Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1878, Page 2

z THE PULPIT. °rof. Swing’s Sermon on the Church and Its Qood Works. Man’s Daty to Love the Church, Whatever Its Name or Its Looation. The Word Jehovah Discussed by the Itev. J. NMonro Glbson. Tho Specific Idea Is of Love, Merey, and Bal- vation, Dr. Thomas on Sin and Its Penalty, Here and Hereafter. o Bolleves In “Afonfon ** Pnnishment, but Has No Idea What It Will De, or Ilow Long. Tho Rev. E. P, Goodwin Declines to Believe in the Annihilation of the Wicked. «{fhe Rev. Brooko Herford’s Ro- view of the ilistory of liell In Anciont Days. ¢ Tho Rev. Snmnor Ellis Explains that the 0ld Testament Hell Was Not a Hell at All, THE CIIURCH AND WORKS, SLEKMON BT I'EOF. SWING, The followinz serinon was delivered by Prof, Ewing to the Centrgl Chureh yesteraay morn- Juz. The text wast Ard unta the angelof the Chrreh in Thyatira svrite these thinee aith the Son of God, wha hath eves like anto u flame of fire, and ills feet like fine Lraee, 1 know thy works, and charity, and sorvices, and falth, and thy patience, —Jtev., ‘4., 18-19, ‘The Chiriettan Church had not long been in the world when Jotin wrote the highly-colorea messages to the seven congrezations of Asfa, ‘I'fne enovtzh, however, bod elapzed to enable ech a spiritual observer as John to mark what were the noble nttributes and what the unwbe- thy aualities of all such srounings of religlous men and women. Tnbis poctic survey, John prajected seven of these organlsms Into thawide Eelds of Asia, and fitted to them pralse and blame acconling (o the seven-fold need, In one Churcl, hie saw great falthlesancss to doe- trines Inanother, great power to resfst Satan: 1u another, o lukewarmuess of heart, which was wkin to deathy n another, a zealons charity; o another, faith, and hostile Jeiws, nnd pluch- iz poverty. To esch Church dolng good In any one of the many forms, John eaw rewards eominy down from the most just heavens. Only one zeneratlon had come to the organ- 1 Chnrely, and yet already had ench congre- watlon beeome possessod of acharacter that could bo xect, and be loved ar hated by the thought- ful ubserver. Institutlons, ltke persois, bulld up a characters [t may be mamfastured by the wajority, or by o busy and powerful minority, or by a sinule fudivi@ual, whose wilt, or virtue, or gbstinaey, the majority wihilingly follows. Tliere are courrezations which will not retaln pustor very long. ‘They are free-lovers and free- haters, and pass raoldly through marringe and divoree, Other congregations there are which vaunot pare with thelr pastor on any terms. e may he olid. and he tnay have lost his eloquence, lis wplghitifucss ; his momory may bave let go the trensures of learving it once held: his eyo wiy hiave become dim, und yet no smart man from any colluze can dwplacd the old taborer, Wien the devated people ean no louger hear 1rom bim the granid tiscourres of former years, taey ot lesst wish him to sit on the platforny, i they may ook at kim, And the oyes can uifktzu et Lhe cars 1o drinking in cloques il ¢ s this reveal o character as deflnite haracter of a Scuntor, or a King, or a Henve, the Church ot large must Yossess certafn features of its own,—a coat ol countenance not seen on the other lvinge tnati- tutions of men. ‘The Royal Boclety of Parls or London eetis to stuud before ua in” the dignity eml colluess of great learnfugs the old Enst Tndis Company reappears to lmagination as & man Lotdingy his hand a bag of gold,—n ship and a Hodtish soudler o the backeround: the ralway Grganiem makes o sbnllar pleture tn uany detall Henate or u flouse of Lords eonnes Telore us ws a grouw of sliver-halred men o7 hich forchemd, and ntiffy dey speoch. Thus, ! human fustitutions bulld up at lust a per- nuanent ckaracter, und have features which o aallful srelst might paint, Indeed, creative geniuy has given us ¢ tatues of Liberty, and Scls citee, nud Law, aud Empire, Tho nutfous have £at down hy theee thines, and nave lent them, ut lexst, uehape, It mnst be that that human o:munlsm called the Church, has o face, walky u lanenage, a disposition, vurely Its own, ‘Fhls, we might Infer, would be the case from the fuct that 1t 1ives and nety n the nsme of yeeulfar truths, This should uive it u distinet character, The tdeas of u nation give ft n pe. culiar charnc A natlon Is a furee organized for the pro fon of o certnin Interest,—a wmonarchy for the protection of & fgw, u repub. liv for the protection of the innjor] tlv. Dut n natlon 14 generally o burd master, e 48 often cullud ngen o sacrlfice on the battlefleld a Dalt milion of lves, and by tho whole neces. Bity of the case, it moves along 8 ecalenlntiny vawer, ruther than a frlewt=hip. the Chuten are quite upposite, and it appears aa an cinlo liment of friends As thy Insplred writer represents the loly Spirlt as looking lown upon the Cliurch of Thyatira nnd saying: 4 know thy works, and charity, and servico, sud tatth, aud vatlence,’” so may we, with com- mon mortal cyes, perectys the Church o large o tic un tdeal moving across the ex- panse of tlme, wearing the most divine of foatures. What fdeal flzuro can mun coneelya ot that may surpaes o furin which moves among men wearfug the features of churlty, snd terylee, und fulth, ang patienced Hut you object, and say that the Church has not alvays worn these nobte features, Tho re- plvemust always be that all {deals keep far ihead of the fucts. Facts aro slow, defective tuloge, ns well us stubborn thiugs, Pajnters, and renlptors, snd poets outline thie true woinan or man, but the yeal fact always lags far betdud. There bus been no_Beatrice, no Evan- o haney o Juka Lialitax, no Bt. Louls, no Wash- fugtou There Lave been besutliful approsches to cach of these furma of body and soul when the mind sees these beautliul approachies it jumps over the fntervening space and Jeaves the wetual for the Iden). Allhuman mstitutions ar v theze personul fdeas, Letter in thoory han o fart,. When the suldler or the patriot raises Lhe cheer for hls England or bls Yraueg, it 15 not for Evzlund or Frauco in all their fudrmitics, thelr tages, thelr unjust und bloodv wars, their royal vaulty, their un- Rowncd und ubfed pour, but for thess wutlons fn tneir great average guod, their lawy, their ludustri tuelr education, theie wrts, Confesstug everywhere lmperfection, the Lutan beart turns away from it and gazes ot the fnpressiyve wood. ‘The Church, In marcling through such a world, must share in the gen- cral fmperectlon. Its fact st lag bebiud ity tiscury, just e the reel Washington or the real Beatsice moves 1ar bebind the ouo of the poct, or paiuter, or bistorian, A stream, Jeaving its rocky sprisgs, huwever clear, bevomes colored by s tands through whichit wmust pass. Fiow- Lie wouods, it fssues stalned by de. i Howing through cartben ticlds, e 4t has 0o rock) Lanks or bed, it becomes o yellow Missourl, to varry fts stain for thous galuls of miles. Goversioeut, and Herature, sud lanzuaye, and art, und hencs tha Church ulao, sie deeply colored by their loog Gow amid the delda of buwan futirenty. ¥ ‘Tue Cliurch, therelore, must be expected to tarry not the full fuce of charity, aud servico, sud faieh, wud paticoce, but ouly evideut traves 03 all thse hucawents, o 'ulay Wicy, wdy be clalaed: that upon uo bu- man institution can_there bs found so many 1ines of beauty and honor. Andas for [ts in- firmitics, many of them may woll bo forglven when me havo sean the eause, and, the cause having patsed away, the Churchh mny well be painted as more nerfect for the Muture than it could be palnted for the past. Look at avme of the old causes of deformity. 