Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SiL'L 1877. IBUR 8 RELIGIOUS. . The Relations Between Pulpit and Peoplas-sSermon by Prof. Swing. Brooke Werford on Broken Banks and Mortgaged Churches. Treasures in Heaven---Discourse by tho Rev. John Atkinson. PULPIT AND PEOPLE. SERMON BY PROF, BWING. Prof. Swing having returned from his vaca- tton, preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, taking as his thext: Uhave compassion onthe multitude, —2atl., 20, When a loving and hoplog multitude had fol- Towed the leader, Christ, away from thelr homer, and, now were hungry and weary, He eatherad His’ disciples about him and sald: “I am touched with pity for this multitude. Tho Greek version of Matthew's Gospel scts forth Jeaby a worl stronger than the English Phrase “have compassion.” All have expe- rienced a certain physical effect in presence of a eulamlty,—a strange sinking of the heart. «This feeling Christ confesses when He saw the thou- sands out tu the barre. places, foodless, and led along by a noble zeal for the truth. He turned to His friends and said, iny heart sinks within mo as I gee nicht coming on and mark this im- mense throng away from their homes. Have wo no bread for this multitude? . This scene in sacre-history suggests 9 thomo forto-day: The Relatlons of the Pulpit to the ‘Temporal Wants of the Multitude. It belng my intention to speak more than onco this coming year upon the temporal welfara of society, {t scems altnost if not altogether essen- tial that an apology be made frst, in which shall ‘Le set forth the right and duty of the pulpit to include In ite field of thought and work tho temporal affairs of mankind. An impression prevails, and covers a very large area, that tho true servant of Christ must speak always upon certain doctrines called “cardinal,” aud that any discussion of the daily wants of humanity Lelonge to fecturers, and moralists, and philos- ophers, ,That this Impression {s false aud in- Surious seems quite obylous when we pause and Juok calmly at the whole matter. The example of those out of whose souls Christlanity sprang, and who ara the foundation stones of the pulpit. 1s al) against the theory that the ministers of religion must speak only upon thuse leading themes called = the ‘octrinca af salvation. The pulpit reste Upon two colnns,--tho one made up of pere song, the other ts wrought out of philosophy,— but neither the persons nor the philosophy jus- {ilies such w form of pulpit action or thought as we sve In the present and can trace through the past, The persons upon whom the elergyman'’s ollice resta Were all leaders of the people,—not along the Hues of great spiritual doctrina only, but along the walks of everyday I The frievdstay and golicitude were unliinited, Whether you look ut the Moses or tho Christ. Standing at the two evtremen of our modern relutiun, Moses and Christ equatly shed tears for the multitude. Althougb sixtwen centuries lay between (hese leaders, yet Ujose slow ages hrought no change vo the nature of the leuler’s obive, for what ‘s said in his sympathy, Christ said tu Fs: Have we no brend for this multitude? Between these two extremes came, and HMved, and died, muny athera who wero at oper the heroes of falth aud the leaders tn all the daily tminstrations of daty ond charity. ‘Tbe grand founders of vur cellgion aro platuly even standing at the two worlds, the here sud. the bercalter. the friewle of both wings of life, Thus @ warrant for any ricid adherence to preaching cardina) dactrines of theology cannot be found th the exataplo af those out of whont the wodery sacred otllce claling to have arisen. “eather in phitosyphy can We Ond any such save Murk fret Riatwact profession reachus: iyo4 correct dednition of its duties and. us. The atatesmun has been thousands years in studying what delooga to hin and what belongs to Indiyiduallsm or private enter- prise, Ile scarcely yet knows whether the State should tmprove rivers and harbors, whether it should educate all the ebildren, Whother {t should issue money, whether tt shonld carry the mails or estublish savings banks for the multitudes, Thus many of the farze divisions of the thinking army stand wondering along what road they should march, und what pass they shunt take at. whatever cost, and hotd ut all hazards. The leyal profes- sion has equal ditiiculty in finding the proper units of Itself, and ike an overflowing stream ring about into all corners os anxtous fur the day wher it could Jow a utifit river ina channel all tts own, ie anclent plilosopliers wasted thetr gifted often by not knowing the boundaries of there inquiry, Assuming that all temporal things were ignoble und that philosophers should deal only in abstractions, they handed over to sluves all that belongod to dally, life, miahat poor roads, poor food, poor homes, sour agriculture, poor clothing. They beld in their hands tony delaltlens of the soul, and wainy tuvories of the sin and moon, aud the sdigin oCinimd and inatter. Had they known, us Bacon afterward learned, that philosophy i¢ a uf Wisdui whieh leads equally toward o study of the soul and the Invention of an engine br « telegraph, those old thiukers of Greece und. Tntin would have started the uew world three thousand years aga. : Toe pulpit inust be confessed to have suffered the ute misfortune—thut of being unable to ne iteclfi—and it must be thut some part of that misfortune attends it sul, = Tho common Knpreasion prevalls to-day thattheclergyman tsa tan who speaks in publie once or twice a week, wud furthermore that he ls a public speaker under rigid Hnftations that contlue hia to one ofa hulfscore of tictues ty cach discourse, but when one ees what dillculty the pursults huye experienced iu their detultfon, ong way well wonaer whether the age will nut come when to true servant of Christ will not be less au orator aud niure a teacher aud (rend of the multitude a belng more Mie Christ Himself, However indistinct the boundaries of this high offlee, tt iv evident that in no past tines luye the clergy realiced thegereatnosy of thelr ciapire ia thought und love, ald action, Some eras have informer them that they tnust not preach liberty hut only Curlst crdcited: erua when Kings held ubsuliitesway; sore crus have eautoned then astalnst pel eray When Galileo wus becomity troublasouies some eras have warned the pul- pit away from the rights of mun: eras when the chulns of slaves Were heard in the elds aruund the sanctuary; and other eras lave warned 1t uwas from the jutellycts eras when scleuce w4 a about the ticanlng of Genesis und the nagure of the frst oun, Thus the tines lave always preseed up agaiust thy pulpit, compress tus tt dito half and quarter alge, aud conceallugy from it its true destiny, Moro and uvgre euch veur will ph ou come to emancipate this Wh protersiun. ‘his fr chit aud reason will remind all us tuett & holy culliy that man’s life is a single pice, and that his earth aud bi will be plainly 1 that the pulpit wuat be the fastens, I inau'sdedreat interests, and must, ike ite leader Jesus, nut ouly. speak of faiths and rightcousness,und a fiture life, but it must, with tears in its eves, uek where pliall thie multitude get bread? he genius of Chris- tauity bs love, Philosophy thinks, scleuce an- alyzed, polities restraine the wicked, the arts [ise busliess calculates, celigion loved. ‘This wing the detnitfou of religign, her Held ks seen at once to be as broad as suiferiiyg or bapplovas saube, [Ca politics or labor syatein or a su- nopoly or uw tax Jy oppressing the people, this Juve fs tu fly to the helpul the uuitlon Asa dnvther’s lave stands ready to defend: ber child against any foe, be it digeaae or a rebber,cold or rain, eo Christianity wails nut to learn what ca- Jannty is allay upou humanity, but only walts to lean Ho there be indeed a surrow. In our Revolution it preached liberty froma few pul ‘its; in tines of famine it udvyocates the send- nul ship-toads of fool; in thies of war it thunders uway against the wrong, aud it equips a vompany uf uurece aul founds a buepitale ‘tu the true pulpit an oppression = by ot life-insurance or eavlngs-bauks is ws mur oa matter of grief and dis- ture as bs tho oppression from iuherent. depravity, or from vie’ daily temptations of Batan. ‘That man imay be saved from bell here- alter ts oulv.a balf of its prayer, the other pe- ition being Abathe may be paved from the quauy devils fu this life. ‘Phe fact that the future ts louger than the present, that the pivrent counts ite years and duds them te be only threeesore und ten, while the future has uy arithuetie for ite