Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1878, Page 2

A, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1878, that one fn the Plerce collection fa shich he REI‘IGIOUS' states hls relations to relbzion. It iy not at- tractive beenuse of fts negations, but beeanse of ts stmple_confessing of ‘doubt and of its eym- % 5 i athy with all_who thiuk otherwise. 1t fs per- Prof. 8wing Disousses and Dosoribes | Jeetly cmpty of ait ridicute, a1l deoanetatlon, ® . all wit, andreads liko the kindest possible con- His Idea of a Tolerand versation hetween two frienids standing allke on Rationalism e e shat s Shme, b i St 1 ne fact that nll thines, be nte, or sclence, ion ! or profession, paes along through exncn‘y the same shape of Infirmity, should bring all the thinking men of the world into one group, and i bind them in friendship. If the falthfal stu. Infidelity Is Now as Dogmatic and | hind them, in frivudship yet found tho exact and what tho Evangellsts say of Him, and that you may sce aiso, from the mumber of such pnasages, that theso clalms are so Interwoven with the whole structurg of the Gospels that they cannot ha eltminated from thein without destroylng tho entire aystem. Anidas 1call to mind these exnreas statements, and conaider ol- #0 tho general scope of the teaching of the New Testament In reference to the mission of Christ, 1 cannot escape thoconcluslon that Jasus Uhris! when on carth, n somo sense acted on behalf of mankind, aod bt 1¢ is to 1lim and to Itis obedi- cnce and suffering that we are tn look for our salvation. I would not underrate tho morul- inflncnco theory,—that s to say, that ‘The Taplandera send eomething which wo nll would Jove to huy. The Cannibal Tslcs send fritits nnd ornaments; Alaskn velvet furs, nnd the desart 1ts fragrant shrub or its palm, 1t 1 the mornl world any one spends life in making ngreat exposition” of fatiui and brings to- gether the orrors of Moses and Solomon, the infirmitles of Calvin and Edwands, If one hrings from the South Sca only fts horrid ritea, and from Lapland only its walrus meat and fis six months cold and night, this ope must b award- ed_the honor of scll-sacrifice, for clvilization 18 a-weaving fogether of the many threads of good; and §t will reward best and fongest thosa ‘who bring it snch swarp and woof, GRANT AND SUMNER. A Beoond Interview with Gen. Grant— Sumner under Hallnoi- nations. Tmtml in the letters of tho Aposties, while thay, themselves, especially Panl, connect that denth very closely with the forgivencss of sln, aud the spiritaal unlon of man witn God, Hut what {s tho nature of tho death of Chrixt, and what the pecific officacy which the Aposties attribute to it! The general heliel of tho Church has been that Christ died vicarlously, that His death, voluntary on HIs part, was ac- cepted by the Father In satisfaction of the doom brought upon tho human race by the sins of Adam, But as to the prectso manner in which Chrlst thus mado atonement for mankind, and 88 to tho extent of the noplleation of the meritsof that atonoment, there has been s great atatements In regard to facts,—state which reflcct pon the flyinz. 1 had no Hye toward Mr. Motley. Mr. Copeland will o donjs recollect that in the conversation [ had with him I8ald [ regarded Mr, Motlev asa gentlemay of culturo and ability, and In_every way quallfing 1o il any position within the gift of tlie Pray. dent or the people. I sald that the hest neople —cven men as accomplished and eatimably gy Mr. Motley~made mistakes, and that Mr. Mot. ley had made a mistako which made Wi an for. proper person to hold offles under wiv, [ way then and am now_absolutely withont any nn. kindncss of feuling toward ¥r. Motiey. [ wyy Tho Ex-President Replles to Georgo Willlam Curils and John - - Jag. f sorry for the nccessity which compeifed me tq i meaning of rezencration or consclence, neither Reading fafthfully tho recondsof man, one | diversity of obiulons. (8) Some havo limited | Clirist’s obedieice nnto death I8 such an replace him, and If ealled upon to apeak of Intolerant as Christiamly has llw"xsmlcsr:nnu ot learncd the oxnct defini- mighty né‘ene hurslu’npon our slght,—that of & | flis atonement to the clect, regarding It as of | oxhibitlon of love and beneyolence that 1t sub- 1 ahonld .} n high tribate to his ,..l,%,.m.‘:r '.‘m Ever Was. tlon of money. No General Assembly of di- | numberless throng trving to find, do, and en- | the nature of a price patd for man's redemption. | dues tho enmity of thie human Leart to Gol qualifications.” Ho Nover Asked Sumner to Support the 8t Domingo Treaty—~Why Grant i Removed Motloy, . vines can know so little about Go’s will in the Pible as our Congress knows about the divine Taw of gold and silver, or about tariff and freo Dr. Rydor’s Idea of the Nature, | iy’ Foiotciman sd preachor may just as joy much goad. If we shall study well this rmro. we shall find much Inueed to smile ab, hut much to weep orer fn pity. What redi grandour there was in Moses| Whnt groatncss (b) Some that He aled for all sonls alike, and that the beneflts of His death were unrestricted, And under cach of thoso generat hcads there hayo been many divisions, (c) Furthermore, and draws all men to Ifin; but it nr ears to ne that the death of Christ Is mors than this, and that his whole carecr implics something bo- youd this. Iam constrained, therefore, to re- BOMETIING DUN TO TOB LIVING, **The g‘relext." sald the General, ** that Idjs. 1tko Mr, Motloy, {8 & pretext nvented by peaplg some of whom, ke Mr. Jay, hated hin when 5 = o] well walk_arin in arm cther, for they are | of learning, of braln-power, in Daniel aud 8olo- | the early believers long disagreed as to whom | jrard Chrlst's death as not simply a spoctacte of living, and now ouly use him, when dead, Intention, and Eiffcet of the | well wolk ann (2 o Lmetion, for (e W0 | ol e only through twhat sine Wil they | o atonorment of Uit Wi adurossed, & ey | Koodnens procceding from Himaclf, bt & apoc- OCorrerpendence Notw York Mrald. woknd Gov. Fish and mysclf. Other friens Atonement of Christ, {auotance. And tho ohyslelan may as well | pass, bat also through what penitence and vir- | whethertho ransom was pald to God orthe | tacle of goodocss ,:'mlm::{figm%ty g:xz_ i flrgl:‘ CAtno, Jan. 17.—Wo recolved this morning 8 | of Mr, Bumner scem to regard him na mos Joln the party, for the Jgnorance of discasc and of its remedy entitic him to perfect fellowship gy % i with the atatesman and the preaclicr, The Death’of Christ Not Vicarions, | " The public wisiom all fluds about one level tue! How nobly lived the Nanscrit racel [ow gum and hanpy wore_the Peruvians before tho paniah Conquiest! Innil the broad vale whero the human family has dwelt, what a long, tofl- dovll. Aa lato na the filth century the belivvers wero divided upon this topic, Sinco that time the general thouht has heen that the offerlng was made to (iod Sto palliate the wrath of Ilis copy of Harper's Weekly of Dec. 8, 1877. It straggled hero throngh the Doctor's mall, and, as it contalned an Important article’ from’ the of different material from other mew, 1t ¢ ])mm‘r cuough for Mr. Bumner, when iy n as well na Teacher. Ho died for us. **All we, e(x ng, and his admirets, whon dead, to attack llko sheep, have gone astray; o ave turn cvory one to nis own “{t; and the Lord hath 5 Lory Gov. Fish and myaclt,—to 0l the alr wity Substitutional, nor fatory, like so many connccted pools of water, and | sumo cffort has there been to find light, and | offended Justice, Jald “on Tl tho {nquity of usall.” *Christ | pen of Georgo Willlam Curtis on tho Bumner | maledlctions and oxecrations. But when ony 5 i h 'Exp 1 when wiedom {8 runufng Jow In_theology, it Is Imru:i and_happincss! 1f we shall walk over (' Ono of thedifliculties which lies in tha way of | hath redecred us from the cures of tho law, | controveray, T sbowed It to Gon. Grant. As I [ word of defenss s made ngalnst nbusc it fa noy but Sacrificial, equalls low In the adjoliing ponda of medicine | Earth, saying to our own heart, “God only Is | aright underatanding of this subject of the | belng made o curso for us” 1f, then, 1 8N° | yovo'yad oecaston to remork, nothing has Im- | to bo tolerated. 1t is proper to sny of me tiay or polltiess and when It Is rising? In sclence and onall otler sldes, it ?lll,?