Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1877, Page 2

know, T * which bave touched mora de: thing with Btuart ML THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing’s Scrmon at tho Open- ingof the Independent Con- gregational Clmrch.\- The Rev. C. H. Everest, of Plym- . outh Church, on Christ's Coming. it .~ Parewell Bermon of Dr, Tiffany to the 1 Trinity M, E. Congregation. The Rev. J. A French Installed Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Charch. Dr. Worrall’s First Sermon Be- fore the Eighth Presby-~ terian Church. INDEPENDENT CONGREGA- TIONAL. INAUGURAL SERMON BY TROF. SWING. A congregation to be known heresfter as the Bouth Fark Avenue Independent Congrezational Church assombled for the firat time yesterdsy al- ternoon, Since last fall eorta have beon made to start what may not improperly be termed a branch of the Centeal Chorch fn the sonthern part of the ¢ity, and finaily the use of the church on the cor- wner of Thirty-third street and Sonth Park avenue, *where Dr, Hibbard formerly edified the Bweden- ‘borglans, was secured. Prof, Swing preached the opening sermon, and thers was & very faie attend. ance. The pastor, the Rev, . W, Mackle, made & statement of tho financial condition of the new charch, which up to yesterday had expended some $2, 500 on Improvements and alterations, and Bad recelved sbout $1,500 tn donatlons and sub- dcriptions from varlons sonrces. The collection taken daring the service stlll farther roduced tho defieit, and the managers of the new inatitation Tope to soon extinguish it entirely, Follawing is ‘Prof, Swine's scrmons: l{" now we sce through a ginses darkly,—7 Cor., 2/, There 1a 8 difference of opfnlon whether Panl, when he nsed tho Greck word which 14 hote teans- Iated, **glam." meant the sabetanca which the anclents put In thele windows, of the surfaces Tikich they ueed for mrrorw. [Mavink no such ma- terlal as tho modern glass, that land around tho ‘writer used thin bits of iorn or mica to let light Into thelr dwellings, and used bright metal sur- facen for mirrors; and hence men saw darkly; whether they looked thronzh 8 window at the onfer scene, or into 8 mirror at thoir own featurcs, Tha outer landscape wad blurred, and the {mage in the alrror wad only 8 dim Itkendes of the parzon look- ny text is badly translated by the word **dark- l‘ Paul epcaka far more pocticaily, and necs the words **in_cnigma ** (en ainigmall), and this expreasion scema 4o indicato that ho thoyght of n dim window through which tho occupant of tho room could look out and sco onjects in_outline, Through auch a window ono woald not know wheth- er the object wore a beggar or a king: a lady of rank or & camel-driver. Tl objects would be an gaigms, 8 mere outline of whicl tho detaile wust ‘e feftto conjecture, Paul's lesson is, however, very clear, We aro eompolled by the anthor of our world to' look out of & defective window, or into a dim mirror, whera only outlines ate scon, and where ot n full face- to-face communlon may beheld. Anenigma moves along baforo us, and we aro )l guessing whether gacha fgare be's very Kingor s very bogwar. One 1s almoat certain that that form passing along out. wida 18 8 person of great rank, fur tho helght, the motloa, {ho ampls fobo ray that [freat preschce a there; but should he rush out uf the houso and sce tho object face to face, bo wonld perhapa find a fisnorman moving humeward with coarse cluth around his loins, and a hundred feot of fah-net arcand him, his'face branzed, hia fect strangers to » mandal. ' All such doubls could be seltlod by ing out of the house, or wsending a child; but jn our larwe world of doctrine we caonot run . ont of the house: and those who do o out at the come mand of a auperior never como back agaln to toll us what they ssw. They solvo tha enigma for themselves, but send the waitlng oncs to re- ort. Pofuch ta the situation, ss palnted by tho great artlst P and how we ol rne h -Inngulqu fs, ro azo fow expressions in Scripture 1y the heart of all tho Christian generations, When thie mother laya duwn her chlld in_the cold carth, when the good man falls in all hix efforts, when the bad man fa successful, when the doctrines of rolizionlio bo- fore ua to L8 accepted, when the aflirmations of sclenco are et down as ogainst thosa of plety, when orthodoxy asks men to beliove all of thix and liberallem asks men to bellevo sll of that, and ke says, **I shall inqniro about these things,” In all these moments tho hieart in ita sors templation remembora the dim ‘window of Paul, and wishes it conld for an honr go outslde the house and learn what it {s that i pase- fng by In auch & clond of mystery ccepting, thercfore, of tho fact and of the fignre ss sct forth by Paul, what remaina for so- clety except Lo gather up the truent thinge It can in religion and in il the walka of life, and to hold firmly those troest thingsto the end of the pil- rimage, Our theme (o-day must bo, therefare, his dlm window of Bt, Paul, (1) The fact that we are doomed to mee many enlgmas through the dim windows of onr earthly Touse must not result in skepticinm, but in & warm eapousal of that which fs nearcst the truth, Taul ‘did not pass thraugh }ife with an empty heart, nor with a hesitating heart, but with a soul that ac- cepted of the most naoful notions and that ad- {ourned to cternity tho most vagus_and myaterious deas, ~Although the old winlows had dim horn. lighta {n them, yet one could tell through them the day from the nigbt, and noon frum evoning, and something was' movlng along, and wpon thesa facts Paul acted, drawing from grcat general truths & consalation_and inspiration which dotalls could uply. It mightnot be known whsther a King Rgar wera passing, but It wan, ot least day d pringtime or suuiner bayond, snd to theso facta (he sonl must shave iteclf, Skepticlam fu st onca cne of the beat and worst powers In tho braln. 1t Is a grand potency 1o clear up the nndergrowth of superstition, to ‘explode old wives' fables, to purily politica, philosophy, aud relizions but it {s alwayn just as ready 10 put out light s to kindl Annylftuo may tarn ntoa vice, tum into & monasticlm or ‘an tomperance may tarn into s starvation, so uay cultivate its taste for evidenca until it ahall at lusf doubt the existenca of man, aud renolve the external world into a chimers of imagination, and , then may wonder whethor that imaginative power iareally man or ls always Delty, 'Tho fwo com mon guals of skepticism are Athelym ane {sm. ” iy the former, God_aisappears and leaves ture; by (ho latter, Nature dissppears and lesves nothing but God. Duubt wae & glorioua thing in Luther, buts rad With this quallly, Luther suspected tho Homish Church, and 'evolyod Reformatlon out of sn Inquiry; but- with thia samo guality of mind Mr, Ml removed from his heart all deep falth In the goodness of God or in the fact of a future life, Thus the doubtl quality in tho mind which detects and dewtro, cbeat, will, If not checked eomewhere, work on sud overthirow a yood, Hacon developed a skep- ticism of sll the old philosuphics; he feared they biad all descended frum the assumptivns of an ab- ct motapyaics ther than from a compliation of facts and o _deduction from tho facts; and out of acon’s doubia came the practical mothod which Las bollt up & mew world, Hut tho doubt that bieased Lord Bacon injured a Palne and a Vollalre, ae It worked too destructively in the land of be rehigion, “These {s not 8 power of the mind that necds not 10 be guarded from the twa extremes of tua much and too little. Too litle skepticlam gava the warld the old Homish Church, whose members be- Meved anything that was stated by Yope or priest; o nach skepticism gives us French and German Atbelsm, where the estrema credulity onco our- fabed. ‘The mind is valuable only when Ity powers are limited to & cortaln chapnel. ‘Thiere Ats men who have fed theiz imagination so long that they caunot at Jast state wny eveut just ss it Uranuplred. They hava becomo unconsclous fabricators of story—Munchausens of every-day Itfo; while thero 1ived s clasa of men almoat aa palnful to listen to. who bave clipped tha wings of their fancy until etry becomes prose onm their lips They no Tonzer paint the warld, but lake and river and wpriog and summe: only four facts, like four illes, or four stones, ur fuur aticks. Thus Imagl- "‘S"?fi" knows its fatal extremities of too much aud o Jittle. To be 8 skeptic, therefore, depends for its mean. ing and worlh upon the degree of the belog. If oue is & doubter like Luther was, & man nal to ba improved upon by e poo medical practice, of by & poor music; or by a poor religion, then fa'one in 8 good road ; but §f'one iu a doubter, ss was Mill, .or 8 Tyndall and iluxioy are doubters, the proba bility 18 that the mental quality Las golten beyond the useful boundary and lu henceforth an injury, It would seew that man was formed for "two warks: casting out the false and tnding tho true; aud that at each evening he must sit down, not by a ruig, but by somethlug ho has begun 10 bufld. The ploncer cuts down the forcat thal he may sow wala. He strips the warm hillalde of old thorns and stumps and briars that be may plant the vine, But, 1f he Inteuds W plant notblng, he would bet- tor lct alonw nature's ruds thickel.” 