Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1878, Page 5

THIZ CHICAGO TRIBUN % MONDAY. OCTOBLER 28, 1878 RELIGIOU Another of Talmage’s Pulpit Bensations in New York City. “Tho Kingdom of Cod,” as Pre= sented by Dr. Thomas, Dr. Williamson Glves His Views on 3 ' What a Preacher Should Preach,"” 4 Sermon o *.The Trath ™ by Prof. Swlage- The 8tery of Jemah Retold...0thor Rellgiony Mntters, TALMAGE, TZ TAKEY A FHONT SEAT AND A TAB, Speesal Dipatch to The Tribune, New Your, Oct. 20,—*Thoe Speeille 8ins T Faw* proved atuking bait, Talmage's Taber- nacle Wwas a perfect crush this morning, Laree crowds, unable to cffect an entrance, flcd the surroundug corridors and overflowed Into the etrects They were mngnificently ewindled. Mre Talmage saw nothmg sepectlic” fn Wis midnight trascls, or chose to generalize in tho most unsatisfactory manner, 113 text was, “Tuo gates of Iiell #hall not presall agalnst §t," aml e went on comewhiut n this style: *It' only 10 o'cluck,"” tall the officer, ns we ot fnto a carriaze, “and it's too varly to see thie places right, for the theatres lave not yet been Jet out.” I nsked what he meant. ¢ The places of Inlquity,” hie anewered, “are not in full blast until thelr guests arrive .from tho theatre. The officer told the driver to stop at one of the mpst costly pambling-housce, Al seemed dark from tho ontside, The hiinds were down sud the door guarded. Atter some whispering, wo were admitted. In the parlor around - . A TARO TANLE were elght or ten well-dressed men. Tho #i- 1 save by the rattiing of chivs of aball on o roulette-board 1 was told that gome of the men hnd served geveral terms In State Trison, hat some were ship- wrecked bankers, brokers, and moncy-dealcrs, aud ‘some taklug thelr fiest dessons in vice. ‘fhere wis sometling awful in thetr stlence and euppressed cmotion as sinall fortuncs were syon or loat at each turnof the cards. Some of then saw horses, carrlagres, home, and family rushing fnto the vortex, A man's life would not have lieen worth n rush [n that place without the pro- {ection of the police, 1t it were suspected he came on a Chirlstian errand. Bowe had beon nd- mitted by a private key, others by introduction. The officer safd: * No one gets fn licre unless through polfce mandate or a letter,!” ALL RTORIT3 ADOUT THE COBTLY MAGNIFICENCE of those places are untrue. Men kept thelr hats on and stuoked, and pothing in the upholstery forbade. While I stood there men lost prop- erty and aonfs. Not once was s word of sym- pathy uttered for the losers by the came, It is estimated that every day in Christendom 818,000,000 pass from hand to hand through gambling. The ofllcor sald: *Jtis 1l o'clock, and we must be ol.” The guard slam- med the door after us. Wo re-ontered our car~ riage and were driven down TO THE GATES OF NELL. Talways go where God tells me. Ho told me to ga there, and T went, and am here this moming to rketeh the gates, N Haviug thus aroused general expectation, the speaker contioued fn substancet Gate 1 wwas mpuroe ltersture, much of 1t under the title of ecientific information. Novetettes aro aleo wide gates to hell. The leprous bookscllers have pathered catalogies of oll male and femate seminaries In the United States, and have geut clrenlara to every name on them without exception. . Gate two was tho dlssolute dance, Gate three waa Indiscreet apparel. The attiro of women during the last four or (lve years was the nost benutiful and graceful speaker ever knew. But he was told o uew fashion wos on fts way from Purls which was shocking. There were multitudes of men who owe thelr cternal domuation to thoe boldncess of womenly attire, [Applause aud hissew.) Uate {our was alcoholle beverage. The ofiicer safd the reasun theso places vseaped was Lecause they wera leenavll, 1t wus, therofore, the courts and Leglaluturo that ewung opeu this stupendous gate of Hell, IN CONCLUBION, Mr. Tolmage discussed the utilty of his ser- tnons, thanked the press for {ta almost universal falrness (u reporting him, Among the cducated sud refined gestlemen who wrote him up from week to week he was compelted to say thers was a foul or two, Ho had recelved an lnmenso number of letters urgiug Wim to go on, and a few condemnatory of his course. One took the ground hu was doing © lusm Ly arousing suspicion in domestie cireles against tho liead of tho fumtly, e was sorry tho letter was anonymous. I he knew that man's name he would write to hils wife to put detectives on bls track. Thoe cates of Hell could only bo leveled Ly Christlan _miea and women torgetting thelr I another room. prudery, The plety of the’ day wus such "o pamby-pamby emetie st of thing that the preacher could not quote Berlpture without making people nervous. Ho long a8 this imbecllity lasted no #oud vould be done, Tatrlurchs, probicts, and Christ himscll, thundered agalust theso afus ns ayainst no others, Yet, nowsdays, when the tpeaker weutlons them ho bua 10 assume the tone of apology, Mr. Talmuze announced that he would con- lul;mertho subject until be had sald all be wauted suy, DR, TIIOMAS, THE KINGDOM OF 60D, Tho Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Centenary M, E. Cliurch, preachied to tho usual lurge CONURIERU- tion yesterdny morning, His text was: For the Kingdom of God 14 nut moat and drink, Yot rlghteousne n;glnw. wnd Joy 1 the Huly ) 17 Ghost; ~Jtwman ent 10 all thoughtful obscrvers It must bo ey in our thnes, ho satd, that thers was quite a Wwide-spread unrest on the subject of religlon, This urose largely from o want of cleurly under- standing what religion really is, and fts final Couse or eud, or that for which It was fn the Warld, and frum differences of opfnion as to thy Lest methiods of reachiug resulte, Howeverunsat- {sfactory this condition of tho public mind night be, It was fur botter than astate of fudifTerence,— 8 atate of lethargy, s state of forgetfuluess. ‘The fuct that thu public mind was so widely fn- terested fu this great theme, was, {u itself, ho thought, & hopeful sign, and gave to broad and thouzhitful men fo all the churches an oppor- tunkty for usefulucsa thiat did not often occur In the changing phases of Lunan thougnt and allairs, and, if not improved in ouruge, might Bot 8000 oceur again. This wtate of uncasiness inust ot be characterized as u stute of apostacy, or as a stato of unbellel, 1t was nelthier a for- ketting of religlon wor o giving up of religion, but a looking into the ereat question. Thors were fow minds that willlngly drifted nto gho dark world of unbelicf, oud few but would tlmlly uceent the help of a kiud haod and be led ack iuto the warm sun-light. For, whatuyer bo Yur - thcorfes of MNfe, It was still et that the woul of man found nu erfeel rost outside ot truth, outside of Gud, s0d utside of righteousness. Theso con- sderations impressed hin with 1he fecliug that Lo unimortaut part of the miustry of this ags slould be dirceted to settlivg In the miuds uf Ll public the thought as to whbat was cesco- 13l —thie reat Lhing to be attatned, whic, if at- ":hc b other talnes were indiffercot, aud, if L \l\ged‘ Al vlso wus of littls urcouut. hat was thae for which relsion was fn the Yorldt What was its end! Whut wus it to uc- sol;dish for wunkingl He fooked st the sub- fi:}fi;}lr?(.nu watter pertainiug to the lodi- Sl vum'muu ond Jife, Thers was s wonder- theearucas and unonfmlty of expression i Lo Sunbture as 10 the purboses of relurion re- Lardiug them, v Fear God and keep i com- dakiwenta? 