‘lr:rnyu be, fuund to be rlslng In the fount of religion. heso cups. Universal Balvation Will Come by | are juined, and when wisdom is poured Into one rood, we and our fellow-men are efective, and mitst help each ofier,” a new sunshing would Iall over the landscape, throwing over fallures fn eroed nud custom a vell of beauty. asked : Do you believe and teach that universal salvation whil coma to men on account of, or by means of, tho atoning work of Christ, as the representative of all mien! my answer is, cillcacy of the death of Christ is thy reatricted ar aporopriate meaning of tho word atonement as It Is ndw generally used, 'That Christ made atonement for tho sins of the 1 killed Mr. Motley, or that I'mide war upen Mr, Sumner for not mfpnrlmz tha nnoexation of 8an Domingo. Butif I dare to answer thay presseid me more in the conversations of Gen, Grant than his want of rescntment or anlnosity in apeaking of tho men with whom ho has been I tly il through th b | Therel Lmerit in the being called t learl; doctrine | Yes, for I belleve that God 18 In Ohrist _recon- In this 8a ho has d Imt'lnwmvml"tM Pl A ST it will rise equally all through the assemblage of ere {a n perpetnal me n the being ealled | race, scems to me clear a_ doctrine y b ted, ' In this Sumner matter he has de- | crations of duty as an Execntlve, Dreay Monns of the Atoning Work Ciipt, vaton and fenn. (o onty stands wa the | man. That belog who wrofa lawa on Sinaland | of tho Bauline opistios. But Whon I thus uso | ciling the world unto Himsel£.? 1¢ T am furthoe :l‘llflo:;.fln Al i sl any stato. | to say that ho mado a mistake in his e of Ohrist, gofllcn urn, whose conteuta can nelthor be in? | led forthslaves, who wrote psalms In Judea, | the word -lonemenklcmpkw itIn the seusc | asked, Do you hetiovo lhltChrlnd,l'etl to meet Wi b ¥ ha sald to the writ which made him no Jonger useful to the coup. creascd or diminished. who wrote poctey and orations In Greece, who | n which I thiuk Paul employs'it, and not in the | the ponalty due for the sonsof maui” [answer, | ment. hiat I8 the uae," bio sal e WELLEr | try, it Gov. Fish Lng the temority to hint that The history of akeptielsm, or of reason out- Ernyod to the sun in Persia, who drank the | sense fo which o bellever in his vicarfous deatlh | No,~for I 'belleve that Jesus died to liberate us | in Paris, ot pursuing a controversy with gen- | My, Sumner's tomper wns 80 unfortunate thag emlock in Athens, who beeame nfterward an Apostle, or a Bishop, or a Pope, and who in later times beamo a patrioty a horo, & vhiloso- pher, a philanthrophist, & Christian,—this being will alwavs awaken the deepest admiration in auy busoin which tnoves thoughtfully aheut the homne of aman living, or the sffeat lome of iman dead, A tolerant vatfonalism will, therefore, not spend mitch time in laughter or in anger over the human past of m;bwlon, but will nlways hasten on to find the good and beautiful, that they mn{ bo wrought out Into now lessous uf a now life. It will traverao the loncly islesto find, not thelr savagery, but thelr articles of utility and commerce: will travel over the Mosale and Calvinistie desert, not to flud hot sands, but the verdure islands ond springs in tha tnidst, and the sromatie herbs which cven our fertile pralries cannot produce. It nust advance, not only I acntencas and wit, but in tendoruess and refloction, nylng:, not ouly Meverywhere lIFm uvcr?‘whcm hattle, everys where” dissont,” but *ovorywhere justice, everywhero pdmiration, everywherocharity,” — THEATONEMENT OF CHLIRIST. BENMON NY TIIE RRV. DR. RYDEM, The Rev, W. H, Ryder, D. D, pastor of 8t. Paul's Universallst Church, Michigan avenue near S8ixicenth street, proached yesterday morning to a large congregation, taklug for his subject *Tho Atonement of Chrisc,”” and for his texts tho following passages: ANl wo llke sheep have goue sstrav; we hovo turned every ony 1o his own wa: nd the Lord ;xl;;m Iald on him tho luiquity of we atl.—feaiuh, from sin, and from a dispusition to sin, and not to bear any part of the puniahment due us for sin,—cither Tor sins_committed by Adsm or oursclves, That in tho forgivoness of aln, the wtinfshment which would otuerwise continue, Is rometimes remiteed, or modified, and in some cases wholly removed by the chanred posturs of the soul; scomns to be verified both by Seript~ wuro and experfence. But the primary purpose of the mission of our Lord does not scem to bo to remove the burden of punishment, but the galit of slufulness—to so transfurin tho morsl nature of man that ho shall in al) thinga ba obe- dlont to (od, and enjoy the boueflts which such a life brings. The death of Christ, Mis atoncment, is thon a pledee of the inflnite mercy of God for the nornl regeneration of mankind, 1t afiirms and 1llustrates the divine compasalon. It 1s a decla- ration to all the inhiabitants of tho ecarth that God Ia tho fricad of sinncrs, and that e sent His son * to scck aud save the lost." To sco tio denth of our Lonl in its truo Nght we must not coutemplate it from the side of man, but from tho side of God, 1t s not anything that wo do for oursclyes, bt somothing that fafinite morcy docs for us, **God is In Christ reconciling thoe {rorld unto Himself," not wo in Christ, 1In Iis offlclal relation, Jesus represonts tho human race. Ho s the sccond Adam,—‘‘ths Lord from Heaven.”? In His death, in figure, we all dle, and in that death recelve tho pledge of tho divine tenderncss and love. Itis surprising how strong ahold the doc- trine of atonoment by explatory auffering has had upon tho race, It was cominon to all the anclent ruliglons. It {s wrominent fo tho relig- fon of the Hindoos, the Brahmins, the Chinoso, the Egyntlans, and fn the traditions of Groeeo and Home, Ciesar has this remark in referenco to the Gauls: **The whole nation {s cxcesslvely eddicted to relizlous obsormuces—sn much 80, that persons who are addictod to tho sovorer maladics, or who aro oxposed to perlls in attle or elsewhere, either slaughter men as victims, or dovote - themselves to death, bolleving that unicas lfe Is rendored for llfe tho jmmortal Ruds cannot bo appensed.” The religion of the 1lobrews {s nlso a roltglon of sacrifices, Their 8in ofering, the Passover, Pentccost, the Feast of Trumpets, tho Feast of Tabernacles, and the Day of l‘:xplnilon. were all more or less propitistory and substitution: Trof. Juwu“‘ of Buglaud, speaking of the prevalance in tho world of theso uxjul.uorv idens of sacrifice, says: **Heathen and Jowlsh sacri- ficos rathier show us what the sacrilice of Cliriat was not, than what It was. They are the dim, vaguo, Tude, almost barbarous, expression of that want i humau naturo which has receiyed sutisfaction in them only. Men are afrald of numul.nlur; they wish to'give away sometling; they fecl themselves bound by somothing: tho foar is done. away, the pgift offered, the oblization fulfiiled " in Clirlat, Buch fears and desires can no more ac- cupy thelr souls; they are free to lead a better 1lfe} thoy are at the'and of the old world, aud at tho boginning of a new one.’ Tho Hev. F. 1), Maurico forcibly sayst “A tnner requlires, and la content to be told on the nuthority of Buripture, that the 8on of God has taken awdy sln. This mossage feam God {a the | tiospel forall nfu. ‘Tho sluner wants to be as- surod that God has spoken, that ho has declared hunself tho Rocoucilor, and dealres to be shown how, aud in whom, he has accomplished that work fu hls behalf,? ¥ Chrlstian feionds, we donot need to go bo- ond the limit of our own oxperience to learn hat the spirit of mau cries out for somothing upon which it can rely, and which Is @ot so fur removed from it as to bo jucomprehensible by it. Thearles, conlectures, |Pcculntlam. do not satfsly, e nak to be led *'to the rock which is highor than it.” And only the rock, or wething that I8 surc and ablding, or which scems to be, will satisfy. That rock the soul of the bollever finds fu Christ, Ho can rest fn Him. He Is liko ourscives, and yot 80 con- juined with God in His mediatorial work as to 6 boths our example and our Hirh Priost. And_bacauso thls 1s the feoling of the human heart, because thls desire seoms 1itlo leas than an Instinct uf tho soul, T am persuaded that no form of religlon canever take o ‘deep, strong hold upon Lumanity that does not reach this clement In our natuce. Furthertore, any form of no-callod religion that docs tot addeess the soul with outl urll{, . that does not speak fn the name of Uod, and offor it sheiter and refuge, {8 not mll;ilun, but buman bullef, philosoply, ethics. Tho sonl cries out after God, and that ploading