Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 21 , IS77—TWELVE PAGES, JOSEPIL COOK, Last Lecture of the Course Dee livered at Lake Bluff. An Explanation of the Moving Canses of New England Skepticism. Banefal Results which Followed the Union of Church and State. Harvard as It Was and as It Ie—Edwards and the Half-Way Covenant, What Is Bemanded of (he Chnreb at the Present Moment, The Rev. Joseph Cook continued to be the starat Lake Bluff yesterday, and the purely Bunday-school features of the Assembly pro- grammo faded into comparative insignificance, The attendance kept sbout even with that of the day befurc, despite the rather threatening appearance of the skics, and, owing to the stato of the thermometer, the gvsence of all desire on the part of city folks to get out of town for the mere eake of kerning cool. THE CHILDREN bad they early morning hour of instruction, after which the Rey, Hurlburt, of New Jerecy, conducted the morning conference, the subject for consideration and discussion being the “Organization, Management, and Claesitication of the Sunday-School."? The Rey, J. & Ostrait- Yer, of Hoboken, N. Y., tnstritcted the normal slass in *'Thible History,” and at 1 o'clock the Rey. Josep Cook delivered the following lect- ‘re on ONRW ENGLAND SKEPTICISM: The Connecticut and the Merrimack are little ttreams, but they are as dear to many who live n the Mississipp! Valley as is the Father of Waters. There are two New Englande, an Enstern and a Westerns and the Western fs the sarger, and uitinately will be the moru power- (ul. Plymonth Rock is @ piece of granite broken off the Alps at Geneva, and it crops ont in the prairies, tn the Rocky Mountaing; and the western side of It, T sometiines think, is that spontaneous helghtaf El Capitan in the Yosein- tte,—for on the Columbia River and on the Colorado there are inen to whom Plymouth Rock, and Faueull Hall, and Bunker [1 are as dear as to any who live on the Hudson or Mas- bachusetts ‘Bay, must treat New En- Bland tenderly here, for am among the descendants of the Pigeims, When an Enclishinun comes to Amora now, he must Jook for the descendants of Hampden aud Vane in the Misstesippl Valley chietly, ana in Califor ula. Nir Charles Dilke says that Callfurolins are ull picked men, und you can Nardly find in the front of wlfaira in this Missiaslppl Valley any man Who Is vot above the average In breadth of uative endowment. But T recognize in the chief purt of the vizor of the West the granite of Plymouth Rock. 2 wall not adini¢ that Plymouth Rock ia a hearthstoue only for New England The fires which were built on that stone we all stretch out ottr banda toward: trom she Obfy, the Miasiealpp1, the Missouri, the Colorado, aud the Columbia; and, indeed, from tones that stieten around the lube both ways Teach out ther bands toward the tre of political Iberty whielt first. lad assured ex: wtence in the” work’ om that etona we call Sivmoutt Rock. {Applause.f J. allie that our political Uberty has Ulymouth Hock for its rornersinoes and when from my study on Beacon TUN in lioston, 1 look cut on Buuker- TM monument and consider on what tt fs dase, 1 find that the corner of Banker-litit monment lo blymouth Rock. And just here, my tiuends, tn the fact that our fathers Penightw ith them the spirit af self-rule, we sine SHE FIRST CAUSE OF NEW ENGLAND RKEPTICISM. Men have been tauent in| America to think for these! and the beginning of freedom In things firtedtectuad will trfng with tt many: ¥ Mistakes. 1 atpyuse Mnvlomdt bas made nore mistakes ly endeworing to found new syetema of religion and patlosoply than the rest ut the land ins done, becatse ete has tred oftencr. Walt until ge wave af vopitar enlighten: ment which is now at leat kreedeep on the Atlante shore—the wave which, although hot deeper than that, has iifted some men of an caxy atoning off thetr feet—has swept over the whole land: wast amet ry manin Philadel- pila ty aa ready to deny authority as men in sand you wif see Mi the Quater City Qiiteas Crotesqucoutgrow! he of the free thinking: o1 Cemo- ratte ages ia You have ever seen in Buse ton, We find inthe elty the Puritans the miost intense demovrncy fn politics, and also tre thealogy, mm We are fre thinkers, and the tap-rout of England pticism ia New Engtind Ireedom. Now, f eve in freetom, Veth political and Intollectusl, but. there are carly stages in which four democrathe progress thows to a disadvantage, Just as a young inan, Yassin through a college cout finds a transl of lls culture in whieh ho can isk tots than he can snswer, se the deme vs, learoing to think for thenaclyea, pes unroge 4 Sophomore year. New Sugtand sina Sophumnore your, ([Laughter.) ‘This age is the Nophomore year in all demovratle coun tries, and most countries which call themeclves highly syvilized, or which are, or are becou- ing, demecratic, und fur 500 years yet the Sophomyre year of tho civilized ages of deme will be unrolling Ha absurdities, We enall t Joose thinkhig and free thinking, =a great deslot Iv ehrewd, a great deal of tf wild,—and ininisters and persona in a will do well to teach new how to think, for all, duvn gre polug to think tor themyelves. Uf they have dens ro more thoroughly in Bostan ind io. Eastern Massachusetts than iy some other quire ters of the globe, that fact {sn partial explains tion of the fnet that we differ from cach otter thers as alurply as anywhere, ant that seme very “uncouth. growths Of it appear both Ln ovr philosophy and our the- ology. Hut Letand on the, shore of a great lake, Tam at thordveotthe valley made fa- wous by t.¢ Father uf Waters, It was my for- tune to be born on SOtL OVER WHICH THE FLAGS OB TIRES NA- ‘TIONS DAVE WAVED, Te was ny fortune to hays us a playground in youth the renowned ruins of Fort Tieondcroga, built by the French op crouud which had boon made famous by the battle of Bamuel Chau- plain, one of the Frenchmen whe dlvovered the lands trayersed by the Mizelasippl and the great lakes. You remember that France claimed all the territory traversed by (ho waters she hud discovered. She owned, in law, ajl the land through which the waters run Into your great lakes und into the Misolesippi, fot she dls- covered these lakes and that river, It fo majestic memory,—the bare ghost of the French power which came near shuttlog the English np on the castern aide of tha Al- leghenies, From the mouth of tho St. Law- Tence ty the mouth of the Mississipol there were forte erected, and the Frecch meant, by o heavy chuln of military posts, to hold the ‘Eu- dish within the narrow contines of the Atlantic Coast. cliey cane very cur succeeding, ‘They had forta dotting this whole territory from tho mouth of the St. Lawrence ta the month of tha Mississipph and In France to-day, wa De Tocque- ville used to remark, the most furoiliar naines Iu America are those which He in the territory between the mouths of these two reat rivers. The French gave the names. ‘uur own Commonwealth has s name of which the French hanmered out a part,—the term) ‘ton ut Jeast.—and this valley is full of French destinations fur Todlan tow: We had a con- flict alter our Puritan fathera cam here, and fn the lung French and Indian atrazgle we were detmorulized. We learned to like France whon the Revolution came. Wo learned to oppose France, and when the Revolution came we were tow demoralized condition. After the French uod Tndiau war we learned to loye France, Lafayette bent our neurt toward Frunce. Wo bat conquered the French atatesmon, We had Reserted for curecives the right of hope. When the battle of Quebee was fought Tis CONTINENT UECAME PROTESTANT. When the dug went duwn at Quebec, the Bible was opeucd for the Mississippi Valley aud for the Pacitlc Coast. But we bave demorullzations followloy demoralizations ft our wars, aud it fs bot ut all surprising thal, ut the date that Prea- ident Dwight began his career ut Yule Colleze, foddellty dled ourivetituttons of learniug, Wo had hed Wohitetield, we bad hud Edwards, but so had war, wo bad Frouch intldelity, deooralized us that wheu, jo 1705, President Dwicht hegaa his carces at Yale Callege only one student opt of the whole uudergruduste Hopattinant Fee inulued to participate In the service of the Eus chutlst. There hus never been fu the histury of Awcerican Cuurches un hour of xreater disaster, Jetficrsau, suspected of Freach principles iu both religion and politics, bad just become the Chict trate of the ustion. ‘The enthustasm for yette and for Galliuy liberty had fuclined the heart of our whole people tuward France, ‘The wtrucously shalluw gud uvelesu but brill- faut end wudacwus Purists infidelity of tae pe nod looked attractive, even to thy tivet talent- cd sud sebolarly undergraduates. hat was. the day,” Lyman Bevclicrs writce ta bie Autobi ography (Vol. 1, p. 49), !! when boysthat dressed Max inthe barn read Tont Paine amt helicved him, The college church was alinost euinct. Most of