruphots. Henee, Ly witnesa of the Biblo ftsclf, man is an fudex pointing out the path and place of the Infinite. Not certaluly wul the study of man throw full light upon the fact aud character and = net il . designa of the Almitghty, but it will be as the starlight on a moonicss night pouring all around toe traveler a gentle guidanee, preclous indeed {u the absence of the greater orbs, Who ean Eknow the ulmighty to perfectioni No one, fu- devd, but by louking wetl upon His Imugfe— man, much may be Inferred as to the churacter and probable deslgns of Him who mode man and cast bim down bhers to live aud dieupon this little world. (2.) 1t beiny conceded that God may be studied 1 0un 2y water may be studied ina raindrop, it rewanina to Inquire, In what man may this sublime Icsson be rend! Revelation comes with 1ta early statement that Gud made good men in Lils hmage, It suys that by sin mon lost that resemblanes to the Deitys lost the delleacy and full power at leaat. of stich an finer Iikeness, ‘The Seripturea hieneo would lead to the fuference that good men, men stunding near the original Ldeal, would he the only souls In which the fuce of Gud could be seen with nnfl diatinctuess, it should not he expected Indeed, thata mind which had bulit up Labita of sin would posscas afterward that inner opprehienlon and compre- hensfon of divive gualitles which should be expected of mortals who bad Joved every path of righteousness, Wo must therelore conclude that the Bible locates in only micy the power to wuky solue adoquate urement of the Creator, Alongside this testle Inuny was that of the heathen who satd * Good men'ure the fmages of the gode.” While cach huwman boing will throw some light upon thie ovigin ol itself, und wiile the wicked- ¢st wan bas fn bim much that poiuts tuwurd the Alwighty, yet that golden reed wlhich bust measures the celestial mf must fouud in the bands of ouly the bes o twe or of the whofe world, As the Lest definftions and works of culle, 2ud must come, from those whosa minds look toward them with the most intellectual power aud apprecistion, 80 the best views of God must be sought for (n those who have looked up toward [eaven with most affection, and frum o Jife the most blameless. Were you to go back of tho Christlan centurics to fterrogute the Leathen world, you wuuld not vulus the opln- fuus of the wicked and dissolute Greek as high- :‘v &3 you would valus tho thought of the caln ocrnies sud tho eplritual Pisto. Heuce, tho Lest bumuu messurcwent of God will alwuys bu found 1 the possciaion of thuss wlmjmnuu the highest mors! character and the widest ln- Luration. (3.) 1t will furthernore not Lo svy one in. dividual ur auy une generation that ‘will hold this golden reed of ncusurement; but it will Ve the slowly coming but tnura umversal con- sent of msuy, many nunds, cowlog slong turouxh segurule‘l uges that shall merit from us tho wost of study, and shall warrsut us in aweepting conclusivne aud bullding up hoj es. Tue gradual cousent of all the guod, thu @raluul sdvance of the {nmcuse mBjority alung & certain bath, an advauce wmeasured by many certuries of thue ana fn which all the wood 0f each aye have Leen numbered—this s the sftustion which makes up the best reed fur measuring the city. An Individual, ike un Augustuse, or 8 Calvin, or & Lutuer way crr, +uud a whofe age may erri but 1f @ inan {s the finnge of God we snall curmha{fi find tie multl- tuue vorrecting the isolated fudividual, and the many centuiies correting muy vne gencration, and all the patlons reviewing the career of any oue state; uwnd thus, amid the Lunds of the wmavy buudreds of years sud of millons uf up. right wea tolllog at duercut tines aod places, wo sball flud the best fwege of the Creatur. And Jioperiect o8 this pleture will Le, it will yet carry f4ith and comfort to mlmfi 4 soul, 20d ..5:." it an anchorage which fs olfered by .{w cnce of s mature or sbetruct forwmulas of 0 uo ol the great theologlans of the last gun- eratiow, Dr. Albert Barues, wis uulvessally re- poried to bave said that if Lis Bible taught that siavery were tlubt, and uwversal equally wiond, Ly saonld ree ttlie Bicle ud stand by ¥ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: the [nstincts of the buman race. If he mads siich a statement he was evidently justified ineo doing, for the casa before him was one whera tha tmage and q\u\? of God would hava shone forth more clearly In mmaniberty than {tcould huve shone forth'in a few verses of such revelas tlon. The human mind and soul would have faded befure the splendid light of God'’s imnge in lberts, But the hypothesia need not have been made: Ifthe Bible taugnt the lat fulnessal theft or dishonesty, of course we shiould afl reject ity fur there Is a wisdom of all goml men which wonld press forwanrd and erowd _out of Church and every family a Bible which should inculeaty any vice. But these hypaticees ouly ehuw what amighty Intorpreter of God s mait when you can lind his final thought lying In the centurics over which the raca has siléntly marched. Out of man that Image of his Maker put into his soul {n Eden Is gradually buratine Yorth llke a slowly-born colored butierily rising from its old clirysalls, Hnrk what_this mensuring recd, calied man, has_done. When great individuals have in- truded themselves 1nto the world, and have by too great welght tipped the theologieal planet to one side, the mullitude has assembled upon arother side, and has brought to o beautifnl balance again the almost stranded earth. Be umdlnurulnfar force an [uvincible Pope or despot; be it a gifted Augusting ora brilifant Bassuet, a great but aevere Calvin or an fmpet- uous Luther, the countless inultitude of good men oo tho right hand and the left _has always ponred along to currect abuses snd errors aud set forth God's image In brightest colors azaln. ‘the Bihle was declared to warrant the torturc and death of all hereties, and, hot in thelr hasty zenl, those who discovercd this Scriptire leston hastened to put to death many thousands. But the Image or God came along o the bosomns of good men, and theerrors of o man or agenoration were ground Lo powder by the Iun‘g and steady footfall of the thoughtful throng. The Infueace ol abad doctrine has becnscen andmet by tho Im- ago of God Inthe majority,ea that now It {s almost. impossible ta find the individual wio ever maintained that Infants might Lo damned or that God cartd nothing for tno non-elect, The buman soul has marched up and down In the city of our God, and has stretched every- wwliere tie recd of measurement, and thuse idens died. The Bible, given of licaven, hus come to the human leart tor Interpretation, and_meanldgs which once scemed clesr and binding bave been latterly cast out .ns absurd. ‘The eatso of cducation” and gencral eultury hins attuned the ronl to a better appreciation of Diviue thinzs. As cducation gives the world botter fatlicrs, and mothers, and sisters by do- veloping the facultics which measuro tho rela- tions of lfo and tho dutics which from them, so It gives us botter the. ologlans . and approaches more readily to "t truo muswer of the old ine quiry, * What ls truth?” What was thought 10 b truth yustenlay is modificd to-day. The yongzeanca of (od declines und His love risca, Gou's partiality passes away under the Influenco of a culture wihich makes tacn confess the brotherliovd of an. 12 men ars equal in man’s slght they must bo equal In the more just sight of God, and henve the doctrino of electivn and reprobation regurdless of human character sinks Into the backzround. Democracy and aquality of right climb up from the Govern- ment of man to tha Government of tho Al- mighty, What the izman mind perceives to be Jusz ana beaut!ful as to earth It declares Just and beautiful for Heaven. If man can approve of no partinlity in tho state, no clection or re- gmbmun reganfless of character, e will soon ind no euch sheolutisin