only God, Hia represontative, or somy form of service which tho soul teols {s acceptable to Him, will perma- nently satlafy, Besids, no theory of the mls- slon of Christ which regrards Him“as a mere moralist_can be read futo the New Tustament, ‘The words of Christ Hlmself aro too explicit, ns it acems to e, to leave any ground for discus- alon ns to whether tho New Toatamnont Is & sys- tem of nioral philosonby or asvstom of religion. The New Testamont s a systein of morals, en- forced by the um!mrug of ong who speaks In the nmie of God; but it is also a systum ot religion, addressing the soul {u its frailty and nucds, and telling it of the myaterlos of that 1ife toward which we are hastonlng. Feellng that these words I ntter are tho words of truth, I urge thoir paticent coustleration upon the attention ot vou all.. Take heed that no pride in liberty of thought, or aversion to extreme views in roliglon, lead you beyond the boundurics of o vonststent Christian Taith, I deplore the loosoucas of statomont under this heasl, soinctlmes put forth in the name of *lib. eral Curistlanity. It matters not what label any forn of statement may have, if it reject all that is pecullar iu the Chrlstlan system, and leave us, fustead of *Uod in Christ recoucliing would bo llkely touse It. The word atone- ment, a8 umnln{nd by the old English writors, cxpresses mumply the [dea of closing » broach between two persons who aro at variauce. Shakspcare says: e socks to make stonment Detween the Duke of Glo'ster And your brothers. The genuine meaning of the word Is at-oue- mont, or the restoration of harmony; and, lu & theologleal sonse, nmpurl{ describas the spirit- ual bioncss of God nnd man. But in these days the term Is narrowed 80 ns to be restricted to one peculiar mothod of sccuring this bare mony between God and man, and that (s by the uxglntcry sacrifico of the death of Chriat. ‘That this last definition of atoncment ex presses th thought of tho crecds of many of tho sccts of Chiristendom Is true, but that it reoresents the thought of any part of the New Testament, sectns to us not to ba true, And it whi roqulro but s moment to give you all the facts, for the word atonement occursbut once In the New Testament, and that In one of the verses which stauds at the hend of this scrmon, viz: Rom, v,, & I will read.that and the verso which precedes Itb: © ® Fur If wlen wo wers enemics wo were reconclied to God by the death of 1 u, much more, bemng recon- ciled, we shall bo saved by His lifo. And not only ®o, but wo also joy In Goa through our Lotd Jesus Christ, by whom we bave now re- ceved tho ntonomont.” Bear inind that the yord atonement ovears nowhere clsc in tho New Testament, Obsorve, furthermore, that the ntonement hera mentioned was recelved by mag and not by Gud—the languagu fs—'* by whom we have now recelved the atonement.” ‘Tho original word translated atonemont in 1his single instance oceurs in three other places only fu tha New Testamont; these are Rom, x1,, 15, and If. Corluthiaus, v., 18-10. In thcse instances, and also In evory case whore tho cor- rosponding verb occurs, the rendering e recon- clliation, reconciling, or reconciled, The literal meaning of the original Is undoubtedly rocon- clliation, IHad the translaturs of our version of Scripture rondored the urigionl in Verso 11 thoy did fu gvery other fustauce In which 1t oc- urs, the moaning of Paul would bu cloar, Let e read tho two vorsca agaln: ‘¢ Forif when ‘wa werd enemles wu wera reconcllod to God by the death s Bon, much _more, beiug recon~ ciled, wo shall bu snved b{ His life. And not only 8o, but we also juy iu God, through our Lord Jesus Chrlst, by whom we have now re- coived the atovemont,” §, ¢, tho reconcilintion ~tho samoof which lie was speaking, Now what lg tho nature of this roconciliationl Who was reconclled by tho death of Chrlst] ‘Thu verses I havo read you nxnlluluynfllrm thut 4 we were raconclled to God tho death of His Bon” Not God reconciled to us, Ho needed no reconcllation. All conceptions of the death of Clirist as a fimulunwry sacrifice which placated the wrath of Uod, as Watts says: ‘That calmed his frowning face; "Mhat #prinklod o'er the burning throne, a nd turned the wrath to grace, 3 ' are the outgrowth of those exazzerated concel tlous of the nsture and government of G:?t‘l which obtalnedin the Dark Ages, und which have no support inthe. fracking of thy Now, 'Testa- mont, . T ! . Tiso denth of Christ Ia not vicarious, not sub- stitutiounl, not nxn(ntflr{, but it {s “sacrificial. He did "mot_ dle In our stead; He did not® suffer our guwit; but He did dle for us, In ald of us; His death waa n sncrifice for the sins of the world. Tho Paullue doctrine Is that “ali have sinned and come sliort of tha glory of God,” that man of hlmeell 13 not able to’rlso out of this bondage to slu and render perfect obodience o the Livine luw; but that Uiod, In the fullness of His love, has in tho person of 1iis Bon made declaration of iis forgiving mercy, and that those who have faith in Ilis promiscs, ltke Abra- ham, enjoy a foretaste of tho assuved blesslng, and aro through obedience made oune with Him. In avolding the rupulsive doctrine of tho cx- smlug aacritice, we nocd to have caro that we o not take the oppusite oxtreme, and redice the death of Chirist to the level of an_ordinary ovent, The history of that wonderful person- aza who was burn fn Buthlehem of Judea has buon sadly marred by falso views of it and by aturlbutiog to Iffm qualities for which He makes uo clalin. Jesusis not Uoed. Tho Bl- bie doss not ropresent Himn as such, e is the Hon of God,~crested of the Father,—thy me- dlator or ambassador betwoun God and man,— the authorized representativo of the Father, spooking and acting in tlis name. Assuch represcitative or embassador 1is woras are of nuummr. They are truey for they cunnot by falsw nud proceod from 1ftm, His Ufo Is por- fect; it i un example. Hls death is sacrifictal } it 1s our justification, Avolding the cxtreme of the Delty of Chrlst, s0me Ko to the opposite polu of thought nnd re- Jeet even His Divinlty, He s, in their view, divine only as otier goud men aro, and not by virtuu of Hls rauk, or of His ofllce as the am- bassodor of fiod. Bul this conception of the Lord takes from both iy examplo and teachiug the elument of authority, And ot only - so, but it reduces flis death to the lovel of —an ordinary event. But lu that casc, how did Ho “tayte ‘death for every maa”i—how did Ile, ony more than any oue ¢lse, * bear our sins,’ aud what specifie work did 1to do toward 7o conciling mun to God," tiat so much should by snid about it by the Apostles! Furtbermoro, ¢ Christ bie in no capeclal sonso diving, aud Mis re- lation to the Fathur fu e way pecullar amd au- thoritative, with what propricty docs he upply to himsclf such words as these, or why are tfl‘uy applied to him by the Evangeilats? N wide of Christlanity. doces not read much betts TOLERANT RATION ALISM. H:nl:)‘:.lm l’nn‘lm‘-‘;’ t»f’rémn“l?ul‘fe(of l)x‘:;chnmfil.. SEDMON Y DHOF; SWIND: A eenlus iiko Mr. Ingersoli could raisq as loud Prof. 8wing preachod seatenday morning o | a langh over the statesmon of chuter\hy 08 the he Centrat Chureh 4 MeVicker's Theatre, dls- | theologians of yestorday, The Calvin, who = ¢ ) stood ** warming himaelt” by the fire of Serve- ;:;:":;;’:‘:;:'T"]“m"l‘ Ratloualism,” and taklug | 38 S0na'W bicture not much morn hamili- atiog than tho plcture of Grock statesmen piny- Thare |a none good bat ono only, that ts Godo= | g,;r R’;flmug wlx‘c:n Xcrxes was invading M Matty xlrey 17 State, and resolving not to suspend -tlele It hina boen tho effort of many, all tho prosent | smusements on _account of an Invaslon. crn, to show that reliefon shonld be charitable | The Romnn law, which lawyers all so pralse tuward all the varfations of hellef, and to the ?Ir;s I‘.