Une studenta were skeptical or given to Vices which pshepticlm dues Mttle to check, We tind ia that day du Yale Callege such oa epirit of ‘tntldelity that wines and liquors were kept in many roume, {n- temperance. profanity, cambling, and lieentious- hess were common. Leman Beecher was fn Yale Colleze as a rtudent in his third year when Thnothy Dwight came there as Preatdent; and now these tro men Ie not far from each other {n the unspeakably prectoits dust of the New Haven cemetery, af. reat until the heayens areno more! The sentor class brought before tho President a Hst of questions for discussion, ‘one of them on the Inspiration of the Scriptures. He chose that theme for a written debate; asked the young men to be aa thorough as possible on the intidel side; treated them courteously; anewered them falrly: dellvered for six months from the college pulpit masetyo courses of thought against inildclity; and from thatday it ran into hiding-holes in Yale College, Ut tlaryard Untveralty had bad a President Dwight, T eav not what niight haye been its subsequent history and thatof portions of Cam- bridge and Boston, but it would have veen different. At the outset of our national life MARVARD WAS AS PULL OF FRENCH INFIDRLITY AS YALE, but she had no President Owight to correet her tendencies to Freneb ekepticism, As at Ynic, eont Harvard, young men named themselves after French sthelets, Among the cloquent memorinia of the fathers, Mr. Emersou, fn the Old South Church lately, told us that Provi- dence has crantcd to Boston thus far the guide ance of the intellectual destiny of this conti nent. Boston is asea-blown city of amusingly eelf-blown trumpets. [Laughter.| Ib ts sale to allirm that fn the geography of American culture Boston is as yet, in the opinion of inany, and capeeially inherown [launlterh, the highest stinmit, But Harvard Univeraity is Boston's summit. Religious discases, uriginated chieily by contagion from France in her revolutionary period, and by many years of war on our own soll, tlted the veins of Harvard, us well as those of Yale, at the oventuy of our national life. At. the close of tho last century Harvard, as well as Yale, was inn vicious state, induced chielly by the very same causes which had prodticed demoralization at Yale. I know that student fife at Harvard now occasionally, ns at Yale, ex- Ibits the disinal activity of youthful frivolity, and sutne accret and publ{e sociot{es appear to fan the Mame of college disalpation, Burt nelther at Harvard norat Yale have the dls- sipated men power to put thelr heela on the neck of college sentiment. They had the power atthe close of the last century in both thor Institutions, And {tis not tuo much to suy that Hogarth's picture of “The Rake’s Prog- ress” might have been matched out of the falrly representative life of Yale and Harvard inthe French poriod. In that Paristau period, unreportable vices were as common ut Harvan asat Yale. We have juat hud a pleasant book written deseribing student Ife tn Harvard as it unrolls itself at present, andas many of you amd f remember it; but a volume descriting Ufe there ninety years ago, and a3 frankly write ten a3 (lis new description, we should not cara to have generally clrenlated. In several wor of lilstaric Netion, the average unde! that time fs represented asa low chars averae undcreraduate of the last years of the Tast century, at both Yale ond Harvard, was far less of a» centleman and immensely less of a Christiun than he is to-luy, | Why, In my class at Yalo there were two- thirds Christians,—not all membersof churches, but most of thenm,—and at Marvard, at this mo- ment, most bf the students are jmembers of churches, You say that Harvurd ts the place of tkepiictam. But, if son please, the West, avd the East aleo, exaggtrate the amount of intidel- ftvat Harvard Uuversity. I am speaking of any Alma Mater, bu$ I have spoken frankly to her face, and I speak with bated breath here, for [ would treat her more tenderly at a dis- tance than nearat hand. Gut it is true that, out of a class of nearly 200, you find less than lity clalining Unitarian provlivities in theology. tis COMMONLY SUPPOSED THAT MARVAHD ts UNI- TARTAN, when sho has ay good o right to be culled Epleco- palian, Lhold inimy hand here elaborate ata- tIstles as tu recent clusses in Harvard University, ‘Take one of the yery Inst and he it there were, of men about to, graduate, of Unitarinna, 33: Bplseopatlan 3 Cungrezatlonaliats, 233 Bap tists, 15 0 Tinta 65 LAberals, 43 Metho- diate, EY Cuthotlen, 2. according to that p table, thers is realy more reson for calling Harvard an orthodox cotlege than a heteruilox. J know that tho majority’ of the —gov- erning, hoy belong to the Unitarlun “de- nonjnation, but the recent elections into that body hive heon nearly all from evangelieal sources. The Colicee Is not denomfAational tn any sense, bt would not tlie to be calicd Unt- tartan, or Conaresutianal, or Eplseopal. it hus no denomluational alm, but there ts ab Cam- bridge far more etrength ty sound evungelleal thought than the Weat or tha East commonly feives Harvard credit for, Amounts the students thera ara well-organized and vigorous religious socictios, und the veniditions of admission to them are more severe than to must churches. 1 Oud reason, therefore, for contrasting the pres ent withthe pust of Harvard favorably. But this change his come about within the fnst fifty yours. It was the religious deinoralization pro- duced by wgreat variety of causes, inhering in the. French and Tudiau wars ant tn tho Revolution, and in the bending of our na: tlonal heart towards France, whieh left Harvard unfit ta Tend Boston culture, aud nutil within fifty oreignty years I must say eis hus con- tinued tobe unit for that igh ollce. she fs my Ahna Mater, but she has caught me to be In- Eonuous and to cive proof, and the proof that her carcer usa leader of erratic thouht in the- ology 13 about Lo cloro {x her own confession, for sie Is constantly electing Into her Board of Governors men who are distinguished, not for erratle, but for the soundest kind of sound thouglit in theology. She ts taking for ber Jeaders wore and tore men whose princl accont with tuoss of the ‘fathers of New En- mloud, and it is that systets of thought which has been tested by time on both sides of the Atlantle which to-day bas the ingvet power in Harvard University. HUT HOW VID OU FATHERS VKIPT AWAY from tha lofty ideals of Plymouth Rock and drop Into this demoralized comlitlon? Let me rapiily ran over a sertes of causes which ilue- trate the suurve of the demorallzatlons of Ilar- vard and Yalo theologically, When our fathers revelyed George Whit:feld a6 au Evangellat, It was necessary for him oa Bostun Common, in addresava befurg 20,000 or £0,000 people, to tench the necessity of the New Birth. It was necessary for blu to inslat upon the proposition that wimun should not be atulolster unless he could give credible evidence of having entered wpon a profoundly ploug fe. Why was It necessury for Whitefield to proclaim the neces- salty of wconverted miulatry, the necusalty of converted Church membershipt Our Purl tan fathers believed a8 our Pilgrim fathers did ino converted mlulstry and fu a yonverted church membership. But our Vuritan fathers, you will remember, were not Separatists. Our Mgehn fathers were. Distinguish always the Milgrius of Plymouth, who were Separatiste jram the Church of England,from tho Puritans, Who were not. Now, the Muritans who lauded In Boston brought over the ides thatevery cnitd, if baptized, became in suing sense a member ol the Churels, aud therefore it was a part of their ausiety in tounding a new etvilization to have. allchildren baptised, They had precisely the sang ides concending the baptiem of children which prevails now Inthe State Churches of Europe. Let me not here put a man upon thers by uny fear that f alall attack or defend merely denuiujuational views us ta fufant bap tism ~ fluughter},--a yery infantile theme now, compared with this larger question how the secularization af orthoduxy tu england arose. [¢ cauie from v quod motive,—the desire to attend to the religious culture of the whole population, We lid a law pasued in Mussa- chusetts la 1001 that UNITHD THY CHURCH AND THB STATE. dn that year the proVistun waa made tut no- body could vote unicss bo was a chureh-mein- ber or hail been baptized in youth, Whatis the effect of making a law fbut, as the General Court said in L83L In Massachusetts, for all tine to come nubedy shall be admitted to the body politle except church-mumberad Of course the consequence of such legistation will be to make all inen anxious to becuing members of the Church, There witl be u secularization of re- ligton if you mgke the rule that nobody can vote who js not a chureh-member. And that was the law in Massachusettsard tuat law was forced upon the Churches partly ont of thelr desire to carry