Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1879, Page 5

feoling that the milljona of our youth are re- ceing cducation In the common fehools. The c:mm we reopen and re-examing that wond ed- Soion the etter, [or ft s barely possible that ue §,000 grog-shops ancd Jow resorts are suy- ':n-almz the school-houro in hending the twig Vo inclining the tree of the futures and, it ro, o the Stato which boasts of educatihg ita children fs heaten alubg 1ts own etreets by the cqually free schools of vice. There are ather c:}nrnvmml powers than the achool-house. You all know how the Church has been fn- Jurea by Its doetrine of salvation by falth. The Woutring was scriptural and true, but tho theo- Jogians defined badiy tho term *falth " and took to Heaven a1l eorts of bad men, who had the merit of belleviog with hv.-lm‘)'. Balvatlon by falth s @ grand doctrine, provided the word ra5th ¥ be properly defined s but It a man who willlully cheats can hope to bo saved by faith, then he'ls wrapping himself in n_covering too short and too narrow to envolope his soul.” 1t faith will prove [nadequate. ‘The public is mal fog p Aimilar mistake in its sssumption that {t is saving ta children by moans of the public gchivols. Falvation by education {s as grand o doctrine In_politics as enlvation by faith is in the Church, hut this grandness will depend up- on the delinition the public assizns to the woni education. 1€ the term education Is exhausted by tho course at the public schuols then the Btate will not be saved, but will bo damned by fs own cardinal creed, The common schuols ara only one form of eare for tho younz. Even should our eity youth all pass on ‘hrouys the high-school they ivould only have tasted onc wiore Anape of personal good and vne more form of political benevolenee it they would emerge unsaved, for they would seess no trade, no habits of manual labor, 1o longing for a farm or a aliop. vo fnwoven futeerity, no vears of deeply Ineuleate:l morals, 1n fact, s imperfect s this public fustitutlon tlat it has diverted thousands from the many forms of manual Jabor and sent them, uncalled for, pouring fnto the open gatea of the so-catled fntellectual tuisuits, Instead of belng too broad vur ssliools are too narrow, for Instead of being schools from which the higher ntud. fes should be ellminated, they porhaps shouldibe hools whiere any youtw persot could learn any laugnoge, ur selenee, or industey,—pl here ft nigat bo discovered that all fndust 18 noble, and that 1ife 1s tuo short not for Iabor's sorruw, but fur Its. pleasure, Moucy potred in- o 0 broader education might save a greater out- lay for erlme. , *fhie fnquiry should havo been ralsed In the outsct of thisa remarks upon tho public duly to- ward minors, whether Lhere duties should not a1l be cast off upon the family and the Church, But perhaps here as well as ‘at any thne £ may remari that the State eunnot afford to awalt tho sluw and uncertaln futellectunl and moral de- yeloptent that might come from the dlyeside aud the altar. Tt muy be that the eal theory is that which nsstrne to tlie parent and the cler- man tho moral eulture of the Young, but thoe fiuury of the world shows that the Lieal theory dematids more Homw than the State ean aord 1 allow. The Roman Catholle Church has had about filteen hundred years for {ts experiment « of educating the children. Tue Proteatunt Church has cojoyed the same right to teach for at least three humtdred yeors, and neither of these fmmenso mothers of sulvation lias been able to gathier {n her arma any very largo pro- vortion of tha millfons of Titule ones and bicas them, And asto thosu that were gnthered these arms in France, and Italy, and Germany, ond England, and Amerden, it is 4 question_ huw far tho chlldren were blessed by this kind em- brace. Bo theso 1lungs os thoy inav. the State can no moro nfford to walt for the Church to eJ- ucata the children than it can ulford to walt for our murderers and thieves to be rendered ex- tiuet by the spread of the ideas in tho Berimon on tho Mount, The bLearth and the altar ad- vance with thele good very slowly, ‘Lhey marcly they sdvance, they seatter blesvings, but as a glocler moves. The Btuto cannot wait for them, for a single generatton, n sintle ventary nt lenst, might seal forever the taumph or de- cline of o nation. 1ndeed, the Btate must run before. nwrflp and education, and keep hack the savages, \witle the hearth ond the altar arework- gz their slow e'hnngeu tn the winds und souls of men, " An unansweradlo-objection to the fden that education, moral and fuioljeetual, elther or both, should ba left to the nnmn‘flnud the elergyman, tust be found {n the fact that feny of thousands of thoae who, belnz now young, tatst fill the ollices, and make and oxccuto the: laws of the next generation, bave vo home, and no churgl, and, therefore, can never recelve culture from those sources of holy Influence, In the cities and larize towns there are tens of thousands of young persons whio have no home that can help them, and no chureh tics that can o of any avi There fs ouly one flag that waves over them oll, ond that §s the flur of thelr country. ‘The finx of Christ would tovu to cast its slindow over them, and eo the bencvolence of home would Jove o extend to thems its belp, but amid these shapes of willinguess the State is the only belugt on carth who Is tho actun! father aud mother of all this youthful and tender throwg. Thie Church blcsses'n fow, it pprinkies the fure- heads of few infanta, it zathers fnto its classes a swall number; and the cultivated tlreside draws foto its circle @ fragment of the red-cheok- ed host, but 1t Is tho Stato only that can say without omitting a sincle soul, “'flicse ore ail my children” The Churel nud the home must Htced o onward with thelr targe ntluences,lor they helo form the men who fead 1h publie af- falrs; but it [s the State only that can to-day or to-tnorrow reach oll the indfvidnals, voune and old, ot the entire country, Inasmuch, theree fure, as the publia esypot wolt tor other wrene clea to comy anid, cars for fis {uuth and {nase much as the" ubllec will be politicatly ruined, unless the'¥oung ore cared for, the luferenco fs casy thigt tie Locnl and General Government must pay some attentlon to the cducation ot those who aro to be its officers, and elcetors, and citizens, In order to save ftaclf, a nutloy st sava 1ts children, Qut of this evident dependencoof governmens upou education has cotne our common-school systen, Oue ubjection now fu that the benetita ol tho publie schivol do niot come anywhere near makinz up the meantngs of the word edueation. "'l tuousands of almost homeleas aud church- lese youth of the lund aro not educated in the public schools, bocause reading aud wrlting are sall_elements in the furmation of churueter, and what the public ueeds of its citlzens {s ot leurnlng, bus'character, “Uhierefore, the duty of the puolie toward minors ts one of pruay g them fruin tho bad assoclutlons nud temptations of yuuth, as well as quuln;i thum up to a few school-bouks, A wysten which permlis teus of thousamia of buys aud girls to reach sdult Jifo without huving leatned any forw of fudustry, ond which Imrmll- all the voune boys tu live these formative years amld whisky suloons and gambling saloohs, canuot with any truth be called an educated system. 