Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1878, Page 2

2 sttt e THE CHICAGO -TRIBUNE : MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1878 yerse, How does OGod cxlst unless Ho was created] That puzzles overy- wody, and well & inay. How cati three be one, and one thirce! “That is taught Pmlzhlrr}. and_nobody does understand it. low {4 1t posaible for Christ to have heen miraculously brought futo Iife? Itaw can [ un- derstand the Intinfte—Infinity; that is, without ‘bounds,—Hterally no, no, no hounds? T cannot understand it Why, there {3 no cnd to the things that you don't know. [Laughter.}, And It 0 man gives himself up to that, and thidis ho s searchufe atter knowledge, he fa like A man that {8 i o vast palace ot miunizht without a Jizht fn it, thinking he Is making knowledge by going around and feeling the furmiture and tho room. He dont come to anything by it except to grope and grope. Al the mysteries of men Ife, tor the most part, n the direciion of this hizher Wtellectual cvondition, But fear God. Every chltd can do that, Love God, Evers matden canqdo that, Keep His command- ments, That {8 very simple. Keep them with all ditizence, That {s very stmple, What Is It that we are eommanded "to do! *What {s the commandmeni of the New Testamentl Cease 10 do evil. Now o kuow what {s good. What faitto do evil! "Ias cood any myatery in fti Are vou ndrunkord{ Stop. Are you a thicf! Leu him that atole steal no more, but rather let him labor with hiz hands, that he may have somcthing to gty Break .off your sing by righteousupss, hat {8 very simple, very plain. And retiglon; what s itd” It Is odedicuce to the laws of n minn’s body and soul; [t s obe- aience 1o the laws of one's eocial surroundings, aud one's patlon, and one'a spiritunl realm. ft 1s obedience to the law as far as 4 man {3 mady acquainted with his duty under the Inw, Thut Is relimon, Well, s there not something ralned down intc o man’s sout! lathercnot a declam- tion that ** The wind bloweth where it listeth, aud thou hearest the sound thercof, but canst not tell whente it cometh and whither It goeth : 30 Is every one that Is born of the Spirit "t Cer- talnty tacre (s that declaration, tut that is a declaration which covers stmiply this: that men are uuabie to understand tie law of asso- Lo in thor own minds, When 1 see @ wetery o sword, It always Jooks purple to me, ancl 1 eannot for the itfe’of me tell why it s, When 1 seu i pleture, it scems to e T ha seen Lhe picture romewliere else, Or that pret- ure brines Lack scenes ot my chilfdhoods [ ree- ollees souetunes, but what it 1s 1 do not know. It sets a thousand bivdd of fancy all flontine every way i my fmagination. 1 cannot tell «hy it duea it. Al the hig prinvipies of o man, If you undertake to look at them cl are of ‘n kind that you do mnot unde stand. You understant the working of them, byt not the puttinz torth and the gencral conneetton between them. Too principle of arsoctation works I some men by Tear and luve n t-suggestions vou don't ug- Jerstand it yourselves, ‘Phe divine inffucnce apon the human soul works in 2 realin where jud ure ilttie acountnted In ony blgh or Jow ields, But nowhere does the word God ns- sume that the prime clements necessary to o nerate, relizions. Jife are a profound mvs- Lut th ¢ dfticulty, men suv, DItH- 1l Yeso 1 should ke to know if the ruce was born at the bottom of tho il or at thetop, and ft Is harder Lo go up bill thau it i3 to silile down. Aud thera fs nothing fn this world that anvbody cotnes Lo that they don't have to worlke for and'earn, When aman starts, the road (s narrow, and e must take up hls cross and fol- fow It with pasn and digheudty, 1t 1s only say- fug what CVery surgeon muse say Lo o man wio Bas had Ws arm smashed battle: 91 will erire vorn, bit a great dest must be doue, You will fove to sufer paln. 1 whl have to strap it togethier, umd {6 will pan you” Tuat is the road to et well on. And we say, therefore, to people thiut are sick in o hospital, * Health s a Freat U bue you have pot to take up your crogi 1F Yol are groines Lo gt health," But sup- vuge | #hould o nto a seool uud Bay to tue chiildren, * Now, my chiliuren, you are” all just bemting you know but very” Httles tho road tu knowledge 1a Jong and wearys and you have gob 1o bear your crosses, and tuke up your dufifealties amd overcome tiwem or yon witl never Le well cducated.,” Would it be rizht lov any oue tocotne after me aod foter- prer that to mean that there were speclal diill- uties in education linpused by divine decrees r s0! niyt It Is nard fora child to grow ot o1 chiitdhiood any way, Growlng-palns they huye i thetr bodies, wil” manner of stomachic paing In thewr babyhood, aml sl forts of strifes und diflieulties In'the steps uniold cationg aud it costs a eblld o £t of quln to stav in school, to lis letters, to dearn orithmetie, o Jearn greammar—and he never does learn t. (Lauznter.) ‘Tne whole road of edueation 13 a nard vne. 1t s dldienlt to rlse trom a lower state Into a Wigher stote fu man, ~ But there i ¥ itticuity in it IV In patent to every edueator Qtis tatent ¥ iman that has gono througk life, You el rlehes ex- wept by labur, and by giving tue worth of your tervices, and tt scrvied tinplles sutlering, hardness, verseveranue, Unwearylog opplica- tlon 18 the law of unfolding buman tie tn overy tunction n the body,—in the intellcctual, in tne ortistle, In the eivil relations thut wo bave, Men rre perpetnally burdened and yokeu, and it1s by ecli-dental that they rise, uind Is morat develooment not subjees 1o “previsely the same law{ It stonds ou the universnl piatforms it requires cndeavor, yoke-bearing, Lurden-bear- ez, and woen o may starts, If Lo starts from o perverted conditton, 16 becomes more difiieult, Lels nut didicult fora ebild to bo eultured and brovuht up i i educuted wiy,—the difliculty 13 compuratively smali—but where a ehild han Lroken away trom bonds and restraluts, when o man buy -beew saturated Ly ntem- peranice, corrupted by Just, lost coneclence i traficking,~when o moan has politiciunatl tiroughlifeand beeone regar ol uny moral quality, and usdertulios vut of this perverted condition to gain u boteer, lizeher, nobier condition, then votnes paln ag ctlutt, Then comes self-denlal. The ed eelfy the perverted and corrnpt educa- tion of tman’s eclf stunds in bis way, and thero i u contlet, Sclishness savs “stoy,” con- selence says o M5 then comes the Latilo Lo. veun aeltishiness and conaclence, Sorrow, and 2 and sullenine do not belong to religion; y belunz to the want ot {8, When o man hug leurned nny part of selence, ho rejoleea; waen leavoing 1t ho be lu lalos tiroes, All this high ulillozophy,and all this brooding mystery, und all this uncertainty thot {8 thrown thie subject of religton, ts demoralizing, aud [sleading und pernflous. The things God Jays upon vou He has' given you capacity to do. He requires ot you wecording to what youn have, He has placed you in tuation whers, If it Lo bnrd, the more will be the pressure of motive, He gives you alsu the sun of rightoousness, Wwhich ehicers and brizhteus the eforts to bring yoursclt up. We see from tho principles that inve been lahl down and the reasontnz, why it 14 hard and whnen ft 18 casy 1o be religious, forthe Bible speaks both ways, It i3 contalued n the most exguisite doctrine of our Savior, **Come untu mo all ye that labor and are livavy luden and [ will glve you reat.” Ruest, rest, yeat,—to any one who hus felt tne bulfetings of lite, cun there be o prouise of anything so sweet! Ob, to the saflor - the whirlwind, vuifeted hither and thither, with threatemny shipwreck, howswect is the thought ol the harbor where e may drop anchor and think no mure of wind or Leating waves; and to the pour, and the disappolnted, and to the amblions of wmew . thar’ ure blighted ana the bungry hearts never fed, aud to thy whole race ot striving and dlssatistied tuen, Corist xtunds raying, * Coms unto Me and 1 will give vou resty<rest, rest sweeter than the sung of birds aiter the long winter; sweetor than the perfumed flowers thut the trozen carth gives up, . But yet how strange it {5 when Ile gocs ‘on und says, **Take my yoke upen you.” ~Whenu pair ot steers ure brought mto