Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1878, Page 2

{ 1 RELIGIOUS. Talmage Hurls a Bear-Car- den Philippic at Sin. Perplexing Effect of His Evi- dently Sincere Efforts to Disinfect Soclety. Dr. Thomas Stretches Forth His Hand and Answers for Himsolf; And Philosophizes in a Christian * Way upon the Mission of . the Minister, A Sermon by Prof. Swing on " The Middle Class of So- ciety.” Brother Moody's Talk upqn the Worid, the Flesh, and the Devil. Dedication ni St. Philip's Catholio Church and the Union Tab- ernacle, TALMAGE. THR RENMON YPATRIDAT. Special Dispateh (0 The Tribune. N&w Yonk, Oct, 20.~The smut-hunters evi- dently maite up thelr minds, from thelr expe- rience of last Sundav, that it wae acase of false pretenses, and there was not near so great & rush this morning to hear Mr. Talinage's dis- courso on his travels by night through the cvil places of New York. By tho time Arbuckle was ready to Lerin his performance on the cor- net, however, every inch of the Tabernaclo was packed, thu women belng numerically as well represented oa tho men. 3r. Talmage tovk ws} his toxt Isaluh =xxi, 11=*Po- llceman, what of tne night!” the ren- dering from the original being bis own. He sald there were roughs, thieves, and des- peradoes In Jerusalem just s in New York to-day, and & foree of police had to be main- tained to keep them fn order. A few weeks azo the speaker determined to ask * Policeman what of the night1” Tn addition to his power- ful escortage, he took two of his elders, not ‘because better than tho otners, but because muscular, [Laoghter.] Ho had resolved whero anything more than spiritual defense might'be necesgary to refer the whole matter to thelr bonds, (Great laughter.] He had BEEN THECEDED NY THOMAR CHALMERS, THOMAS AUTIHR:E, and every other mau who hdd ever done any- thing to balk erime, but above all by IHm who, thouih derlded by the hypocrites of ilis day, persisted 1 dipplng into the moral slush of His 1ime, and herding with adultercsses and lepere. Those who had deerled thestep were lupers who aid not have their scars toucted, and who knew the speaker would shiuw up somo of the weak- ness and rottenness of the upper classes, The Devil howled beeause he knew he was to be hit hard, ‘the spesker noticed that tho hounts of sin are chiefly supported by men of wealth who go to them from the fashionable ovenues of New York and Brocklvn, or from the promjuent business centres of Boston, Chieago, and Cinclunatl, “1 swould. call names,”? shuuted Mr, Talmage, +and I may befors I get throuch, thougy it WHECK TUE PABRIC of soclety” {Grest applause.] Judges of vourts, officers of churehies, political orators, rtock-brukers, large importers, whalesale gro- vers, and merchants of every character were anong then. ‘The speaker preferred that heathenismn that wallows in filth and disgusts the beholder to that which covers 1ts putridity under a camel's halr shawl and point lace. What wus needed was about fifty Anthony ~ Comstocks to " explors and expose the corruption of high life. For cizht or ten years there stood in elght of the most fashlonable New York drive .8 brown-stone hell on earth which neither Judizes nor police dared to touch. Comstoek worked himeelf into that palace of damnation, and, In the uame of an Eterual God, put an end to It. The pricstess who presided over its orgies retrealed through auleide into perdition, It takes but from'three to fiye ycears for a woman to take the whole pligrimage from o warble palace to a Water-street cellar, One officer sald to the speaker, *Look at them nuw. In three years they will be heaps of rags in the station-house.” Another said: “Sbs is the daughter of one of the wealthiest familles un Madisou square.” Another fact tho preacher noticed waa thut the baunts of slu sre chiely supported by headu of families,—husbands aud fatbers. duch men S1OULD B MURLED OUT OF BOCIZTY cqually with the women they hienl with, In the speaker’s opinlon, tho eternal perdition of alt other sinners will be Leayen compared with the vunishment of hims who turns his back on ler le swore to defend, and goes forth to seck aflectionato alllances clsewhers! ‘There has got to bo reform In this matter, or Amcrlvau soclety will go to pleces. Niue-tentns of the lulquity s perpetrated under the head of *fucompatibility of temper," ‘fhat ls no vx- e, 1 wish," SULIEKED TALWAGE, ¢ that there might bu a police raid lasting some time, and tbat all promineat citizens found fn baunts of vice might be gathered in and marched throucigthe streets, followed by about twenty reporters, who would take their namcs aud put them (o pext day's papers in capite) letters, (Great Iaughter,) 1'd lke to go atuy [Renewed laughter.] In six months there would be a decreaso of 80 per cent fn pub- e erfme, It is not 40 much our boys that need to Lelouked after as thoir fatbers and mothers.” The speaker went on to lavish extravagant pruise upou the Brooklyn oftlvials, He nsserted that, owlug to thelr firuness and {ncorruptibll: ity, there 13 ot a gambliog hell, s policy shop, or A “novse or pEaTn” fu the city limits. Noticlng the general smile of focredulity with which this wes received, he shouted: “If you knuw ot & single exception’ report it to me, aud I'Ml warrant that, within two bours, the police will come down upon it like so Alpine svalanche. {Uproarious ap- viause.] If you dou't, it ls becauss you are a coward, or are in the slu yoursll, You sball Lear the respansibility, and not throw it upon our lard-working police. Where, then,” he asked, * do the people of Brooklyu zol To New Yourk. [Lauglter.) lam told some pluces there are alinost eatirely supported by Brouvk- 1yo wen sud women.” THE DLAME fur not extirpating the evi! reated on three par- 3t tirst on the polf - of New York. They have preat discouracéments to contend with. ‘Wicn they make arrests witnesses fall tg qur! pear for “fear of crimioating, themaclvenand tuany sults have Leen broughy them {or, fetawation of charaqsen. ™ but, after loug rescarch, the ‘spdker had come (o the couclusion thar-{Te New York Captulus of Pullie are glilty of complicity with tho crimtoals, There were men getting $10,000 a year foprWiloking av the existeucs of vile re- s0r1f. “Bowe Usplalos 1eceive 8 percentage on every buttle of wine sold, sud ure given s fegu- lar suure of tie other profits of these sbambles. Iu tue Twenty-uluth Precinct there are 121 dens ot death untouched, Tu West Twenty-siath, notfce, This aatisfled. mon, our fact, mone: or pri at an altar, Und dens of dsrkne: uted the prizes. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. OCTOBER 2}, 1878, Twenty-seventh, and Thirty-firat streets thers ara whole blocks that are TARFECT PANDRMONITNS. In the whole of New York City, whera there are 8,500 palice, there are petween 500 and 600 Not long ago a masquerade ball was gotten up by the denizens of there places, and the police danced at it, and distrib- ‘The grandest opportunity ever offered to any American Iny within the grasp of that high officlal who would break the esil up at the risk of his private property, po- Ntical ambition, hia life. Mavor ot New York, and 6t to be Prestdent of the United States. That man would be TAR ARCOND PART OF TNR NLAME ‘Dlaging the rested un tho New York District Atlorney. o was an honorable man, hut hnd not time to fol- low the cases of this charactor brought to his He shonld be given ell the asshitance needed, The thint and heaviest aharo fell upon the moral aud Christlan people of “the two cltiea, who are gallty of 8 most culpable indif- ference. Indigontion mectings were warited to compel publle authoritics to send out police with clubs, and lanterns, and revolvers to clean out theso places, and arrest tholr fomates, and* warch them to the Tombs, with fifeand drum in advance, [Laughter.] “Rogue's March,” With ‘such mien on the bench as Hackett, Kilbreth, Duffy, aud Wandell, the evil should be stopped. IN CONCLUSION, Mz, Talmsge delivered himself of & grotesquo appeal to divorced counles to reunite, and an- nounced that, on next Bunday, he would dis- rourse on the