Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1878, Page 5

' RELIGIOU Empty Benches Shout Back Tal- mage's Shriaks with Phono= graphic Impudence. prof. Swing Gives His Ideas of Homo and Fis In- fluences. Another Interesting Bible Read- ing by the Rev. Dr. Glbson. A Tribate of Respeet from the Chicago Eplscopal Clerzy to Biskop MeLarens Robert Collyer on tho Love of God—An- niversaty Services at Graca Meth- odist Church, TALMAGT. EMPTY BENCIES. Spectal Dispateh 1o The Tridbure. New York, Dec. 8,—* The Night-Side of New York " Is cvidently waning as a vopular species of Bunday-morping entertainment. There was agreat falling off n the attendance at the Tabernaclo this morning. Mr. Talmage baptized five babics, and announced his subject as * The Third Watch of the Night,” and what he lad Feen In that {nterval durlug his alleged exntora- tlon of the haunts of sin, vice, and nisery. Me took * as n fest part of the ffth verss of tho firat chapter of tieneals: % And tho darkness he called night.” Having premised that he felt enconr- nged to o on with the present sermons, be- cause the Lord had siready bleased them by the conyersion of many young tnen In other cities aswell as Trooklyn, Mr. Talmage prorecded torecount lis remarkablo adventures fn New York between 1 and Ba. m. There were honest men about at thoee haurs, eity missionaries car- rying scuttlea pf col to poor families; under- takers emerging from celiars, whenco aross agonizing crfes for tho loss of the first-born miniaters of religion hurrylng with sncraments Lo dying Christians; and physicians foilowing messengers to stricken houscholds. 1T W. A STUPEXDOUS THOUGHT of a city at rest In preparation for another day's Jabors, “but,” continued the spcaker, *'be not develved; thers arc thoussnds to-night not asleep. Go up that dark alley, and be cautfous Jiow yott tread, lest you stumble over the pros- trato form of n drunkard, Look carefnliyabout, Ieat you feel the garroter’s huz. Qozelntothat window-pane. You sce mnothing? What do you hear? God help us! A tragedy fs belug cnacted more ghastly than any ever perfurmed by Ristorl or Fdwin Booth, No lizht, no food, no warmth. Wby did they not beg? They did beg. Why did’ they not go to tbo olms-house! You wanldn't ask that If ¥ou could hear the cry of the man goings there. You say they are viclous, poor—so much the more to bo, pitied, for tiod ielps the Christion poor. Pass on through tho olley and open the door. 1t ‘Is not locked. There 18 nothing thers to tempt burglars, Only o brolen chalr stands against the door. Btrike s match, WIAT DO YOU s2B1 Beastliness snd rags. Offer no insult and utter no word of suspicfon here it you value your life, \What fa that red mark on the walll ‘Tho imprint of n wurderer's band; a pairof glariug eye-bulls come toward you, and your Wbt goes out, Sinko anotlior match, That Mitle babe hos never amlled, St never will smile. Wrap around vout tizhter your coat or shawl, for December winds aro cutting. Strike another matel. 1a It possible that that scarred- faced young woman ever know maternal ten- derness], Your llght bas gone out agafu. Don‘t strtko mnother inatch. It” would be wockery. Pass ouc and down street. Tho great city la full of such houses. STHE THIRD WATCILY continued the speaker, * I3 tho time when erim- nals do thelr worst work, At 8:450 tucy are In soloons, potting thelr toola roaay. This (se burglar, and soon his false key will be fn a lock, This s an inccudiary; soon there will be o light agatnst the sky and n cry of “Fire!?” Thia is an assassing to-moriow morn- fng s dead body will by found In one of the vacant lota, In dnvtime somo of these are asleop. [ the third watch thelr bralns are clear, thelr senses keen, their arma strong, ond thelr feet fleet. Many were born in tha thicves’ garrets Thelr first 1oy was o burgler's dark lantern. Tho eurliest thing In recoliection fa TORIR MOTUER BANDAGING TIEIR PATHER'S nHow, where he was strack with a policeman’s club. The firat act thoy performed was to rob other boys' pockets. Now they «dig tunnels under banks, 80 a8 to get at ihe gold vault,” Ifere the speaker told the old story about the small hoy who, when asked by the missionary, * If your fatber and mother should forsuke you, who would take youupl” answered, *“Tha per- lice.” He contibued: *In tho third watch gambling does its worst work. Tho wifels walting at home, Btir up tho fre; mlx moro Qrinks; put up moro stakes! ‘The commercial house that has just hungout Its slgn of partuer ship s about to bu wrecked, tha 10l of the emofoyer to bo tapped. A mem- ber of Congress gambled $20,000 on a alnele toss. Bo the work moes on from the wheezing wretch who pltches peu- nies In tho low saloon to the millionaire dealer fnstocks. in the shird watcl s heard the elick of balle on the Litllard table, Hundreds go to these places for rest and recreation. Al ¢l are vobbed (n them, from the mporter of sil to the dealer in Chatham strect hondkorchlefs, Clerks spend thelr sparo Lours fn them, and coutt ofticors there while away the timo while the jury ls out, AT BADEN-DADEN, where the surroundioge were of the most splendfd character, ft was not an uncvmmon thing to see the susvended bodles of sulcides in all directions of a mornlng. ‘There 1s no excuse for thls. The warnlue may be heard rumbling n the thunder of the ten-pin sliey. Inono year in the City of New York, $7,000,- 00 were sacrificed at tho gemivg-table, Look out for the agonts of iniquity who tarry around thelhotels! They ask the new arrival If ho would like to sce the city, aud then undertake to show him what fiey call tho Mons and elepbauts. [Laugbter.] In pico cases out of teu, he who sces the lions and clephauts pever sces Licaven. Tho ogent always weara & silk hat, 80d has a patronizing air ond an unsccountable suxiety about your welfare and entortalnment. 1N CUESTNUT STUEET, PHILADELPUIA, while I was living there, a youug man visited a gaming-saloon, lost his property, blew. his brains uut, and, before the blood was wuslied from the floor Ly the wald, his comrades wers shufling cards agatn. Tu the third watch drunkenness does its worst. These are men 88 goud s you, or bet- ter, In higher circles it 1s bush¢d up. Once a wan was absent from home sowe time, Mean- time bis wifo dicd. When e returned shs was lald out, prepared for busial. e shouk ber out :f: the shroud and pitched ner out of the win- w,! ‘The speaker wanted 100 Christisns to 2o among the forsskea oucs with bread and mod!- vine, as with pruyer. 3ir. Talmage covcluded With what he ancounced wonld be A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS 1t ran somcwbat as follows: Actl, A young man lesviog bis pative place anl) teare mud Bod-apecte. {itieg bl sad 168 cartain drop, § Act 4. W edding scenc. with robes of white satin, fuuzs vella, orange Ulossaums. lights, femtiny. :‘rzlvf’l eot. [Hing the bell, aud lot the curtain Act 3. A woman walling for stagzerin Oud garment stuck iu_winduw-pane. wliery, _l(nlnnnu bell. ) Act4, Tbree zraves b s dark visce—of & ebild, Who Wied for lack of medicioe, of 8 wWowas who stepe. unger, ied of a hroken heart, and of a man who died from disslnation, ook any lonaer, the cartain drop! THE CIIICAGO TRIBUKE: MONDA DECEMBER 1 elase my eyee. [ cannot hear to Qaick! ‘Ring the bell and let TMOMF. AERMON BY PROT. 8WING. Prof. Swing preached yesterday morning lo the Central Church, taking as hia text: For [ have been a stranger In & strange Jand.