In thu Kingdom of Heaven. Those old doctrines oncs stood, but the luman heart has swopt over them, and they are gone. Glvo tho heart timo, and goodness, and reflection, and what an_in- terprotation of Deity it at lnst bocomesl The many religlous sects onco denfed to cazhi other tho hope of beaven. They madu the Infinite & leader In baptisins and coremontes, and not In the deep casentfals of character. Thus the mind flung outward an image of jtrelf and called that Jehovah, but the mind which onca palnted falsely nutw paints {nmore beautlful colors, and under this new dellneation tho sectarlon walls fall and God 18 not a Gud of bavtlsms or creeds, hut a Father of tho soul, o Savior of each faith- ful, loving heart, Ol what a dark spot in history that any wore martyred for opinfun who heard millfons cry out for n free land and who cast himsell fnto the midet of the plibile wish, and_at once bullt up & most just fame for himaelt and liberty for a continent. All the centuries of carth are dotted over with the birth- days of such souls; souls which saw tho greate nesa of the hour and fung themaelves towandit. Butthe highest forin af mantio:ud carrleaabont fn it the tmaze of One above man, Henee, God, the Creator, in making & universo for 13 own glory, will not probably pass by such o scene of worth and grandeur as can be found in the res- urrectlon of the human race, Had all the mighty of earth failed to see llberty, or learn- ing, or art, or benevolence: had they hived aml died with folded hinds, the acene would seem lees aad thun would bo the spectacle of God passing forever over the ;{mvcs of Ilis children without wishing to wake them azain to sweet life. Immortality ta therefore the sablime op- rtanity of our tlod. The creatlon of n miltion worlds, the bedeckinz of heaven with stars, and the hills and flelds of them with verdure sud flowers wers a lumble form of glory com- pared with the honor of wakiug millions of [fafthtul ones trom the dust, and com- manding them to mect ench other in tho blessed flelils of cternity. I 1t he true that tiod [s nlways honorlnfi tie namo of Deity here by thegravd of man, He will not m‘rL:lnfs turn back aud try to draw from cdend natitre ani the dust of man's glory which human lmmor- tality woull render forever. Tlins may we come to the atndy of doetrine and destiny, bearing fn_our hana the *golden reed ™ the hearts of all the good of all ages. When sclenco is sllent, when materlalism rises In new power, witgn vies Is indifferent, whon the way. le siadowy, 1€ not dark, we may turn away and find in the souls of the gool thie fmaze of God shining forth llke the light of the snn streaming up froms the horlzon befure the day Itscit has coine, In this soul of all guod men ia the measuring angel which may pass belore us, telling us huw the walls lie, snd how high an wido rro tho jasper gates. WOMAN’S PLACEAND WORK. SRRMON BY TILE RAV. DROOKE HERFOND, The Rev, Brooke IHerford, pastor of the, Church of the Messiah, recently preached the tollowing scrmon on “Woman's Place and Work,"" taking ns hls text: 84 hath dona what she conld,—3fark, zir., 8. Twant tospeak to-day fu the light of that larger Ciristlan thougit which wo try to dis- cern In theae quict Sabbath hours, concernlng one of those questions which has been a good deal nzitated of Tate years,—I meau the * Plaze and Work of Wunian In the Esonamy of Life.” 1think it Is 8 pity it has been 80 nuch agitated. Itisa qnestion which neods consldering very reverently and tenderly, and it simply docs it harm tofrag It through the mud of politfeal agltation, 1would like to do something to JIfs. it out of that mud. There I8 more fn It than = great many people ade knowlodge, If thers aronot any sush glar- ng wronzs as requira ogitation, thero are defects which need honestly facing and cor- reeting. And they neod facing and corroctiug by both sexes together, [ cannot regard Itnsn womnan's question, That {s onc thing that wanta altoring. If It is a question at all, itisa queetion for society as o whole, If wdmen have not falr play and falr scope and thelr right place, 1t 18 not they, merely, who suffor,—the whole commonwealth suffers, tho whole balance ond proportion of human life Is thrown |vrou{,h 1t seoms to ma that we touch the Uasal pela- clply o which tho whule matter rests in putting ftbhint ovoryiling In God's world ougit 10 hav fair lcu?e for becomlng all that ft_bos juit to be. If you look fato Nature you will ,gencrally flud that Noture assigns to gverything some special function aud place; points out that, sorts the thiug oif to that, un- mistakably, but never Uimits 1t to that, That main and ‘special part for each thing ls gonor- ally very plaini tho thing's wholo qualitics aud capacities groun around tuats that 1a what you may call the gorerning fact adout it. But that is novor all. there are always other uses, other spring capacitles, which grow out from the inaly char- fakel” That any Catholle or Protestant U | Neleristle e tho runner from tho. strawicrr while fn tho soul of the toementor | P1ant. And Nature lots them grow. 'There la great clasticlty in Nature. It Includes not only and the tormented there glowed the same love Sehat angthiod is, but all tha 1t has f it to Do, for Jeaus Christ! 1 was high lime for o more cultured human multitude to come along ond unvell the wids loyo of the Father which cin- braces now plous Catholle or plous Protéatant, Calvinist or Arminisn, In one unvarying Tovel There Is Iylng deep In the souls of all the good a religion deep and true, and powerful ond im- mepac, Wihen wman. was nado {n the divine fmage jthis was impllcd. @That luncr naturo would not slumber forover. Asthe century plant ot last throws out s wreat blossoming, though the watching oyes muat wait a iundr years, so the imnago of God In man will slowly disclose itself, although only ons tew leafor bud may appear fu ten or twenty centurios, ‘The cominon conaent of good men has come up ot last to the old doutrine of a Hicral tire of turment for tho wicked, and has tnade the hell of Danto and Mliton aluust disappear from tho Curistian Chureh, No churen any longer lays any claim to tho doctrine. Tho churches accuss cach other of having onve lield it. Iu angry moments thoy bring forward evidence that their rival sect once hield to nu eternal firo tn wilch the soul of the waked was to burn forever, An old virtue turns futo n modern reproach. Tiat progross which has modified human govern- mivnt, divesting 1t of turtars aod ull mere cruets ty, which has substituted the prison and hard lahor for the rack and tho knout, bas passed onward to the divine government, and hias ob- hterated the'lake of fire, and contents itsclf in the thought that (lod will bo Juse taward tha cvil and the'guod, Thusall through the domain of theolugleal opinfon the finuze of Gud called “man™ has marched, measuring all things by the golden reed sud announcing tho mensiure- ments In o Joud, clesr volce. fas marched! it {# indeed still passing, and many a verdict will 1t yet render before It shull have ceased to stand amld tho walls and gates of the clty, Having scen ftuw tian may becomo o standard for measuring the Inlloite, let us with the reed in our haunda approach the tuture, Wit does the humun heart say avout & heavun aud fmmortality! What dovs the mother say sbout her dead child! 