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

| THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. {ts - nights. re hundred REI‘IGIOUS' m‘lleu" A high, and vc‘r': o:ly n’r:c“h or fewcls sct in the earth’s ceiliog. Then {iod was oa Olympus or Zion. Ha passed over the earth In thrinder charlots. But at laat astronomy camo and made sad havoc of our lit- tle globe with fts finc traln of servants called sun, and moon, and stars, Our world was found 1o turn aver cach day, and hence it had no bad place beneath It, and no heaven above. The sun wwas found to have other business on hand be- sldes inaking the grass grow for lomer's oxen, or the *“ainging of birds' come from Moscs and Solomon. It has been founa that our planct fs avery insignificant affair. That the {"“"“ Jupiter {8 equal totwelve huadred globes ke the one we love and occupy. And ns our planct dwindles away when compared with some of Ita fellow-travelers, so our sun and our wholo syatem shrink away when they are placed aloneside other systems {n the vast beyond. The Dog Star teceived its name {n an ignorant age. Earth was then the great work, and special residence of tha Cre- ator, But could thosc anclents come back aud learn what s svorld It was which they thought an humble bearer of {il-fortune, they would now call that red orb by some grander designation, for It comes to pass that this Dog Star 18 a sun, the centro of a eolar system, and that- 5,000 of our suna could be stored away in this once desplsed orb. And the pmazement its alze canaes fs surpasscd by the astonishment ity distance may well cause, Tha light which will strike {our eye the next timo you shall look at Sirius, Jeft his surface twenty years ago, It sout are now 21, the ray your oye will catch set forth from that sun when yon wera In your cradle smiling In an Infant's drcam, Thus, this carth, which once was the contre of all thinas and thd home of the Deity, has been assigned by as. tronomy a Jower plave, and with these physieal changes there comes a ahifting of religious no- tlons and betlefs. Evidently in thesc chnuglnfi forms of thought we ~must mora an more attempt to cast aside the Thu- manfred Qod, and strugale toward the fecling that God is an esscnce averywhere present, and that *in Ilim we livo and move and have being."" The differonce between tho creaturo and the Creator, 18 not one of place, but of quality. God 18 not the quality ot belng which the human mind formulates, and, hence, necds no Olym[\u or Jerusaletn, but is an all- [mrvmlln spirit, occupying cqually all parts of ho limiticss space. e is hiere as truly as any- where, YVe live and mova in HIs presence. adthelsm identifies the world and Deity, In ti§it shaha of thou‘;m tho flower, with LS tints and perfume, s a form of God, ]un as a smilo 1s a shape of the human mind. A bird Is a part of the infinlte Life sporting on wings, and a man 18 Deity assuming a pecullar incarnation, and bullding citles, and dclivering oratlous, aud swriting poems. The universo_fs tho shapes the Creator assumes. Such Is Panthelsm. This identity of God and natore is pot what Poul teaches In the text, but he tcaches this, that God hasnot that imprisonment in a form which wa perccive in man, but that he is s Bpirit who .is In all places at all times. 1lo s a universal Boul {n which all clso lives and maves, like fish in the sca. 11 this be uohllwn what scparates petween man aud God 18 not place, but a difference of nature {un 1tko that which comes between the Tower animals and tnan. ‘There {sa gult betweon the naturc of manand the nature of God—a —ull dlm}efl by the buman quality—aod this fo- firmity of mun makes him give to the Deity o form “and o _place, and dream that thero are things which (fed does ot sce or know, or which, boying known, Ilo: might forget. It fs very cvident that therels tauch in the world that Is beyond human scuso. Just as the acute bearing or smelllug faculty of tho hunting dog wiil stortlehim out in the licld, when tha nobler "“God Is Everywhere "=<sSermidn by Prof. Swing. The Material Heaven an Injurious Theo- logical Error. An Old Thome Turned Up by the ‘Rev. Dr. Cheney. Arraignment of tho Theatre as a Hot™ bed of Vice. Prof. Blanchard Criticises the Wheaton Ex-Parte Council. Trost in God and Do Good—Sermon by tho Rev, John Atkinson, GOD I8 EVERYWIIERE, SXRMON DY PRO¥. SWING, Trof. 8wing preached to a large conrregation yesterday morning at the Central Church. Ilis theme was the universality of God. Following 18 the sermon In Him we live sud move and have our boing. — Acta, xoif, s 25 In the lcsson of last Sunday I atked yon to thiok of soma of the ills which Atheism would bring to mankind; to-day, let us think about the fdea that God is everywhere. From the thoupht that nowherc Is there n God, let us pnss to the thought that there is no place whero e is not. By that greas inteliectual progress which tha human family Is making, 1t should soon bo car- ried away from that habit of primitive man to Jocalize and make materfal his Deity. A unt versal quality of all carly rcligions is, that they have all assigned to the Defty a form and a places That bigh form of thought which fs scen in the anclent Llehrew nation appears the first i his- tory to forbid the representation of God by su fmage. It came along to declare that man must make no imago from the things in the heayens above or earth beneath and call it God. Such {mage-making and sworship that old law punistied with death. Asron, who was making o golden catf fora god, was a proof that Moaes would have trouble enouzh fn the enterprise he had undertaken of ralsing the escaped slaves up 1o an imfnite, formiess deity, The Hebrew re- ligion wns an immensc progress. It helped bulld up the temple of religious truth, or rather. helped lay the foundations of that structure which is still under the hammors and amid the seaffolding of tho workmen. What Aaron wished to sco and worship in the form ol a golden calf, the Egyptians, whence Moscs and Aaron came, had Jong worshiped Ia the form ot common aulmal life. Dr, Schllemann hias ox- humed, in old Mycenm, a cow’s Lead mado of silver, with borns mnde of iold. But all the auncient world was full of theso locatfzations and embodimonts of Deity,—full to such o degree that all citation of oxamplo Is rendered unuccessary. It 1s enough to say that n all the carly perlods of race, or state, or con- tinent, relizion has como along! with its local- ized and tormalized divinitics, sometimes roll- fug them on great wheels, as fn Indls, some- times attaching tho divino Idea to o white ele- phant, o8 in Slam, sometimes anchoring tha great Splrit to a tree, or a grove, or to & niount- ain. all which practico gocs to show that man comes very slowly and with great difficulty to the feeling that God Is n widespread and form- Jess spirlt.. But the successive conturies which arc reshaplng all other forms of thought should ne Lusy liere also, and should be leading us, and sl more our chitldren, nway from the sensuous forms which once delighted the Egyptisns aud the Tmlans. 