Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 7, 1877, Page 2

about Tarkey being likaa **alck man ' who wonld , and with offers 1o let and Crete if we would be ‘k man" waa disposed of, nd then came & quarrel picked avont trifles, 8 Russlan army In the Dannbian provinces, the old RELIGIOUS. Christian Aspecis ¢ Question, as Viewed by the Rey. Brooke Herford, ntet while the tie Eastern threats, and the old danger, npon the fresh blood tracks of Tinngary and the re- yived memory of Poland's anclent werongsl All that was what ronsed England! The peoplo felt that a high-handed outrage was beln, every nobler us ‘after mnesrly forly tradit what Ttobert Collys was what forced oar (overnment into the Crimean war. 1know that the objectof aor intervention was only & poor creatare. now, but we knew it even then. 18 being robbed and mardered before aar eyed It does not effoct oar daty whether ho 1s & prosperous r broken-down incapable, 1 remem- ber the whale feelingof the time aa If it waabut yes- terdny, for I had just come to manh the firet great queation fn which 1 took part. ~En- and has waged many questionable wars in her hno, but this was not one of them, bot very firmly, And it eame right Inaugur Sermon of the Rev. W. F. Crofts, the New Pastor of Trin- ity M. E. Charch, Wo kpow that better 1tut when & man Rum, Rationalism, and Romane ism-—8crmon by the Rev. Dr. Gurney. Bible-Pictures, and What They Illustrate--Discourse by Prol. Swing. the Englilst people in hand with her anclent enemy, France, England entered on wih ive been oneof the Justeat, most chivalrous, wars ever waced; and wl tanght Runsia her lesson, sll thatehe took of Tar- keyIn recompenee was the ground where her brave sona Iay buried| Naw, 1 canilot belp thinkin what hus been in the post, and of why it has be touds to throw some clearer light upon the crisis and the higher daty of to-day, f the cisracters of the two parties In tho strifa —Turkey and Ruesia —were unchanged from what criaig, then I think the might etill be nn moch doubt as you please land 1a likely t be much donbt as to what, In the Chriatian aspect of tnings, ahe onght to do. had fulfiled tnat better augury fo new national life, which had been aforded by he great materls 8 0f the period before the Crimean ¢re wero reason to belleve that Hus- mply actuated D; smbltion which had the mennce of Esatern Europe, then, lowerver lansible the pretext of the hour, we conld hardly ulp rearding the preeent sttack 8 but o moro cautiously timed npu‘nmn of the nl.d] oliey s lll]';lx wi Growing Importance of the Moody Revival in Boston. that this review of THE BUROPEAN CRISIS, TTH CHRISTIAN ASIECTS—SENMON BY TN REV. . SROOKE HERFORD. The Rev. Brooke Herford preached yesterday morningtoa Jarze congregation at the Church of the Mesaiah on tho **Christian Aspects of the XEastaen Question,” Following ls the sermon: Upon the earth, distress of natiuns with perplesity.— Lk ety 2, Tunderstand by the Chriatlan aspects of things ihat view which looks at them not in the light of temporary expoediency, Lut of right and wrong; not In the light of more self-(nterest, but of thi ‘brotherbood and mutaal helpfulness which Chirist bae taught men; and that view which, looking at thugs in thia igher light, has falth In I, tries to livebyIt. For the mostpart, f suppose, we want this higher light on the dutles and perplexities ‘Wo want to clear, and atrengthen, and elayata life at the centro of onr own personsl ** Nothing human ls really foretgatous,” Itls well now aud then totake & wider survey of the world, still consclously hold- ing up for our guidance those higher Interests, and principles, and dutles which come to thelr highest \Vhatever true comprehen- slon of Christianity there Is In tho churchea sliould contribute fta word, not in Litterness or party- spirit or hard dogmatism, but reverently and earne estly, to clear and ennoble the outlook of soclety on the great natlonal Intercsts which riso ono by 1 hava shrank, {ndeed, from dofng this with regard to tho affalrs of this country, because I feel, stlll, too new to your mpecial natlonal problems and conditions to be able to wpeak with any helpful weight, Duj the same dificnity does not apply to that strugzlo which is now fastening all thonghts upon Earope. another crisia in & chronlc porplexity which for centary past haa kept forclng iteelf upon us In lnnd, It is another ataze in dovelopmonts h have interested me fulenscly ever since I camo to manhood, and which [ have ever been ‘walching and studylng with tho special desire to co the higher further-renching anpect of tham, and to understand what shonld be the worthy part of my own conntryin rej 1t is Impossiblu to unders the present crisia betwcon Turke and the peculiar hcsitation of which forms one of tho most exciting elenients In without a clear cumprehension, in out- line at Jeast, of the istory which has led up to it, ne 1 may take for granted some knowledze artles In thia con~ they were at that I Wl there would ni that messurelens a century been sake of Tatkey, sake of right Justice auon, Hecause, hore is the fundamcntal urinciple In which Christlanity touches ull these great questions of the wider atatesnanahip: that men Are brothers, bound together even whetler thoy care for it or not by an invisible fellowehip, —not Intended 1o live o themnelves, not able to U 1t thia brotherhuod Cltiat toa a brotlerhood which lays upon peoples the sama dutics as apon individaals. and well-to-do mcrely for himsclf, neither ls a na- tion powerful and prowperous only for its uwn woll- Did you ever resd the noble words in which ppealed to ATuurlu forthis largee close abont us. Dut that In not aill, ce la » reality, itis focus in Christiadity. If 8 man Ia not strong B, Kossuth, 1n 1851, Bense of natluna Vvenin private lifenoman can cut himself off en- tirely from otliers, A mnan wiliin, il exile At homes Just 10 with Iarer family of man ae Indi natlon the coneequence ol s00u, but 1t whil At lensth be fell_ax nurely. of natlons aro counted soif-exiled from inankind, dwindies away, adis, are 8ot (oo far for comnicrcial lntetcourse with the Mo4t distant coasta of kuropet would you linve the advantages of the cunneation witliout the dutice which You canoob help fecliug at homa our peaca or war, our elviilza: fresdom_or upproson, our eas or resrugression, ©one upon the world, ¥ldual membes [ total lsatstlon is not "5 b as years; yetthe secluded nation, condiiion 1n Europe, tun or barbarisni, weaith or starvation, I Iilet sct UPOR Fou, Just as Jour couditlon reacts upon ‘That fs the light of Chriatianity for all these matters, and 1f Turkey and liussla occupled tho osition g at the time of the Crimcan war, it would show our dnty the eame an then. The wholé standing snd es timata both of Tutkey and of luasia hss very mnch changed in Europo, and the present contlict ut from a cause whic ever fueling of brotherhood we have, whatover pity for the opprewsad and wrongod, nol on to tha slde of Turkey, bat against her, not n essarlly therefore on to the sl cient enemy, but certainly on o the side of Tar- kay's downtrudden people. The fact is that Turkoy has_greatly and mant- featly chianzed for the worme. That apparent prog- reas which sho lad Leon makin previons to the Crimean war has not ouly not been Lut has turned out ¢o bo inerely au; hem, tand the ‘speciality of | But they do not. nglieh fesling stery of the two gre: o of Turkey's flict. You know how the etroug, rude races of tho Turkacame down upon the fulrer-grainod Samcen civilization in tho miudle ages, —much as tho bar- Dbaric Goths had comu down upon Kome, ~preased tho Saracen» back and down, swept fnto Kurope, overwhelmed the old effote Hyzanting netmted aven 10 Contral Enrope, —an ek from Mungary, settly of half a tozen subject inces and peoples which thenceforth forme What 1s not so well understood is, how theno Molammedan invaders, after first being realsted by over{ ‘Cmmlnn bl i to wheu at Jast Leates duwn &s the mae civiilzed Juxu- civilized weapana, snd civilized diplomacy on of & nature Jual as really barbaronsas ever, wo have only lately Interconesv of Intercommanl- cation of late yearn has revealed to ud what a frightful, crael. and never-chanviug oppreasion ks tho underaide of that ** tiavermment ** of lately wo »aw only the