Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1877, Page 2

T iy Ty I B AT E TS Lo [} RELIGIOUS. Sermon by Prof. Swing on the Subject of Public Morals. The Recent Funeral Serviees Over Mrs, Stiles—Bxceptional Instances Prove Nothing. The Revival in Boston--Won- * derful Progress of the ‘Work There, ' Farewell of Mr, Sunderland --The Curse of Church Debts. Dr, Harrison on the Religious Fue ture of the Colored People at the South. The Rev. Mr. Powell Makes Some Unseasonable Remarks Re= garding Spring. The German Y. M. C. A.~-Con- gregational Assoeintion--- ‘I'ho Reov. Mr. Mercer. THE PUBLIC MORATLS. BERMON BY FROP. SWING, Trof, Swing preached yestorday morning at tho Central Church, taking as his text, **Oar Father ‘Who art in Heaven." Among the facts which seemed fo be exerting n bad Inflaence upon poblic morality I placed, last Sunday, the modern philosophy which attempts to argue [s way toa God, The older method of as- sumiog an infinito cause scomed moro desirable. Let us retarn to-day fo that theme,—not that we may settle any such vast diatorbance in the mental waorld, bul that we may glve 80 vast a subject some sdequato attontion, This {nquiry about that basis of morals—God—should tome to us alf with a new Intereat, inasmuch aa one of the lovea and highly « cultlvated Jadles of this city has just dicd In tho Lallef that thers fs no valuablo proof of tho oxist- cnco of any such consclous cause as socioty calls Godj and has been barled Ly arite in harmony with such a negntion,—a rite that confessed the friendship and sweotness of earth and tho sorrow of the final scparation, Buch ascene should call forth no reproaches from sny one. Indecd, toone remembering the loglcal method of the times, it might well bo a surprise that there are nol more of those doath ecencs and fanerals where thare 1# no light except that of earthly memory, and no masic ¢xcept the finsl re- quicem, There Is on unbelic! doubticss that in- -yolves gmit. When one nas made no good or falth- ful use of ono's reasoning faculties, or by sin hue ‘made the path of donbt more vislble than that of falth by making 1% more desirable, then unbelief becomes ono of the alas of tha wonl, and stunda worthy of punlsbment. \When, howevor, the hou- est wind uttempts to find the truth, and, like Thomas, would love to belfeve bul cannot, then, man must withhold condemnation, ana munt re. gret that thers werv nos for all such distrusiful ©onos a food of clearer light, It should be in this department of religlous sight and sound e it ia in other felds of perception and knowlodg at «each one should wish tha vislon wero mado a little more distinct for ono's fricnds mldday, some one gazing up into will se aatar, 1t will He on s fleld of blue in the mont perfect outline, a surprise and a beautiful gem, Wut how groat {a the d peppolntinent that the dia: covercr cannot show the [litle disk to a friend! Hiu friend's eye cannot becoma calm enough nor true envugh to the great distance 1 find the little ‘pesrl in the blue upper sou, The sea ripples and Eparklies, and the sun dazzles him, and he winks lflw a alght-bird In Yrutnun of that trombiing atmosphore into which' the firat gazer can lovk , With oagle's ken. Insuch ainoment you do not srk that the unsceing one be punished for want of vislon, but rather your heart ardently wishes that t tar would for a moment blaze up ke a Httlo sun that your companion might suddenly discover tiie sought-for hiding-place. Some auch ardent wish should spring up whon' onu walks beaide us who cannot Jouk outward and seé the forin of tod, Auy thought of gullt or punishtnent should be crowded oat from the lnmun lieart by the deslrs that tho atmosphere might be made more trand- parent for tho sake of those whose vye finds in the uky only confuscd shecn and duzzlings, and no clear outline of the Bupratne hlar, May 1o one of ud recall to-day the deathor funer- alervice of thut lady, Mra, Stlles, for thic purpose of weighing her lillll& or punishment, but oniy to 1nako siora practical and sincers our study of the cuunes of public bolicf or unbelicf, Huch & life, and deoth, and burial, should make inquiry seeu: practical rathor than coldly abatract. 1t must bo that inan 1s Lo And Uod by sent! ments as Lruly us by ooy musterinl argument. 1t le well, indeed, Lo rise from nature Lo naturc's God, if only one can; but it ls well, also, 10 masume that thero are innate sentinicnts thot ste_worthy of & public love and obediunce, The modern Jogle chierisues Tittle reapect for innate qualitics, 1t attempts to deive sll things from an action of such msterlal forcea ud ehemlstry and general natural philosophy can enumurate, In attempting this, it appoars to ba cheating us mortals out of o rifon of our inheritance. In gasuni- ng that what asre calied natural forces have made the orgunlc world, and hence mau ay 1td best organtsm, it has wade an mptio ay gratuilous at least au that of Flath and all the spir- 1uul philosophurs that there wae s primal i vrevious toafl this materis) order. 'Tho assump- tion that the world proceeds from a great iind is At least as allowable as the asyumution that it bo- gun with watorial forces; and thia belng 80, we dare ot perwit the pocullar buiosoph of tho twes tocheat us out of ‘half of vur birthright, As ‘we should not bo \vlillnfi for tho old unks and hermiteto relurn snd clicat usout of nsture by telling us that there I8 nothing valuable except in- vislble sud spirizual things, su wo shoald nul pers mit the muterialivts 10 muke the world of naturs! {nlv o large that It stull throw Intu total eclipse be world uf divine, spiritual seutiments, Ot of tho caslest things to b done fs to bulld up such & Lasta for 0no corner of our unlvurse that for 8 good possestion of that corner ur quality we ‘Wil barter away at low rates all our righl and title large alsewhere, Wa do not dara repest the TDusincus trausactions of that Mosue in the sfory of Goldsmith, who, in s sudden wilderment of Falr, exehaoged the valual fur the utterly worthless, bucief can by made hungry for sule one article of o thouukt, and daring the fury of that up- petite viands once sought far and nese ceaso to uppear tpun tho public board. 11 I mistuke not, tle story uf Eend vprinzs up oot of all funun fifo, for Lo Dad develuped such an cothusiasm of " tho Lunt and the wild [ife of the woode that the blrth. rizht bocamé Lo himn toc effopunate a thing, and 1ou much burdened with civilizatiun, to charia lils wild bewrt; sud, cuming frum the huut with a suging hunger, he sold out for » single fosst &l Lie clatin upon the pucullar blossiug of uls fusher, “Thus all ol us can roam in the wouds and wilds of scienco, Lut in the fulds of birde, and trecs, an untll we have become Eeaus of the wild, flowe and fora fusal that will 1meet thal ruvenous appe= tite and can send us back (o the w sysin we o will sell out that birthright of diviue sendmont ‘which has boon aclipecd by $he Dew atfection. I'hio wourkloge of uatural luw canuot expluin the Ppresonce of mian on varth, Law lé 80 proscut sua a0 wonderful that the studenty of from tha part it playsto tho whole, sud crown law a0 Kiog, As when {u traveling wolears that a road has earriod throe mililons of passengers withoat km or ln{'lmnl any one, we puss reudily 10 thy couclusion that tucre wa are safe, 80 fu philosophy, ving seen three willivns of justances 1 which Jaw Lus forwied und caused certalu vrganizations, Wu pas 10 8 unlvgraal, and eithrone lawus the ox. plsuntion of the Culvuree. Tul thls pussing from 1upny 1o the wholo {s & duigerous tode of reason- dug. -~ The railway which hus yot killed nu oue sy on thewurrow shuw us thy defect uf our argument 10 8 nunner wiowt Unexpected aud ewphatic, Bo tue wurld 0 purvaded by natuzal causes caunot by Landed over Lo such causes, because theru Laun uus known pust and au bakuown future 1o be uxplored Lefore Mo arguwent will Lu complete, After science bus dov 1t utinoet, thers ruiaiug sy uue kuown world. ‘Ihere 870 sentiments in man which no phywical causcs will :xf)lllu. Fur example, the love of wustc, W could hardly have come from & Jong ex- perument, 16 cauld bardly have cowe frowm suy survival of She diteat, Unw cannot fecl jhat suy of tho Luperative dewsnde uf sociuty taid (b founda- tions of wuch & soutimont. Bo that, if vue dured ¢unfeas thut the seutlment of right snd wroni wers t ult of cxperinient, une would bo slow L cuu« fead thit the woalcal seutiment sprang from the modificutione of protoplasm un ita lung Journey up- ward, ‘'fhere uro many gualitics 1o tho human spint whica ustaral force may mot explain, Logic cannot approach thea from thw vutside and show us b stcps of thelr coustzuction. it way lesd un slong aad polut out the intiueuces that wade wmen | bl ia Africa, or red- babred fu old’ Germauy, and low of slature iu Ureculaud, und tald fu” Patagonis, but it cantiot Teud us up 0 uuy physlcal origin of the sentimeut 1Bt €876 08 tho eighii uotea und then All the fich awusic of the ‘Pewplv uf Gud sud the acadeusics sud howes of wau, ‘flo wotliod of wudes Kcieucy €Aplalns Liuck, bubite duwain Le cluetly the extee- skin, ‘:m Lalr, tus forw, the Land. the the fuud, cuwe uuder ils Juws of causation, LUt Why wan should siug & sons, or argue trom caus Lo edect or dove the beastiful, or poveess memoty of hope, it tannot claim to know, except by that (nfirmity of logla which {iaps from the mach to e wole, _ [t {s & noble hing If some carrying firm has not lost one pan- scngor on Jand or aea tor half & centnry; but he who inferan anivereal from this record may bao killed on the next traln that rund. or may be lost h( the next ateamer that salis, after he has dednced his conclusicn, 1t does not follow from the revo- Iution of the earth that It siways turned or will always tarn, Tet wanot, then, from the wonders done by law deduce a nniversaland put aside Gon. Tet us not becoma infatnated by u single plessure, liks Eaan, nnd for it sell ont & wholo estate; bat Ist na jove all the vartsof onr wortd, that part aver which science is traveling so grandly, and then that world of the higher sentiments, whither science carnot coma except by & bold sseuniption. In thera natnral sentiments, let us place the gen- cral belief, or jmpression, or dream of a God. there ba a musical sentiment in the sonl, which in All times and places bursta forth into some form of ‘melody, why may hot the Idcaof a God be an {nnate quality expected to bud and blomsom in all slates and inall timea? 