Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1878, Page 12

Y 12 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY: AFTER THIS, AWHAT ? Views of Correspondents on the Religious Question of the Hour. Eternal Death tho Punishment of the Unregenerate, Not Eternal Torture. The Parable of Dives and Lazarus Ape plicable to the Sol-Disant Rellgions. Is thero a God ?—~Hiz Existence Denied by a Matarialist, and His Reasons, A Brother Methodist Preacher Reviews Dr. Thomas' Sermon. ETERNAL DEATIL To the Editor of The Tribune, Cuicago, Jan, 18.—The question of the nature of future punishment §s not one that stands alone; It Is Intimately connected with another that les back qr it, and ita solutlon depends on the previous sditiement of that. The naturo of the victim or pubject of punishment must first be settled before the nature of the punishinent can be determined upon. The coutroversy be- tween the bellovers in endless torments for thn damned and restorationists of cvery class s an Interminable one, and can mever reach any satistactory conclusion 8o long as they both agreo on the immortality of nll men; and this agreement has led the controversy Into a chan- Dol that §s wholly frultless and, as I think, profitless to cither party. DBelieviug that the .readers of Tz Trinoxe heartily desiro a solu- tion of the questiou, I appeal to them to candid- 1y listen to another view. But, to judge candid- ly and success{ully on any sub]ect, one needs to get a gencral view of It beforo descouding .into particulars, so I begtlo privileze of offering them through your columnssucha consideration of the matter. Looking over the whole groand wo find men divided on this question futo two parties,—those ‘who believo all men are mortal and those wko belleve all mep are immortal. Ontho duratfon of punishment the last class is subdivided into two,—thote who hold the punishment to bo of limited duration and those who hold 1t to be unlimited. As to the nature of the punishment. Yotli are substantlally agreed; for while both agree that {t will consist In the Inflictlon of sulfering or paln, the kind of suffering, whother mental or physleal, and the Instrument, whether literal fire or metaplorieal fire, as consclence oricnominy, or whatever restorationlsts may claim in their cndless diversity, isa matter of small moment. Both agreo that it suall be consclous suffering. Both acree that tho person himeelf shall forever contsnue to suller or en- Joy. 1lence as between theso disputants tho controversy is narrowed down to the philolozieal construction of n few fsolated nassages, or, still narrower, the meantn: of n slnzle word, *ever- lastlu or *““eternal” Of the advocates of the mortallity of all men we have also two clasees; firsty thoao who deny a future life alto- pether for any—the tafldel world— the Boh Ingersolls of this contro- versy, With this class the cpitaph of the “demons of the French Ievolution is a motto, a wateh-word, a rallying-cry: ** Death is an_eternal eleep.’ The other winz of this subdivision Is com-~ cd of those who, while they allow tho mer- ality of man, clatm tha it is the crownlug glary . of Christianity to olfer Immortality to helpless mortal man throueh tuith aud reformation of Tlie by a resurrection of the dead. Hence, on the question of future punlshment this class con. mistently lold that 1t Is to be a loss of Nef— a fallurc 10 obtain Jmmortality, Now it s an ohl eaying that thero Is no crror withont an ndmixture of aome degreo of truth, uand we shall #ind, I think, that every subdle vislon of this controversy hag some truth in | und that system which gathees the truth and rejects the ercor from all must be the truth indeed. Let us begin, then, with tho bellever in tha doctrine of the cternity of punishiment. man is mortal, and goius fomortality only through Christ, then bis punistiment will bo an “cternal” loss of Itfe, Hence the doctrine of tue cternity of punishment I8 true, ‘lhe error s In making that vunlshument cternal consclons snffering, “Ilcra o sn impartant fact. The punishment 14 eternal In the xense of final. Curist has outslned **cternal redeinption o Wa read of n coming **eternal judgment, ' ‘The fire 1hat conaumed Sodum, inougl lang since oxtinzulshed, was and 14 an **eternal fire, " and, in 1Le samo wenww, the wickeld will **iz0 away inso verlasting puutshinent, ® inflicted through the Inatru cutality of | Sleverluating dre,” or Lo *Cpunl 4 with [not torm but] eveslasting destruction.” 1t fa cary, then, from this stand- oint to detect the enormous eeror In by common theolozy of this school, and tuwlft uut and pro- serye the procions trath. ‘Cheto ia a Snal state fue all, and tho events of this lifo determine what it #hall be,—not **a state of havgiocss or misery," —ihis i« thu error, but n wtate of ilfo of deatn, T bo or not to be, ah, there's the rub, ™ Now, the Untversalist ban just as clonrly n vory fmportant trath in histhcory, Hasces that eternal, conscious suffering In diskonorablo to Gud, and re- Jectait. And. belngmilsled Uy nls view of the immortality of man, ko lcans ta tho roncluslon thatif that (conscious suffering) is falee Lhinn umiveraal restoration s true, 1o fods the Scrine turea teachniz the doctzine that alu_ and suffering ehall ceare, When very kneo sliall bow and every tongue shall swear''; “'wnon tha ends of the worldwhi=ll rcmemuer and turnunto the Loid and all thokindreds of the earth shall worshi Defore lim 't *when th earth shall b flled witl tho glory of the Lurd, s tho waters cover the rea'™s iwhen *vovery creatura n leaven and enrtt’ and under the carth, and snch - na are fn the ses, and all that are in them, will poy ' bleasdug, and plory, and hovor, and uraine, and power bo untd i thut sltteth on that tnruno. und unte the Lamb fors everand ever," Supposing all t bo Imwortal, he uetly clalma that here 18 tho docirine of Unlvereal teatoration. Butif tho punishment of evil men ina loss of Iife, u clean universe will resuli, and tho truth, ho believes, Is casily weparated fromm the error to which it wlves currency. Agmin, even 'ope Bob* and all of hils school Lave one truth atlesst in their gloumy unbelisf, for surely, it thero 1s no Iltuluunr.kllwn {4 must bo Il y c] [t tene that ** All the wicked witl tod destray 1in ereor in in offering that to ba the fate of all which the Feripturcs declare will overtako the evll oniy, 13 the Lune of Chirlet, when ow yet Augustin hud not Jozlcally deduced *reternal tormen out of the elewents of **cternal punisnmont,” a ftruth, and **the lmwortsility of alnners," o lle, nor yet Orlgen had in Iike manuer puta trath *the end of evli' witn the same lie, **the eternal duration of " and h that frodtlcas contruversy which ouain and 1 resbucars un succesalve champlona grasp tho aword ouly to be tmutually dlecomfitud, ~—u controversy in- which victury leans now to this alde and now o chmt, accond- 108 o the taicnt of the warniorw, bot re- mainy with nelther party, because whilo thoy tach have u geeat truth, Wwhicn la Impregnable; they both agree upon sn enoriaous error which dlefuata firet une and then the other; in that perfod «0f doctrinal purity the world was then as huw «ivlded 1nto two great schouls of oplufon on the unflnnt‘uuf 3 {nlnn: Ufo ‘Ihe disciples of the great Greck—Socratos— taught (ho Simurtality of “alls but tius Bluics, 0y follumers of Kpicnrus, denled the Imwortality of sny. Chrstianiy entered the arcng, aud while St attr of (he 1hasciples of ita Master aluue what Fucrat lared Lo by the hetitaye of oll,—~they would live forever,—itos oxpreasly declared that those wha refected Him aud 1ls viler wonld sutfes fudeed 8l tuat Kptcurun declared was the unfversa) nctlon. det 1t bo remembered that los of,Clirlat used no otner language th was Lo the mouibe of the otber schouls,—the J tonlats and the btoicw; thatof the wicked the; used the ezuct language of Epicurus, aud of tho Christiau the lanvuaze of Platy, Let' e ssk the ot contraversallet of Chicayu, and let him nut yenture fo cvade it o Lls honesly ss w mansnd & Chrlatian, did Paul teach the uoctrine of Flato Iy tho lauguage ol Epicul Pracenaxen, DIVES AND LAZARUS, To the Editor of The Tribune. Evaxstox, Jan. 17.