— Rroy b, 22 ‘Amone the objects which have pulled long and hard at tho heart-atriugs, one must hasten toetass home, Tt will be diffieult to bring such A thente under a treatment of prose, and into any philosophie analysis, for it fna tople of so much entiment and of such rich colora that it has been by common consent assizned to the genlus of pocts, as befng unthinkable except in the thythm and drapery of vorse. An the highly-colored birds do not Ny around In the dull, teaden plaihs of n eandy desert, amid nll tho scttings of Naturc's leaves, and blossoma, Nature's framework of thier pleture,—so there are truths which do not appesr well in arid fields of plillasophte Inquiry, but which demand the colored alr anr the bowers of poetry to he the scttingn of their charms. As there fs a con- ditfon of the heart which makes it scorn the tones of converaation and urges it to break forth in song, so there ara shapes of 1ifs which would but and lghts and shade gladly escape trom the touch of proaaic styles, and ask Justice from palnter and poet, Home fs anc of these high-born Ideas. 1t has always warned away Pulpit, and #ar, and Bench, and ‘Fripod. and Desk, and Platform, and tios begzed for the permission to be treateid by o higher tn- spiration than these forms of apeech can hrine. And yet we must at times disregzard this eternal fituess of thines, home which have made it 50 wuru'll{'ul poutry and seck those facts about and song. It might be that we are all being de- celved by tho singers of song and the weavers of poctey. Hume I8 & complex notion. It branches out tike tha syelugs of a river, and with [ta large snd small (ributaries covers a wholo contloent. ratlier, than fiaelf, §t throwsits Wle-giving beams down ubon the political planet and upon common - dustry, and upon character, and happiness, Asn group of planets elrcle around our sui, amd are sl blessed by 1t aud carrledd afong throngh the Or, It s 0 aun which lzhts up otler worlds Maysand Decernbers of a milllon yeara,so around that star wlich mortals call home there movo sllently quité a groun of such budies us State, and fndustey, and huppiness, and character. This fireside warmth, this Hght upon the hésrth, shinos upon Industry and” stimulatestts ruwth and stiapes fts meaning, Alinost all that war ot trads which we hear in street, all this running of cars and sallinz of ship, ariscs from the breast of wman, while he Is in pursult of his home, Tho voung men and the old men who shall pouc forth {nta the street to-morrow to resume the daily task will dosoat the com- mand o that fdol of tha heart called home, ‘Llio Captals who shall soll his ahip, or who Is now watching the cotnaxs in the high seas, will eall or watch at the bidding of that house or spot somewlicre which he hopea to bless by bis com. ing. Much of the world’s hard tuil gous luto the . taxes which ~sustain goverotents, and much of it cornings s trifle awav ana lost, but by far tns greatcst quantits of thomoney all’ toil alter gues into the comfort and decoratfon of tlio home where tha loved ones awell. When the old burled “eitien were oxhumed, whata light the uncovered walls stied upoit that tnetitution which is our theme to-day! The most of earth’s ruins had boen the ruins of temules, and theatres, and uqueducte, and Syramids, becauso it;was only thiose vast structures which contained the mna- terinls which would reslst the action of thme, “Ung howes of the people, bulit of lichter mub- stances, soon mingled with the dust and loft the reat past to whisper to us auly of palaces for in and m:rlu of the zoda; bui when tho voleano buried suddeuly two cities it embalined in roft nshes the homea of the muitltude, and brde thens slecy 2,000 ycara and then rlee up and tetl us whap o ‘beautiful and pow. crful thing the home of man has been In all his civillzed career. ‘The marble floors, the Dainted walls, the playtlings for the children the lamps, the poliahed mirrors, the ornamented {;lnu. tell us bow busy were the fathers, and X uspands, and brothers, aud wives, und daugh- tera in that far-off tine, all folllne to make and decorate, aud preserve Ltie dotestle roof The temples, und vinducts, and pyramide are at Jast the tnost conaplenoua rultis, but conld the okl homes all speak they would tell a dearer, mors touching story thau conld be thundered forth by pyramid of Partnenon. Lettors ave exiant from Jawyers who tolled at thelr professions fn the lloman Empire 2,000 vears ago, and one of these strong men contessed, whes tu exllo fora time, that he could scarcely read a letter from fiome or Write aue to his homo beeause of his tears. And to a friend In (reece the same toller wrotet M1 (ml ea fn Grecee any plece of stat- tary that will ornament my llln;nry, buy it for e, even shoukd it be exoeualve, Thus at a glanco we pereelve tint the vaat In- dustry of man does uot gravitale abuut tha word commerce, vor around the word muney, nor around the word Kiog or President, but oround the word *home.” Of all the multl- tude vou witl sce to-morrow on the streets lu the discharge of businesa duties, it s safe to al- flrm that L vast majority will be impelied by tho love of & home that I8 ar that s to b, In- dustry being the absolute saivation of mun, how groat s the tuflucnca of that clrcle which seuds ua forth cach duy to our work, and which rendurs the work plessant bcausg it 18 periorm- ed for the sake of tho blessed fireslde, The work of a stuve must be emyticd of pleasure be causo ft s s tofl which builds up tho lonse o snother and leaves the worker in poverty and despalr, but on the aukonllu how eweet the toll of @ freeman sluce all the hwurs of such industry po toward the honis of to-day or to-mor- row, 'Tho cottuge with Its hall-acre oround ft, with Ita fow fruit-trecs, with its gorden and ita yines, 14 the poor tnen's savinge tunk, where lile extra shillings tako the forin of a treo or a shirub oc a new half-acre which no Ameriean or Scotcli Director can steal, Thus the fden ot lomo branchies out and iIncludes the tdea of Industry within ieelf, 1ts Hght touches that starand makes It bright, * It not ouly creates indu but It gives it 8 noble purpose, And it doea not demand enormous labor por theaccumulation ot riches, Mancin take any good and enlarge It nto a curse, Man csn take prayerorall rell- ylon and _exaggerate it untll it becomes a de- formity. Mat can go crazy atter miaic, 116 can buy dogs until ho is a ball maniac, and ho can travel the Jand over for ilne horses antil in bis sutna the earth is only a pasture-ichd—o tur{ for his steeds, At thus the love of o home may beeowe degraded fntaounly a wania fora iouse,— o house tnat shall surpass all houses, a house horn not out of the hume teellug, Lut ont of sivalry and ambltion, ‘Cuat homo which makes up o Gud-ordalucd mative ot 1lte, and which hus led the humsu Dieurt captivo in ull ayos, aud which wiit lesd the world captive uutit ull shall gato Heaven, is onw of the mostaccommodating Ideas known to tho heart, Tlome custs just what you may bu able to pay caally, 1t udapts naell 1o your income. Unlésu it docs this, & will nut be o bonig, but it will bo a perpetual care, It the lucow ba large, then its walls niay becogna marble and the grounds large: hut If the weans of the candidate for a home by suall, then the rrounds wuat diminish or clso they must locatn thewmsotves outside of tho city’s Hwits, and the walls inust becorne wood, and the decorations muust ail declfue in vost, but not muck in beauty, “Tho home wust bo Juaded, not with mortgages, but with vines, und {naiuo 1iust be human be- {ugs not tuil of vanity, but whi kuow what man 18, uud who know that rich amt poor wre ail one in the absolute reality, sud will ‘soon be uil one in thu dust of tha gruve. Our howe idea havlug thus veached outto touch |ndu-tr{’;nd urnln-ny. it now reachies out and fuvatyes tho dea of wiirriage, But nature does not desl in absolute universals, ‘Thero are, andl have been, bersons who have found, or not tindlng, life's best mission o bel hoine- fess. There ore persotis Wio wust go lrom place to place or almost dwell upon the sca. "Tho home 18 vot u ublversal necesslty, And so mareisio 18 not the destiny of all. It 1s & com- mon of general zoal, but not desigucd tobes rrisge rybody, for God's wortd has few no exceptions. - All must dies luwa that pa all must breathe aud cat; but soon the word must withdraws fts espotism aud the miider velgn of ‘“way’ assdwnes the throue. Boautiful ‘often are whers the sou 'or the us and daughters, live on ia Lelpiug the loved parents b years of this world, sud lussuins uever at last cowe. One dare 1ot object to this, for Naturo s so full of exceptions that we cannot but feel that God eapt that all forws of beivg should pervade var world and wake it wore beauttlul by varfations. As bonie Is & general ldea, ¥o murrisicy can clulm only to be & geueral custum. ‘Loward this geu- eral custown the thougbts of home reach forth. 