Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1878, Page 2

2 ———— THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY NOVEMBER, "L, 1873, RELIGIOUS. Gist of Talmage's Sermon in New York Yestqrday. Tho Books of Generations ns Ex- pinined by Dr, Gibson. Prof. Swing's Ideas Regarding Doubts and Doubters. A Farewell " Sormon’ by the Rev. 0, L. Thompson—Other Beligions Mattera TALMAGE. PLAIN MERTING, Sreciol Dissateh 1o The Tribune. Nrw Yonrk, Nov. 10.—Mr. Talmage was not sensational to<lay. *Crime and Toverty" formed his subject, nnd he contented himaclf with statistica and graphic pictures of tenemunt- house Mle. **The destruetion of the voor is thelr poverty,"” was the text. The puor crea- tures sunk in misery, he said, went from the upper to the lower wards, thenee 1o Bellevue, from Bellevue to Blackwell's Islaud, thence to Tottee's Ficld, und thenee to'Hell. No report of a Charity Commissiover, he de- clared, could ever tell the story of New, York’e and Rrooklyn's paupers. ‘At my bagement door,’” continued Mr, Tnimage,* thero are from fifty to 1w calls for belp overy day.”” e helieved the wealtl of Astor and Vaander- Lilt would not satiefy their demnnds. *1 mcan the wealth they oucy hud,' said Mr. Tolinage, “for {t seema now 1hat cven Lhelr shrouds are to be strugzied for.!' Ile paused a mowent, aud then sard, with emphasis, “'CURSED BE THE MIDXIQUT JACKALS of 8t. Murk’s church-yord,” a cursy which the audience hieartiy applauded. * incidentaily, Me. “Talinage 2t Lis hearers Kkuow that whila on his midnight travela bo passed for a gentietnan fn scarch ol stulen property, but it was the de- tective's stratagem, ho sald, not his ows, lo announced before he finished his suries that he would make his audicuce smilo at the beautifal tlings ha Intended to say of the good that wan In New York and Brooklyn, but be must also do lus daty fn layig have the awful fear of Iniquity just underncath the surlace. **1take ws much pleasure us the character of iny profession wiit allow fu watch- fog how some of our clerzymen mu‘mt Jtheir war-horges, stick tho spurs in deep, snd with sublime fury charge madly upon some centurys old sin. They get liold of soma century-old sinner and slash im pell-mell, until he is rout- cd out ot sight, They throw sulphur at Sodom, fire at Gumorrah, aud WonMS AT HENOD, but, when they come to hiandle modern sins, they take vot dainty handkerchicfs, wipe gold- rimmed spectacles, aud put kid gloves ou thelr hands. They ard afrald of the lecherous men and theevll men aronnd them,—hypocrites. When 1 sec such men, 1 feel like saying *Get out.':' Mr. Talmage went on Lo say he had exvlored the vauits of imquity, and -knew awful thiues existed, while so~called Christians wero warm- ing Clristian graces aud virtues by the fire of the church witbout thought for thelr fellow- crentures, Such Christiaus, hie declared, won't £et within a thousand mlles of Teaven. **You may send blankets to Afrlen and icescream freczers ta Greenland, but do have a littlo com- mon sense o helping your own poor,” The ‘Tabernacte was as crowded as usual. GENERA'T'IONS, LECTURR BY THE REV. 1. MUNRO GIDSON. Dr. (ibson continued yesterday nfternoon his series of Farwell Hall lectures on Genesis, He Booke substantiully as'follows: Last week our attention was turned to the Book of “*Uenesfs? proper, incinding the lirst chigpter of Genesis and the first three verses ot tho second chapter. Following this there are ten bouks of **Geuerstlons,”” We take up to- night tho Grst of theas ten books. 1 have no intention of spending an evenine on cach of these. But the first 1s of so much Importadce that It will require o separate, conslderation, You will remember the diffcrence between the meanine of the words * Genesis”” and * Genar- ations,” Genesis meaning origing Generatlons, development, ‘Tharo are a number of superfciul readers of the il who supposs the word Gencerations simotly Introduces a line of descent, whereas Jt has & much wider significance, na {s evident from Its aoplieation here whereas Rencalozy 18 referred to. Ina narruw sense, we ay take this beading as belong- ing simply to the ltlo bLook wo ore 1o conajucr to-uighl, covering the second and 1Lird chspters of Genesis, und possibly tbe Tourth, We might aleo take It ju o wider seuse, ox the title of all the rest ol the Bible. We havae lind tho orietu n the it chupter, and all the rese ol the Bible eh be developrent,— the development of (he heavens and the earth, untii a last, aiter all the changes of time ure uver, we wituess ‘he inauguration of *‘the new hieavens and the new earth, wherein dwells eil righteousncss.” In the menntime we shall it our view to the littJe Book ot Generations, with ita sad record of Fall and Fullure, wilded, however, with a gleam uf hope at the vluse, In considerinz the form of tho ereation uarra- «ive, we found it to be not histerical, but apocalyptial, In the bouk before us we sce the trunsition from the apoculyptical to the his- tonieal form. The Hook of Uenesis, s a whole, {8 a listorical book, We are pasiur now {oto the bistorical part of It. But, Wwhlie we remeinber that the portion beforo us i3 historical, let us not forect that it is very vecullar history, 1t Is & very, very old_blstory. Moreaver, we canuot tell what kind of wrlting prevailed at the date of theoriginal recurd, lony biefore Mowes set It lu % the Foundation Hible.” Perhups it wus pictorlal writing, aud, In any cane, the form of languave nsed would be ex- ceediugly simple. Bo tve may expect this history 1 come Lo 0s not as history does now, but in satne pecullar style, such e wo find here pecu- Jarity (we bave wot time to refer to othel ), tho laree symbolical element fu it For fpatance,’ the ““Lree of Life.” When we turn W the Book of Revelation and find the ¥ Tree of Life" used symtolleally there, 1s there sy rewson to doubt 11 §a syinbollcal hered It g, however, of great dmpofance to remember that the symbohsm attaches to the form, und wot to ihu substance, of the bistory, 1o call this whole stury of the Fall a mere allegory i to take away (rum ftall historigal reality, "Let us distingutsl carefully between the reality of the history, which {s & vgry lmportaut thing, snd the lMierality of ft, which Is of minor impor- tunce. It1s very untortupate that so much time s otten spent upun the ere letter, regardless of the warning ol the great apostle, ** Thu letter Litleth, but the wpirit giveth IMe This ae- fuunts for ulug-tentus of the diliculties people have utout it A very good llustration of this is found {n the fifteentl versc of the third cosptar, where wu read about *the secd of the wowan brulsing the Lead of the serpent.” ‘Lhe Heeralities got votbing mors out of 1t than u decluration tust In time 10 come servents will sunoy the descend- unts of Eve by bitlng at their beels, and, on the otlier haud, tio desceudants of, Eve will destroy serpeuts by crusbiug their beads! ‘The juere suell of the thing, wanifeatly, ‘The reality, as viciurvd ther, is ot 8 kreal conflict to g0 un throughuut all these uges of development,—s &reut contlice Letween 1he Turces of, guod on the wue baud aod the forces of evit on the other, Anud uuw, what matters it whetber you tuho the “scrjeut’ that tewpted Eve to bea real nud literal _serpent, or e llleu(gh«'lluuwn;l) form of s serpent, usiumed by the s&‘ml of Evil for the purposel Or, even whether the acrpent forin Is counected with the old style of pletorial representationd Alf that is winor wug supopdinate, , i e ‘There ore iduy who represent thu'éhok of the Generations a3 u second eméjnq?l ¢ Geue. b8, OF bejarate sccount uf the tréution; sud of tuurse they lud ditliculty fpcomparing the two. Al thele ditliculty, ss we shall sce, comes (ot thetr rot uwuderstdudiog the passage as % whole, thetr not uepeeiving what it was otended to teach. ¢ sriscs, in fact, tom - fruoranve of the diffcrence be- tween “lcuesls” and “genepations.”” It will belp usto weet tols ditbeulty of we follow the . Bawe urder of uless 48w the expusition of \leu. 1, viz.r, Uid, o Nuture, Man. In sl) we shudl Bud marked diflerences, But these blfer- tuees, Instead ol grescuting sy aitbeulty, will hare 1horr reasen wade wbundantly wanifest. Firat, tocu, there I3 a diferent vame for God {ntroduced All tlrough the Geucals it Aas beeu saud” W lnd uade,” © God vated.? Nuw it g wvariably “* Jebovab God aqo faud 1o our Verson)., xun s L theouly e, “iu 1w fm contimions pn.