8oon_after tho death ot 1ts founder it became wedded to the State. But the State {s o bard, grinding force in many of jts days and relations. The old State wax a bloody {natitution. Sea It undor Moses, or Alexander, or Cresar, or Napoleon, and it Isn being of not only beneficence, but of Infinite wrath. ‘The Church of Jesus was carly betray- cdinton rlrlncu)l!p with such_a great engine of war. Had Bt. John looked down upou'the Church a few r{u-uerzuum later he wonld have been compelled to use & new and sad formula. He would have sald: “I know thy twars, thy streams of blowd, thy ambition, thy cruelty, thy falth in the sword and the dungeon.’” The beauttful, peaceful Thyatira, whose pastor was called an_aneel, had given place to a Babylon, whose pastor wasa man witha drawn sword, No calnmity could hava besn greater than the assumptions of temporal power by the great Iishops of Constantinople and Kome. The features of the Church becama changed, It was an effort to combine In one face the outlines of a Madonna and a Lucretia Borgin, to_make love and barbarism meet in one hearf, DBut by as much as this great hindrance {9 passing nway, by so much 1s the Church returning toward thal imnge which tho Holy Spirit marked out for it 1n Aslaamong the seven meeting-liouses eight. cen hundred years aro. 1t should mitigate this old offenee, that man of the trest ehiliren of Chriat, ali rlong the ovil road, eaw that they had departed from the law of nhulou: action and success, aud wept avor the decline. Daute, when he made that gloomy pllgrimage, found in the pains of Purgatory, the Pope, who had doneé most to join tho Guspel of Jesus to the chariot of ambitlon, 1l sang bitterly: Rome, which! nenewed the world, was wont of e yo To have two suns, of diflerent pathways, lord, One God revealed, one earth enlightened o'er, But one tho other quonched, joining the aword And partor's erook, which may together ne'er In living force combine in act or word, Bince joined, one of the ollier has no fear, ‘Thns we, to-day, behold the Church of Rome Fallen in mud—to harm ana ovil come. Buch were somo of the hot wonls that were uttered 200 years beforo Luther brought the open revolt. But even Luther did not per- celva the trus misslon of the Church, for It went onward.atill nuem{‘unf to hold tho sword and the shepherd’s crook. But after penitence should came forgiveness, and over past compli- catlons letween roliglon snd ambition the Church lias alrendy wopt tears and suffered long, hard vunishment. "Each generation leads it aTew steps nlong towards the ideal which floated Lietore Chirlst and Iiis Anosties, when the first and glorluus doys were masing. ‘Two facts we have reached,—thic one that the Church foherits imporfoction by belng human, tho other fact, that 1t is moving away from a bad partnership, that of charity and faith with military smbitlon. Descend now, [nto its fnmost heart, and fud Its siguiti- cance. ‘The religion of Christ stands up iu the midst of the human multitude, as o worful friendship, ‘The State governs, phi- osophy instructs, art delights and refives, relig- fon sympathizes, It is tho most wide-spread symputhy the world posscsses, All its actions are based upon_the assumption of the Inflnite truth of man, It secs the zoul of Indlan, or ne- fim. or begygar. Sheealls the savage to her nee in the wilderness and teaches him the al- phabet, and points hlin at once to a Heaven and arulcemed enrth, One of the best pletures ever palnted b{ Constant Morvor, or, indecd, by any other genlus, Is called ©Good Words,” where & diving woman is teaching words of wisdom to & group of pour children. ‘That the Church contains the hypocritieal, the mean, the miserly, the proud, ho one wlll deny: but so alsu docs philogonhy contaln mei who are wise and mean, fearned and cruel. Bo'poetry numbers among its gifted ones gome who will wrlte sublime verses and then chicat 8 poor man or rob an orphan. The Bouch bas been ndorned and disgraced by the learning and infustice that have combineil fn one man. Rellgton cannot be expected to muster an army of apotless ones ju n world where Imperfection I8 univesanl, The fact. that the sanctuary isoften the refuge of the un- worthiy, wetghs 5o snore agalust Christlamty thon it welighs sgulnet literuture, that some gilted ones who wrute grundly lved bad lives, wero often Intoxicated, acd scldom pald debts, Hence we imust pass by the inperiections of the religlous world, and gazo at it genernl prinel- pleaj and dolng this we shall see an agency more valusble thau poetry and the arte, moro powerful than vhilosophy, The Church ls an uninnlzed charity; 1t {s human sympathy formed futo an army. It can apeak ore good and kind words to more needy hearts than canall the otlicr volces of carth, What milllons of men, sl wotnen, and little ehildren have, fut th:o last genoration, heen fed upon Ler truthal The spectacle of the Christian Sunday is ona of the mort surprieing und aigniflcant scenes In the history of man. Wkhat were the n wonders of antlquity compared with this fact, that on one day of each weok all the wheels of business should panse, akl the chiase for monoy suddenly ceane, and that millfons should read the best words of all words, aml should sing the divinest of lismus, and should, for the lour, try to fecl the unity of man aud the oblizatlons of a worli-wide hrotherhoud. Many 0f the shapes of benefleenre which exist nnder diatinet and alinost unti-church_orgzaniza- tions, thy Kulghts of Malta, the Knizhts of Pythins, aud wmany mote simllur Onlers, scem Lo Lave sprung out of the (ivepels as Cuba was once n part of our continent, as Slclly was ouco Joined to Italy, . As geologle concluslons eame algp to cut off these parts of the wnaln-land and make them {slands, s0 human convulsions, the crusades, wara, panics, pestilences, caine to fay tho fouus datlous of many seerat Orders and ranle Islands of what had vnce been a part of that great con- tinent on which stood the cross of Christ, Nuthing will be found more touaching in the listory of our planct than that it should have fouuded a Church, and that apon one mornlng In each week of all the weeks in the year und of all the years In efghtecn centurles, sweet-toned bells sliould ring 1w clty, atd vitiage, and coun- try, to call the mortals, young and old, to the altara of ©mmortality, Could we riso high enough above the ground, and be rranted tio far-sceing aye, what o spectacle conld we upon a June raoriing sea the children of all this con- tineut moving along joyfully toward thelr Sun- day-schools! The ‘puinters have sketelied for ua man golog to battlo; have tricd to plnce upon canvas the shows fn old Itoms where eladintors fought and fell (a battle-scene, by Mcissonier brought a fabalons sum of goll)y the death of Casary royat iuar- rloges, corouatlons, deatb-beds of IKings, i these hiave been limned In art, but o vast tieno remuing, gpreater than the denth of Cresar opthe marringe of & Princess,~the old aud the younyg golng to church toxether, Could wa opin onr oyes and our hearts so as to take in this scene Iu mun’s Iife, wo shiould feol the insigniticance of many a canves covercd with man's weak- nesacs or ains. ‘There are mouy thousands pf cducated men and women whodo not go 1o church! Cer- tofnly thero are, 8o ore there districls and clites which Liave turned the day ol redgion lato N dn{ of loud aport ar dissipation, Our own has recontly begun to open e lowest i Bunday nights, Only one manager hi sted the bribe of muney which athought- less crowd offers for a Sunday-night drama, In only one heurt dovs Buuday's peace and sacred- ness peem to outwelgh the ticl cl»muu:{ ut the door, But wo cannot nensure the valuo of o sucred thing by an appeal to tim crowd., The persons who désert the Unurch, the managers, and towns, and nutions which desplae it, do so only by a most dangerous mistake, ‘This” outshle throug mn{ bo cultivated and moral, and valvable as cltizens, but in thele calducss toward the Churets, they Lave simply made a lifelong wistake, * They have fouud nothing better; they have fouud uothing su good. Montarene Gells us of an old natioy which hud gold infues and fron iines, but thae alter its peoplu discovered iron, they tarew thelr &uld away, By some stranze caprice they mude thenceforth thelr jowelry of fron, We il areto some extent citizeus of that country, 'l"gurur. hours wlien we throw ruld uwuy an® adorn ouraclves with fron that fs rude snd dull, aud thut will soun sust. The great non-churchgoing throng have not found any souud swester than the church-golug bell, nor auy Bundsy resort better thuu the morlag Lour of hymu sud prayery but, ou the opuosite, they have become the children'ol o mistulie,--they’ have stripped oft guld jewels to weur evermoro somu baser sty Notbiog sbould ever tisplaca [n our affsctions & public fustitution of goud. An tudividust s s drop, wo justitution is a decp fiver. A wan will dig, au fustitution wiil voll un in s vast immortality, The persousl bappiness one wey find st bowme, or in rambles, or fu work, or ata draina on a buuday, will soon fude, and leave bphiud notling for self wnd uothivg for others, but when one urices forward o fustitution, icn hls work passes over to other gencratious, and blends with maukind, aud ucver dies. What Lappy Lours the bicroes tasy bavo bad at Luma are unkuown, Whetber Bhakspeary wus wesr: or sud, wiat Pope or Dryden enjoyed or sul- fered fs little koown. It matiers uot now, and hence vever did matter mucl, but tuly tney ol did; they touched their hands and hearts