reliiuus infucices into all secular things, ‘They desired to found a tae- ocravy, Uke the Jesuits whe discovered the great lakes ond the Mfssissippl. ‘They proposcil to uuite the religious und civil power, practleully {f not theoretleally; aud” thla order Was paszed with the beat of intentions, but it had the uta mischievous effects. Of course, very son witer 1031 we begin to find a demand foro half-way covenant. The question urises whether thosa parente whose children have been bautized cun- not become voters. In 1657 there was a law passed, culled the “WUALE-WAT COVENANT"? by its oppoueiite, aud vow remetubered In hla tory by that name, and by that law those pure! who Were baptized in infancy, if moral and re- spectalic, Were allowed to bave thel baptized and be eligible to civit ofl how the political E all the way f OF couree, secularization like this & ed two of three thousand things, President Chauncey, of Harvard, opposed the half-way coveuaut, but the fasblon had been ack yer eluce 1gul of aduuitting ty public villce only churchmembera. T know {hat tn 1688, on the accrssion of Willian and Mary, thé law that re- quired chunch tnembership as a condition of ett izenshiv was repeated. But you cannot. raiee a great wave Ike this and stop it) by changing milers in New Rngland: and we had that Taw fron: (G8tto 1688. Tt was the rule that only chareh members should be eligible to office, and asaresultof that we had the halfway covenant. But Tong alter that. that half-way covenant kept on, In apite of the changes of Jaws under Willfam and Mary, Therefore it Is not surprising at ah that ty 1i04—voming down: alittle later In this wave of svcularization—we nd Stoddard, of Northampton, claiming that men should be admitted to tho communion service as a converting ordinance, Whether sonverted or nut, they should come to the com- simipton service, and should be recownized as in some sense church members, And finally Stoddard went so far as to DEFEND AN UNCONVERTED MINISTHY, Whitefield writes In his journal that “Stod- dard fs to be blamed for malotaining that a man may be an etticent: minister although not con. verted? We sce how this political strain year after year had caused Massachusetts to it atvay from hier anchorage near Plymouth Roc! and how, little by little, ahe had come into those pitiows of ‘unrest and sccularization whieh belong in every aemocratic age to Stato Churches, Massachusetts has had a StateChurelt, and her secularization had become such in the thne of Edwards that he underwent persecution for setilng himself against this turbtd wave of secularization that had been ras ing ever sinve 131. Ho opposed the half-way covenant, and wna sent Into the wilderness as an exile because he had ap- pored this secutarization of God's house. Why were Edwards: and lis family, why were his daughters and hls wife, compelled tolive on charity from Scotland tor awhile? Because he had opposed the half-way covenant. I know wherol lassachusetts to put my bandon little note-ho of brown paper. covered all over with Edwards’ writing, and the booke were made from clippings of the paper weed in the fans matiufactitred by his wits and daughters and sold to obtain thaolr daily bread. Thero are nu fans that Massachusetts disilkes so much to be fanned with as those that: Edwards’ daugh- ters and wife made and sold for food, MASSAGHUSETTS STARVED TIM, AND SCOTLAND PED TIM, thank God! But thero were In this experience of Edwards only the natural results of a long course of secularization, But Edwards and Whitefield stopped the chief portion of the wave, So far us (hat half-way covenant was abandoned, the Churches of Eastern Mnssachu- setts becumo evangelical. So fur ns th was re- tained, they becaure unovaneelical. Look into ‘tracy's “THstory of the Great Awakening.” and you will find a statement that no single Church that continued to retain the half-way covenant up to “he present thine, whether con- verted or not, continued to he evangelical. It is commonly suppoved that the errors of Calvin- Jem accotint for the riso of Unitarianism. But omen must. remember the — errors ot church government; the secularization of the Church by {ts unton with the: State, and the ceneral outcome of this half-way covenant which Edwards and Whitetleld suecessfully re- sisted. Men must notice thaf the chareties that dropped thut system became evangelical, and the churches that kept (t-up continued to be unevangelical. And, therefore, | undertake to say that the political wore far moro important thin the theological causes of Unitarlanism, Undoubtedly gentlemen here who hve opposed many of those errors which ft. Is the delight of modern Catyinietle scholars to oppose—many ofthem rtatements for which Calvin was not. reaponsible: things tacked upon hia system that dtd not belong to the core of it,—undoubtedly, many gvutlomen here will hardly etve the emphasis I do, after jong “study of this theme, ta the polltleal — pressura that lay on Massachusetts to secularize her churches. But, standing hero and reciting the history of New England, [ do not feel any need of proof that the half-way covenant, und this pollttea Pressure out of which it arose, were the PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THR DEMONALIZATION OF ORTHODOXY in Eastern New England, aud that demoraliza- ton the chief cause of the division of Goat's house there between the evangelleal and the unevangelical, To be brief, therefore, let mo say that I hold iu my hand a brict copy of a record made us fate us 123 on the oflielal books of achurch in West- fletd, and it {sa speclmen of the records you may find all over Eastern Masanchusetts, I yo vn from the Merrlnack to the Connecti- out, and every now and then [ atalkative document Ike this: Ata chureh meeting holden in Westteld, Feb. 28, 1725: Voted, That those who enter full communion may have Iberty to give an acvount: ofa work of saving cunyersion, or not. It shall be regurded usa inatter of Indifference.” Will uneyangelleal opinions arise {ua church man- aged in that stylet You inay conclude what- ever way you please accoriing to theory. — conclude avcording to the fact of history that where that churel-practice oxists, as it did all over Enstern Massavhusetts, unevangelical opia- fons naturally arise. Out of the political pressura which preceded: the a:cession of Willlam und Mary came the half-way covenant; outof the half-way core. nout came the secularization of. the Church inembership of the Congregational body in New England; ttt of our connection with tho State came marstirs of stagnant Church life hore, efmilar to the marshes of much of State Church iy tn Europe ‘to-day. And there Is bartily a breeze that sweeps over Boston that does not cume from, those marahes, not yet dry, und that never had any salt im them to keep them av: Yuu know that Tam speaking here more trankly than I coult hava spoken Afty years azo, for tt has not been the. fashion in my portion of. New England denoimiuation- ally fo adinit the evil of this half-way covenant os tutly as Fhave now done until within twenty. tivo or thirty ye rs; but these are the facts. which only church membera could vote was In operation In Massavhusetta from 1641 Lo 1683 In form, and much longer tn spirit. The political and sovtal pressure ariaing from. that Jaw led. to the adoptlon of tho half-way vayonant, by which persone not profeasing to havo onterod on a now life ot all were allowed to enter (he Church. . Out of that pressure arose Stoddurd's cyil plea that uncotverted = persons ahoutd be brouxht to the communion service. Out of al) these causes came un unconverted eburch membership, Out of that came ministry, Out of that came s broad departure from many points of the lofty and sclentitically acvere ideals of Plymouth Rock, Qut of thut depurture arose tn experience a wide and deep secutarization of the more fush- lovable of the churches of Enstern Maseacht- acta! Out of this secularization of the churches of Eastern Massachtactts came thelr chief weak- ness iu thelr realstance to the irretigious ivilu- ences urisiuy from the French War and the Revolution, and to the accession of the Frenchy Infidelity at the monent when Lafayette ond French Hberty hal bent the national soul to- ward France. AMERIVANS HAVE ALL SORTS OF SHNSE BXURPT WISTORIO BENSB, To-luy E have trodden over ground that a little while ago nu man could havo passed across without burning his feet, We have hail adtate Chareh; wo have had a seeutarized church membership in one of aur denominations, the rullug une; und little by little that seculariza- thou se lowered our standards that {t ts pot amazing atall, and {tis athing we ought to Nave expected that out of the combination of causes tnchuled tn the older Armipianiam—(i beg every Methodiat'a pardon. I apeak only of errora Which your present scholars confved, Just aa T criticue the older Calvintsin T crittet the older Arinivtanism. = Tne