-lul,'m the Dible where the com- | We Liave the way of salvation directly outlined binntion is nsed. Mow fs this sxplatued? Very casily. In the hulk of Genesig propet tiod canie in simply ns Creator. ¥in was mnot introdnced there, and 50 the {dea of xalvation bad no place. In this paseage afn I8 coming in, and along with it the_ promlse of salvation. Now the name Jehovah 1s always connected- with the fdea of ralention. It {3 1he rovenant name. It s the name whivh indi eates God’s special relation to His people, as thelr Savior and Rédcemer. T'his name Is v troduced now prcauss Gad 18 coming In fn & new character, 1le came (nin Genesinsimydy as Creator, Hecomes In now in the book of the generations as Redeemer; and ro we get the name of Jehovah in rlnm of the name Uod, But lest any one snould suprose from the change of name that there fs any chance In the prreon, lest nuy one rhonld eurposu that He who isto rcaeem tis from ginand from Il who created the beavensand the earth, theiwo namesare now combined—ie- hoval God. The combinationisretalned through- ont the entire narrative of the fall to mako the identilication anre, ‘Therealter either nawe is used by tsclf without danger of error. Look next at the way in which you find Nature spoken of here, Wlhen you look at Iy arizht you find there {8 no repetition. Nature, In tne Genesis, comea in_as universal Nature. God ereated all things. But in the hook of the gencratious Nature comes in, as it bas to do, Immediately with Adam. Now sce tha efect o thils. mauny speak of as of great magnitude, Ju the first piace, it fs not the whole earth that is now spoken of, but a very limited district. Our at- tentlon s narrowed down to Eden and the envirans of Edem—a lmited district o a par- ticular part of the earth. Henco the ditliculty about thers not Leink rain in the distriet (" earth™) digappears. Let me here remind you onee for all that the Hebrew waord lor earth and for land or district is the same., Agaiy, 1€ 1s not the vegetuble kin whole that is relerred toin the fifth verse, but wnly the agricultural andhorticultural products, The words ** plant,’ ** §uld,” aud *grew " (v.0) nre new words, uut found o the creation record, (N. B.—The correct translation of the Hith verse 1s: " Now, no plant of the tield was yet in the land, and 1o herb of the fleld wasyet growine.'’) ln Gen, L the vegetable kingdom whole was spoken of. Now, it s simply the cercals and curden berbs, and thinga of that sort, and here, fustéad of coming fnto collisfon with the previvts tarrative, we have somethiug that cor- Fesponds with what botanists tell us, that fleld aud parden products are sbarply distingulshed 1o tue lnstory of Nature, from the old flora of the geologieal epoch, In the same way itis not the whole auimal kingdom = that 1s referred to fu verse nineteen, but only the domestic animals,—those with which man was Lo he especially assoclated, aud to which e was very much more intimately re- lated thau (o the wild beasts uf the field. Tasalug now frum Nature to Man, we find again a marked difference. tn Geo. . weare totd, **lad created man jv His own image; fn tue finage of Uoa created e Lim.” Peoplo tell us there 1s o contradietion bere. Is there uny contradiction? let me ask, / Are not both of them true? Is thers not “sdincthing that tells you that. there 1a more than dust lu your com- position? Is there not something in you that tells you sou are related to God, the Creatorl Whed vou hear tbe statenient thot ** God wade ey in s own Jmage,'” s there not a response awakened In you, eomething In yod that rises up aud says, It fs truef On the otner hand, we kvwow that man's Ludy is formed ot the dust of the earth, And not unly are both these statcments truc, but each is appropriste 1m Ite place. In the Uirst aceount, when man's place 1o univernl uas ture was to be sct forthy—ran as he (ssucd trom his Maker's- band,—was it not apvrovriate that his bigher noture should occupy the lore- ground{ Now. lower relatious are not entirely out of sight, for he 18 lntroduced along with a whole_group of animals created on the sixth ¢ay. But while his cunnection with them ls suggesteds Loat to whiell emphasts is given in the Genesis is Dis relation 1o his Maker, But uow that we are guing to hear sbout his fal), | ubout lis sbawmu sud degradation, 18 it got ap- propriate that tho lower rutuer than the higher purs of his pature should be Lrought futo the toreground, lonsinuch as it s there that the danger ties? It was to that part of his nature thst the temptation was addressed, and so we read here, *God formed mou o1 the dust ot the ground.” . ‘Lucn, in relation to woman there Is the same approcristeness ‘in tha two narratives. In the junner her reiations 10 Uod are promincot. “Giod created man fo His own fmage. o the Image of Gud created He him: male and female created He them." Man'in His Image, woman In the latter it I8 nos therelntion ol woman o her Maker thas is brought lorward, but tne relatton of woman to her husband. lenre the speaitic refetouce to hier orgaule co! vectlon with lier. husvand. Here, opaln, it is very eusy for one that deals In hterulities to ralse dtlicultics, forgettime that thero is no fn- tentfon here to detatl scientflcally the process of wumsu's formation, but minply to in. dicate that she 18 organically cunmeeted with her husbaud. "8 bera proper to remark * that tho reundering *rib" Is probably tuo specific, The word s mora frequently uscd ju tho gonoral sense of *side,” Asan evidence that there lano in- tention to give here any physlolugical forma- tlon us to the origin ot woinan, wa reter td thie words of Adatn: **This Is_now boue of wy buoe and tesh of my flesh. 8be sball be called womnan, because shie was taken out of man.” Aund now ‘Is there suythlog izraifonal in the fdea that womnn should bu formed vut of want 1s there auything wore mysterious or incon- ceivable fn the formation vl woman out of iy ‘ljlmn 10 the original formation of man out of irt{ Now, looking at the sad bhistory of the fall, You cannot but observe bow shinple It is, ana yet buw full of profound lessons, —Aud therelu it |8 ciferoutiated frowm all those traditions of the fall which are evideutly related to it. and which conflrm it in all ita maln features, Man; polnt to theso traditions as diserediting thie ioie story, ag If the very number of the wit- nuuses vost discredit on tha testimouny, Woa canoot now dwetl upon the lessons. We can only bastily indicute sowme of the polnts. Here we flull thit the root of the sin was unbe- lint, n exact currespondetice not ouly with what wo msy call tlbe plilosophy of sin, but also with the great Bibie doctrise of the prime neceasity ot fwith ju order 1o salvation, Then, in regund to the nataré of sin, we learn that it 13 the pratification of present desirs regard- Juss of Jaw and right, We learn slso the to- aldiousuess of siy, pot only in the symbollsm of the serpeut foruwy, but In the process of temptation itself, beginniug with desires that are tmuocent cnough fn themselves, and leading on to the transgresston of law. Again, wo lin that this old, simple story touches the weak poluts of the men of the niveteenth century Just as certaluly na it touched the wesk poluls of Adam and "Eve. ‘Tue woman saw the frult ot tho tree, that b was good for [fuod pleasant to' the eye, und "to be desired tv wake oue wise, Finatly, notice the cousequences of sin developed 1o the story, First, the guilt sud shame, then tho fear, then the gullt, then the scitish. s, the auffering, dlsappointment, and 0, ‘Iime Wil uot allow us to dwell un each thesc in detail. Unu or two, however, uced il notice. ‘The Biblo uas Leen charged with representing Iabioras o curse. The churge I8 not true. OUn thu contrary, we are told ihat Adsm was s vointed fu Eden to dress it und keen It The luw of. Jabor cawe {u amoug the blcesings of Eden, alour with the moral law and the mar- riage law, ‘It laa slauder on the Bible to say that it represcuts labor s acurse. Itis not the lubor tha} ia s nmf. 1tJs the thorns and thistles. 