to an {netitution called literutuse, and ft llows along through our age & river, cn ricblug the tlelds, delighring the cye. How Washivgton speus his® Mt Veraod days we littls kuow aud’ little care, becauss thuy wers vwa private bours, They budded, uud THE CHICAGD TRIBUNE: bloomed, and faded [n himself, but when he touched human Iiberty, o touched an {nstita- tion, and there Iald the toundation of an ond- less usefalness. The institution, with [ts great ocean enrrent, took lilm along, end carrles i to-day, on Its ‘bosom. The anclents ssed to rearch diligently for divive fountains to be in- mersed I, which would sceure agalnst early death. We need never Jook longer for ench peliucid springs. Tho nearest we abnll ever come to finding one will he when we shall have fuund some organism that belps man, and shall <have asked (ud to immerse ua fully Into its wave. Init wé shail forever 1H4W, i Among the Institutes of earth, ‘great will .ever be the Church. It Is no rivai of liter- “ature, or liberty, or art, or induatey, Lut it [s an added glory, an elghth wonder, Tt will remaln grest “because of {ts fandamental fdens. hat ean be greater than the belfef in God and Christ, aud fn the laws and duties which descend from these conceptions? (reat because of Its pecullar spirit. When un organization develops as its most sdererd fdea the brotherhood and Independence of men, and founs itzelf on the duty of brother to brother, it places itsclf in a position not easily erpr(!lhi -or stormed. In a mountalnous country once soine troops of & powerful army In theé night time_fortilied n mountain which overlooked an important past, Nut judge of thelr dismay _when, In the morning, they saw that. the enemy “had taken possession of a inountain bigher than thelr own, and that his darts and rocks were al- ready falling upon them, While many of the ‘buman family have been seizinz and holding their hill-tops, that to them have scemed to conttol valuable passes in this mountainous world, lo! Christiaoity hae selzed o lll‘lhfl' peak, and Jooks down upon them smillngly from its suplit crown, + _In these days, when the dactrines of the 1Church seem su much disturbed, and when the titues opp.ress, thousanda who were once {rienids of religion stand now afar ofl. 'They have lost faith o doctrines and hcart in the Chrlstian work, Under such decline of love there Is no deep wisdom Ising, but only a lntman error, The Church never was more tiseful than it ls to- day, It reaches o larger multitude, and speaks to them truer words. It gathers the millfons around fta feat, 1t Is the only holy volco that cowes to us in the wilderncss, Should 1t be. comae silent, wotld art speaki Would nolitieat philosophy fove s as much! Would commercn and industry sing us such hvmnal Would plensure at home or abrond come to us an the burdfr of life, and point us to asccond oxist- cnce Onky ono duty les before nsalready revealed: thnt duty fs to love the Church of” whatever naine and wherever found, This can we do i wa sball paes by minuto and local doctrines, and ascend o ‘those general Erlnclplea which penetrate evéry sanctuary ant blend with every hyinn and prayer. In place of complaint’ over temporary and loeal defects, let us pass to ad- miration of n power which tulls hard for the multitude. Iu tho Church man s mpnlhg las Letaken itacll, and has there equipped It scll for work, ‘There the drops of love have formed thermselves Into a potreeful stream, We cannot slight or injure the Church withont in- Juring soclety; we cannot Jove it and help it without helping humanity. The azes bave all looked down upon this moving nrm{ of Chrls- tlans, and, like John, have sccn thele falth, their charity, their scrvices, and thelr patfence. THE NAME JEIIOVAIIL, LECTURE DY THE BEY. 4 MONRO O1BSON, The Rev. J. Monro Uibson, pastor of the Sce- ond Tresbyterian Church, continued bissBible readings in Farwell Hall yesterday afternoon, takiug for ljle subject tho neme Jehoval, The introductory portion of Lis addrees was ns fol- lows: The namo Jebiovah scems to aceur but ning times in tho Bible. It really occurs about ns many thousand Umes. Wherovar tho word LORD inour Bible Is in copltals, it represonts the name Johovah. - Bo also when the word GOD (s in capitals, as ofton in Ezeklel, The Hebrows, from n superstitous reverence for the sacred nawe, never reaily wroto ity but, whiie ueing the proper cousononts, Inserted the vowels of the Hebrew word from Lord, - When the Septua- gent translation wus made, the word was trans- Inted according to its vowels, and not accordlug to {ts consunants, ana subscquent translutions Iollowed its cxampld; and so it comes thut the word Lord has almost supersdled the truc nawne, It {s probablo that to the translators of tho eubject wo owe ulso the loss of the carly meaning of the name. They translated thio Hebrew futurcs by the present, giving tke translation I am " and I am the Belng," und connceted with It the ldea of self-éxlatdtico and ahsolute belug: Inthis they were probably Influenced larzely by the phitosophy then cur- rent dt Alesundrly, Whero the translation was made, 1lenco, the majority of modorn tranalu. tious, the Emglish, muong the rest, have [ am,'" aud “ Lom that Taw," and the Alexan- dris futerprotation Is still the comuion fntere pretation, thouch for removed, both In jts vazgueness and collness, from the definite amd tender relations which Jehovah sustained to 113 people. Tho speaker then entered on a longthened nraurlncul. of which tho followlug is an ab- atract: 1. “Jehovah” and ‘*Qod" orc dlfferent nnmies for thy samo Belnz—(Beo Gencsts any- whers and the Old Testament gencrally), L While “Ciod” ‘Is the generult nnme, ex- pressive of tha relation ol Delty to all flis creatures (Hen,, 1, 1), “Jehovah ™ 1s the namo oxpressive of sume speelal relatfon, a3 in the formuly, “1 am Jehovah, Uud of Abralinm, Isaac, and dncob,”” It i3 i fact the Uovewant Name. Numberlesa mnln‘[ might Lo clted, butit may be sulllcientto refer to L Kings, xvilt., 21 und B39, 8. The speelfic {dea nssoctated with tho name Ia not that of sclf-exitence and ubsolute Belng, but love and merey in general, and sulvation in porticulur: Exwdus, vh, 6-8; Exodus, xx., 3; Exodus, xxix., §3; Fx., Xxx1V,y 0~7; Levi, xxvl., 33 (¢f. Exedus xx., 2) 18, 44; Num,, vl, 3 Doty V. 6; Deut., xxxtil, 20; 11, Sam., xxil.§ Pealms, almost wnywhere, o. @ I[salad, xlill, 115 Jer., xxifl, 6-8.° In sumo. caees the nang 13 reduplicated to eve ndditional fores to thouglts, as in Isu., xil., 3, and xxvi., 4. 4 " Jchovah ™ und the Angol of Jahovah designato the ssnie person—den., xvk, Gen,, xvifly 1, % 225 13 13; Gen,, xxxh, 1 B (e l(m:n, xl{. [} Acts, Vil 80, 85);_ix., xill. e XXl 2 ) B i s, 1001, 8, 9); and’ 8o’ on through © 6 Zech, (11 - 3 g 5 Jehoval of tho OId Tostament, and Jesun of the New Teatoment 18 tho sauie person—(a) A just luforeuce from 4 (ef. Joby, |, 15). (1) The promiss and _expectatlon of Jellurnh- cuming (satlstled in the witvent of Christ): Gen. xlix,, 185 Pouln, xeviils Tealah, xl, 1113 x| 21283 Jer, xxilly 05 Maly il 1" (¢) Numer- Quy quotation tho New Testument, in which Jesus ls tuken s the person spoken of In the Old Testument us Johovali, e, g, lleb,, §., 10. (d) Thu thte * Lord " upplied Lo Christ through- out the New Tostmncut {5 the very word vy which Jolhiovali is rondored in the Gresk of ths Beptungiug (¢f, tho furceof this in such pussages s Acta., xvh, 313 Koy, xxil, 20, 21)." (¢) Bx- ress iduntitlcation fn New 'Testument: Mark, 1, 3; Matt., xk, 88 (cf, Rev., L, 8, and xxii., ol x1., 41 (¢t Lsalal, v1.); 1t Cor., x., O gch. Deut., v, 10); Heb,, xk, & b, xi h 20; 1 Potor, Ly 11 (cL., e, g Janlal, 13L). From this argument were drawn the follow- ing vontluslons; W . The wayls prepared for a consistont theos of the name Jehova, which utay Le consfilere equivalent to *the coming Bavior,” it being remuubered thay the Hebrew tonscudn k 4, ure properly future, uinl, v fact, are so trans. luted in Luthior's German Bible, ava the cog- nats trausiatfuns (Dutch, Norwegian, Swed|, )3, sud also in tie sevised 8panish Bible, so that tlie force would be, not **Iam,” but “1 am comlag.” (Compare Ex,, lil, 9.3 The beuring of this was shown by several paskoges, such as Gen.,y xlix., 13, Matt,, i, B, Rev,, &, 8, 2. 