8 Phoy ghait love the Lord thy tied with ol thy heart, sud thy mind, wud th :uu, sad thy” streogtl, sud thy ueighl |L'|lun-n." und faith’ unicizned Lo f & pure cte. o uuderstund the T W mu:‘i Tewviaber tho condition of society . pliltosophv, anstomy, aml all the other in which Paul lived and wnider which he apoke. ‘The converls wera Jargely from the Pagan world and the Jewish Church, ond felt tha ef- fects of previous education’ and_ questions nrose an in observancts—gnestiona lika {n our day [[ he (Thhmns) were to ray the Kingdom of God waanot {n the eut ot o garment, [n the Searlng of a rine on the fingers not in some In- Tacent anvsement—a game of eroquet. Tt was tnt 1 these Jittie ontward things, but in some- thing diviner and deeper, and touched character, motlve, hieart, 1ifo,—covered all in two uenerat waga, leaving to each man liberty of consclenee and Judgment §n litle " things wit this one rostriction:s that, os a mat- ter of consctence, ho must _not do that which will hurt his nelghbor, Righiteous- ness was derived from right, and meant that which was straleht; hence tho kinglom of righteousness meant that within a man (his nhnmcle? which was stralzht,—not crooked, uot doubfe, not falee, not Llind, not decetving, ready to fuke advantage, ready to entrap, tealy to enenare, ready o prove an enemy in- stend of n fetend, ready to stand on any side of & question which happens to be most popular, ~—Gut & steatehit man, straight when lald down and mensured by tho Iaw of (od sod the cter- nol principles of rlzhteonstean, Another element of the kingdom was peace,— aresult rather than a fundamentd) principle,— something that had its Leing in the fact of this rlzhteousneas, because all the inharmony, un- rest, want of peace {n the lndividual Hfe, and fu the whole structure of soclety, might be chargzeabile to this one thing of men not belng stratuht, Another, partly a principto and partly a result, was juy lu the floly Ghost,—joy carry- fng a wuch deeper meaning than hapuiness. As to the firal end of relicon: 51 was o great {hing to eone and niak heart right; to zive the soul peace and Joy, Auother eud_was usc- fulness in the worll—to do good. Prosclyles tulghit be made by the sword or by strategy, hut hearta wnst be touched from the standpoint of divine love, and peace, and goodness. Retielon enme fnto the world nut only to make man right u himself, to make him a jower of usefuliess 1 lmself, but for the purpose of putting him upon & cotirse of life and preparation that would #it bim for the atate of belie beyond,—death, —n continvation of this Jife, erbups.—n lile where we will need tho principles in which we were educnted bere, Wint the world nceded was not sp mnch argument, not s much - ountside formulation, ns that which would bring a lviog example betore men of what rellufon could do for man- kind. I churclies compromised thelr debts at 20 centa, §f men called Christians wero just as ready as anybody else to take 15 ond 20 per cent interest frum the poor, If wen called Christlans could not be trusted o the word any further than anyboay else, If men called Christians were as hard-hearted s othier mun, as untorgiving, as relentless, was it strange, in an ave lko this, that people sald, * Better thun elnneral™ There werv iundreds of thousands of good I»mplu Inand out of the churchies, nud that which hield the teembling faith of mankind todoy in God and peaceful rightcuusness was the puwer of Fooaness In the world, * Ye are the salt ot the earth,” He would mther hamge tho Issues of tho "Christlun religion for tho mext ten yeors unon Lhe devoted lves and true lives ot men than on il the logie from Aristotie and Descartes duwn to Paley and Humilton ond the greatest reasoners that stood in any pulpit to-day. We needed to emjphasize the bringing out from the worklug of Christiun thoupht, and Christian exucrience, and Christiun_elnirches, beatitiful tives and Leautiful characters, ‘Fhese resulted not from one way, oue method, or through one ehurch, Men wight say Mowdy was frreculars—an {nno- votor,—but tuke the Tacts, What came out of Ll nifel That ended argument. God waa workbne in all ways as best He coulld 1o 1ift up mankind, Ho (Thomas) belleved some woys were better than othiers,—some vays nearer tie truth, and more eflicient; but the ¢reat point Lo cmphasize now was not what aiTorentfates, but the thinzs that make for righteousness, amd peace, and the joy of the Holy Ghost,—make the world better, " Thae suniight mieht reach us through white glass, or colored glass, yet it wos the Night of the sun all the thoe, DR. WILLIAMSON. WIIAT A PUBACHENR $1I0ULD PREACY, The Rev. Johin \Willamaeon, of the Michignn Avemto Methodist Church, preached yesterday morning on the subject, * What n Preacher, Bhould Preach," taking as the text for his dls- course! Yor 1 determined not to know anvihing among {‘un #avo Jesus Clirlst and 1l ceoelfied, —7, Cor., Vhat he lind to say was not an avowed an- swer to Dr. Thoias' sermon of Inst Sunday on “Tho Work of a Sinister,” but to the averago Hatoner tho thuughit could uot Liave been far off that the reverend gentleman was, to use a worldly phrase, tolking back." Tho words of the text, said Dr, Williameon, were those of 8t. Paul, the trandest preachsr that ever trod the earth, Thoy were authorita- tive, and from them we could not depart, Bt. Taul was a man of ouve work,~the work of preaching Christ and Iim crucliled. **1 sup- vose,” contiyued Dr. Willlamsow, * men in his day may have called hin narrow-minded, nar- raw-hrowed, having n slin measure hetween tho cyes, and such things; but ho was willlae to be called fgnosunt, unprogressive, nurrow- minded, and all that, in his determination to give atl his really cultivated nnd even transeend- oent powers 1o tho work of proclalmlug Clirtst,” *What grauder worle could thera be than to tell rulned character of a divlne Bavior! Othier passages wers cited to show Paul’snotion ol what thy Christian ministor ought to presels, focluding, of course, this varticularly strong one: I any men preach any other gospel unto yott than that yo have recelved, lot him be aceursed.” Pretty serfous talk wos this, re- marked Dr. Willlamson, Minlsters of Christ were ot iiberty to preach in unly one way as tu doctrine, altbough ns ta mothods there was of course an cndless yarlety. ‘The subject matter had been griven by (lod)—=the cruclfixion of Christ and I3 resur- rection,—und the sermon which left that out waEn't a serimon at wl, but merely an easay, ‘Fhe ovangellenl preachicr was not to turn over the lenves of the Bivle to bunt up fumiliar and congenial theorles for his sermons. wus shut up to the one theme,~Christ und Him crucified,—~and, whilo ho mizht use outside truthy i)y way of fllustration, he should not preach these outside truths in the pluce of preaching the ono precions and only theme amiounced in the text, ~In fuct, be could not, without oflicial degradation, and without Incurring the curse of Giud, predch natural his- tory, ethivs, law, evolution, tha arswa, or thine eive save the Punline Qospel of Jesu the resurrection. A preacher need uwot sulences, or law, or soclsl kelence, but, if peces- sary for purposes of {llustration, ho vould tell what somebody elss knew of the; those nble ta speak with nuthority. When a preacher ot outsido of the Word of Gad, he Leeame an es- sayist and lad lost bils function of preaching the Gospels A preacher bad vo truth to create or discover, no new principles to unfold, we lmprovements outahle of the Word of God . to suguest, Lut ehmbly o messazo to deliver to the lost sons and daiighters of mens aud 1t s man did his whole duty in this recurd he would have notime and lesa heart to engave in yolities, philosoph- kiul sucieties, questionable recreations, and such things. There were many of these minlsterlal cssoy- 1sts who preached “*Jesus Christ," but omitted to preach “Ilm cruchica.” Why, some of them would even condeseend to adwit that Christ waa quite os good o man s Socrates, if e wasn't qulte su wisa; aud some of them hiad such an {dea of His vicarious dosth s to go to the uxteut of udopting Horaeo Bushuell's # moral-influcnce ™ theory of the atoncment, which was nothing clse ‘thun the spectacular view of Chrlst’s sufferings. ~ Christ didn't ale, a8 thuso jeopla would bave us be- Hlove, just to muke men feel 'be Lible téuching was that God grunted tho sfuner pardon because Jeaus bad pakd that sinuer's debt, und the “*moral-influcnce ™ theory wus s very good thing only when 1t exelted the siu- uer's fove afier ho had wotten his pardon. As for bl Dr. Willlamson declared It to be his determination to know uothiug among his peoplo but Christ and Him crucitled, e kuew there were many thinge that would bu uade 8 minister not to kevp such o Othier themes would be wore ac- ceptable to some, for the ald Gospel never was popular and uever would be ponular with the uusaved niosses, who were usuully satisticd with themaelves, and rujected that Gospel's ur- ralunmnent of them as uncomplimentary and intolerunt, Thu preachiug ot the rrue Gospel wust ba as uu etfort 10 wake water ruuwup bill, or an attempt to vause Junuary to be as fervent as June, sud sowetimes tho preachel ra dlscouraged. What Lhey must du, however, was to keep right ou preachiug, as Puul did, the Bible duetrive of siu, aud not the modern jdea that 1t was syoonymous with hg- uorauce. ‘Lhey should plainly tel repented sluers of the edv God bad provided fur thew, sod, above all, they shouid not fail ‘to wreavch tbe doctrine of the Holy Ghost, Agulla und Priscills bad sat uuders the teucbiugs of the cloguent Avollos, but toey saw ey knew sunictbing which he, with ull” bis eloquence, did not know, Theurcaching ot thetruetiospelt fent d a3 old-fueysl, bebfud the tiuee, wu- elve, sudilliberal, aud be mizbt be asked 0 presch *madern thoughe,” which, was voth- fug woro nor less thau Pluto’s sueculatious jo- dressed. Bane would want to hear Darwinlan- {5, in spite Of e fuct that Virchow=bimsclt e ] 70 belicyer—had etamped the scfentific pret wlons out of evolntion, and declared the Dar- winlan theorles the mereat apeculations. 8ome would want to hear the highty-moral claes of rermons, hut he desfred Iua hearers (o re- member that conduct camne ont of tha heart, and that to have fnuitiess inorality it was neces- sary to ret a fauitless bicart, Hohoped nobody woulid nsk Wm Lo preach a progressive rellglon, for he stood pledied to chuh the unprogressive and unchanged Hospel of Christ,” Auy man wha ndvacated progression (n reifeion was not s }.rcarher of the Hospel, aud knew nothlog abont it experfmentally, or he wouldn't wane to ret away from it. In conclusion, Dr. Willismson exborted his congregation to ald him, by their prayers, thelr syinpathics, and by Lheir entire co-operation With himn fn his work, to preach the Gospel dur- ing the coming Conference yenr {n the manner, as he had outtined it, fn “which it should be preached, THE TRUTIL BERMON BY ILOP. BWING, Trof, 8wing nreached yesterday mornfng ton large congiceatlon in the Central Church, MeVicker's Theatre, Ho selected ns his theme, “The Truth.” Following i the kermon: Yo nhall know the truth, and the trath shall set yon frco, —Jahn, tilt., 1t was the calamity of the times before Christ and around [lim that they possessed but little truth, Notunly was their selence false and thelr vractieal arta falee, hut they porseeseed false principles of actlon, and faisc ductrines and practices §n religlon. All human success du- pends upon n kuowledge and practice of tuo truth. The farnier must know and con- form to the facts of agriculture, the builder must know and obey the facts of materlal, the navigator must snow the real truth about the winds and tho tides, and the relliiuntat wust, It possible, know the truths of morals and faith, Information ls, thercfore, not a simple accomplishment, as music and con- rect cramimsar are accomplishments, but infor- maotion s o condition of successful existence, and fs needed just as the body needs bread. ‘The agriculture of the faor Enst was unable to support tho surroundivg life, becausa it was it~ sclf #o falso to the reality ot the sofl and Na- ture's Inws, The plow stirred only the surface, and that imperfectly; tho planting was defect- fve, the seed defective, the labor employed in cultivating the feeble plant and in Larvesting tha final product was all a mere fragnient of tho whole truth, and fam{uc after fammno came and went—the penalty of a long series of false- hoods, Our land is a reglon to which a truth has come and has et men free, and when the truth mnakés men free, then are they frec fn- deed. It ts.very properly complained agalnst mod- ern education, and especlally that of the girls, that {t bestows too much of its core unon the studies which ornament, and hence tou lit(le upou the branches which contain the truths of life. Tho puplls go forth In more of beauty than of wisdom. They do not know all the luws of the land, of the life, and progress, and happiiess, and perfect well-belng - of solf and soclety, Be thls 2omplaint well-fuunded or il founded, the eneral stutement remalns that to find out tho truths of this worll and to obey them 1s tho urcat duty of mau, That course wiil et hiin free, und he will be free indeed. Mau remalied n burbarfan untht day by day new truth cuine to give him nioments and drenms of lverty. A stone bammer and o stone knife were a shape of falschood. “They were n pretense. The real truth lay fn fron anil steel, Tho eanoe made of alog aud fmpelled Ly an our was a coutrudiction in navigation, n hygocrite 0 that art, and hence the world’s commeree was comuelled to wait untll the great sl or thie impelling engino should comes and when these came, then sprant ur the maritine cites on all ehoree, I thus fs evident that civilization §s the dixcovery and obedience of the world's truth, aud is the converse of this olso, nemely, o constant and determived breaking uway from ull falre fdeas and prac- tices; und trom this it fullows that religlon whi find its highest estate (n tho sge which shiall ind its truese forms, and which shall boa severe friend of thet form, and a firn oppunent of {ts contrary, A falschood ls * the worm {n the bud,” In the figure of tha poct, the bud may open with the usual beauty and fragrance, Fofir as the oye can judae, and, indecd, the fruft may form, but ot some point in the his- tory of the flower or the frult the fnjury by the worm witl appear, and the hidden fnfluenco be- comes ovident ond destructive. It §s only the truthful blossom, the bud in whoss luvisible bosom mo false {nfluence reposes, the bud fn which tha true saps of naturs flow, and the truc sunehine and dewdrop tiestle which passes ou to porfeetion, There aro many ways of vlewing the anccesses and the calamitics of men and of natons. Thus we suy that u neglect of patlonal things, super- fnduced by an excessive fundoess for art, rulued Greeeos thut milltary jealousies and consequent. crime dlssolved the Roman Kugdoms that ef- feminacy rufned the Empire of the Nile that fignorance deatroyed Spaln and Mexico: but we may fiud a more general statement fo the words thattheseBtatesloved reat falschoods usthough they were great truths, and clung to them to tho deaths whereas, [t 1s truth only which coufers final liverty sud life. As “sin 5 8 wuol of con- formlty unto or actual transgression” of Gol's moral Jaw, so all ruln, from the prewaturedeath of a flawer to the declin and fall of o nutlo, s trom the want of conformity unto or actual trausgression of tho lawa of sll iudustry and action, When the Bible says that “‘Ihe wicked whall be turued into Helland all the nations which forget God," it utters words which we sce verllled in all the ages over which we may choose to look, Exactly what may be the lell of the wicked Is unknown, but the broken walis, tho deserted lands, the burted mouuments, the hoottne of owls in old palaces, the faded aplendor of all untiquity, show us what Is the l]uu Into which wicked nations are cast; and, {f there be for each wicked soul o ruln as deso- lute, then wo need no other definitton of Hell, but we need an arm that may save. As s knowledze and obedienco of “all politieal truth wonld have suved all thoso old na- tions aud have caused Curthage, aud Babylon, and Athens, and Thebes to staud forth to-day in ten-fold the splendor of thelr best perfod, s0 truth, cucompasaiug tue sonl ull ita