1¢18 the hardness of the labor, *ln the sweat of thy brow thou shalt eat bread.” L}nmr would have been easy and plessunt other- whic. ‘Then in remard to death, There arc those who represcut the Bibie, us if 4t taught that death was uuknowa fn the world until atter the full, And then they point us to the relen of death throughout the e¢pochs of geology ur coutradictiog the Bible, Nuw, the Bible teaches oothing of the kind, On tbe coutrary, thera seews rather to be o sugyestion that death was In exiswence mwong the lower aulmals all the way throuch. It was a new thiog to Adam, It was nut & new thine o swwmal e, Man had becu crosted with relativn o mortality beluw Lin, but with relatiuns atso to fumorpslit abave bim, Had wnan uot falten, his {muores vature would Bavg raled his_des{iny: but mow that, Delbul aepgyatud lymsell Lum God by his siu, hislower relations, bismortal relatiouns, wust ruld Lus destluy, " Yy s e Not 1o dwell longer on detalls,” Iet us call your attemtivn Lo au lustructive cowpssison be- twevn the lirst ood secoud cLapters of Geoesio Tdi the tirat chapter the word ) ko0, guod, Rood piugs all the way through it, Aud at the wud “God suw eversthiuig thas ile had made, sud buehold! it was very good." in the secont chap- Wer We towe Lo the sud contrast of evil, uot Lle orlziu of evil. ‘I'hie Bible gives no solution of theurigin of evil, becauss that {8 & mergly epec- wlatiye questiv, Not to show us how it begas Lut how 1o muke un end ol §t, 18 -the oujout & the Bivle. ‘L us urigin of mu wust remain where we tind it, sbroydud in. Inpeuctrable wystery, Butdl we are conatiiuted wilfereutly from what We are und cau sce tungs fo God’s haht. But relerring now to the coutrasy ¢u the good tlat rivgs all througl the accuunt of the Gene- i3 with the evil that loows up dask sud terrible i the Bouk of the Gencratlons. il folluwlug the urder of thought fu the last Jecture, we comie Lo tho subject of Crace, Aud bere we tud already, io the very record of tbe Fall, in tue very hitstory of man's degrads. tou aad shuuie, the beamings of the Glapel, It at once removes difticultics which | of information, If Jou stmply tal and foreshadowed. We have passed “from the lighe and glery of the first chapter of 1he crea- tlon, and we are come to the clouds and dark- ness of the Fall. A< weread on the darkness deevens, clouds pather about us, and nicht feems to be gettitfe fu forever, But at the oventng time the llght appeard. ‘The raya from the sun of righteousuess begin to plerve the gloom. The dark clouds show a sflver 1oing Just at the cdge: and, becauseit ia mainly dark- ness that Ia sisible, there are many that miss the light, They o not sce the lesron of gracy that is here, becauee it comes in the form of a cloud. lint Jook carefulls and yon will see it We see the dawn of hope of the fifteenth veree ol the third chapter. It comes, Indeed. n the form ol a curse, a cloud, black and heavy, but, when you begin to look fnto ft, vou see the brightlicht that is fo it. Although it speaks of denthiza different being | nlong and dark conflict lasting through the nges, yet ot the end of the visia there 18 n pros- pect of n glorfous victory through the coming Bavior,—** the sccd of the wom; Eo that in Lhe very bosom of the cursc wo see the germ of salvatlon, Adam saw it, becaure wo read, immediately after, that **Adnm clled his wife's name Eve,)? Her name formeriy was Isha, slzmfy- ng her relation ta her husband. Now he clanges her name, snd calls her Eve. What Ia the mean- fng of Evel 1t means lite. Next we ars told, the Lord God clothed them with skins. Now that is & very strange plece e the jetter of it,—if yon suppose the Intention vas merely to tell us somethiny about thele clothing, 1f° wo wanted archeological inlormation us to now they lived, we would want to know a great deal nore. . We would want to know what kind of a luuso they had, and how they mavaged to fur- nish it, and whot kind of Implements they ate with, and so forth, You cantiot see nny reason for it, {teyou take the mere lettery but remen- her the symbolism that is in this narrative: om a8 a | remember low thele guilt was set forth in the signiticant symbol of tueir nakedness; and now the covering of their gullt 1s set forthin the corresponding symnbol of clothing them. Nuw Adam hes taken hold falth of the 1hvive orumise of snivation through the seed of the waoil and hag his guit covered, as his naked was, ' with the rale that tod gave him. Some follow it a litle jurther and suggest the idea that this robe wns made of the akius of auimals that had been slatn in sacrifice; and that these sacrifices were conneeted with somo teachs ing which the Lord gave thein on the subject of the atovement. 1o not insfet of thia, though it may weil be, especially s we tind Abel in the very next chapter brioging o sacrifics of slaln oanimals; but this seemae evident, ti at the luten- tion i to teack that God in llis merey covered thelr sins, forgave thelr transyressions, umd treated thewn as Lis children, although they had offended Him, ‘The next thonght seems to bo that of dis- ciplines verses 29, 28: “The Lord Uod said: Behiold, tho man hus become as one of us, to know good and evil, Now, lest be put furth bis hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and cat and live forever: Therefore the Lord Gud #ent bim forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken, 8o le drove out the man, and He placea at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubim aud a flaming sword, which turned every way to kecp the way of the Tree of Life,”” Now, most oeople, when they read this, only ses what appears on thu surface. They obly sco the dark clouds; in otner words, they do mnot eatch the sliver lining, wheretn all the beauty les. Ho far as apuearance goes, it seems 8 hard 1ate. ‘Lhoy were driven forth out of the Garden of Eden, nd there was the cherubim and faming sword to keep them out, as peoplo think. | you look at it & little more carefully you sea sumetbing better in it than that. Why was not Adam permitied, now, to go tho Trec ot Life! HKemeniver the symbolisit of the Tree of Lite. The Tree of Life was connected with the enact- went of the moral Jaw. It was the symoolism of this, that §f the moral raw tvas perfectly kepy, life would be the result. But now Adam had broken the law, and he could not get life in that way any more. The only way Adam can fet Wonow is throughi the coming Suvior, If io had kept “his inuocence he would bave had 1ife tn tho flrst way, which 18 symbolized by the Tree of Liie. There waa uu chance for lum now that way, 8o It was mercy that ho was pointed another wav, Adam was turned away from the Tree of Life, not because God did not want Adum turecover nis lost estate, but because he cafinol bo saved In that w g W, 16 bas to go through a loug courso ol discipline befure he can reach the Jito which the Tree symbol- ized, The‘l'ree of Lile pusses away ous uf the Bible fleld, snd discipline comes In,—trial, pro- Latton, contlivt, the Hght of [aith, on, on, bn, tbrough afi the ages of the lang futerval, until at last * the ‘mvatery of fniquity is tlnisied V' and then, at last; at'the end of “the Bible, the ‘Lree of Life is seen agoin, and the redeemed of tho Lord aru gatherod oround it. Adam was turned away from (the old covenant of works that be wigbt be led to the new covenant of grace, in order that, through disciplive and sufleriug,—~the only way now open to him,~—tiw might recaln the ‘Iree of Life and the blessings ol_n lost Eden, Now about the cherublin aod flaming sword, Was that somethiug to aggravate his condition | to keep Bl from- bettering Itf Not atall. Follow the word cherubim throughiout the Blute, and what .do you findt You find the cherubim {unnedfately over the mercy-soat. ‘The chierubun ure the symbol of God's gracious preseuce, where e meots with s people whero o showa them forgivencss, where] Hlo bluces before them llwwn&_ol salyatlon, whera Ho tells them of the * Wuy of the Tree of Life.”” Tunt Is tho meaning of the chierubim all through the Bible, Aud what {3 the tHuning sword{ It represents justice, Indeed, but just. ice meeting with merey. Weo nave, in fact, hiere the orlgin of the Bheklnsh over the merey seat. Here at the close of this Buok of the tienera- tlons, instead of having the sword of justice uu- sheathied, and the whole ceding i terror and durkness, we bave the lirst sanctunry sct up, Just as we have had the dawn of hope, and the dawn of foith, and the first roys of the rising Buu of Righteousness, so also wo have the lirst biouse of worsbip, nut certulnly to keep Adam from the **Tree of Life, but to keep the way of tho **Tree of Life,” to show Adum how b Was to et back aguin to that condition which be bad Jost by elnj not to kcnu him out ot it, but to kcull It for him, and to keep it belure hum. That old sunctuary bud the sume object that this sanctuary has to-amy, \Why ure these houses of worstifp crected? Why