spcclfic: sine he saw. In glving out the concluding hymn he shouted tothe sualence **to aing like H—eaven,” Everybody thought for an instant something else was com- ing, and sn audible titter ran through the ss- semblage. DR. TIHHOMAS. TIB WORK OF A MINISTER. The conregation at Contenary Church yester- day morning was unusuelly large. Evidently there was & curiosity to bear what the popular preacher might have to say regarding his treat- ment st the hands of the members of the recent Conference, That Conferonce had openly re- buked him for piving utternncs to sentiments too lberal for the Methodist puioit, and It had been reported that he had promised to mend his ways in the future. ‘This report, however, coni- ing us it did from his ministerial brethren who wera present during the scsslon, was handly credited by those frienda of Dr. Thomas who knew his sincority and tho firmness of his con- victions, ‘There was, then, a general dosiro to hear from Dr, the nudlence to Indulze was his own lps a statement of the dolugs of the Confercnce, and Lis Intentious for the future. inquisitivences Thomas® which wns unusually him, did not refer to the Conference or to the pecullar position in which he had heen placed Ly it. Instead, however, he preached s sermon on the “Work of a Minister,” and fn this ho took occasiun to define bis fdeas on the question of creeds with a plainness of speech and an cornestness of manner that showed how deenly ho feit the yoke ot sectarfanism which his fel- low-preachers were striving to keep fastened upon his shoulders. 1Mis sermon was thought- Iul, yet intereating in cyerv sentence, and com- pletely held the attention of . his .audience throughont. At one time, when he ecloquently declared that he would allow no badge of creed to come between maulty, away a8 burat of applatse, which, however, the preacher quickly stienced by a sorrowlul wave of the hand, Severnl times many people In the con- gregation melted Into tears. Ir. Thomas spoke slowly snd without notes; as !s his usual cus- tom, nnd made no effort at declamation. At the close ho was surrounded by members of tho vlhurih, giving him thelr congratulations and thanks. only npartially durlog his ser- lengthy for bimselt ond hu- were g0 carried in an {nvoluntary ‘[hie sermon began with the following text: show thyaelf approved unto Ood, a Srudy ta workman that needet| I not (o be- ashamed, rightly dividing the word of teath, —J7. TVmothy it., 15. \W¢ enter to-day, my friends, upon the work ear, whick,” according to vur Church the term for which each nluister of & new «economy, recelves his appointment. there 1n always a special Interest gathering about the opening and closing of these periods. Oning to the prolouged session of our Confer- ence, [ did not reach home til Wednesday night, and University at Bloomington Friday nieht, [ had, tired s 1 was, only Thursday Ia ‘which to preparo tho thoughts of thia hour, having an en| Ilence, with us ment to leetnre for Whecu we study the structure of human so- labor here also. hecotiie liturzy, minister's largely 0 10 tul I prd clety, what at first seeima vomplex may I[Illn'fll' more simple, if we reflcct upon the uuderl needs of man and the divislons of labor an shaping of tha soclal order growing out of this ‘Thus, we hayo all the world'’s vast indus- tries that o to meet man’s for his cducation we have schools, and for his gavernment we have constitutfon and laws; and out of the fact of man’s and nceds wo have a religion and churches. And, in the nuture of things, whatever be the forin of the church, there must be division of Bumy tnuat il one place or do oue kind of work, and some snother; and thus Uod bath appointed fin oflicers 08 pustors and teachers, and has wiven different gifis of fulth, vr prophecy, or beallng, or minisiry to different persons, “I'he oilica of the minlstry {n the early Church was & holy, active, practical dealing divectly with the minds and hearts of the people, and organizing and carrylng forward tho Christian cause. the Church had departed from the earl plleity — of nimost faith and lost work. viea n entertalnnicnt, rather tha holy oflice, to style and “Inis almost exvessive minount of preachivg in onr day has had a teudency to call the rellglous Ife away fromi the worshipful elements and i more & matter of thought, and It bas pecessitated u wider range of topivs in’the ‘T'his may prove sn evil by projecting religgion too lurgely into the realm of thouzhi; aud it may, it prove a great good by reaching maks putplt. worshlplul men wno {n sentiment, an lqrmml. Leso reflections briug fus to o from which we may look out upon the ticld that lies before thiu Protestant winister, ‘That with which he bas to deal Is truth. fore hiut lics tho whole ficld of truth, and he s at & point where, if ho gocs beyond the stmply devotional and Instructive in the purely religious, be may touch u) travel oul along sny iino ! any way related to retiglon. stand e y watter a5 4 not carried live lurgely in lon of rellyiol In_later centur] in creeds, and rites, the work of the thood became lancely ofilclal, rlorming & mass, of recitiog & er thess clreun) call preaching formed a very small part of the Evervthing was settled. One man did all the thinking,~that is, what he sald was sccepted as final suthonty, tn the Rowmish Church, And in thy Eplscopal Church, with fts long and beauti- nd Bautists, sud Muthodists, and other Prutestaut Churchies, the furine of wor- ship are reduced to an alinost extreino simplic- ity, and the sermon is tuoked to as the chict thing 1n a relicious service, that in our day so much fv sald ubout preach- ing ond preschers. This has vome 10 bo alnost & hers aro looked upon too much in many Luses k8 nctors, or perforn nd aro eriticised quite as fully as by reveallug the relutions of unc truth to another, and u[nm.-lully the us truth to al truth—uatural, social, bistorical, sud philo- ing the ysical wants; and rellgious nature tho church dilferent mpathetle vm:rkl Len worship, nces, what we And this is he principal thing ondary. But with And hence 1t is our tme, aud ers for the public en chiarged witha lecturers oF readers. to the neelect uf the thought rather than broader other andpaint Be- n all truthi may thought that Is i hus | stand hero at this hour. We bave concluded the brief service of sluglog, sud prayer, sud Beripture lessons., - You are apr -wadung - to hear what shall be said in the serdou. As Lutuud at the opend what « -pruwise - of reward aud discourse of o whole yesr's talklug, AL [ say now or {u the uearly one hun- dred times that I shall stand in your Beloro ww s the dible, éhat Wonderful cance | book vl Liateey, of::prophecy, of cuuuunmlmu_xl.u ;m-‘l o foto 13 Book sulleriog. Wl the yeari Itso, how! Blall ft be as a watterof Intruc- tiou ws to uames, dates, vlaces, historles, aud Liographical Or ahall 131 fug o Larwontze or explaln svme dulicult pus- saget Or sball Ldead with its doctrine of God { Or yet agaln with fts - history aud man aud evidencest eually wight 103y dlac Cour: fevt wud abuy the earth, o the stren; Any” une of these Tuu e, dhen there {3 beacath Uiy bead Gud'v oLler of Nature, where Jloopeaky b th fi b of the mountalus, and fu the glory of the beaveus, well upois fexts, try- Hiws out Lo v Aund theu there is stretchfug out into the deed past the long Hue of hutuau history,—ot vatioy ol ware. Audalidl agid 1 KoVeroticht s, ¢ s bk lierature of ths ages, the opinfons of men, the de- batea In philosophy. And, in addition to all these, there ~ {4 before me the wants of the world, the hardships, and suffere ings of mankind, the sfn and mirery of the race, its hope and despair, the struggics of aoclety agalnst great wrongs, as the evils of fatemper- ance and hist, and the falschood and injustice by which the innocent suffer and are op- preased. Al thess wide fields of trath, of fact, Ite before the thoughtful minister as he #its in his study, or goes out among nien, or stands (o the palfft, Now, the questfon must e ever present to the minister who lires in the life of his age and attempta to deal with