1[ In opedienes ta inatinct A navage draws a single llfl’l% acrons & shell and atrikes masic out of It, why doca he not balld an altar, and worshipa deily also, in obedience to some emotlon Inexplicable by physical lsw? Why not, then, divide the phenomena of our wurld Into two classes, the law-full and the laweles, and permiiling natarl sclence to wander ail through and through the former, ask teligion to 1ake possession of the other? Instead of demand. Ing 1hat science shall atart at an atom and prove to ua the existence of a musical sentiment, lot us as. suma tho sentiment, and reguest aciencs to confine ftaelf to the subsaquent phenomena; and (nstead of demanding that reason shall go out and find God, Tet us assuine the truth of the aentiment of a (Uod and declare that the proof Is too clear Lo be established or overthtown by any logic acienca can ring. 1515 not an insnperabls objection to this method of finding God that nut every heart can thus appesl 10 ita nner light; that not every heart feels within this inatinct of & Maker, There In nothlng of iron or adamant In the soul. it is mallenble alwaye, and what Ia calicd au innate sentiment may ba washed slmost wholly away, or it may be sct to deeper tolors, The Quakers onco worked. against the Instinct of music, and quite banished iho olght notes and tha four parts from thelr homes; but had that scct succoeded {n making music abeolutaly repulnive, they wonld not have nroven that the sentiment was not from a Giod, anil innate—bat they would have shown that evena natural fnatinct may bs slain by a studlied antag- onism or nevlect. So, |f there comes now and then & mind that inds_within ftaclf no Inner of a tiod, that will not invalidate the claim that the existence of God is n natarsl feeling, but will anly provo thatan individunl oran Age may wash out1ts Inborn colorings In the stream of material- imn, and be qaite free from the belief evermore. An athlest s, hence, not A crushing proof againat a natural sentiments bat s a proaf that atl of the God-mado sentiments may be weakened and well- nigh ernsed. Indeed, the appearance here and there of minds which can no lonzer ind thoe fuot- 1 Creator, oughtto toachus only that thoro are sentiments in the mind which need to bs anrsed up into full vigor, by loving studics ond peacticen, and which aro f1l-Atted to boar n daily antagonism xnd a perpotual dlet of hard questions and freesing doutita, is woll known that our whole moral world must bo treated tenderly. It will not bear any form of severo treatment from religion upon the one hand, or from rationnlism on the oibier, Life islike tho butterdly, all gay with colors; but the colors are ensily besten "ot tho wlnf.\ A rutdo gewsping rafns tho creaturo which, amld geatlo winds, and u waem sunshine, and kind hand¢, would have been the emblem of benuty and joy, One might wish the Ureekn had mado tho bitterfly the vinblem of fmmortality, becausa tho idoa like tho winged ephemeral needed a loving, tender treatment; for evidontly that quality of the notion I8 overlooked In our mathemstical aze, if over the geave of that lady who died without having upon her hand the Ureck emblem, or In hor heast the Christian cm. hlem, une might express a - ragrot that woud not Anterfere with any right of the human mind, that regeet might be thint that this cuitivuted and tone derbelng did not treat with more lenlancy the doc- trine of 8 Uad nnd a fature life, and willi Pinto and Caoosin, sad & bright army of docp thinkers, umao the divineness of the soul, and aryus out- ward toward the materlal world. ’l'uml;'fwhllhnr she might, she would have been compelled to pauso at last in an sasnmption which the hand of logic could enly gently tonch; and thia boing so, we can- not but wish that instoad of Assuming the mln:lrll which leads back to dust, she had assvmed the rinciple that statts {n God aud ends in Heaven. Jut it Is too late to shed toars of regret. Nothing remalins hullnlllnl‘ agaln the problems of life, and to find, If poselble, "for oursolves and othors, », 1ife and death of mote hope. It it bu truo that there ara sentintnts in the sanl whichthe material laws cannot explaln, then to the sudy of material things one must always add tha love and practice of aplritual things, tl ono's world inay not be beoken In two, and a half of It bo mistaken for the whule, Our natural sclence mart be wedded to religion, that the tvo sides of 1ife, tho material and tho spiritual, inay be re- gurded and oboyed togetber. ‘Tne old philosaphy which set out from God and declared that He made the heavens and the carth may Join, withont any dincord, with even the development theory In ita leant radleal form. When men coma to choose from two philoso- phies, both of which muut sasume something and miuat be troated with sume Jogical tenderness, the srgument of the greatest utility muat he admitted Into the case, If the ‘mllllon of tho athelst wers equal onl( 1n assumption to that of tho friends of A God and an inmortality, yet the utility of tho lotter fdea should wnke It weigh the more in tho human balunces. The argwinent of the athelst should be ten times an powerful as thut of the thelet, because It 1s ton thues as Injurious. As the evidence must bo very clear which dooms o man to the gallows, whicli separutea hitn from his family and rrom 1110, a0 thu conclusion that thers 16 no God and 1o futiire 10 ouzhit W rest upon al- mart somo positive demonstration, for it duoms morals lo a great ijury, and th ties of 1lfa to o speedy and dreadful niockory. A destruction of Heaven, of the mesting of niother and ehild b yond, the overthrow of roll¥ious Idealy, tho removal of that Jodgment-bar of eternity which bos o jong offucted morale, the sond. ing the murdorer and the maint to an equal condition of oblivion, so that o uead Noro s as lllllph as 8 dond P’aul or Chelut, tho ramoval of all I lx‘!lu- phbilosophy and tha sciting up lustend of the maxl: Lot us cat and drink, for to-morruw wo dle,” should be fonuded npon a8 process of proof many times more pawocful than e chaln of reusoning that braces upu Chelstianity, As often as infldelity “has worked ite WP\, into ower, It has shown ftaelf to bo an envmy of man. kil, ~ Under Epleuras or Anacreon it led to- i tempernnes or vice, Under tho Pronch I Iaid the foundation ofa relyn of terror, Under the Ger- mane 14 vae e Gaktn bnlyas w pleawure garen and In England it lived valy the lifo of fashion un: tho gancs, Appearing suywhete, it fiuy at onca attempted lnlfll:h the sonl ton luwer key, Diishop Hutler saw tho dedolation of Euglish morals,, sl composed his Analogy Lo . pereuads sehiolars back to God. Clwteaubriand ‘saw the rain in France, and wrota the **Genfus of Chiratl. auity" 10 liclp check tho Inundation of vice, Atholen cul In{ therufora a4 the most dreadful onemy of soele (, 1t sliould como u‘wn no fecble prout, but shoa(d come Jike a ealunilty, a famine, or masdacre, vpposed by all hllluflg Lo the last, As the patrlots will dle flqlll.lm( for thelr Lomies mn inetitations, and will'ln the last agony of death cheer for thelr native land, waving s little fiag or chanting a natlunal hywmn untll death stesls away the scnses, ao the oxfatesco of a God andan tuie mortality must be fought for all day long t11l night comes, for L imost Involved all tho dear things of thess whoros. Indeed wo should all vow that for this blgh idea we will struggio until death sball liave comns to sulve for us tho enigma, While, then, we confoss that tho proofs of the truthfuiness of natural religlon ure not such as one night wish to bo in the Rounw-lull of mankind, yulouoh Ia tho quality of athelsm that it should ba ablo to point o conslderations perfoctly ovare whelming before It should uek woclety to make such a terribly exchange us barter of all the goads of ttered rage of such a denial, The charily upon & beggar need powerful as i avidence that mus make us exccuto & friend, and wo lhnrronh toat lead toward Giodand paradise nay be defoctive, indeed, compared with the ailcgationa that ;nnat mako us dethrone o Heavanly Father and glvlplhe dylug wife or child of the hope of a bettur Iife. ‘Therefora it was, when the near and luved friend of Mr. Ingersoll dicd sud was nitted by him to the dost, only to mivgle with similar dissolving leaves aud fowera, h mod Lo we to glve up too eastly the hope uf a blessed meeting hB/lnld. "I'he ides ‘of a future world was warthy of fulitlng for uatll some proof had cotas that could not but have sllenced hisuloquent hieart, o might have combaled the puculiar notions of the Church, in- deed, and then have poured out hiv eloquence In favor of the common hope of mun untll death had come to terinate tho battle for the Idcal Father- land, The doctrine of athelsm 1a so en of good oud {s 20 fruitful of evil, thut only when the case of gion had uttorly broken down might one dare to decorwte vternal death with any form of eloguence. All confens the frecdom of each individual to bls own thoughta, 1l It 1uo, that I\mu{hi cunilicta with the shoul Intereats of socloty d oxpress bimelf the wost cautiously snd oaly when the proof of bis views bad bucoma enllrc&y o orld, Feslutiews. Prreonal Impressions may be modif y, notof “self, bul of he & dlaappolnted “hedrt has reache that “fricndship and love & gue uf gemblers for B S nk e | ngs, this poluted one coul Dis invective sgainst baian luve, yeuul in old Kol call in al! Iho happy daysand ycars that b 3l Hhougis would bo ENl0E, oo o) Vil toug . 