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

HE CriuAaGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1877, 1ions was the bal man,—ten that il not*want to have God in their thoughts,—brazen men, who defied Goll. Unable to measure the whole fll-desert of houest bellel; unable to state what may be its penalty besond thia life: this we can state: that the harm of skepticlsm must be found whire {t disputes or stands away from somo great principle. arralgn a man for not knowing who wrote the Pentateuch, nor which phllnsmfll{ the Armienian or Calvinistic Is tho more true. It no_moral quality; but when ynuhmu upward, and doubt whether there is a tver, & Judge, and a heaven and a hell, yon ave cume to where the responsibility of ‘the mind sets In in its saddest form, Here it would scem that the heart Is guiity I It tuens theso mighty prepositions into emrly negations, How guilty’is to man unknown, of thie judwment falls upon all theso doubting ones in this life, It {s no happy fate to walk along through this mortal lifg without beini able to sea the presence of the Fathier or to fec f immortality beyond. theso three-acore fecs and liopes of relizions to stand in the temples of God without feeling the presence of One greater than man; to watk throngh the for- ests which have no Creator; toseo the flowersin a world that will never have a Puradise; to look up to the hecavens and fcel that stars mever saw n Christ nor felt a law of Deity,—this 1s {tscll a sorrow that has no measurement. It inay be that unbellef finds its Judgment in the of the cups of earthly foy. Earth, at hest, has igh happlincss too many, leasurcs it could aiford to throw away some, ut the higlher you look the rarer are the forms of happiness. Man 18 to e piticd when ha loses own children, the fading of all enthusiazm, and then the solemn nzony ot death, are eventa so sorrow(ul that onc cannot wejlsurpoge that that nct whil demand any torment in cternity. Tune Judgment seems to come liere hieavy nnd rapid. s no welght nor measure for :0 should Hmit his argument more to the duties aud facts of this life. fact is not to be doubted lits thoughts and eriotlons tiere, and must acex to prescrve around bis roul the conditions of ita hiealth, A grain dealer of thiseity found, a few years ago, that his mind was being trans. formed Into a sense of wheat. As theceye Is a wense of Heit, and the ear of round, and the tungue of taste, 80 he liad displacer nfl thess by n nrew sense—a sense of wheat, Ile rose carly to learn the latest quotations East, he eat up Inte at uight to figure at the margrins of the last or next million bhushels, dreamed, amid it he ate, and RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing Discourses on sponsibility for Thought.” the farure, and b that man must rule . Dr, Thomas Talks Eloquently ncerning God's Best Gifts Dedlcatory Services at Graco Mothodlst Church, and the New Jewish and of wheat he A attempted to think All elee began to disappear from the world,—lterature, religlon, fricndship, amtse- ment were all flying out of the window white whuat was coming in nt the door, ie was one s which by. nature concentrate There are minds which, like o sun-glars, pour all ravs upon onc spot. This from insanity, and pertinps from sulchle, by his having caught one plimpse With' a _powertul will ‘ho lmited his thouwhts of teade to about four Tiours o day and, outside of those hours, came to him hotne and piay, and books and friends, and bis world wilened out into somethlog besuth The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Plymouth Congrega- tional Church. of tuse i 1pon one polnt. nan was rescued RESPONSIBILITY. BERMON RY PROF. Prof. 8wing preached yesterday morniug ot the Central Church from the followIng texts: Keep thy heart with all dili are the {suen of life, — Prot., o Lot the anrighteous man foi of the coming ruin, zcucn;‘lnr out of it v, 94, rsake his thoughts, — I havity thinketh no evil.—I. Cor. lll., 5. There haye been persons and times that ook ed inward too onstantly. Christians who so marked the operativn of their own mind, that not only did they eut off the wide landscape of the unlyerse, but they saw 100 much of the small and unimportant of self. The gloom of medimval Christianity came Jarge- 1y from this Intense self-scrutiny, and from the doctrine of total depravity, which compelled the meditative mind to see more Inward evil than {nward good. Thomas a Kempls led ovi- dently a boly ife, but a narrow one-—vue full of painful self-denial und self-scruting, It might have been both holy aud broad, for righteous- ness {s not narrowness, but breadth, The past, however, was not wholly wrong, nor §sthe present wholly right. Each illustrates the Injury done by extremes; for while the past studied sclf too constautly and too sadly, the resent marks too Mittle the action of seff, und catows most of its attention and tove upon the things away from the “me.’? ‘Ihe text remiods us of the responsibility of man to God for himsell, not onf among men and toward Uod, even the sccret Ima .t our theme be the reapons each heatt fof {ts prevalent thoughts aud bes Suiclde s #o raro a resuit that ft must hot clalm more than a of a given muititude necd be warned from sell- destruction, Self-zovernmnent os to thoughts and feelings reposes upon a broader busls. egiect bs not that men will kil themselves, but that they will live Ladly. To neglect one’s thoughts, “amd (nally seck dently s perhiaps not as great a misfortuticns 1o neglect one's mind and permit it to pour ont ties, or vulgarity, or horrid, rensel There are thousands of men who once, [ early 1ifc, enjoyed the use of o great langunge,—the English, that vehicle of thought and feellog so powerful aud beautiful to carrv outward the soul of poets and orators, thousands hase lost thel and use s gibberlsh of oaths and vulgarity, hall tifotic, half profane. It is a end thing, accord- ing to Solomon, when the farm, the canicen, of the sloggard {8 neglected, and the thurn and briar displace the roxe, and vine, and the olive, but it is sadder stiil when, neglect, the garden of lanZuagze is srorned, the poisonous weeds of vaths an slang stmugle those words which have for thousands of years been growing up into love- liness uunder the cutture of the gilted of ail uges, Onoof the greatest treasures of on agu is Its lanruuge, and one of the richest jewels an fndividual van possess is that tongue, lireck, or Frenel, or Gurman, or whicli 18 to the mind tho harp-strings by which 1t makes itsclf audible, not only to others, but An ancient declared languing nasing remark. There have been danger fram scl —but, at last, theso r maeniticent specch seen arrayed in white in it immortality. For the sccrot words and thoughts of the intidel, then, there s this judgment: That | it there I8 removed from his ‘eye n world, the sweatest that has floated before ilio soul of nan, For it inthifons huve smiled and wept in Joy, and death has been peaceful beeauses the grave was to be made, not in the ground, but in"the pres- ence of a God and u Savior. But our time has cxpired. sevret thoughts, all ye who ars on the morning under o grosser border of lite! tears which will lead you to weep the more each Abato the zel for some one pursuit,—a zeal that may eat up Fanpty out the sceds of vice which will soon grow Into a tree, Guard azalnst an unbellef which can only close against you a world which hias longg been not only the Heaven ot the here- after, Lut the best heaven of this 1ife. TOE GIFTS OF GOD. A SERMON BY DR, M. W. THOMAS, The following discourse was preached by Dr. | Jaws Thomas yesterduy forcnoon ot Centenaty | tears sod help us - back dnatiun, of the even to Itself, to be the plcture of the soul it just as we sing in the eight notes. To take this sublime property and mix it Into vulgurity und prolanityistohave tnllen aslow as une woulil be who shonld puss through Louvre throwing ftel upon the inimitable canvases. For all these Jdle words man brought to judmmment. 