1t Is unquestionably true that only the very Jowest Torins of mind bave ever supposed that Iden calf, or Eug.:crn:mt. or a golden-horned cow, or o scarlet fbis, was a UGod, It I8 not truu that the Pagans or the Catholies have worshiped Tiagees, but this truth dous rise up from the fact and nnture of fmagereligion, wamely, that It was supposcd that Uod - had n loeation and a form, and was to be tound where these entlein thinga and hoty places were. There {anot muc! real Kolutry fu the world, but of the feoling that man's Uod Ia i certain ‘fl'.um. and s par- tialto certain forms, there hos been an fm- mense quantiey, and this fecling is passing awsy far too stowly. ‘The awakened reason which has Indnced tho present age to reform the doctrino of Hell, and the general pubite estimato of what God is, and what 18 the nature of Ilts empire, should go on, und, doubtless, will go on, and reform our thotights und_feelluga “about the form and lo- cality of our Delty, "It will be a slow and difi. cult work to emoty the world's mind of fts lun + cherlslied nottons ‘that Jehoval has a form anwg Jtvea somowhere, aud to lend mankina up to the realization that God s cverywhere alike, form- lessund intinite. Butalow thougl the worklsand ghall be, yet It u\'l«lcnll{ is belng performed, and i tino will comie when man will feol that he 1s with God and God with him. - The dawn ot that consclousncss wilk bu the true dawn ol re- Melon, for if thero bo onything which chills falth and worship it is tho “strange deception, hut as universal aa deceptive, that our tiod {3 somewhese clse. ‘That he has a Hleaven just as a King aiid Queen has a palaco and a park, s an error of theology, not simply childish but dee 1y Injuricus. Man hes always acted and -Jfi aets as though tho Creator was away ot some splendil_encampment, and thus mw's religion 1s marred by the perpetual absenco o the Being for whom und to whumall worship is conducted, In his astronomical sermons, Dr, Dick nro{ccud o home for the Defty, Hefound aveniro of the unverse and there ho built a palace of tho great King,—a fing plece of word-palnting, but Lolding un linprobable and evea barmful plet- are, ‘Thst theory which sball givo the ileaven- ly Father to all “men, inall hours and places, will be the theory the most true, the most spiritunl, the most useful. When Paul sald, #He Is not far from every one of us,” and thnt “In Hin we live, and “move, sud have our being,' he expressed tho religion which shall restrafu from sin, and which, In dark hours, shall flood the soul with light. In onder to make our bess approach toward o realization of this unumumr quallty of our Maker, we must first mnark what -ll Lelng, man, fsutterly powerless with his acnses, g0 mau lives and moves in o arcus where Lo can be almost an athelst, though he may bo In the very bosom of his Maker. Death ““5' therefore, carry man’s soul over to a new and higher seasibliity, and waking up fu a sccond 1lfe with powersdilfering [rom those with which he passed his years here, he may at once cry out, I lave como to the presonce of God.” As voyagera upon the ocean, after longx wanderings, fecl at sansct that they sce on tho distant horizon the longed-for land, but night coming, they must fall to sleep, uacertain whether wimt they saw tras coast or cloud. In sleep theyare bornu fitty miles onward, and lo! at dawn' there Is, indeed, tho definite outline of hllls, and-uven tho white spirc of soinc church muy be plcked out with the Captain's glass. Tears of joy fill the cycs of all, oven the most Leroic. Thus death, cvldemfy. will carry man from the un- scon Lo the scen, not by ninking the shores near- ury but by translorming tha Inner sense. T'he chiango takes place, not without, but within, and henvo, when the tnorning beyond the tomb dawus, man awakes and says, *I am, iudeed, living In tho presence of my Maker.” ’l‘hanum of death has earried his shilp forward, 1n thie older theology, God was in a far-oflt place, and man muat, at death, travel to fthis lace, and thero ko would find his Heavenly cather: but at last it inust Lo confossed thut God is hero, and that the moment & sccond 1ifo shall change wau's meatal structure ho will at onca realize that be Is In his Father's housc. It 1s possiblo and probable that a wonderful revelation of tho Creator will como tothe human_family on this sido of that treat cizoge called death. We have -no reason to beliove that the rensoning and perceptive faculties of man huve reached their highest form of power, The unsecn of on¢ ngo has often becoina the soon of the uext. This s true, thas the judg- ment of man has so far changed ns to sensibllity and truthfulucas, that it has ropudiated the wornl character ascribed to God by the Pagans and tho cnrl{ Christians, and why, then, may not the intellectusl and l[fll‘"-llll deyelopment which have carried soclety away from a crucl God or a sensusl God, come luastilthicher form 1o reader Athelsm {mpossible, und to il alf tho enrth and sky with the glory of the Ureatorl Thers were sounds onee which the human soul did not catch. 1t loved only a few notes, and sounded them on a harp of thres or four strings. But time lifted up this halt-dead soul, aud made it percefve and enjoy a great flood of harmonias pouring in from orgsy, or plano, or orchiestrs, of from aimost Divine volcos, Itis quito possiblo that thus Atheism will at last be crowded back a3 tho result of a once dull sense, and that a new and iore powerful intoltect and soul will proclalm the oxistence and goodness of ({od. Uod way comu as vame ¢loctricity or music, Froin the old localizing of the Creator camo tho old doctring of a liternl Hell, Under that old view the material realm was divided Into two hemlspheres, The upocr ano was assigned to Goa, and the lower one to o Pluto, & devll.. It was aa perfect o scparation ns that botween tho troplea and the poles. It was not dreamed of that the (od of love uver visft- ed the placo ' whero millfons of His creatures wero belng tormeated forever for sowe sin pf orance, or for tho sin of some ancestor. ‘The Creator was far awa in some brighter land surrounded by angels hurpiog on thelr harps. This divisfon of spaco 11t0 two parts, and this blessod remnoteness and privacy of God, made it casy for the human mind fo locate such a hellasit preferred to Invent, and to carry onlu that lower reglon whatever forms of forture it could Imagiue. Astrouomy having broken up those two retroats, —to the one of which the Omnlpotent botook Himself for all cternity, and to tho otlier of which & prince of darkucss withdrew for an eternal possessiug ood holdlug of the land of torments,—the two worlda will not ba ever so fushioned axguin, but Hell, just llke Heaven, will evermore he fn the presence and under the ustice, and_wisdom, ani odness of the one uprems Belog. ‘The unlverse will hence- forth be all through and through 1the bowe of the ail blessed Oue, and Hell itselt will bo visited by this omnipresent augel ol light, Ido uot mean to teach tha idea of Can- on Farrar, that the wickedest may enjoy * eter- nal hopa,” but 1 mean that even those called tho “fost” will live and move aud have their belog fo IThin who cherlshes no mallce, and who can bo gullty of uo cruelty. Tho world called S Hell Wwill uot bo handed over to tlends with the order to bLurn, and sack, and torturo eter- paily, but it wil baa partof the Lord'sdo- mali, and all 1ta tcars will fall {5 his sight. ‘The. old pavement once full of even littly children, acconling to Virgil, will be marked with the foutprints of the leavenly Father. A long pondering over this text will redoubla tho groatuess of voth our naterial world and our world spiritual: The enormous distauces oud the vast and countless suns which sclence has revealed, snd the utter fall- ure of sclence to find anI“ sell-cre- ) aves we are Lo materlal thinmy. We wero born amid them, We are oursetves materfal. Wy have iocation, and measurement, and welght, We caunot pos- sibly concetve of anything except as having boundaries, If one speaks to usof the unl- werse, we at once think of It as having an out- slde, and wo wonder bow wide ftis. We are only 8 Jlttlo better thou the carly childron of Nature, who statloned the earth on the shayl- ders of & giant, and then fnvented a footstool fur the glnut, and then a plave for the foutstool, Weure all the slaves to_letght, and depth, aud lenpith, and breadth, and welght, sud although in muomcnts of thought wo break away from these chains, yet back we come agaln the {ustant our argument ceases, This relgu of matter is scen in vur language, for Its most spiritual words uncy possessed only o physical fmport. We should ulways approuch agy estimate or weditution ubout God with a full readizdilon of our bundage Lo the material world, 'Tnis bond- iy militates 1o theso days against the belef in hnmortality, and will impede us coutinually in wur gearch after o Maker of the world, ‘Lhicre ure wany lustances o which, if wocould