—Probably there Is no Beripture that has been more frequently cited 1n prool of the current doctrive of eternal punish. luent than the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. Frow-our carllest years many of ug bLave been famtliar with the terrible lesson It fs bupposed to teack, for we have listeoed to ser- wous fu which the suffering snd torment which Lefell the ri-h man was portrsyed fo vivid culors. * We cxn hardly fall to remember bow solemn were tho warolugs to the uuconverted, and how caroeat the appeals to alaters to * flee from the wrsth tocome.” Audbow surprised bave sowe uI us been, perbaps, whea fu later years we reaclied the exigency whereln §t becamo neces- sary to cxswine or oursclyes * whether these “lisgs are 20, to Aind that the' spplication of -tbuse typified by the rich man, this parable to common “sinners? never had any Scriptural antbority whatever ! For, as the words of Jahu the Baptist, *Who hath warned you to fico from the wrath to come!™ were not addressed to the *f publicans and sinners,” but to those who wera pre-emi- nently religious, eo alsn was this paratle spoken dircetly toand concerning the representative religlontsts of that era. It may even surpriso many earncst seckers after truth st tlhis day, If they will closcly ex- amine the parable nn:d conshier Ita relation to the testimony, which 1t Immediatelv follows, tofind that any application to a non-reliious class is not onlv unwarrantable, bat that it most effectually controverts the apleit of the parable, and destroys fts congruity and larmony with a serles of pruphetic parables of walch it {s the climax. (A parallel may be found in the burn- ing up of the *‘chafl,”” swhich Ia the closing feattire of testimony relating to the renaration of the ** wheat " and Its belnz gathered into the pranary.) The testimony is none the less solemn that 1ts exclusive bearlng 13 upon the religious cinss, Nay, this fact rendera [t all the mure startling, and might well eauise trembling In the hcarts of those whose eyes are apen o sec in the present wealthy, nnd wnrml{,nml hanored, and powerful organization called the Church,—the featuresand raiment of the Rich Man, ruther than the lowly and afllieted condition of a Lazarus. It is time for the thoughttul and reflcctive, who really ac- vept the Word of God ns the supreme amd fn- fallible_authority, to conshler that Ile who spako this parable never cave ITis disciples en- couragement to hope that [[is Church would be }ulrmnrou and enriched by the world that rejected tm, 1n how many wways did ITe warn them that His true followers should have the same Kind of ex- verlence In the world that Ho hadl 8o long us the present Kosmos, or world-system, remalned, so long should the followers of righteousness suffer persecntion. oever wounld study this parable fn the hope of kuowing the truth it contains, need not bring to his all any theorles of theological dogma_formed nfter the **doctrines and pre- cepta of men.' The Wond of God fs sufliclent. ‘The testimony of the **Law aud the Prophets ' contains this parable. In an extended form, even to the smallest detall, It Is the testimony presented n minjature. It embraces the great facts and prineiples in the foftn of an allegory, which is In reality a prophecy, 1t s introduce by a distinet reference to the ** Law and the Trophets,” and closes with onc of aiinilar fm- rt. Tho **pressing inte the Kinedom of God " 18 nrunch o pervorted teaching of tne Law, 1ts or- dinances and precepts through which tod, oven the Uod of the two-fold Abrahamic covenant, ore dained that the lght of truth should be revealed, are practically disregarded, and 1he Scripturcs are tanght 1 conformity wllhnrrcnt varlety of theo- Togical aystems, in ‘nomo of which s a slmple isarner of the truthof God left freo and unfettered to foltow the leading of that Splrit given expreasly to_'* guldo into ali the truth. ™ But does not success attend the teachingz by which the ordinances of the law are lmored? Yes, tha kingidom **auffereth violence, " and fa ** gotten by force." Truly tho man had become rich. “Thus 187 the 1sw sufors defent, Ita exact and dellcartely Dalunced adjudications of jusiice and truth aro Inid axlde with fmpunity. “Hut marc! When tho very piunaclo of glory s ‘reachod. and the **pur- ple* of supreme authorlty and tho **ne liuen™ of a rightevasness that I8 merely external, and according to the world's standarde is assumed in futl, then will it be demonstrated that *‘nota jot or tttle af the law may pars away'! How fitting tne words of Jeaus, Wos unto you when all men speak well of you,* when applied ta for hin dav of sumptuous fensting ended in bix burlal in ades. In like maonner, the words **Iicjoical leap for L»y. *mizht well linzee in the ears of Lazarun, for 18 day of *vevil things*' ended not In burial, but In translation! Ho was horne away by ;the anzels to recelva tho **great rownrd in Heaven." e razs of tho beggar wero cxchanzed for tho royal rabes of thic lielr of the inherliance, **The stone rejected by the bailders 1o made the head of (ho corner," As he endured the **evll things, " falth- ful n triala ana trilulutions, se dove hia'comfort come when the pre-eminent placeof the beloved Son is aiven to him, even the bosuin of tho great Father of the faithfal, When Jesue first announced the cominz of the Kingdom, He enunclated ita principles and _char. actoristics in the Sermion on the Sount, Thero also uid He present to view the photograph of 114 Church, “Look now un the Elchuu Jimned by the Snn of Righteonsnoss, and then on that presanted in tho modern Chureh! Which finds 1t4 prutotype In tne rich mant Which In Larsruar Very, nas uot the Kingdom *‘suffcred violenco™r linm it not been wrested from the weak and lowly Laz- arust ‘Tho kingly robea mnat frst udotn tho por- wun of the uno that le **ricn and Increased with ols, ** ¢+ Cliurch extension " which culminates in the **pulling down of barns and building ereat- must yet continue, It whiat Is the vutcome? What but that, Just as Lazarus abtalned the chicf placo coveted by thoss wha sald in thelr hearts, **Wa have Abraliam as our Father," tn ltke mane nor shall the **littla flock** yet comea uto wlon of their inheritance, for Itla thuir Father's good pleasurs to gre them the Kingdowm, But swharewhall we nd actinrch that answers to tho type of Lazarus? 1 it not vet be formed? In the araolo soven raclers are dicectly concerned: Lazarus, the Rtich Mnu, and his five brothren, Amongthe **Seven Cnurches of Asia,” intro duced among the first vislunw of iho Avncalypdo, 1he Chrtreh in Smyma Is tie oniy one held blames Tosr, and thnt one anawors fully Lo the ** Lazarua of tno parable. Thia Chnren, falthful till death, will recelve the Crown of Lifv, Aflictlons and lm\'l:"y arv 118 chief vxternal characteristics, Yet hu poverty b4 that of the heir of all thinge which are ay pect, ance, abldi “hurch 1o Laodicen has the chief characters Intics of tho ** Rich Man.' ** Because," tnou enyest, **Iam ricn, and Increased with guuds and huve need of nothing"; and * knowest not that thou art the wretched onu and the pitlable one, and poor and bllwd and naked,** OFf the five remaining churches it may Lo sala, in the words of Abralam to the son whom lis Teaves in tho fiery ¢ effceinnlly consame his dleshily rizlitcournes reveal 1o hiw tho sin recretly ablding in hiw heart, ** They liave Mores und the propbelss lot them hear them, 1t they hear not Moses and tho propliets, neitherwill they Lo persuaded though one rlae from the deod, ™ My brethren who glory In the exalied statlon of tho Chureh in the world, 1 pray you to carnestly seck the Law nad fis testimonies Conaluer that the tiotiso ** built upan the kand,* which rannot endure the presauro and strain that the florculy ope postng eloments bring upon 1ty i founded upon anene et held in abeysnce. Rich in assured proa- having the carncet of the glurions Inherlt- ¢t like tho Bon of Man, haylog no place of disrezard and disobedionco of the words by which thuss hearing them are crucified unto the world. Whether we know it o not, tho only way that teads untn Lise tn narrow and eiralghiened, "1t {d the way all of the ancient wurthies walked whoss testimony his coms 1o us as hiaving pleassd God, 1tia the way of Faith, It 14 doubtinl if you bezin to realize the character of the times upon which wo aru uven now enters ing. Wonld you beassured of a fim und stewd- faat foating |a the smpending storm? Then turn your back on fheology, and seck thu testimonlea of tiod's Wurid, Be rodted and_grounded in the puro andunleavened Words of theSonof God. Dunot b decelved by tho madern cry of **Work fur Jon *ratand ud for Jeaus, " aud th. of suntimmntat nffectlon, Jes love that can nevur pass away. It fs 3 i any ono Jove Mo lia will keep 1y Wards," On the conltre **ile who loves Mu hot Kveps not my Words, and the Word yo hear la not mine, " ‘T present attack upon the dogma of eternal punishiment {8 by ne meana of 80 sliht concern as some would be glad to belisve. It is but tho atorm- ng ofa frontler outpaat, The great fundamental doctrines of