Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1878, Page 2

deny. all the Charle world a repubiie, the: foe to be wet—namely, one's eldf, powers must be brought Iuto o subjection, whether that vower be the ardor of youth, or the Jove of fond nud dnvk, or the charm of wealth, or the generul intoxieation of pleasure. All those beautlful pletures iu fable, wherc drawing charlots or wild in n scashell, drawing tho charlot of Aurvra, or the young child leading the lion, Iuman world, whero some glurious end is reachied by taming the forees of ficant that the nistory of civille tory of n loug sud varied con- Noword returns moro trequently than Mnn_must subdue the sofl ewans or graceful spring srom th flying train. et alone, their kinge. complete and switt, One of the first shapes which this wisc- mindedness should assumo should bo the part of younr toree that must be brought into the form of a Is, Indeed, nothing mope autiful than u great opon prairie, pection, ts lowers prove to They have no perfume. not exebange s bed of ofd-fasbloned pinks for the eutlre Jot between Lake Michigun and the dusinply atd as for the wild strawberrles ond wWild plums, we would not williyg wuir Hps With sued Julcess and us for t! wild grass, the modern educated cattlo will uot cat it i the haleyon duys of its famne, Nature was compelled 1o wake the rude blson that there might be o tongue rough coough and a brute sonl lunery enough to creato a demand That the mammoth and mmastodon atd behemoth wers o rude herd, b Inferred Infullibly from a glance at that rough table where they took thelr food, Na! All nutursl powers and gualitics must paas into some tutelage snd there be thought and prayed and civilizatton, watery, aver and wept must by thy otler | DeEs pery Eral cetlel Lusiness, is ot us I ju the days intoats ehelly whe huk ligh Their white furee, mpet prizohed, 1k aditicd, Mke U thouguts, Lo wr prof youug tan RELIGIOUS. Prof, Swing’s Address to Young Men : They Should Be Sober-Minded. Youth an Untamed Force to Beo Formed Into Clviliza« The Internal Evidence of the Bible Reing a Revelation from An Interesting Sermon by Prof. Patton at Jefferson Park Church. Religions Liberty in Modern Italy--- Sermon by the Rev. Mr, ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN. BERMON AT PROP. DAVID BWINO, Prof. 8wing spoke before a large congrega- tlon yesterduy mornlng in MeVicker’s Theatre, addressing Wie seruion to young men, and tak- tng for hils text: Young men likewiss exhort to,be sober-minded. —Tiug ih, 6, Following Is the eermon # Spber-minded " would {n our day indleate o dull intellect, and heues would not convay to His Qreek word implieat wize-mindciness, and involved the highest form of watchfulness and octivity, been deftned “ The discovery of good means to a oot end,’ and this 1s the meanlng which cnters fnto Paul's word, * Likewise exhort the young men to turn thelr minds toward wiso Tneans for reaching a wise end,'t Young wen need wise-mindedness as carly €8 they can possibly reach it, not only becauso of the long reach of life that lies before them, but beeause of the warfare they must dally make upon thelr uwn youthful nature. Soumer or later, every instinet in man must meet with s roverning tnfluence, and must pass into its proper confines, The watchword of man Is not Tiberty vnly, but also government. To be free is 10 more essentlal than to be restrained, dom 15 A word to be used as against a deapot; restraint is u word to be used as agalust sclf; and tho* the war azalust sclf is as large as the war nzufnst despots, few thinking oues will Atter the licroes shall have overthrown sars, and Sultans, and Alvas, and nnd Philips, and shall have made tho will remafn a powerful us Puut’s thought. are meen drawlng nature. 1L la el zatlon i the hi fuest. the wora subdue, with wreat rude plow and man; Before ftwill respond and el answer fn bread. wife and children, conviction that their for such provende over that great wiid tlowers must be loved and prayed into und ruses; the wild frult fnto thie peach intu u velvet sward, bofore the field lims been reuched, the powers of the yuu cd over, und thouglt oyer, unat shaped helore 1ifo will reveal its st G yh ot th orth. 0 youne man, however gifted, will studi- ously let alone his cnthuslsstic and pussionate Tieart, It will flsh, or bunt, or play bose-ball, or stand on the strect-corners twelve bours s duy for ull the duys of twenty-seven nd, i an clument of wiso-minded- vades hls nature, ull thoss shuapes of Healthful recreatlon will tall tuto hormony with some bleh end, sud hours and years of great worth will bein early 10 appear, L scencs on carth fs that of & young y whow youthful play nonsense und profound wisdom meet. ‘The wiedom turns all this nighty power toward a freat end, and the play and uouscnge brace up the wisdom und keep'it from becoming an as- ) ur i stuphlity. Let adone, the tmpetus of youth flings {taclt avay on things of chilldish set o parteular day when o culld” shult quit its le and its playhouse, n our Dame, fur muuy at the age of 21 that ft s thne for them to away trom the playhouse of {ufancy. r fncome still goes ko the penndes of 'a Thele pennies have mereased into dol- but thelr tendency s the same. vo iundred dulturs or two thousand o yuar unay us fuded the peunfes which an aunt urun uncle gave them when they were small, Eustend of the classle cundy und orang they now bave gloves, and handkerchlels, s and breastping, and perfumes, snd beauttiul ticks, and o thousand thiuge h Intinate thiat the cradle bs not far back. Nuture vughit 1o have told us when 10 quit this But the number of theso old jufauts us it was tn England and France of thulr shimne wonarchy. nothing to be compared with the (lnal y Howe, for there the youug cy as u suall withdruws tell of young wen cr-ringe for sumiuer wear. ds must not lauguish under 3 it the widdle of July, ason why yoeung weu should bo L this stuuds, that youth 1s a vaat ous und wild, which must be fum- stearn that fwpels the ebip, or ixttuing which carrvs buwan ot hiiuw walhl s vrowd of went bac Pyrawlds (ol that cane up from the v THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1), 1878 But all such gazer: eizhts are common mortsls compared with thie oung men who ara standing {n their twent: ars and can look onwant and say, ‘ Life is To have the next (ftr vears I at your feet, reaching onward to 1935, 1 10 look out upon n valley grander than t where flow the Arve or_ Arvelron, or whero The youth of 21 and of good mind and n pure heart docs not. realize It, but his position 8 _simply sublime. no words for it. The Il\llllh aside thelr art, o mighty words from the dictla most sacred form of thought, But we muat pass by this second continent to susc for a moment on the third,—religion, T'anl had this Targety In mind when he wrolo hisletter to Titus, was tno broad, ton comprehensive dom to work tn rellifon_afone, wise in il the walks of life, in labors, and in study; and i all his letters this world’s aiTaies mingle with the affairs of the sonl. treats of religion as being the wholo of life, y ot lifals the optle Gospels, a hemlsphere. murmura the old Nile, st and tho palnter may he privilezo canout ba ol The saddest fact In the world is the narrow oligion and philosopby cheer us, and when sickness and the end come, men, for tho most part, baw to the fate and sa; am ready,” but vet, when In our healthly wo think of it, all the dark clouds of carth grow bright in comparison with that darkncss Mark the situatfon with Be their minds Here should all the young men of our day Yring thelr very calmest reflection, Toutd and eloquent voices sounding each day the destruction of tho Temple. and orations delivered the relicion of Christ, but against the aitar It will tax all to the uttermost to be calm