10to the hume, be it of thateh or of warble, this Taryo fricodsbip enters. Tho pictures, aud bou and furniture, modern or sutique, pisy but s Ppart fu the composition of the Lotae comoared with that compaulousbip which cxists between thesouls withiu, Howne depends wholly upou the ononcss of all its lomates. 1f, when tho {ather coutes utn tho parlor, ke children geatly slip out, to be in sutmu roous where the father ts oot, or §f, when the hustuud ts prescat, the wife Is balf ‘afraid snd s srleut for feur speech way oot bo welcowe to tho greatoess of the lord sud waster, home (e there {u vnly s wadified and Lalf-patuful forwm. Year of an)budy is & goud those hottes daugbter, or tho the parcutal hous geal tong the where the urauge: thing in }nll. and for criminals clemant tade, ot wpan the gentus of & Wor: & most wonderful Rmount of goit sense on each eliloof the luteresting case. arc formed upon o sndden fancy divorre courts unhapoy "liomes, for the mantle faney (8 lully equaled by the sudden- ness with which i fudes. will tell when a compantonship has come which will bind two hearts together for 1le’s good or toat \er. but it I3 8 poor nahome. Oneness of heart from raof ta cellar—n onencaa which resches even to the domentica—{s the canstitutional prineiple of the tdeal home, 1amg inclined to think that such term as “love ot fiest mght "' must be stricken from our modern philosophy, and that we must guod reasons,” for them love for and thus found homes, nut upon a soall hand or the grace of an attl- , hut apon substitute When marringes will always be husy, or clse there swili always be widdenness of & ro- Common aense alona fil. In presence of {his common nterest and inseparable nttachmant, the meaning jof money amt the menntvgol brick, and marhle, and trame, and plain_and graud, are all one,—these tering belug rendered insiznificant by the overshadow- Inge worth of the friendship. it fs alleged that the niodern girl eanididate for marrfuge has her Ideas of house und contenta vitehied to such a hight that the young mau of ordinary Income apd ordlunry prospects cannok undertake to carry forward ‘the same high tone of this life muste; hut All we older persons have abserved that the dgughters who bussess most wlteation wnd thost intelleét are parfectiy will- Iug to start thelr onterprise b 8 plain way. “Thiey nut vuly ure wiiling, but they glory fn it They only ask that thelr companion be a man of industry and retinement and. good sense, A4 for those who are called the *‘butterfiies of fashion," and thero are male Individuals of this speides, no provison nced be made foreven brnging them to s marrioge altar. They should ocomitted from all inqulrics ns tothe great motives of life. 1t 18 sahi that Jobn Bunyan's wife brought blm ot 80 much as a fork, or 8 knife, or o apuon, but unly hierself aud 1wo rood books; but it afterwards appeared that she was herseiz o complete world without the silver spuon accotnvaniment, But we must mova away from thls uncertaln ground to repeat that man's home rises up bee furc the hinnan race a8 one of the powerful witids that fills the safis and watts nlong the ships. How the heart ulmost bresks when It must Jeave homa! Not only the little chlldren but ail we olde: children are cumpelled to shed secretly a fuw tears when we must leave for o thoe the mdescribable charni, Strong-hearted and strong-minded men feel that to fiy over to the old continont and ramble thure & hall year will be & anveeme delignt, but when the wheels ol the steamship make their fiest revolution and the fricuds on the shore wave adieu, how the heart sinks and how the whole puysical framne protests ogulnst the mreat separation! And atnid nll the wonders of the foreln world the home Jeft hehind pulls at the hcart of the exile, aud at thnes comes the fecling of regret that even fur all this pageantsy of ruins and art oiie should have Jeft timt fireslde moro divine tha pletured wallor eculutured rock. fn tho night 1 sonr comes over the deep— Como howe, Comea to the heartli-stune of thy carllor daye: Come o the urk ltko Lo 0'er wearied dove; (:ome 10 tho suniight of the hearte warin rays; Come to tho Aresida circle of thy love, Trotlier, comy hume. Como howme, 1t I not iome withant taer, the ion t 1s otii} uncisimed where thon was wont to bo; Tn vvery echo of returning fect, 1n vain we Jiat for what should herald thee. Lirothior, come home. And thus has the whole world thought, and wept, and eried In oi} s 1ouching history, This house, cottage, or palace, with fts at- «reaches out and sistaing power- Iatfons to the State, It 1s one of the mar. vels of bistory that euch a genlus as was that cinssle who defined an fdeal Republle should bave declared that all the citizens should bo- long not to any family but to the State, and that all tho children should be reared by the Stnte in public bulldings. Thua the term, father and mother, son and danghter, husband and wife, were u'l to Le swallowed up in the word citizen, In a nation that njust live by war only such a theory might clalm to Lo net wholly lusane, but sl the latter ages have mado the notlon ono of the wildest over entertained, for it 1a now agen thot cach reat nation comes from the number and intelligeneo of its home-groups ol mon and women, It haa alienys been tho homeless rab- ble that has opposed the law and order of the world, Aud it has siways been the mon who had homes ta defond and blera who hare tolled to cheek tyranny and eatablish liberty, ‘Thateot fu the valley, that log-house {n the woods, that niodest botise in tho villaze, those costiier resl- denees In the city which pull at the leart when the Inmate leavas themy theso nll pull at the souty too, In the days of political confliet, ond fave turncd out “for battle lour lines ol herafe troops. Homo surpassca West Polut in training for tho battictield, for, 12 the Iatter can supply &n art, the former can supply au {nspiration niore effective than tactles, Ac- cording to Mmuln{'l Lays of Anciont Rome, and, Indeed, uccurding to Dlaln history, & most despotic monater was swopt from power fu a few days by & peopls who saw him lay his ermed hand upon the bume of a most humble citizen. ‘fhat wholo poem of * Viegintu ¥ may well atand forever asan expression of the relation Detween the Throno and the Home. And Inour day this relationship bas become atill more loti- mate. For the Thrane has abrlicated wany old riehts, and the Home has put on fucreased edu- cation and has been granted new prerogativea, Tho old despot has faded away Iato s citizen King, or Quven, or President, oud the power thus cast aside has been sssumed Ly the Hrestde, Agalost the naduess of o nob ‘our Jaud can always oppase tho Interest and power of its do- mestic hearth. In olden times "the Lomctess, mado such by despotisni, and by znorance, and by superstitl nd Idlen wero s multitude 50 nuinerous that upon olwost any day they could overtbrow or disturh the Goverument; but fora hundred yoars