Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1878, Page 5

THE CHICAGO RIBUNE: MONDAY DECEMBER 30, 187 rensibility to ohe's own happiness 18 prerequi- #ite it a concention of the happdneea of otbere, How can o awon be anxions Lo Lestow unon an- otlier that of which he himself knows but 1it- tle? Nodoubt the poet Milton possessed lin- mente learning and immense powers and hero- fam, but, If etory be trite, his daughters which are pictared a8 reading so affectionately tothelr blind father, and the nephews about the Mil. tohlAn home must have liad often convineing proof that thele PAradise at least had been long ost. Much of the prote of Milton 18 marked by a feruclfi' of which our thnes can Jfurnish no araliel. Having but one 1ife to 1ic8, dnd hav- ing the cholee of all thnes, one world be fustl- fied o toeating his span of existenco to a happl- ness-seeking age, for only such an age wonld care for your tears and make any cffort to dry them. Tron-mep are noble to Wear, but hard to be horne, . \‘?flen Christianity has In any way been made into asevere atate of philosophy or char- ncter, this bad resuit has heen achieved by a wanderlog nwn( from Christ and by a linking tozethet of Mosatc law and Christian Gospel, Wiien our ancestora condemned and_executed witcheA they quoted Exodus 2% 18, “Thoa shelt not suffer a witch to lye.” en the Christian Charch began to put to desth ail those who rejected Its line of beltef, it studied and imitated the exdmplc vf Mosea and Joshna in their extefinination of the Canoaniter. The early Chiristian Church studied not it founder, Chrlst, but {ts imaginary predeceasor, the Mosale Chareh, and put todeath millions of non-belley- cra beeause the Mosatc model had cut down the Pagans root and branch. Many of these olden-time writers explain persecu- tion by quating from Leuoterenomy. One of them, 8imancas, éaya that perse-ution to death s rlzfxl, because In the 17th chanter of Devter- onotmy wa are told that stubborn unbelievers must be burned in sight of all the people, atd that ldolators must be led outaido the gates And there be stoned to death, Our own ances- tors, when they made the penal code of Connec- tlent, founded’ 1t as far as ‘mllhln upon the Peuntateuch, Apain and agnibat theendof n Jaw they cito Lho holy precedent for such an act of leginlation. For cxample, we find on tho code thils Bite Law: *1f_any child or children about 10 sears old, and of suflicicnt understand- Ing, shall curse or smite thelr natural father or mother, hie or they shiall be_put to death, Bee xodus 21, 173 Lev. 20, 0; Ex, 21, 15" Analn, WIf o nan bave a stubbormn son who will not obey the voice of his father or mother, and that when they shall have chos- tized him he will not hearken unto thum, then elmll they bring him before tho magistrate nnd testify that their son s stubborn and rebell- {utta, and wiil not vbey thelr volee and chasti: ment, but lives in sundry and notorious crim ch a son_shall be pui to death, Eee leut, , 20, You may study all you will and can the alleged cruclty of Christiantiy, and you will find it all to have como from the assumpiion that Moses Lrought the perpetunl will of God to | carth, and that Christ and Moses were linked in an equal amd everlasting portnership, Out of this assumption his come an emifeas Amonnt of cruelty and blood and tears ond sotrow. But the moment you dissolve this terrible compan- fonship between the thunder of Binal and the Bermon on the Mount, vou pervelve that Chris- tlanity comes bringing hapniness and asking you to carry h-grlqcnu to all within your part of soclety, Christ, in 1ils own truc lsolation, was not an sacetie, but an advocate of human checrfulness. Thero were uo tears of sym- vathy falling down through the Mosaic tines such as rained down through the Bethie- hem skies, when Christ went from home to tome, and_from village to village, cheer- ing all, and healing all, and_ blessing all. The »timo for burning the skeptlcal snd stonine to death the fdolator rolled away like a black cloud ofter the Advent, aud the new dispensation was neen blessing all, comforting the mourner, hold- ine in its arms hittle chilaren. 'The austerity of 1he Morate era Christ would not permit tu en- velop even tha 8abbath, much less all the days of the week, for passing through the wheat- flelds on Bunday, he commafided his commnions to eat cheerfully of the sweet wheat, since the Habbnth was madae for inan, aud not man for a Habbath, At the weddiwe feast Christ lar- monkzed with the festival and helped fl) the wine-cup of the happy hours, Those llilcs which Christ saw wera not scen by the red-right arms that put to death so willlngiy tho Amorite and the Perrzite, but they were trampled down by the rush of the hotsemen and the fron chariota. In Christ you will perceive just that sensibility of soul which loves at once the bap- piness of self and the joy of all mavkind, ‘I'hts muat be rald over ali history, not only of * Mosaie tincs but of Gospe) times,” and all carly periods, that it omita to pleture to us the laugh, and smile, and delight of mnn, and exhausts {ts thime upon thoso wars, and eveuts, and characters which overthrew thrones, or sct up thrones, or changed the maps of natlons. 1listory 1s a Hling {n and out of soldiery, It ia m march ot Kings and Queens. In all it Jong period no happy vhildren are seen; no fenst is spread unless, like Belehazzar's, it 1s to be tollowed by somu calsin- ity and some poet 1s about to sayt Hour.of the Empire's oyerthrow— The Princes to the feast are gone; no marriage-bell rings; no mirth-makinestories are told; no young people dance fn the largo halle. A8 Rings wera Lho large things of thy bygone centurics, around them moved ail the l:fi'runlulcrl of eventa frou Ezra to Gibbouw, each writer composing his book ns on a shield and dipping his penin an fnkstand mndu of a skull or of & helinet, Looking into such a record our {nthers shaped our reliefon to it this fuuercal loam, and gave us & worship in whose sombre presence pleusure partook of tho quality of a sin or of a weakness. This beingtrue, It is the privi- lego and duty of our thine to note thoinjustice of history snd to allirm that Christianity s in 1ull sympathy with that vast love of pleisure that fills up the mortal soul. Gloomy religionists in- uire whettier Christ ever laughed, and whether §L Paul ever jotned in a dancel as though there wero 8 most withering rebuke to the inquir; This we know, that history has never given s the pletarc of man i hits ‘home, and joys, aud laughter, and all delights, but only of inan aa swaving a scoptre, of as making a specch, or writing a poem, or founding a religion, and hence you who lovo pleasurs need not ask Jose- phus, or Tacitus, or Livy, or Hume, or Uibbon, to show you m precedent; you may cast your case upon the wisdom of a different court,— that of resson,—or you tuny rewrite history and omit the battle-fields and the monarchs, and fiil your pages with common men, women, and children from all I and all generations. Thus studying man, you wilt find that the pur- suit of happlocss has quickened his zentus ond the beatlng of his heart all along bis fren high- way l:um the ofd Eden totho fresh and new America, JMappiness thua revealing itself as a lawful, and noble, wnd untversn! pursuit, it must now e asked what happiness {s it that s so Jawlul d noble? . 1t muat bo a hapniness that does not conflict with morality, Vleasure sought by a viotation of any law of health, or of conscicuce, or of soclcty ia only n pain delased, The so-called “duughtera of joy™ are the.-daughters of intl- nite grief. And the appeai to the drunkard’s glass for happiness 13 only placing a heavy inortgage unon the soul in goud thncs to be pald with heavy interest when times aro bad, ‘o pleasure of the gambicr, tho betting-man, nud generally the fashionable man, s ouly inflation of to-day at the expense of to-morrow, Hupplness s wuch llke money,—muoncy must prusent au sctuality, It must stana tor same stored-up labor of indlvidual or nation, If a 1nan s earved & farm or a house, or hos digeed & put of gold, ho may fssue billa of 5..