the fleld and yuked it does not geoerlly suggeat to the infud o {dea of luxury, and yét to this promise of rest exquisite, draving every floer fueling out of o wan, “Come unta Me and £ will give yourest,” He adds, * Iake My yoke upon you aud dearn of " Me, for am meek utd Jowly of hieart and vou shall find rest to your souls, for my yoke Is casy und my vurden B4 Jigbt.” “How can Uhe same Ching be o burden wml a yoke, und yet vasy and light! Cun ft not bet Ifere (8 u Lrgurd el she wili nelther sew. nor spin. The buttertly Is not inore careless of the worrow than she i3 careless of the order of ber reom, careless of lier bablitmeuts, Bavs the mothier: “1 don't kuow what my ehlld will come tog T caunot make her cither ?n-lusuluu: wr curclul, and she lacghs ut me when [ reprove herg shie slugs und faughs without thought or care wll - day longi aod her roow, I would not bavu ouy one sce it for the world, Her newllzent hair, her statternly dress, every- thang, Hhe will die in the Voor-House,” Bat ut the appeduted thoe comes love, und noone Is Luvn uutil born ol love. bee how preat the ehanges Low ut unee ordericeunes natural, und sy, The whole person becomes dreumspect, und tastelul, und sdorned. When the consume nation comwes and the houschiold s estublished thure is luw of the ktebew, of the parlor, and of e house, Eee, tov, this Irivoluus ture thut rejoiced lnuotiune so muchas the sound of music wnd lizhty-daueime feet. Now bow willingly sie staysut howe. There 8 music fu the vragle that L5 sweuter for her than oll the bunds of Le varth. Sce what o servant sho mukes of Licracily s bow she 18 mstsess of the housy, sud bow ber husbayd’s jucw shioes; how ne lives in that love und the sacriffees of it Ob, Low lard it wus and how vasy it Is! On, how bard without a motivel Un,'Luw casy with an aleuute motive. How bard it L for o wan to be butible untl be bus bad 2 rovelation of the beavly uud the glory of i u Lurit Jesus, How ™ hard ft is for wen o lay dowu las bfe uutll b oTalriel tedrh . wial o @ e of herolsm and then how easy. There Is noth- Ing hard to the hero; mothlng hard to love, notning to one hungering nfter intelllzence. Everything 18 wholly sabdued to that, All preatness {8 due_ to “that. Things are hard to men when golng from the want of relieion to it, but when o man has reallv heen touched by the heart of (o and felt the Inspiration_of Djvin- ity and a better and nabler nature in him, and he in realls once arouscd, how ho conquers nll thinga; bow is t| n chanzed utterly, Re- lirton {s hard when you are cetting it, bt when ¥ou bave onco come futo the full pussesslon of it, it Is casv. Duties are hard. But there arc dutles swhich some men call burdens, but which are Helit. There is rweetness under thoe yoke of regular hubits, 1ow can the ox ever know N8 own strength untess he be soked! How enn the horse ever knosw what he s worth it lie never felt the narness! Organized effort 1s the only effort. whish gives power to Inbur, May fs free In proportion to the numberof lnwa that he obess, and the case with which he s them. Thot rule s unirersal in i applieatlon, It {8 the universal Taw doubtless in Heaven that it fson earth; that fu rising trom a lower to A higher sphere, every sten §s another labor-pain. No child comee ins to the world without crying, a chorus of mother nud ellid, Eatn is the door {nto the Joy of 1if That is the beginning, and so {t1sthet Every eild rises from i lower ton higher coue ditiots by pain,=fruin a Jower dea to a highor idea by pafn. Man wins victorles by fghting. 1t ia the universal law} there is ho mystery in It; nothing strange, but what vou underatand verfeetly in every otlier department of Tife, and mny understand “If you take it unalogically in tha relivious life, Religton, 1 remarked fn the third place, is cminently rational then, If this be a faly present- atlon of ft, It 18 an” attempt to live injan agreement with ail the laws which environ us, “There are four splicres atlenst, or tire—physical Inwa represeuted in our body and by our en- vironment to tho physical warld, and there s much to be learned by overy Christinn man in that dircetion, Then the social law that con- nevts us with our fellow-men, and then the esthetle laws that conneet us with thlugs fine, rare, aweet, acrial, and beautiful,—the laws of reflnement,—and then tho epiritunl, that enn- neet us with the invisible and with belnrs that are not in the flesh,—the {nfinite, the eternal, tltat 1nan should tove in obedlence to the laws of his surroundings or caviroment, That s ratlonal, I8 it not? And that fsall that relizion requires of ang mau, that ho should study to obey tnelawsof his condition, T will discusa it nlittle further in the fourth place, when I speak of morality, It hias often heen taught, and such passages and their congeners havo been allezed ns the ground and reason tur it, that morality was uscless,—n - comparatively valueless ancees- slon; that o man’ must he born agaly, and that untll he was born .agale he could not please God; but that morality wos mialeading, Now I hold, in the that as n substitute lor piety morals great fstnke; but then by changing the phrascolowy I 1hink wo might get the rout of alt this thought. What s morallty (o so far o8 the hody 18 concernedt Itis acting ording to the laws of health, The man vbeya Lhe Jaws of Naturo u go far us his body fs concerned is a moral man. Moderation in apietite, desire; moderation in the use of hinsselt: toderatlon in eating, sleapinz, walking, workings moderation fn everythlr, in all his pavis aml facultles; u Wise Knowledae of nis wvn physical relutions to the material world and tu his own selfy and the vbediencs to theso” conditions ns far as in bim lHea,—that ismorality in the lovest sphere. Surely that §s nsoiul. But suppusea inan shonld belleve that this is all he wonts. s there not anuther, higher sphicre? "Tiiere 44 a sczond atazo of morality, nungly: vbedienve to the doclal laws which sir- rotnd’ man. So Uien o wan must be a man among mey, honored of men, patient with atl wmen, loving “all men, serving all wen, just und trne awonz ol mes. Aud honor, and truth, and moranty nomen, are wige and good, und iudispensable to every Just and honorable man, Aud morality {e obié- alence to physieal law. But that does not exhaust the lnws that sure round men and haruess blin In, lle has reta- tions to the organtzed ¢isil socloty fn which he Hvew, Ho s acittzen, 1o stands in the midst of propurty, In the midat of funetlon, fn the mfilat of great mon, and {t §s thy duty of ¢ man to observe the laws of Bis civil condition, le must obey the lawa of his body, and of hix covironment, the laws of his soviul nature w conneetion with his fellow men, and the luws af the - watlon where Ly s There fs mtll another commandment, All men earry Into their buslness operations man- uers, customs, rules, and regulutions, and o man must obey the laws there, Hut that don't exhaust all tho laws cancern. Inz o wan, Iio fs in conneetion with the future, with fuvisible things, with honor, sentiments of fuith, With hope, with love, with roverence, with asperations, with God, with imumortality, and hic must obey the lnws of that splicre, Bo that morality fs ¢ unft. Like the pyrumid, it stauds and beglus on the ground, but goes up titl its apex fur up points to tho teaveus. Morality means the whole, from the Lottom to thio top, althoueh men divide it and eall the npper relimon and the lowes worality, 1t is oll morality, uud all rellefon. They are not di- visible,"or properly so, uoder ‘suchi clreuni- stunces, ‘To say that the lower foris of morality are sulliclent 13 to pervort the truth, to mistead meu's mhwls, 1t i a man's duty to be moral In ull of the five sphcres where law touclies him fn thils Life, and wrcre a bian 13 ¢ faithiul to his light and knowiedyzo in all thoss spliored, that wan wo call a religions mauj and morallty and religion merze intoeach other, ang are part and pareel of one exporlence, But, takiug §6 in the common seceptation of the term, men have taught that tho fower fornis of worality must staud and wait In agra ced condition wnthl w maw 1x touchod by that divine charge which comes to b, ond which I suppused to bo the true. spiritual cou- dition and spiritual rellzion, Fhavo seen men Ko nway,—1 have gone away myselt under the suine hnpression— { have Deard 1t laborlously demanstrated, 1o watter what you do, until vorn ugam it will bo of no value, 1t s nmis- ceublo mterpretation, 1 teach every man,—l say ta evervbody it you will not bo as Rued as you ‘eau, ifhen be the next; and if you will uot be as gud us tha;, bo the next; und It you will nut bu that, be as ood s vou can, ‘Tlie loweat is better than nothing. 