'on Tiad Afuiaelf becn decoivad wiizhi well breten oy cu decelva sitachment which had for so many tentaries sud in 0 inauy lands Lrougbt 1o otbers suchan ex- Uwwe bapoines. Thus, while ‘hullh»\ll bas the moet perlect right to hiv'couvictlon, and to the ex- preesion of {t, yet bls wurvey of thing should Ve 80 wids and s0 funder that i would not Lo simply & Lold individoul lndividusiism modited by the preseace, aud fotercats of all ble fullow-wen, Al libo 0 bu regulated by tha proscnce of maokind, Frum tho alleq s v ullterance at last Lut au and falth, riy 4 woquies wery e [} 0 foriued by the whols age, aud not by shadinze of Individusl bollof. Mince, wilflons vul of the Caurcl povscss the same qualities ween lo thoss seltbin, A fnddel fu 3 Canetian. place will by & Christlan often lu bls Mtv. Athebsus, thurefore, witl uot neceraarily reveal it fatal quality when aliply soma cultivatéd 1ady pasecd over 13 slore from ofte: TIIE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE : MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1877. the home and ehildhood of a faith In Qod. Wi thie individaal wings fall, & good Age will carry one along as the loving stork carries her yonng. What we affirm of athel<m, weaflirm of itonly where it ¢4n work ont Ite_resiilts In u socicly or an sye, taking us when we are chiliren: and taking not here and there one, hut the multitade that nre flling the homes, ' the haila of legislation, the libraries, the aaloons of pleaure, and the crowid- ed atreots, Awaman may live and die In many charmn, i only a great aze has been carrying her kindly alone in the arme of 1ts own sweeter delf, Let'us end thesa reflections Ithfmfllcrlnx up the ncattered ideas of the hour. bife moraly demand & philorophy whicl asaume innto sentiments, Ll cannot cxplain the sentiment of Deanty of of masic In tho Aonl, There must be referred to a mind. Tlence, we must tlain onr whole estate: that of matlor represented by science, that of aprit represented by rellgion, In reeking & philocaphy, the myatery around two ayefems belng enual, wa muat select the one of most ntllity, “1n this comparison, Cheistianity ap- pears at once as being worthy' of A world-wide chiofce. Athelsm offering the human racca dees hdur{'. it should come with a ot overwhelming tea i and mony, Itshouid be stripped of All conjecture, should afand forth a fact ae bald as it (s ln]llr‘nllh An_Individnal unboliever may live A beancifal life, full of ali grace and charily, becanse the age carries the alngle heart on ita bosom as the mother holda her child. The calamity within & denlal of roligion will appear only whon It can enter every hoare, and muld the Euhllc sentimont, and make the wholo landscapo wholly its own, to bo touched all over by its deep shado THE BOSTON REVIVAT. MOODY's TEMPERANCH PIZLD-DAT, Tostox, April 20.~'*In all my experience I have never soen so glorions a day as last Friday," This rematk was mado by Mr,. Moody at a meeting of ministers Monday afternoon, nnd it referred to the grand temperance rally mentioned in my last letter. It was, indeed, s ‘*glorious day," Nu withstanding the weather was threatoning, and In the aftornoon and evening rain fall sometimes In torrents, the great Tabernnele was filled with del- egations from all New England, snd with en- thnstaatlc sympsthizers from our own population, All the diatlnguished gucests Invited from dlstant cities were on biand, andat 10 a. m. Moody took command with look and vofce that betokened o field-day, As usual, his plans a1 not misesrry 1n any particular, ¥ During the morning and afterncon eesslons testimonles were given Uy -reformed men, (n- terspersed with nddrorsea packed with Instruction and inspieing, The old worn theme of temperance sliono with & new lustec, held up in the white, pure ‘The phllanthroplat wishes to 0 from pain and loss; the discie ple of Jeaus offcrs & remedy equally competent, and adds o glorious triumph In renewing graco which clothes the soul with strength and life. What spiritusl and physical rcsorvations cama to View In theno teatunun) Mr. Mastin, now and for 8 year past a lay-worker in conncction with Dr. Tynli'l charch In New York, told ue of Christ found in the Hippudroing under Moody's preaching, In Lis past hife up to that moment, {u ghastly array, siood ona term of fmprisonmont on Blackwell's Island, smother at tho State Prison of New Jorsey, comrados who had cxplated their crimes upon the gallows, & wile aad two little children atarving, nizhts epoat on the docks with no covering but tho sky and no E“lnwbnln whisky bottlo, father and mother rokenchearted, and then the Great Physicinn Lealed all the ravages of ench sin, in bu.l{‘. mind, and soul, Tho Bible, once aecaled ook, Is his armory with the_ever:presont solrit of (iod, so that in il Dr. Tyngfinds anally grandly eficient. Of the 1,047 addad to his churol llllrlnf twelvo montbs, 00 are from the hedgos and highways, athoted by going afterthe lost, Others, welle nuwa in our city, told of reunited famliles. One had met hisown danghter at the door of the Tab- ernacle, not haviag reen her for eighteen years, Altars for prayer had been sot up, ilttle chifdren had become glad, Inatead of dosvsiring, hopo has dawned in the hearta and fuces of weary wives and mothors; it was s grand revelation of fullliod joy in_the Goipel sung by angels at Dothlvhem— **Pedca on carth, good will Lo ten,™ : TIIE URY, DR CUYLER, of Drooklyn, gave uitcrance to convictions and emotions that must havo elitred evory soul, so thotoughly wera thoy in the lino of necessary ro- Nections when cunfronted with the horrom of drunkonmns Hosald: **Two wmen are to-da) upun this platform, both members for & time of Dr, Kirk's charch, who bavo nddresscd more men than any other two on the face of the earth, One of them, Mr. !luodr, know nothing by oxperienco of the horrors of Intemperanco; “the other, Mr, Uoozh, would glve hia right arw to blot “ont that experienco which he has had, ~ Why not provent sach experiencest Mr. Gough and Mr. Bawyer may tarow out lines and resctia n fow from iho multitude whirled over the Niagara of dranken- ness, but let tho Charca gu higher up the etrratn and prevent the children and young people from throwing themselvos in, Wae havo something else to do besldes spreading poultices and binding bandages. When (lod commits peopla to us Il does not commit them to us s wreckd, but un- tonched by the demon of tha cup. The minister should seuto himeelf, and see that the Church in fight on the temperauce question, Why should *mot ayery one of you go home determined that bo. furo thirly days “your church shall have s woll- ized temperance society, have it in the Sone luy-sehiool, for If tho childron ara lost all is Jost. ‘What a wmilstake puu}) o make In committing tho pure white banner of temperance to the hands of poiltlciand, Thoey run It up tho Ragatat?, and the next adverse i) orM‘pulln it down” and tramples it ullliln the ground. Nall the temperanco standnrd ta thy battlewents of Zivn, for Zlvn abldeth for- evor,” At 13 m. cama theusual reading of requeats for prayor, ‘Though clothed In_mont geoeral phrane vlugy uf Arablc numerals, thess requests wero the telwes of breaking heartss nnd, nu usual, woman the chlef suiferers ** [y twenty-fivo wives for ine tompeeate hasbande, 1y four fathoraand thirty- hres mothers fur intemiporate sons, Hy six daugh- ters fur intomperate faths Iy sisters for thirty- two intoinperate hrothers, ' ete. Dr. Bloplion W, Uyng, Jr., was & welcoms apeaker, Wu wanied Lo aco and hear the winlste v of Christ who had s0 Illomnihly cuught the spiris of his Maater, 1n the wark of secking tha lost. (il first wentence was the keynule of his success: **An ounce of mother s worth a pound of pricst.” 1lo naid, **Too much lenderucws cunnot be shown the tramp, - Every week we gathier seven (o eluht Lhun- dred of such.” Alwaya o ecore or Aifty uf them aro saved, They are wonderfully muvdd when Lhoy got neor to Jesny. 