Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1878, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. Y 91, 1875 hat, perhaps, very few now clalm to be- nz that, P iNis Eame. Reformed Episcoml K firch may yet necd to be reformed to bring {e jnto the tric spirit of Catholie toleration, At oast I was told at the time there was some tark of my taking the Bt. Paul's Church,~tha tue Ghat Dr. Hunter now ao ably flls,—that Bishop Chene; expressed doubts na to my ortho- doxy, Waouldn't that be a beautifal sight] My 1 Brother Chency running around. Itkea Boatehed chigken) with the oldshell of eresy i) on his _own back, trying mo for If he lives filty vears longer he may hereay, | as John Wesley was 100 yeara azu, bt o, e 0 o o5 hnr&. ‘and he had nn such fears. e general fact may bo aflirmed of the r;z‘;:::;. 51111 dlssenting ’clmruhc» of (reat Britain and Enrope, with the singlo exception, po far 2s 1 know, of the Methodists, They placed thelr Interpretations upon the Bcriptures, and sought to make them bindisg upon the minds and conetiences of their followers, Meth- odism, I think, wie, and has been, amd to-day ie, thoone exception to this rule. I fully agreo with Elder Jutkins when lie sags: *Trug Meth- odism is liberal, and always hias been, It iberal with nll creeds. Ib never nsks a man his opinfon, Many _ of Ir. “L ‘lny'ul th-lumlj cllow-workers wera Calvanists, an A e Thing - ho - nsked of . b was this: *WIl you como with us strive to lead & pure and hul{ 1ifot 1t vou will, fot us Join hands. If you think differently from ns on somo points, wo don't requira you to szree with us, we onl ask you to take all con- trosersy aside.! In reference to opinfons therels no churchs on earth to-day that is half so libernt s Methodism. I mean the Jiberality that lcts men think as they please, This swas tho ques- tion ever present in Mr, Weale 's thought. 5o youwant to be aholy mani? It Is not a question as 1o what you think, but what {s to 1o be your character, ~ Do you want to love God with ail your heart and your nelfihlmr 88 YOUr- jeit! 1t youdo mivome your hand, ‘Thnt ls true Methodism.”* I am glad to quote these tmanly words {rom Brother Jutkins, ‘They are not only his views and my vlews,—~what 1 hnve been cuntending for fur years,—but they aretho bistoric facts of Methodism it was natural, in the scitlement of this sountry from Groat Britnin and the Continent, that not only tho old ideas and controvorsies of government, but also of rullulun( should be transfesred to our stiores, And, rm tically, the Amerlcan Revolution csme in tho uatural de- velopment or growthi of a broader polltical lib- ertv, And religiously, the . more ilberal churchescame o the notural, and [ may any in the providential, order of a broader rellefous Tiberty, 'Tho history of tho religlous thought of our country reveals this remarkable fact, Lhat the greatést reartion, and even revoit, from the old fdens and dogmas bas been In, the New England States, where these ideas and lorms of religion had long held the tield, and cven had the support of the eivil authoritics, and vere supported by o tax upon the peonle. Every one who studies the philosophy of the history of rellzious thought must be Interested in n study of the undcrl{lnz Taws or principles of thought and mourality that lead to this vesult, Why Is it that there has teen so much doubt, such & reaction of old ylews, and such a strong planting of the liboral churches In New En- plandi” There may ba some who find an cas answer to nn-hu}]\muwu in saying that it (s the result of the depravity of the human heart, and of a wicked rationallsm that dares to ques- tion the dogmas of the Church, But whilst all are ready to admit the fact of depravity, and that m.gmnlllm may itsell hecome frrational, such au answer Is not decp enough to meet the focts In this case; and will not satisfy thought- ful snd unprefudiced minds. The deeper answer I8 to bo found in the prin- ciples and intentlona of houor, and right, and justico that God has placed in human eouls, and that could not long consent to be trampled down and overrun by dogmas that were not ly unreasonable, but scomed to be at wor 3'1'& all those sentiments thot are denrest toths heart. ‘The creeds of thoso States came {n di- rect conflict with the highest and best scnse of right and honor that tinds place In the nature of man, and this sense, wounied, abused, and out- rozed, rose up in revolt. (God has put some- thing In the human breast that Is Hike or answer) to Himself; and by which sod through wolcl He can come to us nnd be felt and understood by us; and without which we conld have no ldynor no understanding of "gumluen. And it avails not to suy that tliis pifa for man's natare 18 wicked rationalizingor intidelity. 1t 1s neither. it Js fact, It is cxperlence.” It is Bible. God never souvht In the old tinws to run oyer men, but to reason with them, He appealed to thelr sensc of truth and right. Tuus He sald *Como and let us rensen.” ~ e sald to Isrmel: *‘Judgo betweon Me and My people; are not My wavs equal, are nos your wagsunequall”? Amd Abrabom eald: *Sall not the Judge of the earth do right? Our Lord sald to the peoplo: ‘“Judge ye of your- seives what 18 right.”” And the testimony of 1hie Church has all nfongg been fn sccord with this tdca. Melanchthon sreucs that the pre- cepts which have come from (he comnion reason and feellngs of tho race are to he ac- counted divine, and “that it could not be the intentfon of our Makor to supcrsede, by n law given on stong, that wiich s written by s own finzer on tho table of the heart.” Calvin soys: “*Sinee oll natlons are spontancously in- clincd to enact laws for themselves, It 13 too cleas to bo doubted that there arecertaln con. veptlons of justice and right which exist Ly nature in the mhwis of men” Thohuck valls this princple * o bond of union betw Giodand man.”_ And I thiuk it is safo to as- sume that Uod Himself {s forever bound by the principle of right, and should e ever vivlate this principle Ho would certainly bothe groatest siuner in the universe. Now, reasoniug ‘from the necessary conceptions of honor aud Justice, the human 1nind Is compelled to feel that God s bourt by thesy in s dealings with flis creatures, There ts something due from the strong to the weak, and trom tlie wise to the ignorant. There Is something dug {ren Ged tu_man, In truutlufl, and redemption, aud providence He must déal fairly. And we honor Him by think- ingsu. Now, I a u(y- em of religion or a dogma be proposed that violates ntl these highest nud most sacred principles of right that (fod has l)lncml in the very nature of mun, he s comnpelled not ou}y by that nature but by his Jove and reverence for the Almignty to protest against It. There ecan b no cuter refelation that dare trample upon the sacreq Institutions af tonur aud right which Gad has placed tn the luman heart, When such a thing is clalmed, Lionest, open minds m protest. Now this {s prectscly wint was done fn the New England States.” It was clalmed that man. kind were not falen beings, aud totally de- raved, so that there was no good left fn tfmm ut that for this very fuct they were guilty and deserved oternal leath, Even the Thirty-nine Artieles of the Eviscopal Church speak of .de- pravity as the foult of man, andas, fn eve) pergon born futo tho world, de rylug God's wrath and damnation. It was tauzhit that Christ died for the elect only, and that for all the others there was o redetnution, nor any possibility of salvation. Now, I say that It would scom every acnse of hoor, and Justice, and falynces fu the breast of man jnust riseup and condemn such teuchiugs, ‘They may hiold sway for a tine. ‘The wind and heart may e overawed, und ressonand right trampled down; bat they whl rlze uo ngaln. The mind of man cannot”long admit that it §s right, even in God,—I ought to say especlully insuchn God in whom wo shoula expect the ssepce