that life—to shave It for Rood, as to what Is most important to be sald, and hor to make his ministry most wacful, It 18 not with the minister as it Is with the doctor who s called 1o ece a patient, ur a lawyer who has a case put into his mmnlsh or @a merchant, or A carpenter who has his work Uronght hefore bim, o a #chonl-teackier who has a prescribed course over which to Iead his pupils. “The minister Lalks to a vongregation comj.oted of all ages and condi- tlons: of strangers and fricnds, slck and well, young and old, bellever and skeptic, nl‘nm:nl and {mpenitent, converted and uncouverted, He has them hefore him twice a week, some regulariy, some but onee, A ronscientious man may well tremble 8s he goes farth Into such a work. Hut Il his ministry be withont purpose, ~—a mere desire to find something to talk sbout, —he can very casily find subjects. Lle can talk sbout the parables, or the doctrines, ur the histories by the year, and never be at a loss. But if ke Yave in view an object,—something to nccomplish,—then must he study the present neeq, amd the best methods of ‘meeting that need. How shall ho *“nightly divide the word of truth"t how, frum these fields, and with oll thess wants bo- fore him, shall he best do hin worki There are several general or gulding princioles that may be observed. The first is, that he is o religions teacher. The Bible muat Lie his chief book, and the doctrines of God and may, of Chirist and_salvation, his chicf themes, + But they are very broard themes, and whe we conio to study them they are not separate or distinct, standing apart by themselves, but lap over, one Into the ather, or like different branches of & tree are somchiow parts of a great whole. Thus Uod is related to the unlverse ana the universe to tivd, and If you touch one yon are near the otber. * Man stands midway between matter and soirit,—he unites both in himself, and i dealing with his body vyou are deallng with com- mon atter—organized and vitallzed In the wonderful chemistry of life—but mat- ter stll; and ff “you touch his mind yott touch that mure rubtle something thut can think, and If you touch his heart, hia spirit, you are in the presence of angel life and of 1iita who 1s Himsell n spirit. If you rpeak of right, or truth, or justice, or law, or pennity you are at onco In Lhe midst ol eternal princl- ples that reach out intn all worlds. If you sucak of Christ you touch not only all thivse principles, but you are borne up info Gud and carried down Into all man’s needs. and lLiopes, and fears, If you speak of the Bible you come into tho remotest twilleht of history and the deatinzs of God with Elis sncient peuple. You come into the presence of (ud 88 tho maker of worlds and as tha Father of men; aud into all that line of Divine iluminatlon when tha truth of God noured forth from {nsnired hearts, and the mreat gunestlons of sin and utoncinent, of forgivencas aud purity, and of knmortality play about us, not as reason nloue, or speculation, but as facts coming down from above and borne in upon the son! by the aplrit of God. Now, a8 o religious teachor, the minister may propetly zo uto all theso fields, Into history, into pliflosophy, lato geology, into astronomy, foto the deepest metaphysica, into all knowl- edyze, but with one ereat ubjeut evor before hini: to o men good; to reach tnelr bearts and cone sclences, to lead them to higher and broader views of (lod and life, and the univeise and desting. Onc may very eamly be mistaken ns to the proper scope of religious teaching, and having in bis mind some fornulated system of theoloiy, or some phuse of soclal 1Ifé or expe- rience, think that s the Uospel. It may be the Gospel, or a part of the Gospel. but when -we study the Bibhle we find that it 1s & wonderfully broad book, s cals {1 some way with almost every fact und pbase of uaturé, and life, and socicty. You study the Bible with the thought of naturul history hefore you, and you wiil he surprised how extended and minute Is its deseription of general 1ife,—of beasts, birds, aud tishes. You study 1t as o book on health or sanitary condi- tions, and it 18 full of that. And so it fa & civil code, and_a historyof Kings and wars, aud o book of doctrines,and rights, and experiences in relizlon. Or you take the life of Christ, low it touches nearly eva‘{ possible relation anl phase of our belng. + \Whot was Hls example but & continuons going about and doing good in every _possible:. way, both 0 the souls und tho bodics of men| Or look ot the teachings of . P'aul, who determined 10 know nothime bug l,‘h{m.r and Him crucified and yet ho dues not dwell all the time uponthat fact, a8 to formul statement, bat gocs on to dis- cuss the relations of lyabands and wives, pa- rents and children,-masters and servants, rulers and citizens; and enters futo sl the moral ana religions questions prowing out of these rolu- tions, Aud so it Is that relicious veaching fa n very broad thlng, it is related toalltruth, to nature, to law, to soclety, to cleun- liness, to truth ond fuulcc, and and all tho quolitles “of virtue, And 1t i3 only thus togt yellcion is secn fn its fullncas, its Ureadth,, and completencss, And the miulstey must have all this in mind. It not enongh that mankind learn a few doctrines or beeotno urthodox in apinfons. They must e led Into the lfe ot relizlon, futo all the beauty and sweetiess of {ta_spirlt, and Into_all the noble purposes of & grand munhood. It beeing down with tho lowest, and ‘builds up to the highest, and on uto eternity, And bo has dong his work poorly who willingly rematns himself Io Ignorance nud narrownese, or who permits his peovle or congreuration to rest short of the broadeat possible views of truth and rightcous. pess of man, of the universe, of God. Men may be narrowed down to a polut where immer- slon, or a forin of Mturgy, or creed, or the luvo of ueect, rises up &0 na to shut out nearly the whole horizon of upper aud crander truth, Auother generat or culding rule migut be a minlstry of the broadest possible adaptations to all minds and hearts, aud Lo all conditiuns of Iife. Look at tho differeut classcs us thoy may vugs before us (n solid colutms, Thers ars this thoughticss, tho forgotters of tod snd sucred thiugs. Bumehow thelr attentlon must Lo ar- rested. There ard@le wicked, the profane, the lustful, the aviinalized, who hive almost wholly on the lower planes, sud dre awayed by tho baser passlons, Buinchow these must be broken into. 'There are the scollers, who are pulled up with mental pride and deny all rellglon, and they must be brought lato” the valley, whero trulh reaches the lowly b spirit, ‘Thers aro thotratoed reasoners who see only ous sido of trutn, it may be matter or Jaw, but scu not the aplritual and ths Divine. Sunichow they must be amewered, sud led to scu the other side, ‘Then there are the great wultitudes who are moral but not religious, who can beheve somo things but stugger at others, and who el reliziun and the Louse of , und who greatly ueed and even desirs the blessings of prayer and cowmnunion, sud ()'al. seetn to be shut vut, acem unabloe (o enter fully the better life, ‘Then there ure thu weak 10 Lo strongthened, the fu- quiring 10 ho led, s doubting tw be hvld, and the sorrowing to be comfurted, And sl anather geweral prineiple of religlous teaching may be hased upon 8 proper suswer to the question as to what 13 the end or the thing sought to be accomplished, ‘The chiaracter of sny winistry—that is, If It bave any character or alm beyoud runlux 1 tho tma—will Lo very Jargely dotermloed by the auswer to this gues- tion, ~Aud here conscicutious wen may differ ju Judgment, and bencu differ also in method sud mauner. 