Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1877, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1877, I, PULPIT. Prof. Swing's Idea of a Broad Faith Elaborated. Dr. Thomas' Definition of the Higher Enjoyments of Lifo. - Scrmon by the Rev, Galusha Anderson on the Punlpit and Press. A BROAD FTAITIL SEUMON BY I'ROT. SWIRG, Prof, 8winz preached yeaterday morning ot the Central Churoh, taking as bis text: ne. thou, with us, and we will do thee good, — which discerns between the true and the falee, comes the growth of utilitariantsn, that dis- erhmination between the absiract and the use- ful. To know the true from the false bs Lask enough for one ages to know the useful from the theoretfe and abstract is task enough for rnother. ‘The works of enrth are so vost that the hunan toilers utterly refuse to carry them all forward at ouce, They seem to say: Do not el the Church o us until we have founded thi= State; or do not disturb us with politles until we are done with these affalrs of Feligion. Do uot come to us with logle whila we are husy withithis paintingand poetry ; or with voetry when we have saac down over this logle, We are all Jovers, and must clierish but one name and hope at n time, In obediened to this demand or complaint the mighty works of vur worlil lisve been placed before the multitude of tollers oneat a time, » As the old ma~ons bullt huts around the fonn- Plations of one temple, and, nfter ten, or twenty, or thirty years, roved awuy, in A phalanx, to 10l for some other city, or to huild the palace of suine Kiug,—so eoclety pitchea its tent avound teone new form of thonght, uml only when that SHorm of fdea has reachied a degree of comples Lion does it move away aud scttle, with tools e-annd materiuls, around the ionndation and con- “mtritction of some other principle. The world has long been busy with the cone Instruction of a larger and mure powerful reason- /o tucuity. i became evidont ebveral renera- 1 tions ugo that the man fawily had long been dmposed spon, and bad long imposed upon ft- gelf. Them, at ladd, it was lolding w3 astronomy o most chlldish stock of ~egends it absurdities; it was holding vas history long rolls of persons who had aiever lived, from Achilles and Hercules to Vuhaps Willlam Tell; aml was cherishing great volumes full of events which had never Transplreds It was cspousing s religion which Jad never come an that shape frm tiod, and wwas worshiping o company of salnts who had elther never Lived or whoro lives were full of Weaktuss and st Out of the sgreat need of ro- Jorm entue that slow but radical progress of Fuason whi er the Jead of great minds Jias reviewed weienee, and biatory, and religlon, “Lhis ieviy-wousnd regun attempted to exe plore gven old Rotan Listorys to fiud what wos Lomulug and Hemuss attempted 1, under the tead of els, and Christians, ecparate Christionity from ita on of crrovs and fubles, aken ploey {n the name of Irv, What 43 truel It was inquiry; but magnllicent as are they do unt cotceal from Ty, namely, What is usefal ¢ true which are not valua- t facts I uny deparlinent, .r theotozy, {8 very lmportant; recomd efiort, and” patience to @ L valitide amoug tacts. ‘Che Iny, 1etinie (e new temple of ra- nen ehonld move, e esse, I¢ of Utilitarianlsm, 8up- iproved Teason, we have vartit gues round the sund that ot mady oue of nothing 6,000 tomnlus atid Roimus wers not tiat the daod was loca or u < Wl s round ure m ths power e Ly ! a were evolved! that Nght and ona! What 1a tu ‘come of all scrimination vuless it be follow- tilitarkanisn which shall pluce whowe the “What §s the trael " the other fptiry, * Wihat by the most usoful i Alreacy the thues are ratlving around this feeotd dhquiry, and havine lonz osled I re- Lemon whut [ troe, 6 6il more und more troable wa with the question: Whut will bring the most gol! Many diclike the word utliiey, wind ok upon s ]yll| uuphy as only that of tultishatess s nat, waving this acbate sbont fun- samental otives, wo. know this: that utility 1+ one of the moat THyine interpretors uf Jduty, "Ihere may be anothes impul:o und s hizher, but we puss iU ae beine tess yiible, Ctility s of- Jered nlt over the Bible as a Just ground of ae- L. Do this snd lest, do - that utd be & are on all 4 sen of tho Sacred Buoks; tear thut a broad utll rine ot God. We man's trees by nes ol figs ¢ of thistic on having longe sat down by cparate the true from the 1l hecouse our household altar we Juay i frudte Lnow of thought may I 1in thenew externalaol Christianity, Money on.e went into u house of the ford gocs for the people of the Lord, 0y though God ast aw Juving usefuluess more oration of marble and tapestry, and sometlmes fifty millious of dollans were poured Iito one single tu:nrlu of worshlp, Itiche: u from the children, wad eiven, nx it way fumgiued, to God. But it T4y ¥lnce been ned that you cuniot muke any valuable present to the Ahinlghty, 1t has Leen dine 1 what wus implied luthose words iat he whio a gluss of water to a disciplo ives Lo the ator and Bavlor of that soul. Ahe outy way for Lestowing gilts upon God is 2o flog them down for 1lis children, 'Tho use- Tul for mun I the best saceiics to God, dlenco the eathiedral and the church shich onee Jeft the peopls without | rlothing or brewd, that God mlght be Donored with izifts, have been slowly eiven up By a phillosophy of utllity which at last became turtam that, while God beeae no happler, the people becamo pourer beneath thwo sreat Jowes and spires, For eeveral vencrativus the woney whteh once constructed s dome orcovered wu altar with gold hus been speat upon eluca- Lion, and food, and clutbing,—ia the thousawd articles which make II') a highee civitization, What has Leen given leas tu marble and altar Lias been ndrded to the worshiper, sud A in the New World we have stmpler sanctuaries of God than Jtaly or Spadn cun point out to the tray- <ler, we ean at least polat Lo nobler wen and womett and dappder ehildren passing fn and out of the doora, Gud s to be enrickied only by en- wictl nankiml, Beulnnfug with the very house ftsclf, this genjus uf the usetul higd passod ovward to re- View cuch tenet und subject It to the ordeal fouud In the words, How does it bless or Injure e peopled 1t s not sulilclent that o doctrine stoply do no varm, Utilitariants s positive. 1 unds i rewurd, Tt aaye, Tlo peopls must e Llcst by an fdea or w custom. 1t luoks upun life an brictand feels verpetually suxious that Ittle thne #hould be given 1o tho slinply narmless, bt that all tieae duys, few st best, raeatl be oiferad 1o some philosophy the fullest of valuatle returus. Mu-hof the sllciee {n the woderu Church rdin ¢ daertuig, over which it was once so talhative, cotiea not from u full wssursbce that wortalu tenets are false, but from the perfect conviction that they are not valusble, even il true. Onve soclety loved the simple ln- aelletual inaulry. Tacusanls of students would semute together for weeks and moutby tor the discaeclon'of what was simiply a quess tiun, “Ihe staver was of ao value it fuuad, buy ol this nu oty touii a thought. It was cuough for themn that an auswer to the inguiry bad not Leen reachied, Mo walt fur this respunse, to work it uut from u labyriuth, to b it up from the bottom of the ocean of speculation, was & Tagk thut would 1nake that multitude remain together with Inadequete food, or clothing, or shelter. But set a hundred or a thuusand wod- cru Christians 1o work over a question which #huply needs an suswer, but fn which suswer there 18 no posstole utility, und the congress ‘woulid dissulve at dinucr thine, and could uever Le assembled wrafn, “Yuua the pructical fs busy modlfylug the vol- umfuous tenets of the old religion. ~Its Brat prest general result bs Lo divide Christlan dos- rive futo two large divistons,~a division that beluogs te man's side und o diviston that at- tabes to God, I former tines it scquicd ay caseunful tat Curisthans should kuow God's dealrus aud thouglits us that they sboutd know thelr owo duty. 'To kuow what the Alighty dld fu cleruity secwcd ws obligatory es to know what wan should be doing ju time. It was in such thoes that wany of woust obscure and almosat. contradletory lileas weoro wrought ont for onr many conlessins of faith. Dut as rapldly as utility sot up fts kingdom, and so- clety lezan to make uacfulucss a test of value, tho Abstra tions of the mind bezan to ho cmwded back to make room for the duc- trines that eould fill up the earthly life. A wotld once get into discord iy debate will perhaps yet bhe hranzht Into 'mony by that unity seen in rizhteous lives. Tt has even already cume to pass that when we sce o righteous Catlislic, una true to dn and tod, all thought of the many opinions hield by him or his denomination Is exeluded by the simplo quality of his life, Torn by diiference of be- Lief onve, the world Is now reconclied in the unity of character. 