8ho mys, M1t 1 had the power I would ralso 4L up -to o happy immortal Niel” What does the father #ay over his dead son? From David of old who lunented fn the words, L sball 2o to him, but hie will never return to mo,* all alung to the luet fathier whose tears aro lulling 1uto a new gravo thore Is but onv volce, 1 would gladly ralso my son frum thy tomb and male him eyer- uore destbless’ What does all friendship, what does ull love, savi It doos not deviate from the wish that it ml:jlu. have power tu call 118 1dol from the tainb anyg arruy ft once more In tho Tiabiliments of glorlods Wl Al the zoud of carth comlug up from guy and all shores bear witness that death and the wrave are th durkest blots in the wvreat | spectacls of man. ‘the gool would all' cumblue to ersss these biots and to place seyond the grave a noblo resurrection. Thus the human race comes surgine up toward this doctrine of Iinmortality with their eyea full of tears and their hearts full of trombling expectation. Now, if man wus wade in the fumage of his Maker, and s found carrylog about auch u re- sulve ug to what he would dv overthusupulchre, low bu would uubar its doors and sct ree the {mprisoncd child or friond, It sy well suvpoicd that Qod. IHlimself, lookiny this scone, sends fort His moro potent words, 1, too, my chldren, would wake all these aleepimg ones to - mortality, 1 shull not pernit a creature like Man to vutdo e in orasiug the fuct und sorrow ol death? The huwuan heart says, 4 [ would rafse the worthy dead.” It hus always fult soand 50, muid Lienice this heart bogony wmeadur- Ing read to fall with preclsion upon the walls and foundutivns of the temple, As human nature has risen up and abolished malice and cruglity from the Empire of God, ns it burls out of theology a kind of world of tore mient which no statesmnen would tolerato und miser aecept a8 o gift, 50 the same human ua- ture will struggle on, and equally rémove from its tiod any such ucgluct s’ woild suiler the uls of Puul and John, sud all the goud of all 8ges to perish utterly, A parent who should beglect to wake & luved child from the dead would scem uscruel as one who should be neglecttul to the ¢bild whils livibg at his fect, It 15 not unquestionable that man moy thus arcuo in the dowaln of dod, but, cut off oy he s from vther peefect lignt, und belng full ot apprebension aud sor- 10w, ho wuy weil (ull back upun tho spirits of ull men, and say ** They would ralse from tho dead all thelr loved oucs;” and hence such will ba the actiun of the Father in ileaven, from whouws has descended all this buinan tenderness, Why, If ‘man wecps by the grave, should Uod have no teard . ‘Llcro s suother light in which the heart of man may well view thls whole lnquiry, We are told all throuy Gcrlfiun’. and the touclu- sion I3 coufirmed” by sl intellects, that in the work of ereation the Creator wust not dishon. oF, but must bonor Hiwself. Hency the glory of God must be expected everywhers ws wi eud toward which all the universe teuds, The Lighest form of manhood retocts this ray of the diving sclf-love, for it socks not §ts uwn dls- zru.e but fta own selt-respeet. Paul struggled for un unperishable crown. The scholars, tus patriote, the Lierocs bave ald folled band that out of the drcumstances arouud thewm they wigat weave Loblencss of character snd dee d ity wieathsof fawe. The fllustrious uam are those Who saw the opportunity aud rose to its greatoess, We have juat passed over the Ligylieday of vuo who taw the need of the bour, worklug {tsoll out in all cra its forces awmd Its purposes to centres, but never deflnes the cireumierence, who parcels out life as he plants out his geranl- It ?uts uo _suarp limitations, no hedges. ‘Tha great Diving thought ‘that s ever about us, gath- 1t s mun llxmls or Al.n\}vherrlus in n&nl ltllmu nop:rn‘lu bm]"t t Is man wiio cxaggerates the governing tic of a thing by rigidly keoping n.(i“o thut. lcta nll things grow out fromn thele own maln being and use towards othor things, so that In Naturo all thigs overlap and ‘interlace, e gives to cach thlog its maln place and work clearly enough, but {lo makes it welcome to any plaes fnto whish’lt can grow, aud Iree to any work which it can do, Nuw, Ithink this is the true light on the rola- tive placs and work of men aud women, ‘o ut the wihole thing n a fow words, it scems me; First, that Nature appoints to men and woinen reapectively thelr main placo In the world's working, puints this out uninistakably? to nen, the roujehi toll of tho outer world; to womnen, the hone-slde of life, Bug, sccond, this 1 no riid separation; and In the fact that inany woren hiave not home-wurk, and fn the uthier fact that many women bave capacity for othor things, Naturs gives woman ter irecdom and plea s for hier that sho must havo thorough edu- cutiun and freer scope, And, moreuver, thind, eyen where the two telds o 1ife do exlst an are kept 1o, Where man has hls toil and business and womay her home kingdorm, still, botweon theso two flelds Lus o lurge noubral territory of work, and dutles, aud fitercats, and all "this 1arge neutral territory should ot ouly be tree to both, but for full,” true life each of them must reach out into (L aud have part in it, Now, llrm?'. 48 to this main, dominant divls- fon of mau's feld and woman's flcld, You kpow the¥nsnifold futorest and work of humau Hge does sort off fute two maln directions. There {8 the preat, busy, workiug aud striving of the world, thy wourk and labor to which hunaa belngs have to ** go furth until the evou- Iml"' and at which they have to keep grinaing and tolling, withont intermission, , year aiter year, to accomplish anything. And, on tho uther Land, thero s thu qulet, pepsonal sphere of the fumlly and the home. Now, I8 1t 8 wls- taks In Nuture, which, iu all azes sud peoples, tus soimehow sorted off e especiatly towards tho outsldo world-work, and women vapovially towards tho inside home-lifel 1 think not, However many capaltics wo may fiad in wornay, there “1s ono wiich dominates the rest. The plece and purpose of woman lu this world Cantrbs In tho great fact und refation of Sother: ood, It needn't be restricted to thaty but it curtaluly coutres In it That settles the mattor apart from all theorios, scttics it for buman be- fuge just as {nexorabiy s4 lur wrens and spar- rowa. It you could huve a commuunlly starting anew, witliout any lawa or preeudents, ‘or uny of thoso traditiong restel:tions azulast whizh® - dividusl women somethnes fret, without any prepossussion in favor of men taking tho leadlye outslde place,—thut mero fuct of Nature would settlo it, mukiog 1t shaply impossibls for won- oty a8 0 class, to lcave their homes,—as home hus to b left by thuse who are tu undertuke the rougher strugite and more contingous actlon of the world,—and polnting this, therefore, as the spo:ialshiareot men, And thut governing physical Aliterence Js secompanied by higher churacterls- tes walch polat “the samo way, Iemiot, of cuurse, go closely futo the questlon ol the dif- ferency between woman's woral anid intelle:tual naturs and that of men, But there ida alitee- euce. You toel Ity even I you ransot oxpross It. Thera ls sowwthing which we mean by “manilness®; and ¢ s something elie—not & weaker thing of the samo klml1 but lume!hhnx diferent—which we mean by * womanliuess, Purhaps we come near i in saylng that woman's strength Nes rather juloduence, man's mowoe tioun, The really strong woman is not the most masculine; sho s womanly still, You remem- ber how beautifully Tennyson puts {t: For woman |# not undaveloped mas, But diverse; cauld we ke her as tho man gwost lovo weero siaini hiy dearst Lund is this— Not Jike to like, but like in dliferonco. Yt fu th lotg years Hker wist they grow,— “Fho man be more of wonian; she, of wang o galn in wweelneds und in uioral Belgit, or lose thowruatling ihews that throw tne world; 8he, mental breadth, nor fall tn cuildward care Nor losw tho cildliko fu tho larger misd; Ul at Lagt wha wet Berdolf to than Like perfect musle uute noble words, Weil, all this subthe ditference, so beautifully put, points lu the same dire:tlon,—w the bomes sido of lifs s womnsn's specidl kingdow. I wisn anythag I could say coald wake that homekingdom be felt more nuble. [some- timoa fver ag M therd was a tendency to undervatue it. Isee that teudency in England. Wo lgvo.bad & great deal of talk over thege, tha Jast few yeours, ubout tho ¢ Ligher education of . women)” And avme, uf our young ladics have been