Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1878, Page 5

are deseribed va Intellizant and reepectable peo- ple, and who have alwars Hsed happily togother until notw, have recently ot into trouble by the wite becoming a spiritual wedium and often getting under the influence of an old bean long gince demd, ut whose uneasy spirit returns nlghtly to make trouble tn the family. The epirit trashes around quits lvels smongat the furniture, as is often thefe habit, and the dis- turbanco Fometimes becomes so great that bioth man and wifo ara compelled to leave the prems fres. The trouble fn iikely to culininate in an action for divoree, ns the hushand has already peeome Jealous of the attentions which the epirit of his wife's ald sultor a bestowing upon her. The wife declares that she s not pining after the dead man, but 18 cvidently satisfiad with her present relatinns, —— The New York Tritune, Journal of Commerce, Zimes, and Nation contliue to declare that sil- ver dollars aro o debased currency, and wortly only 50 venta, "The traphic, which hss s keen eye for turning an honcat penny, offers theso papers 215 centa in gold for all the legal-tenider stlver dollara’'that they will back up at its ofiice doors. It adda: ‘The 7itites nays the Hemonetization 1aw in g fall- ace, Aud thal wrent effect has éen 1o ptle npativer inatead of yold in_Ihe 'Treanury vaults.™" 18 the Zimea umorant of the fact that Aiva timew 88 muich gold as xitver nas been ** piled up in the Tredsury vaulta * uincy the passage of fhat ur or a iU lying merely for fup? And docs it know that thore’ia fliteon times namuch guld us rilser **heapod ap in the Treas which mokes itself & horrible and di=gusting ity " and which Ine peonle wan't take for the same resson that they wou't tuke stiver—becauso they cau't get ity ——— Some time ago, when Benator THURMAN taa atanding by his ** llfe-lonz ™ hard-monoy record, Editor McLraN, of the Cinclunati Eagquirer, gave It as his {pdividusl and clasaical opfalon that ** Hell may freeze over, but Autcy O. TuunsAN will ucver bo President of these United Btates,” That was some time ago, aud, unfees the temperature in the bad place is cooler than it has been in 8t. Louls during the sum- mer, the aloresald plnco has not been used as o ekating-rink, And yet, sluce Mr. TuunsMan’s flop on tho financlal jssuc, Mr, MCLuAx has flopped also In regard to the Judge and his Presidentinl prospects, and declares that foas- much a8 TnurMAN has got over on the rigut slde, **it fs o)l right,"—mennlng, of course, that the Benator now hos a chance for tho Presl- dency, no matter what may be the condition of ‘Tophets ——————— A Paris lctter states that ‘the introduction of Chinesclaborera Into Algeria bas formore than 8 year been warmiy discussed. Its snpporters urge the scarcity of bands for timber-felllng, mining, andeven for harvesting, tho tendency todesertion among the Spanlards, Tunisinns, Moroccans, Italians, and Malteso cnlisted for rafivays and other public works, and the exac- tlons of the Kabyles. Its opponents fusist that cupital alone Is Incking, and dwoll on the wenk pointa of the Uninese. The socroty formed to promote the scheme demand a temporary mou- opoly in order ta protect Itselt against loss in undertaking tho expenses of transport and re- vatriation. Gen. Cuianzy, Qovernor, according toaletter in the Dedals, at Orst leaned to the sclicnie, but now hesitates.” e —— Bome of the Democratic papers aro trylng to convict the President of o helnous offense, or at least a violation of Civil-8ervice vrinciples, for writlug to Judge LoNawoRTu approving of the proposition to run bim for Congross, the Judge being an old personal friend of Mr. Haves. Bays the Cinclanatl Commercial ¢ It haa not yet beon explained in what respect tho Prealdent violated Excentive Orders No, 1, in wrnmx!rlvmely to Jandge LoxowonTn that It wonld afford hin pleasure to know that ha had g)‘gllfi::fm to run for Congress in the First Ohto —_—— Mr. ITALSTRAD, of the Cluclonatl Commercial, 80 savagely attacked the drinking of fce-water in summer that its use waos banished tn Clu- clonatl, Hohasnow opencd his batteries agalnst Jemonade, saying: Lamonade fs o doluslve drink., You drink It down with tho sweet sonsa of coolness, but ite acidity attacks the delicate lining of thu stomach, and destroys the genoral tone of the aystem. Mr. HALSTEAD is determined that tho pcovle of Clncinnati shnll be reduced to lager beer— that, or go thirsty. » e —— The Moutreal Post (Irish Cathollc organ) de- clares that tha Orsogo riots will certainly lead to civil war fn Canada unless they are stopped. Tt asserts that the Catholics are ripe for i, and the Orangemen are eeady, aud that all that ls wanted I8 o spark to alight Just where tho magazines are loeated. *Catholics will never stand Orange asccndency,” says tho Jlost. 1f both partles are so very willlng to figut, wo dun’t sce what fs to hinder a row, e e It wonll be n good thing—a very good thing, indeed—it severnl other Louisiana witucsses would Imitate the examplo of poor Lesr yand #u crazy, LEET does not secr to be any big- per llar than the rest of them, Lot us sec. What was the nane of that ¢ party spoken of lu the Seripturus who was struck dead for I§lng? It wasn't ANDERSOR, was it§ —————— The Nashwille American bints that tha yellow- fever may Indirectly giye several Congressional Qistricts to the Republicans; but we fall to dis- cover upon what theory It makes that assertlon, escept that tho fevor prevalls in tho dirtiest and most flithy Jocallties, and there do the Demo- cratle voters mostly congregate. Dirt aud Democracy aro neyor far apart. - ee— Bays & Berlin dispatch: “Princo BisMarck Yesterday walted uvon Princess Louise of Great Dritaln at Kissongen. 1t s atated that Prince BisMARCK caused Wtmsell to bo weighed a few daya ago at Kissongen, when tho balance marked 243 pounda 100 grammes, In 1574 the Prince, lwlmhzuulug very stout, welzhed 40 pounds ess, —— Tur Cuicaco Trinuxe wants fo know if'the PartEn Committes in farco o & traxedy, Well it bus shain STANLEY MATTHEWS, lni out Joux Butnwax, and driven Lxer mluflumn:y.—Nam- vlils Amarican. Well, It it is neither a farce nor a tragedy, low will 1t do to call It ¥ A Comedy of Er- rore "t ‘The Doston Transcript gives this good advice: * Nouw it you want to mako the South solid— 891ld for posco and good-will~glve all vou cin for the Legefit of the yellow-fover sufferers.” Chicago witl do all she can, When Dexxi9 O'KuannB1's white plume fs ‘placed on the baid head of hie “Nayarre,” will & vo long enough to shade that cock eyel ——— PERSONALS, —— ¢ The Chiuese must go.” Quene.rect! Mr, Angell was a talented and efficiont Communlst, The oycters will return from their summer Yacation next week, It you are a lanatlo outof a job apply to Clarkson N, Potter. The Boston Fost says Bayard Taylor sets Up—boer, wo suppose, / ‘One hour of Grant is certainly worth sev- eral weeks of Kearney. Watermelons at 10 cents each puts the collo Within the reach of the péurest snd humblaest. Now, reslly, Bogardus and Ourver should 8500t off their tmatohes lustead of thelr mouths. An English paper advertises for sale * the Comb used by the Prince of Wales kst ¥riday.” Song by the Pullman Company: Angell :::.r oright and fair, bow we wander where you ‘The coolness between Hutler snd Kearney :I‘l' lowored the tomperature of the weather gener- y. Kearney says, “Pool your issues,” but \?nl,mn country wants is to pod Its Kearneyltes ~lu fatl, Wondoll Phillips says, ** Never call & man alar." O no; murely say you think be is 8 Louts- {aus witncas, Brighaw Young's widow v gradually belug marrled o, and thare are ooly & few of her Jult unuarried abwe TH "CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE:; MONDAY., AUGUST 26, 1878, RELIGIOUS. Prof, Swing’s Discourse De- geriptive of a Progress- ive Christianitgy Y!.