Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1878, Page 7

THE CIICAGO RELIGIOUS. An Interesting Discourse upon ' Benevolence " by Prof. Swing. The Reve J, Munro Gihson Continues s Lible-Readings---From Gene- s8is to Revelations, Leotare I;y the Rev, James Ray Applebes on Tom Hood, The Poet axd Puoster.” BENBEVOLENCE, SERMION DY PROP. BWIKG, Prof. Bwine preached yeaterday morning at the Central Church, taking es his text; q ‘Bo that loveth his brother abidéth in the Meht. — 7, John, -tk 10 - One of the most wonderful attributes of hu- mantty {s that quslity in the civilized nfan that maked him desire the hanpiness of others. We call man n selflsh creatore. ‘The most common form of fault-finding consiats fn acchising thie buman family of scting n the name of only sclt-Intercst, No doubt we all comg far short of any {deal disinterestedneas, but after all man {s the anly creature an carth In which may boe found truces of any desire to sectire’ the hap- piness of others, In thoso - noblest of animals, tho clephant, the' -horse, and the dom, thero {s no mitigation of the doetrine of self-csteem, These'ereatures will always attempt to take posacasion of the entire quantity of food to eat or waler to drink that mav bo placed befors them: - Instinct hias always reen to it that the brute world shall love thetr young and care for them tenderly. The fomtnan song bLird will begin to gather food for its brood by half-past 3 in summer mornings, and the curious have kept count and have found that the thrush will take momething to her soung ones five or six hundred times during the day. ‘Tlhe moment, however, the young of all birds and anfmala hiave reached maturity all this kindnees suddenly ceases, and the bird which so tenderly cared for her brood Jast July would now, in December, If possibla, steal from them the ast gratn of millet or wild rice, or the last drop of water, . . . Even were it possibie for the advocates of the derelopment theory to show ua how the forin of the moallusk mlzht he develoved fnto the form of an ape, and afterwards intod human outline, they would find an insurmountatle barrler to pass when they shiould attempt to explain to us how the perfect scltishness of vrute life ever becnme transformed into the charity ot manhood, ‘There may be o resem- blance between the ear and eye of an animal and the ear and eyo of 8 man. but all resem- blance pasacs away the tmoment you look Into the mental structure of antmal and man, And 10 day wo hinvo conie upon one of those attribe utes which declare man to be of divine quality, Benevolence slanifics the love of othors, and, ‘vz‘rlm\vs moro than any other human attribute, ictenys tha excellenco of man at large, or of an ugee. or of an individual, S Much of the complaint over the sclfishness of the oee, or this or that nerson, comes from the sact that there i in_ each mind always an Jdeal by which cach one {8 constantly measuring the mien and times areund. T {s essential to pos- eces this ideal, fur it s the pattern up townrd ch all are to work, 1t Is the standard of iht and measure which ls to rule the human race in oll its loug career; o strange standard, which makes {tself to be higher and higher ns men approach. Essentia) as thls standard fs, it hns its lnwumxlunce‘ or It 1nakos painfull evident all the world’s shortomings. Wit! this {deal in ouir hosoms, we all zo ahout mcas. nring the eclfishness of others, and find that there 18 nat yvery much_self-denial for the ad- vantage of the roce, To estimato tho world luh-le» we must now and then ing sway this cnuclal test,~the {dral,—ond muat sce things In thy common light * of today or in the lad light of antiquity.” - Shonld a man come up to you with a most power- ful magnifying-glass ‘and make o survey and declare that your skin were rousti as the shell ot an oyster and that your hands were as large us sradces, and that vour eye were like that of a Cyclops, vou would be justified In telling him hiat you were not made to be‘wn\.‘:n _Jl“on-'m 1 icroscope, but to be seen ab'A roApectill afs. tancs fu nature’s common light, Wnen a fas- tidious gentleman once declared that not more than one lady in a bundred was good-looking, he was mosg perfeetly answered by the remark that not more than one man n “fivo .hundred vossegsed good sense—proporly anawerod) be- cause tie hud no natural rlgnt to subject to tho fastidious [deat micruscope the features of woman, Thereis & common lght, not very etrong, in which we must all walk—woman with Dier lmioerfect beouty and man with his fnade- yuate common sense. W must love tdeals and strugele toward them ourselves, but wo must nob ise then eXcessively fn the weasuremont of others. Viewing the human raccin this moderate mauuer, we sce benevolence {)llnllnu Its rich volors upon its length and breadth, Enough of this quality exists to show us what ndivine virtuo it is and will remalu, \When tho philos- ophicrs began 1o seck o definftion ot the word “ civilization," they teoked Into tho possccsion of wealth, and found that clvilzation dil not lle in that forin of mequisition, for lo! the Turk aud the Bpanlards of Mexico hnd great riche They looked agatn and surveyed the fine arts, and there again they falled to find the home of tho favorite fdea, for Thebes, and Babylon, and Nineveh enjoyed the bcuutll'ul, but these peo- les wel eml:hurhnmu\; the phllosophers jooked again and fuquired whether this finlsh of manhood lny not {u intellectual development, put that the (ireeks and Homaus posscased, and - yet thoy wero partly savage, for they “held slayes and put death captives or infouts. Driyen frum ona position o apother, our Wise men have at last reached tho conciusion that the highest culture is that which most wisclyand tenderly sceka the hapul- ness of oll munkind. Thot Is to say, that the man who combines the mast wisdom and the most bensvolunce is the most divine man. ‘Ihe wisdomw dellvers