1t teaches the young how to read und write indecd, but the embers of the *Whisky Rhg,” now nssem. Uled, perhups Lo eleet Sewaturs, can ull read and write, snd the Whisky Benatord they would elect once knew how to write u lettor ur read & ook, and coukd yet, lu suoer hours, make use uf those lost arts, but white they in south wero Iearniug those valuable things, the same Statcs which wpresd out books befure thels young minds openo uplicfore them ulso the drami-shop, and at Jast they reveal thelr early relations to drink as clearl thelr carly relations to o chool-house. ‘The ower which opaned aates to learning should bave clused the sates to drunkeunvss. What @ Btate may do dur adults may b debatably, but the sume law which can open a school-rooin for the good of 140 youuw can closy & draw-shop to thy sune blessed purposo. It 1s beyond denfal that If the public ilor in our land tho pubdlic is the Btate), would glve fts minors any vuluable cducatlon, that education must bo found largely In castlow s purer air around theso young hicarts, Toremovou temp- tation 13 as much withiu the power of UGovorne meut as it (s within that power to vlace belore the mind & text-book, If one hasa right to Mmivister food, one has » right to exclude boson, The former fnvolves the latter, It would scem thut oo greater woral sbsurdity sould bo dreamed of than that @ city should bulla costly schiool-houses, aud theu Jicenso saloons to curev on Lusiness In the sawu Place,” The cducation fs poor cuouh, eveu It Bot opposcd, for ft does not teach the love of all labor, and tho honorableneas of mechanicsl aud agrlcultural pursults, but when, aealnit thls virtus of reading, sud weitiog, and urisn- tuetle, we opposs thousunds ol urou-sbiops us open ua the schoul-huuse the bluuder of thy Public is scen to b fmnenac, 1n tho old classle bouks the fnventive fancy Was wout to describe the many labors wnil sof- ruws of the fnfernal world, and by belpd of this revelation through tinugination it was found that all the Incunsistent or vistonary men of tarth were dootied to follw fu Hadva's pursuls ¥hi:h coustantly cawe to wothlng, Oue man Who hul on carth wn-mnu‘y spokcn words which never camio to pues, sod wady promises Which be never pertorined, was condemned to Larry water to fill a tub which had & bottwm boied tull of holes, aud thes holes wers nlu-lr adjusted to thesize of the buckct with which Ahe poor soul was to carry the develtful water. Whun we see the school-Louses of our citles and then the vumbling aud delnking bouses which waruteh this education, the classle story comes 3k Lo memory, abd we scent to be for the bour fu that “ tferio,” where 8 mistasen ohl cltizen was patlently currylng buckets full of water to thot tub whosa tioles were graded Lo bis foot~ 8tens aurd his bucket., The dout of snother _sueleut was yet more Yaiu wud humiliuting. © He bad apun vaiu theo- for hls tellow wa, Jle bud untolded o Vltlosuphy perbaps which nooue could prastice, Or Lo hud pernaps consumed the people bY bils lans o suve thoir, At least b was @ Iruitioss Lakady and (4 was nis fate to wake u rove ot hiny, aud while be was iwisling le 4L¢ boved bew 1THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNT: ¢ MONDAY JANUARY 20, 187 end a hungry nss was ket to ool Hime thie rone at the other termfnua, And he consuming brute had been divinely gifto with an appetite that never abated, s b v hunery and fmmortal, the race of the rope- tuaker and the rope-consumer was pamfully e You wiil have no difllcult v fn applyini 1o mode ern Umed this fuble, foronr pubite ovints in thi swweet grias of education for the young and then ets the whiskv force, always huiigrey and cqual- Iy Imtnortal, to consuming the sweet rope nt the other end. That the consumer 1o simost oruial to the producer few ean doulit. Hut it was not my deslzn when opening up Ahis discusston to apeak chiefly of minors nnd strotir drink, but to ask you to mark In n moat general way the relations of all aduit life to all the soung 1fe of the Jand, These relatlons nre MUBL Bncs The first fiftecn years of life are aimoet. utterly depeudent ucon the older mings, dependent for every opluion, for every taste, for every catitnate of labor, and duts, snd pleasure, and for all their views and practives of religlon, All the talk we fudulge i ahout the Nberty of mat to hold his own opinfuna uud fo follow his own wili In 8 free country fails wholly when wo come to speak of the younw. They hinve no per- fonal independence. “They must e fuenlshed With an outflt of truths'of everyday Nfe and must Lo furnished with the fresh alr of morals that thelr lungs muy not he poisoned hefore they have becotne H"d“‘ of the fatal ond tho health-uivine, Boclety owes to all its youth o decent protection and_atd In thelr early vears, The Churclt and Lie State and_all sclence and each eisilized home shiotld combine in helping to sccure tor Lhe carly years some falr start i this dongerous thing enlied )ife. Thoro was o time when yor and 1 would have absurbed all the vices of aur era, when we wonld lave drunk any aptrit offered us, would have used any lan- guage, however vilo or profane, that had been offered vur Hps, when we would have with but Ittle urzing stolen or have thoueht o ile more Ingentous than a truth, But al) through thone daya & wiscr neart or wiser hearls stuwi srotnd usand uoheld us usttl our own reasou had be- gun todawn, Bo far as possible these home feenes ahadow forth the public daty to- ward alf minors, the duty of protee- tlon of tho youthful years, If we can only throw arotnd our younr peoplo n Abield of Jaw, and religlon, dnd worals, and friendship, and protect them until they are well over the most thoughtless. ’mrlod. we shail soe clvilizatlon spring forward more rapidly than from auy protection thrown aroun: cotton-factory of the fron-furnace. It was my” happiness recently to take an evening diner with a group of students, homa from Enstern colleges, They hod come at that nvitatton which Ctristuias annunlly issucs the name of an fulintte friendsiin. They had vome from seven different schools, [t what Culleerna our angsent most 18 that no une of these young men hroueht with him any vice. but fo seul moral worth thev revisiteil the.r homess but they did this not In name of peraunat theety, bue beeause they had been reared 1 early 1Mo Letween walls thit d been full of wisdom and luppiness, ‘They had been wively nided for bwenty vears. ‘Fhie anly pein- Tul thought wileh the scene awnkened was that the' publle could not thus protoct the ten thousnnds wlho have not el hues from which to fasue into the worlid, Far be it from e to deseend to the oftice of n cominon scold, Thut thing ealled the Pabife or the Btate is aofne much, 1t Jns hieavy burlens to bepr, and nefther one man vor all men ean b perfeet, But we niust all attemnt dally to flud the better way fu all things from the lireside to the altar_and’ from the sitar to the ballot, _In this broad pursult ot duty we sliall soon Aind that.fn oue rolntions to the soung wlio are iome- Tees fn part we linve uil como short. We love our country, hut we forget that the voung of to-lay are our country to-morrow, Al the caro Rliowp them §s care sliown the natfon, The nien who klull awd to colupize the {uum: men in tlch yalleys, tho men who tn the eities shall found auy libraries \where tho e can bo spent by the muny wh lumes are cheeriese, the men who will - galleries of art whieh niay help ralse the soul nbuve sin, tho men who will helo fouud wid stpport mis o chorchen and mission sehools of ol the