find tho real truthy wo uuat put (ar away tlst pitiable standard called selt. It you wish to Juols at the buman race, you must rise above your uwn little space of thiue and seo ite great G,(h0 yuure; Al yuu wish to ineasure Christiunity, You uiuzL pass Truw one wal or oue hour 1o all Chrtstiang aud to oll time, and if you wish to study the universe, you must not pauss with our {arni, or Blute, of rivers, or scaw, but must Jaunch vut on that wide occan which the plan- cts uud slaré are truversing, Loviog self so decply, it is dificult for us (o believe that the huhiah raco was h:pEy befors you und { came, sud that it will be bappy when we are kove. ‘fu incasure au's Jearning, and work, and bap- pincss, we nust cast asidy self and comuand our T»lmh Lo expaond uotil they can grasp the great s Bo, whn we came to think of the nature of the Creator, we must urst throw aside the Httle accldents of our form and localization aud be- cowe uncmbarrassed by thc sbopes of the sen. sual. We 1must tear ‘awsy that ceotral place which the relizious astronomer founded with mora bcnul{ tuan truthfuluess: we must level down the Olympus where the'old diviuftics beld festivals; we iuust ask our best reasun to freg us frum the *up? sud “down ? of our Lathers; we tnuet abolish tue far-off heavens und the re- wote bell, avd by all vussible ways lm}‘ynycn struggle 1o reach the fact that Aere u God, 1 theso latter days, astronowy bas come to wake sorme warked changes smong theological dess. Wien the carth was thought to bo Hat wud stativuary, theo Heaven was ubove it aud Hull Lepeath. In tuose times, too, the earth was the chiel feature in the universe. ‘The sun went duily wround it Tbe woon checred up stlpg power, auny spoutausous throw us furward to the belicf that God is an’ ludetin- uble esscuce, which tills all space, and 1s here and thers und everywbere, He s co-cxtensive with matter, just 48 man’s mind posseases ana woves his frame, We are separated from God not by place, but by pature, just us the deaf are scparated from tmusic, or us the bllud are sep- urated from colors, Not paothelits, we cun still draw siguificance from their Jsuguage, wnd coutess uature aud mau to be * working lu the ruaring loow of time, to weaviug the liviug garments of the Deity.” To buve tba opinlon thut tbu Maker of the universe is at sume far away ceutral pofnt, whence orders sre bisucd to tLe suu, uud moon, aud Sirlus, brings the feel- 102 that we ou this lttle ball arc aluiost forgotten, There must be no such se- questration of the Creator. Me s out swld His works, His Belug tils all bpace, e canuot withdryw or be absent. The worlds are all in His bands; they are gems in Hlia Lreastplate, o borders of Hia guruient, or Jewels o Mis crown. Altough carth is au fu- sigouicant glube, yet it lives aod wuyes fn its Maker, sud turus upon {Ls uxis, and moves about 1o Its fuur seasvns uuder divin Loototep, just us SIMPLE AND INEXPENRIVE FARM-BUILDINGS, To the Rditor af The Triduns. AtEmsow, 111, March 18.—Thera s ro much said and writtenon the subject of tirm-bufldings nowadays, both in our standard sgricultural works and through the columns of agrienltural papers, that ft may scem superfiuous to head an article with this hacknoyed theme. Your average wide-awake former sooner or later builds a barn, and rarely more than one in & life-time. The objections to, the disadvantages of, having different kinds of stock all congrexated {n tho same bullding, under one roof, are neither few nor small; snd yet so aceustomed 18 tho farming community to follow in the **good old way™ of doing thinge, that few leave the beaten track. Al strive for the day when **the new barn,” with its untold Inconveniences, its risk of Are, ita bad ventilation, Blth, and unavoidsble compounding of all suimal stinks, shall bs '‘a thing of 1ife?’ and a nulesnce forever. ‘This was my concluston from observation and the experienca of others; mnor do I think my conclusion too hastily drawn or too strongly puts Leaving theanbjoct of location, and the details of crecting a lot of separate buildings, that sball cost In the agareeate less than one large barn, that shall be better adapted for grain, hay, and styck, I will close this articlo with a descriptionaf the ol I have invented, and have in usg on te farm-buildings, viz.: a pigzery, 16 by 48 a hennery, sama aize; 8 wood-shed, 10 by by 325 and a tool-house, 1 six sopa 82; a hay-barn, 13 by 80; a calf-barn, 1 ‘The new voo! for furm-bulldings is a success. and |t Is easlor constructed, Firat, then, in point of construction: Ihave aimed at doing (and have done) all the work of srocting all tho above buildings,—ona two storics and onc three storics b three years, without hirlng any extra heip, and at odd speils as oralusry far the farm liands to do, and now my boys are Ao thoroughly In love with o arc continusily seeking a job fn thia line, and have on haud a separate basa for milch cowa at the preacnt time, [ S by 00, It [s cheaper than avy other, it {s more durable, @ PLAN OF ROOF. In this roof a a a a is haif-inch pine stufl; resting, of coursc, on the wal are pieces of hoards wsed to brace the 2x0x10 pleces. oino without knots or larger than above size. Doards, ihe frama s ready for the half-inch boards b are pleces of Inch-boards, on top of which (nat shown in the diagram), and _running lencthwiss of the huilding, are placed in an ordinary roof 2x4x16 strips to support the half-inch boards, and nalls (or 6-pennys). 1 profer $; ¢ cce {sa 2x0x10 (tno width of bullding being, of course, 16 feet), fs of tho bullding, or oo codar (or atlier) poats cl These may be omitted if tha joist aro hard Presuming the walls, or, It posta nro nsed, the sides, of the bullding sre ready, the jolsts to proper length, and splke the samoat thoends to the poats, and put on & x4x10 at cach ond tunning leogthwise of tho building. Nall oo an upnght b In contre of cach loist. = Cut square off at upper end—the pleces to be two fect long eacli. centre, On tap of these pleces place other 2x4x16 pleces. Now proceed to bond over s half-Inch board, and underneath nail on the other two hoards b, leaving Just space on top to place nther 8x4x18 pleces, Having securcd tho 9x4x16 vleces to tho s, and_tho laying of these high,—within the past parmit ir new balldings that they m-work would to which the boards arc nailed with 8-penny ht fegt apart; d d ‘This will give a foot ani a hall helzht in Wa now have three tiers of 2x4x18 pleces. 08 belore Indicated, cnmflctca tho roof, with the addition of a couple of good coats of gas-tar and dry eand. ‘desired, another coursg of “half-inch boards, six Inches wide, may bo added, It this roof is well covered with the tar and sand, it will never decay, It will outfast any shingle raof, looks better, and fs stronger. Gas-tar is cheap. Anold_ broom or mop, some dry sand, an froulkettls tb warm up the tar, a Httle care, and your roof fs done, ready for an eavestrongh, and this tho Millars in Chleago furnish for a sang, in shape of scmi-circular four-inch wooden troughs, with iron roceivers, ready tha cavestrough a coat of hot tar, when dry, outalde an: 3 You will ace, Mr. Editor, that there Is Jess timber about the frame-work than in any sbinzle to put up. Glve't! d In} wo sao m!\nnd the roof itsclf is Jittlo more than the boarda ou which to natl the shingles, Whore can we gat tho balf-inch atuff] [ answer, thoy aro stock-boards resawed. Dry plne Is best. ‘The ¢ stock Is enough _for first course, sawed {f the six-Inch course Is used, 'This givea suiliclant profoction to the caves. Tn my next I will give details comnplete of a chead mode for constructing the main part of any ts adopted by us which are novel nnfl ?