these scrvicead 'L'o keep the way of the Tree of Life, Law utrald, 1L fv were not for these services and theso sanctuaries, & great many ol us would furget the way of lite. Sautuarivs are erected to keen It befors us, Thus, man 1s reunnded that he oeeds the ‘free of Life, and 8 wuy pointed out by which he can reuch ft. Burely 1t 1s not unrcasonable that there should be such aspecisl muuifeatation to primeval wap. We do oot need it 1 these duys Lecuuse vur Shekinah is the Lord Jesus Chrlst, through whom we havue a.cuss to the Father. Belore fle came there was need of special manifesta- tion and accordingly we flud in the Old Teata- mene the record of such appesrauces as the cloud and the piliar of fire i Ezypt, and later on the Bhelgual fu the temnple. “All that wos necesaary thes: but when the Lord Jusus Curist came o was the fultiliment of ull thess thiugs, Now we domnot sev soy Bhekl- peh, We donot Lave suy cherublu,” We do oot need anything of thut kiud to remain with us, but we haye theabiding presence of our Lord and tmvior. We have the written Word, We bave our sanctaary services, We have the water of baptisiu and the memorlals of our Buvior’s broken body and shed bloud fn the symboliam of the Lord's Hurpen Thess tako tfna place of those old symbols and keep for us the way of the 'Lree of Life, i o F — DOUH 8. J SERMON DY PLOF. SWINC. Trof, Bwing preacbed yestorday morniog at the Central Chutreb, tuking as his texs: Uut some doubted. —Natlrew, xzoiil., 17, At thines the thought comes to wmost minds that vur sge revesls less religious belicf thaa was cherished by our sucestors near and re- mote, The smaliness of the church-golng mul- tiude compared with the whole population, sud the presenco of much materialism in scleuce, produce the common fear that the world s uot us religlous as It waa fo.the olden’thue, Wo uced vob Jabor tu-dey st acompatison between the religious senthment ol the present ‘and tho 'past, 1t may be well, however, for us to cun- tesa'that 1o s very easy to err in’ these gen- cralizatlons where su exact recged fs lmposiible. When wen aflirm that we ueyeehad such wiuters {n the garly settlement of this country ss wo hiys now,’aud that they when youg, Bfty years ago, were accustomed to, flud days lu January when they could * gu without g voat " god coutd sit with the windo'vs: opon alt along this lake coast,'we uced only fly 1o the record and thera we learn that at ‘Albaity and Pulladelphis tho svesage temperature Has nof chianged one-uall of & degreo fn tweoty years; and that the aunusl rafofall hes not grown or lessencd adrop ina ceotury; but when men say there has been 8 decline of rellzious faith there Is uo record to which we can wake an ap- peul. There 15 no . thermometer which will tell us how much mapkind loved God and how much they believed about salvation a huudred, vears ago. Persoual fedive on this watter is almost wholly worthless, In ardur o davrmine even a0DRILRBANAY the conditlon of religious belicf a hundred years ago it wonld be eeeential to eather up all the shapes and aualitica of maral statiatles of that perfod. and, even then, fo few and unimportant arcthosestatistics thiat the conclusion from them sould partake of the pature of o conjecture, This we know, that there have always heen mindy which counld not accept the tenctd of re- Nglon and of Christianity, and which left be- Dind them the record that they doubted. They appeared in the preaence of Jesus [Himself, and have eyer since been present in the world (n large mumbers and in respectable, character, Unalle to measure the quantity of religlous doubs of to-day, I dealre to make some remarka about fts quality, ita innocence or crimnality, its finnl possible destiny, All'rellglous propositions are open to dlssent, hencee they Lave always been denied or gues- tioned by many In each epoch, Socrates himacit was not firmly fixed in his trust, Lucretius et the world a long and clonuent philosophic voein teachineg that the sseribiug of nature to the workmanship of gods o fable, that nnture hucll-pru:.lunmu essence, Seme of Christ’s uwn fricuds doubled, for while they could® in- dved sce Him they could not pervelve Iis divinencss. To be with such a being and not Kknow His origin or destiny was not only possi- ble, but not difticult. Parailol with el taith there has always run a streon of skepticlzm, not of cqual breadth und depth, perhaps, but a streany retual and Jarge. Uo futo sny part of the past, and, while you tuok around for its great Clnls- tians, you flud also great skeptles. The perinl “which produced “auch Lelievers as Ed- wards, and Wesley, and Witherspoon, produced also [lume, JUGibbon, and Voltaire, But great names only ludicate what gmnl or bad fato s at- tending the smaller minds of the workl, and, hence from these three names, cmblemalic of faith, and from the olier threc, emblematic of denlal; we can construct two large hosts of cotn- mon men marching undee the respective flags of laith and duubt,” Great names are the head- landa which atinounce to tho wanderera on the sca not only themselves, but a continent, with 1ts citles, and Gclds, and multiform hie, beyond, ‘The words,* But somo doubted," apply,there- fore, to all times, and are not the pecuiiar dis- couragement of our own wental and moral dynasty, Unable to determine tho quantity of moderit doubt, let us trest s as a fact, and let us mark soinc of the fentures of the great fact, Heliet Is based upou evidenve, or supposed evi- dence, and hence that which aoffects the evidence of the publtc will always affect the public falth. The development of the reasoning facpity ju the last two centu- ries has made sulZ hovoe of the cy- idence In the case, Wituesses who once atood on the stand In the utmost respectability, and whose evidence would in a fow minutes seod a “‘duubter to the flumes or to a dungeon, bavo one by one been impeached, and some of them have bren withdrawn by thu parties who unce summoncd them in so much confldence. In- dued, the growth of the reasuning facuity caused Martin Luther, und stands as chiel causeol the Reformation, ‘Lhe style of intelicct which had once believed the mass of teachings of the Clurch had been runed by the new mental power which sprang up after the dark ages, aud 4 oneo coormous credulity was tollowed by an equally cnotinousdenial,” Tbe growth of reéason will niways bo attended by un inmense denial of old propositions, because reasun being the light fu which doctrines are secn, the Ingher thot light becotnes the more visiblo will be the defects la the formulas which men made fn thelr darker rooms. Paiotcrs who paint scuncs for the stage need not be Raphaoels or Turners thelr brushies way movoe carclessly, beeause the landscaues or floures sre to be dr away from the spéftators, and are to be scen In a dun light. A different order of eenlus is de- manded whenthe picture 18 to bang tu a gallery Where eritics are to walk to and 110, and where the beat of heaven’s light is to tall overit, Then the lips and the cye must be palnted bya mnster; the leaves and gruss in the foreground can no lunuer be blotches of color, they must be Ieuves and erass. For a loug while now the caovases on whicn tho Church hinsdrawn its sketches have been wradunify inoved toward a higher light of the ntetleet, aod the spectators bave been drawn by educntiona lictle nearer the work ; and to thedegresot thischange many laudscavus and fizdres wlich once passcd as works of art have becw owdered out: of the gatlery, as formiug no longer uny vert ofshio beautifil or true. Thus a3 thy power of tozie grows In the soul, the ar- tists o tho Sonctuury tust punt their doetrl) more trutblully, In ths oid church—that Loyvre of rellnous -conceptions—~there hung onee & strauge picture of Hell, It was an fme muuse muss o red flames, with all persons Teaping aud screaming u thosc flanies except tho sect of the family who owned:the deslgn, But the canvas wos produced foralow Mgnt, and Lhe spectatorswers far back. and when an cra of whiter lightenine the wurld could not do other than) out-of the -nurml Louyre, and gsk Canon Furrar i Lo could.ropresent auy better the tiual condltion of tho lost. fle has doubticss done botter, but uo doubt his drawing will fid 10 bo Just waat the supreme truth will at last demand. Thus men doubt not aiwnyas be causc they are witked, but becouse ns reason toves torward uudpr thq.uoubla fmpluse of now taternal puwer nod new Inlornation, it finds the cvidence of yesterday