1t'was unce thought essentfal that we shonld knuw hois the world was made, but we no longer care fur that form ot infurmatlon. Our learts are driven to feel that the mora) world s the onewe must lovk after, When God ralsed up 1he mountatu, when hie empticd the sea ont of the holiow of his tand, when be set the sun In lis course, are questfons we have all surren- dered, and have turned (o ask, Where <hall we burltour school-tose ! Where otir home ! How shall we best editeate our ehildren! Into whiat honerable pureutt can we leald them? How can we pun,r the w‘.«t and best happiuess futo thelr hearts “The world lias lang needed a powerful utill- taviantem. Under its ol form of relicion It did not fiml mueh happloess. Helizion was either abatract ana did not touch life, or was full of abnegation and robledd s, Our Sunilays, our chutreh ssrvices, the home training, the homo life. were all fashioned upon the doctrine that man ought to have u hard timo of it all alonz, that his sins might be well stoned for as ho went, It waa all o tmistake. Man did not know how willing his Heavenly Father was that he should be bappy. A philosophy that should permit linuanity to bless itself was ueeded, and along with it bas come in that utllitariantam which mstructa man to look to the hapiuess of humanity. But it twust bo real happincss, not the delight of o glutton, or deuukard, or game Ller, but the havpiness of o suul that cducates ftselfi that folluwa the rl{;lll, but that plavs, and ents, and swiles, and sleeps. The modern religion I8 permitied to say, * Come nlong with us and we will do thee good." * My yoke is casy; iy burden Is light”! Fora gencrution Christianity has been come fnz Into inan's home us an_ avgel of happiness. Whereas relilon_ouce sald, “tireat 13 God.” At now alsu adds, Great alsv are God's childrens and the happiness of the Futher st he found largely in the happiness of bis famlly, The shutters are thrown open on 8unday : lowersare carrled luto the house or churehi the voung people rise with tho fnll reatization that the day will be full of prace and rest, ‘The words Inthe howme will bo Kinder, the tollet more neat or beautiful, the table ftself more nttractive, “Thus it will appear that the need of man bns become greatly the key by whiich we may Intee- Prm. the Haly ¥eriotures,” To know the whale history and quolity of Gol has eiven place to o study of the duty aud outcome of man. But thls duty snd citteotie of man is an imtnense some- thing. A Christian creed, limited by utility, is stilla grandereed. Afler youhave surrendered to cternity, to a study to be conducted Leyond the grave, all the so-called abstractions of phitosos iy, what realns Is attll a most impressive re- Bt.'lun. Christinnity, after it has been passed through the filtration of the practieal, fa In- mense and stropg. A religion of happiness (s not exhisusted by a cheerful Sundny and a neat tollet, As well ‘might the child’s primer bo styled the thought of the world, The religion u? utllity embraces cardinal doctrines great aml Iullunn(?nl. ‘The existenco of God and of Iits measenger, Christ, muat enter into the sunl and be witl it by day and by nleht.,” Nothiog fo all thourht is more useful than this. Man can never bless hitmsclf more than by cherishing this hellef in his heart, Heo need not deflue the tiod nor the Chbrist. Ilo need not know b Gud made the universe nor all the wi which it 18 governcd, but the soul must b emptled of atheism, and must feel that n carth man I walking in tho palace of a great King, This fdea will indeed do him good. It will be a lignt burden, an easy yoke, As no tden, oartieularly no sacred kdey, lives without eulture, the chlef meaning of a church 1a that it ehall Luthl up and enlarzs within rociety thia fecling of tho presence sud good- ness of God. Atl sentimentsdle when neglceted, The long-continued devotion to bualness, or Lo leasure, or to material science, Kills the re- jufons sentiment by the polaon of disuse. No good ean endure neglect; beneo all our relilons temples stund und our meetings roturn and our hymns are. maung that God may vot dle in our souls, but live aud expand, Cloge upon this doctriue of God and Christ comea the dostrlng of spirktunl reform, It fx called cunyersion by - some, regeneration by some. In the esthinato of many it fan reform coming wholly from without, God couverts s soul Just as’ He first made mau— withont man's ald or knowledge, But others Lelleve otherwise, anel away from sl such de- Late Hee tho fdea that thy heart mnust bo re- shnped and become perfeet va the Father In Heaven s perfect. Uscfulness demands that Al new heart coune, but it Is an abstract philos- ophy which tnquires whether it shall couie ut o certsin minute und In a certaln way. As clvill- zatlon cones fyloe upon many winge,—wlngzs on the forehicad, and shoulders, and Ieet, borng along by school-liouses, and Hteratare, and pol- itics, and urt, aud religlon,—so the new heart of rellzion muy come upon muny wings,—the Twman will, human edueation, assoclation, by fear aud l»y\ww, and by the all-powerful |loly Spirit; ond utiiitarioniam ls rapldly feading the Church into this broad detinition of con verslon, What the world demands s tho new life, and henco that man look mure to his actlons and less to any specal theory by which such a xew lifo imfibit come, The fuleg- rity of the Quaker, the plety of a Mathodist, tho uprightuess of Channing,” the prayers ofgin Eplacopalinn read from u book but well Yus. tained by the Mfe, the zeal of o Moody, when voupled to virtue, all inuko up the kind of cou- version the world demands. - We do not wunt the unalyals of cold water when wu le sick of o leve Wo waut u drivk. So the worll needs {ransformea souls, nud it wmlnigly postpones to Meaven an auulysis of the whole regencration, Ivdues not expéet nor desire to seo Nature creating a sun or an earth; it simply wishes the earth to continuo its enortnous lite s the sun to rise every morning, Whether the aun stood still in the day of Ahaz it knows not; it only hopes that it will not do 8o uow. Thus fv anks that virluous hicarts come, but it would not de- nand all the et of this new spivitusl career, Close upon this doctriue follows that of re- ward aud punishment, It Isalmost certaln that there cau bo no useful religion for this world unless there sball le in this relliton reward for the guod und punishimout for the wicked, It wust be plaluly set forth that sln nnd right eonyneas are two paths; that the formier leads o rain, the latter to blcsscdnesd. A wmost uso- {ul religlon will by one that will not risk dotalls ot hell ut which wen muy Jaugh, When an argument §s so forimed that mon may plek to pleces a half of the fabrig, they at once conclude the other part of tho argzument to be frall. The old notion of future punishuent loses its power becausa it invitas mou to swaile ot its dotails. ‘Foat which {s incredible ean no longer bo use- ful. The uscfulness terminotes with the rea sunubleness. For better gencratize, like: our Dr, ‘Thomas, and say we do not know what the future uun‘lhuwul shiall b, than to offor the public particulars which it cun readily fsugh at and reject, Indeed, fn the very vagueness amd mystery of future rotributiou or unbappiucss will He heneefurth ita uwful droad. We can all smllo ut thie Inferno of past bellef, but when tohd tnsiinplo language that wo must stand be- fore a just God In ull our sina this {4 enouzh to weigh down the heart, Wo demand no detatls, “Lhe doctrine of rewards ana punlshnents uceds only 10 be purgemullv taught as formlug a fun- damental truth of our religion, Utilitarlantsm, a8 it secma to me, Is bringing the so-calivd Tiberal churches back towand o devper spirituality, and nearer to the doctrines of tho Apwitics. - WWhen Unitarfanbsm and Uni- versalisn first oppeared on the stage they found sv wany errors and follics Lo destroy, found “such Lereulean lnbors to bo performed in the feld of reliztous eniticls, that they naturally acguired the uestructive habit; aud when they fud stain, us they