1he Jesuit ides has all along been that the great oud to bo reached 18 & powerful church onganlzation, penctrating und domlnating every poase of society and bringivg all manking com- ploxcl{ under its msstery, 1u the days of shary controversy the leading filea seemed to b that the mintry was set fur the defenso of a clearcut and wharply-defined crced. - Error fu atatomeut was the clilef thing to be dreaded, hundreds of the best men and women were put to deuth for conscleatious coovictions. ‘Thls thought (vok & milder furm o the heated debates of fitty and u hundred years azo, when a larze amount of tho preach- hg was @ vicorous wrtillery practice of fone shurch or nect at the uther, Stil w mildes form may exist in the minds of some who shink that the chlel thing 14 to bring - men 1t0 bo Haptists,.ur Presbyteriuns, or Methodists. Now, none of thysaaiws oretu be whotly con- dewned. Taey ail bave o measure of truth aud right.. beneaths thom, nod the effurts tu chrr: them out bave, along with the utteudivg evli, resulted Iu sowme ood. ‘The lea uf duwivatin tho world to a religiaus rule is right, nua i¢ mfi sume Lime nrevail; bus.dt will nat be the rulo ot authority from without, bat, I ucegpted, idens aud principles ruling the kil of ull - from within. Fhe jdeag of an exuct systew of religious truth {s right, sud muu{ errors have goue dowit be- neath its relvutless trusdiand many, truths have beca blndered Qe st back, aud tis clearcr stutement of truth will yet coine,~shat which will harmonlzy iweu,—but 1t will not guue wone by severs detnitions aud dividlug lings to keep wen apart.but Ly tolerauee,and thourbifulness, wud growth. Truth (4 two largu & thiuy to by caugnt_ aud bottled up by auy uge. I wust live und grow su living wiuds and beasts, and Lo pertnitied_to wiplily i maltitly us the ages o v, The Bible 1s the tual autbonty i 1aith und practice, buc its inturpretation 18 nut yewsettied, fuere bs value i tie 1lea of Wi Ll e B0 woy O the sects,—any of tio class, and wil belp you to fecl th him i this middlo cla are far better than pone,—but the toftier Ides ehinuld be, and will yet, 10 win them to Liod and toagoml life., Hromily stated, then, the trae Ilea and alm of tha mintstry shoulil be to re- claim mankind from sin ami error, and lead them to a disine lile in Jesus Christ, and bl that unto & glorious manhowd and womaunhood of truth, and justice, and strength, and a high scnse of honor, to_make them loving, and kind, and patient, to fill them with n sweet char(ty, and to bring them together in all the helntuloesa of a universnl brotberhood, And with such an fdea and alm, O how the minlstry of the Chiurches sugnt to mave unon the troubled wa- ters of soclety, rebuking the wrong, cheering on the rizht, Hfting up the fallen, caliing back the wanderer, and evergwhere making Itectf felt as the trfend and helper of onr common humanity. And stich & minlstry will be in eympathy with its age, and try to (a the work of 1ta time. It will preach & (lospel of deliverance In the age of slavery, of temperance in an age of drunk- enness, of honeaty 1n days of defaulting and cheating, of victua In an age of voluptiousness, The test declates that the minister should “atudy to snow’ himsel! approved unto God, 8 workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”” This Im- pliea preparation, qualillcationa for his work. And as the work'{s so broad, the needs so many and so different, the quaitfications should, a8 far as possible, be correspondingly bioad. Tho ministry should alm to be " first in every fleld of truth, first fn discovering the new, firs detecting the false in tho old, and overywhore appedr ds unprejudiced men, as tho deepest lovess 0f truth, and yetall the timo willing to learn. . I do not pretend to s { that this brond cuitfire eeeential qualitication to rollztous teachind: Many of the most useful nien are almost wholly innocent of the schools, and Ignoraut of the great debates which agitate the world; they, move with deep soul power upon the heart of humanity, and I rejoice In thofr succesa: but Lhe ministry needs the other power as well. _The fhoughtful men and women of our day, an® everf the ¢Midren of the public schaols, demand of the pulplt that it pive them thought; and they will mot be satisiled with warmed-over hash, ‘The repetition of ary fac! is not enonch. 'fhe ministry moves, not Ina world of trumemmv and everlasting realitics; facts that no thinkingz of Its own can change, And the need of our age is to get hold of these deeper realitles—to grapple not with words alone, but with things, ‘The ministry needs the strenzth aud Inspiration of powerful convlctions and world-wide truths. 1t cannot be eloquent nor command and hold the thought and tho rest of the age by dwelling on the llttle and narrow fssues thie divide the sects, Man- kind are rapidly lostug their interest ln debates about the modo of baptism, or the cutol a Smwu. or the ndinber of candlea nhout an altar. lut when the great questions of God, and righte cousness, and {ils and death, moveinto the fore- ground, not a few dozens or butdreds alone hero and thera fu tho groups in vhe chiurches are will- ing to hear, but the huneey mitlons press for- ward and sav: “These are matters Lthat Intercst us. We wunt to hear; wo want to know." Never was an age more hungry for truth than vurs. And the troubled heart ol theworld eries out also ror tove anid sympathy; for tho sympu- thy born of suflerine and experience, of strug- gles with doubt in sin, o sympathy deep and tender as 1 mother's Jove, 0'syinoathy ke that which brought Jesus Christintoour world, a sym- Lmn that would nbufiuenuhlhcsmuklnzlhxnnr reak tho bratsed reed, a sympathy whose deep- vat languare ts found in tears, a sympathy that would reach out 1ts loving arms and embraceall mankind, 8 sympathy that .wilt not scorn the hegurar's rugs nor shun the leper's touch, O thut God would fil all our hearts with the ten- derness ot 1is own decw love, Ny hirth, and education, and a_mother's pruyers,—she {s in licaven vow,—and nearly a quarter of a contury's hard work has oy lite been cast with the peovle called Methodists, and 1lovo them, but lor munv years I bave lived muctt inthe broad life of liemanity, and Lean per- mit no badgo nor hame to standbetween mo und thu preat brotheehood of race; and I must atand and Idogtand, und for yenra have stood, and by the help of God I slmil vontinue to stand, fu un- compromised loyalty'to Jesus Christ and my deepest couvictlona,of truth and right; and { must stiuly that my minlstry be approved uuto Uod, and niot unto man. O that te would give nie tmore and _more the hearts of mankind, and 1lil me more and more with the tiches uf Lils grace and truth to build them up in righteous- nasa, Gadly would I pour out this truth like Jiving waters upon the thirsty land till my life shall end, As | staifd here ‘oud think of the needs of the world, of the durkness that Is upon $0 inauy, of the sin and the sulferlng of my race, of the work to ba done in this great city, I'ery out to the living God for help.” May o pour nls spirit upb us, upon we and upou y;m. uud evable us to work tugether for flis elory. % TIIE MIDDLE CLASSES. b KERMON BY: PHOF. SWING.. . i Peaf. Swing preachiéd’ yesterday morning at the Central Church, takine for his text: Glve mo nelthor povorty nur riches 1 be full and deny “Uheo, and s Lord? or lvat I be puorand steal, the name of my tiod,s{'ror., What is called n “*njjddie class "* has long ex- Iated n tho world; has been 8o large in num- bers and so great in Infiuonce, and for the most part 50 happy, that ‘there rmust be n certain philosuphy of that condition, Such a constant s o lest Who Is the hua profaue 8- sud fintense form of human Ilfe cannot e the result of chance, but must be rather o part of the metiiodof 1lim who placed man upon this planct. It will give dignity to this it pos- sesses o speclul slenilicance of intrinsic worth it you will mark how omanlpresent It has been fn carth's history. In e days of the maguificent Solomon this prayer of Agur rises up and teils us that fust Lelow tho lmmense riches of the ITebrew Kings €here inoved a mul- titude which were neither up to the level of monnrchs nor down gt tho level of begyars; o muliitude not so lofty as to veed no Gud, and not so low as to disgrace one. Bo srouud all the rich ones of any natlon may be scen the homes of the moderale property-iolder, This {)raycr of Agur discloses the fact that tho I iiddlo class bad shown Ite virtues long enough to mankind to create the petition that the Lord would place the suppliant in that estate, To (fall below it would be [to fall fato sore tempta- tion; to scek to rise abave mlght lead toan uu- due pride of life. The prayer reveals the ex- Intence of o secoud estate as far back as bistory Tuna, Lvideutly, however,'the moderate men of tha past wero iu smaller numbers tbun in modern tines, tor the centraliZation of power led to o centralization of money by mesus of despotic taxation, sud contlscation, sud conquest, and hence the mien of moderats property wera few and the beguars and slaves many, In our times the suppression of tyyants aml the progress of tne ldeas of inaustry and equality bave enlarged the middle class, sud have made It surpuss in number all tho b‘-g?