courteous diplomatic .aslds And this has come upon us at reat ganoral Im. subjoct peaples, Tarkish Empite. o only ‘o placo, among tho family of Enropean untious. ates from some 200 yeacs axo, und two clrcum- stancesled tolt: one was, that Turkoy was thon so weakencd as to bo no longera standing peril to 3 and the other, at Constantinople. aperiod when there bas been o rovement in the treatmeut of ‘Twenty-five years 0Zo we dld not know as mach of mistula a8 we dld of the oppreesions of ples, the Hapnbiirge in Hun- Yet® evon thoss ustonal repreasion, Chrlatian Euro) that mhe was bo n nsoful counterpolse to une- ather power which was riding up and beginulng & couirse of stendy, stoalthy, nover-cesing nyisces- That new powsr wan Itussla, the growtl of Russia from tho mere Duchy of Mos cow a fuw canturles back, ta the hugoat surprine in the world, 1a une of the most Interusting sud leass Xnuwn of the chaptors of modern histary, ia wia hardly reckoned amoug Ruropean natlond, and even half a centnry later, after Peter tha' Ureat's regarded with scorn us u hall Larbarle country, Hut from that time tuseln pegan to be dangeroils from her power, and etlll mure fron the nubtle . ambition with which it was cunstantly wicided. ¥rom Sweden sho wrested Finlaud in 1741, snd by suctusalvo steps of ruthless conguest she tore plecs sfter pleco from Polaud, until in 1703 that country was blotted out of the map of Europe and the greater part of it turned Into 8 Rueslan province,' But It was Turkey that sulfered inost and most constantly from thin growing power of Itusala, About every twenty years for now nearly a centary Russla has been making woine attewmpt of conquest on her southiern usightor, iotted with Austrla tu divide thoy had pactiifo the Bourbons in wers only the forucitios of vecs provinces - of rule which we bind lolped brutal,and hopeless beyond what Austris or Rudsin f even under the provocation of has como to ba recognized that provinces, after 04 d nway, fa stlll sinply the attl- cunquest, and that no progress hins been made ar oven attemptod towards Of course we may be told peoplo of thoss proviucosnra themsalves Larbarous . Itigso: Lutis itany woender? That low condition 1s in itself oaly another count in the terrible indictment agamnst their oppressors! **orothorhood " now all this coming known, and then, insurrection cama, it was met with o tiger-ltke forucity which Turkey in the attituds of an ostlaw among al eoples, with outrazes which throw Into the 0 worat cenelttes of the Boarbons oc the 10 vuppiort was cruel, 200 years ago it aelon of thoso tude of perpet: bly but that Eury) the ala Frussta, Bweden, ilol g st [and, snid_Engiand, together forced tho allied Tobbars 16 hold thelr hands.” Ti avas the first timo that England bad to interferc, Y those who regard K ux, This was what roused has nut beon roused In thi sed 8 thrill of feeling vo genilne and Intense that {5 forced the Uovarnnient aven of tho weurnful Discacl! to chango its front, furced 1 its will, to adaiit the fact and to 8pply for rudress; and, whoi that redross was ro- d, forced It to utter at Jast which thers could be uo mistake, the stern warn- ini that Encland conld not now linteztere to slileld her old protecu Crom iho just consequences of rongel it sdums to me that the Fust, us aral consgyuence of thoso wrongs Is this war un. 1do not thin'e it is wondarful that the Ruasians, of the vanio Sclavic ruce and the wamo Groek rellzion as thess oppressed peoplee, should feel stirred tothe very dupths with 's ru ferce, funatical sywpathy, witich, whi Uzar wished for war or not, for bim toavold it, Perbaps It would have been a r Kugland to have port in whatsver to wrlng from for these mubjoct (\' ou sbetruct principtes; vindicatfon has beon undertaken by those to whom It uatucally belongw, snd § bal that England's duty s to carry ous her warning and lut Turkoy be stripped of the taally shown herself undt to Bold, Of coursy thera 14 the doudt of Rus Ltully admit it; it fe th wreat donbt which causes the real ** perflexity ‘There ure those who think the whole 'rons the {usacrection in the Hersegoving ‘urkish attrucitice lu trampllag it out, been Intentionally brought abuut by Russian ln. v that side, nearly & century of Lot itbe remembared b gland's conme throughont as merel) - auxlety forour Kastern interesta, thal we bad no Eantern intervsts,—none at leant that rouchied through tho Mediterra. Enjland bad not an intercet of her vwnat stake, and wo had just como weakenod by a bugoe debt ont of our American war, snd yet Englivh stateomen raw the neceselt or which bad sefzed Foland. waw & fiorce Juvaian war but Nnnoleu: was &t the ware {u any wa. smiat Tarke dortaken by Itussta. 10 In, in less than twenty years ahio wau nt the old wurk. parullel to those of the been negotiating to try ont Urecks, and with Just as n trying to‘secare wnude it very dificult and help the lasur, ittlo snccess as she botter treatment for thy ialrarisus, ¥ nd feft Tarkey to victorious, and st tenor thing, fu the vo courclon might o needful ico and right {3 but then Englan stopped 1o, and by their drmneas forced tho can- queror to leave Turkey independent, while grant. Ang hiw great concessivns 1o 'the Danabe provinces Then there came a reagito of ro- wwur which sbe hue roniember how s cars was spent by the two L'owers, for o8 can 1t be understood why at tha endof it England should feel obliged, atevery risk, (o atand betwean thom. ‘Tl twenty-tve years pravious to the Crimesn war was In Turkey a perlod of great and curivus development, Mozeforelgn Inturcourse than over before was apened up at Constantinople, Trad tend A system of elcmentary ablished throughoul tl sdoinlatration was reforing faith fu the mutter. h ua ''urkey has yone d, s d, 10 fact, 'l'urkey scomed Crimes nud, f fact, Turkes o Crimta was not gl ln D ol nt Emperor, who succoeded juat as that 1 drow to fts clove, Ly been kiowy befara opposed to the war, and ono uf Lis dras acte wastoslyne treaty of peace, chauye iu_the character of Husslui policy was felt s boen directed much less udizemeat and much more to jne terusl developlucnt, Creuse of conumerce and mannfactures, bullding Up & strouy widdle class, Dllu been lJ.II emauci to be beginning to sioug the peoples of Burope which hid olien snd carefully guarde: Aud at ooce a 1 of freedom and the slave of restless smbitlon, She bad beaten down the great Polish up: Sbe was worming ber way over the 1ectual resfetance of the Caucasus into Central Asin; and whas touched Engl 1o the guick, she had crushed t! st the miowent when they scemed (o {ully acbleved theirindupeudence. That last act— up the despotism of Austris, comint down rians in the rear with irresistible furce Just wheu they bad shown that they could hold thelr own sgainet ho Austrisus—swoke In Englend s vort of borror of Hussis. Wo bad & dreadful fecling that been betrayed by Hussian intri) when if we had only #ifte: wigutbave kept ber off, Al Eossuth came smong us with bis brave ringing words of appeal to Euglaud to do her atropg trus port for weaker ations,—sud Kossuth, d found his asylum from s rison and ap Austrian scaffol hat ssylum in face of every Russlan and Austrisn ton that Crimean *Chriatizn sapecs”'? ely regarded oyer hary u sud aguin, just Iately— the proteciion of England's ‘That {a the ground on whi vody berg s taking for .grapted that and * must—right nd, and Aimerica too, e Hungarians Ju [X thinge ouxbt to go for nothing. we have had the Czar's captatic disclalaier bofure permancat conquost, tudiguant retuonatrance axsiust the coutiu- strust of the Kuglish Government, bave produced & strong impression in Ene The comuioa volce of the Liberalparty is, That is the word of our noblest smen—(ilndstone and John Bright, ) uot coaviuced. thal the g8z¢ Is ever buckward, shouly wla‘e past as I bave sketched i1, e not wo R u have the secret of the Aud fn addition Europs of any pur nd you remember how nd had found uncertaluty a4 sventually ” do. the work, unhindered, bo back Lhe censervative Goverumeut which will wutch Russia's every sicp sud battl jcion, and be anzious Lo ng auy real effcchive chauge? Partieearc 1o uearly uo one can Lull. y Russia does the worl 1f, § cannol belp believin; that there reno s threat—in Turk Doca not ali this throw 1ij War—something mors of & 'That