10 " beeone profane. Xone dreatn In wlvance of losing thelr lan- guage, thelr power of specch, and of becotning vandals {n the temples of the divinitics, cotie to profanity only by a long neglect. the defaulter comes to his final great fraud by 1otz and slow appronches, by long gaziug away from the right aud towsrd the wrong, so the man who loses the gilt of speech mixes in his oaths lttle by little until noble speech is dead, aud ho muttérs, and wtuminers, and raves with hips which once knew the Loney of sweet elo- Yefs. (1) It should be presumed from analogy that anan's thinking powers are subject to some law, and are a perfect empirc to be ruled by some wisa throne. The garden of the slugea: Eolomon saw la ua brond as the world. art, each sclence, each rellglon is a gurden, ‘whose beauty and fruitago depend upon thbe toll of the owner, and, when the owner of the garden in any manner neglects the precious plants, then the thorn and the brier come, and the walls arg In such & world the mivd s an ortant garden, to be most wiscly cared for, & garden which wil show qulckly the results Hcenee, although tho medheval u scll too much, yet the great law remalns, that man inust carc “for his owa soul, and must answer hiere and lerealter Sor all shortcomings n this part of the earthly The living God Who giveth us richly all things toenjoy.—1, Tim., vl., 17 Sometimes the greatest truths of the Blble seem to flash out Incldentally, and almost asklo from the main argument or subject, And fluuslluu of the refations of the Infinite to the someLimes again thero §s an fmmenso reach, or grasp, glven to a truth that appears on sone lower plane of life, by showing its- relations to tho vast upper-world of fact from which it fs descended, or that ilus back of It as n cause, Boitis here. The Apostle is gnarding tho rich against the danger of trusting In uncertain riches; and then by one simple upward turning of thought—one look at causation and the re- Intlons of thinga—ho opens to jour vision tho fietmamont Christlans razed u (2) Not only was the old introspection too constant, bul It was too narrow It wus for the most port 8 looklng after sinful thouglts; it 'was a perpetual cownparison between the carthly conduct and the suvposcd heavenly conduct, But the mind sustains other relations besldes those to thy ten commandments, und hence its 1ntrospection must cover u Wil that traveled over by the meditation of the to a apotless snorality are very lmportant, but if he regard fo the Jaws of have too littis Lealth to make his moruls valuable, or he will die before any lfe-worke shall have heen doue. Beraara to sunshine und food were as real ve his relatluns to Gods but he adopted only the latter, and expunged the statute-book of Nature. thay self-study of the post, zeal In une directlon, The feaponnbllity All ouir sorrows and our joys come tous by a long path; the sorrows that we may avert them, the joye that wo may have the happlitess of seeing thetn upproach. Time for defense und time fur enjoyment uro granted wll of God's children. Wa'children of earth are permitted to foresce tho evit and the wood. Aa the younger hearts cun lock through weel andd see the coming festivals, aud can thus lve In the laud of propliecy befora they coms to tha lund of (utfitment, S0 the thoughtful mind cant foreses an evil, and can fully defend ftselt Winter approuciics by slow steps. The husbandman, the mechanie, the widow, the fotherless, are sdmonislied fulllng leavcs, afterward, by cooler winds sighing through lealiess branches; afterward, duys or weeks, snow-flakes uro secn In tho air, and then, after manifold admont- tlons, winter takes full er ground thun food and sleep, tho truth that we do not creato theso earthly blessings, but that this liviog God gives them tous for our enjoyment. ushiered nto a vast world of truth, where we may turn over such mluhty questions as God, of Hia glfts, ant the purpases for which Ile gives, One of the many strange things in connectlon with the human mind is, that'1t 1s forever com- Ing up against this great fact of God. There Is subjoct that we toucls or any wo attempt to follow out, hut somchow tlds thought of Ged comes up, Liko Romo of vl all roads secm to lead tothls grent centre. Like u clrele, or an over-hanging sky, it Is all around vs und about us, sud turn which The relations of St. | as the hours pase, others from the great Too_uarrow wus all It wasun over- an oblivion of all vlse, or thoughts and feelin must be far wider than iL scemed to tl olden thmes, and must Include not unly wan's possession of field and Lus tho thoughts and tmaginations of heart slowly come to In the outset they admon- tho judizment, tuelr final vice. The + conscience, ceive the coming of o leadun sky. celve that a wind—not sott like & zophyr, not Taden with perfume—Iis sighing around by night and day, and thus, amll moany warning ‘volees, a once rood hoart moves destruction. As the suickle gradually approaches his terrible act, a0 the inind moves slowly ulong toward its leentlousness and dishonesty au erlme. That Parwdol had - begio several “years befure hia death to lay the dark foundutions of the deeds He hal torled and hoped for greator had been nominated by free thought, but hud been twlce defeated tle had been pursned by the throne as a disturber of the natlon. finally been sent to America by the last Nu- puleon, as though s better day wero about to dawni and upon the third day sfter Parado! landed upon the continent of freedom and ce, Napoleon became n blowly Ueneral, and out Franco against the Uerman bayonet. ‘Then the sensitive and patriotie Frenchman loft He wus busy for almost fil- ears (n gatheriog up the sorrows that should, at last, express themaulves In death. Thus, only less nobly, nen walk toward thelr suprome Nour of futéllectual or moral ruin, The funer buds of thought of spring show thele frultage In the nutumu. It must be that in such a world, whero des- tinies, sad or glorfous, are slowly evolved from the secrct thought of the mind, the re- sponsibility of each une for his thoughts {s fin- measurably great. While the saints of day Jouked Iwanlly too stewdily, whether oit tnink of the gilted hat later one who wrote tho *‘Meditations amongz the Tombs,” it fa yet probuble that a growing vast {in its inoterlul riches and th, has turned the heart tou much awsy ro [tself, sud the world, which hud too muny tus now obly too few. ble, **he who ruleth his own spirit than he who taketha city,” Christlan_phiflosopher thun the military con- Yes, becauso the task of philosophy s wors dificult and more glorlous. Ing of merit to_sally forth {n the olden time and dethirone s Prince and murder the citizeus, or reduce them to boudaze. and Hubrews and Rotnans could do he glory of all such exploits fade in wortal whose triumph is within Low n the dust lle _all those captaing of conguest compared with a John Buaptist, who led the world lu penitence, or a Christ, who showed mankind a snow-while soul. Andalnee thls rullng of the splrit cotnes trom the will, which loosens or re- strains chought, u respousibility of great di- wmenslons ruits upon it his relations to all eallinzs and pursuits, and to all the qualitica and quantities of his nature, Mau {3 naturally o pleasure-secler, but his love of pleasure inust bo held within bonks. ft must be cultivated, lest he hecome an ascetle, a gioomy, morose mortalt It must be restrained, eet he abanden the useful and become o cons firmed reveler, o frequenter of all resorts of fushion or viee, or a glutton, or o drunkard, Mau Is g truth-secker, but thisisland in the soul must bive » governor to administer lnw and It uppears thut inuy is s union of many states, und that he ix i a sense Klng of ull, aud 18 under vath to Nature that no state in his kingdom shull recelve deteiment. Selt should no longer be studied night and I sackelotl, os in the past, but it must receive more than o life-long nu o passing thought. This way wo will it looks In upon us, sny thut to ol thoughtiul minds, yes toall minds, no one thought is so ever present as the lonte to fts Injury or | thought of God. It [s inevery langaaie and with gaze, None of us can givo a full account even to ourselves as to how the thouzht came, or why 1t camie, nor