Christanity nust nxwmhly nrepare o makaa atand fur Wfel” Tt s a tme of danger, yet of brightest hove, The *'guod wine® verved unto (e ond of the feast witl soon ba tas by thoss who give earto the cry of Wisdom, In timo of decpest darkness the light wall shine oot, It1aa tlne of unpuralled blessing for thase to whom the world 18 a place of bondage, of wearl- news, of hopelessness, O how cenel has been ths dogina” of *eternal torment® to tho sine Turdeued, hoyelens, ayd helplevs poar of al) ages. ‘To thew the Word of tiod. a8 interpreted by the precepts of men, whut npthe Kinzdom ugsinat thelr catrance, Only those who could shint out frow thelr curs the words of men could find out the bl d and slzmiicant fact that Jesua nover, never hinted at future tormunts in store for comnion sin- ners. ‘e terrible (ertimony was against the ro- liglous offewdcrs, always—ilrst and last! If any have uccasion to cegard Jesus ns a Joviug friend, it fa that person who de confessedly it bondage' Lo sin. B¢ ia the Deliverer, not the Tormenter ! Let those wuo strenuously holid to the duzma of **eadless torment " put thomecives i 1he place to which they have been accustomed o abazrion the hopuless and cuslaved, for then they wall be jn- cited Lo urduoue rearch of the law wnd tho testis mony I taply they moy lears the truth ne to the charucter and duration of that **trialby fire " that surely swaits the **first who aliall be last” of all iu the conrummation of ager. <Al 18 THERE A GOD? To the Editor of The Tribune, RocmeLre, I, Jau. 15.—All ball to this glorious uprislng stwong the people in favor of religlous truth and toteration! Let us reason togetuer, differ ns wo may, I but the salvation of humuoity from supentition aud fear Is the promptiuie wotive, *‘Let us reason from what we kuow,"" understaud from’ what we believe, aud revel in the delightful reslms of logle sud reason. Let us analyze the fulth of our fatbers, Inberited unconsciously, accepted invotuntarily, sud embodied In our belng as were our natlonal- Ity and languare. Let the criticut scnss come to our vescus in fathowing the great problems of Nature, of our existence, and our destluy, Let us eudeavor to geva tull realization of the correct meaning of whajever faith we Indorée, aud whatever we accept as truth. As Dr. Thotoas says, “ It I3 easy enouch for any cbitd to say that the earth i3 of such a size and turos on [ts axis, that it 18 80 many wlics ‘diatant Lrom the sun,” clc., “but to welkh these words, to get a full realizatlon of thelr great meaning, I8 quite another thing.” How tritol Let us endeavor to realize and comprehend Intelligently that which for a life- time we have taken for grauted and cherlshed as the whole trath. « Let usstop in solitude and, nndisturbed, in- quire within ourscives, with the ald of our Imagination and this critical sense of logic and reason, If these things are really true or false, Let us dare to inquire Into the realitics of n Heaven we all hope for, as we aro now {nquiring into the probabilities of a Hell, Leb us dare even to ingaire Into the exist- ence of a Gud, without whose existence all other religloua Institutlons and dogmas are swent away. For would it not appear like the predomiua- tion of our sclfish desires over our love of truth and camestness of investizgation wero we to boldly attack Hell and cast itintoa gulf of myths and impossibilities,~nay, out of reach of the great final plunge we are nll compelled to make,—and not submit the eaven of our faith and the Paradisc of our childhvod to the same analytical processi Yes, Wouldit notbe cowardice, evenil n great God gave us our belng, If we would neg- lect or refuse to find proof of Ilis existence—If with fillal love and desire wo did not long to obtain cven a glimpso of our Great Father, and love Him as a reality tangible to our senses, and in whom we can trust, that in Ilis omnipotence and goodness Ju whl protect and gulde us through life's journey, and espechally in the Lour of necd! Can wo love or cherish kina feelings toward a parental God, who {s entircly unknown and 1n- comprchensible to us, or Is it a duty to seck and underatand Him1 There can be but one answer to these aucs- tions. The paramount duty we owe to our- sclves I8 to use the reason within us, und search for truth regardless of conscquences. Aud who daro to Dbelittle our fntellect and put obstacles In our path to scarch for pruof cven of the existenca of a Godi Wewlll not be put off by underrating our finite puwers to grasp the infinite, but we will suffer our ani- hitlon to rise lgher and bieher in search of the hidien truth of pature, and be contented to revel in the bliss of an oceaslonal gllmpso of the *“holicst of hulles’” of the universe. 1In contemplating the discussions nuw agitat- ing the pulpit and press throughout the Chrls- tlan world, it occurs to me that if (ioa cxist, would not His **rovelation” pive us definite, indisputablo knowledge as regards our destiny and the cxistence of o Helll I it consistent with the object of divine reveiation that those to whom it was iiven should wrangle and quarrel and dispute over It, and after thousands of years of siudy and Intezpretation should wet farther and farther apart in their conclusions? Can it be vossible that the Bible 1s A truo revelation of putent God and yet haa entirely falled in ttam 1 Yes, tnstead of being accepted by all the worlit us autharily, it ia discarded and scorned by four-fiftha of thosy'for whom It was intended, Ja not thus the plan of God frustrated? Would Ho ot ta-day (if ro-revelation were possible) give us 8 new **Uospol," plain and conslatent, which all &liko woula embrace and accept? And wonid not such o book contain all th fruths of the universe In regard to creation, thoe, and eternity? ilovesl all the bidden teuths now so eagorly songht for by sciuntists and the people? Tell us about tha Inhal itants supposed 1o bo upon _ other plancts, thele mode ol ife und dovelopinent, guont the beginning and end of this world, aboat the nature and location of a Heaven or Ilell, if auy, of the nature of our occupation when there, of "the possitllitien of endless pleasures without rrief and pain, of our fricnds who have gone there foro us, of **spirit" life, clothing, food,~in short, a thousand and million of things that now vy can never know, Is it right and reasonable, therefore, thata just Qud can and does withhold such direct authorita- tive rgvalation from Ills chiidron, and ls tho present Hible anthority to bo accepted by nsas auch? lias it evidences and prools within liseif to estaolish tnia authority for tho guidnnce of reason- able men and women? No! it docs not stanid the sceutiny of bold snd honest investigution. Durlng 1,800 years our theologians have not succeoded (o estabiish it nn Gow's text-buok for tho peaple. and 1t 1s fast fosits2 1ts hold upon all scholars and thinkers, It has not rovealed nny new truths In science, but hins taught theorles that hava long beon proved falac. It has not rovesled any new light about the naturo of the univcrse, but has glven to man a fablo avout this world ouly peing o mpecial creatiun of God, while Heaven and 1ta blllions of suns and stars were mado for no otlier purposo Unt to glve light upon onr puny carth! 1t has not taught o single fact about the origin of this planct cvon (hat has slnce been core robdrated by eclonce, but its dencriotion of thone things have all been exploded ne fables, 1t lias sadly failed to enlighten mankind and awsist them in tho scarch of trotn, but has retarded the cae of progress, produced strifu and dircord, and causcd the grentest confuslon among acientiste searching and discovering now facta and theorlen, but Gnd- ing them u‘;:jpmtfl 10 ln&upmcd rovelation. 'The world 1a strugghing haed for knowledge. Sclenco advancea step by wtep, Lut iis march ls slow, anl veset i nany obstacles, Not tha Teant of these 18 the Bible, anil the nighty Induenvo of 1ts pricsts, Ia1t not stranue,thorefure, that if the 8ol 1s & troe revelation of God, that all the plans of Goa, His mode of creation the nature of mattor, tho location of fleaven and Hell, and the pumber of Inhabitants vach contalne, ete. otc,, should be witbheld from his subjects, an that'it in to-ay repidinted s onuthorlty by all the actentific world? ‘Ihat it s twisted, and torn, and mlacunstened,*ond rotranslnted, und reconstruct. and abridged in o thousand diTetent ways to mt a thousand differcnt sects and preachers, Is 1t ponstble that this book I+ tue production of an suiinito tiod, the creator of the universe, and thut thix revelation, or rather collation of fables and myths, I4 the unly misorable pittance or crumbe of l‘:;awledgn our Divine Father can sparc us? Can it tene? Furced by rexeon and common nndcruu\mllnf to anawor this question In the negative, the more fm- portant question urlsos: 18 thore o God atally 1f tho Jiible is fales the only proof and foundation for a builef in a tod yed, 'Tho urlzin of the Chrlstian's God Is {n the Dible, Tt tells all there §s and all there evor can be Kknotrn abont Iim. ~ Accordiug to this testimony God s n person. 