present Arniin- fradually an unconverted fanism ie good = Calvinlsm—most of it [laughter}j—that out of the com- Dinatlon of cause: duchided in the older Arnilujunisin, the * half-wa disturbances of the French war d tlon, Freneh iniidellty, the popular misconcep- tlous of scholarly Orthodox doctrine, and sume ernie anid rash stutcments In Orthodoxy Itself, came Unltarianisc, Out of Unitarlantam aud the brililancy of ite carly literary and secular successes came Ear yard University in {ts larwely unevangeljeal ut-" titudo—an attitude vow greatly ebanged. Out of Harvard University lu its uncvangellcal attitude came the occasionally skeptical of doc trinally Indiiferent Aterary clrelea of Eastorn Massachusetts. Out of the skeptical Weraty circles of Eastern Massachusetts cau one part of the tufuences thut sct a portion thouch only a portlou of the Boston fashions of thought. Micro wo are, then, fuce to face with the Civil War and with thoss | ia MISTAKES WHICH TH NOUTHEEN CUCRCUBS MADE in thelr dealluge with slavery. Goto the tomb- stones which afew weeks ago you decorated und read the faseripttons on theni, and you will find that the great aye rtion uf all who juve up thelr llves fn the Civil War were men between wound 35 years of age. Bly geucration In this country Léa remnant, And therefore yuu will uwllow ine to speak frankly of those mistukea which a large part—uut all—of the chutches of the North inade In their delay to take Godly aide,iu the great questiogs which arose concern: ing slavery. [Applause.| I aim to blame now the American Church, North aud South, for its Utlatoriness left uy zap on thts Continent be- tween redized Ci ity du our national Mfe and God whe watked fi advance; and that ap had to be Hlled up by the corpsud of my Keneratlon. Vaulel Weboter was the Archbishop of the Northern Church flaughter]s and dt ds hardly too much to aay Uhat aeformers were 0 mixed up with vtormers that fur alone while the Church had Some reason for being: shy of the extreme pesitions of Abolitioniem., Vane doubtedly greal mistakes were made by the Abolidionists, Reowas. political | Abolitlovism wWhteh triumphal, and many of the radical Abolitionists ag vou know were political Secesstonists, Emust eriticiee ther somewhat, But the Caurch contd have done much which she did not do, One great denomination, the Quakers, have the good fortune to look back on arecoal auch asthe whole Church micht have hed If we had acted in time and brought our public aentiment ip abreast with Go's own Defore Ely Whitney Invented the cotton-gin, ‘Tiat changed the aentiment of man, but not much the sentiment of heaven, [Laughter.] Ev. WHTNET, In 17M, invented the cotton-gin, The Brittsh feet in 1203 hozeted off the mouth of the Mis- alssippi. and Sapotcon Bonaparte sold tous Loulsiaua. Wah that purchase the cave of aEoluts, who tinprisons tempests within his bellowing mountains, was opened. When the winds End blown out of It until it was = aibstantlaly vacant, = unex- pectedly jn the denths of the cave opencil anothcr Eoltiacave—Texas, After the winds blowing out ofthat had tossed our whole ocean Into yeasting wellow foam, suddenly tv tho rear of that Aoluakare opened another—Callfornta and the Mexicdn wat, Then cane « yet more huge enlurgenent of the cave, In the renenl of the Missouri cympromise, and the Kansas and. Nebraska ati Fits Wo saw the gleaming of the western ren through the last opening of Ure cavern. (od bo thanked that the bowels of the mountatns wete exhausted at Inet, and that we had no more mmocettpled territory! |Laughter.] To thia fully gnened colossal priton-house of winds we found no door that could be bolted except onc malo of corpses. We had tu block it up at last, tho whale mouth of our uamens- ured ulus cavern, by the dead bodies of North and South. It fs blocked to this day by that immovable art costiy mound. Now who in Boston was foremost as on Abo- Ntlontst to the days when orthodoxy was a little tov slow to keep pave with Gol! “Why, Theo- dore Parkers sid by following God he obtained a following, not only for his anti-slavery ideas but for those principles of lis which stood tn conflict with accredited Christianity, What made Theodor Parker's pulpit hight” The low- nese of other palate: Why were other pulptts low! Some of them faced the south. [Laugh- ter.]. There were gouth-sido views taken {fn Boston occashnally by the orthodox pastor-. [Laughter] What effect had all this upon the youth of the hand? If ever Thad strugule to retain my respect for embodied Chiristianity—E never bad any strane in retaining my respect. for the real Christlanity ay it exists in the Scriptures, but if T ever had any struggle to re- tain my respect for emboiled, accredited Christianity, {¢ was during those years of iny education in which 1 could look towards Bos- tun, the seat of vulture fy America, and fing leterodoxy nt the front. on Cod's side as to slavery, and orthodoxy, duubting us if halting between God and Sfamnion, her vara filled: largely with cotton and gold-dust, aud Webster her Archbishop. But the struggle which T had with accredited, many had with zeal, Christianity, and one of ‘the profonndest causes oof =the current Now England unrest In regard to orthodoxy {s to be found In the fact that, In Uils timo of trial, or- thodoxy lavked- leaders, and letcrodoxy had men atthe front on Gal's alde. Now I know how frank all thisspcech is, und I am not to polity itverymuch. But it ought tobe sald ha TNE RANK AND FILR OF ORTHODOXY wero very nearly right, although they lacked leaders, suppose it van be’ proyerl by the most merciless statistics that in the year 1857 the, tnalority of the ministers of evangelical denominations fin Maseachusetis were right on the subject of slavery. It was my fortune butn few days ago ta hear the poct Woilttler say, in that scu-blown city of New- buryport. where the roof yet stands under which Willan Lost Gurrison was born, that Mr. Gar. rivon himself, in his carller career, wus 2 friend of ministora, and, indeed, micht have been called, perhaps, a Jalvinist of the strict type. Ho believed too much in ininisters; he mude them idols; and when his aympathlea were Penctratingly enlisted In one of the gecatest of masern reforms and he found that many ministers were not on lilselde, tho Instant and surprised ree coil was of that Intense rort which comes wien we falll in anger with thosows love. Again and again oatmilar amazenont was tho source of the vizor and tho breadth of the recoll from accredited Cnrla+ tlanity In many of the antl-slavery men, Uenry ¢! Wright wana Congregational minieter; there were substdlary men, and some of them, T think, wero doformersas well an roformors, Parker Pillsbury and 8. 8. Foster and others, have been Jately honored with sttontion from Mr. Pillabury, Ho sald: *'Do not attuck Mr. Cook. Yor’ cane not strike the ding out of & cow-nell,”* {Loughter.} “It fs. not an that ace count that L inention -him as a deformor: but ho waa aifee a Congrezational miniater, amt tio recait from his old position ta that talk about tho cow bell sbows how featly Bu once loved mintsterss [Loughter,} Within tho cleclo of a hundred milea* radius from Doaton, you can find hundreds of tn+ Auential cttizens, and at teat a xcora of divided or wonkened churches, whoxe dificuitios with tho ra hogan us Garrison's did, by the operation peinelple which Voleridge describes in hla **Chelatabel Alas! they had been frienda in youth, But whispering tongues can pulson truth, Avil constancy ives in realina sive, And iifels thorny and youth Ls vain, And to be wroth with ong we lov Doth wore {ke tadness on the brala. Evilexcecdingly, my friends, fs that day in any pation when politlcaland religous interests Tih in opposite channels, And, at the point where the atroam 14 narrowest, tho spar of the enemy pene- trates tho wnat ico} ty Those sing currents make the whirlpool that impales hon tha tusks yf th When Chevalier Bunsen Iny dying he bo thanked that Italy fe free, Sow i , O00 of penele can belleva that God governs the world." The nvcraye German peasant twenty years exatced ble mloisier us merely an agent of tuo Govermment, and spoke cuntemptuonsly of pollce Christianity, becnuto the State Church in the fatherland was, until within a few years, ver} fequanily an ally of Abaoluttsm. In ‘tho United States, while the compromise measures were under debate, political ideas san In one tircetion and re- Kaluue uted Inanother, ‘The Imimennwe interes of commerce often hud tho, puluit, as well an the press, In bondage, ‘The payment of Fouthern debtat Nave you ever heard thet themo discussed In whispers? Wobeler had his eyes ‘constantly on Wall street, Wendell Puillips would atand here in Boston with his eyes onthe consclence of tho natin, o yery digereut barometer, und he would «ay, here 14 a storm, eluging already in all tho wits We shall cecape trom slavery only by civil war. Webster would reply Jooking wt the citations in Wall atrect, “*Phore ban not yet Leen any large tuctnation tn prices, Centlemen aro not serjuus when they talk ofmecesslou. Lebus repress agitation, and tide through the crisis without wae." Both the moral and the dnanctal barometer must be kept tu view by any eyes that would read the signa of modern Uinea, Tn tie slang price of slave erty wo bad a thermometer of threatening aapee! if the North cast a too carclera vaze,—$100 furs black infant, $100 pound fur a black ‘boy, $1,000 o jp $1,500 for a youd Acht hand,—and ntul tblé thermometer and the waitin, breeze roso; and =the = winds onto the Holux cave resounded more and more loudy tho murky threat of coming war huny above al! bualness and bowmay and yet, xo were we filled with Anglo-Saxon pride, a0 Mitte foresszht did we have, that Wall etrect was hardly troutled up to the very hour when we could no ‘toner doubt that there was to be a deluge of blood. . Webster hoped that we should pase through the crisis without clytl war, ant could hardly havo made more plgautte effort verted the con- test had be furvseen what was fo come, aa probs: Uly he did, far better Unin somo have thought. 