8o in thought, long aa & plonecr ln s rude tnust move full of destraction but fullez yet of love for that which is to <couie rapldly alung after the entangied Lhicket has beca cleared up. Hencen useful ‘mind will al- waya carey more of creative love than of destroy- Ing wrath; for the glory of earth cones not from ewles of good that bavu been alain, bul from frienda of 1he guud that cowo afterward, 1o the lattor days of Theodore Parker, it Is Xnowa (hat it was bis deep feeling that he should baatea to state » defulte religlon for hls people, Jeat death should leave bim to llye in bistory ool 88008 who bad besten down the crrore of the ol church and the crimes of tho old politics. The great eins of 1he nation, Bowerer, abvorbed hiy wuind and beort, sud deaih came carly, o0 that bis wish and the b ude &uml Ly uofule work be rounded oot ortivns. But tbls wish sbowed that oven such a radical aa Mr. Parker kuew that skepticiam mast mo tangled wildernes, fode 1 The fleld 1s :cx;er'vg over Iv(':h armswnd smmunition own away in the retrea :;:‘ ofn nh’hln faith, neither Cathullc nor Protest. ant, “nelther Presbylerian nor ‘Methodiat, necd come forward to hoast. We ail know too well fheir history, and can make & comparison of to-dn and yeslerday. Thare will nover bo a stable fait 111 mankind finda 8 simplo onc. he application of the text. therefore. in thi: that man dwells in & room in whose windawa that Jook out toward eternity thers is only dim glnse, He cannot walk outside to ace face to face, Inthia rituation Cheistianity mast be condeneed into idesn 80 great and powerfil that they can harl their light even thmnxg‘ s clonded pane. ‘The mors general the atatementy the more powerful and imperisha- ble, mystery must create universal charl. ly:nl,:d“tri\'col:nnywh;'demlndl the physical Christ {n'the form of & wafer, and ihe man who demands the maa who de- mands only the epiritnal Lord, must be gromped snctety cannot draw its support In good &nd happi- ners from what it refects, but only from what it mont deeply loves, Their lives snd discoursesnowin an Eantern city aman who s fonnding to the bottom apparently the depthe of kepticlam, ile bogan miny years ago foliuwing the charma ‘of denfal, the charms of a destructive analysis, an an: the opposita of the Alchemists, for theirs was destincd to {rana- form ashea [nto gold, bt thin Iater one tranaforms gold Into ashes, " Tho skeptical apirit long divore- £d from tho loving entrit goon dlsables the intellect from relzing A good, add leaves it mirarable i1t cannot find something toreject, Thus Mr. Froth. Ingham has passed on and on for years many, antil now he'cantot fesrn { ents Christ ever cx- fated, bt laquite well satised that he was & fg- ure, 'a fancy, like the Venas of the Latins ot the Huarcules of the Greoks, Such aconclasion, which sweeps ont of existence the testimony of scores of contemporary writars, and which makes qoestion: able the exfstence of a Pilstaand 8 llerod, and ar " himbelr, Indicaten | Into one Ctiriatian family, becaine, looking througt e T al facalty . will, achicv | a giaon darkiy, they all sgres that ine Fond s withe when {t has been fed and y for : Come unto maall ye that labor, sayin O hon who love akeptical s -time. dality can be built until it will dies and men, must e e i Aoxia. and witches and tncantations | compel skeptical Inqulry to bring them positive and rpellar will with the negro hang tp colored [ principles, a nimple and more charming relizion: ntringa to protect 4 hat, or will wear & bit of brass ollowed to ita fullest extent docs ar {ron to keep evil spirits sway, so skepticism can_bo bullt up {n the heart until ihe nniverse and God dliappear and the soul has chaos around it and before it again, . Often it must happen In such & world of ex- tremen that one mind will carry only skepticism, God mever farces the Intellect of fiis childres. Taberty 18 written nil over the human mind. Each man_follows his own taste. Dnt auch a free world will be fnll of compensations, and hence alongside some rkeptic who is n1 waste the flelda of er- ror will come some belteving one who will sow the ficlds with positive trothe for the morrow. [ence should we never be the worshipers of only ane ht{fl. bt of enough to supplement the defects of only'one, 1(’!0 8 cnatom of the young sfudent of the world ur 8 kepticiem. Eve B the dlm outlook of the old alnt, bit 1t walls up the window, and instead of seeing great atreams of 1ight that betoken & God, and an eterni- ty, and & heaven, it tntns the homs inta a dungeon, where all the hours thote of rayless night. CHRIST’S COMING. SERMON DY THE REY. C. Il RVEREST. The Rav, Charles 11all Evcrost, psator of Plym- anth Charch, preached to an unuanally Jarge con- gregation yesterday morning, very few seata In tho vast auditorium being unoccapled. Tils text was: staundry times and {n divers manners, Sroboin e pas GnTo. tho fatliers by ‘the propnets, Batn inthess Tast dave spoken onto o4 by} whom ila iact, appointed” hir of Al inings, by whosi and of books to find fn his pantheon a lttle deity. 3 Kk t 8 ., & lluzlay,and | 8l la made the wol AT & Tackle, 8 e e hia tem T of | . Withan emphatic iluslon hese, he said, that ofteringe, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. Iint brought before the Jmagination the tately form of in thase heroes of thaught only one partof his lifo 1lea,—tha negative aide; and the yuath who bows only st tnese aitars will have seen only 8 fragment of the true, and the beantifal, and the To each hero of destroction one mnet altach some hero of creation, that the mind may sca new temples rlaingout of the dismantled walls of the former structare, The passion for & Stoart Mil or & Dinckle I8 as narrow as & taste only for musio in & world where there a ny aris, or Narrow an A0 cgotism which loves anly self ina world where milllons of the great live aronnd or sicep in history, Side by slde place the book of the ration- alfst and the hook of the devotee, that while tho former Isdclivering yon from credulity the Iatter may save to yoor heari the central propositions of religlon. itationalism and worshij must be jolneil, for cither alone Is 8 fatlare, Kational. {sm mnet save us from amporstition In religion, worship mnst rescue rationallsm from an athelstic nothingness, Rcligion advancing alone qflvu the world paganiem reason advancing alona will bring midnight and despair, Ttisoniya firm and con- stant union of skepticisn and falth that can lead us all to o grave baviug the least of folly and the most of hope, The dim windows aro in our house, and We muet make the most of & bad altn- ation, and keep the hoase foll 2 possible of Jight and love, 1t must follow from the {llnstration in our text, that Christianity mast becomo a roliglon of gener- al principles and not of most exact detsils, 1f ont world 18 ong In which we aro to look into & Iass or through A ginas and seo an imperfect out- ne, then Christianity will deal in principles rath. 1| details, Tho particular natnre of Heaven must give place to the gencral fact of o happler 1and for tho faithfni; and the particnlar natore of Lell must glye &l,nc!. ns sn {dea, to the facrrthat the wicked witl punished. Only out- eve rophet, and also all those vislons and wkZu tngs formed tha sign language by which God spoke to the old world, and withont a word of dls- paragement of things of the past, there was a bold contrast st between the mystlo revelation of the eariy dawn and the perfect revelation by the Son of Rightconsness, The praphets wero lsolated—set apart from thelr kind, They wero rovered and yet also feared. Thelr mersnges wera awe-{nspiring, for they had not alone prom- {80 but wrath In {Bem; and as it was rarely, If over, that they came Into the common roalm of sympathy with the people. A prophot, accepted ‘man of God, was llke a Jiving Mount Binal before tho peo- ple. They looked upon him with astonlshment, with reverence, and yet he could nut be ap- proached; he was cavironed round about by & mys- tarions influence that kept the peopls back from him. While, too, the Influence of tholr words was immediateand powerful, thore was nothingin thom calealaled o kindlo sympathy or regard samong those who listened. When Jonah walkad the strects of Ninaveh, the people bowed before hils Impending peophecy, but they dl‘h:"t‘ have & mmhh of rd the prophot any more than Heart Tt & aympahy with the storm that compelled them Lo furl the salls, Noah was the ‘most solitary man on the earth. Men stood about bim while hs wronght for (clu and yeats npon the ark; yet he was alons In hin great undertak n{t« On the othor hand, the eyidence was cumulative {hat Christ, by messaga_as well as miracie, took direct hold upon me. When Il spoke to them It camo as sight to the blind mind, as life to the hard 'y @ {ntare will be visible, And with what | and alck heart; it came to quicken the paralyzed e O E e Team’ tha. dead, he may hot | consclence, to reach and grasp men and liold thom know; but he must bo content In the thought that | by its lhlflhfifl power. Ile stirred the sentimenta what {8 sown in weakness aliall b ralsed In power, | and emotions by liis declaration of truth, and Thaime. and the mannar of this apspiinging | Dy Mis presence, which kindiod ' the from o torob, e amid, moslo nrlml‘:n Gfopent ” porsonel | athchimeat, " xo that cholrs or whother as ono wakos from sleep, w! . oy - N l, Cholrs o eliothor as one wakos from tlecp, Wheth: | Sraim “towards Ilim almost irrestatinly. “The forms of the onter fact which will nat ever pene- trate tho dark gluss here, Tha more positiva tho faith tho mora genera) its ideas. And not heaven and hell and the resurrection only wiil remaln the resting-place of this shadow. bnt over all the whole domsin of religion will the lwll!