how nor why it rematns. And yet 1t Is 50, and It would scem must be more than o dclusion,~must somehow bo i greut fact that there §s 8 living God,—oue in whom we live, in whom and without whuin our belng could ot 0 be._And thore secms to bo something in the | fact, We ara not in a dead world, but o lving mind of man, in ita very constitution, and in tho anawering fucts of the universe, that Is over hringing these two—that I8, the mind of man, and God—tozether, It may be partly in this, that our mimds are so condtituted that they must seek after causatlon, amd wan find it only in some stich thouuht us auswers Lo our coneen- Aud then it may be, and [ think {8, further in tnat endless relatlonship of things nothing 18 by (taclf, I.u‘llt one thing Sl freedom In France. day In tears and neglect, ud mwore human harp has i pects mun o keep it in tune, 1e task easy Lo thoss who will not treat Yer kindness with Qtter contetapt, What lesson do many sulcides Leach us mors plainly than this—that men realize too feebly thelr power over thelr own thoughts and emo- tions, and their uccountabillty alsv, and assutne that thelr condition is u necesalty and & part of this present evll worldl Hugh Milier bs winouyg the sufcldes of our memory. Yook back sow and ses how Nature, or Gol, %ield him responsible for the mestery, or non- mastery, of bis thougby and fuagination? He resence of man and God for all the while ot rocks, a thao earthly scene. Can we not all agaln to something boyond, and all tnings at last related to God or First Cause, so that on whatever road tho mind travels it reaches Qod; and, having been necustomed to thfs rosult, [t comes at last to u shorter method than followlng all theso windings of the path, knowing where they finally lead, it lsaps at once to the end of its Journoy without golug over tho many {nterventng steps, But, altbough the thought ot God mevts us at uvery step fu life, aud we ars constantly fnd- | ders ing fn this thought an suswer to WANY (uess tlous, and un explanation of many facts, yut ure st competled 1o admit 1o themselves anl 1o otbiers that, whilst tho answer and the explanation are wufliclently largs to cover all queations and fucts~—beinyg the largest that i s possitle for the mind of man to clther con- wlve,~it 8 too large fur ‘was culpable In pazing outwar erns, and shells, and for givin, tuat harp of many strings lu Yoversed the fute of some of his anchorite while they died from lovking within, Miller died from looking without. Mldnight found him studylng fusell reconelle geology and Gen moble [ramu and noble miu moro rest and slec| nes, or tolliug ta , while his once were bewginz for ‘Tho pursuit of truth be- that it becume & trenzy. ler given to the laws of his own mind aud happlness oue-tenth part the contem- plation ha gave to the laws of glucler and alluvium, he infhit bave Kept up & barwony bes o e thut would have better thun bis harwony between the Book and s Our Becretury, Btanton, ended his own lifey 80 did that elegunt wrlter and extrews patriot, Trevost Paradol; und s0 one whum you ull made the sad cholee to go out of the world ruther than endure itssorrows, With- out atteinpting 2o analyze ecachone of these memorable cases, may we not dee I thew full proot that each tuan, born lato this world, is by that fuct made governur, LOL ouly 0f4 proper- 1y, or a profusslon, ur an ingusir) He is interested wil wld, better thau oftice, better thau cate hurp whose strings o tauat never strain fu the Keylng, nor strike oo vio- lently, Undoubtedly, melancholy and sulclde Wil come, do what the world niay, for disease sud greut sudden calamitics will, o all aves, do- throue, ut tines, the Intelloct, Vroughit deathis a8 bave just wuglit uever Lo cul cotne from the uuw, scll-reprouche: iwcen bis bral All tho Indians | of the universe nocuss ence on our part to A higher power us the cause of the various phenomena with which we aro but they do not afford any full ex- that cause, That 14 to say, by auch i reference of all things to God we have done the best, and, fndeed, tho only thing, we can do, but we have done nothing at all towards ex- laining how these things can be, or answering ho mmany questiona that come up all abous us, Wo bavo simply sald: fero s sifect, thero s causs; hers sre the gifts, thers Is the Qiver; here I8 lfe, thero {s the living Uod, Aud in this it is Liest for us to rest. miud tlod its own aud most rationul anawer fn GUod, still tiie facts are about us, und all the timd dowanding o hedring and au answering (n our own understandlng; aud wa are utterly un- uble to clther put thess facts aside or to give uny better answer, unswer is given. And, worcaver, this is the very bist unswer efther to oursclyes or ta others that 's possibla for us to muke, and in experlesce we fiud that such an answer gives the mind rest, und that without it there 18 no rest, Inall ex- perfence we lind causu preceding effect, and in- teiligonce back of designg und in experience wo tind " jutelligonce coucreted fn sowe form of We flud in vurselves perdonality, and intelligencs, and life; our personality, uud f""’ down luto the very grave jtself and vital- {! . zes ugudn, In suine form of beauty or use, the dust that once lived und moved in human Lot us conclude, that the minds which slull ever reach a biessed result ahall bo those which, at times, louk juward and mark along what seerct path the spirit Is making its great march. Aud one need not mark simply whether he is regund- ing the ‘Ten Commamndiments, but be must ro beyoud that erude avalysis, aua mark whether ke s not babitually sad when ho should be sud @ slave to a wmarket-place or o n the world where he vughe to be free, 'he noul should alviuys begreater than fts dally but such sulf- cen meetloved or to have come. om which glves the miud und heart o chusee dor brlugug In the sup- plics of dally happiuess, u wide neglect ol self. Jound that e wus devoting Lis niguts, as well us his duys, 10 a study of Nature's problems, and was using his baman pihit, when ull the Juws of b ought to be wrupt in slvel der obligation to his Muker wn bounds to b They como from Oug questlon risesup to embarrass greut); When ™ Hugh Miller o B py ure you il you possess o o quertion. The Inquiry s 1f nan I8 held responsivle and must "eu- counter judgment, zood or {1, for ail his imental then what s the penalty £4 Is man responsiblo et 1 In our day we sesuprizht men and kind, even senaitlve, loviug learts’ passing b these years without not ouly fef, but without any conviction thit there §s a personal God or any tinal sceount court above that of man, words agulnst perfect nuswer to ur his pen, at mid Naturedeclured thay theu was hie un- his family, and workings, gooa or I} inteltigence, and lifo cry out Wo asstne iud; we percelve God; but we caie uot explaiu God. Thoe Hible assumes His cxist- euco} it dues nob attetupt by argument Lo Ve it, nor docs [t attempt Lo cxplain God that He is, nud that Bible cun suy. The Bible does fndeed reveal very much about God, and thereln reveals God us to His vature, His 'uu, tils tratn, Hu will, work, scek rest In amuscment, or change Lose sulcides which Lilzhier wulks of Jife, whiere there is no pluching overty or heart-breaking fll, come trom the olly which for years crowds the wind futo ono narrow chaunel until jts clastlaty §s gone. It bas no days or nlguts of sell-heallvg, Wrap » chale about u tree, und fur o few years the tree will throw onut fls leaves and blossowms drop snd leave no fruit. The chutu s cutting off the vutruoent of all tbat dellcate verve-work tu twiz wud leaf. rewmoved, the tree way rully sud recover, wauy a soble inan wlil put himsel? o chalos, wod all seems well fur a thme, but at luat biy laughter diminishes, his fricodsbip fulls, his re- 1igion {s less true uud wore deapol Lowe scems wiscrable, bis future becomes shad- “The chain tightens uotil o pletol ehot, & polsunt or @ ruzor termiuates the throbbivge of What form or degree of punishment befalls a sulctde beyoud this life 10 oue may kuow. It would seemn probably that when such unact comes frow voe's own Beglect of sell, that the =cedes the deed