denominations, the nien and the curnest women too who are tofling ta keen strong drink away from the youug, ol) these whid prove the vest patriuts, the_best Chirlstinns, and the best phi- lusophers. They are down ambd the foundations of suctety, 1In tho now decorations of the housea of, to- day you must bave percelved what o part the pictiire of that bird the Brork its vlayine, Itis scen in plaster, In frescound {n Valuable bronze, 1t fs bigh time for It to coma to wall and mantel Tor for vonturies that bicd hins been the emblen of affectiun us tho eagle hus Leen the emblom of war, ‘The fubla (s that the stork, buving fed its young most tenderly, will sall under them when they tirst attempt o fly, st thot when one of their fellows is wountied by a spdrisman the well ones will ottemptto: ciery him away on thelr wings, Thus uature cotwes to teach elties and uatfuns, and n better era will,como when the Muther Btate, and tne Mother Chureh, and the Mothier caled Ilches shall wisely guard all tho land's young, and shiall spred out thelr ALrong win:zs lest these Joved ones fall tn the frst perllous fght, If any of you are here to day i somo fulr shane of Ronor, aud taste, aud purpose, you rd here In that ‘form heenuse some holy influences surrounded those days when your hieart was unable ta seo the outlines of duty. It must have been thouzats like theeo which ™ made Cowper burst forth o such hot tears when Iate In }fo he looked upon the por- trait of bis mather, We liave all been tauzht that God Is Ilimact this solicitude tho love for all fls children, aml the teaching was all truo, but this luve dosa not come to man direst, Aa the sun's myaterious Influence comes to us only throwgh o medlim of air«last, and rafnbows, and dew-lro;s, 80 Hud'™ love for'man will tever como direetly to the wultitudes oo the streets, Lut it will ouly fall through the soufs of the older mortals, will slune in through the windows of the bomes of hutnan love and of the halls of leaisiation and luslli:". nd the windows of the temples of re- zion. GROWTII OF CATIIOLICISM. LECTURD BY BISIOL FOLEY. Tho Re.-Rev. Bishop Foley delivered an ex- ceedingly Interesting leeture last evening ut the Church of thu luly Name, the object of the lecture belng Lo sccurs assistunce for the relivt of tho poor,—which asslstance tock the practleal form of o large collection at the closa vf the scrvlee,~—and Lho subject belng “The Growth and Prosperity of the Catholle Church fu the United Btates.” The first part of the discourse was du- voted to the history of the Church, and its work In thts country frum the carlicst thues duwn to thy ‘present day, and wus rich fn the store of facts which It contamed, and which wera nurrated {n a way to command the closest attention and deepest interest, An evidence of the growth of the Church was scen In the fuct tlay, wiicreas the frst priost in this country was orduined at Balthnuro In 1793, ut the preseut Hmne thore were fifty-six Bishops, uleven Arch- blstovs, one Cardinal, amd nearly six thousand priests. ‘The wriuclpal causcs for tis growth, slowat finet, but steady aud continual, wero culgratlon and the nutursl increaso of the Cath olie populution of the country, Coming down to nattors nearer home, the Bishop statcd thst the Bee of Chlcigo was cstablished iy~ this g hours slx years after 1y Bee of Baltf more, Mishop Quarticr, fta first Buishov, lelng apouinted iu 1884, when the .Sce Included the whulo Btats of Mifnols, His Jour- uey from New York to Chicago in that day ro- quired as muct 1o a8 §L buw took to gu from bere to Rome. The first pricet ondufied by Hishop Carroll n the United States bad visttod Cuileugo n 1831, whien the cotul Cathiolle popu- lutiun of thy clty wus Just tweuty, including men, woricn, anad children, and whon thero waa just une churchy—ut the corner of Loke aud Biate streots,—wlhich was altcrwurds truuge ferred to 8t Mar's, Durlog Bishop Quarticr's e were catublishicd 8t Mury's, St Pattickrs, & Ucrman cliurch on Lake strect, and a smatl partsh v the North shle,—tha bestuning of tha Church of the Holy Name, Ngw thero wero searly thirteen more Cuthiolic churchios lero Lan fu Baltimore, und nearly tive thuce asmany pricsts us then wero in tlie whole country, Steadily the sitar which hung over Bettidehem L progreesed tuwurds the West, and, (8 wueht be sulidy now seemed to staud sbwost over Chi- cago, All this success bad not boen accomplished without great lalwr, long sutlering, snd secret und paturul triule on the part of those who were called to thy work, sud, if bluwd had vot been shed wrlulullv great l’uumllh-i of teard had R oat. The Church wus now ojoyin the ruits uf tue labors of juen whe o bad carrled thelr llves In twir bouds, and who thought no saerlies too great in thelr devotion 1o 1y work. Let fo not lose what hod been Lequeatbed Lo Bty fur wany o prosperous uation, muuy 4 victorlous emuire, had lost u thy day of {23 prosuerity, by the Indolence and Iudifference of its sunis, tie iereut guive aud the Kreat ciipire which the blood of_ their Juthers uwd been poured wut to obtii, ‘Flie saine thingg unglt & u with nd to the Church, o, lookine Lack to the courae ol that star, to the vluce oves which ft Orst stoud, w judicute to thy Wiat 1uen of the Esut tho bome of the Haped- for ot natlons, we suould sce fte line croseinzg cutiutrdes thut were well filled with nubla churclivs, cruwded with Jarge und enthusugiie consrekationy, cltles that were raled osce by Kuugs snd gruversed by Bisuops, peavles wiuse urics COVer lauy ol Lhe uoblest pages of Lis- tury, uow ebryuded i durkuees, Lay- b duat Ing Jost heel the faith, and wnow under the ol persecutiom, Why! Because knew not how o valne the good tnings v Gl s given them. Unless we now acted with more generous jutentions, with mory elafinz peracyerance, and with the same hizh mutives with which men acted and Jived who lold the foundations of the Church fn this countey, Gud might take from us eurinhicritanes and give it to athers more worthy of Iis aeepte auer, *“Ihe prospects of the Church at the present e continned the Bigtiop, *are certainly moet promistoe, for we have dchieved onr_pres- ent conditton without any of those ordinory oAsletunces which are_considered requlsite for succesa {n Lhis Wife, Fifal of ‘all, we have had nothing tu do with ~ the Uovernment. We have had wothine to ask from it. We have recelved nothing from 1t hut ite protection nud gowd-will, and’ wo are independ- ent of ity onty thut we owo L our sdeepest loy- alty, onr sincerest adupration, and our most curnest intention and good-witl tu support it acainst il ratnanyers aml oppovents, Bul wo have not been endosed by it and not only bave we not been endowed by {8, but, peshnps, we huve not recived our shate of falr Lreatment In this country, Whilst we were Jmited fn num- here, atd very poor, nnd goud-working people, we were 1ttle troubiod: bul so soon ns the Church begun to Hie up fis head, shortly after the first Council of Balthnore, when the st appearanice of the Church, publlely, was mode—sliortly after that = the bite ter apirit © of persecution was In- soked [n this country, which soon showed fte@f in violence. Not many of you, perhaps, remember the oecureence, i in 15H the titred of the Catholle Churcel wos carsted to such ni excessy amd tho violence manlfested towards It in public speech and political cirtlars was so great, the peopte conld ‘not satfafy their bad feclings fn any other way without teénring