from il the enomles of self, and the bencyolency snakes that sume wisdomn tho - good fortuno of others. Lord Bacon pus- sessed vast learniug ond worldly wisdow, vut was wanting lu_hls relations tovward mankind, sud such was his age, and henco 4 can mever tompare with that subsequent England which has wore and more stoped the leglslation for tho Lenefit of the nultitude, The true gront- ucss ot nation or ndividual beging when welf, ve It .4 throne ora man, begins to confcss the presence aud need of those oytside of solf, 1t will probably be foaud true that the very voctry sud Hierature of our Iater generatlons linve "become wore tmbued with benevoleugs thau all post Hieratitre was colored with such a acnthnent. The fading away of the eute pocu which celebrated tho mnitltary'snd "romaoutic ¢x- ploite of some hero was prodably cuused by the Tuct that butter sentinents than those of tho warrior came , alung quietly but surely to dis- place bis tguro In vewse, Burng, Wordsworth, “Thompson, Cowper, aud sl gecont writers of seotiment, have hud more to sgy ubout tho rights and bappiness of man than about the glory of war. Wheu Cowper sani. bis familtar Iines over the emancipativn of Enzland's slayes ha was boltiZ Lo inusle the Dew be- nevolence of socletv, Hurns was In the “ stmosphere when he wrots most 8o was Hood when he sang about ore Uufortuuute,” or tho sorrows of tho poor sewing-women; and {n2his path of -'mulhv with the world mest of the high nov- elisty have walked In a noble group Logetaer. It you will look into literature you will peroelve that @ great chaugo bascome over it sloce It Wi shiaved by either Homer,or Dante,or Miiton, uuce of theso mighty masters ¢uve to numan tecling such a beuevolent mlur!ui 38 has been €iven It by all the recent years. Al old poems abouud §n sublimity aud fancy, buy all modern puetry abounds “fu puthos. I speak of poetry beesuss it bgs always been such & aitrror of its aize, An - by Jooking upon the wall where s camera obscura is Placed you cau fn your litte rvom or tent mark who snd what are” pussing aloug all tho strects outside, s0 by lookiog 1uto the verses of au €poch you may mawk whetber outalde were bat- Ug-flelds od berocs, as sround Homer; or whetuer the church was {inmense, as around Dagty aud Miltou; or wieitber the ‘throue sud palice were luruy, as sround Shakbpeare, For this reason 1call up voctry ssasmlrror, and locking tuto toas of to-day L'percelve that sym- pathy tor wankind Ia playing u lasge part fu'the Pagesnt of our country, Selfisbuess, naeed, Tcmaine {o the humay heart. but Jove 1e begin- uing to fow over thu banks of self, aud to ¢ive its Nilelike blessiugs to sl the vatoy ou either shore. Tuis week upon which we now eater is aloat wholly given up to tuc worship of benevolence. 1 Leucyolence is the fuve of otticrs, Christias 13 tho day set apart for the worshlp of others. It s culled o day, vut that day cumultes(he half-score of days that lie betore st AS Easte era Kings were woat Lo cume to a town berald- ed by advauce messebgers, 0ud as Lye weasen- Bers’ grew more and wore fch o Bvery the Learcr they were to the Riug, 80 this royel Curlstway ecnds many Cuys on i sdvane ot himrcll; and thus, being indecd only one per- sunaye, he lengllhiens himaelt out into a proces- sfun and fmurerses bundreds of lours fots bis bappy eervice. All the last few duys have worn tha bright livery of heralds of & King. ‘Thias ‘day, so loved, draws almost all ita moral, charm from the fact thet no one thinks of sclf, but by the Inw of the occasion drennts only of the happineas of others. What td by for anolher, what to make with oué s own fnnd for another, this is the whole aig- nilidance of December, * In the many religlons of the pust atimost al) the days of the year wers racred to some aafny or god, bt i §s uot evi- dent ¥hat any uue of these dags was dedleated to that strange shnpe of rebiglon—the love of au for others, Byt At last man lias added to the alters where hawas ot to think of war, or mon¥y, or pltaenre, An altar on which ha viaces offerings to othiers. Year by year the love whichshall come to this attor will enlario its horfzon. At first it will seq o1 the rolatives and Iriende of Itsolf, And thus 18 indeed a beautiful alght; hut after a few yenrs ur generations of this form of service the heart, in richness, will sco other children and .eranna that o not belone to ts uwn fireside, and the sersico which began In a tent will swell outward until the world aball have beeome fis cathedral full of rapturous hymas and carola, There s a myaterlons quallly n this relation of cach man to all men. Almont sl learning and discBtery partakes sumewhat of the nature of novolencs. In theso latter days the fuventor *hastens indecd to protect himeel? with patents from Uovernment, inte this fs not simply that ne may reap all the money-rewand, but also that no other inay steal from bim tho honor of having helped the people. No thinker, from {ialfleo to our Fulton and Morse, liss discoverad some new Inw or apnlication of Nature's forces without belng moved partly by thie happiness the peuple would gaiu from™ the ateambont or the tel: fvcmhv Before such miodsas Newton and Gahleo no motlve of pecunlury galn arose, aml perhiaps none before Watt or Fulton, They scem to have desired that the w shoutd have the haoniness of enjoying truths and new powera, It must have been a moment of supremo ‘oy when Morse found the daily pajers for the first timo pub. Mlebing tn tho ‘morning what had heen said or dune at cltles so_remote that no fiivrm.v tralh or fiving dove could have brought the nicssages. ‘The reward of monoy must have been Insignifnl- eout compared with that bappineas which came from scelng the people of the geeat world hapny over this winged speech. It snows that benevoletuce Ia the fmpulse of much of this world’s sclence ond learning, the fact that a lonw e of scholars and Inventors mareh along before us fn poverty. T]mf spent thele years 10 hovela or . garrets, and at n!