1would almost pay the price they do to get their views of Jexus, Once, when addresalng a Iarge sudlence gninered from tho ;‘muu.l asked how many had wung rellgious yuns in the homes of thelr childhved, Muro Uian threo-fourths roso Lo thelr feal, — Outcautd ad they were, they had Christian houes behind thom, snd had known a mother's love and car Mr. Bawyer, so well n in your city, tender- 1y bilt sloquently told Iila story,” In tho andlence witn a friend of filn_boyhood, to whom he had not spokan for twenty-Ova’ yoara until that moralng. Hesald, ‘I am very Tlld my frlend Eben D, Jordan le here this morning. _Vuto we wera clerka alduby aide, Dut for rum we might h nide "y sido {n wuccesnful busines do I remomber my Arst drink strget. I mm “not ve been Wall in 1833, on Templo the old Bawyer, once cuals felendloss, and everynum-‘;- elae-lo ‘That H"u de d burled, and in tho blood of Jewus Clirist 1 am wade alive, &8 my friend Jordan can bo, " TUE APTENNOON, Though the raln_continued, crowds bosieged the daors for the afternoon scaslon, and in o few mo- monta U, (K people lled seats and standing-roow, They were pald for thulr palis, - Tho vigorous, aygressiva work enterad upon by the Church in the Jasi twenty-fve years has brougnt to the front con- » d buslness men, who plan and bulld for lngdum of Christ with il the enthusfanm and acity of tho most successful busincss schemes and campalgns, One of sucl was the first Bpoaker of the aftcravon, John Wannamaker, of Philadel- phia, In form sparv, in faco fulr and youthfu| With voicu full of emation, sud distinctly onuncl ing every syliablo, Lu stuod befora that audionc a nuble cimen of what President llopxine ncans Ly °*Streagth and Leauty.” Alluding to possible fears and prophocies that whan Moody Joft s tho fruite of his wurk would disappear, he wald, ** Perbiaps | cannot do petter than 1o tell what the resalt of tho moveincnt has beon s it was urrhnl‘ on in our city, Churches and minlaters aro smbne: withs epirit which flowed from thuse moctings, Many nien that wers once weak and sinfal have Leen saved and k!{‘n by the power of Uod to blces Tgive this se 8 buslnese man, standing n the witncws-bos. and bearing winees Lo the truth, Huudreds of men couveriod at the mectings in Pladelpbla, out of work and wanderlng about the streets, have been Kept In the way they chose ‘when they embraced tho religlon of Jesus Chrlst during the Noody sud Bankey meellugs. ‘The fox whichi hue been baniing over our Blato by rea of tha curso of zum is being hited away. “Fra Murphy lins Ueon preaching t cloned bundruds o under weny stille. In Pittaburg sigucd the pledge, He has come eady 10,000 pervons thero have started upon o refurned life. Peoplo there are beginaing tu say the lquor trude will not be good for much this summer, Sweeping all over our city, Lhe temper. aucy work yoes 0o, &nd all over wur State, sud tea will soon feel that it e o disgrace 40 have auything ta du with the liguor tradic, " ‘[he Hom. Willl . Dodge, of New York, Predident of the Natiunal perauce Soclety, was introduced by Mr. Moudy as one who had becn engazed in the towperance work before he himself a8 Mr. Dodgo said lis nad been interested nce work for half a ceotury, and e bad oever sven the time whenthere was sa much foierest in the causy as ot prescol. e advocaied begin, \HK eacly with children and comulitingthem to toial absthsience. Jio caforced bis views by many facts, pertinent and foteresting, ‘Toa day would not have been complete without the vuice of woruan, 80 prominent has she liecoma i thls Christlan warfare, Wo were fortunate in the preavuco of your Miss Willank, who has doue Biore than almost any 00 else to Lring Into svevice the peeded 13 . 0,000 wmen have o our cliy, and MEINFORCEMENT OF WOMAN'S STRENOTIH of besd ai Sho sald: ** y *Thy Lingdom con ‘There 13 a great bowldar Iyl a great bowlder Acruad o path that leads o (hat Kiogdom. Fhat bowider must ba ceusted. 1Lt bu grornd to She beld up to ber alsters in glowing elo- q by thriltiug lucidents, the unprecedented opportunition for work now opes Lo woman. Closlug, ste ssid, lasllaslon W Boston s fund of arg: **Scuiptute 1s Gno, but fau't It grandor to chiael fu the graoite of a buman creaturs's Hfe—to wold tho clay of lafancyt Bo 1 8sk you 1o re- wewmber this fruth: that 1o do good is the dretbusle ness of life. Flret wunzelhu your howe, aud {hun &0 out luto wuclety. Do it in the wame of Lim who weut abuut dolng good. sud whe will siy to each one of you, no matter how faint pr how ~mall your work, if yon have truly, faicly’ tried: *Well done, good nnd faithfal acevant} enter thom Into lhu}ny of thy Lard.* "' ‘The llon, {leorge fI. Stunrt, af Philadeiphis, wAs the last apeaker, 1le atid his Tast visit to Toston was to plead the canse of Lthe poor wounded roldler, and no city responded moro nobly than Boston. When the telegraphic dispatch csma from lettysbure, “'Twenty-two thonmnd five handred woonded and dying men," the resnonse went back, **Draw on mo for this and on me for that," and soon aver $60,000 were Aont to Gettys- 'hrlnsi We come now to enzago In a noblg cause, ‘We hagn abulished alavery and put down rebellion, And Row we want to put down n great carro fn our land, Mr. Stuart reiterated Mr. Wannemaker'a sccount of the permanent work done by Mr. Moody and Mr, Bankey fn hia city, and thanked thém, taking cach by the haml. Ruch A day was fttingly wonnd np by the evening gathering. ~April showers freely descended, no one could get In withont a ticket, and no one, except s fow church delegater, conld get a ticket uniess ho wns addicted to atrong drink, or wonid_bring some one thus crelng; but evary tnch of avaflable rooin wad packed reet John B, Qouglh, Boston'a adopted son. OF the many hnnilfed occasions nyon Thich b haa spoken here, none could have equal- ed this, 1o began by allnding to the night when, thirty- five years ago, a friendly hand wan laid apon hle shonlderin theatrocts of Worcenter, and n kind voice lod i (o the temperance mectingand to the pledee, So many of your readers have heard Mr. Gouglt sgain and agaln, T need not particularizo, althe his addresw wasa fitting climaz to Momly's **glori« ons day.”" The raln pattored In Joud choraa upon the Tabernacle roof and windows,.but for an_honr ond & half his mingled appeale, ument, and ato- rlea, hin dramatic rendering, and hin intense moral eal ;ltntl’, swaycd the assembled thonsands as one an, N Doston has the repntation of sending ont moro Now England rum_and Chrlstian missionnries than any other cily, Wa ara in n way of reconsitucting the Grat half uf this repntation, Lroovicus, * J. T. BSUNDERLAND, A RESIGNATION OF 1S PASTORATE. The Ntev. J. T, Bunderland, who laa recently reslpned the pastorate of the Fourlh Unitarian Church on sccaunt of the finaneial tronbles in that soclely, —troubles so pressing In thelr nature ns to make it Impossible for the church to retaln him at anything ke a llving sslary,~preached what was probably his farewcll sormon beforo the congrepa- tlonat No, 780 Cottago Grove avenne yesterday morning, Mr, Bunderland's scrmon was on **Foreglenma of the Futare World,"—his text boinz, **For wa know in part, and prophesy In part." Throngh this life, sald Mr. Sunderland, thore were foregleams, or hints, of the futuro world, The enormaus sdvances male in civiliza. tlan~in llteratare, the arts, and aclencen—wora almost Inconcefvably great. And this progress, instead of halting, was still golngon, Nnturally, some would fnquira If this wae not a pruphecy of advancement o tho world fo come. If all this conld happon in & few thousand years; what could be expected In the limitloss ages and cycles in the oternal world? Was not the progresa of man hers betow an nnmlatakabla hint of what was 10 come? Bosdos thin, there wera clearly hints as ta the posaibilitles ef sual and mind i tho heaven- 1y state. Prodigles In momory, the wondors of linagination, the dovelopment of the soul-facul- tles, werc aimply prophecics of what was to come. Who, thon, should sct buunds to the eoul's possie bilitica? "1t o man, under poworfal Imnginailona, undor the phenomena even thnt attended Lhe uve of certaln drugs, conld walk out of tho borly, ns it wero, and ravel in vislons of beauty, ar writhe in the ayonios of torture, what atight “not the soul, {rsod from o body, e capablo af enfoy: ing? The body, Indeed, wus but tha priron+honso of the sonl, and, when the twa \vere acparated by death, who should limit the ponsibilitles of tho woul ‘In the Lereafter: who should deflne the avenues which it hould traverso? Scienco wan ns yot imporfoct, There waro hroken linkn which tho Tavelations of n futuro warld waro_alone maflicient Tho world had, ns It wore, climbed tu D of o great castle, amil caught glingued of tho glorlous auniight boyond, Nover wonld: that Aight be fully disclosed untii the yrest keeper of the cantlé should como and liLerate the soul, Tho world must walt In patience, In hepe. until, in thy rovidence of tiod, the door shoald be opened that od Inta tho groat future, o decinso tho uyate. tiod of eternlty now, to roveal tho mfssing lnks, would be liko omptying the contents of n river into acup, The world was not yot large enougn, not yot advanced cnouzl, to take fn thoso mighty reve olatlons, Ifall the hints and foregleamqof tho light beyond wera a0 brluht, what ahonld be sald of tho light ftselft Knd there waa none to tho unlversa of Uod. but It was equally teue that thore was no bo- ginning. Ifsuch werc the hiots of the things to coms, what must be the grand roality? **The thought, " sald fir. Sunderland, in concluslon, **la Leyond us, It is too high focua, Can wodo less than fall on our kneod and say, with streami eyes, * We thank Taeo, oh Uod, for what but mora utill wo thank Theo for what we whall bo In that great future, of which wo catch glimpsos, when this corruptible shall have put on incor. ruption and this mortsl sl havo put on iminor- tality when it abull no longor,bo said we know 1n rlrt and wa