Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1879, Page 6

" RELIGIOUS. Sermon by Prof. Swing on the . . Argument of Results. " Pontecost nnd Stebbins Begin Their * Beries of North Bide Services, Tho Aftendanco So TLarge {hat Two Mcetings lava to Be Held. Ralsing Monoy for n Now Ohurch for tho Bixth Prosbyterian Jongregation, ARGUMENT OT RESULTS. ok BERMON BY PROF. 8WING, Prof. Bwing prenchied yesterday morning st tho Central Chnrel, taking as his text: One thing 1 know: whercas 1was blind, now I #ace.—Join, Ix. e Around a begear which ihe throng long the streets of Jeruealem had lone known ns belng * bling, but who had now rccovered his sight, a crowd had collected. The story of his baving been cured by the wonder-worker from Naza- reth had passed over-the town, and men fn- milfar with the beggar when ho was totally blind nsked cach-other: *“lsnot this active, well man the one who used to sit and begi® Bome replied at onee, * He is the very person.” Othicrs snid, * He is ke bim ot least,’ and the man himeelf would eay, *1 am the very one.” But from day to day a many-shaped Inguiry engaged thie publie. They asked whether such Vlindness from birth como from the parcnts sinn, or frotn the anticipated sin of the infant. *And how clay put on the eyes could possibly cure Dlindness? And whether a wicked man conld heal o disense? Whethier the healer ind a devll? Discussing these theories the officlnls vislted the parents of the man nnd instituted n kind of inquisition, with the hope of extracting some words that would make the fanfly scem to he false to the Jews aud partinl to some naw pretender. But out of this Inquisitfon enmo tliis responso of the healed beegars ¢ Ong thing I know, that wherens 1 wns blind, now I gee.” That such nreplf must hiave puzzled the Inquisttors we tuay well fnagine, 1t was not abstract enourl, It lacked not only treason, but {t revealed 'a great contempt tor philoso- hiy. It ipnored entirely the question whetir gu or his parcnts had commicted the sfn which lind brought on the aliment, wul it Included ro claburate diseusston of the Influence of clay upon the eye of a man born blind, It was too simple o reply. What could such metophy- siclans do with o man who lind so little senee us S0 sy thut he knew only one thing—thad, where- s he had been olind from fntancy, ho now saw the world? Luoking at {his scenc, the question arises whother-we children of this far-oft age should not cultivate the simplicity of logie which this young man revealed, und nike great use of the argument of resulte, Is not that the forn of Jotie of which our Creator destuned we should follow and use? It wounld scem soj awd, theres fore, let this be our morning theme,—“The Ar- gument from Results,” -~ The gifted minds in almost s}l the ecarly eras Jost most precious timeand skilled labor by busving themsclves with _the study of theorles, Tather than with o study and comparison of fncts. They did not know that soclety was thelr real page for perusal and deed study, but they secmed to laok up Into the dim air or down Into a dark shaft in order to learn the easences of things mental, and gocial, wid political. Almost all the carlv thinkers were what we would eall metaphysieal thinkera, nnd were students of eternity, rathier than patient obsersers of time, .Employlng the same reasoning process which Delongs to our time und toall Hmes; they simply soughl vremises n the realm of theory atut faucy, Instead of arguing from o'yserved results fu the lives of men, There have Leen whole ages lost In n Kind of fntellectual reverie which Tung like the web of o goasamer spider, which web, {astened ut cach end to nothing, renches out tono purpose, and 1s ltself a bridze over nothing. One mnust be in a certain position with the sun ere he can sce the filny, and, when he has seen ity he cannol class it amongr eftlier the useful or the beautitul, ‘That the Greek and Latin Christlan fathers did utfer many true things cannot be denied, ‘but 1t must also be admitied that had they been careful and simple students of the actual, the sctual poverty, the getual suffering, the actuat wlavery, the aclual dissase, the netual maun, and wumai, and child of thelr periods, they would Dave redoubled thelr usefulness, nnd have mudo the world Ffll!l hutulreds of years on Its prog- ress of Might and happiness. ” When one reads cven the weditations of Aurclius so full of platy, snd the