amid such a storm, andto findn stat always amid euch a night. indedness that will ride Il help uthers cacape to a ‘The wistom that shall love the long interests of soclety more th: coarse lanmuage and destructive w dom whicti knows the value of pure ltdenls; which can measure such a being as and such n sentiment s the will guide the hoart and tlmes, however dark. U] ple apiritual religion, less virtus and a clicering hope, wisdom will always be found. sila there may bo found wit, all vanity, but nestled clo: bed in the grase. R Tooks are written against not simply tho Guspels, the 01t young men which we call death, our now greatest of men. cver so willing to do, and be thelr hearts arcal ife, it is the stor rreat clalms respecting Illmaelf—claims which Te would not wilfully make If they were known to be false,for Hischaracter was above reproach ; clafms which 1o did not make falecly through fur Ile was sustained i mnklnfi e miracies which He performed, an the resurrection. But there s n wises the storm, and that haven of rest, may love country, or maun, or home, friends, however wisel d could henceforth they aro living now, ve, yet it is all in vain, for they have come totho'confines of their Emerson fa 75; Bryant Is 843 Whittier, 70: Lonefecllow, 71; and if you pass away from the pocts and move Into otfier walks, you will find that there is a large multibude of noble ones whose eyes aro looking down Into the Tho chilling alr of that strange night and although they say ity of the hour is in tiearts, When you speak to them of thu nationa aud arts, and “truths and inven- tlons that will bo in the world to-morrow, the; can say but little, for they will not be here, A perpetunl sfgh s in the wind. Spring, that once caine witl such exuberancs of soul, comes now ns & plaintive reminder that iifoisonly a span. Contrasted with such a picture, the prosoact which cxpands before oll our young men ls They will seu filty springtlines come. You are to see the multitude Inthis city pass up ton million; the multitudoe of the nation rise to a hundred million; you arc to see our oerplex- ing questions of politics solved; are to stand b hile agricultura and all the usoful art: Jiterature, and all the fine arts shall put on the now growth of a half-century: you are to sce Christlanity emerge from shadow into a purcr In the daily journals the death record of all the men who are now bear- ing tho burdens of aclence amd politics, and commeree, and relligion, and are to see your own names written down ln tie new rolls of the varied armny of the future., Ob, what a favored men of to-day! We who le life boundary would be consumed by envy and regrets, saud would give all things to bo young azsin did not a merciful Creator provide ngainst this cnvy and loniging by making the heart such that 1t sfiould gradually break In old age and ex- change regrets and longings for o willingness Naturc makes her toflers weary at lust that thoy may accept of death without under- olng mental agony. The carth is only a lim- cd realm, and, hence, that others may llve, those who are bero must bo persurded to Naturs budecks the grave with fmmnor- telles, and eatls It a rest, o sleep, and stations angels on its borders to play on harps while the soul passes away, but this 1s Nature's mercy, and not the essentinl thus begrnled into & cold tomb, we must say with that calin beart in the old notably tho wiracle of Ituman evidence will suflice to vrove a fact which anpeals to the senses, and there I8 abun- dant evidence of the fact that Jesus, who was tiead on Friday night, ieft Joscoh's tomib a tiv- ing man on the firat day of the week, Grant, thon, the historic lfo of weant 1f Liatory has any value, and at once the cogency of Nicodemus' reasonlng becomes ap- arent: *Thou art a teacher gome from God, or 0o mau_can do thesy mirnclds which thou doest excopt God bo with him." 1f, however, Christ s a Divinely aceredited teacher, Ilis wonls possess autbority, whether they have roference to the authority of the Old Testa- ment or to [ls own person and work, or to the duty and destiny of man. iope of Hleaven, society throweh any on tha shie of o sim- Igion which lias spot- the burden of Upan the other and langhter, sl 5 under the altars i1 the highest rwlatom over remain hes cause outof those altars flows thohighest streany of huiman character. ‘The sightscer, John, beheld the river of lifo lssulug from the White Throne, Along the banks of that river will wayy the best troes of Hfe,—lifcof man orlife of natlon. Wisdom will bo broad, distluctions of scetsj jt will not be portienlar ahout rites or ceremoniess 18 will be atie to sce the virtnes of Purltan or ol a Popo Pius IX,, and witl love these buth as the gruve conceals their dust, and thus, having its soul sct free from all care about the smatl, it & singlencss of heart to au ¢ menee principles of plety wh man in his tong history. detall, wisdom sces an altar and says a prayer; while acuteness arrajgus an old scrlbe, wisdom feels o sentinent In tho bosom and hears aml feels tho foutstops of Uod fu the world and iu nlready touches thewm, yet the solemnl T will not tind little Christ, we shonld stili trins of Christianity with less ampl with hurdly lcss clearnoss of statement., ‘The letters of Paul form o vcr{ importaut part of the dogmatie teaching of Teataments bug they form also n yery impor- tant chapter fn the evidences of Chrlstianity, What aro wo entitled toinfer from thomi What opinfous must we form of tne tenchings which lioy contam, when thess teachings aro studicd fn connection with the recorded 1ifo of the Apostle furnished in tho Acts of the Apostles! (1) It might bo said that theso loetters arc forgeries, nud that tho lifo of the Apoatio Is, from begluning to end, unnistorical, This mnt~ ter, howeyer, must bo dealt with as similar mat- ters of literary criticism are troated. Taley hias made us familiar (sce his Horm Paullum) with theargument based on the undesigned coln- cldences between theletters of Pauland the Acts What Paul nlludes to Inel- ddentully in his letters wo find stated in a fuller aud motocompleto wayinthenarrativeol an indo- pemlent writer in the acts, ean come with ch have enveloped While wit laughs at o light, you are to re: THE BIBLE AS A REVELA- roup are the youw BERMON DY THE REV. F, L. TATTON, D. D. have passed the mi Tho Rev. F. L. Patton preached last evening nt the Jefferson Park Presbyterinn Church toa large congregation on the subject of the Bible e took for lus text: **Tho Oracles of God." ‘The subject for consideration Is * Th as n Revelation.” The words employed In stat- ing tho theme are chosen advisedly. It is tm- portant to know that the Bible Is insoired; but it Is more Important to know that It {s a revela- tlon; and It {s anfe, perhaps, to say that the in- spiration of the Bible cun hest be nscertatned alter It has been sliown Lo bo a rovelatlon. It is possiblc that the facts of. Christianity, or some of them, would have been known to men had there heen no Dible, or at least no New The Christian Church may have perpatuated some of the leading facts of the Christlan relizion through tradition, or may have embodied some of them in her ordinances (s In the Lord's SBupper); or the writings of the Fathers might have contalned a tolerably ac- curato account of the beginninzs of the Hut had we been. left to information there would have been great room for reasonabla doubt fn regard even to cardival fucts, us o revelation, of the Apustles. evitably detected, Let no man nkme death to me, 1t In 8 word miont Intinitely teerible, But, {t belng an inevitable fact, we aro glad that Nature at last breaks the heart and makes Honce it {s that a Charles live a little louger eladly quit lite,"” ua o so willlogly. Sumner says, “* 1L I can onl to flnish this work, I shall