‘slowlrpy's Hermons and Other Services at the Desplaines Cnmp-Meeting, The ** Christian Union's '* Approval of Dr, Goodwin's Views on the Beoond Advent. Organization of ¢he Fourilh Christian Church In the Sonta DI. viston. 8ermon by Bishop Wilmur, of Alabama, in 8t, James' Episcopal Ohuroh, MODERN CHRISTIANITY. - BERMON DY PROF. BWING. Prof. Swing resumed his services at McVick- er's Theatro yesterday morning in the presenco of a large audience. Beluro commencing the scrmon, the reverend gentlemsn returned thanks to the congregution for thevacation that bad been wranted him, amd announced that hereafter services woukl be held regularly : T.am made all things 10 al) men.—1 Cor., ix., 22 Al modern Christianity s progressive, Con- aciously or unconaciouslyall the forns of Chrls- {ian thonght aud conduct are progressive forms. Even those denuminations which most glory in thelr immutability are the einbodiment of great progrese, and aro not and never again wili be whiut they once were in faith and pracilco. This vroposition, ga general and so fmportant, could be ensily proven from church history were that my present purpose, It 13 my wish, however, to fuquire \vhntlln meant by & progreasivo Clirls- tianity and to inquire into its valuc and Inta the agoucles which are giving religlun now shapes and nsslgning (& new dutles. By a progressive Christlanity inthe true sonse of the words must be meant a relizion that is gradunily going forward fn_finding truth and bringing public happiness. Thera are persons who, through ignorance, or stubboruncss, or timidily, do not distinguish between progress and novelty or eccentricity. They class the disciples of progress in Christianity along with those wno have ftching ears for news or for Rgossip, or with those who are seckiog the olixir of Hfe or wlio are founding colonles for the pro- duetion of human perfection. They nesoclate procress ln Clrlstianity with quackery in medi- cine, aid think both n’shamefal paredy of the rand ol truth, And therc are reasons why hose should bo weil questioned and cr questioned who announcothemsclves as di ples of “progrese,” 1or there really is fn Chrls- tianity & mock progress—on assumed advance, which is as contemptible in religion as such an assumed progress is in nedicine or in pol- it But_the fact of such a false reform dous not affect tho great proposition that e arv all lyluz amid & progressive faith: and that this spiritual advance posscssen or miay pussess many forma of nobleness, The protonders and the self-deceived in medicine do not prove thnt that large eclence and art is not moving con- stantly away from tho first leasons and going on unto perfoction, The trite progress must be scen over und throuzh all the medicul fulse- hoods and weaknesses which ara flared forth in tho prints or ombinzenced on all dead-walls and on o¢ven Nature's ancomplalning rocks, In pol- {tica the mistaken aud the falsa men come along caltlug Cominunism or Fourlerlsm s progress, and contending for those iduas s though they wero the best realitles of all socloty, Thus on oll sfdes mon come with a novelty and wish us to call it u reform, and to distinguish carefully amid thess many phases of 1ifc is o confessed duty. But as there is o trnu progress n poll- ties, not Boclallsm or Communtsin, but a re- form called republicanism or freedow, so In Christlanity there way always be n higher advance which shall be far above a mero noverty or eecentricity, And when not an absolua ad- vanve this motlon'will at least bo a valuablo adaptationtto tho wants of mankind, That steam- boat freaching, whero tho servaut of tho Gospel makes bis truth attractive by a trlp down a bay, {s not to ba supposed any part, howover smal of u Christian progress, Lut it {sto be ] the ceeentrie movement of o single ulnd, 08 thero 1s hera und thero a mortal who i o get married in o Mammoth Cavey or up b a bufinml, oron the cragsof Mt Slane, It s olten difiicult to distinguish between man's hrogresa and his absurdity, because wo are all ]uvcu of tho new and atrango ns well us of the It 1s posaible that our great Tabernaclo which have run through the lorge cities h great cost of mouuy were a novelty rather than a religlous sdvance, for wu nro ol such _mere children that wo cannot always dis- tinguish between our wisdom and our amuse- ment. We often think oursclvea full of phil- osophy when wo aresimply happy over our food aud drink. . But ufter wo shall havo made all atlowance for falso reforms aud dor the eceentrlelties of indt- viduals, thero vet rematns to be consldered tho Jact of a progressive cnmuunu{. itsnature aud worth. Let us define suct religlon, It adapta itacif to man. Not {o ove man, & Cummijvgs, or a Moody, or a Npurgeon, or a Lorenzo Dow, to & mag iioblo or udd, but to the wants of soclety, and shapea itself just s s Government shapes itaclf to tho advunting peo- ple. When the subjects arcignorant siaves, theon tho King Is & despot and passca all laws, or without law or precedeot puts todeath whom he will; but as rapidly as intelllzence rises in the peuple, power falls in_the King, The com- nmunity drajus the mav. Thus govermnent ad- Juats itsclf to mew conditions of the humsn ind, and wna ono thing yceterday, is another tlune lMlafl. Bo Chrisflauty becomes all things to all men, sud cardug little for any une inan, or any ono group of men, edjuste itsell to the statiis uf Liic uumberlesa multitude. It will always be vain for the eccentric to say, s+ Follow in” my path,” or for the hyper-ortho- dox to say, “Ntay with we in sy closet," for unless that path be forall meo, unless that closct be us largo as the century, the Cbristiou- ity sweeplug by will disregard these volces. It will be all things toall uien and, equully, dif- Terent. thioze to” difTerent oges, \We shoutd all hasten to resd thess adapiations, should at- tempt to distingoish between u valuable change and & mere freak of thought, and then to jend our band and heart to the valuable new., Itis s Land lot when oncis held as aslave, The beauty, and {mpulse, and possibilities, and fresbncss of findividualisin are thue cut off, aud ife is lived only tor an old master. This same hardabip may befalt those who are ouly thu elaves of acustom, tor Lhey may be huid ck by s form of oil thought, and thus denled the fmpuléc and usefulness of their times. Thelr wge may bave for them a work thelr hands huye not foun: nusic thelr osr has Dot detected. For example, the Protestant clengy huye slowly becomu bound up by the custom of preaching to only oue congregation aud of thus apeaking twico each BSunday. A few uenera- tlous of this prectice bave clothed f with the authority of @ revealed duly, and such & law of labor scems now one of the Tem Uommund- meuts. Iu such a regular and frequent preach- Ing to one audivice there may ouce bava been & great wisdom, It once had these facts iuits tavor, nanjely, at the dawn of tue Reformation the people were all Ignorsut of Bible truths, and they all began to crowd fnlo the Reformed houscs of worship, The