Insutlicient for the fuith of tw-day aud to-mwrrow, Each new school- house, each advancs 1o thie ratio of men who con read and write, will treate a change in the pub- e betlof, aud (& will not be uutru It [ eny that each waye ol cducatlon is a new wave of skepti- cisw, Whatever . tenders the loufcal fucuity more powerful must tuake mankind winhow out fta past belfof. The wore powerful the gt the more visthue are ull defeets. Avsutming tho truth of the ible, eyen among those who have enjoyed tuls assumption, there has been o perpetual lne ot doubt us actual as the line of ‘Lelief, For o perfect Bible will aot secure a peacelul falth untess ll)dfll{ Dpossceses oue jusvituble interpretation of ity words, For after Genesls. hus suid, “In the da thou eatest thereol thou shalt surely dle,” it remains, for & subscyuent reoson, to wonder whether death ti meuns Ui« buppiucss, tormiont, or o ceaslug to exist when the body dics, A lnrr'e nultitude to- day lold thut at death the wicked cease to ex- ist, and that Christ dlied to perpotuste the ox- fstence of ills own followers, ‘Uho Biblo tells us Chrlst 1s divine, the Son of God; butat ouce men obscyve that angels ars called divine, and that thero were wany, sons of God, and thus two partics, cveu scores of scets, spring up, each holdiui ju bis bands au infallible book. A large and wost respectuble group of clerzymen liss Just discussed in the Eust the fdea tliat Chrlst will relgu Inpersoucon earth, and bring about the elory and Joy of = perfect kingdowt, But each sect is adkeptic of ita oppoeite, A huu- dred sects meun o hundred foring of unbelief, Thusan assuined inluliible Bible doea not as- surc to even those who hold it a peacefu) bellef, but it leaves over pll this noble army the wonls which are curved over even the personal friends of Jesus, *But some doubted ‘Fhus within the Church there hag ulways flowed along, and ther flows to-day, the same streat of doube which flows upow the autside, It is nut alwa, doubt of the saame propositions, but it 18 the same mental phenomenon,—thut of mind abifting to and fro, nut by reason of more or luss vice, bot by reason of the Inadequacy of the evidence. That nental quality which” in- duces Dr, 'Uyng to supposs that “Clrlst will relgn personally ou earth mduces others to the belict thas He will not sa come. This variation results from {ndividualism aud not from differ- fugg plety. 1f, therefure, there bo insidu the Cuureh such *“ gdoubt " ‘aa Lo the ideas of cach otber, how somes it that * doubt" Is so crimi- nal when it moves nlong just outsids thesy wallsl Bince Christlany see only fu past, snd I some ages huve seen muen which the Chris- tiats of Lho next century could not pescelve ot all, it necd not amaze one much il persons out- ¢ the Church ses oty du pars and know only v part, aud are humbly swalting the Letter lizhit of this world or the next. Vo suens now to bave reached the conclusion thut the words * some doubted ™ must bo written over all times aud places, and must bo engraved not ooly on the tomb of an Arfan, or a Uniiarlan, or o Quaker, or & Universnlist, hut on the tomb ol Lutbur, and Chalmers, and Ea- wards, fur they all distrusted sone of the dog- mus of rellgion. It remains now tu mark what tusk, happy ur sad, the higher reason of duy 1s uchleving. 1 um not speaking of the extreme lnfidelity or athcism ot & few, but of that skepticlam which ts i the E\lm:rll public, and which 1s resulting from the development of the reasoslue powars in our wew, aud women, .and cildren, well-kuown fuct that thin & B ltiss s which commanded Aho most perfect fuith of our fathers are now paefectly jocredible even to vur ebifdren.. A viauga in the public falth has come, but this semd Wie warranted conclusion, we sball_ atud, calily the Lmes, “that the readon which s overtbrowlng some hleus 1+ equally rexalting others. Mudern doubt ks @ 1. wholly a destruction, but it 14 partly u builil- {urof g nuw world, ‘The death of s0108 idesa ls s birth of otbers. Asin upature, whensowme 9.4 Liland or contiveut sunk, tuu sca ralling in¢0 this basia left & new -contivent elyewticre, a5 by sinkinue A the couvalston uncovered Auwerica, yo the ‘*doubl™ which draws down soae loug cherfsbed doctrives uncovers other fdesa destined to be loved longer and more worthily. ‘Lhat growth of reasun wluch jeads 14 public heart away from a belief tu tha literul Words of Ueocsis, and frow the casly ideas of cosmozosy sud astronouy, is not o forve which cun estroy ouly, but a furce which redoubles Sou besgty wnd spiritual power of the salws of David and the subline poetry of ub. What was ekepticisiu toward the \] uud a lite- sppreciative power a8 Lo the woral law and tbe deep religion Of e Ui Testiwnt., Lar Luntan Ll order the old masterplecs,, supposed they were still Hiving unider the civil ond criminal Iawa of Muges, ahd in thele laws decreed that & &eihborn son should be pat to tleath ama that Sahbath-Lreakers should be pun- Ished according to the lawa of Levitleuss but when @ doulits "' came ns to the tenthfulness of tha Mosale Cade; when a new skenticisn brgan to affirm that ita laws were a temporary and Jo- cn) good, then prose the better Kingdom of Chriat, in which the State was not to enforce a futy or a worship. We owe our Protestanism o the fact that * some doubted” the common interpretation of the passage about Peter, the rock and tne keve. The New Testament was sifted by reason and by new infarmation, and out of” thta distrust and pondering came the Reformation and the Protestants secta of the preaent. We are alf the offsoring of Doubt, ‘Thus *doubt,” Instead of teing an finpiety or a tormof Antichrlst, 1s often only the effort of a new cra to flnd the deeper and tha better means, inz of its pooular relfigion. The Prof. Smith who Is under {ndictment for heresy on aceount of tho articlo an the Diole which he compoaed for an encyelopedia s full of doubts, but also ol true Christian plety, and the Canon Farrar, who has been attempting to find a doctring abont Hell which will at onee harmonize with reason and with Christ, contains spirituality to to an unusual degrce; and the Dean Stanley, whoto eloquence of thought aud language is famons, can equal Smith and Farrar fn doubt- ing tho Christian formulas of the past. Inthe mere fack shat there are *‘doubters” fn the Church, one may find no cause for alarm, for this qunlity of the human mind has followed humanity (n all its many wander- nes, The doubting ones Immediately on Curist's coming reappeared snd stood around Hun, jvat as they bad slovd by the sltars ot Greeeo in the forni of Sovrates, or by the altars ot Rome I the forn of Catoand Tuily. They followed the Roman Catholle Chureh and modi- fled 1t they broke off a branch and_ planted it and grew Protestantismi another branch and grew Methodism; they sepnrated the Church rom tha State Io some lands; thoy have scpa- rated the Lible from the exact sclences; they aro even hangiug over the old pletures of etor- nal torments to Ilud, it possible, a truer outiine of that life or desth into which inlinite equity shall at last cast the wicked, lustead of being 8 vice, doubt has often been a niost calin and most ‘wly méditation. Men call it a ** cloud,’” and those who walk fn It confess it to bea croud. ‘Those fixed tn {deas Wod fn estabiished sccts turn pale or groy angry at it as portending de- struction, but ‘oftentiines this ** cloud " has hurst in a shower of Liessings and has been fol- lowed by a sunshive falling fn a new swectness on **fielde arrayed in living green,” it may indeed be neccasary for any given sect to ask o **doubtgr* towithdraw from its orzon- {zation, becausé each church Is bully for the spread of certain definite tdeas; and it a metn- ber of the budy deslres to spread contradictory ideas, he certalnly should fecl that hio mst sow these notjons In some other feld. A church is much like a firm formed for a speelal vurpose. 