'Tho entfre New ' Testament fs lighted up and warmed by & uwwno which hus the suwe lwweetness “in u bolicver's oar” us the muchloved nune of Jesus. How ditferently, for exawple, dothe Psutms readt And theu it ts no cold, abstract 1dea, but theblessed fuct that “Godia love,” which is “His name forever, und lils memortal for all encrutions.” (Exudus, 4, 13.) This idoa can e legitimately und beautifully connected with the nuwe ull through the Bible. [u the next pussage in which It occurs (Exodus, vi., 3), what seune can be gotten out of thu common ddend Cun any one tell liow it was that God revealed Hhseit to Mosca as the sell-existent One,whils tothe Patrlarchs e was ouly the Almlgbtyd But take the truc meaning, and |t i as plain us day, 1t was oniy a3 the Alifghty that God re- vealed Mhmself to the Pairiacchs, because His prowises were still unfuliifed in thelr duy; Ile protected, dofended, und blessed thew us the Alulichity, but the great dellverunve which was to bu wrouglit for themw, awl by which they wero 10 bo brouglit o the promised land, was stltl future. Now, buwover. Uud by about tore- veal Hbuself as the promised deliverer, the one that was to cowe. Hetwo (verss 0), *fam Jehovab, and I will bring you, out froin under tho burdeus of the Egyptlans, and 1 will rid you out of thelr bouduze, aud i will redeens you and ye sball know thut fatm dchovah yourtod,” Huwbeautlfully thisbarisonlzes with the future: 1 will be what (I bave brombsed that) 1 will be," fostead of the cold and uwful, **1 um that [ .’ Bimtlar fllustrations wers given through- out tho Beriptures—une ¢vew from the Book of to | questiouea by any minde, but only that they ai Provetbe: “ The name of Jehovah s tower; the righteous runnath Into It and fe safe.”” Now, s it really In the name of the ab- rolute Belng, or the seil.existent One, or even the Fternal (na the French translate Jehovah), that we find our safety? I It not In the name rather of tiie promlted Batlor, the name of Lovel Thisis 1lis namne forever, and a bleseed name it is, It is a atrong tower, into which we may all run and be safe, Andthisis “His momorial to all generations.” In the next gen- eration, Inthe days of Joshua, was not saiva- tlon tiod’s memorial stilli (see!Joshua, xxiv,, 17, 13). In the timo of the Judges it was still as the promised Delivbrer that God was known (sco Judges, 1., 16-18). in David's time wa 1t not the same! 1 It not salvation, salvation, salvation which rings «through the Book of Psalms trom beginniog to end] the llea of self-cxiatence and abrolute be- (Ang la scarcely found at all. 1o tha days of the later Kinga It was stili tho sime, ns 1 found from the utterances, especially of the contem- porhry prophets—e, . Is., Xlk, In the dark days ul the Babylonlsh cantivity, was not Je- hovah still tho memorlal namet ~Was it not the coming Dellvercr for whom the beileving exilos in Babylon atill looked, and was It not to Him, thetr Great Dellverer and Redeemer, eatherthan to some cold, abatract, self-cxistent One, the gang this song: “7Turn agaln our mmlvhy Johovah, as the streams in the south. Jeho- vah hath done great things for us, wheroof we aro gind” (P, 120). And then *'in the fullness of time,”” when Jehovah suddenly camo to His heople, and bmusiht the long-promised salva- llon. waa it not atill os the great Redecwor and Daliver that He came: “Thou shalt call His namo Jesus, for Ho shall save His Imnple from thelr sins”1 _When the disclple of Jolin catno and asked Him, “Art thoy Ife that should come, or luok we for another)” He did not say, %o and tell John I am the scif-cxistent ane, {tho unchangeable I am,” bt “@o and tell John the blind recefve thelr slgl\t, the lame walk, tl.e lepers are cleansed, and tho dead are ralsed np, and the erhnvo the Gospel preachied unto them.” And g0 It has been to all generations from that time to this, (1od's memorlal has been, not tis absolulo be- ing, not s self-cxistenco, nut his eternity, not llFs omnipotonee, but Ita tove, His mercy, Ilis Lovunml wmefey {n the great salvation. It has ecn: y Hark, the glad sonnd, the Baviar comes, The Savlor promisnd long} Let every heart exait with joy, Aud every volce be song. ‘The spoaker further showed how this Indue- tion concerning the word Johovah (ifl,) made consplcuously manifeat the divinity of Clrlat (Iv.}’ was the key to certain perplexitics of the Ol Testament (v.): bound the UId and New Testaments toccthier {n one harmontous whole +as the Revolation of God fn Chrlist; and (v1.), by carrying the Old Testament name Tato the N oW as o Bible of the Bavior, It gave contluual ex- rruulon to the fact that Lle in Whom e trust Js -ml#hn coming Bavior, “Even so come, Lord caus. 5 ¥ BIN AND PENALTY. SERMON BY THR NEV, DR, TIHOMAS. i The Rev. Dr, Thomas preached fu Centenary | Mcthodist Church yesterday morning, taking for his subject “Slu and Penalty; Ilore and 1lereatter,’ and for his text— The wages of rin 13 desth; but tho gift of God Is cternal 1ifo through our Lord Jesus Christ,— Romana, vl,, 23, Ioam inclined to think that thereis some- thing in tho wave theory of thought; that is, ‘that thouichts, or the conditlona giving risc to trains of thought, come upon our world like waves of tho ucean beatiug upon the shore, or currents of alr comiog from afar; and that when theso waves ur carrent strike our world, wo all set to thinking upon tha same thing. It this be true, it s probably related to another theory, that this world s a world of effcets and not of causes, and fs acted upon from above,~ certafn Influonces or fnspirations of thought belngr profected or eprung upon us from above, (od thus touching mind as the seasous come down upon our carth. Mowever wo may ac- count for it, tho fact fa beforo us thnt At cer- tain times the wholo country is visited with some awakening of thought, or discussion, or s0NK, or revival, or almost manta of fashion or of amusement, followed by a’ substdence and the fncoming of something elsc. Or tosomoa more natural cxplanation of these plenotmena may be found fn the gradual development of thought on these subjects, and then Its sudden outburstiug like tho cronal days of a spring- time, Stiil othiers ind an explanatlon In some eofiditioh of 'human allairs,-as- of adversity- oy prosperity, g ‘Whatever the cxplanation be, the pablte mind bas of late been turned very larzely upon the condition of the souls of men after death, and espetlally those who fail {n this world to reach or attaln a fitness for Heaven. What the next wave of publly Intcrost shall be, probably no ong can tell, but let us hopo that tho dlscus- slons growing out of this subject will result In good. And this T think will cortainly be the case. Bompo, it Is true, becoma Impntient; oth- craare alarmed lest truth should suffer,—or It may bo lest thelr theory, whatover 1t may be, should coms out'of tho confllect with Jess pub- e favor. Wo sliould all rejolce ot least in this, —unless §t Do the advocates of suppressing heresy by force,~that we can calmly discusa thess and il other rellglous questions without fear of banishment or deatts by tho Ine quisitor, And it Is well for us all to remerber that the truth, whatever it may be, will stand, and that our opinlons do nat clinnge the facts. Wao may Furm ve truth, but wo do not creato {t, Tho real facts thot await us after we leavo this world aro not affected bv our theorles, And Jet us sll confess how vory little we know about the unseen world to which wo are goingi and that the Biblo sheds l:g light so “clear aud stronz as not to leavo rbom for honest diffor. euces ol opluton, And let us coifoss, alao, Lthat it 13 not essential to a Christion 1ifo chat we all sae attke or Lollovo allke on thy srur. questions of human iostiny, With theso feelings, let us cotne to the subject this morning and study 1t from such standpolots moy help to a claarer rualization, and pos I{ to & better nnder- nlndlnv. uf some of the great facta that enter Into the mighty problem, T approaching the sublect, ot us assume the ex- fatenca of God, or that the nuiverso {s govorned by n good and oil-wise Helnz whom wa call our Fathor, Withont such assamption wWo eannot argue tho ancstion even from & Theistic atand- oint, much ) from & Christian. This sssump- { t all controversy with Athelsm. Let 0, tho tmmortality of the suul; or that thi of od, In reforence Lo mun,'do not tarminate with this world, but that the lives that pasy y framn this a 001+ fnued (o " somo uther of Ing yond the death of the lody. And th assumption rules materlallsm out of the question, Lot us awsnine, aleo, that therotts o real dierence, not only In dogree, bt tu quallty or kind, between good and evil; and let us aesumo, further, that wman is fres to chuoss the goul of tbe evil, and thereby determings oo which wida il ataud,” aud by such choice himsolf Lecomes in pucposs and charicier efther good or bad, and that happl- udullrmln'\‘llnflowl