preacner could not preach tou often, nur noed Lie seck for a hew audience. The whole air was full of religlous controversy and all minds wers azlow with gither Protestant or Roman zeal. IF yuu witl wypou soy old catechisin, Armivtau or Calviuist, you wiil perceive that it was formed lu an 0 of dobate, Like the platform of s polit- fcal party, the creed embodfed tho con- test of & campaign oo baud wnd to come, That imoionse quantity of debatw aud that tm'aenss quantity of preaching to ooy afence were the Chrisilau religion sdapting itsell to & place. Now, if, fu the chauge of events, wo have reachied a new condition of pub- e equeation and taste, theu the old customs should fail a ud the wintatry should bwtea tu seu the chungal fucts and flud the uew duty. ‘ihe facts of to-dsy arethat therc is no grami Reformution ou band to intlame the people; there 13 no Diot of Worms, or Burnlug of ctuy, or Edict of Nentes to make the mind think sud the beart burn. Our common pewpls do not hasten each Suudasy o Ml the houscs of worstip; they do not crowd upon each other, eager 10 Jearn wmore ou this sidoor thatof a controversy which s coovalsiug Btates and which will soon tuuke the flelds red with blood. No! The public bus found thenics of thought butslde of relizion und bas found elscwhere gu entectaloment ouce afforded by the walls uf the ¢hurcl. Uur houses of” wor- shiv {n the large cities are bullt vuly for & few, and ure visted by only o part of wat linited number, ‘Tho chureh was vnce the cotertain- went of the muititude. Iu this crisls we cans ot ugaln wake ub a vipt debate _such s shouk ewplrow wheu Procestaritun wes belner boru ’ and Romanism was belng dethraned ; wo eannot findd any Luthep or au; Wesleys, or sy vall for theins wo enanot {nfuse 1ite into the niuir alwut Jews, or Quakers, or Baptiats, nrl tana, or witches; wa can by no meana thus make the peoplo all seek again the chureh o sun or snow. It wonld scem that the church, formation of the people. It may be that It daocs not He in human power to lead the multitnde back Into the Church, for man can no mora wakea a apiritual second ho preat Chrlsttan aue. rarl- meetinz-honse, and, to reach it, waik miles in in all its nameon, must readaot itaelf, ma Govern- wient changes Itself when it beliolds the trans- flama that he can order up an carthquake or a tempest, but changes snid movements aro al- ways waitinz the will of man, and hic can great- Iy hekp the world even if be cannot convulse it. Butto do thifs he must confess that an old cus- tam i3 often a bondage, and that his Chriatianity is azelizion of alsost andlesr adaptability, atd that it may do ail things for al) men. If, on ae- count of the death of ofil commotinns, the peo- plodo niot come to the chureh, the church must o toward the people. The church, [y the cene tres of edueatlon and wi alth, must hutld its s among the poorer massed, and the preacher who has fure years spoken to only one eroup must henceforth speak hatf of his time to the su-called humbler multitude. An ol ens- tom must pasA away With the ffssinge away of the acchlents which made i, and u new custom must comg with new acetd ents, A tabermoele - buflt here and thero and overloaded with service for a few weeks, or relious excurslons in August, lor the comtnon people, sre only satires ginon u fo reach thy peonle, it will be wecomsars Lor au fron custom to he changed, ‘The multitude Is fun Jarge to boleft tothe care of any spasmordic metliu, or to three or fuur man, ba they great or only odd; It must puss to the care of Lhie tens of thousunds of pastors who can go forth each Sunday cven- e 1n tha 3ull foree of thelr office. The best portion of the morning audience shuuld go with them, and thus rapidly would they bring atout adiffuston of truth and & cementing of frirnd- shipt. Nuw todo this, the Church nust break the chains of an old custom—a custon which Lus been transfornied by tine from a friend to a harinful enemy. Al other ways of reaching the peaple will “fall, for, good as they may be, they are utterly nulwnlhmnt in_the presence of tho vast need of the world, Education does not scek its onds Ly means of any tabernacle seryiee, nor by any amnzing offort ol one tinaw; but it plants {ts school-house every- where, builds {t of loga or of stone, and sends forth thousanda of teachers, and gathers all the children,—gathers thom not one day unly, but winter alter winter, nud spring atter spring: and ot lust an enlightened race moves where Indlans once danced around tortured captives, or moved out iike tizers for tresh blood, “The old under- ground’ ratlway gave liborty to u iew detached sinves. Here and there a lonely black man or o little family would ateal over the Otlo and move Northwand. But how poor was this uicans to an end when there wera four milllons under the tasknester’s whip. It was only when the whole nation aroso that the movement becamo larpe enough to wring out the word lberty from the rejuctant mastor and to write it down upon the African soul. 8o all vur Muody effurts and Van Cott incasures aro only like the old Abolltioniat helping one slave across the Ohio in the nizht, The skiff 1a strong, tho hands are willing, the gorth stur §s bright, aid therescued ouctshappy: tut oh! how far short docs thut seene fall of being a pleture of thot freedom which was prayed for (rom Florlda'to tha Rio Grande. A Chrlstianity which really desires to Imorove onr land or our world must change its whole front, and thus readust itself for the uew thnos. All the denominations, from the High Eplscopat to the plalnest Methodist, must bulld thelr extra houses of worsliv in the neelectod districts, aud new pulpits the best of their pastors viorlan or Baptist vould most ensily reach the people, Lut the fucts show that uo eougregation fn Lon- don can surpass the notorious Bt. Albans In mission work among what is called the bumbler Our congregation which s hiere to-day in Quaker slmplicity s also fitted for this work, for wien, lust spring, sou opened a mission-school fu o populous portion of this city, inmediuteiy 400 chiddrun and youth poured into it, and are there yet, only in fnereastng numbers. Thus all the do- nowf{tatious scem Heted Sor tha general work of enlightening and roforming the people, and seem detalned (rom nsciulness only by bondugn to an fmperious custom, A progressive Christianity will not only change Its vlace of speech, shifting ita Bu!pn about frotn avenue to comnion strect, but it will change readily the sublect imatter of its sermons. Flere, 100, 1t wlil distingaish petiwveen o necessity and @ custom. It will be contessed that the evaugelical putpit has for thne atnost {mmemorlal preached what fz calls b Chrfaty™ or the Diod,"or the * Saving Doctrines,” but 1 do not hesitate to deny that to has done this to the world's advantage, and that it can continue so to preach without working society an Injury. To omit the few lendipg doctrines” sould ruln church and publle, but the wmoral' wants of man aro many snd large, and the pulpit or church which ~ ‘shall mect these muet widen out ita domain of thought, Bocfety can learn o Bible statetment as casily as it can learn o historlc or_scientitie statement, and hence as tho story of Wasbiugton neel not be proclalmed to thi same persoua onco each wuek, 50 no one doctriue of religion need be re- peated each Sunday for succeasive goncrations, The fotthiul church will lead the comuwon peo- ple fu