1 know with what elenco Lehould elt In thin aswem- bly were any one of five hundred scholars here the: speaker, I should be quiet in thie presence, hut It fa my xood or 1) fortune here te o8 responsible to nobody, asnobody la to mt tel aberslore, letine way that my personal foeh Hf that Webster, fram Grat to lost, waw honcet, that be ventnred much becanse he had reat foresight. [ betiove that mau unticipated, with a fullness we can bat pourly un- derstand from any of bie public expressions, the terrora = of aur civil war, Judge Neamytu, the Merrimack, at Frouklin sald the other, day: *"Onco at Elms farm | was returning home {fn the sunset with Webster, and he turned npon me suddenly, and tn bis deepest, supernatural volco wald: * You inay re; ino as oxtruvayant, but | have had sume waperience with both Northern and Southern wen, t Pronnly shall not live to sve the Potomac run red with blood, but [think youwill.’" That was with- in #ix months of the timo wh on ¢! tho seu at Marehdetd yonder, doubt he was asabitions, 1B to be supre: ahore of at man went bu: thu was too greata nely winbitious. In secret aa well ua in public he prayed that when bls eyes should by turned ty bvhuld for the let thos the sun in , they aight not seo him shlong ou the ‘end dishonored fragments wf aonce glori- ous Union, on states digevered, discordant, bel- Hgerent. Hy focessw what bjs land would look Ike, drenched in Geltysburge aud Hichmonle, Hut‘he was taken hence before he bad thine tu right himself in the public extiinatlon. No doubt he Went to exces, He wis a wlutesman, A BELIEVE THaT JP THE ARCHBISUOY OF THB JURTH. DANIEL WEBSTER, had lived .as Edwara Hvere't ald, to lear the drat gun tired wt Sumter and tv its echoes, rolling across bellizervat commouwealths and reverberal- fog from the Rocky Suuniudus tu the Alleghauice, Wobster, Iu that gaze, would bave stamped bis foot dowa on the side of the Constituliva aud for public order whith au emphasis that would have called grinles forth iu toe defense of the law; snd tu bave brought into the deld will- fons in support of the Constitution there would bave been needed wo other drum best. Prulonyed applause. A vowe—** Like Douglas." | ‘here fsa brouder sky uver the sopl we call Web- ster than over the soul we call Douglas, but | be- Weve that lu the azure, above the narsuwer heave of Douglas. there waa au opening which the lisht- niug Would have widened bad he lived loner {applause}, and Webster, without the ligbtoing, would have bebeld the agure, ‘The opening was made wide fur ua all oaly by the Vxut- ang We were behind” the tluce as “viltaly "1 —————— ee mach ae any of our leaders [aprlaurel, nnd, Hf yun pleate, the sky became perfectly clent for ‘you and for me only when the opening made heaven-whle hy the necent throwgh it of ine om there propositions f en eof ieee fon orthodoxy, for we were behind God, and hit- terly have we reaped the fevite of our tardiness, Lot ns nereafier in the history of our nation ree member that it ie the business of the Charch to move abead of reform and draw it an. and onot to be dragged by ft,—toa be a moon before temperance, and — rack) reform, and tha richts of labor, ae wo were net In regard to {the ware of antl-slavery, We were dragged by that ware. Had we draven (t we ehontd have paved al] that wae wrecked th the bloady del- tgea fApplanee,| fut now look eastward, and into the territory beyond the Madson. Notles that, tho most typical rights are the college bell and tho factory chimney. NRW MNOLAND 18 HECOMING NEW (IRELAND. Our manufacturing popiilations are growing much iy thar those of the cities, An opern- lszusted with the Church, §« becomtn; very iarze in Sew England, and the ared plate for small! philosophy are always fat sud while whenever population neglects habltaal attendance on God's honse, lve mea population which, forany caitso whatever, fails to mbte at lenat onco in eoven daya In clean clottes to Heten tw rellglous, philosgphie, or ethleul ti ened Hit ite soul aloft on anthems to Gods and Twill show yous population flttle hy tttte taling nnder the power of charintaus ax teaders. Any large manii- tacturing population that nevlects church attend- gnca habitually wi witimately be led by qitacks, [Volcer—** That fa no."] The ‘The digerence between tho rich ant yuor 14 grow= Ing wide In many manofacturing centres in New Encland, and our voluntary system, whenever an aristocratic chuech Ineiste on It that peaplo shall have soniething to wear or not go ta chuech at all, repels the poor, Some churches are very much t blaine, 1 believe ninety out of 100 are glad ail classes of men in church, but we do have churches that are In debt and want onty rich peos pletocome to church, [Laughter, anda voice— “Thats onv."] We do have churches thi. when’ they erect 9 now house, dedicate 10 Gad only’ ice (Lanehter, | 1 have no abjection to tail eteepear—If they are pald for. |Kenewed laughter. | have no objection to Jofty church architecture if the tict ond poor can gather together underit. [Applausces] Batwheo slarge manufacturing population yets the ide: falInciotts wore ur lews,—a very falec idea in nino caecs out of ten, —when ft takes to heart some on tlelpation for We children. thinks thatit: will be worre with the time tu cume than tho prevent, and when {t keeps ent of tho charches unter on feeline that — poverty {4 not wanted in these clubs of velvety jews, then, Uhat popmatian willbe Led by, alt p not little by little, kinds of religious and poiltical qua Plane, | You will hase labor reforny hv reformers, but hy deformera, ¥ theology taught by eccentrics more centric, until Tom Paine himself can b Merrimac and Connecticut as no other book on the- ulogy can be. POOR TOM PAINE —outyrown fifty years ago and read now only by the half-educuted even among infdele! T went intu the ofiice witere Infidel padlications ure sold in Heston the other day, and asked of waut they sold the most, and 1 was tuid that 20,000 copies of Paiue's **Age of iteasou” were commons. alstribs uted from that office every two yeare "tin vome yeura thoy wouldn't ¢ell sell 10,000 cop. tery, Dot on the everage 20,000 every two years), chleily to thu operative clases, moro or Jers dixafected with the churches, Now in that class we have our witdest fori of New Ene gland skepticinm, Bay of the Ieadera who aro quacks now tenching that class were dinatfected with ortiiodoxy in the thme of the autl-slavery ayl- tatho: Again and again you will Sud the deforms ers in New England persone who realty hud a right at times to criticixe orthoduxy. Wendell Phillips saya hin fs the old falth,—he will not ale down to the communion-table with the churches in Boston because he feele they havo abured bint, Hut during the Clvil War, Wendell Phillips and Lydin Maria Chilan, and eeverat other Abolitiontets <whom you pernaps have considered ekeptlea le ut beat, were secustumed to meet to- vately to observe the commution hy At Thoodore Parker's funeral Wen Hut Philips, reformer uv he weet bells not Jangled inn atrange church—darey to follow lonalistle man very often, and if he will de Phillips thie etmp but almply that rach this, haw much seoner will mon do it whose faith has really been wnderinined ts accredited Christl- anity? Mr, Garrison T suppore to be a man whose faith in Chrintianily ia of the most fervent type, but ho will have nothing to do with accredited Christianity, Iteo abused him dariug the auti- slavery conflict, Ana if Mr. Gurrlaon, with his fervent Chelatlan fectings, tnkes that attilnde, what shall we not cxpect of o mun Ike Theodore Parker, who han broken with the chief part of accredited Chriatianity, or of men, Ike sono of the followers of Theodore Parker, wha are so free that they follow only their own