“.- al- most to the amount of value in his farm, or or pot of gold, but, should he lssue or drafts to ten tmes the value realty, hia bilis must duoclihe 1o 10 cents on the dollar 30 as to har- monize with his poasessiovs. No iuan and no Btate, howeyer powerful, can creatu s value, No Btato can make land ur muke & wheat-crop, ‘Uhetr bills of exchange must represent what 1s, Qod alone can create, He might appeal to what might be. It 18 tnuch thus with pleasure. 3Man ranuot wander much beyond bis absolute pos- sesslun of power und llfiht. An overdrioking, overeating, an overtax of mind or body {s an overissus of drafts, and lo, on the morrow, an awful depreclation of bady' and wiud and soul Is reported on street, snd 'chaoge, and fu the church circles, sud fn that moat tender and tear- ful place—she bome. You seo on the strects dally persons, male and female, who years avo discounted , too heavily thelr future, and now the tuue fs out, 'The hicaith of the body aud of the mind, the welfare of sulf uud of society, thic cterual laws of God, theso sre realities upon which all may fssue thelr pleasure notes, but the lastant yoil go beyond thesc actuatities you become a defaulter,—you are no louger fu'the v%le of pleasure, butot peln. L must thercfure be truo thst what we call amsewents are thiogs to be regulited rather Igln sweepiuuly condemned. The pleasure of the thustre, of guinca, of tho hunt, of the dauce, of the dinner, of the party, of the club, must bo ope that shall not uyertax health, or norals, or wouey, or wilitate azalust one’s avo- catfon. ‘Ibe bounding lue between virtue and vice is not ulways made vividly oo life’s great plain. Our world wus uot made fur the sccom- * igodation of stupld people g,:u for the growih ind {ocreass of stupidity,’but to deveiop the wmtellect and the judgmeut. Al college stu- dents aro wont to ask, Why study this Urec with {ts cndless detalls, snd rulcs, and cxcep- tions? Why not study casier thiogs} Aud dhe grave teschiers will say, lu trigmpb, there s & vast smount of meul isciplive in Greek. After tastering that, all clse will bo cusy. ‘Theso Greek Professors bave Nature oo their side: for Nature drawsdim hines between virtue and vice, leasure sud [8iu, and then se)s, “Find thess Hoca: o1 iy vbtldren! and you will become s The O} Church dedlived the Ivvondewned inighty wea u::.‘ yh asked fur gasy studics. — the whole region of falnt bhoundaries demned the drsmage and the dance, gamces, and even tngbter and o neat tollet, and fell bck on its fmmiulas as being about the only plave where reason’s trumpet could utter no un- certain sound, about the pursuit of happlness, You tens of thousands ety oud from home at times In the tursvil of 1his winged butterfly, They g to what fré calied Vpesorts.” The: day fs done, 1t coh- and the And now Iet us come to nne more general liw ercelve ride, and they rail: they eat, end they drink,at they make iierry. Often this ia all well enougi, ond mitch of what thev seck 18 found, But If wonld be & strange Iaw of Nature If inan muet travel from liome [norder to find any important form ot plesscdness. Buch & law Wwould give pleasure to only those baving somé money, and wotld give It to them only in July snd Auguost. Nnlure does nol fily the 2oul with an Immenre and universal longing, and then bring to this longing snch a small butcome. 1t hes made no nunfin fallure as this, but, on the opposte, Giod has tiade haphinesa grow up around the very avoeations which consumd all our days, and aronnd the eitics, or towns, or homes which therish us when the tofl of the Each profession, each buainees, should be also & pursuit of happiness. Men shiould ro regulate their work, Il possible, in its quantity ond’ quality, that they will go to it ench morning with pleasure, In all the 10,000 honorable _pursults the toller in each indnstry goes cheerfully tohis task, for his feclings have fitted themaelves 10 1t like a doft glovo to the hand. There sre men now in tho learned pro- fessione, even in this house, Who eame up from n farm, and now, lo lookihg back over the loni stretch of yenrs, they cannot tell when they were happieat, whether 1t was Jast year in a pub- lie life, or n their Years of student life, or In those fonncr years when 'he?’ were up at dawn In summer to et ready for vl nwlnix or hinryust- ing while the grass was el oiitf dew. One may find pleasure by travel and by any form of diversfon, bvut God has so made the world that the great bulk of its joyfulness 18 to gpring up sround huine ahd It “vursuit, The hieart is born into it. uAnd all g8 youne hearts \who are just enteting on this great debate about pleasure, where it ll to be fonnd, dn not fall futo the errur that when vou become rieh then you will Lry tobe hap- v, 1lappiners is the most accommeduting of all Rings. It will come to a cotlnge as soon as to & palace. You neéil never wall for any outward pomp to come. As the sunshine of the’ Almlghty will shine through a_atmple vine aa richly as upon the velvet of s Kiug, or upon the gifded dome of n temble, so hanpiness tnlls with equal sweetness upon nll whoso minds are ot jeace and in whose hearts flow the goot) thoughts and wood sentiments of Hfe.: Never for o inoment admit that any milionaire or King van surpasa you lu the possession of that peace of mind and #mile of existence which we call happiness. 1lere you are equal to the hizhest, Uvdn ttuties well done to sell and _mankind, upon heaith of soul aml hody, thia dej jendent vine bLears its welght, Pleastire 4 not a self- sustaining onk, but it s & depehdent vine. The great vine of Santa Barbara, which bears tons of grapes each year, and which demans ahinvst a fleld for ita arbor, aud which lias n triunk six- teeh inchen in diameter, does not stand alone, but wanders to and fro over stronr posts, clasping them all {u its many arms. [lappiness i thus only a dependent, effmbing product of the soul’s floral world, The mnn{ pursuits of man, his industry, his studies, his honor, hls home, his philosophy, his of religion, ore a long series of coluinns upon which this lowering blant iangs and relles, and frum which it shows ity blnuomannd susyends its frult, God has made man ndt ouly for toll but for this joyfulness. Let no yearnings for riches, or for oflice, or forany formn of voln display destroy or impede the strenm of con- tentment and peace which the Creator deslgued rhoald a)l thd* year flow throigh your soul. The fact that relizion paints Hleaven s belog o havpy land 8 chough to polnt out the lnwiul- ness and attractivencss of hapniness, for what {n 80 desirable ou the shores of cternity must be 2 boon to scck and to lind on the shores of time. BIBLE PERSPECTIVES, A READING NY DI GINSON, The Rev. J. Munro Gibson delivered yesterday afternoon ot 4:30 o'clock, at Farwell Hall, nnother one of n acrfos of Diblo readinga which he has been giving of late on Bahbath af- ternoons, Ile spoke upon what he termed “The Perspective of the Bible,” and used tint Idea to call attentlon to the general thoughts sctting forth the plan of Bible atudy upon which ho hiad of Jate ro often spoken. Reading from Ilcbrews, L, I, “Uod, who at sundry titnes and ot dlyers manners spoko ft thue post unto tho fathers by the prophets,” he aald that fu that passage was found the fusight futothe Gene- sis of the Seriptures, The words of God did not come nll at once, but at sundry times and n divers manners, and the whole Bible was not addressed to the prople of to-day, Much of it was addressed to the people living at the time of the writing of the floly Book. 