‘l?em‘\rli-"lllic.:nrlmfi}:olluu; nmwlfiwev;;l:t :::( :rw, nuany foras of unbelief, To poreuado the [ B8NS, VENTER U Fuidth modern rects to confess the good of cach other, court, would nwaken more merriment than and to establish fraternal relations, has | would any chapter from tho Confession of been the rullng theme and impulse of | Faithi while a journal of any physician of the many Christinn leaders. Tho intolerance and | fifteenth centiiry, containtug au account of the cruelty of the Christlun seccts in past times liad been so great and notorious, that it dwi;muls ond reniedy of that perlod, together t was high time for the appearance of a set of re- with the thoughts, and feellngs, and final situ- formers whose watchword should bo mental Hb- atlon of tho patlents, would turn thy laugh fu o now direction, and sct [t to nstil higher erty,—u wide toleration. At last tnisgolden $dea of Yoleration of religlous upinlon has be- iteh. i Betting forth in the namo of the liberty of the ‘buman mind, and demanding charity toward its come wide-spread, and as popular os it {s wide- spread. The mony shapes of Christlan organ- ilosyncrasies, all skeptics should” forgive fo- sumur the religious lorms of thought, sccing 1o fzation are rapidly leamning to feel and confess that the muny churches arc one. The word that they belong to that vast EW:F undor the flale Drothurhood bhas been expanded until {tis be- flag of Iiberty. I Bir Matthow had an in- coming nlmost s comprehensive as the word tellectual pight to belleve fn witches, and it Henry of Germany was foolish enough to stand mankind. Attacked by tho outskle forins of thought, nssalled by sclence, by ratioualiam, threo days barefooted lu tho cold to walt the by ridicule, by wit, and disturbed, also, by filflunuuru ano smile of the l’upul, 1t Lord con combined wisdom and folly, 1t ol futernal dissent and rcbukes, all the denom- luations have refented, and bave cxtended chemlists sought the “plilosoplier’s sione' anid_“Lile's Klixir” i jursprudenca hunr ad, {0 the hope of salvation to many who seeined once only clllaren of despalr. That {nflucuce of children for astenliug o “loaf” of bre: statesmen Justitied land-stealing and slavasy, it ia hardly worth while to createn special langh tune which lins thus accumplished 8o much fo & few years will accomplish yet more In the fu- ture, and will fully fnasgurate an age when all atCalvinor an old Pope, but what we must seck {8 a general laugh or ageneral cry over tious routs will be made one by thelr plety, Looking out upon o fair a picture, it remoins the absurdities or sins of our ancestors.” You may chiter nn old theological seminaty or an old carponter-shop, and tho scene I8 tiic same, Wo must come out laughing, for you say, 4 That old theloglan thure is weiting about rop: robation, and election, and hmblll:y.‘;‘nml l‘u lio Yoo dertred that whist ts Qedignntedian Skentl | 125 LUt Tool 8% that corhenter 1o the Rust; ha iy clain or Rationallsm shall become ns broadly tulerant, Having for n century pleaded for o tolevant Christianlty, it should add to the clo. quence of words the highier cloguence of ex- nmple. Paul eald, “Thou, therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thyselff sitting down, and, holding a viang between his feet, hie Is dragiing n board over it} and thero ‘Ihou that preachest agalust stealing, dost thou steal " tlemen who bavo nowspapers at thelr control and dead meu for their subjocts?"” 1OW THE NARALD INTERVIRW CAMR TO PASH, But tuls special articlo fn; Harper's Weekly docs the Qeneral 80 gross an Injustlco that 1 shall venture to glve you the impreasious It pro- duced tipon the General's mind. 4 This article,” ho sald, **1s most unjust, and does not reflect credit upon the reputation of Mz, Curtls for honesty and faltness, It fs as- sumed by Mr. Curtls and othor deforiders of Mr, Bumner that L, In somo way, wantonly at~ tacked the reputation of Mr. Bumner and Mr. Motloy. Now® here are the facts: When Mr, Motley dled 1was Jo England.. Two articles came to my attertion, otle from the pen of John Jay, and the othor {rom that of Mr, 8malley, of tho Tribune, Both of theso articles did mysulf, and capecially Gov. Fish, great (njustice, !lem"’ among other things, that wo had killed Mr, Motley, although he loft his mission In 1870 and dfed in 1577, Some tima after I was trav. eling from Lopndon - to Edinburg and met Mr. Copeland on_ the_ traln, who was represonting the Now York Herald, I took occasion to speak to Mr, Copeland of the articles of Mr. Juy snd Mr. Emn.llc{. of thelr Injustice, aud to state tho real factsas1 remembered them. The train was N‘fl"‘l"fi about forty-five miles an hour at the time an no notes werotaken,® g statement was written oyt afterward by Mr, Copeland from mamory, and sent to the fZerald without my sceing {t. When the paper coutalning the article reached me I saw plalnly thatthe author had ecndeavored to state the conversation with accuracy; but there were some errors both of omission and ot tommission, ns was most natural under the cir- cumscanet It has beon so long since I rend tho articles that Icannot specify what theso CrTors were. WIAT GRANT SAID TO RURTIS, “ But I never sald that Mz Sumner, io stating *“that, when howas removed from tho Chnlrinau- ship of tho Beonte Committco on Foreign Re- lations, ho lcft a clean docket, asserted what ho knew to be a falschood.! Tho fact ls, *clesu docket ! Is a torm that has been Iutmfumn] by Mr. Sumnoer’s uvérzealous adinirere to give this uncallod-for controversy o turn that would ou., nblo them to contradict my statemcnt success- fully. What I sald was entlrely in rclation to what bod passed between Mr. Curtis aud my- sclf in a conversatlon at Long Branch, when Lie asked me to use my Infucuca to have Slr. Bun- nor restored to his former position on the Forelgn Relattons Committee. Mr, Curtlsshould rememuer that I told him that I bad nothing to do with the formation of the Nenate comuiit- tees, and that if I liad I would not rezard Mr. Bumnerns a proper man for that Committee under the Adtninlstration, because ho had put himself out of relations between the Becre- tary of Stato and mysclf, and without any redson, so far as elther slr. Flsh or mysclf were coucerned. I told Mr, Curtls that tho Chalr- man of that Counnitteo nbove all others should Do on good torms at least with tho Bwrcla? of Btate. Isaid also to Mr, Cuctls that Mr, Sum- ner had o most uulortunato temper for any usinesy transactious. Ilo was dogmasic, opinfonated, Infaltible in his own cstimatlon,— the be atl and do all in any matter in which he took ?nt- of a temper’ that mado bualucss with bim almost impossible. In proof of this I stated that whon Mr. Sumner was relleved from the Chairmanshlip of his Commitise thera were several treaties beforo hitm—scven, nine, or aloven—not acted upon. I told Mr, Curtis that somo of thesy trsatics had beun boforo the Committes for about alxtecn months, und that, although I did not know tho fact, I wouly ‘vonture tho assertion that the other members ot the Comulttee did not even know of thelr oxistenco, Mr, Curtis replied that this could not be trug, ns Mr. Sumner lad told him that, when ‘he was displaced, tho work before his Commitico was fluished, and there was nothlug for bis successor to do, I'told Mr. Curtis that I was vory glad that In any queation of voracity between Mr. Bumner and mysolf it should be upon a polnt so caally determined, and that ho shvuld be convinced was right. Iat once wrote to the State Depart- mant for a list of the treaties and conventions before the Cummittes n Foreign Relations at the time of Mr. Sumner's removal, thelr nature, the timo thoy uad boen under cousideration by tha Committce, and thelr tinal dlsposition, ‘Lhe roply from the State Dopartment shuwed that there were, as far us I can rocollect now, twelva treaties and conventions, ond that of iheso twelve two had been before the Committos for about sixtecn months, I sge that Gov. Fish says thero wora nine; but wy recollection s that tho number was twelve. I sent tho list that came from tho Btato Dopartment to Mr, Curtis. Jlo can answer whethier 1 was right or not, and it he cannat, then the Hon, J. C. Ban. croft Davis can, Mr. Dayis was acting Becre- tnry“ul Btate at the time, and answered oy lot- ter . BUMNER UNDER A MORBID INFLUNNOE, After this narratlon, which, a8 you will ob- serve, |3 au eapcclal auswar to the urticle of Mr. Curtis, tho General returned to Mr, Sumuer, “Igald," he continuea, “to Mr. Curtls at tho tine—L sald spccilicully that 1 did not aceuse Mr, Bumuer of kuowingly and intentionally falsftving tho facts, 1 ssy 20 now. ‘That 1s too gruvo an lwputation to bo mado agalust any mau unless upon indubitable evidence of an Intent to decclve, But what I anid thun, and want I say now, ls, that Mr. Sumper's temper and nature were sich that he belleved his own llustons without regard to the facts, It really almost amounted to u meatal deluslon, and, so business rclntons with him became Impossible, woare slandering the dead. 1f reapect Is dng to tho dead, truth sud justice sre dua tuthe living, and I only apoke In scif<lefense, ang after ‘many_vears of allent submission to ae sgults froni Mr. Snmner and his friends, only Ig the interest of truth nud justice.” BUMNER AND 8T, DOMINSO, Your correspomsient alluded to the emphaaty with which the ctitics of the General dwelt upon tho stutement that Mr. Bumner foll untler the displeasurc of the Administration hecause ho opposed the annesation of 8t. Dominwo. 