Thus Nature deiudes her children away from earth just as often little ones arc enticed awny from the hearth and affections of home. before the young men of to-day 1ife reaches out, without any form of emptiness, & half century of days and nights at the stceds Christlan soclety, these sourees of they know to be lies. aud, unluss woe she ty oi the Church, It ssible to say how far this or that doctrine fs binding on the conselences of If, therefore, thero 14 n body of ora under obligation ” to in cuonoection with reat feast of civiiizi- Hor table will stand spread, her Lalls all be open, her music will bo sounding, her 1carned, and great, and beautjful guests will bo talking and meditating, loving and stuglog fo the palace for full ifty years, Thus the advice of the old salnt, that the oung men be wisc-minded, comes relnforced outh Is & power that de- thut It has an outlook of Now this wise-mind- would have been Im mony of the sensea who appears [n bls Vi must suintuo the Aninic- A el Kite and thy Amortte before heean build and leave there, for n few houra unguarded, his Man must subdus the licht- ning before §t will bear his miessages, and he must iwnrision the steam before it will drag his Thus thy world moves onward under two watchwords—liberty and subjection. The populurity of this last” word has often been lost fn the great shout man has ralsed over the charnis of the other, {found nowhero clse. tremo of folly for men to of cal authority of the Bible, Budidhtst Scriptures likewlsy claim to Lo au- thorltative, for the men with whom we are deal- ing are not hesitating between the cholee of Buddhisin and Christianity; and becauss the Buddhist Scriptures ars not true, it doves not follow that the Christlan Scriptnres are falsc, ‘The question which men arch anxious nbout s whether Christianity—meaning torical religion with's dogmat| And this question resolves Itsolf practically fnto this Inquiry: Do the eveuts which the Scriptures allego to havo aceurred, and the doctrines which they allego to be true have the foree of nu- thority—so much so, that men are uuder ob- ligntion to belleve aud act upon them! It can bo shown that this question shonuld be answered in the aflirmative, even thouch {t wero linposal- ble to show that tho bucks of the Bibls were written by Divine ugency. presently; notice tho tistinction, now, hetween the oblizution to give credence to an alleged event, and that of nccepting an enunciated doc. ‘To kuow that un vccurrenco took place t 1s -only necessary Lo have tha testimony ol credible witnesses swho saw it take place. to know that u doctrine is true, to know what authority ottacl who expounds It. That Paul was converted on his way to Da- mascun, and iua very marvelous mauner, may be believed on the stiength suy of his own tes- who would belleve Paul’s account of his converaton mi<ht not be willing to seeept Paul's doctrine of Predes- therefore, the ex- pose the hypothoti- )y ussertlug Lhat the ¥ the two facts that mands regulatiun, st tremendous sieniticance. cdness will easlly find threo large flelds for fta ‘That wisdom which secks wisc menns ton wiseend can find indeed a thousand tasks to perform, but thers s no time in a shoply discourse for secking the minutim of wise nc- tion. When ona thinks of o plantation, be can divide it up into flelds, and can think of its orange ErOVe, of malze, its Kitcheu garden, his mind riszs * Huzza for Ub- erty ! ¢ al) shout,—** Huzza for subjection!” not mauy. 1t Is only lberty thal man wants, Young men must be wise-ninded because of the untamed forces within both bralu and heart. ‘Ihie powers of youth no more dare be Jet alono to grow, and flourish than the powers of hunger and uppetites for galu, or lntne, or pleasure, muy bo Imagination and faney are not the only birds which iy too high and too far, and which must have thefr wines u littlo clipped. All those puwers which assemble in the humnan heart must he so tamed that st last, ke the Nemean Hong, they will draw the charlot of ‘It let nelf drift is to let ruin comuo, that, dififcult ns it ma thureby o bis- fleld, Its fleld falth—Ia true, into continents. The kitehen-gurden and the orchard must recedo to make room for scas, plains, aud mountain ranges : 80 when wa think of the wisdom of that carly life which standa hero to-day and looks over into the mext century, wo pass by small and behold three vast coutinents of duty. 'They lle immense {n many xones, and with eud- scenery upon their wide cxpanso. (1) Wisdom In Industry. Wiadarm (i thought. () Wisdomn in religion. o much of success depends uf that the life would be badly planned which shauld beatow no wisdom upon the nccumula- udiclous expenditure of mon things of carth represent tol bouks of the thinker, tho poet, artist, the dwelling-iouse, Ll food for the tubic, the pillow for tho head, all theso shapes of things come out of labor, and, lence, will ot bo glven us: they must be bought, Money, hence, stands for all the blessed things of this world, and is only & medi- win by which we exchange tho toll of solf tor the toll of others. I work aday and with the mon- ey buy a Bhakspeare, ‘Thua my work haa bought « fragment of other toll better than my avwn. By as wuch, therefore, as woney 18 exhausted upon mere pleasure, upon the gratitication of betite, it fs applied at tho ‘Wisdom of fndustry, that {s, to toil and thon barter that toll fur the valuable toll of uthers, is one of the trst shapes that wise-mindedvess cab assume. Avcording tosu slmost endless number of facts gathiered some years azo sticvess in property does not follow high 4, but rather follows the wisdom of the It wus found that, Just as soon as any clusa of English lahorers quit tho drumn-shops d beran to svend thelr earnings In purchasing matient good, their huts turned tnto hous Ir rags Into clothing, and their wivcs beauties and thelr children into smiline cherubs In villszes whery the dram-shops had for gens «d Saturday the wages of the imsn d where overy old gl and wagon liad generally been eugaged two or three weeks in advance by voung men who wero going to have ten shillings to spend In a bolsterous drive, became wholly reforme yance of wayes, but by a s son of Christ, Paul ore all tay This whl appoar it is necessary t ies to the person Thero P tho works of tho s coutents,. the y guod authority rival fact, but he is no authority for the theologleal d true that If the historical fact be eatal way Is clear for un inference to the effect that his theological statements arc authoritative; it the distinctlon ' be- {storical evonts snd opinlons or theological dogmas should be kept In mind., No one will dispute the oblization to belleve n Ho that, so far as it iscon- cerned, the only question s whether adequate and appropriate evideuce cau_be adduced, " But we ar called upon In the Christlan religion to P'aul teaches, let mo siy, the the resurrection of the body. this doctrine truct Are we bound to bellove i1 1f a0, why! 1f not, why not! It inay be wafd the doctrine Is reasonables 1t corresponds to my feciingss I bolieve it on that account, ‘That,”however, I no reason for ‘Che Homun priests tell us that tho adopted child had the same position In Juw nathe son himscll, so far ns inheritance wns this was right; 1 will belleve 11 Noj vou belleve it beeauss Galus was an authority lu Roman law, and ha says thia wos the law. Or 1t may bo said 1% tells men to s nelihibor ¢o out tween facts or i ;‘l":.uyl or I;u'nllll\:n(. anl ation of folly. ¥ ¥ well-aceredited fact. wh tolled clicva fn thio belleve dogmas. whether the Bi this was humave, an 1 was o wman of great in- tellect and fnalght. Ilo was, inoreover, o holy What he says must ho trus therefore. 