thouchts over Industry and ccouomy aud domestic kiudnass, Once the miitions foved philosophical ab- stractions. Men dinnerless and barefooted would discuss with deiight the trinity, the de- crees; and would haug over “ eternity aud Sqmmutabllity ¥ with a deliclous amazewent, To such tastes Plotinus and Abelard and Calvin sod Edwards addressed thelr powerful intol- lects, But that old taste for the abatract hua rished and alinost the whole living throng of urope and America would ruther bave ood food® and good clothea mud s good fien for sclf and chlldren than to hear fromn mitted lips the swecetest kind of metaphysical Ellllnloph)‘. When Pere Hyacinthe drew after Im the multitude of Parfs ana won his great Catliollc fame, he was preaching simple sor- mous about homo and bome duties, and sbout the sctual relations of rolimon and ltte, Tho Catholle world was amazed to lind ftaolf fed upon sdinething cise than Incense, and prayers, and masscs, and vespers, ¢ 1 not to bo doubted now that those ideutical clorzymen who graw aogry over pulpit politics beforo the fall of slayery, aud who contended that the faithful preacher preached ouly Christ aud left to statestnen political Idvas, are now hapoy to at- tuck Communism and to tind thelr Gospel ex- panding until 1t can calmty reason with a dis- turbed populsce. ‘Thus the Gospelers whocould not mix up -hvur{ and thenlogy can, with per- fect ease, ininile theology and a Boclalist, Thus even from au onemy ‘we may learn that, after all, the nulpit possesscs a breadth of theme, and may as it s carried along by the ages focd out the truths which thé peoble nost need. As our pub- I men now bless the Catholle Church for what words it has recently snoken agalnst the theo- ries_and tho zcts of Commumasm, so will the world thank, st last, all denomlnations for all the scrmons that they shall ever preach to the people upon the practical themes of eommon lite. A nuw adantation of themes must come becanss new wants, and new weakucs ve Christlanity any forin of scnsationalisiu, rmrm tways lcads away from such resort. The Indiaue, and the ecarly Goths, aud the negrues demanded colored flagas and beads to lead them in wor- ship, but Cnristianity cannut march through our century If f¢ shall rely much upon s brass- bLaud and amazing subfects of discourse. Tho lcader will scem tu have a great success, but tho wultitudo ropelled will be ingnitely larger nd better, than the maltitude that seemi charmed by’ the duvice. What we are sccl fug {8 & form of preaching that will attract, not siily weu aud the children, but that will command the respect of that vest number which wake up the Repubilc or the Emplre, 1t is iy own impression that the simpler and the mure appilcabls to lifa the pulrlt themes shall become the Larger and better will ba the number who shall on Buonday turn thelr stepstoward the sanctuary, Therg must not ludeed be any con- tewmnpt for goud speech avd for & bigh order of musle, but” sensationalisin s suftable unl{ for the carlice forms of bumsn Mfe whenlt s emereiug from the palnt sud ornamcnts of Its Darburian epoch. ‘T'he thenies of each age are i some mysteri- ous mavucr selected by the age ftself, Bowo- thing has induced the men and wotnen of tho prescut to dubate carnestly thelr tempora! wel- }un.-. AMeu and women do uot starve or go naked us pnllullll{ a8 they ouce did. They do not bear well the sufferlogs of thelr litle cltldrenr, Hearts which once viewed with judiTercnce the future of thelr own vhildren now ache with solicitude over the fate of cacl little oue, aud Beucs all these demand ot the sacred Leachers lessons not In the art of rowing rich but fu the uoble art of Hudiug the wost tiue buviiucss fo these years. Tuey thereloro witl lntos to the pulpit which stail come ot unly between them aud_ Hell, but be- tween them and poverty, aud between thedr chitdren sud iotemperance, and idlencss, and dishonor. New forios of bumau solidiude bave cotig to demund of abl publle teachers a uew ltue of urgnineut and eloquuuce. The advocates of the ost rigld orthodoxy put thewmsclyes 1o thy way of 8 wider worsl in- structloy ol the lasest possible nuber by their peculiar repuguauce to all changes of custom, Tbey fear wll chapges and call thom **opsuluy wedsve' W sume divads ful departure from the right. febd or labor they wil find impending But their mont intenta oppneition hay heen, and for s time will be, dirccted against any modifleation of pulult theines, to all pleaders for & “You are forraking he met with these rejoinders: that the world 1s forsaking the chupchs 1t s finding clrewheru its entertainment, ita educatlon, fta useful phi- towophy; that the Cheist of the Gospels taught all usctul forms of truth and placed no limit to His svmpathy with the .pedple; His light was far all thoir darkness, H{in strength for all their & universal, unlimited friend: they must bo met with the declaration that the puipit Is not limited to the words of Christ, but possersea the broad warrant of Hin apirit. What Christ sald and did were only o fragment of what e would have salit and done had [is Nt passed boyond those three vears and with its Jove overflowed into the nineteently In the chanzy kl-rcr drove up to the house of the prophet In L rogreasive Christianity, But they must, tha last reply Lo all those who are s todiscover s doparture ™ from Christ must be futnid in this: thut a monotonous repe- ples Is always a great foe here 1hey belony. “Speaker ke tfe fn such a treat The method s false ne well as bn- Under the ldeas of commaon Jife fs the grent Chirist just ua trily an beneath tho croas atud the tinal Judgmont. - The Father, 8on, and the Smrit are beneatl all virtue sod all ¢hanl heneath ali our varled tion of u few prined; h » 88 the preatioarth lles vezetation ot wod or When n gglass of water Is glven o thirsty ne, the Jove of (lod s aparkling withiv the ‘Thiere may bo & class of Christian teach- era who ara limiting the vew only ane kind of tree. table kingdom to Whien our artists mint, huwever great snay be thelr canvas or ambitious not desplse tho Naturo. These, never be “absent, the heart ncither of hearer dares ever break away from the elght iresent perpetustly in_the performer or grand_antuom and sl gresaive Chriatianity ' fs not one which 1s break- esus and the Cross, but is o ever present, e, the sutlime order for o true Uhrist dous not so much prescribe words as fnspire the heart, who lehted up the Sun eald: ¢ Shine on all sliles, everywhere,” and it obey: Aighted un Christianiiy in the frét contury secms to have said: “Bolue” forth on nll sides; wiere dorkuess an § sorrow are, there send thy ravs of He who In the spirit of Christ shail ever stand ncar to mankind, will find that the Hpaving doctrines™ are always in his spoech— the great elght notes heard fn his loud or gentle No danger of thelr belag lost, God the Creator, Christ the Madator, the Holy Bplrit, with His influence, fnstead of being ab- sent, will be the fountalns whence will flow this religion, which shall readjust Itself to the new wants uf the new natlous and races of mon, TIIE CAMP-MEETING. YEATRADAY'S <ERVICES. A severe storm vieited the camp Baturday night. It did not, however, interfere with the services (o the Tabernacle, which were continued untll nesr midnight, and long after many had become wearled and retired to their tente. There was no regular sermon preached. Short addresses were delivered by aevernl, and it was