1ty ossible,” sald the General, *that but for My, umuer’s upposition to the Bt. Domingo treaty Do would never have been removed from the Chalrmanship of the Committco on Forelem Relntions, But If thatopposition had anythiug to do with the'estrangement of Mr. Sumner an myself tho fault was his and not mine. I made no question with Senators who opposed 8t. Do- mingo, I recognized vn that question, aa | did uiways, thot o Senator Lnd his independent duty and responsibllity, the same ns an Exocutive, Boma Benators, Iike Mr. Ednunde, whom [ rank amonr my best friends, and for whom [ have never ceased to feel tho highest admiration and respocty opposed the 8t. Domiugo tresty as vehemently but not as sbuslvely as Mz, Bumner._ It I8 one thing to opposo tho measurs of an Executive and another to cXpress that nl;pmluon in terms of contumcly and attributing tho bascst motives, as were attrib. uted toma in the 8t. Domlugo busincss. My relations with Mr. Edmunds and his collezzae, with Mr. Wilson, and numerous other Scoators ‘who apposed the 8t, Domingo treaty, and whose names ean bo found in tho Congressional Lteeond, wero navar disturboed for & momont.” GRANT NEVER ASKED BUMNER TO BUPPONT TnR 7 THEATY, Your corrospondent, ropeated an observatton that bad beon mada fa. rolerence to Mr. Sum. ner's imolled promise that he would support the 8t. Domingo treaty, Oen, Grant aaid, with some carncstness: ** There 15 another misap- relicnsjon. 1t Is sald that I mado my vieit to {r. Sumner about Jan. 1, 1870, to try and Induce klm to support tho 8t. Domingo treaty, [ never thought of such a thidg, I bad no idca that the treaty would moge with opposition from blm or any ong clse. I eatlod llmu?’ out of respect to the position Mr. Bumnor held at the head of the Committeo on Forefgn Rolatlons, andto explan why the fact of such 8 treaty being newotiated should havo boon Lkept from tho publlc and fromm Congress until that time, and to explain to him also the reports bronght back by the ngonta of the Govermnent who bal visited the island s to tho resources of 8t Domingo, its soll, tho character of ths people, their wishes in regard to annexatlon, and othier poluts. Tho quostion as to whethor or not hy wanld support tho treaty was asked by Col. Furnoy, who happened to'bs present, Yuu sco 1 called as Mr, Bumner was fAnishing his dinner, and Col. Fornoy was one of the guosts, ils roso to leave when I entercd, bLut Iasked him to retnin. When I'had finfstied my statoment, Col. Forney sald; *Of course, $fr. Sumuer, ou will support thls treaty,’ or some such hing, I don't remember the words. If | had any doubts ns to the courso of Mr. Bumner {n relation to the treaty the answer would havo been very natisfactory., 1 may as well say that during ihis convorsation, aftor I had Anished whint I camne to say about 8t, Domingu, Mr. Sum- neropened about hls ¢ friond Asbley,’ ashecalled him, and asked meo if 1 could not do something for tin. It would be quitc as a:unur for me to chargo that Mr, Sumnnur’s subscquent opoo- sitlon to the treaty was due to his dlsappoint~ 1went in not procuring a wood position for his friend, as it I3 for the admiresa of Mr. Bumner to make charges against Gov. Fish and myscll of {mproper motives in our dlferenco with tuo Benator. The chargo would bo much muro sus- contible of proof without chauging facts to ac- commodate argument. But Tdo not charge Improper motives in this matter, and sincerély beliove that I'would do the memory of Mr. Bumner great {njustico If T dd." —————— Itubber Balls=The Curlous Proce Ing Thoso Ylaythings, The process of making the hollow rubber balls used by ehildren for playthiugs fs quito curious, and may be lntcreatiug to thoso not fuwnlliar with It.” A Holyoko writer thus deserlbes it The upper room of the mil §s prepared to push thfs brauch of the busincsa for a fow months, and 1t will gmhnbly turn out soma 5,- 000 dozen of those balls between Jannary and Juue. These balls have o solld surfoce, are made by a different procoss from that of mak- ing thosoft rabber_balls which are porforuted by an ovening, and, uf course, are much ory {lrm, durable, and olustic, ‘Tho shoots of rubbee prepared for the balls are cut into strips of doublo convex stiape. The cdies of tho strips are molstened with a preparationiol rubber and naphthia, by which they are jofned flrmly to- other, Lhreo of tho strips beivg used for ano all. 'Tnia part ‘of the work ts dono by glrle and a skilltul girl can earn about $1.50 per day. Whon the atrips are jolued together, the ball 13 very neur the shapu of o Braall nut. * Bofore thy last openlog s closed, o suinll quuntity of car- bonate of ammonla is put inslde, which, when subjected to strong heat, will mako the rubbee expund end fli] vut tho ball mold, 'Thio openiug {8 then closed with the adiesive mixtare, snd it {s placed in an fron mold of tho sizo and shobo of tho ball desired. The molds ard packed [nto frames in which they are subjected 10 the heat of tho vuleanizer, They ara kept in placo iu the frame by wron roada along the side, and, when tho framo Is full, (ron plates at thy oods are screwsd duwn blghtly upon tho molils Chelat tiih redeomed as from the curso of the ;:t‘w. belng mado a curso for ua, —Galatians, Il., Whn 11la own sclf bare our ains in His own body on tho tree, that wo, bolng dead to sins, shoulu Ilve unto rightcousncha; by whoso sirivus ‘yo woro henled.—7. Peter, it., 24, And not only #o, it wo also oy In God throngh our Lurd Jeaus Christ, by wiomn wrue have now ro- cetved tho asonement,—Komans, v., 2, Fullowlng {8 tho toxe of the discourse? Our purpuse in this sormon s to stato the meaning of these and slmilar passages of Scrint- ure, 1n dolug thls we shnll almost neccesarlly discuss the broad question of tha death of Chrlst, What Is the New Testament doctring of the Atonement? In other words, what speclal ellicacy, for the moral regeneration ot man, I there i the death of Christ! 1. Considgring the very great prominenca which the event of tho death of Ohrlst holds in ulnost every theory of the Chrlstian retigion, it 1s quite remarkable that one finds 8o littlo In rrference todt in the Four Gospels. It we ox- ceot the'accaunt of the erucifixion, thero lsinthe Gospets scarcely u dofiulta statewent o rofer- eno to the nature of tho death of Chrlst, and certaluly nothing as to the method of that deoth as & means of briuging the human race into harmony with *God. Furthermbro, ‘after: tho cruclfixion ond resurrcction of the Lurd,' the themo of the apostollc ministry was nob tho death but the rosurrection of Chirlst, #Jesus and the resurrection was the apeclile theme of the apostolic inlulstry, It was of this that Paul preaclios when ho *“stood In the midst of Mars Hill, and addressed the Athenlans who nssembled there,” Those who starch tho Gos- peta for any definite teaching as Lo the cflleacy of Christ's death will ussurediy look fn valng but of the relation of that life to God and man, and of man's duty to God aud his fellows, he will find vury much, 2, Tho texts which I have read you,and the passaresol simllar haport, are foundeither in tho Old Teatament or fu the Eplatics,—~not oue Is from the Goapels. Several of the uxpressions fro- quently quoted as teachlng tho substitutlonal theory of the atonement are tuken from the Alrty-ihird chapter of laatal, *With His stripes woare healed'; @ Mudy Mis soul un offering fur slu " “The Lord hath lald on Iim the fn- fyuity of us all,” arv all from that one chiapter, “The other pussoges which constitute the text of Luis sormon ure from the Apostics, as, lndeed, are all sioitlur texts which are not selected from tha O1d “Festament, and ff from that part of the Bible, generally trom the Book of Isauh, We have, then, these fucts to gulde us fu our tosestizatton: (1) That our Lord I His own teaching, us far as It has come down to us, ascribes no capectnl efileacy to s death as o means of human sunctilicatton, though o several times refers to thut womuntous oveut in His nterviews with His disciples, ond particularly {n