Confessions of Augustine, or xcm{s the title pages of Plotinus, il reflects upon whut was sald by the wholegroup of Chris- tian fathers who composed large volumes fu the firat centuries of our relicion, one cunnot but, regret thut those great mids bad nut enfoyed thut drift of logic which marks the seventecuth, and elgbteentt, nud nineteenth centuries of our cpach. The absurdities of the sehool-men are potorlous. Often nre thelr discosstons Taugable from the nature of the topics discussed, and almnst always are they rendered painful by their utter inapplleation to the wants of man- kind, That Scholastie Age, socalled beesuseall 1ts thiukers affocted sueh profound learnime, «n age which came hy fully under the tiagof An- selm In the end of the eleventh century, and did vot reully die until Lord Ifacon cume in the six- teenth eentury, thay be styled 400 years of in- tellectual triflhys and ebild’s play. ‘The only ex- cneu for these ists may be fonnd In the fuct that they came uftor the long nizht of the dark ngea, uid should therefore be awarded the honor of Lelng the flrst streaks of u uew morn- ing. But sireaks of lght thouh they were, he morninie wasstil very cold umd dark., Au- sclin and Abelard, Lombard and Beroard, nud Bt. Victor aud thelreompunions attempted to Fu 1o the bottom of all poasible theologleal in- quirles, and it may be sald that with the milt- stones of such debates around thelr necks they did indeed go to the buttom of thetroubled seaol thought und never agaln camo up, 'Flhey were perfect stranzers to the application of relizion to human welfares all they lived for was to spiu out interminable thrends of delinltion of e atonement, and of the dutles,and privilegee, nnd actlous of a Gipd. Thuse were the men who discussed the gucstfon whether sl were un fn- flnite_evil. Whether God could forzive o siu, Wihether Chrlst's merdts for the suke of siuncrs would reach bevend the mnan family, Whether Christ’s ‘method of atunement were the best possible method, Whether (ol could not set freo a sinner just hf‘ au aet of will, Ont of several ceuturies” ot this shape of thaueht grow much of the creed of modern Christens dom, remurkable for its tuapplicability to ey valuable purpose. Buch a test ol God and of Jesus Christ ns that scen In onr test, that “Whereus once I was bitud, now § see,” did not, sugzcest ftsell {o the Christlan Dactors from Augustine to Luther, a period of 1,20 years, 1t 15 2 strungo phenomenon that simplicity fn religion is one of the most diflicult forms of it to be acquired. The slmpliclty of Chitsb wos His temporury ruin, Nowhero do we find mon- kind n'elm:lz a platn practieal fafi, The negro il the Indiun demund pleuty of ceremony nind pienty of myatery, und it seems that when vivilization fa risiiyr up out of barbarlsu it clings 1ong und tenaclously to the complex forms of faith. Inobedienee to this orinciplo e Gre anil Rumans held great Mystery Serviees, | ‘world hos fur twa, thousand years wondered what were thoso * Mysterles ' “luta whivh all }‘mhllu wen wero fmtisted, Bome sy it was lasanry, but when wu reinember bow burbarism {feeds upion the incompreliensible, und bow re- nlly carly clvilization fs to burt with such tricaty forins oud rites, we 1 not healiste to belleve that the classic mysterics were nothing elso than clagsic nouscuad, and thut ono duy out In u pralris fa June were worth more than o week amid tie shapes, gind formsfund words, nd smoke of Eleusinin. 8o dreadiul o thing wus It taexpose hesy seerets, thut Horame suys o would not embark fu o ship which should Tuve on hoard o man who hud let out such n terrible secret of religlon, — ‘The ship aud ail on Loard would be Tost.~ But sny of us wishing 10 suil would in o bright duy embark on the Medi- terrauean with any such wman on board, for long centuries havo carrled rellglon outof that smoke pnd din, und huvy placed it down where ten trunsaet business, aml do vot ehieat, whers uen neet 08 brothers, and whero a man_olfgrs to n sulierer bis kind “help ju the namo of Goll, ‘Frue religlon has passcd from uwiul secrets over to o kind und houest. Jife, Christlanity when viewed through the gluss of resulls orows us lustrous s o planet, Gahleo, huving nlmost gazed bis eyes out at the sturs, cuuceived an {dea thut If dn ovul or convex elasy would enlurge u letter on o page, glusses micht Lo g0 arranged that bo wight draw the plunets and sturs nearcr to hlmscll, Tl