down N)Illc"lllltf. Aund, therefore, on the 11th of Aueast, 1534 they commenved operations by the destruction at midmght of l,n: beautiful convent nt Charlestown, neor Boston. Without any eause, but just thelr funate bizotry, a tmob of men—1I do not say they were tho m&xruneutnlh‘ca of =~ Boston; far from that, Auy, but still they were permltted, withln sigat of the mpot where Buuker ML Monument now rafecs 18 Juity head, to attaek rhe most de- fenseiess ladics and chitdren, who wero driven ontut himght, the furniture destroyed, the chapel desecrated, aud the house set on flre nnd redueed to puinsy aud 1t stoud, to a late day, ns nmonument of the feeling of the people of Charlestown fn 184 towards the Catholle Chureh, Evory ten years siuce thero ks been o rort of cruption” of some Kkiml. In 1844 churehes were destroyed i Philadetphin, to- rzether with u large livrary, the ‘Tuird Chnrch was set on fire, and for seversl Sumlbays the chinchies hnd to by elosed becnuse i was not fafe for Catholles to venture out of deors 1854 came the Know-Nothing excltement, which ran like a polar wave ol over the country, cres ating distrust, bad blood, amd frequently eausing rioty, destruction of property, sud the loss of Mee iy various citles, In 1864 we were pushed Ly other things. The War was just coming to n close, and prople were ttred, and ugaln peonle saw thut, after all, the Catholles did” pot make fueh L eifizeny, for the st who flo tha support of the flag were Catholie: nmmnhers, and proportionately In much larger atmbers than bersons of other denomiuations, This atlayed, in 1564, the cruption which wo must expect 1 this country, aud which, I some- times think, our Lord perinite as o kin®ot rub- bluz down every ten vearn, when Ho permits our foes to rise 1p fu chastisement of us.) YIn 1874 all things were well, and then our President beean to ereato that exeitetnent which fs still hnzering in. certaln clusses of pollties n this country, by flrst relerring to the sehival question, 1ie unnccessurily epuko of 1t lowa, ond then fun bis wessaee, and then ubout the tnxation of ciurch propesty, and he know well when he nttered these words thut lie meant by the taxation of churels propetty chlely Catholfe Church property. 8o that the ehuliltion of hal fecling, this violence and husiility, Is grow- gl cvery len years, 1t does not culminate “fa this " trouble 1 huve spolien of. 1t Is taking a duferent form. ‘The day of persceution haa . passed and will not be tolurated any funger. ‘The duy of oppression has gong, and people will not submit to it But there 18 seother system of persecution, Just aa Dismarck hns estavlished one I Ueemany, which 18 inatilied nto tho law untll the Gov- ermuent s permeated with a certaln sorl of hostitity to relfgion, nnd reflgion [s beaten duwn, and trumted wpon, und gured, and wronged under the pretense. ol supportng the su- thorlties us the State ond matutamive rightand lnw. ‘That. is what we have to fear most in this country, It Is when people who dure uok comn np bollly and uttuck us with the club, knffe, or pistol, but who, under the semblavee of the law and in order to estublish, as they sav, the perfect separation of Cliureh and Stute, und togive to the State lts fult riznts und lupose upon every class of persos, without reganl to 1eliglon, thelr whole duty and their entire bur- den,—it 15 under Jeelfngs ot this Kind that the new prosceution s comine, We shull meet it ns wemnct the prosecutionathat bave gond bolor It we nre taxed, we shall pay onr taaes. It we are compelled to seml our ehildrest to schools, we stall senild them to ourewn schools, bot* to schools of futidels, And wo shall trimol, aml wlynnee, and prosper, und. grow under 8 prose- cution of that Kind us wo bave thriven under praswcutin uunther klad. *In apeakingz of these prosecutions whichhave tukien placo I this country, 1t is to be remarked thut they have only been directed aguinst the Cathalic. Caurch and ugolnse no othicr, osu budg, Thers 1s not one man 10 the country that et luy his hamd upon a slnele Cathiolfe who has ever dune one avt ol violence aenlnst the laws ol thu country or the tlghts of his fellow- atizens, Bad Catholier, who have rencered themselves subject to the luw and its penalty, are nnother thing, dut Lam speaking ol per- suns nctuated by political motives, who have un fntention of wubvertiuz the Government, On the contrary, Cathol een true and Joyaly” sl ey Intend to coutiuue v, ‘Tney bave nos dons 1t for pay, for Catholies have not been enlled to the lugher offlevs of tha lands In tho presont day we torm one-sixth of the popnlation of the cointry, and yet {n Con- Lress you can count the number of Catholics upon your fingers. I the Senote we luve two Cathalle members; in the higher ofllees, not a smgle known Catuolie, In former tites we had Clief Justice Tancy, who wun tha onty Catholie of ennonce that ever obtained n hieh pohtial ofliee in this country, Ono of the Becretaries of the Navy was a “Catholie—under the Jost DPresident—a short time, thouch he was llke o wreat an othier Cutholles who carry thelr rehizlon wliere llwi carry thelr pueket-baudkercinels, (Silles, Our thyalty to the Guvernment, our attachmen o Ity our fove of e princloles, our delerinin. ton to five and die by them, haa been given not fur pay, 1t has been elven with vur sincerest, veriuet freedom, und becouse of the love wo have for it. A eaylue was attributed to thelate Pope, which, 1€ be did sav i, was i very beautts tulong, and whicn, if ha did not suvit, was o very trio one. Horald * this was tho happlest country i the world, where the Uovernmens L notlung to fear lrom the Catholle Cuureh, and the Uathotle Churet ud nothing to fear from the Governient.! 1 huve peferred to theso unpleasant difleul- ticain tho Lilstory of the Churcl, o tothese re- weaterd ecennial Prosccutions, Bot Lo creato sh ad feeling or to revive ayy ot tho painful seutl- mente which existed ot those various thues, know well thut theso acts of vivlencs ore not o be chariced to the peoplo at lurge. Generally the violenre was not to ba charged to Amerleans ot all, but. lo these traditlonal bad fecllugs whicli were seat to us from vur mother country, lli:llw‘llmm'l lns ;uun a ln:n-lnumul lmlnyul Is e with thess prejudies e i, cause they have been “ln 4 by blovd! ‘Thero {8 1o other way of accountng for thein, Wo have to mect thess things with paticace and charity, We stiall have nothing to stand llisa the wrongs, and lujustice, and nardshivs which our 1otlicrs stood, amd certutuly for thy sake of the cujoyment we have bad, fur the rights wo :njn;‘)uw nrosperity which we have, thu elory snd bl which Heaven has buatuwed upon us, we wught Lo ba willing to ens dure snd sufler & great desl, We have sometbing more o do, ‘Fhe Churcl of tho present day s in o hands, It matters not what oitlee we i, Each and every one of s has g duty devolving upon bim upaon whica dopends thio vontinulty oud the perpetusiion of the Church u this country. Nothlig ¢ barm it but {uditference und ‘tndcleuce. ” Whatever urius tu or out of the law may be wilicted upon us will do ua no injury. No one cau iwlo us but ourselves. Lot s, then, be true to thy priuciptes of our fuith—open i thelr expres- Slonaud I their malutenance, and, asose et our llves Lo an eshibition and cxemolificas thuot the truo spirit of thuse wen who wers the Yluucen of religlon Iy this couttry, and who ackleved moro by their works, exumple, und pravees