{hl of evening (all. That dark window of P'aul did not stand between tho Inmate of the hotso and & few extornal object tween tho eyo and all oater rcenes, » kind of glass that would couceal a slave and reveal a King, or shut ont the color of a flower and Jat in tho palnted plumage of a bied, but it was a dlin window that treated alike oll the de- tafls of the outslde landscape, 1t was all Impar- tlal, and gnve outlines, hut not the particnlars, erefore Christinnity will In all jts ‘many sidea stand in shadow and slso in some light, Man will o more a¢o perfeclly bin natura of Chrlsi than he will see the body or woul with which the dea! shall rise; nor will ho know all about {he atoneinent any mare than be will look clearly into the fields of the upper Jernralem. 3an will'not bo able to anticl. pate the judgment and determine what one shall be eaved or lost of earth's multitude, nor just what falth or penitence In a virtue unto Iife. All wiil be driven 1o take refugoe In principles more and ;moro genoral as rapldly oa tho reform can come.” VFor cxample, the gencral stdtement that C. lnl\\:!l:nl Savior of all who whall 1o 4 wobey Him, will dispiace the detailed notlon of the Ro- maniet, that the alnnor must have the flesh of Christ npon his tongno; and the detalled notion of the hyperorthodex, that the virtug of Christ lies only {n his ltersl shed blood. Christ winl not bo 8o clearly seen as those old gazers saw Elim, Not onily might one inferan outline Christ from tho **obscare glars," bnt we may now iInfer it from history, for the world has, nsa fact, deswn its good from general notluna rather than from its supponcd epecial information. The Catholle who eats and drinks the body of his Lord has gotten me resnlts from his Mastor which the Ile- formers gained from their spiritualization of the {icah and. bldgds and the Now School in its moral atonement hau found the sama Savior from sin that tho_01d School han fonnd In its commere [dea of tho death of Christ. Hence, what ble ing haw been coming tothe' Church from a Ii deomer has not been coming (rum the distinct charactor of the atonement which each one sa Lut from the common idea .of a sufiiclen’ Savior which all saw m}:lhcr bc{ond the varying par- ticuiars, Since the Catholic finds religion with the miracalons waferon his longue, and eince Mr, Moody's schoo) finds salvation In_tha litera] blood of Christ, snd since the Bushneil school finds ‘peaco and rightoonsncas through thelir form of ex- cgenls, and the Quaker through & patient finitation ofihc great Friond, it becomos cyldent that back of these contradictory interprotations thore must stand s general idea of Christ which #prings n within the soul of these varylng worshipers an fceds them all withdlvine food, ~ For if one finds Christ in & wafer snd another finds Wim in literal hlood and another finds hitm apiritnalized, then sll these are wrong, for Christ must be back of each ono hildden awny In some gencral principle whero all the seekers moel, \ ‘Then the history of the Christlan rollglon comes to confirm Paul's **obecare glass® and teach us that Mitle particalars are unknowable and (hat (D\"‘lnl rt)fll #uneral statomenta tho Church muat make a daily progress. It {a bet‘nl{l;:lrufldeul now thattho old church erred In ssauming that the window hetweon it snd cternity wan of plato-glass. It did not study wongh | Faul's *tonigumatical outlook,” . 1t 100 much and too distinctly. Its medium pure that it put to death those who could ‘through it. It has been alinost the expross on of this century lo back frow the hu- an race much of that suppused information, and o sct np Again that kind of window through which the Aposties hiad tolook out toward futurity, And ga though the lund which had once sssumed the most profound knowledge of the Infinite shonld be the one to ropent first of {ta error, Scot- day Jeads nll tho orthodox groups ina {inpla Christianity, in which s ‘deep love far Christ and man shail wplaca nous and dead thcology. Atthe Ualversity of St. Androws recently, Dean Stanloy congratulated Rcotland upon_{ta warch toward s simpler Christianity, David Watson, Presbytenan nasfor at I'alsley, and David Macrae, and Profcssor Sinlth of Aberdeen, and Principal Tulloch of S, Androws, aro I dlyn proclalming & day when the people hoard bim gladly, They (bronged_Tils steps, He was tne od eai living mognel. ‘Thoy could not keep away from it. Martua, Mary, and Lararus came and atood about Him with an un- utterable devotion of love. 3Mothors brought littie children and asked that IIs might take them and tonch them with His blessing o drew mea unto Him becauso lle was 80 acce: rophet afar off, but one w! D Ym r vory presence, nmkinf them personal disct plea and followurs. So far, ils spontancous heartl- ness of obedlence wns suporior to that which was Inspized by fear. So far wero the methods of Jesun far in advanco of those of the old prophets, Ho far had e hmu]i'hi o different and & bettor era. He drew men unto The times of tho ancient prophets night bo called the iron age: that of the coming of Christ was the golden o, whilo men slihed for tho past,—witle theie wero many who sald, ‘0L that wo hnd been born In the old times, whon every- thing was grand and overything was glorious,"— after ), that was false. * The old times were dim and shadowy aod remoto. The times in which Gud permitied us to live and think and to do wero olden with the truth,—better than everdawnea efore, Clvilization had done a great deal. Tt had awept away the atately forest hat once stood In the Tsnd. 1t bad piaced population whers once thera wae nothing but the waving oak. 1t had made the very 'rivers and scas fo bo populous; and men dld not gay ths world was ratrourading, ' They dfd not ey, **ObI for the old times when'we hau tho forest shades, when wa could walk In solitude and slience," A savago might have such a feelin; as that, Mandid not look back with regret an: repining, —dll not peor Into the dim mistand dark- mn:nll ld.m u‘llrly twilight of the ?nrflng._%; ng Jouked Into the noonday snn, and eaid, +*Than! od ':l' live In the last days, and !n the botter days an well, " With the advant of this dlvine teacher camo alsp tha starlling announcement that thesa wero the lost days. **In these Iast days Ile hath apoken ubto ue by His Soo," Hut men anecred, and sal ¢+ That was cighteen hundred years ago, and the end s not yet." Tha end of the world, accorulng to prediction, had cor great many times. ' The very day had been fixed, “Dut we wera to remem- ber that GGod's fdeas of tho last days micht differ from ours,—that Ie did not hasten in 1lis work. A thousand years wore to [lini a8 one day. Our work was crude and hasty, because we foit that the timo_was short. Cod's work was slow and perfect. The hungry painter wrought quickly and imparfectly bocauso he noeded monoy to biy bread. Anola mastor, who painted nionth after maopth, rald, **1a gllnllllx or posterity. e could aflord to touch siowly and parfect! wans doing for eternity. ly $The laat days are come," we dld not mouaure by our nazrow horlzon, but by that endless horizon that lay evermore before Jehiovali, There was an abundance vf men, howover, who croakingl, firmed that we were lhiving not only in_t! dsys, but in the worst days—in the da; t portended destruction, They sald the "world wan golng to tho bal—that everytling waw slipping back—that whnt had been galned stomed wg- Joaing its hold. Tho (Jospel to themn was & ‘Therefore when we said, failure, bocause it did not mect their viows or it in the groovoa of thelr thinking, It wss notthe Gospel coald not bring pm{mu according to their views, The ealt of humanity had loat its savor to "The trutl was tho (oanel came to bring the con lo] mmation, and from this standpoint AL AT A 'Toj 14 mean! wfin e ot Should bo Arled with tho glory of Gy 1In confirmation of this declaration of the Apostle that the lnmr-u{ glory was upon us, the reverend gentloman considered “briofly the signlficance and result of Chnsl comiog to the earth, It the highest nd the noblost message ‘s stood in the glorions realization of All prophecios found thelr goal in Jeaus areth, He was the centre towards which they ed and, in his charactor of sublime qnal- fties, culminatad; and there should never niore bo Riven to sersph tongue & revelation higher, nohler, sweeter, or more comprehionsive than that which fell from the }ips of Hirs who