made o long, rough tube, With his own huud he ground wd polished the (rlasses, und behold, when he poluted his tube toward the muun or Saturn wut coine (e surface of the woon, uud there luy the rlugs of Baturn, A simllar method i3 thero Tor revealing 1 worth of Christion doctrine, When we Jook at theni through the human Lieart, and not by the dim eycs of motaphysics, outcome the lonz-bidden ulorles of the system waich revolve uround Christ. You und I will never be able to annlézo salva- tlou by faith ss it was defined by the Council of Trent, but should yvou and T walk through theso years, believing all the white that God doth ex- at. and that tle rewnrds all those who dii- gently seele Him, we shall be hike the biind man of tho Gospel, while others are debatlug all nround, sl over, nml henenth the matter, wo alall sce the gereen fields and all the funumers- Dbile beanties of man, and earth, nnd sky, It is with falch ns with alf else that vertafns To daily lite, {he sooner we et out of theory Into poe- sesslon thy better, The grandest exclamntion the heart can utter fs, ‘“Thils 1 know, that wherens I was once an attelst or a donbitng one, 1 now see. You may discnas the natire of faith, hut to me s the uew delioht of eecing a world with a God in §t.” Results are what the Luman race most needs, In ol deportments of buman 1ife it often hap- pens that tormalism crowds astde nnd unurc{ out 1he gsubstanee of things. ‘Fhe Atory fa Lold of two polfte nobles who, n earrlago having been sent for them, conld not avall themselves of it because the time had expired before it coulil be decided whtch slionld e first to get fu. Anda it fs said thnt when the wife of Charles 11, was heing harled along 1he streets on an no- rovernable horse no one dared take the horse by the brldle, or help down the poor Queen, Deeause the law forbade tint any person except those lawfully appointed should tonch the horse ar dress of nuy Roval personage, At last two young oflicers Imperiled thelr lives by touching the Queen. Thelr Jogle must have been that, wherers the Quacen wis In_danger, now she {s safe. The same story- teller informs us that onee whon Marle Antof nette wus dressing in a cold room, and one’ of thie malds of hovor was ubout to band her the rajment of the hour, & mafd ¢f higher rank eame fnto the room, nnd a debate arose as to which one must bund the beantiful womnan {he paraphernalin fn thelr order. Meanwhile the young ({uuon shuddered nud groaned with the cold, We Republicans, to whom a_substantial logle has comne rnshlug aside the old formallsm, kuow very well that what Marfe Antoinctto needed histantly was her zood warm robes bf vlolm or heavy silk. Results are the beuutiul thing Ntl\' these tales which stand for some truth In history stand for much wGre truth und for myeh sadder truth fn theology; for the com people wid the yeh people too *have stood shivering in this bleak world, winle the- gentlemen and ladies in waltlng upon royal The- ology have been discussing the propricties of the tremendons ocenslons. Far nwav from such bondnge the logie of results ouglit in these {‘:nru 10 bo leadiuge us, und * faleh ! should soon e confessed, not o something to define, but o something to have wud to hold. It is n phe- vomenon of the world that there fs now “and then a pagan who Is really more devout nmd rlzhteous than now and thien a Christlan, The puran whon we 50 nity zoes about all his lile Jomg saylng In his peacefulness, **There ia Onc Meing __ prior to all, and_exalted above all. He i3 the Author of all things, even of the beavenly sphiera and of all things below it. e ts5 life, and counsel, mul leht. We shall sing that etéennl, wise, nnd all-perfect love which reduced chaos to order” ‘These loity pagans huve come up one by one, not be- wee thedr rellgion waa supertor or equal to the Christian's, but becauee a hicart fuil of the re- sults of faith will always be grauder than a heart which is only busy nbout its anulysls, It, as is atleged, the mediiation Just repeated wos flunz out 1,200 years before our cra began, that will teach us that alf throuzh man’s history the soul hns nceded most Just one thing, an inner assurance that there {8 & God, wml that a pazan having this peace will Jve swectly and dio hap- pily (n the relirion of results. Lptetetus expressed this iden when he sald: “How zoud a thing it {8 to heable to gay to vne’s awn Eoul, what others sre now