-nr- helow it and all, the wealthy above It. “Uhe constant preseuce of this closs, 1ts quality fu all times, and at luat fts fm- nense nunbers, inake it worthy of our study. If sn old saltt prayed that dod would placo and keep hlm there, wa who now live may well lovk such a religious peticion, ‘The mmumu-umnfliy man should a griorl be the must hmnunu" because all through nue ture the law of the golden wmedium runs, Na- ture distikes cxcesses,” 1t 08 fund of ayeraves. A shirub belaw the forest Zets too little lght; o tree uhovu the forest {g blown down, ‘Ibe trevs, therefore, stand shoulder tu shoulder fo the great wouds, 1) excessively poor grows nothing, excessively rich wiil' grow ouly mnu ave Lo leaf, uor fluwer, uor fragrauce. ‘The rhse and the wheat must walt for the thin soll €0 be made rich or for the Juxuriant sell to be depleted by sund or clay, ‘Thus thuliclds scem to, seud up the prayer nelther poverty nor riches. Hut thero is safer ground thun such analogy. It is not probable that the Creator of thy world would make that the worst condition iwwhich the larger pars of 1lis chlldren muet pass life. 1f we dlscovera coudition which wuss ‘sbsork the 1nlillons, und il we tlud two other cqnditions, that of poverty ond that of eoormous,, wealtl, which are besn; constantly ewnticd ltito the mlddle class ol Jiberty, and {ndustry, fud cducation, 1t may bo fnferred that God- has ‘not mude most pitiable that eatato in which tha most ‘millions are Lo be grouped. . Lot ue pass.from what should be autfelpated 10 whut miay bo avtually observed, Itenson inay err 86 10 wiut stiould be, but it canuot err so casily a4 to what ts uud has becas aud, thus ar- auing, the truth would apuear that the widdle ¢lass hus beon and 18 the happieat class. ‘Ine debate, of coursy, docs uot Lk between the ki~ o class sud tho lowest, Lut wholly beiween tho widdle and tho highest, ANl thuse compne- teut to bear testimony bave, upon reflevtion, de- clared thas the moat epjoyuiaut ‘has not, as a fact, followed thoss Wby bavd possessed the most gold, Why thie buman beart aboubd uot by hapuy uccording Lo the properey it pusscsscs 1 caunol wrgus beve, for o vus can enter thy soul of 4 Crasud, auciont o uodern, aud leara why he should not be Buppler than the man of nodest Bome by, bis slde; but, 23 8 shoply fact, tha wiet Who iuve borbe witucss have, Lor some reasun, arraoged tiemsetves upén the other side, Toose who bave cumposed our sones, thuse who bave compused our philosopbics, hose who Lave writleu eur rowances and our Grumas, huve loved Lo lozate the busy Liours of susn o Loine os She oliter stile. Tueso ot fes U3 e Luart Lave pus o Vines aud tluw- futo the ment of 4 {mun Tntb tnanhod<xho farmer boys, ' pelled ers on the outside than they hava heaped up 2old-plate or fewels within. 1t may be abserved, too, that wo sooner have the extremely rich buit their spiendil palaces than they at ance project same country-place & hundred times as simple, to which they van fiy when they long for a certain fuliness of oy and peace, Let usnot find fault with them, for you and | w uld aceept of a city palace any mo- ment wers Lhe temptation blaced well hefore s Indeed, though thers are thres classes, fn fact, the beggar, the middle-ciass, and the moneyn‘ prince, there is only ona class 1 casence, for all would accept of mbllions Instead ot hundrede, were the chalce set befors them. But all are weak, all aro human, and what I seek this morn- ing 14 a vlillosophy of the middle class, which is hetter than we are,—a philosophy which 18 strug- cling like n Christ to liftus up to Its hight. To return: thadeepthinkers and the extremely rich have borne witness 1o the charin of moderato muang, anid haso thus confeseell that there was a condition ns good as thelr uwn, cven thongh they had not tho morsl power to fing away enough gold to make them descend into i1, Haying marked, or at least having alluded to, the antecedent probabllity and Lhe evidence ol fact in tha case, let us naiv acek other proof that the prayer of Agur contains a most valuable object of petitton. The *middlo condition” renders Industry essentlal. Poverty robs the heart ot hope and thus destroys ndustry; snd Immense fortunes elther check action ur elso turn it along channels of fnero plensure, The bezgars of Italy, or Spain, or America will not work because they have oot property enough Lo begel & wish to add anything to it. A person whohas no learning at ‘sl desires none. The Atrican Buthman has pot the least desire to postcas any information, for he knowa nothing, and hence has no hunger for any adjoining fact. 1% I8 after ths mind has minstercd the first book that it Yongs for the books that are Inwoven with that first volume, By this law of rela- tive suegestion, the beggar hopes for nothing, for lie hes 1ot that to waich alittls tnoney could attach itself and becoine more. Recently, when our Governmens issued rations to the blague- ridden citles, the poorest negroes auit work be- cause the {dea of storini up Jabor for the future has never takeu root in their heart. Not having tead tho first book, they are not longing for n second, On the opposite, tha man of modest money has the great gate of ndustry flung open, And through that gate ho cnters Lo a mau- hood which scldomn comes to crotvn those horn rich, Thus fu the very cutset wo flud the mld- dle condition Inthmately related to perpetual fn- dustry aml {ts multiiorm resuiis, This iniddle tatate possrsses just enough of life to stimulate tha haud and the brain, I’.'t‘l!l‘?’lhllllll hufore it. Tho members of this class must rise carly, thelr step niust be quick; their mnind must be awake, thelr Llood must stand, but+it must flow. Riches are ol ay ‘Thy are av antunn. And poverty is disease it {a'a consumption or a famine; hut tne middle catato Is youth, it is spring and the carly suin- mer. 10you will Jook around for a moment i|°“ will perceive what fmmevse mental results ave come from tho” enforced Industry of the mkidie clase, You may nssuine that tho learned rofession: pore largely upon the fuct that liclr thousands of now jearned men were driven to wental industry by the problet of pecuninry support. Not that they aspirud for shinple food nnd clothing, and a vuof only, but for the means to purchase a book, or to bulld at last a house and to render happy thoso who mizht be gath- cred around that lueal bearth, Even when the counclls of clergymen ask the candidate for theological educat{on whiat motives prompt him to enter the mlnlm{ and he replics that he fs impelled by Jove ot ol and of human w clfnre, be omits tiie desire of support, not. becausc such a desire {8 wicked, but becauso it {8 a motive assumed by all and universal, He must do somdthing, He must exert all his power 1o “support self and thoso depending on sclf, and, this belniz so, his licart would vather give that toll to religion than to other objects of cars and love. It tho cundidate for the Bar or for the position of teacher or blyslelan wero asked whut motives were actuating him, he would vwlt the notive of money, beenttse It s 50 constant and omnfpresent that it needs no spectad promi- nence. 