days here, will protect Jt from tears and tossit forward to- ward linsortality, Truth {s ouly another name for God., Instead of betug God Himself, it 1s s law. " Liko its Auttior, it muat, therefore, isuas power, and omnipresence, aud perpotu- ty, Even when athesin fnils to vercolve o per- soual Delty, it perecives the omniputoncs of law and “confesses that at the altar of this truth b every tongue shail conle shalt bow, Even atlelsm percelve ho patluns which have cast them- zainst the facts of Nuture have been crushed by the contact, Tusertivg their tuvorito word, tho'athelsts fulu the Bvle In saying that the wicked and sl the nations that forget truth will bo turned into ruin. What a fortunato ar- rungement for humavlty that when the wlod s unwilling or unuble to beleve In 6 personal Delty, Nature Intervencs to spare the denylng heart and hersell proclaimes theeverkasting laws, d whispers the sgne words which to other cars aro whispered by the vaice of the Al- mightyl Thua Clristian and athelst sgree i confeisivg that a falsehood will lllfll{l comg towan with hegvy sorrowa; truth will alwaya? como with srms full of bles \n’u and hupei, All agree that truth Is the worla’s salvation, In reading over the dally reporta coming in detall of that fallure of a Hritish bunk, we tnd o multiplicity of causvs brought forward to cx- plaln the calamity, Cuuses are imoorted afl thy way from Iudia and Australing cau cd up fu America fn the vivaley of our industry end urts; but however lurcely thess places and thelr Jocal events sud facts may have atlected affairs at Ulasgow, yet beucutb sll Lhese nutivns lics the simple sxplanation, though the sadder one, that that bank has been trunsacting bust- news upon the basisol a long and vast falschnod. Tlad it loved the truth, that truth tolluwed trom the outset would have sct it free, Hut the bud coutafned a worm; aud now the ower bus with- cred, aud the fruit falls blusted from the Lranch. It s most pltliul that such & con- tempt of all business truth should bave broken out {n Beotlund, the hume of s much wyral philosophy and the motber of our relfx- fon but having voine fu the lund whics has pro- duced cutechising tmavy aud good, und which urgzed forwurd u Reformation, we must read tha lessong that the simple truth of conduct is after all tho basis of all religlous or fusucial success, It I> well kvown that sume of vur own grest finunclal Jeaders, who buve Iu the pust yeir becn leaders to rufu, were active church-mem- bers, aud could, Tike the Scotel, have composed catechiors, or have cheered onward a Retorma- tion but they were men who had omitt=d trom hiclr rehigionthe greal doctrine that falachuod will damu wad that truth ouly will set o soul free. Iu this disturbed timo fh Ureat Britain the public beart is now casting srouud to find what truth [t may possces to belo it sustaln toelf ugumst tihe Glasgow lNo; and should it come to pass, a3 all belleve aud hope, thut Londua bas the truth of wold to counteract Reotland’s worthless raus, It will be w powerfui ilustrstion of the doctniue that truth is the gieat religlon o wpature aml of God. Thus theae great commerclol rulus come slong to Jus with ail other sulng of proverty, of tew- Ples, uud palaces, and bouses, aud strects in rendeving wore cloguert tue wurds ol Ul if the trut| free indeed, And what s the (ntoxicating glass butn shape of fatachood? Ttis not a glass foll of The contenta contraniet the laws of They oveeinTnenca the southful nll et you free you ahall brain m the youthful — heart™ which already are fuil of " thought and senuiment, and “they transform the early ycars [nto a blimder. That Linnder in most cases expands into a final catastrophe. We meet on our thorouglifares dally and see in all the businesses end pursults men whose stacgerin walk and stainmering tongue tell us that thely drink Is not Nature’s truth, but sotme cup of falseheund, ‘Thelr drink 18 ke e drafts on the Glasgow Bank,—cheering for n few daysor a few scars, but at fast dishonored of men and cvor- more different from the pure gold. Setalle to going In s bank, or in a theology, or In the cup we drink, or in the food we eat, or Iu politics, and thero will be a calamity for some one to endure, In tho old Roman politica there was at Irast one false trinciple,—{hat of gelaing the riches of adjoining States by force, instead of oroducing riches by fudustry, 5 Cwmear, and Pompey, Antony, and Currius, and under thelr flaga thonsands of Enizhts passed from the noble old manhovd of former tines uver to the low rank of vlunderers. Even the best men of that day became ruined by learning to subsututc wold stolen for golil earned, While #o patriotic a man as Cicero was acting as (Governor of n small and poor provinee he managed to extort 1row A poor people $100,- 00 & year for himeelf, besides what he extorted fur the Powers at Rome, At Jast the falsehoods of Romu weighed down toward that *hell of the I'ralmist the ereat old nation of history. It foreot God by forgetting (118 law, Une ol the'most beautiful and imuressive of all the ehapt i the books of John Ruskiu 1s that unc on the “Lamp of Truth™ fn architect- ure. All tie generallties and the detalls of 8 structure must posscss trath. Toe foundation must be in hannony with the superstricture, the ornaments i harmony with the meanine of the building: there must be no contradle- tion of matenial or form, But all that Ruskin reminds us of W architecture Is affirmed of life, for the human soul Is bulit up fnto a palace by the lamp of truth, A pretentious Court-Hlouge In our Btote fell down while the workmen were putting on the finlshing ornaments. The decorations were hamleome, but thers was a falschoud In & column down in t {lar—there was a lio In the bricks. But these buildings crumblo to {lustrato our spir- ftual warld for us, and teach us that o drunk- ard, or a gambler, or & defaulter is a spiritunl temple with alic in tho foundations, Wit in the ‘material world s called o ruin, o crushed bridze ut Ashtabula Is called * nell" in the- vlogy; they poiut alike 1o the destiny of that lnl»rlc or that suul which vinits the clement of truth, You perhaps remember thatin the Apocrypha of the older Bibles four orutors contended be- foru the King, each to shuw what was the must powerful thing Intheworld. The firstorator de- clared the Klne to be the supreme fufluence ; the sccond arizued for the cavabilities of wine; the third found woman to be the most powerful en- ity un earth, but the fourth orator bore away the prize by findite that teath ruled oll things from the humbiest fnsect wp to the ntinlte God Indecd, woman and the King had power only so far ns they were clildren of tho truth, Our poets have all eald thesc thivga for us, but mure nowerrnl:‘y than the poets have all the old nations handed fu thelr testimony; for in whatever mnner thesa nations have perished, their trutis have rebloomned over thelr dust. As aftern most viblent storm s raged for dnys we vee to reappear azain the sun and the placld stars, no tumult hnving reached thelr fut-awny azure, s0 after the storms which wmade desert of th€ valley of the Nile and which overthrow the classle emplres, all the great truths of those Stales came marching forth out of the dust cloud to join themselves with thic eyilizatton of the futitre, ‘The mental poser of Egyvt snd Greece, thelr achievements in art, their truthful senthinents in literature and morals, the true princioles of Roman taw, the divine parts of thelr relizion— ull these came on to us Jike the doves of Noah bearlng olive leaves after the flood, The (reeks and Nomans fell victims of errors, but their was no ¢rror 1o thelr verse, none In their columos and arches, none u thelr courage, none fn thelr murbie forma: the early chureh sunk laden with mistakesnnd foliies,butthers \rnmnlhlugiwrllh- uble fn {ts chanty, ita pray Its faith and hove; and henee, vt ‘of the flames which cousumed these old times there has flowed down toward us n