ooy Jind has been ro- moving the chalns ‘of lzuorance, and subcrsti- tlon, and laieness, and bus been eathering into hames tllions who in other agea would bave been elther s turbulent mob or the urmed troabs of adespot. ‘Thus that home which figures first in romanca as o place which love builds, and then fgnres In poetry as fhe dearcat apot on earth, from which going we weep teara of sof row, to which returning we weep tears of joy, passes up out of this sentimental vale and reab- pears in pollties more inspiring than many drums. more powerful 1hau o tyrant’s swonl. But I can only allude to the'yualities of tbls potentlal motlve, It {s seen to branch out and touch Industry, and awake and direct It, to touch marriage snd unite i1, snd Jay plans for 1ts life-Jougg happluness, and then to touch the great nffulrs of State and become ud ully of o good King or 8 goud Prestdent. Bo it réaches out ouce more and touches intellect wnd heart with ita almost angelic wings, [n the peace, and security, and hyopiness of this abode, and under {ts inpulss toward fudustry, tho futellect v awakened and the heart is led out of itsoll. Home great mnds may have becen reared in 8 claset aud {rum o garrct sddressed a world, but such events aro exceptional. Almost all those minds which have stoud forth in besuty, snd which sti}l stand n bistory never to fade, srose not frawm the dens of avy fsulution, but frow the fireslde of & home. "It took all the cares of domeatie Nife, it took the wife ! children to weave the smmortal chapleta of the centyul figure. Tha zroup Kent the auul a: d bound dawu to the duily tak, and m e task most pleasurable. Rcad over the vames of the mighty ones, and what a vast majority ot thom wero kept fully awske to the outslde worll by tho resticss Jife under the parental rouf, 1u tsolndion tho heart gruws narrow, and the mind decliues towarda repose. and Its sun ol soon, after o 1t 1s ovidently tho law of God that in early lifs alonx shall como the votlage or the mansion 10 pour & new in- |E‘Imkm {ato that soul from’ which the test vistons of youtt have fuded. A public man now In tho latter years of & long lifs wrute recently ina private letters I love the world more end my heart grows tonderer toward i tho Junger th'c. 1 Juve the young deoply, and feel m myself still down among ther laugh- pleasures, sud hoper.” Now this letter comes from a howe whore the Mgt of affeetion has jolned with the sun in Highting up deoraten snd window, sud whero a miodest library snd genegous lire in the broad trcpluce have com- Liued with kindred spirits to mako the place o sourco af 8 pure thought aud s vure religlunand an upfading vouth, What elss could so in- fuence tha better thought aud sentimental It was my {ntcution to ask you to wark the relution of the bowe fdes o morals but the sublect has proves too large tor my W ud. Wo with always, all of us, full to grasp these great motives whicls envelup us. A8 we cunnop cone celve of God, so must we faofl to measura full these majentic espressions of His will. iifs ways are ubove our wa; Vo can ouly cach oy take a fow steps aloug His futinlic ‘shore. As ono the greatest of wodera batious unavje tu bebiold all tho maguificence ol tho uld ewpire of thy Nile, uuuble to collect sguin the luimense Mbraries of_tbe Pharoabs, unabie Yo restors thy miassive architecture which reached frot The- bes Lo Memphls, ubavle to rewave to Londoy & pyrsmid. could only box up & sluzle mouolith and drag that itle €blem acroas the eas, so wust we sll &t last confcas weakueas fu preseuce of the motives whics God has been buflding uy i the thousand-year perivds, aud along the streaw of buinau beiug, Unable to show you the lengib, sud breaatn, aud nubnmn{ ot alf or even oue infiucnee, we briug you only w sugle stone,~a monolith from au ewplre” that de- mauda your widest and deepest -luui'. 1adduo extended suvice, but ouly the bope that the young mnen here to-day will not under- take {0 pass tlicse earthly years without askin the kdeul buwe, with Its fuioulacd, Lo colue au tead and fmpel them by It mang-shaped attract- iveness. Towards that future” home dircct the industry and rconomy of to-dav. The mmd tn 1ta thought, the haud in fts skiil, the heart In i1a morals and warmth, the pirt in its religion, ask you to he busy to<day laying the fonndations of this human temple—rivaling in beauty the halls of art and even tha shrines of God. And your roming middle hfe und old age ask you $0 pre- pare for them its happiness snd pesce. Do not fear to pleture fu as ristng ap n years not far Away, for the heart will decorate the morrow with something, and no other sketeh will more honor the canvas or he more cany of final fulfil- ment. But patnt it fo simollcity, Let it begin aultly, like a straln of music, that thore may be 7ooin for higher nates farther along in the great rhapsody, (fud will go with you, for He loves not nicre the altars of Himsell thas the fire- sides of 11is children. GENESIS, ¥ DIl 0INION'S LECTURE, The Rev. J. Munro Gibson gave the third of s present serles of Bivle resdlogs in Farwell Mall yesterday afternoon, the sudience which turned ot to hear him, in spite of the weather and the alonpy condition of the atreets, befus quite & large one. The instructive talk on (enesls was preceded by the usual servica of zong, the new cholr rendering effective work, Ilaving commenced the patriarchol era oo the preccying Sunday, In the talk on Abrabam, Dr. Gibson sald hie would now conelder the sous of the three zuc-essive generations,—TIsaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Their biograpbizs, Instructive ss they were, eould not, for lack of time, be atudled in detall, but he would offer some gen- eral viows which would be found Instructive in the study and uge of those blographics. 1o the first place, he referred to the remarkabla varlety of tharacter displayed; 1sase standing out, for instance, In great contrast to Abraham, cepecially in the matter of greatness. While aquiet, mestic tnan, 1ull of tender emolions, and ha ing little of the mgred strenzth of Abrabam, he yet took ratik with the best of them, God be- ing alwavs spoken of by thy Jews as the tod of Abraham, Isaae, snd Jacob, There was a great denl of comfort, indeed, in the thought tnat the quiet, earnest Chrlstians,—tha Innacs they mizht ve called,—night staud sotne day a4 high as the Abrahams, the Jacubs, and tho Josephe, The first fact that fimpressed us in seading Ja- cob's life was the painful one of his uhworthr- ness by nature to be God's chiosen rervant, And yet the record of Ins Mife had the merit of beluz a truthiul blography, 1t gave no false fdeus uf Chrlstlan experience, Buaides this, i presented 8 spzcial Jesvan on the power uf divine grace. We saw what that grace cowld make of the poorest materiale, for certafnly it had very vour imaterlal to work with when it tom- menced with Jacob, Our Urst sympatbles naturalty ran out to the younger brother ¥sau, sithough, on looking at the entire lives of botn, it was casy to sec the diilerencs between them, Esau's )ife, Indeed, began better than Jucob's, Lut the great nuestion was how our lives ended, not bow they began, Esan aold his birthelgnt, turned his back on the Lord, and bis path thenceforth was alwars downward, 8o mauy who hnd naturally awmisbie dispoaitions and noblo traits of character were, nevertheless, all the worse off in the end, because they did nob reallze thelr responsibilities, but squandered thetr (fod-given talen| ob's path, though sometimes tortuol wlways upwards, He always od. 