'Thusin the sceoud verso of the first chapler of Itebrews was found tho worlds “lath u thesc last days spoken unto ua by is Bon,”” God nad spoken to the people by menand by prophets. The human authership of the Hible was nefther de- nied nor concenled, but merely through the human agency God fiad spoken. One proof of that was the magnificent unity of the book. In the twelfth verse of the thirteenth chapter of 1. CoMuthians woa lound, * For we scc throuch a gloss llnrlrly. This, literally tranalated, read, *We ace is throuzh a mirror. It was lterolly truo of all sight— that wo saw as through n glace, It was lruc as rrpzurds the eye, and it was true metaphorically, And it _was nlro true when applied 1o Bivlo kvowledee, Paul, In his eccond eplstle to the Corinthlaus, spoke of beholding, *“as Inaglass,’ the glory of the Lord. He referred to the rea fugz of thie Seriptures, and In & verso fust firu- ceding ho had spolken of the taking away of the vell, that God might bu seen with au unveiled face, Knowledge could be gleaned by reflection, as the object fn the glass wia eecn by reflection. These threo last references formed tho text In tha considerotion of which oue must conatder the Dible as a history, not as a treatise. 1t shoukl be viewed as o scrles of pictures which were not fu the abstract, but i the real,—us drawn from real iife, true to nature, ‘The Biblo wus the least artful, the least artifivial, and ot the same time the most artlstic,of books, "The serles of pletures drawn i the Dlole hed been misused, The book itecll had beon mis used, It bad heen dewlt with us o bouk of ropositions, of storfes, of biowraphical sketches, ‘hese sketehies and blographies hiad been taken out of the gencral mass and studied by them- sclves. This wode of Bible-study was )ike the studying of & landicape painting by Its component parts, If the pulnting were 1Fuc to nature, the varfous flizares would up- pear beantiful In themselves, perhaps, bat vut of all proportion, The figures which mude un the pictare might bave been ol seen, but conld 1t be sald that the beautiful pdcture ad been seent Ono might atudy and become conversunt with the figures of the Bible-pactures, and o knowledge of them nlght do o vaedeal of good, but could 1t be wald that the glorious picture of the Bible had been seen? “Ihe Bible had been greatly marred by adivision in chap- ters, us a peluting would be mmred wnd ruined by u net-work of lnes dividing fte surtace Into Innumicrable square e speaker bad vnce secn one of Tenny: most beguti- ful poetns ¥o changed by division tiste chapters and verses, aud so distizuered by asterisks, aud dashes, and crosses as (o be aliuel unllruiy un- recoguizable, It bewuly was rufued, In the pruper presentation of the Blble pleture thery ad heen hindrances. Preachiers ol the Gospel had hindercd It by presentiug (o thelr congregae tlons mere fraguents culled * 1exts,” and bot ouly that, Lut they had made them notbleg but extracts without suything behind, befure, or ut tho sido of then to support them, And, too, tho *‘text™ wus often’ set aside with a whille the le’lfl:’mr wundered off into a ticld of phlusophical or poetical thcorles Even conunentutors bud given Lut ideratlon Lo tire great beatlus of thy Though they might not bave used the mieroscope too much, they had used the tele- scope Loo Mttle, Moderu commcentators were, the speaker was glad to suy, using tho telescups wore freely, Bible lad lollnwtfll 3 tetug with shnpe ‘The private use of th rouch after the preac! Fhe broad, bed ful, geveral effects were cutirely loat in the tention pald to tue minutixe. The sweet, brau- titul flowers bad been gathered und enjoyed ten thousaud timds, bLut the waguilicent landscape Lad escaped uotice. The study of the Hibls fu perapective would reveal new beauties, new luterpretations, and sssist th practical uye. It would sliow the divine urigin ond uuity; provest deseceation muke it &8 fnpossible 10 remove & part as to #hift a tgure of o pictura and preservo the har- wmony. Al{ important thought ta the vunsideration ot God’s Word was that of depth aud * distance.” Just as a pleture represcoted the deoth snd dls- tance of space, 50 did the Bible represeut the depth rud” distance of time, 1t would not du to read a chapter of Genesls as one would read a chapter of Luke. The Blble was nots tlat surfacy, stretcbing awsy to lmwmeawsurable distauces. It was eusy to s tho deoth end length of the Bivle. n a pluture, even, it required an effort of the - agiuatiou to view properly the depth and the distauce. Bo in the Bible, The spcaker bes lieved tuat auy caudid aud futelligent uian, lhowever skeptical be ight be, would ueed o furtber evidencp of the fuct that the Bible was of Uod thau a rvslization of the *sunidry Umes? sud **distanes " coutaived i Revelatious aud perspective view of the Bible supplicd oblec- tous, eo b did away with them. Perrona had often asked: 1l miracles were go plentiful in Bible times, why are there none nowt” In anawer it " could be eaid that il one supposed that are of the mirncles extemittd all throngh the Bibie, one made 8 ¢rénl tilclake. Some persons suppored that the Hibie realiy wasa hook of miracles. There were no miracles in (ienceis, and Uenesis covered a netlod of 20000 years. Even when (iud had done things out of the general order of putitre there were nnanswerable rearons ®¥hy #lich thines shonld be done, Were thero nocir- comstauces which made miracles necestary in e L’I?e of Enoch, and at the Flood, and at'the Babell Mliracles were only workes long In- tervale. ‘They would not “number one in a cen- tury, snd oncin A century was not verr fres nuently. Noj miracles were not the yule, but the exception, and were dane ohly under the most bresaing clrcimstances, ey subjectr which démandcd atteption were the relief, light, and shade of the Bible-peture, Many read the Ward as though it were o flat furlace. T{mv tiever locked nt the rellef, nnd light, nhd shade. Perliaps tliey wanld Yravel frum the (inrden of Eden to Calvary before Lhey 8aw a prujectinn un the vanvas, The story of ihe life of Abraham might be cut out and hield up ns a sampie blography, It was n mng- nificent biography. But while' Abmham was an cxeellent plonograph out of the Blule he was a still greater one In the Dible, reflecting the light, causing the rellef and the shade. Bome rcmms Jbrovght forward the slaugh- ter of the Cansanites as nn_objectionable feature of the dible. The story td heen cgt aut and publishied and repubiished; nnd would be held up as long as there were persons who losend to sce all the obfectionable atd hone of the beoutiful thines of the Bivle. ‘The story of the siaughter of the Canasnites wans all that niny people knew of tlie Old Testament. The ent- Inz and presenting of the story waes lke cut- ting out adark cornerof a landscape-paintin: and presenting it as a fair sample of a heautiful pleture, In {ta place It secured the harmony and outline of the plctute. Out of it, 1t was vothing. Who were the Canaanites? Livive for venturles in the practice of the most revolting crimes, the Lotd bors with them for 400 vears, and - only then irened the arder which cut the off from the face of the varth. While that fact, pekhaps, did not re. move all the objections to the story, did It not put it in 8 different hght? good pleture, we were told, was distributed in masses, The fble waa In that reapeet ke moud pleture, Eeypt and the Exodus: Babylosi and the Resto- ratfons Christ awd the Cross, Let auy one mou- ter these three pletures (n nit their importance ond such anone had o very falr fden of the Bibie. Between themn, In the matters of his- tory, wna the j.oetical, the rich coloring matter, How few there trere who conld add to the his- tovienl books of the Bible the rich coloring of the poetienl bookst “8fght 7 was s thing of great moment In the study of the Bible, i at picture the “ point of alzht " was the chief thing. It wos that point in the horfzon ubon which fhe muat limportant lines convinzed, A every mml)lme\r, it was necessary that the point, of sleht be viewed if o good fden of the brelire waa to be obtained. How linportant, then, waa 1t that the point of slght should be knowh. And in the consfdern- tion bf the Bible how fportant was it that the point of sight shouhl be known that a good view ol the Rible-pleture be obtained. * The things voncerning M Vi the voint _of sleht, not Clrist bid His Disclples search the Scriptures, for In them they should find Him, And did He not kay that Moses wrote of Hin? Al the grent Ifues