rather than fol- thelr sccret thoughts they sro Drouuht to judgment us the thoughts cowe, for the dying out of Jally jov aud buoyuncy, the , the wycrsloo toatl so- cart, evcd tuward ou's to be readered at an Do ali tuess thin which judgment as last coni lem ! "Ob, that somo curtaln il show us the woral quality Nuture over agalnst tiod us another wreat bouk revealivy or showing i forth in 1ts worksy but neither the Bible nor Nature attempt Yo tuke uway the deep nysterics thut pow, aud pos- | the urever Lo tnite wiuds, must bang around stupendous fucls. ‘Tho best we can do fs aceept thiews a8 they come to ua, or as we tind them, sud journcy forward to such further liglit und explunation as the future inay reveal. Believinyg, trustiog miods and hearts dnd o whols liletimo of reat wud Joy i God, whilst | plalu, of land uns theskeptlcal are fu perpetual urest about God. Tho child In its cradle aud o its mother's army Aud we, rocked in the vester crudle of the world, and neld lo the iululie arms, sbouid also rest. of God as litle childres,—ycs, Wo wust cou- tlnug in the scoso of trust, to live there as ‘I'his “Ilving God " giveth us richly all thinge We all understaud what 13 weant o gift. It lwplles that oue pos- wessed sumetblug aud wves § to suotber. Tt passes frow the ownership of the ous to the | thun U f the other. cuougl ju our ailalrs, Bub whed wo pass up Lo creates the undellef. My own deepest fecl- ing {s that the saddest judginent comes where man could see the truth if he ouly would, and that Uod is merciful whera Hlis children walk unwiilivgly fu thag spiritusl shadow called un- 1a mortal fails to sea tho tendency of Sutewperance or falsehood or any vice, the gullt 15 great, because the evidence is reach, hut pot to cherish the futh of a Christian —not to be able tothinkaud feciasthe Christiun fucls, s a meutal state thot Las no wind that cheats 18 nelgboor, s and maketh a lie. Paul tinds that a wan who does uot pruyide for his fumily is worse than su fufide), Thus there are thoughts for which wan is arrulgoed for & severer punistiment than for his sincerest sentimvots of relizious distrust, We kuow, also, that our Lord treated the doubt- ing Thomus with tenderness, ‘This abpeurs true: that the unbehef of the Beripturey was uot vo much the inyuiriug wind of & good heart us the vice und reckivesuess of a Lad Luarte Fhie wan futibful Lo Lis own couvic wearluess of fricadsh Gigty, Ly speiby of 10 the Intinite. Neither carth nor heaven will cro doubt has it were, of od, o Loyw- t may be that much finite, To spend in laughine at the rerv- I supn thosg wer It has of emptying one In lower eteruall, own dead and theirs are The -moral Impossibly the braln and heart. that n t. to us of henee into eousness, In which appears the and along with this It 1s sufe to It 1s aolinost tho Hrst to childhood, ~and Is the we turn our dylug differentlated 1 fsolated or stands is related to this to something olse, cousclous cudless series to comprehend, The aud - the facts ate some such . refer- { wa refuse to lot the withiout w| Nor can wo rest thl soiue mollusk to man. or u llying God. budles, is, the deepest word that th exiatence. We wust euter this Kingdom Tuls is all plalu | power ol the higher thaughit of God eiving to men, we find ourselves in the possession of !OIHCL'IIHK not 8o easily understool. Here artses the ques- tlon_of how God glves to men; ory in other wornls, the atestlon of the eclation of the finito A uilt, to be a gift, must fo puss over from the glver es to ceasc Lo be his, amd to become the real posssssion of the re- ceiver, We nften may say to our children that wo give them certnin thinge and then take them away—that ourselves, “But that s giving, It conveys nu real righta, Now, how ls it that (lod gives? Docs 1l¢ 8o reive as to relinquish His own right, and to confer a real ownership upon usi Jlo docs. And yet in ail theso things there ‘may he neccasary limitations. ‘The relations of the finite with the Infinite nre such that we can never become In anyabsolntesense Independent, —1hut {s, conse to be dependent upon the In- 1 ro, wo should be scil-cxistent, and might, 8o far as I see, becoma infinito oursels Wa mnust always have our belng from Godj and yet stich {8 the nature of the gift of our beiniz, that In passing over from Uod to us it becumes our own, and wo becomo ourselyes, but et not In any such sense that wo could ex- ist ctit off from or scparated from God, Thus there Is o nvr}xalunl hux and influx; that Is, & flowlng forth into us; aud yet {n such n sense that what comes into us thereby hecomes really our own. Auzaln, in these relations of the Infinite to the finitg there muat be this necessury lmitation. ‘The Infivite caguot xive that which Tie does not Himeelf possesd, nor that which the finite has no capacity to receive. And by thesc lmitations both God “and man are conditioned, God s obligated to the right. Hois held n the everlasting law of righteousncas, Il ts this tlence, when the gkeptic or nn- | law. It {3 this that makes Him God. Without belleser examines his thoughits to the bottom, he hins only vlosed a gateway throurh which happy hours mizht have come. What an hin- mense part of our world is its rellgion! Upon it our temples repose; for it I8 our music sprung up, and Ly {ts sacred scatiments has it been nourlshied into powerful Hife; in its be- lef have our fathers lved) by its doctrines were fashloned the very faces of the saintas thelr blstory i3 made ‘up of their religlous they luve oll died I fts fupe, it e would not bo G, inr the right to do wrong Elimeell, confer It upon bis creatures. And hence, In the ift of our belng, ITe does not, Ho cannot, give the right to do wrong. And licnce no man has this right, and byno possibility ean he eyer nequire this right, from the simple reason that it nowhere exists, aud by the aternal lhnitations ur cunditions of rizhteousness naver can exist, With the gift of Ilerty In man as a condition of virtie or frec zowdness, there may be and there {4 the nbility to do wrong, but not the right. constitution of man hinsell, funge , of God, for bim to this rizht to do wrone, oyen were {t In existence to be given. Tho conscience of man stands a8 an everlasting prohibition upon any such right. And lence, further, man st forever be in helt so long s he does wrong, for cousclence will put bim thiere, and hold him there, and no Rule all your rnwcr in tho universe van take him out until he has made peace with himself' as well ns with his Brush awav from your eyo the [ God. What Is the foririveness of God, so far a3 inwnrd peaco is concerued, uniess one can for- give himselfl And, so fnt As wa can sec, tho only road to this sclf-forgivoness Is restitution, -—m:\klnfi right the wrongz we have done, when s or in_any other workd fs possible,~ and may we hope thiat what cannot. be righted here mny be there; morse und repentanc by whicli the splrit, all bleeding and torn by the wroug 1t lias done, de- plores that wrong and turns in the bitterness of belng in the into righteousncss, nd forglveness: bot only the forgziveness of God, but the forgiveness of our- selves. I have said these things here, or rather they have sald themsclves,—for Lorne Into them by a'eurrent of thought on this nite, Nevertheless, 1think somo such words needful in our timesd sad nbusa of the blessed doctrino of the Atoue- flnd the least excuse or right to do wrong; for God nuver cau give such right; or it any think that fu the sufferings of Christ thoy can find any possible covering up or hiding froin themselves of t! only ns these sullorines 8o ru nature and move reatitution and ment, II, in it, any thus back futo This Jdea of men cheating and stealing and then blding and living upon thele fll-gotton wainss this kica of men ravishing the innocent and murdering the defenscless, und then dylug in trlumph on the pallows the next moment; t}xh Idcn‘l ol slnnderliu.' ym(xr dm:l hbor 0 vo | ‘ond scelng his good name o down in durkness, Al this ara e and you, the real villain, staud out as the very pink of falrness, aud then think to hide it all in the atonement,—L say this aud all such ideas