1 a mumber of the firm Is found withdraw ing s copitai from the business of tho firm and s giving his thought and mouey to some Louss located elgewhero for some Gther or risal busi- ness, the papers of partnership should be given up by this recrcant one. It must be thus with churches, “They must not be .umiy of suicide, But while this general truth is clear, Yl. will often bs & matter of question both with the ‘doubter” and his nseo- ciates whether his “ doubts’ are grave enough to justify a withdrawal from a brotherbood tull of uscluluess and of mutual hapoinces. The nccessary withdrawal of a thousand men fromn as many sccts would not warrant the fntercuce that the Christian world were falling to ruin under tlie blows of this skepticlen, The only tnference must bo that churches formed for a delinlte purpose may vxclude the men who dls- regard the purpose, . A church that requires a dress of drab should ask him to withdraw who dresres in black or white, Aslde, therefore, from the duly or privilege of sects a relizivus skop- ticlam iiay go on, and, inssead of bein Jury to Christlanity, it may be valy the (nvisible arms of God carrying the world away from a goud creed to m creed for better, An old cooti- Lnent muy be sioking for the varpose of press- m&; upward out ol the waters a new world. 'his ts contessed to be the ave of * doubt.' The words “some doubted " will certainly ap- ply to.our era, Hut, Lhis confessed, what dowe wituesa! Do we witness any rellgious ruln or de- eayd We scem towitueas a pulpit and amember- shlp ns devout, as plous, as was the world when it hield that Gud made the universe in six_days und tnat tho Dible was verbally inspired. Tlicre ore great verities in Christlanity, and the thnes which most question suwe ot the otd particulars aru the very times which can best aopreciate the sublimest voctriues of the Gospels. An oo la not religious according to the quality of its doc- trines and the mentat ‘aud spiritual power brought to boar upon those idcas of butter qual- Aty. Ahe, ares of Menry V1. end of Louis X1V, 'surpasied our tentury,in the bullc of their Confesstous of Faith, hut “not any geeat doc- trinea stood out beforo thelr mind and heart. ‘Thoas Kinga possessed no udequate fdea of Jesus Christ. The letterof things flled up their littlo futclieeta nod yot amailer hearts. in the higher courts of law, that lawyer and that Judge are esteemed greatest who can bost 4rasp the casentlal weaning of a law, or a wiil, ora piece of evidence, And honce tho words ‘*substantially trus are in law so valuable, so areat, that they are mucin worn with constant use. They suifer tike the ahrities of the great- est saints where the pavement is worn away by the feet of the numberiess pligrims who ropalr thither to kiss the sacred murble and breathe a vrayer, Saluts of Hitlo werlt sre not so in- Jured by humao affection. ‘e words * true fn substance," " substautinlly true,’ ate the shrine taward which the rellsions thought of our ern tends In fte pilerimage, and it will wear the marblo away, and even the lips of this salnt, fn its devotton, “The “cloud ot doubt ™ will par- haps be followed by a day when a mlxxhzf mul- titude will declare that the story of Chirlst, the story of heaven and bell, are substantially true —ttut these doctrines caunot be moditled insuch & way ua to olfer to virtue any discourngement,, or -to sin any hope. ‘Flere s Indeed a form of unbueliet that s rulnous. It is not the doubt of a religlous soul, but the proud denial of all Christlan and religivus tencts, Of this 1 awm not speaktog, but rather ol that kind of in- tellect which gothered sround Clrlst and min. gled thelr doubts with luve. Tho two disciples Wio Jourueyed toward Emmsus after the cruci- tixton, in whose minds was Lo perfuct memory of Jesus, who had seen the erucllixion, and who wero now walking along only five niiles from the -rut where the cross hud steod, gave way to unbelfel, s suld thoy Aad h that Corlst bud cume to bu s King, This {s the class whicts now Hils the laud. Thefr doubts are not radical a8 thoss of the two disciples, but, hke theirs, they ora [ull of aifection and ploty, Thesy will bo “the ilrsb to cateh tho truth wheu it shall come, or at Jeast tne ones to lovs it moat deeply whea it shall have been revealed, ‘e mind which hus no distru toodull to catch any early trace of lwaven's inbsty dawn, Let us review hastily tha retiections awakened by thould worde that “'some doubted" The *“doubt ™ will always attend tho huumay race, be- cause the Juture hifo 1a nok & demotstratod real- ity; butout uf doubt will cume a perpetual study aod a narching of the host from the less true to tho mors true it will cut down the trst wilderucss, uot to mako & desert, but to opua up stch tlelds of {ruits und gralus; It will lessen the quantity of uolious 1o be belleved, but 1t will improve the fluullly of what atall survive its analys it will tako humanity up fn fts kind arm, and hear away from the letter ’o place it up amid the *substautially truc” of the two ‘Teatuments; it will combine righteousness and allection with fts tearscuad then what §t lacks In wecluy it will mako uv 1o patlent waltlog, 1t expects wo perfect vision here, It hus uo bopy of seciug the uniyerse from the low valley of man's B 1t will walt until death shsll bear the soul to a bight that sball redoublo a thou- suud thues the breadth of the horizon beneath the oute clouded feot, Not bere! not here! not where the sparkliog wa. ers Fade into mocking sands as we draw ov Whore in the wilderneva cach foutstep fal $wbull be vathated—but, Oh! not here. THE REY, J. L. THOMPSON: A FAURWELL BELMON. , Bome weeks ago (he Key, C. L. Thompson, of tho Fifth Prosbyserlan Church, recejved a call to the pastorate uf the, Third Clurch, of Pitts- burg, and, after weighlng the eotire sftuation, copcluded o acoept the call, and. last evenlug preachcd his farcwoll “scrmon to the largest sudicuco which, ‘perhiaps, over asscmbley in that chureh. The edifice; oithongh quite sva- clous, was literally- ¢ramued, ngiwithstanding the weatbor was puprepitions. Mr. ‘Thompson touk as Bls texe (i followlug worde: Aud now, brethren. 1 comucnd you Lo God and € tho Word of Ifis grace, wlhich is abla: to b uild V4 up, aud tu glve you sn julieniance amond all aem which arc sanclided. —dcls, xx., 392, |, ° ‘Ll reverend gentleman said that when Paul uttured the text he was about Lo leave & beloved people and’ ballowed assoclativng, which was uslpgous to the speaker’y positiun fo wreachivg & farewell seruon. Paul, could bavq sald uuth- 10g lesa than he did, and be couud say nothiug 148 1o bis suditore sud church. Paul'voald not have gives exprossion to loftter words, uud the socahor desired to band shein down to the Filth Cuusch. When Paul bid ols people far b r ters, wis ul to cnter & boat und br B dauvverous ses, aud it not very different 10 the prescut case. The sea of time befurg buu wos wist-covered, sud be would comoress Lis portive words futu the text. But s Gud was Paul’s reluge and streogth, so was He bis reiuge, etreneth, and relisnce,—tv biw u per- #adal Godo Ahe sbvaker ben went ou ab sutue loneth tonrge the personality of God, and watn his hearers neatnat the phiiosophles which drave Hlim out of the people’s minds. The sonl- deoending jhloropliv, or latter-1ay philnsonhfc Iaws, was an orphon, and the nation without s Giod must he lost. He then procesiled to commend the living Hod a8 the ooly means of sulety and peace, and to urge that tiod was in 1he budy 0s a tonle,—not o mete formula in tha Tiead, but a saving and ennobling power In the heart, Paul'a logic was carrect, and tho speaker ealled nitention 1o the text where he bad com- menred his peaple to the Word of (fod's grace, whileh wag able to build them up and give thew an eternal fnheritance, It had beon death to touch the Ark, ro it was death, he contemded, ta touch the peraonality of tiod, The speaker then analyzed the text minutely to show wherein the \Word of God's grace had prevalled fn the Church. e had taken hold of it and buiit it up, and [ls constructiva power Ttad shaped fts memoership townrd him, Have oz dune o niniety He wonld stand by them, The speaker had labored with the Chureh for elx years, and often felt ashinmed that he had not nceuinplished more, but had naver been ashamed of (od, nor of the faith of the Apos- tles, When ho came to the church it bod a membership of 100,and during his minlstmtions 404 nameshad been mdded totherolls. 