sup- posed, Calvinbuy and Methodisin, und indecd all urthuduxg. their spielt was roused within them, aud, like Alexander, they slgued for uther worldl to conquer, Done with the external, some clergyien fo these denominations begun o cnticiam of self, sud began to omit prayer, and todiscard all the superuatural, aud 0 preach u}un ull secular thewes, But God's graud Jaw of uscfuluess began to euter 18 proteat. A re- lizion thue emptied was not ouly uot a Chris- tlanity, but it was not even o rellgion. ‘The in- most soul cried out, Tho clergy of the ultra radlval school could no longer say, * Cumne with us aud we sball do you goud,” for they bad ro- vereed thu Invitation nto the gad words, " Comg with us und wo will empty your souls of ull their old sweet faith aud bope” But thoso years of dustruction hasten by. The eprit of ulility In the " unlverse is amuinet them, The uea _whe preached without a prayer or u bhywmu, uad tuok heir theme far away from the” throne of the Alwighty and far away frow the career of Christ, bave only warued their bretbren fn the ulpit szalnst all such emptyiug of the public fi-:nn. ‘Those denvwlnations are sgaly rol lylufl' oround not thelr most cal weu, hut aroun their most spiritual; aud Freeman Clark, and Chapiy, sud Furoess, sud Elliott aro the_con- fesaed leaders of liverslisw, toward u Chrfs- tlanity containing Clrist; sud w religion that has u prayer aua 8 refurm, snd whicl Lelleves fun the suvligbt of virtue aud the dark stor of the punlshaent for sio. ‘Tlus utility fs » watchmag set upon tho walls Jower plane, Tha hieart-lieat was too alow, the common meal tov unavpetizine, the dress two almple, the love of home too dull. Alcoliol awl morphine and every arg of cooking and every device of fashion were sought ont as a means of inereased hiappiness; bt alt fn valn, Intem- peranee bt eating and deinking, extravagance, waste, oxcess, fullowed quickly 3 onl sliseased budies, and desolate hicarts, aud wearl- ness, and diseust of 1ife remain, Or, supnose thero be moderato desiee In refer- cuee to property, aml Hfo be blessed with earth- I{ riches, and auppose there be u well-governed life fn avolding all intemperance und excess, and auppose there he good health, yet If 1ife's enjoymenta be songht in these material things alone they will fall at last to satisfy, A lile that finas ita chiel end in the things of rense njone {8 doomed to disappointinent nt the Inst. “The spring thne and the summer thne of fuch n Tile mitst soon pasa away aml its cold autumn aud winter come only 100 soon. The weak- ness ol oge, the loss of desire, the fall- fng sight and taste leave such a life weary and - unblessed In the very rrcscnce of all earthly good. If 1ifo have no ifzher meaning, no” higher aud moro lasting jov than these few pleasnires that cdeficht the #enaes for n day, we might well all wish that we had pever been born, 1Lis uot strange that men who have no epiritual visio, no upwanl looking, men whu live for themsclves and feel no warm lote for humauity, tio great inapira. tion to live out all- thelr days to work for the gond of others,—not atrange that such men should feel upnalled at the approach of aze and disearc, stroul] slihder when the snowflakes fall upnn thyir locks; not strange that they wel- vome death by polson, br drowning, or bullet,— Any wuy fo ‘cseape from u world thnt has tor them no more r‘)u{,—nul_v the lengtheningjshod- ows and the drifting snows, But there surcly must be something more in life—someo bigher alin and_ higher enjoyment— than merely to live a life of schee-pleasure, and then tie down In death, 1t is reluted of Budha that, when riding out one day for pleasure, ho met n pauper asking for bread, and a little further on a cripplo unable to walk, and an_ ole man leaning on his stall, and soon alter passeid o corpse lvlug by the road- side, and that these scenes 5o affected him that he lost all comfort fn home nd wealth, and risiniz up In the early morning he kissed bis beautiful wite and biabe al fled away fnto the wilderucss, there alone In thought and prayer and fasting to geck for lfe's higher meaning, Nor dhl he seck In vain, And it sesms to mna that the impressive lessone of 1ife all about ws rhould lead us to inguire for something higher and more lasting, ls. Is all rlght to scek and to enjoy al) earthly good in proper_ways, but wo should not restin these things, They ure not an mldlhl themsolves, but a means o sometbing ier. iut us now, for n little time, fall back upon sotie of our firat thoughts or definitions and scarch for this higher Hife: this life that, whilst related to sense, 18 still above sense. du hack Into this luner world and turn It around ao that the sun may shinc on all ita coutinents; open all 1ts doors; o out upon il {ts paths, and s you Jook within you wiil flud a mind capable of truth nnd reason and beauty, and then look without and you will sce a world of truth and reason aud brauty correaponding to this world within aud answerlug back to Its possibilities and longings, Auid then look agaln within and you will sco that this mind s Tasting—that it does not grow old and_die ke the body; and then Jook without and yuu will percetve that truth and reasou and beauty are eternal. And with such n vislon the wlivle aspect of lifs Is changed, With auch a vision you gtand ai- ready {n o world that {s fmmortal. And then Took” nzaln within and you find that which we eall II)Irfl.—-tluL which percelves the good and the divine; and then lovk without and yout are met by the whola world of splrit,—of uniels, of Uod, aud of owdness. And Lo spirit within us I8 Immortal, and the rflnclvlco of goodnesy are oternal, and, uver all, Gou—the principle of principles—{s cternal. Aud sgain you are al- ready In the undyiug world. Tho body life is Indeed very narrowly limited, and. conditioned a4 to time sud spaco and possibllity, Its world Is very amull, Its days ara very few. Ita pleasures very briel, Its fect staud on a very small carth, and abose fts head spreads out n very ncar and very narrow sky, Its cradle ‘and grave are separated only by the mumlmi and the evening, But O! what & world and what o firmament do mind and apirit reveal. How the stars twinkle and the golden sans flash thelr mingled Mghta along the spirit's deoper heaven, Underthis sky the lovers of earth riso up and are immortal. Thesorrows of yeaterday are focgotten In the rlory of the long to-morrow, The companlonships, the friend- sitlps of carth take hkold on cturnity. Under thin Ky ther I8 no night, no desth, Do you ot seo how the whole vision of 1ife s cxalted and its joya lifted up above the low plans of flcsh and sonse? Now, still bearing In mind the facts of tho world within and the world without, tho facts of 1ife, or encrey, and of haroionv, let us further search out tho higher ways of employment. ‘Tuko tho body-T{te. In this world our bodies mustalwaya stand closely retated to pleasure and pain, The best we can do I8 to surround oursclyes with such conditlous of carthly com- oflife. God was too kind to rermlt a rellgion, or a politles, or an fndustry to {njuro deeply et ithout. beinz s dorly sdimoniahed. our conrts of justice fafl for ‘awhile to puniah bad men, then soon every public nian becomes corrupt and defrands the Governmuent and the clty whichbecame salenient orneglectiful. When onr juries refuze to conslet mnnderers and our Governors hasten to pardon, then cach little viilage becomes court ami the uearest freo a atlows, Thus ntility stands a check upon a had Government. It will thus stand always he- tween soclety and a poor religion. [t will ¢lose the church Lthat has no prayer, snd w 1] ellence the pulplt which has no message from God. So it will emuty the sanctuaries which deal v un- ntelligible theordes, or theorfes of no worth, Man will not be fmposed npon by a creeld too large or ton smaoll. Utliity will “deliver him from both. Ol what a common ground fs_here revealed! Is there a Catholle cittzen or n Catholle privat wno is doing ot and Hying right? Ta there o Preshsterian wheoae wonls are naefit and whoss deede are uselnt? [s theroa Unitarian whose life is Cl Iite and whosa teachine fs fnll of Godl I thers a Quaker who Hyes In combined purity, sl charity, amt s|mrlluuyl Then why not i our imngination sce them assembled by one being, the Christ, aml why not ace over them all one symbol in bright letters, “Come thou with us, and we will do thee good." ——— THE HIGUER ENJOYMENTS OF LIFE, SERMON BY TII® KAV, DR. THOMAS, 1 h?