1 okl it s g great deal easler Tor & man who un- dertakes 10 Hyo by s whote splicre of puwer, Ly lidelity to Gud, by reverence, by aspirutlon, Ly hope, bY cunsocration, by morality; but if a wan swawped and wrechod In his morals Is temporate, though he be a rascal i everything tlsyy thauk God be i3 temperatu; that counts somuthiog for him, As @ sterting-point in @ vight life, mor- ality {8 goody~nol u stoppig polut, bat n starling potnit, A wan that casts anchor on one or two things, and thinks bie has got enoueh fsa fool. But s man thut s speaking the truth las the cerm of aome- thitug better than thut, ‘Che moan that has Wwreatled with bud habits and cast thew off lios vlunted aeecd, Hedsa fool 11 he does nut fet it grow. Everything that you do right is richt, aud, a8 far us 14 povs, Uod thanks you for it, Uodisuot o tyrant that sits up on bigh and says " Uet perlect, get perfect, or 1 don't eare tor you."" [Luugnter.) God fsn mother, aud dpreads abroad i futlnite nuture, brooding on fmperfection —unnl - Ho s to see u o erystaitlzed form cor out o Inorganic matter, and broods agaln, with n- ulte patience uud loug-sutlering, winting, walt- Ing, walting to bu gracions, {n the lungudge of th old buoit, That Is the wuy we do with meo iu our household, That s the way wo kuow God doca fu His houschold, Love fs full of jus- -, 1ull of purity, and imputes {tself to the chlidren,—thiat is to suv, broods them kindiy, sud with intinlto patienco waits and walts to briug them up. ‘Toese quatties ure goud for , Every right thing w o juan beglus at a central pont, and ft is the econom: ol Uod, the providence of God, nunY the divine soverciguty to awalt tne unfolding of the seed and wutch Jta growth. Morulity s Bu futermediato state of growth In favor with tiod, und I tavor with nun; und 1 say tu overy young man, it you will nat do snytbing elsc, restruin your passions, maiutai houesty, melue tato futegrity, But 7' you will da mere, o ity aud it wili be easicr than to be honest ond tems pemte, ‘Then gro still uigner, aud then hizher, until you come futo the clear place ot G vwa personal presence, Tuat s the thing you ouphit Lo strive gfter, You ure ou the way, and I cucourage you. 1L is easy foru men (o by & Clristiun who hus Leen “brought up uprally, Become wpirtual, Morality s of great use and ol great value, 1 want to suy one thiug wmore fu the dfth pluce, I cun't bear that bard theology, thut bag broken more earts than its bead fs Wortl, that weure tumbled uto this world, dumved inty this world, tylug every which wug Jke g key of ualls, funorant, weak, aud everywliere undee the dominlon of a thoussud fultueuces,~that 15, the whols race w,—and thatiUod sits busy witiy His own pertections, su hapfl with lis own huwacalatencss that though e ts 2lad to see uny lave cicaped out of the world, ol thy Teat anount to yothing; that they are to Huy what the mosquitoes and tlegs uro to you sumner, Youure glad to hear the birds sing, but the beetls bugs und ol the rest of the fus “Fherefore you deu't count the, Licre ure Lucolugtans who huve been Jed by thy uevil fu logie 1o say that God 1§ o pase that by Lot 100 upon siu with aliowal aud tuercs for they have suld that God hutes the sjuner., AN en bave been taught to b ve thut undey h rye ol God §i thut sense, ot Isleberent wepth cud curae lu wroag- dolng, but that God sita in Ifis personality, blazing of evo and viotent of tongae, and wait- Ingz with flery vengeoner to strike down men that are devold of all holiness. Tt pasaes alf conception. While wo were yet encinies (lod loved us, and whils now wo are encmiea God Joves us, For Ile fs not one that slta inquisi- torlally and unsympatheticatly, thinking more of His anstract law than He §s about yalpitating haman natnre, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to dicfor it.” What would tempt you to give the baby out ot your cradlel Ia thore any ono you love on earth, motter, that would tempt you to give your baby for that? But swhat il the chitd had grown tip and had come to man's estate! Say it had Woomed into fraltlon and all your hope was on it. What do you love i this worll taar would tempt you to pive this chlld up 0 sacrileo , to themi You micht for the countrs In hours of herolsm., Many and manv a mother” has doue a work that wis divine when alic tonseerated her only son and sent him forth into the war, believing that she should never see him ngain, How muny hearts nre touched with the thought of this remembrance. DBat, is * there linguage that can expound = such hero- {am, such geal, sucl enthusiasm, os must inlicre In the hearts ol evers one that can do eitch work s that? And yoet our hearts are small comparatively, and putscless aml shallow, and our luman scnses, as compared with God, are Iike n drop ul water in come parison with the ocean, And what 8 the love of Gad, the Infinite, whose flowingsare like the Gulf Streami What arc tho dopths, and the breadte, and the lengths of the love of God fn Christ Jesus, when, looking upon a world that was eo dograded aud animal-ltke, Heo gave his only-begotten Son to die for it that there might he an Interpretation of the love of (iod to the worlds n great power set afloat in the uulverse that redeemed men from anlinals, bringing them Into a spiritual and heavenly cstate! WIII you tell me that tod, the|{nfinite, whote heart is a sun, whore government is heart-government, whose lInws are loves, whose soverelgnty fs e justinet ol tove, whosa very pains are for the saie of after- pleasure,~will you tell ine that ile could smite you as 1 simite some fraft-tree that I may brin down from {t the succilent and delictous fruit Lmight aswell e dead, 1 might as well not have been born, 1 God, the absolute Monarcl, does not care for anything exeept for the few men who aqueezs up through and comeo out, ‘There is mot a man here so low that Goul does not know by name. 'There is not a manlioro so poor that God has npt. taken statistles of all that is tn hitn. There fsnot a person hero that has anaturallyhard disposition that tiod dovs not have more charity for (b than the world has. There Is not o man here with infirmitios that God does not feel for hitn more " than ever ald_ suy ono In the court of self-love. Like as a father, flo pitieth His child, And how does the fother bring up his boya! The best way he can. Hefights for theni In proportion ns lie loves thein. Nothing Is eo exacting as Jove, A man cverywhere sces perfection in that which e loves, " Bet let a nelghbor bring accusations agalnat a boy whom the father has been scold- fng, and sco how he will stand up for him. Lot the boy sent boine from school— the master has been tyrannleal to him, Then ~look ot the” flame fn_ the father’s eye, To treut his boy sol Better strike him than strike his son with injustice and wrong. Like as a father pitleth his child, 2o the Lord pitleth thon that fear ILim, Hekuowethonr frafities and rememnbereth that weare dust, Al thy infirmities, aud all thy weaknesses, and all thy wants are not only kuown to tod, but they are dear to Il 'They make up @ part of that - univursal governinent which s conducting for time and for cternity, and there Is hope tn that fur the low- est, the losti for the rudest nature, for the greatest mistakes, (22 the niost ubysmal sin, For the moat trylng and unhelped conditions in human lfe there Is this ouc thing to say: You may have man and your own eeli-luve against you. aud your clreumatances oguinst you, but Uod Is for vou. ‘There is llght nbove, there s hope above, there In suecor ubove, Hold on, i you grive up overythine else Lo that one thibg— God s love. Do uot be afrafd to pray to I, But, ali} s It not sald the prayer of the wicked {8 an abomination of the Lonii