aucquonce, Letusussunie, also, that **Christ Jesas came into tho wo‘hl 1o gavo slnnces,” OF courre, In these broad aebump- tions, 1do not mean to sy that thoy are all, or evcu any of them, s0 svil-evident a8 not to' be purpor wull suttled in weneral Christian thought, and e clully In Methiodist thought, which in some thinge oceupies a pasition peculiar ta iLaslf, Nuw, accepting tiw Biblo sccount of tho creation of the world and of man, lot ue go back In imagi. nation and stand at she opentog scene. This carth on which we now live was the “world apon walch Uod projected his plans of & new race of be and we, nnd all the children of men on earth lo- day, he decondants of that race, At & very early perlod in tho history of thia race evil made e appoarsuce, And Lolh bofore and sfter the appearance of ovil the command of Uod to the race was to ** be fraftful und nedtiply," to muls |IJ|I; or bring forth **abundantly,' " Even Paul advised tho younz women warry snd bear chlldre ‘And these commands have all along beon backed by an {mp: of natura suMclently #irong 10 In general ma! wm edective. ' it appeard that tha existence of t. owu chaosing, but ofGod's urpose, and s abundsnt Increass or multiptication ta accordsnce with § will. o far sy our Individnal being 1s concerned, it waa not, aud, i the nature of the case, could ot by, of our own chooaing. And the same lg true of &l mankind, Let ua stand aside In shoughtand look at this wandosful scenie. Campared with tha uuiverse, 1t nay sectn very smalli but In Mael? it Is realiy very large, The surface f tho earth Ie lucge, snd iis capacity to suatain human 1Yo very freat. Tha time bus, cven atthe lowest fates, Leen very long. Aud tas population 9f our earth {n all that time Las been almust boy®Bnd the power of bumbers to express, —certainiy beyond the power of the saind of wwan Lo cumprebiond. Al these nnnum- bered mililons bave been passing year by i" monient by momegt, frow our shorer.” The earth nuw has & populltion ©f some tnirtaen bundred millions, and ite feeding capaclty s nob dimiuiehed, ond tha Feproductive power of waunkind s not lessencd. 50 far 84 oue this condition of thiugs may £o oo indefl- nllcl{‘—unr world Increasing its population aud acuding its maltipled millions futo the futures Iife, or the world beyond. Al this 1asy be too larse a sceus fur us o cven 100k upon, much Iues (0 mEase urg and understand; Lut certainly uot t0o la for God, for tle kas cared for all these wililons, sud fed thew, dod Glled them wity )ife, zod loye, aud bopu; and Lhcn, 88 we know, this world, too Jarze au it s !o’ out poor winds to measure, ls only 84 op of water from tho vcean when com- pared o 1be vaet universe wheru &od TOIZ04. Wa stand bego to-day se Chrlst aud &8 such muy becowy uarrow und aclish, aud asseme thay rong | w MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1878. to God's favored ones, and that fle dosk not care for thé natfons beyond. Bat, when e came to rofloct, Christianity is Jeen than two thousand yoars old, and Judafem ante-idates Chriatianity only some two thoneand years more. Judalem, coin- ymd with the Gentile nations, was a mare hand. ull. And Jndalsm and Christlanity to-day num- ber only About one-third of the homan family; and to reach this proportion we mnat enunt, nnt the individania that personally profess to he Christtans tn hoart and Jife. but the rhale popalation of tho nallons counted Christlans. All_ thess heathen natjons ara somehow Cod's heathen, romehow God's children, creatod by His pow image, and then being parpetnated 11, awlll, In all fi e milllone each life has heen desr ta itaelf; each mind has had {ts own Mttlo realm of thought, and each heart {ts world of love and hope. Theto d with all these made of Ilim & lemporal d aven Poter requlred a vlalon and the ministry of angs!s to open his oind 1o the great fact that God loved any souls outside of the lttlo Jowish race. Dut God had & wider and a deeper purpose, and iTin love overflowad the narrow lmits that the prejidices of men had set np and poured forth upan a needy world, Now. let s £o back In Imagination to n stand- noint of thoaght befora the cecation of tha world, And suponss, befora man waa made, we conld have exlstod with such reason and nnderstanding as wo now have, And that with these powcers wo shonld have 100ked out npon & then fatnrs and prospoelive worid and race, and had been givon the anc great” truth that a God of love and guodness was going to create that raco. Had nny onc told ns that the new race and world, of which God was to be Father »and Creator, would for thousands of years bp such o acene of war, of earthquake and storm, and mur. der, of huneee nnd cold; such o sceno of alcknces, oud pafn, and denth as onr world has actually becn, would sve not havo satd, it cannot be. A God of goodness wonld not project such a world and such a raco into existence, ~Iint, coming down from an {maginary to a real standpoiut of thougnt, wo find that just uch s world does exiat, And has long ex- fsted, and is likely to long continue to exist. What arewetodol We cannot dony the fact of the world belny as 1t in; nor do we want to give up the_thought that God s good, and that Ie fs vur ather. 1t may help us horeto remember aome of the thinge we sesnmed In tho outsct, and that, being in our world and partof our exnerlence, e can understand. Tt gives a wholly diffcrent nepeet to {his world when e remember that suan is o freo beling; that he (4 placed hers fur develupment and King; for “the attalnment of virtae; nni that virluo {5 something _that 'must como from 8 voinutary — obadlence - to rignt, and In fta very naturs is something that cannot be conferred upon man, Ife must work for It It sheds light on the whole theory of hninan life when we reflect that all Ita trinls, and haraships, and suffoelnys ure deslgned as '8 partof man's discipling. Ttglves a now plinge to things when we remmeber that to bo vitteous man mustbe free; and that to bo free thers must bo (he possibility of wi s well as ) mf and that when sin he- came 8 fact in our world Jesus Chirlst camo to save man, to reconelle him to God and the law of right, and by avery possible influence. and sufloring to win him back to righteousness, and to save him from sin, and make Lim secura in ‘msd- neas, it shode the light of a higher vislon and a loftier purpore on the problem of llfe when wa remember that Ihis, #o fat an inan is concerned, is only the beginniug of his carecr, ~iha nuraery, the ¢crdle scone,—and that beyond this brief day the real, the enduring, lite Is to come. Now, let ns go down and staml by the shores of Tima—get a8 near an we can in thonght tothe other world—and atudy {t In the light nnd experlences of this world, Btanding thus on the very bordors of Tinolet us stream ond think of the life beyond. Tta Inhabit- anta, 80 far ns we nro nos thanking, have goue over frum this slde, Once thoy lived liere 83 we now live. They have heen pavs- ing over for thousands of years, = and from all lands. The nany are there, Only the faw are hero. Our friends, oiir parents, and childeon have gone from our homes, —some years avo, sume anly yestorday, ~and we skl all aoon follow on. Bume will go llll,‘nnr. romo next, and of all theso 1ivea here to-day few witl boleft twonty or thirty Jyoars honce, Let ud in this waytry to raalize that we are not dreaming or dealing with abatractions, but with real and personal facts, - Wihat, tuon, shail wo think of the Iife beyond? Init something wholly difterent from thleworld and the life we llve hero? Or ivit not life, with all {ta lawa and racults earried over, or rather thls lite continued? To e the latter scems the woat reasonable and Sarintural view. Standing on theee shores and lovking across tho mystic river, mankind hava formed their theories 84 to what should be on the otlier alde. *One school of theology Las concelyed of prisons and hare and lakes of fire, and conslgnod ail heathen and all nan-elect to oternal tornents, Another rchinol af- firms the salvation of the good and the deatruction or the snnihilation of theswicked, Auvother makes endieas misery depond npon endiess sinning. Another afiirms endiers suflering, but of such a modified type as to ho beiter than non- cxlstence. Each ong of theso diferent und widely differing echols 1is confidont that 1t {s nght. and qnotes the Bible with positive as- stirance ae boing on 1ts side. And yet any msn of cven ardlnnr{ scnse and ressonlng power roust know that nall thess diffcrent and contradictory thidoried cannot be true, and that however honest thelr advocnton may Le, some of them are mistake an. Andaslong a8 tho sublect rematns in such confasod and cven contrudictory statoments, it swould scam that minds who seek 1o be wholly froe from prejudice and desire ouly the truth mny find o roneongblo {uu“flcnflnn fu “confesslng thelr ig- norance and ihelr fnabllity to afiirm with certain. ty of fact and positiveness af conditlon Jnst what the final lssnes of the lulag hercaftor may be, 1Itls not to be wondere ot fhat “to some minda such o pasition seems weak and uncor- tain snd even childish. Thoda lntensely doguintic minds glory In being settied, fxed, Iminovably fixod; and thal they never change, xod that you always know just where to find them. Now, II Is cannmlrvnuwd lhlnr 10 havo sottlod convictions aod belfefs, expecinlly in matters of principle, and conduct, and right,” and also tn qnestions of Ihonr&m. 10 far a4 the mind can see Its way clearly. But it may nut bo an Indicatiun of the highest type of mind and thoaght to aMrm with posltive- ncey whera thero s evlienliy & degree of nncer- tainty; it anay not be the wiseet thing to scttio dow:: ~tmmovably down—just for tho sake of ho- lnr wattled, If beinz fixed iy the great thing, ruch ninds have pleuty of sompany. 