prophedy In part, ‘hut when that which s perfect 14 come.” ™ At tho conclusion of this Inferesting discourse ?l:i Bunderlond proceeded to read the following ettors Tothe Offceraand Afembera af (%¢ FoureA Untiarian Cuurch, Chlcago=DxAn WIeTuRen AXD FRiENDA: Fifteen muntheagy 1 bocame your pastor, 1 had visiied ¥ Ly upou youe i vitation, [oo) Heliy and recelved i vall tu setits with yo Liind decitned becaso it sevined as o’ that numorlual strengih was win vl ail your oneial hurs 4L 04 L0 11AKG BUCCSss DXt L0 ail i powlbility, flawver, yuir call was rupmatod (e very Pacit furin, tie chirch souding mo a fetter slgnod personally by every mioinber, aaf w ut tiroe, ropreventing enat yau could nob iy, with out dfnastor, puss throwgh Img o rind another inah 0pon whom you coubl unlte, and declars {0z [two by your beller that tho luss Intoreata’ of tha ehurch, if ‘nut Ite very estatence, dependod, under the clrumstances, upai my tinicdiate acceptance of the “call. A4 G graull, 1 withdrow naslon dad east I my Tag with you, Tn eomlng numbervd ices than thirty familios Wost of cin In iioderate elreutnatances, wlle iy ebt rost: iz upen thd ehlirch was nearly $i1,0 lures inuntiisatior wo coursa we felt nu fnaucial prowire, tjms evaryihing joukod ensouraelug, o noatly or quito duublud; the bu.iday-ue a looking up, aid the social 1ifa of tug enurch was ki ug i now - aciyit U the of " threa mouths, “howover, ‘linances o prow - Tho roveauos of tho at the ime of any cull wore seurcely two-Uiirds enougi 10 pay current edpenion entively mids fom il ques: tlongt tne daln, ' Marcovar, al the ewl of the tarcy ha, nut anly wers tho qiuastor s billa f expenue o e niok, bul seven or elght hin, bl 1 bo ralse 1o” pay otgrene thoney o Wlhint was the reault?. Very naturally, who were with us at that 1mo know, ' the iew - poupla fo hiwl coma I aud wors guiting Interpiied beian Wilng out, and ioss wha cuntliued with wh aily hulf attached themmwives o ue oy ot willtng to put thoir shoulders under so huavy s burdon & thocliurch wea carrylay. ‘Thus matters went on for Sl o wgn, urie” enrsfully” conddering stsuatlon Lo aflfis buiatings, wo camo ta tiio nearly or Qulcs unaniuiude couclbtl ink 1t was siniply iy &) 1) i i rour attempt to 0 dout Touger, ~any such uttoiy fould prov e84 than fulal 1o the proreds ihe v fideey Mo uf tho Socteiy, 1t was, thorytors, Biaat Pl fesalved i soil the. endrehHhs b “Irustess wery luateucied W uiklertako w 4o, Another tiiiny besidos the debt, however, liud (oni Boen folz by catlon, T o (Pratriy aveaus noar THlrsisth atreet) had hoen choseu WLEN thia Churcli of tao Soalah way fucated on Wa: bidelt AGRuO nuar luhband Coirt, 0vor twa talies worth, 114t saon wfier our churvlh edidve was b i Jlststrout, sha cnurci of tue Mowlal Le 0l place and locsted on whiat was erecting thelr aniendid_ bufldlug ou 4 of Allenlan wvenu and Tweaty-third sirou ot gulire Was 8 cvcrs blo v tu tiie Fourths Churé, since L was not sliniply thd coming of anvibor same falth upon our teid, hat atbur ehurcn older, and sironiur, ahd uiore Weaithy, and therefurs in overy Wa) lctiated 10 uvershnduw s, s being Uin canditional thiigs whon we, doctdod 4 wa must sell our ¢ bultllog, { uredine 6. clety st iy towary Jocutlig I south and east, (nunew aud fast-growing the elty, whore there was nu Liberal soclety, 3 Uugn preaching Sun 14y aflernoons for o tme, ity & Viow 10 duveloplug aay Liboral elamunt thurdy paian o latent thoga, Aecartlialy,” o Trustees ot th church eniaged th Avenud Muste fiall, in the naw sechlon, for & Umlicd Wie, imvanwhilo sotting about inakyiig some dissetion of thy church hullding and 1ot o Prairi i, o us of the burden of our debl, Lhivy soon sucseeded i peatipy the church o an Eplécopalian Boclety with thy ‘woll)ru of selling after the ensulng Esster, ¢ Wasliot loui. however, befure iy better Sl for vur purpisa pressted (Lacl 1 oppa RBILY (U excusnge our Pralrio Avouas burch’ of the 5 a2 a4 smarad, (e wo siiould be rulieved of the uhi proporty an BaFiars U SO UIDTar the e beink very welbe wiis o 1L the o beinis very weiDy it Surtieht reducrd 1. 81,wah At tris’ na Word o Mrangu e dlsappujntinents, As il i ou Knuw, (15 Lride fias Catlo. WF. HArdiaZ, WICH Wil tho aicliangs uf propartivs s basu mafo, aLter iav- Ing driven Gut the Leinaits Trom L charel, refgscd (o CATEY GuL Uho barealn, ainl we nre laft with tho ehurch aud s debiaon our Lands acala, with i s ouly gir tenants gond, but with the prusjectof the sals which we liad gane’ 0o thuiy pray i ifly, Leau live, re Hva which 1 atid har fo mo tu contenplate. Thy past s, &0 hopes a1d tudrs, of tolisaud getuer, have n(rlllxl;lll.:mll";!‘ i Wheraver | 3l ul 1o God for the prive tlogu uf kn»‘:ln‘gu e ehd Lubila: AT b & Beooh sud of working by yuuraides, aven fa b3 inidst of 1 :h discotragoiout, W LUIlA up' caus 8o dear Lo botn y. ke 4418 L6 Calisd Of wuf proctonsund laspiriug Liv- ) Faid] felloved from the expeuss of sapporting » pustar, yone diag your progarty, koepin Jour Orentzacion, arrylu uare ur scas saclal life, ‘au. focraatis Ll migials il oo s o i sact dubeduba st Tours Felleve you of your devt. Thou, of £, Yo will s 4705 L sccury B Barior aeait au k0 for. Wanl | lrust and ballove, 10 & hapay 34d DRhers ture, May Gol biad you' al" Wi oy VilHE b Ll Festezation a3 your pastar, which hive airenty 1 tlie hands of the Trastecs. | how &ud hereoy Sonuer Ly, o chiurch 04 cubgrRAlion, such resig L. flon o taia edect at b eariy daics tha pariiculat e 1060 Bxod Ui GLUCE Faturo Cunsultatlul Witk tae b1 hetely, Sai 'l the deopeat ta friend Siuveroly, ani wiih the deopest tnterest, your frie aad Unrisdad dporbon, 1+ oo 1afetst Jose fri: Judite Church, oncof the Trustovs, anuouucod that & mueting would be huld lwwediately afior th seevices Lo act on thia reslguation, He exprosse Bis vorrow aod fegret at the tura affaics bad laken, I Mr. Saaduriand couldsfocd Lo slay st the salary which the churcls beea paying blu, Judge Cturch bulloved the Suciety was hever suy bettee able tadn now to pay it ae, §L was i small va 8 Suaday-aiool, an. baving e liast duh derve ot tha el courid, (2 Wil ¢thureh with somewhat gret expectattone, but it manAgement was econoinical, and ha was con- fident that ft wonld Ahit conld pay Mr. Sundoriani what had at Brat scomed sufficient to him to support him {n cofnfortable circam- stances. Bub, 68 thele pamor conld net bo expected ' ta remnin whero tlere was an objection that the pay wan toosmall, and when Mz, Sunderiand conld undoubtealy o bettor elre- where, the church onght to accept what waa ap. parently inovitahle, 'The speaker closed with a warm apneal 1o his hearers nol to give np the church in this honr of ita extremlity, but lo cling to 1t,_and earey it on in #ome way or another, Mr. Sunderiand agaln expressed his regreta at the forced acparation of himself from his charge, bt anid that he €onld fee_no posalble way out of the church dificulties, 1f the trus had any means of knowing that more and Jarcer muscrij- tlons were about to be made, he wonld be ouly too gind of 1t 4 - At the ‘!little meeting," as It was ealled, held afterwarda to consider the wattee, severnl of the einbers, capeciaily Judge Church, Judge Wilson, nere, Perry, Nernard, and others, took occasion 5 express their deep regret that the church had fallen behind in {ts obligationa to Mr. Sunderland, and that thers seemed to be no meana for tiding over the difcalties. Thers wns a general ex. pressien of opinion that Me. Sunderland, under the circumatances, perhaps owed 1t to himael( to scek another field of uscfulness whera his Inbors could he more ]Illll[y rowarded, The evident sense of the meeting, [n short, wan that, while they wounld accept the reslmation, 1t was with the deepest re. gret, Ope of &wo very practical people, when 1t was proposcd to ndapt reme complimentary resolutionn, remarked that with those resolutions the chureh should inclose a check for the amount dua Mr. Sunderland. This suggestion seemed to meet with general favor. No action, howover, was taken, except to appoint & committee, consinting of Judga Wilson, Jadge Church, Mensts liernard and Dockwith, to deaw p & nerles of rasolutions to bo prewented to tho congregution next Sunday, Hefore the mceting closed, Judya Wilson rematied that 1t was barely Eonlllln that Mr. Sunderland would preach next Sanday in the oldchurch, nt tho cornece of Thir- tieth uirect and Pealrie avenne, fu which easo tio announconiont would bo mude through the papere, TIE SOUTIL. SENMON DY THE REV. DR, NARRISON, ‘Tho Rev. Dr, Ilarrlson, of Atlanta, Ga., preach- ed yesterday morning In Graco M. E. Church, cor- ner of LaSalle and White streets, J1la toxt was: ¥thlopls shall soon stretch out hor hands uato God.