{m'e' as required sfze of farm-bullding, with fmprovemen utial in thele wav as the new roof {n its line. , b atoc for sccond course, and fenco-board ro- Here is a roof thatfany farmer can build, Three men will cover s bullding 10200, with two eourses, ready for the tar, in three hours. Usc elghteen-foot bourds for sixteen-foot building. rocded to cat tritly as docs Birlus or Orlon. T ha sclenco srhich tells how large or how remote the stars aro tells us that the{:ro made a8 our globe {s made, and that carth belongs to one family, of onge honor nand beauty. Here, then, Is tho home of the In- flnfte Father as really as anywhere, and the birds which shall soon siner hers and the flowers which shall soon blsom here will ding and bloom by divine order, and in pressuce of the ower walch fasued the sweet command. ‘Thus, too, tho spiritual world expands. God 1s not far from cvery onc of you. Your carcan. not hear, nior your eye behold, but yet thero Is this Incomprelicnsible Oue by your side. In your sin Ha is a judge; in fiuur sirtue, and your {nv and gorrow, o [riend. ‘In the older religion here was a powerful tiend lup&lled to tempt us to do wrong, but no lovinz God was sent to tempt 1s to do right, But the olilest forma of thought wersonly half true. You are ina splritual land whers an omnipresent and loving father I daily tempting you to do right, o ls each morning unveiling & new day before you. e i alluring you by “education, "by home, by art, by friends, by culturo, by religion, by fams, by iiberty, by all forms of happlness, ‘The temptations of the dovil alluring you downward are dull volees compared with the temptations of God toan upward carcer, Ills volce is su- remo cloquence, Let not skeptivism or Atho- stn make your car dull to this musfc, but move forth Into theso days saylng, * Ia God we live, and wmove, and bave our belng,” THOE TIEATRE. SERMON DY THE REV. D. I CUEREY. ‘Tho Rev. D, B. Chicuey, of the Fourth Baptist Church, Wfted up bis warning voleo last cven- ing agawst ¥ The Theatre” und its allered unhallowed influences. Prov, 1, 10, served bim as an introduction: ** My son, if sinners cotico thee, consent thou not."” The attractive- neas of tho theatre was compared to that of tho [sirens, of whom it had been woll said that there was enchiantineut In thelr singing, but cortain death in thelr embraces. It had been clatmed for tho theatre that it was o civilizing and enlightenivg agency, foculeating moral 1cssons to thuse who attended [t but if ft could be shown that its frult was alwaya corrupt, this clalm must fall to the ground. le dealred to draw the proper dlsfinction between the drama aud the theatre, Tho former might ba employed in advancing the intercsts of o~ rality and roligion, but ft did not constitute the theatre. No ordivary theatre In this country at least could be maintained for o sipgloe scason with no other attraction than tho simple drams, It had been tried again and agaln, and bad always falled The oppo- eltion to the theatrc was not recent, nor was it contined to the Church, Christfan and Meathon defenders of public inorals for 8,000 years have condemncd it 08 adapted to corrupt tho morals of the people. Its origin was In the trlumphal souz at the festivals in lonor of Dacchus. From that it passcd to the form of theatrical entertalument, It was born amidst drunkenness, revelry, and debauchery, and in harmony with this unnatural birth ad been 1ts subsequent growth and manbood. Viclous In its conception, its vico had grown with its growth, and strengtheued with 1ts strength, ‘There had been frequent efforts to purge it from fits corruptions. In Urecce, Bocrates never visited tue theatre excopt to witneas a play of his fricnd Euripldes. Plato, Sencca, Arlstotle Tactitus, Ovid, had cundemner it, au uttered thelr warnlng volues against its - moralities. Actors were prevented from playe ini fn cities, restricted as to tho thne when they could play'In the couutry, disfranchised, and cast out. "I tois was done dinoug tho Heathen, how could the peoplo ol this age, with the Goa- pel befure theny, excuse the nonstrous vices of the atage? There hud been attempts to reforn the tneatre in Eugl and {n America, bot without perinaucot success. Congress, during the Revolutionary War, bad adopted u resolu- tlun deelaring that any p 1 Lolding an oillee under the Uovernnent who should act, perwit, encoursge, or aottend such a place auy & theutre, should be decmed unworth 1o boid oflice and accordingly dismissed, Such was tuo strong testimony of the men who were the lluhits of the world and the glory of that age. * Well had It been,” sizhed the preacher, us Lie quoted the pious resolution, “4f thonautles of theso itlustrivus fathers had fallen upon thelr successors,” Thero was testi- mouy iu abundauce to proclaim the theatro worthy of ita ignoble origin, and to stawp upon it the scal of ignomiuy aud discrace. But us to the real desigu of the theatre: It bad been claimed for it that it was o nu& oral in- dtructor. What moral reforius bad it brought ubout? Who nad been made wiser of better b ft1 If its existenco depended on what it bu{ done Iu this respsct, it had bepter bo ubapdoned ut ouce as 8 cowplete fallure, But maral instruction was not the sl or de- sign of the theatre, Uver the doors ul some theatres were lvumpfluulvlnwrlwd the wordy, & Eatrauce to the Pit."” Were people who went to theatres thoughtful? 1Hd thu stage, the seencs, the dresacs, the pluys, tend Lo fuspire meo and wouen with better, loftier thougtits! Ua the coutrary, the theutre was slmply au un- Lepltby stimulus to uunatural mirth and semnent, Ite attenduuts carried awsy uo ing, scrious wpressions. lu fuct, they wouldn’t go there if that was the purpose of the theatre. uviog the question ol religlon out of view for the iowent, such aumuscment, with its late bours aud its uubealthy excitement, were but puurl{ adapted to - the uccessitics of our uaturcs. ‘Then tho lijoryture of the stage fu thds duy "was, a8 » whole, very objectionable. It was bulltu deecption, upou were represcutativu, wod as such was o mlserable sham, danperous and could not be pursucd with im- punity. Modern stage literaturo waa gbjection. nble, tnoreover, on sceount of 1ts profanity, its {rreverence, ILs treatment of sacred things ns a tarce. Even in the so-called “moral drama” cf “Unele Totn’s Cabiu™ tho two solémn realitics ol prayer and death were trified with In o man- ner calculated to shock the better feelings, Its literature had, morcoyer, a licentious tendency. Converaation was allowed on the s no gentleman would for a moment, tolerate in nis family, and lbertinism was clothed in the attractive garb of mentdlicy, churacters of actors and actresscs, when tested b{ tho principles applied In Jjudgiog men of other professions, entitle them “to admiration actors and ace aud love? ness, lewdncss. child (the “actor's) only led him ruln. The two On tho contrars, tresscs, as o whole, wero addleted 1o aimost overy vice undor the sun,—profanity, drunken- Even Macread, ren to go to the theatre. when {n 8an Franclsco, had been called to tho bedside of s dylug actor who told him (the spcaker) to warn peonls not to follow in his footsteps, which maln to misery of the theatre, nascriea the speaker, as he rofugoe in Christ, TITE WHHEATON COUNCIZ. by a gentleman who BERMON BY PRBRIDENT BLANCITARD, Yesteraay morning President Blancbard, of Wheaton College, preached to & large congro- fation in tho College Chapel, on the recont ox- parto Councll and its findings: And thoy wn}mdud Uim siso, and cast Ilim out. —Luke, 72, 12 After explaloing tho circumstances under which the event inentloued in the text occurred, the speaker drew o comparison bLetween the tumult at Jorusalern and thaonowhich for some months past has agitated tho cltizens of Whoa- ton, He then proccoded to speak of Mr, Webater's case, and the dissolution of the Firat Church ot Clriat, as follows: My Grst propasition In replyito the Councll Is: No lcgal wrong has boen done Mr, Webater, The subscription under which the endowment of the Chalr of Logic and Ithetoric was ralsed is in theso words: Wisxsas, fn ithe oplnion of of literatury and rol Hools, 1s an institution which reat promise of nsefulness, acilities for instracilon, 1 carnest fricdds Colley to pay the sum sel atauch time aa the T'rustoes desire, ta fessorship of Loglc, Rhetoric, and Belles Latt providod that in the effort to rales §2i a purpose, $15,000 of thesum vo au wune year from January, 1 ‘This paper governs the endowment. And letters procured thirteen years later to mako out a case tan have no legal bearing on it. ‘Ihis Mr, Webster's friends, W. 0, Plerco and others, have ndmitted. 