‘ we sco then in the gray hair of age filing along, not with crowns on thelr forchieads and with robes trafliug gracelully, but In tho plalnest attire, and perhaps marching In_rags to that nolemn reétreat—tho grave, Dut this larze and talented host have mnot Leen withe out thelr rewand, for ns a mother finds her joy In tho estcem shown her Ly her childeen, so literature and nventlon have drawn thelr rewards’ from the joy they have forescen In the eyes of the hwman race. Beney- olence—the love of man—jolna with the love of peraonal fame, and calls into being alike tho atronomy of a Gaiileo and the tolexraph of 8 Morse. I renicmber otice that a country achuol- niaster set ma this cooy: * If von and ‘V'ullia are well, then 1 nlso am well.”” [t scemed the em- bodiment of nonscnse. It secmed that the teacher was thiuking about how to teach wrlting, and not how Lo mako sense. 1t must biave been ten vears afterward that the deep meaning came that no heart cnn be well when its dear vnes are sick, and that If the ahsent dear ones are oll well then are all three weil indced, Benevo- leuce inakes one well in the welfaro of others. Thus It n}v‘lmlrl that this copy, which scemed so empty of lugic, had come downa journey of 2,000 years, borne along not by literahsni, but by the winus of benevolence. ‘The question must often ari monarchics of Europs posscas such power over the common people that thcy love them and willdfe for them? Wo percelve the feartul taxation, and wars, and conliscatlons of a long :a8t, and yet we mark that the common people ove all those old monarchies with & deep at- tachment, Thisstate of things may be exjlain- ed partly by tho fact that man ) liis native land, huwever bard his lot in its confines; but thu explanation comes partly from the addition- al fact that all monarchy has been softened by the gréathieas of itsarta, and parks, and gardens, and by dts full and frce _amuscments, Much ‘of the gold in the coffers of Kingw, and Queens, and Emprrors has token the form of architecture which the poor could love, of golden altars where the poor could kneel, of tmmense porks whero the poor could wander with their neatly-dressed chitidren, of fmmenso wallerles sliers the peopls could see more Deauty than evon a King could own, Thus has benevoleace come, fo counteruet burbarism and acspotismy JOSE 8s” May and Jdne cume at last to dissolve” tho ley chuins of winter. Were it not that the European nations are thus softencd by some forms of tonderness tnward the people, everywhera would comr insurrection and one archy, Republies must <o as much for the poor by prl{;nm generosity ns Kinga bave done for them by power and pride. You mny turn eside from thess larze speeta- eres of lterature, ond invention, aml govern- ment, a8 affected by the regard for others, and pass to the smaller strects of life, and behold this sentiment runs hefuro us, There 18 wot o ragged school, or a miaslon school,or free school of dosign, or a public lorary in any town or city that doca votspringupoutof thisprincple. Upon the basis of relfeion all temples stand, and from this sentiment'of & God all worship arires; froin tho sentinient of the beautlful fu the soul spring five great floo arts; from the perception of Justice comes law; and then from o woll o8 _rich—called benevolence—rise up a hundred blesscd shapes of humam welfare, In tho mission schools of this church, or of any churen, toll men and women who are to gather no money and no fame, but who dls- charge the difficult oflices each Bunday from one motlve glone—tho love of somcthing be- aldes self, You mn{ analyzo their hearts Lo tho bottom, and you will find only one motive, the hanpluess of others, Man In his best cstate looks abroud and wees his follow-man. In that haur he ceases to be & brute te become o soul, Vhat afled and what alls some forms of Christianity may be found in the general absence of the love of other people. The Protestant did. not throw hls atfection far enough* Assoon as ho camo to a Roman- tat his heart congealed, awd he longed to capture_anod lwprison or burn the disclple of tho l"ulm. And the Catholle moro than cyuuled this Hmitation of svinpathy, 1iis love of man weant only Catholie men. [aving found n human belnge called o Protestant, his heart beeame obdurate, and the torture of the other secis becano the clife! foy of his own, ‘Fho articies of falth drawn up In those perioda wera therefors chafacterized by the same ab- senve of a broad gowd will, and “the ssmeo pres- efico of su ordeal of tests that took love away trom the Joy of enveloplng many, and made it expect the haflpluouo the few, Rehrion os- sayed to toke (iod away from the wide world W “How can thosa L aud zive Him 1o group, It tried to tocloss Jehuvah within the clusps of a Praver-liook, 1t made licll too large and lieaven too smull, It sat down like Canute by the sca-waves and Lado them arrange thelr” great fow to suit its chatron the beoch, But, as the story ruus, the waves came marching on, Each minute on the dial the great tides reaching a thousand miles outward sud o thousaad miles right sod left urose and lnughed as they swelled upwara and onward, They heard u0 huiuau volce; cared tor none. B the octus!l Christianity hus too Jong attempted to limie the Deity and ‘tny Lord and conting them Ly hines of thuught aud cere- mouy drawn upon the great shore, dut tho thils of Livine love hes for a long time swept steud- 1y fuward, and cach hour the rushing wate shull rise and lnugh, until at last the Kiugs of old fori thought wiil be compelled to inove buck, and confess thut the benevolence of re- iizaon s 8a o wave they eannot impede, Hengvolence {s crowding back the arrogance of old mastera, ‘Thus among the powers that have moved and that shall muve the human soul let us place this Jove of others outsido of self. Guol i