No, not fn the senze fn whieh you interpreto that, No! No! No! Whyt The Pharisecs of old were a set of concefted men who belleved that religlon conslsted §n routine, that ey wight rob the witow und betray the futacrless, and do all manuer of wick s, and then: might go nltar and revent prayer, amd that theao would wine out all, be fu Meu of every- clge. When wen undertake to inake br '8 L0 cover currupt Jives they are an abom- ination. & Ou, cast away the barbarism, the heathenlsm, with much of the theolojry that hus tormented monkind, Don't let theologv agaln rest on the brow of Christ like a crown of thorns, Once 48 enough for a crown of thwrns, ‘Take it off, aud let Juve flame from Elis cye, and love slt regent on His brow, and infinite sympathy und pity for the lost, for every striving soul, for every im- erfeet one. pruacs o vou not w dod of thunder but a Uod of Calvaryj not o mountain slmking but e whose bloo streamed down for you, He loves you, and out of love gives Infinite succor to all those who will put trust in him. Doubt father, doutt wothier; do not doubt Jesus. At home or nbrood. when deth drawa near forzet home, forcet State aud bonor; do not forger Jesus, Wherever the providence ofiGod oy curry you, forget not Jesus, Ho never will forget you, He'bears you Iy the arms ol Ilfs provideneo; He Dbruoda you thut you may by awd hy,bu where he §s, "o, h;nvlnF loved lila oirn, He will love them unto tha end, THE LONG CONYLICT. LECTURE DY TItH NBY, J. NONKO GIBSON. The Kev. d. Monro Gluson, pastoer of the See- ond Presbyterian Unueeh, continued his Diblo tectures fn Furwell Hall yesterday afternoon, taklug for his Bubject “The Long Confliet," und for Wis text Ixxodus, fth to sixth chap- ters. Followlng is thy substance of the lecture: Wiy wasu lung conlllet uceessary! Could not the Lord have delivered Uls peovle by siia- plor means! True ; but it must be remember- od that the deliverunce ol Isracl from Ezypt wus not the only objuct in view. The Exodus wastobo u great eveut, not for Israel alone, but for the world; not for that aga merely, but for *thy uges to come.” he revelation ot Jehovah and the condemnation of fdulatry stood forth In ofL thess chapters as tho great abject in view, In the gecomplishment of the Exodus (see Ex,, v, 6, 73 ix., 11,105 x,,1,2; xlh,y 13); and in the New Testament we arctold, in reference to tho exporience of Israel os related fu the Book of Exodus, %Al thesc tujugs buvponed unto them for examples (fit, types): and they are written for our adwunie tion, upon whoin the cuds of the world are come.” The rst demand (Ex., v, 1), reasonas Ule fu Ita terme as it wos, was met by a scorafu) reply, and un aggravation of the oppression under which lersel groaued, The peoplo mur- mured; Moses ws discouraged; and, thousl the prumise was ranywed 1u stronger terins than before, tho peorde Mateoed with the upathy of despalry und Moses shrank from repeating the demand, At the comwuud of God, bowever, the dempud was repeated, this s wit au accompuuying sigy, 10 shuw that it was of tbe’ lord aud not ol wman. The evidoucs which this slen faralshed was evaded by 4 recouree Lo *the magcians,” who were abie by thelr wte to work wuuders, wlhich had 50 much rescmblance to thusy wroueht by Moscaus to give Pbursol a pre@tngy for dis- crediting these, The question bad veeu ratsed Whother these magidaus bud really suy supers vaturgl power, ‘The dpeaker suw no reayon for supposlug tiat theybud, ‘Chere were valy threy thiugs wilch they wire represented o8 suciessful i dolug, Inregard tothe trat, it was wel kKuowy that siako~caurmers i Eeype could perform leats with s¢rpents such ss tueat “maglelans’ are represented s dolog, wuking thew us rigid s arod, and vompeling them tg show wigns of untingtion az will. s to the trolug water in small yuwitities foto **blood,” a guite moder- ute uequmingance with chemlatry was sufllaent to work “wuracles™ I that e, Aud ws to the production of trogs during the ue of frogs, it surg:ly was bo great thing tu briug them iu gt # thwol when tne great dislicalty was te cep thiem v 11 they baa tried coelr arts Jn clearing toe [lund of frogs, (6 would bave been nore to the purpose. When the {seeond demand with thu sfmple ) it wus reiused, the sanig 9 repeated @ third ilwe, wits g hud the veries of blagues begun, Thus God i ¢lealing with tus stnues woald G- ptov tlrst B slisple word, it so wach of dee wnand as cutquty; they, S Uds wis not dstened tu, He wigut | cobloy a sigu, sue even: iy providence to jeall atientlon sud glve ewphasis to the word off waraivg und cutreaty; aud, I this nguta wusldlsregurded, the only resort go- wuiung wizuf bu o blow. Shaees hew uop what plugues Quey were prepariag for tgews atives by refuguye to listen to Lhe volee of tha Lourd 1u Hts wgrd uud Ly Ils provideuce, ‘Phg su.raculous ustlare of the plurus was so lnvolved I the nariuiivg- that 1L wus Wpossiole 1o deny it without ucny sz the trutl of the nerrgtivy itaclf, uud thg, the suustantial truth of the bistury, wus |uudentable in view of the voullrmation it ftad received frow the study of Exyptiau monulacnts. (Seo Leugstenbery on “Erypt und fie Uook of Moses™) Yot the truiy superuatugal eleuent (o these plagucy did ot exvlude wlbasls of nsturd phesoweus. penal sigu, Even thoua! he plagues had been merely natural, the factof eacn coming at a set time and disappenring at a set time at tho word of Muoses would be sufliclent to show that the hand of (tod waa there in a sense different from that in wihich it was present in the ordinary course of nature. It was indeed of very great adsan- tare for the high and far-reaching ends in vlew that the wonders wrought of God In the fleld of Zomn should hare na natural basis, for this would prove to Pharaol that the power of Jehovah was not 8 temvorary, external powor over the land, s 10 the Gad of the Hebrews hiad galued & tom- vorary triumph {n some way over the goda of the Exyptians, and were bringing His plagaes, dtiTerent. from any they had known before, to bear upon thom; bu that all the powe: ho lan:d of Egvpt wero His (sco Ex., vilf,, 22), its powera for good (the Nile, the trausvarent at- mosphere, the sun with its dazzling brightness), and its powers for evil (frozs, fites, losusts, ete.) olike. ‘Thus tho cods of Egept (sce Ex., xil, 12) were met on their own ground, as was so tlearly apprchonded and so forelbly ex- resscd by Jethro the Midlamite: ¥ Now know that Jehovall s greater than all - Gods; for {n the thing whercin thev dealt proudly He was ahove them.” And herein, too, there was an evidence of the genu. Ineness of tne record, in addition to that befors referved to as furnished by the monuments; for It these wonders had been the Inventlon of o Inter nge there would certalnly have been mtch loss of the natural and much moro of tho pro- digious fu the record. As to the ten plazues, viewed ns a completo group, they might be regaried as an ascending serics in nature: from tho waters under the carth (Nilo frogs) to the, sun in the heavens (darkness); and in_soverity, through the seve cral atages of discomfort, loss, personat suffcriug, and death. They might be coustdered, nlw‘ ns cnsting discred- it «on Egypt's Pantheon, fromn the great Nile-god lietow to the great sun-zod above, with all the petty intermediato deities. ‘Then, too, there was increasing clearneas in tho evle dence, both in the fact that tho*wonders wrought ns the tragedy advanced roceded farther and farther from the poasibility of lm- itation by the magliclans, and uleo in tho sepura- tion made between (ushon and the restof Eglypt in tho later plagues. tie supposed dilliculty of tho hardening of Pharaoh’s heart was next dealt with. ‘'I'ils was spoken of in tho narrative sumetiines as God's doing, and -somotinies 08 Phuraoh's own doing, 1t followed that in whatever sonse wo understood tho former, we inust ba consistent wilth the lattor form of statement, It would scem, however, scarcely honest to interprot God's agency as meaning nothing more than that He did not fnterpose to prevent Pharaoh hardening his heart, There were tworespects lu which tho agency of tiod might be clearly seen without futerfcring with the freedom or responsibility of Pnaraoh,” One, in furnishlog