tine, but iu its perplexity Or jo¥ says “elerndy,” will alwave secure tu the world Leyoud the grave un overshadowiug ut- tentivn frow the relizious ministry, but yet all wian's career fy ove piece, Migs equally be- tore us for tears wud beip though man's earthly day be, they ike up fu fnportan ween “ele mewn bag gieenme teen spree e en are bieepurably connected. Tt+ formative years; and.a little color thrown into this fountain-cvlors the flood that moves afar Hence, all those temporal ille—ills of or, Hs of canital, {lls of business, ie of {llences, ills of extravacance—war arainst the spirit of man and drag him downward or clog his ascent. Hence that love which gave rise to the pulpit, and which explains ite existence, must throw itself in power and devotion against the wrongs and misfortunes ot all these days. A true philosophy will more and more induce the pulpit to fight not against an external Satan moving about inan okt Garden of Eden, or Ike a Puck making nightly revels in the home and garden ofa St. Anthony. That evil yenius Inuat be sought away from the cells of monks, and from the hearts of little children, aud be found In the awful crimes of men who are dee franding the popitiace out of their Inst dollar, and are putting out all thebonest hopes of their heart. ‘Too much tine has been Just aver the poette Satan and over his poctle history and ex- Motte, and too Uttle thought and sympathy wen given to the wrongs of the strect. which are nelthor itea) nor afar off. Our malern 8a- tan has become too atrong aud bold to bo fright ened aay, with consecrated church bella or by the sprinkling of holy water, or by the rhetoric which calls hin a +f Fonring Mon.” He needs daily watching in amore incarnate form: he needs arrest, imprisonment, perhaps cxect- tion, It ts perhaps true that what goul caine to religion by the tliree montha’ revival of tast winter {is counteracted by the harm that comes to pubite virtue by one “fraudulent bank failure, Une more army of 10,000 stands to-day with diminished confidence in man, with less confidence in Christianity, and hence with less Housancy of heart and with fewer motives to honor, Servant-girls and honorable toiling nen who had been economical and industrious for years, and had saved, a4 they dreamed, their hundreds, are to-day tceling tliat the very sanc- tuary of religion may itself bea partof the mighty fraud around them. ‘fhe path of honor will for many days acem to these defrauded cit- izens of little worth, and the temptation will be great with many to abanion toil and economy and taseck their fortunes by that dishonesty which has brought gold to son ny in nigh pisces, Beyond doubt, the pulpit should say less about original sin and gencral depravity, and cone to the rescue of the populace against the concrete, lovalized wickedness which ts so torturing the people. Whatover injures bust- ness, and judustry, and economy iniures religion. Faith in man atid faith in Goi are inseparably Joined. The heart ts a unit. It cannot bea eptle toward heaven without being a skeptts oward carth. Distrust isn disease that attacks all the mind when Itattacks a part. Broken banks aro broken churches. Deceltful bankers mean develtful Jawyera, decelttul merchanta, Hecelttul clergyren, hecause all Institutions and Iieas repose upon faith, and when faith in bank fails, faith in clergymen, and lawyore aud merchante is shaken, ‘Thue tho welfurw of business aud religion ls one, and hence the pul- pit fs under obligation to help the people to tind all tho hidden ways of materlal siccess, Nearly ahundeedl years ago several parish clergymen In the British istands concluded ta de- avend from their abstract, pulplts gud help the common people devise ways and ineans toward better homes and — ta- wa a saving of thelr hard-earned Fhillinge and pence, Thus they got datly hearer the peuple, and tus preaching of Sunday scemed all the trier aud better on necount of the wisdom and help that Howed trom the preacher to the people as to the affairs of the week, Whole parishes were redeemed from vice by belug helped out of poverty, Helfzion as a system of truth and a3 a form of Ife will be a great gainer whenever its chief thinkers sliall draw near the daily fe of man, Theology shall become practical Instead of vague, and cold, and quarrelsome, No elass of nen differ so widely aul quarrel so much as the abstract thinkera, bo they of any Held. ‘The toil- lug pastor cares tittle for discriminations of dogma, His mind and heart are far away from thease things. ‘The erttel blvodslicd of the old Church sprang not from the parlsh priests busy. with their schools, thelr catechisinge, their marriages, thelr baptlsms, thelr funeral dirges and services; but frum tho clergy of tho cell,— thosa who dealt in abstractlotis about Christ and Ratan, and heaven awl perdition, Out of the troubled crater of abstract theology has flowed the luva aud fatlcu the hot ashes that have burned and buried a beautiful world. We laugh at the old tnctaphysics which no- where touched the interests of mantdind, and look with perfect contempt tipon the schoolmen who discussed the tnture of angels and never dreamed of the rights of man to good homes, or coud furniture, or good clothing, or good food, And yet none of us clergymen should laugh verv loudly over that old folly, for the traces of that age are to be seen yet in us all. Thy obit discage fs still lurking in our blood. We are a great reform over the #vhoulinen, but be- teen all of us and that deal pastor who has verpetual compassion for the multitude # great distance remains to be passed over. Listen again to what the “Deserted Village’? says about the truo clergyman: Unskilifal te to fawn or seck for power, By doctrines fusliloned to the varying hours Far other aims hie heurt had learied to prize More bent to ral-e the wretched than to riag, Truth from his lips prevailed with double away, Aud foola who cumo to lauyh remalned to pray. And as a bied by fond endearment tries ‘To tompt ftw now-fledgeu offupring ta the sklow, Ile triew exch art, reproved cach dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way, Rappy would this generation become, at least: fortunate would be the next age, if the pulpit aud all theolozy could by transformed into such a lying, actlyve sympathy os" 1s portrayed tn thesa lines. The tumults unong the peuple, the uprisings of labor, the ignorance and wickedness of the mob, the suspension of immense centres of truat tuto which vortexes called life assurance. and savings banks, the people have hecn put- ting away their millions, all these painful events declare that religion must not only lay bokd of edven, Wut it must Jay its hands in mercy upon carjh. However perfect a creed may be as to apiritual things, it will bo fatally iropertect un- leds it lays bold of all temporal things, for carth. and Heaven ure leaf and branch of the same tree, While all the world admires Socrates for his thought, ft amites at the defect of lis phi- Josophy. Hs creed embraced only his soul, and when he went to tho field of battle he was a ero, but aero without clothing or food. He stood tielve hours motionless looking toward the cust as though to see the Creator; but while he thus gazed his bare feet bled and frozn by turns on the hand rocks. His deep thought mado ainply count of soul and Deity, but mado. no note of frost and stones. * Thus Socrates stood, having an abundance of abstraction, but noslioes, [ow much the pulplt resembles that old Athenian you all know, for it has fed the: multitude with abundant doctrine, Roman and Protestant, but has never sufficiently realized tho fact that the multitude bas been following it for days without bread. Jt is not to be finagined that all tho {!ls which pst now awaken aturin and pity can be cured yy the cl however perfect thetr office should: become, ‘They ure too few and too limited fn influence to make thera tha saviors of society, but they can jolu with tho daily press aod with all other things and men that tend to inatruct and help the people. Ail the pulpit: can do is to initate Ite Muster and get down closer to human life. It must begin {ts heaven by ro- formlug earth, ‘The scones of last July should encourage all the moral teachors of the land, from pulplt to tripod, and te the desk of the sehool-master, for had not all the forts of education been dolng a kool work lor a century it fs not probable that an uprising which reached over so wide & co! ‘Unent and embraced miltlona of hurd-workto: uicn would have found peace with so Uttle abeddlug of blood, Not only was there ever: where riot aud