streaimn of most pure gold, 1t mat- 1ers little how o nation dies, whether by one vive or by many, the God of natlons goes tat tn Iast hour “and hands_over to fmmortality its truthful principles. Just an when o poet liko Robert Burns dies by eommand of Imem‘tth ance, ur us when a Byron passes away luJured by many sing, thelr valuable and beautiful versca are detaclied ut lost from the marred or rulned soul, and live fn thelr own intrinale purity; o natfons, though they may have died Intoxicatel, or amid carousal of “crime aud sin, are unable to fuvolve thelr truths fu thetr personal calamity ; bus from all thelr burnine homes and opalaces forms ubove life are scen carrying away all the Louschord grods that embody’s virtue ‘to deco- rate with them the temptes aud homes of the subsequent eras, ¥ It being trne that the human soul ascends nc- cording to the quantity and quatity of its truth, and sinks according o the quality” aml quantity of ita fulschoods, it must also be true that mun, whean unable to find the absolute truth, must attuch hlmself to the nearest possivle upproach to o verity, 1 to Know the whole teuth were o perfect biiss, then Lo know in part and sce in part were a second condition of bappimess. And thia Is the biess rational defense of him who es- pouses the tenets of religlon, Unable to learn the absoute focts from cither the pricat ud the altar or from the athelst with bls denlal, man ia ustificd, indeed made rational aud happy, by usking the gencrations to tell him how near they ever cuue to flading the presence of s (God and the confiues of u second hfe, In this comparison of {deas athelsm falls below its counter thought and competitive companion, for § Nature, not to say tiod, loves and blcsscs w truth, and nlqmnc: falsciond, then it would seem thot rehigion, as hield by man, must_come very near being o verity, for Nature hua blessed it tn all the lang histury of man,. 1t {s not alteged that the high- cat ductrines of natural relizlon took any part in tho overthrow of Babylon, or Athens, or Palmvea; it {s not avowed by any that Cwear and Potopey were ruined by thelr faith in Glod amd by thelr conformity of ‘1io to such au ide it will ‘wot be aflirmed that o siudlous f lowing of Christ has ever brought s row fu a natlon or to on age; and hence we fecl justifiod {n allinning that, If error be destructive, then redlclon has not, in the long experiencs of man, broucht sorrow enough to secure for [t g place among faliehoods, but on the opposite it has so bles: man that it well merits the alndem of 8 truth, When natfons hiavo cxpressed a false principle In polittea the error has hasteued to roveal itsell. Inoue or two generations the false flea has hecu found by the hiavoc it has wrought. The leaf bas turued yel- low to disclose the worny at its Toot; hbut over religlon, over tstianity, century after century bas passed, and all nations will declaro that the mora thoy heid of its priucivles the happicr they were, and that upon iis branches no yellow leal has svpesred, f falso fdeas bring fnjury, it would scem that Chrstlanity must be trie. Thero aro soime words whoss sweeto bitterness we can learn ouly in the expel of munkind, 11 vou usk me whethier twice two eu four, 1 shiall amwer you without consuit- the buman race, but if you ask methe worth y,'! or “education,” or “wusic," or then you must permit me to £o out- 3 a2 s o lenve 3 side of intuitton and summun witnesees, 1t will bo nevessary fur ing to wander about for a few thousands ol years, and .in muny lands, call _upon Kings, and lonrmu. and it peasants, und sigves. 1 mus down smid the thinkers and hear thems Lome-clrele and seo thelr lifes and ot tast I shallreturn to u and declare lberty, aud eduvation, and art, homs to be subl : Heaven of man. Huving seen she clare them to have none of the aualivies of o falsehood, o with the word Caristiauity, It canngt be welghed fu the positive scales.” Ona canubit say over It twice two s four, und apply that detonstrative or Intuitive method, but wo can go out fu the wide world and examine it {n actiul, and o Julug we can peturn cunfessin that religion ucts very w a3 though it were one uf the boly principles of Noture—a law of wan and tod, 1L coutalus the featiires of that kimd of truth wich sets wen (ree aud wakes them freo Bulecd. The deeds of o lie are uttetly #baeut from It hlatory, You who are gropicg aleng o this world in great seligtous perptexity, wonderivg what is true aud what false, remember this, 1hat il woral ldeas ure easily velied fu doubt, A few yeurs age Heory 1. Thorean and Mr. Alcott and a eroup of loftv minds becano in duubt as to the merit of civitlzatlon aud becane euamor- ed ol the tickets and bills and solitude. Uver the mind of Housseau and Chateaubriand a shin- Slur cloud was pussing st the sswe tiwe 1o Frauce, Thus came doubt aud b for wu bour s0 ighty o cood a4 all the civillzation of all thne, 1t destroyed all the aets, fLadenced muste, it laugbed at induatry, 3t resulved life futo cawp ol busbes und & diet of roots and berries. ‘Thus morul botions He open to grave doubt and smong them every wiirmation of re- Heton. A retreat futu athelsm, ito the wiid bushes and wild berrics. s always possibie; but awalost thiv tetwptation plave e whole carecr of wankmd, sud you wil casily conclude thay tue reilelon of bumunity contuing the outles of wtiuth, As the lhorcaus, aud tae Alcotts, sl the Eiuersous were called bick from thor tents and vales by the wizhty voice of the world they liad wbaidloiied, a8 the tear of il th blued tlousods wod wligivitignie of tha and the present came to them all day snd all pleht telling them that civilization was not a blunder, hut a truth, g0 the heart bewildered in relizion may become reassnred . if it will turn from ‘the small to the great, and will ask the human roul evercwhere to suin 1o for 1L the virluen of & faith {n flod. To sou thus gzing, religion will came in the sf- wnlitade of a fact, not a truth of which you can- not doubt, but as en llea atanding near h{ the most absalute verity, 1t s indeed possible to queation the anthority of Christ, but to ques- tion the authority of athelsm, that god of night and oblvion, s thore nossible and easy atill s for It neser acted ltke & truth, enrrying men to grandeur on proud wines, And hence the sonl, Alled with the eolemn mysteryof iifa and death, wonld better say, I should prefer to fasten the eandal of 8 rather than recetve from atheisin a crown; would rather touch the hem of the garments of Christ than be m;sclf ar- rayed in the richest drapery of unbelfe) —— TIIE STORY OF JONAII A LECTURE DY THE REV. MR. COLEMAN. The Rev. Mr. Coleman delivered a lecture yesterday evening in the church at the corner of Washington street aud Ogden avenue, lis eubject being **The Vindication of the Story of Jonah."* g sald that in these days the peo- Dla had no faith In miracles, but In the timen of Jesus they were always seeking a slgz. Wherein did n miracie differ from the regular order of nature! JIn these days the progress of aclence had been so great that therc was no need of supernattiral iuterventions. A miracle not necessarily m new thing, ot was oniy some- thipiz that was above and beyond nature,~uot neceseartly mnmr‘y to it. Foolish iatione had heen given of the Book ol Junzh, ()ne was that theeblp of Tar- shish was only shattered In a cove named Flehea Bay; another that “The Fish was the name of tho ship. The speaker proposed to show that the store of Jonal was lteradly teae, To beein with, Janah bad been med by antlons from Palestine to llindoostan, All' mythologlcal tales cuuld be traced direelly to the Bible, GEneas, who salled from Troy to Italy, was Jonah, Perscus gave name toa whole laod hnown to-day us Persia. Ifercules was swal- lowed by u great Gsh, In one stors, and this s but a repetitfon of the * story of Joual, 8o also {n sstronony; the listory of the lizns of the Zodlae constantly suggested Jonab. 