8o there is no dispute but that the College Trustecsown that ondow- ment fu trust, as they doall colicge proporty, Nelther Mr, Webater, then, nor the donors have auy legal claim to Sthat endowment’ whatever. Consequently, no legal wrong was dowe Mr, Webster, Ay second proposition is: hias been dona Mr. Webster, who had been here thirteen ycars, and was well known to tho Board ol tweoty mou. iuutes in wivocacy of bis removal, fn our an- nual wecting of twenty-two hours; of which cluven weru&xlnn to bis case. Aud if they had kuown, outsideof rayset!, reasous to justily thele w!elmlhahwoul LOL 8CCN, 811 voted to remove b Lo took sidcs spzalusl wbich were reulated college: third, he shows Lis statcmcnt publishied i quotes from that chict of traitors aud cunspirs- tors, ;Uatiline, bucauss 1o other lanyuaze could cxpreas the fcelings of his beart. cousddered, the, that Lo was su lucowpateut h alnst their I 1 did notspeak three 1ts fllusions were e which Would tho forbade his he speaker, and accompaniments ro cceded to work up the last count in the indict- ment, were the barand the brothel, reculated theatro could be found whero the former was not iu close proximity thereto, and It was well known that the Inbabitants “of the Lrothels crowded to overy place of amusement, In fuct, it had been eal onco onco presided over the Pensylvania Legis- Tature, and whoso name the reporter took to be Minard, that no theatro could exist without the bar and brathel as accompantments. slon, the reserend gontleman went on to state that whatover enjoyment woa galned ot the theatre was hut tranaient snd unsatistactory, and to poiut out *‘nnore cxcelicnl way''— o well- In conclu- ¢ judicious and tigion, Wheaton gives and dsmands Increascd 10 undersignod promise pective nam cu tho Pro- 25, 000 foF auch bectibed within No morat wrong ul neJlnr bave icrelore, cy were not bliuded by me; but removed hitn nn’ thelr own bouest judgments, and so did him no w rong, Beven resident mewbers of the Board, who coustitute the Executive Commitice, had tha winter previous requested him to resign for reasons based on personal acquaintance snd in- tercourse with bim snd the collego. cntire Fuculty of elgbt persous bad oxpressed it to bu their judinnent that the good of tho fusti- tutlon would bo promoted by Mr, Wobater's ro- moval. Or, in other words, in the opiuion of the Faculty, Executive Comumitee of Trust (cxeept three members), was o clog Lo the lustitution. Again: Mr. Web- way a traltor to the college aud its ofticers. ‘I'uls 18 shown bricly: First, cight ycars since the colleiro aud s Presi- dent, aud favored tho eueimies of the college, W. W. Patton and others, wio bhad th veuted the vollege from receving ald frum the Cqllege Boclety; secoud, be jolucd s conspirac lust year to tuke the college out of the hauds o its legsl guardians. He weut and **begged!' certain citizess of Wheaton to sign petitions the cuemles of tho bitnzell, o that, u ‘fuz TRivuns, Lo Also, the e, aud Board Lir. Webster o0 pre- WVhea v was MARCIT 2 1878, . teachery that hi coming here, now growa, and voted him by ¢ tion} thou causcd by ] paper ried. Mr, be their more clearly lentlplnu of orm the reorganized, o gatlonal. ty votes, r. Na fel sayas But to clahn t| divislon of 1! 18y As inakes the Would all then nority, The Council to uxpel me. them away; and ong objccted to separation. self raid {t must come, hat wished delay for the cailing of a Council. The Rav, L. Taylor's name, headed tho paver, and, when the yofc wag he declarcd It carrled (57to23), and said, * There 13 no chutch hera now, ahd so no Chatrman.” 1 moved to request him to act as Chalrnan ot the meettng and put votes. This motlon was car- Taylor acted Three votes were ' given viz.: “To meet tocetler in the chapel for the Inst timd next Sabbath’'s second, *for the ininority to mect on Monday eyening at W, K. Gulld’s house™ s third, ** for the ma. meet at the same thne 1o the College Chapel,” The minority wished to retain the original name, and the matter was not contested; and we settied amleably all money questions. ‘The ox-parte_Council declied that the church was *‘not dissolved morally or In sccordance with Congregational usape,”” They were mis- For rcason, nature, re- se declare that church- members, being blumeloss, and. belleving it to dul.y to God to leave any particular church organization, with ot without consent of the brotherhood, basc a right to Jeave, which 13 good azainst all church power on carth. then overy Christian church on this globe has exlsted, and exists to-day, by perpetual schism; for avery ona has broken oft from - something without 'congent of those left benind. Rome took mo-letters from Constantinople, nor Constantinople from Rowmne; vot ench toft the other. Luther recelved no letter but a bull of curses, yet God, and time, and scose recop- nglish Church got her let- ters from Parllament In the shape of writs of l:’mnunlrc oud penalties for adbering to the ope. &:umuuomllau, Qualers, and Methodists recefved thicir Ietters from SherifTs, who Inpris- oned, and mohs, who pelted thein. All theso churches now staud on Goil aud thefr good be- ;mlvihn.r, and Qod blesses them according to theie taken fn both polnts. ligion, and cominon & nizo the aplit, Tho Counctl falls heraalso, went o, ITe exclaims: forco and propricty: religlous soricly. thoritlcs, aud there are nono hiaher, our church was properly dissolve College church regulurly organized, and their cxpulsion of nio pu moru cifectivo than If they should expel members of the Methodist or Bap- tist Church, Hesides, our sction was equivie Wo passed two votes: Resotved, ')l:h“l wo arein favor of au amicablo ¢l lent to giving letters, wicongrerational. fmpertinence has Mr. Webster brou ford our church; an on motion of Dr. Hlatt, voted (¢ “1hie cliarios are not sustained, and that Presi- dent Blauchurd {8 lull{ disputes the validity of tho voto till reversed by thoss who passed it. The Council could uot se- sciod that or any othee church-yote, 1d not advise the church to re- scind ft und expol me, without which advice they had 0o color nor preteusy of a nkbt to re- sciud the vote cleagiug g, even thougzh they had beeu tho church who voted It, which Dr. Bouton, {n Dexter, ssys they are not, aod that 18 preposterous. (Dexter, page %54.) Aud I learn by lcttors that D joodwin advisd several of them fo private uot to clalin thoy are mpathles wero with the ane- mics of thé college: that he was reeelving mors monoy than all the other tescherd, his dfamle- elon becamo an sbsolnte necessity, marnl wrong was done him. One_thing moro “concerning Mr. Webster, and I haye done with his case; not an oh.]cct of comntseration. employed in the collega thirteon yoars, dur- Ing which time he has been pald in interest noarly douhle the money donated by his friende; and his property has mare than trebled by his d as hits youngest children nre 18 health good, with Roard, reasonsblo : {ndustry, and good management, ho has means to sustain hiin in comfort and respectability. 