than toey did by thelr sesmons sud by tuclr porsunal elfurts, And so - with our pra. with our good example, with our holy hicintlan lves, great and wonlerful has beeis the prowth snd prosperity of reilzion o this countey, Aud it you and your cilafen die, you will seu millions multialfed by otaer willions, amud the churchies aud the schools of our nuly Clurch tiine every ¢lty, tuardlug every roals way in the country, aud Lifngiug down thy dews ol beaven upon every Curlnmxi ueart,' THE EVANGULISTS, - PENDECOST AND BTEULINS BEGIN WORK. | well, 80 far ns attendance was concerned, nearly every seat In the vast edifice being oceupled. The excrelses werd opencd by the singing of the hymn eommencing, 1 zava My life for thee, My precious blood 1 aned, Prayer wan offered by Mr. Pentecost, who asked that the spirit of God might make such a stirin the hearts of the unconverted as there liad never been before, and ihat the bleasing of the Father might rest upon the work {nsugurat- Ing. After one verse of ** Rock of Axes™ by the cliolr and congregation, Mr. Stehbins sang **There Is a Green Hill Far Away." Dr. Gioodwin snnounced that eervices would be held in the church every evening this week cxcent Baturday, and that Tuesday, Wednesday, ‘Ihuraday, and Fridav afternoons, at 3 o'clock, there would be Bible-readines. The meetings, ho snld, originated in the unlon of the Third I'resbyterian,” Reformed Tpiscopal, and First Congregational after Conference, hut were not meunt to be tn the futerest of those Churche: They felt the noed of a hetping hand, and, belng ready for the work, #ald they would take the initiative, and fnvite Brothicrs Pentecost and Steh- nins tocome licre, trusting that thos might strike a match, and that a flame would run throuzh all tho churches, Ilis pereonal hope was that tho Weat Bide and the whole city mizht reap from this begfunine bleseed results, fle nsked Christlans to pray for the two brethren, that they mient beanointed with o miclty power. Mr, Fentecost sald they had come ‘i ubedi- d nuainst r own Judzment to drop thelr work i the Eastern States, where God had been gracfoucly preseat with them, Ho never v his Hife fel siteh consclousness of wtter weaknesu—how nt- terly valn it wns to come hero it Gold dild not help them. Evanzellstic work brousht to n man expericnces that he il not havo In_ tho quiet, orainery ways of n astor, Oue_was that, lowever great the leesing of Gud may hinve been in onotown, whicn they came to organize a new meeting they were apparcutly Just as barren of power as if they had never bad it e did not fimpeach the anointing that i been upon the pastors here, nor the spiritunl life of Christiaus, but I clal work of this wind i was absolutely to have Gud's special fayor, 10 an that blvssings would come to the church be- cause two strange men had come, ke prayed that the thought mlzat he dissipated at. onée. The power wis of God, His hicastng ki not travel about with mev. Tu was {o Il hawuds, aud wa must reach out aud crasp il There was a_cons flics between what mlgnt be calied doubt or fear, sl couthdence, Given o reasonabie degree of unity, the praviug minority of e people I nuy paee, the Word of God preached eimply and fenrlessiy, and there was no centro of population but woukl bow to that Wornl, Another cletient of “the suceess of the modern neellstic movement wus tho press, ‘Thu in- erest it hnd taken fn the meetings bad done quite oy hoas the preachers, 1u closing this aupplement to the remarka of Dr. Gootlwin, Mr. Pentecust called attention to the afternoun readings, raving they would be the most Interesting and profitable part of the services, The system adopted was one of progress and development. There had always been o great bleseing In connection with then, Mr, und Mrs. Stebbius seng ¢ Wonderful Wards of Luye," ‘The Text of the evangellst wa Whose fan b In bis hand, and he will thoronzhiy nrge hiw floor, aud gather his wheat futa is ar- er but no will burn up the ctaf with nnguencha. ble ftre.’ ‘The misslon of Johin the Boptist, lie sald, was that of foreruunier or herald, He brean lfs tission by snnonneing thut the Kingdom of HMeaven was ac hund, snd the declaration that the loneexpected Messlah waa at huoil 3 in Him was the Kimedom of Heaven. And he hegan preaching repeatance, 1t was nob Lis businers to maku cxhaustive examination into the apirit- ual cotdition of tho people. Ile coulid not make a final deviston as to tbe thoroughness of their renentunce, 1le aceepted such us catme to him ble statement of Wicir sieericy, them, Thers was One to come al- r il whio would baptize them with the Holy Ghoot und with five. The flzure fu tho text was an casy one, Bubstantially the samu methold lind been employed fn modern dags to purie the Hoor as In thoss olden times, Every man, by his profession of falth or oticrwise, was volun- tarily upon a threshlug-tfoor, 11 his repentance was not genulue, 46 bls fuith was not real, i he hadn't laid hold of salvation, the purglng proes esn carrled on by Christ would reveal hia truce character. It was not the businesa of preachiers of the Guspel to puss mr.&mnlu Judginent on the condition of nen. Ilu ddA't “belfeve that Every mun who came [nto an orgunized churel was, therefore, o Cliristian, We supposed Litin tuobe, As for ns lnwiul, an examination way smado tnto o man's spiritual conditfons but I turned out that. . preat many peonls who came to the thresitnz-floor were chafl, Men and women had votuntarily ossoclated themsclves in church-fetiowsiip,—bad voluntarlly pus them- selves on tho threshing-foor for trial and for {mlmm-m. Wa sbould " not only b juaged by desus Corfet as to spirltual standing, but, even though we be Justitled 1 L, we should b Judued rs to the charaster of our lives,~bLeticy- wror unbeliever, infldel, sthelst, wporalist, or Pharlsce, Tae threshini-floor might be ditfer- ent, but the instrunent o umei und he who wielded 1t (Cnrist and s Word) wers the same. By Him and by the Word of tad, overy man, Whatever his ereed or what- cver his falih, sbuuld be thoroughly Judged, Waus not thiva scrious matter for bind Who was conlldent of his fetlowship with Jesus Christ, and for b who was living fo careless and ine diferentunconcernabout hissout! The Evangel- Ist quoted passages from tho Bible to show thal Jesus was not only the Savior, but. the Diviaely n;,l)umlud Judge of mem o His first and orlel- nal misslon 11y camo not to judito or condemn, but to save, and offered Hineel! toalnners, vo matter what thelr condition, as their Navior, Usthwiately, in tho ol outeome, awt in the fulillment of the whole' coin- nlsslon, and in the dlscharzo of Iiis luat wllice worl, Ho would make inquisition into the sccreta of men, and pass Judmcnt which would be final sed” conclusive™ upon the spiritual estate of men und women,—separsio tho helievers trom thu unbellevers, Andhow well qualhitied to judge men Ho was! He knew what templation wus,—knew evory machivation of the Devll, not by knowledge ‘that belonged to Bim ns omnleent, but by cxperimenta) human kuuwledee, 1y mistukes were made in hu- man juaginent, howoever carcfully guarded our Judiclury 3 but when Christ came to pass juds- e o man it woulid be based on knowledge absolutoly cxhaustive, He Knew everything, All would be nuked and exposc.i befare b, Meu conld deceive unu another, but not Chirlst. Hus Judgment would nut only be exhaustive us to knowledie of tnines, but as to the judgment of things, ‘That