that conversation with them which is recorded In Johu, xvi; (3) that thy pussages of Scripture which perplex the Biblical student, and nhuve been the bosis of thoss theorles of the atonement which tave so slincked tho consclence of Chiristendoin, becansc they seem ot 1ssue with our Lord's unmistak- abls teaching as to the patdre and nur&mu of the Fatner, did not any of them proceed from the lips of Chrlst Himsell, nre uot to be found nterwoven with the hiatory ofthe plnmhfi:umm carly Church as that s recorded in the Book of Acts, but are shut up within o nurrow Hmit In certalu of thy prophetieal books of the Hubrows, und [ the eplaties,—chiolly thoss written by 1Paul. These fucts scem to open thie way for an wdjuatnient of the apparent coutilet botwuen the teaching of Clirlat Thoself, the ministry of the Anostles, and tho letters which tho Apostlos subsequently wrote to the Cliurch, {s o man sitting down to work ata forge; and thore ia tho physician bleeding oll sick ones un: til they faint. An honorable skepticism will thus sca all the past workl at onee, and so divide up its anger or Its wit that soclety shall come from its touch, not lujurod, but “lustructed, pacliled, re- form.d. If modern free thought so loves the human race that it cannot bear to see a tyrant 1y the State oppresslug the poor, nor a tymnt In the Clutrch finposing spon the Ignorant, it must not itself bLecomo s cruelty aud langh the poor populace out of thelr best principlus and thelr best hopes, Thio deapotisi of the Church could with diflleulty injurs France more than :‘h\u ‘luu been injured by the liberty of the in- dets, . Human clof!uunm cannot long exist, aud cor- toluly esanot bevoine fmmortal through publle affectlon, unless it bo busy gathering up genernl rineiples of human virtue and well-belng. ?\'n and raflery uro delighttul to possess or to hear, but thuy do not enter deeply Into what Is callod a great life. [ you will Frun over the wames of the helpers “of the human race,— those who have carriod the ark of clvllization through the wilderness,—you will find thot If nuy one of them possessed any wit, it wos only tho decoration of a stroug purpose, the sparkle upon the river, but not the stream. To laugh at Jonals and the whule, to show up all the Infirml- tics of tho patriarchis and the follies of the schoolmen, 8 only the svort ot an hour, aud can never bo the calllng of agreat Jife, All who staud forth jmwmortal are secn with thelr feet upon quite another rock,—tat of great general prineiples of politics, and morals, and rellglon.” The Ureek orators stuod upon the positive good o thelr country; the Ureek phi- osopliers upun the good and beautiful in morals. Upon the solld rock of legal and politieal truth stood Clevro, and Livy, and "facitus, Upon rightcousuess Savonarols foumled tho {nsplra- tion of his 1ifo, Inthe rlehts of maua thou- sand totzuces found lnuguage, and power, and tame, In our own natlonal lundred years, tho Witherapoons, and Adamses, and Wobsters, and Garrisony, and Sumnors all drew thelr impulse from fundamental ruths, and arose, not by wit nor ridicule, but by devotlon to principies of baman actioh. All sch pages of llstory teach us that wo must mingle lnughter and ndmiration, and that, when we have seen the nh?rt-mmlnfll of yes- terday, wo must ot sarcasni give place tu love, and must set about the noble task of finding tho good that 1s thrown nlzhtly upon our shore, We st tind o atl our pursuits, aud sclences, awd relfgions, and professions, the admirable element, and must eneer it wiward, We must water these plants with our tears, Uod alone i Enud. Ho s Independent; all clse walts fur belp. A toterant ratfonallsm will move about among the churches, not with au Iron rod, beating cach minister at his desk, and each suppliant at the altur, but with reapeetful bearlug, sayinzg, # Dear soul, what u solumu mystery surrounds both you und me!' Wo Protestants must oven lay aslde tha lan- guugee of abuse long enotgh Lo ses Komantsm 1 o broader light, and Jeuri that it 18 on the way toward somu goodness, Like our uncestors, ft baa boen in Lad cumpany, both us to persuns aud a8 to dogmas, It~ shows somu Lad Popes, o Jong liue of them, but only a8 nglund, ond Russin, and France show bad Kiugs aud Quoens, At Jast the outlylng worll of retormed thoucht has touchied that Collego of - Cardinals, which once It §s dinleult for any of us to bo constatent ns ndividuats, and it ia just as difffeult for an n;iu to carry forward its l.\utht or_Its emotion in any good kndof cquilibrium, It is related of 2 Bloody tyrant, in the days of the French Revolu- tlon, that when a group of pariots were before him to recelve thelr sentence of death, one mau, under death sentenee, ho rebulked for stepping upon the foot of the tyrant’s favorite dog, ray- iz to the man who must die w an hour: ~ *8ir, have you no humanity P’ Hussla, who had banished tens of thousanas to Siberla, who had ased the knout on petty offenders, who had dis- sunembered Poland; at lnst bocame Indiznant at the Turks lor cruelty to some Christians. To il conststency {s us ditleult s to Bud apotiess virtue. » In theso clrcumstances, it may well be lu- qulred whether the rtionallsm which has so Joug and ro powerfully rebuked the Chureh for Tutolerance Nias ftsel! Femembered for an instant its own philosophy! Looking out upon this wide ficld, we will venture the sssertion that what mankind now peeds 18 not only a tolerant Chureh but also an equally toleraut skepticism. A happy and useful form “of thought wil Lo one which shall avold equally narrowness of view amd feeling inabsle the Chureh or vutside of it. Breadtlvof thouuht, and its attendant char- ity for all thouht, must bo confessed to be just ud desirable snd beautifnl o skeoticlsm as it is Inrelicion. Without this mutunl concession wnd good Wi not only no elergyman, but no man of sclence, can elulm to be a worthy meimn- ber of a great ace. 1 harmony with such a tine cf thought, the text just nnnounced speaks to us, It reminds us that, be we preachers, or rationalists, o) Keoloeists, ur evolutionists, or creatfonlsts, w ure all Imperfect, and thut onlv ono perfect bee fugz exists,—the Absolute ar the Ideal God, 1n #uch a world, therefore, tolerution must be unl- versal; It must be the vital ale of theologian, utd chiemist, and sstronotmer, ond phitosobb alike,—the one sweet ether which atlnoble sot st breathe, If ratfonallsm comes and tells thy Clirely that the divise autbority of Moses or David fs not well attested, ft must ns cheerful- 1y ndmit that i s daily uttesing ideas or prinel- vles which are us badly supported {n evidency aaare Moses and Duvld, Prof, Virchow, In an essny publishud in the Sefence onthly, ulthough he speaks from the chambers of 8 pure reasot, warns his learned companions nt. Berlin agufnst askinge the public to aceept as fucts what may yet b only sclentille dreame, Ho reminds thom Lt there §4 in selence the very thing they con- crmn in religlon,—a blind faith which rubs by zeul eather than by actund facta, Ile confesses that the selentific man may be the victim of “pet theorles,” and thus may e fu his depart~ ment Just what a Pope or 8 theologlan may be 0 bl epeelad clrele of rest or motion. Beyund doubt, wearecreatures of infatuatlon. We beeoe enumored over whatever 1s our owi, De it our house, or our friend, or vur garden, or o city or villuge, or our rellzon, or uurart or scfence, Nature ardatned this that we might o 1o work alwuys with a lizht heart, thinking our Work o be the hest fn the world. Eael man and Woman 14 6 natural born egotist, thut ke or sho 1y be happy. We sdwayva pity all others he- cause they wure not Hke us. Thus Ul of Mak= 13 Weecteied. by ‘selt-coneelt a8 tho tongue | elocted bioody wnd wicked men to represent | - Tbe tospul Was preached very early in tho | hen saud the Jowe unto Him, thouarenot yot | thu world uuto Hlmsclf," mercly u curlous ac- | fur a8 s feolings toward, (ov, Fish and ‘myaoit f.‘.'m‘.’,‘i"’mi‘é&’?m'.'h e nu?