then turned {nto what Elder Willing termed o All bellevers were called on to give tuetr testiony as brietly as possible, the Elder leading off, At one time so rapidly dfd they speak that over 100 testimonles were delivered in a apace of fiftecn minutes. Bartine was present, and gave in his testimony for Christ with the others. man commands much attention, for evidently he walks with God.. At a meetiug called for the g away from the una where those pritmary foru the basts of cach cl cach unwand step. testimony meeting. This remarkable into districts, and companles formed under competent leaders to canvass cach distriet, acd. by personal clfort and solivitation, endeavor to Lring every unconveried one luto the fold, The followlnz Captains were uppointed: District No. 1, Messrs. Lasher and Kinasly; District No, 2, Messrs. Hemeunway and 8wift; District No. 8, Mesare. McCool and Mclane; Distriet No. 4, Mr. - Charles Boriug; District No. 5, Messts, Hall nnd Levine; District No. 0, the Rev, Mr. Craven, asslsted by all tue ministers, At the Evanston tent o prayer-mocting was in prouress the entire day under the leadership of the ltev. M. Steward, Miss Ada Brown, and Father Wheaton, to pray with er givo counset to all fnquirera. Buuday was a regular large .tralns,—ono from Woodstock,—heavily taden, the grounds about and the couutry people were presont In groat carriages and wagons, each bringing from two to ten persons, arrived d uring the forencon. 'The whole north- crn poart of the county seemed to bave turned out en masse, and & numerous delegation was notleed from the western part of Lake County. At ench of the urincival day sorvices, Including o monster Savbath-schoul, the great Tavernacle was densely packed, while' hundreds stood s tening within the cirele, and stlll other hun- drods wers wandering throuwh the grove. whole number presont during the day must liave been between five and six thousand. servico at 10:30 n. m. was opened with brayer by the Rov, Dr. Willlamsou. was sang as o solo by a lady. The Rov. Dr. Bartine, ot New Jersey, was then introduced to the vast assemolage. He made a few preliminary rem, to put the audience In aympathy withlim, This still further subserved by a few mo- ¢ announced his Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times iu Jordan, accordiog to the sayiny man of God: and hiv Uesh cama again i e tlesh of s littie child, sod be' was clean.— After forcibly presenting the facts sot forti in the context, namely, that Naaman was a cap- tafn of the hust of the King of Syris; was & wmighty man (n valor and altogether a very bon- orable and diatinguished maun, but, Lowever, was a leper and was sent by the with a letter of JYeracl, requestivg that Clilcago and one o'cleck a. m., * What must It be Ring of Israel was sorely troubled at this, aud rent his clothes, saylug, **Am [ tiod, to kill and make alive! ™ Elisha thercupon sald, ** Let him come now to me, aud Lo shall kuow that thero is & prophet in Tsrael.” Noaman drove up with horses and charlot before thie humble sbode of the prophet, and remalued there, evidently expecting the prophet to come oat and walt upun him, inas- ho was & person of such fmportasce. ent out o servant, inscructin to go aud wash In the Jonlaa seven tlmes. At Nugmun wus very wroth, and drove away Hls servauts, however, expost with blm, sud saud, *If the prophet had veat thing, wouldst thou not ow mucn rather, then, when ho salth to theo, Wash, and boclean.” consented, and tlus brings the accouut down to the text., Al this Dr Bartive portrayed in have done ft{ the condition of this mau wass common one In the world, yet, respected us he was, ho way VYith all the surroundings which were calculated to make him bavpy, by was yet mis- erable. Sin was the leprosy of the soul. There was 10 real, thorougl, radical cure of leprosy, nelther of sin, except Uod int t natural means, speak ot tho Instrumentality used by God for the vure of morul leprosy. M to be Jooked for fn Nature. The le from Nuture were to bo sougeters did uot give false note they created to sing urofune sonis. ulses fn childbood were to be relied ou. Many of these were uudefiled heart wers nearly 88 relfable as the fuspired Word of God. 1f we would but obey vur heart Instead ol gur so-called reason In secking the way less rugged und thoruy, contivued, speaking of the mistakes made fn seckiug & curs for morsl leprosy, Uus wilstake was lu ot gotug to the right place for cure, As thy leper, mentioucd in the text, west to the King rather than to the prophet in Samaria, so often went elsewhere thau , thattuketh uway the slns of the world. It would not doto rely ou the Chureh, to the altar, 1o obsceve suy or all tho meaus of grucs elmply; ons must go to Christ, the davlor of thu world. God, wo would find Muuers in our du to the Lamb ol G Aunother mistake the cr made was to lnazine that the diguity aud cs of State would sid bim in bla pled for a He ought to have thrown these wside his claim wholly on fecliugs of msaolivess. Many siuuers when yrized 1o come forward to the auxious seat were fufected with liku feellogs. They must get at the bottom of the cross, at the feet of Jesus, betore they Oue of tho advantages of #uners to comu to the ** merc was that [n so dofug they yielded the aud wore readily scparueed themselves from thy could be saved. Another mistake tho leper committed was tbat e approsched the vrophet to be cured o 8 pau of the pomp and style of a high dignitary, of a man of great valor, of fmportance, imposing and ungainsayed. e thought the prophet woullcometo bitn and heal him; but no, he receivad no more conalderation than the puoreat begizar. *8o rich and fashion- able sinners must wet down on thelr knees st the foot of the cross, or they would be damned like any other slnners, Another mistake stu- neramake I seeking to be aaved was 1o attemot to buy salvation. We have all been redeemed. God diccied to redeem tho race. The Son was crucified that through His btood we might have ilte cternal. We were all redeemed whether wewould or no. All wo had todo was to ac- cept the terms held out to us, and we might eain that which we conld not buy with money orservice. We might mnake great sacrifices in rvertain divections, Lut it would not avail. We st give up all our pride and _smbition to he disected by the will of lod. We eould not eltmb up - by other wa v. We must be savedl by the blood of Christ, me of the ohjectione urged agalnst Gua's cthods next ocetipled the apeaker’s attention. ‘se wblectlons were: the onterowth of a world- Iy |nl|llmuuh‘ which was all false in proportion a3 it dil not harmooize with the Word of God. ‘The Ieper atd not ke the manner of the proph- et Ile thought he ought to have recognized Lis fmportance. His method was too humilist- Ing. Il the tanner of Gud's workers when put ahowed the apirit of religlon, the wrinciples of living aua sivioe truth, it was right, even thougn it humbled pride and seem- Ingly violated propriety. Not only ditd the leper abject Lo the manner of the prophet, but sl to the prescrintion given, 1le vould not sce the virtue of goinic to the Jurdan and washing seven times. ‘To s tnpusht there were other and even hetter places nearer. e could soe no r sou in th provhict’s direction, and he refused compliance with what he thouzht an Insulting wrescription. We must have falth in God's way, and {t we would be saved we must go and be washed | the blood of the Lamb. One