him with 8o inany opportunities of repentance, which were tho oceaslon of the hiardeving of the heart. ‘The more carncstly the Uospel was preached, the more goud it would do to_those whose” hearts wero ¢loged againet it. Thus, the more powerful a preacher B uan was the more harim he would do to the Pharaohs of his audlence, But woutd the preacher bo condemned anil the Phiaraokis justilled on that acecount? But bestdes this, in the Hebrew Beriptures God was contiuually reprosented as doing directly what Hu doces through the laws of His universs, Ilo canged tho sun to rise and the rain to fall, and 80 through all natural phcnnmenn. Aud as In naturat, so {v spiritual phenomena. ‘e hard- ening of Pharavl’s lieart was the direct and neeessary result of o great spiritual law, unte versally ”operating, as in the case of the man Who beging with the uso of trust fupds wid e¢nds by shamcless forgery, his gettlng ~ larder nnd harder, " aud his con- selencs more and more seared, by an Inexorable law of the spiritual world. In"this scusc, by tho nwency ot this law, God hardened Phuraoh's heurt, Awd this accounted for the fact that, as the coniflict procceded, leas wus nseribed to Pharuoh aud mors to God. As the drunkard ylelded to his sin, he came more nud tnore under thu rotributlve power of that terrible luw, necording to, witleh he became more and nore helpless amnst his dobasing appetite; and so it was with haraoh. Sufllesent uttontion was uat generally directed to the lone sutfering of Uod Indealtng with Pha. raoh; how Ho bore with b fn the scorn with whici by e the st demand; the evasions and shitta by which he sct asido tho sfiens thut were given himj the vontewpt with which he regarded the first plagues; his frequent shame, repentances, aud lalse promisea. It wod thercy and lon sullering, not harsuness, that was cotis :fl:fllmuus In God's treatmont of the King of Sy pt. “I'ic compromises that Pharaoh tried to mako fromn time to time were compured with the come proiniscs that sinners were (o the hablt of trylug tomake with God. The flrst was: **Qucritive to your God fn tho land” (vill, 25). This would not do, Wu must “como out from the world and be scparate.” The second was: “Go _only not very fur? (viil, 23), Neither wonld this do. Mo must not linger near the border of the forbldden ground, ko 8s to step over when tt was convenlent, The separation must be thorougl, Erypt must be out of slght,—n taree days' fourney ofl. Tho third Wus: ‘- ’Lhie men moy go, but the children must atay’ (x., 10), Neither wouldthla do. Parents who had yielded to the Lord dared not leavy their children fu Egypt. The fourth waat * You may sll go, but your eattle must stay’ (., 21) " Nor would thla do. The un- comprumisiug answer of Moses was: “There shall uot o hoof bo Joit behind." Thelr property as well as thelr children must go, Ho thers were those wuo wers whling to Lo con- verted If only thelr property wero exeepted. ‘They did not waut their puckotbooks convested, But'no such compromlse could be uccopted. All that we are and all that we havo must be travaterred from Egyot to the Lord, “Tho tinad {ssue in the cuso of Pharaoh waan fearful Illustration of the feartal warmue: * He that et utten reproved bardencth b &hall be suddonly cut olf, and that withe out remedy. Thoss who despise *the finger of God " (vlil,, l!»l must be crushed at Inst by His ** stromg hand and cutstretehed arm,” for aruel’s part n tho great trausactlon, it waa simply that of standing eslll und seeing the snlvation ot the Lord.” Iseacl's waur of liberation stood alouw in this respoct, and hor groot nationul s lyriea—thie 103th Pealin, for vx- dmple—wery truo to tho focts of the case, Even Mosus bimsel! scareely flgures thero at all, It {8 Jehoyah und Hisstrength (rom first to last. Ofthe Old ‘I catamout tyne of tho great Sulvation, us of the Reaiity, it could by eald: Al thuuge ars of Gud; Lo 13 all aud o all,? INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE, ADDHESS BY 'KOP, CARVENTEIR, OP WISCONSIN, LABT EVENINU, Sacinl Dispatch 1o The Chicaga Tribune. Mavisoy, Wis, Fob. 3—Prof, 8, 1L Curpen- ter, of tho Stato Unlveraity, dellvered an ad- dreas this evening before the Dane County Bible Society on the Iuspiration of tho - Bible, The tullowing 16 u carctully prepured synopsls of the addreas: All Borlpturo 18 glven by inepleation of God, and 18 prutitable for doctriue, fur teproaf, for correcs ton, for {ustruction i rightovusuess; that the man of God may be perfect, nmruuuhlJ furnlshed unto alt good works.~1£, Tim., ik, 14-17, The text inakesa deiinite statemont, and sdds tho meaus of testiug jts truth, A closer trans- latlou would realor tho frst words, *All Berlpture Is God-tnaplred.” ‘Uhis statoment s Incapable of demonsteative provf; the method of proof (s Intlwated fn the latter part of the texts Its divine origiu 13 proven by thu etle:t of its teachiugs upon bumen action. Thls method of proof is as valld us aoy otber; in- deed, 1t {8 tho usual sclontifle mothod—uy Ly- pothesis {s assumed to boslaw, aud tben tested by reaults, “AIl Seripture is given by insplration of God.”? God s the suthor of all truth, so that iu somo sense all druth nay be sald to bo given by fuspiration of Gub But this statsment wust Le intended to mark a spediic dilfereuce betweeu the Beriptures and otbor writings, Lowever true. Tuo Seriptures arg horo ssaertod 0 bo the product of the Diviuo swind, sud, Lence, of Diving autbority. This statcuscut, ke uny other, must bo wther truo or false, AL true, i must horwonize with loasow, tor no truth cau be frratioud), Man wias endowed with Beasuu that bo ulight bo uble to discery thi truth. Kewsou sway sot bo yble to dis.vrn all truth, but Ludson must uot Ju auy case contlict with Jt when wale kuown, Auterior to ex- lu.-rluw.-c, Reason could not Lave wsserled tho awe uf ustronoiny, but lteuson sanctious then when wade kuown by cxpenence. ‘Lo i tlon betore us is: Are these writiugs Lepired 50 us to pusseas Divige puthorltyd T thisbe o facty it wuast transcend experfence at the polut of s orlan, gid i must toueh huwan expe- rieuce ab the point of s efect. Lo asserts o cowmanieation Jrom Uod to mgn. God 1 jus tuite fu ull kis woys uud canoot be measured by the lintle; Lutma ts tuite, and touchcs trul un dte Bolts aide, and tests fu uy by Reason. Whut 18 weant by Insplrutiont - Tuere 13 al- wava dunzer ju follunior un gbstrger traln of thoyirbit, purtwularly whes cotched h} Lanllisr conerets Mzurcd, leat from the diteylty of clearly sppreliendivg the tbougut, vur wiuds Jay bold b the mere power of expression, oud, uuwittingly dropplog the fhurative foree of the words, "’""l“'” concrets Bzure s includiug the wbstrucy ldes, The word sbilts Its caning Wwithout wur being awwe ol it oud we drlt heart from the lino of arpument. Wo cannot uso words ns the mathematician nsca letters with no deflnito Idea of thelr value, unti] the solution of the problem actermines ft. This danger is nlwasa present fn rellelous controversfes, Cer- taln wonls become a sort of shibboleth, 8o in thia case, the argument has in this _manner asscd from the fact to the methiod. The fact 8 capable of woral proof, for It tonchies our ox- perience; the method is ineapable of proof, for t cannot touch our cxperience; the metliod must remafn a matter of assertion i ever re- piration is the rendering m{mblc what otherwise wonld not e thus capable, of acen- rately communieating the thought of God, It any weiting 1s thus perfeclly capable, it Isfne Apired. 