1sut all this does not make htin infullible touch- g the resurreetion of the dead. And it b; nspirution is ineunt ovly high reliclons exeite- ment, eentus, or exceptional plety, even Paul's msplration would ot make his” beliel on the resurrection bindiug on us to-day, fully which tbus wrought ruin in the orking ruin in our hop and the gig are repeated herd under the inorecuphonious numes of the times, and salurics which far surpass all foreign pay or lubor are utterly consuuied by & Th Dritish slauds is stedl Letter country. of, tu uss_the and youthful says obout doctrine is authoritative, to cut short the dis- on by saying, “ All Bcripture fs given by piration of God.? ut thera are acveral ob- cetions to this method of deallng with the sub- ject, Onu is that we should be in thd dark Lo re- Rard to what {nsplratlonmenns. Auother is, that, afuce It is Paul who makes cerniog neplrution, it would seem to bu proper to fuquire trat what importance ‘should be at- tachied to what Paul saye; for it must membered that the very thing wo ure fn quest for regarding as suthoritative what the writers of Scripture ussert, rewaun for not assuming the ¢ Scrlutures as the rewson for belfeving the truth of what they say, or that this might seem to some to imply that the ouly roason wo bave for believing Seripture s found in our antocedent bellel ju the luspiration of & &filplutu.—n point which should hever be con- s continent called property, and dethrone the usurper, Folly, our young men would be amazed to sce what a world would spriug up from such & change ol dyuasty. under our preseut system, the purchusiug power of moncy s thrown away, and men who should be luying the fouudations of home, with ail its happlness of companionship and thought, and a swecl consclonaneas, are, like the Indian, draw- ing happluess from ornuments and display, not fur removed frow the festhers nud vernllon of What solidity, fort ol property, wight not the next fiteen years ¢ive to the ereat imiddle and last years of ite that tfe just boyoud| There is no reproba- tlon {u property any mors than in seligion; thers are none who are foreordatned to be loat {o the #ulf of poverty, Weall moke the descent by Lielp of our uwn personal sins, offered to all, UGod's laws are all general, His Kingdow ls grace, ‘Fhio second large shapa of Wisdom was said to be that of thoughbt. It (s sald an hour s doy of readiug will at lust transfora s youth fnto & Bethis as it may, to have ift eurs before ouc, fu u world tecining vow witl ve mighty record of Hsell, thy record of its poetry, ita urt, its Nicruture, fte volitics, 1tu reliion, Is s situation worthy of the To rise ubove the the drunkard, aud the feast ol tle giutton, and the bundage to effemiuate fashlons, and tind bupoluess i mental worth and stozes, ls u ap- portunity offured to man only once, aud then A great overaight this statemunt con- aiain, thero bs All salvation {3 It would be premature beyond question to clto tue passuge {rom Paul's respecting the theopnoustic character of thy Beriptures Ju proot u tor method of vruces (1), as & matter ot literar te buoks of the autbentic; then to show (2) that the! revelations, such as mirucles, prophe that they wera moaut to serve a public purposs as authoritative dosuments; (4) that they pose sess luternal evidowe of baving beon trritton under Divius dircction, su furntsbied fu their organle structure, unity, aa- curney (thls belug tested by comparison” with monuments, cotud, ete). ot s (5) that jufulfibllity is clained for some portions by the tions; and () that the Uld Testament i3 (or arts of tho Ol Testament) al- legged to buve been written v the Holy Ghost. ‘F'o prescut this full lnductive arzument, bow- ever, would requiro & treatlse, aud the outling which could b presented fo the cowpais of a eluglo serion would be too imeazre. ter plan, for the purpuse contewplated bow, 13 to cail attentiun to oo or two leaainy heads of argument, uod those to which attentton s ju- vited aro (1) the hls of Curistaud (2) the letters aul. ‘T Listor ke 1ife of Jesus of Nazarcth can bo er to Tiwmotuy thewr nuthonty. ug would be'to fuquire criticism, whetber iblo are wenutos and euvy of uu uneel, yunnfi. for ¢xample, us s ful to think of, that nature never She comes ouce twice ullers suy good Lo us. with youth, ouce with buoysncy, once with ro- sande, ouce with hope, but, Luving offered them, ‘When bergreat masalve doors open vuce,—loors grandes than thoss ol tcmole or pulace, equaled ouly by the ** cver- lasting doors ** of Scrivture,—they close never toewing ou their hi scbool-nouse, the bowe, come but oues in ull this lonyg But thought is uot slmply " It Ia wwre o building up of ples, und that youny wea shoald become whse- winded »0 broad us'to kuow tue meanlug not wnly 0l zoods st prices, butto kiow the Dicaus lug'of State, sod church, and vity, sud sehoul- buus v, aud pleasure, sud work, and rest—tlese o, or trade, ia tho questh DRl Ve o weets man wt biy cradie-side. A prcond reason for Lhis wise-mindedness wa) be found fn the juflulte cutlook whlch eacl y “Travelers n the Old Vurld bave attewpted to eXpress the emotions that catne to them wheu they stood ul Alps Mouptuins aud aaw the Chamous Mout Blaue's foot, where ‘fhe Arva snd Arvelron at ita base Rave coasclunaly . Aud o beve those who have stood upon the reat wero the wemorbed that ley whire Lad woved Kluge sud telr willions of subjects fuur thousaud U@ never conive back. pos sgaln for us. The : years of enthusiusm e aurutsition of stlfed without thoald of the Old Teatament, with no other ad, In_fact, than the throe Syn- {n this connectlon {t s worth whilo 1o notice how the speculntiona of Strauss and Renan have really heen made to contribute to the support of Christianitr. have tried to overthirow Christianity by denyving or distorting the history of tne human Jesus. For succesa in their undertaking ther depended unon thelr ability to invalidate the claims of the Gosapela to tho credence which ordinarily nt- taclies to human historfes. liave been made, not for the purpose of proving any apeclal dovtrine respecting shnnly in vindleation of the cralibility of Lhe Gospets, have really proved wonderful ' alds roving the creditility of ric reatlty of Christ’s life {= proved, and, when it is proved, it Is easy to prove the truth of the cardinal doctrines of the Far If the Gospel story is the story of of ang Who male ‘These writera Thia replies which Tis person, but Jestis, 19 wo mitst And though we had basts for faith thau the words of ossess the Frcnz Uoe- t ude, but the Now A forzer wight urpurting to have been written 6 would hardly venture to make torleal ulluslons on u subject so intrivate and where iuevitable mistakes would be in- Besldesthe most destructive of the rationalistic critics (laur) concedes that ot least four—and thuss four among the most spurtant—of the Eplstles which o by Paul's naine were without doubt written by Paul, Ratlonallsm in short does mnot pretend to atspute the pencral truth of Paul’s history (3) But v mnay bo sald that Paul’s all couversion Is an untruth; that Paul was in other words an impostor or he was self-decelved. To these suppositions no better rupl, e than thut made o Lord Lyttleton's on Paul's conyersion or in Stanicy Leathos’ 'Wituess of S8t. 'aul to Christ.” enilure stoning and imprisonment, men do not renouuce workdly prospeets and engagre in infs- sionary labor for the sake of propagating what Paul was no impostor; and still less was he laboring under hallucina- The facts conicerning b thosa about which ho could not be decelvad If ho had lus senses for, they concerned the testls and if over there was o man tstory as o man ol discern- sclf-posscssion, and rensun, that man difllcult to disposs of Taul’s conversion by Talling back on the theory that lio was Insane, or that his senses decolved His lifo after converston, his success in prenching, the reception given him by the Apostles, tho miracles which le wrought, aro 7, with his own sccountof his con- No rationalistlc ex| conversion will explain these Falr study of Paul's life wouid lead one Lo say be to bellove a mirucle, there {s leas difliculty in belleying it than in nversion waa simply & stroke of lightuing or o Mt of epilepay. 