of the chicf u|l}¢t“u'll thy world moade agaluat the ro- liglon of Christ was that it did not recoznize the pride of station, Tney could not enaurg the thought that all were alike in the alght of God. Could the Church receive Its members and give them n atation in [tseil propurtiunata to Lheir posttion In the world of business, of fashion, or of thoueht, thousands would fiock In who are now restrained by tbelr pride which prevents their humbling themseives. Another sin of. which the leper was guilty in conimon with an astonishing tumber of more modern Individuals was Intetlectnal coneeft. It wuy wonderful hov many grest thiukers were sprivizing up to tell us what they thougit. “Ihe thoughts of these persons cutweigocd to them the eum of all buman experfence aud the teachings of Scriptore together. Ilere occaslon was taken to give the evolution theory o severe rap. The healing of the leper, and the manver ln which stuncrs of the present day will be healed, next occupled the sttentlon of the speaker. We 1aust, llke Naanian, get the tdea out uf our leads that {t was nccessary to du some great thing to be eaved. Naaman was able, willing, and expected to be told to do somethin:g tmpos- ing as weondition of his beoling. When the simple ‘washing in the Jordan was prescribed, he was ungry and went awar, But the truth at last troke uponhim. and be went to the Jordan, and, thourh with a weak and doubtiug heart, proceeded to do as he was bidden. At the first plunge e eould not sce that s cure bad in the least " Legun, nor at the second or thind, Not untll the seventh plunge was made, until the letter of the prophet's command had been fule illled, did be feel the joy that must rest upon one cured from a discase considered fucurable. W tuust learn from this to put tmpticie fulth fo God's commands, even though they do not ar- monize with whut vur reason and seuse of oro- priety sugzest. Dr, Bartine closod with ao exhortation hased on the thought that the leorusy of sin was within us. and, In refusing to accept the eurs God tn Hls infinite merey had provided, we ran the terrible risk of exchanging an eternity of hapoiness aud tove for one of misery and death. ‘Ttie Sabbath-school at 1:30 was a great sue- cess, Tha musio wus very sweet. Anonz the extruordinary attractions sas an address by that veteran in tlic Sunday-school cause, Albert G, Lany, and a recitation by Master Eddy Webb, ‘The preachiug service at 8 p. m. was attended by unother turonged concrezation. Elder Willlog prayed aud Dr. Wiltiamson read the Scripture-luason, Besides thie hymn sung h( the congregation, led by the choir, Mr. M. M. Jones, of Calcazo, sanz & solo, ** Lead Me." TIhe sermon was delivercd by the Rev. Mr. Bris- tol. ‘Fest. John I.: 8 4, part of the verse, **This ts the victory that overcometh the world, even our fulth, ‘The world had ever been the enemy of Chrlst. ‘The spirit of sociciy bad, through all the cen- turles, ecled, “Uraelly Him, Cracity Him1" ‘The natural laclination, the transmitted ten- deucies of the hutuuy beart, hadjbees aud stiil were antagonistic to spiritual trugh, light, and culture. This spirit naled to the cruss the gands that never touched but to bless, and oifered vinegur and gall to the ilps that uttered tue beatitudes, and “spoke with matchless eto- quence the Sermon oo the Muunt, Intidelty in nl\l ages had held the sponge of gall to Ho: bad dared to ulter great truths 0 uumanit; Unbelict was not refortatory, It was not progression. It never broughta ray of light “nto the darkncsa of the sohll. It never an- swered ono of the ten thousaud, -jucstions that sarged lke a troubled sen and torobbed ke voleauic fires tn the heart of man, 1t never - spred alofty purpose orled asoul up to tho areatness of heroism and the divioity of an un- avtfish t has persecuted the "Churen of Clirlst, challeuged the progress of all lnspired aod splrftual truth, and sought to destroy this Book of Bouks through the wit, satire, elo- quenee, sophiatry, and malignity of her mighty champlons, Christianity n {ta hicheat sense was a llte. As such it was the struwvly of the individual soul acafust all the forces of enit that tended to bolluts the beart and estrange. wman from his Giodand Father. Every Chria- tian, then, met, as he. Is by this hydra-headed enemy of unbellef, was called upon to * fxht the cood flzht of faith.” The vital doctrines f Christianity wero in this day recelving auch irum ‘the world as they bad never tore suffered. Thy Jite of a Christion was o severer strugele thun ever it had been. But wmever were victorles so fre- quent and 0 Curistian faith was never 8o hierole, never so steady and Invine cible, The Cuurch never stood clothed with so much majesty and power, ‘the fndividual and the Church lave vonquered n the past ouly as they have carried out tho Heaven-iuspired olan of lving by faith. While we allowed no one to ho before us in thelr nprrndnmm of scienttfic kuowledge, fn their adumiration of a fogival dis- cusslun of great questions, while we appro- vtated tho advantages of a Jearued over an un- learned miulstry, and gave full credit to the power and luflucnce of disciplined reason, yet, to our annd, the Church of God wonld make o blunder when it placed all its dependencs and riskud all its sacred interests upon the chances of argumentation, hoplng ta conguer the world iy logle ratber than the spiritual furces, When tho Chureh sought luxury amd bowed to the apirit of wealth; when the pews craved elo- quence, scueationatism, aud lavender-water hitosopby, instesd ot tho Holy Ghoat preach- f s sublime truth; whicn the pulpip eatered to the demands an ease-loving, worldly people, and ne culiscienceless and convicilunless; when the Church thus bsid {ts head into the lap of a scnsuous and ratfon- allstic philosophy, it would awake, ronbed of f1s strength and glory, to become the biind, fznobls slave of pride, ambition, aud bigotry, When the day of the Church’s faith was passed, thio day of fta power would be gone forever. It wauld be & sorry slebt to betiold the unce di- viueiy-anointed champions of Christisn truth unmlyln their pulpits and importantiy flourish the velvet scabbard of eloquent rhetorie, from which the brixbt, keen sword of faith had been stolen by & deceftful liberalism. It would be a #ad thiog to behold winlst preachiug thelr tongregutivns fnto doubt, ratfonalivm, and iol- delity, Bus what elso conld bo the result when the minlster bad glven up his own faith for phi- losophy, his own religlou for ratlonallswm, und cast pleasant slurs on faith and eologized doubt! Faith was the Christian's birtbrigne, and never should be barterod away for a mess of rationalistic pottage. Josus sald to you snd ine, to all men and all szes, 11 1 do not the wurks of iy Father, be- lieve me not.”” DId Chbrist ask any man 1o be- lleve in Him withiout evidence thut Hu was the Bon of God! Certaluly uot; but on the contra- ry 3 If the evidence was not clear, He asked you nnh me shmply to belleve Huo not. e asked us to test Jlim us we would Mohamet, Coufu- clus, and Zoroaster. Thls was the lunzuage of the Hible: *Prove all thiogs; hold fast that which is good.” 