of the entifs Word converged on Christ. Ile was the voint of slght In the Okl Testament and in the New Testament, and of the long series of bletures that musk b kept. in view, Many persons could not sce ti® worth of the O1d Testament. They falled to see the polt of sight. The Bible 08 a whole was ltkea gratid panorama, and yet unliko it; for in tha Bible there was bt one point of sight forall the victures. Ina panorama it was not so. Christ was all in all, the first and the laat, the ‘Alpha and the Omega of the Bible. All the preat lines from Genesls to Malachi eonverzed on Christ. Take away the pleturé tormed by tho lines from Uenisls to Mulachland there was disclosed another and a rmatler pleture, with Chrlst in the Toreground i the very lirst view, ondat the last Christ upon the throne. Each Testument was made up of a series of pictures, oll different, yet uot always separate, Sometiimes they ran into ench other Tike dissolying views, the one disapyearing as tha other appeared, the point of rigiit the sane in both. fuch hiad been said about the “donblo sense’ of prophecy. me ol the prophe: fogs seemed to bave referente do events near at hand, awd At the same time to matters nway off in dim futurity. One urgtted that if the fimphmy related to s near évent it could not have reference to an event afar off, and thus there arose a hopeless confusion, YFor Instance, in certuin of tho Old Testament plet- ures the lines convtrzed upon David os the pont of sirht and also upon Christ. It should 0 uniderstoud that David was to his time what Christ was to Ilis time. The Davld of the then waa typieal of thu Christ of the future, Much also had beon safd about the want of per- spective (s prophecy. In a landscapo palnting lnn rround view wlght extend but a few mites, and yet there might with perfect proprioty bo o star Ip the sky of the pieture. Bo it milht bo in the Bible. The star scen in the picturs of Genesls, tho ground-view of which picture ex- tended only to Moses, was In hurmonlous per- spective, 1t waa the star of Judah,—this oven- fnz stor of the patriarchal cra,—and In per- apcetive atlll deeper 1L was the star of tho ern et to come. There were necessaryvelerjents for the correet drawing of the pleture, Firat was the base Mne und the horlzon line, The horlzon lne was the place where the heavens und the earth scemed 1o meot, bnd the most iImportant polat in it was the pofut of sight. The base line of tho Bitle was gin; tho horizon Hue was holiness and heaven, and the poiut of sight, the placs where heaven and carth, iod aud tan, met. Thero was deception In the horizon liue, The near was often mistaken for the far, Inavoyoge ncross the aea one could look about him, atid a8 far ns the cre vould reach the borlzon ex- tended, 1t seemcd tu be the end. All thut waa wunted wua u little falth, und as one went farther ond farther, another aud stiil snother korizon was found, till at lust tho horlzon wos = the shors und the Jjourney wos ot an end. Bo In the “voyage of life— when the dark clouds” scemed to bo uround and about and limitless in thelr expanso ~Lhere was anothier horlzon farther on where the sun shy Btanding at the side of the ves- 8¢l while crossing the sen ono could see the shimmer of the moon's pale rays s they danced over the wavy wuters, They seemed to form o wolden pathi leadiug up to the jmoon iteclf, and that path was not seen except when looking to- wanil the moon, Al who stood by the il of the vessel might sco u path of Hght, but they all saw scparute paths, and yet tho muon shone over all thie waters, ‘Tha samu llght stione for ail. Naught but a difference fn staudpointa caused tho different paths. The ll{:llt of the moon was like tho light of the spirit of God, The golden track across the woter led up to the moot, The golden track of the light of the Spirit led up to the Throne, CIRIST'S SOVERKIGNTY. BEIMON BY 118 KEV. DR, BVEKTS. The Rev. W. W. Everts preached at the First Baptist Church, corner of 8outh Park avenue und ‘Thirty-first street, yegyerday mornlng on “The Soverciguty of Jesus Christ." Hls text will be found fn the thirteenth chapter of He- brews, elgbth verse: “Jesus C[lrhl, the ssue yesterday, and to-day, sud forever,” Tbo tiaveler, standine smid the ruins of some anclent clty, often feels a senso of the fustabil- fty of human greatocss. But, turolug his eyvs upon some mountaln summit that has stood the test of sves, he feels & wenso of rellef, and shouts, in Joyful accents, all things are not pussiviz away. When he covtemplates this wreck of empirca, and reslizes (hat all thlugs pass away, ble turns to Uod, who is the samne (o-day, yesterday, sud to-morrow, and to Jusus Chrfst tho saue yeatenlay, to: uf-, and to-morrow, The permanent need of Divine sevelation, of merey, of atonemeitt, aud of somu supreme soverelynty, assyrcy us ol the perpot- uity of Jesus Uil kingly oftice. Tho vom- munication of the soul with'the spiritusl world must be felt as of & uecessity. If the spiritual universe exists it must become u gulde, & hope, un_encourageient 1o man, It it be discovered ouly through faith, It cau only be reye through thet faculty, aud the umrhcuc Kl b through faith revealed the splritual world BE to-doy. Fauatics aud lnposters niay seck to dlspute its exletence, but, in- stead ol disproving, they coofirm it ‘Lne prophictic gitt was turnisbed to predict sud perfect revelatious, sud Jesus Christ cawme to il vut theso revolations. To fultll, not to destroy. He was the necessity of the human race, and the prophecy of Moses snd the proph- vte was e glorlous in Him. There la voth- fugg more fuuatical aud' absurd than to igpore the prophets, aud the Son uf Men, of humanity of Gud, the sume {uurdnv, w«hy, and for- over. flls_ prophetic offics can uever bo Iknored. The wen who igoore the proph- celes and follod ndividual speculutions aro the wost duluded cinss In the world, The permanent ueed of cumpensstion, atone- mient, interveaslon, forgivencss, and pardou us- sures the Diving tedlation of Jesus Cbrist. Tic futultiouul seuse of this in wan assures bim of jt. All ten have the vonclence of sccusing or exeveluy, wad thts lmpresres them with the ue- the unity and progreir of thought. Justasa | cescity for ft. 1t fa the corner-stone of man's religious convictions, Man cannot czn{.e or erade the law of his hetlef. No worahip fu- nores this fact, ‘The pfotilem ol life 18 recov- erv from aln. Absolnte jutice deatroys merey abeolute merey destruys justice, The Jlehriw tried to solye the problem of how (il conld be just and pardon iransgreseors, All faiths have tried to solye it, and failed. Christ s bt the deeire of all Ager, and only by atonement can these two things go to- gether,—ein and forgiveness. The necessity for atonement shiows that sinniers can come to Hod, and not bring Him down 1o their tevel. By compeneation and atonement inan is Hited un. Christ en'ne appointed by Jehovah for the heces- #ties of the world, and 44 long As men heed pardon the race cannot do without an stoning Havior. The permanent zecessity of some supreme power over tnan's cunscience and Hfe arsures the perpetuity of Christ's kingly office. In politlea, where of bow sro the sirugeles con- ducted unnamed! Nowhere. Kingdoms arc ruled thus, There is no nuvnrfl[{nl{ on eatth without a nm‘o. ond never will be. What means the Sorralle achivol of uhilosopht? Yook at the abrurdity God that has no name, There munt pe a name. Jesus Uhrist & the nome. That is the incarna- tfon of Divine sovereignty. The revealer of God and the soverelrn over the world. In His name shall gencrations trust. That name shall be pronounced a8 the Incarnation of ol laws. No name shall be more exalted. When man is no lunger amunable, he can do without this Lordstip, and until man can, that Lordship will e perpetual, As well talk about outerowing the sun, or ottfgrowing man’s eonatituilonk, as outgrowing Jdesns Christ. Mon must have a priest or he cannot vome to God. Christians need not he afrald of charlatans and originators af new re- liginus. They sall by the compass and belleve in Jesus