huva gone quite too far fur even the morality, not to say the religlon, of our day. God 1o wan the right to sln, and e torgives no sin pc{mmcll und , restitntion where: that (8 possibles And I somohow feel that biefore we can even fully forgive ourselves we must not ouly have the dlaposition to make all possible amends, but nust make atl reasou- able efforts, aud I someliow feel that there oy be lu the life to come sume way by which we may make tho coufessiuus or the sestitutions tht are so often impossible here. ‘Turntng now from the questions as to how God yives, let us loak at some of the gilts. The tirat great gitt is the gl of life, or of our per- Ronal being or existence, God s In HMimsclf Hfe, Ho is the living tod, lust great gift is life. Not only what we may or the totulity ot all Hfe, but —the ifo of the plunt and tree, of bird and beast, ana {n man, th lfe of personality, or seifhool. Now, this gift—thls outflowing and Intluwlug of 1Hfu—Is 8 wouderful only~upon deep- re| eall universal lifc, world, Death i still, inotiuniess, unconscious, Lita ia actlon, energy, and, when carried up to a certain poiat, s fecliug and consclousncss, Now this s the wouderful scene that is all ahout us n this world of life. Of course we know not, In anv deep 1ifo is, only phenomenally, or what it does. But iu this what n wonderiul” sveny docs it spread out befora us, aud what & world does it reveal withiu s, It1s tho underlylng eatse or condi- tion of all tho beauty that we sce In tree, or flower, or bird, or tnan. Itis the condition of consciohsicss in ourselves, Take life out of our worl.l, and the whole sceno {a chanjged, Al fs stillness. No volee, no somg. ‘Take lite out of our warld, and there Is no more beauty, The flowers fudo and th our world, und all its aud luughter are gon ness, antd desth remain, The presence of Nfe, the contlnuance of iifo, Is not vuly a perpetual henedlctiun, but must ever bu & censeless wons Lile, 80 far as we can see, s the foundation of ull want andl tho busis of all values and treas- ures, Where thero Is o want, thers can be no vulue, Where there is uo life, thero cun bo no want, But with Iie, with personnlity, what an s tho qulctus of all deslre, the absenco of all want, tho snutlllation of ulf vatues, Were thls only u world of death, there would be no plaut or flower to crave the sunshina or the raly, no tendril reaching out for somio branch or ving arouud which to twine, Were thiva world of death, there would be no cattle upon the plains, nor grfuss nor grain fu the felds; thero would bu 0 husaan being to.crave food ter} thers would be 1o uve to luok upon the beautiful, no car to lsten to sweet sounds, Were this a world of deatl, there would be no value in silver or gulil, and even the glitiering dismond would be wortbicss as tho dust, But with life, eneray, and feeling, and want, and de- sire, all spring futo belag, wnd the things that niinister to thess the basis of vulue, have n value. {114 that which gives value to ull thmfio: and heuce Is the Hrat great wift, lels all elsa could not be, ‘Tucre is o wonderful fulluess In theso gltis, The * living ol elveth ue richiy,? Louk at 1ifo {teelf. What an overtlowing Iullness thero {8 here, How it reuches all the way from the How iL setzes upon the very lowest furins of vegetable orzanization and car- rics its work on up to the bizhust, low it presses its way into air und water, futo desert und plals, climblug up the steeps of tho highest mouutains and cliuging to the frozen sldes of the stecpess rucks, und Pluul\nx fisel! far out upon the naw-funning sl Or study the fulluess of this gift in ourselves. How rich 13 our bodily endowment. Arouud thls life princivle what “a delicate orgauism i3 furmed, ~ How many line und delicate senscs wail upon the soul. the ""i""ci""nu“ cll; to '“"'W'i» \Vl:l:v. ux:;uhl;.o und the Bible puts the works of | grace in the human forn, What adaptation in A fiud nd foot for work and travel. And look without atall the Mfu forees thut winlster to thess waonts ol the V) graing of the Neld, and o Cthe fruits of thu gurdens, and fu the spices of the astands, What beauty grects the eye, sud how the rich pertuics and odors 811 all th what u world s this Htted uo for man's abode. How varied the scasons ua they come and got how ever-chauging the sconery of mountam iy water, He giveth us ricbly, So sparing band bas undyingly doled out what would barely meet the novesslties of & cramped ur very belog itsclf 13 a blessfug, sud arouud it is throwu in muuiticence sud 1 magniicencs & world overtfiowlug with its good- ness. Or study 8.wowent the fultuess of the Divine gifts as scen in mind and spint. How marvelous the power of mind to learn—to out and getber fucts, power 80 couscrve these facts—to put thewm awey. Aud theu bow warvclous the wlhich we wuloduwflllucmuremcmbcrl ey call at wihl. reasou—of comparlug oue thivg with auotlier, of lsylug dowu propusltions ex {s, take them back to only a play, as laden with thel I think spirits of mortals, bhringing and _help ary, minlster to our gool, romn God, and n flowing {s this truth of a living not of death, Life not for & da first fow daya fu tho tion; thege I8 reunton, And hence, not hav- fio_cannot vue shall be consclously himself, utterly amazed at the {n our litle earth mukoes receive | strike wo Juy Is a very deep one. upon the pleasure, more than hn{m(u and then that jnward re- tears away fromn it} and then alvoin tho coming | all the sources of Tnfinite mercy in sulfering—the very | about us, of rightcousness themeselves all i | this ‘|oy of belng and bending aver us to | Thero 1 have been for It socms to metaben | Ing ourselvea for the wrong dolngs, ch their Iuwr{}n] pentance and right- it to Even one-half of our the Involuntary, nesa, go forth and possess them, Juy. Al that Is requested rives be fitted for the world. do. It seems to me that labor, surrow, und hard times aro silentd fountulus of joy in_tnany beurty. should should _rejolee In the Aud honee His first and sufforing in His som and worship, and all those reality of the heavenly world, sense, what s {all, ‘Tuke life from vity, fts joy, its laqve, Only dust, und drearls desk and tho spaclous focling, with alinust wauts arfse! Death or ueed shel- | tinued blessings in the future, proplieey concerning o his vext, Hoggal, 11, ** 'or thus wsith the Lo d I i) Hencs 1o fs (] the Lord of Hosts this vlace will Hosts, ™ tory acrvico he bad Leen auds fn the secus. perity was a pledg How the eye is sulted to body. What varicty in whole prophecy of which |hu(y By sv regardlug thew, it would they did not wnd ce temple 28 a watel o utr. O day tho tewrplaat aliiost e daus, wud Clristisus, wus crected In tunes ol fty, and It was afterwar est architectural ambition FU How marvelous the wer by How waryelous tho premises and deducing conclualons. velous (s imacination, or the powee of pletnrin all the world with creations of our own faney And how wanderful are the powers of the within us. How we perceive the zoud. Aleeplees {8 conscience! Jlow do all these vast unper worlds of truth and goodness fnd an an- sweringin the world within ourselvesl Tiow rich are these worlda In their ministrations to our needs, Ilow the ministrations of teuth como toun from thelong past, and sweep fn njion us from the living present! How the min- iatrations of !?lrll. of goodness, come to us, all r tgrasurce of heavenly blcssingal Ilow the minlstrations of love wait upin the templo should not vie in maguificence with the 1t wns necesaarg ta turn His people’s thonghta from carthly ” splendor, amd tlx them etrive to make more. The completton of 2 deed vnly brinis the longer for rewarl. must not fllj the place to-day and leave it o, to-morrow, but must i mne there ot all iy, Mo THm from whom all blessings iy, oniy can the place i They should worship God fy o el “they understood, and wot gy, iere atmae)y to tha old rituals, which #cre noy tedn tnla lamd of liberty, add which were nixlerstood by i few of them. Theje rayer must be fervea., und come from the leart; and this could valy be done swhen the, understoud thelr meaninga and were not f,p. elgn to