war was very lai Bave seen §§ pul 80 ag; s really awar through with Toug euvugh o hold 01d hier buud from w: pead uvon the or wrong—be el s Roasla to endsuxer tho ‘road to [ndla! 1 daso not undertake sh ubjects wixed up with tha would be hardly buwman, lel bly the lusaisn Govervicut would not be 80 ready tu'act on the pressure uf its ople If it did not sce some ut 1 do believe Lhat the res tha pataral, boneat pressure of the Hussisn people. And uow, 8s 1o whsi the end may ve, | ! rophesy. [ am nob svenanxious b forecast. What hope L0 see La, the object of the war accownplish- ed—whatever elée comes—thoeu utterly from undes tue beel of Turkey, aud started in some carecr that suall have & poenibility of 1ib- 1t way be uoder Kussian pro- £33 1a, | canuot see that LBat is 10 bo ob- the patural vutcoume; sod now 1he Ruselan ruie, like tho rule of uncient Rutae, 18 DO Ducesadry curse 0 rude peoplea. That would Lave been the natural endiug long sgo but for En. 1 carnéauly bope Englaud will aad ¥ what England wi gt of the thres gias ¢rfered on bebslf of ‘Tur. Ley, the Gcat two tines (in 1701 sod 1528) our Ju- ?hlLinlflul‘ Were nut st ltfl‘u Iui wo dldn't go to t rospect of advautage, spring of the war {3 formed the ve! Thete can be o subjectraces laken LICAD WAT Wi & WA or commerclal luteres blstory thai tho Gorerament from that war that the ‘*Peace-at-any-prica® part; stantly 87guing againat it ou commercial grounds! It was {he war of the pcoplo! Th u JHussls was prepariug Lo repeat Lhe gawe which had 80 ofien bad vy be checked by Euro; tbe Engliah 1 England abraok | erty sud progro pe. The Caur | glaud's bindering. with talk do mot think any other mnation will. 1 da not thinx Kogland alionld hinder on acconnt ©of those subject provinces, neftherdo 1 think Fhu shonld hinder from any sntictics abonut hersell. That bughesr of Rnssia threatening onr Indian Empire and having to ho kept back from the Meai. terranean is almost passed awsay from the people of England, thongh it atdll hannts her older atates- men. Kngland cannot koep Ruenla forover. from the Mediterranean! She has no right to do so. Bhe would not herseif for a moment submit to be kept ont. Tier empire Is & poor one if it Is to resmt on grounds Ilike that! Wat 1 do not Dbelleve it does, The longer [ live, the more I grow elck and weary of thesa Jealonsics and struggles which keep tho nations of the Old World almost 1ike 5o many vass. military camps. Iam thankfal It ls otherwise with my own native country, and yet even there, there 18 ati) too mnch of the oid leavon. —and onr statosmon koep acting as if England's place smong the nations depended on the thickest armor or the heayiest gun. I do not bolieve 1t1 1 believe It to- day loss than ever, since I have been living ln this vast fedoration of States as large as Kingdoms, and seen the noolo, fearlces life that la growin, n? with hardly soldler or & cannon in the land' 1 k Gou that, alike in Ametica and En- land, namber of thore who fcel this (s grow. ng year by year; and I wonld that In England's sction {n this present erisls, and 1n the moral In- fluence of Amorica’s aympathy, this trost in nght, this love of peace, may be sirengthened, and #o onr freat Englich-spesking racea go hand {n hand to jead on tl happler day for “which ali Christlan hearts have ever longed and prayeds TITE TRANSFIGURATION, SRRMON DY TILE RBV. W. F. CROFTS, The Rav. W F. Crofts, the new pastor of Trinity M, E. Church, preacbed his first sermon yesterdsy morming. 1la {s n fnent speaker, enthusiastie, and withont doabt will scon becomo popular, Iila text was: ‘They saw no man save Jeeus oniy,—Malthan, zril,, 8. He sald that the plctures of Christ that wero mande by the Prophets in advance of Hls coming at flest glanco seemed to contradict each other, In one place Clirlst was sketched as tha deapleed and rojocted of men; 1n another o was patnted glorl- cns in Uis spparsl, teaveling In Lle greatners, by His strength mighty to save, One passage pro- sented the coming Mosafah asa lamb led to the wlanghter; another, as & King - whose dominions cxtended evon unto the ends of the earth, On account of these strange contrusfs the Jewa con- celvod that there were bo two Messlahs, —ono {.’Illl’lnhl and the other suffering, —one the Son of iod, the other the son of man, Wa knew that there waa but one. e was born In & manger, bes cause thezo wos no room for him In the Inn; lle was not counted of snflicient Importance to Incom- mode anybody, At12 years of age we beheld an- other conteast. e aatonished the D, I.'s and the 0 bfi Hia -urrhnmm undenuddlnq and answer: ehold Ilim at the Jordan, bearing a voice from Ileavan, and fhe next moment golng forth Into the darkviess of tha wilderness and to mm‘pulhnl 8o [1im asleep fu the fvhing-smack st allee, TMia fead reting on a8 woaden piliow, and, awakened by (he frightened sailors, a Him with the aathority of a God speak to the winds snd the waves, *‘Peaco, be stilll" Was it to be wondered at {hat the safiors sald, +What mannor of man {8 this?" Behold Mim at the grave of Lazaros. ‘*Jesus wopl." Beo Him tho next moment when Lazarus came forth! Nee Ilim farther on,~—resting on the curb of Jacob's well, weary from 1fis long Jouenoy: fle was 100 puor to ride; waiting for food to gratify Tils hnn- er, for water to relleve 1lis thirst. Hehold Ilim o next moment reading the stranger's hicart sud history ltke an open bouk, and (he next hour rescuing from the grasp of death the nobleman's son. Lat the greatest contrast of all wed Iils reaurrection, We looked on one side of thess ploturea with fesrs; on tho other with exnltant joy, If one had asked three days' previous to Chrlat's crucidzion, ** Who s tho King of Gloryr" * he wotild not have snswared, **'This man who {s filnglfl dio as & malfacto: If the gquestion had en asked whon 1o was on Mount Hormon, evag ono waald have answered, **Jesud only, tho Lo stzong and mighty, lle I8 the King of Glory," It a0 donbtioss at nlght when the sceno occurred to Him, aud le took threo choscn disciples snd climbed the sides of Mermon tu pray, 11 ahoald be romembered that numbers did not makon nmflnr- mecting succesaful. Those three Clristians field one of the grandeat social moetings the Charch had ever known. They went to aleep, bat not becsuse they wero not intorested. Jesus sald some thinge that Peter, and James, sud John could not under- stand, The radlanco from tho face of the Son of Iightoousness fell nupon the faces of tho sleep- ing apoatias, and they wure awakouod Lo see tho wonderful transfiguratlon, _This was not really & tranafignration, though It was customary to apply the term to the scene,—nol a transformation of Chrlat Into & new form, something ilo was not boe fure. It was ruther an unfolding and ravelation of His bldden glory, The true tranafiguration ac. e at Dethlohem, when 1io wes natnrally clothed with Might aa with & garment,—was 0 transformed that Le could be’ wrapped in tho swaddling clothes of an infant. ‘The buauty of Christ in kils transSguration camo frowm within 1limscif, nol from without or above, Wo should take this Lo heart: that sll true beauty came fromn wilhin; It was not the work of tha dressnuker, or the jeweler, or the dentlst, or Lho spothecary. It was not by suything put on that wo beeamo heautiful, ot by haviug & grand, un- wolflal, noblo heart, Mr. Crofta theu relatod at great length tho s on tho loly Mount, aud drow the conclusion that 18 was necessary ue 8 negative preparation of the Apostles for thelr work as writers of the Goapel, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY., MAY 7, 1877, —e e — e on which wans the rnstling of the garments of his In Danfeland in Nelabazzar two clrillza. tions met and sag for their pictares, FPrayer and rennnality stood alilo hy side. captive, ‘the other woro tho crown of & King. Bat & the houre pasa away the two chango position the King becomes the . Who knowa but thers Is'a pi plcture, and that {n vears to come, war In years past, they will be crowned wha throw open the windows of this earthly honse er perceive that the worth of the Bible Is not to bo measnred by only the abatract doctrinea which lie here and there npon ita sarface, butitieto befonnd grestly inthe long drama of human life that Is enactad bolween Ia 13 & book not to bo atudied, as ong makes