suffering, but there was every> where socthing of reflection, Such an up rising 3N years age would have ended {uy carnage ati the overthrow of ao Kingdom, Impertect ag all our moral muchtnery bas bean, it las alevady been a salvation to the multitude from sone. borrows, If tot: frum all. No ons dares arraign the past of pulpit, or press, or schvol-house as a failure. On the contrary, all our mental and splritual agents bave been busy, aud they haye helped the people alone; but the condition of society fs yet so bad, aud our agen+ clea ure bringing nto play so Httle of their por er, that the question of pulpit and peuple dics open to a new study. However much any one may admire the pub- Ue vress and the schoul-house aud the tessons of political and soctal tosuphy, yet one ay well confess that the Church ‘can surpass ull these forces iu iuilucucimg the suultitude. Should the pulpit advise all the labor and that other strange creature called woull do 60 in the more svlemy nome ot religion, ‘The Catholic ond Protest ant Churches combined “reach 9 | Varh army of young und ould hearts, aud are exerting an iuiluence that surpasses estinuate, Could these two aveneics put aside for u thie abstract ideas, and with Jesus ask where tie multitude fs to get bread, the means of life, aud where it isto keep Its carninge azuinst sumo day of need, these Churches will, bn that inquiry, become more Clriotlike than thef cau ever bee come by awivging the ceuser by theultar or by expounding a dark formula, The compassion for the peuplo must bot shed its tears oyer the ae of eterulty ouly, but over the turments of thae. ° All this long argument assumes tho fact that the people cau be fed, | In this fact lice both then ud the respousibillty of the case. While a Carlyle laughs to scoru that quality tu humanity that makes the many obey the one, yet in that very quality Hes much of the glory of inan, ~ All depends upen whe ts feader of the throng. Waea an Bawender lowle woah tine iow diviidde luliaw him ton grave, then {4 the instinct of follawing a fatal passion, but when 5,000 follow a Christ and group themselves sroumt his feet and tho truth passes froin his one heart tu all those hearts, the laugh of a Carlyle dies away and wo Wehold the sublinmity of the fecllne that asks foracuide, Man {4 a being not only of laud! teramlol tears, but also of tove. The hum- leat taborer loves tho man above him and the poorest servant witl sees hero of manhood in the being whe goes daily into a atone-front bank and takes In her earnings over a marble siab, It {s man‘a Juve of man tnat does this, All that this anblime virtue needs is an honorable and wiec leadership. We are all willing to follow, Fortunate are we when our leader himself moves: with honest tect along an honest path. Soclety thus waiting for leaders, the pulpit and press and all who have any real or official power should feel compelled py all the misfor- tunes of the hour to say to the multitude their wisest words and do for that multitude their Kindest act. No question of labor or capital, of earnings or sayings, should be deemed foreign even to the sacred desk. As that multitude which foflowed Jesus and the disciples thought, they saw virtue in that Nazarene and tn his bosom friends, and on account of them fol- lowed themt three days from home, over to a stony, desert place, so the commun peuple have followed the guides of to-day; they have read after all the edftors and Hatenci to all the public men on platform und at the desk, and now, {f many of them find themselves afar frum home, in a wilderness, all the good of every name must be moved with compassion and attempt to beg bread for them out of the very cleinents, ‘There is no power that can avert all evils and make ts all rich, all wise, and all happy. A great sorrow will always follow the human family, We ahall always match to- wands a crave, aud the crave will always be wet with tears; but life can always be reformed, ime proved, swectonedt. When all those who deeply alfect {t put astite all fndifference and yleld toa divine compasatan for the people, then law and Inbar, and.all te shaves of ution ana bein will teh toward a harmony akin to music, anc morning and evening will come with less heavl- a , and there with bu mora of Inughter than of care, BROKEN BANKS AND MORT- GAGED CHURCHES. SERMON NY THA REV. KNOOKR WARPORD. The Church of the Messiah was well filled yesterday morning to Ilsten to an cloquent ser- mon on the topic of the hour by tha pastor, who took as his sermon, “Broken Banks and Mort- gaged Churches," and as his text: Owe no man anything, but to lore onc another.— Romane, zilt,, 8 Ne spoke ua follows: Every now and then in the midst of Paul's high spiritual thoughts you find him flashing out some little pointed word about toe comman doings of the world. That is how this: text eoines in, It isnot something to be discussed as if {t were enunciated for an absolute exhaust- ive principle of political economy. It is not anything of that kind, was never meant to be. Tt ds just the expresaton of Paul's eager, earnest horror of debt. And this ts why {t comes In bo aptly fn the midst of all the thinking and talking whieh lave been finding you subjects these past week days, and Which have found me my eubject for this Sun- day. Because {t fs debt which is the root of the whole trouble,—debt; and the extyayarunee ont of which debt rrows, and the speculations into which debt leads, and the paralysis of useful Mite which debt brings with Jt, and thedcespurate shifts and frauds Into which debt too often teinpts met,—debt, that fa it, flrat and last, and Tthink if Paul were the ono word whieh he would keep dinning into people's ears would be just this old warning,—and that in the piain way Jn which he really phrased it tn his letter,— “Don't owe anybody anything!” Debt! ‘That ts what Muks tozether these two mattors which I have joined in ny subject. Ver haps some of you thought them rather incon- gruous. At first sight they seem a ood way of from one auother. Yes! So are the North Pole and the South Poles good way off from one auother, and yet really they are parts of the same, system, and inseparably bound to- gether. Broken savings-banks and mortgaged churches are only different points on ouc Ince Tt ts the whole line that has got wrong, What waukdbe the good of my plekiny out the ong conspicuous point on that line that the public has been houottig at all the week and merely evholng the publle cry? What wo are most concerned with Is the other end of that Ine, where woe ‘all are. What Is the use of my merely decrying the hollow basis on which so many business cuterprises stand? Can they be moro hollow than that ou which most uf our Chicago churches ure standing! I atm here to- day to speak the beat word I have Inne against the whole aystem,—not only against unprinci- pled speculation and outrageous fraud, but ayalust tho too common callousness about devt, und the indtiference to tha fulliiment of obll- tations, and the ostentatious extravagance which is at the root of all the mischlof, buth tn the world and in the churches, You have seen tho uttermost, rankest, foulest outcome of ital this week. T hardly'nead to way much about thi sayings-bani failure, be- cause so much has been said elsewhere, And yet, du [say that you have seen the full our come ot It! No! you huve seen the large, out- ling fuct of it, and ‘a few big flurea,—so many millions of dollars Mabilitles, so many hundred, thousands gone in that steal and that fraud, Butts that all? Tho terrible thing Ls that all those bly fleures do not reveal the deepest facts, but rather hide them! Thoso big tigures only throw ao false, shameful sort of glamor over the affair, and win tor it an apparent place oy ‘one of the mighty Incidents of commerce, when, In reality, It ia merely an aggregation of atrocious robberies. Who cat ace all the misery, und. sufferiug, and rage that Ho behind those tlyures ¢ ‘Those tyures are not tho lifeless items of an nsvignec's uccount; they ure the living fibres of au awful wronu,—nlive, every one of thein, with tho anguish of defrauded, rulned men ond women! If yon would know what those figures: really mean, you must go among tho crowd of bitter, despairing rho linger still about the bank-atepts ag if they could not even yet quite believe thelr loss; a must go to the Tunis of pour work-girls, who Lave been for years laying by 9 dollar or two a month to lft them- selves above the chances of the hour; yuu must go to the homes of steady artisans, who have denied themselves tho indulgences ol their fellows to tnd thelr