lind that when curth firet cooled alter fts primul fire 1t was o tuss of volcanle rock, Our world was barren and buld as the peaks of Rlual: but ‘wot of the mysterious stores of were ta come rajus, sud froats, and winds, and decay, aud those forces were 1o asaall the ada- mant and gradually extract from it a soil which sbould grow the ‘muize, the orenge, aud the rose. Iu lung ages aftcr these 'Litans had becu ot work the Garden of Edea was resdr, for ivan. lg the suiritual world tue bumen heart lay oucs like thu primeval rocks; but Thanie motlyes have boston on that sdumant, and Jo! at the end of ench epoch of & tieyssud or ten thousand years the soll of the bugay parden has beenw found deever and ricker, and over it have bent heavier grun und richer flowers. Awong thess smiters of the rock whove wind has brought furth sweeter waters thal those” wuich flowed woen Moses smote o wountaln in Horeb, placs that love for otbers a8 wivbly swoog the uughty. It you would weasure fis beauty mark what wortals and jmmortals wers those ' who Lave won tlelr name wot by riches, ot by the sword, wvenius, uot by juvention, not b, the fuspiration of cucu cawe the heroism ol the wartyrs of s better religlon aud a better liberty; toese all wished to plant trees trom whose brouches qrher gencerstivus should patler the sweeter fruit; fute this domaln vl motives, as if to point out forever fts *diuity aud worth, descended Jesus Chrdot, feuvineg a Heaven of oy for & world of labor, bevaae tue tud shostdhe for TRIBg NE MONDAY. DECUMNDBIER otliers, not for sell; into this motive He cama ready for crown of thoros and for deathy, It only out of 11is personal eriels tuere might come na- tlona aud homes amd even tombs fall of hubpi- ness and hope. % — BIBLE RVEADINGSH, TR REY. L. HERRO GINrON, fn his Bible lecture yesterdsy afternoonat 4 o'clock, did not confine bimaeif, as ho has iere- tofore done on such ueranions, to unc chapter ur one houk of Holy Writ, but spoke generally of tho lines of thought which could ba teaced through the entire Scriptures, His fdea fnad been, hu aald, to cover tha Pentatench with about four lectures to each book thercof; but scveral persuns hed askell him not to hnrry throueh so fast, and he had cometo the con- cluston that {t would not doto conslder the bouks vihorwise than scparately. (icnesis alone rvovered a perfod of upwanis of 2,000 years, while mrhcr books were but the history of an individual life, ‘[hierclure the time shonid not be divided cvenly between them. Bince ho bad heretofors dwell somewbat at lenath ubun Genests, it was roper that it should be conrldered as a whole. t covered a perkord mors than one-halt of the thine comprehended by the entire Bihle. He had already constdered the first chapters of the buok, and had spoken of some of the {deas sug- wested In ft. The first words of it were: “In the beginning was tiod Vi aud the last words were: BoJoseph died, being an bundredand ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was it into o colin in Feypt.” 11e had also spoken ol thiesimilarity between the beginninw of Gientsis and tho closo of- the Hiblo—Kevelations, The one, like the other, spoke of the * new Heaven ! and the * new Earth,' ete. For bis own pur- gu e, ho would uivide tha time comprehended tue holy history In three cras. (lenesls, the kra of Begioning: Revelatlons, the ¥ra of the End: aod the Intermeidiate booka, the Kra of Development. Tho first thought amonx those that couid be traced through these craswas that of conflict,—scen in (icnesis fn tho conflict be- tween thosecd of the.womnn atul the serpent, and all through the otber hooks, nud, tracing that thonght of contlict, *Tho Thief 7 was every- witero visible. ‘Uhe flist, and second, and third eras bore numerous examples, and in_ cuch cnse tho fallure was Lhat of man;never of tud, Inthe New Testament the conflict began when Clirlst entered the arcna and fouuht the encmny, not with the clements which obeyed Ills will, but with the unsnsweranle arguinent, * It fs writ- ten." The éonilict was coexistent with His life, and ceased unly waon He gavoup iia life on the Crose. tie hid. warned His diseiples of the coming of the Princo of this world, and the ron- fileis which would arise, and fn Colostinns was written that He had trinmphied over Principal- ltles and Powers. 1n Ruvelations was found the constmatfon of the victory. In the twelith chapter was aald that, "“Fhey overcame Him with the blood of the Lamb.” Fhe closing books of the Bible sugucsted = amother thought,—the thouglitof the Lamb,—and it alsv could be traved from Genesls to Revclations. Thers was the lamb which Abol stuw; Abraham's sacrificial lamb; Moses’ lambs and the * Lamb of Uod." Isnlah spoku of the lamb belng led to the sinughler, and again was found the pascal lumby a lamb without spot or blemish. And Hevelatlon was full of ideas of the Lamb on tho turune, 4 Anuther subject for study syas the fden of Royal Priesthood, In Genesis it was first mon- tloned, and neain In tho sixh cinpter of Zacha. rlab, whero the word of the Lord ordered that acrown be set upon the hend of Jushua (and Jushun of the Old Testenent was Jesus of tho New), who should becoms a priest upon hls throue. And In . slatthew the priest Jesus was scen on tho highway poing up to Jerusalem to make a pacritics of Himself; and In Revelation wos scen the Lamb, the High Priest upon lis throue, au in Zachariah the orieat bod heen seen upon his throne. ‘There were othier lues af thought that were deawn throygh the Biule, like the Judgment— the judzmele by the.bloud. They all had Gene csts for thelr Deginnings and Hevelutions for tlu-lrendlnxf. 