of justice,—to Lold the people of the nilnoteenth contery, or of uny century, &uilty and deserving of wrath and dommatlon or thu s of Aduni§ or for Intieriting a nature that they could no more help or pree vent foheriting than they could stay e carth i itw orbit. Now such was the cun- ditlon of things 1n New Evgland, 'The dictates ol common scnse abd justice wers on one side, and the dogmas of the Churh on the other, They were arraved ono_ayminst the other. The confiict was lnevitanle, Any atu- denz of phifosophy cen sea that, unless ¢ tould arise sowso brinudple or power of medl tlon, the conflict must end in tragedy; thera muat be a scparation of theso antagonistic elo- inents. And this 1s precisely what did ocru Tlere was the revolt of Unitarfunism and LUy Yersallam, aud later came the revoit of the new elioul of Calvinisui from the old. The Unitarlans, represented by such learned, . sonsclentious, and deeply-plous en as ' Chan- wlug, wh wero unable 10 reconcily thelr high seuse of nonor snd justice {n God with such Fepresentations of 1is dealings with mankind as the prevaillng theology of the day tausht, turned away from n’n teacbings, They Sougbt relict'tn a milder view of depravity, und Baturally enough went so faras to almost on- Urely deuy the detriue, Sceing that the old triucs were closely related to the ductring of the mnnlv |h?- also swung away from that doctrine, Fhey felf back on the siimple dea of the unlty of God; thus ssslizuing to Christ a aer urder of belng or naturo_than th reaily frine. ‘They also tuok o more hopefu) view ot the condition of souly after death. 'The Uni- Yeraliaty, represented by such good aud able §in 83 Muriay aud Hallou, sought rellef in the “l.n.nl of cternal punlshmeut aud fu the aitirua- on of the il salvation of sl souls throueh eous Clrist, — And for tesching this doctring | uhy I}urn)' was publicly stoned fu the Hu- zu,znul % Church {n Boston. L ere g you will percelve that 1 aim not srguing L‘S or, or avulvst eftber Unjlarianisu or - versalls, 1aw reterring in s gencral or ! 2{.\1\“» way to facts, aud also looklug to h: r underly Ephflun hy. the “ry What shgl} we say of this revolt from bt niglil belicts? What §a its relatiou to piodern e et 1thiok uo candid man can charac- U3 5pizit a2 1o suy scuse an inbidel move- ment, or nn attack upon Christianity as anci. Both' Unitarlanftsm and_Universallem in_this case, and also the New School lllunlul!{. deny- inz the imputation of Adam's sin to his pos- terity, were ecach muvements from within the Chureh, and not attacks upon tellzion from without. Of thelr deep aincerity I think there ean be no doubt, And hera” agatf I come back to my old ground that I took two weeks ago, nnd that scems to have glven riss to mot a little exchiement, though not 5o intended on my part; I come back to this_agaln, I say, and aml that it was not God, nor religlon as s nor the Hible nor Christianity that was doubted, or wanted to doutit; but tlie oxceasive nnd unrea- sonahle doznatism of the Church sbout God, and religlon, and Christianlty, And 1 ray azain, that the doubters were |ustified—f{rom thelr 'stumdpolnt wero necessitated—in their doubts. I may they wera right, and the dog- matists were wrong. [do not say that the daubtera in this case, or the liberal churches were right {n what they aflirined as a new faith; that Is another queation; but [ say they were right in dnn{lnz tie old dogmas. ~And 1 say further, that whilst Iam nejther 8 Unltarian nor & Universallst, Lelieving as I do {n the DI- vinity of Jesus Chrlst, and not seelug my Way clear elther from renson or revelation to aftirm the final sulvation of all sonls, yet I sny that as between Unitartanism, and Universalism, and old-school Calvinlsm, I would go with elther of the former hefore [ would go with the latter. It remaing yet to Inguire what has been the effect of the teachings of these liberal churchies upon the doubt of our tintes, not only Instde of the churches, but the douht on tho outside. On the fnshle of the churcnes I think the effect has heen to help on the splrit of eatholicity, or o broader toleration in indlvidual opintons, which is 8o marked a pecullnrity of our times, And I think there are few, if any, thoughtful persons now who will say that the tendency of these liberal churches has heen to make Infldels of their followers. They may streugthen them in their denlal of old dogmas, but they leave thein with n fafth that Is living to them, and hetive or beneflelal in its Influence upon plety and useful- ness. These chnrches havo afforded a home for thousands of the best minds and purest livea, who could not Indoreo tho teachings from which they honestly dfssented. And on the out- sid¢, or public -mind, I think the ef- feet has been, by holdtng up the posatbility of a broader falth,—bronder than the vld falth,—to hold thousands to a belfef In God and the Bible who otherwisc might bave drifted entirely away, And I think tho thne has fully come when the orthodox churchies shoukd hasfen to recoznize the good aud truo juen in the liberal chirches as fellaw-workera in the Kingdom of God. There sre extreme men mnong tho Liberals, who have pushed clear out Into the worid of unbelief, and who have Iijtlo or nothinig In eommon with believers, and these would 5ot care to come with us. But there are others, such as Freemun Clark, of Boston, Dr. Ellfotf, of St. Louls, and Drs. Ityder and Collyer, of our.own city, who ‘In heart are with all trge Christlan work- ers, and should ~ be = recognized a8 such. 1 rejoiced In the catholic spirit of the Itev. Phillips Brooks,of Boston,in mviting Free- man Clark and_others to communion with him in his own churcn, And 1 was glnd that they did commune together, Ispeak not for Meth- odism, nor for nn{ othier church in the city, but for mvself, when T say that my heart has been paiped, and sick, and snd at the exclusivencss of the orthodox churclies of Chicago in not recog- nlzlm:. tha liberal churchies in Chrlstiat work, And now I want to speak very briefly of what I think hus been in the way of the more rapll growth of theae chiurcher, und of what I think faulty in thelr fuith, They have from the first been placed on the defensive, and thereby thelr lives have been cnst largely o fields of controversy; sud this controversy has been malnly destructive, rather than construetive. They have been tearing down the old rather than bullding up the new. Thelr encrgics have fiunc to debute rather than to praver and plety. nd then the recolt from the old bellefs carricd them too far in the other direction, ‘The noble Cnanning found that his theorles of depravity did not i1t the stern facts of Nifes men were sin- ners, and ainning all around him. And he mourned, too, that bis theory of rellglon did not reach and uplfit the world. In the revolt fram the Trinfty the tendency was to go too far, and to leave a Christ beautiful fin- deed to humanity, bot wanting fu that lofty divlnity und sacrifice that are nced- ed “to_incet the deepest wants of the soul, Whatever our theorles may be, man Is n sinner and needs a 8avior, Ile needs more than ciueation: lioneeds sulvation,—the forgivenness of sin and the renewing of the Jlnry (host. Unlycrasllsm has held mora firmly by the Divinlty of Christ, but hns seemed to lack that firmuess of grip and utterance upon the doe- trine of rotribution that gives sirength to the Divine Government, and fmposes restruint upon tho wayward passions of men. ‘This, however, Lam glad to say: that tho {nner heart-life of these cliurehes 1S nearer to God, and abounds in asweet devotion and evangellsm that it is far b«.r?ona what one would suppose, If ono stand off and study it from the outer works of deo- fensive dogmatism, If any one dues not be- llevo this, let him read the Unitarian hymns and sacramental Rerviee, Tm?' believe moro than their ereed, and it Is equally true that the Calvanlsts betievo less