money gous to swell tne plunder of 9 spendthrift rogue; you must co to the poor wives and widows, who have bucn for yeura looking fondly at tho lengthening column of the {ttle bank-hook,and. feeling that whatever came they had something to fall back upon; you must go to lodgings where sick and crippled men were hoping that thelr Httle store, drawn fruvally, would see them into health again, and pour meu out of work were thanking God they had a Httlo In the savings bank to last them through the winter; aud all thie in homes by tho hundred and the thousand, and in these times that were already so hurd, and with tho winter comiug surely ont And It is not only all ‘this private suffering that Isso sad. J Cannot help feeling what a shock a thing of thia kind is to our whole social fabric. You know how you were. horritied by those riots a few weeks ago—" labor "yrlots they ‘y called, though they were not really labor )) but far more the clots of those who don’t laber and won't lubor—~still, take them how you will, they revealed a tervible voleano uf feree puswiou-and hatred towards all the moncyed, trading enterprise af the country, And yet what were theav riuts as a shock to suclal coutl- dence, 08 9 peril to tho bonds which keep society, In all its purta and classes, ane,—whut ‘Were thoso riots in this respect conipared tosuch a xavinge-bank collapse! The: pansion that it rales; the sense of wrung aguinat the moueyed and commercial chisscs; the teellng that these classes are tu blame for such a thing; that ot is thelr schemes, their ways, Which muke It possible,—yes, that they even kuew that it was coming, whispered the whole thing in thelr trading coterics, und yet never gave a word uf pramiog to put the poor upon tha guard,—TI say all this iso terribte feeling to be avroad fn this city, and It ts not on the partof the dregs of thbs city, but uf the Very beat elements of Its worklog-<clags, those who have been iost prudent, those who have been most frugal, ‘fhe whole thing 4s shameful and terrivle. It has no single re- decmlug feature. An ordigary inoney panic docs at least the good of chevklug speculation, but that which this checky ta nut speculation, but bunest thrift and saying! TF can concelve no greater public cnemy, no more cruel and heartless criuinal, than a man why cau do thls. ‘The man who would break into a house or store jy ouly a miuteratewweasured rascal com pared to one who thus spreads a tal web of pretense, and entices the poor, veur after year, to leave thelr savings Ju his care that he may fat- ten on thew. These aro the sort of cold-blood educated evil-doces who fore one to belie (u bell,—only that mes wh fre wot fit company But why vo ow lavelghiyy against this slugle wrong!) The matter which touches us most closely ts this: that, utter all, thls wrong is ouly the ravkest, fuulest outcrop of a spirit, and vims, und modes of trying to get swiftly yich with) which commerce aud soclety are haveycombed und rotten, through and thro Mow’ much ds there ty chouse betwen tht \ fraudulent use of the fundeot a savings bank and tho pilfering appropriations whieh have brought down lfe-insurance companies like leaves in autumn? And how mich between these life-nstirance companies amd the great rall- way boards which have at the top a few men of fabulous wealth who play with the property {ntrusted to them as their counters, anid at the bottom these Jahoring men, whose groundalown and lessened wages have to pay nut only for steals, ana blunders, and losses, but to furnish dividends on milllous of watered atock that represents no single dollar of really fnvcated money? DoT rpeak strongly about thesr things? “Ido not speak us strongly os Four newspapers do, and as you bushicss men dol Yet why shoukt you abuse these things! The few who do theinare only able to do them bveatse the many would do them If they coal! There te where the real moral of tt all comes int The few great gamblers of the sharemarket are kept going by the inultitules of small gamblers ‘whe would be xreat ones to-morrow 1f only they had the incanst The bubble companies whic promise profits which sober business man know cannot he made,—ts it the few clevar epeculatora at sho top who make these pussiblef Not itis the thousands at the bottom who clutch at the promise of soma fabulous tnterest, and oven though they kuow the thing {s hollow trust to be sharp enough to sell outin tine to sare thetactyes. And what does this universal spirit of specu- lation meant |= What docs it mean that thon- sands of people who hayu no money to risk or lose are dropoing In on tho’ ef at the offlves of Boanl-of-Trade-men and taking: chances on the rising =oond = falling of tho market! Ut means this: that sovicty all through is leay- ened by the fonging to get rich, and does nut care nich how itisdone. Steady trado is not. quick enough; hoard, plodding work is altozeth- ertov dull, Even those who put thelr streneth Into useful businese got bitten by the samo passion, They want to gob everything into their own havds, They cannot “five and Tet live ?1) ‘There are merchant princes who lave been shining Hehte at revivals who think itn shame to rita some branch of their trade ot a loss fur awhile simply inorder to break down and ruin some young tirm that fs struggling for ashare of budiness! dow't mean to say that the whole business world is of , this character. know it is nat. know that thera are os true, — noble-hearted omen In bitelnesayin this clty as in auy calling or any place on carth. ‘The une th{ng that always makes tne shrink fram speaking at all on these subjects fs, that [ know how finnossthio tt is to avoldappearing to tnelude In one’s condemnation muiny who are rather stuferers by sich false aud inischievous ways than sharers in the iknow aomvthing of how, in th t hunust may he broken dawn by misfortunes which they did’ pot cause, or by sth terrible shrinkage of yalues'‘as no prudence could have foreseen, 1 have the liearttest syinpathy for those who su suller. And one more proviso Thaveto make: Edo not menn for s nioment ta condemn all speculative wnterprises or every kind of credit. Who can draw the Huef Who can say where enterprise passes Into speenlation, or where speculation shades off into gambling? Certainty I canno! And yet there ts a line somewhere, and the tore it cannut be drawn In some universally ap- plicnble way the more earcful must each one ho to draw tt for Niinself, and to keep well on the right elde of tt There ts one line, at any rate, that ean be drawn,—if you ean't mark whe folly begins, you can where fraud begits: {t fs always 9 dishones@ ting fora man to risk what ip tot fils own, And set you know the most. risky and = speculative — bust uess is done “by men tho are staking what they have not! Au enormous proportion of the business whieh docs most to throw com meres Into confuston represents no real business transuctions-at all, but the mero shuiling of great nominal values, which those whu pass thent to and fro in thelr reckless gambling have no real meuus to buck. sume call this doing business on credit, It seama tome a ibel ona teoud word and a good thing to call it credit! ‘Truecredit, the mutual trist of man in man, by tere barter rises Into organized com. Meree, and commerce is enabled tu extend tsell to diatant places by written words,—truo credit. fs anuble and useful thingy rightly regarded, thers fa a high moral significance aud value in It, I do not suppose Pant. had any prohibition of thatin hig mind. But there 13 a false kind of credit that hag largely usurped its. place, that does not stand for trust abull, but tor lsrepresentation and hupudent pretense and fraud, that does not stand for bona-tide undertakings but for mere gamblera’ chances. Avainet this no word can be spoken tov strongly ! “Somnetiines these vast speculations answer; but ofter thoy do not; and i clther case the cevding ts equally immoral’ That is a ething to say; but theae words aro not they are those of a man of business of bhgh standing writing to ong of the newspapers on this very matter. And it ts au, When an office-boy¥ takes a doltar out of his petty cash, oud stakes it on wu hurse-race, what le has done {8 nut inade honest by tis winniug aud matting the money back. Ile has dune a dis- wnest thing! And so has the merchant who speculates beyond what he himself can losa; the ‘Trustee who spectilates with bls trust funda,— every min who risk not his on property only, but is creditors’, And we baye. to godeeper down yet. What fs tho soll out of which all this apeculation growe Which ia cating the heart out of