'f'o the thind era—tho Era of Develonment— thero were subdivisions possible, The Patri- archal Fra, which was the era of promisd; the Era of 8hndaow, as spolien In Hebrow: or tho Inw having a shadow of oot tnings to come,” ond dn Colosslans. about thines which are o sbadow .of others, It might bo called the Mosafe Era. this Patriarchal Era. In it san somctbing more than promiss and a Nitle less than fulfiliment,—tlicro was putence, Next camg the Era of Bubstance, an era in which the world was now living, Yot _to camo was tha *Era of Rewencration,' ns Matthow called It, and which the Acts called 2 time lor the regeneration of all things, It would begin at the second comingof Chrlst, Thero wan also au Era of Intereession, aud with {t the idea of its potency. Genesss pletured Judah's fnter- cussiony Moses bad interceded; Joseph had made {ntereeasion, ond intercession had wex- tended sll down - the priesthood line, Just as the inicreesslon of . Judab, and Jmulnh had been potent, 5o would be {ntercession of Jesus, Who waj —~the (ireat High Pricst, the Lomb—sitting ot tho throne, ant mnking continual intercession for men. The Boolt ot Uenesls was & bovk of etpoeta. tons. It began: **In the beginning was God.” What could he expected of o bouk that begun after that style? It sronsed the ut‘u‘c!nlwnl. but what wos the endi A coffin in Fuypt. Egypt was u great 13nd, a glorious land of old, but a coflin in Exzvptiof olil was like u coflin In the Exgypt of to-day.” There were bright things oll through that Egypt, but the finul darknoss camo aud htd the brightness. Was tt not Hka the worldi It was, It was 3o necording to sulence and the expericncea of Ife, ‘The gradual ascent of the creation from the be- elnning through the long dork uges when tho carth was withous forra and void, to the con- summation of thecreation—the creation ot man. And what wasthe endt A collin, And the cof- fin was at the end of whot? Ot Geneefs, Aml Genesis was only the beginning. Thers was much promiss aud Nitle fulitlment, and the reason of it was that this life was the (ienesis, TIIOMAS ITOOD. . A LECTURE DY THE REV. JAMIS K. APPLEGEE. The Rev, James Kny Applebeo lectured Jast cveniog at lershey Hall on ** Thomas Hoou, Pout and Punster, to a large and apprecluttve oudience, Hood, hie sald, was o man who anited n his compoaltion the disshinllar charucteristics of poetry and punning tos degree which bas never been cqualed. Asn pont lie wus tha emne hodiment of grace, as a punster the lncarnation of voisterous. mirthi who could Intensify tho reveries of tho philosoplier, kneol with the de- vout, and swell the banguet bilarity, Of ‘Thowas Hood's 1ife littlo neod bo ssld, Born in London, ho felicitated mmself that, noxt to befug & citzen of the world, he was a citlzen of the greatest wotropolls In the world, He attended the erammar-school at un early uize, but brought nothiug from that - stitution ol learniug, ho said, hut a repugnance to early rising, and a fumillarity with & poda- cogne who never spoiled the chilid by spuring the rod, but spoiled the rod by not sparing the ¢hild, 1o was next apurenticed to u turnishing establishment, where le obtained & * suporcil- foua” knowledgs of pecounts and geometry, from which ho was recalled by the death ol his father, . Aftern brief cxpenenve at the iligh. Hebool, he was given In chianes of a tierchanf when, L0 oxpress it commerclally, he submitiel to a deckine. Atter passing two years 1n Seol- land in_search of bealth, ho roturned to Lo don, sl was taken chargu of by an uncle, whu ronght to sccomplish him Iu” the art of eograving. lere ho was unabls to resist tho teinptation to upen out & verse or two, aud while thus piaying with lterature an event oc- curred which determined bis future carcer, A friend of Hood's catablished & maguaipe, of which bo wus st tho age of 23 sppoluted sub- editor, and hio begen the lite of o writer for bread. But he wus surrounded by circum- stances adverse to suthorship, chtef smoag which were povesty and iscase, wnich wus con- stautly vating away bLis conatitution. lo the light "ol theso facte ¢t §s wonderful that ho lett sa much which bumaso. Jty refuses 1o forego. Afwr referring to his offorts, the lecturer ubserved that, winle hié readers way nos place him amoug the mightiest writers of song,—way not kuee) at bis (vet dejty,~ho may be emibraced as @ brother, His verses aro always expreased with ease, sod uruve, and naturalocss, revlele with es of vathos, wit, and sympathby, Hiustrating bis idea with selectious from + Miss Kilmansecg " and other povwns, le posseased o wonderful power for word-paining, as see Nis **Sir Jacob Ki mansegz” Ju that iptiou 1he sul becowmes & real e to his cfe, ouw of cluss © ol peuple B whio consider luugblug vulsar, mirth sidicus lous. ‘fhe groat charu of his writings conslst in thelr naturalnezs: all his ideas are shuruly ut- tered, snd so easily as to be lurrnlln' v was churacteristic of ‘the man. All he did he did well, Naturo made bim a punster, oud by punved, He rebuked the vice of seeming, aud showud that I huwauity could be but uatural, with whut pobiu 1nen and loviug wowen this earth would teem. Hu possessed 1 & very great degree the fm- a2inative puwer, and his poet of the * Piea of the Mideuwmer Fuiries ' rewiuds oue of Keats, of Bhskspeare, anit of John Milton. While upou tuls subject the lecturer | quoted the ** Haunted House ™ 28 the most truly poetle of bls pruductions. In ths poem the bounds of probability are not passed over, and, while it {s tmagivative. §t 13 feal. o conld neyer be other than guod eitred s lic o aever onant 4wt there are wolendid ttoies ube ot, fn hin eative, but in [t apneals to man's better natare, I7is ode to Ray Wil:on, who denonneed ala jwems, hag fescae § that wan from eblivion and made his name fmortal, Hliz wan the poct of the home, gnd the associa- tiona of homno are hallowed by hin cen, f¢ i8 a reuroarh to the present ago that howen ars tao much o matter of fact. Man’s romauce closes When lie huns the question but if he aaulil de- yelon more of the poutry of home, many of the crooked paths of Iffe would be mnde Atrataht, Childhood fa elesated by ik poetry, and 1t expotes the manv