1Mo sayn so directly and fudirectly, While this testimony omewhat canflcting, yet (escept tnone pluce) It does not attempt to clothe Jim with other than human atiributos, In person, in nliope, in size cven, lie 14 slmilar to man, and the Liblo 1s 111w only revelation. Now, having unly [ible proof to cstablish the ex. Instence of n God, lot us apnly De. Thomas' mode of reasoning, **not ue chiidreg read Arablan Nigliy, but as 8 hanker reads the fuotation of gold and exchange,™ and see if n God docs or possibly can cxiat atail. A Unod hns always been taken for wranted, —never proven, ‘The vastiicss, the infinitive of tia unlverne, s suitictont for its peenctual oxists ence, and of necosslly excindes anything any greater, ora God, A physical, personal God, a suprome boing,somowhere or everywhera In apace, lusn fioposnbility, A materinl unlysrse flling Infinite space out" any ather tnfinite thing or belng, Nooua can separate a human form from a divine beiny, and yeta (iod lu s human form s not ad- minssbie by roason. “Hutuan ottributos, such as intollizence, good. neas, yisoow, Juve, can unly eslst In or b evolved from the numan form or & wimilar physical betug; lhl:-wlun. wisdom, olc., caw only urigiuste within a Lrala. A human or s physical belng cannot bo Infinite. Wo might imagine God a giant, with a brafnas Jarzo us tho world, Hin_body In proportion, and 1113 foet rosting ontwo fixo: millions of miica has (o oblain an immense amount of mus. oasury if tod whiris thu plauets through space) from his body, and likewise a ount of wisdom from »o larze a braln, but 1 would bo shocked at such a giant, and onfess that God cannot bo such a physice al monster, Nut buw have our greatest deallsts, Tlubenw, Angulo, Kaulbach, Uuettio, In momonts of thelr sublimeoxt ** fnapiration,” imagined (iqd? Haw can our woet godly divines who communichte with hitm dally imaginu God? Asa mani No higher cone ception i« possible to the human miud, Hut woine say: God lsn l(urn. . Hut wo no soons eruttempt to krasp a grand *apirit "' hypothests of o Gud when we sra ju our {magiation cyes and featurcs, and hale und vonerable whiskers otherval and ‘uluud and wysterious, but—‘‘very like o man Tlut the exletence of & Gad {n the lmage of man, no matier how Jarge, would still bo of vory pige iuean proportions, and s0 inslguifcant in powsr when compared with the Inflnlte unlverse that 1o would be an antite enportiuity, Wao hiavo no knowledgo whatever aud no pruaf of the exiatenco of 4 tod, aud noue of the uxisteacy of .{I:Iulllzunc\b outaide of a liviug, phyaslcal body and bral itewove all human and animal organism from the tace of tho earth, and where ia thera uny thing or qualily rosewbdling conaciousnces, love, or bn- telligenco? Are sny or all uf the forces of Natuce fntel 1I1e|m 1 rn\llfl, 1s electricity, {s maguet. fat Wiere, (e, Intelligence” outaide of & rain But search througb boundless space, with tho ald of u teiescupe, lu cver opposing distances fur thousands of billlona of miles, and st tha end of visluu through thesy most poworful louscs you will vuldlecoverln the misty space beyond countices ‘igoodoess," any J ‘crowda alize (even with onr the majuaty, graus ©lsy van- lwited power of conceptio aur, and subliaity of the universy, al labes like dew before the morning sun! 1t 14, tacrefors, plaln that wo have accepted (he bellof of our fathers without prool, —we bave taken & (od for granted! b roof of ryvelation belag foun the proot atu* Heil" §s uusutisluciory, sud nu proof atall o the inteiligeut thinkerof this proxressive’ ngo; they wust be latd (o scet In 8 cumwun zrave. Wo ave belleved fu s persuual God as children bellevad Iu **Arabun Nighis," but **mow we must put uway childish things," aud reason lixe uiey. ‘To avk: **What wado Nature?" **There most be a drat caus Is proot of jgnorsnce aud lu- coupetency of cowprebeusion, T, svace, sud watter siu uternal and iodaite, andconld never have hada bezinning (which means ercation from notning) And can nover conio tann end, All thinga, il forms, Il worlde ara finlte, all have a beginning, all mast have anend. Bt the Sr;:m whole, mattur and force, are eternal and In- nite. ‘To #ay, '*Whore thero Is law, thers mustbo s lnw-giver,” apnlies to ham aflairs only. Nnture's farrs aro Nature's farces, and thens forces ate inherent and co-axietent with matter, and conld never have been *givon' by a *giver,' Itat to eay: **Thera must be something ontalde of Nature to creato it, and this something Is God, ™ 13 adding geeatly to the problem, asthis something, inorder to create the univerre, must oven ho greater than tho universs, and, to be fomcal, this somcthing or ** God ' acain he cauned by romething or another d ontalda of that, and s Mr. Fnithfal vets deeper and deeper In the labyrinth of mystery. **Let us resson from what weknow. " o know nt Teast something of the univeras and are parts of 1t oursclves; we can see nnid comprehend and tm- agino its cxistence, and from this only can we resron, and In this trace nll offects. Tt **intelligence cannot spring into exisience from dead matter," it 1s ayain nald, **and there- fore must bs canved by nn Intelligent God, the #ouree of all Intelligzence."' Eut If {uteilizencae can exist in God Independent of nnother intelifzence outside of i, 181t not more reasanable to sip- Dose that the numoerons forced of Nature canevolve intelilgence out of the wanderfkl propertics and oreanisxms of matter than that a ‘somcthing of which we have not the east proof or ldea what- ceverohonld possess intelligenco independent of other ontstde and creatlvo causes? Bomething must canso intelligoncs; trne, but1s 1t nut moro tensonable to Lelleve tliat something (matter) causes it than—nothing? 1a not L\nrmun‘ and music evolved out of wood And tron when the plano In completed? 8o mensa- tion {x ovoived out of A peculigr combination of cer- tain qualitien of matter in tho ‘senvitive plant; so the animalcula in water up to tho highest forms of . In conelaslon, permit mo to ray that it Is a great deal more mystarious of comprohension to me how God, hy the wonderrul manipulations of His kands and fitigers (** handiwork "), can create the anl- mnlculw, color the rose, form the infant hefore birth, or aven causo the sap to clrcnlnm in the trees In my garden in ltochelle, and at the same time tend to tho treca in the garden of the Emnoror of China, and all tho other trees and Lhe rost of the universe not be neglected, than it 1a that afm- ply—All s of neceseity. Orro WETTSTRIN, — DR, TITOMAS CRITICIZED. To the Editor of The Tribune, CnioAgo, Jan, 15.—~In reading tho report of Dr. 14, W. Thomas® sermon In Tugs Trinuxe of the 12th inat., I wasn littlo astonlsbed at some thinge, and not very much so at others. I was not much astonlshed at the muddle Into which the Doctor worked himself on the subjoct of cternal punishment, for I was aware that he had been drifting in that direction for o sear or two; and I was also aware that thoss who drift away from plain Scriptural teaching always get (oto a dl- leoma. 1 ssy muddle, and what s it clse! For, after o harsh denunclation of the idea of o literal lake of fire as a dogma of the churches, when but few of them hold ft, he, after a sccond effort, has left It just waere. the dlscusstons of ages haa left it before. Io can't deny that therols a ell: but don’t know whether it is eternal or not. But T was netonlshed at his reckless gronping together of nearly all of the fundamental doe- trines of the Gospel—such as the “I'rinity, nate ural depravity, the atonement, and regencra- tion, together with the miracies, both of the 0Old and New Testoment—in the same category, as obnoxlous to tho critical sense and subject to armlgament nt the bar of unalded human reason. 