— aim Lectil., 31, I m A 1lls purpose was, he said, to nddross the congra- gationn regard to the ‘‘religions futdre of the races of tha Bouth,” The religiona welfaro of any soction of our counlry was Intimately related to the roliglous prosperity of the whole, and the re- liglotn interests of ony partand of all parts had direet concern with the tempotal prosperity of tho nation. That people was blessod whose God was the Lord.” Thers was no temporal prosperity which was founded upon opposition to Qod, or any confllct with 1lim. God prospered a natlon that it might send the Gospel and thq einlizing powera of the Church to othicr lands, not that the people might have abundanoe of gold snd silver and cle- gant equipages, hut that our fallen race might be placed upon sh elevated platforin, and men by made the tona of God and citizens of the commons weanlth of glory. For this purpore God opened Hia handd and bestowed fils riches upon men, and the natlon, or the community, or the Church that shut up the bowels of compassion, and with a niggardly renorve I.npt (1ud's blessing to Itaclt, must necosnn- tily die, 'The prosperous churches of this age wera tliose which wore extending the Gospel boyond; tho dying churclics were thosa that contendo thal charlfy begun at home. e tiad nothing to do with the past. —had no con- clualuns to draw, no criticlsme ta_offer upon any- thing or auybody: lio would apeak of the present ad it was, and of tho futura nd they denlred (o seo We wero cnlering upon o now ora—a now. era 1u the State, and a8 new era In the Church. Noto year hiad elapsed sinca the authorlzed Commission- vra of the two Churches, North and South, mot to- ether and resolved, under the influence of tho pirst of (od, to be at peace, ‘I'his had been ine umln and earnoatly deslrod by the vast majority of the J”m“ with' whom the speakor was connect As Churches thoy had burled the tomahawk, Perhaps he shoold not use so strung 8 word, But_thoy wera now froe to take each other by tiie hand, and say, **Gud speed you, my brothorl Do what you canhare on our own soll, , Blews tAIw muce, that race, oll races, if yon can, 88 God maygive you an open door and acceas ta tio powers and iufidencos thut may evoutuata i good. Whita the Church North was {n the forafront of ovangolization in the larger part of this great na- tlon, the Church South” was fn tha front in that scetlon.. In tho North one in evary ffteon of tho nativo pooulation was a communlcant In the Moth- odiat Clurch, In 1800 tha Church had 410,000 Whits memberat {n 1870 it numbercd 732,000, ‘Fhe population thero Increased at tho rate of 213 per cont A year; tha Church at the rate of 8 per cont. * Thora was {o-day onu cammunicant fn overy tenout of a papulation of 6,200,000, The Methods {st Church South was tho strongest there, and, with the Church North, was the strongost In tho United Btates. Was there any reason in world why they should disagrea? They ha wamo grocd, the #nmio gaverninont, the samy duclrl wamo fnatitations, ~ Ouneht thoy nut to Joln haid in hand and Logetnor go on fur (o accompliatimient o the yreat objacts of Chirfat’s ambassadors on thia cartut Unlted they formed u body of upwards of £,300, 000 communicants; and tho moral Induencs nnd power of suea an army conld hardly be ewti- mated or concelved, : Ha then touclied upon o probler which hie char- acterlzed ny Of astounding importance. ~ Qur tem« the a th oral prosverity iad been greatly checkod of lato, apresaion had not boen wimply genoral but unl. verwal, A hundred niluencus inight ba mentionud o toniling to producs thi onie greater than all othors, country could permand anvther section ~ was natrously unsucceseful, This hid been trne with tho Houth for the lnat ten years, ‘The sevon collon Ktates—States which Produced nioke than 200, 1 en. 870 foll Ahort In corn product the amazing amount of Ky, 000,000 bustiels, and 1n meats $22 000,000 b tow'the Amount produced fu_ 1800, Henca S108, 000,000 of pruduce had 1o bu brought_Into those roven States tu support thele people. They eould glvein return nothing dut colton, Farmors had ‘mld $1.20 and $1.50 & bushel for corn wpon which o maka the caltun crop. In tho satie tlme 835, « 030,000 was paid for azrlcultural labor, “The Soutliorn States had rafsod tuure cotton unid s culvad more for it alnco tho War, yetthey had be growing puorer evory year, Whyr It had taken tha cotton crop to suppork the wan unmlm; uyer for any \Nupul i3 result, but thete was No wection of the Uy Broper rhon ftually ~ and dis. weain to b favorable for tho Weat, carofully the people hero wonld wuo the forco of tho ubls ahout killing _ the gouws that lald tho olden et~ Thers was, lu the very nature of things, n large naturl trade betwoen the Wost and the Sonth. . “Thoir in tereata weru not opposite, but n agrecment, 1o o normal wtate of things thesu Interusts st and vught t be cultivatod. 'Thero was a natursl trade of mbont §30, 000, 000 1n products from the Boutl, aod, whun Lie fannors thiere wers prospering, thiv West was greatly bencfited, Dut lot thow' fuil Jour siter oar and bo disappointud; (rads would chockedund commerce obliterated. "Tho Wewt could ot prosper, 40 far a8 Bouthera trade wus cones rufinml,[:mnl the Bouth was restored 0 permsnent prduperity, PGa'0r Tho elomenta which producod tho present condition of tha South was thy autagontun of fool- ing between tha two sections, Vo ll4 mind 1t was tha most fusane opposition toncelvable. They hud 10 Interonts that clashied. The South produced staplo; the North manufactured that staple und re turned It to thent, The interchanye was comple Wiicn an olement of discord was {ntvoducad b tiveen two races s distinct as Wore tho Alrican and Cagcasiani when 1L was taught that thero wase o nocessary hostitity and frreconchable oppositton— that the Intoresta of the ono wers dlamatrically opposed tu tho futerests of the other; when ony €lada was taught to dlitruss tha other—to regard them as natural cnemles, willing to take advau. uaflul Inyunnrlunllr to defruud thoas and de- prive thum of their rights and privilegca—it woult 0 wven At vnce what & U thrown fnto the cenirs of our socal ». result was demaraiization, not harmonlzo when which remaondous factor wae lom, The ‘The two ‘races could thera was un element tended 1o throw them out of unlon and -~ concord. Wau ihers any v this? dle lgpmh!nflud none, llhll tho Mothodist Church held in her m T beforo the onlh recuy: ==acceptedl it; desired to do no n| atice to tho Why ahiould thoy? The whitve cuild not prowper ubless they had the calored peopleg the colored people could not prospor without the whites, (le denied that the Methiodist Church Soath dosired to Keep tho uegrues in iguorance, In Georgia five yuars ago thera was not a single cotorud child fn a wul wupported by the Stato; to-day 5, 000 wory attending tha public schuole. ~They did not want , 000,000 of ‘barbarlany around and about theus. Lven If they had nu cousclence on the subj thelr materlal Intorests s ded upon the deve ment of the colared race tuto a well-sustalning and walth-contributing people. Nu mare terriblo legacy was ever left toa natlon a declining tribo or raco 1n Ita midet, Aw the w luse tha cost to the Governinont wue I thers weru 20,000 negrocs; in 1870 thore wero 10, - 000, Climatio Indusuces porhaps accounted for that. Thls yeoplo could never bicoms a largo elo- waent fn tho North. ~ A pro#porolis raca had' nuyer more than 23 per cent over 21 years of sze. In Ueaulort Couaty, South Carollna, 43 par cent of A colored people wure over 21, 1o kilew of oth~ er sectlons of tho Bouth whers the purcentage was about ae gr. Souwe laduence was prodacing this disset It was the lack of sauitary regulatlons. ‘The desteuce tiun of infant life waa great. By largo in s clty Itke New York, what muat it be smiong this guln- steuctod poople! To avert the calamity tho whites d blacks wust harwonlze, The tme was coming when Africa must be re- genersted. As yot o {wprossion bad beon made upon It The clinate was deathi 1o the white insn. Nativeaalons could do the work, und the Africans in the South wust educata thelr brethren and brny sbout the evangelization of thoir fathuriand. ‘b peoplo of tho North and Weat 1nistuck and misuadersiood the whites of tho South it they con- culved Lhalr position to b autagonistic to the wel- Iare of the blacke. Thoy should not heed the blat. snt words of the unreasouable and sbaurd wen who reprosentod the Ia cunclaslva, he appealed to his hearers avert ths inducnces which teaded to diminish deatroy the colused peoply, and thus trausfer 1o to ud the Treannzy the Immen 000, 000 or 4, 000, 000 of 1 be forgiven and forcotten. We ahauld begin anew, and g0 before tod's altar and - pledge feaily to Christ an ca-workers with Hint In all that was good, and geacious, anil glorious, GOD IN NATURE. ARRMON BY T/IR REV. DR, POWELL, The Rev. Dr. E, P, Posell preached at the Third Unitarian Church yesterday morning, taking as hia sabject **The Revelatlon of God In Natare," The church had been decorated with flowers for the oc- caslon,and presented n springlike appearance, The ubject had been chosen with a viow to welcoming thobirth of the flowers and tho chirmngof the Dirds, but it proved to ba 11l-adapted, for without: the air \was frosty and fillod with snowfiaken, and withinthe atmosphere was fae from being soft and balmy. Notwithstanding the surroundings, how- ever, tho Doctor threw the lite of spring and the beauty of flowars Into his disconrse, and aucceeded In Interoating & Iarge audlonce. The followling is an abatract of his remarkas Ha sald Naturo seemed (o enjoy taking us un- awares, and lcaping out of hericy cavos to suz- round us with garlanda of flowers and Jet loose flocks of singers over out hoads, It was impossl- ble to not belleve that thers wasa conclousness in the world taclf, thore was s0 much Joyousness in alilac bush full of blossoms and bees, Bnt there wan nothing sa absolutely beautital asan apple- orchard In fail bloom. May-day swasthe resur- rection of defty, and God in Nature solved the problema of the poet and theologian, Joseph Cook, tho famous Iloston lecturer, had boen seek- ingafter God with the microscope, Tle had found that he conld analyze matter, but that somo out- sido forca