'That Is 10 say, examing every proposition that comcs to you, und belleve 1o thote only which come with sulllclent cvidence {n their support. We should nut luse sight of the fuct thiat God docs wot make our saivation depend upon our ability to compreheud the wmysterics of religlon, wysteries which are the result of the weakuess of butuan understandiog and the poverty uf huwan koowledge, God slnply asks us to believe In the grest truths us he cuuncistes them. Belleve the fucts, though they aro oo great, too subliwe for the humau futeliect to explain, *Wu tmve all the unending uges of cteruily to find the explanativas of truth aud the golden key of every mystery. Much credit 1s duo to the self-cousiltuted comittee of ladics who decoruted the platiorus and preacher's desk fn the Tabervacle with tlowers, It was & beautiful duplay, aud atteact- ©d a lurge share of attention, 1o crowd tisroughout the day was orderly in 8 very noticeable degree. Two arrests Were wade la e furenoon, byt for toe Wmslznificant Jue | oilzuse ot peddling oo tbe grouali. Tu2 of- fenders were taken before Justice Bradley and placed under bonda of 2200 each, A collection was taken uo yeaterday for funds wherewith to defray the Incidental expences of The deficit wan atated to be £400, o which amount the sum of $201 was collected at the morning and 814 at the after- noon servica. ‘Thy balanco will be raised at some subsenuent meeting. Pramment among the arrivaln were Elder Chicago: Col. Whitterman, New Evanaton u: tho Hev.'T. this camp-meeting. = uowbrige, and the TIIF. SBECOND ADVENT. TER CHURCH SIOULD LOOK YOR IT. Cariotian Uafon, The curlous vontroversy that (s golog on in Chirago respecting Ur. Goodwin's recent ser- mons on the Sccond Coming of Chrlst aTonda = atriking jiTustration of the comeeption. happily rapialy growing sutinuated. held i certain quarters reapectinge the funetion of the nin- istry. DIir. Goodwin preached four eviiently thoughtful sermons on the Second Advent. the ¢losn of these sermona one of tne members of bls chureh, a Mr, Hammoud, rose and read s protest aeainst them on the doublo grouud that they wera orroncous in ! thoit interpretation of tho Scripture and falso . to the traditional ereed of the Congregational Churh, evidently thought that for a momber to break in un the onlinary service of tho sanc- an unsolkited contribution of hisown was not In sccordaoce with the tradl- tonal ritual of the Cungregational Church, for quent meetlne it voted unanimousty ita dirapprobation of the Innovation. Juesting the pastor not to press his olots further was promptly tabled; and the tuntroversy has now Leen removed from the arena of the chiirch to that of tue press, The Bible gives two vontrasted foatures of o ls s man _of sorrows and ac. fualnted with grief, avd Bo s abo King of Rinzs and Lord of Lords: there 1s no lieauty in stiouid dealre [, and Hu {s «hiet among 10,000 ana altozether lovely; He is de- apised and rejected of mew, and 1e Is the co- sizti to which ntl the nations of the carihasscon- ble: Hets n voot out of dry ground, and e i3 ke the cedars of Lebanon for rtreugth and 14 Testament the Kingly nqxvtct I3 the promfient aspect. 8o truce ta this 2 n ish nation rejected him. This son of a carpon- ter, this Nazarene, this fellow wi whereon (o lny His hewd, said they, i no of Kings, o Prince of Peace, no Evcrlasting Fathier, so Master, and Lord, and Deliverer, The disciples themselves, they that loved Him most, weru as tuch perplexed as any by the contrast hetween the prowlse of propbecy sud the allezed tulfilliment, they regarded Him asa Kiug {ocognito, they louked constantly for an uncovering of ls eiery, and when He died without a sten of §e they aleo wave up thelr hope and went back to their tisbing. Not i) by the reaurrection, the repeated apipearauces, the ascenslon, and the dil they pluck up All throush His hife at Peutecost, did because ond Coming, 8 new muauliestation. seen tho Man of Borrows, thev sanl; we aro yet toace the King in his besuty, the seed dropped In the ground and dying We have scen tlower divine fo 28 iragrance an le was subject uuto deaths le will be exnited He ondured the cross, ame, becauss e Hved having ever in view the Jov sct betore Him, lamb slain; but {t is the lamb nlain that {s to bo the Kiuz in bis glory, betore woum all the “Thus the New Testament fooks buth ways; backward to u Savior crucitled and sufferingy forward 30 a Kiog crowned, and glorious, und masterful, baving s unfversal do- inion, Known, Louored, vbeyed of all men. ‘Thie Ciurct bas 1nokod Lack loue enough; it I8 bizh thue to look forward. 7The vrophocdes of huwihation the Jews dlsrewarded prophecics of exaltution we disr qulte time that the Chureh turned ward and torward, “lovking,” as Paul’ hids ‘Iitus do, *fur tis blessed bope and glorious sppearing of the great God and our Savior Jo- ubove every name. desplsing the Wheo aug bow it Is to come, whether asn comet, with a sudden and unexpected glury, or #8 the sun with o gradual daweing: whether in n bodily appearing aud with a local manifesta- tion, or with o elory that suall enswatne the glube, we do not here consider. verfect reports of Dr. Goutdwin's sermons that udge that we difler from bim radically tu bis Interoretation of this ouc- f Clristianity. No master. I lor thauks that be gives any outlook. interpretation of the true doctrine of the future has quite too long veen left to lay evangriists and uninstructed Bible readers, 1d vo some- tunes by pretentious charlataus, It 1s birn the that thethoughtiul wnd scholarly atnong the clerey clalined their rightand jultifled their duty to be Interpreters and teachers of the whole Word of God. Church of Chicazo s to bocougratuisted on Laving a pastor whu has entered on tbis sorely Dr. Guodwin 18 to bo con- church that values the ilberty of proplesving more than it docs the truditlon of the viders. And Clicago 1s to oe vongratulated on Lusing a chureh and a ninls- tor who stand bravelv by ouc anatber i maln. tainlng uguinat a stithug tradicionatism the duty of every scribo [ the kingdow of Gad to bring things both new and old out of his store house. THE cumé'rmx CIIURCH. SERMOX BY THE REV, J. C. TULLEY, OF NEW have reaclied us, we Cungregatlonal negiected el gratulated on hasing A mecting was hetd yesterday morolng in the Independent Congregational Church, corner of South Perk avenue and Thirty-third strect, for the organlzation of a ucw Christian Churel, making the fourth of this deoomination in the clty. The Rev, W, D. Owen 18 to be the pastor, and the members prosent who signed thelr naties to the articles of agreemeut, between fn pumber, were mostly from the church at the corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-fifth street, they having ob- talned letters of dismissal from that Buciety to become members of the new one, Mr, Owen Introduced the Rev. John C, Tulley, of New Albany, who delivered the discourse, after which the Articics of Faith and agresment wete stgned by those present. Ha chose for his text the 1nllowing passage of Beripture: l{lut Christ as a Son over Mis own house; whose v we, if we hotd tast the conddonce and the rojoicing of the hope Arm unto the end, —/le- thirty and forty The speaker Scommenced by f, ‘was to discousse upon the snbject churches, By the readin Scripturs it was noticed ¢ was head over Hisown nouse, * whoss houso are we.” The Church was Christ’s own house. We recoquized uur Savior as divige; we did not recognize Him as the Groat I Am, the tirst cause, the source ol everything that was, but the Word of Gud, tho spokesman of God, who ‘was tn the beginning with God. We recognized Him afterward in the flesh,—in & 100m tn which be could afe,~for e took notupon Himsell s of anguls, but