thelr minds. He closed with a fiyg peroration, {nvoking the blessiogs of Golon all thelr undertakings. At the closc of the scrmon the cliolr sang the satm * Gott Wir Loben Diel™ (Lord, We Praisq 'hee), alter which the Rev. Dr. K. Kobl a short but cloquent address, Ho congratulateq the congregation on what they hiad aceompliap. e, and beseeched (fod to be good to them, Ig this fine temple many hearts would undoubted. rencwel religious fervor, Not tlie Rabbis alone could sanctity this ho but tllns‘a who came to worship there hind refer to the temple s Noservies ever performed i this wecond lionse of God ev nervices of the fieat temple. recrated gonfus over Novwealth of oo crowned the firat, lald fu tears, but tho people were, nevertheless, comforted with the assurance that in svime way God would ahake the nations an i fitl the house Althoueh the second temple was lacking in many things that had inarked the firat, yet fnto this second temple God entered, and thie vomning of Christ, the expresas tmage of the Fatlicr's glory, was shadowed forth, hls life when he did a) caused them to despise and reject hini, he was brought Into the temple, little did they realize that all the provhecles reganling it were Angels had sung at his birth, and proclaimed the reign of peace, of which he ho bequeathed his ‘o the workl In sin Its fonudations vine truth, Divine sympathy, Divino grace fulnnss. that they out of darkuess and sin; that they may come Into reconciliation with themseives, and with God. How prayer, and hope, and faith, a the sacramenta and appointments of the sanctu- He giveth richly. And then this cift of 1ifo around which all theso Nlessluga gathier, and {n which they (nhere, fs somehow rooted fn God. Fle is the vine; we aro the branches; and In unlon with Ilim this 1ife 1 eternal, And so it ia that alithis world of 1ife, and heauty, and joy la not to sink down into dust and death, but to rise up—to iive on and on forever, O how 'lcef how wide, how hiuh, {od, auniverse of life, the lowliness of fultilied in im, be warmed up Wi was the anthor. iy i peace unto_the world. there could bLe no peace without there lirst being purity, and the peace Chirlst gave was the result of thie new relationship into which a new believer entered with God through Chirlst, “This feltowship between tod and Christ was possible between man and God in the proportion in which men realized the true meaning of faith, ‘The true Christlan was at peace fu consclol and In consclouencss as well,—a peace 8o fu Joy that it pnssed all understanding. Chiristian’s 1ife there had been times when the eave was foll of glory of the manifestation of iscord disappeared when Christ was enthroned n the human bheart, Wenpons of warfare beeamo Implements of In- dustry when the Prince of Peacs took sfon of men's hearts, The propliee clearly referred to the spirituni ¢ were “to follow In comparatively few The natlons of the eartii wera shaken, and Roine beeame the mistress of the world, rorld was stitl grasp of ancient usazes, the fetters of cast, the reeults of gross harbarism and superatition ‘would seek In vain to retain their hold. Christ should Issue the mandate, .**Shaka the nations,” He would break thefe iron bands as thread of tow was brokco. His enemlcs as 1lIs agents, and the Internil regulations of States, the ndvance of scicuce, ns 1means for the onward spread of 1lis redeemed, Literally, the sllver and the gold were lis, and lindd been made to do his pleasure. adminlstrution, all gbataclvs to the progress of Kingdom woutd be borns down, though they covered tho carth as the waters cover tho #cu, and every thought would be brought into Amerlen bad been shnken In tho clyil war, when satan hud crept Into the country in the form of slavery as ha crept into scrpent's puise, romnise was reallzed in the victory which fol- ‘The spirit of the old cvil was startin up agaln in this day, but God's promise woul Europe, Asia, Africa were be- peace and the glory of Giod wera the outconie of all these great reveln- pagan temples were rising the glittering spires of a pure faith, and the suunds of ehurch-goinyg ells wero heara oll over the world. The loving, walting, sorrowing lLopes ofa weary, groaniog congreration would "be embodied ln the calm, peacelul, bloodless The grlory of tho latter erfor to the glary of the former, oring sonz of the heaveniy host already seemed llko sweet, distant musle’in the car of faith, and the echo of that song in our hearta wus, *'The kingidoms of this world are to become the kingdums of our Lord und of His Clirlst, who shall relen foreyer and forever.” After prayer, Dr. Tiffauy said he had been res quested to read a Bnancial statement to the congregation, From this statement it appeared that the expense for tho location of the church was 821,138,505 that for tho crectlon of the walls, fuclosure of the hullding, and preparation of the basement lor public worship, $48,17.42¢ and that for the erection of the front to the bing and furnishing the sudience- 131,795,045 moking a total of $101,~ . The amount recelved from the Insurance with_the rebullding 77 to be made =i thelr ancestors had behels wonderful and mysterious, while no such reve. Iations were made to the present gencration) It was because thelr ancestors were true to theip aml would suffer death In behall of thelr on, while the present wgeneration had re. ‘Through thelr fervent be. In the vne Gud that sinall horde of d s0 much that wag This {s unly our cradle-scenc. These arc our laxed in thelr faith. arg eternal, Tlero wo learn onr and here the heart knows its firat loves, truth and love will be our lifeand o Ilerois darkncss; thers bs light. Here Is Here lifc and death fourney slde by side: there death s Jeft helind and life flls nll the happy ycars. God 18 cternal 1ife—that 1s, the power of oternal continuance in personality, in concious being, Aud it must always continuo ns a gift—an in- flux, o suinething recelved from another, and yet as recelved it becomes vur 0wn, 8o that cach It wos the idea of truth which helped them 1f they meant to succeed, they musg he inspired with that ddea.” ‘Thelr old men ana thelr young men, thelr wises and doughters, nuat worle {n hurmony together to achieve the ireat result, They ueeded standard bearers of the worid of God, who would never desert their fiag. There was no use lor chanting thut had been learned by heart, or of | of Gud unly on the Sabbath or holldays. Tiey must have varnest men to battic acainst sin pud unchastity, They needed mthers to bring up their chilidven iu the fear of God,und make them true mombers of Isracl, Ho concluded by saye. ing that though the beginutuyr was small it the future might bring grand and glorious ree sults, andd hie hoped and pruyed that they would rucceed n thelr grand and glorious work. Addreases were nlso inade by the Re Uersoni and’ the Rov. Lipmansobn. The ce monfes concluded with the regular ovent flux of life into our world, at its continuance from ug how as nothing {s this compnred to the life of all worlids when measured by eternity! mitiionth part of the rays of our sun fall upon as it tuens around in its littlo place, The vast oceans of these rays are poured out into space—acemningly cmpty space—and now not wlere or on what shores, How vast. must be_that fountain, that source of 1ifo that ills not only one world but all worlda with life, and not for a day Lut forever. 