Christ, and ‘are_safe. Bo long a8 they need a pricst Ie abides forever, and God will be for all and in all. There 1s no duty out- ranking man's duty to Christ, Ile must tirst seek the Kingdom of Heaven. There 18 no duty to compare With man’s duty ta be a Cbria- tian. That ia what the Church teaches, It may be false, but it 14 supretne, Bo Christ-men, —eive up the workl-be Christians, Man's only eecurity 18 hin pilfance with Jesus Christ, tho aame yeaterday, to-day, and foreyer. Men who know and rcjlm 1litn are lort. Men who realize that thelr only security Is nt olliavce with Jesus Christ are snved, If man tollows the clond and plllar of fire set up in 1he Tertainent he dies in 1ha triumph of falth, e rces the ark of sdfely and crosees the anerv waters of Jordan in death tu the promieed Jand, Liod help all to tils tri- umph to attamn that glorious enu. TAR DYING YEAR. TUE REV. CLINTON LOCKE, Rector of Grace Epiecopsl Church, preached abdut the old year yesterday morning, taking for his text the wonls of the favior, **Itis finfshed.” In a few more hours, he said, it would be over. A man would slew it with particular satiafaction or bitter disappotntment, or, feeling the labor of the year uot altogether lost, though mingled with many -drawhacks, o8 on advance. We gliouhi look at it not In the Tight of material puceess or fallure, not from the staudpoint of o tusiucss man taking an ac- count of stock, not In an estimate of publle weal or wo, but In the light of the progress of the mind and heart, What seemed lmportant superficially, was insignificant to God. It was not a eraud year if o tnan simply mnde A greae deal of money, or hod n great deal of fun, or hiad broken down a great deal of opposition, or had-avolded alf care or sorrow, A tremendous offset were the countless lies, the lapses from purity, the mean actions, the forgetiuiness of Uad, the greed, and (he selfishness, One might wmert with tremendous losaes, have tremenduus Rtrugeles, awd o trying time, and yet the sear be the erandest e ever had. Thero wéhe rome who could not eay with auy degree of ratfstaction, *'It ts finished.”” Conscience safd it had been a tnlserable fallurc. Fallures 1n husiness arose from causes heyond one's con- {rol5 but if it be truc his hearers could not belp growlog worge he lind Letier shut up the church, for what would be the use of preaching to machineai (lia appeal tothem was based on free wilh I1 they had not rotten the mastery of a besettiug sin,—had continued detnking, been unchaste, biasphiemous, shown bed temper, fouud faulty, or been scif- wilied or vareless,—t wras not due tu outshile affairs, but beeause they had not worked to be- come better with any stesbiness. A resolvo Jan. 1 had been half-forgotten by Jan. 5. If the year were o milllon times loneer, oue could not urow Letter without work, He urged 1he put- tng off the battle no longer, There was o fatal continuity fn every human character. The sin of yesterday returned ; with inorc virulence to- day, He hoped many, while not sble to ray, 1t has been u glorlous year for me,” could sav, “ 1t was nut a total fallure. Although I sce the weak and ugly spots, yet I con thank God that there has been rome proress, though mv life in atiil far from what it ought to be.”* 1f ane could not rav that, no tune was to be lost In overhouling his whole life and setting out on a new bosls. In referring to the cvents which had marked the year, Dr. Locke alluded to the death of “communieants of his par- isly—of ~ Mrs. Drury, Mrs, Della Milter, Mr. York, John Carter, and Marshall Klugsland,—paying a fecling tribute 1o tho memory of each. A parish was gatheriug fn the Interinedinte state, hie ratd, atd those there wera ns inferested In tte welfare of tho beloved Church as when on earth, Prayers wero golog un to God for blessfugs on those still tolling here. Ta_some, before the comlby vear was out, would bo whispered: * Tt is tinlshed 1" The pust should be forgotten; Its errors, lost uppartunities, audsins were Irreparable. “Look nhead]” Thero was sometbine 1o be done. fiod wonld forgive all that was gone by If we would ouly ssk Him. Let all do as Christlans did,—lay their bundens at Jesus' feet. Nothing would be counted apgainst us if we were sorry. Act in the living present. Belze the present moment 0s the changing-point into a uew and hetter life, ™S of petting up & YEAR'S DEATI-ROLL. TUE UKV, BROOKE IRRFORD preached at the Church of the Messiah yostor- day mornlug, taking se bis text the followlog wobds: All theee were honored in thelr generations, and W'("n! l7||e glory of their Uwme.—Eeclesiasticus, alie., 7. It has been the reverensl gentleman's custom for a number of years Lo preach from this text the lnst Bunday in the year, and to mako it the basls of a review of the death. roll of the year, snd ycesterday wos not an exception. His _ subjevs was “The Death-Roll of 1878, and in its considerstion he sald the world's greatest trensurca were Ita kreat men, and that all who held publicposition liad gotten a namo and s record, whether they had used their pusitions wisely or not, He then proceeded to refer tothe names and livesol somne who had had their names stricken out the past year by the band of death, anntne that in no wther way vould ho 30 well show how the world was changing. In louking over the death-list of the year ho had been struck with the fact that our inlnns became confused, and that we so soon forgut eyen he uames of the deceused, however great they might have been fu their day, He hud perionned tho sad task of scarchinizout the names of themoru filuetrious and notod, however, of those whohad died during tho year, and had grouped them fnthreeclasses 1, were those eninent in nattons and poll- 3+ sevond, thuse fanous {u art, Hierature, and traveld; and thind, men of prounnence in the re Isious worll. Of the frat class thepe bad bven many deaths, among whow were Pope Piis Xy, ther tex-King of tlanover, Vietor Emmanuul, and two Queens ol Spafu, tho life and history of all of whuis hy revigwed, payving especial attention to Pius IX, sud Emmante), whose lives he consldered to- cether, ‘Fhe furmer had begyp Jife hobued with iheral ideas, bul as bis temporal power gradual- Iy waned, grew tlhibersl, to the extent fu his jat- ter days of refusing to rumimxc his King'as auch, det when the King died ho was onl; cluded from sdministening the sacrames his feeble Lealth, With Victor Emmauue! § been ditfercut,—he started vut as 8 Liberullst and died a8 one, loved aud trusted by tha peo- ple. Antong the other notsbles of Lho cluss he mentloned Beu Wade, whom b hikbiy compli- mented, sud George l'uulul;wu. the father of the abolition of slavery In the British Colonies, an wEd, fu 1532, cumne 1o this country sud was threatened by s nob {0 Boston becauss o was an Alolitionist, Aunotber wus lord Jubn Russell, of England, the reformer aud friond of progress aud liberty, 10 the secopd ¢ Lewis as thd @ o uamed (Feorgo ITenry ot who lud died, and uext vame to him Baysrd Teylor and Willlam Cullea Whlle' he regarded Lewis as the grestest man, the aeath of Taylor was the ureatest Juss, for be was cut down'lu the midat of 8 young 1ife,—white yet fresh, and baving bu- fure bim a great work to go. Bryuut, too, bad becn a stroug aud grest wan, and bad left to those who are to live atter bim _an example of fudustry, epergy, sud success. ‘There wus to be added 10 the viass, huwever, many_ utbers ewmi- vent ju oue way or auother. Hecould ot escapo wentivviug MucGahan, the correspondent of the Loudon News, whow be could uever forget as the autborof theletters cxposivg the recent Bulgarian atiovitics, auG then ugaln us @ brave, watchful suldicr, In art, wus George lehfinf. who 28 u carlcaturist bad vot his equal In bis tme. Ju tue third class there bad beeu cqually as wany deaths, but there wero very fow who sttafned sby degree of promiuence. The great- ¢ab vl thew slly bowever, was De, selwln, Bisbop of Litchfield, and next to him eame Dr. Daff, migslonary to Indin: Dr. Dutton, of Boston} and othera, In conclusfon, he said, speaking generalle of