getting educated up so fign that 1t scems s if they uever coald come duwn azainl well, It is hand “coming down, but, suppusiuzg thesexcs to be educated cqually, it 1s not any barder tor women to come duwn o the common vares of Iifo than for wen. ‘Tho oue sphero ls uot poorer or wore soulless than the other. It h}unuch for wowen to put un eleval spirlt luto alf tho little carvs of @ hume as [t for 8 mau to put it iuio ull the Littls dutails of n. busluess. | wish womcen would sppreciate this. If they would, we shouldu't sce su maay ludies as there are who we Guite willlng for thelr husbindp to toll toe day loug In store or oll-e,’ but who themseives are not willlng to facs the caro of & y N - MONTRAY. home. And yot_n home, not a mero lodging- lace buit a real home, fa worth any earo, any ronble. ome §3 the heart of the world. Ont of it nro th lssues of Hfe. That quict happv: shiclter to which tho tired workera of the workl may come back to rest amd yenew lifes spirity that little centre of your own place where you may gather felends” around you and liso ‘out your life your own way; and that little noat of of Toye hito which the coming of little children may bea loly blcssing, and not an inconven- fenco and a nutsance to Lo avolded. \Why, the work of keeplng siichi a rost home isas beautiful a8 the work of Providencs. Unly this also, I have to may with all ‘my might: that while woman’s main plaze and wovk les on this home-slde of things, It {4 there notas tifo drudge, anit not ns the piaything, but as the mother, the companion, tho equal. Women uften do nut_get thelr fair placo, oven in the home-life. Thu law does not give it to them ycl.i fully, clther nsto thelr property or their Chilitren. It may be necessary for the law tore- gard tho man as the representativeof the fainily unity, the “*head of the firm," but the womat must be a full partner, And agaln, as to com- rmlonslxln. Tlow many men aro thero who coma home froin the busy world, with fts mm{ n- terests that thv.-]y niave been talking, ami they have not & word about it all for the wife! Or, they sit jporing over the newspaper, and when she nsks If thero is nnylhlng init, “*No! there's nothing in {t1"” Now that Is not falr to the one whuse pars Is at bome. That is why Ialways urge women to read mncwapapers, The great toples and uestiuns of tio day nare ‘for both. Woman's thought is needed In the woria and interests of the world. Women sce quicker than me:a; foel the vigit and \wronz of tilnzs more truly than men can reason theat out, You tay not waft * twvo alr of hands?' put Into all the toit an i moil of rade and craftnian’s wors, and * tangled busi- ness of the world;'* but 44Ty heads in conncil, bwo besido tho hearthh ' we do want, and the world would be tho better for thew. sy, And, atill, whon all thits Is sall, there Is mors to bo satd. Homenay bo ever so hobles but many women have not homes to spend them- sclves upon,—inany have no prospect of over buving, Many hove to turn oub anl et thelr living, have to depend upon thelr own nead and hands Just o8, men have. And this {a an swhillv hard thing, a8 yet. 1 do not know anytuing sadder than to mcet with wonen who, after tis ordi- nary education of thetime, have to depend upon themeelves, and want to work, but don't know what In the world to turn to, have never been taught any special avocation. [t scema to me one ol the healthicst slzns of the present day that the feoling Is growing In faver of womon learning sowg protitable ciployment. Women get tired of dc‘mn«unz on tathers and brotners, got tired of alife of ornamental trifling, "They want to bodolnz something fortiemaelves, And 1t is Intinitely butter that |t siould bo 8o, And they want to be independent of marrlage, and ablg to depend on themselves and go aloie,— and still to be wsefal, happy women. And they nre right! Thers i wo more wrotched lat than that of eitting working fancy-work and walting for the coming man. 'The coming man Is n great deal nrore ltkely tu come 1f hie 1 not waited tor; and. if he dues come, I8 a great deal more likely to atay If he linds soimcthing better than fancy-work ol ou, So L hall this desire of women to b Independent, and I lail every new opportunity of her engaglng In oceupations which’ may mnke herrso, Howe flrat, I do, think that, wintevor clsoa woman learns, the first thingouzht to behow to keop nsimple,, happy homu about her, but when sl vay do- that,~when she has made that kingldotn hers,— then, from o lio flemly nnd falrly grown there, let her grow out to other ” things, have o falr flold for whatover she Tikes to try &t. I belicve If this * wero penor- ol tho life of woman would wain beyond: all telling—wain I independenco and womanly strength and elevated seif-respect, wiillo it need not lose anythiag of womanly tenderness and grace. And it ls not only as n matter of womanly fn- dopendencs that I advocate this, Thereds a deeper philosophy In fy still. Supposo it geanted ever 80 wniversally that the rough, busy world. work IS mnan's speclal realm, and home-side of e woman's particular Kinzlom, still thero Is & larr;e Lorder-land botween these two realins, All parts of edavation; all flelds of art aud lter- ature; the werldngs of all soctal fustitutiong— theso all belonz to that neutral territory, Thesa are for whouver will bo intercsted in them, for whoover will _make thomn his own or her ownl Thev arc oa essentiul to tho ono os to thoother. Itisin thesa oxtea things in this border-land, of inter- eats and dutios Jying between the spocial Helds of man and woman, that thesalvation ot eachliea, ‘I'he special dangor to each sex Is that of zetting sunk in junt the one thing; to man of becoming a mere toller and business-machine, with no in- torests that ho really luves or cares sbout out- elde his storo or counting-liouse; to woman of becoming u mere houschold dredze, *cumbered with much sewing ' sud nothlug clee,—no In- tercats that shio teally cares about outside her Tome, Thu salvation of lif for both {8 In extra culture und warin Interest {n that neutral ground of dutfes amd topies wilch lio botween theso special Nelds, L supposs the pinch of tho present-day problens cumea wiien it 1 asked, LLow fur is thia neutral ground, open to both allke, to be measured! Aud how far_aro tho various parts of the work of tho world, which [ lave sald Nature mnrks down as man's more espocial uphore, to Lo open to women alsol Well, it acems to e that hers copies tn that principle Talluded to at Orst, of Natare's settlng up no hoedges, poluting out each group's centre, but drawing no clreumtoronceal ‘There {8 no haed and fnat ling to be draws angiwbero! Taora Is no pule smaller than this: “What woman can do, liss 1t fn ler to do, that shie has a right to do, a simplo fact, 1 supposs thera fs not any kind ol work' In this workl that * has uot Dbeon dune samu. times Ly womoen—oud well: done! Rulurs, schalars, authors, artlsts,—~workers, thlukers,— aud fn the role of durlng practical herolsm— everywhere you fiud, hero sud theee, o wonisn among tie rest—and gmoug the very best, What daes that teaeh? ‘Llat wea should alter thegbasls of soclety, and glve up loaking ut uny- thing us more particularly mau's sphiere, or more partleularly woman's! No: but that No- turo livs drawn no hard anid fast loe and that we mast not elther! Mabe education thoroush ond equal, nml then let all oceupatious be free, Ulve bumaulty, male and female, falr play, and then let i do—whatever (L ean. Nature lays uo cmbarzo on any of us, The world 13, open, Every ong of us sainotimes wuats ta do sume- thing lru.;l:l.l. ‘This mau thinks ho could palnt o great pleture. That would like tu -writu a noble poem. Nature does hot hiuder] “Try —away" It Bays,—* try and welcume," Thers 18 nothing 1Ik6 trying ta show every one of ug, men and women ulike wlmrulnlmuu we are, and what is our 'place aud work' 8o, {n the common mufintlcnl of the world, I