1 was still more astonished at what ap- peared to me as the vers arrozant assumntion that tha Bible is ot Infalliblo and doen not claim to be so, and consequently, that no onc is bonnd 10 regard ftaantliorily any further than his critical aenso ahall think it true. Nor is my astonisliment abated when I think of a Methodist minater who, in his ordination, must knve solcmnly vowed that I fully belloved tho doctrines of tha Gospel, ns held by the Methodist Episcopal Church, would faithfully preach them, and use hils utmosten- deavors to drive away ail false qoctrines,—1 any It did notabate my ssloni<hment that such s mon shonld, e n:)rnlur pastor In a Mcthodst puinit, to n congregation assembled to hoar Methodist preaching, tuld forth such & tirade, not unly againat the most oseential doctrinea of the” (lonpcl, but agalnst tho Bibla itself, tho only authoritive standard hotls of relivion an: morality, Hut all {his comes of *‘advanced modern thought " whicl haa quickened tho **critf- cal sens And yet this very **advanced modern thonght " haanot been confined to Collyer, and In- orroll, and others of this enlizhtened period, but by Thendore Parker twenty yenrs ugo, Abner Knce. land and othore ifty years ago, and Tom Palne and lila co-workors from 100 to ¥00 yeara since, critical renxe,” muat have been strungly ped in tae latter part of the last century, when tho Bible wasdrawn throngh 1he ntreots of Parinnt tho tail of an iznoble animat uud burned with other relics of auperstition, And it must have beon quito in the nacendant nearly o century carlier, wien good old Biwhop Butler, Jnst Dofota the boglnning of th great Wesloyan tevi« val, declared that it appearod to be taken for grant. ed that the Hiblo was o myth, and Cheistianity o niere eyntom of priesteraft, Hut this ¢*modcen thought ' dates nway back of 1hls pertod. The (innstics or knowing ones, and other heretica and opponents of Clirlstianity know fomothing of it, for thore In scarce a floating noe tlon amon( those **ceitical-neune® men of theso modern timos that may not bu traced to the writ. ings of that claua of men in the eorly centurics of outera, And eveu the ‘‘critical ‘sensc wf tho Badducees of un age or two earlier had learned to dinregard the miracles of the 1iblo,and atl apiritu- al thingw, Adfor the alang abont sccin and crecits, we have heard it too often and too long to class it with modern thouzht, I will close by maying that, If not astonished, I was n littlo amuced ot ¥ome remaeks of the aditor; Firat, the npprehension ur hope (1) that the Jittle leaven may leaven the whole lumrulmun to me as at joaat n little premature. And the magnitude of thix luminary n thy Muthodist dnnament atruck me, with others, us ** advanced thought, " for the Church generally docs not sppear to have mada the discovory yet, “As for the prosumntion that there will e no'trial, s tho Church canuot aford to loso wich o man, thero are many who think that unloss the Doctor should bo very successful In ** risiuy to explain ' the Cliurch can better affard to part with A& ncora or two of wuch Lhan to lave ono such hold forth in her pulplts as **modern thought" such rocklcss psscrtions. AN Oup MeTnonistT PoRacnzn, IN EXTREMIS, [September, 18771 Tam vrur{—l am weary! When wlll pain and sorrow cease? From tho paags that rond my busom, 1n thare, then, no blost refeasel Intho sky of tha dim fulure Hhines 110 star of choorful ray? 1 am weary—weary--weary | Let mo pass from Earthawsy, Tam woary—1 am weary! "Pls a triting boon 1 ook, All the anllew of kindly greetin Now huve porished froin my cheey And tho frlends that nsed to comfort Uniy look a mute farowell, Iam wnnvv—weuu—wc:r{l Walting for tno tnuflled knell, Tam weary~—I ain weary! Why continua atill thy atrife? Long1've dared zetm Death to take me Long I've dearly clung to life But the Fatos bave siamped thoir fiat On this worn and wasted Imawe, 1am weary—weary—weary ! Tnuat dio without 8 name. When I'm buried, lot no pagecant Fullow tu my resting-place; Let the few hands that have loved me Smuoth the wrlnklea from my faco; Above iy dust, nur dirge nor orsyer Must e'er bo sunyg or sald; Let no voice of superstition X Ureak the sllence of the dead, . Through this world of jarring factions Moves ono vaat and solomn train, Tacing sadly to tho dirges Bung for hopes nud nieusures vaing On and on, the weird broce . Moves furever aud furuye; And we all march in Iis culumns Drown Death's dark und awrul way, Bat, of all the varlod fortuncs ‘That fog strurgling mortsle walt, Ax auown this roud they travel, Neath de not the hardest fute: Bomo thers sre who woury for honor #unk beneath the carnal wave; Others 50\ ars wildiy weoping Over dead Affection's g O I thank ihce, Mother Nature, For asoul that dues nol fear; For a nesrt without a canker, Aud 4 consclence caliu ond clear, ‘Though tha Star of lope has Hickerad, Lave'w soft say |s boaming yet; And, where shune Life's glowing fires, ! Lio no nebicw of regrot. Drooxinutos, M, L N. P Clasales Didn't Couat, edrols Tust, “Now, your Honor, wa must conslder the anhno surandl,” sald a VPolice Court shyster, who was eloguently defendivg a chicken tbiof Jcsterday, *\What's that!” {oquired the Folice Justice, dropu spectacies (o sstontshment. *{ am ot here, your Houur, to answer con- undruws,” responded Lho barrlster with asperity, 1 am bers to acquit this colored gentleman of the Joul charge of stesling six Brabuia chick- ens. **Latin quotatluns are pol admisalble ju o chicken case,” sald the Justice thoughtfully. “Thg scutence of this Cuurt 1s ninety days (o thy tiouse of Correctlon.” ‘The defeodaut looked wild for a moment, aud then turndng from his counsel fn disgust, wuttered: “[dun gous frowed $3 away dis U, shuab.™ JANUARY 19, 1878—TWELVE PAGES, CLEVELAND’S SCANDAL. Moro Btatements Regarding the Charity Hospital. nmm': -Gllmonr Presents Mis Compll. monts {o Dr. Weber. Oo Deniea Most of the Allegationa Against the Mother Superior, The Doctor Asks for n Commities of Invostigation, but Is Denled. BISITIOP GILMOUR'S STATEMENT. Bome time since we recelved by telegraph and published a statement charaing that Ur. Weber, tho physiciau In chargo of the Roman Catholic Charity 1lospital at Cleveland, had resigned beeauss of the habitual intoxicatlon of the 8ister Bupcrior of the institution, and tho refusal of tho asuthorities to re- move her, and nlso giving intimations to other improprictics. Wo lhave recclved the printed reply of Bishop Qilmour to these statemonts,'which, so far as it reiates towhat was printed in this papey, we anmex. The Blshop says: Now as ta the general question and Dr, Weber's connection witii tne ilospital, lot mo rospectfally stata the history of these Jast six years, About two months after L came to Cleveland Dr. Weber called upon mesnd demanded, under threat of resizna- tlon, the ‘removal of the Buperior. The change was made, 1o then demanded certaln internal and espensive improvoments, at A costof $20,. 000, 'They were mnde. o then demanded a hall and elinic lecture-room for tne stndenta of his college, at au expense of 87,000, Tha hail was buile. Tio then demunded a lying-in holglul, at an expenne of $20,000, It was butlt, e then demanded the adwiseion of n second resfdont physician, Wu domurred, bat fually yiolded. And_with this duplicate began all otr troubles. Dr, Weber agaln demanded the expulsion af ever, homeopathic' physician srom “the Hospital, They ware expelled, 1o then demanded tho " re-elcctlon of what he now calle a drunken Superlor. ®he was ro-elected, Hie then demanded her removal, 1 demurred. Il throatened resiznation. 1sald, ** Even If you do .resign 1 cannot yleld to you farther the government of tho Hosplta),"* Proy, on whose side now ia the debtar balsnce? Now a4 to tho chargea mado by Ur. Weber, and eo widely and induastrionsly and minutely paraded to the public by the press 1o witfch Ur, Weber 15 repurted as aaying ** He nothing further to eny till tho Blahop .apeake, woukli niost respectfally wubmit the” following n.atements, and by which I am willlng to stand or all: Kirat, it 1 nald the Snperlor of the Hospital was my housckeeper, 'To this I distinctly and unquall- fedly nsscrt that neftber this Buperior nor ony other Sister over was my housekeeper, About a year ago 1 was sick (unfortunately no novelty to ma theso threo ycars past), and two of the Blsters camc” to my hounre & fow days 1o care for me. From thin ghatm- Jess fircldent the vile pen of the slanderer han darcd to insinuate Alth and erime, The vilest Dbieckgnardism could invent nothing viler or more basely columniuns than the Ineinoatton con- tainad in thisionuondo, The *‘transom " atory is of the rama churacter. A priost had been in'‘the Tiospital for weeks and montha alck to the polut of death; given up by tuie physician; hourly for days trombling between 1ifo nnd death with neryoia prostration. For nearly n year he was unable to Ieave the llospital. Dnring his extreme nervons wrostration the light In tho nall excited and so dis- tnrbed him dnring the night that he could not #leep, The prevent the