an analysia of polaon of metals, to find what deoss there 1 In its geolngy, or Its astronomy, of hotany; not a book 1o be trested moanly or harsh- but & boak to be rcad that one may find there Tt I8 8 Inoking-glase’ fnaeed, in which wa may sea nalf a3 God rees” um, I we only Whether Lot's wife becams of salt noone known any longers but all looking at the scenc as palnted in the Hook can perceiva this, that in all time when one has set his face toward goud destiny, Aad Lhen ha look- ed hack, ha has In”that hour “become & dead stone with no {mpalre or power more. property by bill of sale from the 014 Bauth corpo- tation, which had attached to It the condition that for thirty yenra the edifice ahonld not be meed for casnally, by a Christian merchant Tong hls frieng and businesa neighbor, fon to become the themo of conversation, 1 vn manly sclf-rellance and keep them undor tho control’ of the scicncea in Haly Ll they wi inacience are Known aa'the most Ignorant of peo- olitleal economy in Spain, until they, once the richest nation in Europe, have 'n reduced to hegenry and hi civil poilty and how to” sccara Indape: A home-rale fu ireland, ontll that Jand, ouce the homo of philosophers and statramen and valor, I wn only for tlnil!lcl(llly 'IIHI Wh(cllll{ Inbm"l\! a a Ameriea, Counting cradie to the grave she claims overcome of the Lamb, for 12,000,000 af her ehil- dren have immigrated to onr shores. nothing from Protestantism In the flelds of argu- ment; let immigration ceass and the days of her power will be numbered. tionalism, snd Roman hiere made war wi bat the Lamb would surcly overcome thein, BIBLE-PICTURES. BEMMON BY FROP. SWING. Prof. Swing preached yeaterday morning at the Central Chiirch, taking as hls toxt: b dresmed. **and behold & ladd on the e 10 ot It feached (0 Reayen, T E1erRnsy 1t in easy now fat roljy- 0 once rtood foremast One was colled a the open Isthle, perience of the Cheistian friend and advie They bowed in prayer. used to supplication repeated 8, belef forgiveness, & confession of ain, and sincera any. render to.Jesas, in wordadictated by his friend, ‘was but the work of A moment, thouzh an eter; of bitsx may follow. placed his hand d: **Me. M Ile whoso 1ips wero uns now stractare, however elegant and expensive. Thin bill gave the right of eminent domain to sald Trustees, whereby ach a rider In the atrlction was speeiily dlsmonnted. Thus historic assoclations have a valae, which demands their rame imperativeness as public necds call for highways. Whether cons tinued religions meetings are requisite for preserv. Ing Intact such associations I am not clear: but, In common with the great majority of New England- Irejolco that thosa time-hallowed walls aro rvices, probably the usaal annnatelection disconraes, Only some thirty votes in ln’“" Ilonse have, #0 far, disputed the passage Next {n order to the State-1louse, 1 hava to note the State Prison, In reportin: Moody has not yet presche spirits in our Stata I'rison, about thren miles from the Tabernacle, hard by the tall shaft on Bunker romised the Chaplain ing his Inbors, Touk upward in 5 iy d wilh glad faco preservation with -the tell all Bostor he did tel] a thon. merchanta In tho trowded prayer-room just ovep at his own store, terday the lesder used a Nible which hyg been a prominent fixture of hisown conating-ronm for twenty-five yenrs. One yonng taerchant tostl- fied to the sllent Influence of that book, kind Instrnction from its a clerk in that storo, rominent retnil merckant, nat A Christian, hag heek for $500 In ald of the general work Another. notthen a Ch nmvirate of ovils, to echa raligions apen pages, when yeary desire auch A vl ,of the Tabernacle, ‘went his check for 8100, be, urgo Mr. Moody 1o retusl saying that there ara many anconrerted ones fnco come ont fnto fhy 1ieht and strength of aslvation by Jeaun Chriet, Hlenceforth hie superior business talonts, bix larsy fortune, and hin earncst actlyity are to boheld and used In'the service of his Divine Master, Only about $4,000 more are neccas:y cute the work for Another year, and colleesions fop B alnuie day will cover that. ast for nnother Mr. Moody {a taking a ten days Mr. Sankey.lu atiil at his post, Th nfon la growing that the work will Justify 3y, ady 1o giving to ILthe fieat three nontl lowing his sammer vacation. MISCELLANEOUS. CITY MISSIONS—ADDNRSSKS NY MMES BRDe MORR AND KERNE. Abont a score of ladles {dentifdd with tho mis. sionary work in this city met yosterday aftormaca L 4 o'clock In the Firat Methodlat Charch o listen to the personal experience and worda of encour sgement of Mrs, Skidmore, the chlef manager of the Five Points Misslon in New York, and s, Keene, & prominent worker in the mlsslonary felq in Philadelphis. The paucity of numbers was dug aolely ta the fact that it was not generally knowg that such a meeting was to be held, otlicrwise, a large andlenco would no doubt hare welcomed these distingufshed ladios, The meeting was opened with the singing of ‘‘Justaslam, without onec plea." Mra, Skide more followed In & forvent prayer, made somo very pertineat romarks on tho senif- ment of the hymn, DIA Chelatians really giva up everything for God?’ DId they find, for -a troth, that al! things worked togother for good, and that there waa n Joy that overcamo the bilterness ang the stings of all earthly telals? Many biad o sort of peace, but it wasa'poace withont victory, DTere Tect peaco could only come after & parfect victory aver sin. The wantof aconstant, perslstent yic. often did much to ansctile roligious movements, n person to the H00 another manth, ang ‘There aro drunk- ards now on onr sirests who, four months s, looked away from their burning Sodom and sta; :;:“!‘Iy towanithe monntaine, but who, having :\:d L3 1le has, however, to ba reached. that he wili do 80 beforo ¢ ligious newapapers hiave reported his wonderfully irtical disconsses, behind tha walls anid y have been ansceraful, aven ticre, in 08t to the (1nod Bhepberd, Iain, of course, cannot multiply’ mectings, but the ordinary Sunday morning prayer-meoting Is unasu- men long stecped in crime have and made happy In their ¢ wlhole nnmber wore ad- lashin, of Now York, of whom 1 wrote you Jast weeks A he told his sfory of re- peated linprisonment like theirs, of a pardon from 1he last, of woe broaght Lo parents now dead, of children while he ‘The Bible {a yalnable not only a¢ & compendiom of religiona and Christian doctrine, hut also as a coilection of plctures taken from hutan life, Tho philosophic ortheological mind reads the Beriptures to fnd there abstract statements of morals and doce trines of bellef, but the larger portion of the Bible= roading public loves more and remembers belter the concreto lessons of tho sacred book—lessons taught in porson or an event—n jewol in ita golden Following a part of the human race from the earliest date to the Christian era, occupylngs space of time thonsands of years In length, it bodies andsonls, _Thu, to the just and genorous raader the Dibla offers lesaons of beant o all 118 pages of aither Testament. Alcism, any too gre. Y any fo0 ‘The Taberascla will ally tender, an bonds.' Last Bunda dressed by the Mr. M at pretenso_on th reat at bis home Iaint on the part rom that voiume, Ahay will have put out for you une of the brightest lamps that this world has yet lighted for the foot of men. The lible mast ‘be rcad with neither the narrownass of tha Puritans nor with the critical pnssion of tha skeptic, If one wonld find infita companon of hours of study and of trial, by human betugn acting as children of natnre rather than as artists or aa cxact profsssional thinkers, th sacred books ars to be read as Jetters froma fricmd rather than as the mccurato formulas of It 1n to Le valued not for fis ac- curucy in small things, but for its sterling worth fn all that concerna the chatacter, and happlnems, and destiny of man, ‘There 14 une excellence In that drama of lifo here It invites no debate. over tne Absiract statements of religion, dom quartel before the pictures of its varl Over such words as election, and falth, , & conflict has raged ecla and persons have 10 wife and rags and flith, sleepln; docka; of hia viciury throngh simple Ia Chirint; his words were like arruws to scores, and teara ralued down thele cheeks. trained In colloges and universitics, have mald tothe in Uiat 70 preaching ever moved them as did nple recital of kindred experience, fnpressive lllustration of the func lus of testimonies In reaching men? Al bettor when the witnesses taik to theirown kind. In this conuection 1 sy, with tlon additionsl illusteations of the UPOR FRACTICAL MORALS, & matter abont which non-evangelieal churches or pastors wero anxious khout the taken np with the poriralis of persons and Some who are the plctures of |ncidents and scencs, aive up this hour to the volume not of debated theology, bus of pictures From the laudscape called (he Uarden of Edan to tho vislons of §t. John, there {s & continnous line of representations such that by tho time the reader has passed over the whole ground, ho has secn almost all the qualities, and actions, and defeats, and success the Inovitable helr. Recall first how dependent the mind {8 npon scn- sible Images, Therearea few men ln each age ‘who, by long exercise inabetraction, reach atlast on Independence of iilastration, and weary fndeed if the writer or speaker pauses to find In,the heav- cneor on the earth some emblom of his mening. 