‘\;e meat to cal that ye know not of, —Jokn, ‘Weareall faniliar with such wonds as pleasure and pafn, happiness aud mleery, joy and sorrow, and in our feelings or experionces know what ia nucant when such terma are used. But when wa attempt to explaly thewn to oursclves or to others—that is, to tell what we really mean when wo say that we are pleased or palned, or that we are happy ur miserable—we may find aurselves 1ot only at a loss for other words that might be more easily understood, hut at a greater loss for Ideas; that s, for the ren! fact or thing itsel! that we have been calllng pleasure or paln, What s {t? Why is it so? Whence does 1t come, or whore does It g0l A few such questions as these are suflleient to open Lhe doors into o very deep philosophy. Iudeed, the theory of pleasure and paln has long beena subject of debate among the wise. The fact itscit hos all the time been plain enough in the world of experience, Were we: callod upon to oxplain some ob- fective fact or thing tbat s somcthing out side of ourseives, 08 a tree, of 8 mountain, ora house, or a garden, or a rose, objects that hava size, aud color, and welght, and helght, the difficulty might be less, for these things bavo on exlstence and a measure of permanence fn themselves, Wecan measure tho treo and telt fta helght and circumference; we can measura the hionse and tell its alzoj we gean climb the mountain and even compute its welght and deserlbe Its rocks and soll§ we can tell the color and form of the rose. But who can welgh or mcasuro happlness and lseryl Who can climb the mountalna or paint,the colors of pleasure or measure tho depth of palui Evidently we are In scarch of something that does not, unless it bo by some figure of rhetoric, come under any of thes methoas of explanation, We must open the Jdoors into some other world, must explore somo other realm. That other world is the world of feeling, the world of expericnze. Itis the subjectlve or funcr world; that is, tho world within oursclves. Al its seas and conti- nents, its nountains and valleys, Its gardens and flowers, its storm aud calm, sud its sun- shiue aud shadow, aro in our own miuds aud bearts. Thus eachone Isa world in himself, aud in saylug this we have reachied one fact or pnllm. on the way to a deflnition of pleasure and 201, L Angqther fact on the way to an explanation 1s forind in the existence'of the world outside of ourselves, and the possible harmonlous rela- tiuns between these two worlds; that Is, be- tween the world within and the world without. And atll] another and a_more complex fact to he voted before we cay explaln in any sense the theory of pleasure and paln 1s tho fact of e, of sentient or feellng cxistence,—of enerry, of actlon, Now thls life, this feeling, this encrry within us may live fn {ts own inmer world, gaze upon its own forms, orturn over its own experl- ences, or it may go out and take lold of the outstdo world, “Whether 1t finds pleasure or pain depends upon what it meets within and without, 11, looking within, it find plensaut mermories, and truth, and heauty, and hove, and Tove, It is happy. 1€ 1t fiud dark mewmorfes, and faldchood, and hatred, and deformity, it 1s pained, it 18 hurt, Or, it 1t go ont sud ‘meet & irentlo breeze, and o sweet sky, and things that he senset happy: fortsas we can,—seeking out that middie way tl cnu‘;uc’:.'u d‘:‘\‘rkl n';d lI’Eryr'm, oru"d between poverty and wealth, between indolonce cold, it Is uohappy. If this life- | on the one hand o overactivity on force s reprossed, or sbut up, wo | the uther,—ultivating that moderateness suffer from Iuactlons It It Is overworked we | Of desiry by whichi we may bo content with such suiler from weuriness, I2it lack food or drink we sufler hunger or thirst: if it encounter a poison or is brulacd by o faft we auifer alckness or pat, Now from “all these facts wo maoy reach the general statement that happincsy fs found in the harmonious relations of mau with himsell, and with all the environmoents of his being and the vutlying faws of the unlverse, whether they relate to body, mind, or spirit; and that pain or nuhappluvss arlses from sote break, or violation, or inharmony In these rels- tious, Of course, 1n saylng this It inust be con- fessed that there are stlll deeper questions back of these, that we may nob oven nttempt to answer; and yet such reflectfons help us to une derstand oursclves and our relations to pleasure and pain. ‘They ut least open a door through which wo msy pass out futo the world of thought. From what has heeu saldwe nxnrv crecive that there aro not only different kinds of enjoy- teuts,—those from without and those from —hut that there arv also different planes njuyiuent, sowe hieher and some lower, g all the wn¥ 1 the highost tothe lowest faculties. IT one's cnjovment be from within—that fs, in dwelling upon or living withe 110 his own mentul etates—he way lve cither in the hleher or lower facultics, He umr live ng, or lmn‘.u a8 wo have, sceking that barmony with the luwa of Naturo and observing such “hablts of temperancs [n all things as will bring to us such health and length of days as may bo possi- ble, All undue deslro for wealth brings onl added core and anxloty, Wealth Is o gooil thing, and to be deslred (€ it can be fairly won, If such be your gift or fortune, then win'it, and use It for good, Al overworking for quick re- sults, all overtaxing of strencth or appetites to compel a richer return of pleasure, must finally como back with the fearful recoll of weariness or pain, or o sud disgust of Hife, Tho body van yield only a moderate degreo of pussing pleas- ure, and this ouly for a short season, Tu accepl this 1s good. To repress, In an undue sensi budily encrigles, or to overdo them, 18 wrong. Take the mind-life and the heart-ite, The higher enjoyment 1a these can come only from harwmoufous relations aud activities, Thery cau ba no lustlug peace or joy In aoy lifo unless that lite 1s at prace with Itseif, und hos sucha mensure of fnward furnishing of Knowledgo and ness a to be at hume with ftself. The storms that beat upon us from without are nothiugrompared to the sturms that rago withiu, Poverty withiout is nothing to poverty within, A thousand thmes Is it better to bave the budy covered with rags than to wear rags upon tho heart. ‘I'here b8 no peace like the peace of mind and the Ye;wu of heart, A mind well stored with aseful knowledge, and & heart well filled with loye, aud a memory whose gallerics are Lug all full of the pictures of goord decds, has un lnward home and retreat from all thoe bitter biasts of the outer world, There must not only Do peace anid harmony withiu, but harmonlous relutions and occtvitics without, The miud aud heart must uot bo shut up within, but go out aud take bold of the yust outlying world of truth and gooducss, and spirit and God, The tivigs ot truth fnvite us to thought and study. Every flower, overy fossil, every star invites us 1o come and enjoy its beauty, learn its old, old lesson, or gaze alur upon Its grandeur, Al his. tory wauta to be read, aud all philosophy stud- jed, Socrates could be huppy jwhile oat-meal was ouly a penny a8 peek mind water was free, aud the souts af men and the sccrcta of Uod lu; all wround him inviting bis thought. O what tressures, wbot© wealth of mind aud truth aro all about us, it wo will only vomns forth aud take them. The whols world of sym- pathy, and friendship, and luve les just outside of the door of the hcart, iviting us to come forth and share thelr deepest joys, The whols world of want, and ness, and sin stand kuocking at our dyora and asking for bread, for houlluli'. for salvatfon. There 18 no joy llke the oy of hielplug others,—feeding the hungry, vis- ting tho sick und needy, snd deading ‘slu-bur- dened souls to the cruss, You can never fiud Joy by repressing aymputby, or turalug away Tromn the world's waut and surrow, Jesus Christ cuptled 1lis whole 1ife aud belug—poured them out upon the altars aml graves of our world that we afght Mve. Bo forgetful of sell was Lle that whilst otiershad shelterand uh:m.