17 the suthors wure supernaturaliy rondered thus capable, they were, to this ox- tent, insplred. Tu a certain degree matter Jias been thus capabie by the Spirit of God, whi upon tha face of the waters.” Eacli crystal sliows the working of formutive thought,” and the whole creation, a3 a cosmos,—an orler,— shows an indwelling Idea, Each particle revents some truth, but only the whole reveals the whole truth. ‘Thought to be known as thought must ba {ntelligible,” The revelutfon must be made In terims that man s capable of compre- bendluz, but its_interpretation 18 leit to the reason of man. The truth has alwavs been written in the heavens, and man ns alwavs had the abllity to read it: but he has made mistakes in bis reading, God’s messaze lias not changed ; it reveals nll that he wishes us to know of theas laws of nuture, but man_will never finish this grand leason that Uwld has sct for hitn, So olso in the structure of the carth, God has lcft us an unimpeachable record of 1is work of cre- atlun, ‘The whole truth §s there,—all that we can ever know. God has walted l’ong for an {n- terpreter; man has made many n faisc render- Ing uf those symbols -of Divine truth; but the truth has not changed; it has always beon writ- ten just as it now stands, Sclevce changes be- cause {t Involves error; Uod's truth does not chanee becauso it docs not fnvolve error, Man also has been rendered thus eapablo by the spirit of God. In matter, natural torces are God's azents; licre man becomes His agent, In the one cose Kdeas are represcated to us fn tho forins of matter; fn the othdr, by words ns tho signs of fdeas. TheDivine agency was the samo Inoither case, If Godfstoboa God unto us, wa must be able to know Lis will. 1lo must be able to communicate to us, and wo must bo able to understand the message, That Ie has thus communicated Iis inind to s fn the forms of matter, thore can be no doubt, and that it con- tatus tho whole of this truth thero can bs no moro doubt, A revelation of some sort then fs posalble, But mind fs a fact a5 wuch as mate cry and If one has been made o medium to com- municato the Divine will, thero is no reason to dony that the other may be. A convictlon that tha revelation aceurately oxpresses tho thought of Gud must also bo-pusstble. That Is, Inspira- tion must be possible, and the proof of it. The text makes this asscrilon, and offers the proof, Man can tell some truth, but be can nover bo suro that ho totls the whole truth; without in- suiration man is wholly inadequate 85 & medlum between God and man, 11 men hava been insplred by the Holy Ghost, and under this direction have written the Bible, the mind of God must bo fully expressed in it upon the matters therein treated, just ns i the crust of the earth §s tully written “the true his- tory of creation, and In the heavens above us tho laws uf planctary motion, The wholotruth muat be there, and must be discoverable, Man naver couid have Invented the systen of celes- tial niechanles, but be can understand {t, now that it has been discovgred by him so nmian never could liave fnvonted the Bible,—if it is Diviuely inspired,—but ho ean understand ft now that it las bean written, Man can nevor oxhaust a Divise revelation. 1L the Bible, like nature, {8 a revelation from God, man can never cxhoust it. 1t will still be ever nesy, Man may and does err here as ho has and stil! docs in tho truths of uature; but such errors and misinter- pretatiouns do not disprove the inspiration of the Seriptures any more than corresponding errors iu selence disprove tho laws of nature. Au error disproves iteelf—that s ally man bas mado o mistake. Materlal nature fuliy expresses the thouuht _of God canceruing materipl rula- tions. Tlio Bible in Hke mauner fully expresses the will of God regarding man's toral relu- tions. Every sinls forbllden; eyvery virtue is commentded.” From tho nature of the case, this cun be proven only to the consclousnesa; §t cans not bo demonstrated nad convietion forced. Tne proof of tuspiration given ln tho toxt I the effect of this truth, Aud is profitable., Moral truth must bo tricd Ly moral tests, The linal test of rolle- jous truth is its protitablencas—Its adnptedness to tho watts of man, Tho uitimata test of ail truth is {ts nercement with the constitution of the soul, For inatauce, the contradictory of au axtom absurd that 18 unthinkablo. *Truth thusis in sgrecment with the constitution of man, aud Is protttable; error 1s {n contlict with It, and Is hurtful, Tricd by this practival teat, the Berlpturces aro proven to be true. Tho cons tradictury of thelr teaching Is absurd, morally. ‘The fact "that wo caonot thiuk without ussum- ing truth ss o Lasls, and the corresponding fact that wo cannot net morally without assuming the doctrines of the Scriptures,—each being thy condition of nction, show that the ultimato {densof Reason, axlom,—are not the product of ttnnan oxperienee, and equally that the moral prineples of the Berlptures uro not the outcomo of human thought: Loth must haves diving origin, ‘Fruth without error i3 divine; hollness without sia belongs only to God, Every moral system fnventea by wan bas boon partial ana fmperfect; tho moral system of the Hible is camplete and perfect. ‘I'he revelntion of an absolutely perfect moral- ity must be the work of an absolutely perl Belng, Tried by this test, the Bible 1s shown to be divinely fuspired; it iuculeates an abso- Intely perfect morality, As to our cnlightencd fntatlect tho contrary of o mathomatical truth 1s nbsurd, 80 to an colightencd consclence the upposite of the woratity of tho Bible §s wicked, A perfect corrcspoudones fs thus ahiown bee tween the constitution of the soul and the morality taught (n the Dible, The suthor of man is "tho nuthor of the Bible, Functional need 18 met by o correspondiug - supply, aod tho desizn of vach is comploted fu the otlior, 1| Involyes the udjustinent of supply to need; it docs not stop with either, If, then, we assumu Uud as the suthur of mou's moral nature, wo tust nlso ussume that the laws regulating the cet uctlon of that morn! nature are quaily Lis work, 1f Uod plannod the eye, He must aldo huva mode llght, ‘Ihis correspondence bes tween tha moral nature of man and the woral systom of the Bible is tho final test of fnsplra- tlon, just as the abaurdity of the contradictory of o mothematical axiom I the final test of matheatical truth. Wa cannot demonstrate uu uxlot by the processes of logle; the uxiom carriea fts own proof, No moro eon we prove the factul laspiration by a syllogisni; the Seripte ures wsust commund themselves to tho individ- ual conaclence, . But mnav does not make truth true by his aa- scnty or falss by lits dissent, Weo can discover teuth by study, because Gud hns mad such dis covery possibls velatlon means tho possi- bility'of knowledze throuh study, not its ne. cessity without study, Bo inspiration incans the possibility of accurata kuowledee, oot its necessfoy, ‘Phe truth io the Biblo aad the truth in Noturoare reachied Ly tho same mucthuds. Man Onds truth ouly becuuse (lad has placed it whoro be cun (ud {t. o finds it in Nature be- cuuap Uod bss put it thero; bo tiuds o complete wystem of mory) truth fu the Bible becausu God has put It there, lu peither cuse cau bo add oo slogle fota, Bluu canuot oniginute a single truth of solence; hu tluds all scleuce In Nature. Muu eanuot vriglunte o sluglo principle in wore w3; by fluds them ready-niade in Nature, the work of G ud pertocily pven fu tho Script- ures, algo the work of Uod. In both cases fiz- norpnce misluterprots, sod projudice iutslouds, but this dges not prove that Uod is not the au- thor of sclonce uud of the Bible. "The Blble, belog eiven by divine inspiration, Is an authoritative staudard W religwn, ‘Tuo ductrive of the Bible coukl not Lave been do- Vised by men. A stroawm cannot yise nigher than its source. Frow w study of Nuture mat may deduce a perfect systeun of natural law, be- cguse Nowyre perfectly aud uniformly obeys tho luws of God. Were thery any irregulsrity or fmluro i such otwdieace, the discovery of nat- urul law would Lo swpossible Frow such a wtudy of our waral nature, however, W cauhot Uevide 8 perfluct syston of morals, tor we do tind such failure and Irregularity. " Man docs not uuiforiuly ubey worsl law, A cowplete syateus of untural woruls 13 thow Lopasuble, A purlect systew of doctring wust bu of diving Fevelutjon, and such @ revelation givea througn wa involves lspirution. Mere huwan wisdom bus o wuthority o rellgion; authority tere st come trom Uud, Bo fur us pueo speak wlth autbority, tuey must speuk the words of Giod, L1 uwm bound to ackugwledgs tujs au- thonity, 1 must kuow that {t i tle voicaof Gud; L st b able to- revouniza the volee of God through tho consvicneey tho faculty given tor s purpase. Mun’s woral nuture dovs not Feeognize Uie authority of the Seripturcs. Thils 14 the reverss of thie séal. ‘The practics of tho teachlugs of the Blblo Woudd Juad to an absolytely nerfuct worulity. Could such g system Lave been deviaed by siu- 1ul man? Would such o syetem bave been taugut Ly sinful wenl Every etfoct must bave an wdequate cause. Perfectness must result from pericctuesd. That wbicn leads Lo o per- feet worality wuat by perlect ig woralily. No vue i perteet but God. o 8 tho only gde- quate cause for the Bible, Aud if the Bible bo of diving origln, its ay:borlty cauuot be yuess tloued. Wu clalw for the Bible plevary fuspiration— that Ls, thut & perfect systvin ol 1Woraks 1y there- in revenled, just us g bertect systows of truth is plevarily revealed lu Nawure, The gudaieus ratsed as to the method, whether®yarbal or oth- erwlee, aro of no moment, ke fact fa the only thing of vaine; tho method Is ot best a matter of specnlation, This fact cannot be proven as an objeclive truth; It can only he proven to tho indlvidunl consciousncss, and there wo leaveit. INGERSOLL ON HELT. HE DELIGNTS THE JEARTS OF THE GOTHAM SCOPFENS, Snectal Dianatch to 1he Chteagn Tyibune, Naw Yonx, Feb, 3.