1t is not probablo that Mill or Comto demanded at 1ast any smile to help thelr power of comprehen. r 8 statement of an ides was enotgh for ‘They could look throu; ‘words as a child can look throu a8 wa older children can lool ‘woods and flelds, dy of this book, ns a y forelgn teavel mathematicians, from buman life. ropriely, men- The sects dinpule ufiuence of tho to which man is snd converslon, and bap all along the agea; but wil admired tho conduct of the cood Samaritan, and the Dorcas who worked for the poor, an: s who revealod =0 much plety and devotion. ] stands forth without meeting any glance of cuntempt, for all the world has alwaya had ol goodness left it to enable it to admire inf Even the rude Jobn of the wi n his taiwent of skius, hag been readers as a noble soul, « His denial, bis poverty, bis rightcousncss, lenced all lips of complaint, and have mady man the worla's precions property. when compelled by & reckless vow to put to death in hls weak manner of show- ing virtue, that his own wicked heart was fuil uf reverence for such an cumbodiment of man- In In another cas , who had been acting the gon North End, whero all vileness concen- trates, was robbed of 8 valuable watch. losa, sho sald it woald be remedicd by the Lurd, on whose etrand she fiad_gone, 10 her falth, anote came In s short time atating that at s cettain spot in the old Utanary Durying: Ground the watch mi) tion wasreliable, and the watch was fonnd. Acain,. ostmarked Boston was reccived st the N, ., Jast week, con- tered bonds stolen ng 4 h and through Into the rummer eeeing all their follage or groln. Bat ¢ fs ooly the mont raroly giftad, or ong practice amid abatrac- Miifurd National Bank. 45,000 of noj names or explanstio belng non-regiaterad, - the with impunity, ss they hiad beeu for moro than two ears, and thiu colncidonce of time, place, ai e restitution glves ceedibility and pro tho belief current that & consclence nowly ba tized In Christian conversion gave up the properi and mailed the Jetter. 2 In another way, and yet not altogether another, we have secn the relations of an’ enkindled Chria= tianity to money, nounly suggeative, when jHl-gotten gal 10 the projier ownors; It 11 & transaction somewbat analsgous whers restitution iz made to Chriet of roceods of that prosperity which 11is religion Of coursc, the aualogy holds only with reapect to the truth that Christians shoald ro- gard themaclves as stawards only of all Which " facuitios snd favoring Provi pluced at theie disposal. Two days ago a single collcction woa taken to complota the sum needed to covar thewhols expenses of the Tabernacl (o date, 0,000 wera fainod. 600, Foralong time t, and unprofita- this Jobin, shuwed alse the minds of that can thus proclalm of things the eye can sco or the hands touch, Tha maltitude of which wo all forms atght, and ask that those who wisli to touch the inner senso shall et their ideas before us in tho distinct colors .of ilinstration. rhetoric gave his clase n law by which the membara of tha claas could avold a mixes 11 the fignro comes {roin the material ftnpona. canvaa and ave spoken of '*Jordan’s stormy banks," ne youracl! & palnter and draw s ** stormy ank, " and see if ILis not a novelty in natare. This rale for the guidance of turs contalns a fact for us all, pendent woall are upon somo materlal embod ke the teacher, an ker, and writer to hielp us with aa iltartration, and If the person have no iljustration, s clearnces; whoreas the wantof Jucid- quitoas likely tobe uponour - side, Palnt dea, that It may not bo a mixed truth to us, The world cannot complain at the DBible as being abstract, for It opens,and proceeds, and terminates drama, rather than naa philosophy, ‘The word drama, in the Greck, and fro of persons. With this the Lilble fs a drama of ble shades of lifs, but of hummnan nature in ite re- Nglous, and spiritual, and pathetic aapects, meets the human demand for pictures, and shonld Ve read not that wo may find hore and there somo unfathomabla sontonce about dacreos or ceeatlon of »omething from nothing, but that wa niny see the great celiglous past of soclety lying here in Jasting colura spread by & dl hero, when, an “exile, ccompanled the 1 it cgmld have been hel ‘nrzh "JYM"L& [1 acquiesce In God's willr? " Tha h ra way of living, contd devollon of Mapdalen, or the affection of John, or the zesl of Pa Samaritan, no discord a tho same 1o all cyea. part are dull of or tho charity of the ecatise Lha scena in mire the external The whole human race pours onut ita ad- miration upon all objects, from adaisy toan ocean, Dat when men pasa bensat formnlato cailses flicting Darwin: Chalinerses. . So, » as: Bpirit within, and do we oly. lite, the trae, only come ' throngha n' hourly, dependence un the promise of In this lny the s, who had thelloly Spleit within, and to galn the victory eren in ons and trials. promisg of.thie Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, romise of power lo do the works of 0 promiso of knowledge and under- atanding. " Tow was 1t that, with ench promisse Christians were 2o _weak, o full canso the Charch Lad not prayed for the Tiol Hpirit, but, In the spesker's. oplufon, - be was too often asked {n a selfish “spirit,—in a spirit which sought the honor of the thi tho) honor of = God. reecive - the- 8ty ivo, and whon it was ths asplrit ol self-rennnclation, then, snd then only, od and the victory com. thoue that asked aright, tho Hol came, not as a translent t hope and means of strongth, ro spoie on tha samo themn, going somewhat tnto her personal Christian exporence, 8 eticularly to the old, old dlfculty herself and thanssne nelf, wholly anid complota! sesvice of dod, “Wheri at Iaat she real conscerata hersetf to (od wan not fo give up on: e up evarything for Gad, she to!| e o or, fim;.lc!nltlo soul, andlf e ¢could make an; ontof 1t it was more thrs had ever been {blu lf) do. it wecration, she had recelved the Holy Ghost, and, sho testiled o & mighty In+ n her heart, —a love for thusa that were dying inaln, an fnlense deales to savo love for God above anybod: aith and dependenced in reliance on the vromlee of 1iis Ioly Spirit. 