annoyance cauned by the Mickering of the light tho transom was darkensd, and benold! the vilsslanderer und base caluminla- tor Jumus tathe conclusion that thero wasa crime, — buse, Tonl crime; that priosts and nuna wers lech- crous villaine, and the atmodphere of the hoapital tutnted with prostitution 1 Aa to the wing-drinking i the room of this privat and the visiting Ly the Slaters, the sum and substance of it all {a—tlie nrlest, when conyales clng, waa ordered wine by lita physiclan,and it wi carried to hits rooin 84 it” swonld be 1o the room any oiher patient, This wassecn, and becausc the Eiaterawould ¢o ta his room to walt and tend upon him in his helplesaness, and did not npen the door tothe prying gnzers, then, forsooth, thero was wme-hmnlnfi gluttony, and riot, Bhamo upon the calumnlators! Wonder If the Inventors of falschood belleve there fs a God whoascesorn ,}:.Igm:;l tomeet? Welnvito Inveatigation on this Now ns to wino-drinking of the Superior. Dr. Weber was the mau who fiest prescribed it to hor, sehen shio was eick and oxhonsted with her many and varied cares and exhauating vigila by night anit by day, wtelving to meet the datly exacting ealls and ymperlous demands of Dr. Webor made upon hert and tho resources of the jlospital, o long as maney .wua . In abundance and all wero st the feut of tho Doctor, il went well. But when the rosuurces of the Hospital oecama stralghtenad In consequence of the hand tinics und the last two years of tha Doctor's own 1ll health and conaa- quent aiminatied practice, and It becamo impoy: Lls to meettho Doctor's demands or yicld to hia im« porlous comman then things st the hospital went all wroug—lis management, its apirit, itn fnternal worulr:fn-nll was wrong; and when I wonld not yield to hin imperions demands last spring, and remove the Supcrlor, and alnu the ro- cepttan of our churily patients in the hands of two boys just from theie class room, 1t was all mnch more wruni, ‘fhere 18 o Hinit to overything, Had wo ruled moro awd abeyed loes wo would nut have vur present traubles on our hands, aod be humbled and binckened by charges that never existed, last spring Dr. Weber came to me and made certuln charzes ngainst the Buperlor and others at the Hospital, adding that, though ho chiarzed the Suverior vitn dnnking, Y“ Lo must ssy that for onu year and a half provious to Jaat spring hie had no kuowledus that sno had nor did Lo buliove that who hind drunk sy, Wheticr ho has seen anything ot 1t or not since last spring, 1t Is certaln lin he has not reportod it to me, and I Linve o evidence toat thero huw been, Ayear ngo last March thero was tobe an eloction for anow Superior, Dr, Webcr inalstod that thy then Buporior should De re-clected, and she waa, Now It this Superior was what Dr, Weber aod scandal mongurs say sbio was, ia it not passing stranzzo that Dr, Wober should have so_ strongly Inslated on hor re-ulection? Or, if sho had boen ro-clected agalnst his will, is it not atrange indeod that Dz, Weber did not then demand her renioval? Jut no, hie walt4 noarly ono ycarand o half after iier ro-clectlon, (hon tolls me she has not drank during any of tkatthne, and thensuddenty demands ber semuial, Loes not this unezolained action suyyest to the very casunl reasoner womo other motive In Dr. Woler than the drinking of tho Bupertor? Whatever this motive was Is so far knawn ouly to Dr, Weber, When Dr, \cber made his charges, they seemed to mo grave esough to demand an Investigation, and I wwout ta tno ladpital, and for slr days ¥ putiently ‘and estinustively examined esch and every charyo nado ayiinet the Sunerior aud otRers in or connccted with the Iospital, and when [ found tha chargus, as above shiown, wory not sua- ined, after taking the vridonce of every membor of the commuaity, | s0 infurmed Dr Weber, and refused_to punivh for crimea which I found nof, Then De. Weber became violontly angry, and suid by would resian unless the Buperior would bo ru. moved, [ miy, but respactfully, informed the Doctor that oven af he did resign, not Jluld to hls dewand. But I wonld contloue, ns soon as the np?uumncu uf grumuu waa removod, the changs wunld be made. ly pction waa wustained by the mediesl stalf of lie liospital, aud Dr. Weber was condemed us hasly sud unregssonable, But Dr. Wuber would not adialt this, but rusienod® and ceased bls neual altendanco at tha lluspitsl, removed his instro. meonts, and ordered hie paticnts toleave. Two afier, Dr. Weber returnsd, avked no cone coucesslons, duinanded no removals or otaer chunges, he was satisiled with thinge as thoy were, ot tho past past, rnnumzdnh aual attendanco, and up to last Saturday § navor b & word of complaint fram bi, with one uacoption, whei n gonticman callea % my liousu naylng the Ductur thoughit the thols was cunie wien he clangs whould Le made. The Ductor wes Informed tuu change would be made about New-Ycar's—porhaps sooner. { hoard no niore on tho subject i)l 1 saw in the papers the su. nouncoment of his reslgoation. I know of no now cauxe fur this action, nor do L undoratand it Tho cirango lonz lutended, butso oft delayed i)l wo could get i tima when tho chanze woull bo wurs, not Dr. Weber's, was finslly determined upoa on Uhrhlvnnannluf. 3 ‘The auove uro the facts in the case, and the public san judge how far the charges bave been :‘ 1 ined, and Luw muck, the Hospital owes Dr, eber, ——— THE OTIER SIDE. Bpecial Correspondence of Ths Tribuns, Creveranp, 0., Jan, 18.~The scandslous procedures in the Catholic Charity flospital In this city bid fairly to bo hushed up and passed over, just us thousands of other scandalous procedurcs have been hushed up from the timo of the Inquusition to the present; and as il tho facts that it scems possible to ascertaln have bect developed, it may be of interest to tho public to bave them atated In & connected form, Thoy are bricfly as follows: Nearly & year ugo Dame Rumor said that Dr. Qustay C. E, Weber, President of the surgical stal® of the institution, was much dlpleased with tho mavagemeut of affairs, which be considered scaudalous, and that he contemplated withdrawal therefrom. Thae Uoctor s 8 Protestaot, and bad been connected withs the fostitution from tho beginnfog, Mo had given it what reputation it posscased. Ho bad brought it very many paying paticats, snd this withdrawal was considered very scrivus, It was well kuowu that bo would never contem- plate such & step except upon the most urgent reason, and curlvalty rau birh as to what that reason was. The 1 euterprislog uewspaper wan wesuoable to rtafu woythiug fu regard 10 the watter, and o Buully it was dropped uu- ti last My, Theu it was koowa cbat Dr. Weher Ieft the (nstitution, and ordered his patients to another hoapital, But here again {t was impossihle to ascertaln the cause, and in due time 1t azaln was hushed up, Upon urgent. apolleation by the Bishep of the Diocese, the Joctor retorned, and things were rupposed to Le passing on _smoothiy until Felday. Jan. 4, inst., when Dr. Weber and all the staff of physicians withdrew formally from tho Institation, and the Doctor himsell made n atatement befors his class in tho Brownell Strect Medicn! College of his reasons In full for the step. Tho statement of theso was sent to Trie Trinunx at the time, and wera that the Mother Supecrior of the fnstitu- tion was grosaly Incfliclent to perform the duties of her position uwing to n constant Indulgence in Intoxicating drinks. That she had on one oceasion annroached the verzo of delirum tremens, In this way she had becomo eross and crabbed in the discuarge of her dutles; that with her Becretary and other officlals of the in- atitution she frequently fndulged in drunken revels with feative priests, who were in the habit of visiting the " inatitutfon, looking nfter other and mora _worldl y intereats than the gouls of the suffering; that during the continuauce of a certain Fother Conlan’s atay at the hospital she had been scen to make visits to his room at more frequent in- tervals than her legitimate work fn the (nstitu- tion would demand. aud that certain plous sfs- ters, surprised ond scandalized nt her perform- ances, had taken the liberty of looking In at the transom-light over the door of the room, ang beheld her engaged fn o drunken midnight revel with some half-dozen pricsts, herself clad much more in deshabille than the modesty of a sister would demand, It.fs the rule ol the hospital that tho lfzlits In all the rooms shall be out at 9 o'clock p. m., and tha consclontions slsters com- phaining of the midnight light In the holy fath- er's room, notlced the next day that a thick plece cf brown paper had been carelnlly