( Howas howeless sud Lungry, He could easly forget bunger and wearivess oy Ho talked to the wowan at the well and opened ub to her poor Licart a heart—that had known the surrows of widowhood aud the darkness of sln—the greut truth that (od Is & spisit, and like the alr and the sunlight, lsall about the strugeting souls on varth, sud that they Lave only to open thelr hearts and He will come fu, In this blessod milvatou Ho had meat to cat that the disciples knew vot uf. And we may Kuow something of this joy,—~something of what it 13 tu be su filled with a great puspuss ur wurk @s to forret our owu sorrows. Aud then this soul-life sighs for purity, for lmmortality, for God, sod il theso unswer back to Ita lvuiluze, und prayer, and promise, and truth all walt to help i ju'its out- ward and upward way. Aud hereln must be found vur sbiding joy and rest, It seemas 10 ue thuat weall greatly need to know something of thede hizher truths sud brichter outlooks a5 we pasa through the world. It s bard to bear the W of life with- out them. It is burd to jourusy to the grave ln uucertainty. Wo nced not. Lhese higher jovs are for us all, wud with them we should Bud rest even fu bardship aud paio. It svews Lo me that the Jcusous of the last week should not be lost. When willlons of moucy go up in the lames and milllonalres seck duath by sulide, we ahould ail vo taugbt the pecessity of Arusi- ing w sowething wore thaa wealth' for bappl- ness. It you have food aud ehelter; i you have even the buwblest bome; 12 you bave ‘the Jova of child or fricud; U tharu oo wark down lu the cellar, as it were, of his bei up in the parlor, or up fo the bigher chambers, Or, if lts enjoyments be sought in comimunion with the outer world, tho point of contack may be high or low, Ho may move out along the road of the appetites aud And his happiness n cating aud drinking; or he may go out slong thy paths of the passions and tHud his evjoymoeut fu love, or beauty, or ambi- tloni or he muy rse up to the plane of the spiritual and tod his joy in henevolonce and prayer, and in communlon with God and tho spirit worlds or, batliug just below the pure- Iy splritual, hu may seek cnfo)'mennu the world of thought, and triith, and literature. 1 suppose that 1t {2 sale to saf that the great majorlty of earthly lves oro cust largely upon thu lower planes of the appetites aod passions. ‘That {4 to say, that tho uverage buman hiv s Jurgely a life in the body as related to the seused, The wants of tho body are constant and fmperative. The pleasures’ of senss are quick, sid for the moment satisfying, and are fiupatient uuder resttalut or delay. But the senges becomo tired of the vame thhig from day today, Thoy ery out for chuuge. ‘Fhoy want somethivg uew, What satlatled yestorday will not sutlaly to-day. Hence ulf this restlesincas, this conlug and kolniz of our busy world {u pur- suit of buppiuesy. ‘Thero are two ways in which wmankind seck to flud euiu)‘mcnt In the things of the world. The irat Is by fnercssiyg thele possessious, bringlug about thew more aud woreof earthly {reasures The second s by taxiug thelr budn{vl senses, trying to goad thetn ou 1o a keeoer enjoyment, or by tryluz to tinl some new relish for the palute, oF sote fner stimulant or varcotle for o nerves, or sowe vicher garmeut for the body. Under the tirat of these imen tull on in the unsatisfying pursult of weaith. Av ilrst, when Leginnlng 1fe poor, they think that it they could unly kce the day when thev could call # furn or a sture their uwu, and have a comfort- able home and a woderatg Income, they would thew be buppy. But whea that s made, they {ind not the expected rest, and valnly imagine that happiness 18 to be found fu hndive moro property, uud heace o on adding field to tield, sud bauk to bank, wouderiug all the tiue why they bave not fuund tbe long-sought-tor cujoy- mecut, and wishing, lonzing for the day wheén they will have gajued enou‘(fla of earthly treas- ures sud fiud at least one day to eujoy a little 8t least of what they have. But, alas! 1o woat edsua the expectation s yaln, Sows §ll furtune #WeeDy away thelr wealth, or sickuess sbuts thein in from thy world, or their days are filled up with care till' death calls Abvm awsy from all carthly scenes. Under tho secoud of theso ways wew seek for wors enjoymeut by trylog to lu- creaso the puwer of scuse, o wake the uppe- tites or senics do more than they can, In the bappy daye of cnitdhoud and youthbood the freslialr, uud the pure water, sud plain food filled you with bealth, ‘These were stivulants cuvugh then. The playground wnd the field gave exerclse cnoueh, Tue sky was beautlful, sud the ticlds and dowers enchanting, Every day was o blessing of life, aud each uight peacetul rest. Tho love ol home was sweet— oue dear heart Leld wll the soul's grest powers fo & boly cbarm. But you wauted 8 higlier enjovement, aud you sought i oo tbe sons, hut to all the brethren of o church or of a Junction with each other, ol praphetical messuges. ry slrle have maintaned that preaching and pubiishing helong to different stages of clvi ton; preaching you ean (o {f you have a mind to think and a heart to Tove; {0 you have the hope of Ieaven, then be of good cheer. PULPLT AND PRIESS, SERMON DY TIE REY, GOLUSIIA ANDERSON, The Rev Dr. Anderson, pastor of the Second Baptlst Church, corner of Monroe and Morgan strects, preached yesterduy morning from the text: To write the rame things ta you, to me indeea {8 Tot greivour, Lat for you It 18 safe.—PAilippians, A power over the fenorant, the illiterate; the printed page most deeply dmpresees and_moves | the edi- entedy the Intelligent. When the entire n ton shall have been enlightencd, when the masaes shall hiave been made avquainted with history, acience, and literature, then the pulpit will Tase its hold on socicty, and at lnat he nu hered among the thines which were; while t! press will beecome the grand ngency throvgh which the intellizenve of the people shall bio verpetuated and Increased, in ur[msl!hm to this theory, we maintafn that Both the pulpit and the press are demanded by the people, however perfect anay be thetr enls ture. Men [n nll stages of clyilization are most ruwcrmlly attracted and decply moved by tho iving person. A human plrit, fited with soma ereat thought, and consunied by some ity passion, putting ftsetf, throngh the medhun of r\ltm hy fn contact with the souls of others, hus alwuys been and ever will bo unrivaled among thespiritual forces wiclied by men. ‘Fhewords of Demosthenes stiered the Athenfan heart to its profoundest denths, beeause through thovg words were felt the (ull force amd fire of ono of the mightical men of Ureece, His spirit o ‘The best Biblical acholars haveseiven to these words different Interprotations, By way of ex- position, I shall do little ore than simply to note that fact, 1 am versuaded that an inter- pretation rejected by most commentntors s the correct one. Paul means by * the sane things" which he proposed to write to the]Philipplans, the thiizs which Le hiad before snoken to then. His thonght fs bronght ont with distinctness by emphasizing the word * write,” “To wrife the same things to you, to me Imdeed Js not burden- some or wearlsome, but for you it is safe." With s exposition accord the tho wordginth | fouchied anl cuntrotied the eniit "of s Iatter part of the chapter: ‘ For many walk, skt . % of whom I hava told you often," evidently by | i mm,,g,,l,‘,’,'“ "“'l‘.}“‘ifi':,,nh“:f.a,' I‘zz,,n:f"{ word of mouth, *and now I tell you,"—in this letter,—** even weeping, that tliey are the enc- mies of the Crossof Chrlet,”,/We nave pre- sented to ue, therefore, fu the narrow compass of tho text, the Apostic’s entlre method of call- ing men to repentance, and of developing with- In thein the ddivino life. Standing fave to face with them, be preached to them the gospel. The spoken word, ener- pized by tho Bpirlt, becamo the power and wisitom of God to the salvation of all who be- Neved, When these Lelievers were gathered to- mether as s congrezation, or church, I'aul re- malned with them for weeks, for months, In soine Instances for years, that ho might unfold to them the highor truths of tne Gospel, and perfect them In the Christian lfe. But his commisslon was, * Far licnes to the Gentlles! " Tle could not become @ permanent worker fn any place, however Importaut. Other commu- nlties were perlahlng for tho Word of Life, and lie must proclaim it to them. Yet he woull not leava the churches already planted to wasto away aud perishe Al that had been gafned must not only bo permanently secnred, Lut must also bo still more fully developed, and must becomo tho fruitfol souree of blessing to tliose who had not yet belleved. To nttatu theso cuds others were called to continue tho Indis- peosablo work of preaching to theso newly- organized churches. Flders