3) [t may be said that Paul, after ho became hristian, added to the stmple doctrine of Chirlst a_philosuphy of his own about the per- the resurrection, and the decrces he truth is, that these very doc- trines which soine suppose to be pacullar to rininally at Icast, by our cs, with tho jealous ‘watch which the other Apostles would naturally keop upon o new convert, it is strangd that they did uot sce and repudiate thess doctrinal innova~ safely appeal to the *contemporary verdics ™ of Paul'a co-Apos- tles aainst the statements of the rationalist, that Paul tmported a forelen and speculative element into the Gospel. (4) The only positionopen now Isthaton which thoe Apostle bases his owiiclalm to the attantion of his contemporurics: ospol which I preac men, for [ ncither recelved it of men, nefther was Itaugnt It but by the revelation of Jesus 1t |3 bocause "IPaul recelved bis reve- lation from Christ that he felt justified in pro- nounclug un anathemn on need- trentise Mon do not conversion were planation of hls acts in his life, Lou' breth- not after mun who should aul know whethor Would Paul pretend to rocelvo a revelation If ho liad not recelved onol Was the Christlan Church rocked in fts cradlo y o set of lursl DIid the very Avuuuu who ak cvery man Lrul preach tho Gospel with alle fu his right hand! Theso are proper questlons, and it lu the answer wo among other things, is to deturminsthoamnunt of crudit wo uru to glye Lo the Apostle when he clalms_to be in possession of a revelation from This {s the auswer, then, va to those who ask wh oetrinal teachings of Faul. We do not be- lieve them becauso they are what would natu- rally oceur to us; or because Paul was a man of great luarning ot plety,—a great thinker, a3 wo should sav nowaduys. But wo belleve them becnuse Paul had u right to speak authorlta- tively on these subjocts, slnce his gospel was o Divinely-recolved gospel. been sald nbou(filuplrltlan; insplred or w ucstions which have not as yot cther tho Bible is lnapired or tiot, we kngw this, that Christ was n teacher come from Qod, and backing His teaching by Paul was an accredited minister of Chrlst, called mimculously to the apostieshlp aud furnished with o revelation from dod can find out what Christ taughit or what Paul taught, hraseology of the day, U wo can learn what the views of Christ or of Peul wero on any subject, wo shall b suro that they are true, for they ure Divine in thelr origln, and, conscquently, authoritative, It mny be worth h withs his lvo to them which, wo at Insplra- whils to notico just hers | arguincut very coinmounly falls o the forin of ou inquiry fu regard 0 tho teachings ot Christ, or Tudeed, it 1s casy to ses how two lines of argu- ment may ba equally cogent though proceeding upon Wiferent assumptions, Buppose wa ary discussing the doctring of #in; then on tho as- suwption thut the baoks of the Bible are In- sulred, wo say thy Bible has this to say about sin in Psalm 51st, and this in Ephesiaos 24, and this in Romans 5th. 1 gather an Inductiou fn regard to tho Bible doc- Vi however, In thquiry: M Yaul, or Petor, n tols way we might What 8! But ‘proceeded differently. The questions might have been, What dld Christ teach respecting sln, aud what did Paul teach respecting sind and when we havo found anawers cstions we ure &ure we have tho th Christ and Paul speak author- itatlvely on the subject, And now, if Christ sud Paul aro suthoritative teachers reganding doctelue, it s quite pruper that we shiould ask what they tuy thorsblp and authority of the Bible,— weaning, of course, the Old Testamont, fur the New was then unwritten, Perbaps thislsas satisfactory & method o auy of dealing with the uct of [nsplration. t did Christ say regarding the Old Testa- ment! Ho quoted it us authuritative. Hewpoke of it as the Serlpture just as we siould speak of the Bible. He put the stawp of His ownap- proval on the writiugs ot Moacs and the proph- le cveu went 8o far as to make an argu- vot upun a slogle word in His reply to the uite as distioctly did the Apostlo Paul roalize tho authoritative character of the Old "Testament. He referred to it, the “*holy writings,? * the oracles of od @) argumnonts ou singls words of tue Old Testamcus Scrioturcs. 'This use of the Old Testameut for purpoacs of argu- ment abuts us up to one of two conclusions: Paul either reasoued falsely and foolishly, or the Old Testament was regarded by hin as (o More thin that,. those srguments wers made with the cvident expectation that they would be regarded s cogent; they we ude us thuugh be wero sppealivg to & well-uu- deratood belict of the Jows at that day; for, t In regard uotad from it unleas they regarderd the Old Testament a4 i fallible, It would be fmpossible for them to re- gard the arguments which he reared on single ‘worda a8 podsessing any cogen: And finally swe come to to the effeet that olf Seripture is by {nsplration of (iod, It makes no wractlenl differency, 8o far as the meaning of in- spiratlon {8 concernea, whether the prooer thenpueustie Seripture is ofitable,’ ete., or **all Scriptura Is theopncust- aml I8 profitable,” cte. ' cither case 18 to the Old Testament. the writers who are spnken of as Inspired; It is the product of their pen which is Inapired. And now, what docs this word theopneustic meant 1t 1s Gou-breathed, lterally; but to appreciato it copsider the presumptions In favor of thie view which are furnished b Paul have said, ono of his most noble a poem which, baving been trai Into Ttallan, (s now fn the months of thourands of school-children who revers its vencrable Up to 1848 theso Waldonsians had been unable to preach the Gospel fa thelr na- tut, now that Italy had been opened up to the word of truth, they had come forward as the ploneers of eyangelization, and had at present thirty-seven stations in the ‘Thev were supporte:d by misslonn- riea from forelgn ehurches, and _ospecially by the Fres Church of 8cotland, and religious renafsssuce was taking Italy, and the schools were heing dliled with chililren who were learning to become honest aml truth-loving citizens, Fleteber, who lias limself taken part in the bhencficent results achleved by these achiools os affording the best enhcouragement for continued labor in tho same nidn of them, the size and othy-nced, white, and with many les, have fiiog The well In In conMant use, I thirty: P carbed Wwith pinc, and coninine'y L O, N ho passags in . = .1, Wo take pleasure In answering all gues. tions regarding agricultural or horf matters, to the best of or ability. We are yot infallible, and, whore we cannot answer, we Itate to say so. 2, We have never notieed euch Insects ns aye correspondent describes, his letter to C translation be, ** Al The roferonco in We have forward, e L rizs Thomas, State Entomotnsee 1, and have requested hin veRly, "It {s of conrse Imposeible to tell how g get rid of n thing untl Tt persons, In asklng for Information, would send specimens of insccts, fruits, or plants, we could determine with more certalnty what they you Kknow its hnbite, what Chrlst and Why shoufl so much defer- it .be quoted with authority? the work, spoke of CHERSH-PRODUCTION. To the Editor. of Tha Tridune, BiEROYGAN, Wik, Feb. 7.