1t can be, nothlng less than the Hying Wod. MHe glveth us richly all things to enjoy, This 1s the object or purpose of the wift. It combines all that thcre s fn pleasure or the thlugs that and more, It Is more than happiness,—ti nnmcumn;f that is clrcumstantial, depending hlappinesa of thinge. Joy is nore than belng shaken. The fuveterate He could employ PLYMOUTII CONGREGATION CELEDRATION OF TI(E TWENTY-FIFTIl ANNIVAL- obedlence to Chrlst. Having reachied the mature age of twenty-five years, Plymouth Chureh fduiged in special ser. vices yesterday. In the morning the Rev. Charles Jall Everest delivered a scrmon commeme oratlve and historical; in the afternoon there were Sabbath-school exercises of unusual ine tereat, and there were addresses in place of the customary dlscourse by the cvening. Tho auditorfum of the church was decorated with appropriute floral devices. The. oxerclses in the mourning opened with some fino singlng by the cholr, took for his text the folluwing: +* Ilitherto hath tho Lord helped ns. T S8amuel, ‘The decads Introducing the last half of the present century was ong of stirriug Interest in the relixious world. Tho new reglons of the fur West were belny and there was n desl tisus to win over those falr lands to the causs Curistian churches were everywhers moveu to the very depths of feeling, and never be- fore in the govermnent of the nation had there Deen such s supremacy of _moral and religious It wus Inthe year 1852 tnat forty-cight people of this city, exrnest to do the Lond's work, separated themselves from varlous other steady fountain that flows peacefull o wills thut we should Lo so sct cast in 1ife, so one with life, so alive inall the relations and outreachings of our being, that life should be a Juy, Our very belng shonld fu iteclf Lo a Joy—n joy to fecl'and know thut we are consciously allve, and that we are related to yet be reatized. pastor in the God wants us txo enter nta o b 110 grenter nfstake than to think that we houor or pleare Giod by punishiug oursclves, by Inflictlons or torturcs of body, b{ needless aell-denial, The truc fdea ol relt 18 not represslon of life, but_cxpansion, exaltu- tion. The only use of “self-deninl 18 where we want to tako power off of one purt vt our being to put It upon rotng other purt that wemny luve greater power ' In that dlreetion; or deny- good of othicrs. wants us to enjoy His reat -¢ifts; to rejolee In thems to @o forth and breathie the free alr, look out upon all thut {8 beautiful, aud enjoy all that 18 goud. There 18 but ohe prohlbition put upen auy soul; ond that 1s, don't do wrong, All else s free. And O! whata world Is put heneatl our feet, and how are all the sppointments of night and dav, of supiuer and winter, ol sun- shine and light, and air, all without our caro. Habbnth of the world, opened up to th on the part of al Plymouth for ‘their or- ‘Their first locul habitation was on Randolph street fu Warnock 1l little tater thoy begun bousekeep! under the dircetion of the Rov, J, M, Dean, on the corner of Dearborn and Randolph strects, ‘Tie doubling of the membership in 1853 was an evidenco that they were not slothful, and thay the lleld before thewm was of the falrest promise, The Rev. Dr. Eguleston was called to the pastoratoin 1834, and in the Jaster part of 18 the Soclety moved thelr chureh bullding from Dearborn strect to what Is now called Thind ‘To ‘meet the demands of their n- creased expunses taxed heavily the resources of and, aud the panle of 1857 was another source of cinbarrassment. To odd to thelr troubles o Hebrew society obtained poasese #iun of the church butiding. Buch complications would scemn ouough to cause the the cuterprise, but the wembers the banner In the midst of a zrowiug city where the word * surretider ”’ wus never known, and A new location was obtained on ihe corner of Wabush avenue and Eldridizo ‘I'he Rov. J. K. Roy was the pastor from 185 to 1860, und the most signal proof of his fuithfulness was tound in n great rovival, health fliog, the church was_dependent upon the I'rofessurs of the Chicazo Theologival 8 ary for ministratious until 18! tled pustor was obtained In* the person of the- J. It. Shipley, who remalned until 1604, The number rocelved fnto the church up to 1561 8, 118 belng udinitied by protes L. Moody, the Evungeliat, was at that time o member ot the churen soclety ‘I'ne Rev. Dr, Kitchell, of Detrolt, succeeded to the pustorate, sud such wns his sagucity and personal effort that the financial condition of the church was greatly lmproved. Un the da) when the bascment of the new bullding on El- dridge court was occupled, a subscription to the amount of $20,000 was ratsed. slening to ussumo the Presidency of Middiebur, College, the Rov, Louts E. Mutson was callel o tho pu’tfilrute, compunies after the fir fund and whut hud been 17, leaving a balaneaof only $3,001 congratitlated the church nnd its pnstor on this very favorable showiug, and made a strong appeal for the wiping out af the A collection was taken which went o great way towards accomplishing that deslrable objest The Rov, 8, 4, Lathrop announced the clostn hymn, and the Rev. 1I. Whitchead pronounce: the benedlctlon, The dedicatory services will contioue dur- g the week, and culminate in Intereat next Sunday, ‘I'his eyening Mr. A, L Scranton will dellver an Listorlcal address, and former paators of the church will grive reminiscences of the past, ‘Tuesday evening the Rev, 8. a8 breatbing “and beating of the héart—God looks after, and then ruys, Now Lhave wiven you all these things, go forth und cojoy them. 'L have placed befors you the world of truth und the world of govd- furbididen tn 1ife s forbidden only beeause itis | debt on the spot. wrong, and, belng wrong, Isdestructive of human or pitt upon us s Tor our own guod; Just ns our parcnts sent us to school und taught us to lubor thut we might _Itscems to iy that the world needs moro Joy—moro enjoyment in dally life, more enjoy- ment in home and chureh, and in all we havo sapping tho et H. Bugbes will ey, D, W, Bartine will conduet a soclal re- ligious acrvice. 3 whl preach Thursday ovening, and the Rev. A. J. Jutkins ou the evoning follow Tl mon next Sunday morning will by Bishop Andrews, while Bialtops Merrill, Harris, and Andrews will ofliciate in the formal dedica. ‘Tho dealcttion serviees witl be brought to a closo Sunday dvenlng, Blshcp Merrill offering prayer, Blshop Andrews con- ducting the Scripture lesson, and Blshop Hacrls delivering the sermon. TIIE SONS OI' ABRAIIAM. DEDICATION OF TilR NEW BYNAGOGUE, The new synagogue of the Hebrew congrega- tlon, Bual Abrahamn ! (S8ons of Abraham), at tho corner of Wright and Johnson strects, was dedicated anld imposing and solewn cercmonles yesterday ufternoon. This congregation s the youngest in tho eity, having been orgoentzed by the Ilebrews of the Southwest 8ide on the 8th of April, 1874, and sluce that time bas held services regularly at Kleln's Hall, No. 554 South Halated street. The organization has rapldiy increased in memborship durlug tho last few years, and Klein's iall-was getting too small to accomunodate all. thoso who belonged to the congregation. Bo the ervction of a sultable temple was declded upon. . A lot 40x80 feet on the curner of Wright and Johnson streets was purchascd, and about six months ako the bulld- dedifcated yestorda; comnmenced, It Is & neat and commodions Lrick structure, surmounted by s cupola, and dues credlt to the architect, Mr. Wiercbienieez, 1ts cost is about §9,000, The futerior is very handaomely finished and décorated, and differs but little from that of a Christlan church of not tov hign pretensious, This congregation 1s com- pused of the well-te-do lsraclites” who live on tho BouthwestSide of the city, and thelr services are of a semi-orthodox character, and are con- ducted naloly in tho Uerman and Hebrow Inted ,ht:;u- 2 o'clock p. m., me that Amertcan Nfe {8 fast drifting Into o nurvous and wearing unrest, It should not ba. We should rejolca that we live at all. W rejoics In the gifts of God. work of and in all its fricndsbips and loves, be happy in tha living God, happy In o peacoful trust (n'tis loving care, happy in any work or use. O how 1 lon, thia burden of earo and unrest Hited fellow-beings abont ine, awd to seo them all ene ter into_the fullness of 1ife's joy and life's hope, Our weary world needs more und inore the Iifo of truet, the Mfa of luve, the life of g they persevered. tion of the editice. cnces that tend to fillup our uays with peaco wa4 401 persont and rest, and to bring near the thought and tus GOD'S TEMPLES, DEDICATORY SERVICES AT GRACH 31, B, CHURCIL, ‘The dedieatory servives at (iraco Mothodist Church Legun yesterday morniug in the pres. oncoof a large homo congregation, augmented by visiting members of other churches, and un- der tho conduct of the pastor, the Rev, John