whole- some cummerco? What fs it but the extrava: ygant aud costly living of the day,—the pasion tor ever lurger houses, and ever richer auc cost- Mer household gear? Verhaps I should rather Bpe fC this ag what hus veew than as what is, Por [ suppose that these “pale” years have toned down many an extravagance dnd tausht many alesson of stern ecouomy, perhaps of aven sterner privation. TI onty hope tho lessons: will uot be furgutten when etter times come! And yet) making all allowance for thls, con any one look round and feel that there fs yet any essential moderating of that craving for show und luxury cud fashionable extravaguace which reveived such au lmpetua lu the mation of tha war-times! And here fs where the lesson touches all You wouren alt by when thess fallures oud frauds {un business “ore talked of, and you think, *Ah, that not in our Hine; we hava nothing to do with all thatl" Haven't yous Do vou know how often It fs your extravagance, your love of dress and suow, the rivalry of rich households, your hatred uf hay- {ou poorer dress or equipage than your neigh bor, which goad tnen on try to win’ by soscula- tlon what they cannot make by atralyhtforward trudo, aud which, oftener still, make it almost fiposaible for mien tg retrench even whea they know that things ard taiing?! And yet there (gu word tobe said on the other shlel Men often give women credit for a weaker feeling on all this than they really haye! A wna hates to tell bls wife or ‘dauzhter that things are goluge wrong, he hates to deny this or that necustomied luxury, and so he goes right on till the very crash comes, und they know nothlug about ft, when, all tho ‘time, af ho hud onty trasted them, he would have found the tust generous 8} tupathy and thy most eager selfalenial! Dif the women tall in thls when your great fire camet Women, let it be known that you would not fall im thesy lesser emergeneles! And remember, that ia the pretest, uepeat Jesson whieh needs tearalng in this community to-day, fa the lesson of simpler homes, and simpler dress, and Way's, and noth fig but what ts squarely pald fort “it is fous of all suclety, who huve ft first an‘) mostly fu your power to bet the tony for the truor state of hive, aud to make frugal, slinple lvity as much the fashion a3 at present it ts the oppo- alte Friends, if you have followed mo inall this you will be at no joss to see why "— contd mot speak today of broken banks without 3 word about mortgaged churches, Agatust all that state od things of which L have been remiading you the churebes ought to by the strongest protest und bulwark. Churches standiug bufure the world fn the name. of Jesus Christ; churches of His, wha know what it was tu yo hungry, awd cold, and with- out where to lay Hits heady churches wheru ia everlasting words are held up as the world's true belts churches which profess to atand fur Alls religions chitrehes which profess to otand for His Cross,—-such churches oust tustanl for w Iie of cleauer-truded bonesty, and of withing, contented efuplleity. Brom them ought to go forth tn no falut or © bated breath” tn: warne {og agglust all extravagance as dolly, the warn- at is bot lor ite Wicked folly! b how can it besut ‘The churches are turred with the saine bras! Tbiw em they speak out ugainet ayy miany Of them have beew were speculations from the beginulnet Mow can they warn men agalust debt when there Ls hardly a Peutestunt church in Chigazu that ly nyt heavily in debet How can they protest agalust the ehilts and dodges by which the world gets moi when there is uy shift or dodge of which the churches are wut constuutly availing thetwselves ty raise their rly tuterest?! Ob, triends, when you ulation when think Whut'a church meang,—if it 1s more than a mockery aud a shain,—cun any words by too strong uieaut wbout tblef What do our churches ur our = glory, or docs our worship uierely # pleasant way of spend- re guuuri Or fatgthe cudcavor to ther, lute a little hoppler nearness to to eterual thlags, by the common ut teraace uf our thaukfulnrss gud our tonzivga! And which ts best for thist Would not the platocat frame iceting-house thut ever our Pu- Fitan fAthers worshiped in, be more helpful te- ward Heavey than all this oudern splendor whlch fs uot paid furf And see how ft cripples us for Cirlettin work aswell us for worship. Louk at the state of suciciv today! was tiara work todoat all, {ts work was tore ceded and sociyty more ready for it! And yet, what what can we do to-lav? We stand as four churches In this city, the centre of thta mlghty West. But what are we ding? What cau wo dot Not one stroke! Because we are all eo burdened with debt that we have not a cent to epare for anything beyond our own existence Some of you have been wanting usto have a finer musical service. Sume say, we need a new pran, 80 we to. We'll have it—when our debt is paid! Tit then, T think the Alnighty will be better pleased with such melody as wo can inake justos we are. Letus ect our church debt off, and then [will zo with you for ony adorning aud enriching of our worahlp that can make our church the sweetest, happlost place to come Lo that can possibly be. I know we aro not ao deeply In the mud asmany churches are,— all the more shame to us, then, If we goondolng nothing to get free. Edo not Know how you ean atatl it,—-how you can spend: money on lux- uries, ow you can wear your diamonds, how you can ride in your varriiges, and know that your ehurels fs not pald furl I know what some of you may say,—what soine aliuys lo say when auch words aid warn- ings are uttercd from the pulpit. You say, **4), these are Lusinesa matters, and you minis tera know nothing about then!’? You tell me itis nll very well for me to talk of carrying on Unsiness On Christian prinelptes, but that You. pructical men know: that it cannot. donet” Vety ts it sof f tninte that you who. take this tuno might well feel some miaglyings as you look round on theworld of work and. trade to-day, For you have lind Work and trade have not troubled themselves with these dreamy, tupractical principles of Christianity, ‘That busy tradin World has had “ite full Hag with what you call Your more practical ways!” Aud what has coma oftt? Istt such asuceess to-day? fs it some- thing to be proud of, aud ty rest satistiod with? After all, those “Christhin principles that are so scouted are net so very bigh, ur se very abe struct and dreamy! Simuly truth aud bonesty; live and let Hyves that. the atrong should help the -wak} and the: gulden rule, Dons you wont he done by"! But they lave been set inside. instead of trath and honesty, you go in for “white. Hes" and “tricks of trate.” Insteatl of the strong hear- ing the burdens of the weak, the work's way Is for the strong to nuke the wealc bear thelr burdens. Instead of “ Do ag you would bedona by” the world says, “Every one for lnmectt 1? And what laa come of ft! “Look back at those years of feverish and shin prosperity! Were those o satisfactory result? Look at these past four vears—bu-sting bubbles; stagnant trade; rics men made poor by the very burden of what they thought earth's’ most. real estate: poor anen matte desperate by want; labor and capital cluteling cach other by the throats banks {alle ing, even the very institutions of economy and Et of) canis, bel Are you autislied it? Christ said once thatthe childron of this world wero wiser tn thule generation than the children of Nght If He were here, and could geo what the children of thia work! aro making of ft, I don't. think He would Bay that today! Not [cast back the sneer of men of the world about the Impracticablo principles of Christian ity! Desay it fs your practlees that are the reall nilschieyous things, the things which are worl ingever more und more to confusion and de- structlonf Nay, [go further! 