~In front -of Chickering Mol thero was a throng resombling n miass- meeting night. Ticket epecalators got any price they chose to nsk for scats, and from as carly as 7:30 o'clock there was as numerous o struam of persons leaving 08 coming to the Linll, owing to the inability of gentleman with ladies to procure anything but standing room. Thecrowd that packed the stalrs and lobbles endeavoring to buy tiekets delayed the lecture nquarter of an hour. Jn the meantime the Rev. Dr. 8idney A. Carey's son kept the au- dience In good humor with polkas and other profane selections on the organ. Mr, Caroy sald lhe hod Leen ordercd to play nothing sncrod. 'The oudience tas intelligent and re- spectable. When the room had been closely packed In every part, Col. Ingersoll nppeared with o huge Dbundle of maunuscript, which proved to bo Beriptural and theo- logical quotations. o was reccived with tremendous applause, and listoned to closely far two hours, Inthe coursc of bis remarks Col. Ingersoll eafd: ** Tha iden of Hell twas born of revengo and brutality on one side, and of cowardice on tho other, The Awmerican peovle are too hrave, too gencrous, too maghanimous, to belleve in the infamous dogma of eternal dnmnation. [Applause.] I have no respect for any human being who Dbelioves in it. (Laughter,] I have no respect for the man who preaches ¢, for the man who pollutes the Imagination of chiidhood with the infamous le. (Appuause.) I have no rospect for the men who would thus add to the sorrows of the world. [Ewant to be freo and frank with you, Llhate the doctrine; I despise and defy tho doctrine. . [Applause.] For u good years the intelligent and learned of Ciristendom lave been cexamining the religions of the countrics, and of thosc that have passed away, aud intelligent and tearned men have said they were nll boscless and fraud- ulent. \When they got throurh they turned to Christlanity. B{ tho spame methods ‘and argu- ments that mlI‘z on will be overturned in our day. Whyl Heeauss every relllon Is and has been the” work of man, and every book has been and s the work of" man If buoks exlsted before man, ho might adwmic there was o Eccond volwne. Man never hiad and never will have an idea, exeept what he gets from hia surroundings. Nothinz on carth coines from any other sphers whatever. Man produces everythfng, Every relizion is embodied the be- 1let of the people who existed at the timo of its Tormatioy, and 1n no Lovk I8 any knowiedge nupc;-lnr tothat of the thne when it was writ- ten.” Javing disposed of the Bible and proclafmed every refigion dishonest that is sustained by miracles, Lio sald: ** Wa have got in thia coun- try a rellzion that has been growing for 1,800 years, and as that religion bas grown small snen have grown great; a3 men have coased to belieye fn it they have grown charitable. It that re- ligion existed to-uight as it onco di, I wonld ot be sllowed to speak u the City of New York, {Apl’llnun'.] It 1s through the coldness ond intldeiity of tho Church that [ get my rlzht to sbeak, aud I say it to the Churen’s ervdit,’! [Luughter, | s e then took up rellgion, denylng everything in his well-known pungent style, but saying littlo that was now. ‘Une Bitle "he put as” the foumlation of Hell, and Ifell would neyver be dlsposed of till the fnspiration of the Beriptures was, Horond from the Hible, commenting amnid applauae and langhter, Tho nudience wus plainty {n sympathy with tho speaker, uppland- Tuiz his most uitra Bayldgs and laughiug ut hia Dlasphiemy. many —— CANADA. Sceret-Servico Moncy—Sporting=Thibatlte Other AMuirs, Soecial_Dievatch to The Chicags Tridune, Orrawa, Feb, 3.—The Daminion (overment has taken action against the Bank of Montreul for the recovery of 6,000 secret-sorvico monoy pald out after tho fall of Sir Jobn MacDonald’s Government. 8recal Disvatch tn fae Chlsngn Tribune, ToRoNTO, Feb. 3.~Tho proposed mintch be- tween tanlon and Plnisted of Boston has fallen through,—the latter wanting to row two miles with one turn, which Ilanlen would not agree to. Tho latter, however, expresses bis whllug- ness o row Plaisted outside of Boston a straight-away raco of two miles, for 81,000 a slde. At the annual meeting of the Toropto La- crosso Club, it was shown that they lind a mem- bership of 189, and that thelr finances were In a watisfactory conditlon. Sixteen of thuir Lest players sturt on # tour In tireat Britaln the first week fndune, ‘The Princo or Walos has con- eonted to be pregent at their matches fn the Metropolia, Special Diapaleh tn The CMrago Tyibune, Haveax, N, 8., Feb, 8.—The Hon, ¥r. Jones, Minlster of Militls, has pubiished an address to electors, thankivg thewm for returning him, The following is an extract from it: *“The re. sult praves that I did not oyerestimats the ntriotisn und futellizence of the electors of Plnl“ux County when I appealed to them in do- fense of the princlples of Freo Trade, of which the present party ln power have been consistent advocates, The slenitieance of tho verdict which the metropolitan coustituency has glven on that point caunot be overestimated In” the effect it 1uust have on futurs cloctions fn the Maritline Provinces,” ‘Kpeciad Dixpaich (o The Chieagn Tridune, MoNTREAL, Feb, 8.—Mr, Thibault, of this city, who went down to Hatifaxand Dizhy to canvoss amongst the Frenvh settiera for the Oppusition caudidates, told bis ignorant countrymen thut e 2o telegram from the Pope and was also commissioned by the Bishop of Moutreal 10 o amongst them and Instruct them to vota for the Consryative candidatos. ‘The Rowan Cutholic Hishops of the Provineo of Quobee will shortly dasite a joint pastoral reoudinting Thibault's’ atterances und those of all such per- 01 ns, A great deal of indignation prevalla amongzst the stock-brokurs nt the proposed tux by the Provinclal Uovernticnt ou all written contracts and trausfers of stock. Tha actlon fs prett; gencrully regarded oy o blow almed at Montreal Interests by the local’ Uovernmant, and caleu- 1ated to drive the atock und commlision busl- ness from Moutreal Lo Outarfo, Nuecial Phaxitch fo The CAlcago Tridune. Quupey, Feb, 3.—Cive airs here arv still fo. adeplorable mnuddle. ‘The cltizeos wenerslly are desirous of ubtainiug su honust City Go wroment, but are divided as to the best mea of securing it A petitlon contalning 2,000 o untures has beeu prescnted In tho Quebee Legistature, pmying for the abolltlon of thoe Quebee City Councll, and the substitution uf three Adminlsta-ators, Snould the Governuent comply with tlu proposition, it will be realsted by u lurge portion of thu rate-payers. Arecwal Lol (o Tha Chlouda Tyidune. \WiiNirBg, Mao,, Feb. J.—A uumber ot reso. Intions haviug tor thelr objeet u petitfon to the Dominlon Government requesting it to cancel the Indebteducas of farmers for relle! gruuted in_consudqucnve of the grasshopper-plazuc fn 1678, have been subwitted to tho Manitoba Leguslature. CHARLESTON RACES, CUABLEPTON, 8. C., Feb. 3.—~At tho first day of the anuual meeting of the South Caroling Jockuy Club, at the Washlugton Course, yestor- day, thw track wus rather heavy, Flrst moe, 13 nites, bandicap, Bwannow won, urgoo third, Gov, Hawnpton “The, 8:20, ‘Tho 18 miles dash was won by Geu, Phillipy, llg{.