—~Your alwaga fg. teresting and industrions Anondent, *Rural Jr.,'" in his Inat, of the 3| §13'., to ono of lis ftema for “The F: Gard sy throws some cold water on the grow. 1 manufacture of cheeso and Lutter ang poofliable occupation for. the farmer,~—paying tac most of his attention to the cheose-busingss, that the buslnces, 8 yet producing at ol rates ot which tho busincss can b By this it must be Inferred thay he makes this estimate In coruparison with othep branchies of farmiug that the agriculturiat may mure safely engage In, ‘That hia'vlews may bo sound when applled to certaln localitles, niny be truc; for the coudl. g must be present, op lun “and & anare. Those conditions are not alone that food for acow may be chieaply produced, but there must be (he man who can nake wil the other conditiony work fn accord, and a public ovlnfon to second the emdeavors of thiuse whe comprehend the conditions, Bomo of these conditions are, (o addition to the knowledice of the cheese-muaker, a rural vopulation that will take a thuroueh interest {n the businoss, cnough to make ¢ lde to have goud stock willing to submlt to the [l men argue eafely on e sentence, asfugle word, that Old Testament! Al no wonder. snya: “All Beriptura {s given by inspiration of These words, {n tha letier to Timothy, are the answer to these questions; amd theso words ngafn give up thelr hidden meaning unider the pressure of questfons like these. rd_to the authorshin and of the Old Testament would be creased by prosenting tho testimony of other portions of Scripture than those to which we Wit ourselves in these remurks. Teter, for instance, in ono place says that “The Beriptures must nceds be fulfllied which the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of Davia, speaks concerning Judas,” and the samo Apostle, In piace, savs that **Holy men of old hey wers moved by the Holy Ghost,” Bt speaking generatly, the argument on this subject 18 twofold, which declaro tha infallibllity and paramount he Old Testament. Sceond, thero are pnssages which refer, parts ot least, and, nccording to one transiation of IT. Tim,. fil. all of the Old Testument to Divine authorship and Inapiration. Wa slionld expeet It to bo Infailible If it wera theopnenstic; and we should not be able to ac- count for its infalllblley excapt through Divine MISCELLANEOUS. DR, BETMOUR. Boectal Dispaich to The Chicazn Tyidune, 8raivorieLn, 1L, Feb, 10.—The Btanding Committes of the Dioceso of Springfield, nt a meeting Inst ovening, nasented to the conscern- *tlon of Dr. Seymour as Bishop of this diocese, and ndopted_resolutions aflirming the confl- Committea fn his doctrinal views and fitucss otlierwise for the ollice of Bishop. NOK INGERIOLL. al Disoptch tn e onK, Fob, 10.— night preseated that of last Sun which gathered to hear Col. Ingersoll's lectitro on * (ihosts *' did not half 111 the hall ticket-speculators who had Lought expectation of anothor harvest were much dis- The lecture wus tho same as pre- viously delivered, and the sallles were greeted with lauzhter and applause fu proportion to the slze of the company. THE FARM AND GARDEN. Tllo-Dralning=Tile the basis of a slug hampatgn corre. The evidence in and profitable. Alcagn Tribuna. hickerlng Hall to- iito s different scenc from The audlence tlons of success in duir) it will prove a_delusl thers aro passnges Ronids—Automntic Graln-Binders=Spangled Miamhurg Fowls ~Making (iardon—A Nursery =I'lnnt Enrly~February Secding=Worins their pleasure and and good stables, and constant care of cows, Including milking; vlodding perseverauce in daily routing, and lne shaken faith that o small stream of milkata 0 bank-necount at the end o car. The man who wantsa splurge in iz for a few weeks, and to fnlsh his aca- son's lahor with a ten-lorsa-power threshing. machine that he may louf titl spring, had better keep out of the dalry-business, and wmaokers il better keen ont of sections of the country in which such farming provails. Another conditlon, h competo in the business comtnerclal chaunels essential Lo be in to make It takes time to jofn mich sece tiona to the trunk-lines; and, while developiuy they must tyork for smaller prolits, or sulbmii 0 a local retall business, might be named that are more eaally overcome, but those speafled are the prime ones. But, on the supposition that thes of suceess are ot [n the way of an Increase of the busincss, then 1 cannot agree w! correspondent that an fncrease, particular] o-butaiucss, is one that the right of farmers shoukl fear, on the ground that toy much of this kind of bhuwan Iood is likely to bo produced for very tmany years to come, 1n the tirst place, it cannot bo rapldly aug. mented In any way bub to change the relative amounts of dairy-producta; that is, tnake more cheese and lesa butter, and consume less ik Tha cows thut arc to make this rplus of datry-products It will be onsy to say that no demonstra‘ion has been made of the plenary Inspirations of the Scriptures; that the adjective theopneustie, though applicable to all Beripture, Is uot so definite that {t explalns exactly what nspiration that tho possuges’ which to have been written by tho Holy whost may have heen so written without there befnw any necessity that other unmentioned passages shoutd have been so written; that, in fine, a partisl and not a plonary Inspiration fa all that can bo made oul. 'To this, we havo this to say, by way of reply: (1) Urant that plenacy Inépiration, wore not made out the authoritative naturo of the doc. trinal contents of the From Our Own Correspondent. titna means a good CHAMPAIGN, [1),, Feb..~1he luterest aronsed in tile<draining throughout the West by the past three exzesslys wet scasons stiil continues, Tho open winter has permitted the laying of thousanda of rods of tilo which otherwize would never have been put dowa. lles in the fact that our farmers do not under- stand the bustness, and that they will not take paing enougth in keeping the ditches lovel, and in putting them fn deep. 8nld nn old Douglas- County fariner to us, the other day,—and ho has n large amount of tila down on his farm,— *Tell tho manafacturers of tilo not to make any but round tite; and tell the farmers not th purchaze any other can bo turned so that they will it closely; but the flat ones cannot, and, whera tho ends aro not square and sinooth, there will be bad jointa.? We knew this years ago, and we st onee went to a pilo of solc or flat tile and ex- feces, not ong fitted square to tho other; while suome round tils wore tricd, and all woro nadoe to it nicely. TILEING 1OADS, ‘Weo could not repress a smile at the Innacenco cxhiblted by a correspondent of Tite TRIBUNE recently, who adviscd tho tilelng of roads to Itls nouss in trylg to get 1llinois so!l~that is, the mixed, make mud. Now, {f you do not atir tho mass, it snon drics and hardons, _hut atir it, aud it gota doeper, i Tilo lald threo fect underground wiil have no effect {n preventing muddy rouds, They do not becomo inuddy untll made so by travel, The road-bed is about the last place for water to oak through: not run ofl, {t romains untll it cvaporates. A who hos a yard well o says that {t tonkes no difference with the mud on tho surface, so long as stock is permitted to poach up the surface; 1t is just as muddy as auy other barn-yard, AUTOMATIC GRAIN-BINDENS, Kaa,, Jan, 40, —Asour whoat- and wo aro much interosted aud cheapust machinory, wish to know your opinion as to whothor the seif- and what is the beat machina 4 linve thore been any Improve- ments on_ them this year, and are thero sny that uso twine? By uoswaring tho above, you witl cone We can only answer tho above by hear- say,—not very good ovidenca at_the heat, but wa belicye roilabla in this case. chino thiat wo bicar of as having worked'satis- fuctorily during the harvest of 1877 was tho Wood's automatic bimder of them uscd on the * Dulrymple wheat farm in Miunesots. and persons who suw them ot work say that they dil all that was cxpected of Wo do nut Know that other maoufac- turcrs made suvcccsstul working machines lust year, but soveral new ones wero