1 say st fs only what {s etl loft tn the businoss werld of the: very. principles which you call knpractical which keeps that very business world from utter dead-lock and collapse! It is only what lingers of truth that makes deception profitably even forantours It bs onty what remains of honesty which gives fraud even ita momentary: gain. Tt is only because so many strong nici do still do their true part for the wenk that the Hfe oud wealth of merely selfish atrenyth is worth a day’s purchase from the rage of tho downtrodden and defrauged. It fs only be- cause, In spite of all worldly maxims, there ts FUL] so touch real trustamong me dd somuch to trust, that society fe kept from golng to pleces and drifting oyunder toto Isolation and Merce autagontam. tis what still holds Its place of Cinrstlanity that Is the very salt of the work. And so, T tft up ‘those old rinviples,—-not of Curtsat's religton only, though: surist brought them out a3 nover ‘pefurg— those principles which aru as eternal as life and. force, und written in the deepest beart of man, —I litt up those old principles anew, with anew sense that. they are the ouly foundation on which the world of man, or any of man's doings, ean evor steadily or pormauently stausd. Ol for a race of inen and women who will dare to he trite, and dare to by thoroughly honest! Who, in their honws, {€ they are poor, wilt dare te te poor; If they caunet alfurd to ride, will walk! Who, if they cannot atford a new thing, will make the old one do; who, it they cannot eat butter on their daily bread, will vat ft dey, oud etitt be thanktals ant {€ thore ian’t money to pay the servaut’s wages, will turu to aud do’ thelr own work! Who, In ther hommes and in thelr churenes, will have just as much of comfort, case, udorament as they can squarely pay for—and no more! And who tu work and business will dare tu stand for.what. they are, and trade with what they have, and do the'straight, true thing from end to end, and be as coreful not to wrong auothir aa not to be wronged themsclvea. To not say that that Is the way to got richt Certaluly tt 1s not the way te gee rich rupldly! But itisthe way ‘of trie, wholesome, happy life! It is tho way of that tife which can Jook the world in the ficey—yes, and which cau look the worl to como in the fuco! And it ts the way, and the oply way, by which o nutioncan grow up Into chat strong, sulld well belng which comes not by the colossal wealth of a Lew, but by tie steady prosperity of the many, TREASURES IN IEAVEN. BERMON BY THE BY. JOUN ATKINSON, The Key. John Atkinson, pastor, preached last night inGrace Methodist Eplscopal Church, corner of North LaSalle and White strovts, taking for hls text; Lay not up Sar auarsel fee trosanres upon earth, where muti and ruat doth coreupt, and where thieves break through and ates]; out lay up for Yourselyud treasure In Meavon, where nelther moth nor raw duty corrupt, and where thivves do not brook: through nor stes), —-Afulthew vi., 10-20, It was apublime thought, the speaker said fn commencing his discourse, that the power hal been ulven to man to lay up for himself treas- ures {n Heaven, ‘fhe uncertainty of all this of this world made suck power doubly blessed, Thy richeg of this cart tuok unto themselves wins and flew away, but in the heavens trea ure was safe. Jesus had come to tell of the abliiny placocternal in tho hoayons, and from tho wordsel that Blessed Instructor he intended to polnt out the storo-house for all wealth. There weru In thy matter of treasure two questions which were asked by ull who contemplated thy acquisition of wealth. One was, tow can I eet wealth?" Thu young insu just starting out iy fe did not always ask bimselt haw be coultem- pluy hinself most honestly, how most honorably Y brovide a subsistetce for binself and hls, bul ho demanded te know in what ayacation he coukl make the moat money iu the Jeast time, The merchant pondered how he. could gain a customer here and @ customer there, fe bont every enerzy to the acquisition of money, Every device bad buen turned ty account to brig money tumen. ‘The uther question asked ufter the Nrst was, * How cuit] keep money¢" ‘The rich tan pondered over the disposition of his thau- watts, and the poor man balted between opinions as te Whom he could futeust with hls hoardings, A, Tf. Stewart, out of fils iniilions, had decided ty build amaznificent charity,— lofel for poor wousn, He had spent thousands lu the ergo tron of a magaiticens atructure which was to by grand and beautiful. ut he tired of the pur- suit of his atabition, aud it remained an uudlu- ished wort ut the thine of hisdeath. ‘The poor man taking his litte savings, whose - accumula. tlou beapuke ‘a acant table, scant clothing, carpetless Hloors, weeks and years of toll, alghts ut favor when slecp should haya cluiwed. tho Jahorer, and asked hinself, “What bull Edu withiny inoney?? He thoughtofl the savings bapk. “Thera, ho sald Wa blusell, ts on itt tion manayed by honorable men, wealthy, in- Slueatial men who have character to walutain aud riches wherewith to maintain it; men woo, in thew dealings with thelr fellow men, have made for themselyes reputations for integrity. i will be sate do puttlug my money in their hands; they will invest it wisely abd well. ‘They touk their little all ta the, bank and de- Positel it, Twat little all was to theus the result, of privation. toil, misery perhaps. [e became, er should become, in the huulsof the, bank, a warred beast, ‘Phe hopes of hundreds upon whom d led, perhups, axed parents, sick frien:ts, the ¢ tucation of children und. the. pro- villng of a a hotge for them, were bodnd up in thele richys. ‘The subsistewe during dark « aye t A sagred trust! Sacred tu tho happ‘yess of thou- sands. Sacred to Hves of haravbip, and. cur: A yes, doubly cursed, was be wus robbed thy Dour person who had futrusted their sacred trusts to bi Bevoud’ concep- thon was oravity §=of — him t who deliberately acutte rulu, desolation, and woe throughout the city. Wout to do with niouey Wus a grcat question ay well to the, rich as tothe pour may. The bunk was used aso deposltory; it bursted. Real cotute was surcly cure; the soll euuld uot burn up. It depre- ciuted; tuxe3 were assessed for severs, pave- meuts, and sidewalks. Improved lots were eaten Up Withtaxes, reuta became low, and the prevented of a guuddispooal. Mdney was valudiy trade, tf beatae sadl: ha vessule, S { | freichta went down to nothing; {na lfe-tnsur- ance endowment polley, the vompany falled; it wns locked up at homme in sates: burglars broke through and stale, What was to he dona with money! Jesus said: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth," and never man spake as that man spake. Ike told of safa investinonts. Heavon wasa safo bank, It nev- erbroke, never failed; a check thereon was never refased payment. The sentence " Bank suspented,"” was never. found on its doors. Nothing In the earth was secure. iteaven only was safe, Worldlings sometimes made honest confessions strange from the slins of world- Ungs, Tom Moore shorye:t his worldliness in Ils writings, and yet how strange, and yet how true was his confession embodied In that poem commencing: © Thera’s nothing - true but ivaven.” Heaven was ali real, eternal, and substantial. St. Paul's couce tio of it wasn House not made with: hands, eternal in tho Heavens.” St. Peter ealled ft “an inheritauee incorruptible, umlefled, and which fadeth not away." Justus dit not say that Ie woukl lay trp treasnre in heaven, but bade all to lay up for themselves, How eoutd they lay up that treasure? By : faith., Ha that ~ bellerved on and | cama to the Lord Jesus and trusted in the promise of salvation fal up for himself treasures, The {mportance of it sugested itself, Fur were.we not taught that where the treasure ts there would tho heart be also, Hone put Ite treasure in faith Ia Christ there would his heart be with Christ. Atl by rorving Christ was treasure accumulated,— treasura that in the lost aay of reckoning would stand secre on the credit side of thu great bout of lite. « ————— CURRENT OPINION. On the whole, wo think thero are 9 great many other men whom the South can better atford ta trust for Speaker than Mr. Randall.—Vew Ure leane Tunes (Den, }o Even tho Northesn Democrats join in tho ness of reprimanding Mr. Key for being too ‘ant. The Northern Democrat never repents. je alzo af the Job discourages hlin.—Newe York ‘Vribune (Rep). When the Admin'stratioa’ moves. upon Ohio next month, the vallant army of Implacables which ts now orgniitzing nnder Gen. Beatty will bo looking for eoine piace te hide, And ft will probe ably fund it.—daindelphia Times (ind, ). ‘Lhe Boatty moveiont iy a small spook, ani ft does not materialize well, Tt hasn't the ca- pacity to digest a eabb: t hasn't. vitallty to chew an onion, : fant cnonsh of ft to chew a piu of tobacco, —Uineinnali Commercial (lad, CD Ja Gen. Hooker, who voted for 8, J. Tilden, mnkes no accret of hin satlataction that Mr. Tien way not clovted, ** Fighting Jue” saya that Mr, Tiayes ta doing more fortie peuple thin Mr. Tits dun contd, by uny possiblity. —Loson Transcript Kepede Asa kicker, Gatl Jamilton shows capacity for hrllliant rivalry with Sarak, af the Soldeno troupe. Their kte! ing Js rether startiing In vigor, and somewhat brilliant on its personal exe posure, butit ty alfke aleu in both caacs in hitting nothing. —Spripfeld (Maes,) Republican (Lad. }. Under the “paternal system" proposed by the Workingmen’s party, the loafers would havo fn high old thne, It would be the bunnden duty of the Government to find work fur averyhody, and, even If the Government had no work to do, It ‘would be its bounden duty to find waxes for every- body. Samovl would cease to be on tncle, and bucome the indulgent ol daddy of ng all.