would say, Let womon bive thele clisnce i they want Lo do, Excopilons there must Bocial onler requires the apportluning of some tasks specially to men. 1 dun's think any prin- cipte of liberly luvolves ullowlng women to ship as watlors, or to onlist us soldiers, 1 think it was a wise amd merciful law which tn Eogiand loug years ago ubsolutoly prevented wumen from workinz down iu coalmines, and now Iltults their labor In factories to tew hours s duy. But Inall that wants not so much the strong ar os the qulick eyo mund the deft band, Jet wowen have ~ thelr equal chancel You ere better off bhers iy this _matter than wo are in Eagland, The Enigliah trudesunions keep women from iy lduds of work, ‘Tl 1ay 110b b printers, for fustaties, But what nonssnse! Teil me tial the eys and hand which read muslc aud play thy plano coulda't plek up typol But that ls only ong uf uscura of occupations § could name, fn wileh trades-unionlsmn kesos women out, nob bueause they couldn't do she work, but bucause they could,” And the same privciple applies cqually to the higher kinds of occupation. don't thiuk tho Jaw §s particularly in woman's 1lne, though | heard of a Jady the ~other day iy Boston wito [+ waking w zood living at It As for medleine and surgery, there fsn great deal n these that w‘m:u are &ulpnuly and especlally ttted for. If¥8ny one duubts,’let him go and hear what the Joading sunzeons of Boston say sbout that uoble-beartod wuintan who perished in the Schtller, Oy Busan Dymoske. And 50 with my own culling of the miulstry. I doubt whether womun's furte les In the dircs tion of publle speakin:s, eithes from the plut- forimn ur the pulplt, But fscts must decide It and fucts wiil de:dde it, it ouly wu will leave them free, Tknow St Paal says: * Let wousen Keep silence dn tho church | But this so:ws to have been a revuike of sone special disorders at Corinth, After that bo went and stayed with Philip, who it savs had four daughters who srproplesied,” that Is, shmply, *‘preached”; and we Jiear no wore azalnsb woen ' preaching, *The proot of the pudding,” soys the proverb, *is in the eating.” 'Tho proot vt the preachlug must be in th nearing. An old man said onco to a youns ministerlal aspirant: * Hrother, you tituk you have a I to preach i very guwd, 50 far; but we mustaco whether auy people feel that they have a call to hear youl'? Aud that i3 truc for the slsters, alsot Let the expenment Lave frd course! Certatnly [ shall :“fnld 0 In for any uunloufst exclusions ln iy rade, Nay, 1 cannot tell but even fu the larger fcld of national pnd political lify the samo principle way apply. The thing {s, and this ougbt to by recognized, it 13 much more i ult tu apply it Itisuota fivld in which it does totry experi- ments, &8 Wu cgu 0 trades or professions. "The loes bave to be draw 1 very strongly and not chauged till the necs of chauze fs very clear. i FEBRUARY 26, 1877. - e 8o 1 cannot urge on thit matter of “Woman Suffrage.”” I do mot think thenced lant all clear. I have a atrong fcoling that it anvihing thore{atoomuch éultragenlrosds,—itot tooliitic. Toa inuch sullraze—thnt 1s wiit ia the matier with us in England, und sume of 1ay frienls here tell me that fe {s nbout the ne In this country. Hosides, 1 think the old English vrine clplu 18 & truo une, which takes the houschold, not the individual, a8 tho unit of the State, so that it soerus natural that the fatler, who is otberwise the respunsdbla hualol thg houselold, ahould cast the ballot for it also. - Yet, cortalu- 1y, whers the head of a housohold is a woman. cannot 80 why ala who bas to pay thic Tionse- Tiold taxas should not cast the household voral Every fecllng, indced, that 1 have rovolts against the thought of scoing yomen mixed up with political sgitations hut there are many matters of law fn which wo do want woman’s flucr, purer thought,—* two heads in councll,* 1t wo had them both, I think our laws might be more cqunl and thore just! Aund now, in conclusion, I think the time neyer was 8o fayorable ns it is to«lay for yomen to taka thelr full, fair place fo the life and work of the world. Of course thers nra still Hmita- tlons and restrictions here and there. The broad divisious of labor between men and women, a3 they have pravailed among the pro- rlea. arg Lhings uto which tho lifs of humanity ins scttied down through long - ages, and they cannot bo changed in o day, That those who teel tho cramping of thess should protest against them 1s natural enough, and I don't think we have a right to blamé them, = And yet 100 not think that it {s agitat’on that {s needed. Tho true way, niter ally s growth; uol the clalm of wurds, but of work, That Is such o true and noble word that Mrs. Browning has fn ** Aurora Lelgh ' about this: A, woman cannot do the thing she onght, Which means, —whatever porfoct thing she can, In life, dnac, in scionte,—but sho fuars Ta Jot tha perfect act:on taka her part And rest theret ahio must prove witat sl can do Uefore ehu do it talk of woman's rights Andwomaen's misslon— Boft, my slatar,—~not word! By speaking, reprova only wa can spoak, Whieahe, fho man haro, nover dunnted. What He donlits 1 wieties we can do the £aing With decent grace we've niot yut done at all? Now do 1b! ‘Then, there Is no need fo speak; ‘The anivorse shall henesroeth aponk for you Aud wituens, —she who i thit thing, was born Ta do 1ty clatine hor Heenso In the work; An vo with more workat That §s the true thing. That is what the writer did bersclf, Itis what all' tho noblest rdvocates of woman's freer scopo - have done. Florenco Nlnhuminlu grew dntu lier larger work by slmlnh' wuinauly care in the poor coltages sround her home.” Women were placed on our English_* 8chool Boards? becauss therv wero horo and there o number of women who wero 60 widely known for thelr noble, futelligent ac- Livity In education that it wns Tolt it would bun sheer abaurdity to leave them out. Our highest institutlon of art-education in Enzlaml, the Twyal Academy, wus opened to women-students by o doar slster of my own, stuiply by sending in a probatlonary drawing, which was so good that tha sender was elected” before they found out thut the initisla wero thoss of a woman! Aud so everywhere the women whoso very nami most witness to tihc 08 folly of putting any hard Jimitutions about what women may of may not do, lave. been 4lnse who have miade thele clalin Yot in words but In work! ‘ Bo, stand flem, my slaters, well rooted In the rlnw and work - yon”have, aud flll - .that, tho bay and most you can, and grow there, *‘and all other things'shall bo added iinto you,"’—othier work and lurger scopa shall keep opening! Even as Jt fa, that prescnt place {4 no Ignohle onol It gives woinen for thiclr special kingdom life's inmost and most beautlful part! It I8 tich Ju the possivllitiea of meaaursleas and cudless goud! Occupy it, as all Lifemust bo ocx cupied, ta ban real blosslng to ourselves and ‘others; with busy hands of service, with loving Ticarts of caro for others, with u noblo stmplicity in adornment and un]u{menl,, and, above all, the ono great thought, to flnd tha will of God and da it, and you shail find It an ever sweeter, over Drightening place; and for whataver in It scems imperfect aud lowly, leave that to the groat lovine Will thut from the past well dong evor evolves the nobler thl 0 come, aud_ hockons the falthlul evor to up higher™! NON-BECTARTAN. A NEW CHURCH ORGANIZED, For some montha past Sundoy services have been conducted In Owsley's Iall, cornor of Ro- bey and Madlson stteots, by the Rev, H. M. Paoynter, Tne people detarmincd Lo organize o church socloty on on - undenominational basls, and yesterday tho first rogulur sorvices under tho new order were held in tho German Chureh, cornor of Harrson aud Hoyne stroets. The neat Jittle auditorium was crowded ot the ap- polnted hour, 3:30 p. m, In beglnning the scrvices) the Rev. Mr. Tayntar offerod pragor and read the first losson, choosing Peulin 12, The choir rendered on an- thotn with flne cffect.