1 had thought of saying on his “*moral and mental competeney a8 o guide of youth," but & cannot bring mysclf to say {f. Injure his children or hinself, though my chil- ddren are madu to suifer contumealy for nothing sayoe their love for ing. 1 am consctous of imperfections and defocts, and I am willing to hiope this furnace Is toking know assurcaly that il my ways please the Lord, He will yet inake .my eneniles td be at peaco with me. Inow wish ta speak of tho ‘When I came here it was o Weslavan class, then united with tho Congrogational Assocla- has supported fts ministers and patd soine inds of dollars to objects of benevolence, Jan. 3, 187, after long agonies and fose who niever Jor i and when it was secn on all rides that tmton ang Imrmonr were lmpossible, [n compliance with a janed Ly 'elgbty-elght members (over three-fourths of the active members ol the church} we voted to disolvo the church. faltl ‘The meoting which dissolved our church was calm, Christiun, and friendly, the broad seal of bis approb tion desired carncatly for dissolution was not ‘moralfy cflected, no nct ever was 80 dono; I’ar lfluru never was an action hasc reason and religlon, of Dut it was not ** Congregationally ”” done. Tho Congregationalisra, like the comnmon law, {8 found In adjudged cases, and in precepts taken from the Bible and set- tled by practice. Dexter, In his Manual of Con- gregationallsm (page 233}, eays that “ A Cone §rcl!lflonnl Council convened at Poughkeopale, , Y., March 1, 1857, and adviscd the aisband- meut and peorgauization ot thatehurch express. 1y to drop'out alien elemgnts.” The churchdid s advised, gotyid of thetroublesome members, Their distaudmen was o harsh measure: oura a gontlo and b ecly one. Here cach of tho partles wished to scosrate, But both dissolutlons sero Congre- Dr. Calvin Ititchcock showa that Congrega- tional churches can, and cases have, modified their covenonts by majori- “[enter my_ protest againat the proposed rule that o church can bo dissolved uutil every muembor consents,” And he lays down the géneral princlple with great 1t 18 self-cvident that auy suthority which can modify o covennnt can abollsh it." (Dexter’s Manual, page 234.) Dex- ter quotcs another emingot hureh, Llesolced! "That, I order to hluend, . . . tho *+ Firat Chuzch of Clrist” bo, aud heroby is, dis- solved, leaving every member frev 1o unite in organixation as he or ahe may sce Ot ‘This resolution would take our members any chiurch between the oceaus time we avokled the practical ing letters direct. Thut singlo voto was a letter to every member who wished to use It. hope that thls free, elorious, Scriptural and charitable action will nover agaiu b brauded us But cven If thero hiad been some ioformality in the sevaration, our church is still as good and Beri New-8chool Preshyteriuns, or any other church on carth, Wo are, moreover, recoxnized as n cuurch by the minurity church, which by ginful ttempled tounchurch us, On the aleht of the dissolutiun you saw thelr pas- tor put otlona for us as for themn, Theact of dissutution provided that when cach parf organlzed s separate chiurch eack church sliould lm:u!nt % committes of threeto meot and amnfe. ably scttle all fluanciul matters between us. They uppoloted the commities to meet ours, and recognized tho act of disdolutlon and us ns achurch, Aud for asmall minority to go out from us futo that little Universalist taceting. house, and attempt to disclpline and expels forbearing and Clristlan wsority. and, al all, for their pastor to turn ngain ssvlution 11, for theis tor to b inat a dissolutl projected by hiinsolf and his own otllcers, sod sigued first by his own haud, (s a gruve weak- neas lo a godly wan. O but mau, proud g:lolm:d In'but 1t 1aan, tu brfet authorlt ch fantastic tricks before ols weop; who with our spleens ves laugh murtal. Thus by Congregutional usage, by their own recognition, by Beripture, and by right, we aroa church ol e living God, Bays Duxter (page 23); % Any cowmpany of people belleving and publicly professine them- selves to be Christians, assoclated b, tary compact or Gospel work and worship, 13 a t aud such are we; wud ful to Christ and our covenunt, no earth or In hell n_ unchurch us, mitting (rhich we do not) that we erred in adopting Mr. Taylor's plan of division, surcl an error In our separation could not unchurcl thy sweuty-five who bhave united with us stuce uud who ‘never scporated from them; aud we are lu covenaut with the twenty-ive and so are with them a church of Christ, question of my excomnunic g The church had no right to do ft without ad- wice of Conncil; aud s 8 minurity they had no power to do it It 1s thercfore ubvious and - suatstible that the vote cleariy;s mo stands goud. do not wish to College church, Mr. Webster him- and Cod has set ation to a dissolu- Qars, an in a muitituae of Jongrecutionalist, Bouton, New Hampshire, who ‘fbers may exist good reasons why n particalar Jocal church should bo dlssolve of these reasons the majority are to juc “The mlmru{ have riglit to protest, . hat they (the minorit identical church which was dissolved the majority, by advico ot a Councll, scems to me to bo proposterous.’ Our cpso I8 precisely that decided by De. Bouton, except ouly we™ had not advice of a Councils but in Lombard, ncar here, a church was disrupted without Council; but were afterwurd recognized o8 churches b Counll, though they both numbered but fi cight beforo the spiit; wherens tho Collega church las now 114 miembers, und the other a respectablo number with which to bezin a These Conyregational au- iptural as Wealevuus, principles tor Clirlstian rug ciiureh of Clirls while we continue faitl ‘This sctties the jcation by that - bt charges bofore me be- ec, 7, 1877, the church, azquitted.” No one and that xoulsion is *ab nec rol null and vold. We should he justifiatls 1o withdrawing fellowshio from them for diacont- tesy and outraze on one g_r our members; but T counsel fothearance, hers are men among them, and better counsels may sooa pre- vail. You will observa 1 have zaldl nothing of Ma- soury. Thurefsno need that I should. You saw the Benfor Warden of Wheaton Lodge bring forward Mr. J. C. Wheaton, who is fourtlr owner of the lodge-room, to prove that Masonry was no clement In these troubles, This s enough, Every well informed man and Mason knowa that the movement derives its chief force from- the dlesfre to extinguish the light of a colleze which fsa beacon light in the natlonal movement agalnst the Lodze and fts dark comprers; a college which not only resembles the bush buralogi hut ot consumed, but which nctually blooma and flourishea in the flames; where poor young men find & home; with a faculty unsur- ‘passed by their brothren tn other colleges on the platform or at the desk, and who have again and ajrein preferred to ba pald dimes here' to dollars elsewhere: and whose students (may Uod bless them ) aro already enlightentng the world which thoir virtucs adora. FOR TIIF TIMES. BERMON Y TAR REV. JONN ATEINSON, The Rav. Johin Atkinson, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, corner of White and LaSalie strects, preachicd to sbout 400 people yesterdsy morn- fng. His toxt was: ' 'Trustintbe Lord, and do good; sa shalt thon dwell In the land, and verily thou shalt be fod, —~ Paalm, xxxeil,, 3, ‘Tnere twas In this verse, ho sald, an cpitome of the whole Cliristian retigion as it related to our discipleship. This ono passage was a sufficlent direction for our wholo life un oarth. The first clause—trust and do good—zhowed what wo were to doj the second fndicated that God would do his part and take care of us, Trust was one of the great things in socloty and tho world, 8ome had seen *no trust " on tho walls whero merchandlse was sold. Lot that become Pre\'nlcnt In tho world, and thero would be abso- ute disorder, # breaking down of industry, a submerging of enterprise; the encrgziea of mon would be paralyzed; s Goverument itsell would be disrapted. An equilibrium could not be malntained without trust. It made soclety homogencous and hlrmnnlm::‘( kept the wheels of Industry In motion, enabl men to transact business’ by letter dnd tele- reaph, kopt the forces of soclety in their groaves. Hehglon required of ua the sitnple axcrelse of the samo confidence In God that we were ac- cuatomed to exercise in men. The two acta were the same. Trust was trust. 