Atkinson, Bishop Harris, the Rev, L. II, Bug- bee, President of Allegheny College, the Rev. Arthur Edwards, the Rev, O, il, Tiffuny, tho Rev. 8, G, Lathirop, and the Rev, H, Waitehead, The sunbeums cawe luto the heautiful new audience-room, lighting up all within, and ren- derfog it cbeorful and pleasaut. Tho pulpit platform ornamonted with several choles lural offerings of gruceful deslgn, while the smllug coun- tonances of the congregution, as they thought that all this uewness und freshiness hnd been added without tho usual accompaniment of a church mortzage, fucreased the checrfuluess, which was an eviacut part of the occaston, T servlces were opened with an orrun voluutary by Dra. Nelllo E. Whipple, after which the Rev, Mr, Atkinson tuve out the hymn, thousand tougues to sing.” Bishup Harrls fol- Jowed with an carnest, aevout pruyer, breathing o spirit of thunkfulucss for God's wercics to the Church in the pust, and besceehing His cuns Alter a volun- tary by the cholfr, the Rev. L. 1. Bugb dent of Allegheny College, read from i the glorles of second fomple, ud from Heh., xil. The Arthur Edwards wave out the bhymn, “Jesus Bhall Relgn Where'er the Sun” and the Huv. Dr. TifTany then delivered the sermon, taking continulng from secrated geal church, and tho stately and beautitul edifics was brought to a complotion, But the spitlt of the young leader wus o powertul for hils frail alter dedieating the new church, be e wua oblized to acvept occupa- tivn abroud, whers he died In 1808, The reaved church turued to the Rev. Willlam Alvin Bartlett, bis {ntimate friond and coad: Jutor, to tlil the vacant place. entered heartily upon the work. The church art in thie geueral prosperity which cone untll one memorable Suuday evening, when the flamesdevourcd so much of the hurdiy: roperty of the young city of the nough the church escaped destruction, financlally, and Huaceepted, and hence a proposition was mado to unitc forces with the Bouth Chureh, then worshiping at the corner of Indiaua ayeuus and Tweuty-sixtt street. ‘The latter church cordlally aceopted the propositidn, and eved generous!, merged thelr own individuality inthat ‘The consolidution took place Jul roperty ot Wabash nycnue o was sold to the Catholics tor and In the followlng spring an cligible urcbhused on Michigan avenue, ueat ‘T'wenty-sixth strect, where the present elvgant cditico wus erscted. ‘The shadow of death entered the houseloldof the pastor, and removed his gifted wife, whoso sytupathy and T Me. B At tho ] hrdxwo the platform Almemor) was occupled by the chantur und acting Rubblof the congregation, Mr, Janko, Kohler, of the Binal congregation, Rey, Dr. Uersoul, of the congrogation Nurth Blde congregution, and the Rev. sobi, of the cungregation “Otey Sholom." ‘The cholr of the Indtanw Ayenue congregation, under the lesdership of Mr. Louls Falk, com- wmenced the ceremnouies by the singing of the beautiful psaim, O Herr, wie manifaltig st rd, how wmanifold {s Thy blesstng), during the snging of which a proces- slon entered the synagogue, conslting ot the vgation and the bullding commities, two of whotmn had in thelr arms tho scrolls of the law), preceded by ud {n white, with bluc sashes. The foremost and tallest of these carrfed on o white satin plllow the ko rucesslon murchel back of the rouder Eldridge cour d :Hlo‘n:::hht once l: shake the houvens, Bl Yoo, and tho dry Tana. |t vations, aud umi. raof I-ll uarter-century of tho had been clght pas deine Guete (O church's extstonce thero tors, an averugo uf three years cach, thus civiny the chureh all the udvautage of the {tincranl tem, whils ulso retulning the stability ut 3 tled pastorate fu the minds of the people. 6 bud beeu thirty-one deucons, crs, oud six clerks; 190 infant baptisms bs been recgnled since 1572, and tweuty-nine ars A the chureh on pro- fessiou of falth, und 043 by letter, ‘Tho present nuuber of comwmuuicants was 533 Ing these facts and figures Mr. Everest found cause for congrat: e, Iver 1o niny, and the gold {s mine, salth v, *+/'hie glury of this latter houso shall be greater | Olicers of the congr thanof the lumurl walth the Lordof llosts;and in give peace, salihthe Lord of ‘This, sald Dr, Tiffany, was the third dedica~ permitted to cugage u o connection with thia chureh, na everywhere else, it was taken for grunted that the prospects of the future wlory would minister to consolation. As Abrabam saw the day of Clrlst und was glad, snd us David re- oived becatiso Uod had spoken to bl coucern- g His people, so thls prowise ol future vros- @ that (iod would bo with Iiis people fu the interval of its accomplishing, that they would be honored In torwardis work. They wers to buye viail fu passlog eveuts of the soverelgnt, fafthifulness of God. Thess wera Lo be pledges to thetn ofthe ultfinate tuldthmcent ot His prom- isea. ‘T see the futl huportance of these words, they must be viewed in conncction with the forwed a part. be found thut uld not rofer to phe second structure, but to tho #pir- ftual kfugdom which Christ was tw found and the glory which waa to surround Him aud mission. Tou frae sud secoud tcumples bad wuny things in comwon, although the Hret cx- cecded fn material ngury the second. Yot to- erudnletn was an object of sdmiration to_Jows, Molamue- The frit tewpie of thoe uew udl around tho alsics threo brought up on the platform desk. ‘The chanter chsuted r, * Kimizion” and “Bhewmah larael,” elng repeated by the chowr. - Then the beautitul gold-embroldered curtatn of pur- plevelvet, which covered the Y Obiren takodesh (Holy shrine or urk), was pusicd back, the doors of the shrine opened, and the “Fhoras! deposited therely, after which a prayer was sald the chauter, and tho chiorr sang the paalm, Mo Himmel erzachlen die Elirg Gottes' (The lieaveus speak of God's honor). The uetiug Rabbl of the congregation, Mr. Jauko, then mudea few semarks fo regard to tho wurk already sccomplisbed, and atill before themn to sccure the blessings of od, To tuls house they would cou in their 3 and sorrows und oller prayers to God, who Il bear and bless them. The principal serwou was dellvered fn tho the l(udv. Al Iiordzn. 3 ug e words spoken acol after the vision, * How awful is this pl:m. itis but o house of God, aud this Is the gute of Ife spoke very eloquently of the goud work to be accompiished by the youug cungregation in thelr new tewple, wers three questious to be cousidered: Art, what is tue real plul-pou: of the uew templod third, the true way to was o houss of od, randizement. Hers they would consolution In thcir hours of sor- To Hiw wlove 1t 13 dedl.ated, to rewcuber ilim, aud whils within {ts wulls forget worldly affaire. Tuey imust not be saths- fied with tho sacrutives alrcady uady, b ringes; B persons ulation and encourageniont. et L5 MICHIGAN STATE TREASQHY. Special Dispatch to the CAl LansiNg, Mich,, Dee. 2.—The following 18 8 statemont of the recelpta aud dlsburscruents st the State Treasurer's office for the mouth end* tug Nov, 80, 18773 Balance oo hand Oct. 31, Hecolpts for tho month . Balance on band Nov. 10, 1877 ————— Qerman languags b Hatriot, has @ plucky et doorutep, the otber dav, & large hen-luwk swooped dowi futo the yard u! seized & fat chicken which it attempted to curry t at ouce leaped uj and clawed bim so lustily thal ,Liv Lold snd sail however, e roturned aguin and made an sttewpt, {u which be as sigually fall ulw ws soon a8 he allgbt tho bawk cssay to carry off Lts press und as often did pussy succeed fn protectlui charge frow the futruder, until tus bird, becoit Isgusted with the prospect of obtaluivi ® daiuty bit of epring-chicken frow that beu-yars suared sway Lo repeat tho ablelpt wpou suse leasd guarded grouudss Winonsockes (B, A Littls Comptou wa ‘While lylug on the ho relinguishie Iu ashort tuc that bo might surpasst. The Tabervacle had beun sn object of revervncy, sad the first tem- plo was ouly an colargeweut of the sawe pat- tern on 8o claborate svale. Nol o hamer was beard while this mazniticent stracture, ing over 183.000 of wen, snd custing mfilloul of dullars, was bolug erccted. It wus doubticas un osdivation of Gud that the sccoud row sud tod It