epake 84 never man spake, The coming of Chrlst wastho crowninyg oclal event of all timo, 1t marked advent of royolution in hupian affaira that was aurely and many ductrin ve pisce to the fuw, and | swiltly :joving toward the perfection of all thinvs, humlity and love will )l the cliurches which ware | Government biad been rld|tll|i=hlnxmi by the In- once full of poultiviem and bitterness, Principal | fluence of Christ {n tho world, Tl poople gove Tulluch naes the followlng words: i carreat of froo (hought v ranuing doen snd aure {nall the churches, even within softened and exclualve precincts where It makes no nolse at all, It will make jts way toward the light by and by, from all quarters of the cccleslastical horlzon, snd the church which will have most chance may Lxlulbl not Le uny of the present ui & church nore excellent—be fiberal and catholic—than any of thi ing,"—~Confemporary ZLevlew, p, 63, March, 77, ‘Tha two-fold fact that our era is & akeptica) one, and one of wimgler religlous vrinciple, points out the only valuable ofice of what fs called rational inquiry, ~lia miusion must be only to deliver the wind from folly, that it may be only the more froa 10 love the holfeat Iaws and facts of religion, With skepticism alone the world woald bs utterly ruln. ed. It would a8 though the pluneersshould move to & new country with no implement butan sx. The axcould indeed cut down the Liwber, bul It could not i}l the soil, nor harveat the grain, nor grind the wheat. All rationslism s only s single Instrument, and its work oon done, and then must cowo the culture and love of principl Skepticlim may well distloguish between the Qod of the Hebraws or tho Grevkg and the tTod of the Chriatian, but when It aeke us to doubt the ex- ernod now, snd not despots, ‘The time was when one man seemed to bring unto himeelf all possi bility of power, of privilogs, of life, and others {refe sa nathinic oxcept tha they ahouid servo Ttis behest. time had coine when the volce of the rwrlo—(hc manhood of the nstiou—was making teolf known, snd, called ag from a tomb, by Christian power, they were siandiog up all over [l th and asserting themsolves. Govornments wero modifiedl—changed. ‘There was no wore inding of the heel, Men woald not endure it, cause Christlanity had taught them tkat they were the sons of Jod and were not made (o bu ground down. An intelligent publle sentiment Wae_more '{\M now thian any edict. What the people declared, that was the Imwar.-—\lha{hfll‘ it bo under 8 monarchy or a republic, 1t was advancing toward perfect self-government overy ‘eu, Tho establishment here sad there of republics was o long atride in advance; and the blghest concaption of the Uosnel was sulf- ernment, —a gavernuont that should Lo so pozfect, that should so cuntrul the haman wind, thet it should stand submissive to that nigheat rula snd yet be consclously free. That wss ths bizhest form of Government where o man was governed within—wlicre not the statute book hetmed Lim {n, but the law, written on hi irt, held him up and lod bim to bo faitlful to hls trust, um:fm, nonuli.hu If cousclous that he was in the s lutence of any conscious Creator, then It aseall; of God, though ho might be Lidden Irem principle, snd 15 not s friend ‘but a destroyer of | me mwan, It 1s perfectly posalble for cach human be- | Thelaws had slso been reconstructed, so that fog touse bls remson for the destruction of the | they wera bocoming & protection ta the fnnocent maral world. Like & hired soldier, reason will | rather than a scourge tothe oppressed. Men did toll st soy if enticed & littla and wall patd. | not dresm of this inthe far past. Life wes also Leginning with s denlal of & purt, it cun uaaily pass | aken from its degradation &nd clothed in the 1o “a doilal of thio whole. ' Tlence this vkeplicat | princely parments of & worthy parposs. What wat facalty niust be met by & wall of assutaed princts | ol So1f s Sven. ® Yapor that sppeareth Ylea. Whien' 1Bo soul sbull say 10 tha deslroyer, \This far, but wo fariher. The fact of aa 4 obachr glass mast ot be allowed 16 cllpe utterly the reals beyond, The exlstence and for s l1ttle while and then vanlshoth awsy, Yel’h:l definition of the life tlait men noatly 1 was nothing more than vapor, It had nocon- sistency, no form or purpose. Menlived. and ate, yastoess of the outalle ualvarse snust be con- | and drauk, and slept: anu Onally died. " Thors wak feused, and through the dim windows we must seo | nothing noble fn the genvral ideas of llving— great dgures of God aud Curist, and of prayer, and | everythlog bass. Now & maa could ot live in poaitence, and virtue—great outlines of “Heaven and hell; and must vermit the Iutervenlog bhaze o cut off from us only the minutls of the pagesal. 1t is & complaint of some scctssnd of some per- sous that such a religious eysten 1y two veyue. Thuy exalt in holfl!nll‘rfllucll definite Christlan- ity.” But the bosst §s fdle. The same world lice arcund usail. Thoy cunnot cacape the mystery which surrounded 5t Paul. ~And furthermors thelr blatory does not Indusee theiraclf-conddence. 1n the laat hundred years the wost positive churches bave retrested from & huadred old positious. Thers arw spolls engugh behind thuin o equip soother army of old Calbolics ve 0ld Protestauts, this "l and not houorable fu Hving, 1 that here was something hai thers was g0mo pressura of nobility upon him,—~that LLere wasyowe grand purposs and misslon, lie might turn from It, bae tray it, but could not be uncouscious of it. "Lifo atood forth in tne Intellizence uf the world as it nover stood before. Mea felt that there were within 1he compass of thelr threa-score years possibilitics such s bhey of old never knew of dreamed of. Lifo now was grund and noble, as it uever was before. Mind was alvo made tho magter over forces that were secn and Lemporal. Education gave suthoris Iy ow.. Men were learaing (o give thels childrea cducation because thoy saw it gave them scoplre. \When one comes to Fhey bozan to understand that knowledge was 3fen in acarching for warriora now had miore recard to the mnacle of the braln than the power, muscle of tho arm. ¢ The elevation and exaltation of woman throngh power af Christianity was another omen. ‘Throngh all the gloom of the past wasaw her rither Man was rated as the anit and Some ratd the reverse. The to tho peer in ol herole pur- the & toy or & drudge. woman aa the cinher, Gospe poaition and complement of man, ~where, pores, In all holy vietncs, in all things that went to ‘make'life noble, alic atowd by hia side; sud, In thess days, a8 never before, we 4aw o nearer approach: to nily which wasonce In Paradise, whers ife erfection, —**In the beginning od czeated man In his own image, male and fo- male created 11 th satabl! onght ‘who had been 1ifi 1 had bronght woman i where aho B etond a8 the ished 1t In itn ¢ them," 1 tnere were an: to lift np willing hands of_service to and crowned in thia Jater-day clary, The time. variou tha hot groat on-going of the be revelation of the beantiful and oy were felt 4 minslons of good and benl@cence. Yancing ronnd and about us. Bldo the teath that Christ's a new religione ers. ANl the farms of worship be- fore the alsclosure of Jeaus wore more or less tainted with idolatry. M symbol by side with this truth 1s—earthward, shiping. to lift up thelr cyes toward Heaven. 10 vras the last ora, becaasa it wastho Tlo sublle and danverons modes fn which tho pomers of Unrkness were landishmeat, by infdelliy, by treacheriea—proved that the Jn nz. nssalling men—b) the troth, wan sure of a victol Ty, It waa grand to live ina mnhlflnF timo 1lke this, when everything began to 11t {tsct proportionis, when tho statne of hollness began to Detter undaratood. Upion tis came the responsl- that was no loayer a ho- or an oxperiment, but a (ospel that had itsolf Into tho very ntmosphcre of love that controiled Christendom ani It becams as to act moro Inrgely under Its inapirae tion that wo might live worthily. us, Jiving as we do in a grand time, to live Iy.