Snill- vidual tmltations, "We have in Boston ull forme of deformers as well as alt forms of reformers, aut you must KEE? THI8 CURIOUS PAST IN MIND ison are to take Into viow all the Influences that fil Eustern Massachusetts, ond from thera yvern New England theoloytcally, Marvarit jae twen Unitarian. Tho Wterary men of Eastern Massachuactts—Mr. Ktterson among them—have taken thelr {onc from Harvard, Wo have had no doubt vigorous, udvanced Chelstianity from some of tho ableat literary wen of Hastern Maseachusutts, The poct Whittler { watwith the olher day ot Newburyport, and J found he waa very glad thatonce or twice T had sald publicly thathe never had broken with the Church, His porma are reaunant with that divine melody that Alla the Paalow. ‘There te in ibm a Hebrew tendcocy to divina harmony of the noul, and to-day there is not a inpre fervent Christian in Massachusetts than John tircenical Whittler, whose spirit often Civil Wi tho helped us In thy War us tho pillar of fire helped chosen people uf oll. [Applaine. ] every mau that has Whiltier's balance 3 it Jen't avery maa that can be neld In check wy his own good senve after he haw been stunned by the delinquencies of Christians. f know (hatonoin twelve of the orlginsl Aportions wana villain, [dou't know that moro than one in twelve of the moderns is a villain, . (Laughter, | Kyen if you should prove that une in twelve ta a should ‘fig In modern tlnus havo hope, as I milght hare had hopo in ancient times, Mut the trouble with the modern Church fa that,iwhereas In old tint udas went and hung bimeel{, sometimes he holds the bay now had will not go and hang himself. [Applause and auxbtor.) Gur volontary system makes it hn. portant forthe mau who holdsthe bagto bave power, A MYPOCKITE IN THE CHURCH, if he bo a Judas and bolda the hag, will not go and nang himect(—is a Judes maynifed, o dudas coloves); and the chlef millstous usound tha neck of modern Christianity under the evangelical reo ezalom. Iethe unhuny, colowal Judas who holds the bag. — [Applans Dewt say I am tuo wevore, for not long ago It was my fortune to de liver a lecture agalnet bankrupts, ant next morn- ing un otly-tongard man seated himself near me in the train aud commendod my courde ol thought Alivtencd witu what grace { could, rememburing my temptatiche to pride in apite of the boxings which come so frequently aa to moke me fur more humblo than my friends think Lam,—for 1 am an humble man by nature, Jlaughte ] Hut leur. ¥ived this mans prose easlty, for after he had left mv u neighbor of histoak hiaseat at my mde ond waid, ** That man who has been commenting on your lecturo has hiweelf failed five thines and patd only 10 cents on tho dollur, and threo tines haw wawltned ha property in a ites honorable way to relatives. Ue, haiever, ino Jender in our foremost church, And uftor his afth falure, in which he pald but 30 cents on the dole Jar, ho wae making aepecch one evening jn au educations! gathering in bie church. ‘The ventry windows were open inthe summer night, and the boys of the cammon were svated beneath them. bankrupt was saying **My church onght to. inalotaint a wieslouary abroad, “It ought to ide ao alone. If It will undertake to maintain ambssion- ary. J, for that purpose, will pay $00, *'Ten cunts onthe dollar, sald a boy nuder tie winduw." {Luughtec.} - Sow suppose that that man aud that boy hod ‘been evated face lo face with each other for ruliz- Joua conversation inoue of the inquiry-meeting of your Tabornacle yonder: in Chicago. What the boy had not bec fivenls Weilrereaat What if be had gone away to the gallows? Tho fault would heve hewn nu duubt that of the boy chiefy, but in part, ot bewet, that of the bypocrite who bud dono aa Tennyson says ** Elle holy, ally beet.” Laugh: ter.j And yet, in greutor dugree, it would have been the fault of you whe will net unlte whh bis church. © Althouzh you blatue the hypocrites, you will not unlte with Ghe church and keep such hypor critesout. (Applause, | WHAT CAM WK MINISTENS DO UNDER A VOL- UNTARY BYSTEME Agreatdoal, We can sacrifice oarsalarics, and often do. Aud when tho trouble cowes about a caav of church-dlgpipling, usually it 1s nol the fault of the p: Chat Judas te ung« LYolces v<Piat und laughter.] Aud If you laugh, lot thu criti¢tens fall ou our American generosity— on this pratrie-like breadth of sympulby with ull forms of life, cren with that Auerican slarppess when it ts without principle. And if ihe church, filed with this principle of loose government i our democratic aye of men thluklag for thers. ed, ta not aule to drive worldliuess outof iteelf much bettor than out of Itself uuder the old system of Church and State, Pthink it nay done far vetterthan that. Even if ithad done no better than that, it would have done very much in the presence of theme tecrilic dificaltles, {tive aiicalt thing ta huld one uf your like stesmers in busitlon when it ie moving up the repids of the Bt, Lawrence, IE don’t’ make the progress of an joch, her engines mist put forth culogesl power to hold hee iu position ia" that currents and iho Awericaa Church baa not only been beld fu posi- lion bere, but who had made an udyunee 1 her pusitiou in the Old World, and she bas oiude it againste terridc current, Not only outsidy of the whip, but taalde it, rushing through all ber whol, Wohave these very Ourrente, the wuleome of loos overnment, that arv the chiot trouble, after all, of flacauachinery or engine that held abip' in portion. [Applause.} And you wie whare the Senthuont are the copes, |Eauahter.) elf but little epace in whichto T bave left my apeak of VRED HKELIGION AND BHLMIEU ALtoM, but 2 wball omit free reliziya to et -tance, wat huld iu my band a coufesslon that the Caine “Hall In Boston fe about su be auld under # mortgaye. Lauguter. ) You must remeuiber that {t wae bullt y contributions fron oll parts of the Lutted Statés. J bave even made au extract from aspeceh, by Horace Seaver atthe dedication of tae Pulne Hall fy Byston tu 1879, reported in the Jucee- 1 Unator for Feb. 3 of that year, Horace Seaverhas abused me for reading thie extract tn puble, and Tramposs thathe ferts that, althouch quote st from his own paper, to make it popnlar Isa revelatlon of privacy —ihat paver bas ately a email circuta’ {Great laughter, } i with not. he aye, ** conceal the fact that we have had Mong and diflenit steaggle. Ry Cie uneuspe and most cenerons bounty of ‘our pelnetpal hene factor, James Lick, Eaq.. of California, ftogether with the donations of aympathizing friends trom all parte of the country, we tive heen enabled to erect this editice after abont fitiy years of incer- sant toil and stengste,* Now, a4 tu the free religionists of Boston, T went np four fights of etuiry the other day to get the oficial statement of their dnances, and In it ‘ i “the rereipty of the year cent: Seay: 79) by balance from last account, berahip fece, ant dunations, sudscriptlons to Lecture, Kand, and snie of publications were S2.HH0.5t; expenditures, $2,182 [laughter] and 8 cents’ [renewed lanuhter], not enongh to equip an ordinary vestry in a city church—a sum that a man really inteceated in the ereat cauag might toss oubas a penny. New, what 14 the fonrce of the power which the free religioniste of Hoston have exerted upon publle thought? They have two or three really brilliant ditersry men ln theleranks, But MR. EMERSON hae very little sympathy with tha dotormers In that — movement, wand fs onot — resularly found “nt the” mectings of tho Radical Club, simply becanse that club doesn't mect rowularty. Haugliter, } Tt ducan't mect ut all nov, Remember, that the Radical Club was begun as froo religions club. It changed its nama becoure that title cave aff o trans, and afterwards It changed {ts name from the Radical Club to tho Chestnut Street Clnv, which fae distinct and aecn- rate description of what It was. Now, sincu the death of on honored man, Mr, Sargent, whose wife's parlors were always onen to that Chih, —and full of noble courtesy Indeed,—the Club as disbanded. The lady who dew tipether by hee hospitality some of the brightest wits of realistic Rastern New England has gone to Europe. Itt the Club wil! be resumed. nt present ft iein muaperme, and the feeling in Boston concerning that Club In the feeling of tho Mississipot concern- annonnced that ing tho Merrimac oor any uther amail etrcam. During thin last winter, under the jalora’ nf nn Chicago man. calied Moody, a gradunte of ‘one of your bext colleges, the Chicago Young Men's Chiriatinn Associayou,-— [aapisisel. index the power which an Unecen loly put upon his lips, reliztons truth hax dled the aky of Hoston as the thandere Nl the raminer aante,anil the notes of that Itadical Cl aud of all who sympathize with it have been only o« the clack | over to the President. of that crow In the pine under the snmimer ehower, lApplane.