'The mean Jdacob to begin with became the mighty Israel to end with, and In this was scen the power of ivine grace, ‘The lesson, In short, waa that the great question did not consist in tho fact of our having lew or nm?' fanlts, but whether we had that within us which was con- tinually subduing those faults, and which wotild In the fung run overcome them. Abrabam tras A hero, but ft was given to very few to be heroes, Isnac, the son, wwns the pattern of goodness, but Jacoh was o slnoer, and that covered the greatest oumber, ‘There might “be somo ‘Abrahams und some Isgacs In the audience, but there werd sure to be very many Jacobs, wbom God was willing to ralse up and to give places beside the Abraliams and the leancs. * We could call on Giod not only us the tiod of Abralam and Isaae, but as the (iod of Jacoh. What confort there was, therciore, in the thought of the Hfe of Jacob! Aud as for Joseph, ho was anc ol _the noblest characters In all Listore, fo whom shione out all the grapdeur of the Old Testument and the New, There was room for some yery intereat~ ing comparisons In the lives snd characters of Abrabam und thess sons. Comparlug them with respect 1o thelr falth, for instance, Abra- lium stood out especially os the man of Tulth, though that foith often falled him, Tt was dif- ferent with Juseoh, 1t might be asked, Why wna not Joseph cliosen pre-cminently as the muy of falsh! Tho reason was, that Abruhain was what wight bo termed the Columbus of the voyage of faita. Like Abrahom, Columbus® heare might have falled him_ sonictimes, but he went on, strong i the fuith, crossing a nath that had never been truveled before. in Tsaae was seen faith assoclated with the passive virtues as dstinzulshed from the activity and energy of Abraham’s fnith, In Jucob was seen Ialth atrugglivg with the fleah, and Unally, aftera long strugele, gaining the victory; “whilo lu Joscol was scen faith trumphant lu advorsity as well as in prosperity. But thero was ntore then mera blograpny {n the lives of those sons. The New Testment, with fta guiding passages, taught us to look at these representativo weu as typleal of Christ, ‘They were In the direct Huc, they were the sons, and Cnrist was the Bon ot the Fathor, ‘Tha type, it should bo remembered, was uot to be found in thoracter. ‘Tho Lord Jesus was holy, unde- flled, ana separate from eingors, sod the typkal relation was {o be found in the cireulnstances and in the course of hlatory., Partlenlarly was it found tu_the yuuthfu! Listory of these patri- archs, Abraham catie into view an old mai and one did not spesk of auythiug typleal there, Christ was _nlways young, aud the history of Isascwas the moat lnteresflng in his youth. Tho same was true of Joseph.’ Jacob, however, was a littie pecullar, equally stress belnir lald on his lifeas s son and as @ father, But the typleal facts wero nll found in the records of " their earlicr years. Passing on to a penerul sketch of the three sans, Ur, Ulbson remsrked that thers were threo things fo the llfe of Issac which were particul Iy emphasized, The firet was bls birth. e w. the chifld of promise, sypical of the Corist, tho chiid of promiao of the New Testament, I the sccond piace, lsnac was, In o apecial sonse, the type of the Son of (lud,—his birth, supernatural ih one scnse, remindime us of the wsu- pernatural birth of Christ, ‘The (hind hing to be apeclully noticed —was the sacrliles at legac, the wecouut of which re- minded us how Ui eave Ilis unl! gon, Whom 1lo loved, na & sacriflce for us, ~ lIsaac, the secd of promiso, was obedlent unto death, sud coutd wo read all this without remembering the obedience unto deaths of the seed ol promise, uven Jesusi Then there was presented, fu a figure, the resurtection alter three davs ot svre Lrial, i which Isaae was given up us dead, atud thie promise seemed to bu buried in his tomb. Could we read atl this without thinking of that other Sou of Abrabam, \Who, ke Isaac and yet unlike him, waa the Sou of aa well, and Who, ofter threo days of dark- neas oppearcd agaln, as ons alive from ‘the dead, preseutinz i 1l1s resurrection the atrongest conlirmation uf Hiehopest ‘Then, aguln, atter tho acriflee, the prowise of the aved was renewed, aud Christ's words, *I, if I bo Mited up, with draw all men unto the," wave us tho vislan of the who were to orm the fiving chureh of God, Dr. tibson atse found in lsusc's marriage 8 tyto of tho merriage of the later bride and bridegroom—the Church and Christ, —Passing on to the consideration of Javob's histary, he saw i 1ho circumstances of Lis humitiation sud poverty, and the vislun of the opunlng heaveos and the angols of God ascendivy .and descend- g, somethivg tyvical of Christ's leaviug His home on high and conseuting to humiliate Hin- »self and becomo the son of man. Amd {el. to corry ont the sfmilanty, it wasw's ali dack with Cheist, for thy heavens opeued sgafn aud azaln, sod angels vamo and ininlstered unto Him, Jacob's marrlago wss _also suggestive ol the marriage of Christ amd tho Church, fo that Christ, likq Jacob ana un- §ik Isaae, bad to serve for the brlde, Then, again, 8s Jacob had boru to hita twelve sons, s0 the Ssvior had spiritually bormm to Him the twelve Apostles; and, =a Matthius was sdaed 10 tho Jittle band of Apostica to take tho place of Judas, who fell, 50 was Muuasseh added to wake the number of Jucob's chlidren twelve. Aud Benjawin, who was barn after tho relurn 10 Caauab, mizht be a type of the Apostle Puul, the **ono bury out o1 duu season,” bug who ws a Beojamin uot & whit behind the other Aposties, Aualy, Dr. Gibson saw i Jucob's wrestling with the angel a type of the agony in tho & 1 of Gethsemane, ‘I key of Juseph's history was to be found 1 tho W0 namus Even bini,—tbal given by Tharaoh, algulfylng * Savior of the World," bé- catiao bu had saved the Egyptisn nation frum famipe, sud the other mgnliviog, *The Bhey Lierd und Stone of Tsracl." Ho was, in trut the fevder of Jurael, and the stone un'wbich old Yoraed rebied fu bis latter duys, Isasc was tho tope of Christ as the Son of tiod, Jacol a3 the Sou of Man, snd Josenh wus tho type of Clrist asthe Savior. ‘Tbe two frat tyvified Hin in His person, wud tho tolrd fu {18 work. Juseph was envied, hated, rejected, 303 adid Ly bis brethren; wes tewpted, and reslsted; pué futo privon, aud afterwards raised Lo greater honor than before. Like Jusuph, Christ was bated sud refected of inen, sold for thirty pleces ot silver, but, after beiug put to desth oo the cross, ruie trom the dead Ly asend uto heave, the par- wlel bueiug carned wub 1o the eud even Lo We exaltation ot each. Joseph, In his prosperity, treated his brethren ma though hie had always remained at the old home, and Christ, thougn cxalted on high, bent on uya brother's eye. As Josepl was exaited, Ao (iod had greatly axal.ed the Son. Me was the shepherd and the stone of lsracl fu particular, but le was also the Bavior of the world, and whogoever wonld might tome unto Jim, 018 salvation was as Iree as the granaries of Faypt. “With the presentation of Chirist," said’ Dr. Gibson Ia closing, “as the Hon of Gix, Son of Man, Baylor of the world, and Shepherd_and Stone of 1arac), Iet us all put our tenst (o fim."” BISHOP M'LAREN. A TRIDUTH PROM HIS CLERGY. The services yesterday evenlng at the Cathe- Qral of 9. Peter and Paul, corner of West Washington and Peoris strects, nere piven an additioml Interest by tho attendance and assist- ance of the Rev. Ctinton Locke, the Rev, &, 8, Harels, the Rev, Arghur Ritchie, the Rev, Mr, Averdaon, the Rev. Mr. 8niith, the Rev, Francis Mansfield, the Rev. Luther Pardee, tho Rev. Henry G, Perry, the Rev, W. J. Petric, and the Rev, &. N. Morrisom dr. fng such an _acknowledgment fell on the Rev. the Bishop a8 folluws: Rians UxvRrzan Fatner 1y Gop: [ eannot tell y [raciousiy the cleriy of your Cathedral city grasped at this opportunity offered them of expressing their attachment to yon, thele conuratulations on the thied unniversary uf your you how rendily and coninecration, and thelr