1t way ust at this moment of entlro consecration to (lod hat the lioly Spirit came into the heart and be. o i What was noeded was that ristians should wore desply realize this truth, ry realizing this and consecrating themsclves and become to God, they and bo eastained d tomptations of tals Omoe a teacher of the phenomena and 8, then they divide u and Jnxiéys, and )| belore the hitman Dible, we ail pass aloug In peace an ‘wisdom at cach step of advance, {napection of the theoretic canses of that daevelops Lha steife, co how it would 1 2 2 1t e one _thiag, na are restored 1t 18 too close an innurs in literss o for it atiows hos do- All will admilre l:llkt a fleid of tlowars as the train moves along uver onr level plains, but let the chemists enter the field to find what kind of elements make those flowers and under what kind of light they will bloom best," and soon thoro will be as man hilosophers as thera ara onderfnl, then, are the pictrires of human lifa In red Book, for they comblne {nstruction and peace; they i)l good heurts amd bad hea: only one admiration at with only one warning. . "The relation of these portraitires to the arts is worthy of & part of the roflection wo_bestow this morning upon the goneral theme, , demand great subjects, pyramids would be groater or less,” If wo only waro erectad. Tho architacturo ta sublimity from the immortality sa and for which the ‘Thus tho palntor and the sculptor demand a subject that ehall help brush and chisel 1o Impress the heart. With a genorisity unequaled, riches that scemed exhanstloss, ths Biblo has handed forth theines to the arta for ald to palnter and thosa heavy-laden, Yor centuries tho ari 11ad Christianity come only s an f the 1de of fallures? Not ment of 0 ides. oplufons amoung the etitioner rather ossoms fn tho fleld, Christians should and the requlsite expeiino nns beon abont B4, ta| ble " In New England; but, Nararcth, cradicd In poverty, with nowhere to lay for’ athers, ignuminions(y 0 1aid In 8 borrowod sepul- funds havo beean forthcoming, for the Master, sed to continue the Tabernacls for an. other year. o wlill get It, and for the next twelve wontha apiritual harvests will continue, aod our churches be ralsed to higher standards of oficiency and s Iargor outlook. Hare, by way of suggestive contrsa from my mornin financial’ dimcultle rty will be sold by ext, 88 8 acene, & 118 head when tollin Not of all the possi- hurled to death, knew for whattho of the Clirlstlan Cliurch dra the Chrlat and the Go: toward which the domes columua stand. - ermitted to move about in tho temple and palace of a forelgn Btate, saw on all tha walls battls scenes taken from the history of hisown laad, now In frulne, shed tears, many and beeause tho visible things smoto him with #0 that to us, also oxilos, mov- tie pleturdd part thing, bat to gi Dapor of to.0a; oo tako e blic suction on the 4th iug Is & costly and well» bulit structare, but has never pald’ expenses.'* Gen. Swift, of whom I wrote you Lwo weeks ago, 18 nctively in the fleld. Lo was on the stalt of Gon, Butler ju Now Orleans, and for twenty been prominent in milltary, 1In & recent tes uto to his mother's prayors, of which the pathos :nd elequence must toach’ tho farthest stranger's el never loft my mathar {n my life but what sha *1 wantto live long envugh to soo you our Lord and to your Saviour,' soparation, [t waa the burden of every letter she wrote to me in her life, 1 remember on” one occasion, and thers al here that can recall the fact, thatl was Invited by hungreds of yesrs, After_thia _entiro con- ‘while weak In hersolf, fluence working with! nnex; Ing al ‘' Come unto mo." ‘atrange world, rises with great power, lardened by sina and labors, ast, as husig up In tlio sacre e passed by without a tear, The thie world with pictares of many of ila trut A pleturs ta In tho moral world what a crystal Is in the materisl, When tha fuvisiblc airor the lquid water became & solid, tho Grecks called it ‘ine the snowdrop or_tho dlamond- bject of length in of buman sense, Nok othe piritual bemisphers, for after 1deas havo beeo floating around for geneta. ictures of tho | Plato or Spinoxs, jt could have had.no such haa ‘already wrestod from 1 belleve thero I8 nothing plnora, or in Calvin which an srifst conld ca sed 10 such abstraction, tha long pageant of Even little chiliren aro to ba t dawn to "md" the and ** David"} =3, i o Christlan_religion canie with & all they were or hoped would recoivo the Hol. {heough the manifold tela] ife. Saveral other ladies advanced Idoas of the sama triumpbal procesalon, lero Angulo" here his ‘¢ Pi thickness, ‘?h uslon of ever; 1o the d ind e ** Sfonon” erwiso s it In the ota, " where affuctlon holds on Its 1Iers ltaphacl found his bosom the cracified one, cerl aud u positive proparation to proclaim & cowpleta | tlons o Christ, pltiful and powerfal, able to save the lowest | measarable, and of of the hmnan almost invielble, slways im- Fremont Templa questionable valus, thasa ideas and as a preparation for Christ | at last are suddenly grouped Into a Moses or aw lonnas; here Correy slon_and hie Ecce Homo: the Mater Dolorosa, snd ine ¢ Cruclilxion, ' here hin Mud my fellow-citizens to deliver 1n found his Maj a0 adare ass upon the campaign in Mississippi at the surrender of Port Hudson. d. Tho hall was crowded, an Reneral drift, after which the meoting closed wilk singing and prayer. * GFIMAN T, M. O, A. Christian Associstion 1lmself, who, 88 the God-man, needed &rnp-rm Alraham, and beconie there the beantiful spectacio tlon that He might go through success wholo gallery of jecta nobla or bear it all d ‘The Gérman Young Me: elsewhere conld hava held n' and for all nges, Abrabam waa a crys. At & white-tieat of patriotlsm, snd I Gospel mecting at Lower Farwell Tlal yet- My tha aflictlon which ile was ta bear for onr r-:-:Y 1o "ff,fl",.nfi? thus wona victory for uas, If Christ and Hlis | God inmililons of hearts Lefore that patriarch Iift- Apoules nooded sach 'a’ hreparation for | edu ol doing God’s worl how mudl deavoring to picture of gur victorions army on those blood-stal The sconc was vividly befc when I came to where our men 1an up the dear old flag on thu flag-ata, whero for more thau two Thore must hava beun much trust in An to the trsmendous plies which e advance and occupation tho classlc world once built ont of marble, the sub- sequent Kinus and P satraps, hive gune, and fur hundreds of years have tornoon, which was largely attended, rea_ware openad wi Andrena Knobel, hy: large and efliciont choir of tha Aasoclstion. 'The or by the Rer. hen sung by b Wl Governors and more did | children, hosbands and wiv thuse present mneed t! Tho Sabbath was | Kings, masthave talked nii a Hermon. The prayer-mesttng was & smaller mount, Moruiag und evening prayers were hills, Class-meetiugs und socinl moetings wore mounds. Thoy should climb up away from the turmoll and crush ‘of business and the nolse of the world, and talk with (jod [ slinnce. Thase places. were not uhitations, but places of preparstion. Thoy shonld go forsh from thom as Christ did, and fore ot tne devil and taks feom him bis xmy and Jead thom back (o Uod and to a better and a nobler life, TIHIE ANTICHIRIST ARMY. BERMON DY TUR HEV. DR. GURNEY. The Rov, De. A, Gurney preached yesterdsy morniug at St. Panl's M. K. Church, corner of Maxwell street and Newberry avenue, on ** Rum, Rattonallsw, and Romanlem.” e selected his text from Hevelations, xvil., 14: T'mu shall niake war with the Lamb, and thea Lamb aball overcome thom, Hle premlscd by saying thas the Church was an army facing o foe, mber of the Charch had cnlisted, been mu d in, recaived hig weapond, and stood sabjoct to orders. The deld of contict was the world, sudy the o of batile ranged through the centurles, The Losts of God wure cowmmanded by tho Etorusl Christ, Tho leglons of wrror wure led by Satag. ‘The ordiuary vices, failures, and wesknesses of humanity constitule s part of the artillery and force of evllin the world, Dot, passing all those minor forms of the lust of the world, the last of the fleah, and the pride of lMfe, he was that morning to spoak of thras brigades of the army of Antichrist, ranged sev. erally uodor the three diverss banuers of ** Rtum, liatiopalism, and Romanlsm, " Itum was the {mperliing horror of var civillzation, A great cily was somothing }ike & great mountaln, in that the miountain represented all the climates sad con- ditions of tho garth, from tho tropical luzuzisnce L ite bave to the snow~clad euminit farup In the £ and Chicago in particular, moral belts and sones of ihe tides of spicitual good b long the etreots, su that fu studylug Culcago (o learn the peril which rum is to wur civillzativn ane noed Dot go very far from this church befure meating the cruel demon beariug in bis jows & crushed soul. Thoussnuds of these broalhing-holes of hell, 4heeo morsl marshes, uxins in our midat. Thoy apencd vutward and down- ward from our streels, vury Lawples of Satau, ~=tomplos whose walla never echoed to 8 purd Shought, sad In which God s ouly & mutterds thunder — fu the soul n thom trampled down and defaced all that Is noble iu wan and pure in woman, Chil- dren were Laught vica sod crime, snd the bollest fnutincis of hawaaity were rutblessly destroyed. Jlum invaded all s3nctitles, entared ail hoi bruw-beat ussb the