} | donot exaggerate, for sort know this ta be the fact If Fon have kept an eye pon juntic events. “There ix no rationalism tn Borton hat pase much for the propagation of Itself, tlonaliem in Boston {9 finpecuntogs, scholarly rationallyn Jn Toston, IIa not the polley of any one who roveals the rclentific method to dodge ‘diMicultics, and there= fore Lwball conclnda this address on New England. skepticiein with an outiine of the position of ) CURRENT THOUGHTS CONCERNING APIMITUALIEM, That the riso of American Spiritually han in- creared, more than It-has dimintahied ekepticiam, {+ proved hy the feneral character of the maus of matter which the Spiritnaliat publlshera seo fit to offer for sale, ‘The growth of mod- ern Spiritnalinm 1% ‘commonly alleged hy ekeptics a9 a proof of the growth of skepticism. I think the estimates put forward that there are now roe 8,000,000 of 8,000, 000 Spir- ituatists In tho conntry aro among tho wildest con- celvable; and yet there fs no dount that the growth Ras There ts no of Spirituallsn 19 very considerable, bas two siden, One-half uf modern skepticism is antl-snper- naturalistic tothe core. Muitanother halt ts supor- naturakatic algo to tua core, It in prover fur mo to unk ekenticn mall Christiana to notice that mod- orn Inddgllty is so far antaonlutic to Staelf that it is mulllciently answered by its own autazon- lym. If the opinions of recent popular skep: tetem could start tp to-aay In this ball, os Minervaa froin Jupitora’ beads, from the brains in which thoy He, and appear in the wir armed from tend to foot, I, ns a defeuder of Christhan faith should not tremble at the sight. Long before they could reach mo they would in mid-alr have fallen upon cach other in oxterminating war, and, Mke tho heroes of Valhalla, have clovon each ather in halves, only to find each other fixing agalu, while acroxs the bloody rain whald fall the . eerene how of the ovidences of the Christian faltn, J think It important, therafure, to call the utten- tion of any who point to the growth of Spiritualism, as a yrowth of ekeplicism, to the fuct thot they handle a two-edged sword, Tho Spirituallat body ia divided between a part who call themesiven Chelstinn Spirituallsts and a part who aro platnly infidel Spirituallvts. Tho former {a s:nall ju nome ber, but not the less intelligent ertisn of the mues, 1 think an indde) Spiritualint the moat in- consistent of infidels. ‘The modern Spiritualint is the last man who can conslatently deny tho fact of the supernatural. Jam aware that whoever touche en Spieituallam treads siong a tine on which, if ho allps, thera hange over him the crack of doom, (It [ altogether too carly yet to make any other than hypothetical axsertions concerning Splriinallam, olther as to Alleged fucta or ax to ite futuro asa sect. the phenomena of Spirituallam have been more sci- entitically fuvestigated than they have been thus far in ite bletory, tL ts unsafe to wpcak of its lead ing propositions other tan hypothetically. ANT sce about Spiritualigin a ** if." L beg that it may be noticed that the assertions fam about to make concerning it are elinply and only hy pasherieal aesertions. Tho toind of thin aye ls thrown inta religious doubt, chiefly on the point of the ratation ofthe natural to the sugernatural, ‘The questions whether the Seripturoa arc & record or an authority, or in part the one, and In part Uw other, and cun- cerning tho charatter and atoning work of the founder of Chrintiunity, lie capasulate inthis. 1 fin not abont to assert that Splritusliem may bring adayinwhich the cultivatorsof science will ba reverent believers in the fact of tho supernatural and inthe miracles of the Bible, Epes Sargent thinks ft will. William Moantford thinks (t must, Robert Dale Owen thinks it will, But Katio King put bin tn her pocket aud almost put the Afluntic Monthly there also. Tt is eald that a very different mind, Hie Gag eerie Barrett Browning, thought it would. [t ia vastly rash to ansart thi {t appeara to mo important thut thow fear und that thoes who desire the success of skeoticlem should notice, first, thatthe Spirit- uulint body in divided between Christian and inti- del Rplectdal lates und sccondiy, that the logical result, whatever the practical might bo, of tha proof by Spiritually of the existence of modern evidence uf tho supernatural, whould that proof ever be xiven, would be A verbapa logically nocd Jena, bat in these days practically uavful, contire mation of the ancient evidence of the supernatural. linld flve propositions tu be trae concerning Bpiritualinn, the faet three of whieh are winiply hypothetical: s17a—Tho chief propositions of modern Spirit. nallan are: First, the nessiinlity of intercourse between human aod dlyembolien, ur super: mundane, spirita; second, the trustworthiness of ht intercourse Ad a wOoUurco Of religious knowle edze, Second—Splritualiam has by no means proved tha accond of Mesy propositions, nud probably will be ax fur from proving it after 900 ycara more of ef- fort tu establish it, aa it la now after 6Q0 yoare of effort to do sa. Third--It the feat of thene propositions were established, sud It should be finpoesiile to ea. tabheh the second, all that would be proved would, the existence aud agency of cvil spitita,—epoal> Yon nelther new nor duscriptural, Pourth—ll the tlret preposition should be proved, great harm would result, at teawt temporarily, for Hiwsses of thu people would ignorantly or enthuse elusticalty belicve the second proved also, rUfth—If the init propnsition shad be proved, Rreat goudyvould result, fora spirituallam would prove to be alinply & mo‘lern Demonaluzy, it w yet contain modern cvideuce of tho supemataral, Bat this fact | Ury, has returnes tn'th one side infidels who are snnernataralitic tq the core, andon (he other antt-snvernaturniiete to the core. Popniar inaterialiem, wehich fill the Weet an the East, has uo mare subtle foo than this supernays tral belief. List mp the word 6" Ig.) edge and nateslfna panse antil actenee has determined whether Indeed any have spoken behind the ver They did in the past It they, da in the future, “Wo will Msten to them. If they epenk, it proved there in something behind ‘the ypi Bat, truth or illusion, Spteltuaiiam quickens ihe distinctive y Christian faith of many, oven white It undermines that of more. Te ie, perhapm, tie subtest popular, thongh by tio meats the ethtiest scholarly, fow with which materialism and (he on ponents of the belict in the xnpernatnral have to deal, Itmay be that thore fain Spicitualien A foe which will tecome a twa-edyed aword azolnst ra Hanallan iteelf. Let me conclnde by reciting « Hoston xonnet as a eign of the tlnen: Eny epleltabine and Mack the tables tip, A devil's kn a rap inay Curt UA pales ceatuenn Ts somewhog bebiind tne tls Layered Io proves yet 8 while era in louder, Nendn; ath hear tet wip fa 1 eas donbt may trp. I pray our falth, fiom selence not atoot, May clip the tall and pp: hed s Bllees of which hencath ‘Then clear-ryed falth wit 5 7 Tf, if, tf, epilt hoofs can be tavtehed, the thine has When white wings and Gu forennad could be seen, At o'clock an illustrated Tecture on *' Hivig Ortentalleina* was delivered by J, 8. Ontrander At o'clock came the normal class, conducted by the Rev. Dr. J. Willlanison, of this city; antyect, “Bible Ge: vening hour,—Dr, Vine Hay Helfef in intracte, ve Vo Dring tt backe a bart Orapltt hoot trom the a: ‘8 honf, ‘Opes el doubt mn} AtZo'cloc! fers ent went over the Snnday-school miscollany, At.§ o'clock tho Ker. W. F. Cenfte delivored a lecture on "The Teacher's Stady of Maman Nature," +e WASHINGTON. Tnvestigntions—An Opening for Clatn Agenta—Sabseriptions to the New Foor Ver Cents. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasmnxatoy, D. C., July 20.