—to lf¥o as becometh thoso that ara called of Christ,—those that can nnderstand somewhst of s nature,—those with whem Christ {a onthroned blllt{ of bearing a Goapel fizhio na the The German Yoang Men's Christlan Assoclatlon ] held & yeaterday afternoon, principally for tho purposs of listening to an addres. Hartman, of the 8t Paul's Lutheran Church, one of the ablest and oldest German miniaters In the clty. . The hall was well fjled with a Jarge and ap- Dr, Btraich, the President of The proceedings open- preciat! the Assoclatlon, presided. od with prayor by tho Rev, Dr. Hartman, followed by the cholr, which sang a portfon of Bchlllor's **Song of the Bell" in an artlstic and finished manner, Tarticnlar mention deserves the # **Ma very hopo of glory." GERMAN Y. M, C. A, ADDRESS DY DIt IARTMAN. highly interesting mecting at Farwell | ira andlence, solo, which wns exquisitely sung by Miss Fischer, of Sandnsky. Dr. Hartman made a!very eloquent sddross. He safd that thoy should not cxpect s sermon., but He who wanta ccend In thls world must not overosti- mate his resonrces, Tle must have clear cyes and 8 good vision, Tha Gormans had nol the shmo longings for confederation as thoso belonging to Ask any Amerlcan, from tho monntaing of Maine to the Gulf of Moxico what ho e will answoran American, Tha Xllt up in various factions as no othor nation, and yet ‘ask them what thoy wonld simpl; to hare other n would be Frenchmen aro i an expression of opinion. ationatitics, and be, snd they will answer of one mind, Frenchmen. Not so with the Germans, mind and different opinion. wonld have hia own King and oven his own pastor, Up to a fow years agoa called n Gorman. even In the church, this peculiarity of the is consnicnous, every soclety goes to plece: n evory wroclaty, lodge, and a, secessionist. a natural born ot there was hn?e for bettor things, ni ermany it Is no or forty 1t blood, Allhea: look to rn. ’lbc{ al and Jook tn Tiim"for salvation, 1o say tnat the Charch alone conld brls dosired unlon. tho Godlike was what was desired. varlons denominations wera standinj each other there could be no such thing as a unity of the Church, They muat understand tnut tho unity bv ha Illli)llllm of thelr children andinother riten. Why shoald they, then, not be able to bring about & union In everythin clao? They muat give tholr hearts to(iod irst, an 1io would make them strong. can yonng men ara bettor than the youn, the "Old_Country, and could accomplish much more, staciés ahould orevent tham from going forward in the good work which the: commenced. Dogniatism Jodging-place In the hearts of young men. Lad overy day twenty-four honrs at (hoir disposal Thoy neod ten hours for work and seven hours for ‘This leaves them soven hours to devols to Godand ta gin knnwledgn. to becomo something in something, ‘This they could not gain In losfing, drinking, dancing, ote, 88 ki fall of knowledza and inform thoy had no other book than {! 1l read it, for it was full of knuweld, should rofraln from reading novele and works of fiction, for no man conld galn knowled; hooks, They must read religions worl PBlule wan auocesn of knowledge, and they vught 1o make themselvea ut home in the holy book, and ina few years they would sce how much they had of God sleep, improv. from dogmatien, young men to peaceably, bul Why, therofore, sboill Golgot 11 iad 8 hoart for Tle did not m¢ Tha uni! s brought ‘about men of ‘Tholr education was difforent. No,ab- ha ocs not easily fAnd his world muat learn must be able to do something. ‘There are numbel from such s, and tho ed, They bad no longor anything to fear [17) lvnwflml 1. o dorman nin the German Young Men's Christian Association and bring about the unity among tho rich and poor, among all classes who seck religion and salvation, ‘The exvr:ises closed with singing and vrayer. ms The Rev, DR, TIFFANY., PAERWELL TO TRINITY M, N, CHURCH. Taul's M. E. Church of that city, one of tha wealthicat religious societies In the country, It must havebeen vory gratifying to Dr. Tiffany yes- terilay filed. moming when he glanced about the church and saw tlat it was ovon more than usually well Bunth an outpouring on such an occasion was only smiother Indication of the esteem In which the congrejation of Trinity have held and will con. tinue to bdd thelr late psator, Dr. Tiftaiy preached from the words of Christ found true, ons soweth snd another words misston elow, in John, Iv., 87: **Hereln Is that saying apoth,” Theso true of Christ's had sowed the aseed of vore espacially e tha word, jut the great harvest had boea reaped after his lbors wera finished, after ho had as- on, “cended ouhigh, and this Larvest wasatill golug Infat, in the very words of the taxt, snd through tlu context, Christ had given hia disciples the ‘nmmlq of_eoteriug iuto His labors and enjo; be rowards, work was! In tho estimatlon of Chris xpresvion of duty, and ife had ex- resaed nore fully the rolations of all trus wurkers eachi oher and to tue causs for which the: worked. It was pecullarly fllllu( that thews wor of lls had been perm! Clrlsth wheuld bs discussed at a time whon one wha lt'd".n workin this geld of Christian acts of worship, and tha an found s reward not in the outward re- sulte of his wnll’tflbnl 1 the juward satisfaciion which 1t gave. e diffurence betweon the mere moralist and the cligloniet was that the formor waa woved outald: of moved I Christl sult. had do. lingelf, while the latter was o of hs renewed heart; in short, the jan‘s wurk wa in tie dolng and not {n there. Nomaao coud bu fitted for Lieavon unless he ne yome Wok for Christ, Lat this deslro Lo X oud not be the n‘n\mlllll cause e ot n 8 was the true Chrisian's roward, aud not tle rosuits of that work., Whtherhe that did the work, ar he that came Aftesvards gathered the harvest, ke that so ad the wed and hethat reaped both b ward, and this reward lay uot In what they sowed or whlllheglnapnfi, but'ia the very sowlog and " reaping, Thu trub'coatalned in the test was ap- plicable 1o sver: department of conduct. Uuns genoration reapo what another xeuoration sown, had warli Lo-dsy was the reault of all the to influences whicluiad been brought to bear oi nien fnall ti Y o who had lived 11 various ages of the worl 1y, and bed which tianswers upled In workiug be precodny sges. Man tu-day was what become by loog generations of ancestors, en in‘vential in the various movewents bad goneon about the world's heart, Chrle- out ouu great pur- oss—ibe word's cultivation”snd enlightenwment, Patriots, atient tolles, —ono sowla; a4 sl ‘This was for Clrlat. They we ricty, and ys, 89 well as the qulel, d another reaping, — beeosugaged In dod's yrest barves -geld, 1 boud which united the trae workers moved by (s saine (mpules, , and saould all ra- me 1o Who did the work was zot 80 {m- oice loener. “go’(lll‘l‘ufll ertion 88 that tha work was done; Ui 1l vorld bad begu ratber prons to think oth: " and to be gulity of 8 specles of hero-woe- iy regur siverend genticman believed that his two that hrist, and to have boundiess Tove for Him, and to wor- ship at day and night at Itis feet, And to wipe them with the liaie of thelr head, 1t shonld bo the women ted na out of o tomb and scapterod ccoliar miaafon of children also betakened the faliners of ‘Their power was heing felt more and more {n the canra that enlisted the sympathics and Dest efloria of the best men, mora In the misslon of temperance t| n ever before,—in Many men not moved by the pulplt, or distncbed by the arznmenta of the press, had liad home tothem by tha hands and los of a Jittie child, o their mastery, beautifnl truths bronght nnd swoet as it was in uschold, was belmi feltas a factor In the tler days that are now ad. stood coming inaugurated n were tnrnéd toward Chrlst tanght thom, In wor- randest. y all there silent Dattlo was wag- Satan waa leading & forlorn hope In these daye, The sword waa sheathed; the fa) t wns quenched; all the old methods of rennffi:z the onward advauce of the trnth hiad been cant axlde, The conllict was deadly, but the last, thank God! npin ita right civllization. ‘God hel ands y tho Rov, Dr. Joseph Mo was Fach has s different 1f posaiblo, each man erman was sshamod to be snd ermans for this reason nearly he German And k at onger & confedoration of hirty tio insignificant principalities, but now it Is o lurge :ndsnwcrml cauntry, This has not been accomplishe: th war and d not unity be sc- cured In the ChurchY In the Charch they could not use iron and blood. T steel, but thoy had the sword of the mind, af knowledge, which was stronger than the former, rth, 'whatover denomination thoy belong to, cons hey had no aword of ng aboat tha ty of tho human soul with » long na the opposed o Tho Germon-Ameri- no nus| xlclonul{ The‘y Any one wanting r. Tifany preached hie Inst sermon In. Trinity M, E, Church yestorday morniug, and will Teave for Naw York this week to take chargo of 8¢, MONDAY, AYRIL 16, Isi4. e e into the chureh. an others had dono before hiny. another fleld, no idlo pastors. On this people whom and_white, nnfolded mlowly, but in the en wonld be ahla to say, **God knew best." inthe church pariors, INSTALLATION. DYTERIAN, place last evening. s preached the sermon, taking as his text umphing In nls own strength: dono through Chrlat, d im slono. aad he was honored In Chirlst and by 1llm. saw boyond the more carthly time, and, gazing fato tha future, e downfall of the powers of ain and darknons, Two centuriea Iater, from Britain to Ethiopta, from the Luphrates fo of Gallles was known and rovered, y]r‘flahcuc outery of tho Apoetle, * the {napiration of God Himee ful ones 1s Acceptallein the sight of God. those who refused to hear and nccept it. which they stumble, wlay. Judgment than for him. 