than thelrs,—that Is, they don't believe all of It. Tho samo is true of Universnlisin, 1t is growing fn zeal and lplrlllu"lf. ‘I'te polnts of faith between these two churches arg not at al) dentleal and in thus throwing themn tozetlier T havo not been able to speak Inall things with a strict sccuracy, but you will understand nt least tho dnft of my thought. And this whole reviow brines mo back to the ground of Methodism, that the great need of the world s a practical Christianl- 1y, and that we should all “seek for purity of leart and lfe, aml more r to do good, And my praver is that God will pour out His spirit upon afl the churchos, PROPF, SWING, RELIGION PASSINO OUT OF TNU TY'R AND SUADOYW, 4 Prof. Swing preached yeater@ay morning at tho Central Church, taking ns s texts: \’I‘I‘Irch aro n shadow of things to come,—Col, "r:lu serve unto the shadow of heavenly things. =1 o B Then, verlly, the first covenant hud, alao, ore dinances of divino serviceand x m)rlnllx *auctuary. Tor thure was o tabernucte mades the Drat whorelu wan the candlestick nnd table and the »hew-bread, which I» called the sanctuary, and after tho socond vetl, tac tabernacte, which {v callea the Iloltest of 1), which nd the ‘polden cenearand the nrk of the covement overlafd round about with gold, wheroln the goldun pot that hud nnuna, and Anron's rod that budded, and tho tables of e covenants and over it the chernbim of lory shud. owluyg the merey seat, of Wwhich we cahnot now apeak particalarly,—#Heb, I,y 1-10, Ono of the Impressivo scenes of nature ia that, of the sun when ft bursts forth from adense moruing or evenfug cloud. In mouutainous reglons often great miuts prevall, wade by the chllling suow on the highest peake. Travelers, wha have fourneyed far to sce the glurlos of Mount Bhasta or Mont Blanc, have often to walt in the vale for days before thera shall come the wind that shall roll the vupors fur upward, and make them heconte tar-away whito clouds, At last, however, the clearing-up comes, and the more grandly becauso tne heart had lngered long in damp, gloomy miat. In the history of religlon this seene of nature s repeated. Tha bhuman race louy stood [n the vale of perplexing shadow,, Morning came and went. and in those Yong dave of walting, Mosos and Aaron and David and Solomon ml dled, and yot the high summit of Sount Slon ilid not un- vell ftselt to show, for an fnstant, Its sunllt CrOwWH, 'rofits and Kines doeired it long, ‘And sought but never found, Taul moved late into the great valley of walt- I aud watchivg, sud n un cestatie moiment lookud upward and saw the radant laht, He looked back, andelo, all etse had been only o atnt emblem of that heauty, Manokind, unablo to seo real splet had ““l' cl dor, lower vale mountain has been slowly unco tiful form. ‘The misty Wrunpl thrown, one by one, fruin its brow and shoul- ders, and lttle oy lttic nas the wonder Wdden trow prophets and kiugs been revealed to the gazers froin the Christlan centuries, Lanjzuago and thouzht ure, at liret, boldly fiz- urative. The reason of this is obscure, the fuct alone evident, The lanzuuge of the [ndiau s scarcely lutelligivle, even when trauslat it abounds in fizures so obseurs thav thy aceu-tonied 1o lu&)llflll truth cannot penctra the rhetorleal cloud. The suthor of Usslan suyed, In the vcizhteenth wntur{, trodyce fnto the Erglish era the mode ol thought which had once beeu charm- fug jngethe youth of tho world; but the world had losiz been dealfow ln reality; it had been sitting down amid crucibles, und quad- ranis, und sextunts, and ¢he forms of logle, and #eomury, aud ascronomy, and politieul seicnce; sud when Osafan sald to that multitude that Mora's . YVolce Fas 8 stroam after LIKe Hounder o arstots et This fugo was Tiko tho sau after raln, Likg the ui00n {u the silsnce of the night, few werd found to belleve the description: but rather, the wany luughod at the exveriment, aud turied awoy to love o Beatrice or Gustavus of Sweden, whose foces werd ogs Like the sun snd taoon, and whose volces roared less liko s atream after ralu. ‘Tue poams contalaed great to in- == imagtoation and fancy, but the world had moyed away from exagzeration, onward toward reality, McPherson could not project Ussinn ut on the world, ‘Thers was onco a multitude which under- stood nnd, perhaps, loved deeply tho song of 8olomon, and smlled or wept as ita joy or sad- ness stole (nto thefr spirits. ‘They know what thoughts and sentiments far under the words, A bundie of myrrh 1s my well-beloved, a clus- ter of camphire In the vintyard of Engedl. The valre of my beloved hehold! he cometh leaning npon the monntains skipping upon the hilis,” but as for usall we can see more clearly the Margaret or the Evangeline of modern noctry, or the Christ of the (Gospels, If that song was n nrophecy of a coming Lord, we appreciate hetter Matthew's simplo narrative; If it was a religions hymn, then the “B8hining Shore,” or the *Jlow Firin a Fonndation,” blend better with the genfus of modern times, It ay onea lave been n hymn, but the world has movel awny from it, and Jeft it alifeless body upon the old strand. A It must by that the Imagination s the first faculty developed in the natural growth of man. For, open his history, or his aclence, or his oetry, or his fiest relizion, and Into what a airy-land have you nmhlenl{ comel The Hin- doo literature, the Perslan, the Greek, the Latin, it oll comes {n ail the pomp and circumstanco of fuyention, Its men are demi-gods, its events mirnculous, its lnands enchanted, its wooda are full of nymphs, its great mountsins the liomes of s, Its caves the homes -of oracles, ita whirlpools the tossing arms and gaplng mouths of Scylla and Charyndls. Its sailors touched constantly upon’ cnchanted Islsnds, wihere elther the Harples would steal thele foatl, or the Cyclu{ls catch them for food, or the Sircn bewtlder them with her song. Even ‘when at last a Herodotus determines to travel, and thus to scparato truth from fiction, e is himselt imposed upon at every step and com- bites a volume which reads liko alternate pages rom & (Guide Book and the Arabfan Nighta. It must be_ that the power to percelve tho exact fact, and to love It more than all else, comes later In the course of human dovelop- ment, and that the sulendor of truth eclipses at last t‘lu chlidish charm of the fanciful. It would juatify this theory, that tho first writers of o Peupla deal in the marvelous, while the last writers, bearing within them the sobered reason of gewerations, come to divest the pub- lle thought of its errors, and [follics, and dreams, and to set before soclety the simplest verity. Thus, Thucydldes came long eenturies slter Ilomer, while Tacitus and Liry came along after thuse had lived and died who spun the stories of omulus and Rhemus; while Hume and Gibbon and Michelet came long altee Frofwart had attempted to glve mankind a chironlele of tho Middle Ages. All things thus indicate that in his progress mnn marches first through the landof fancy, through an ehehanted tsland, and fn a higher " condition of mental devetopment he passea the flowery border and ateps Into the realm of fact. Poctry, in the sensa of sensual imaces, 18 more Leautl- ful stil), and heneo an gncient said, ** Happy he who s able to know the causcs of thin who {3 able to peuctrata through the veils and find the inmost myatery. Into such a happiness Paul was coming when he penned the words read at the beginning of these remarks. In bis letter to the Colosslans gic warned them awny from what was only a shadow of things to come, and urged them to- ward the real body which was Christ, e gave the nama of some of these outlines of goad that were not a good. There was a tablo and shiew bread; there was the caudlestick, the galden canser, the ark of the cotvenant, and there the gulden pot with manna in it, and Aaron's rod that budded, aud ateo cherubim overshadowing the merey-seat: and all these figures of religion had been pushed nside to mnke room for the spiritual and simple truthof Christ. These symbols could not make the conscience per- fect, but only made it watchful about meats drinks and divers washings imposed upon it un- il the ttm of reformation. Paul percelved in Christ this reformation, this step from the land of rhadows to the land of fact, ~ Paul was an early rationalism invading tho world's religlon, As iators succeeds legend, as law succeeds ae clilent and caprico, as polythelsm gives place to unity of the Godhead, as ‘the sublims law of nature displaces |urqi_i€!uun| us & Thueydides far seclug comes atteria credulous Jlerodotus, 80 Iaul suceceded thig Hebrew dreamcrs, im- norting (nto relizlon g ynet invalee of tinaltruth, Puul was like Dy chasing Aurors or Night. Tho ahadows fiy before the glowing East, Descend into somo ppecifications, A temole had stood up fn marble imd gold o8 the home of Delty, but it was only a flfurn to help man belfeve that there was fidecd a Jehovahi they believed ft the sooner when they saw Lls house, Aund there must be only ones God, for there was only nno house, only ono altar. This shadow of the Deity was beaten down as the human mind advanced, and the whole hcavens and the whale carth beenmo the Creator's dwelting.place. Gl waa where the heart mbzht be, Hero the old drapery was removed, and the truth was seen oo The Deity has fygen conflned within the Hebrew tribes, Tl .énkcr af the Universe was fuclosed fn Palestfie. I'aul broke through this svmbollsm, and found tho simple verit: that all men were Godls beloved ehifdren, and that to }thn the name ¢l race or color of skin was nanght. ‘Thus the rationallsm of t'aul ad- vanced unti? it had overthrown the loealizing of o, the privilozus of the twelve tribes, the value of the canalesticks and tha Ful. of manna, and the rod that had budded, and divers wash- {ngn, and Images of angels bending over amercy- scat,and Babbathsand nbutnlnluf from meat and drivks, oud cireumclsion, and holidays, It fs not to he wondered ot that Paul was 50 often arsested and beaten by tho gewish pawers, for wherever he wont Juduism had to part with many an idea and custom Jong held precious, What “science was lu the latter cen turies when §t moved upon the ranks of the olchenist and overthrew all those who wero only conjurors In the templo of nature, and when It Tevealed the simble traths of nature's ereat laboratory, such Paul was when Lo spoko to those Pharisnlc groups where cach priest was & conjuror, a dealer In charma rather than the bearerof o mental and spiritusl saivatlon, Muppy were mo‘_y 08 they carried mbout thelr clreumelalon, and the budding rod, and the wemorlal vot of maung, aud would show hy “their faces what [astings they bad undergone; but thelr crn had ppsscd by as paesed the cra when Solomon™ asng was 8 popular poeni, or when & prophet must go ragzied and hageard and bangry o the wilderness, Man was to leavé these silionettes of religion and sce her face to face, Christianity was not much louger to stalk by lko tho lieroea of Homer, or liko the transforined ereatures of Ovig, but sho was to put on_sliuple attire aud asy, ero am 1 Jn stmplo purits, and faith, hope, anil_clarity, Remoye the outer covering and behold my heart,” Not that the puzcnnl?’ of the Old Testament was not divinely nppofuted and valusble. It was uscful, hut with a usefulness lko that of & fiand to an infant thae Is learning to wulk. The hand 1a extended for a time, At Jast that infant reaches udult life, and, It need be, could carry the old slaye whe once nuesed b, But Low divinely scnt was that guardian of fntancy! Thus Chrlstianity moved along, support- @l by the hande and arms of thy seusual - {n ita formative years, It waa fed upon glaring spectucles for the eye, and with thrilting sounds for the car. ‘Tho Dicty was visible in g shekinali; a breastplate coutaining tho inysterfous uriin and thutnmim gave an- wwers Lo ininds in doubt; a vell was suspemled between man and God; (od Himself wore gare ul «ated ou a throne, aud He | pictured bl as wheels e ) ments, sind w lield u seeptre; Bz within wheels, und liku tha Bauscrit visiun of a chariot bearing the HIm(Lrom m‘n to wcil.“ ‘Shus muvr‘:dl u‘l.;' W u{llsl'n youth, resting upon the arms of tmugioation, ‘That ‘menta}” power which could dlscover spiritual simplo truth bud not come, nnd along ran the young world, happy with those nurscs called Type and Bhadow. It pluyed in the old ficlds with tuess guardisus who served by tue year, After the Hebrew relizion had begun to dis- engage Itaelf from fts political misslon and to speak of a futuru life, whon, at the coming of Chrat, It lot g tho Hebrew tribes to lay hold of eternity, then fts tvpes aud shadows crogsel the river of death and ‘took pusscssion of the faither shore, flcilaud Heaven repeated the object lessons of Moses, and David, and Solo- wmon. Palm branches, and winge, and harps, and streots of puld and gutes of pearl, composed Heaven as they bad composed carth; apd fire und physical torments became the constitucuts of Hell ay thoy had long been the types of hu- mzu suffering, As retigion upon carth had beep shaped for the eve aud car, so the world to come was t0 b a scene,—a luko of tire for the wicked, a riyer of o for the virtuous, Harpsand fanies were the twin itnges, ‘The volees of Christ and Paul ara the first notes in a uew wmelody, The Sermon vn the Mount was truth, pure” and stinple. ‘To love one's own nelglbor demanded no tewple; to. bo mercliul tmplied no urn and thummin to bu a peacemaker fuvolved 1o pot of munna, no budding rud; tobe pure in heart required no cireumelsion, no inge. bor feastings. How Puul crossed so suddenly from a world of types totbe world of verity une knows not, unieas the Lord carried biin over in that tumult st l?amut:m gute. Tho giuin was ripe for the arvest. ‘The distmbance pow filing the land regand- ing tho nature of Hell arucs, uot 8o much from any radical difference of views, s from the difll-uity the miud mects with In pastlog Sout “of types and sbadows aud into the presenceol a real verlty. Notblug s clearcr to suy of us, then that 8 futoro life of man will nut be palw braoches and minsle for the zood, snd budily toruzng for the wicked. All rational Iife must contan within ft a purposc. Rome great errand will alone Justify the coming of inan Intn t.1sworld, and hence “kome great errand will alonr ex- fain lis tranafer to an Immortal shore. Wav- ng nahins, and harps, and golden atreets wiil not justly immortality. A plous old Catholic Tathior waid that, unless thefe were great nd kind works to be done beyond, he ahould rather be hiere, While all heartd thus fecl in reflective moudn, it I8 not often that reflective moads come, and the world lingers nmil the paline, and harps, and rest, and hlleness of the ol heavens, our hands and feet being tied by the master figurce and fancles of antiquity, The aame figurative cliains, which thus hold the mind in bonda a< to Heaven, hold it also ns to the place of the wicked, and when any hint that the thine has como to remoye the Lypes and shadowa from that place of punishment, and to find the rentity, thousands cry out ea thouch Chirlst were belng wounded in the house of his friends, and as.though the heavens were belng opened to the children ot vice as woll as to the children of God. But It matters not how ar- dent may he the sttachmentof thousands to the fanciful structures of the past, beyond doubt they ara being taken down, nnd in their stead the plain temple of truth s lifting up its almrle. swecter, everlasting form., Mark, If yowill, how inall the other walks of man the't, cal is giving place to the abro- lute truth, Take, for cxample, the greatnoss of a ruler. He who rules s million or a hun- dred mlllfons has great power. The position ts cvidently a great one. Now, mark how the Hebrews expressed this