which we mibkzhit pass over withonr benwnoed consclenves, Ho woithi unt jass over, ‘There would not be a spot ur s blemish on tue saved, The staudard or_eriterion of judgment was the Word ol (ol Men might tuke lssuc withs 31, but they would find that it would not change tu cternity. Botakinz of the new birth, Mr, Pentecost sl a ureat many people thouukt it conal.ted n emotion. Some remembered that, & lons time ago,—perhaps at a camp-meeting,—something happened, sid they would relats thelr experts cuee, e didn’t say that that was uot conver un, but that If & man's experieuce could bo suninied up in what happencd twenty or thinly Yrare g, thero wae n strong presutnption that ho was d dewd man, With the memory of sumo falss exeitemuont upon him, © He telated the At 0 a man who had writtvn out bls “experlence,” aud stowed it uue’ 11 tho garret, where the rats bad caten it What we needed wus u hving experience,— somethiug that woved along with our ‘Tl love of tod {u the soul was 1ot the wem. orv of something that happencd five, ton, Hiteen, or tweuty years ago, but a perennlal spring of life, Wu should put ourselves squarely on the threshing-floor, and see . whobtlier we aro wheat chall, of wheat with a great denl of chall el to us, ‘Lhe judgment of separation was iz ou now, Mignt all cowe futu the vresence of (od and suawer the questions: iave 1 becn bors again? A I trusting b the . us Curist tor mv salvatlon! ~ Am L a conseerated wand- Have Ddenled myselt, and win Idenyune wveelt duly, aud taking uv iy crusd und tollowiog ufter Gorlstt Aw 1 u the ddlscipltoe of lite, with Its carcs sud its burdens, cheertul, and sceing that all things work tozether for guo | to them that love Goldt Auil worishe for Hiin ! At ) Gusting il 1y ull talugst Am I bolding- relatious with the wurid ouly by reason of the fact that I am Intaintue relativus to Jesus Christt Wo shouil tak ourselves, [ othier woras, wuether e were really und truly diclples of Jesus Curisty or wuether we wore mers worldlings fu wsort of relisious discuisel {o scomed 10 Mr, ntecost ehat (L was of the utinose havortance tor ait tu ho ablo to dec nd to decide at alive, Whether oe was wheat or piere chatl, It 1aettere d uot whetlier we were in the Church or out of 1L, 80 far 03 that was conceroel, sovner or later we would bave to face this ques- tiun of charscter, It was better to do- vide it . pow, fearlessly, and Lo on the Lord's wide, taau to abpaal from the word hers 1 the judpmcnt youder, when 18 will be 1w pus- o Tt hrst ul a series uf Gospel miectivgs, to b [ sibic for that fudgaieut to be reversed. Al couducted by the evaogelists, Pentecost and Brebbius, was beld tn the First Congregational Church, vorner of Ann and Woshiugton strects, uips, The 4 " gertaluly Legan Wl tonk fesue with the Word of Uod would on that day Le pronounved ehall. frer a suing by v MeLbing, the beucdietlon protousced by bt Subseguently, Blr. Veutevost having reguested. It, quitc a number of active Christians gathered around the palpit to confer with him regardivg the work n hand. DR, BULLIVAN, TUY NE HAS RESIGSED. The Rey. Edward Sullivan, Rector of Trinity Eplscopal Church, at the close of the morning service yesterday, formally announced the se- ceptance of his resignation by the Vestry, and gave his reasons for the step he has taken. The attendance was not Iarge, but those present ils- tened to Dr. Sullivan's remarks with the reat- est attention from beginning to end, and after the benedicetion had been pronounced many ex- pressions of regret were made because of his determination to leave. The resignation does not take cffect untll FEaster Monday, Apeil 14 next, when Dr. Sullivan goes to Montreal, Canada, to assume the Rectorshlp of Sr, George’s Church, of which he was Assistant Rector previous to hife coming to Trinity Chiurel, eleven vears apo. Following fs the full text of Dr. Sulliran's remarks: My Dean Barrines: 1 have no serman for you to-day—L could not preach it £ 1 had, Tiead and heart alike have been preoceunled with another theme, which has unfitted me for close, consceutive thourht, and fliled my mind with visions which, (€ 1 could, I would “gladl disivles. Your tinda, too, have heen disturbed and you would fain bave somethine that would world ses thein ot rest. 1 know of nothing thot will reconedle the Christian under any of the trials or mutations of 1o toa patient, peaceiul aveept- nnve of tiul's n:v‘mmlmcmu samuch asthe firm, Dmovahis conviction that at every &tep taken 10 the path of sinple duty Hels invisibly direct- Inez vur course, and, \?' Aullic mYeteriuus process too far abave us for our puny powers to vomprenend, mahing all things work totether furgood. 1t 4 my lirm and uslaltaring convic- Lou ol the troth of this for myself and you that wives me couraze to matke an_annoiice- nient today which my Hos would otherwise re- fuse co utters That dusiue the past wek [ have tendered 1o the Wardens and Vestey of Trinlty Chtirel iny restrnation of the Rectorahip of thia purislh, Lo ‘taiie elfect on Easter Mondav, April 1 1owe It to you and to mysolf to state, with perfect frankuess, the cousiderations waich bove Impetied me to take tug step. This publie an- houncement of them, i It does not vindienty MY action In yoar eves, wil at least proteet ou nud e altee from inipututions and mis- banceptlons which must, othersise, tevituhly gafiy curren it wall, perhaps, put the matter #n a clearer, Juster HehL 48 1 first state what the reasons o my resienatlon are wol, 5Bt has not been prompied by any golien covsiderations. For #ome Feasati of other, this 18 ordnardy the very flyat ey npidied or the solution uf the mystery of amintdder's removil 10 some new tield of Tabor, nid fnput utlon: fee e Jatd at his dovr 'which iy oth reuarded us a dully and for bim alone the Yuettine hield true that * what- ever fs. (s bear” Fortunately fur maself, 1 shail stand Tully absolved o1 this great crivie when [ slate thut Tu mv ease toe chamze will be pecu- nlurily, dot as wsually from less to more, but frum mofe to Jess, More 1 needed vot to'ecy ‘The provision that e loving care ot my hos ulwnss made for me aud wiloe has been ample, fuily up to the measure of oy needs,~ beyomdy Lhave oftes feit, their ability, Not aniy ko, but during the past cleven ye ery obligation on your part’ hax been” dischargeil wlth a promptuess and punctuabty sehich 1 ven- ture fearivssly to say can ftad noeburel or res Tizious comtounion i this city an equal or por- allel, Beanug omind the nancll reverses swhich this in common with cvery other congre- zation lius exper edy 1 Wil veem Teredible, nnd yet 1t ds thy elmvle uruth, that from the Hrst” month of my residence i Chil.azo anul now my kalary has never been for asingle day even one cent b arrears, Fioancld considerae tions, therefure, us you nny teadily Lelieve, have not prumpied fhe change I anneunee to- day. 8o lar fron goining in this respect, had 1 dusired to gulng 1 rathier lose, and lose, Lou, by one-thiid, 2 'Tho reason of my rostenation s not to be souaht in anything conneeted with my personal ok to elther tmy Vestry or congrezation. s huve been, uniformly, iran beginmg to y ull that beart vould derfre, ‘That 1 hove pleased wverybudy it wers vala Lo expect. § hye never attempted the *peaco ut any price ™ poliey, fecifug, with Paul, that 5 I yet pleased men 1 osnould not be the survant ot Chrlst,” That 1 have succceded Tu **givaz no olfcnse in . anyvthing® s very Itprobabic, e