‘xfil‘n“’t’t‘xlflffldn:: b Dread it cats, Now, i go. | Jesus Chrlsh, Gud has comgolied thoin, wncon- | Mstory of tho Chureh, both to Jowsatd Gen- | 8ity yeaesold, and st g suvi Aurahame Jrus | count of a remarkablo man who lived lone ago, [ Were concernedy it a mast cliseitabla to feul that, | girong fs tus expauslye forco of tha rubbor bt Ji enee, this quality swells out Into selgusly, to elect the one of thelr number who | thes. “Paul §s callod s*th apostie to the Ulen- | sald unte them, *Verlly, verily, 1ssy uito you, | and who, betng altogether ko ourselyes, had | 1t was o nental delusion, Thus, In the later tho molds that tuey have bout this thick iron into a curve, 1fond of tho molds should work vut of place whtle vuleanization is fu process, the molds will fly out witha nofso like the re- nort of a dozen pistols, and tho work is spolled The action of tho reat does tho rest. When the molda are opeucd they contaln tho perfect round bulls, with no mark of the placcs whera an Intolerance, und the cvolutionist pities the clerzyman becausy he does not Kuow the e finite aweetners of deducing man from an ape. 1 ot Calvin, thut of being powerfally to theary, muy easily becoie the Llew- fsh of an titldel, who sholl hute a chureh us madly us Calvin loved one, Every form of o 1l may become speli-bound, and oy stand years of bl life, wheucver my namo was mien- tioned in Ar, Bumner's presouco, lie would loso all control of himself, and say things about me of tho severest avd most outrageous nature,~thiugs of which lo could uot by any pousibility have bad a kuowledire, cven it thoy had beentrue, Itold Mr. Curtls of ong lncident lho\lhls how Mr. Bumaer's temper his faults, and may or may not have been al- wuys correct fn bis teaching,—it matters not, I say, what name may be given to sentiments Hko those, thuy sruo practically a rejection of Christlanity us a syatem of revealed religion, And, with this rejection, the rock of faith upon whiich the soul rests passes away also, und wo are loft voyagiug upon the sea which has uo wis most moral, niost scholarly, most liberal, ‘I fading away ot the teluwrul power, the brutherhood of “natlons and fudividusls, cansed by constaut litercommunication, of business and travel, bringiug Protestant and Romauist together, the mimense progress of {uformation and culture, the develupment of porsonul liber- 1y ull theso fucts encompass the conclave of C thles,” wlnce be especially clulined that lllu{ were ncluded in the divine promise, and thal G fn Carist was * no reapecter of perdons,’! But the Jews snd Gentlles wero allko tanitlar with sucriticlal rites, The Jew found o the Masaic law cerumonial usages which seemed (o polnt tu the offlcacy of the uoath of the Lord; pruphocios which forstold the coming of o Mus- Hafors Auraliath was, L ain, " Jobn, viil., 7. And gow, O Father, glority thou mo, with thing own self, with tho glory which I had'with thoe befora the 'world_ was, Jobn, xvil B, Aud the word o Illeu.;,l dl dwuunr;un«ng 1:, h:-“d:?') N-' lield His glory, 'the glory as of the unly begutten u th bathur, full of grace and trath." ~dubin, ., A. And many other slens did Jesnu in the presence of it disciples, which are uot written a thia book: I tho vleces wero placed, Tho slight ridge made s 1l v us the charmod U irdinals, aud 1! when they huve voted, they | slab scemed Lo have thir (ulillment lu tho cru- | Dut thyse aro writton, that ye Ribgut bolleve that | shora, aad paturo_wero aifected, “Thia 18 an ddent | " gy “inola fs ground oft by a stone used i“"rh "‘l“l' ll'l;u ‘L'\L‘:"u ul‘lmu:u’}:ouct‘n.m‘ll!au n‘.‘fi huve chosen that one of tlwlr'uumln!r who pluly- eltled Nuzarono whoim the gutes of death could | Jeans Iv the Chelat, taa Son of God; sud lu ba- “I'ho Univorsallst Chiurch, 88 & know and love | Which u&) also b Sur{nud. nA "““'“f""v:’l‘" l({r ‘the purpasc, and the mumy 00, “This 18 atd woon, id stars have il becy eclipsed to | ures Leat tha outstanding ivilization of Europe | ot buld. As Potor gabd, aiddresslug bis couns | Neviug, ya wight havo lifa i tis' nsme, ~JoAn, | tt, rests ubon tho bistoric basls of revealed re- | passed Gougress duriug the recunstructlon | )ye oug “process of rubber work, “Ticstics the aml Amerlea. In hurmony with such a picture wo sco a Bishop In our own Eust requusting a zealuus fathue to take back u cortaln wiracle he bad an- uounced, it belng well Xuown by the Blsbup that It would tuke the Catholis Church very loug tu recover frow its mirucle, even if the man did recover qupidly frum his sickuess, Two hu dred years agu the miracle could bave gono ul challenged ond hiave been recorded I thio bio; raphics of the salute. ‘Thus, whether you study a elugle Bishup markivg tho atfairs of his dio- cess, or study the Cardinala electing o suceessor of Pius 1X., you will sve tho play of large new truths uoou tho human beart, Over thess great traths we must not complaln as maleontenta, but must rejotcs as lovers, 1t would sein that any xlunllty in man worthy of the nane of & rativualism sbould thus go forth gathering up the Fuod of rellgion snd letttng full upun all such progress its sfucere benedietton, Ouly behold what a bard time of It wueall bave bad ; how [ar from the perfect {deal we were Ju the outset; what voless there were sayine to us, **God ouly i3 Luod I aud then let uti Ul-will give place toa zealous co-operutlo Wo all need help of ull bestdes, We laust tho frults wad gralns possible to each soll, aud not only the briers and brambles of the Jield, When the higtoriau, Froude, passes uver the laud and tims where Jub lived and Calviu jived, Lis tinds the deep good of the Us und the Ge- ueva, but wheu our own logersoll passes over « past world he brings to us all the deforiuftics botween Dug and Beersheba., It may be well there {4 some ouo réon to dy this, for sll kinds of cts should be koown, bLut e must do ft at a wecll- sacritlee, for all great hearts .lave cowe ov tlowlug with the uoble {nnunand not witl follics. Iu the great expositious theru are brought togetbicr not the fallures of all natlons, but the successes of each, The Pacltie [alanls, wlere bumble tribes dwell, scud something {n- geuloud,—beautiful parments wads of solt burk? ez poor bird by the bluze in the reptile’s head. It Mr, Ingersoll did say that it woro as easy for wian toexist Inwsccond world as b way deally for bhn to haye exfsted here, ho ut- the wisest and broadest senthnent in worids which has_ yet escuped his lips, 1 his putdle addresses on Curistlsulty have beeu pervaded by that furt of thonught, there woulid nave been nuch more of power und bLeauty in the platform speeches of the giftod nat. "It 13 all fu vain for ony one fo the Temple wr out of f¢ to clatu that hulias the seeret of the unfverse. Not one of us has It, and we way just a8 well own up to tho legorance firse 1, fust. I the charchman, be be Mr. Moody, or Mr Spurzeon, or the Pope, has the sceret of nature, why hus he not told it and sct the world ut restt When the old eeumeter fuund out thy #icret ubout the syuare of the Evpothienuso of & right-angled triangle, be told it to the world, wnd the world replicd, © Yes, you Laye it,” o it bua never doubted the solution iu the 2,500 years which has passed. Aud so when Morsy But up hls telegraph, the world suon confedsed thut he hud discovered a fact, but after Mr, Maoudy, and My, Brun:euu, aud $he Pupe bave wil puzscl wlong, huving eald all they Leld {o Uieir braing, the world docs not »ay, *'Yes, you found 1t," Lut it wcts much a3 (bouch brce whie ones bad made o alluion to the watter under debate, Benc the reul fact nistst be that o the dowaln of religion, Nature s forbldden that the whole truth sbal) bo fully kuowu., 1t theretore comed®to puss that en in- tidel vcun becote us dogmstic us s Cnristlan, and cun equal the uarrowest theologlan {n wak- Juir aifjriations regurding that of which he kuows nothiug. 1o spiritual matters we must all get up to the huighit of a wide charity, Botl partics, the Pious sud the duubtivg, wiust confess the pus- #ible error o self uud the poselble truth of the other, sud weasure life by lts honor and useful- pues rather thau Ly R opisions. Oue of the ol beautiful letters left by Charles Sawuer by trymen on the doy of Penteeos 1sragl, hear thess wordas Jeaus of Nuzareth, & nun approved of God anol you I:!y miract wondery, aud sigus, which God did by Hi 1 thu midat of you, us y¢ yourscives aiso kuow ; How, being dellvered by the detennluate course of Giwd, yo have taken, and by wlcked hands have cracitied and slain; whoni Gud hath rafsed up, baving luosed the palus of death, bocausy it was oz possible that e shuuld be holdon of (" Hub the Juws seem to bave dilfered among themselyes us to the fultllmsnt of thuse propbe- cles, and us to tho real signitizance of the death ol Christ, while, on tne other haud, the con- verts from the Gentlles disazreed with them. Aund theso disugreoments or misconcoptions, comlng to thy knowledge of the Apoatles, the epistles or letters were writteu; to set furth what they rezurded as pure doctriue on the sev: eral questions In ssue, ‘Lho epistles show that the Apostles, and eapeclally Paul, placed great vmphusis upon the death of Christ. 