greatness. Look at Solomon, and behold how much marble ana gold and tapestry were needed iy order to_ex- ress to the world the Idea of kinghood, Pass o L'craln, and the scene repcats itsclf, It ls hardly within the power of languazcor patience to describe the external emblems of Versian kinghood, The ancient King ol Persls moved yearly from north to south and back, that the climate might slwava be worthy of a Kiog, ‘The perfume of labyzus was daily placed upon his hend. lio ‘never stepped upon the ordinary und, A slave carricd & chair of sol{d gold, upon which the King could desvend from his chariot. When he walked about the E:nkna of the palace, carpeta were spread down fore him, and of the most costly pattern. No oue but the King darea cver atep u]>on them, They wore rolled uo when he had passcd by, Blayes stood hero snd thers with chalrs In'oll parts of the garden in case the King should deairy torest for A moment his divine furm. While these scenes were enriching the doy, 800 musicians were sleeping that they might perform gentle musle and sing and carry beuutiful lamps to and fro all night while the King soucht roval repose, By such amazin figurcs and shadows dld toe Kingly idea scel to express {tself in Jerusalem, i Babylon, in Buse, aud Ecbatana. Follow that Idea snd sco it divest Itscif of the sensual. One b one the external emblems are destroyed. Tha carpets are rolled up never to be spread nEznln', the golden chair {s brokens the 300 pight singers are put away in their graves never to be recalled; the sun”of summer and the alr o winter may play around royal temples; the foot can touch with safety the common gronnd; an Emperor wiil travel all over America {n com- mon dress and _common public conveyances, onda King William and & Queen Victoris will move to and fro In all tho simplicity of common bodles and common soulse Thus do the ruslnz centuries shuke the trees of thought it they drop luscions fruit. As common brown sugar 1s beaten by awlul machinery till it grows snow white, so o, crude ideasarc pounded amnong the natlons until they come forth spotiess. In this stupendous chanize of the outward, has the ldea of King or Queen lost anything of Imyreseive- ness? Lost! 1t hos met with an inflnite gaing for that Perafan King, with all his indescribable luxury and display, was the verlest dust and ashes” compored “with a Victorla, a Prince of Orange, o King Willlam, or n Washington. ‘Thus, all truths of polltics, or science, or re- lizlon fncrease in greatness by as much s tney throw away sensual {mages “and nplpronch the verity, the absblute. Weask no longer that our King, or Queen, or President shull move Lefore us {n gelden charlots, or walk on streets of velvet carpetiugs. Thousands of yvears be- tween us and Persta have como {n merey, and have empowared us to sec in a King's heart or {n o President’s heart and deceds the full dignl- ty of his office. Over our dead rulers we can weep warmner tears than the Perstans wept, for sny martal could continuo thelr pageantry, but when a great statesman dles we mourn the ab- sence of aaoul not easy to be replaced, “Thelr Kings left all behind them; ours carry all away Iu tuelr souls, It 18 to be believed that nll along fn our ern Christianity has been and till disroblngr fssell Ik tho Perslan King, tting ready for a day when the world will feed, not tpon ‘mazi- natlon, but upon law, and cause, and effect, and tho naked fact., That most oxtreme shave of modern symboliamn, tha Rotthty Ohmréh; (e oy ing slowly toward ‘thé truihie of the nctual, * At least onc-half of fts shadows baye pussed uvm)'. God shadowedZin tue State, Hell pletured {n thumb-serews and fawots, aud: dungeons, peni- fence emblemed in starvatlon, the visible com- ings of the Virrlu Mary, the llquefsing blood of Januarius, the miraculous swelle, the potent relica of cross ana ark, ore fading ns®faded the Iegends of Hercules and Antreus, away luto the finsl reality of heroes and poets und orators fn tho day of tho Cmsors, An Intelligent and hoppy pricst walked, a year ogo, with ‘o Prot- cstant clergyman through a beautlful Roman church, in évery niche and on cach pllaster of which was o statuo or picture of some saint, Aftor having informed his companion of tho merits of this and that St. Schastlan or Domin- de, be sald these works do not stand for any av- tual history, but are only. tho emblums of nb- stract virtues, Thua tnch by fnch, too stowly indecd for our {mpaticnee, does the Homau Catholle Church move away from the world of cloud to the world of light. But oh, how slow its prowress compured with that of its Protest- ant companfon! Qur rellzion resvives ftsell daily Into educatlon, and retlection, and Hberty, Como where this simple irmh may, it will always ba an advance. As it was the advance of seienceto zet away from those whio were dreani- inz about the “elixir of life,” and to sit down by the absolute truth of electricity, and sound, and light, so it will be the triumph'of religion, wheb it can leave all the outer halting-pluces, wudcome down to the unclonded lnws of victue, and love, and plety, and hope. A theory ol the lost, which shall cast aslde the flgures of long- years, aud shall proclainy a separation be- tween the righteous and the wicked, nsuparation based upon the sweet, but also awlul, law that rieht and wrong are different qualities, and terminate (n different destinles, tuls truth will, in these Iater times, touch mors hearts more decply than witl all the ombluzonments of s Iwrlnhed funcy. Christiaulty will exchanze the antastic for the juat. "It will not ap- pear a schcme for . saving a few fave ored ones, in u few spots fn hmman life, but It will widen out (uto s supremie law of Uod, envelopiugall men, as His sunlight aweeps over sea and shore, island awd contincot. Christ’s love will io out toward all who have turned from sln toward tho Father's housc. Heaven inust be freed from fts types and shiadows, fts music and palmans 8u end, aud must ho the domaln ot o God and a Savior who will welvome the faithful, trusting, hopiug ones, infants and sages, thot shall have wept thelr way inunid out of this world, 1uthe migst of such » fiual asscmblage of gyl carth's good, Chrfst wiil stand i all the splendor of a meas- ureless love., Tonderiug this over 8 great sep. aration, which I8 proclatimed by uli the volees of Sustice, tho claima of tho Chrlst-liko life will uppear, aud with s new realization of the com- fug sceno shall we siug: Ol Mother dear, Jornsalem! When ehall 1 coime o thect Whicu shatl my sorrows kave an end? Thy joy when shall 1 see? bt TIE WAY OUT OF EGYDPT, UIDLE BEADING BY THE REV. J, M, GLISON, Tne Rey. J. Mouro Gibson eontinued his se- rics of Biblo readings in Farwell o)l yesterday afternoon, cousidering In this lecture **Tho Way Out of Egypt," ond baslog it upon the firvt chapters of Exodus. Following is the sub- stance of the lecture; Tho Exodus was the Old Testament picture of salvation, It wasa mistake to suppose that tho **Gospel " belonged to the New Testament only, Not only was there the fact 80 polutedly alluded to by the Apostle Faul fn bis eplstle to the Gallatians, that “the promise was given ceuturics befory the law,” but ¢ven tho law iteelt had for preface: “I am the Lord thy God who brought thea out of the land of Eaypt, out of the house ol bondage.” * Qut of Eoypt have I called My Bon™ was an Utterance of the decpest signitlcance, and, though mantfestly the direct reference was to the carly history of the wua- tlon Isracl, 1t was a wilstake to suppose that the Evangellst Matthew applied it to the Infant Josus only by way of “accomodation.” Tt was tlme to be donu now with such shallow views of Seripture, fo Ex., tv,, 23, larael was calica by God, “My son, cven my trst-boru. But this firet-boru son proved a waywand son; aud by resson of his waywarduess bis high call< Iug was oover nvalized - util the sdvent of the Holy Qoe of