—st. Louie Globe- Democrat (Rep. ). When Maino was hero. Inst fall, and spoke in Music-Uail, a Boston merchant sit- ting on the platform was carried away by the Maine Senator's earnestness and cloguence, and Spplanded enthualasticalty. at the saine thine turn ing to bis companton and whispering, .°" ile'n lylig, and he knows tt." One feels a goud deal that way when readiae Gall Mamilton’s beilliant letters, —Hoston Transcript (Hep. )e So far as yot appears, the only person in the United States who has any reason to he entirely satlatlod with the polttical conventions of both pa tos tw President Hayes, All the Republican pap Auelat that a Kepublican victory In the local. eicc 4 will ba an indersement of tho President, and all the Democratic papers inelst that a Deinucrotlc victory Inthe local elections will bean Indore. ment Of the Previilent's polley.—-Vew York World etn Je Back of all the Personalittes of these lively letters of Gall Hamilton, almed sometimas at tho Went directly, sometimes at Mra. Hayes, wometines af membors of the Cabinet who have offended ber, sumotlines ut newspapers of wore or Judy maduenco, thy one abject who has kept a uader fire had beon the alfutts of the Adusinust tion ta make a Civil Service which alf honest ant well-diaposud inun ant wonen would be willing to awear by.—Loston stdeertleer (eps). Mr. Postmnster-General Koy may not bo a very eilfying fgure in Amarican polities, bat wo ree no rouson why he «hould be singled out for ex- ceptional eriticisin, ‘Tho other day, in the course ' of thu speuches which havo enlivened the #real+ dent's excurafon into New Enzland, he, an ox- Confederate woldier, took leave to say the South had made a mistake In tho Secession movement, ‘That laa trainm thatany (lot ought to compre- hend,—Loutsoltie Courler-Journul (Dam.), Gall Hamilton hag completed hor series of poner opletles, and wo sro sure she niust feel etter, Phe wolyht of hor surrows hus been trand> ferred trom her own wind to the colnmns of the Now York Zribune; she ins shared hor griefe with the world, and reliof mnst come in the natural conres of things. | ‘fhe incubus has been removed, and Archbishop Whately hus been mudo partially Fosnonellile, Now Gail can write for hor littl railroud pass, sturt olf ona vacation, and enjoy herself,—Hoston Post (Dein.), ‘The politicians don't like the ordor to the oMmca-holders, but it losses the masses. They are hostile to the Southwen policy, out the people aro ulrealy beginning tu ave the wisdom of It, The time willscon come when the pollticlane will fad out that they aru @ithout o backing, and then they will make haste to chanye their ground, ‘The poople beilevo that iluyus {san honest ian, and hot makes them disposed to look favorably upon its course,-—Auttor Ulurk, of tha Munchealer (N. 4b) Mirror Ute )o ‘Tho poople of both parties ara with the Pres- Mdent, I have been through tho Stato a good deal Uila summer, out of the towns, in the back coun: try, and thly le about tho way tho substantial old farmers exprosa thomavivos: = **Wull, this Sr. Hayes "nears to be tryin’ tu do ‘bout what's right, and tguessif the politicians will let bin: alone ho'll mae us the best President wo've lad for a long thin whether they ure #i.tor Baitey, of (dem,). Prosidont I{nyes has treated tho South juatly, generously, and kindty, and hit cood deeds tu tty have arrayed against piu in bitter hostihty a faction who ory uur sivorn cnomivs, and who hope to prosper by fanning into tame the expiring ume bets of xcctlonal hatred at the Nurth, and foment- ing dlecord, id ateife, and bleadwhod at the South. [¢ therofore wecomes the duty pf honoi able and patriotic Southern men to give Mr, lay warm aud unanimous support. That they will do Jt, wo have nut the allghtest doubt. —.lugusta (Ga. ) Chronicle (Veni), Woe boliova to-day that, if a voto could bo taken in every Stato in New England as to whother Hayoe should continue In ufica, ur the cantest be twéen Mayes and ‘iden bo reopened thie coming fall, thousands of Democrats would vate tu give the honest mano trlal; would voto. ta sustain him in lus Suuthern policy and hie Civil Service reform: while all the Republicans, with perhaps bus sud therv one who thinks that the Repuullean party Will go ty eternal amash unless the ulllce-hoiders tnanage IL, would do thy wane, —Windéwia County (Coun.) Transcript (Hep. ). The Washington Nution wittily suggests that the President declined Mr, Blalno's Invitation fo viait lin bocause he was ufrald to encounter the Jatter'a magnetism in hw own howe. —** Had the Pronident accuptod the invitation. it ways. ** and remalued under tha roof of Mz. Dlaige, und outen Of his salt, Lis apple-ple, and dougunuts, It ta piaible that, at tne end of twenty-four hours, tho wat would have had bie army around the alstine fiulahed Kuest's neck, und thus contemporaneons ivtory would have been changed.” ‘Thiy iv pose sible; but ft must be remembered that the Py dent has alva a very taking way wont Inu ou large amount of that quality called personal maz. netivm. When the contest comes, Durhaps he ma; prove to by thy cuptur instead of the captured. Andiaasapolia Journal (ep. The Biuth will be sorely tempted to oxer- tise the enormous power it now possesses in Cons yrosa by reason of the dirlslon of the North In ure erty agcure for itvetf untae benuilts from the Nastuval Treasary, Herelu Ses the real danger of @ contiiuation of gectlunatisn. = We shall wee whether the Routhorn statesmen ore whew enoua toavuidit. If they yield to the temptation we @ that President Mayes’ milleaulum of od- Will te nut brizhtening the skies of fhe near (ature. ‘The Ktatos that went out of the Vion aud the states that wanted tu gu, but were held back, tan vearcely act togethue for a coud pure pose without awakeulig susvicion and bustility at hy North, Certainly they will uot be able to unite with tha motlve of wacklug the roasury without togner ur later sol ing the North agafust tuem. — Huston Herald (ind.ts - Mr. Cornell hal the choica of ramalning In oftice by tesigning his position ue macmber of the Natiunal aad Stats Committees, He preferred, however, to maky ao tesue with the President. 10 4 word, be contetaptuously deics his chief and bw orders. Phe resident ung bis Cabluct canned ignore this indignity. Self-respect de- manda that the President ‘should remove Mr, Cornell prompuy. If every. petty oflicce of 10 Governncat fs permitted to disubey and insult thu President, be will baie reached a point beyond contempt. ‘Tolerating ineuoontiuaiion In tue party, whether the party ds right or wrong, brlucs demoraitzation, disorder, and divaster. it. Core And you can't tull from tholr talk Domocrata of Mepublicany— the Concord (N. V.) Patriot nell has wale ® wistuke. The public or tae party will uot yuataiu thin in seceding tu pl quarrel with the Adwlnistrattog, ‘Tha (u reial ws hor a harmontous anil coupact party, wad tae ouly way President rhe We cam secure It ls by wtanaty: and bis Aduwiplatratiou, cannot and will nut take ap witn tha Peoaideat Ved Thu “oul of tue ow. = a , ever atime when if Liheral Christianity has any beyon't any consideration due to ono or two man, no inatter how grest thelr services are to tiv: party: The rants must be closed up for tho fall cuntest,— New York Commercial Advertheer (hep). ——aer—————— THE FARM AND GARDEN. Caring for Implements=Commiasioner of Agrlealttire-Experimental Statlons—tndt. vidual ExperlmontesAgricultural Cotleges —Cllinate and SoH—A FalluresSerrants of the VeoplomFattening Hogs—The Cora Crop, Fram Our then Correrpondent. Ciramratay, UL, Sept. 1.