polls, tHumphed over uein the Legialature, laughed at us frum the Bench, and wurdered u iu vur childre ‘I'lie accond Lrigade of 1buse forces which warred with the Lumab was Ratlvoalism. It was divided ulo iwo amrmy curps, one of Ahem called Materlallom, e other Liberal Christiagity, ‘The latier o with scoroful lip aad supcrcitivus suwile, claiming to be the only repre- scutative of modern tbon, hers ure the ouly tedchers of rellgion who dare o think. Sus deals out for the swmuseweont of ber puople dls. courses wingled in about equal propotiions uf poetry, "““"“'b".l‘ aud egotisin, with su vccasion- sl ding st the Orlbodox Church, ita methods sud results, throwa o for the purpess of smusiog the :mummn‘-. ‘The nighroad to fame ju this Charch of the toly Ejgotiste scoms to be from the orthodoz winietey, for, strangely envugh, Liberal Clristianity lends fow or none of ite vwn etare, Given sa orthodus winister with a0 orthodox cuns r.:qnlon. lrvnlu for rheturic sud puetry, leb o wiile & few philosopbical, wocal essays, Le- hllhuf the Clusch, aund bis fortuue haa un. “Fuen et bum furce the Church of which D‘L a mewber (o bang bin to tnal for bercsy sad- hie fortuue is made. The cditur of the Chlcago Tuncs would place ble haude upod bls Load, mels 3, quarried stones for now houmes and palaces, and ed away ready-made columns, snd eapi- cornlces, and end! decoratious for new races and zatlon, so into the Loly Scriptures has Art moved, d ruine, norasa spoiler, by from such an jmmaieo tressury riches of character, and experionce, and thought, "and oy, and sorrow enouxh to decorate sll the now homea of all the new generations. sacred recorda there lay such a_lands: s, and worship, and immortality thatecach chal d Abel to” the tlead Chrlsi 4t foellng common to mank Magdalen was mada great by the ponitential tears which carrfed the linage of Jicaven, and the widow who gave her Lwo mites was exalted by an associse tlon with Him who 1nto this vast store of ciations Art entered, and came a Evermore from ti doctrine, and from the doubts engendured by sciunce, can the rellglons hicart turn, and, looking human faces that move' al Testaments in such faith, and hope, a fchnolder, of Naperville, dolivered s montha had bean Asanting in our eyes tho standard 8 Devotion which TIB WHOLE AUDIENCH WENT WILD, the music struck up, and they rose up on their urging and swaying with chcers, = As I stood there alone smid this wil Ilooked into the loft unemotlonal face; it wi Hha 12 a little wo) 164t her In the pall tove and falth, & of foundutions beyan: had been apoken at the deathbed with a2 whinpered hope of & future moeting, the heart would huve remained nnmeusura unitpressive, bad not oncconie along to this faith and'longing into trats it apon one canvan. It stunda evermore for an air of ploty which we perceise now to have cncompssscd ail the Innd through which the old saint jourayed, scarcely kuowlug whither he weat, portraltof faith was huuy ap, then the eoclety of that land_began to sce a continanlog city, al though Abrain litcie knew wiithor le weut, after bim Jovked toward thst ewbodiment and evers wre know whither th able and ologuent scrmo: wes Jlis Redecmer, ™ Bpectal Dirpaich to The Tribune. May 0.—The Tev, C. B tist ralniater hore, has ac- ntensry Baptist Churcd, gurcs, 1ut all thoss sighs of a now clvili- BLooMINGTON, Hewitt, formerly cepted ' a call Chicago. outburet of entl Abrahan, h o 2y atcn & Iag my hand, but she had groat nd, when 1 met ber, she aaid, ‘[ Bat, ORTIFT doutd oo you saud when I tock my stan Ldont lu;’m: that 1 NEw Yonx, Ma; hnnholsnlfiwl on Forty.third »f Y {nal McCloskey this morning with great solemnity, Americar, Irish, and other fiags were suspended the church and adjolning houses Bishop Spalding, of Peorla, proachud the dedicas acter, from even the dea awakened the dees eir footsteps temle I and victory of this 1, oven tho Christian may defnition of waving fuith Whan can bé found fn any modern aummary of dactrine, plalne of Mamro has bucomo the father of hiful, not becanse thers was no devation to Qod bafore him or after hiin In bis a7 in liim the bedlef which la ried to a man Invtead ot oye, and it underatand the d i derntand th Th rearcely outnumber the “prayers sho had given to and I was going bomo, band of culldren, hor smnrfl was my v i tho skics 0., May 0,—Tha _Thestre-Comlqué sce of amusement Baturday nlent orance meetings were {nauzurste rthe lesder, W, M ing clergymen., Iubable riched, hue Fathar on my belul o o solved to toll her that h God wara all_there, famity. 8he zath a8 when 1 was a holplen * Except vo be converted and Lall nut onter luto the King- know what thut mncaos, ls 10 feelas ulitllo child it ‘with the footfalls of 1t o hoped by many that Ue ary of lay workers, there are men I would glye my 1| tu win; there are mon to_wiiom the ties of blood, men that sre gificd with largy endowmenta of pationce, with the personal influence so grand ti iuen would follow thelr word and exampl followed tho musfo of the ha; 1d that God would give e to resch their beartu] is only bogun tidal wave Is’ yel affections. 1 wish to do sumetblug, 1 will do some think, thut this city on these three llle, the cily that crudied Liberty and led tho vun of hitie aa the ity of thy redcamed. seal of saccess in the wurk of Nr. Mowdy |8 the ralsing up of uew forward. " The many: prebunalve reach of the work becunis Kvans, of Plitsbary, Brooxryn, May 0. ~Ex-Mayor Edward A. Lam+ bert, of lirooklyn, was formally suspended by the sbyterian Church, Dr.Coyle? ——————— AGRICULTURAL NOY Special Dimpatch o The T OrrAWa, 111, May 5,—A mceting of the new Agricultaral Board and fntercsted citizens wab Leld at the Court-Ilouse to-duy for tho pur poso of determining whether a County Fale should be held the coming 'autumn or ok Sutllciont encouragement wasgiven to guaranied such o falr,'and the thne was fized beginsisk Hept. 8 to contious throv Premiums to the amount ol erod. K. Bpeucer was appolutad Genes Buperintendent Bpecial o unbroken and & rodeemed erod mo In‘\’zer.‘ném as tenderly 7 It may well bo an objectlon to all forms of un- hellef that they can furnish society with no fair compensation fur all that uverthrow of old enr which it principles uius! Doubtlens the world would toss nmvllll part of Its ol uto & buok or a doctrine, waa rendered a thonsandfold more im- Larayetts Avenue P pustor, this moruing, soouer or lator kuow what it fler econo rises hefore ¢! Mosea gatliors up ic difas Wo wha haye reaching from sca to sca, and who Liave e along from weaknuas o strengih, from contemnt toglory, and who a faw yusrs agu shod lears whun thie national hyuins wera playud belfore the Lrooj that were payalng to the Lattlefield, know whal deep sentlinent {a the luve of the fatherland, might wonder whetlier snch a love were not the crea- tion and property of vur awn boasting centu ware thers not 10 be scen In the past many a Mo 1n whoae sclvmn face and §o whose venuruble form we fnd full evideuco that 3t fullows man allke over tho oracrues tha Ited Sea, and Swift will joln the sald i e of falth was outinumg clty Ifo biy his cleqienca Intide that Mugdalen through an error that Christ came by Ticfore unbelict ¢ apastso rlch, Tet nn see the out. and thought, and 4l the omptied i alliod w mitentinl tears. a lines of that art, sentiment thal are L0 come an and the sougs of igliout the week. [$2,000 will Le of how dear ta the and majestic bearin Mankind will forguta patelotfawa s 8 love American Continen . mple fact, but It fast to an incldont that touches the I Lot anything bo pathetic, Ideas touch onl natore of society, It {s st once immortal, I Digpaich (o The Tribune. tellect, and fades but sl that touches Ia., May 6.—Wheat ls mostlysown Beod wheat scurce, wili be planted than ever before, Bpecial Dispatch (o The Triduns, Corvax, ., aluy .