1 can go back to Virginin snd find stumps slanding Just whers thoy stood twenty-five years sgo; no chango, only that time ls gently covering thelr surface over with inoss, You ulways know fust where to find thom. Iiut mind is life, firmflh. increano of power and knowledie, and readth of vision, Thao Bible was not all miven at once; ita revelations of Uod and the futare wero rogrossive, And whilst its uueul-, aud prom- ises, and tnunltnlnrl a8 related to lite and char- acter, are so piain thal nona who try may fafl of oodness, it Iv not unreasonablo to auppueo that, rlku {jod's other great Look of nataro, fll doeposl meanings of tho divine purpose in creation have Tong lain concealed, and may ot oven yet ho fully uuderstood, And before such mighty questions as the dostiny of all of God's unnumbered millions who have llved, and whio shall live, apononr earth, the wlur:ll‘muy well pause before thuy utter thetr Qual wo But, you may ask, is thore no revelation to guide us, and fs roason powerless, and i3 all lsft in ty? 1anawer all isnot tainty. Thoro 1a a ruvolation, and reason sceme cowpcetont to at leant travel a litt]e way ont on the uncnding voad upon which souls jairney when they leave onr world, a8 1 think, sud as all agree, enough to anrve Elnrnol-sl of character lierv; 5, An'?l at |s the main thing, o, remembering that It 1s the same lives that Teava thin world that go unt Inta the world beyoud, let nis take tha facts of the Bibls and of this Ii such careg ten ovr to th other i ¥ fan Ia free. Right and wrong are facts, and carry their consequences, Tho nonlvthat ilve here life sfter death, Jeens Christ came {nlo the world to save alunces, stand oy these facts, In thia world onr Fnther ninc- eil Hisfree children with the {mulblllllcl of yod and evil before them. Ie interdicted evil by law umle Ity, 1lu held up a bloswed rewsrd to tead to goodnens. “{n world, whereGod Is Pather, and into which J Christ came as the ravelation of thy vicariousucas and sucrifice of luve, men bacume slnners, —choosa the wrong, live lu' the wrong, anffer in tho wrong, dle In the wrong, snd go henca with tho characters thus formed. Others In this world chease the rizhi, —Hv rlgl and go henca with chatacters fofned in coodne: Over on the otffer shara (ad e stitl Father, ri; and weoug ars ellll fucw, aud rewards aud penais tics follow as w result; and the Dibie and resson uuito to say that tho good ars reworded and that the ovil snffar in the otberlife. Duath works no change In charactor, We simply pass out of thesa nditions with principles and affections d. The laws of right and wrong are and the reantts in charactes ius far the thouyht of tho bstautiaily one. Hut here the of thealogy weparate, The Calvinlat makes quick sud casy but awful work of the future alato, 1o sends ali the - numbered milifons of heathen to wn cadless Hell Hesondsall tho nou-elect aud unredosmed there, Ho saves such. and ouly such, as frowm all eterufty 1t was forcordained—snd wlthout any knowledge or foresight of faith or 2ood wurks on thelr part— shonld bo waved. The sssumption thas Uod Iy ther ronders that ballef to me lmpossible, @ Universalist saye that God la Father, that aunuhmrm is corrective, and thst probation con« nues afier ueath, aud will dually come loto holiness end hsppiness. The duciriue of aftere death prabatlon of courvs supposva that the free. dom with which we begin this llfe is carricd over into tho life beyond., Aud thiv 1 relflllr sdmity but ju this very ussumption of continual }berty lice the uncerialnty, and, ae [ look st it, the mpossibllity adirning that ull choose riglt.” In (ble il Mon and weducers wiaxr worso and worse." And herciu, as wll confead, lu th reat dadger—tho infalto perll—of sin, uds to luunfillwd in Lablt, aud Goally tu cr; - lize In au unchauglog character of wvil. Aud if sny soul this becomed & fact, the assamod law of moral sequence makes the result as lusting ss the character ln which It iuherea—and such result can- not be luss than unending separation frow good- ness. Nor, admilting the conjinued froedom of tho soul, do I sce how ooy one can certaluly af Bir:n tuat all souls will not at somsejtime turnffrom e wrong, Universalisn: is indeed 8 humana dac- triug and wortby of generous minds, aud all could wish (b might be true, but the evidence of fts truth {s not suficient to command tho assent of all. Idouotsce bow it can be certainly afirmed on any other Lasis then an absolate sovoielguty of The snsihilationists sfirm thatSimmortality is ot z 'mfl"’uf“""“?’ of tan ‘:n&l. but é: cnn‘-‘ rightous—La 8 gi Gay Who see gt e iekeu! 2 RS MRS 1will un- roject our thouzthta acrors the narrow | this nndying state, nass fnto non-exiatence, arn **punlahed with evorlasting destruction from' the prerenea of the Lord," 1t may be admitted that this doctrine {a not withont appatent supnart {n the Seripinres: and that It scoma less ohjectionable to reavan than cveriaating puntshiment, It Is not cary o reg why n soul shouid be lield in rxint- ence nlnply to”auffer, when there fa no possi- blo hope af fte ever belng hronght back fo rightconsness, Should annililation ba trae, It in af. conrec eternal puniahment, at least eternal death. Dr. Bushooli—and before lam Augaxiine —maintalna that there will e n_descend. fng atale of consclousncss in which the twicked will ever sink lawer and Jower, evou to the lowest point of consclons existence, and will remain ny monuments of ruinaver which the curse ol sin has swept. "Fhe new Church hold that the love of & soul, whethor it be gnol or avil, hecomen ita life, fta ex- Intence, and that it ro continucs foravars but that thin axistence In evil is hettar than non-axfatence, snd i, 1n A sance, the heaven of tho wicked, —that {s, the best that lod can do for them. This doc. trlne, you perceive, i3 that hell fa s _condition of the apirit, and as such a Ainal separation between the good and the bad, and we may admit has much in (U that does not seem unreasonable. Yom will vercelve, aleo, that all these thcorlces, aave one, are in somo farm unending punishment, ‘This much scema ev{dent lo me, and thls mnch 1 belleve, and belleving [ preach, 1 have no pos- aible donht of future nunishment, of the separa- Uonof the vood and bad, of loss and anffering for those who dio in sin. 1 is undoubtedly taught In the Bible, and supparted by analogy. I hove no donbt of the rightconsness of God's government, and that wrong dotng will be pnaished. The Iaw of God, with {ts rewards and punishiments, meots e at oir own entrance into this world, follows ns nll the way through life with warnings of danger and punishment for 8in: and from all along the shores of {he unsecn world the voice of God erirs out alonlon punishment, assuring ali that come_to that world that the consoquences of sin follow theni, and that there, as well as liere, sin (¢ pun- fahied. ~ And this, 1t Acem to me on this snbject, by the casential fealare of bellef In o ministry of righteonsness: this gived mirength to law and Ano- tion, or restraint to character, What future punishment wiil be, or how long, or with what result, I know not. 1 must hold tho Fatherhood of (Jod, tothe eternal goodneay as revealed in Jeatta Christ. And, hotding to thle, T cantot belleve that an Allwise Father would creata a world and eontinue it throngh lonk thousands of years under an expross command to mankind to mnitiply snd Increnss their offspring 1l thay have reached numbera beyondall computation, if o fore. saw that to the groat mass of these beincs was nothing but nnending misery. 