—The charges Neck with the Prestlent against Dr. Woodworth, Supervialng Surgeon of Marine Hospitals, ares duplicate of those Intely Investigated in the ‘Treasury Department, and reported to be tris. al, false, and malicious. Upon failure to make trouble in tho ‘Trensury, the matter was carried Tho charges were pre. ferred by three men, ouc of whoin was dismissed for drunkenees, ono for recetving bribes and for copying official correspondence froin Ietter- books and furnishing it to outetde parttes for use against officers in the service, ‘The investigation’ of the claim of Tilton, Wheelwright & Co. by tho last House of ep. Tesentutives resulted tn a report that the clam pald by Robeson, amounting ‘to $92,991, was fraudulent. Tho report showed that Hawtey, aclerk {nthe Bureau of Construction and Re- par, received several hundred dollars from Tilton for furnishing him with coples of the records {1 the case. Hawley has lately been diacharged by Secretary Thompson, and lias opencd a law-office here, Gen. Smith, Appointment Clerk of tho Treas. |. He snys the announcement, ¢ Baltomora American that ho was on & tour of Inspection along tho const was alto. ether Incorrect. Ho only started to Inspect jattimore. Secretary Sherman arrived tonight by Jan, having abandoned the reventto cutter Grant for! surer methods of travel. Tothe Western Aasoctated Press, Wasninotoy, D, C., July 20,—Solleltor-of-the- Treasury Raynor bas given an opinion which, unices tilsapprorad by Secretary Sherman, will have the effect to make lively times for claim cente, and lead tu a big rald on the Treasury, Early during the late Rebellion, Secretary Stan- ton fixed the rate of compensation to be paid to railroad companies for transportation of troops at 2 cunts per mile for cach person care vied. Many of the roudsaccepted these rates under rotest. Siuce the War closed repeated at einpts have been made, but all claime wero disallowed. Tho- Quartermaster-General, tho Secretary of War, and the Second Comptroller, all declined to allow any rate In excess of that fixed by Seerctary Thompson. Sinco Mr. Ray. nor was mace Solicitor of the Tvenenrys one of these cluitis was again presonted, and some means referred to im for an optaton. He has acted on the case, aud written an opinion fayora- bia to the railroad company. To allow this claim would opan the doors of the Treasury to hundreds of others, and would take hundreds of thousands of dollurs from the Government. Secretary Sherman has yet to act on Solicitor Raynor's opinion, and it Is belloved that be will nut approve it, as he has tnfformly refused to reopen old claims disallowed by his predeces- sore. . GEN, BERMAN. A dispatch from tho Far West saya Gen, Shennan sod party had beon passed on the Yel- Jowstone, about forty miles towards Bismarck from Powder River. ‘The Syudicatu subscriptions to the new oe cent loan fs 872,000,000, of which $19,200,00) fs frou London, ‘Tho total subscriptions aro $70,152,500, Tho President will leayo here next Tuesday afternoon tor Fortress Monroo, and aftera brict sojourn at that place will visit several other laces in Virginia. Ho will be accompanted by he Secretary of the Navy ani one or tio other members of the Cahinct. They will return to Washington about the latter part of the weck. —— CANADIAN NEWS. Doctors Disagreeing—Mollles—Reward of MorlteOrangemon-Thousand Islands. Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Moxrgeat, July 20.—Much fll-fecling bag been oxelted fn the medical profession, and aspeelully in ‘this city, by the uction of the French Canadian doctors at the anowal meeting ot the Peovinclal Colloge of Phydiclans and Sur- geons, fustcloged at Three Rivers. Bya doxter- ous movement in obtaining blank proxiva, a , numberof theso ion came to the meeting for the purpose of excluding English members of the profession from all control. Tho result was that, out of forty members of the Board, only ten Englal-speaking members wero elected, whilst all the officers but onc—tho Vice-Presl- deut, who could not be removed—~are French Canadians, A large number of the fofamous fraternity known fu the coal-regions of Pennsylvania #@ Molly Maguircs, who had gompromised them selyes seriously in that country, have tude thelr escape ucross the border and located here. I¢ fs belleved they were the chief instigators tu the recent riots that disgraced Montreal, To-day Col, Labranche preeented F, Fitzpatrick, private of No. 3 Company, Sixty-lfth Battallou, with $100, subscribed oy hls comrades as @ re-; and the modern evidence wonld superubundaotly | ward for the plucky manner in which ho stuck, contin the anciunt. Ito not forget ‘THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THA SUPERNATURAL AND THE MIHACULOUA, nor (hat between the supernatural and the Inexpti- cable. du not forget buat those wie are nut con. vinced by Moses aud the Mrophety might not bo convinced by (he burt magern evidence of the su. pernatural. Butthe scientidc proof that modern evidence of the supernatural exists 49, Jogiculty, the distinction of anti-supernaturation, —'* ho, New Veataient norraivew cunnot be trie becauwe they contain accounts of nuracles" (auti-aupore naturalism says, from Hume to Strau ‘The fin- oselbility of the supdrnatural, Krnest Reuan uf- roig, io the frat tenet inthe sclence of modern historsca} erlticisin. = ** A thealaneal miracle,” Ker taught, twas impossible asa round do not predict the practical fesulia; but on the supposition that the manifesta. Uond at, fur example, Stratford, Conu., whieh the Borton Journal of Chemistry ald not long wiuce tt belleved occurred, aud that It could oot explain, did actually occu! nd on the supposition that tuey prove the action of disembodied spirits, or that they prove simply the action of aupermundape intelligence, then, logically, Stratford apawere Strauss, An immenso dietinctlon exiets between provin; the svtion of supcrimundane intelligence ani proving the action o! mbodied wplrite. An bine tacnse dlatloction exists between proving the action of disembodied spirits aud proving the identity of theme spirits with spirits known in tho Mesh, ‘An tinmeuse distinction also wxlats between pruy- | foxeither, or any, of oll of theee things, and proving thatelther, or any, of alt of thunt, jmake entuusiaetic communications x trustworthy source of rel.zicas knowledge, To overlook elther uf these distluctiuus is to cush into very nearly, blank fusauley on this then “But hundreds of gathusi- tly ovuslookiou: thera, aud tu Dhunis ity have — ryxhes Toe bpicltusiet newspapers aud olka mostofthemthere, The amount of evil directly and indircetly revalting frum modern Spiritualist $s cnoruiens, Eeualy saat the delusion of the penpe and keep paludity itvelt out of certain circles Of society. Suidituahein doservea thy most deliburste investigation at tho hands of scicntldc- men, Iv 4 MAN NERDS TWO WIVES he often becoines w Spicitualet, You say I ventuta too much by touching thle theme, If sbuuld Venture wore omitting It, for if there ts any rule tbe young inn love ta soo respected it 3 fair play and ‘nu dudel: This topic 1 will , for L know that Jn New Eugtay are ten who ro undermising sumo joftiest, ideale of sovial life, wud dotug this tn the uae of Spirttualism—tudermiuing sou of the fundament~ al tratha of Christiznlty, and doing this ju tbe namo of arat-hole revelation, It ds tue now that the pulpit should be frank enough to faco this theme oven if it be proved thut inodero Jemanolegy tas fact, ax some voutid beads think there is evidence forit. Edo nut think so. Louuotonly vol oy Spfcituallet, far nut a modery Vemounufogiat. But fF au a student of the conflicts af infdellty withlu itself, wud i¢T have a hopeful outlook it iy becauay 2 dud on to bis riffle in tho attack mace by the late Joba, McKeown aud others, aud his fuldllment of or’ ders igsucd to him. ‘Speciat Dispatch to The Tribune, Orrawa, July 20.—This mornhig_ the. follow: ing letter was recelyed by Meury Crack, ono of the leading Ottawa Orangemen who went w Montreal: 4 Sin: Prepare for death, for you wil! be abot within two weeke, A-Gnon Inisiman. Fach of the Oraugemen and Protestants who went, ta Montreal are to be presented with a Uthoyraphed copy of the uddrese read to them on tholr return, with name attached. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Buock vise, Ont., daly 20,—Tho camr-meet- ing at ‘Thousand Islands, la tho River St. Law rence, opened Wedneaday, and will continue tll the mlddle of August. dy the attendans {a lurge, with new accessions every day, hundred tents, and about the sania wumber of cuttages, have becu erected for the accommods: tlon of visitors. ‘To the Western Assoclated Press. Quanec, July 20,—The shareholders of the Btadacona Lusuranea Company agreed to pay without delay that proportion of cach share of subscribed stock neccasary toa settlement of exGtiog claims agalnet the Company, Tho Suestion of resuinlug was reserved until all claims were disposed of, ee RELIGIOUS, . Rotclat Dispatch to The Tribune, Keoxox, Ia., July 20.—The now Jewish aynx~ gogue In-this city, which has just been com pleted, was formally dedicated this afteruoov. ‘The ceremonies lasted two hours and a half, aud wore of # very interesting aud fupressive char- acter. They were conducted by tho Rey. Dr. Lilienthal, of Cincinnati, sssisted by the Rev Il. Blach, of Peuria, the Bey. Joseph Bogen, of this city, and the ollleers of the congregativt. They were pel By aed Gérniss, aad Fur lish, and fuchus ie ceremouy of deposit- Rig tha scrolla of the law iu the ark Dr. ftittenthal preached the dedicatory sermon and pronounced the invocation. The synagogue has been erecied at a cost uf 816,000, and La the Jy one in the State. 1¢ ty a. very handsome ructare, and was beautifuliv decorated fur toe dedieatiyn with dowers und evergreens, It was filled with spectators, and the ceremonies were witnessed with intense lutcrest. Sabbath ecr?- ices will be beld in. the syusuomue to-morrow morning, when Dr. Lilienthal will ugaln preach. at REINSTATED, New York, July 24—The Royal Canadien Insurance Company des been rejustated wa this Brats. > i