1f 1 must carn a support, I prefer to oxhaust my labor upon iaw. sud thus the Inwyer, Jiko tbo clergyman, entera his_caliing hmpeiled l?' two things,—thy absence of inoney wbd tho cliarm of the {déal profession. Thus under all the learned profussions lies the quality of this middla estate, tbie absence of monos that atim- ulates, uud not that utter nbsence which makes the hoj beggar. Itend over the of allthe emident 1nen of our day, will mark that almost the wholo army of them was thrown out upon the tield by the pressure of humble meaos. ‘To “ch an extrenie degree 18 this truo that 1t has Ween sucgested that all bLiograpnies of the great mizht begin with tho words, *Born of noor but honcst parents.’” The uatural phitosophy of the *mid- iy class” must therefore 1o Inrgely in the fact that that class Is the arenn Where tndustry docs Itaperfect'work In' tho mnind and traniforins Clay and Vubater, into cloquent statesmen, The *mid- dle condltfon® s a bleassnt subterfuge of na- turo for beguthng ds Intw action, becauso out of action vatne eivilization and all the splendor of letters, ort, aud reliion. Nature early makes us belleve that we shall starve, or that when winlcy sturms coine ull have nie shelter, ur thut wa shall have no hooks, no furniture, no name, no good soclety, 10 bapping amd, fm- 1 by this well-founded dread, each young man with a good mind and & poor bank aéconut zirds himself (or a fuithiul unl long ruce, aud at st we bebold him, not with a fortuue of money, but with a home, and with a splendid futellect aud a noble profession, 80 ensenitial to civilization and to fndividun) progress {s this pressing struggle of thy *mid- dlo el that It would appear that thu Prot- eatant Chareb, {n discarding the cellbacy of 1t cloriey, did moro for the future of that profes< sion than it achieved for them by abolishing o Pope. ile will usver befrlend tiie bumun mind -who attempts to sct it free from the straeyla of life. When the old .monks were retfred from publle acrvice that a greater solitude mizht huild up a greater plety, tbey wers remanded tack toward a mental spiritual sleep, The Protestaut clergyman, in belng permitted to seok & howno with tte cost und cares, ia led out of repuse, and, Jike tho lawyer, or physician, or atatesionn, Le must dedivate each day to toil, 1115 work s not wade vusy, his work {a not fAxed hy an unchanging law or custom, his limpulses do uut brrm and end in sell, & poor sourcs ulways of the highest mspiration, but hls destiny s tnoditied by his work, and along the path of serylce be {s impelled by the lm- pulses {n his uwn bosouy, and by the tender ap- peuls of hie tireside, More froms the fact that the Protestant clergy are leit to the complete lltu\lfiln of earth thoan frum any diferance of didactle theology, romes to pass the phenumes non that the FProtestaut minlstry have for two hundred years been stepplug ahead of thelr Ttoman rivals In power of fntellect, fu the scope and grestucss ot thelr inguiries, any 1n the quantity of lubor perfermed, It s allirined by the advocates of celibucy that ihe Protestaut clerzy du Indeed {nyeut more doctrines thun sre dreatned of by the priesthouds but the reply Is rendy and complote, thut, the history of the Lrotestant ciergy taken all through, they have espoused and developed u score of great truths te cach ong error thuy have fuculcated; and’ have beeu like the unond-wusbers, solled fudeel by common earth, but only 1o \ave their fonds fuil of Jewels ot lost. Great cxcaptions will by found, I do bt forget the Jahn 11, Newman who has luneg written for Kumsnism sud tor sl religlon with power and beauty s und [ shall walvo the value of the fuct that he wus » Protestant the first forty-hve years of Lis carecr, but alter you have csl inated ut a hilgh price all these futelleetual clere gymen of Rome, the great truth will remain that the Lrotestant clerey have Jong Leen sy tuilers the more Induatrious, as scholurs the mars cowprehensive, as wiiters aud speakers the mote buwerful, fu cxpluduing this fuct, we add to any ditfereics of Juberent gualitivs 1o the two religions the poteut fact thut ali the Protestant clergy have been compellad to be the builders of thele carecr, aind have been competled to stand e that common arens of toll aua muxiety Which bas given Ui world Jte fnyentors, aud stateaiueti, und uraturs, aud phie losuphiers. They bave been competled tu mcet the storm, T.ct us observe now ase~oud significance of the middle class, Our tirst position was that the contlict belonging to that Jut broueht fne tetlectual superlority; vur second affirmation is that it brings moral supcrioriry. The relatlon of fudusiry and worality Is very fuluute, A wind aud beart welt occupicd cannot adoit o socoud vecupant calfed viee. - 'l lowest clarscs 1uay toil sumewhat, but thetr toll coutas vo beauttful - prowise. . I leaves the Leare ready for siu; but the labor of the widdle cluss Is full of hope; it 1s venetrated by the morrow. 1l a varrant alionld consent to do u duy’s work, the wosk would bav uo spiritual slenftlcavee, ~ But Wheo the YOULK wut who bs Bearig the borders of a protession, or who 18 laying tho founda- tious of a homie, beging 1o carn & litble gold, that Kold gssumies the forin of virtye sooner thau the furw of viee, Tl . the fu- dustry of thes middle, class stapls al- ways~ related .t zood morale, 1t .ds ouly when wousey has turned foto - vast riches that it.begins to.support vics wid fully rather Lban bopo and wisdow, . Whyn the bigh. cstand wost Tutloual wants of tho budy sud suul bave bocy miet, aud Lulucuss suws semaln, tiwn tho beart fluds is foolish, or tictitivus, or sintul wants, aud tho flod of passiun wverilows ita auks. Al tbrough that past, to which wo unt alwave appual fur dkshit, 1 will be scen that while the bizlieat {n power were trompliog ubon wmoral luw, there was always a *‘second estate " which lived jo tne common acnse sud cowoion woruls of wankind. 1t Liws ulw ays thus cowe Lo pass that the fam- Llica 0f woderate proberty baye Luca i the be- winning and the end of each natfon the nation's chief hope. Nations bave died by ralsing ove- half of their number up to ariatocrscy, and by +inking the other half to beggary. The nations heve all dfed beiween thése two milistones—the vanity of the highest and tho broken hosrts of the lawest. The_tendency is for the children of the ex- tremely rich to unter npon a carcer of elther In- dolence or more positive sin. They are sct aside from the etrugzio of existence, snd by the law of nature begin to decline. Henoldlng this de- ay of the bigheat) civilizatin and rellgion make thelr new requisition for men aud women upon the class beneath, and wive us the phe- nomenon of a hicher class always fading away, and of civittzation appenling to the common people for ralvation. BSoclety 13 like the rose- tree or the vine. In the gay summer-time some ambitious brancbes overtop the rest: some leaves anil roses tise high ahove the garden- walls, but winter comes, nnd the Jofticst folinge and twigs ilie irst. They cover tho pround with thelr ruin, but the central viug, the lower order, ehings Iy to the y and o the sorinz- time every fnch of it bursts forth In new life, Not otherwise that living, mysterious plant, So- clety, The children of the rich fall. Thelr leaves, once su muhi?', fall upon the carth and are hidden fn fts dus , and the nation, when it wishes a now sortug-tymeof all its hores and powers, looks further down the earden-wall to where the plant Is etii} full ot ail the riclf julces from which roses and grape made. It thua appears that the praver of Agur in- yolves one of the lawe of individual and national life. Not unly 18 the plain, humble condition the happlest, and on s account worthy of Leing woven Into u most sacred prayer, but it stands s & fundamental law of human tritimph, and hence may be fnserted in our spiritual petl: tions with a tivo-fold carncstness, the one fro tha quplncl! of self, the othee from 1hg wel. fare of monkind, It may he well a matler of wonder that a heart hdiden away, {n 8 natlon so old and 80 small as the Hebrew Kingdom shoutd buve found & prayer so_wonderinl fn Wisaom. But he had seen the evil be lamented nhd the goou he sought. Ha had ecen Davii