were ordained over them, aud commissioned to feed these flocks purchgsed with Christ's blood, * Paul also gathered around hin o band of young man, whom he Instructed in the Qospel, and into whom ho breathed his own spirit. Ho sent them forth, elothed with hia autlority, to re- buke, Instruct, and guids those Christian com- munitics which bad sprung Into belng under the quickening breath of hisInspired utterances, Butfn addition to thls instrumentality of preach- Inx, employed 8o constanuly and cffectivoly by himscll and others fn bullding up and con- solidating the churches, the Avostle also made constant useof his pen, While ke made tents at Corinth, and preached on tho Sabbath in the synagogue, ho wrote his letters to the Chureh at Thessalonlen. At a loter day, returning to Corinth that ho might personally superintend the importaut church gathered within thoe come merclul capltal of Greece, word was brought to him that the Galatian churches were ylelding to the baleful Influcnces of Juduizing teachers, and ha wroto that wonderful Eplstle In which indig. nation agalost his supplauters and tenderness for his deluded brothren vie with cach otlier, Near tho cluse of his winter's stay at Corinth, lic wrotc the Eplstlc to the Romans, which has probably done more to - press and mold the churclics, 1n all the nges of Christianity, than any other portion of the Bcriptures, When n prisoner at Romoe he wrote to the Ephestuns, Colosslans, Philippians, to ‘Timothy and Titus, As the bloody Nuro sent from lis palace his dispatches to the rulers of the provinces and the commanders of his armies, so Paul sent forth from his prison, along the snme routes of travel, his Insplred Alspatches, whoso truths were destined not only to conlirm the bellovers of Asia atd Urcecs, but at last to overturn that government of iron, of which Nero was then the haughty head. . And these letters were not addressed to private per- from every Athenlan lip. When we rend the sormons hy Juunthan Edwards on “Justifica- tion by Paithh Alone,” £o compact fn thought, ro doctrinally dry, we wonder how hils sudlences were 8o swayed by thein, that scores ol persons at Northampton were brought through them to how their witls to the witl of Chrdst. But we forgot the ereat preacher as a peraon, 8o noled for his evangelical fervor, who through those paaeages of condensed loghe put bis szlml'hm spirit into contact with the souls of his hearers, and thus under Uod moved them to repentance, When we read the discourses of Whitefield, noted for nothing so mueh as for their pateity of thought, in bewilderment wo ask how it was possible for him with such_sermons to holld thousands 1n rapt and tearful attentiont lut we miss the mpnssioned nnd pathetfe preacher, who, fu o rure degrec, possessed the }mwero lwurlm: his cinotlon and passion Into the hozoms of others; who sometlmes protioanced with euch pathos that one word “Mesopota- min' as to melt men to tears. In contirmation of our position, that the living speaker Is the mightiest spirltual force cemployed by men, nod i3 demanded by Lhe lenrued os well ns by the illiterate, we vonfi- dently appeal to the lyeeum lecturer of the present day, e may hdive no hizher aim than to mpart Intelligence on literary, scientitic, and political sublects, Lo winister to the wathetic taste and mcct that craving for humor and wit which is found to a grreater or less degree In all meu; vet, whers sititalie ahility is not wanting, notwithstanding ail our efforts to cheapen and popularize throngh the press the ripcst fruits of scfentifie rescarch, and our best llterature, the peuple, year after year, flock to bear huo, And these aidlences are gnll'mrml. not fromn the most fgnorant, but from the most Intelligent soclety of our fand. 1n vstimating the posrerof o genuine speaker, weoutht notto overlook tho fuct Lhat men frum their social propencities love to come to- rether, and aro most easily and mightily moved n masscs, The effect ol cloguenco I8 conta- wlous. The enthustasin of the speaker kindles that of s hearers; thelrs reacts on b, fan- ning his pussion to a flercer Name. Speakerand nudience penetrate unid interponetrate ench other. All are swayed hyaone common finpulsc. ‘The speaker i3 master, " He holds Iifs hearers within the hollow of his hund, Tnis 18 1o fancy sketel, We havo all suen it; all feitit. Itisn power pectilfur to oratory. The press kuows nothing ol it. - Aml to be thus touched and moved i musses 1s thy most exquisite of intel- lectunl leasures, ALl men, learned and un. learned, nre frresistibly nttracted by it And it is Just here that we touch the divine philosophy which underlles that plain direction of Serip- ture, *“Not forsaking the nssembling of our- selvea fogether os the munner of soma fs." We are commanded to put oursclyes in the most Tavorable of all conditions tobo touched and swayed by the truth, But, on the otlier hand, the press is demand- ed, especinlly In intelligent communitics. It mecta u felt want which cannot be woll satisited by ony- other agency, When we listen ton apeaker we must understand him at the thne when he utters hls thouwhts, ornot at all. lo does not wait to occommolate our sluw per- ception, but hurrics on in his discourse. But when, {n the quietudo of our homes, wo read the printed vage, If we do not at frat take In the thought of n paragraph, we can reread it. When we have n[vprehv.-ud:d the thought of our suthor, by ‘meditation the impression at liest made 18" de |‘mucd; or the thought fructifics {tself, awakeniug tralns of reflection which the author never conceived, When we listeu to an cloquent and powerful speaker, Le may 80 sway us that our judgment for the thne Is overbori aud perverted; but wben we read ju our cooler moments _what ke uttered, we are ably to lop off all excrescences, Whether or not It be burdensome for hlm to write what ho speaks, for us to read fu {s assuredly safo, But tho firuulnte beneflt of publishing 1s that valua- bls thought thercby beeomes permanent. To make a single impression for good i+ beyond nll price. The poot Laureate, of Eneland, speak- mg of the impressions which wo make on othera under the imago of echoes, writes: Qur echocs roll from soul tv sout, And grow torever and forever. By tho usa of the press theso waves of jnflu- ence, which continually widen and increasc in volumae and lrmvuu' ns l.hu{!rull ouward, may bo vastly multiplied, If unyan bad merely reachied tho substance of Pilgrim's Progress nt ford, be might have set in motlon spiritual influences of untold value; but ho wrote ns well, weaviug tho substance of his preaching into his immortal allegory, which for genera- tlons has been printed und read In muny differ- cut lauguages, (s tongue baslong been ailent in the grave, but his thoughta go winging their way over all lands, aud ‘down throurh the ages, singing tholr sweet songs of redemiption, aud lurlng men from sin to holiness, fromn carth to heaven, 'Theso two agencios, preaching and printing, 8o (tifferent n thelr e!mmclur, aro novertlicless not antazoulstic, Each has its appropriate sphere, Tho one docs not clash with, nor ex- cluda the other, any more than the sails which flutter over the deck of o steamship are antugo- nistic to the mighty engine which works In the hull below. Both “steaw and wind unite thele forces In fmpolting the ship right on to its des- tiny. 8o preachlng and ‘printing unite thelr diverse and mizhty forces Iu the great work of Bsaylog men, 111 Intho third place, lot us noto more }lunlnrly the relation of ug. Preaching {s primary. It is thoploneor ageney, This {s Indicated with'sutlicient distinctness in the Now Testanent. Chrlst did not say to the seventy, * ns yo go, print, publish " ; but * s rovince. _This was the only method of pub- iabing In Paul’s day, Our text then presents for our conslderation tho two great agencies cmfl")fl by God tu saving men—2reaching and 2ublizhing. L It Is cyldont, in the firat place, that it is the purpose of Uod, as unfulded ju the bistory of 1lis Church, to hold thess two agencics In con- Far bock {n the past there looms up fu colos- sal, {clu mmetrical proportfons, Moses, God's vrophet, Tsrucl’s law-giver, When Jehovah ap- peared to him: In the land of Midlan, Ilo com- manded him to go atd apeak to hia own people and to Phargol.. Mosvs, through unbeliof, ex- citsed Wmself, sayluge that hie was not cloguent. CUod, In displeasure, announced to him that Aaron should speak tor. him; the word