- 'This was followed by the resding of tha sccond chapter of Sccond Lphesiuns, after which the cholr sang the bymnn, “Tlhe Lord fs 1y Shephenl,” B . Tho pastor then miade 'a brief statement. Abont ‘the first of October twelve ‘or fourteen persons gathered inaroom, and to them the matter was 'presonted, und after much prayet and consultation thusa twelve or fourtuon per- Euta wore of one mind, to go forwanl. They Wero poor, thoy were fow, aud thoy had nothing to rely upon save thu arm of God. Kpowlng well what was Involved {n it they Pmccedcd to organizs 8 church, The Lond indpired them to boid services in Owsley's 1lall, and prayer-nicets ings were held In Brother Rounds® bouse. This continued until threo weeks ogu, whun, ot the Pruyar-mucllug. the question was put to he” members. No one kuew how any one would vote. When tho persons having charge took the vote, It was found that the majority of those present had signitied a desiro to orguinzo A Church ot Uod, “Thoreupon a Committeo wasg uppointed to draw up nrl.hluu,]nnd so started the enurch, unscetarian, uuaititlated with any presbstory or church, only with tho object of carrylng on God's work, "As It happons, thore woro Eplicopaliaus, Prosbyterians, Buptiats, Muthodists, und Lutherans” among the nume ber of menibers. o they elvctod ofleers,~threo Etdera and threo Deacons,—who wers taat do; on the threshold of the most important wor In thelr llves. Ha enjoloed upun then holy living and o pure walk, and huped thoy would bu found .in no une uf the carth's places except 10 do good and sct i gool example, There were sizty pursuns that day who solomnly entered into covenant togetlier Lo save lnnors, snd to vulleve sutforing, aud to live In Christion har- mony aud fellowship. After remarks, the pastor announced that the next exervise woidd bo the fustallation ond or- dination of the Etders and Deacons. ‘Thosa otlicera stepped forward to the altar, as followss l(}}hlun Jnflm:hw. goydtfil, Ale:n\.}dcr Mfii‘-l;&un, orge 8. Rounds; Deacons Jainus MceKa, Jumis 0, Btout, J. . Weke. L ‘Tuo ondination was gur}onnnd by tho laying on of hands, the candidates knocling, Alterwards the roll of the members was call- ed, suld eavh was reqularly doclared a wmewmber of the uow church, . b i THE TABERNACLE. LECTURE BY TIE R&YV, DR. QILSON, Tho attendance at the afternvon meoting at the ‘Tubernaclo yeaterday ubout half-filed tho bulldiug. The services were of pralse, conducts ed by the Rey, J, Monroo Gibaon, who had beon announced to deliver the first of a secrics of flty-gwo Blbla lectures. Mr, Stebblas lod the sluging, the excrelses commenclug with *Jesus pald it a1l,” which was followed Ly prayer, After tho jpralie exerclies, dlr, (ibson an- nouuced tho project of Lhe lecture course had been abaudoued to give way to Mr, Wholttls, wlhio woull bo hiere Bunday and preach at the Taberna.de and conduct mectings to be hold at Farwell Hall each evening thereafter uutil fur- ther notiee, He then proceeded to Jecture on *‘Tho Biole," & lecturo which had been prepared a8 the tirat of 8 proposed scrles. The tirst ju- quiry, be sa'd, upou seclug a Look was what It was ubout—what It treatod of. Turuing to its back an liea was galued of its contonts from its nuine, but such was not the case with the Bible —It ‘was shuply ‘“‘the Biblo’—ths book, 1t was one bouk inade of meny, and treatel of one graud, central subject, whicu was ordinarily vonceded W be religlon, This was o populur error, fur the word religlon only vccurced o it three thues, and then not {n ¢io scnse that it 1s uow usod or understood. It troated of salva- tion, und fu bt salvation took the place of re- ll{mu. The root fdes of thy word religion was bluding, eud to say that rellgion was unythin, else than s burating futo llberty was to perver the Bible-teaching,” Religion bad been too read- Uy segreguted frum orality, and, tukiug the Hible lx:xcrflruuun ot i, 1t could uut be, for the Blble exalted righteousnogs on its every page and was ;m{i:d sgainst slu end evil of all Kinds, Tue Bible, then, was God’s truth, and salvation through Clriat was fts centre. It tronted of Uod, inan, sud slv, It was truc, sud hala savor of the philusoplilcal sud scentide, yet salvatlon—the Croas—way its theme, Tuere -was much o it that was unfuthomable, but it Puluwd oat 80 pluinly the way of salvativp, that L wus & refuge’ to us drour slu wud surruw. It ust been glven to portray the cauge of slu but to destroy sln, sud it tuld us Just eovugh of salvation tolay buld of. Waen these facta were thoronghly approciated, (teould no lunger be sald that It was in any wise in con- flict. with relence, 188 obje:t, £0o, was fu har- mony with Its subject-matter. Thosa thirsting for andvatton could find the way within its pazes, Its unlyersality made the world comparable to the distressed mariners who were thirsting for wnior, but nover thouprht to dip It up. Salva- tion was all aronnd, and all we had to do was to dipitup. Its object, bowever, would never he Tully appreciated untll wo began to cry out, “What stiall I do to bo'saved” ILwe wont to it seoking teoutle we could find 1€ in falllcr; to comprohend Ity and If we wont to It seexing eal- vatlon, oar thirst would as surcls be quen:tied. Aitor the lo:tuee, **Jitst as T am » was sung by Mr. Stebbiug, the sudience heartily jolning, and the uxcrelies eame toa close with prayer and benediction, — BISHIOP MBERRILI: FULPILLMENT QP GOD'd LAW. Bishop Merrill preached, at Graco Methodist Church, corner White ‘and North LaSallo streets, yosterday morning, on the “ Fulfiliment of God’s Law.” He took his text from the eighth chapter of Romans, third and fourth verses: “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Gou sending His own Son in the likeneas of sinful flesh, and for &in, condemned sin Inthe flesh, that the right- cousness of the law might be fullilledinus, who walk notalter the flesh, butafter thespirit.” The tern sriich led and concentrated the passage was tho word *law, o térm that had varlous applleations In the Seriptures, but one which always carried the idea of »command. Some- times It meant tho decalogue, and somctimes the Inw of Jesus, but sometimes it meant God's whols law and plans for saving rebelllous sin- ners, There was unquestionably o law of God beyond these, tinchanizeeblo anid nearly allied to (lod Himeelf, and one thnt goveracd Uodln Ils dealings with men. _This law gencrally was tho essence of and, and right, and purity, and to unlerstanl it we must understand Gad, for He was the canence of tho law, and all His attributes wero the_ait:ilutes of IMig law. 1T U was holy, falthful, ond just, then Ilis Tawius ail these, and so, as God ivus conatituted of il that made up love, nidlove was the fullill- ment ot the faw, on this principle wus that of Clirtst established, ‘Thig lnw, emanating from God's cwn esrential character, was the law of the universe, and consequently bound to the Throne the fntelll- gence of overy sentient belng, and men, belng brought under the dominion of the law, were brought Into harmony ond communion of the uniyerse aud the love of God, Tha Jaw thus given for men's guidance must be supreme, and yet thers appcarcd to havo been a wenkness in that it wos weak through, the flesh, The wesknoss of God must be rela tive, and not positive, since it sprang from Its relatioms to men who ind transgresscd the layw. There was no weakness In the law, for it, ke Gou, waa strong and unchaugeable, but It could not confer the streugth on men that it was do- algned to confer, because of thecarnality of men, Thua there was something the law could not do, beeause of tho weakness ol the flesh, It could not Yuflxlvo eins, Justify ungodiincss, resurrect a dead soul, or_anything of that eort, becauso it wos not intended for stich an oftice, But there was something even more definito In the mind of the Agostle.” 