the classea named, that preat nren cnme {romn the ranks of foclety, find that fn every Inetance marks of diatinction had bren attained in all ages by those who had taken hold of theiglives and made all thes tonld out of them, (ireat men would be fonnd to have been full of deter- mination and with great force of character. Iaving one or more talents, they had Impraved them, and of such it could be w11 rakd: *Well done, thou good and fasthful servant.” GUILD ANNIVERBARY, EXRMON DY DIL JAMEE DR KOVEN, The third anniscraary service of the Guitd of the church of the Epiphany was celehrated at the Chureh, on 1 hraop street, betweeh Monroe and Adems, yesterday morning, with & large attendance. The morning proser and litany hating been ratd at 8 o’clack, the service bezan at the usual honr with the office of Holy Com- munion, the Rev. James De Keven, D, D, Prestdent of Racine Collegs, being the {mmnhtr. The first thing In order was he hearing of the reports of the varlous Stand- inz Comunttees, Incloding that of Mr. Walker, President of the Guild; C. 1. Btrong, Chalr- man of the Exeeutlve UCommittes; W, (. Oll- ver, Chalrman of tbe Rick and Poor Committee; Gearge Jenn!ngs, Chairninn of Musle Commit. tee; . W, Pewe, Chalrinan of the Finanee Com- inittee: gpd Georgr: Garduer, Chatrman of the Commlittee on Sunday-fchool. The latter re- port showed that during the past three months theré had teen upon the rolis an amyremate of 129 members. There were now 180 children and twents-four teachers. The ageregate of offor- Inen made by the Bundat-school amounted to £192.7] far the {cnt, Including the offertory of Iast Faster, which was #107, The Sundny- rehool was entircly solf-sustaining and in gool conditfon, ‘The Rer, Dr. NDe Koven tonk for his text the following passazes of Scripture: See that yn walk circumspectly, not as foolm, but as wire men, redeeraing the time, becanse th daye sre evil, Wherefore, be ye not_nnwire, but understand- |0 what the wili of the Lord le.—Ephes. €., 1 , 17, The kpeaker commenced br eaviag that the Jast Sungay of the vcar was about drawing toa cloge, and hie described the acenes which tran- spired on Christmas orer 1,80) years ngo, the anniversary of which had fust heen celebrted, There were three thines in the apeaker's text which he desired to eall attention to. **See, then, that ve walk circumepectiy,’t e altuded to Herod !c{ullnu abroad to scarch opt the male chiltdren of 1srael to destroy them. How differ- ent was this from Christian teaching. There were a vast company of human beings scattered abont over the world, aretehing 1o thefr hands for us to come and_mnve them. This vast comnpany of the world untothem, *8ee that ye walk clrenmapectly.” God bade us to do what we conld with the ‘meatis at our disposal, aud to obey his mandates perfectiy. It was one thiug to gerforn the will of the Lord, and anotheg to understand what that will was, In oue set of actions it was easy to see that the evil one had a hand In the working4, while another claes or quulity of actlons was siown by our consclences to be holy, and In followine the latter we felt easfer and happler. The spesker referred to Pharaoh and his ol reiyn, and thourht tlat per- haps under different ecfe-umstances he miebit Uase been an cffective raint, Instead of the greatest of stoners, Ie had v.huughl sometimes that this was what wan meant h“y *buping up to yourscives opportunities.”” Rucfian spportunity was wealth; ruch an opportunity was sickness, {n which our hearts were softencd ; such an op- rtunity was sorrow, and another in relleving slekneas, sorrow, and trouble, which caused us to forget our own perplexities fn imer- csting oursclves In thuse of others. Up from this great relty them went wp e ory tothe throne above of corrow, and trouble, and wickedness, and wretchedness, which made the saints tremible. ‘There were Just a8 many opportunities now as there were fn the davs of Bt. "aul. when he preached upon 118 rubieet, the anniversary of which had just been celebrated. Buying up our opportunities meant to forestall the market. These wonda expressed the nwiul sacrifice offered by the ton upon the cross; sent forth to be Lorn of woman, sulfering all’ the ehame, misery, affliction, aud iszrace that it was puu.\lbh- fornorigl to sufler, «And now our gpportunities, bie thourht, meant uniting our self-denial, our charfty, and our de- votion to the Son with our Inbors among the sick, the poor, and the afllicted, The Hiting oppurtunity was another thought that was sug- gested by the text, How many tines had we mourned u tast opportunity. ‘There was a time to grasp every opportunity, and that was the fitinie time, Let ua remember also (he worda of the Apostio: “While we bave opportuniiles let us do rood unto all men, and especinlly unto those of the Huuse of David." HOME PROTECTION. SENVON BY MISH YRANCEY F. WILLARD, Miss Frances E. Willard preachied Jast evening In Unlon Purk Conzrezationul Church upon the subject: “Home Protection,’ belng introduced by Mrs. Barnes. The epeaker commenced by saying thal she wished that every crentore under the it of the sun might hear her voice upon that subject. 11 was tho auniversary of the Crusade of Oblo, five years ago. Bhe would wish that tiod would slay hier breath if she cver proved & brnitor to thie cause thoso noble wonien fnaugurated. We Tiad laws of all kinds fur the protection of men and beasts,—gamo-laws, and laws for the pre- yention af crueity to antmals; but, she was patned to say, no laws for the protection of vur homes, Unio us wns a doh eiven, 1ie eame not to destroy, but to gave, Bhe might pause to answer the question: * What was the Crusade fort” She had hinted ot this, It wight also beasked: “What did the Crusade dof” 1t liad the effeet of causing nillions 10 think and turn from thele sin. Tho speaker narrated rome of the Instanves of the Crusade witnessed by hersell, Shie saw hard-looking young men pags by a saloon where Cehe was proying” and louk in respectfully: she saw old men listen and reform: 10 ono treated them unkindly or disrespectfully, Thesowomen causcd thousands to turn {rum vice and sien the tewmperance pledge, and many to turn to Chirlst. That was one of the thinge that the Crusade dly.. John Brown's body lay moldering fu tho grave, aud his soul was tarching on,~—ihot Wwus Just the fact with regara to the Crusade. Thegood effects hud been aweeping ucross the prairte ever sloce.* 1t might be asked, * What did the Crusade fall 1o do?™ Ab! that was the question. ‘They were told that 1housauds of the saloons whigh were closed up, by them were open again,” and shousauds of boys, girls, and young men were cultivating a deaire tor strong drink. ‘1his was oulv so argument, 1 the speakicr’smind, that the rood work com- menced tive years ugo should be Kept up con- tinually, ‘Lhe workers vould not test during thetr Hves, hut they muat labor frum the foun- dations and educate the minds of the people, 8o Joni as the Stute aud Uoverament favored laws for thie protection of liquor-sclivrs, so long would the sslvons be Kent open, and drunksnls Lo | manutactured. 