un angel from Tleaven, stecrini hls way, bo {t ever so eiutiously, through the Intricavies of human Hfe, must e upen 1o the eharze of offenss Where offense was BEVer Cven ot remotery to- tendeds That 1 und all the members of my congregation hove scen In ull tidugs eye to eye, iy purlect samenves of thought an timent on all guestions of Theol of the practical rolicious life, would wivly n pitinble Jac ol ndivnduality on both ses to whleh 1, Tor one, would by nshumed to confess, But, none tie less for this, oar barmony has been unbroken. The ilrst ribple of disturbance in the carrent of our parochis 1ife T have yct to see,. Our Jerusalom' bay uvarildy beei, nod now Is, *at unity in hersell.,” futernal divie- tuns—there are none, 1 huve never otice beard of them or felt ther power, 'The perlect nvenry that Las pervaded the general tone and stmose phere of our {uternal ufe has been to mysclf urd you g reat Joy, and to outslders the ant- Jeet of admiring comment, Factlons and pardl- wntish Ho place uone us, Therg Lias L i onr midst lovive the pre-cminence shmply b lus oeen con- fent to vecupy g proper piace, and wlt bave siown | them rendy 1o wueritice person) wreferénees to the common gowd, Putting these constleratlons, then, aside, nsal- together frrelevant mnd fuspplicalile, let me stute the reasous which havamnnelled me to tuko this decided s 1, An you will paturally surinise, tho (anc it of the church, the barden which tils tmposed, 1 find my- self unabie any toneer to carey, For us, 0s for others, 1t bas vrouneed fts watural, normal re- sult, not, indeed, oi wtter extineton, but unly of vpression, £ kiow full well thal vranmataiees r which Providence 2uve us 5o coutrol have combied 10 wezravato this burden, Some would says ** Yuu vuzht uever to have sad-dled yourselves with sueh adebt.” Terbiapsnots but et It be remembered that ut the thne of its cun- traction thero wus every reasonably prospeet of 1ts gueedy Mguidation, nud lu such a caso 1, for 0nY, B 1o wronig, Ho noral ublygulty, no vivla- tion of the spirtt o the commund to” % Owe no mon npyhng," e wearnne an oblization, thy focurriig of which, wieler ondliury cireams slancea, will be the certata pattiway o {ts own speedy repayoient, But tho clreamstances wrned out to be anvining but orduary, We could nat poaably tareeee the panle of 1653, aud the rapid downward decline which foliowed, We dueslret to give the very best we couhd vy te worshlp of God, and we loneatiy b leved that betore Jons we conld conseerute it tu Mis rervives us entnely His i, - Unfore- Reea disisters overtook 1hy country ut large, in- yol erery by 1o the Unlon, wid necessarhy Jduderng the prsperity of the ehtsehes; [ thonich the Ctiuteh of Cirtat, ike God's srra the individuat soul, b, un one sldo of s ¢ ence, diving, on_ the other 1t i3 human, and therclore affected by the ltetuationa to which ail things human ore neeessariv fia- ble. flenve the prolonzed existence of our par- that had tae Individ- v Hnentee, as thoush inh detit. nVeraze sl 1a th have g ad another amd nothier bas been visited with {himeial jeverses, laying on thew, among other heayy burilens, this—now the frast—~Lhat they wers debarred the Juy of wiving expression to the umpuiso stierine” within them to hely their church, How this bardess has alfected me T oced ot tedl ot It has huig, for i tine, ke o wiilatone round ay ueek, bowlag me dow, par- ulyztige iny encreles, wnl leaving me bot ittle heart torimy work, Bome thereme whoconhl 2o i contentedly, receivingg toelr salarlos, tultliing w preseribed mvasure of duty ond re Juad thewselves withthe Church's lumtumllllu Lut Lo e thia has been imiussble. At the § terests of iy parish are mioe, 10 any sre, temporal alfects tho spleituat, and therufurecon- not sulely b tenored, Lict a chureh Ne groan- g & fugg under the neabus of debt, and not perely are Its uther obliatluns—to the poor, 1o the sick, tu chartable Instiutlony, to dicevsan and general misslonary Work—erushed out of sight, but o splrt of fnertds little by Ditle creeps over a congreation, uuder whose 1usidious iiuenee they ahinost onscivialy seitle down lutu a state Of relizious coma, from which even the moat athful prescblng of thy Gosvel of Chirlst Is powerives to awaben theus, Bich o congre- catlon I3 dn pertlouy cose. It hus 8 power to h\c, but ft s dead. Do | say, theu, that Trin- Jty Church has reached this stdge, uud 1 nowin articuly morttad Gt © Torbli. But du ey that unless she rouse bereell. aba will witinately resch I t enerzies bave been tot puralyzed but ve ausly reluxel, ‘The obstuckes to her pro ) au furmbdabie that ot u few appe: L0 regard thom oa busueouniab) clves Lo fechme o deopalr, Be- t be accomplished st e Teaign than. cause everything o once, thereiors [v ls put wortls whiie to do uun . thne, One grdest son! wishal that she coul 13y the whole debt, and wien athul what she was dolnge towur it sl answer * Nothilng.» A Lew uontha winco Dinaugurated a schiome ol Weekly custributions, loosies soward a evadual obliteraiton of the debr, avalanke to ull, even the ponrest, smd, by th wluated s [ extubilizied, hot necessar ¢ latsois th any, il Vet ke une dlity 101 congresus Ling Wi have atood 3l with one exception, vonchanfing to my personal applleation, thrugh the matl, the poor cotrtesy of repl Forcetfulness, [ know, and habitual postponcinent, and other eniises, account for & good deal, tut facts like this lase proved none the less discourneing, and have tended to strencthen httle by littlo the bnpreasion, seeret- Iy shiaping ftsclf In my mind. that anotber and Tesa famillar volce will perhaps carry with It more of welght. A second eause for the restiess fecling that Ins_been llufldll{ growing on me will ba found in the direction of our church musie, This, as vt know, has long heen a vexed problem. My views ou the subject It is not necesaary to state’; you have heard” them acnin and again, and for one whole year vou not only heard hut heedwel thein. Olel-fashioned that' I at, [ have niways held, and feit, that pralse, as an_expression of the cmotlons of the spiritual Jife, was a per- sonal thing, obligatory on evers Individua! Chirts- tian, as much as prayer is, to e offered by each himself, a3 far a8 possible, as a part of his special oblation to (God} a thing, therefsre, not 1o be doue by proxy, mechanieally, per- functorily, as thotigli v long as s s done it mat- ters not much how or by whom. And In lurmony with these views I have Invariably ad- voeatedl general congrezational nhmlnfi,—xlnu‘ inz whicn every heart and voice could hear Its tittle part, just as in the templa of nature every bird of the nlr, and evory lvaf of the forest, con- tribute to swel) the unlversal chorus of pratse tu nature's God, Buch worship, doubtless, would bave it defecta artlatically regarded, It might grate on an car. llstening In & spirit of fastidlousncsss but, regarded in the leht of the great ends for which God has given us each tungies wherewith to pralse I1imn, and hearts to adore where tonguea are ngye: rll[y slient, this, to my mind, reatizes tho Bractical uscs of musie fn wworship, and, artiess thouga it be, vossesses, In God's sight, an _ acceptablencss not belonging to any vocal display, however inarvclons, that, becauae of the absence of all lhitman thouglt of God In ity ml of alt devout reference to His elory, inay, In this eeure, be called beactiess, It ha been for years u priet to me thot 1 have uot heen able to aducate my