8o, tuy, the voyaize of Jason fu the Argos sug- rested the vosaze of Joush. The word Argo neant ship. Jouah and Jason were auparently the pume persun, The Greelan Archipelago was tor sges kuown as the Jonfan Sea, or the Sea of Jonah, ‘Ihe Euxlue Sea, meaning tohospitable sea, wus 80 called because of Jonal's hardships, Semiiramis, the Quecn of Assyria, was called the goddess of fish. Iu 1342 two explorers of Ninevh were driven away by the Inhabitants bo- cause the rulns contained {he remuins of Nubi Yores, or Jonal, The speaker showed that the Hebrew word fur whale mesnt alsu shark and crocodile, Plimy apoke of a fisb which won found, when hilled, to have the fibbvom of a ship in ita stomach. Mueller toll of a ehark which swallowed & sadlur, and, being pursued snd Kkilled, the man was recovered alive. In the inuseuw st Mar- seilles there were skeletons of white sharks which cootalned glso the Lones of human beinge, The best naturalists adinftted that thiere was nothing In the story of Jonah oppos- ed to science. The Mohsmmedans believed that Jonah was farty days In the bellv of the whale, but the Jewish computation fixed the period ot thirty hours, 1t wos nat Jnpossible to belleve that Jonah could luve lived during® this brict Impnsor It lind Leen msserted that the pastric Jutces would have polsoned Jonah, but pll{l- Iolugy declared that the gastric juices did not uperate upou Jiving wbjects, Jonah " might have had” a Ckind ot suspended anlmation. In amphiblous anfmals the respiration of the skin was very uct- tve, and all yertebrotes, including man himseif, cxbiblied u tendency to breatl In the manner of afish. A scientt ¢ gentleman, In talking to the spicaker on this auh{ecl. once sakd that if Juuah Lad etmply sceatched with his fluger-nail the hung of the whale he would have lad all the respiration that he wanted durlis hi4 confine- ment, This opinion kad also been corraburated by other men of sciel The apeaker belleved literally tu the story of Jouah: he beleved that ho was in the whale's Lelly; that bie went to Nineveh In responee to the command ol God, and that there be there became o nru{)hu and a great man, holding the same place (n the esti- mation of the people that George Washington holds smong this natfon, JACKSON STREET CHURCII 1T DEDICATION YESTERDAY. The dedication of tho ucw Jackson Street Mcthodist Church tovk place vesterday., At half-past 10 o'clock tho Rev. Dr. Willing, Pre- alding-Elder, preached & dedicatory scrmon, choosing for his subject the story of Enoch ‘Tne little chiapel was completely filled, and the toplc wus an Inleresting anc, At the close o the service nearly onough money was raised to clear the indebteduess, and the assoclation was thus placed upen a substantial aod prosperous footiug at once, - 1 AL hait-past 2 o'clock 3irs. Jeunle F. Will- Ing eddressed the Bunday.school. the church bemz an outgrowth of this fnstitution. Her remarks were atso very interestiog, continulng for about twenty minutcs, and were lsteued to attentively by a'goodly number of pet Ble spoke of the duties of the Sunday-school in conncction with the church work, und en- couraged the young people, to whon the chureh alinnst cxcluaively betongy, to cuntinne it the course whivh they had marked out under such flnttering susplces, Dr. Willing then formally dedicated the new chureh bullding to God, according tu the ritual of the Methodist Eptscopal Chureh, befors the Trustees and the congrecatiou, closing with o few well-ttmaed remarks, amd extended un nyl- wation to all who would juin the church, efther on probation or by . Uhu new church fu situated at the corner of West JJackson ana Oglesby Te a small neat and comfortable brl e, with 8 seating eapacity of about 850, The cost of Lhey building was 31,600, and of the eroumd $1.400, Tho tormer {s fully nahl for, but the Sacely bas an indebtedncss upun the latter of about £1,400. The church organization prop- eris but a few weeks old, but s an omgrowih of the Misslon Bunday-Schoul Buciety, whieh was organized last Ajrit. he membersbip al- ready numbers jn the neichborhood of forty, all of whom, with the Trustcus, are young people. METHODISM SOUTIL. AN ADDRESS WY TOE REV, MR, BARTZELL. The Hev. J. C. Hartzell, of Now Orieaus, de- livercd an adidress at Ceutenary Methodiat Church, on Mozroo street, near Morgan, last evening, upon the subject of “*Christian Labor fu the Bouthern States,”” The large audl- torium was well filled. The speaker took no text, but confined Lis remarks tothe growth and extent of Metbodtsm and Methodist Church property. The Jarre increave within the past few years he eredited to the Bouth, and particu- larly to the organization of the Freehnen. He compared the growth of - Methodisui to that of other denombiutious. e loohed upon the map; e saw the outlings of the wreat Father of Wa- ters, and in bis mind be followed it in Its wind- Ing course, and saw that from the mouth to the source of that nuehty river thers was not aclty, not & town, in whichi there could not be found & Methodist Church. ‘he orutor touched upon the subject of the lato Civil War, and spoke of the herolsm aud tho hravery of the Southern people fn tightine for what they considercd thelr rights and thelr freedom, For thelr convie- tong, thelr wives gave them hushands, tuele ters gave them brothers, ‘They went forth and fougbt; they were duefeated, mortifivd, chagrin- ea, ‘They went back to their bomnes, which had been overrun by Northern armics and devastat- ed; thelr houscholds descerated, thielr property destroved, their hopes bligited. What wonder that the Bouthiern people hated those whow they had made thelr encuies aud who bad con- quercd them i There was much to do at the time of the War, There were schools to establishi the Freedmoen, who were given thefr lberty, must be taket 1o our hearts and their educatioual and spiritual welfure looked out for, BWING AND TITOMAS, THE *“ NORTUWESITENN ADVOCATE" TO THE “ALLIANCE" 1t Is nomore than one should expect, or is rea- sonsble, or fair, that Prof. Bwing shquld say Lis | good word for Dr. Thowas In view bf the lat- ter’s frequent good word of eympathy durlpg ths Pattou-Bwing controversy. lu these dark days of ostraclm, sud * jealoury,” aud varruw creed-fests for pulvit teacbers, the martyrs abould stand togetber. 1t I8 bighly dusizable, and certaiuly more convenient, that all respect for facts and brotberly susroundings should not be two consclentiously regurded. Tho wslu polut istoget ina shot at every Inquisiturial bead, whether falr or unfulr. ** Punch, broth- ers,” even without **cary ' about exteuustiug clrcurostances. . Hiother Bwiug, in the A'iance, draws 8 har- ruwing plcture of the Kok River Cunfereoce arrudehing and couvl:nnz Brotber Thomay, and o) thie 8t bue bak of e hecsurie Fi mid the blaze of this big century ! of lib- erty to think, and particularly of lberty oot to think. Qur friend would be thotoughly ashiamed of his over-ready artist-work auuld ho rce the Conferenca In seeston, and that big- hearted, loval, tolerant, ahle, and scholarly Bistiop in the chatr. The body was in private ressfon, 20 that the deliberation—among which the Thomas matier was only one ftem— might, indeed, be a confld mtia), informal fam- ily matter. Dr. Thomas had just said that he belleved he had * & mission to iloubters, whose probation fs intellects 'y one member had suggeated In reply that ho feared Dr, Thomas did not help anybody out of his doubts, and, thereupon and “therefore, the Bishop for " opinton that should throw light on the facts. Over thirty pastora testified that they belleve Dr. Thomas' teache fogs had been lruinous to their work, over one huodred testified similarly by risiog, and only eight gave contrary lestimony,—two of the eleht afterward saying that they feit bound to #u Lestily since one or twopersons had, contrary their own (the'pastor's) convictivns, eaid that tuey had received occasfonal help from the Doctor, The testimony and the call for it were natural, congruous, and