dumestic hypocrisies which are seen in datly Hife. He whs the poct of the poor, the pleader of their thoughts, nnd ther atwavs found in him a frfend. Thousands of poor women existed by plving the needle, surrounded by temptations in.the nlleys of London, and It despalr they hartered the name of love for bread, Pomp talkesd of the erimes_of the lawer orders, snid subscribed to tracte, Preachers praved to God 1u hase mercy upon us miscrable uffenders, but no volie was raiseid fo hele behalf, untll the voet sang that wonderful “Song of the Bhirt,”? which Talil bare the infquities to which they were tubjected, and arrested the pubile with terror and pity, The “Song of the Shirt," satd Dourlass Jerrold, would melt the heart of 2 trader, to eay nothing of o stone, 1t did much for thia claés, aud did 3t bravely, but he di wore. While exposing the evils of this phase of Iite, he id not forret the unforiunates who bartered the present and the funre for & brief life of rlu. True, soclety frowns upon them, but who il cast the first stonc when the Baviar satd to the woman tuken in the act, “Go and sin no tnore.!* Alar for the rarity Qf Christian chasity. Under the aun. As apunster Hood followed the fext of the ereatest English writers, THs wit differs from most of his contemporaries, huwever: 1L warms aud cheers us, but never wounds, and, thoseh he wos a constant martyr to {il-health, it was pever foreed. Me ated in the 4%th yenr ng M3 age, writing the tSanyr of thie Birk on his death-bed, Ho was fall to tha last of ereat and gencrous thoughts, and et the inevitable doom of manwith resia- natfon. Poetry is tha extremeof man's journoy alter the DLeautiful, and gives birth self-pnerifidor deeds. probity, Justice, truth, patriotlsm, virtue, relirs don, all nclong to poetry, for all are sublime, and goud as it 18 Lo write, it {8 beat to livy it. The lecturer quoted {requently from the pocmn of Hood, and his effort was greeted with frequent and enthnslastic applau: "GROESBECK. In Love with Solld Silver—tTo Wants Tlen- ty of Money, hut 1o Wants It to e Ifard Cash=What Wns Done at the Interna- tionsl Monry Conferenee, Cinciananl Enquirer, Dee. 11, The Hon. W. 8, Groesbeck, the United States Commissioner to the recent International 3Mone ctary Conference, held tn Parie, has returncd tn Cincinnatl, and was called oo at his residenco lnst night by a representative of the Enquirer, for the purpose of obtaining sume facts relative to tho doings of that body, and the effect thelr metion was hikely to have on the monotary sys- ten of the United Btates. Mr. Groesbeck, who 18 looking remarkably well after his trip, greet- ed the reporter cotrteously, but was very loath to express any views on the subject. After much persuasion, however, he consented to an intorinal talk, the main points of which are herewith presented to our roaders, In answer to tho question as to how the re- suit of the Conference met hin anticipations of what thau body would do, Mr: Groeshock sald: ““The result was In tho mhln satlsfactory,— mora o than 1 anticlpated. Wo sdopted s declaration which reversed that mado st tho Coucrence held in 1807, You are swarethat at that Conlerence, In which Amerlea, as well as nll the other greut nations, \was rupre- sented, o declaration wae made fAxing gold as the aingle standsrd. Now wa have reversed thut and declared in favor of the double stand- ard,—{u favor of using both gold and silver,” Ruportor—What do vou supposs will ve the effect of that declaration, Mr. (frocsheck? Mr. Groesbeek—Just at present I fordiy care to expresa an opinfoa on that potut, thotrh 1 am Irce to say that Ithink thecffect of the declaration will by ngood one. Although we did not suceced (o fixing on anv joternationat schemo for adootiog the bl-motalllc standara, still 1 think that our declaration will have a oud effect, You see the times were not ripe lor the adoption of any vlan auch ns [allude to, Reporter—[n what way do you miean that the timen were not ripef Mr, Groesbeck—The condition of some of the natlons represented at the Conterence waa un- favorabic. (ermany s justat rruent changing from wsilver to a "gold . standards Russia has suspended specly payments, and 1a not likel to resumo within my lifetime; Austria has sus pended, and the date of hier resumbption away; luly has suspended, and may vot resumo for a long time$ aud Bpain has also suspended, and—well, o ona knows when she'll bo ablo to resume, - You will obscrve, thurefure, that the atate of affairs with all thess natlo favorable to the adoption of any general return Lo the gold and silver stundard, 1 thins, however, that thegenvral opintonaniong the natiuns revreseuted was azainat a one-meta] standanl, ‘They secinca to think that ono metal waw not enough to make the currvocy standard. Revorter—\hat aro your own views on that mattor, Mr, Groesbeck? Ar, Groesheck—1 pin apposed to discriminat. ng egatnat ono wmetal i iavor of the other, [ betlevs tn goud tnoncy, and an abundancs of it. 1 waut to seo a gold and silver stuudard, aud sco mouey plentitul, I(u,u)rlur—-\\e tnve had a good deal of leglsla- tion Intely in regard to the flnances. Mr, Groesbock—Yes, thers bas boen a great deal of financlal legislation, but I think the way to settlo It all for the benetit ol thucountry tsto mako 1 8 gold the staudard, und adopt a system ol [ree coinoge, Qeporter—You are then tu favor of free culne agoof allve = Mr. Groesbeck—=Yea, I want to sco the doors of the mints thrown open to ellver as well as kold, without restriction. Thers is not too much silver i thu country, Lt Congress fix the value of siiver aud Iut its colunge be un- timlted, and it wili no Junger be merchandise. Gold te not merchandiso, its value docs not luc- tuate, and I will expiain why: Hereare the mints of the United Btates, of Engiand, France, Hpain, Austris, aud other natlons tirowiopen for the colugge of gold to an uulimited amount. Sup~ posing & iman hos R yuaniiey of gold; he kouws what 1t I8 worth, ‘Lwe law bas sald so mony eraing of gold make o dullar, end knowluge how wiany graing o hay, bu knows what it 1s worth, 13 is differout with silver. A lindt Is fixed to the coinege of that. When that limiu is reached avy further production s thrown on the war- ket, and its value depends vn Lue demand thore ia for it. It may bo worth une sum to-day snd another to-purrow. You witl obserye then that ity like wuld, its value wue llged by law, and fres colnage was suthorized, therocould bo o such fluctustion,—ité vaiue would be fixed, Neporter—\Would not the adoption of 8 free- colnage law bave the ¢ffect of giving au hupel to the working of thy silver mnines in 1he coun- Love, sl ’Mr. Groesheck—Suppositg It shoull; there s not toa much movey; lu the country, People talk of. thero being idu tmuch mouey, aud say that when money i pleatitul u dotlar will not buy as much ss it would were money searce,and argus troni that that thero s no uecessity for more money. 1 arguo ditferuntly, Wnen money 15 scarcu thero s not 8o much “enterprise in & country as when it is plentitul. When there is lenty of it. men's ingenuity 1s exervised fu flo ug now chavnels to put it “ju circalation, b ness ourishes, sud averything 1a fu & bettor con- ditjon, 1 say, then, that L am in favor ol an sbuudance of muuey, but [ want good money, Heportor—Judging from vour remarks, then, you arc uot in accord with the cry that the adoption ot a silver with s gold standard s a re- turn to barbarism, Mr, tirocsbeck—No; nor cso [ in such a charge. Silver was the Germany until 1671 sliver was the standand of Iussia until she suspended; it was tha standard of Austria untl she suspeuded; ot #rance, and of 8paly, and vone of the thuse ustious were in state of barbarlsm at tho tima they used It as sucl. No, Indeed, I do not think & returu to = sliver stsndard i a returu t0 barbariaw, sud think our res of the sction of. the Mouetary Conference of 1567, making gold thy sluvie standapd, will have s 2ood etlect. porter—Do you think that in the near future there witl ba sy 1oterngtional schemo sdopted for ratifylug tho declarstion of the last Conferenced ™ Mr, Grousbeck—Oa that 1 cannot spesk do- cldedly. ‘I'hers ks one thiug, thougl, that | will say: 1do oot bellsve America should wait for ufiv such uteroatioual sction. 1§ thiuk Awerica sbould be wore fndopendent thaw to wult Lo scc what this or that country 1o Europe wus gowg to do. J dun'’t belivve in standing bero uud looklug acrosy the Atlavtic, waitiug for the natious «f Europo to adout inouctary systewns aud then follow suit. We are s great nation, and should taku our own course withous waiting tu sce what otlicr ustions are gog o do. Reparter—On your trp to Europe, Bir, Groes- bock, how dis you tiud the state of things tuers compare with those {o the United Statesf Mr. Groesbeck—\What | say bad the effect of making we thluk wore aud more of America. ‘Lhe condition of thiuge Lere L better fu every way Uxio i Europe, und tue prospect s better, We are wow ut the tureing poict, § \{_nm;mu, v tary Any reason tandard of the batance of trade in our favor, and are com- peting now with the oldeat manufstaring countiien in Europe, We have become econoni- ‘fll‘ too, and, unless wo got extravagant and hegln Importing more than we export, there fs s glorlous prospect ahead, Our population fa Increasing, our peaple are n...x....ulfiu. and onr resourcen fnfinite, and [ think we are now emerging from the disaatrous condition of afTairs we have been Iaboring under into more prosperous times. You could not realize how intich better the conditlon of the peopls of 18 tuuutry Is now to that of the pronle of European wountries tnless yuu went over to Europe and Saw the stute of affairs there. I'IE COURTS. A Father Wants 118 Son=tWilllam . Con. don Nuea the Inter-Ocean "—Judgments and New Salte, A rathier interesting habeas corpus case was on triul Saturday before Judge Moore. The petitioner Is Milton C, Merrill, who secks to @et possesalon of his boy, who Is now in the custody nf Urorge Bentley. It sceins that some years ago Mra, Merrlll got a divorce from her husband, Bentley furnishing the means for the prosccution of the suit, and three dave after the decree ehe marricd Hentley. She had then a hoy, tho offapring of Irer first marriage, and Bentley agreed to take care of him withont re- quiring Merrill to pay anything for his support, if he would give up stl clatm on the boy. Mer- ilt agreed to this, and pspers to that effect were signed, Bome time ago Mra, Merrill dled, and sinco then Merrill has been trylng to get possession of hisson. Beatley, however, has become much attached to the boy, and re- efsts the procecdings by labeas corpus strenn- ously. Tha caso was partly heard by Judge Moore Saturday, and then postponed two weeks to give time to get more evidence, THR GRRMAN BAVINGS NAXK. In the case of the German Bavings Bank, the Receiver, O. I1. Ilorton, fled & petition setting out that he holds the W. 34 of the B, W. 3 of Sec. 33, 39, 13, contatning eighty acres, which he bought In at = foreclosare sale. The Third National Baok, J Irving Pearce, and J. Y., Bcammon have some prior claims eralost the property, which they are willing to fully release on re- celvlug ten scres of the land in satisfaction thereof, and the Receiver aska to be allowed to make tho compromise. Judge Moore ordered the arrangement to be carricd out unless ob- Jectious are filed in ten days. DITORCES, Fannle Edinger filed a_bill Katurday for a divoree frum her hu<band, Frederick Fdiger, on the ground of drunkenness and cruelty. TRobert Vorteous also asked for a divorcefrom Barah F. Porteous, on the ground of adultery, Judze Moore Saturday granted a decrce of divorce to Frank R, S8weetland from Ellen A, Bweetlaud, on thoground of desertion, the com- plainant to bave tho custody of her child: and