must come In to produce the beginnings of life, There was mot a fransformation of a blostom that did not require a Divine presenco ost of sapporting 8, - Thopat shoald 2 In It 88 mueh the Jower plasmic coll, and the sustenance of life needed os folly = ospiritnal canse as aud the beginning. Ood worked under conditions or laws of lifaall tho way from the cell to the full- fiedged bird or articulnted man. His conclevable rasence was flls spirital force,—the soul of Na- ure,~—and the Inwa of Naturo were the laws of fils eternal being, The speaker could not look npon n willow withont Inqniring where It came from, for, like the birdw, (L scemed migratory. Certain thrubs and treca wero made for spring d were good for llolhlllli all. summor, yslcinn woulil occaslonally recommend s change of air. but Nature anticipated tho phyeicians, for we conld not endure the same thooghta at ditferent scasons, 1le often found himself ¢asting aside certain books and taking up otliers, Nataro knew what sounds were worth [lstening to, and thus It wan that we could forget to hear the ticking of the clock and the rallrond whistle, but not tho robin at & o'clock in the moming, Wo wiive (01d that It waa Imposaiblo for two per- #ona to get exactly the kame angle 5o a8 1o nce the nama rainbow; bat thero was something infinitely more rich in the world In anothor way than wers £o many shades of mind and a0 many waya of sea- in2. Thore wera nnlimited mothods of right.sce- g, The olm in his yard sy Industey and economy to ona of g, wnd wan aleo woil seen by bis jazy, laoglin friend who swang hi mmock undor 1t and rea Haunerton, and thon again it had a way of boing unseon to the speaker until It caught its Teaves full of moonbeama, and stood whistling to itself at 10 o'clock of a July night. City peoplo lost & great deal out of thelr lves by trylng to live, The one thing of which he graw impaticnt wan thoatrugglo betweon hionest glmmm and duty, If he wont to the trecs and hills, he would soon 1l his mind to a surfelt, and then there would be dutl platitnde; bul he stood at his post, he would give to athera at the oxpenso of hin own peace and possibility of recupsration. It waa not easy to build a city so that it shonld Lo adapted to apring. d mot our smoky Inclosnre, had bricks tado with mny concelvable froshness or life? It was the doadest of il posalble materinl, and iia color was lateful, Uricks wero fit for family vaulite, but not for_hor ., The most joyful material was rough-hewn stonc, and ' this was moat fgnored. 1t was Noture's matorial and way of bullding, however, for she could run {t over with - ested thouglita of his sturdy viait- mosses and vines without injury. Soma duy poo. plo would lesrn te abhor rotiing wood and Gurned clay and use the stone Lhat gave them & vast va- rioiy of angles and curves, and that rested the eye with Its freodom from uniformt, Spring was quite as rich in Insoct aaln plant life, Tho first bea was moto wolcomo (o the apoaker than the first flower, Wa were told that the glacier oo crowded down from - the poles and pushed men and plants before it wull Into tha tropics; but when the ice bogan to recede It was followed back again Uy the samo races, ‘The same phenomona wers occurring every yonr ovor our heads in tho alr— (hufillnlun of tha eky drove the birls southward, intl Ilprlni.nhul they followed the rough-edged clouds well back (o the north again. In conclusion, the speaker sald love, friendship, Ulrdn, and flowers, and all things Insplrative, came in pring. Dafiness passcd away, The blood warnied with the rise of tha sap of fhe trec We Jivod renewed lives. There wore fuw deatha now, We wore less gregarious, and our Individuslity shabod 1tsclf to use, cach reoking hls own lincof activity, The botanist was strolling, tha businéss man looked mora choorful, homes wers bolng cleanved, we wore ok Ing oud count of nnother year's treasures, Wo might say what wo pleased of the Hectness of the years, but wo could sy of memory that what wo intrusted Lo hee novor grow aged and dull. Onr remnembered springs were ko the palntings our walls, 'The pleasantost spring ought {0 the prosent, but, perhaps, it would be ha cull,” lle had one ‘storcd away that was fragrant with o noblo friendship, Another and another woro fall of that childhood that woulg be etarnal toono who had knowna_ king-roulod futhor, It wasna wonder the world had beon over dreaming ot o land of perpetual sprinz, —— MISCELLANEOUS, GHUMAN Y, M, €, A, ‘The German Young Men's Chrletian Assoctation hold a mueting yesterday afteruoon at Tower Fur- well Hiall, Dr. F. W.Btrelch, the Prosldent of the Assoctation, 1o the chair, Tho procecdlngs were opaned with prayer by thoe Raev, Qeorge Escher, The cholr of tho Portland Avenuo Methodist Church followed with the singing of a hymn. Tho Rev. B, Lambort made an address, taklug for his subject, **Christian nc- tivity,” Christlan activity, hosald, was nocessary 17 any good was to bo accomplished, Actlvity wus neceswary for the accomplishment of anythlog.. Tho active man was never aatlefled unless ho had something todo. The active Chiristlan should not Do watlefled unless ho wos at work accomplishing some¢ good for himselt and his felluw-beings. Thele activity must boeln with themselves, They had to sco that thelr rolatlon botween thelr God and thamsolves wero of the mot cordial character, Uhrlstian actlvity commenced at liome., After having commenced there and puriled thiumselves, thion they must go ou and sco that others also went 1o work and faund thomsulves in tiod's vineyard. Many were of the opinion that thoy had done thelr duty hecaunu they had not committed any of the Krosser cruned, wuch as woro shunned by almost overy one, They thought thoy had done their duty by yolng to church occastonally and cuntribating #inall antount towards ILs support, Nothing could Lo nord failucions than such ut opinion, Loy wmust yive to God's canso freely and 1iherully of the gifts which God nad eiven them, Othicrwlyathey didnot do their duty, To i dolng thelr duty wae as great s oin_as to conunit any of the nore ll-gc int ""8"' They, muwt bo at work contluually, bocauve CGod demarded It and becauve work Rave virength. 'I'hie moro o mandid tho stronger and more powerful would ho become, Thon they must work and bo active bocaure it was necessary, When they went through the strects ‘at clty thoy saw fearful chavs, and i thoy would louk Into the chambers and spurtments of the houscw they would seo thinge wh;:h would striko thow with horror, and appal their hearts, There were parcnts present “whose sons and aughiters wore now on the road of sin, Should l.h\.'yhln:l alloy roachod tho wby h wark and sctlvity they l.i't;.nhl bo ll]vctl nd hrought back into tiod'v Nock. K coul 4 fnly sce that sumething was to %fl dznn to sava the thousands a1} now on tha road to roin, Ijut each onae wonld What can 1 do single-handed? What be could they expoct than God Mimself, who alded oac] one in th work. ‘They must follow the ad- vico of (e aposties, and not say they wera O tians unless thoy lived and acted like Christia They niust not only be Chrlstlane in the Church, Lut whorover they were, ‘I'hoy would be rewarded for thelr work In” God’s canse, although they bad no right toask for reward, for wiat they did for Go's sako it waw thelr duly Lo do. ' Yet God ro- warded those thut served ilin, 1o who obeyed the laws had in::l profit. Tho Lord sald the; ;halnllflnut work for nothing, Thelr rewsrd woul o I lleaven, ‘Tha Rev. Mr, Borger followed with- a very ‘clo- quent and effeciive prayer. The V¥ President an- Epnoral mocting of the Avicls. d next Thureday, and be hoped largo attondaace. The singing of suother bymn und,the benedictiou by ! v, Mr, Lambert concluded the proceod- CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION, The annual mesting of the Chicsgo Con gational Associstion will be Uakland Church, a. 1l tu-morrow, clscat held 101s year at the Tt will bo called ta order at 10 Followlng b the order of exor- MORXING SEAMION, 1, Devotlonal services. 4, Orgaulzation and business, 3. Leparts fruin the Chuichos, the Rev. K. N. Pack- 4 cnmn" e edacatlon, reporta from ‘Theclogical P s o 10108 s 1. Revivals and b usal ul alr fiu lte, disutalon opaned by iov. L. T. Chauibarl 30'clook . Etayon’ econd"Coulag of Carisd: By Frof, presching st 8 o'clock p, m. TUR HEV. L, P, MEICER, pastor of the Unlon Swedenborglan Church, which wieets In llershey Music Hall, preschied 108 large Budleaceyesicrdsy niorning, Wdiing (o ble subjoct, **Tho Doubting ‘Ihomas of To-Day, ' aad for his text that pasasgo from John, Bix,, ** Ezcept 1svo in Ml Lauds tae point of the nally," ete, 8o fur 81 tha sermon could be sppreciated by onv outside the fold, it seuined (o be ruther an indorsemcnt, i uot 3 defeuw, of Thomay, Who was by 1o mealis & seoffer, but one “*who ropresculed tho sunsual vllmx.l. Atter alluding to the tribes vee mind with fts nataral atltnde of doay toward everything intangitle to senas,” " Tio gistof the dirconrse wascantained In the followin, anange near ita close: **Tho Import of the texy s not. that yoo must aeek Tlim in one wav, this or that, but that yaa shall Iny hold of Him where yon are,'in the Investigation of the renl disciple whi |y alwaga ready to do the bidding of Him t0 thom he setehimeelfns a leaener. ., . . Whosoever will bring this actaal life of onra Into contact wiy the Divine Truth, na mada applicablo t0 1t in the commandments ' of tho - Word, by begln: ping o obey them i daly life, shaii touch ‘and feel “tho Divino rightconsnesy, In the glory that hreaks mpon hin mind, and thy Divine power that animates his obodience, he wijj hava rovelation adeqnate to him faitih thatJean Chriat le Lord and_God. ~ Thora fa Preing wpnn thie ‘world the whole Influence of tho nneils heavens for the incominz of A'new, brasior loveller, morc rational faith In tho noiveraal pres. ence and govornmont of tho Lord; ilis presency with each ono of nw, walting where we walt, moy, lmlmlme we move—and I we will but open gyr. #clves to Hin appenring through hunible effort of obedlencs and pragerful intent to find 11im In Tl word firat, and then in tho uses of good neighhor. hood accoriding to lls commandment, wo shall touch the fountain of 114 SEAL-FISHERY. Forty-two Thousand Seal Tnkon by One Steamer, 81, Jown's “"""""‘"‘""".