entirely shove every- thing save hypercriticlam. Prof, Bwing’s com- ment is, therelore, far more criel, undeserved, and fuapplicable than the fancied circuwstance ic paints so nrusllullzé Wao aver that in uo case has Dr. Thomas been treated with a tenth of tho fnjustice snd downright outrage that Prof, Swing now visits upon that candid, digni- fed, tender, and brotherly Conference. If Dr. Thotnas contributes to, or even aciyuesces in, this misrepresentation, ho sina wulull;rn 8 gentleman sgaist his Confere he nan who cau consent to sl lasty criticiem a4 that made by Prof. Swiug s & sin- ner beyond expression. Ur, Thon should pray (o be eaved (rom such undlscrimtoating fricnds, The memory of that Conlerence In bLrotherly cubvertation, in private, and o atd ratherthan try and zotdemn De. Thomas, suontd touch anv tmanly heart. It dul touch Dr, ‘Fhomas’ fieart, atil we are regretful only Jest he may foreet his pledees In the uresetn e of his unwisg later counselors ana poetical Avmpathize ers. The temptation is indeed strony to revelve comdolences, to bear the sweet fluttering com- parteons of seil uud oue's snguisitors, and 1o utllize this first Indication t slow, behind- the-timea comoetitors ure * jealous "'of une's growiog populerity and abilitr, But we hope Dr.Thomaa will Induce Prot, 8wine to let some- hody clac sit for u martyr's purtrult, uud, for merey’s sake, not comnlicate hin by his ver flattering, though inapplicavie wnd tniplaced, symupathy, ‘I'hen, too, it fsnot falr for Prof. 8wingto proph. es¥ ko confidently that Dr. Thuines approsches hia “divorce from the Methodist Clhiurch,” Jir, . should setul the Profeseor a note sketening the incouveniences of divorces it cases whers vourts cannot award allmony. Ile ought to tell the prophet thatan erected churvt, nn assured salary, the promise of further pulpite without “eandidating,” the pledged sympathy of ten thousand fellow-ministers towurd thel’r honest fellows, and scveral other convenient cireutns stances, are worlhy of considerution before a sep- aratlona mensa 18 secured by bis alrendy~di- vorced counsclors. 8 Dear David, go slow, for my sake,' ournt to appeal directly to the Pro- fessur, even though & trenchaut Alilance article may thereby be spolled or toved duwn, When 2 mao accenta a pulpit franchise he does 8o un- der conditions, if in a conuectlonal church, Wheu, therefore, ha tires of tha treaty, he ought to retire from that conditional frunchise. I the same copv of the Alliance, Dr. Thom- as, in an article-on “fedglng Up the Way,” tnes. In his habitually loose, unfale_method, to srralzn the Methodist Church. He declares that * even the more libera! Mothodista hedge the way into their chutet by added and there- fore apurfons testa of meimnvership. Whereas, a8 he says, the Churct * for n hundred years or more required ouly ‘a desire to flee from the wrath to come,' 08" condition of admisslon." Robert Laird Collicr sas once equally gulity of the same misstatement in srrafimwent ol his then Church, and both men ouht to be ashamed of themnaelves, The test spoken of was but for adtission on trial, and obianed at a time when the admisslon was only to & bund _or soctety in- ellg the English Esiablished Church, which alrcady had thirty-nine articles of falth, sud was appited to thuse alrealy churchmen who had ueepted the articles. When Wesleyans became scparaty, the test was other than Dr. Thomas represents, and bas been so ever since, This ¥ice of misreprescntation of Issues— mrievous still, it undeslened—cunsists, In part, iu the attempt to cundemn tests for entry Into pnljuls as church teschers, by citation of, aud argument cooeernlng, te for lay-member- ship. ‘Tho entire drift, tonc—stuck fn trade, it is _sometimes called—of our dissentients fs habitual srrmgnmicat of the churches aud criti- clsin of fts eplrit. The pulvit that does this habltually Is sure of crowded pews, We icjolce that people consent to attend, and we wait for the hour when our favored, orators shall muke nvpeal t the consclences af their hearers and 50 win them to the Crosa. This may be tu the golun, ond our amens are ready for use, e slncerely lope that the tnjustices we speak o0f=Drof, Ewlng when he misreprescuta the *ltack River Cobference, and Dr, Thuuas whey lu misstnted Mothodist conditiune of church mrmlu.-ulnp—mul{ exhaust the ategory of of- fenscs of the kind, When the Central Church orator s zullty of such misrepresentation of setunl facts, we fall to wondering how far he deluded us when he won our hiearl by his slste- ment of Presbyterian wrong and (njustice. A rood man Is i unwortly business when be so savagely and so unjustly attacks 200 good men in the Rock River Confercuce. ‘The- burden of roof 13 upon our poctical Professor, The Alliance enters sy unworthy fleld when it forwards such @ campsigu, Over- readiness to utilize the prompt sywpathivs ot the crowd os agalust & church g0 toleraut of mauly disscot, 18 auiong the thines that sucers workers nut {ote their Mtanfes, Qur only wou- der at Prof, Swing i his revolt aguinst Calvin- s was that he did not move twenty years suoner. The timo spent In the pulpitsof a church ho condemned constituted a perlod of upmanliness. Perbaps his experience, since he entered npon a more dizuilled course, conviuces Lim that Dr. Thomas' “divorce shoulg promutly follow his dissent. We belleve that be chiel value of Iir. Thomps' asscat s the chance to orate about it. Tt {8 1o be hooed that 2 -p«ed{. sensibla self-care will follow, aud tuat we shall have peace, even though Prol. Swing's Iuvor 13 not forthcomivg, CORNESI’ONDENCE, THR CASD OF DW. THOMAS, T the Editor of The Tribune. Cuicaan, Oct, 27.—1 have read with Interest the able and dignified article inTne Tnuvss of todav on **The llerrsy of the Kev. Dy, Thomas,' and, whifle I azree with much that the writer says, it scems to mo that lie bas miscon- celved fn part tho merits of- the case. It fs not tru that the Methodist Chiurch has persccutod, or intends to persecuts, Dr. Thomas, It Las werely resolved (o prohiblt the teaching of what {t calls false doctrine within fhe Church, Iu other words, (¢ has refused to It the church orizavization be used for the purpose of unider- misiog and destroying the Churcn. It will uot Lave the instrumunts conscerated by tho Church for the teacnivg of acertain body of ductrine employed by a dissentiont to spread abroad a totully aifferent bodyof doctrine. It will wot give its countonance aud woral support to the teaching of that which it hus ofliclally declared to bo error. Now, tnero is no *‘perse- cution™ in the natification of these intentions which the Methodlst Church hus given Dr. Thomas, Tt saystobiw, in eifect: Our Churen Las resolved toteach certain doctrines. You do nut believe those doctrines sro trus or expe- dicnt. Therefore, you aru not it to be a teachier and preacher fu the Methodist Church, Let us part. Do you surrender the oftiee which you uow hold, ani wnich was conferred upon you only fn order thut you might promote the fvter- ests of the Methodist Chureh, aud we will sur- render you. ‘The world Is wide ¢nough fur ué Loth, In some other covuection we livps yuu ay do useiul wark, as we know you are able to do; and, as an vloquent, abic, sud plous man, Wwo Lope vou may uhlnlu elaewhera the recognl- slon which you 40 abundantly deserve. The dilerence between this spirit and that which persecuted Servetus und alileo is very great. ‘The Cbureh of Kome persecuted Gali- leo, and the Church of Geneva Servetus tor want of Gdelity. ‘Tne Methudist Church ounly comaplslus of Thoutas fur cxcesalve tidelity, He 18 1a1thful not only to bis cunvictions but it, 1y wauts to bold” on to bolh st the same thne. The Church wotilles bim that he ust part with oue or the other. It I not u question of kecping hiup i, but of getting him out., There is no varallel between hiun and Servetus, A true paralich, aud one which will bring the cuss bome to every miud, is this: Supoose there bad veen fu the Reputlicau party duriug the Wur u leader who ‘opposed the principsl arti- cles vt the purty falth s lald down in fts plat- furws, who aavocated the ductriue of State Sov- erefguty, who declared that Uraut, aud 8her- waon, avd Stantou sbould carry on thy War only through * the moral lufiuenve theory,” and who belleved thy Emaucipatiun sct wss uncon- stitutional. Is it not likely that the Repablican [wlr. ut {ts eurliest convention, would hLuve ulorued this ollicial that he wus lujuring the varty; and, if be continued in his oppusiton to the declared policy of the party, would he not Very soon bu wskud to resigw, ur devied a re- clectiond The Mevublican party would tell Ly, 1 (hink, thay be belooped o the utber erowd, abd that be syt to go over and ot it Bhon bebieive 1o by 3 parallsl wase watk that ol the Rev, Dr. Thomss. 