commu- uleated by Jeliovah to him, Aaron should take from his Hpa and proclaim to tho people und thelr oppressor, But God provided not only that 1His will should bo spoken, but that sliould also bo written, When the Israclites bad been led out of thefr bondage through the spoken ward, with Its accompanying signs, (lnd catled Moses up into the Mount, and, amid thunderings and 1ightnings, sbove which were heard tnunfieul of the trumpet and the voleo ot words, Ilo ane him the Di written on two tables of atoue, 8¢, by dl viug direction, wero carcfully laid up in the Ark of thy Covenant, that l:omlnzfi: cucrutions mizht read the law written by the finger of Jehovah, Guided by the Spirit, Moses both proclsimed and wrote tho multifarious laws of the Peata- teneh, Thus God (n the beginning amlxluyu-l In the truinlng of his own peoplo, Isrucl, both speaking and writing, At u later day, Uod ralsed up tho prophets, They were, by pro-cminonce, the preachers of the old dispeneatfon. They did, indved, forote future cyents, bul this wus a small work. ‘They told the people of ne- preaching to publishe rtof their r ins, They unfolded and fearlessly applied tothe | yo go, preach”’ Paul wrate that men were conduct of men God's law lu all of ks pur- | saved * by ““tho foollshuvss of presch- Ity. But while they proclaimed death as | fng'* ’I'Im same wpostle, urging the the wages of sin, they called on men to re- ent, and pointed them to the coming glen.«hh who should redeem his peopte. Thus they preached to Isracl, But, directed by the 8plrit, they also wrote thelr messazes, that the church n !l oges might read them ud fearn from them tho true character of God. And in these days of maudlin seutliment concernlug ertmie and s Just punishment, nothing so quickly clariiles the spliritus! vision and pirds ot with moral strength us tho perusal of these thought that tho CGospel was adapted allke to Jew and Uentile, asks, % How shall thay be- love In iim of whoin they have not hesrd I and how sball they hear without o preachesi” 1t is clear enough from the Seriptures, that the great fundamentul nfuncv mmuxih which the world Is to be redecined fs the proclamation of the Uos- pel by the living preacher, Aud it s only through thhhux that pub- Nshig cun bo inade cffective. In support of this wo appeal to o cardinal fact whien contin- ually confronta us. Unrege: ta men lave no love for evangelienl truth, #'Fhe carnal mind s cnmity agatust God." Tle great, dull eys of the world winks heavily over tho pages of the Biule. Aund not until through “the fuollshness of preaching ' mon are saved, and have Linplant- ed within them new tustes, will thers bo any de- snand for books which duaf with the distinctive truths of tho Gospel, ‘There was o time when the Bible Bocletics of Qreat Britalu and the Unlted Btates concelyed the notion that the world m"im ba converted Ly printiog the Beriptures iu o}l languages, and scattering the Inspired leaves, like suow-flakes, among all uatious, But experlenco soon muzhi them that such o work, however foithfuily per- furiued, would coutribute little mare to tlie sal- vatlon of our race than a universal snow storm; that the word of God was eflective only as it was carrled to men by the lyvlug teachor, who, bavlug felt the power of its truths within his owu beart, uufolded them from the depths of hils experlence; and that only whon men had re- culved tho truths thus expounded by the living, earncit preachier was thero any real demand un thelr part for the printed ‘Bible. ‘Through preachiug the tusto for ovangelical truth iy crented, aud where it alreaily existe jua dormang state, 1s awakened, and theu wen usk for and cagorly read the Bible sud books filled with evangelical truth. A lzdy inouvof our great citles desired to When we reach the new _disponsation, we flnd that Christ, tha Ureat Preacher, concerning whom hls encimies were constrained to n(, “ Never man spake like this man,"' wrote noth. ngs but He (nsnuclm others and fmpelled thew to write, He l‘u-mnlu.nl to 1y disciples the Bolrit, who would briug all things whick Ho hud done aud safd to their remembrance, lis spostles took tho truth, whien 1o had thrown out before them n great Ingots, and, under the {uspivation of the SHplrit, wolded {t into o system; that 1s, into as much of systeus us was required for the trainlg of the churclies in thelr day. Theso truths thu Avastles both preachied and wrote. Aud when Clirist last spuke dlrevu( to vll; race from the midst of Hiy lwn\‘cnl_r glory, H8 sall to Johuon the 1sle of Patmos, ' Write? 11 3Moses had not written, wo should pot bave had the tirst Eden with fts inuocence aud Joy, where man tulked to b Creator us fricud” Nolds converse with friend; If Julin had not written as well as preuched, we should not have knuwn, as we do now, that sceond und fur more glorious Eden, with lts Innumeratle througs of the redeemed, andits River of Life, on tho banks of which fourishes the Tree of Life, whose leuves are for the hiealiug of the natlons, When the apostolic era had passed, the great teathers of the Church {n all the suc- ceeding centuriea both preached and puhlished. And when st last men learued the art | enguge iu the work of truct distribution, Sho oL Dnuuu;i, aud tbe prioting Y‘rus wus glven | went to her task in her ullaed carrl: The totho world, it was but the unfolding of | vehicle stonpéd ut the doors of the house ler servant olighted, took & tract, rang the bell, Landed it to thie ous who respoudud to the rlng- g, wnd drove vn. ‘The ludy's impulss was guod, but ber work was not much more effect- ve than If she Lad polltely leit a four-paged sheet of blavk paper at each dwelling. 1f, vn the contrary, sbe hid goue luto cuch house, und, out of a full heart, Bad preached the Gospel, sud bad thus awakoned w religious futercst, the tract or reliious book lght have fostered aud deenened fie When I was @ pastor in 8t. Louls, a Christlan Lrotber from Csuada came futo my fnquiry meeting. He said that he bad been for years i doubt &8 to bls sceeptance with God. Haviug satiutiad myaell that ha wus & true balioye .j God's great puepose and plan, An:d e fs worth wiuch 10 be assured what our work 1s strictly In the line of GGud’s purpose. President Lincolu once truthfully sald: * The lmpuriant quastion 1s uut whether God 18 on_our shie, but whether we ure un Uud's slde,” For oclug on Hia side, sctiog tu the Hne of fl18 yurpose, uur succoss i sssured, (uided by L’s wlsdow, und girded by His ownlpotence, wo go forth to certaln vic- tory. li. fn the second place, these two agencies, Brcuulug aud publlsbilog, are unof sutagonistic LPu-upel’Mh’fl. L vicw of what wo have already ul«%, this roposition secius (o be a mers trulsm. Yeb iy fl dfi:‘nfl-fl. ¥or wen staudivg bisrh {n Heors- sooke to him of the perfect salvatton whiel Tis T Clrlat, whiose Lleonl toanees (oo bt A Tlewns interested s it ho wason bixwis to Kangas, nnd in haste tareach the care. 1 put ftg his hand that ent It bouk Y Tha Binad of Jesus. “Fhroueh his awakened fafor. est e read 1t ns he went, and before he req his fourney’s end he was led with that 1z and peaco which flaws from sola trust for aals yation in the blood of Jesus, fle now in tuey heenme @ Christin worker. Iie weat from Tionse to house In the nelichborhood where e sojourneid, and_preached Chaist, e foung most of those who professeld Christ to be ig dnrkness, like that from which Lo had just been delivered. Ho preached llx comploty atoyement which has been mada-hy the bloog of Jesus, and the little nul;wr«uvmll loak which T rave bim went from Dand 0 haud, and the whole nelghborliood was brought to ex. pericnee in g lorge degres that peace of (i which pasees all understamding, Hern worg preaching and publishing lezitimately unitod, and henee both were effective, Juat in thiy ro Iation our Publication Soclety proposes Lo hold thent It comes toafd the prstorsof our churchea, by putting Into thele hatda buoks that wiij hiclpto deepen the reliztous fmpressions wi; they make by preaching. 