1t was urged by some men that thelr business would be ruined should a law bo enacted which prohib. fted the tratlic n liquors, As well tulht they say that we should have no murder law ln Chi- cavo, trum fear that business would bo dis- turbed, It bt be true, as a statesuan sawd, that, *In the joug run you can trust a rcople’l virtues to take eare of their vices,"” yot, of what effect can this virtue be anless (U be di- rected to s single polnt. ‘Lhe spes believed that there was cnough vifue In the vommunity 10 crush out the evil of Intemperance £ ull the roys of Mght were dirccted (o one Jocus, - hrought togetier futo # powerful lens, and then directed toward the su; louus in tho shape ot a law, She pradually drifted Info the subject of watnan's rights at the polls, and spoke of the intug hich might be brought to bear by the churches, other powerful aids which might be used tu bring about the greath-uceded reform, Every- thlui was consplring with liberty, Ubrmhnu{. atd improvement to belp the women win tbele battle. Everytbing couspired o teach us that liquor was & wewus ot dnvestinent, but wis no roducer of wealth; that while it saved no lfe, t destroyed many budies aud souls; sudethat jt was unworthy of the protection of mau. MEMORIAL BERVICE, DECEASED MRMBEHS OF THUE CHUKCH OF THE KEDREMEL. ‘Tue Rev. Sumner Ellly, of the Church of the Redeetuer, corner of West Washinglon and Bangamun streets, presched 8 wemorial serumon yesterday morulug on the lives snd characters of thoss of the flock who bad passed away sinco Lis wtuistrations at thls particular church be- gau. The pulpit sud reading-desk wero sppro- pristely decurated with wemorisl offeringy, snd an evergreen arch fn the ceutre attracted con- siderable atteution. its upoer and curved por- tion coutslued, fu Boral Ietters, 1he words, ** In Memortuw," benesth which appeared s pendent Hural stur. A sheal of wneut stuod at the fout of each side of the arch, while beneath the star {n the centre, and vrojectiug from a bid of fow- ers seb off with wrcaths ol sqilax sud light aud dark grasscs, were several calla hiles, fit cwblews of all that is sweet sud pure, - My, EINs chose for bls test, llcb., xil, 1t YUaeelog We Wiso CIC CuRipasatd Lbent by we great a cloud of witnesrer.” The anclent Romans, he safd, felt how deeply grateful men ougnt to be to metory nod hope, and the divinity by which they typifled these ldess was tepresented as having two faces,—one turned thoughtfully towards the past, and the other with giowing look towarda the future. The splirit of this myth has been erved by later ages, With memory, yesterday was ours, and we might sit in fellowahip with those of remote ages, By hope, men aoticipated victory, en- tered Into'coming joys,'and tasted the awects of the harvests even before the trees bloomed. He was about to ball the roll that could only be answered hy gn exprestite silence, He would not dispel {he bleasant and rational thought that thees names might be an- swercd in some real senne by thote who love them. He belleved, and Christian Bcriptures secmed, in fact, 1o justify the ides, that spirits fell under no banisment an the reault of death, but rather that they might pass into a more jerfect lfe that would keep remembrance fresh. Thus the absent mignt be bresent. With these dictures of the departed remaining in the mem- ory, It was well to freshen tha colars now and then, and sharpen the outlifier, Ile should, therefore, evoke these faces out of the past,— the faces of those who might be satd , to form the parish roll of the departed. Out of the 10 funerais at which he had ofticiated since he had como to this church, at lesst a quarter of the names appealed to the membership with & special interest, Soms wers old men, fome men mod women in the middle of life, and n!.lm{n little children, and, s Mr. Llis called off the list, he dwelt tendarly upon the record, brief in fome cases, of their earthly existence. ‘The mil eumsflsel the following names: Nelile E. Woodin, Joseoh Has ey, Mary E. 8imonds, Nathan Allah, Hornes Norton, Ed- ward Himonds, Martin J. Btiles, Mrs. Emma Perry, John Clark Beovill, Maud Gouodrich, Lutle Thomas, Marle Carter, Henjamin D, Wheeler, 1flian King, John L. Gliman. Mra. Lizzia M. Kawyer, Ralph Tahor, Witlie Thomas iggine, George DL Ruggles, Johnathan Tuthil, Mrs. Carrie_Frost, Mancel Talcott, Mre. Elizapeth Gruy, Minnie Kaue, Mrs, Maria Pashey, Mrs. ¥itz, and Henry Wifby r. Ellls référred particularly Lo the death of Mancel Talcol, The vast crowd which attended his funerul, he safily was his beat eulogy. Among pthemn were mingled all classes,~rich and poor, eminent and abscure, men of business and men al letiure, women and children, all bringing the flower of good-will to cast on his generous breast. e spoke at length of thore traits of character which made Mr., Talcott g1 loved and so promi- nent & miad in this city, and pald to his memory the warmest of enlogies, Buch was tha clouil of witnesses, fle wonld hot clalm that their lives were verfect, but the shindows that rested over them—if there were such—wese not {o be reflected fo an kour like this. There wod no faith like that which they profesied in which to follow the Iittle children in the after eourse and the mature men and wo- men beyond the confines of the tomb. This Church, In its faith, contemplated destiny in the light of the broadest promises of Scripture and the widest aspirations of the heart. It saw the home of all, the long home, the perfected home, where they should finally meet the loved of the carth and joiu them in the eternal worid of 1m- mortality. o THE NAINE LAW. Letter fram Neal Dot o the Editor ar The Tribune. PorTrANY, Me., Dee. 23.—A friend in Chieaga lias sunt me two #llps from your most Influcn- tial naper, but without mentioning the dates,— one neaded * Does Probibltion Prohibit?, the othier **Prohibition vs. Moral Euasion,”—and be osks e to wrile you & letter, aaying that you are really a friend to temperance anud the temyicrance cause, whatever inference might be drawn to the contrary from your artieles. 1 bave to asy that neither you nor any other man can gather from the gevernl press the actual facts s to the operation of the Maing Iaw, nor can It be done by accounts derived personally from those one meets in raflway- carm, in hotels, or elsewhere, professing to come from prohilbition States, snd to be thor- oughly posted Lpon every phase of temperance cffort and legal suppression. Man’s oninfons nre always more or Jess colored and Influenced by the standpolnt from which he views hls and amoug all the fnfluences by which men's views, feelings, and judgment are warjed and twisted, I know noneat atl 1o be com- vared to an inclination for strunz drivk in whutever quantity, Before oue can talk or write satisfactorily as to the success or fallure of prolubition in any loculity itis important oneshould know pre- clecly the character, I every clause and scetlfon, of the atatute which Jorblds the tratlle, Bills are urually drawn by lawyers, and the Bar pen- erslly s fn favor of grow-shops,—they are the great alllesof the law shops,—~aud it Is very easy, by the oddition or ownfssion of a comnia or s semiwolon, to change the whole meaning of asection of alaw soas to render It prac- tlcally Inoperative. It s very casy, by the usc of vne word rather than another, of by the ton or additiun of s word, to render an en- tire act of no practical yalue, Bo when you speak of the smail effect of the law of prolitbition In_Cuonvecticut you are all out In ?‘uur facts; oud Lestdes, so far as the law has fatled, you ure not aware that the fauit fa entirely 1 the construction ol the etatute, When ~protibition, ruu- and simole, was in opuration in Cobnectivnt, the result for good was wonderful, But now, under the cmaset- lated law, und worse rtfll under the malign influcnce ot the New Haven pulplt, and that which always comes from a great coliege nnd ureat medical school on il moral questions, prohibltion has no lair fair play. Hut you apeak of an nritatlon in favor of pro- hibition as_being va. *moral suasion,’” snd fu that remark you are all out, because the whole prohibitory lu:llnllolh{l nothing but moral sua- sfon; - 1bat s, sppeals to men's hearts, cou- sciences, and judgment. Aud there Is nowhere more moral suasion work, puro and shinple, than in those Htates where the prolibition ngitation is the most uctive, nnd ln thuse, liku Maine, whure prolibition 18 most frmly crounded in publie opinton. Yun‘nenx of Father Mathcw's agitation as o mudel for all temperanco work. 1 have been in Ireland many umes, and all over it, north, aouth, vost, west, sud kuow (atlmately tho whoic of that story. Fatber Matbew’s apita- tion was s dead fallure; ond his sistue stands now in 8 stall square In Cork, surrounded vn every band by wrog-shops, which sprang up all vver the Jand as soon as tho cxcitement pro- duced by that aduirabl n subsided, Father Mathew Lived to see the shipwreck of the whole movement, and he lamented bitterly cven to his lost day, that he bad not availe