1f wao truated man,—one whom wea believed had our interest ot heart,—why should we uot trust Godi 1f we trist 4 stranger,~ono who has no {nmimur concern for usj trust him upon the testimony of annther that he would be truc awl falthtul —should wa not place the same relfance and dependence upon Godl How 1h1mmly men dealt with matters of religion! Somu said We cannot trist (lor beeause wo haven't seen Him3: He hasn't spoken directly and speciall tous.” Hundreds and thousands would testl fy that they nad trusted Him and always found d(m trite; hiad trusted 2im {n poverty, adversi- ty, prosperity, in all tho circumatauces of life, aud never found Litm othoer than faithiul. Why should not this testimony bo takenl Trust in God gave us assurance of peaco and security, But we wero not only ‘to trust but to ‘do. “Falth without works [s death.”” Our trust would avhil us nothing unicss we are active in dolng. Wo wero to do, the work God com- manded us to do, and®in dnln%tu, boweyver humble or unattractive It might be, we would have tho eatisfaction of knowing that His Dbicasing was with us. A man was always safc when hic was In tho path of duty. " So_ shalt thou dwell {n the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” 1f there ever has boen a time fn tho history of our country and, perhaps, in the history of the world, except in o few perlods, when men's hearts needed to be strengthenc ond cheered by consoling words llke these, it wasnow. Tho times had changed, but (od had not. Ifc was just as much coucerned for usss over—just as trie, pitiful, tonder, falthrul. “Dwelt" implied that. we_ shonld not be nomadfc—homeleas ?uzrlma. ‘We would have a homo—a dwelling place. Everything that was good for us, God would bestow upon us. Afilic- tions, which were but for a monient, worked ut. a far more exceeding and eternal welght of glory. Hlowever dark the path, or threatening tho sky, or disturbed in eplrit, wo should staud firm ant trust in a covonant-keeping God. AN EVENING WITH FORREST. What tho Grent Actor Talked About as Ife Slpped 1lis Whisky After the Play, &t Louls Herald. Tho winter prior to the denth of America's actor I met Joa McArdle (Forreat's agent) be- fore the Bt. Charles Theatre, at Now Orleaus, After o fosr remarks, Jue sald: * Have you secn the Qovernor, yet?” Lrcplled that I bad pot. * Woll, you como to the 8t. Charles Iotel at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning; bo will bo glad to sce you." As 1 eat up late that night € did not keep my appointment; but the next night T was at tho theatrd! el The old man played Lear. Never shall I for- get his performance of that charscter. Ilo was “eyery tnch a King, but “ a poor, fond, weak old man! In the curse, he was terribly in carncat. Ikunow Ilave never seen such s Lear since, snd fam suro I nover saw its equal be- 1ore, But let lils greay m:l!nE pasa, After Forrost wus dressed in his street sult, he met me, and_saying, ** Woll K— I am glad to seo you; Tlheard you wero sick, and 1 was afraid that T sbould” leavo town without seeing you.”! e took my arm nad wo went to the hotel. After supper wo went to bis roon, and sat down for a that, {1e first spoke of his gout, and said it was Leroditary; “that * the wine of thc father shall = visit tho children,” cte, * But," eaid ho, “1 have conquered everything, and I will conquer this,”—at the satno timo etriking his Ioft arm with hls right, fle had alarge palrof dutmb- Lolls in his' roomw, which, ho told me, he con. stantly used. Jos was busy packing up, and Forreat said: *Don't put up that volume ot Hhakespearo; I want to read it on the road." #Do you rcad Bliakespeare at your time of Me?? asked L 4 Yes, tic 1 , 1 read it overy dty and I dnd new beaut! i." Inaked {f it was true that he had ever heen connected with a circus, * Yes; when I wasa young man the dramatic com]?any that I was with broke up at Lexington, and I bad to do something, and Pipin & Bishand’s compuny came nloug, aud I joined them. I wout in and leaped and tumbled as well as any of them.” 1 asked bim € ho had not formed " his styls upon that of Thomas Cooper and Edmund Kean, and he rnllo«l that ho had, l{mul this time the old msn sald: 1 have ot a fine bottlo of whisky.- 1 have had but two finnla aines L lefs Clocinnatt. Lat's try some of ft.”” We did, sud the conversation Legun to How easily. He gavo me an fmitation of & French actor: hie also gave an imltation of Fechtor, and thena speech {n the Irlsh dialect 1o show Low John Green read the lines of Den- nis Bnlyrml-krfi. 1 have heard all the grest mimics, from the elder Mathews to Chanfrau, and 1 feely say that Forrest was the best [ ever met, 1 ";V‘vlu\t kind of au agtor was the elder Kean?" asked. “'Fua greatest | ever saw, Imet him at Al- bany, whore I waa his support. 1 was cast for Jago. Kesn did not come to rebearsal in the morulug, and [ weot to his hotel, 1 sent upmy card and was shown to his room, whore 1 saw & lstle, paledaced man, with a flue head of curly halr, and with an cye,—be had a perfect mirror ofsnuve. 1 said, *Mr, Keau, I am to play fago with you to-night; You did not come tore. hearsal, oud 1 thought you might have eomo warticular basiness for mo to doj s0 I called to now.! +Ob,’ sald Kean, ‘you comeon the stazo at night and look st me, aud 1t will be all right. Come, sir, sit_down. Doyou drinki’ Ide- dined. *Well, I will," aud ‘he called for a gl utich, which catno upi &nd, {rom marks on the rnblu, 1 judged ho had mado the samo opder be- fore.. Kean then sat at the plano and sang ¢ Be- leve me, if all thosc endeaning younjs charms. Hle was the finest singer 1 ever heard in iy life, and 1 have beard then all, Night came, an with it *Otbello.’ Ju the thind act § had to ‘Look to your wite; watch ber with Casio { wear your cycs thus not jealous nor sccure! (Iuakd)g Lim inthe eyesand placing my face close to bis)—1 wesnt don't be too sure of Ler. At the eud of the sct Kean cmo me and sald: +Young sy, where did you get that Idea of fooking me so iutently fu the eyes sud thrust- ing your face into minet’ ‘1" got it, sir, where you got your ereag style of acting from,—Na- ture!’ Kesn took e by the baud sud sald: *You will maks your mark.' Ho afterwand made a speechi at a dinner 1 Philadeiphis, and propounced me by coming man of the Ameri- cal stage. | would give ¥10,000 for a report ot that apeech to-nijglt. “lu the spring following,” continued 3r. Forrest, 1 cawe to New York., Iwas in ex- trewe distress. I did not have two sbirta {n the world. Fue landlord at Albany had wy trunk of cluthes for my board blil. §resolved to cud oy life. Iwenttosn Anouwur{ aud gyt some arscule. I tuld him 'twas to kill rate. I went {o my room and infxed it up, and was on pofut of takiug it wheo & kuock camae at the dwo;rl I Lade “the uc:a:w:l m‘c:‘e lu..;v:dng;i- -lookiug ioan W U ADAre- went aud sald. *Mr. Forrest, 1 believed k3 5 ‘ He was m replied that was m, m #afd that his namoe mmy \\'omlllil'nllfi-“'l that e was an sctor, playinr at the Pack ' fm,»m Tt heard from Ogden fl'akrrv':x';f others that 1 waa n ver{ fine actor, ool that ha wished ta engago mo 1o play for his benefit, '} told hiim that T hiad done with actinz; that [ fiag quit the stage forcver; that I knew nn:hlnI Sbout tha slagt, or bim oithor. Woulhull e aid he was very sorry at my regolvo; th, had a large family to Aupport.’ m& thal |h:ln}'$ atre would goon close its scasons that g oy, summer waa heforo him, and that he hoped (ln{ he would liave been able to have sccured services, In order to fave his family from yeayf I then said, ‘It that is your condition, 1 wij rluy for you cheerfully.’ "I neteid Othetio to an mmense” audlence. The next morntne tyg newspapera teemed with flattering notices of me, Mr. Gfifert, the manager of tho Howery Theatre, called upon me and Tmcd me for a year, aod ut €500 Into my hands—more money nmr lli hmfl‘.ffl he!ol;v lad ";1"" Mite, From hat time now my course has been u; and onward." s Lremarked, during our conversation, that Edwin Booth had been yory fortunate n by rofession. * Yea, sald Forreat, **lin had g rother,” Isaw that ho could noy brook a rival, 8o 1 dropped Booth, - wiat do you thiuk of Lawrcnce Rarrote) WA talented fellow,” ho sald. “Coples no one: he has struck auulmth of his own—hyg no friends to help htin, 1 know what it 4. “Do Tou thivk Fechier n good actor g u mfixd" #ald the old man; * he is o fine melo. dramatle artist—nothivg more. Good in sach Ruy Blas or Clande Meinolle. 