tried, There aro nono made touse twine that wo aro aware of, and we doubt If such o machine can be mudo to do good work, for the rcason ti Il to tle o knot than most machincs Wire can bo twisted, and thercby bo Bovernl years ago we ‘The only.danger i for new sections to 13, they are outside of tho best pales. Bible s not affected This has already been seon. may well be allowed that the doctrina’ of plenary insplration has it diMcultics, and that it Is casy to mako tho objectlons referred to. Tut the question which the Christian thinker Iias to consider Is, What vlaw of the subject Is* the most probable, when all the circumstances are taken Into conslderation? (3) Louking at the matter in this way, there are sume considerations which are deserving of In tho first place, there can ba no doubt that the Old Testument was and was 80 recognlzed by Chrlst, 'a_recorded will respeeting flis Would there be any antecedent dif- culty In supposing that he should supervise or direet its composition, oreven keep its authors certain that soma of tho Old Testament was written as the words of the Holy Ghost, for it is distinctly so aflirmed. nasume that Other conditlons somo conslderation. Out of n dozen imagined unprofitable aro all to bg ralsed yet; for tho statistics show that human consumners of dalry-products In- thuy milk-production koep them dry. uround the Tacte, ooly _partlaly soll—and water, cover tha whole Biblo! Why should u diffor- ence of nuthorship bo atlirmed hetween books or portlons of books where all were un the same level in polot of awuthosity! And what authority could a book have as therulooia people’s” falth it one yart was of human suthorship and one part divine and there wero no way of distinguishing one trom the otherf ‘Tnis argument, so far as it gues, Is intondud ouly to show tho provability of the lnspira- tion of the Old Testament. In other words, taking thoe purposa which cd to serve into consldera- tion, the claims roade for it by Jews and proved by Cbrist, tho altogations respecting its authorahip and fufdIlbilts and Bis Apostles, we are Holy Ghost so_‘Influenced the miuds of the sacred writers that {n what they sald they ex- pressed the mind of the Spirlt, und that the products of their pcn wero infalliblo Iu their development of his own suddenly Increase his milk-vroduction as be can hls production of pork, wool, matton, or Honce the business is incapuble of tuch violent fluctuations ns wo sce in other agricult “Tho cows that are golnz to make next vear'scrop of mtik, butter, and chevse, are not only all on tho earth, but the: hence, If It docs v A | yeurs old and over, ‘They are not golng to bs slaughtered for thelr hides and tallow ) they are goinz to bemilked, andall the milk thitcan be profitably sold and used while aweet nnd fresh wilt goto that best market for milk, and the balauce must be made into either butteror gentleman o this ¢l under-draned with tha book s Inten ‘Tuis brings us right squarc to the polnt whether wo had better ciango the rulative amounts of butter aud chicese that have ususlly becu made from the inoss that must go it ong or the other productsi ;mheail-ntlnnl y a8 Lwould answer the question mada allke by Christ d to betlevo that the binder Ia a succos of the kind made: 1n answer, § ey It wil bo Impoaaible within reasonable limits to discuss tha inapiration of the N ment, or to reply tothe objections which may be urged azainst the viow of the subject hore A wortt only Infconclusion. Tho Insplration of tha Seriptures 1a a doctring which respects tho authoralip of tho books themselves, When the question of tnspiration Is discussud, it (s not nsked whether the Old Testament I8 an author- {tative statement of fact, for it is how it was written. chcese and luss butter. resuppose that 1 should have to uae such ek | Ianuiacture a3 existing wen, wotnen, an the fmptements they use are cupable of, that data, and it fs boyond alt cavil that ths milk that goes into chceso {8 worth far more er hundred, and, in proportion to Its wnount, more valuablg aud palatable ns human food 8uarce ony of It goea so tar tu the bad astobe cast out of the cutezory of food, while thot- sands of tons of Lutter, so calio:d, are never uxd urpose for which It was made,—to b¢ Whils it takes the wood milk that would have madetwo and o half pounds of cheese to make one pound of butter, thonsanis of tons of butter-grease are annually solu'for less than tha wholcsals price of n falrarticle of Oneof the fundamental reasons of hia is, that tho given skill of the producers, o tha aggrezate, can mako a produzt fnto cheese that will not duterforato tn quality with any- thing Wke the rapidity that butter will. 1tiy bject to waste and loss. But it may bo sald, If more miik {s mads lato cheese and fess Into butter, that tho relative prices of the twoarticles witl undergo a chaogeo 3 but it does mot milk-product will brin; s sdmitted that cheese had wi some tlan subject the butter-crop (o sucd htful waste and fosacs, rit{s urged that fanners will not produce milkto make cheese wiien it setls lower tha it tho pust five years, up produciog mi butter, for which they ot far lesa than it st been worth during all It I8 alsu true thut tho foundcra of the American systons of cheeso-making got thelr stort and thelr fortunes when about half the prices that rulo now were deemed mory remds raln-rafaing or butter-making. izcut and practical dairymen who propose to live and dis ou thefr farmswho, it thealternative was presented totuem to clther make cheese ot elght cents per pound or rabe wheat at $1 por busbel, for » serivs uf yuarh wouldchoosoto muke cheese,—giving asareasuly usgoud resulta fu thio rey yeurs, but,in all the difference between o farm ina high state of cultlvation, aud ong utterly wors A man may be frightencd production in any product of confuschis judgent. that, the more hie scans the whole sgricy ol butter and chevas willia: bayo an almost undeviath developed tasts of millions im to a solution of the probies Cugsss. In giving this answer, ‘There were forts And when it Is asked If the writinga of Paul are inaplred, the question {8 not whether Paul’s theolozy 18 true, for it s, since ho roceived it by revelation, no matter wlat aslatanco ho muy or muy not bave had fo puttiog it on record, GOSPEL WORK IN ITALY, ADDRESS LY THE REV. MN, FLETOUER. At tho Michigan Avenuo Methodis Church yesterday morniug, the Rev. Mr. Floteher, so well knawn for his work on Brazll, preached o most. stiering dlscourss on “They of ftaly Balute you."—Ieb., xlil., 24 commenced bis remarka by alluding to the Iguorauco prevalout in ous country regarding the manner and customs of anvther, In the London Zimes lust Octover had attributod tho strikes hera to the overeducation of the masscs, and if a few drunken American sallors were scen in the strects of somo foreign sca- port they were apt to be taken as represcotiog the people of tho United Btatca, selves, when wo beheld the Itallan orgen-grind. ery, frult-hawkers, aud finage-sollors who per- ambulated our streets, wera apt to consider them as typlcal representatives of thelr nation, ‘This was un error, and, Lo convines his hearers the epeaker had only to remind them of jong train of .emincut statcamon, pocts, authors, and inventors produced by olumbus was a thorough Itallay, and Ho, tuo, were Flavio made to retaln ita place. operated & Burson binder, snd mads up our mind thon that it was only o question of time how soon It would bs bLeforo Larvest-hunds would Lo a thing of the that the binder of Iast ycar hizs heen improved, ossible, because Americans call anything perfection, HPANOLED HAMUURG POWLS, A correspondent of the Kyral New-Yorker says of theso fowls: Tio yeara ago Swe purchased some oggs of the wogled llamburg vatioty, and we are so well ascd with theso fowl that