limselt of the uvverwhelming public opluion acatust the Jiquor trade to procure thy vumcte went, 0s he could ecuslly have done, of u stringent law stamping out that trallle which 15 (n desdly hostility to every interest of the Btate and people. You spenk of the “auccess " of the * ribbon ! movoment, and say that it has sccomplish o year worue then probibition las tn iw five. The ribbon “wovement, like Father Authew's, will co up ln amoke, unless the hops, those nallgn cestres of & bound- lcas and frresistible temptation, shall bo crushed out, We had such o movement fn 1540, and so on, the * Washingtontan.” Where lsitt “tione whiere the woudbling twineth.” Csrrying on the crunice work with what vou call “1oral suusion only, I8 a8 wise us L €o Inlo battle with hlunk cartridices agal a puwertul, wkill- tul, dosperate cuemy with shotted gu \\’wlv)‘ suld *hiquur-seliers are polsoners gen- eral, they drive the eoplo to bell ke sheap. ™ ford Chesterfield, in 1527, In the Housy of Lunds, on the Giin bill, called lguor-sellers *those artists i humaon slaughter.” Old Dr, Beecher, turty years agu sald: 1 dely nuy one to prove that liguor-sellers are not munderers.! Mr. Honator Morrill, of Maine, In the United States Scuate said: ““The liguor tratlic ls the ‘!]'I:llnllc erime ot crimes,” And from Wesley's ay to our Hime no wmun has even uttempted to deny or dutbt the truth of that terrible tndict- ment. Will you, uoder miy vircumstsuces, license that horrid trade { give It a legal status 10 the cominunity 1 You speak of Matne, In this State we used to cousume vur full share uf lnuor, snd more, In proportion to our population, that would be now aboui tl:l.uy‘(mnn-r. vut, umler the law as ji will cover the cust of wl the Hguors smuegled nto the Btate and sold wealust the law. Portland, o 1 Tost $10,000,80 by a great conflagration, Lut bas taicreased 11w valuation every year siuce, ~tha lust year by $480,000,—with striugent pro- Libitions but Boston, with free rum (licensv), lost, {agt year, in its valuation, $70,000,000. The MNalue law is eaforved fn Maive u well as any uther ulour erioloal laws, aud by sud by we will sdd to its power, so as to drive vus the last vestize of that *gusotic eriwe of crunes.” At prescot ¢ lugers sceretly dn the larzer towus and citles. Respectiully, #aL Dow, Love ruled the court, the camp, the grove, But this we tind wlere'er we rove, ‘Lhat Bazodont alooe supplice ‘I'ue dazzliug teeil sud ruby dyes, ‘S'lat lend a walden balf (o charms That win ber to ber Joves's arws, o e e — BUSINESS NOTICES, Kinball'sUstarrh Cigareites aren wonder. furrehef sud u pleusant swoke, They coulalu b [pee CUTICURA,CUTICURA RESOLVENT (Uticura Humor of the Face and Head Cared. A Terrible Cnse. Mrsane. Wrrrn & Porrxn—trnilemen : To sy that 1 am vratefnl, only 8 put expreaion of my celings, Lut 15 I the t yrord Lean uso, for L ert 1t in every sense of the &rord. T have brenw great maderer with akin diredses for the last tvalvo §12) yeats. My hena and faca being covered with satex, [ conkd ot reat with the burning heat and dtehing of the pactaaflectcd, and was confined tomy house for weeka at a {ime, My dinease hua heen called Eczems, of & most agrravated type, by many vhysicians, bat Tdoust it cver fully understood by sny of them, 1t wae mora lke a conyhinatiop of several akin' hnmors. T Have dueht thnch Mohey reekin a core, and In 1807 | went to Kardpe, 4l §oneulied some af the Leat plivaiciame fa Landon. i "‘“‘L“’ temporary relief anly. for intho spring {v wonld break ont agatn akind asever, When{ ¢ back to Doston, 1 waa told by many frishds that Br. —— (whoet reputatinn for the eare of thade disenses wan of the highestarder) conld cora me, 1 waited on the Doctor; he prescribed forme, [ folioswed hi# advice for six months, and I can anfely ray, svithont ady improvemesit. 1 tried other phy- sicians, and among them Dr. —, of Enat linaton, and Dr. ———, of city praper, hut ali to no purpore. They did me no good’ theif remedie were no Inet- fectnal that at ho time did I feel that a care wohld ternlt from them, - 1 have mwatlowed five hundreil arenie piile, 5-20 grain, and taken hottle after bottle of inlernaire: cdien, hesides dil the external apolications § hat dted, but the effect was the fame, 1 heedme datis- fled that I could nat be cored bnt might be xefit from xetting worse. XNow, aovnt three months aco, Mr. Meeha géntleman well known to Boston people, ealled my sttentlon to sonr Curicera, and promised wonder- f2) reanita If | wonld only make atrial, e tolit me of his awn exnerience with It, and =0 perseyer- ed on me tant I went with hit (0 a drug etore and Lought two lamte bosea of LrrTicena, and xome Rofp. and commenced to nse {f ncconling to the e recifonr, There wh: In, tha tha it came to tke surface and festered uni t quantitios had come cut and reatly i tensified my rufferinga for pbdut two weeks. ~ Hub 1 0id not mina this, ae 1 felt that 1 was solha to ret Hid of the humar when I raw it coming 1o the anr- face jo auch large quantities. Aftcr. the first (o or threc weeka' nee of thie remedy, | wan greatly encouragrd by 8 pradnal lessening of the inftam- mation of a inmber of ratnful sorcs, 3 carefully, faithfally, and cheerfully follosed the diree- tioun to tha letter, freling each wéek nearer cure, until at the present moment, after threo months' e of CrTivma, and twelve years of us conetant sufferiniz s was ever endnred, 1 can ray that | am cored, end prononnce my case tho most remarkable on record, | have been #o clated with ny success that 1 liave stopped men on the wsirerl who were affiicted, and told them to get the Lrricrua and it wonld cnre ther. This [s why § Am ro grateful ta sou, for I helieve it to be the best and greatest uiscovery of the age, and that it will cure all who are suficring with ‘theee diseatcs, 1 nay add that | took no internal medicine but the Cerietna ResoLyvesT, 3 WILLIAM TAYLOR, Bostox, Aug. 22, 1878, Endzl:sed By Prominent Cltizens of Boston. We know Ar. William Taylor to be a tvell-knowa citizen of Boston. His lonz serviee in the Leglols- ture of Masnachusetty and the Common Council of Jloston, and hia wide busisierd expericuco In thia city, have piven him a 'eee etrele of 1riend« ana scgnaintences who wonld cheesTaliy joinwain en- doraing his trastwoithiness if they were thvited to 080, CILAB. 11, TAYLOIL, 3tanager Jtorton Glo T. J. DACE Aset. Altorney Sugolk Affidavit and Statement of Cliarles Jteynalds, Fasuinxa 1 hereby cortity that Thave Teen & hais-resaer for twenty-six ‘years: am w@l known to llos- toutana: that turng 1hie time' I have Wid smon: Ty customers puny aficted with varloas forng o #kin and acalp diccance, but nover, iave secn wo severe a cabe nu that of Wikiam Tay or, Lereto annexed. The humor eavered every part of tis face, enra, and scalp, 1 further cottity tuat 1 have whaved the snd ‘Tuylor, whenever it has neen pos- #ble to da #o, fuor the last fiva veare, ) urng thin time there wan ho aoatement 1 the severity of 1he spprosch to a eure, --althoogh, 1 my Kuowled, omktantly under medienl treat~ ment, —until he beyan the use of the Cuticrs and Catlcura lerolvent, which ave effecied, in the short space of thtee months, a porfect curd, CHARLES EEYNOLDS. BUrYOLK. Ara 1478, Then personally appeared the sald Charies Ttey- noids, and wiade “oatls tnat the foregoing stata- menl, by b vubserihed, 1s irne, The Cuticura System Of Resolving and Eliminating all Constitntional 1lumors and Purifying the Circulation of Serofula, bcrofoluos, Cancerons, ana Canker Hiumors, and of Treating atl Atfactions and Discases of the 8kin and Snlr, with Lows of Halr, consista in the infer nol administration of the Crricrna KEsOLVENT, 0 Towerfu nt, aud the externat ove of wr kin Cure, nssiated by the Tl great remedies, strictly original in thelr comnorition and revolutionary in their methods of treattng the discases and adec- tions under eonsideration, appeal to {ho wick and safering with a force rover before exerted by medical preparations in the history of the curative art. 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