gestitude to Aloighty Uod for the Liesringu which 1= has bestowed upon the diocene given to your care, Three years ago to-day witnesssd s brilliant scenc Indeed in this Cathedral: the long proceasian of Wit ani clergy: the thronging crowda; the glorious music; the ulenily and rolemnity of the ccremonial: the earncst words of the preacher, —all combined to paint & picture wluch will not seen fadevut of the memories of thore who saw |t ‘Those who were near youiknesw by the exyression of yuur frce the dept of your feelings, We knew how awful the hoor was to you when you passed from the honored Itécturship of ™ & tetuved parish to fhe Eplacopal throne of A djocese nll mnknown to you, wnich hed been tarn by internal ateife, and which was smart- iny under the rejection of two of 114 chosen randi- dates, both men of briltlant repute, and one of whom (1o prove the truth of itasense af decp inlustice) haa since been conaecrated to anutlier Sve, Thero wera controverslen connected seith tiie post which you forcskw rising befote you, there wad yait own humble estimata of vour own nowers. L was not & oy unmixed with paln, even thovgh the allelufa rose Jond And clea) upon thealr, - Now inat three soars ha ‘away, what ‘phantoms th toinge b 1A agals angry mtorm paescd over, there wan Divided brothren jolned banda again for the com- peace. mon work of the Church. iitter words wero gen- erounly forgotten. Allempts to fan ' the smolder- ing embers of difference were frowned duwn, and now | know of no diocess more unitea, mote hare monious, more Ioyal to it Nishop and e Charch. Uod wrant that i may lonr Temain 0, and that no cnergy may be diesipated in vain woras, which cza bo made asefal fn the glori- fyingof thecsusc of the Lord Chtist, You have, of conrse, met with the ordinary difficulties of & ruler and & quide, Some of them arose (rom tha terrible Anancial pressure, which fell o heaviiy upon the wotk of the Church, Others are ever present kn_every dloces ] **apgrieved parfshioner, priest. Like the poor, we and nlwaye the unwise bave thei always with us, I think that [ speak the sentiments of all when 1 nay that you have mict those dificaltica wiih that worldly wisdom your cxverience #o nmply gave you, with th man of warm and’ noble affectiana, and with thot Christian patience and tendernces which than mitre or crosler fof the adorning of a ishop in the Church of Gud. _ But the meeting of aim- cultion has becu & mere fraction of your work. Yau nave bad tho giarious privileyo of condrining and strengthening hundreds of sonln by the lay- inz on of Auostaile hands, You bave witneened progress, zeal, entarprise In all parts of vour dlo- ene, thieto being mission work now carried on st Alty potnts, You hiave inspired noblu nnders ¢ and breathed futo fainting hearts new 1), you have witnessed tho con- ieme which owes ita saccera in great measure 1o your wise Judgment: the division of the divcese Into three diuceses, each with a grand Bistop at ita head, On all these well- earned grounds we offer you our congratulations. With you we look forward (0 many years of de- voled Iabor and spiritaal reward. ) un wid, our luyalty, vur prayers. a father will wo gather around you; ae or among hia sons you will stand vefore us. Itls o noble dlocese, {hat tn which (lud has cast yonr 1ot and ours, * This eity alone wonld be o splendid Kee, epough to occupy sil your time, but beshles tule o preat territary luoks un Lo you for Episcopal suparyision, May God bless 5uu in your raling of it.and, when yon come to atand befure 1l in yotr 1ot at the grent advent, may yo ta a great crowd of hapoy sotls o aay, Lo, here am 'and tnose whom Thou d ve mo. The reverend Bishon, in reply, spoke of the Detter be able to point emotions which he raid causcd hitn te grope tor words to express himsell, and which emotlons were very pereeptible throughout s remarks. IMe esld that he had expected nothing of the Kind, and was as greatly surprised ay he was touched by the words of cheer and nffectton and the promlses of ever-increasing fruternity and co-operation, If the “diocese had prospored duriug the three years of his adminlstration it was God's work, IC it had not prospered, it hiod not been because it had not been lakd b foro God and eiven Into 1ils hands. The Bls| op's whule repty was hearty and thanklul that lie bad been blessed with o success in his work, &ud full of hope that he might continuc to en- Joy life and Jabor i the scrvive of the Master, " LOVE GOD. BRRMON TIY TUR REV, HODZNT COLLYCH. Tho Rev. Robert Collyer took as his text yes- {erday morning: % One came to Jesus and asked im, saying, !\“’hlc 18 the Srst commandment of all!—dark il We had two accounts, hie sald, of the conver- sation between Jesus and tho Pharlsee,—ono In Matthew, and this fn Mark, They difered somowhat in their wording, Mark's report being much more minute, sud writtea in s kirder spirit; bue the latter must be diht lu attribut. fugz the purest and noblest motive to the man. He at onee agreed with the truth as Jesus told it him,~that to Yove God with all hils heart, and soul, and mind, and strength, and his nelghbor as himself, was mora than all burnt-offeriogs and sacritices. e felt troubled as men have felt troubled in @il thnes, snd as we folt troubled now about the nwnber of things that reliious teachers, anid preachers, and writers were fosisting ou us evsential 1o a rellgious ife,—overy ono differine from the other, and every onc insist- 0z that bis dogma was the rizht and the true one, and ncglect of It Involved peril. Thero must have been sonse grdnd primal truth which included and covered them all, and Jesus told hun what his soul hungered and louged to now, Ho (Mr, Collyer) bhad ono wish—tlat the wurd commandaent could be changed to *fcou- ditjon,” which be concetved to be better, bo- cauea to love God was not 80 much somothing we must do as something we inust boj the belog preceeds the dolng. ~ If tho coudition of true home life—luve of wits aud children— were not there, it was 5o use commandiug it becausy such & commandment would be s dead- Tetter, . Love would nut come and g0 at our beek and cafl. When wo canie to {aquire what the love of Uod really was, bow ft came’ aud what it could do, we had to re- jeet sud clear awsy @ great deal tbut was conaldered quite fudispousablo toa true love of tiod, aud tu take iuto account o great deal that was left out or constlered of very small woment indeed. A senso of Justice, and truth, snd rizht, compelled bim (Collyer) 1o reject somy *essentina™ as uiterly unworthy of thio divtne vature. No vue bul Clrlst cuuld teach him {n this great mattor of huw ha stiould love God. Ile wanted Adam 10 stand on his owu feet and miod his own bustuess, ho (Adaw) hiaving made troubls cnoueh, it all reports of Lim were oy, withiout seuctiug down throueh ull thesy awcs o pake more trouble in his (Callycr's) tinse aud for hin, He could fud no motive for lovo of Gud fn the old Methodist duys. Hetook uo pleasurs in palntipg this worid blsck, that the vistou of Heaven mieht be sweeter by contrast, ‘Tho old spleadid vision of the world to coms had wu out ol our bearts, sud fn lts place | come & sweer snd tender vislon, that was much better, of another homp to which we. bud not yei vbiaiued, and which we knew very listls aboiit, but could thiuk uf, aud almoss weep for oy over, knowiug that by wnd by we sbould cuter wnd tid loved oncs again, * It was tn thls direction rather than fn the splendid pletures that the motlve must conte for wyr loviug God. in answering the Tlvnunn what ‘was the me- tive power of tho love of God fn the svul of mau, Low 1t came, snd how we should explalu it, we could begly just where Jesus berau i His Beewon on the Slount. ‘The whols watter seemed to bl to centro fu the sel of divive gooduess 1o us here now, aud the eternal zood- ucss that would bo fosever sbout us whatever wight befull, “Ibere was no bint iu, that su- o discourse of divive wruth,—uo ' vision of & celestial city. Jusus tulked altogetber of this carth on which wo wers hiving—of & purd lite aud the sucred dutles witblu our u of three score years dud tep,—imukiog us feol that our love o "God was personat becauss of 1l personal love for us and his persoual care over uv. He knew of bo better reasou for Toving God to-day, and aiun't belleve there wus one, Ue didn'y caro what # tusn believed or dlsbelieved; i he guve pronls ot his devotion to buwauity, be waa 8 devout way, Hemieht The coure of thelr asscmbling was & desire (o extend to the Rt.