1 cannot think that any unending existence thai God will permit can e wores than non-cxistence. And yet I eannot put sway the fact that mint is a terrivio thing, and that its conscquences may be miwful almost bevond our power to concelve, I there be aternal sinning, there will be eternal sullering, Thero ean be no perfect happiness withont holincss, .lfeaven or liell ars atates or canditions of mind and spleit that we cirry over from this world. Wnat the parposes and posstbill- tles of the love of God in Jfesns Christ may be in tha InnF future, I know not. It scems to me that of 1lisfova the *half hathnever yot heon told,* Tiope for the millions of our carth eprings up,in my roul aA yeatrs increass and as [ noar the polden gatea. The love that has saved me haa pat zome. thiug in my heart that cannot bear to let any soul %0, and it seems to me this love romohow must reach atl, know ft will reach all if I knowthat Qod cane ot take pleawure In the death of any soul. And ct 1know thut the **wages of sinls death.™ 1 now that 1e will do all thinga well, and I cry ont tomy fellow beings that * Now ls the accented timo, and now i the day of salvation™; and I ba- let&hvlhlm in Christ's name to bu **reconciled to God,™ ANNIIILATION, SERVON DY THA ROV, B: ) GODDWIN, The Rev. E. I’ Goodwin, pastor of the Flrst Congregational Church, corner of Ann and Washiugton strcets, answered, yesterday morn- Ingz, the queation **Are the wicked to be annl- hilated?” A large congregation llsteded to Ujm. His text was: But the wicked shall perlah, and the enemien of the Lord ahall be o8 too fat of lamba; they shall consume; Into amo shall they consume away, — Paalme, zzzeil, , 2 For yeta little while, and tha wl?(efl shall not het yen, thou shail dilicently conalier hls place, and l.:‘mll not be.—Psulms, zrrvil,, 10, There remaincth no more sacrifice.for sing, but a cerlaln fenrful looking for judgment and fery in- dignation which shail’ dovour the adversaries,— Hebdrews, 2., 20, 27, And fearniot them which klil the bnd{ but are not abla to kill tho soul; bt rather fear himwhich Isubly ta destroy both soul and hody I nell.— Matthew, 7., 25, ‘These, ho sald, were tho representative pas- sages In favor of the doctrine ot the annibilation of tho wicked. This doctrine was variously stated: ‘That immortality in the absoluto sense belonged to God; that it did not belong inher- ently to man; that the life that wnsa given to our first parents, therefore, was not an absolute but & conditional Inmortality—to be continued to them as areality it they continued in their obedience to God, I they falled, they forfoit- ed the immortality, and would become a mortal raco, certain to perish, not only fn tho scuse of the &:u', but also in tho sensc of absolute ex- tinctioh, unleea some provision were made by (od by which thoy could escape. Buch pro- vision ias mado In the pian of redemption, All who accepted the (lospel of Christ, aud belleved " in 1lim, received thut &:llt.—ln;wmo Posscasors of cteraat life, and had an assuranco of an eter- nity of bleasing, All whe did not rocelva the Gospel and Lelleve in Jesus Chrlst went un- saved, and were annihilated utterly, and ceased to uxist. Just when thls occurrad the advocutes of auniliflation were not agreed. Bome thought tha wicked ceased to oxist at death, others after tho resurrection and thu st judgment. The doctrine was held very” warmiy by nuny Christlsn poople, and with s scuse to them of " great helptulbess ond comfort, ns againat the doctrine of tha con- tinucd exfatenco of ovil nplied - the idea of that Qoa was tene, and would visft 18 wity Ty wrath if not blotted out by the blood of Chrlyg, —t— VARIOUS IDEAS OF IIELT,, SERMON BY TOE REV, BROOKB NERFOND, ‘The Rev. Brooke Herford contributed tq thy discussion on the subject of futaro TUDishmeny by preaching yesterday morning in the Chp, of the Messinh on “*The Varions Ideas of iq), & Btudy In tho Mlstory ‘of Doctrines py, text was as follows: Acortaln fentful looking forward fo Judgmey, =1leb., 2., 7. It was sometimes {nstructive, o sald, ta tyy, from esger contentlon over the truth of a Qg trive and look to its distancs; to ses how had thought n other lands and ottier timey, and to discoyer and trace the growth of 1y, error more clearly, For the orizin of the Ly ous {deas of Hell, wo had to go back toagy, beyond history, In Asia and Fgmy to-day were to bo found evidence in the tombs of & bellet p a future punishment, sometimes evideaces of bellef in the silent under-world, plotures of souls being scourged bacl into the world 1y Jive in tho souls of animals, or of souls plungey intaa world of tormente, There was hary a traco in the older Hebrow Beriptures of Rbe lef fna life hereaftes. The dead went dowy fatoa ahmlow& under-world of eflence wher thero was nelther knowledge, nor wisdom, noy nnrvllflm_: but dead sllence rmdr{(lnnmy uncon. scfousness. And yet this doctrine was opposeq to all human feel{ne, and traditions swere 10ty found, such fs thosc of Enoch and Ry which scemed to fudicato thero was such ¢ thing as translation to bo with God, 3 must not be forgotten that the Jew got their later doctrines of the fatyr state from tho - Perslans, whose periods of punlshment were to he nxi’o-lung. Thoy a4 not incorporata the Perstan beliet bodily” nty their own, hlluhc{mumxtunhs apirit. Forfp. stance, thers was the pit of fire of the Peratany, adapted by the Jews under tho name Gehenns, after the place outside of Jerusalent where firg werd kept burning day and night to consumg tho city's refuse, " With these and_other idey in gencral acceptation among tho Jews, Chrig «had_grown up, Ha took tho cxisting frams work ol men's fdess and breathed anow spiry in them. What Ho taught was that Gehenny wad not for tho Gontlles, but for thon who persisted n sin, of "swhatever nation or tonie, whother thoy wera the childrenof Abrabam or not. When all (his was rememben ed, It took nwu{ln great dea! of the dlscustion 88 to whether the words of Chrlst In Ilis par, bics meant “everlasting * foreyert Really, therawas truth in both sides of thy question. The anclent Ideas of time wera Jixs those of space—indefinita and mystical, Meg [fllcfl FORTS UPON YCATS, AZCS OU oges, and ther hey left it What they did In this reapect fn. dicated tho extent of “thelr Ideas of time. I, was, in short, us far aa thoy could sec. Hug thy words of Christ—words of hope, cheer, forgire nees—were the lghts that fllumined the dark. ness of prevailing belfefs; lghts that nesurd ns that whatever the final suffering might be it was ordalne® of a fatherly fope, It was from these two elements of Christ's teachinga—tho old Jewish Idens of fo. ture punishment, and Hie declarations abom the fathotly Inwof God—that oll the moden doctrines Nad spruug. As time went on thy two clements eame Into conflict, the literal lag. guage of the Old Testament being opposed by the teachings of Ohelst in regard to the loveo! the Father. In coudse of tima tho shaping ot of chutreh crecds fell into the hiznds of Toveley ecclesiastics—men Jiko 8t Augustine, Calvlg, anu others, who had little or no love for me liere or hereafter. Ous of the etforts to forn crecds camo tho bellel in Purgatory—a belie! which, though {ts perverted use liad given fty bad name, wns far nobler shan the oig Protestant fden of a literal, endlen Hell. ~ Dack. of this modieval Purga Lay tha ides of & medieval [efl—a frignt nlln;g into which were gathered all of all ages exeen those who had been baptized or bad “died wiy the Lioly unction on thelr lips, Daote had ds scribed 1t in his Immortal poem, and the belid % the Florentine peasantry was such that they ed to whisper to one anather, as he went by, ¥ There gocs the man who has been to Hell” It was told of a Scandinavian King that, whaa informed that ho must be buptized to escaps Hell, be satd ho preforred to e with his fath era, who had uot been baptized, 'The Hell of Calvin was even worso than . that of Dunle Calylnlsm repudiated the doctrine that mewy destinies wera In thé hands of a juggling priest , haod, but taught the very oppositedoctrines of clection and vredestination. According to old Dr. Hopkins, tho smnoke of the torments ol the suffercre in Hell foated upwards oa o aweel amelling savor 1n thu nostrils of tho blessed But that was Pnn. ‘The Presbyterian docirines of to-day would have been treated by thelr erandfatbers &8 mero milk-and-water stutf, aed the leason to the Presbyterians, the Conzrege tionallsts, and other denominationa was tha they mirht be miataken, just os thelr fathens .were. What was ficeded fn this day wasoot #0 much tho teaching of tho old doctrines of ilell, but tho Impressive tesching of the words of tho Master, o tull of love, hope, foraiveness, tenderness, aud consolation to weary humanity, THE OLD-TESTAMENT IIELL, SEHMON DY THE IRV, SUMNER ELLIS. Last ovening the Rov. Bumner Eills preached” In the Church of tho Redoemor, corner of Sir gamon and Weat Wasbington streets, on T el of the OId Testument.” The church wi well fllled. The reverend gentleman tooks his text: future consclous ondless punishment. It scemed to ol rld of tho torrific nfschlefs of |' Thera is no work, nor flwlul (R4e knowlsizs slu, to Wind up the history of tho universo with [.50r wisdom, In tha'grave whither than gocst.