and Solo- mon pass trom honor to dishonor, from flury to shame; und had scen the rags also of the becgar, and between the tvo, the happy home, and'near by the tears of the begzar on one hand, aud un the other nearby atuined throne, hie kueit down and poured foith 1nls wise re- quest, to give him a home but shteld him from the paluce aud the raus, It vur medltation thts morning be true, then A duty aprings up to our sight, nainely, to scek to be” numbered 10 that niddie throng so po- tent In publte aud private good, 11 auy of you are beggars by reaspu of vice or wduleiice, throw awsy bl onco thosu monsters, and ate tempt to efimb to that condition where hope dwells und were toll 18 transtormed by expee- tation {nto a pleasure. It avy of {) 1 possess tiches which have checked life's fndustey und which s creating for youn train of sntul or foolish wants, and Which, after you, il palay the industry of your children, then distribute the great fortune he- mfcf)'ou die, whils you can direct the wunitlon, and fissten down and tenderly let your children down to that zona on the munntaln side whera hlows tho perfumed breatn of perpetual s, ‘The valo (3 tou sickly aud the summit to Aro you nlready inthe **middle cluss and, bleas God, vorhaps we sre oll there; then ninrk well the deep mneaniug of that lot, and make vo effort to chimb a hight on which atl bave bes come dizzy and from which all have at last lalien, Remember the jotellectual puwer, the mental harvest of arts and sclences which lins nlways waved upon that soll} -and remember the supreme hnppincss which the rich and the lufty bave Jouud at last to bless tho plain man's homie. Are you a man of industry, of integrity; are vou compelled to take up each day the bon- oruble warfare of earth; are you compelled to labor for the supply of the best wants and t6 support bulugzs the ‘most deard then you the naution loves, you civilization loves, you ‘religion loves, ai ti)rnwluz thelr arms around you, they all *Wu depend upon you. Welook to,those who bave nelther puverty nor riches.' MOODY. AT PARWELL MALL. Farwell Hall was crowded to {ts utmost ca- pacity yesterday atternoon, the occusfon of the gathering belng the reappearunce ot Mr. I L. Moody. The meeting was for young men vuly, admission being by ticket, and main hall aud Rallerles wera slike crowded. Tha platforal ac) commodated a cholr of nearly one hundred men, and previous to the eutrance of the speaker of the day two hymns were sung: “The Great Physlcian now I8 noar? and *Only sa armor- Learer.” Mr. Moody came upon the platforin while the’latter’ liymn was “belnz sung, and lled upon the sudience to rise and sing, 1 toll thy ap with” wrayer for a blessing_upon the wark, and the congregation sang ** Whatsvever willeth” aud * Precious promisa God hbath Riven.t Mr. Moody then read from the fifty-fifth chapter of fsalah, from the first to the uinth vereo, and tho cighty-third hymn, “Puall for the shore,” was sung by the congregation, I'he speaker announced that his text was contalned fu the seventh aud eizhtit verses of the chapter from which ba had read: *“Let the wicked forsake his way, and tho unrightcous man his thoughts, and [et bim return unto thy Lord, und 1l will huve mercy upou him, aond to our o, for Ite will abundantly pardon. For my thoughta aro not your thoug! m‘ neither wre yUUPr Ways uiy ways, saith thio Lord.” & Mr. Moody saul therg were five words in tho text; three hulonwing to his bearers und two toGod. Let the wicked forsake his way, the uurighteous his thouglits, snd return to the lord, wera for men, and for (iod the promises, *1 will have mercy upon b’ and* %1 will sbundantly pardon.’” Thera wers three stumbling blocks In the way af coming to the Lord, The first wos our owny righteousness, Men trled to work thelr way up. 1o Qud, but the religon of Chirist was God com- {0z down to man, The sscond was human re- Tugdon. When men spoke of their relilon and declared they would oot ive 1L up the proba. bllity was that they had none, And the third ‘trottblo was that mien must put away sin sud pructive self-denial. Men were unwilling to Yo up thelr sins, or what they called tholr i ways, s _The speaker salil he was sick of tho twaddle talked n so many pulplte It was sail that God was mereiful, aud that it made® no ditfor- ence whether n man forsvok sin or not; he would bu saved unyliow, Contiuuing ila disourse, he referred to the case of ilavid and Absalow, The old King for- guve his sou without the latter showing any sigus of repentance. It was a falso peuce, and Atzalom died in his rebellion. 1lo usked 1 hin bearers were willing to give turn e thoughts to God, aud ‘The end wns comiug, un- less they repented they coulil wol be sared. (lod nad sald tnat 1fe would not forgive thuse who Jid not repeut, und & death-bed was oo op- portunity for sepentance. No an imerited sal- vatton by his uwn good deeds, Wicked wen might prosper in this world, but they hual lean. uesa of soul, Oueof the awlulest sins, lemding to Ml directly, was thst of Next to* Intewperance, the of * the barlot was the ot s structive ta body and soul. Gt would bring the scdicer to judgment, ‘The speaker believed that ticit vonnertions with winnen led nany sien W deok, atd he mads ay Iwpussioned gppeal to his audienes, or such of them us had seduced uny young wopien, bo sake reparation (o thetr shi il confession be- fore Qul. He next touched upon the sln of theft, und solemnly wurned any young man who mlght have robbed his viaployer's vash-druwer to reduce hils expenses wul maka restitution. Tu couctusion, Mr. Moody sald that he wua about to leuva the city, poasibly never to return, and begged of bits hearers to seize the preaent upportunity for repentance; tu Zive up their #inx und throw theniselves on the luving mercies of their Bavior, ‘T service closcd with prayer and the doxulogy, AT CUICAGO AVENUR CUURCIL The bure announcement that Mowly would preach wi the Chicazo Aveuue Churctfycster- day warning was sullivient to autrace an sudis cuce of such provertwns us to 1 thot tewple. At the visy 0l the preliminary sesvices Mr, Moody, stepping around to the very clze of the lat(uros 1 }lonlul thu desk, witth open - Biblo n his haid, launched out upon oue of Lis stir- Ty discourscs, his text belur froni John, on s ilie vivtory Lhat overcometl the world.? ‘Fhe battle, he salil, i with self. You don't kuow what u trouble It wus to yicld yourself to Lod, but alter wedo take Lle gift ol God we are Lo work out onr owa salvation with fear and trembliug, The test has the sound of war and battle. Aftera grest battle tho first question was * Whois the victor!"” Iifsu't cnoughto kogw that some one bas conquered, but who s e ylegor. Now, what I wiean by overcoming the world §s to_overvoune’ its custum, Wlheo a adul- way de- v is golug 13 overcome vrervihiigg cuutrary to 180 law ol Giod. ‘Fhere will be Lincs wheu you will kave to stand alone, bevause overcolucrs huve 1o go uzaluat the customs of the world, "Fhere Is s mueh difference between g cbild of God aud & cbild of darkness, the beir of Heaven wod of thla wurld, a3 there i3 be- iweon Mfe and - dvath. Huw wany we losmg ground becsuse ey dow't realize what they L o overcome! Tho crv of the work! Iy, * ich, even A you have to be wesn sod geasploe.’ Iths better s dic u pauser, and Lo bave, 43 o Urtal waby Rraves i Whe Suuth buve, w wuite ploc Luard ut 5. Preatding Elder Willing, wman docs Hue,jus will 1un contrary to the world. | —_— your head rharked * Unknown," ¢! fine plece of marble at your hom!hmqt?u‘f-“" man overcome. TS €45 the prevatling s ment of the evanuelst's diseonrss—itiuoy, Uy hisqualnt and foreible Mustrations, concluded by urging_his hearers to tury gy from the world, the flesh, and the Jestl, - &1 UL e gald, - enrnestly bray to God 10 giye e Kruce o overcome oug sins." us DEAN .BTANLEY, IN CANADA, Special Disgatch (o The Tyiduns, Quenke, Oct.. 20.—Dean Stanley, of W, minster, preached thla MOPMING to an Iniepes congregation fn the Engllah Cathedra, {n course of which he made a mast naum:m 1“'! #ion to tha succees achiuved here by Lorg p). 