1t sends out fis portears Lo enter il housea deatitute ot plet; and there to preach the Gorpel, and 10 cndeaviy to render permancnt any impresslon mady thirouel the truth, hy disteibnting Bivles ang evangellenl books. IV. But, in the fourth place, wo ask, whay shall we publlshi! The snma things that we ]Ir“lll'lh But what oneht we to preach? Ty undamental |\r|utllrlewhk-l|rm)lrulu 15 a8 4 de. tomination settles that: the Scriptures, wo ray, are our gubde Iuall matters of falth and e tive, [ know that this Is tie motto of Prote.g. nuts as opposed to Papiste, but we Baptists we allirn §t with speciul emphasls, Our work then is to unfold, so faras we are able, in all thejr Tength and breadth, all thé doctrines of the Bible, and to reatter them, hy means of thy press, broadeast over all the Iml. And by fen. aclonsly adhering to our fundamental prineinle il Lo the work which 1t necessitates, we' shiall svunest seeure somce coveted ndvantages, (1) First, we shall In this way do most to. sward attaining that unlty amane ull believers In Christy fur which the heat und hollest nien of all countrles and of all denominations of Chrls. tians o carnestly loue. Who does not wish it But how can wo compass i Mot by outward organization, 1€ we. shoulil shut up n dozen apecles of aulninls foan fran engo, they wonlt Thiecd ba tugetber,but thera woinl be o unlty among them, So we mieit put the various evangelical denomiuntions into one « tlcal enge, we might wire and bar them G wit: the stronuest ecclesiastical laws, and they might sing, !;fl n \whience doth thia nnlon arise, Dintredd In conguered by love? yeb there would be no more unity than thera was hefore, Tho tirst step towards this coveted fellowship s heartily to recognize and emphas slze those fundamental polnts fo which we (o now agree; but when wae have dono Ehls we aro still scnarated on those distinetive tenets which have given rise to the separate denominations. If we aro over to come fuily together, it must bo on soine basls which the great mnss of men of ordinary ntelligenco can rendily and clearly apprebemd, Now, nlnmeen-twentieths of qil cvangelical Christlans ni uly to necent os o principle of aciton the futedigitle declaration that the Seriptures are r”only galde fn all matters of faith and practie Many of them nm{ not have perceived that some of thelr scta flatly contradict this prineinle, yet to aceept it even verbally is to take n long step towurds unity. And’{f wo have not misrend the slgns of the times, the pgenornl sweep of evamgzellent thought s to the New Testament gs our ouly erelesinsticnl statute-hook. Within the pust few venrs o new Book of Cunon Prayer has been complied and edited by distinguisiicd minfsters of the Church of England, and of the Protestant = Eplscopal Chareh of the United States, ‘This book 1 sent. forth by n noted publisher and bookscller of New York. ‘The numerous changes which dis. thiguish it from the older Look of Common Lrayer bring it nearer to tho standand of the New Testament. In the ritual for the baptism ol Infants, the words “this child is regonernty " have disapuearced, Tne baptism s called o consceration, ‘Tho offlefating pricst Is directed Lo uge no water, unless the parent or guardian specinlly requestaits then ho may uso it Where the ofticers of the chnrch aro nentioned, the ,lnhrnsu Blshop or Preshyter” often recurs, 'lils, it 18 claitned, $ain hurinouy with the upos- tolleal constitutlons, framents of which wera written at 8 very early perlod of the Christlon Church, 'The phruae’ §s, fn fact, a refoetion from the New Testament, which often uuws the words Nlshop and Uresbvter or Elder Interchun 'u.ll)lly. It is truo that onlya few conererations have adopted this book: but the fuct that it could he edited, published, and udopted by any Episcopal churches {8 an ' slustical straw showing that the swoeep of evan- relleal sentimont aund opmion fs towards the ew Testument as the only sure guldo for the Churels of Christ: Not lunz ago a book, whose title (s ** Sclenca and the Gospel,” was dent forth ou its mission, both in England and the Unlted States, It was published under the auspices of the ** Anglieun amd Internutional Christinn Moral Scfenco As- sovlation,' for the promotion of the unity and usefuliess of the Christlan Chureh, Authors representing seven different denominations cons tributed to its pages, ‘Uhe fiest paper fnft treats of the Eccleslastical Polity ut the New Testa- ment. It could hardly liave beon written by u Baptlst, emce the” author speaks of a Daptist Church 'na- monarchleal, as o body submitting to the suthority of onu man, the cxact opposite ol the truth. ‘The underlylng argument of the entiro paver fs this: wo aro striving for greater uuity among all true bellevers fn Chrlat.” Tn upostolic tinies, though the churches were madoup of thy most diverss clenents, converted Jews und Uentlles, thera was, on the whole, great hare wony; if, therefore, we wouid reach our alis, ouglit'we not to et buck, so far as possitile, Lo apostalic slmpliclty? . The suthor then, in o scholarly woy, presents to us the government of the apostolic chiurches, and most of hia cons cluslous _ure i exact aceord with the prace tices of Daptistehurclies. And this bools §3 com= mended to tho public by the influcncs of men ropresenting tho most iuiffuential Christlan de- nominations s the world, It fs prophetic of thut day, not far distant wo trust, when all lov- era of Christ will say, ** Come, let us no lonzer walk by tho fecble, cross lichts of tradition, but intho strong, Inextingulshablo light of tue New_Testament.” ‘The day may come when the Evangelical Alllance will meet In soms rlobe, for the express i to ascertoln what the aches concerning doetrine sud the planting and training of ciurches, sud with the uvowed purpose of bowle the will to that teaching whatever it may bo, lere, it anywhere, lies our hope for the unity of the Christlan Church, liaptists are thought by miany to be one great obatacle lu thy way of that’ nnlzf, but untlinching loyalty to Clirlst, the priuciple by which wo uim (o be governed, st nasuredly, at last, bring luto unity all real lovers of Chrlst, 2 (3) In the sccond place, tho unwavering malutenance of thu priueiple that tho Now Tes~ tument alone 18 the only reul guido of the ful- lowers of Christ, and dnawerving talthfulucss in expoundiug 1t by tomguo and pewy will oventually fred us from all fulso cuflunmll'hm. Wo mean by false eceleshasticlsm all those Tites, ceremoitics, and customs which during the uyes buve grown up in the Church, and are con trary to the spirit und teschingsof the Now Tus- tament, ‘There {8 not a denouiluaion fn Chrlst- endom wholly Iree from them. Sume ainong us bold that the validity of baptism aepends on the ecelesinstical stunding of tho udministrator. ho bus not himsel! been lmnniersed, though thy Eenun buptized by blm nay have been s tru clicver, and oy with all kincerity have do clared hils death to sin_and his new lifo unte God, the bantisw fs consldered spurious. If the udinlnistrator hus not heen ordatned us well us fmmersed by those who have been flmwmersed, then baptism at his hand is not valid. But when we turn to tho New Toatament we tind nothing of wll this. ‘fhere 18 vo clear ovidencs that auy of the apostles, save in a single loe stauce, ever buvtized suy one. Paul suys that be baptized Crispus and Galus andtue housenold of Btepbanas, aud he did not know whether o baptized uny other, He adits, bowever, that by was not scut to baptize, but to preach the Uos- pel, u clear declarution’ that preaching was hiv great work. There §s not a wyllable in the New Testament that tesches us that a Blshop or Elder ever admiistered either of the ordi- nunces, whlle Deacon Pulllp did. ‘That the Elders of apostolic churbes did admin- {ster the ordinances 8 probubly trug, bub wo fustance i3 recoraed, Thu truth secms (o be that Chirist gave the ordivances to liis churches, and comnanded that they should be adminis- tered, but their validity does not de{wnd on the ecclesiastical status of the adwlulstrator. A church way designuta any ong of its number who can ddvently aduilnister them, aud whether hie be laywau,or, Dewcon, or Elder, the ordivauces Wil ho validy }f the subject of them v duly quahtied to recelve them. ~ But wo are still &0 Datwpered by su eccleslasticlsm which is entire- l{llurdgu ta the New Testament that (cevle churches destitute of pastors aro dueprived of the osdinauces for wonths, sometlues for years, because no vrdained Elder can be found- 1o adwuister thew. If auy one bas the temer- fty to puzgest that they can properly deslguste sotue unordaiged ‘persun of heir owy huwber Lo buptize thoso who buye belleved, aud Lo break bicad fu vbedicucs ta Chrigt, bo 18 lovked upon i some quarters as alwost 8 beretic. Wheu [ was o student, sud sometimes preached for destibute cuurcles, I noyer veos tured to hold up md band as thus cluss of =