congrygation to these views, 1 ean- Bt tndeeil, foreet timt, with yonr castontary readiness to comply with my wises, you frecly congenterd to the trial of iy experiment for a year: but why did it il Nut because my the- ory was unsound, but beeause the underlylne sentiment way nrninst it aml members of the conygregation, who would dotbeless have co- operuted o the movement i3t at once proved a suceees, stood aloof white the Issue was Jmlll"n'. leaving the problem to be eoived by steangers not conneeted with the parish s and so It proved alaflure, Butdonot misaLorehent meas though I were laying the responaitility for all this at your doors fudislduallve Tt Is the fuult of the thoes we livo In. It 18 the reauit of an un- healehy conditlou of things lu e relizious at- mosphere, The uulml{ apirit of competition that permeates our soclal aud eommerchul 1 hag Invaded the sanctuary, Une laree church {u a city eannot, it fa° thougit, afft 1o he be- hind nnother (o ity appolutments, and out of This scennngly dire necessity conies a strugele lor existenve, terminating in *the survival of the fttest "—the fittest belng (ou oltun and far Luw many the most lushionnble. The people, fin the ma, love 1o have i eo; uud sgalust the current of publie ideas any one minster f a9 puwerleds Lo contend a8 any one man to stein he torrent of Ntagara, White then, brethren, Lo not blume you for tastes and preferences which ure yours, not of rour own cholea wholly, but very lanwely ox the result of a vitl ated pubhic sentinent which surrounds fou ns closely nnd ineessantly as the eaveloplug alinos- atnd, unconseiously to you, i quictly ns- atiug the whole spirit of your lite itself, yuu must not, on the other blamic mi y ne the result of my wholly different =~ habits of thought, fastened on ane by widely dissimilar education and trainlmz, 1 el comnelied to seek d spliere of duty I which the methuds of publle wor- ship will cuarantwe to every devout soal its in- allenable right to praise God for itaelf, with fts own mouthy and nol Ly the moaths of putd proxies avd represeutatives, Nueh, mud wich ulone, 14 the Seriptural ideal of worship, * Lo the people pralse thee, O Gadi yvea, let all the people pratse thee,”? 4 L L shiall state, just now, (ml{' one othier Tact which tias weighed somewhat leavily with to hand, me iving ae the deciston I huve announced, = sp of 1t my own Justitieation tiest, nnd becnuge the history of the past way turnish & zood lescon fur the Tuture,~[ allude 1o the discouragement to whieh Live been subjected In conneetion with the atiendaves on the publie. sereleer of this church, |1 reler more particularly to the Sunday and week eventuz services, T Know indeed that “thik fetiture is not pecaltar to Irinity Clurch, Fpr, from it Is has been the sublect of commeyt Iyt itnns of the public press. 1t has ealfod” forth avusdune i eritieistiyy und atteunts bave begn made to dis- ausy and supnly nieyiedys . We hiave ol suilered fram soalike, Tnone Promigent 1 chtrel the minister has Wiy y-eventng wervices, sad prege Guapiel notto'the wiel bui to the Jeor, Wiy i3 this? Howronos it to pasattintsub- tautiitly the ouly iengit reaped frous the pres- | 1 Chirlstian churelics, binlt und_supiostod cdlble expense, 18 vn e serv.co el T each on Bunday poruine atteuded by fte uwr, cons gregation, ab the beat, very dregularly, the bulidig beine atandoned td dast and silence for the remalnder of the week! Wiat thedry others bave to offer 1 know note To my miwl b fa cienr that one cause adeguately solves the proviem, Itis thsresult of an fu- tense poul-abeorbing, all-pes-ding tmammon- Ist, which §3 honeyeomoaie Lee relivton o1 this people through und tirougl, dul which, winle not gpenly denying God's existanes, ar the duty of obeylugg and worshiviug Hir, reduees that worshitj ta the low posslble minimuo cone eat with a maintenatiee of the toliens of out- ward trespect. “This 19 the radieal eause of tho evit wa deplore. Tio spirit o an dutense worldliness hos so complotely pomeasd uud fmuregnated the public mind tiat te wan who, it given his cholee between tke Kingdom of Heaven and o well seured lurtune, shonld choose the foruer woullt ho ulmost aniverssily recarded 0 u lunatle, Rellfon, us annpared wity the makung of money, hias well-nlah ceased tonave any practical value, aud so 1ts duties are by many crowded to a corner—by tnany more thrust dltogotlier out of sight, To ¢ nearer homie, brethaen, how s it with ourseives! For tho answer | point you to iy Sitwlday oventg congrezations, o eniatler than others certainty, it Companed Tor the most part of strangersand wunduerers, always we e, but of whoem [ Know nuthing, 1o whom [ bear to dlreet pastor- al velation, uud Wl whom there 18 no speeinl Bomd uf avmnthy, At tines it oceors to e to think that for mvsell theie {5 dn - oil thls 8 wisg und necessary diselpline, Ix; eriences ke thess are doubtiens mraut to try onr fuith, to checlk oar pride, o foster our Lanihity. It by more Nattering to the vuvity ot poor fumsan buture (toand also I nlolsters ¢8 in otler men) to preuch to a fatl chareh thao to mpty vio. ]hu.m God s my wituess, brethren, this has not heen the seaet of the foclings gwakenol %1t na LY your habltual of Sauduy amt week-day evenmg services, 18 hos not heen timt my vanity was wounded by Lhe seeming elieht olfered to myseid, bat reiier that J wis discouraged by yoursectning fudiiference to tie ueedn of yuur own retigious hie, | rest the ensu un purely personal grounds, personal, that 13, to yoir, not to mysell, ‘I'ie Joas, and the brt, und thie hindraince hus been vours, and bes cause yours, therelore, and ouly in this sens, tan also. It 1 will ‘not dwell on 1t longer, | have spuken of e feature of our parochial tifs fu sorrow, not fu suger, and only becauss the mentlon ot Iy Was demunded of e in fustice to you wnd to mysell; tu myacll, ps & partial vindj- tationof thestep have Liken,—to you, as a trani statement of o fanlt wineir 1 feel ussared you would ruther vear from mv Hps than from any other, and wi Just becuuse it 18 known 10 have clouded my sunshine u tttle, will nog by pernntted tw cast 1ty shadow uver him wha coes wfter me. And now, bretbiern, [ bave done. Tha duty Imposed ou me thly morning has been o palnful oney for you as for wyeells Necessity has tatd ftonme, I would gladly have evaded bt L wwould, But et ua end where we began, God's providence revives the workman, but Hu (Hin- scif wtill carrles un the Work, as thuiligh to shuw Tt Wo aru but poor, fecbls nstruteits, ot the best, {u no way tecessary to the fultilloent of Alis deslune in thie carelh, If o so whil. And, whatever other chungus comu, Ha still renaing tho unchiaugeable One, “Christ s the same yeaterday, to~day, and forever," and v, tou, ki- Feining, - Awd His Gospel, too, i the =it never, never chianges,—the old, old story of the Cross, telliug wen’ bow, uud’ for what, aud for whom to live, sud Law, st tha lsaty todies Lot us hold fast to thiv, und the paln of thielr brief separutious of the Jife that now Is will all be awalluweit up lo the assurcd Jov ol the Hfo eternul, * For what la iy joy and crowa of rejoleing] Are not cven s in the day ut the Lord’s uppouring” At the chse of the services last cvens e the Wardeus und Vestrymen of the church held o el for " the purpose of tuking actlon upon Lhe Fesizpation of Dr. Sullivau, ‘Fhere wers brossut Wardein W. 1L Adat il Vestr: won W, C. 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