- Hev. Bishop McLaren an avknowledzment of thelr esteem and affcction. The hionor of inak- Mr, Locke, who, at the proper time, addressed There {8 slwara the nympatay which charsciorizes not go to church or accept any creed, but it ne loved (iod's truth ho Joved (lod: if he served man with a pure heart fervent; he served tiod with a pure heart fervently, for the love ot o was the love of goodness, and the worahin of Uod was a reverence for goodness and & pure life, A man who bellesed in light belleved in the sun. The whole substance, and soul, aurd aplrit, nnd life of thelove of God Jay In the rmn( one gave of devotion aod service to man In n large anid swect spirit—of an uprizht and noble manhood. Mighty wotk had been done by men who had no religion, and most of thosn who made great pretenses o religion had fur- nished proof that love of God cama from loving our fellows. e GRACE METIIODIST. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES. The anniversary of the dedication of Graco 3. F., Church, corner of Nortn LaSaile and White streets, occurred yesieniay, At the conclusfon of the regular morning servicos,jthe pastor, the Rev. Rouert D. 8heppard, made & short address appropriate to the occasion. Iie spoke of the continyed suceess of the Rociety in lave yeara, and espeelally sfnce the dedication of thechureh oue year ago. A hrief resume of the history of the chinreh waa given, followed by a few words of conolation for thoss who had been bereaved during the past year, The fate pador of fhe chureh the Rer. John Atkinwn, was, he sald,to be highly comemeuded for the succesa of nts labars (o free- fng the church from debt and putting it on a firm foundation financially, At the close of hls address the pastor prescnied the finsncial state- ment for the vear, which showed expentes anjounting to 83,345, and $1,738 of receipts. From this statement it appears that there 14 a deflcieney of £1,578, snd to meet this a collection was taken up. Owing to the stormy weather tho attendance was small, Lnt, ncvertheless, the subscrlytions wod tasy vaimenta netted about 81,200, and it 1a exvected “thar the bal- ance will be aubscribed within a short time. ‘The services closed with the doxology. — GOD IN NATURE. LECTURE BT THE REY. JOSEPH COOX. This Reverend scient{st lectured on the above subject, In New York, & fow evenlogs ago, and opened s discourse for half an bour to the followlng eftect, which seemed a littlo off from the text of “Ood In Natural Law*: Mr. Cook said that this Thursday evening lectureship wouid resembie the Boston Monday afternoon lecturealip, sud would have some- what ot s devotlonsl character. There came, he rafd, on Dec, 2 from Windsor Castle, flashed under the seas hy what Teanyson calls **the thunderless lghtning,” these words: * De- lighted at reception: say so. The Quecn.” Last night Ottawn sént rockets 1nta the alr, in delight at the arrival of tho Mnrqluu of Lorne and the Princess. Although the Marquis says that Ottawa s the finest city on the American Cont'nent,’ yet New York and Boston are here. Hat we know that tho United Btates do_ not appear large to an Engltshman, and most Americans lave not heard of sopthing happening in Canado stnce therepcalof the Rectprocity Tresty, Most people thougbt that the sbrogatlon of the treaty would drive Canada into nmon with the United 8tates, but cxactly tho opposite result has fol- lowed. Today the proviuces are firmlv united together, and the forest primeval i startied by the roar of the locomotive. An Intercolonial raliroad hias heen bulit an expense of $20,000,000. Boston has lost an aunuat trade of $27,000,000, und New York etill nore by the abrogation of this treaty, and the consequent opeping up of Canadu's nternal resources. Where are all the sagacious merchants of New York, Boston, and Portland, that they do mot see the great foct that our warrownesa in re to the Reclprocity Treaty has developed the breadth of Cavadlsn enterprisol There ought not to be a rod of Manhottsn Island {ndifferent to what Is hap- pening in Canads. On the Lower 8t. Lawrence there Is o large Roman Catholic French popula- tion lgnorant and unskilled, and vet, when liberated from the thraldum of Romanismn, capable of agreat deal. Tho English-speaking portivus of Canada have now sought a uhlon with the lower part of tlie country, All British America {8 practically a unit. I'nm not discussing Canada with the ides that Canada will become 8 part of us. We have loog grown Indifferent to any destre for fncrcase of terri- tory, The Unfted Btates dldn't purchase Alaska—Sewurd bought that. [Laughter.| Arbitrary power may purch: 1ands, but a Re- public can only fucorporate s new proviuve by the free chofee of the people. |Applause.] Let Canada oceupy her spacious Western territories; let her founa manufactorics snd bind together her differcnt portions Ly raltways: let her run another Paciile Hallway over the Rocky Mount- atuai (€ she shall then couciude that sho will be less open to attack 1f united with this couutry snd her Industries will thrive better by freo ports between tho two countries, let her woid hier ports into something Ilke homogene- ousness, let her make of berself o freo State, aud then the unfon may not bo far off. * The hauehty days of Engiand are passing awav. In twenty years the Unlted States will have a Iargo fucome. We are passing her by at & caoter, We now scll shears, fn Shefleld, and we may yet carry coals to Newcastle. [Ap- plause.| Let ns look forward to s day when FEoglish- speakivg natlons will keep treaties with cach other, aod by that means secure a commercial Teairuo that shall make them a1l stronger aud better. When the day comes that England rows weak. with her coal-mines exhausted; when the Liberal deserts India, aud aze has crept uvon the parent State, then 1 want the shoulders of America. the vonugest child, to be strong enough to suoport the motber in nier old ege. (Apvlause.] The remaindor of the discourse wandered over 10 tha actusal subject, and duschsaed It Al cursively, INVITATION TO CIIRISTIANS EFPFORT FOK A WORK OF QOD'S ORACE. To the Minksters and Churchea in the Unlted States: The minlaters of various denomlinations in Boiflmore, in confercuce with M, 1. L. 2Moody, {uvite the ministers aod churches of our country to unite in tho month of Jsuusry next, following up the week of prayer in apecial ef- forts for a reviral of (God's wark throughout the land. The obscrvance of this week has been attended with great blessings in the past, but, as Is well knawn lu many cases, the cheer- {ng expectations oxeitod have fatled 1o be reals ized. ‘Thousgh all seemed ripo for large spint- ual results, the work havinz come to an'end, tho intcrest has subsided, It is proposed to follow up the approaching week of prayer by continuous efforty In alt the churches throurh that mouth. The signs of the times joint to the need of a great quickening ol religious Jife, The torves of evil cancentrate in our groat cities, the Bnaucial and politieal corruptions, the alarm- fug encroachments on the Sablath, the thjcken- iug snsres furthis young, the growlug skepticlsm, aa well as the istensely secular spirit of the sge, are enoagh to awaken nnrmu«m-luu for vur lu- atftutions sud for the soclal fabric itself. Can ansthing short of a greut quivkened roliglous Mfe arrest this thde of evilt “Should God's peo- ‘su of every nsine, North and South, East and Wi Impruve the fiest munth of the ncoming year as uow suggested, laying astde all coullict- Ing engagements, Jiterary, suclal, or otherwise, 10 1hat the wnole Chinstlsn community might: unite in prayer and labor for tod's blessioe, might not the bappest seaults bo suticlpatedt I is contldently belleved tuat bicssings would be vealized duch us would not only arrest the alurining advance of evil, but would msiate an epoch of great prosperity to Zivn of yaat beneli tu our beloved country aud of sizual honor aud glory to God, Jonx Levseny, Presdyterian South, &, K. Cox, Meth. Epis, Soutb. W, T. Buastiey, Baptist, .’ A, 8toux, Lutharan, J. T, 8uiti, Presbyterian North, 1 Srive, Methodtat Episcupnl, E. tnauxag, Protestant Eplacopal. {uLusy, Cungregstionsl. . PosrLETuwalTk, Nel, Epls. Srxxces, Christtan, Aveustus WessTeu, Muth, Protestant, Janes CAREY Tiivnan, So. of Fricods, N, A, Mowzgs, United Breth, In Chelet, J. T, Nowwizens, Reformed. IT, . duussox, adependent Meth, E. B, Evoix, Ubited Presdyteriau. AL W. Warnay, Alrican Metb., Epls, % — ELSEWIERE, caToLIC, ‘ Bpectal Disgatch to Tha Tridune. 8enixarieLp, Ik, Dec, 8.—8t, Juseph's Cath- otic Church, of thls city, was formally dedlcated tbis mornioy, with tbe usual ceretaonies of the Clurch, by the Rt.-Hev. P. J. Baltes, Bishop of Alton, assisted by Fatbers Burke and Cawley, “I'uls afterooon the Blshop and local clergy- men went to Riverton, In this county, ou & npecial traiu, and performed the cerewony of blesstug tho bells of 8t Jumes® Church there. weigs S adhchalAcoet s uimi SECREY SOCIETIES. Bpectal Duspatch (o The Tribuns. Evaix, I, Dec, 8.—Still anotber post of the G. A. R has been established here, the result of tho disbandiog of tho vld orgsuization. Tue Veterua Post, G. A. R., was orgaulzed last even- iug, with thirty-two members and the fullowing officers: G, H. Kuott, Cow,; Joba J. Heldew, 8.V, C.3 M. M. Harger, J. V. C.: Jotn G, Day, Q. M.; Frauk C, Mdler, Chap.; P. T, O'Flahier- J., 4, T W ! ity, Bate,; F. C. Lammersall, Al BT, B Ot atan Eakio, Q. M. Bergt. e ——— “1 WANT YOU.” And Ite Got Him. . At1o'clock this morninz a roughly-lressed man was seen to attadk & spectacled inditidual on Clark street brilgs, point & revolver at his head, and was heard to say, “I want you.” Then the latter tried to push tha former over the bridge railing lnto thé river, and they struggled desperately with each other, As Offlcer Meyer came up he thought it wae a8 bold attempt . at bhighway robbery, but he was soon set straight by the roughlyclad individual assertlng that tho other was athreecard monte man, and had robbed liim of 8300, Tha apectacled man proved to beanotorfons monte man named Jdames Bird, who was given twenty-four iours to leavo town and thus cacapeaflMfine only three wecks ago at the Armory Police Court. Tn the prisoncr's possession were found a roll of what is technically known as *‘ boodie,” and which is made up of wasta paper with genuine monoy for the outsida coveriogs, about $200 cash, a number of spurious checks, and some athar des vices for swindling the unwary UGranger. The complalnant, W, C. Brideett, of Wabhash, Tnd., was casily induced to relato his story. e was returning home from Fort Beott,” Kam., and while eitting fn the Northwestern depot last evening a very affable gentles man, whom he describes as short and chunky An stature, with small mustache, met him and Induced him to takes walk sbout town, They passed acveral bridges. drank In several saloons, and finally turfied up In some ealout, the whereabouta of which i3 uuknown. Tha spectacted man was met, and soon after the thres cards were being thrown hy him. Mr, Bridgett’s friepd bet and won about &5, And then Bridgett bet 8500 at one crack, and lose it, He attempted to pursne the rellows throuzi the rear door, but they managest to make goud their escape. ite then conclided to turn detect- ive, and ho prides himself on his success. e ————— OBITUARY, Bprete) Diapateh to The Tridvune, Prrrssuns, Pa.. Dec. 8.~Willlam Hamden Button dieidl at his resldence in this clty this morning at the sge of G5 yenrs, Ile was fer twelve years Judge of one of the courts in New Orleans, which place he was compelled to leavo Ia 1861 on account of bis Unlon sentiments, tai- ing up his resklenco fn Pine Biuf, Ark.,soon after the battle of Red Ridge. Iy removed to Piusbure sbout thres years ago. Hewas a good Iawver and of frroproachable private char. scter. 1lis name had but recently been incn- tloned fn connection with a Territorial Judgs- ship, P ppectat Dieogieh tn The Tyiounc. Erain, Iif, Dee. 8.—Charles 1f. MeComh died to-day of consumptlon, aeed S years. o was tho Eiein azent of the United dtates Ex- press Cowpany. e leave wife aod a little daughter, Mrs, McComb s the dauzuter of {1 C. w, RN Newe York World, The following is a smmary of the cabla-pus- senger traflic to and from European ports dur- Ing the eleven months ending Nov, 30: outward. Homeward, 3 48 4.0 ‘tench Line. Total hy seven lines, ,....55,155 ‘The arrivals of cabin passengers by tho _samy Iines for the corresponding montlis of 1577 weid 2472, The stecrazo passencers brouzht uie ara 7,500, againat 55,300 for the previous year. The largest share of this trailic bas tallen to the Uerisan aud French lines, e —s A Witty Customer went to n drug atoro and askad for Sozadont. storeliceper gatd, **We're out of that, but ke it something judt ae goad,” The practical custo rald, **No you dun't, " and walked vut to u ne Doring atere und got a bottle nl Sozaront. —————— The ments of the stomack and bowels, Sam ford's Jamialea Ginger, CATARREY MEDIESN, SANFORD'S RADIGI}OE. CURE T CATIRRE ) INSTANTLY RELIEVES AND PEANANENTLY (UNEM Bxerzixo on Heap Coupe, cALLED AcrTh Cas TABRI; THICK, TELLOW, AND FOUL MATTERY AC: CUMULATIONS IN TUE Nasit, Pascaces catten ClinoNte CATARRI: TOTTING AND SLOCGILING OF TUE BOXES OF TUE NOAR WITH DIsSCHARGES oF LOATHEONE MATTEIL TINOED WITIL BLOGD, AND ULe CENATIONY OFTEN BATENDING TO THE EvX, Ean, ‘Tnroar, AND LUNas, canted ULCRRATIVE Cae Tanmit. Atso, Nenvous Ilesvacie, Dizzinesy, CrovpEp Mikxony, AND Loss or Nnve Powei tutional femedy for the itk cure of evers forni uf wrer and il aftections of ] diata relte R, fucluding e Eary aud ot Ui ac g Indammation whi eateinding 1o 0 Throst, restorlng the senera of b, Taste Whe affected. Iravin ihe and opey, tho bresth sweet, e dreodartre the lm(l{. clranaing (hu gutlve system Lhrouih tho blood, wii VYoixox siways prescent fa C: feebled and broken-down constil ., of Jte virus, snd permits the foraation ot lealt. Bioring Blopd. )63 unlted action, by exieran terual” use, voshles 1L to sud d when every oth known r:m'l" utterfy fa urid, unilesd 1 »y prostrated Il{ serofuls ur conatnbtion beyoud Tecupers &tion, (¢ wiil efoct & pormagent cure. EYE, EAR, TIROAT, NERVES. HANFORD'S WADICAL CURE 14 of marveloiy em- cagy Iu the tresiment of Rore, Wenk, (nfame Ul n aud It stion ot i t of i Luy. Mes 1. ¥ i ant Wledin Nerrous Heslache, Dizzincas, Clouded of Nervous Force, Deyrend 11080 of the Nerves. wicihwr of Catarr] not, . 1Lsuidies Tufisnuuation, Clecratle o Exeitement whereyer exlsiing, uad liencs rapidiy CUFts ho Bbuvo disean A caretul desertpizlon of rymptoma and symy ot Wil Wnute dire d it tur sGecting & speed; ¥ u diet and th geaeral nealth, av Dartle, Price, with Tmproved Inl tions. ¥1.Teatlmionlals by throigiious tha United Siax VOLTAIC PLASTERS. 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