1le had been arguln; |I‘pun the fato of sinners, and ns e persontfic il the pusitions hio took, he persoultied in the toxt the soul of the man destiiute of any in- terest fa thie Savior. So ndopting the first per- son slugular, ie spokae of himself, but not him. sclf nlony, when he spoke of the sullerlng soul and the dantror It was in. ‘Che queattun often arose whether tho Apostlo was descriviug a Christlan, and whether fl was not the duty of the Chrlathan to always submit to the auffuring described, and If thers wos & higher and purer and better Jifo than that sug- yested by Paul in nis Epistle. Ile approved the ITaw which condemned him, which would {ndl- eate that he was a Chiristian, since that wns one of the tirst duties of o man tired of ain and be- coming enlightencd. But what the law could not do, Godi had found o way to accomplisly, In tho likences of sinful {lesls. It was to sceure to menthe right to walk in the path of Christ, Thelaw could not for- give, but God found o way, and sent Hls 8on, who eamie Into the world to save where the law could not. Upon Christ's coniing the Bishop based his argument that tho law was o law of love, nud that, while it was powerless to inter- fero where Infracted, an amendmont in the shapo of the 1lfo of Clirist had cifocted the sal- vation of all who believe. At the conclusion of tho dlscourse the Rev. M, Latirop, formerly pastor of tho Church, ave un Interesting raview of the work of the I Iblo Aesucfation, aud tho annual collcction was kel up, ‘Tho pastor annonnced that hereafter Dr. 8. C. llluk?: and Dr. Higglus would bo In attend. anco at the Lhurch every Monday from 13 to 1 o'clock to rondor medical asslstance to the needy, Me vakn of them ns sblo and prom- fnent physiclans, who had volunteered their sorvico in ald of the destltute, and urged all who, needed It to como freely to them, ——— <« TREASURY-GIRLS.” Yorty-Four of Them In New York—Twenty Miltlons® Worth of Revenue Stamp Paper to Count, . New Tork Iferald, Fey. 20, A femalo returning board, consisting of forty- four Treasury clerks, Is now sittiug hero to sco thot therc Is afalr count. Although the Inter csts of 40,000,000 people are not at stake in this count, yet the safety of some $20,000,000 or £25,000,000 worth of Internal rovenue atamp pa- per ja Inyolved In It Tho advont of this ro- turning board has not created quite such n son- satlon ns the recent appearance of Mesars. ‘Wells, Anderson & Co. on the political arena, although as between the two boards there s very little doubt as to which fs Invested with tne greater personal charms, Imagine the de- lightful surprise of the young clerk 6f the Me- tropolitan Hotel, who, a8 Lewas twirling that dafuty tttle wustacho of his, saw this buvy of forty-iour falr visitora trooplng into tha hotel. ‘They arrived at half-past 7 o'clock yesterda morning, and, having traveled all night, looke tired atid word, In spite of their fatigue, how- ever, thoy had to begin their arducus work at halt-past’1 o'clock in the alternoon. Kvery year the Treasury Departinent senda such “delezation of femilo clerks to count tho Internal Revenue stamp-paper which s printed by the threo bank-note companies of New York, and thus to verily tho repurts of tho quantitics of such *mpor wilo by the quernmgxl‘l& ngents to the Trcusury in “Washington. . There has been no count for two years, however, and the fmunl. enumerationacquires s pocial imnortanco rom the fact that it {s inade at the end of the Grant Adminlstration, and s fatended to in- sure the lucowlng Secretary of the Treasury of the correctness of tho accounts of the bank- noto compan'es, The paver which I8 used for printing theso stamps is of a pecullar, tibre, of whilch Chus fur, s clofinod by revenad tticlals, no successful hinitation has been *accomplished. ‘fhoru 1s on automatlc register uttached to the wuching through which the pulp passes during the final process of manufacture, and this ma- chino rexisters cyery sheet, so that the Govero- ment Agont stationed at tho mill can render an exuct account of the number of shects monufactured, As most readers will be aware, the paper {8 ot varloua tints,—violet, pink, green, ete.,—grecn belng more used than auy other, This report is seut to Washington unil & almtlar account of the uumber of sheota reccived hiers by the bank note companies s also forwarded, 80 ‘that the Treasury Department can tell at ouce whethior the amounts of paper sent from the mill and of thoia recelved by tho bauk note companies correapond. Tho ‘New Yark companles uléo furnlsh to the Departuient dally reports of the number of stamp sheeta printed and sont to the revenuo offices through- out the country, and a8 fn the courss of thls fouuenso manutucture the mutilation of man sheets 18 unavoldable, tho mutilated paper fs sout Lo the Vreasury, where it s destroyed, 1t will be scen, therefore, that tho Governmeat ox- erclscs a rigorous supervislon over the manu- facture wnd prinung of ite revenuy stamps; but to make easurance :}uublfi sure, these annual counts by exporlonced clerks frowm the Currency Divislon” are made. They are-gencrally chosen from that divislon becauso their dexter- ity and ropidity in couutiug curreacy rendars tho nxnu'uuun of thelr preseut task easy, quick, sud procise. ¥ “Tuc¢ party of female clerks which arrived yes- terday was in chargo of Mr, Charles H. Brown, assistant chief of “the Loan Division of the Sec- retary's oflice; Charies Nell, chief of the Cur- rency Bureau of the, Rexistor's office; and Mr. Guorge N, Weat, an ex,i‘crlcnund clerk {u the ‘Trousury Dopartinent. The writer paid a visit to the fulr delewation, who had been assizoed sowme forty dilfurent ruoms, but quite & number of who Were usscmbled in one ol their private parlors. With a feminie mo\lu;j wlich is worthy of all respect, they requested that they stiouid be spared all publicity as fur us Ixmlmc‘ and oue lady, who had been wearly recliuing on :I.u!s) llfi{u.dbcz;ud that thelr names should not be ubllshed, Pid L shiall ot cven say that Mrs, Smith or Mrs. Joues ure of the party,” ‘I'nis produced a groat outburst of laughter, a3 tbe lady on the sofa who mady tho re- quest happeved to Lear ouc of thess not unus. ual uames, gud she beartily joined fu the werris ment, Tag falr visltors were found to bo moatly re- spectable Tooking midille-aged women, who il 1o by widows OF marrici] 1adice, A noss 1{ all wero dressod with cxtremo plamncas. hese clerka recelve nabout $000 r year. A great deal of flippant and not very re: Titi Wit has been expended upon these *Treasury girl. muel of which Is unmoritol an ;hlc«fiy ot of place. These * Treasury pirl are nearly alwava Yfll‘)l’. rospectable women, who have seen hetter days, many of them oeolians and whiows of Union” sohliors who hravely fought for ther conntry, and nearly all stopuit o tamily of helpliss dependents. Even t-e misses wio have never Leen marriud, bat wio are nea Jy always up (n the twenties, genera ly sap jort an nged mother or an orpnaned brother, but they bear vaig aemall progort.on to tad*humner of wives and whlows,- True, you will occarl maity find some worthicss woman wiso 13 quartered upon the Treasury by an admirlnr Cun. gressman, but there aro fow of theao vascs, Per- haps the greatest popular lilusion, however, fa fa the ordinary term, ™ Treasury girl?? Thy mind fmmediately calls the pleture ot & young, bluoming, (fln.zlhm, and giriish malden “before it, and highly Imaginative Washington corre- spondents have Jent thamselves to coulrm this popular notlon by their rosc-tlnted accounts of 1emale beauty arid fasclnation in tho 'l‘reuuny. But the visitor at the Treasury will sce at 'a glance how fanciful and {maginative these ac counts are when he beholds these stald, suber, plaly, middle-nged women, dressed In the quict. est colors, and without as much asstmption of conquetry or girllalhiness as even the solemn fe- male