'These thing what a serions and solemn task was that under~ yaa for bim not to bulld up to eatlafy himeelf with creati nE antl exten: pleasant soclal rolatlons, but to davoteall Lis an- orgies, his atrength, and b of soals, Word. Tha result of theso with the cangregation, and the pastor must upan (helrrmyvr-. Tho consti Presbyterian Charch woro next pat (o Mr, Rx"’""""“ to bo consummated, Tho Iev. J, onro hands of his people, The obl) mever forget that their pastor was the am- basesdor to them from Chrlat. countsble to God, and they must {::rncl. to bim for hls Master'a sake, in submission to them, b whetler the doctrino proached was that af Chrlst, of opinlon. neas of the pastor, the of confidenco betweon himandhis flock. thing moro than mero socinl s ed; thero must be A full and trse iating. A fow minntes speut o pastor might assist him m, work, All chutches have a to do, for thls 1s tho Charch militant, not tha Church trlumphant, of the New Jerusalem, and if Iz e o members of the church would do thoir duty In lh}» nv&:ct, there wonld be no haif-filled churches jn 0. tbn{ wanted to eave souls they must go out highways and byways and Uring thom in. Cul hearly welcomo, and "*charge to tho proceadings torminated. DR, WORRALL. CHURCH. Tho Rev. J. IL Worrsll, D. D., of Cevington, Ky., recontly called to the pastorate of the Elghth Presbyterian Church of this city, but who has not yet accepted tho call, preached his frat sormon In that charch yesterday morning to an unusually | largo audlence—~the largeat, perhiaps, that has ms- sombled thers for a number of years, 'The church haa been without a pastor wince the resignation of year ago, and In casting The Dr, Dufleld, nearl; about for his successor Dr. Worrall waa met. Doctor is & gentleman of about 45 years of ags, and is ot presontand has been fora number of yoara in charge of tho First Presbyterian Church of Covington, Ky. 1lo is & portly, thick-set gentlo- man, presents a fine appearance In the pulpit, and 18 what ‘hnp ladies ~would - call Rood-looking. 1fe tookshis text from Ht. Luke, Xx1v., 62, from which he .Pok. of tha iifo of Chrlst, and exhorted his hearcrs to learn of $ 11ls hamility, and grow in wisdom from il teachlngs, 1lo re: {rom manuacript, bat there wis cnough animation ol.very to divert attention from ita curled corners and Anger-printed pages. and draw in his stylo of tong with him In the Jina of thought. an earnost peaker, and, to ull appearaucos, zeslous in the minlstey. ' While - in his effort yeaterday he - lncked oriyinality, this was more than atoned for in his warmth of feoling and touchiog simplicity fn illustration and auditors to anccdote, which at Uimes moved his tonra, o by, on the whole, an_effective speaker, ucceesful revivallst, he will, nodoubt, It he accopla tho call prove’ amjnentiy snilfaciary Lo 20516 aT0uA Whom Ro 18 aw tomporarily 6. Doriog,. Ve chifoh nueds naw 11te. Sog ot aas 18 .11l be fortanate, MISCELLANEOUS, TIMDUOTOO, Bpecial Dispatch lo Tha Triduna, Inorawaroris, April 15, —Tho following officors ‘were olectod yoaterday by the Northwestern Branch of the Women's Foreign Mivalonsry Boclety: Trealdent, Mra, J. 1, Hitt; Corcesponding Secre- tary, Mrs, J. P. Willing; Recording Secretary, Mrs, Mary B, Willard; Treasurcr, Mrs. Emily Huntindgon Mille Becretailes—Rock Niver, Mrs, E. A, Andrews; Michigan, Mrs, M.T. Lathrop; Detrolt, Mrs, L. D, York: 1liinols, Mrs, Prof. Sue M, D Bouth: ern lilluols, Mre. M, E. Bla Brw, Bt. John: Wisconsin, ana, Mra. Friedly; Northwestern Indians, J B EnlIJ: Notth Indias Mrs. Ellen 8mith; Hontheast Indiana, MiesJulla Newkirk; West Wie- consin, Mzs. G, Irish. —— ¥nshlonable Remedies, Londan Medical Examiner. The following statistics illustrate the tendency which has prevatled for the Jast fow yoars to maxke & runon certain favorite remedice: In 1835 the central Pharmaceutical Establishinent of the Parls- ian_hospitals furnished 284 pouuds of chloroform; in 1575 the quantity had risen to 410 poands. The increase of chis from 1800 to 1870 was from 10 pounds to 720 pounds. Bromide of potas. siom, ¢ pouands in , 600 pounds in 1875; morphing, 1 posnd' O ouaces fa 155 20 pounds in 1883, The progress in alcobol, cons siderud as & therapoutical agent, is espacially wor- thy of notice, Between 1505 and 1875 the con- snmotlon of alcobol in the howpitals Increased from 1,270 to Ao.ooni;n s, Brandy does mot appesr on the Ilst unttl I882, when four quarte wers sup- plled. In 1873 the gusntity rison 104,108 quarie. Rum folfowed = nearly the same ©of progresalon during the same ilme, frumn 83 "to 5083 quarts. A remarkable fact brought to llghl " by ‘these statistics is that in proportion as alcobol rose loeches fell. to the yoar 1830 1,000,000 lecchos wer annuslly sup- ulled to the' Parisian howpitala; during th Iast twelvo years tho unnusl supply has been about 50,000, It 1s to be bo in mind that the anti- Binlazhllu aud contra-stimulant methods bad en chiely applied to cascs of more of Jeas prolongea febeile oxcitement, sub- sequently giving ¢ (o couslderable depresslon, In other worde, to typhus sud typhold fuvers. S0 lowgas the doctrines of Brousials in- ueuced French Tu“‘”' depletion and starviog hroughout the whols course of retarus frous the Central Depot practitioners have gradually ac- utertained {n tbls country, and ate stlmulation comblosd with ‘;th were formerly trcatad by eac support In_cas the lancet sod A Pot Fish. bingdon Virginias, Me, Joseph Sprou wess Meadots, has a very larye black perch in his spring, and which he bas hl’} in there for five yeara. He cso go to the wa- tr's plck it u, rubit, foed 1t, 8ud play wita it, all of which it secins Lo ebjoy as’ would & dow, horsc, or other anfmal. We tried it, and it was as ulsyful with us ss with Mr. Sprouls. e canght it fve years ago out of tha Norlh Fork of Holston with a hook, and pat §t in bl nimnz. 80d hag kept 1t thore asfely und maduaspeclal pet of it evor :i:cmldth about tweoty inches long, and feuz o wl ears’ sowing had been rewarded with somo reaps nz, ind Ha had the ratlafaction of knowing that within that timo there had been 248 recoptions An yet his successor had not Been found, but Qo had o _man_romewhers who wonid take hia place, and who would now and rean An for himaelf, ho wan going forth_to sow and. he honed, to resp in Methodlam Knew no vacant pulpits, o wan #bant to leave ha Invoked Gad's bleasing, and bado thom be content, God'a plans, like the lilic ure Al A farwail aocial will be given Dr, Tiffany and his family this evening by the Indies of Trinity Church THB RBY. J. A FRENCI, OF THE FOURTII TRES- ‘The Installation of the Rev, John Abbot French 25 pastor of the Fourth Preahytorian Church took Alter the uanal proliminary devotlonal excrcises, the Rev, Arthur Mitchell, 1, o fourteenth and fifteenth veraes of Lhe sccond chap- ter of St. Panl's Second Eplatle 13 tho Corinthians, Dr. Mitchell opened his address by a roview of an anclent Roman trivmph, such as dwelt in the mindof the Apostle when he penned his inaptred ‘words, 1t was not to be supponed, sald the hreach- er, that St Paal plctared bimsclf as tri- | must be Panl bonored Christ and epread Iiis name abroad, It was a strange triamph, It might be rald, that of tho man dragged through tho strects asa criminal, atoned by the citizens, and finally thrown out of the city gates as so much carrion might- have been} astrange triumph that of the man, who passed hls ind nights in dungeons and prisona for daring tosdyance the glory of tha Lonl Nut St Panl craccntions of hia beneld apread of Cavisianity Guronghout the world, and ! Ulbraltar, tho name of Him and then tha ‘hanks be to- who canseth ua to lrlnmr'h"’ was shown to be Paul reminda Christlans that the labor of fl!‘!'h» o faithful preaching of the Gospel bronght salvation to fusny, and a snnter and deoper wrdu[fi: o 00 who bellave can rely on Christas thelr fonndation. stane, but to the nunbellever lio I8 the stone over The Gospel is a two-edged aword, and whero It doea not cut to cure It cats to I & man rejects the Gospel 1t will bo more toterable for Sodom and Gomorrah fn thu Day of b aliowed taken by bim who bad bLecome tholr pastor. 1t leasant loclnm or ng Is powers t0_tho saving ‘To this work ho 1s called of God, and ho must never weary of upnnnam% tho trutha of Flis labors rested 5rfluy epend tutionat questions proscribed Dy tha French and the congregation, and, being satiafactorily an- swered, lhl‘nn jon between pastor and chnm{wn- Gibson then pronounced tho ¢*charge to the people, " dwelling on the dutiea of the congre- slllunlfllbfi pastor and the church, While much cpended on ‘the pastor, even more was {n tho tion was rocip- . rocal In all Its phascs. Mataoal falth was needed in order (o obtain mutual cdification, They must 1o was ac- pay duo The Presby jan Church claimed nothing of tha pricstly char- scter for Its ministers, and asked no man (o bow ut to examine into all things for themselvos. Lot the deciding point be ‘When such doctrine was preached it must be nc. cepted s trath, and not be Judgod by the standard 1In order to bring out the traa usefn)- ore must ba an Interchante Soma- {ntanco I8 need- Dr. "onmm further bespoke for the new pastor & nsked the congregation to besr ‘with his weakneases, and tolook upon him with that charity waich thinketh no evil, The astor'’ was then dollvered, and, s hymn sppropriate to the occasion belng susng, tho SHEYIONS AT TOM BIGHTX PRESDYTERIAN being possesscd of many of the attributes of thusiasm, wnd if he can sdd this his unlon with Canforenca Corresponding TRADE. Something About the Export Trade in Oysters. Largo Quantities Sont to England Every Week. A Growing and Profitabls Business for Those