we ko poscd of our stock,—Ii of our favorite: it aucha thing was tlicrefore, leas au! do not sit down an Mr. Floteher follow that tL¢ aro also thelr bodies I the asicat Kevjol has ruled for, say, Tmer ami wintee with little fupliad, they do aver wishiug to ket. 10 obtain bets of another broed 1o set, Togs are o slightobjection, et theie good qualitics overbalance all thelr littie SMAKING GARDREN, ths vegutable-warden is armission, ncarcely Last sumniur wa wore obliged ‘The timo for makin; vary neurly at Land, spot chosen should bo treated to a inee of well-rotted manure, and spread on a frozen surface, all the better. Wa are continually reminded thae a vast quan- tity of worthless sced s annually sold to the farmers and gardeners by tho * Lonest " sccds- Wo cannot assert posltitively that they domix old seedl with new, but the fact forccs itsclf upon our observation that but few, vom- aratively, of the sced consigned to Mother sarth cver com forth to gladden the heart of the husbandman, nerative than There are into 1 it can bo hauled 80 was Amerlgo Vespucel, Glola—to whom we " owed the mariners' com- d Galvani sud Voltey, whose nainos will over bo ussoctated with “thosa batterics which imake telegraphy posstble, ‘Ihre Luther, Arnold of Bres preached that the protenslons and practices of the Romish Church wero utterly imquitous, and a, aud many others of those sealed thelr teuchings with Botta, who wrote ong of the tirst and most comprehonsible of the historles of American independence, was an Italizn, and so was Cavour, who, aftek taving studied coustitu- parltamentary tho cry of over the sull, 5088 L0 1t is therefors 3 but [ belleve ft to betru¢ culturd A NECESSARY PREVARATION, before sowing tho seed, to test Its quality, This ay be done in tho following simple manuer: ‘fuke s ordinury dinner-| cular pices of fine fannel, cover thy lower part, upon it. on a table before a window on tho sutny side of the bouse. ‘Tho whols mass of seed to bo tested should be thoroughly mixed by hand, so that a fajr sample can be taken from it by & small P ‘Tha sceds £0 tuken should be carefull counted, but without selcetlon for quality, au 200 seeds, then be evenly on the plece of flannel before nameds after whicha lttlo cold water may bo geatly uel untdl it 13 suturated, but In this way it s allowed to stand for a few days exposed to the lufluence of light and air, when the swollen scods will have thrown up long and slender whito shoots of half an foch or more in heluht, All that {8 then neccssury {8 simply to vount the sceds that llv exposcd on tho flannel {n tho samo condition in which they wero placed there, and bence the preciss porcentuge g:l live and dead seeds may be accurately ascer- ho and Suvanarul carly reformors, h fleld, his faith in crease, and ho wi pust, aud a thxed, people to elp l for the furyre. —— IOWA LAND-GRANTS. Specinl Correrpondance of Ths Tribune Dxs Moixes, [a.,Feb. 8,—~Fow people have an? fdca of the amount of Jands grauted to Jowa b7 the Government, and by the State for variout purposcs, According to the Jast report of b8 Regster of tue Btate Land-Oftice, thero bare been cranted to the State 8,000,000 ucres of Jaud, of which more than one-half, or 4,400,00 acres, were for the benefit of rallroads, 1y one-elghth tho entirs arca of the State; 00 the benefit of public education, 1,530,000 acredi for the Agricultural College, 204,000 screk ‘Thero wera 46,000 acres of saljue lauds, suld portion of which was b ta the Btate Unlversity In 1 about 1,570,000 acres of swam, vast domain, comprising near entire Blate, the Ktate has o 6,000,000 acros, leaviug hut sbout yetto ba disposed Which s hetd in trust for railroads yet late, and lay a cir st larga enough to o summoned” 10 the counciia of Carlo Aluerto, of Bavoy, drew up thut Constitution which gave civil und rel Hberty then to 4,000,000, now to s fellow-countrymen. promulgated that Coustitution, Carlo Alberto, on the plains of Novar worthily carrled out the policy of his futhur, and within a quarter of . contury from that time hiad been elected King by six-sévenths of his aub- Wise finauciers had presided over the talan ‘I'reasury, so that, wherens some yeara ago thers were annual defleits amouutiug to many millfons, an equilibrium had now been es- tablisbed between thurecelots and expenditures ad at this moment r 1o the navies of Great Britain and of Beandinavia; uor was the morsl progress made by the country of less Importance thau its materlal advancement. Wuen the Itallan troops entercd Rowe on the 20th of Soptember, 1870, there weru but 2,500 children in the schoals of that city, snd 5,000 monks and uuns, Two years later there wers 16,000 children attendivg the publicschools, and the money which had heen bitherto speat fu malutalniog costly monasterles and nunocries upriated to advancing popular o Waldunsiuns, or the dwellers {n the dense vales of Piedmont, talued allve the motto vn tl Lux luces {o tencbris.” catea in fuvor of Eummanuel, had poured over the flan germinated, and of that country, fleet which was oul PLANT BAKLY, A correspondent of the Rural New-Yorker, in advising early planting, says: Peas should be the first putin tne g 5000 a4 & holv can be duz deep envugh o pat in tho secd, have them planted. The ground snould b prepared in tho fallk. ever bad was put induring s thawin ¥ sod the raln fell, frost came They bore earller vinds wy ever lind. vared 1o thy fall, uecessary throug) Sow bulh early an one-fousth 14 o ¢ proportion ¢ Tho besl crop of Oplum-Eating, Oplum-eating fs the Hy: douh Vallcy of Virginia. LY Hrovkivat, | ¥ cyalent, in stores of ln'n’fmtuu. a place of 16,000 retall about 100 pounds & week, stowers belug young ludi fumilies,” whilo storekeepers jnthis coub! thelr trade ju the drug o luereused of | thoy are uow purchaslug ol wholesalo ‘Ths excltewent srouscd u fanuea by the nlllh‘m’ e lasuo in the Shensd A local paper hias be! ris that tho bs Lad vver inulo- elr escutchson, Never, cven iu the s of Poplsh supremacy, bhad they al- hit of the Gospel truth wholly to bo extinguishod, aud before priutiug was laveuted there were found wen wud women amnoug thein who bad learnt. by beart the whole of the New ¢ portions of the Ol Thelr eroisn bas beon celebrated in that veverdylug souact coum- 0 Thy elaughtored hosts ¢ Alplng wountsins cold, Those were Valdese, or Vaudols, or_Valesmen, at a timo when toread tho Blble was a eath-crime, would wandor round the country selling joweley in order that, baviog stirscte the atteution of the great by thelr wares, the: might induce thow to accopt freely sud 0 Word of Gud, which they had con- neatd the fulds of thele doublets. wus just such 8 colporteur a3 this whom Whit- round bad not beew pre- eat deal of work was 1o prevent the soil 1ato” varielies at tho y varietica thero are ite uvnes pothlng can This year we ine 1 the Knaitsh SMarrowfat. to try fall m;ln:.l % and splnach, an 7| boota' Hor okely yrecas, abouid be ugraund can bo raked decp ¥ BY PHEDING. Many of our wost successful farme the sowlog of thnothy-sced duri Thcre §s more certaloty of its ered, snd also of gettin, Testament and 1 deeds of Christian planted as svon as enough Lo covor the posure Las_bee death of & Hurrlsouburg woinan, two horsea to b sold, iu order to buy worphlue, saw the man returniog wi trade, that abe fell to the loor sud hiours, A public wecting bas Stauuton to orgunlze public sent the vice, aud a petitis belng nuwerously slgned, tax on-vpluw. punch, whict hua raised the Ls beld ta be partly respousibly = & uud Was 80 uyLreulLe v . 'hose who bave the rouud prepared should not negloct early secd- WORMS IN WELLS. Wav 'th. 4,—Do_you saswer gacs. tions vn sgriculiural topice? (1) 1¢ you do. pleasa hat insocts fufecs wy well (41, and bow toget dldol thew (3), Foo the lust few montbs, rice af sk