1; ferin by placing all Wis gifts nnd praces g o disporal of those araund pad beneath i, ue concluded by expressing the hope that iy ey, cessor, who would soon be bere, wip, g, deareat and most eacred pledee m;’: the Savereizn of England had vet g, ier distant. posscasions would i [t i, oire? desote. the cnargigs of Iia ancient and pop race and the exceilenco of his to the fulfiitment of the great *May ho and she, when their wap: done, dopart, with” Iike rewards of the (e fulness of alosal peonle, with ke conecimye. ness. nm,hlnae theie predeccasors, they fiye, :::«‘Lc{:."‘ * ulivat the preatuess of (g, e MISCELLANEOU DEDICATION OF 8T, THILIF'S ROMA cnunci, SAtiloug The dedication of 8t. Phtlip's, the new Catno. He Church at West Fortieth street (Nurtinweq. ern Car-Shops), took blace yestenlay wiorming, commencing at 10 o'clock. The little oy, ] was well filed, Tho eervices were preciguy aver by Bishon Folev, The celchrant wae Fyp. er Rortencus Morett: the deacon, Father 3, Lambert; tho sub-deacon, the Very Rev. Father Augusting Morischinl, the pricst i charge of tho new. parlsh; the master of ceremontes, Father Danfel Riordan. The services connjeted of the usual dedicatory ceremonlies, an aidress by the Bishop, high mass, and conflrmation, [y which & class of nineteen girls were confirmed, exch attired in white, with a veil and a coronet of floters, | = Blshop Foley took for tho rub}w of Il di courso the nineteenth chanter of Luke: y\pg entering, Zaheas climbed (ato n sveamore tree, Ile spoko of the method of Christ In cainingy souls; Jie touched the heart of tho Individugl, In the course of his remarks the reverend pep. tleman alluded to tho debt of the church ang the manner fn which it bad been_ratsed, He #alil thie debt amounted to some 8700 or 230, tu be pald in advance. Father Morlschinl had ralséd cleven-twelfths from outside sources, aud the congregation had ralsed only one. h. He exhorted thoss present 1o co-operste with the prieat fn the work of ralsing the needed amount. The sum dye upon the ground mizht be lald over for a tine, but the church bulhdine must be pald for immne dintely, This was to be their future home fur their ‘souls’ wrllare, and he hoped it would not bu lonik ere they would have a schiool {n connee tion with it. THR UNION TABERNACLE, corner of Ashland avenue and West Twentloth strect, was formnllv dedicated yesterday after. noon. ‘The exerclnes were opened with a vol. untary by the cboir, followed by a prager by the Rev, (teorge 11, Simons, of the German Metlioy. Ist_Cliureh, Tho Kov. E, . Goodwin, of tha First Congre- gational Church, delivered the dediestory ser- mon, dwelllng upon the necessity of cach mem- ber of the congrezation making o *temnte unta himaelf,” oud congratulutivg the socely on the completion of their new edlfice, The Rev. A, Monroe, tho pastor of the Tabter- i W He nacie, read the roport of the DBullding Com. | mittee, from which it appears that tho builcing was put up for the modest sutn of $3,57L ex- clusive of* the furnishinz, which cnst g3, * including the heating spparatus. he butiding Iss model of neatneas aud economy, and It that suw. ?l&lly aa good aa many cnurch bulldlogs l.mIIu{ { Y uy times Only 854 o entire smount rewalned unpafd, snd i effoit. was made to cancel this debi by the ** Kimball ethod," under the superintendence of the Nev. N, F. Ravlin. The usual tactis were resorted to, aod $100 was subscrited dur- inge the afternoon, In tho eveulng the Rer. N. F. Ravlio preached, after which another st glu for subscriptions was made by the same go- tleman, and on the saine plan. TAPTIAT MINSIONS, Thero will be 8 missfonary meeting held in the Etrst Bootist Chureh: Tussday eyenine, e stead of ‘Thursday evening, ns heréfolore an- nounced. ‘The chango Is nade for the reasn that the misslopary purty is compelled to lere bere earlicr than wus anticiputed ln_order to take the next stcamer from San Frauclxo ‘There will be farewell sorvices for Miss Dauiells, uuder appolntinent by the Woman's Missionary Hactety of the West, as nedical missivnary tv Ching, nnd n reception of several others wha are comtng on from thy Faat. All who are fu- terested in missions are invited to atleml, ELSEWHERE. ILLINOIS BAPTISTS, Spectal Dispateh to The Tridune. GAvLRsuuna, M., Oct. 20,—The proceedingsol the Btate Baptist Assoclation wera of u different churaster toalay. Tt belug the Babhath the usual business and reports of commitieed wers laid aslde, the Association futroducing new and Interesting features, fn accordanco with tho dsy. At 10:80 8. m. Dr. A, Owen delivered au able scrmon at the First Bapttst Church upon the subject * Iftinols Bato Misslons ” to o large cougremation. The pulpit snd sudience-room of the church wete beautifully decorated with plants and foral offerlugs, which adued mult uterlor of the mogniticent -dmm:. M the' same hour many of the pulpits of the various orthodox churches fn our ity were filted by clenrymen who ure [n attendance upod the Assuciation. At the Buuduy-setiool which followed thy morning service, the Rev. Dl,(.l It. fitackall, the noted Sunday-school warkrl‘“ Chivago, cave a aualyity of the Jesson for 19 day, Mo also devoted some thne to w“mi dren, o)t of which was very interesting us wel as lustruetive, buth to tedvhers and scholars At 3 pom, & Sunday-school mun-muun'llll held, which was addressed by the Hot h:ll- Brooson, of Bataviy, and the Rev, J. T “:i' ips, of Mount Carroll. _ Dr. Dlackall also made aonie sugzgestions, In tho eveuiug Dr Auder: son, of Chicaxo, preached. CONSECRATION OF A CATHELAAL. Corusnus, O, Oct, 20.—8t, Josepn's Cathe- Me Untliedral was conseerated to-days with b posing ceremonies by Archbistop Pureell, 1 slated by Bllllutt Spauldlug _of Peoria, | ; crana of Columbus, Kum of Wheeling, TMI‘M of Covington, Gllinour of C.Ievalnu_d‘_cunu“ of Vineenuce, Dweoger of Fort Wayue, f mavy priests from various parts of Ouio, unul cousecration serion was preached by B i W Bpuuldiug to a larze sudience, Haydivs i Muss was - effectively repderad by o cholr o +tive volces und a larwe vrchiestra. 1 alternoon visiting socletics, o the ""mbt;'m‘:\. abont ¥,000, paraded the strebts in 8 nroes e It 13 estimated thas 1 nmm.u-r-'v‘rl dbawis 16 the city by the ceremonies of thedsTs Booetal Pispich s The Tribune. al Pispaci 2 Nuw Youk, Oct. 20.—The Kev, Willlam Alger prescued bis farewoll serinon Cuurch of the Mesalah to-day, huvin: O nvalt to ienver, A member of his uu;.f;j\f' tlon says Mr, Atrer goes Woest Lecause 8 York s too conservative for him, e King Mumbert's 11)-Iealth, Wertd, o Quirinul ‘arc looking "'I'; grave, £ learn, ond shake tholr heaits oniiniousy concerning the health of the [talian szim. Romauu fricod wntes me: * Ho louks exee o8 o wy eye, attenuated. 1 is ¢ cind ur.:th:{ l:‘bll“'ru; upy cording to 4 very striv otars, " the doctors aze oo frequent ta be Teassunits But Huwbert will work, He deyotes o P”l‘ the uf bis time duily to tho duvestiation of fi8 fluauclal aifalrs of his gather, wao bas WS troublesoiue urop of uapleasant wunctary ¢ s behind bim, A spectal soeretary attends {:” s buslucss, Knowlne very well that Haubert o averse to auy public scudals, the Romat "um« e aro exorbitant i thelr clabns o Iyt e supplicd o the ludies of the lat Kiugis 8 0 Tishinent. 'Fhe ladies refuss to pays ou the B that the debts belong 1o the dead” Kinn nglu od sonue fnstances the bills have only becl At awhion fuitiatory procecdings have been menced fu the civil courts.” Cunsideniu: the affairs of nu less than elebtect “"émw‘ establishients have to bo settled L urulug eccupation cannot bo plessaut. ———— = R the Yeaple gbout Caviuo i A Panawma papes tells the Tullowing 1,'1’:4"0 canine sagacyy: & When tue dog whbies crues the pives where allizators abuund, be EC0 way und barks With S 1lizuturs g theres :}--kl"‘;“ Lur iy eettlos fu 1o go acroey, The doe BIEL whiat he Is shout; when by sees from the GO0 ber of sioULY abuve Water that bis vueil s 2y ail L:ullmr:d o the 'j“‘;-fi,’:",’.,“:“;-;u‘n‘v e asl & C Lub, and awil AN i e :Tn':u:.... are awure of the trick tudt Las U bl ed upon thew.? —