—\Wheat und oats up and Most of the carn ground plowoed. present tinu weathier continues largd breadth of corn will be planied, Bpecial Disalch o Tha Tribuss, 08KALOOYA, /Lu,, May U, —Suwull grain of all kiuds looks well. Gunsiderable sud ready for corn. dpeciul Dispasch ta The Tridune InviNg, la., May h—Farmers are wol with their work, “Sinall grain looks w lldeu!:il‘u ground plowed for corn, aud somd n. ible and reculllng tho country, wa can wh did not desire to be called the son of P'haraal lead his people s bomo, and altar, public’ carries alo Damon and Fyibias, knowa not what King and of what condemned the oo philosopher to recur to onr books to ind the namo of the munsron tho crown of such a rules Ire are all 88 dust compared with will offer 1ife for & companion, deed, the eazth has no treasurs to be those of the Inmoat spirit. Of this fact seluct one morw litustration, How famillar for 2,000 years has the world been with Lhy ine Abraliam and the dreaming of the ono and the vistou of the other touch the Gur snllering world foels that though here 2 stond and the weariueas be Lera fu & betler Land beyond, and that a Jadder feaches upward by which Gud's children come and ‘This story lice in all hesrts, Tho love of the plctare burscs unt in the hymn? Derkorea be over me, My Fosl & 8oa and to the end ol wan's cageer oo oA of angels will no doubt fullow b ery plsin whors thi h il “where Jacob a1t Beode, nop carty the work ity was he who u thel 1) agaln, 80 uluch of ine atruction and of fuspiratlon lle In thuse scend fiow actual life, that it would scem that I douce madu the death-bed of Moses in the lonely mountaine and eurtalued it with perpetual mystery, vencas of the wman wight "be re. doubled slways by the liaprossiveneds of $he rocky wild that bacame his towb, After one Las sven tho drama otlem In a Muses, he cun see in David sud Solu bumsnity condensed (ot & sin- Kle acenu, "These were the synthe, ustion In its palwtest day, of u puwarfui State, which Lad beeu peraning its destiny for h00 yeare, were exprewscd at tast in these two Bguree, and to the lat eartn theas Iwo will be a drama of sud Solomon will slways tehl us that In that Joru- salem which was the glury of the world ool ready and uble 10 mar venlus and wreck Joys of & palace, and to wake a throne an 8a worthiuss as their welghit {u dust, two portrails tell us that here thu chief encmy of w3y lu sin, and that not even abaolute Vbe balo of learnlog can ever docoralo a grave whure greas fujastice slocps, lu Darid sod Solomon yuu ¢3n ses 8150 the world 'y sousuality of the tune ed [teelf fu thuse monarchs; its cruelty and 0 mivgled 1u theis pealms; the reward of win ‘is scen [u the ruins of the' Ewmplre. timid or a mistaken theology has often abated the of this tabléau o Holy W iogd ibl K “I:’ ?u{ lheuKKlnp polating to them a4 belng Improavivy sal no doubt all veils should by world should be will biachoa sn juspiced the only dower that can ore rious trosts thai Mr, Hastings leads the bo; s, and greal nombers of Jads Lave wnca_cunveried, and cvangelists to their fathers or motuers, hriuging them (o the same and of his Btate, becauso adupted 10 thelr val cumpared with MI83 WILLARD'S MEETINGS huvebagn crowded from toy firat, and converts, it tha Inaplration of her In- y lagt 8 thrilling testimony was yiven ay ihe Lemperance inecling by & wan, woo had beou sescued by thu eor, patience of & youy, She is the daughter of icture of the Journey« of the Helrew new and old, hove cay, | tlutes of manou ihe past. David Spectal Dispaich fe The Tridune. Lyoxs, 1a., May .—3priug wi well, of which an unusually larg Bpecial Diapatch fo The Tridune. MARSHALLTOWN, Ja., May d.—Small looks well. Bomecorn plauted, 1s that the late snow-a*orm has injured she frulk Special Dizpaich to The Triduns CrpAB FaLis, fu, M) sown. Plowing aud plaay) & well-koown aus n s bomo of caliufe and retuciuent, wan drunk to Ler hows, rd~and nurse unti restored, and then she wife and child Tather 1o the weru reconeile lied aver hiai both as his facalties ware partially lod hiw Lo tha Grewt Physiclan. work was found, the absudoued met the redeemed husband an houso of that young lady{ the suda now Chirlatian home estal sample of huudreds, guthered by the tender voice, athies of Chirleitan wouen. M. 8 breakfast on Kriday for 200, gathored by hurselt alono. The next division of d vab Lhe Farhiane: e the proud Telamvir, withall bla biight 1o rlon erfect sunibilation. in vast nuwmners, aud, , met i Parehi snrroanded them Fhe i g cora 18 the v ngarcaws pitilesaly tnto the Ruman uf) W the utfall Lad slai victory up 1o (bl ot long ago the duet of that ba 2 ud the blood mluglod with thu sand to b d with the end of tna battle-cloud euded Dat.part the wemory of tho caruage. But back csmu the Abrahaw snd the Jacob to that lsln; sud though Romsu and Parthiss have uce ‘gune Lo rvat, thero the memory of Ab, ) there thy 1adder of Jacob reac] n from a desert tos paradl he for self, and wilh b dreamed and Abraha: em ruligiol labor, perbapa the most fmpresaive of all, is that among businees-men. k & custower fron Han- gor, Me., (0 he noon wecting 8o crowded thal he wus compelied to stand upon the stairs leading to tha next story. llessked prayers for hie costonmier, ldeuce, und the (ach of bie ely Lo latter, 1asicad of nd said ho waa the ono for whom d uuited bis own noxt night ths BLACK HILLS. Bpecial Dispaich o The Triduns. OmAlA, Nob., dluy G—The party thst survef* ed the new route fromn Kearncy, ou the Pucitl, 10 Deadwood, Black 1lills, report 1be distance 240 miles, the shortest route yet. i youd Is well warked, and s tri-weekly toall rupoverit. The ptage company expects ¥ make trips in aix days, laying over pigbte. T w . about 200 ¢bulfalo deep meanl awn uslde, and nakud to sco how sin and ladrmity 1, and ake peuileacs &F §roW Dy auct uBWUrs 4, una with these pictares, you will 8ad & u phiasy of buman pature (0 ihe captive of Babyloar Abraham sct vt 1a bold colore the world's natara] fuith, Moscs its patriotise, David and Bulomon fie anuounciug s thelr prayers were requested, wish with that of his aine werchant wus fu the ore tha Bekeloy Streot C . oty deeds disd; low rvch.lelelyln;( for the Lord sphorically speaking, aud, as tue universal Bishup | wplondor, aad sta, snd subition, of the Bruad Clirch, would ordal hiin ss au une derelicpherd 1o tiat comwualon, Msterisliom was wore scholarly, culitc, but lus danyerous, for it God 18 and rain, sod nuw comos Usulel Lo show us sislaices and trus heroiam. A csptive ol the ags of %0, he lives in tbat forcign sud wicked land on to bl with 0o ataln of cbsi werchsut, the ufifi“fi. mflvc:? chona 1 aod killed one, Deer and satelope were wnd ¢hy party had fresh meat nearly sl 1nan soul fu all its cartlly wander 147 bolds them in perpetual reinembrauce. MOODY AND SBANKEY, ¥ Kearsel) vlaca of nvonduy 3 miles Irom sttendant at the largest Universaliet d to stteud sowe of iho by law, aud crowded buck | pioeticlh ysar, urcity, was i also heard vub of sight 1o o dateleas autiguity, (hab wan say | tbat bad po be evolved frow & 8l of protoplasi, 1lo was ot a ‘The third belgads wis Rumsulew, Thissau- | cause; not Christian power nough Lo fud its way Iato hi; Qiscovered & chain O d cause, nor fora hero secu in the mwodera nov p relizious seatiment, and here tho bivad of 8 captiru was cheap 88 80 TUE HEBVIVAL IN LOSTON. Bpecial Corvespondence of The Tridung Bostox, May 2,—A kind of religlous wovement bas appeared in our Legislature, in thls wlec, Mr. Moody at the Tab- Usine his mind as 1o busisess lakes resching for all ++1 know wany Of these 10¢a, sad froa) fu which fish wero abundsat. connected by a stroatu, and 43 the voice of & wan, the mica | the b atince 1 s’ persuade Vo the subject ol scligion of an augel, and the beart of & demon.’ 1t wears | City wl k3 the stamp of infallibilty ou ita brow. though it cuanzes its metnods Lo sbit the chauling whitas of politiciaus. Undur the wask uf 8 spiritusl church- mauship 1t claiuie & right L douiuate all temporal suveraiputive. 10 founds schools aud colleyes that 4 msy poovet W childten & spleadid” water This §s 8 web come discovery for tbe hither! Nebraska, woich ly developed by this pew Hills rout¢, wloug which already over 100 tsand Lpg, With many wore to fullows i h wales trum LLesu3, Yei, being vuly & youtl il was fntroduced creating a Board of Trustess (o priucivle thas sinases hold and manage the wenuine Old Youth Church, which individuals wero bolding sad foating uvera trznsitlon stage by wmeans of dunations aiready guthersd and beavy mortge inuch sitention. an perional €xpery of 40, be Lisd & xedodss of wyon e, who live ju thy niug cseuce the Klog of abylon shrunk luf v worslipud his Uod a4 toough the wicked city were oaly s aal-bil compared with the My, Zloa Thoy bsld the