‘.’-L ’z;wfnyvmknu New Yay This year's seal-flshery promises to bie ono of the mosat successtul on récord. Eversthing Is ig favor of the vesscls engaged in the hunt, The weather [s mild, the fee vpen and ofT-shore, ang the secals are distributed over a very wide arca, ‘The steamers ara arrving well loaded, and brin favorable reports of those still out. Bailiny vussela are doing well, a8 tho loose condition of the lco cnables them to nove about frudy, Alrcady 165,000 seals have been landed at &, Johw's. In my lnst letter [ wasableto announce the first arrivel from tha fee,—~tho steamer Greenland with 27,000 scals, all In prime condse tlon. The steamer Klite followed two days after VL0000 —sa many asshiocould possibly carr, na she is but of smufl tonnage. Then eaine thy Nimrod, with 16,000, and the Panther, with 20, 000. This YORT {ho suals aro well Rrown, owly to the favorable weather, and the vesacls mfi not get amoug them at too carly & date, It fy remarkable that the Greenland' got her scals between cighty and one hundred miles ecast 1fe, «southeast of Belle [sleand that the Kite took her als ninety miles northwest of the Greenland'a ftlon, or about one huundred miles enst of ape Quirpon, From later accounts it sccms that tho senls were dispersed along n curve ex. tending between these two polnts and fn 1m mensc nutnbers, . On tho forenoon of April b the steamer Arctle, ownod by Messrs, Stoyens & Son, Dundee, Bcotland, Capt. Adams, arrived with 34,00 soals, but of theso nculy 2,000 wers old hood Beals, muklnlzoum value of the cargo cqual to that ‘of 80,000 harp scals. Bho reported her sistor ship, the Aurora (samo owners), with 15.- 000 seals when last spoken and still engaged in taking more; 8o that she will probably bring in 8 full cargo, This wns o fine trip; but a few hours after the steamer Neptune, owned by Job Brotlers, entered the Narrows so lmvu{ Tonded that the gunwale was but two or three fect out of tho water. Every nook and cranny below decks were crammed with geals, The inen hal iven up their berths and fllled them with seal, at, and the deck Itsclf was plled with * white- coats, Alw;icther the Neptunc brought o 42,000 scals. It was n wonderful sight to seo her erew of 230 stalwart hunters crowalng her decks ns sho came In, steaming . slusly, and chieering wildly us thoy waved thelr greasy caps in the alr, thelr clothlng all polished with seal- 1at andtne blood of their victims. The erowd un shore re-cchowd thelr eheers and recelved them like conquerors returning from abattie-leld, The return of the Argonauts with the Golden Fleece from Colehls wasnot n * clrcumstance to the return of the Neptuno with her fat-cargo from the jee-fields. The value of the cargo is $120,000, the results of twgnty-six days' scal- huntlug. 0 Captain, - E, Whito, gets 20 couts per seal, so that in thow t clearcid 08 his gharo wenty-slc days ho S!!.-tw{ Tho ymm got une-third of the rocecds, so that cach wauld recolve 8160, aub- fcut to certaln deductions. As svon as tho cargo 18 lamlcd the Noptuno will be oft un her second trlp, in pursult of old scals, and, ns this is Capt. Wiiite's speclalty, sho nmy bring lo $00,000 worth of old scals—parhaps much more, It was the goud fortung of the Neptune to get right into the centrs of tho main budy of the seuls, so tliat the men had only to slaughter their innocent vietims and haul them on buard, Caopt. Whito statcs that, hud his vessel becn large enougeh, he conld have brought In 150,000 scals as onsily as the 42,000. Il killed and Pnuncd 7,000 more, and dirceted a salling vessel ho mot Whera to find them; and hu shipped 3,000 additional on board' dnothier vesscl, stipglating for one-third of the 1ot ns a Lonu: This tho greatest feat in seul-hunting o verformed, and the larzest ""lP of sculs cver brought Into any port of Newfoundland. The name of Capt, Whits Is uow Immortallzed, and will go down In tho traditlons of our fisher- men to tho latest posterity. Among them the grv:lutul. hero s ho who hus siaughtered most soals. A number of other steamers arg_reported as having scals when last seen. The Vanguard had 15,000; the Proteus, 18,0005 thy Lion, Wolf, and Dear, cach from ¥,000 to' 10,000, Several salllng vessels wero fully loaded: The Glen- zurry, 9,000; Rolling Wave, 9,003 Isabella Rid- ey, B! Ilunnah and Bennle, 4,500, The enteh I8 evidently, woll divided, although somo are spoken of as “‘clean,” Steamers Mastii, JXagle, Fuleon, and Walrus are not repoj ted fuvurably, but may have taken scals slucy spokon. " All coneur I representinge the number of seals as finmenso; su that it s evident no scrious lmpression has yet been made in reducing the nénbors of« this valuable croaturey butlt e difllcult to sco how theso Immense drafts can go ou year after year, and cspeelully os the old scals aro aluughtered after the youny, und yet thut the scals can malutain thelr numbers, producing ns thoy dvouly once s yuar aud but one at a birth, —— Experiments to Fix tho Veloclty af Light. Witshinglon Corresondence New York Meruld. Au tmportant series of experfinents to nacer- tahi tho exact velocity of Jight has been (nstl tuted by Prof. Newcomb, of the Naval Obscrvs tory, Washington, Tho rate per sceond fans 1iuo a calculntion 18 has thus far Leen considered noccsary by astronomers, and the coumaonly nceepted standard of speed Tor this division of thne {8 not regarded a8 nccurate s would be desirable for purposes of exact selence. Prot, Newcomb has thereforo concelved the ides of re- Quelug to o very small fractfon of a sceond the rate of speed ol luminary ra) For this pur- Ec)lu ho hins placed & snall clrcular wmirror oo ‘apltol 111), near tho Capitol Building, two anl a ?ulncr m\lel uway froin the Observatory, and Wil use this mirror 2sa half- polut in the distance serving fur the experimunts, tho entlre distance beluyg four and ahulfintles, The reflect ing principlo emaloycd!ur Lwo purpuscs: first, ceonoplzing distance ur of rendering it less cumbursone lu conducting the trinls,and, second, of {nsuriug an exact computation of thne, This enablcs the experimenter to uso only ong chro- nometer, whereas with a single, coutlnucus slizht two timepleees would be required sud an npemnpf presented for varfation, which mikit sorfously Interfero with thoascertalnment of tho desired “standard, A prelimuary test of the apparatus to be uscd In tho exeriments was . miado last nigh mnufinnn favorabloresults, Tho operators found but lttle diftieulty fn gauging or polsing the mirror with suflivicnt niccty to throw Lack to the lens of tho telescopo at the Observatory the falut light of the torch used at the latter “poln® The telescope cmployed i last night's trial is oneof tho fustruments used by Prof, Newcomb and his assistunts in obsert- lug the trausit of Venus, The experlment will probably consumo several days, tho time de- pendiug to some extent upon the state of the weather, Prof. Newcomb {uteads to cover the rounds of his new scientific venture very ela- rately, agd I8 confident that he will bo ableto present to the sstrunomlcal world a uew sud Valuable table of light velocity. — Mount Arar: Zandon Timus, Dr. J. Bryce delivered tho Friday-evenlog discourse at the Royal Institution, on **Ar- wcuia sud Ararat." In additlon to luformation which Jl‘t"flul travelers have given, be described his own ascent of the holy mountan. As Cossacks would nut, from pride, sct 84 porters, Lo engaged Kurds to carry bis fmpedi- ments, but was ubmgal also to ougiie Cossucks to prolect him from bis Kurds, = Notwlilstand- ingthe fact that thoe asceut has now beeu wado scveral tlaies, it 18 still & rogted supenitition 1n the country that the mountain Is under supers Luman carc,—the Kunds suy of devils, tho Ar- uenians say of -uguh,—-mf that it canuot bo sscended, ~ His attvndants graduall; [fell ofl, and be completed the ascent alone. When fur+ above the level of trees, he camo upon u swull pleca of woud, which e exhlbited, though o Was not prepured to account for Its appeurance at 80 great at elevation, Former travvlers hava alluded to tho Yolesale origla of ke wountain, Tle found this to bo s, though thers was no trace of crater, no more $ha vl the Ark, though there is a firm bellef through thio district that the Ark ls stlll preserved i & recuss, He thinks the wnole uf th summit hes beeu carried away by denudation The s~ rwx of the inountain, risiug as it dud 4,500 Tcet above the valley level, s very strik- fug, and it uaturally suggeets that it woull e tha firet sput ol dry laud i the district -ncr’m the distrivt, Dr. Bryco sald be bcllu\'l.'& the ru ple wery resrograding ratlier thau progeess