placed over it In such a manner that not a ray from the gas-fet could ca- cape futo tho hall. DBut “the volces of the revelers were heard ns usual,-and tha sisters were scandalized, and the doctors enrazed, At length a deputation of sisters and patlents lald the whole matter before Dr. Weber, and asked that he intercede with the Bishop, asking that a change be made. ‘This the Doctor promised ; but until the doy when the Doctor and his staft severed their connection with the institution no move In that dircction had been made. In an interview which 1 had with the Blshop fmmediately upon the Doctor's withdrawal, Lie stated that ho was very much surprised at _tho Doctor's movement; ‘that he had decided on Cliristmns nizht to make achango At ths hos- pital. But upon queastioning him in regord to what that chango would consist in, ho sald that the work of tho Hospitat and the chargo of the sisters was too much for ono Buperior, and he had determined to appoint what he colled a Local Buperior to look after the hospital, while tho prescut Mother 8t. James .wrould go back to her workas Buperior of the Slaters of Charlty, Inanswer toa questlon in regard to his oplnion of the gullt or innocence of the Mother Superior, ho refused utterly to give an opinfon. He evaded tho question by saying that It was a difficult matter to judge of nwoman's character, 1I 1t was o man who was under conslderation he could beinduced tospeak with greater definitoness, The newspaper discussion which followed this expose brought ot a long cand from tho Bishop {published above] n fow days ater. Strango b say, in all this review ho did not deny n singée charge, Headinitted the facts, and then at- tempted to excuse or palliate them. Closing up hjs card, ho challenged fnveatization, Next cama the Doctor in a gentiomanly card, simply accepting the challenge, and suggesting that a committee of seven bo chosen; thrco b himsclf, three by the fiishop, nnd the seventh by this six; that the affaies of the hospital bo carefully gone_over, nnd everything fully in vestigated. 'To this the Blahop roplied {n an- ather tirade of abusc, and wound up by saying that 1f tho provosed committeethought it worth while to Investizato tho aflalrs of the hospital any further ho would not throw any obstacles 'In thetr way, Thisis quitea * como down' fromn a challenge, and siniply moans that no {a- vestigation will bo hold if ho'ean helpit. The peculiar condition of affairs at the hosoital nnkes an fnvestigation impossible except unon a purely mutual plan. But tho Bishop sympa- thizea with the Mother Superior. He would, of course, doall fn his power to shicld ner. The priuclml witneases in the caso aro tho jsistors ot tho Institution, and they would Lo very unwilling witnesses an fuvestlration, and would nover speak except ot tho command of the Bishop and with tho as- surance upon his part that no harm should come to them from what they might say. This he would never give, It would bs asking too much of a prelate to expect it Yesterdey I ealled upon the Bishop to ascer- tain I he'had any further comnmunleation to makeupon the subfect. 1la snld ho has none, and cousiders tho controversy practically at an end. And 80t may bo unlcss the Doctor comes out again and forces a one-slded investigation. ‘o nospltal was founded in tho time of war when the need of romething of tho hind was felt here, Itich Protestant citizens cone tributed towsrds its construction, ono gentlo- man giving as bigh as £10,000. All thess men thought more of country than of Church, and when the time for sleniniz over tho decd of tho land came, Distiop Rappe, then of this diocese, a liberal-minded, popular tnan, was there, and no one objected to the deed belne made in his nume, not stooplng to think but that he would always remain here, But u combination of jeal- nus priests obtainod his removal, and tha pres- ent prelnto was sent here in bis place, Bishop Giimonr {a n Scotchmau, He was trained tor tho Preshyterian mimstry, and given orders in that Church, ‘The prospect of advancoment not gravfying ambition, ho abandoned hls faith andentered the Catholiepriesthood. Hisuniform bigotry and constant fizht with Protestantism hns advanved him fast in the orders of tho Church, There {s not much anothier uncol lxrcmmuz enemy of the common-schoul syst n the country, “[lo makes no disguiso of his reasons for Lostility, Ilesays thut ho was edu- cated In themn, and knows what thev are, Ho has observed their workings upon the mind of the Catholiechild. Ho is first mado ashamed of bis rellzion and then reuouncen it. Years ago wwhen the Catholies had no senoats, thelr chil- dren wore sont to tho public schoolss the result was nlmost fatal Lo tho causa of the Church, The Church cannot afford this, and will eontend agalnst the pruscut system of public achools to thelr death, ‘Theso mentiments I recclved dl- rectly from his own llps not three months aga. Well. ever sincs Bishop Rappe obtained tho deed of tue Charity Hospltal twelve ycars nzo thero hios been a constant attempt to get all the support outstde the Chiurch and all the maunge. munt [nskle. 'The city haa been dunned for the nurso hire and burinl expenses of charity pa- tlonts, whila all sugeestions from the outsida havo been fenorcd, ~ Finally Dr. Welier has beon driven oat, und the nffalrs of the fnstitution aro wholly in the Blshop's hands, Qanr, EUTHANASIA, 0 who will tarry by my slda When cold and silent Doath draws near, 'n; v:u::lu n ll‘lllnllll lrl\g glde nto its silent scpulciro he hen with feeble, futt'ring bu;nm. . dluln death, elt pray, lodke e bl rops llog'riag . And drop the fosling tear, And closs my witdely-opened oyes, Fluat seom to gaze with glad surprise Ou an ctornal dayY 0 who wiil weep when 1 am dead, Enveloped by the attent tomb, And plant abovo my lowly head Tho embloms of eternsl bl With eartaly trace of gloom; Ty ust that 1 should mournful be, For [ nuet meot thy fate ol be Who les thte tomb within, ™ false and fickle-hearted man, O s ek uf sriof are nalculy drled, Youe pletured woes, 8o suoothly drawn, With Judas-] s arv allied. The years that slowly Thels monrnful num! The mound 'ueath whick m: 18 loveled by tho march of go lnm]nd lx'm or un;m:;x:n '0 parsing strauger make! nowa That I had lived or dled: Thus in forictiuiness to sleap, ‘With none lu mourn aud noue (o weep, Until tae dnad dawn. L. A, Ossonxe. Minzuat Poist, Wis, e — _CUBRENT OPINION. Mr. Wood proposes to investigate proity = .l; chime; lay much everyihing but tbe admipistration of Far-- naudo Wood as Meyorvf New York.—New York dribune (Liep.). The Blair memorial (o investigate the title of President Hayes 1s meetiog with the condemna- tlon of a1l Democratic fournals, MMr, Dlalr comes under the bead of fuollat old’ meu. —Cuncinnati Enquirer \Dean. ). Tlhere i3 no great risk in predicting, after & falr catlmatp of the political forces of the futare, that & solld political South in 1830 means & bopu- less minority for the solld South thercafter, and the duwnfail of the Democratic party. 1t & tempo- rary succcss bo thouxnt worthy of the sacrifice of tho polltical future, tue Bouthera puiiticians whe appose frew politleal diviaion, and siak the appesr. anceof soctional unity on a partiaan bamie, ara tak. ng tho propor means fa achisve theic purpote; but many nf them are yonng enongh to seo the dyy when their mintake will be as palpable an thy blunder of secesalon and war fa now sdmitted (g hava been.—Clncinnall Commerceal (Ind. Lep.y, None believe more sinceroly than wa thyy the President clonded his own titla when he abap. doned the legal Btate Governments of the Sonty, but now erery nther connideration must bo suhae. dinated to the presereation of the peace of (he nation, and to the maintenance In his place o illw duly-clected Executive.—LocAester Democray 2ep.)e Tha notion of tho Now Hampshire Ttrpat,. 1lean Convention simply shows that the peopls oy this country are heartily opposed to any attempy to reopen the Presidengial queation. ‘Thn anpostian to the P'resldent's Cive-Scrvice policy s confine) enurfl‘ o actlye pofiticiana who Are thinkin, abont how to carry h;‘lfllnn!, and not about the %}wpnl)ch of public bustness.—New York Grapkje Lep.). An between two honest and eapablo men, onc & Democral and the olher a Ropublicas, *¢regular " candidates for the same office, the K. press will give amost corlial preferenceandhearty snpport to the latter. 1Y theyaro both incapabl or dishonest, It will enagavor to prevent the etee. tion of either, If a publie officer tarnA out to be o thicf, he will he to the A rpress no longer & Demo- crat or a Itepublican, but only a thief.