0 you thiok of oucicault as o writer?? “1ic {8 a fins adapter—~never wrote an; orfilnnl lrI: hl} I]llfi." , i 7hiag o spoke of Jefferson a5 a very flue nctor, added: It was a great nity that .lcm.’,:"}g made so’ mitch money iy s Lin -Van [Vinkis, He would havo made the heat Touchatone, Dog. berry, Launcsiot Gobbo, and Gravedigyer of tiig tage, Jeflerson came of good actors' stock, Tom Jefterson, the prandfather of Joe, was ous of the finest actors I cver met.” He mentlone) o bill at home In which one of the family played a prominent character with Garrick, Do you thiak the legitimatodrama will sooy hold ity own 'F““‘ instead of tho sensation aug we(%v nlays i * Nu, said the ola man b(llcr:[y': “'the rcnsa. tlonal hns got such a strong hold of the publie that it will take n long time before 1t 18 uproot. ed; but when there shall como a tlme when g woman can look and act Cleopatra, and a man can do tho sawe _with dnfony, and the play i3 F“" 1p with the same attentlon to detall ny the Black Crook ’—with a panorama of the Nile— 1t will run a thousand nights,” * Do you think the stage has to-day as good actors as it had jn earlier years{’* ** By no meana; no. We Lave no companles of acfors nowndeys; they arc ull stors, The consequencs 1s that wo cannot cast * Mucbeth ! decently, If we sce one part plaved well, we are thank{ul, and, if two, we laud the cwls and think oursclves blessed. Wo used to have com. anics of stars: that Is all vone now,—it is the atre: 0 and ‘furniture, diamonus, and fashionablo toiléts f thnh‘“cnnla 0 L0 808 DOW, not acting.” ‘auld not Augustus Adams liave made ¢ fine actor, if bo had livedl ” % Jfe was n_very fino nctor, but tho actor's bane, strong drinfs,” was bis ruin, Adams was the ooly man I thought worthy to cope with, *llnncrlnrln $0mo scencs. e shoul| have died hereafter; there was room enough for both of us.” # Charles Eaton,” 1 sald, “‘gave great prom- 8¢, did ho not1 % Yes, and would have made a great nctor, It ho Lad depended upon hitself; but he fell into tho error of copylog Booth. A imnau, tobus ‘grcufl actor, must not imitato another. As Michael Angelo sald of a brother paluter, he shouild remember that he that follows a mnaster’ ue‘\;(i; gets h::riyru’}um—lm 1t is I}v‘uhl acting.” 0 you. intend coming to thiscity next year, Mr. Forrest! i g b “Ha, ha; what do we know about next yearl" And, true enough, tho old man dlod tie fol lowing s?(rlng. fter tuking o parting drink, wo shook hands with * Gad bless you, old fel- low,” and I went homo to bed. "I nevermet him again. A DREADIFUL DEATIHL A Quantity of Lime Biown into the Faceof * o Luborer—Hls Favce Cooked and Iis Eyes Burned Out—After Sulloring Untold Agony for ¥lfty-six lours Pe Dies—A Suspicion of Foul-I'lay, Toledn tommeretal, Last Thursday mormng Jacob Weber, a la- borer, 85 yeara of nge, employed at Grasser & DBrand's brewery, on 8t. Clalr strect, met switha singular and bhorriblo nceident. At this scason of the year It {s the custom of browers to dlsin- fect thelr cellars and storc-rooms with lime, Weber was engaged o slacking a large bucket ful of it, and, having turned a small amount of water into the bucket, proceeded to add more toit. ‘That which had boen thrown in had, In its action on the lime, generated o terrific heat, and when tho gecond quantity of watcr was cast into the rcecptacle It was converted into steam jn an Justant by heat more Intenso than a_ thousand” ovens, Tho rather lurgo and heavy amount of unalacked lime on top sersed for an fostant to hold the stewin iu, but the resistance only tended to make the ex- plosion which followed tho mora terrible, Whilo +Weber was bonding over the harmless-looking I)all of lme, oreparing to stir it, tha entire con- ents of thg bucket were suddenly blown up- ward with awiul force, cleaning out the pall al most as completely as {f it- had been cmpticd, and carclully washed, Bomo of the lime struck the poor man in the face, whilo the rest was blown aghinst tho celling witl such violenco that {t clung thero In o mass two Inclies thick, It is beyond the powerof tho pen to devict the agouy which Wober cndured from the mo- mont that bio fell to the floor with his eyes and ears full of Hme, and his wholo (ucg burned raw, To have been scalded with a compound so hot would bave been terrible enough, but to have the scalding material o corvoding polsun was simply awful. Any ono who Las ever dropped a littio lime In his eye can form o very fulu 1dea of what Weber suffered. As soon as tho Injured man's coudition wai dlscovered, Dr, Chunberlin, the Coroner, was summoned. Ho bad been carricd to s bed fo the sleeping apartments of tho eatablishinent, and lay there, Lus fave preseuting a chastly spectaclo when the physiclan arrived, Hls eyes wero blown so full of lime that the doctor vas abliged to pull thom apart—thoy had swollen shut—and foree tho polsonous stuff out withaa fnstrument, Had the amauat ju each (ye beed collucted tomethicr, it would lave mado a ball of lime an larze s a hickory-nut. The fuce was 80 thoroughly cooked that fn forcini the eves apart tho skin and soma of tho flesh would stick to the doctor's fingers. ‘The cars were blown 80 full that the lime had becoms compuct, o had to be broken apart at the oxpense of a cunl siderablo outlay of strength bofore it could be taken out. Bus, most slckentnz of all, the doctor found, when he attempted to remove tho lime from the roota of tho chin-whiskors, that the Lairs alinust dni“p:r:l oul}. and would not cndure so touch & a stight pull The |l.\'l‘hmcd statoof tho oyos affccted the principal nerves leading to the braln, and death waas caused from foflamwation of tbat orat. On Friday night Weber began to rave llke a mudman. Flve strong men could not Loid bim in bed, ‘Thoso who saw them ssy they never witnessed such a terrifying scene, lle was cont tinually making efforts to got out doors, wherd he sald his tonguo and teeth were, ** Never did 1 witness & caso of dolirium tromens that could, g compared to it," afd the attendant physiclan ta tue Commerclal conmlssioner. It was not until Saturday, lato in the after. noon, thiat the aistracied man co his rav- Ings. Hesuddenly quicted down, and tho at tendaots supposed that he was better. Au about 8 o'clock Dr. Olumnberlin called on his patiem, and was told that he was casler. Ho went 10 the bedslde, and, looking a motavnt ot the ghastly sight, tumed to tho aticndauts startled them by saylng, " o ls dead.” I : titlons. towitE he Signale of Lelpsic records the followl numrnllz:u of artists Josephine Gullueyer always i tardy In her dressing-roum, :a causa she belicves it brings ber bad Juck W“d punctual. Frederike Gosmann slwa “m-l threa scrapca with her rieht foot before steph h"‘l: on the stage, Therego ‘Ticteus belleved P the persun would svecdily die who FTIS lgn; ] with ber over tho threslihotd at partiug. l(.\xvh‘. and Mars clalmed to baye celebruted thelr 2CE st successes iumedlately after they had web 3 funeral. The petite Dejaxet always made Lier l‘m trance with a tiny sced tu ber moutb, which -m would throw away s soon a8 ahe had tv olll‘ > her lips, Obce shie dropoed tho sced from ;‘ wouth when tho Marquis de V. made a propos: " of warrtage to her, aud she rejected bim for lulx of su unhappy marrtaze, Vincent Bellinl woulc Dot permit s ew work to bo brought vut fort frst tiuie i€ on tho duy sunounced o wasd B2 preeted by o man. **La SonnambulaVjwas 'fr cral times postponed for this reason. EVErS day un which one of Haleyy's works was Do forued, the composer pruyed o Schgenus Ml: three times. Meyerbeer regularly washed o bauds before begluniug an overture, sud Wi ) closed eycs prayed 8 Hamaluch Hupoict 0 story s aluo told of u Vicona tragediciue WG never plays unlcss she has u whity mouso ! o basotn, which the writerfu the Signale d:m‘ to have (l»lmn secu pecping trom bls 6105 & blace.