a decree of sepirate mointenance to Doris Dege- ner from Louls Degener, In the case or Muargaret A. Cahll} ve, Michael J, Cabili, an order was entered directing the de- fendant to shaw causo why he ahould not be at- ;lb'led for falling to pay allmony and solicitor's ces, dJudge Farwell Saturdav_granted & divorce to Mary E. Brodlo from John Brodie, for desertfon. TRys, The fndictment in the Federat Conrt nzainst Hatry E, Hubbard for violation of the Bink- rupt law was stricken from the, files Eaturday, with leave to reinstate. ATPRRION COURT IN DRIBP. The Merchanta® Bavings, Loan & Trust Com- pany. ln-sxm a suit for 85,000 agatnst Ferdinand and Fmil Jaeger. x A replevin ault: was begun Saturdey In the Superior Court by James (. Wright againat the Hlinols Central Rallroad Company to recover a black Shetland pony thirtv-cight inches high nained Nutt,” It scema that * Commaodora the pony was Kept at e Sixtecath street stable, and was taken away a few days aro by o party who appédred wich some kind ‘of a writ, but gave no bond ‘or other securitv. It was then shipped off to Iows, Lut Wright, learniog wheto it had gone, notified the rall- road authoritics, and they telegraphed along the ling, aud stooped the animal befure It bad gotten out of the State, > CIRCCIT COURT, William TI. Condon cummenced a suit in tresnass on the case aualust the Inter-Gcean Publisting Company, Willlam Peun Nixon, Qitbert A. Pieree, George B, Armstrong, snd laining 810,000 damages. er filod a petition for Laheas corpus, stating that Lo bas been confined in jatl saventy threo days by order of Judee Knlekerbocker for falline to pay aver s balance owing by him to the estate of Mary A. Thomasaudothers, mi- nurs. ‘Tho order wus mado thut Le should pay the balance be owed to George Duniap, the oresent guardian. This he failed to do, and was comuiitted for contempt of court, He clnfms that he” has wo- money, that he cannot comply with the order, and therefore should be dischoreed. ‘The case came up before Judge Rogers, aud on Baker's giving bond for his ap- vearance ho was discharged from Jall for the present, aml the hearjug postponed to Jan. 8. TUE CALL, “-hlum: DLopustr—140 1o 160. No case on rial, Tux Arrtzars Covnr—Adjonrned to2p. ny., Jan, 0. 1870, when opinlons wil) o delivered. JunuE JANE-ON—220 to 231, 0, WL 1o 250, No. 224, Clevcland va. Honth Park Commission- er, on tral. dupas Moore—Contested motions, m.l.nnm Tousns—Es, 0, 31, Jupor BeaTn-102, 250, 372, 479, 373y, 375, No case on trlal, 3 Jupus Fanwert—~Contested molions, Jupag WitLiaxs—~2,047, De Luca vv. Colondro, nmt“ealnuma motions, No, L2, ¥oss v, Foas, un trial, . Junox Looxis—3utlons for new trial, and Nos, 060, BUZ, 788, 772, 704, 707, U5), AD4, 104, 71, JUDOMENTS, Uniteo STatrs Clctit CornT—CoxrrasioNa— Charles L. Atterbury ve, Josial Whita, &’.’. 82K, 20, Junck BLonurrr—United States va. Pollz Lehe man, $0.48. ~Samo va. John Prank and tfeqr; Dells, 40,04, —Same vo. ‘Alired 8, Lovendel and Victor Laseagne, $19, Burkaion Cornr—Conrxasioxs—Alexandes Rate- won va. Jacob and Margaretha fpeitel. 826 First Natlunal Henk ve, ¢, 11, Wobster, $530, UDuk Jauxs: o 1. Bradley vs. Ueorge Wiightson, $i84.27, ary E, Kimbal), executrix, ete., No cate on Jupax Monis: e, Ellzabeth Ricbardeon; deervs of aetcloucy) Cricrie Cavnr~Tunar Roagna—Alolsle Cher- vs. Cliarles Kristian; verdict, §100, and mo- tton for uew trial plma S ’ MASONIC, Mpectal Dispatch to The Tribune, Mexpora, .. Dec. 22.—Tho Interesting ceretmony of public fustallation of oflicers of Bethany Commaudery, Kulghts Tewmplar, came off last eveniug at thelr Eucampmeut in this ¢ity. Quite & number of prominent citlzens were Invited, bus, owing to the heavy snow fncumberi g the sidewalks,and the unpleasaut- uessof the evening, many wers unsble to at. tend. These who did, however, evinced much pleasure, und secemed to enloy the beautiful ritual with a manifest degree of Intercst, The following are tho ~ officers fnatalled, Post Commander Sampson officlating: Waliam — Huney Tale, * Eminent Cum- mander: lake UGooawin, Geuerallssimo; James E, J. L{lle. U-Ql-lu Ueneral; Joseph W, Edwards, Prelate; Willlam Jenkins, Scnlor Warden; Casper Ruedy, Junior Warden: Ed- win P, Cooke, Treasurer; Thomss F. A, New- port, Recorder; Joha 8. Linwinger, Swand. Bearcry Oscar Lindeley, = Standard-Besrer; Froa I, Haskell, Warden: Benfamiu N, Moa Cavtain of the Guards. After the ceremony sl sdjourued to the banquet-bull, whers an excel- leut repast was vrovided, and a very pleasant thne thoroughly evjoyed. e e —— THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, tecture on ** The Wastes and Burdens of Bociety, watural Wy o be B4 years, and, as the awr-?qu Ufe is but 33 years, ihere wust be a wasts of {7 years.” Thicre ls wuch of truth fn this statement, If 2 man bo unfortunate 1o business, it is atrributed to the Vilation of some cummereial law. Nuw, if & persuu ba bakeu Off Lu the prive of life, pugns it uot tu be attributed to the vivlution of sume vhysivlogioul Tawl 1t DCQPN vuly kugw better, they woild live better aud longer; but how eou they protit by that which they know oot of | ‘Tue only populsr work which wcers this great want ls Dr. Pierce’'s Comnon Seuse Medical Adviser, 1u ic the great problems of disesso snd beajth are fully discussed. The work cun- tatns over 00 vages and 20 colored piates wud woud-cuts, Price, $1.50 (postpad), ~ Addrese the autnor, R. V. Plerce, M. D., Buffulo, N. Y. AL as 5 A Remarksble Lemoa. Kan [Heqe iCal.) Untam, Dee. 13, Mr. H. M. Higglos, ‘ol Bwedtwater Valley !ormcrlg of Chicugo], bus sucreeded tu pro- uclog the Boest lemon that we bave ever seon, It is a scedllog; very large,—doubly the size of & large Sicily femou; very thiv skin, not thicker than averuge canl-board; and uearly if not whully scedless. Tobe pulp s full of julce, not st all pteny, sud with very little 8bre. 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