~ that blessed anticipation {n the minds of thusg'| £¢cleslastes, ix.. 10. who held It of a time coming when every sound of discord should have beon hushed, aod every rising up of o rebollious heart should hinve for. avor censed. This was wmhlul‘x entruncing; all should delight in {t; but aR the Scriptures teach ft§ Tho question was a very old one. It was to po auswered by the authoritative utter- ances of God, Il was constralned to say that e could not ind such tesching in tho liivle, and ho had examined the Scrl,lzlurcn carefully In tho Hebrew und (rock, e doctring “of the annibllation of the wicked, it scemed to liwm, wus directly contradicted by tho doctrine of - tho fnmortslity of fhe soul. It had no nuswor to ke, no reason to give for the very strange fact, if fminortality was not inherent, that among all patious, or “with very fow excoptions, someiiw, there had been ba- otten In the minas of barbarlans and savaves lie world over thu coucention of ou after-life, and an after-lifo not simply of the good, but of the bad as well, This Idea, as cognate in the heart and soul as the conception of uod, must have been fuwrought (uto the first huwan soul, Eullnz down not nnl{ a tradition of Heayen, ut o prophioey of fell, This doctrine was against anuibllutiou. Sowerothe Old Teatament doctriue of Blicol and the New Testament gloce trino of Hades, both teaching the linmortalit! ot the souls of the rlehteous and of the wicked, The Seripturol teaching of what constitutes spir- itual §ifa and death was Irrocoucilable with tha doctrine of aunihilation, $¢ aOlrmed that the curss prouvunced vn Adom was nover lntended of GGod, nover understood of Adam, to bo phys- feal and moral aunihilation. «LPhysica) death was thers, but not spiritual death. Tho latter meant the forfeiture of Uod's faver,~punish- mont for belng witbout Jod, wud fn constant disobedience and rebelllon, ’l'llnScrlrlures were quoted frum to sustain this positlon, Al through the Bible we ure represcnted as belug dead spiritually in Lreapassed and in sins,—as being so far away that we were thorougly allen from God. aceepting Curist wo were brought out of this state of deatn Into o state of reconcillatiun, aud our hearty dulivered from bouduge, It secned to him clear that the doctrine of the Beripturys was that splritusl death was in Do scuse aonthila- tiou, nolther o this life nor In that which was wcome, The chivf mistoke iu the theory was its misapplication of Scripture language. An emphasls wus put on “peril,” “consume, the remerubrauce cut off from earth.” This language was considered Incousistent with uny Liea oxcopt utter oxtiuction of belug. The Hebrews used words as we do-Afiguratively, When wo sald a man was perlshing with cold, drowned In surrow, consumed with fust, burned up with passlou, toru to pleces by an accident, we never applied the doctrino of anufhilation, Tha Beriptures weroutterly againet the annitulation of the soul. The resurrectiou and judgment wero vot coincldent with death, 1€ the wicked wero anunibilated at deatn, and i snolbilation were Funhluncm, where was the justice of punishirg lem twice! But anuibllstion was not punlshe ment. Punbshument called for diserimluation in the grade. It implled conscious personality. A dewd man could wot be puulshicd. It was the thought of un after-peualty that nade men turn pale and cold, and shudder in thelp dreens, and dread to weet the avger of (od, The old wb- Jectlon about the contiuted existence of evil should be dlimnisscd., Cobristian people had wothing to do with jt. It was Gud's rpblew, and Ho did uot ask us to solve it,—didl vot nsk us to vindleato His character or Government. beld Hiwsell responsible for what ile said, aud asked us sluply to take Hin at Mis word. We conld oot expluin how pvil Bot {u, or why {t existed. Wecould not explain ouu u & thousand of the things wu are called on to bolleve lu,—~1is providence, the forgive- uess of sius, the resurroction aud judgment, Wheun God plessed be would Hli the vetl, It was not for wa to auticipute His thue. We sbould be impressed with one thing,—that stn worked rebelliou,and present acd future misery; ‘The speaker sald that the doctrine of an crd: less Mcll was koown long before the daysu Moscs pnd the Hebrows, . At some future tine he would preach on the timo when tho endless Hell cotered Intojthe New Testament, oud whea It became part of tho Christian theology; but us onllghtonment crept in darkness wus fut belng swept away. The pagans ond ancet hicathens preached tho doctrines of an ead less Hell, which they plctured n fa> ulous _terms. Tho speaker quoted from anztent historfans to slow the doctrine of an endless flell was ths only way Lo govern an fgnorant people. Dante gavt Lis olcture of Hcll as a poctic diversion, Sexiu Clcero, Aristotle,and others, were gtioted by thé spcaker as having writien of Hell, and picture it lu varlous ways, which bad been mythialy added to siuce, 116 quoted Mberally fruio the L'agan suthiors to show thelr account of Al origin of Hell. Ho held that thoy wore citber the divoralons and gymmnastics of the cots, Or gotten up forg political endh le npext came down to’ Moses and the chlldren of Isracl, Ifc sald thot they had oo falth In the future, neltlier In a Hoaven of & Hell. Though tl:cy wera enlightencd, thet imayrjued death only Qarkucss, whers sthe uyd shionld exiat {n° o “semt-consclous state. b showed that the 23th ciapter of Deuteronos! cuntalned the promiscs of the Lord fu thelr (s sunse as lald down By Moses, Italowed whit might be uxpectog na” tho vifect frow the Quind of good or uvil. "Ha held that the Uld Test ment taught that all comr:uulluu was iot! 1ite, aud no ponalty for sin boyoud the grve Hu quoted from ean Milman, Blshop Warbur ton, Yishop Haley, Tenry Ward Heecher, sd othurs (o show thut they could find nothliog 18 the Ol Teatament which lmlh'ntu.hmy Hell tho hereafter, Virtue fu this life should briog ite reward, and vice its punishment. The lpfig' er argzucd that tho Hebrews hetd that the bodf passed simply to the grave, Moses bad lived 18 the midst of veople who belfeved I u futurt 11 thers iad bLeon euch a thiug as an endicd Hell, Moses would uave souuded tha warpiozdel God would bave informed Lim of it, If thert had beea a Helly God would have anuoun it through oses, @as wus bis “:t e alluded to the fucts that Moucs did not lude to oven a Heaven, He held that that ws unuecegaary. Ho could concefve how this [ " ity of Heaven could come unannounced, l"‘dhfi wus proper for Moscs Lo withhold tuls brig vision froim bis poople, However, if thero 'll“ au endless Hell, it would Lave been the duty fl‘ Moses aud (od to Linye annoyuced it, as Moith in a condition to du. ‘The spcaker b the great workiug for the Lercalter fous in smong the paguns, td ot deb) ence of & fulure life, but ho balle . also for the present, le thoudt 08 touk people away ""':, Egyptians, under the directtod B 3 the Qud, to get them away from superstition 8 7] idolatry, He held Testunicnt was nelthe (lumll-nun of 8 1t or Heaven, wud that nelther that word nurm Uebenoa of the New Testament should L bave been translated as it was. Ho qulm numerous suthoritics as (o tho neaviug word **Sheol," showing that it meant ot - more than the grave, uud that fts dlllnluv}n'“ Hell was wropg. ’l‘]l:a J)ltl‘l’rl-umem. lfn‘})n it all, but ouly a cum! ouls of the_guod aud tby bsd 1l bad crept Il the New ‘Testament and Christian lg!fllfii from anmythology, of which be W 1 speuk bercafter. There was o Hell oo flsr which should bo dreaded, und which wad fiped In tho New Testguent, ——————— ¥or all lung complaints and tlroat troudl Jayoe's m.'.’fmm‘h is bull & k:uuuu at tive. It ja ustaudard remedy bealdes foe € sud colds, sud nesds ouly s irisd to piote il the Bhenl of uwmu