solemnly arguing in the schools, that, I now poseess,whiat |lu:f are discussing Lam doing und vavime” In such words 08 theee we shalt find the renson why 8o many pagan_ minds have revealed such exvelience, it coming from the fact that thelr rellefon had been that of slinple experlence. HBut when Christianity bas falien into the snme kind of treatment, aid bas been mada relie- fon of only svirituat results, it has left far ho- bind It alt'the forms of pawan "'“‘P' nnd blessed- which the world has cver known. Com- with Clristian experlence pagandom s n desert. Iese words, *God” and “falth,” and ‘¢ praver und ¥ conversion,'” must all he sub- uiiticd e last to the lowde of results. A man in mature life, and evidently a careful think writes 1o nsk, * What {8 meant by * conver- slon ' Well, analvtically. no onc knows. Ir we do not know low the soul was made the first time, how can we hope to ktow how it muy by subsequently remodered by the hand of God! You mav o well inquire how the heavens mud the earth were mado a8 to Inquire now man sc- cures new heart, ‘The worl ** conversion ¥ 15 iu its theologienl usazo Just as uninthomabdle s the word * ereation,” aml when we tknow how God ssude mun fu the flrst lustance, wo may hope to know shout uui- and all subsequent chunges wrought within his spirt. The Chureh formerly possessed o seemingly detailed account ~ of this chunge, 1t camo with vemorse, and regret, and sorrow, camo with some physleal contortions, came suddenly, 8o that the moment was noted on the clock, A Presbyteriun clergymon of the carly port of our centary reported 1o his Presbytery that. nt hig protracied meetings such a number had folien to the floor ench nleht, ‘Uhus he mensured the cases of splritual transformation. Hut as years pass by the ministry know less ntd lesanboutthe mavner mud the lonrof o beginning ol n uew Iife, mnl ure permitting the multtitude to find the eaning of converaion Just ns the bitng man found his happiness, not in the way of the cure, but in the cure itself, ITe now saw a uew and glorfous world, that. lay all hidden In the past springs s summers, The only valunble fimport of the word conversion mnst br found in the depths of the heart. 1f the pastmonths or years iave expelled much wicked- ness from the” soul, amd have brought | nearer, sl have made 1158 luwa a clearer light for the faot, und have emotied the soul of miteh selfishuess, mnd have filted it with more love of man, then way that heart feel that it knows all thut {8 worth theknowing as to thatfumost traus- formation. The time pud place of the upsoring- ing of this new cstimate of man and l‘lml ure witmportant. It was only recently thut man discovered the sources of the Nile, “Ihe curlous vutlosonhiers even before Herodotus waondered wd dreamed over the enfgma, Meanwhile, cuch June the mighty waters cama down, nud, geutly overllowing the valloy which made a long, vieh empire, they remade all the sardens wind - lekls wind wroughe out 3,000 yenrs o the words, “Eueypt s fhe gft of e Nite” The people aid not know the rource of the waters, but, what was better, they had the erand overflows; wmd while Herototus was examinliyg the winde thnt blew up streum fn winter, atd was exmmining how the waterscame snd went with the summer und winter sun, the peaple weve saylug, *This wu know, that wherens our flelds were o few 1uonthis azo hard ns the sides of the pyramid, they are now all greed sod rich with wheat, ad cotton, minbrice. Wo shiould love vorrect fu- formatlon shout the ordzin ol our river, it wo love more te fruits, uind rice, und wheat,” Ob, what good chlldren'of this valley of sin shall we nll be when, fnatead of waithuz to Jearn (he origin of conterion, wo shall usk the new days of Juve nld purity, those doys of folinge wl frie, tocomo hureying wlongover parehed lleldal We do not cars whenee the rlver comes 1€ only 1t WIIT flow along bringlie fs great harvest, This ol of vesults hus already wrought tre- mendous chouges 1nour materiul fudustrics, ‘The toductive “philosonhy han gone to and fro, and hus suld to e old” plownan, und to the renper, mnl to the hoatmun, your lulior hus tuo Iittle resnlt, You shoulid secure mort grun to the nere, vou should haryest mory cas you should bie nbile to eross the acean i a boat, S wateling the guteome of things, thls logie tooked aL despatts, and suld, e results wre fnades quage; the Klng's family s toa tieh, the people