1am not s membar ot any orthodox ¢hurch, and not & sympathiscr with orthiodox views il ather reapects, but have written this in & spirit of falr-play. Respcecting 1y yours, LingnaL. FIRES. IN CIHICAGO, The alarm from Box 313at 8:50 yesterday forenoon was canscd by s defeetive chimner at Nn. 175 Meagher strect, owned and occupled by Michael Carroll, Damnge, Tho alarm from Box 1o at 1:25 yesterday . morning was caured by a fire 1o the frams buflding Nos. 7 and 3 Indiana avonae, owne.l by Mrs. Boardman, of New York, and occupicd ss & residence by T, J. Walker, Damage, 833 aullvwvered nsurauce. Cause, a defective ue. AT BIOUX CITY. % ' Apectal Pispateh to The Tritusie, - Sioux Crry, ls., Oct. 27.—The 8t. Elmo Hotel, at this place, owned by J. H. Bolton, was discovered to be on fire ahout 3 o'clock this afternoon. The bullding was damazed to tha extent of about $1,500, and foily tnsured lu Eastern companles. 'The furniture was saved, TWO FIRES, Drtrors, Mich., Oct. 27.—A Port Huron speclal to the Kree Press reports that a fire last: night destroyed a grocery and butcher-shop Losa, $4,000; Insured for £1,000. In 8ai across the river, & barn burned, In which was stored the outfits of the schrs China -:;lwmmuunpmu. Loss, £5,000; partially in- Ll 3 ———— WASHINGTON. The Indian Commisslon—Key—The Widow Oltyer—BIggina vr. Gan, Grant—Items. Special Ditpateh to The Trisuna, Wasninarox, D. C., Oct. 27,—Advices from Omaha, received last evenine, are to thie effect that the Jolnt Congressional Indian Cotnmis- slon, 8enator Baunders, ot Nebraska, Chalr- man, left that city yesterday on m tour of' observation nmnnfnt the Bannacks and other Indian tribes tn Idaho, Wyoming, and Utab. After visiting these Indians the Commisstun will procecd fo the Pacttic Coast, and Interview Giens. iluward and Miles, with a view of obtaine iug aaditional evldenca on the Tudfan guestion, 0 the Western Atsociated Press Wasnixatoy, . C., Oct. 27.—laformation has been recetved totheeffect that Gen. Trevino, commanding tho Mexican furces on the Rio Grande, las already dispersed several bands u&manndlng Indians found on the Mexican side. Postmaster-Generat Kesreturned last evening from his trip to the Pacific coast. Tl fall term of the Clreuit Court In this dis trict will be comtmenced to-morrow. Among the cases for trin! s that of the Widow Oliver agatust ex-Seuator Cumeron, of Fennsylvanl for breach of prumisc uf marriage, and that :! Thotnas Biggins against Gen. Grant. This suit was foatituted while Gen, Grant was President, and ts brougot 1o recover damnzes for Bizrins? imprisoument In the Government [losoital for fnsanity ut the instance of Gen. Grant. The Widow Oliver publishes a card iz onc of the Sun- day paperstoday stating that “slic 18 morully and religivusiy oblized to grolecl her vame; that, sloco she " came Lo Washington, ber abode las been in the families of the best and most up- right, and she publishes the names ol a nuinber of New Orleans people who testify to her good character.’ The Houes Committes on Appropriations will meet here on the 15th of November amd com- mence the preparation of the rencral Appro- pristion bills, - The Indian Bureau dentes the truth of the re- cent statement that 8potted Tail's Indians nrs in danger of starvation by neglecet to provide supplivs. Un the vontrary, it 1s stated thero ls an abundant supply of beef, flour, and pork. Daespair not, neither nor mald, Although your moath haa sutfered 111, ithaugh yonr teetls are balf decaved, Yon can atlll save them, if you witl. A llttle Suzadont be sure Wiil niake ol balmy, bright, and pare.: ——et— 1f you aro fatigued in mind and body, take Sane ford's Jamasea Giloger, S — BUSINESS NOTICES. To the Contumptive,—Let those who lan- gnish under the fatal Aeverlty of onr climats ibrough any piimonary complaint, or even thosa who are in decided consumption, by no mesns despair. There 18 o aafe and suro remedy ot hanil, aud one eantly tHed, * ifilbors Compound of Cod-Liter til and_Lime," without posrensing tho very Bauscaling flavor 'of the ofl aa heretofors used, s endowed by the Phorsphate of Lime with 8 healing property which rendera the OH doubly eficacloue, Hemarkuble testumonials of Ite er- ficacy shown to those who deslrc to ace them. Bold by A. . Witoon, Chemist, Doston, and st drug- gista, _CATARRN RE SANFORDS RADICAL CURE CATARRH = IXSTANTLY HELIRVES AND PEMWANENTLY cUnza Hxerzinag on Hzap Cons, carrzp Acvre Ca- TATRI; TAICK, TELLOW, AND POCL MATTELY Ace CUMULATIONS IN THE NaBaL Passaows canien Cunosic CATANRI; NOTTING AND BLOUGHING OF TUE UONEa OF TAR NOAR WITIL DISCHATGEY 0P LOATHEONE MATTEN TINOED WITH BLOOD, AND CLe CERATIONS OPTEN EXTEXDING TO TIE Eve, Eau, TUROAT, AND Luxas, carten ULcmmamive Ca- TAMWL ALso, NErvovs Heanacne, Dizzivzss, Croupxp Mexony, aNn Loss o7 Neave Powsi This Qreat Lo land Constinutians] ftemedy for the P Jdmmediste aticil cure of every furnd uf CATARIIL ¥ Fever and il ailections of tho Fye, kar, and Theoat, 18 preparcd entirely by ils- tillation, wal In thy furm of vaporiaeil eas sances, the Iunx aud vanfying it d ‘Tahaier, whicl o, (18 AN ALE o [ iy il tothe i woothed comiition, [ [t 1y o a gratequ 1N sekuaLLY whtnlatered It permvats overy duk g he by, cieansiiue stie entlrn uineon s ur Inembraneous system th v irough this blood, which i puriges of th ¥OIuiX alwaya wresent In Catarel, 14 butl foebled and broXeu-dowi eouitItutius of Jta virus, aud ‘ruba tho discass Wita the Furination of Roaltt: e ed actlin, by . ataring [Hod nit crusi uu terual us, 1t 1o a overr other known ¥ ucterly fulin the systew ta i Brustrated by scrofuis ur coreutnitiva beyoud recunee- ation, 16 wihi effect a permancus cure, EYE, EAR, TIROAT, NERVES, SANFORI'S [LADICAL CURE I8 of marvelnita ol caeyin the treatnent of Bora, Weak, Infavicd, J, or slattery Byes; Ulceraion aud ntammarion of tho Fan Vivient Palus, Newralals, Lilufti ol o) iy, AR eafne S0re Thros ru Turust, Eldugation of the Uvula, Tuuatle Fickiing Tough, and ‘iivediu Norvous Heatache, bleitnuse, Clouled Memory, Lo-s of Nervous Force, Dapressiun of Spirits, und lki alfece thond of lia Serves. whethor uf Catarthinl orlgia ur unt, 1t sul o, Ulceration, sad Nerys atlug, sud heoce raplaly s, tlon of symptoms and sympat tla dineamen ), togetlier with mlguta directiu fopeitectlug a spocd{ aind perinanont cure. W Uit yatioun ua diok sud the genaral liealtd, codipany cach . with lmproved Inhaler, Treatise, and DI tlons, 81, Testinionlals by iaik. buid by all Drugg: througtivut tho Unlted Siaivs aad Cauad as COLLINS VOLTAIC PLASTERS. Eleetricity and Healing Balsams United The Most Wouderful Plaster in the World, PRICIS, CIENTS. 23 Rueumativm, N W sl rurd Luis eak Rl Nervous Silectlgas, We. s0u Bowols, By guwpals, Heart AtlGutis, Buleen, Fetlial Weakuess, Shootius ol Lotus dad lack Lack of nircusih or Fita, aud N ervous Muscaiar tetleved and cured whiod €very vitict Dioy andlotion faile k Ba carctul 1o vblaln COLLINS' Y0 TER, ‘8 comblnatioa of Eiectil aud Vo wiik's ll<biy Mudicated blasier, 82 scen bz Lh cute BRI by @) Viboleda: Gab A Uaiied States d Netait Drugglsns hredg- (Y Laa e PR A Sacne s P AR Aedat IR