'The lauguuze vinployed by Paul fs clear and pusitive as to the fuct of the efffeucy of the death of the Lord. e luds ln 1lim tio fultillment of prophecy, the culmina- tion of the types sud sywbols of the cerousonlal law of tho Jews, uud, us wodlutor snd redeew- er, 1o holds [ Jis Uauds the sovercizn rewedy forthe sanctitlcution of the world. Listen to these words from the filth chapter of Romaus: S But God commundeth 1Els love tuwand us lo that, whilo wo wore yet sluncrs, Clrlst died for us. Much more, thet, botag now justided by His blood, we shall busaved frow wrath through Hiw; forif, when we were envinies, we wero rocotictlea fo God vy thedvath of ls son much wore, belng reconellod, wu shall be ssved by His life.' Aud not ualy so, but we also joy in God through vur Lord Jesus unm‘ by wiowm wo bave uaw received the atoucment.” 8o far, then, our way sopes to ba clear, The voming of Christ Is predicted o the Ho- brew Berlptures. Sowe of these predictions which ascribepecutiar ctlleacy o Ula desth wre i ¥ Yamen of liglon. The promivent defeuders of the doc- trine of univereal restorution In the early cen- turles of the Churct wore ull docided overs In the divinity of Christ, uud (o the Hrst svstem of Chrlstian ‘thoulugy ever lssucd—wrltien by Urizen in the year 0—tha great doctrine of unlyersnl restoration ls made to depend upon the Incaruution and atenement of Chrlst, 'The eurly sivocutes of the world's radum}ulon in this country likewise reated their bellof upon “the foundation of thy spostics and prophots, Jesus Clrist Himsclf bding the chief coraer- stone,” From that founaatlon {t his nover been removed. From that foundation let no destroying hand seck to romove it. “The word " that was * mado flesh and dwelt among us* {a the Lord, In whony we truss. ————— EQUALIZASION. To the Editor of Th Tribuhe, Monrgisox, IIl, Feb, 33.—Ju Tus Taisuxs of to-day [ notice the stutewent; 4 The tax- tighters have attacked th®procecdibgs of tho State Board of Equalization fu cousequenco of the fallure of tho Boanl fo adopd the revort of thc Committes ‘'vu Gencral Equalization,” "It you wall examine the last page of the published proceedings of the Board (187X uuder the cuption * Errats,” you will fud the followiug words: ¥ Puge aiter the words *motlon sdooted,’ o th l{ue from top, lusert and of the Comiitee s smonded was adopted'” Tho record of the Board In posses- slon of the Sccrctary st SBpriogdeld s correct, the error existivg only ln tbe published pro- ceedlngs. Yours, ete., Ep B. Wanszx, Member from Pifth Districs, times, Tho bill was rannlu with the aduiirers of Mr, Buwmncr, and It origiuated in the Com- mitteo of which Mr. Boutwell was Cualrman, Tt happened that Mr, Boutwell, who, you will romvinber, took o Jeading part in the leglalation upon reconstruction, was wlmost if oot alto- Fo\hnr tho author of this bil}, and had written Ilmul. without consulting any oue, excent, per- a) Al'd“f"l volce from hoaven saylng, *'This 4 my hullow balls ure mado solld balls of yubber, et beloved don, tn whot £ am well ploteed. ",y iy 17, 1fut as mnany as rocelved bim to thom e lla owar tu bevome sous uf God, even to them that Betteve oa 1l nawmo. —Jon, L., 12 - T €0 10 peapare 8 place for you. And )t 1 go and provure a blice for you, § will cume aynia aud re- Caivo you unto mysoif that where I am thero ya tiny b6 aleg. —JoAn, TR, 2. ‘Josna salth unto her, I'am tho resurrection and the lifo; ho that believeth in mo though be were doad yot sliall be livo'—Jokn, zi., 23, And 8lmon Puter answored and safd; Thou art the Cbrust, tbe Son of the lving God.~iuit,, ot 15. ‘As thoua hast given Him powar over all flesh, that 1le should give eternal Mfe 10 ag wany au thou hast @ivon Miw. —JoAn, zril., 2. Pnilip waith unto ifiin,” Lord, show us the Fathor. and it autiiceth us.” Josus saith uato bim, dlave 1 been so Joug time with you, sud yet hast thou not known e, Palllp? o that hath ssen Mo bath scen the ¥athur; and how ssyesl tnoa, theu, show us tho Fatherf—yoAn, ziv,, And be whall relgn gver the huusa of Jacob for- gver, llml of bls kingdom there shall bo uo sad. — ke, L. Detrout Free Press, Soon after 8 o'clock the othor eyeninz & policernan saw a boy audiing along Cougruse reot cast with a bundle fn his arine, wud ¥ med to tho oflicer eminently proper that be should overbaul the lad and inveatigate. + Now, then,' he began as he halted tho boyy “whers did you steal that bundlet™ # Breal,” roplicd tho astoutshed boy. “Yes, utewl, Scems to me you are acting mighty susplclous.” ul ] guees uot,” was tha slow answef. ess 1 know what's In this bundle, and I guess k‘:u;\s'v lvfll.l'!m it's golog.” o] “Well, It's s dress, u& stockings, lhofll corsct, bow, and a shawl belougiug to 8 g1 dawn hfls about s blockeh ** Aud how came you cm “Qur folks wuul g varty last night, aod our folks borrowed 'em!{" wWas the frank auswer, " “Isn't there any jewelry fn the bundlo! frouically luquired the officer, b " No, slr, there balu't, e borrowed tha over on Larnod street, and Bl has Just gons t0 take "¢ homal” Ho was allowed to pass on, Conld , suother mewmbor of his Coninfttce. Not- withstandhg thns, Mr. Sumuer told br, Houtwell that e (Mr. Bumner) had prepared that bill every word aud every lino, bimwelf, aud ha assed it through Congress. Now, this fs uot bo conduct uf a'lar, Lut that of a man whoso mind, by sorrow or suffering, or some visitation of Providence, had become distenpered; and [ have always so {nterpreted tho couduct of by, Bumper toward mo. 1 have no unlmosity toward him nor his mewory; but his sdmire or people who now preteus to b Lls sdmirers, uso bis name and memory to attack e’ JOUN JAY'S PRETENDED AVFUCTION YOU SUM- Ned, “Here," sald the Ucueral amiling, **is Mr, Jay smong the adinirers aud defcuders of Mr. Sumuer. Now, Mr. Jay, as noous koows eo wellas Gov. Flah sud wyeell, makes 8 rmun of culogizing the dead to attack Gov, Flib 11 nuy oue bated Mr. Suwuner it was Mr. Jay at the time of the avpolntinent of Mr. Mutley as Min. ister to England. Mr. Jay wanted to go to Eu- gland, aud was eurely disappolnted that s chauge would uot be made 1n his favor, even after Ar. Motluy bad been fully uasured of bis appolutwent, 3¢, Jay most provubly forgave Mr. Bumaer before the Hepator’s deatb, Lut Lo blamed hing for his fallure to go to London." GUANT'S FEELING TOWARD MOTLXY. ] bave uo dlsposition," continued the Gen- eral, ** fur cootreversy, and particularly would I abstaty from auytbing that seomed bksunavor- able reflections upou the desd. But sometblug 18 due to truth in istory, aud my whals object fu wakiog my statemvat to Mr, Copeland way to curroct grussly unjust sod ustrue ] | And uncleao spirits when they saw Ilim fell down beforo 1w wud crlod, vaying, **Tuon art the Son of Uod. "= Murk, th., 11, And there was dulivared unto Him the book of the Propht Hesias, And when he had opencd the &, bu fouud the thu whaie It wos written, *+Tyo Spiritof the Lord 18 upoume.” Aud ife bugan 10 way uuto thew, *+'This day is this Boript- ure tulflied Yo your vaze “—Luke, o, A Al thinge are delivered unto me_of my Father; and 0o mav knowsth the Hon but the Pather neithor knowoth soy wan the Fathee save the Son, and lw‘l‘u wgnm»-ur the Bon wiil zeveal Him,— datt., o 2T, ‘Aund H1o led thom out a4 far 8310 Betbany, snd ke }fud up bis hands and blessed tham. And fkcams 10 paae, wille ilv Lleassd them, Ha wes paited émm tocw, sod carrdod vp luto Heaven. —Zude, 4-50. e —————— ‘Wards Cotued by Lincaln. Noah Brooks, writing of Preaident Llneol::.y in Seribner for Murch, ssys ho was addlcted l? colulng words aud to uslug words which, lhull.fh not found u the lexkons, suenod to express weaning botter thau auy other. Thus, of o ple who were pragmatic sud moddlugmoh: sald that they wers “iuterruptions.” d:. ven-ance; '’ and, of amau wuo cen OY takeu by Just reiribution, Lo sabd that ke bad gt bis come-up-cuce.” ——— Forall lung troables, us weil us complalnts of the toroat, Dr. Jayus v Expuctoraut ls certaluly o palliative snd oftuu & curative, as the tedtimony of thousandy uud its world-wide reputation attost. For cougls or colds 0o surezr o wore eductive reaiedy cau be found 1 havo thus cited you & long st of Fumzu that you way sve what the Sou ssvs of Hlwsclt.