Isrucl. When he cawe the Father couid say, *This (s my beloved Sou, fu wham § aa well plessed ' und {1 was wore than & mere accldental coinctdenco that, us o Liracls cllldbood (V, Hos., xi, li, %0 fu the childnood of the Huly One of lusel, “God called His Sou out of Ezvpt.” Tn these chapters we saw Gl e by e et oL 5w ik, Fgypt. There wers two paralle] preparations: a deliverer prepared for the people, and the neonfe prepared for deliverance. By far the greater space was taken ui with the former. ‘The speaker here called: attention to severat matters of frterest in connection with the birth ond edncation of Moses, dwelllug on the singa- lar providence by which the very means nsed by Pharaoh for closing the way out led to the open- Ing of the way; and emphnsizing the jessons of the two-told tralnine, first at the Court of Phar- aoh, whero ho became & master of Egyptian tearniug, ana then In the solitude of Midian, where he spent so many years almost alone with Giod, He then compared the seanty and not at nll flaticering detalls of the early lifs of Mosesin he book of Exodus with the Inve of everything else which was the product of a later nge, Instancing especially tho narrative of Josephus, anl tie prsnage in Hcbrows, xi. 3427, when the trie nobility of racter and conduct while n favorito court was strongly brought out. Unthipking minds had found a difieuity in this comparfson, whereas it was only neces: ry to appreciate the difference between what & modest man lke Moses will say ahout himself, and what another will aay about him, to fully. cxplain tho apparent discrepancy. There was, moreover, In this character! the narratlve In Exodus the best evidence of the antinnity ond geuulneness of the book, for it s corlain that nolater writer could have traversed tho cighty years embraced In the second chap- ter without using s single expreasion to Indicate the greatness and noblility - of character of the” father of his country. How heautitul it was to think of the unble sacritice of the brightesy worldly pros pects which he must have madd to ldentify Lim- self with his downtrodden countrymen. He then observed that in wriling the recond of his early lifo he does not give the slightest hint that he had made any eacrifice at all, Andthen hiow casily he might have excused himself. He might have said to himscll, ** Such s splendid position of Influence at the Court of Pharaoh Is niot to be thrown away. 1 can do far more for my people by retaining the confideoce of the Kiog." " But no, Like Nehemlab in Shushar, aud Daniel in Habvlon, ‘‘he cliose rather to sufler affliction with the people of God.”” Now- adays people were ready to grumble it a coutri- button-hox were passed too often—long hefore there has been any real sacrifice, there id an ¢ outery and n fussi then a man ol could eacritice cw:ryt)llmz and say nothlog, Af- ter referring to thé typleal relations of Moses, the lecturer took up bis call and coramiselon, whieh formed the substance of chapters iil. aud 1y, There had been no appearance of tha Lor since Jacol sct out on hils journey to Egypt (Gen., xlvi, 24). In no outward form did he now appear. The thorn-bush was the synbol of Torael in 118 Jow catate, The Ore symbolized the afllictions they were then pussing through. It was an alarining slght, and no wonder Moses was afraid. Dut, as he looked more closely, he saw that the bush was not consumed, 8o the fire was doing no harm. 1t was a purifying, uota destroving tire. Yet, after all, It was a dread- ful sight, But presently a volce was heard, a volce from oul the firat Tam the God of thy Father, snd I proving to Moses that, though there was no form, such as e was wont to eee in Egypt, to symbolize the Delty, the God of Abraham was there, with his copie attll, with them In the firo of their afilic- fon, ““In all their atlliction e was_afflicted, and the angel of 1lls vresence saved them, And not only was then there nssurance of 1is presenice, but the promise of deliverence: **1 lave ecen thelr affllction; I have heard their cry; 1 know their sorrnws; and am como down to deliver them.” What was seen was fire} what was heard, the: Giospel. Wien what we sce of God alarms_us, tet what we hear from Him reassure us, Tlis providence may haye the gppearance of devorring fire, but “fiis word brings, even from out the fire, good tidings of wreat oy, The rpcaker then dwelt at lenpth on the six ditlicuitics whic Moses found fn the way of ac- cepting the call and executing the commission, and the manner In which they were successively removed, In thls copnection he brought out tho symbolicd! meaniriiz of the three signs by which Moses was aceredited to the people, He had onco hed great difficulty with these slgns, and many were disposed to sncerat them. But such dilficnlties ana objectious were founded on iguorance or forgetfultiess; first of the imaginative character of the Orlental mind, and then of the fact that Moscs and the pmrlu must have been famillar with the hieroglyohleal system of Egypt, and su prepared for reading u%lllbflll as readily a8 we read the characters of the printea puge.: The rst sigy hind reference to the commission of Moses.” When he laid down his sheplierd's crook u serpent scemed the aliernative, aml shrank away afrald, when ut God’s command boldl{ scized i, mot only was it harmless, but ft Leeame fn his hand *‘the rod of God ™ (v., 20). 'The second sign referred to Israel, so poor and degraded that {L seemed ‘o hupeless task 1o ralse 8o nbject a people. The Egyptious estled them **a’pation of lepers,” and whbat vould be mado of such o mlserable set! The hegilug of the leprosy of Moses' hand aliowed that cvemthls task was none too great for the Lord, Thie thirdaign referred to Egvpt, What could Moses do acalnst the might of Egyotl The turning of water from the Nite into blooa wasa most Imoressive symbol to show that the Lord wasabloto turn thestrengtl of Egypt not only into weakness but even Into death, “The very Iutereating passage about the name **Jehovali P was rescrved for the follow- luig Jectdre; ond the speaker closed with a brief account of the proparstion of the people, first, thelr sighing and fly,“&o (le %‘,, and then how they * belleved, WL helr beads, wnd worshiped” (iv,, 81} This wus for them the way out of the bhondagze of Egypt. It was for us ths way out of the bondaie of sin, Thoe duliverer was ready for us} all that was needed was that weshould be ready for HIm; and tho preparation required was, Nrst, o sehse of bondage and a vry for merey, and then a fuith and humble acqules- cencé In thio will of God for our salvation. + MISCELLANEOUS. TUE NIODRAIA LEAGUE. New Yonx, Jan, 20.~The anniversary serv- fees of tho Nlobrary Leaguo were held to- night, Bishop Potter oresiding, Bishop are, of Nlobrara, prescuted a report of the work of the Mission for 1877, It states that the yesr hus been & prosperous one, and congregations and schools hiave increased. A conviction is ex- pressed that, If the present polley of the Gov- ermnent (s adhered to, the whole Bloux nation will becomo peaceable people. Among the Lower Brules at Bpotted Tl and Cheyeune Agencles good work lshetng done, In some place, huwsver, therw Is an absenco of law that should mak rym:m who sita fu the natlonal lolls ot legislatlon biush, Blshnp Haro preached a sermon on the Niobrara misslonary-work, and urged his hiearers to think of the linmortal soul of the Indluns, and not to think of them as a race. Blshop Connor, of Nebraska, {s lecturing sul collecting fu tho Cathotic churehies of th city and Brooklyn for the purpose of securi Iuids to estabilshaud mwaintaiu missions auon th Bloux. CATROL pecial Pisoateh 1o The BroosiNaToN, Hik, Jun, 20, foz, of Peorts, letured to-night to o lurge wudfonce on * Popular Obfections to the Catholle Chureh.' " Ilis audience, which wus composed in « large part of Protestunts, filled the Catholfe Church, and the discourse