Engaged in It. The Business Outlook from the New York Standpoint. A Slight Tncrease of Dusiness Daring the Month of March, Which Indicates a Better Conditlon of the . Retail Trade of the Country, Bpeclal Correspondence of The Trivune, dcal sald in thonewspapers recently about the “Ynnkee enterprise” displayed in shipping American beef to England. This has grown to can beef being sold in the principal citics in En- gland at a less price than English beef, and, in fact, for a less prics tnat it ean be bought for in our home markots, For this-latter fact our butchers ara responsible, not the stock-ralsers. Last week a cattle dealer not only shipped a Jarge number of 1ivo cattle to England,” but fn- cluded $n bis shipment some 500 heat of sheep. This looks very tuch llka “'sending coals to Noweastlc," as the English say, for if therels anything which Joln Bull especlally prides bimeelf upon It s the alleged su- perlority of his mutton, Tlho gentleman who shipped the sheep was not sangulne over tho reault of this speculation, but sald hie wanted to show them over there tho kind of shcep wo wore cultivating here, bearing fo mind the pos- slbfiity that he might be able to furnish them mutton as good as thelr own for & littlo less moneys EXFORTING OYSTENS. While one class of Yanokeo spoculators have ‘been bullding up this oxport trade {o beef, an- other has developed a lively forelgn demand for Amcrican oysters, They have oysters in En- gland, but they are small, of poor quality, pos- ecaaing a coppery flavor decldodly disagreeablo to those wio havo luxuriated on.the fat, julcy oysters to be found In our inarkets, Somesix orseven ycaraago ono of the Washington Market oyster-dealers sent a fow barrels of oyaters to London, but the experimont was not auccessful. The voyage was o long ong, and tho oysters wero not - properly cared for. On their arrival many of them wero dead, and nono were in [ condition. No furthor oxperiment was made fo_this line for some time, but fnally & fow more barrels of tho fineat and best spocles of oystcra wore sont over, ‘'Theso were earofally {cd and watered on_the yoyage, and arrived in prime condition. But the Englishmen did not rolish them, They found them TOO LARON, and wholly Iacking in that coppery flayor which thoy had been educated to reliah’in the oyster. Finally, some of our prime * bushel "’ oyators wero sont out, Theso are of small slze, usually served up for “rawe,” and are of Uellclous flavor. ‘This venture was moro successful, tho shipment belng disposed ol at a falr profit. nu? ft\ s to be fearcd that - the were sold to comsumers as Englls| oystars, for dealors were found to boe exceed- ingly hostlle to tha scheme of introducin Yankee-bred oysters Lo English stomachs, Bu {luck and perseverance will win, and floally Mesars. Dorlon & 8hafler, tho famous Fulton Market purveyors, determincd to establish an ngency for thelr oystors fn_ Liverpool. Mr. Biaffer wos sent out for that purpose, Mr, Whito, of that irm, making the sclect{ons here. he Nirm {s atill Dorlon & Bhaller, slthougn Mr, Dorlon, that genlal gontleman and cnthu- slastic lporlnnm, hias been dead for somotimo.) notwithstanding tha IOSTILITY OF THA LIVERPOOL DNALERS. His salcs became moro numerous weekly, and the English palate was oradually belng educated upto o just appreciation of “Yankce oysters, when 8 hito-and-cry agninst them wasa rafsed by the assertion -that their consumption entafle discnse,~in short, that they wero son- ous, o fact that thu eyo of tho Auwerlcan oystor waa biack whilo that of his Englisk cousin was white, was cited as proof of the bad choracter of thu former. "Bug Mr. Bhafler had beon relnforced by other Yankeo oyster dealers, and they united thelr forces to combat an unreasonnble prejuidice. They wore cvantually successful to o Eult degreo, to swhich the oyster himself contributed l’\mzel 'y suffering himself to bo eaten with fmpunity gy . WEEPTIOAL ENGLISHMEN asproofof his good charactor and excellent morals. It was not lon[r' before American oystors conld be fousd In all the principal clties, forming a atandard artlelo in every ro- spoctable restauvant, The Liverpool dealers ‘weresoon forced o recognize the Intruder, and to keep him on hand to supply their orders for Amencan oysters, Thusthe Yankeo bivalve wwad soon dessominated throughout Furope, his festive and scductive countenance cheerfully greeting American touriats in all Important citles, and botng wolcomed by,them ns on old fricnd—with hospitable hands to ecraviuz MAVING GATNHD A FOOTIIOLD relzn llme{ tho American oyster became a staplo article of export, comforting the be- nighted forolgners and yleldlngngmdl profit to those engaged In exporting him. \\’Leru [3 few barrels constituted the first venture, the orders Increased gradually until at the presont time the oxportatlon of oysters averages over 2,000 barrels per week, Eighg or ten New York firms havo thelr agoncles {n Liverpool, where all oysters aro consignod, and whonce they ara distributed throughout the country, The proft on them s good. Hero they worth about $4.50 per barrel, tho transportation eol.!g ll.b‘g. and they _sell for from $10 per barrel, - There {s compara- tively little risk attonding thelr trans- portation by steamer, Iu wurm weather the; requiro to bo kept cool with ice, but in the fall ‘winter months thoy do not ncud this frigld ention, 1t theyare fed and watered occu~ slonally, thn{ stand the voyage :rlcmluly. ar- riving In as fat and tempting condition as when they leit, Not being subject to sea-sickness, they wasto none of their substance by foolishly throwing It overboard. ‘Thus this industry has grown 10 Important dimensferts, What with our exportations of beaf, oysters, shuep, flour, ‘wheat, corn, ete,, Amcrica bids falr to supply the whole world with food. Well, let the de- mand come—tho youngcst of nations will prove Bersell fully equal to the emergency, TR UUSINBSS OUTLOOK, Considerable disappolutment has been ex- presscd that an imnicdiate revival of busineas did not take place on the Inauguration of President Hayes. Nearly every ong had flat- tered hlmsclf that such ‘would be the case, but in this they have been disappointed. During the Presidcntial r.-nnui buslaess men said tho election sxcitement was fatul to business; then, when that was pust and nothing detinite was de- cided, they sald the uncertuloty was killing trade; then tbe uncertaluty was ‘dissipated by tho inauguration of Ilaycs, and still business Lias not expericnced that revival that was pre- dicted. The fact ls, the business of the country 1s less affocted by political oventa than is gone- rally suppozed,” Men do not allow !mmlm to ioterfera with business as a rule. If thev nced fioocls they will buy them, whether the countr plunged in a Presldentiul contest or not, Ani men who have goodn to sell will attend to the busiuess of sclling thewn, overy day in tho week i1 necessary, the catire uéglect of ;{‘olmul caucuses, conveutlons, ar lutrigues. 'bey do pot permit politics to Interfers with their manipulations of the alinighty dollar to any grest extent. But our people would not realize that business is not dependent upon pol- {tics, but hastcued to accept any excuse for dull times that fattercd themn w("h ® proapuct of better times Lo come. DEMOCHATS CHAKGED TS REPUBLICANS with belug responatble for the panie, the hard thnes, aud all the {lls that have fallen upon trade and comwmereo during the past few years, ‘The Republicans combated this view of the case manfully, yet iliogically accepted the the- ory that when the politleal excitement was over businesa would be better. Our peuple, in thelr selfish hufialu}ncu. scem to overlouk the fact tliat the whole dvilized world hus been strug- gliog with business doprossion for soveral years; that hard times have been the hardest when the tival atruospbere has been sercnesty that usiness fullures have beeu-nearly us numerous, certainly fnvolving as scrious losses, fn the en- trely “tranquil “countries o Eumgo a3 they have been in the United Btates; facls ~which prove couclusively that litlcal excitement of politicul serenity bas lit- 1o to do, for good or evil, upoa theconditiun ot busivess. The panle of 1573 had no conuection, near or remote, with ®hio political situation of Nrw Yorx, April 13.~There has been a great be a very Jarge and profitable busincss, Ameri- Mr, Bhaffor was succesaful in his enterprisc,’ the connlr{. for when that occurred there were no tsturblng political complications, nor was there an clection exgitement o the lanll. Never ‘was the country rumlunlly more srreno than when the fallure of Jay Cooke exploded the speculatlvo firma of the conntry by hundreds, 1T 19 ANAURD, therefore, to associate our present business de. iresston with any political disturbances, and & was nbaurd to expect that tho abatement of the political excitement attendant upon the Prest dential cleetfon would bring proaperity to the business Intercsts of the country. As “politfes ‘was not rcsronx!hle for hrlmilmz liard times up. on us, politica can do nothing to restoro pros. crous times. That Is already demonstrated, o businesa revival that " was predicted would come when tha Prealdontial question wag sottled, has not come. Tho money market hag scldom boen tighter than ft {s now, or grumblers more numerous. The fact s, the qln o of 1878 was due to the speculative faver which affifcted everybody at that timo; business-men were tog much expanded in theirenterpriseas were ca ingt too heavy loads; speculation raled the hour, and onl!nnri husincss principlos wera dln’:flmrd- ed; overything and everybody was inflated, The crists enme, THE SPROULATIVE DALLOON was pugetured, and there was a torrible cole 1apse, spreading disaster throughout the land, Noono escaped. Tho capitalists ,saw thelr in. clate, and values of all ‘kinds shrink in thele grasp, while Ishoring men were curtalled {n thelr wagzes, or deprived of them entircly, Cone fidence was utterly destroyed.