He assumed the futirm- {tles of man, that He might tastsdeatn, Kave a promise that when He weat to elory s comforter should be sent to His followers, to eucourago them on their ‘The hearers would also recognize by the text that the Houss of Gol wasalso s spiritual bouse: the foundation and stoncs wers splrit- The foundation Wwas the splritual truth Christ was the b of u man, but pos- the revelation given pintual revelation. of the portiun of t the Bon sald He furnisied by the foundation, seot Lu the sesalug & Uodlike wine by the Almignty was was represcuted in the Beriptures that Jesus Curist was the sviritusl fozndation of ths Chureh, but it was furt wan bulldeth thercon," the Divine revelation that there was oue G aith, and ous baptisim, and 1bat Christ's followers wero unimated by one L peared to us by our own convicl saluts were not all iu Heaven; but the teach- Ings of theology were that they were, Wers A uumberof detlvitionsof the wornd “ satnt,™ but the epesker defined # snjut as oue set apart to teach the Word of God. The N Teatameut taucht us thut whoever lived lo Christ lived [ the spirdt, and whoe! of the bread of Chirlst partook of spirtual food, Fbe workers of Christ who biad goue before bad passed beyond the river and occuplod 8 differcat, bere Lrom that which the; ose who rewained bebind Bests, but he thought they occupled the same ons oue with another. A ceremony did 5400’8 beart, a8 in the marriage ¢ other forms. The folluwers of Curist were the Church, and ¢ mattered not sbout the foru or ceremony. “OUR FATIER.” SERMON BY LIsHOP WILMUM, OF ALABANA. Yeaterday morning Buhop Wiltnur, of Ala- bawma, preachied at 8t. James® Church to a large congregation. He took the following words ss s sald that “‘anuther We were taught b I tions that tl?; y furmerly occupled; wers encased fo And It camo 10 pass. shat as He was prayiog (o a certaln place, when He ceased one of weld uuto Him, Lord, Lach us W pray sa Juba alsw Gauyhi bis disciples. Uy swid wato thom. when ys pray say, our Wil woae Uewves, Lalliwed bo Tuy nime. Thy kingdom come, Thy wiil be doi ih leaven so in earth. —St. Luke, 2., 1-2 The reverend gentleman sald that theart pt prayer was the sccret of s holy life. Wa knaw nothing but what we had been taught, snd they who had made the greatest progress ir art and #clence were most consclond of thelr defeots, Thir [deas were always ahead of thelr actual attainments. The child, when mastering tue alphabet, rejoleed In his of Ler wisdom, but the artist, in putting tha nishing-tonches to s work to ho handed down to coming genera- tlons, was alwags consclous of ita defects, and erleved that his skill could not keeo pacs with his Wdess. What was truo In tempofal ‘mattars was also true In snirltual matters. ilo wno had but a bare Induction Into the divine art of prayer wam constantly asking to be tasught tnore, and the Dible promised’ that they who asked should recelve, Praver was an art, and the noblest of all arts, and Christ bad taught It, amd we ooulil allord to east evcrvthing aside it we but did fiod's will. To pray was a dutr, wund tho text taught us how to pray. There were na sweeter or more slenilicant wonds [n our language than *Our Father," aud the Church tecognized the fact in all of its forms of worship, From the haptlsm to the grave, from ehildhood 1o ol aze, these words were al). fiportant. We went to the Judge os a culprit, butto UGod an a child, lsping the Immortat words. They mesnt everything, and would live forever. God was 4 Kiog, hut the Father-King, and His teaching in the matter of prayer eatablishied a refotion to Hlim that was autlimely beautiful. The heathen reearded tim as n Kiog, but, wherever the influences o) civtlization and Christianiiy were folt, ITn was called *Our Father.” The words directed our children to Qud and tauzhit the splrit of access to Him, How should we prayl Christ in the text apswered tho question amd cstablished the relation of fatherhoot, and 12 was, thereforo, var duty to Wit Ihn up to our children, and to preach uot - Christlanity, bus Christ, We might wander from Ilim, and stray into forbldden places, but the fact remained that ~ He wes our Father, and Jils promises wors t I wo praycd, baving faith, Ho would again and again gather us {nto His fold. We wero not ouly His chlldren, but fe was our Father tn all tha meaming of the words, and ite not only prumised the remixaion of our siua, but grave us the arsucance thal He was mindful of our intirmities, This assuranen utone, ho sakl, ouglit to be enougl tu draw us uato Ifim ne our children were drawn unto us. Wo were not fotlowers of Clirist 1 tha sense vt ves, crouching ot His foot, but we were lifs children, and when we went home to Him we would culf Hiw our Fatuer, as e bad taught us to when we pray. ‘Thie speaker closed hia fervent remarks with an appeal for one baptisni, one faith, one Fatie or, sud one God, unanne the importance of nm‘yer and tho fact that God was ** our Father," and the necessity of impressing these trulls upon the youthful mind. ELSEWHERE. CONSECRATION, Ricuyosn, Auz, 25.—~The Rev. John J. Keene, of Washinztos, was consecrated tu-day Bishop of the Dincess of Richmond sud Viear Apostolic of Neeth Caroliva. ‘The covgregzatin n 8t. Peter's Cathedral was larze. Several ishups and many priests were prescut. The music was grand and the ceremontes im- vressive. Bisup Qlobons, of Baltimore, was th: Causecrator, assisted by Bisuopa Folay, o€ Chicago, and Kain, of Wheeling, Bistop Lyuch preachod tue sermon. ——t— RIVER IMPROVEMENT, &pertat Dirpatch 10 The Trivune. MiLwackes, Aug. 95.—Capt. Pierrpont, of the Engineers’ Corps. has been surveviug Wolt River from fts junztion with the Fox, with o vlew to the proposed improvement of the chan- ucl 0 as to tusure navigation to Shawano. He was using the old stern-wheeler Decorsh for this purposc, when it strock a snag and sank In three fect of water. No appropristion hus hcen suade for improving this stream except & small amount for this preliminary survey. Capt. Plerrpont expresses the apinion that, {wy cutting trees, o reasouablo amouut of dredging, aud an inexpensive system of wing dams, o avigable chaanel esn be sectred Lo Shawano. The mystery bas beon solved at last; Our iceth no lunzer need uccay, Al trouu.es of the mouth are past. Iy Sozulont thoy're swept away: And younz and old may smile sccure With lipe ang teeth 50 orlgat and pure. e — - — Open the pores snd break upcolds with Sanford's Jumaics Ginger. - “euricuma. uticura THE GREAT SKIN CURE, . 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Tetter, Pushes Chin Whel Psoriasia, Iten, Giround Qtell Barbers’ Iich, Ko l|fi Materatold Pluidles sad Hlotchos Hiack teads ( gr Worma, Unuatural Tiedocss U the Now uird l(ml[hll [ *uatular Eruptluns asd Irritations of the Jieay, Dandratt ey, Thin and Fulliog ifal iure Haldness. sad it Scaly Fruptions, Ytehin tatiuusuf Lis pealp; Cutn, Wounds, Hraisen v harne Blind and itenlng Plles Patu gnd tnanimation; Leumastism aod Affactlons of the Muscics and Jointe} ost. Diphiberia. Croup, aad Hoarscress. aun Veterinary Kpecine, S Kerafula, nerofulous licers, and Glandutar Swetits, are dlicares of the oo sad Honos, and Muse not coafounded with skin iseases broper a4 abovo uaied. They reyutrs buth externial and'fcrerwal treatment. CELICLIA externaily asd CUTICUIIA IRESULVENT fufernally Baveeflcted soine wonderfal cures. 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