1t had hurne heavy burdens, but, witl it all, it had no reason to complain, It had fn slx years contributed about $60.000 for congregationnl purposcs,. and about 34,000 to the misalonary causc, and he- slde hiat been active tn all bencrolent work. Its Iadics had Jooked niter the poor at homeless and no chureh could boast of o mare ficroie and self-sacrificing family of workers, Ouly tivelve members hud died during the time of Lis knowl- edge, and only one oflicer, Bummervitle Thomps. son, whom tho speaker extolled in a very feel- o manner. Mr., ‘Thompéon closed his eloquent and touch- Ing discourse by referring to the work doue for the church durlng Mr. Moody's stay in the city, and by urging bis hearers to stand togoedlier in tho future, and bullding thelr foundatton on the rock of 4 persunal Gud, o forward relving on His promls Fhe churell was jo debt sone- what, but llu:f‘ shouhl leavu thelr Iuteerity with {od and thelr numes With thelr felluwien, Thoss who loved the retiring pastor could not better exvress their affuction thsn by standing Iv( the church, and, they, too, conld better talnl thele duty to God. He wanted then to pay ofl their debts, labur to build up ond extend the usefulness 6f - the church, and, again referring to tho language of the text, as- sured themn that God would give, them thelr tn- heritance. ORDINATION SERVICES. TR TRV, DAVID JONES, ‘The ordination of the Rev. David Jones, who fstogonsa misslonary to China, touk placo at Plymouth Church yesteeday alternoon, Owing to the threatening weather the attendance was not ns large as was expected. The excrciscs wero under the ditaction of the Rev. A. Littlo, who opened with preyer, followed by the reading of approprlate passages frum the Bible, The Rev. Charles Halt Evcfest, pastor of tho ,churceh, delivered the ordination sermon. e spoke briefly of the vastness of the work In distant lands, and of the solemnity of the occasfon, this scndiog an hmbassador of the ‘Word 108 people of such great numbers and possesaed of such great ‘advancement and clvil- fzatlon, The ordination prayer, during which the can- ddldato was covsccrated by thoae taklog part In the exercises by the usual mothod of loying on of hands, was offered by the Rev. A. C. Youker, At the conclusion ot this ceremony, the Rev, Al Little presented the right hand or [etlowship, after a [ew words avpropriate to tho vecaslon. By this ceremony, he suld, was cxprossed the cluse Tellowslipof the pastors and cougregra- tiona, not only of his own denotninution, but of - all sects und ‘crecds. ‘Thoy all sporeciated his great agerifiee. Boeritlces such as hib had been, and would continue to be, the great plilar and foundation of tus Church, The nameot tno church where lhq were was suggeative of the: lnndlmfi of tne Pillerim Fathers at Plymouth Rouk, tho carlieat fustuuce of great sacritice for religious principle in this country, ‘Fu Ktev. E. P, Goodwin, D, U., then delivered tho charge to the nowly-ordalned missionary, luyIng stress on the necessity of preaching tho Guspel pure and simple, leaving sclence to the sclentists, sud coutining himset! 1o the Uospel of Chrlist. The congrezation then Joined In singlng the {lynm, "1‘~mm Gll}c;llllm'l lci"y ‘A)(‘ouzum‘fi'_'“nnd 00 exercises wore cloag witly, udlution, kil l[e\-”m%m fi..%‘& Jm‘! beon Zflmu B wikdtorai work lieto' ih this city for some tiine, year, s many of anr Fifth avenne peo, 1 |y Lo sgend it. So this gilded grovery s g ¥ Witk pleasure. B ¥V b bl THE KID-GLOVE WA, Declntan by Assistant.Secreta, Deciaion of the Colloctor Afirmed=The Courts the of the Tmportors, WannineToN, Nov. 7.—The declelon of At #istant-Eecrctary French in the kid-glove r;- which ias been sporoved by Beeretary thm;;' Isnloug document, of which anly nnunma:' nced be presented. Mr. Freneh holds that n’ oppraisol of kid gloves, under the law, woe ,,,: rolutely final and conclusive trom the fannee In which {t was conducted. He scts fory), at constilerable tentth a biatory of the proce, diyes hiad up 1o the present time, and says thag 1. fmporters do not nilege that there |,;. Leen auy fraud whatever, and thay they Ido not deny that tho decision of the An. Tnheu and Collector ns fo value s conclugjre, [e says, however, that the inpotters ciatm 1| thero was ifregulanty in the e und al has o Secreturv. Mr. Fronch elioa sepend ol ;:||!|0'Il bearing on this polut. Ilu they ¢ o A ry FeenehoTye AL New Yory Only Resourcq 3t procecdings; () DOWCE 10 fry gy uming then that the Secretary in this e, DoWer to exdmine s 1o tho regalirity of |, cecdings, It teill be found that his duty in (hat se +#pect s not.withont cnlbarravemant, “If the yrg. ceediny of tha tieneral Appraisee and Colleefor N invahd, what is the consequence o the mporicr, and the Governmont? ‘ihe local Annraives it asscasod the duties far above the Involce, an § (e lnporters diasativied with that appratind ‘ave ape pealed. Tha £0ous Nave gono outof the poescu oy the custors odicers, anid eannul ba recaite tacory of tho law an 1o all appralsala b (y, are wiade npon an Inspeetion of the goous. caonot be a valid apuraleement except upon tnspectlon and_exsminstion of tne merchang . ~(ireeley agl, Thompson, 10 Howard, o Thero cannot - be, therelore, 8 new appraisai by 4 new Ueneral Appralserand 2 new Merchant Ap- praiger, and tho dectsivn of the local Apprasie canuot stund because tho Importer has exerciyeg his legal right of appenl from euch decisicn, ' Unon situitestion vf this emburrassmient ot py arzament before ma, Lho Smpuriers offercd 1 agrce ta tefer the matter 10 the rame Genoral Ay pruiser ond the same Merchant Appratecr, an it way sugposted that thoy, havine already ciag. tned the goode, might maka o nuw appratsal win. out_any examinotion, It scems To e, . ever, that the jurlediction of the Necrstury cu. not bo entarged or diminlshod Ly any agreemmt o thie character. 1f hie han not dathority by Jaw 1y romit the proceedinga on tho facts before lim 1y consent of the pacties in o particular cuse canyog confer such jurlsgiction upon hini, If the acta uf the Ueneral Appraiser ana Lollector neo leeal ang reyular, Suelice 10 them ns well an tho legal limie. tions uf ‘the Becretary's antnority require thay they Lo sustalned, I therefuro propose tu review carcfully the ucts of the Collector anu ticneral Ap. pratser ‘complained of, with a view to decite Wiether they are legal or otherwise, ‘The Assistant Becretary then reviews the cfr. cutnstances of the appraisal of the voods, fy whicnh ho found no frregularity under the law, He contlnucs: 'Ths correetion of errors after an aparaisal T up. derstand to be of datly occurrence in the New Yorx Custom-Honse, In wany cuses, and every after an appratsement {s complered, upon 1he guys pestion of the importer or of #ome ofticze of tha customs, that somo nistake hias been mude, the aporatsal fs revised aud tho mistake correcied. “This practice i preventive of much iligation, and subscryos (ho substantial ends of Justice, andseems to ba free from any objection whatéver, = Such cor- rectiuna are mgdo not only on appraisaly by (e local Apurnieer, but upon appraisuls made by a Ueneral Apprals d Merchant Appralser, In the case of avant & Co., In 1477, where, after the reappraisoment, tho importers satlsfiod -the Merchant Appraiser and Uenoral Avprat er by .uew evideuca that they had erred in advencing “the invoica C7° per ceny, - wheroby tho pemal duty of 20 per cent bag been Incurred, tho casa was remitted by direction of becrelary Bristow for s reviow of the appraiee- ment and tho correction was wmade accotalugly, I'bis and stmilar cases seem 10 show coiclusively that there is notning In the nature of a fiual jusg. mient in the Srat Oaclsion of an Appraiser, o of & Hoard of Apprais In tha caww veforo me [ ece 1o reasun way tho Collector miztit pot, before any uctlon of the Department, recall the broceodinte in this caso for correctivn, If convinced that his action In the matter had been Inany way incorrect, ‘The teua principio scemis tu be that sny officcr, convinced of an error, niny correct 1§ at any i bofore final action in had upon his report by ruperior oficer. 1 thiok I have thus constdered all the questions raiscd by tiic case as presented, In your letter refurring the matter to me you de. alred’me 0 considor **as {0 the power of tio De- pariment to grant tno rellef asked for, eitherasto acceplance of, the dutics on the invoice value orte walve ‘tho éxaction of tho additional duty of 20 per cont”! “Althoagh 1 hove not repliea direclly {0 that requost, It ncceasarily follows from whai e hiag and his departure fs espectally interesting to members or the Congregational churen, ‘of wulch ho s now an ordained wnissionary, Ile leaves Iua fow days lor England, where ho will stay for a short time Lefure entering upon his work in the mission fleld of China. OUTSIDE, PASTOUAL. dpecial Disvasch to The Tridbune, Fonrr WarnE, Ind, Nov. 10.—To-day Dr. J. R. Stono resizned his pastorate of the First Baptist Courch, which ho bas held ten years, He has accepted a call from the Baptise Church of Laualug, Mich. WESTERN PATENTS. List of United States Patents Issued to West- ern Inventors. Bpeeial Dizpaich to The Tridunm Wasmnarox, D, C., Nov., 10.