—no one could tell the flnanclal condition of his neighbor, or whether he, too, would not fo the end find himself ahlfimmcked ns o result of the storm ‘which was’ _carryinj down overything before ft. Men distrusted not onl thelr nefghbors, but themactves, and bent af thelr encrazies to saving themaclves rather than toextending a_helping hand to the suffercrs nround them., Tt in the work of time to repress the ruin wrought during tho past threo years, and it 18 folly to aupposo that it 18 to hé dane spasmodically. The businoss fntcrests of the mlmlr{)lmvu been wreeked, and those who would build them up must begin at the founds. tlon. This process has been going on for some time, tha debris hos Leen cleared nway, and the bullders are now nble to sea what I8 teth of the commercial fabric, and to earcfully contemptata the work before them. Alrcady they have mads some progress. The now structure, Inid on the solid foundation of legitimate commerce and manufactures, {s beginoing to ariso and assuma goodly form. " But tho work fs tedlous, and the Bzocul slow. Vithin the past mounth there bas en A BLIONT IMPROVEMENT * in business. The trade of March wns - better than that of a year ago, and an improvement on the businosa of the preceding month, Business men feol encournged and hopofal. They ha abandoned tho fdea that there is to be a * bual. ness revival,” but - hope to sco.a’ gradual fm- provement in trads which shall ldad up, by slow and sure procosses, to ngood” fall trade.” The indications are that this willibu so. for country dealers roport a slight improvement in the gene eral retall trade, and are {ncreasing thelr orders upon the jolbors accordingly. A friend of mincis emchd In o manufacturing business which {s wholly dependent upon the rétatl trade of tho country. For three (cnn\ one-half of hiy machinery has lain tdle, and haif his men heen out of employment. The amount of ‘*shinning " he has done “within this time to save.himselt from bankruptcy and_his factory from falling foto the Bherif's hands has mads him prems. turcly gray, and. almost o it subject for the lunatic uyl'um. ABOUT FOUR WRERS AGO his canvassers—~who cover the-cntire Enst and ‘Waest—began sending in thoir orders for goods more frecly, Gradually these have increased, until Inst week my {riend had all his machinery ranning and his”full comploment of hands st work. I asked him what particulatlocality was sending in the groatest number of ordors. He roplied that thé increasc was not conflued to any locality, but came gradually, from the Easte orn, Middle, and Westorn Statea, Rotafl mere chants who order his goods are ordering double ths quantity now that they dil a year ago, and ordering miore frequently, Illis "busincss is thormameter which marks the condition of the retall trado—when sales are numerous, his goods are required; when they aro the roverse, he has no market for his products. Another manufacturing friend of ming, whose product Is in "the lino of haberdashery, has had such an increass of buainess” within a fow wecks that ho 18 obliged to run his factory day and night, Dry-goods jobbers wlso ropart an inereased demand for the retall trade of tho country, This is slight, to be sury, but, {nasmuch as it'showa oven a little Improves ment, It Is encournging, Bnt still tha tnoney market continues tigh ‘While the banks sre overflowing with money to such an extent that it 18 actually a drug in " the market, there s a scarcity of It in clrculation. Capitalista are still without falth in *‘tho good time coming’ and lacking fo confidence. fn thoir fellow-men Credit is dead; no mon has any; henco money 18 chieap, for those having it will not loan except upon tho hest security, and those having such security can get money on tholr own terms. But that which was A 1 security & year or (wo ago 18 comparativoly valucless now. The shrink- ngo of most kinds of stocks has been something fearful to conteruplate, And yot the water has not been half squeczed out of fomo of them. .. AB A BINOLE INSTANCE ° of the shrinkage of vnlucs, look nt tho stock of tho Now Jersey Central Rallroad, - A short tims 8o It was considercd ono of tho first-class fo- yestments, o8 {t glnld 10 per cent, - Noyw ft s fn the hands of a Recelver, paya no intercstor Qividends, and, instoad of belng at par, the stock sells at about 50, ‘I'he shrinkago In this stock alono represents from eight to ten mill- fons of dollars.. This is but a solitary Instance out of many that might be cited, When capl- tal can bo thus irrotrievably extinguished, no wonder thoso who have any l¢ft aro cautious s to how they placo [t Coverument 43¢ per cenb bonds have more charms for them as 8 perma: nent {nvestment than the stocks used for game Lling purposcs in Wall strect,—which aro sub- Ject to the “bull and bear" machinationsof reckless and desperato Enmhlcu. On the whole, it may be suld that the busineas outlook 18 cncouraglog; a slightly-Increased volumeol Lusincss gives promise of furtherlncreass as the scason advances, till & good remunerative trade 18 tloally orected on a solld, substantial founds tlon,~—solid and pormanent because based un tbs laws of supply and demand. Durron. e Britlsh Nowspnaper Statistics. Landon Times. From tho Newspaper Preas Divectory for 167 we extract the following ou the present posk tlon of the ncwspaper presss *There are nof published in the United Kingdom 1,602 newsr apers, distributed as follows: Englund~Loo don, 4+ Provinces, 0015 total, 1,811, qulul 53 Beotland, 104; freland, 141 Tsles; 20. O those thera are 103 dully papers publishedin Eugland; 2 daily papors published fn Wales; 1§ dally nflEerl publisticd fn Scotland; 20 dally pr Fen published lo Ireland: au.uy papors pub- [sbied in tho British Islea” On reference totbs edition of this useful directory for 1847 we find the following lmurnnlu7 Tacte—viz.: thatle that year there were published in the United Kingdom 557 journals; of these, 16 were Lasued dally—viz., 13{n Enzland, 1 fo 8cotland, and 13 in Ireland; but In 1577 there are now ostablishel aud circulated 1,003 papers, of which no les than 145 are {ssued dailv, shiowing that the pres of the country has vory greatly extcnded dur ing the last thirty ycars, and especially o In th form of dafly papers; tho dully {ssues standing 145 agalnet [0 Iu 1047, ‘Tho mamnzines nuw i3 courae of publication, Including tho quartetly reviews, number M. of which 275 ars of ade cidedl; rallgnu.l character, representiuj the ghu{[c“o; dngln‘llm,u'w’fllaylué :I'.u'illlm‘ aptists, Indcpendent man Cathollcs, other Christian comnmunltics, . Chiness Coustas, - San Franeirea Bulleiln, Tn the course of the avidencs of & Chinesels terpreter in the Ab Moon murdet trial to-daf the witness was asked what was' the application of tho term fcousins, as used by the Chinese or, In other words, what was the nir tlonship existing betwgen Chlneso esll- ing each other cousing. He replled all Chineso having the same surname Wert cousing under tho soclal laws of China; fhatht niade no differcace from what Btato or partdl China thoy halled fram, they callod each otber cousins, and thav this lpfzflni to the Chinese over the world. 'Tho wltness waf asked b question: “If thess cousins did not co3* aidar it not only thelr privilege, bul thelr duty, to sustaln each other, right o wrongi" 1le answered that thoy dld, *Bar pose,” sald the counscl, **a_member of the cousin family by the namo of Wing was killed by a meuber of a cousin mmn{ uemed Sund would not all the members of the Wing familf bu obliged 1o pursue the Sung family until they obtaloed revenge on one or the other of members?? 4 Yes, alr,¥ replied the witness. ———— The Latest Rage, Hostom Commarcial Bullelin. 'Pulntlnf on porcelaln and chiua is to be (8¢ fashlouable pursult with ladies this seasodr Crocnet and embroldery will give way to cubh vases, and match-boxes. When paterfamiliss goes up to town, he Wil not be requir “nawch ¥ worstéds purchasa cottod, bU will be burdencd with commissions for and crockery, Fraotic men will be persolin? around fownafter * lovely ! pitchers and curiost curn fn the long sumuer days. Fair \:lulfl\: will parude on the hotel pf ‘dlscuss Faleod and Keramles, and trausfer 'a.-mm desbrsd upon muge sad tespots to be foticted VS helr friends on thelr return 40 town, veatments dwindle away, thelr securities depre--