—. Bugale Erpress (Rep.). The sad fate of Mr. Chandler (Willtam K ond his little New Ilampsiiire Conventlon remindy usof that of the empty trmvelerjiho, bofing abagg totake his departure, with infinite paira riggeqy ropa to bis_window and lowrered hia baggace to the ground teneath only to hear the :lmj\y Yoice of the landlord c? from the rédewalk, ** Al mphi T'vegot It.* Mr. Chandler Jnwered swhy with jo. Bnite caution, and to the visico of Mr. Hayea cry. ing from tha ond of the iboe, **Allrigat—1'7, gotit."—New York World (Dem. ), The New York Tribune is becombog des. perate and bold, i not corrnpkt, fn its action o the question of allver rem netizatlon. It sab. stantially recommonds to ther Prosidend. that hy shall make nso of the public pntronage to corrup our natiounl logislatora and tinduce thtsm to voty agninat the Bliver bill, and al' 1o recomrr ends {q {hy ew York bankers that lhe{ 1rovide atfund to ge. curn the support of men with "nchlg palme, ' meaning, of conrso, Senatora of the Walted Statey, —Pittedurg Post (Dem, ). £ Tho overwhelming maj.srity df Repuhlic. ans are honest men. They bellevo in keeping party-pledpes, They are not in & ympathy wipy ofice-mongers, and cata very Uttlo v-hother By or Jones gota a particnlar Cu stom-1f onno or Post. Ofiice appolntment, ’t‘hu{k: 10y thut. tho Presideat is honcat, and that ho has svloand upristht ad. visers, They want thelr praty to supplement Iy “victorien in war by the mote glorioris lrlnn\rhu[ peace, of honesty, and of rcstomition. Al the politiclans who aiand in the *way of theso achlcse. ments will all go anilor the a.3d, politically speak. ing.~—New York Mall (Rep.}u The Hon. Mr. Chandle:z,—Willinm E.,—op the State of New Hampahire, can now retlro from the fleld of active politics in that Btate and the Notlon, and spend tho rezialnderof his yearsin rhllfllnphlul study of tha effect of o paper wad hurled with twenty pounds of gnnuowder nzalne the granito hills ‘of Now I ampshire Repnbiican. s, Two yoars nzo it was 1fie gallant Jittle State ofthe eternal hills Yich led1ho Bepublican cotumn to victory, and o Incline to the opinfon that {1 has agaln blazed the only way t 3at can lend the pari to muccess in the coming teonfict. —llldmnnpalz Journal (Zep.). - Peoplo have got into t'ho habit of talking about inflation by sliver as. if that was 2a cany as thellmitiess lsene of paperrmoney. ‘They Ignors the all-important fact that. sllver, In epite of all that has been said of its d zpreciation, hasavery bigh intrinale value, ana, lonu ns this Fact re. mains, {nflation is simp rency s not gols long aa it costa & dollar's worth of Iabor to produg every coined dollar that gocs into clreulation, 'Tho qupply of eliver is limltnd, and, from all (hat ecience can at present i-sach us, It will become more 80 In the foture. —Todedo Lude (Rep.). Mr., Chandler is by Wednesday's action sabatantlaliv repudiated by his own party and hu own Btato, and the Adminlstration 1s sustained. Tho reason {a simple. The people of Néw Hampehire bollevo that Ha:res is honest ond sensfs ble. They donot sca that any great harm has yet been branght on the coun ‘v by nis polley: nor ‘do they see indaed, that he had any nlternative in niany of tha acta for which he {8 most criticimed. They do not wish any Interferenc o to bo made with him, and they eapecislly refoso«to sanction a savaze onslaught against Iisyes, peraonally. by dlasp. pointed ofice-weekers. — IWorcester Guzetle (Rep.). Tho great argument of the bi-metalists Is this: That increased prodiaction in the preciom metnls, when they are wied as money, will or will not affect thelr purchasmng power in proportion as trado does not or docs kesp pace Inlta Incroasewity the increase of money; but that, when hoth cold and sliver are money, equal and interchangeablo by law. Increassd production ‘in etthor Is mmnly fn. creascd productlon in both (L e.. sn increase fn the wholo amount of money), and ean in no wise affect thoir relative value, The demonstizution of oilver has greatly Increasod tho relative valuo of gold, deaplte tho fact that the production of gold, within the past twenty lun. oy been far Inex. coss of that of silver.~Ulinclanati Times (fiep.). Chandler, in his own vain imaginntion, was tho leader of & successful rebetlion ngainst the Administration within the Presldent's own party, ‘Tomake any headway at all, 1t was nocosaary that this nolsy and ompty rebel should carry hly own State with him; but his own State haa rejected him 1n away which is as thorough as it §s dignitled and contemptuous, We can recall nothinz belter in olitical history. Tho significance of the New {umpshire movement la something which cannot be concealed or perverted either by Demucrate mallgnants or by Ropublican newspapers which ao- prova the President's mexsuren, but refuno to sup. i‘;&:‘p §no President.~New York Eoealny Lot Tho voleo of New Hampshiro will enconr. age the President to persovere in his good work, despita tho discourngements which sutround him, t1ss volco diroct from the péoplo, and It en: phasizes the aesortion we have often’ folt justified in making from our own obscrratlon, that bt massse of the people ate with the Administratior 1n thoe specifio work it has undertaken, and that it in tho politiclans who oppose and embareans il ‘The whule question and "the only question fne volved In tho controvorasy of (the lnat fow months 1, whothor the Itepublican party meana 1o bo true to Its declurations and promlscs of tho Presldentisl yoar, 1f the oficial represuntatives of tho party undertake 10 ropudiato thoso promises, they will hopelessly ulvlgn the organizatlon; for the rank and fle meant to keop them, Dt Now Hampealre afirms that it s tho varty which keeps its pledzes and It Je thoso who act ontside tho party who seck ta break down au Administration alilng to redeca them,— Uttca erald (Kep.). Tho bankers and Bhylocks of New York seem determined (o provoke tholr fate, They bavo hold a meeting of soma forty to organise concortod action to realst the will of the people, control tha Jegistation of Congreas, and prey with- ont restraint ufn the Induastries of the countrr, ‘They talk sbaol allver conspiracy,'* while the) aroActing tie part of a band of robbers, unlie for wido-spread and unlimited plunder, The notice of this intended comblnation fsa menaca and {nault to Congre ""’fi" spiclt and patriotism ! that sugust assewbly, thoy will specdlly acttle tbe hash of these lmpudent and greedy scoundrels l:i 1ssuing ten thoussand millions of greenbacke, an. makiog them a legol-tender for all duew, That tne welfero of every citizen of this great Republit should bo mado dependent ontho rapacityof few acores of ravenous vultures is a shame and re proach to the bussted clvilization of the couutry and ago. —Richmond (Va.) WAlg (Coneercative). Tho romonotization of silver ia not, in it self, an attempt to Interforo with the internationsl standard, —which Is gold,—not in given cotus, bat 1n certaln standands of weight and Atocncss. Talé wiil doubticss be used in making the sxchanges of too worly, Nor will the remonetization of silver ct tta sxport. It will continne to ba exporte. a8 bullion, aod wall command fts price In the mar kets of tho world, his we believe will l‘hnncfd becauss ouruseof 1t witl increass its use, 8o benco its value, lemonetizativa mnoans the m: uso of silver, a8 wefnuw bLayo the free uso o wheat, corn, oll, and otber products. Tha prescot ayitation fa tha ontgrowth of the attempt of csp- 1tatlata to drive ont greenbucks, and make nur nod” interust debs an intcroat-Learing debt. This a 8ault on the rights of the people fs met bys 7 wand that sllver bo remouetized, The golditct surrcplitiously repealed the old ailver uct, mm:‘ st about contracting the greeaback circulation. i rind the faces of the poople, and aro now llk!] fu ®ot puetic justice. 8o iwole it be, purllcu!lil?‘! ns the people will sharo 1n the advautage. -1 burg Uomumercial Gasetls (Its, B TO THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE. My dearest Bul hipped, Why ton't you stop sad take & reatt Now, If voa don't, I'll always think You'Uttomag, st iny requcat. SE it you'ss o s S orase 45 yiaud apon X vo 1o placa 10 stan . You've Joat te Daticens, and Iast Digab 1 Erzeroum or Plevoa’s gonc. v Sultan as the Dear bas scted, And Huogary as bu scoms for ruln, 1 fear that you will ba ex-Sultan; Upon your bier tha Beac's 8 bruin. The Enclleb, they don't caro s 6 o Queen Victoria Windsor Custley Disrucli is the truth, sud voa alust puusc, or bo p Nusslan vasesl Iam not brave; 1 sometimes tun: When lust | san, 3t was in Pera Bl g, 3 you waut belp, w L Sei s s