ure too puor. “The aristocesey are mado glute tonous, the peoplo are emaciated with hunger, Tulently gozing wpon the outeome of things 1he reasonimg of the eisteenth and seventeenth centuries created o great overthrow, uy by day this trial by results fa going for- il our Cordstiasity will be competled, Jiko the old Kings und Queens, to havo [tscareer measured by the quautity und quality of the roud broduced by fis fufth. nnd regehieration, The erncial question will by ot how did clay mnd wword hieal w blind man, seed “The ngnicy how wind i converted will bo superseded by the question, Whiat changze bus e Indeed underzone! From what has bt been converted, ol to whatd Does ho naw see o world once bidden? Doea he feel that God Js neard - Does ho pereelve o)l the deli- cato lnes of pizht that lle, » besutiful network, all over soclegyt 18 s heart tenderer, o his words more fruthiul! Is bis word o bondt It 80, O what ncouverston 18 his] And whito the debute fs golnz on us 10 whenee comes the new ;)lrllnl. hio surpusses ol the schools by having tho jowel, It (s in (his domnnln of resulls that the great ness of Chiristisnity Is to he found, for, while only the highly educated aoay be able W in- vestizate (ts montul and spiritual probiems wind then only fmperfeetly, to e experlence high aud bow ny utiko come, The pour, unlettered wan may Hvo wud die as [nthe presence of Uod, and the krandest Kingesn do no ‘The chlld wlhieh pocs sleep saying Is prayer, praying the Lord *1ts soul 10 Keop' s upon a loyel with anw* Kempls, or n Fenclon, or o Weslog, for ull that their loftier Intetlects cun do for the 15 to brig_ e o el piilow withthe eame eimblicity, The powan Aurelius, the Clirlstian duh, the Catholle: Massiiion, the Calvinlst, the Avninlon, the Mefhodlst, the Baptist, Wurshipers of every uwmo, when they ufi“‘l’l‘"’ vl-mlh. all meee ju Ihlsl high mountaly of teeling, und one prayer, uue hylun, expresses the cmutions of l)l L beorts, I s LHE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, beautiful proviston of God that the relizlons dilferences of humanity should oeeur In the less monentous places of relizion, and that I the valley of experience, where ros Hzfon {8 most usehil and fnost sublime, thers the reattered hearts shonld fiow together, kin- dred deepa forming themselves tnfo ono mnjes- tle streamn of love for man and tod, As the man cuired of hia bllndnoss looked nud suddenly saw what all othera hul always sven,—the sane Dille, the eame gedt flekls, the same sky, the #uine outpoursd-sunizht, the samo human face, which have beeirwthe Junof the whale human raca wheu it hns looked out-uppn the Creator's Iawdscape,—=o the soul ever '\\-l}crl, aroused to the reality of rellgion, has It vale of ex- perlence, keen the o Father, hadmsed the sume prayer, has (aken refugo in the samo as- stiranee of o Mle boyond. Little Ahlrcn'mx-z miny be pereeived, but jn the religlon of th heart there are only o few words: virtue, love, goudness, God, andl a 1lfe to come, PENTECOST. FINST OF THE NONTI BIDE BRRVICES, The aunouncement that Mr, Pentécost was to preach at Grace Mcthodlst Church, corner of North LaSalle and White streets, Inst evening brought thither a vast multitudo of people, who swarmed into the editice in such nambers that by 7 o'clock it was completely filled, and the doors were locked, shutting out many more than were fustde. The outsiders wero clamor- oustogaln admlttance, and flaally it was an- nounced to them that Moody's Tabernacle woulid bo opened, and when Messra, Pentecost aml Btebbins finished the services at Grace, fhey wouid repalr to that place, dis- tant ooly one Dblock, nnd hold o second meethie. This appeased the crowd, which went in a body to the Tabornacle, soon flliing it up as Grace Church had Leen fllted, Not less than 2,000 peopla were fnside before half-past 7 o'elock. In consideration of the chureh belng flled, services were commenced st Grace at a quarter- past 7 o'clork. Prayer was offered by the Rew. Robert D, Shepard, pastor of thut chureh, and Mr, Stebbins sang, nssisted in the cliorus by n chofr of about ono hundred singers. Mr. Pentecost announced the programme for the full serles of mectings this week, und then read 8 portion of Scripture from the second chapter of St. Mark, rclating the tmiracle of “the healing of the man who was Alck of the paley’ und was let down through the roof of a louse in which Jesus wos preaching, and