-d -u; ond under o heavy pully Hobkirk third, "o, 811714, 1u the mito horale race, clght hurdles, Dal- fan won, Risk sccond, Javk Trigg distauved. Time, 4:1458, Jack Trigg sbled st tuo tast hur- dle, fulting with the rider luto the ditch, Jarring apd culting blmself eoverely, Tho ridir wus wlightly jujured. e —e———— s “Ta the Edilor of Ths Tribune, Cnicaan, Feb. 3—Slnce the letter of Mr. Audrews renders it uot {nappropriate fo scru- tlnize the borrowicg proclivitics of M. I, Bovee, phifuuthropist and humanitarias, it may not b amisg to remark that, o year ago list August, M. Boves called st my éfilco in the Couuty Bulding, aud, by holding out thu samo Induccenrs, led my to lovest $1.425 in bls ruspective work oo *Oapital Punisbment.' r)( coyrss the bovk bas nob buen fortbeoming, sud L ks safu to couelude that it will pot be. It it sbould tauenire that Mr. Bovee fndulged his faculty of *porcowing uuder fulsu preteuses, o teri o the County Jall would be capital puu- ubuwcut, rve to by thy wrath of tho conltidivg vietd us. Nawzox P, HoLosy, M, D, RESURRECTION. Two Remarkable Cases of Pag. ple Who Having Boe Dead Yet Live. Probability that Bhrack Died in 4 Fraudulent and Unchri tian Mannor. " The Churelt Inclined fo Accept thy Mauoh Chunk Miracle If Nota« ing Iappen to It SIMNACK, Apectal Disparch to The Chleago Tribune, PruapeLrina, Pa., Feb. B.—A plous fragy hns boen exvosed In tha persan of Josenh Heny, Bhrack, a member of the ald Swedish Church gy this city. 8hrack protended to dio and come 1, Iifa again, about ten days ogo. Biuce then ke has been supporied by his brethren., His casy Thas attracted great attention, aud accounts gf his resurrcction have heen published in nearly eyery newspaper In the vountry. o pretends 1o have experienced the ccstacles of Hearen, Tha church of which he Is a member has fayeg. tigated the ense, and the result fs that the pag. tor who was to have admiulstergd cowmunion to him to-day did uot come, and the attending phyalclan has discantinued his visits, Bhrack gproves to bea disroputable character whoss only notorioty heretofore was the giving of re. markabls entertainnicuts, known In Enelana gy * drags.” s particular delight was to fnvite his own particular friouds, oll mon, to what he called o ¢ drag,’ an English term, whereln Lajt the cumpany would Lo atttred In women's clothes nnd the rematuder dressedin their rgp. or costume. A woman was never ecen Lo ener the houso eave the housekeeper. At ogeof thee “drags ¥ Shrack boasted that lisevening dresy had cost him £330, and the expenses of the nigpy reached 81,500, Dr. Cantrell sas * Shrack undoubtedly had norvous spasms of the lieart, hut he believes they were produced by an efforg of his powerful will, e is eapable of pre. venting, to a certain extent, tho futl voluma ot alr going Into his lungs, and thus impairing the full actlon of his heart,’ This he can doly drawing up his shoulders, keeping his ribs stilf, and making the muscles between the ribs rigid, and this I bave detected by making nn examination of s lunga on Saturday, which i the firat Lhno Lo Lins permitted me todo sa. 1 found Iim to Le a perfeetly healthy wman, and | belleve hin to be an finposior and “atscoundnd, aml a dangerous maa to the community, cerning his teance, I really and honestly bellere Lhat Lo carrled tins thing too far, and It waya real partlal suspenston of animatfon beyond his control, and, had it not heen that the tolil ajr wan allowed to elreulate around the body and shock the wervous systen, producing a re actiont, ha would “probably have neyer recovered, and it woula lave been a zood thiug for the community it he had not.” e mene bers of the Ul8wedes’ Chareh unite fn the belief that Blirack had but started upon o sis. tematie course Lo obtaln money from them by false rrul\-mcs. Ho lhas told some of them since his miraculous recovery that an Atlautis City hotel-keeper proffered” shim free board during atl of next sunimer, and that an amusc. ment manager had offered bim 825,000 to es. hiblt himself ns the dead man come to hfe, <+ but," sald Mr, Sheack, 1 should not aceept,’ I am aconslstent Chiristian,'’ TNE MAUCIK CITUNK GIRL. Horeiul Disvateh to IAr Chlcugn Trivune, Prmiaperenta, Feb, 3.—The Mauch Chupk miracle, wherceby, it is sald, Amelia Greth, a wlevout Catholle, was ralsod from the dead by Father Helnan, the parisl priost, Is the relzning scosation smong Catholics, and “aides are al+ ready forming as to the verity of the miracle Mauch Chunk Catliolics gencrally swaliow It whale, but thore are exceotlons. Archbishop Woods' views wera sought to-day, but the ves. erablo prolato was too slck to spodk, Father Elcock, hls representative, denfed the authen. ticity of an Interview with his Graco un the sub- jeet In to<day's Now York flersd The Church authorities would pay no attention to mere hearsay or sensatioual reporta, but, if such n miracle had occurred, the facts, when properly nttested, would be duly acted upon, e remarked, howover, that miracles never cease, and assouted to the suc- gestion that, 2e such thioma were not un- precedented in the history of the Churel, there would bo nothing new {n the the proof that Mauch Chunk’s case was really a miracle. Ao cording to bigh occlesiustical nutbority, Father Helnan s o man with a wlaslon, When qultea soung man he was in the Qerman armr. . a desperato battlo « he was rug through with a bayonet. The , wound was thought to bo fatal, and is Jife 'was de- spafred, Ile mado avow while Iyiug tn this condition that, 32 he wers atlowed “to recover, ho would enter tho pricsthood, His recovery was very guicks 1le waa then pensioned by the Yrusstan Qovernment, and saved enonzh moncy to prosccute his studics, still looking to thy consurymation of his vow, Shortly aftdrwanl hie entered tho college at Munster” and be his studles. In 1867 or 1503 he camo to America, und entered the 8t. Charlesi¥eininary, wherele completed hils education, wid, o 1871, he wis ordaived o prioss. Bince thut timo le has worked hard aud falthfully. 1lls case & something ko that of Luthor, who was walk- fng with o friend, sald a reverend father, when the lutter was stricken by lizhining, Luther,ou uccount of this terrible death, became u pricst, belleving shat ho hsd o wisslon vn carth, e —eti— - — THE WEATHER. : OpTicn oy TiE Cit S1oNaL Opricen, Wasuwnaroy, D. C,, Feb. 4, 1a. w,—Indica- * tiona—For tho Lake Rezlon, Upper Mississlppls und Lower Missourl Valleys, waremer, clear, or partly cloudy weather,. southerly winds and falling barpmeter. Bpecial Correspandence of The Tridune, Bracgurnny Brarion, U, Feb, 2.—Two months of this remarkable winter have passed. Buch weather I have uot seen here Lefore dur- fug a resideuce of nourly furty yoors, The mean temperature of Decuinber, Ot 7 a. o, *Was U8 deg. uboveO; s8 3 p, ., 40 dee, The coidest day of that mouth was the 1,—10 dec. shove 0ot 7 0. ni. January was a Hittle colder. Moau temperaturo at 7 a, in., 2 deg. ; at 9p oy 1y d”[," ‘Thie voldest day ot January was the Tth,—10 deg, below at 7a. . ; 14deg. abovo at 3 p. . Mean temporature of January, 1577, 8t T o, 95¢ above 0. Wo ure now having the tirst alvighlng of the wiuter; but thore ls out cnough snow to cover up thu roush roads. LOCAL OUSNRYATIONS. Guinago, ¥ SUICIDE, Bpecial Correspondenca of The Tribuns. CorLumaus, Wii., Jan. SL—Mr, Joseph Scbacl fer, genticman highly respected in this com= wuulty, where be has reslded for years, com® witted suicide thls morulng by shootivi bim- sclf tnrough the head with a pistol. He Im{ been depresicd for sowe days, on ‘ccounllt&- business-watters, sud sestaed to be dersuge i His wilo uppears to have feared sometuini O the kind, aud, misslug bim, went to the Wfl o look after Lim. Bte found him lylug qwa hils back, dead, Just insido of tho duor, with A totol aliil griaped fu bie band, Ho bad shot hwself just ubove his left ear, the batl Ysuln: through to the skin on the other sidg. He hf:u been u werchaut for 8 nuwber of years 1 ‘vu dty, und, ulter goig out ot businces, Wi electea Register of Deeds by tue Républicaus vl this (Columbta) county. e was formerly frosd Alsace. He leaves o lurge fawtly, ¢ 1 1 1 1 [