—Tho editor of o country newspaper calls the attention of his farmer-readers to tha prevalent custom of Ieay- ing farm-machlnery exposed to the weather, tn the fullawing facettons style: Lest the mattor should he forgotten by those of our farmers who ata accastomed to heaving thelr aurlcuttural implements exposed to the storing dure ing the winter, we call thelr netentlon to the fact that it ie now Une to eetvet n deslrable location fur auch, that they may receive the full Benet of thy winter's bineta. If tier fetget thia {important item, they will surely by cheating {he Implenient. deaters and blacksmiths ont of s fale: portion of thalt bread-and-butter next year, I hopo that the readers of this column whe practice tho above style of honalng Implements ‘will profit by the timely notice. TNE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. Thavye not at hand for reference a cony of the law instituting the: Buroau of Agriculture og Washlugton, and hence do not exactly know What dutics it fs expected the Commissioner WIH perform; but that the fmportancve. of the ollice is not yet appreelated by either the press or the peuple, gd periiaps tet by the Come inisstoner himsclf, js apparent from the ree marks caused by ht Inte clrewlar recarding the establishment of un. fminense Museum of Agricultural Machinery at or near the Capital of the Nation... Thera is nothing of utility in the fdea, and it showhl never be attempte ‘There {4, however, « field fa which netther Con- Bress nor the Bureau appears to be much ius terested. It ts the formation ot RXPLRIMENTAL STATIONS, undor the direction of practical men, whose duty It should be to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops which are as yet- unknown or uncommon In our country, By this, 1 do not mean that an attenipt shall be made to grow the banana In UMluols or the orange In Town. Such foollsh exe periments have been by no means rare in the pasts but there is notliing to begalned py then, There are some things about agricultural alfuirs that are pretty Renerully understood, fred agreatmany other things that we only guess at or tuke for granted, Indiylduat experiments aro expenrive, and very few farmers, no matter how wealthy, are willing to deyate their timo and money to carrying out experiments. ‘Tho testing of a dozen varieties of potatocs—2 sim ple thing in {tecif—Involves more expense and cara tha most farmers are willing to assume} nud, When taken Jn hand by a benevolent tudi- vidual, it |g rurely kept up for more than one season, This 4 a legitimate fleld for THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES of the country to work; but, se lome as tho ‘Trustees of those Institut{uns bend thelr energics toward making a tinancial succes of tne scheme, and employ high-sulurled Professors to teach everything under the aun; and the heals of messes, Who are given control of the educatton- al facilities, Know nothing of what ly required, aint vare Icas so longas the attendance of students but thers Mls the popular idea of success,—they will nev . . conduct an‘ experinent to perfection that wil be.of auy yaluc to the agriculturists of tho country, We pay a large sim uf money to foreign countrics for tea, coffee, sucar, splecs, frults, dyes, aud other articles, when but little doubt exists that they might ol ho produced here, ‘There aro but few individuals rich enough to send to foreign countries for trees, seeds, and plants of the different varletics of the same species; but our Guvern- incnt, haying its representatives in all thet countries where these things aro produced, could gather them at little expense. ‘Then our Consular service should be sa constructed thas tho members conld devote a portion of their valuable thne to studying the PECULIAR CHANACTENISTICS OF CLIMATE AND BOIL under which certaln plants thrive and prodice the must remuveratlve crops. With these data, anexperiniental station cauld be catablished 11 this country where the like conditlons obtatn, and with a reasonable certainty of sucees4. Way not try a coffce-plantation in Georgin, Songhern Colorado, or Californial Who knows whether the tea-plant will not thrive in some Southern Statul Why not grow our own apices, instead of importing them? Ibelleve this to be tho legitinute bustlicss of the Department of Agri culture. Of whut use is it to {inport seeds of trees fram Indla, and disseminate them in Malno? Lot there be an inteilicent selection made of plants and valuable trees from forelu countries, aud tet them UR TESTED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE {n some locality where Ike conditions of soll and elitnato indicate that they may be grown successfully. There hag been tou much utten- tion paid to bringing over the ornamental ant the tseless, Instead of the more valuable pro, ducts which aro not produced in this couutry, Moro attuution fs really given by the press atid sclentille peopie to the discovery of anew weed in the Himalaya Mountains, or of same singular crustacea fn the Curlbbcan Sea, than of some valuuble tree or cereal which might, if rightly introduced, add millions to our wealth, Tho experiment of growing sugar-bects has ben a fullure in this country go far. Now, why nut obtaln an analysts of the suil from somo place in France or Germany where the beets are urown to the greatest periection, and whera they yicld the highest percent of saccharine matter, aud then set the chemist of thu Agr- cultural Bureau at work to find a similar soll tu this country. When the location has bec found, Ict tho Government OPFRE SUEPICIENT INDUCEMENT to some individual to cnyage fn te experiment, We have fostered railroads which have bevo stinply bonanzas: for thieves to steal puor; canals which are useless; levers whitch are of no value to commerce; but the agricultural Luter- est fs left to take care of Itscif, It tsa small business to engago Iu ot attempt to grow 4 uew potato or boot, or to increase the yield of corn or other vereal by ever xo eniall unamount; It is of moro importance tu the coromunity than almost ouything clue. ** Rural dr." {s nut one of these who believe that the ‘armer is the only one whose futurcats ero neglected, and who-are tle sole members of Ty limposed upon, and out of me the taxes to pay for oll the ‘and misapproprlations of thu Na- tlon; buthoserlously belivves that, asa rule, out Jezlslators louk upon Agriculture ay an interest which {s ablo’to gare for itsulf, and, therefure, pay. no attention to tts peels. Furiners, a8 a class, are too backward In ex: prouins their opinions, and fn letting thelr pub- te servants kuow what isexpected of them. Sembers of Congress or the Legislature ars TRE SERVANTS OF TUR YEOPLE; and T belteve that, when tnformed of the desires of thew conatitucuts, they will endeavor to cet Inte for then, When aay class of busincas-men destre freati Tegislation, they iret determine what they waut; then they work up publle upinton through the press,—not forgettiug to keep thelr inember of Congress or the Legislature well posted of thelr desires, ‘They use Becumants. tucouvinee that what they dealre tu right and essential; und they generally acvomplish what they wish. If the agricultural conatituents of Congressmen woulit ercrchie the same privilezes, and inform thelr juciber of what they desire, or what they think iy against public interest, they would du much towurd refcrilug lewtalat i. Congress 1s oun to assemble, and t yeuture the assertion that but few of the members know the desires of » inajority of their constituents on the Mesumup- tlon act, the tuclif, the remonetization of silver, the Governuental supervision of railways, oF thu hundreds of other things necessary tu briug about acorrect equilltrium of society. Lect ud begin tu Sustruct our mmewbers, write to then our ideas, overwhelty them with letters of {ne struction and advice, and they will soon vegia to understand what they are expected tu du. #ATTENING HOOS. Mauy of our best furmers aro now feeding their stock-hogs new corn, with a view to carly fattening, Some, who planted early-ripenlog Varieties of coru, have turaed the aulinals ints the Held, aud allow them ty help themselves "Tals laa very easy way todo, und, besides, gives by all parts of the eld the yulue of the wauure rapped. Others, who are not so well situated, are cut- ting up tho corn, aud baullny to.theie fecd-luts onwayous. An animal in falr conditiou wow should, If well fed, and supplicd with plenty of water, guln (rom two te three pounds per days aud, When they ceaso growing at that rate, food cn thei iy Chrown away, "They are ready br be sold, and nothing but ¢ low warket shoul 1 hiuler the lurwer from sellin, Every bushel of corn fed alter they cease to add to thelr weight fs like interca$ pald for vorrowedl wnuurys Better scll the hos and keep the corn, even they do not bring the highest price. THA vous-cuor in Central Iiinois is a approaching max turity. Unless the usual frosts of September arg escaped, a great deal of the late play will not mature se as tu make yuo salable « FU WHE do to feed where stuck can Le obtainul. ‘Tue summer has Leen a remarkable une for tt Jow tempentture,—a conaition favorably for the production of smail goain, Wut detrital te the Corin tebe abate dite