was by IHm healed of his dis- ense. Mr. Pentecost took this story as his text, and from It proceeded Lo draw his " conclusions. e soid hie took It for granted that all who were before hiin were Christiaus. for they were there Lo hear the word of God taught. Ilo would like to call especfal atention (o the men Who brostght the man slek of the palsy to Je ‘Thege, hosald, were the practical helpers in the workc of saving soule, nnd bringlyg them to Christ, A preat muny Christlans were content to laok out for their own salvation oniy, amd they appeared to think that was enouah for them to do, without lending a bhelping hand to the weak, 'l'ln( were willing that others should ke saved, so long ns they were not troubled themselves by helphine them to Ctirist, Muny would eay they had falth o belteve n the power of Chrlst to save, with- out doing anythlg themselves to Lielp, Before a person could believo in the Lord Jesus Chrlst ie must have fuith in 1lim, A sick man conld scarcely be healed by n physician unieas he had falth to helicve that” the physichin could cure T, und just go it waa with salvation, ‘I'he speaker asked his hearcrs {f they really belleved the Lord Jesus could eave them. 1f they «id not bellevo this, they had no busincss there; und f they believed' and did not serk Him, then 1t was Atranger still that they should be there. 1f they were going to be real belpers, working ~for Jesus, they tnust have sympatly = for those who ‘ero out of Chrlst, He conld not understand how it was that mothers coulld nssociate with husbands; und o about auong thelr chiidren, il see them out of Christ, without continnally Inboring with thum to bring them to Josus, Some would sny that they ald feel for the sin- ners, niul he presumed that many came to the vrayer-meetings weekly,~nlthough lo was afratd that there were more who did_ not,—and perhnps they did pray for sluners whilo there; but were thelr pravers offerefl In he rizht spirit, or were they mere words without nuy meaning or soul In them? Wonls meant nott- ing without fmth to welieve that thelr pruyers wuuld bo heard, v The "X“kfl reinembered an - fncldent which oceurred ut the thne the eplzootic was rawing amone the horses, A poor man wos drlving his horse along the strect, when the ammal, which was diseased, suddenly fell down In the roud and expired. It wus oll "he bal, aud, as the poor mun thought of his wite and children depending upon him for. sinport, he burst {nto afit of weeplne, A crowd - gathiered about and syimpathized with the unfortunute in his dis- tress, Vinuily, one man eald, 1 feel surry for this person §10 worth; how many more fecl umlnmuuml" Thy crowd Immedlately scat- tered. Z The speaker ance heard ‘Mr. Moody draw n camparisun, Snprose that four men get to- gethernnd talk sbout o man of thelr acquaint- ance who §s vut of Christ, und needed salvation. ‘They agres upon a plan to o and see that mun oneaut o thne nnd labor with him, aud they car- v out the vrogramme, No. 1 goes and s not well recived; No,2 irovs amd does not faremuch bettery No, 8 secs him, sl _the man beelos to think; and, by the thne No,4 gets around, the obje of their solfeitude thinks more, and resolves. to ro to church In a different spirit from that fn which he | eyer gone before, o woce, qud 18 convertea, Mr. Pentecort did not helieve there was o man, woman, or chilld an the north slde of the river who could reslst the appeals of hall a dozen Kiud, loving friends fn their behnlf. Ho thought the Gospel meetiugs were the very best means 1u the world to set peoplo to thinking uud bring them to Christ, ‘The nest thing to conslder was the the erowd that stond about the house In which Jesus wos preachbign, They did pol want to go bn to hear Hun themselyes, and they wero not willing to xlve way 80 that anyhody olee could o fny— Just s the crowd had biocked up the entrance to thut church that nlght. Iow dilferent was this from the spirit of the men who brouzht the slck mun betoro Jesus. They found thnt they were unable to et him in ot the regular leglthmate entrance, 8o they be- thoueht themselves of the trp in the rouf. What dtd theso men care for vonventionallty Whaut did they care for the roof, or for violutliyr uny of the rules of propricty! To-day we saw many people who would turn o bucket of cold water upun anv reltimious procecding not exactly in aecordance with thelr own woys of thinking with one band, whilo