was brilliant aud logt RAILROADS. RAILROADS INCORTPORATED ILLINOIS' IN 1H77. During the year 1877 fourteen railrosd com- panies, of which elght are reinstatements of ex- fsting rouds under new vames, were incorporst- ed fn the State of lliinols, They are enurerat- «cd as follows ju the Juitway Age: The Wabash lhllwn{ (formed by the consolida. tlon of the Wabash Itailway Company of Oblo, the Wabash Hallway Compuny of lndians, and ihe Wabush Katlway t'ump.m{ of llinol). Houl from Tuledo. U., tuthe Misslustopi itiver at £t Loaty, Quuicy, Hannival, sud Hawilton, Cap- ita) stock, $10.000,000, Filed in decictary's office 6, 1877, 'he Chicago & Eastern [11inals Railroad (formed by the consulidstion of the Chicago & Naabvillo I{atiroun Company and tbe State Line & Covington Ttailrosd Compauy). Cspital gtock, §300, 000, The Chester & kaakia lallrosd, Rui from Cheater, Randolph County, 10 Haskaskls, Man- dolph ‘L‘m" Cavital ytock, §4,000. Priocipsl oftice, Cheater, 11 1oau & iates lisllroad, Houte from Loam) to Tridune. Blshop Spautd- IN Bates. bota in Susgsmos County, ML Capital atocs, $30,000, Priociyal ofiice, Loami, sau- guwon County, . Tbs Uhitwgo & 1hmols Southern Ksliroad. Houte from the Junction ol the 1iuois & Michigan Canal with tue routh Lizauch of tae Chicago River, I Cook Couuty, i u southerly or southeuster dircction to the Chicago, Alton '& 8i. Louls Ratls roud fu eail count; Capital miock, $5,000. Priucipal vfice, Chicago. ’rthulm:{& Rustyitlc Nuerrow-Gauge Rallway &aintie, Route trom Quiney, Adwuwe Cuanty. 10 Ruabiviily, Scuuyler Conuty, Til, Capital stoc £300.000. Priucipal otice, Qulncy, Coupty. Ciicszo & Nashville Raltroad. Ioute from Cbi- €agu thruugh the Couuties of WilI, Kankakee, sud TrGytois (o Dauvtlle, fu Vermilion Lounty, with tue privilege of buillding a urauch liue {rom e ‘Towu of Daltou. L'ook Uo\lnl{‘ through the Town of Seuta Chicado to Laxe Mlctugun, and suotber Lroncls frow Bismarck, Verwiijva County, south- eastwardiy to thy Indisne Etate Hoes sad ale (o vxteud a brauch to xny pulut avuth of Dausiile, wlibinthe’ Couuty of Veraillon. ' capital stoce, 300,000, Prsoclpal offce, Chicuu. Lonfa, Capital stock, $1,600,000. Principat ofice, Qnincy, Adama Connty, Dedatar, Saitivan & Sonthern Rafirosd, Route from Mattoon, CaiceCounty, to Deeatar, in Mncon. Capital riock, $500,000. Principal ofice, Mattoon, Colen County. ‘inn(ey. Forson & Southemstern Tailway Com. pADy (narrow gauger. Ronte from Qaincy, Adams_County, to the Wabsah River, q(:urtlnl stock, $25, per mita of main track, Principal oflice, Quincy, Adams County. Kankakee & iliinots Kirer Rallway Company. Route from Town of Burean Junction, Boread County, to a volnt on the line botween fliinole and Indlana on the north sldo of the Kankakee River. Cavital stock, 81,000,000, Principal office, Chis cago. The Chles,u& Springfleld’ Raliroad Company. Rote from (ilman, froquois Caanty, to Spring- ficla, Sangamon Connte. Cspital stock, $25, 000, Principal atfice, Chicagn, Mlarisnippi & Atlantie Rallway Company. Ronte commenres st Alrin, Til., and proceeds casterly on the half-nection line 81 near i may bo to the eartern houndaey of the State of filinats, Capital stack, £30,000. * Principnl office, Rantoul, T ‘The Hock Iland & Peorls Rall ay Lompanr. Tlonte from Rock Island, itock | Peorls, County. ' Capltal mock, 000. Principsl office, City of Roc TOWA RAILROAD-TARIFF LAW. Spectal Correspondence of The Tribune, Des Motxes, la., Jan. 10.—01t Coomes, the blood-and-thunder, big Indian story writer for Eastern papers, put In the firat bl to repeal the rallroad-tarifl Jaw, ‘The first’ scction provides for the appointment by the Governor, with the coneent of the Exceutive Councll, of three Com- miastoners, competent persous, for one, two, and three years, Bees., 3 and 3 give the Commissioners general suporvisiou of all railronda In the State in their mavagement and vperation, and gives power to compel a compliance by cumpantes with thclr charters and the laws of the State, Bee. 4 gives the Commissloners nower to regu- 1ate Tates of fare and freight, and make changes iu the operation of roads wheu deemed neces- ng:n expedient for the publle good, . b provides the manner In which com- plaints agatnst companiesnay be made to the Commissioners, and compels the Board to fin- :;ntlntu all complaints made under this sce- on. 8ec. 6 provides that one of the Commis- sl‘rmm shal! be a competent raliroad civil ¢ne gineer, Bec, 7 campels the raflroad companies ot all times to furnish the Commissluners with In formation relating to operating their roads. provides that the Comnissionars shall have an oflice In the State-llouss at Des Molnes, and thev ahall have free trunsportation on all the ralitonds in the State; msy cmpiv experts when necesaary, aud o clerk, whose sal- ary sball be 81,000 per vear. Bec. O fixes the salary of Commissioners at 83,000 & year, Bee, 10 provides that the salary and all ex- {;cnne! of the Commissioners ahall "be paid by he rallroad companfes, fn proportion to their income and profit in the State for the year pre- ceding, the same to be assessed by the Board of Commissioners in July, Hee, 11 makes tha law apply to rallroads operated by tritstecs, ce. 12 brovides for blennial reports of the Commissioners to the (Governur of their traus- actions and recommendations. Sve. 13 provides that the lawdocanot affect the lernl duties, obligatfons, or labitities of rallroad companies for nestizence, or misman- agement, whether advised Ly the Commisson- er8 OF Not. Bee. 13 cxcludes all employes of: rmlroad compunies or roillng-stock from the Board of Commissloners. it 18 highly probable a ol similiar to this will be passed. Ex-Gov., Stone, who wil probably be Chalrman of the House Railroad Commlitee ,is devoting specinl attention to this sublect, and the churacter of the House fs such as llo“v;nnm the belfef that the Juw will Le re« pealed. MINNESOTA RATLROADS. The report of the Commissloner of Raliroads in Minnesota showa the encourngiug fact of a revival in rallroad extenclon, 2183 miles of road having been constructed fu 1577, clnefly in tho last hulf of the vear. This is largely fn ex- cess of the entire four years preceding, and the greatest number of wiles completed I any one Year {n tho history of the State, except fu the fluah years of 1870, 1871, and The business of the roads for the reported year cuding June ), 1870, shows gross carnings #5,403,030.30, :‘liulrt‘:’l‘ #0,000,067 fn the yesr endivg Juns i ‘This falling oft of over halt a milllon dollars was owing to thu lght crops of 187 compared with the neavy oneof 1595, The largely lo- creased business of the roads sinee thelate magnlficent barvest docs not come within the yearof the report. ‘Tho Increase, however, has been s %rnmymg to some of the companies s to lead them to reduce the tarifl rates, to tuke offect with the new vear. The reduction on some of the roads, it {s floped, will be followed by all, it nmlulpnllamuf business for the coming year arg fully realized, ‘The sales of raliroad lands have been greatly stimulated by thedeparture of the grusshoppers, and of the great crop of 1577, befug 224,419 aeres for cloven months ending Nov. 393 of this quunutly, 108,854 acres were sold [n July, und chiefly [n the three months of September, Octo- ber, and November, ITEMS, The Grand Trunk Rallway has given notice of application to the Canadinn Parllataent for an act authioriziug [t to Jease certaln other rafl- roads In Canada and the United Btutes, also for authority to" ormanize a benefit or lisurunce nesodtatfan or fund (ur {ts cmplay ‘This cur- roborates the statements herctolors mude in Tuz TumuNE that this road hos obtalned con- trol of the Clicary & Luke llurun and Chicdzo & Sauthern Ralirouds for the purpuse of ex- tending its linu to this city. Recefver Wrizht, of the Indlanapolis, Bloom- ington & Western Raflrond, makes the follow- Ing stutement of the earnings of the road for the five months ending Nov. 80, 1877 Halagce Joly 1 Recelpts fromniop: Tieceiver's cerilticate, . Tot Pay-rol Rocelver's Vonchers, eic cerflficates patd . L 19 - Dalance, Dee. 1.... The recelpts were $63,403.46 1o ex disbursements, but the current receipts were $12.813.23 ess thun the current disbursements, T.210.68 having Leen recelved on certitieates In uxcess of the amount pald on the same. N OUDKIRTO ACCOMMODATE OUIt NUMEROUS patfans throughout the city we have establisned Bracch Offices sn ihe different DIvislons, oa dealgited below, where savertisciienss witl be taken forthe saing DHre L8 charyed 8t the Maln Otlice,and Will s recelved :gl::?f;&l.