—A, H. Evang & Co., Patent Solicitors, report the following patents lssued to Westurn lnventors the past week: . 1LLINOLS, A, & T, Emig, Sheridun, balr-tonics. B. K, lloanlcy, llyde Park, heating und veatilat- B K i Chl . &1, Bandmeyer, cago, 3. 15 Sl Chiciao, ¢ 1ke cutiors. E, Trumbe, Rutlang, cultivator, J, Daly, Cuicago, pavor-ruling mnchine. Goorge Bileman, Kouud Grove, scrapore, R 8. Hill, uon, wall-paper trininerd, . J, Hogan, LuClede, cuiting basket wplints, M. P, Poiter, Hucklvy, wilk cooler, v A 1L ‘ropbetsiown, W:l,lfi;x}l., rloy, Oskland, lact . i), Zarloy, Osklund, corn plactera, M. D-.:s. W’-um-n. barbed fonces, - A. Ford, Clucago, hoating spparatus, a. A, ({:llllnlu, Bollevitle, ¢rain lifters, . worth, Decatur, guides for check row te. Lockhart & Albrie, Neoga, hand-cuiting forl A, F, Furelli, Haugock Fownabip, ~I‘:“k: 4 J.N. McUonuugh, Chicako, plaoo steols. 8, Yetorson, Kuoxville, pumps. MAGC LBC 8, C, Cobb, Janesviil Y. Madlene U, detaidl, 4. U, Patch, Si Heyuolde, horse-tae pumps, MICHIOAX, J. W, Narrison, Nites, dumping-wagons, J. B, Curtla. Calumet, automatic dre-kindlers, George W. 1looper, tirand Haplds, sled Urakas, C. A, Horlburt, Ypatlantl, saw-gauyes, M’{‘. O'Nelll, Jackson, doublo seawming stove- ors. 1. A, U, Starkweather, Qreanvitle, sawl; Vun Orman & Magenbaugh, Atheus, grain sep! srators. catting blaoks, ation, A, lirown, East Saginaw, doha Burt. Betroll, veutlt H. P. Case, Detrols, chucka, > . 14, Colilus, Wayne, thilf couplidg attachment, U M. Cooper, Part Iluron, froigut-car doors, Wilban Goidie, Fenton, shingly-catiors. C. F. Murdock, Detroit, vaives, MNNESOTS, M. HM.Crittendon, Bl;al“:ul,-lmm for bulldings, A. ©. Martin, Blooms Loring, etc,, J. €. Nichol V' tlfihfl!.‘hh;l:n.llfli:: H. D.Alifatiler, Maquokelky gsuge sadl, 1T Bencdict: Newron, chuaes® * “.} gl l‘l'alh-u. \\)‘:m{luowuch n\flninlnlnm T, Hurrows, Nas ay rocaling T e rr 'rice & Mernill ‘ama Counl uiky-plows, F.', Vurnaren, Vintow, calivators o L. 8. Duatap, Galens §owashlp, wiadsmiile . 8, Duotap, Galena §Fuwnsl wiag ills, K. BicCay, deCoy Stalluny plow strachiaent, D, Jenkiu, l_s.'lhl)‘fl VUlors, A, Broa vidicas-track wheels, ————m— An Aristoceatio Grocery, . . Nuo York Letter, : '¥nv last vensation oo FIfth uvenue is & new grovery-store gicbi (o the most anatocratic por- 10w ol thy: avenuc, * it i3 within u stone's throw of the rusdeuce of the Astore aud Mrs. A. T. Stewart, 'Ibls geycery-store 1s (he loest stors in tbe world. ‘Iho walls ure baug with tapes- try, sursounded by futod cbony panals. Tihe cuses, fu which are bottled truttice, mwhrooms, chow-chow, snd puts de fol gras, ¢ made of ebony with bev. ¢led cut-zlass doors, ‘1he floors are mado of -wood mosaly, carpated with Turkish ruzs: .and tu the centre of the sturc is u besutiful fountain Alled wilt.u rold tisl, surrounded by palms sud ferus. ‘Llis new orocery Las been Bited up by orm er bupamtndem of the Freach lina of stcawmers. Ho prupusss to sell Fulladeiphia butter for 50 ceats per pound. Here will be found Irish bacon at 20 ceuts perpound, vured uy Clucinuath, snd Weatpbalia haws cured ju Oblo aud shipped to Wealpbalia and back, Ji will certainly be, us Basudm would say, the bizheet- briced urocery ou earth. And atill thaiu are beuple who Bave wade furtuues 1w Caliloruis sud tue West, snd who baye once Jivod oo bacou. saivked Ju o four-barrel In thewr owa wowd- slicds, who will buv thelr groceries bere, It ds bard work to snend 1rom #0400 to 830000 a lins been eauid that tug Deoartment has no power fo accept tno dutles accdriding to the involes to waive the exaction of the udditional 20 per cent, The law requires thot the valae of the merchsn. diso npon which duties are to bo asscescd it oe fixed by the cuatoms uitlcers, and not by thie De- partment. I may add that the exaction of the ade ditional uty of 40 per cent nocesaarily follows upon ryising the invoice valne more than 10 per ccnt by the Appraisers, 1t s settled by tho decis= 1on of the Buproma Court that 20 per cent adif tional duty 18 nat & penalty or forfcitare which the Secretury has power (o romit, Although common: 1y termed a penal duty, nelther the word ** penal™ or **penalty ™ 1s founa {n tho statate; it fswerely termed *‘an adaltional duty." * _Yourother tequests are fully answered, excest that 1 have not discussed tho nirture and extent of the proof prodaccd befory the Appraisers s tu the valne of the merchandies, that boing amatter solely within the orovinco of tho Apuraluers, which cannat legally affect the action of the Department 10 thls procedding, Your iust request for my opinion ns to what rate of epecido duty would produce B revenus equat to that coliecied under the pre: 18w upon the val untion by the UGovertiment has 1o rolation to tae prosent proceeding, ‘Uhat subject and that re- Lunu to yrunh of walue may properly form the subject of o fitture commanication " entircly lude. pendent of the present proccediug. Moch time will bo required fur those considerations. 1have thuught 3¢ dest ta uct promptly upon e questions 1u which parties actuslly befors tho Department ars [ntsrested, and 10 postpono tho oibers foc future consideration, Aty conclgalon Is that the deelsion ef tha Col- Jectue in thix cnse should be oifirmed. Verr o apecttully, i1 ¥, ¥Foxscit, Asaistant Becrotary, Approved, Juus SHEAXAN, Hecrotary, alue, or —a——— Immovably Immovable. : New York World, The uephew was the typleal neplew of tha comedies aud novels; the uncle tha typleal uticte. The furmer gut himsclf fnto debt; the lutter had to Lelp Lim out of debt. Hut tue wost Jung-sulfering men imust at last loso rs- tleuce, and ong flup day the uncle writcs to lils dear nophew Ihlt'lnll Is ov:r Uchwmz &hf‘m‘.‘l.\huhl suother penny, The uephew fhies dow icle's &:‘umyry cat and falls at his veuerable lative's gouty fect. "Uurlu‘l‘axcr. dear Unclo Peter, just this once. Ahl mio to stralghten out this soarl 3 my finances, and I will ngver come to you " nraln, 0 Rolawd, T know you too well, Ay slster's son—my only ,-m‘er‘-l sun,’' says the old roan, wiplog away a furtive tear. ’qllfll your Leart i touched; you will aslst we vaeo orol ! says tho youne man ** Listan," sald Lis aged relative; arutet” ) A whichi” > A rule—a foot-rule,"? i Why sbould [ havo ono! Ialn't & carpene A +* Go snd find onc immediately.” ‘fho young man, puzzied but hopeful, £oe! and ap the end of Laif au bour ruturns aud s8] % Uncle, dear, hiere (s the foot-rule,” b * Very woll{ measure this room, ltnfld breadh, and hight, 80 s to ascortsin fts cubl ieusions,” “ ‘The young mou, more pozzled than cver, 8¢ about his task, and at Jast makes his report. # Uncle, the roum contaius 8,040 cuble feek 4 You are sure of that?" * 4 Absolutely,” #Very well,' says the old centloman, risiok to bis f4et and speakinyg fu o tons of stiuaets “aind now, sir, 1f this roowm, which mnnlu: 8,040 cabic feor, wera fillod with double-cacle packed 5o tightly thas you couldn’c rau, jumf‘n orvram a Ihle!flnt plece nto it, 1 wouldn' givoyoaa peonr. Gl e ——— + Putting His Foot In IL” New YO, Nov. 6.—Edltor oy the Journal Q{ Commerce: Will you kindly fuform e, It oot 100 wuch trouble, whers snd bow lhl‘-’uxv"' s1un orlginated, ** [a put s foot lu it 3!:}': plicd when o persou makos an '""‘“‘". x‘m take, through a slip of the tongue o olh;‘r‘n i Would 1t b ¢onstdered an expression un i.‘ ugo 1 polits suvlotyt L QG Leply—A very learued Euglian On."&":: noisr undertook to trace thls prover e Asiaticonigin. - He refers to the commot ¢ of trlog the title to land fu somu psris & Sl o bules ate dug thl;';;‘j territury, o each of wihich the lawyess ""xlu ] side put oue of their l«u-‘:nu renaln unum,,. b tired o ks vo stubg by lusects Lhat o suficr ders, (u which cusy bis clicot s defeated, s aide Ipighes that i quAiu commentator vi sk, ol tho Atlantic replicd (o the sutipe! “‘“ very ihe reigark that io this coulityy the ‘“fi eut lie diffcient, a% hese it is generally the ¢ .tm ul stend of the fawyer who *putd his (008105 Uac need uol goto Asia tor the GHEE0 B proverb, 18 wcourse apreasboin MO GG ts fllustration daily lu wereult lm1 Jedes whiere cattle trequent the bhighway ““,, witen trians are heedleas of thely golnds rovervd Uscd i good bucictyy us WY GISE BITEL ure, Without 3 thougtit of 1t Origs Lot B 1ed 10 the famous Tyisb bull, »Hene bia moutl but lie vuts bis fuos o it