telegraph oparator or the business-like femnle reporter. Tlicy are neatly all women whose very faces botray in an Instant thal they have knuwn the cares and strugglcs of tils life and look at tho world from a serious pont of view. lHenca it Is cortalnly wiouyg write of these worthy women In a vein oi levity O rawn Informed the welter that shou Mr. Brown Informed the writer that ahout 5,000,000 alicets ot revenue stamp pa or hiave ta be counted, and e taought the task would oe- cupy his forty-fuur warcs o week or ten dags, Tho stanpa are principnlly lor tobac.u, snuff, aud splrits, and_each sheet contains fromy live to forty stamps. Tho sliccts have to bo counted twive. The women will work from 0 to 4, and eaca s supposed to be able to count aboat 25,000 sheats u tiay. At the hotel, beture they had bogun thelr ‘work, tucy were qulite lively and chatty, * Ia the Grand Duke Alexls herel" one asked, with natural curiosity; Lut asshe was svidently toarried this {nquiry was undoubtedly fres from any matrimoninl deslgn, Then, thp wonverss tion turnin ulmu Mra. Oliver's bresen-of-prom- ise sult aguinst the youthful Benator Camseron, ane'of the women exclaimed, **That's all faice ! and gave It ns her opinion that the vharzes were only trumped up to “*blead ”” the wealtiy Senator, **1Yo have been traveling oll night; that's the reason why we look so bright,” still auother re- marked fronlcally, whilo the others retiained absorbed fu thelr nowapapets. ‘Thelr work was begun yesterday afternoon at 1ho Ameriean Bank-Note Compang, and when the femalo clerks tinished thelr day's task Shey had counted nearly 400,000 slicets, “One of the manngers of the Uompauy sald, they averas 2,800 slicuts an liour each, while 'the Company expert countors nvurn,zud' 20,000 an hour, The neono of counting was not % very lively one, ‘The women sat ot tables fa u rovin on dne of the huflm“ stories, with bundles of 1,000 shiects cach before them, ant sflently and iapidly turning over the upper right hand corners with their middlc finger, which they every noy ond then wet o Aponge lying lzehm: them. No word spokes, and Wwlien ung has finished a bundle and finds it correct another Rgocs over it agaln, The Companyls oxperts count in & Aifferent manncr. They take a pile of sheets,and, turning them over, spread the edges beforn themn ond connt them by fives. This is undoubtedly a quicker process, but it (s questionable whether it {8 a safer one. The mavager did vot seem to think that this work ‘Was very cxhnuntlnfi. “You sce,” sald he, *I keep my girls at work from 8 111 5, and not from 9 tll'4, " Tho fact is thls 18 rather a nico holiday excursion for these women; but just think vf all the moncy It must cost to keep them berel" As 8 matterof statiatical Informat( bo added that thero are twenty-o: tho party and twenty-three who appear on the Lotel register with ‘tho pre(ix of Mrs, This s rather an unusually hieavy proportion of unmar rtled ladles for Treasury ‘clarks, and, of course, ndds to tho liveliness of the part; —————— GREENBACKS. Capt. Crooks® First Experlonce of Thoire New Orleans fuer. Amoog the old river mon who have for yesrs navigated the devious windings of the turbld Red, Is that princo of good fellows, whose heart is ns Dbig as any steamer ho ever run, Capt. Jim Crooks. During the late unpleasantneas Cupt. ©. was engoged In some of the upper Inkes, with bkl palatiol stcamer, Blanton, getting out tles fortho Confederate Guvernment, and a short thne nlter the closo of tho War, we think it was during July or August, 1805, ho was busily en- gaged, ono day, fn Litlng his steamer off & stump, when hewas hatled trom shore by are- l.nm'llng soldler: **Hallo, Cap what are you do- ngt 4+ Why, getting. out ties for the Government.” What Uovernment, Capi"! “Why, the Confederate Government, of course; you don't supposo I'd bu ehipping ties to umgu. do youd”" ki L [ say, Cap, the Government has been dooe gonu up for two months,» 4The d-1 you say,’ says Capt. Jim, and with that he unties his tloating paluce frota the say- ling to which she was anchored, and tloated down to Bhreveport, Biriking thoe laudiug, he contracted with o Federal A, Q. M. to carry 150 barrels of pork to Jetlerson, at $3 per Lare rel. Arriving atJefferson his shipper drew out $300 iu grecubacks to pay 1o freights Capt, Jim duinurred, and suys, * Cap, 1've just ot 8 basket full ol paper, new is»ue, lu my uilice, nud [ want mouey, guld, for wy UilL" Tug A. Q. M. informed Tim that the United Btates did uot deal in gold as a_curren ind 11 ho did not take greenvacks e shoul'l do witlr out. Capt. Jim s ihat ho dil ot diketo hurt 8o many soldlers by having a row avoat ity nud thought ho would take the p. currency, and trust 1o Juck to get rid of it, ing down to Shreveport, he wandered up Texus strect to the corner of Bpringz; e looked luto o storey and, to use his own cxpression, lie **saw mors callo, shocs, and Yaunkeo tricks” thian he had scon lor years, sud wol ed If that greecn-looks Ing chap bebind the couuter would uot take finp«rnmuoy, and, walking quietly lntothe atore, 0 (o 8 mild, childitke, fnnocont way, fuquired the price uf a palr of shoes, The young mas bebind the counter blandly informvd hita $ S Whew | C 0. “that'a cbeap,” be having paid for tho pair hu had on, saod quietly siipped $10 bill from his roll, gathHog up thd shiues, end made for the dour thluking that the confounded Yunkee might not want 0 tako that kind of new lasue, and take back the shoes, ‘'T'o bius pstonishment the merchant called tilm back nnd gave him €3 in chavge. Capte Jim was so utterly astonlshed that he called to africud of his, auother river map, and n{'- S Boge, don't you waut some cluthest 1've found a coufounded Yankeo who takes this new kind of new Lssue, and L've got §300 of it, and [ waat te T“ sl ol {t whils I've a clauce Hoss got inside a new sot of - harness and went down Texas street, and mot Capt. J., osuotber river man, who was auxious to know where he got those clothes: *Capt. Crouks got ‘em for jue. Yougoup to tho ceruer of ppring o he'll get Jon @ sult,” which he did, "Tuua Capt. 0. got rid of bis 8300, and ssys that ho spent the'balanca of the day chuckllng to bim sclf bow Hio'd beat that confounded Yaukes wut of worth of good cluthes? ——————— TWO MILES OF CORN-CRIBS, An ttem bas been widely printed, o the effcet that on tho linc of the Cuicsgo & Alton I in the great corn-growing districts of 1lit wver iwo mnlles of ctiby, flled to the top corn of the bust wrade. . This 18 sbsurd, on the route of the Chicago & Altun, but aloog the Illinols Cuntial, the Chicago, ltock Islaud & b3 cide, and the Chicavo, Burlington & Qulncy, which sleatraverss sho groas S coru bell, " the corn prody uct of last yesr weu s Jittle more {han one-thied and leds than o Bvara: questiongble 41 there are two il ‘fi!.l:. ©n sll tho Maes together, * " u i Edtior or The Trivuse. Dwiaur, 11, Feb. 23.—The original item about the two miles of corn-cribs was furlshed by mo ta Tus THIBUNR. The facts ard these and I have bad ex.elleut opportunitics of knows ng whercof I apuak: Logan Gounty produ asplendld crop of cornlu 1876, The winter bas been remarkably flue. The farmers bave Im- proved It by baultug fnto town thelr coru, snd L now repeat what I stated ouce before tiat l_hcf; is 0o tuwn to-day fn tho State of Lilinols whi Las such an lmmense smount of corn lu crl Cb‘:- can bo found at Lincoln, on the liuc of the o cago & Alton Road, and that there Is o ¢ there over 200,000 buslicls of svund ear coriy fl“‘ W':r&u 'b': two mles long | All'ly ong can see ity 23 1t has been u by frequontly seel YrowuoLpae. B Chlldron_sre often lotherad with Sichingaul chatnz. To provest thiu in the shupiest Inhfo&.( un . T, u-u'lJ.n.i’A'ral:‘Al:lbsma. wh cl nb.,.\:;‘fi::nw cen put 0u the wa. L well- 1 Tactuber. *led adairable edects maky It tbe (et and best toilet s0up for old und Fuung- ols, B¢ with e Not only tospeakor