(:c P U during tne weei, sud until 0 p. Dk 3 U, W, WILCOX, Rookseller and statloncr, 170 ‘near Wabush-av. Tyevieconiat: e e ar: 3 Now & Weatdadlno et M foen: ey ood KONERT THRUMSTON, Biag ful v of Halsted:y iand-av,. curne, GE HENEY, Books, blationery, cte., 30 DI N RICK, ter, News-Dealer, gt S TRLe Jemeer Tetbenicr, sad Fancy ~___RIORSES AND CARRJAGE! l';‘ l’lI'IST i son, Ten R that will be sold very ll aswortment of vur weil- s, aud l‘lull ge of e and pleas gl busli av. K 7O SALE-C] 5| I'I'E:! withs g Fun of custol wi wa scales, and everything necessary for the Lusla he owuer wishes Lo scll on accouni of slvk- nlt;“n. dress. No. 278 Maxweil-st., Uesr Hal- wed: NSI\VSI'AP 7t FOIE u:flz‘ CEAT=C 7% prusperous, o awny hlb'r ']'ulvlulrblflltulnn nfllmu B, \rray. Ja. .. PARTNERS WANTE SANTRER WANTED—IX A CABINET FACTORY P o VeV Ing Laniin. [pilane: KOGl bUnnees 8D Jucation. Address U 44, Tribune ui lie Stute: busincss caaton &t vuce. St J. V. Fare LL CASH I'AID Foit NI GENTLE “AS 1 o TRNTLE Taek's Chri-oll CIUIDK. SSCHtLy Bratest, . Oriers by wall protpuy atteaded to. LL CASI P‘-'xl"x FOR LADIES A (-0l clotlilnz. - Urdcre DEI:J‘I:.‘.?IUSAS“GELI.‘E 5, Wid al{l T GOODRICIL ATPORNBY-AT-LA o _UUIEN T CHICAGU. 13 DEAR: LOST AND FOUND, ___ 03T—-LON, o SATURDAY 12711 4 just. tither o Sii Fuin biste tv Clark, or i tho Cottagy Grov cunlents are pupery Y1 only o 1o QWhGE. A dultuble reward Lo 16- Tar to EALY W- RO / STUAYEI—FlOM 1on LY the 1, Foun hury o8 retiirs of Lrupei Ly TS el i OO s e “IASH PAID FOR BOOKB-STANDARD WORKY 5 slwars briug guod prives. uelu:ayd:x“uu Juar Uibrary seo G APIN. Gorner Mddisoa ) o080, (cleafys this ment, lat 7 streetn)s rental now €2.000; where can you pnt money $13,000-Two storesand Madivonst., hetween Clin one or hoth, feetest of Erdnki 81,00 par £ atiiersts, £3,000=Lat. Trelrihat, e <1 1b wn: gavEz) 1o bolky en Thirty-nind hat ne o andlot __OITY REAL ESTAYE, FBM_A.&%EY 7. B. BOYD, ROOM cash, batance good homse and ot leadid 4-atary brick store snd baso- (the eornar of two of hest vuintey 1t ffl)" Der cens net; 08, S0LTD. seastn P . Soxi0. unth fron tor and Jemeront Wil son 23,51)— Lot 20300, ssath front. on Washin In, I8 lm;-‘!n'" h:T'l of Tlmle‘lq: framed X123, 00 1 and Forty-nrat-sts. 00t —52%160-fool Tot, o corner of flalsted perfoot—toszian, enracr floyne and w 17 Dbetter! ees octagnafront. hrick Aand fat 232180, South ¥ 2,000 d igwh, tals X114, corser floyne and W) (X123, Corier ARhiand and T W3 bach-Ties Trame dweinga d-sinry haaement, south Trou, cor T are Dargains ashingte re s, sl on, 3-stors net Washington ...h‘n’n!_ 3 332125, east front, on Malsted, north of doweliing (I8 Dearhyrn-a 1 wm sure 2 200-¥ine 13-room framal dwelling and Iot Z5¢ on Dieat 14, 172 Washington 1ou dwel er nern—1i ioune. hamn: m Wouds make & nleetivingand hav again, g g-roum i, o BALE=#1.msi W 12% sonth front, 11 Tesbialoeat ormers soid for 81, ake €2.50 AUtA Hione: the vi ‘ou may look for 12 manths and re farm a1l under fen arehirds, laeting water, lics, Sruih Grystal Laké. tn Me. ni miles Weé wiif giva i or 10 yeara' fimo st 5 per ust 7 miles fre Istoek. I in! ity ., E1, it h 3, #atith rof 7 Wi AR LOT BX ' 1iitie east of iy Tnauire at loom yURTORT : tho 2 Tayment Acre farm ) I0use of on 2.)1 ‘on i sl 1 50 down: it [ ) Wa der plaw: s 4 ery + hetwee 1y Fite fiween Forty-nintn ond Fit 3 sledId enttage, Tamn and t Between Lincoln and Robes-ats, h rre et DO N, TALANGE TN 1 e from siofo (lowa ‘Foom frame d Lo v oA clear. by thix favans it 18 est not find P rooms, 15 _acres Booklcepers, Clorks, &ce TANTED~ME! empioyment. A} Twom 14. 16 Dearhorn-a. celinneous,’ hy fenced, 1 miin from unt; yram, liere yo home Fight fn the nd auch n Usteafa _T. B. BOTD, Hoom 7. RS Vel e i e tramed dwelling, Kool harh, o e Yery Losti 13 miles wast of ciiy, on [ (fme: inis | . IOV D Hoom 7. 179 Madison-s, ___WANTED-MALE NELP, u can rige N OF GOOD) ADDRESS WILL FIN) ealling o WUMRONA -G AW FANTED-A ‘vate famly; rkoay. ) It 14155 Suuth LASS to-st. Laundresses, WARIED-F1LE 3 AT, CAPABLE GII N - Grwes!n of wedo pretcrred. T HIRT IRONER, AT all Sondsy aficrioon; JANTED-YO tur a8 cobyiat an welte raplity and well. ellnneouse slating termjs L), Tribune piiice. G LADY OF GOOD EDUCA. d correspondent In_ofice: Mt Address {n own hanawrlting, Hookk: ITUATION 5 aal ITUATION. WANTED=IY A ay ind_do il Iy ITUATIONS W W an {0 travel ANT] ko0d Scandina vl supvifed st . DUSKE'S ofice, 17: cimined, ele. neationr, &conl '0 RENT— Groveland-court, arseit., § X0 RENT-II0UN: South Stdes : 0 MENT=740 MICHIGAN-AV.~3.KTORY AN AR R B R T {penalithe time for inadees :pern, Clorks, &ca NTED = DY A AR travelor wuck Inclotes e e ¥ Ree DA objcc, 1 VI put I furuuce ( deslivd, Dearborn-t, " Miscetonoous. EOUTH SIDF. Two:story and basement brick dwellings, 3, 7, amil 19 oy month. HARDW, ain th I it 16n years' ARE Ade LOED WOMAN n{“lrmm work, ED=FAMILIES IN WANT OF un or Uerman * fo helo cun ba al 4210 Laukley-av., brar Furly- dweliing Wit farnace anl barn, 43 1.8 TUE s oty Two-story anl b bell Park and 1 an ry fraine, w Seeley-uy. Nleo fratne cotta; ated. NEST=NICEL o :[' by Tioorn o, T-TH 0, AN ralie 0 _REXT-THI TANTED=TO KENT . FoOm DF oo Tarnislic s aud Lincol _Addeeas 163, T inen, in +lelnity of Madl nuan 1f possibl WALE pon niust pe between Hoyne-sis Tribuge e about Fine 101-foom hotel, completely fursislied. house Is'4-atury” anid Vasemen fcas. ~oua of (e beat 1 Milw aud Kroun ke fari -STORY 4 ¢ sontlieast c: =nd ropair to CORiE IY. 14 Dearhorn: Iscolinncous, ND FOURTIC FLOO) 3 Miht on thirex sidraz chean, batli, cluset, el tuated togethe L bl brick funng e, 2 Wons South Sid, st 149 Deurbor, 01, AL | i Jearl i —TO nrv’r—?n:m‘uh i iouse with large baru uiton and Adams, aud Slay % st b 1 geod fepair, ool £14,000, ot, 2340 ) s B ,mrmunlh:w iituots, tdlava, Towa, Tenncwae, or dissourt; will ass Clmeulatiu. i . 10 rouiis, 91 arrsonrt., hear Hals 0o ) FURNTBUED 160V withont buarl, for fous ranshienst coruer uf Twy ntieth-st. aus reference gl ND BASEMEN arner Mol riloat. WANTED TO RENT. _ BY TWO \"0 N e, H of o Tl ur. 1oM3, i ®ad Market s L. fient v ntlen Waahingto DAIRD & BRADLEY. 2osm 17, 0 LaSalle-st. AP EITA] b 10, cle gin tichis 1Y A T 4 Address tels, te dy ot 5 Comul (atin or r kisd Improved 0, vast frout, near M- A Loud linprived ¢ fory brick dwelliog, evcry madern Improves 01t pot ou 1, & ek of Tows. or Missui I fourt i ooin'7, 175 Ma. PO EXCHANG! 12 acre farui, 20wl I 1t and snalicr ol stores, LARGE 1, brick buseuieat, 168 47x) miudera linproveinent, on Lsrp bhier, bt o g Washingiosstas want smalice 'y Jusa B, BOYD, i ot ke, edat frot, ou fo Bouse fn vl wouth ol witl 0 7. 170 Nadlaon-it., ripth QILVER 33 AN) Tribans Coignany. Jron s HOTEL, ng, with bos boas $2 804 82,30 au un watrlica, dian on as(é‘lllj'i\ll o AT S Lu. E: proy \ av., or aubu Tgumila ¢ Vel With lot 100a 130 TURE AT PIANOS WITH- iuney luvaped v collarerals. T LT AND I3 WA W CENT Al &Y uf ¥10 1 exchauke forcurzeacy ut countlog-room near b, 1o ey and ALY FOIU OL1 GULD ASD SILVEIL ¢ gade. 3ad valuhics an aud Hul) i 15 fisa £ K3 ot AN T BOYD, ROUN 7, 139 f the fofst S-story and basement brick ho urnlshiel catplete (clear), in g al 0d atosk Farm Ju fillicly, | <. ricr of Wabash-av, and d trude—lone, by,