with the other they would wrap a wet blanketaround it, Such n thing as rlppin up the roof of & house was not to be tiought of. ‘They would nut mutilate any of the auies of peopricty for auyehing in the wotld, ~ Bome people Wera always criticiaing il findlng fawt with everytbing, 10 vou Yeere to show them anytblng and ask their opin- fon concerning Ity they would rst begin to tell jou what there was about it thut they did not {le, and by the thine they got through with this there was no time for anything else, 'They never approved of ‘auy unustial means to pro- cur salvation—uny thig that departed trom the ustal order of things, > Thivteen winlsters on the North Slde had #otten together, and upon thefr knves had resolved 1 2o to worlt and try to get up a*littio relfidous interest on that siloof the river, Now, what weto they polug to dod Wera they golng tu e helpers, or were they rolng to be hinderers § ‘They must be either one "or the other; if they ‘wera not for, they must be ugainst, The Rev, Mr. Shepard offered o elosiog prayer, and Mr, Stenbing, who had been down to the Tabernacle talking to the andiento thero assem- Bled, hind returned, and ho sang, * Have you any room tor desus,” ufter ‘which the congregation sani the “ Doxology,” und was dismiised with u benediction, § Messrs, Pentecost nud Stebbins went directly to the ‘Tatiernaclo to hold another teyice, awd were followed by n large portion of the ‘audionco of Urace Cnureh, SIXTH PRESHBYTERTAN, THI® HEV. MENNY T, SULLGR, pastor of the Bixth Presbyterian Church, corner of Oale und Viucenues avenues, prenced o ser- mon yesterday forenoou before o larie congres gution, from the text found i Ilebrews, xi., 13 —'*"Fhese all died i faith, havhns recelved the promises, but huving seen thew atar off, and wers persuaded of them, und confessed that they were strungers und pilerims on the carth nnd Teafuh, xxx., 21=**Aud thino ears shall henr o word bebind thee saying, This fa the way, walk yo in ft, whon ye turn to the right land)' and when yo turn to the loft,” Mr. Miliey g ferred to the late contest of the pedestrinll, and compared that of the ristipr with Ity nd showed how thy fer - should Lie provared for it by eq":ll”‘ . bimaclf with oud Blioes wii n mu“' glla,, Wit s, nind stroms {u the fath of "OhHst” nover faning in the accomplishmoat »of olils sk untll the vavenly coal wanyoachied, Iu spoke of the Ulyiplan gaines wad the prizos given in athletle cantests, and suld tiey were perlshatte, but the rize i the ereat Chrlstiun contest was an - perishuble one fu Heaven, ‘The diecussion was clused by au oxhortation to all present to ra- iwaln steadfast fu the Christian falth, and rely on the enving power " of Christ to bring them out victorlous in the race. At the conclusion of the sermom, the prstor Introduced the project of + 1 TUILDING A NRW CRURCI'EDIFICH on the lot adjoinfog the present chapol bullding now used by the Soclety, Iv satd that ine creased necommodations were necessaryy the Bunday-schoal statistics showed thut there woro betweeh ninety und 100 tamllies represented by thu schiolars, und thero were otliers outside who would probably attend ff the accommodations were greater. " e referred to (he gencrous manner th which all of them had met the Com- miittee on Subscriptions, und_sald it had_filled his vwn heart with a great deal of cheer. There were those whon the Committee could not gor, and all i the coneregation would have aw op- wortunity to give awording to thelr, ancans, With o' long pull nud, o strong ikl and n pull altozedher, they would be enn- Dled ln,)Jnleunsulllulum, sum fo erect n new chureh Mwithout fnterferine with the present funded delit! of 88,000. Ilo fnstanced the enso of the boy wife, desiring to contribute to n cliureh, wrote to thinTrustees: 1 symoathire with your object, mnd [ngjose five cents; i you need anv more, call on me." Cavt. J. I, Rumscy, Chatéfngn . of the Com- mittes un Subseriptions, by reqlibat of the pas. tor, made o statement w regard to the work of the Committee in obtalning subscriptions, and the success b lind et with, Contributions that had been made to the funded et woulid he transterred to the Bullding Fundj they wers well able to take caro of fhu debt, which was but 88.000. Ho related a little war eplsode to IlMustrate how self-sac- rificiug the pastor bad been and how bravely he took the lead {u the enterprise by contributingn Iarger sum thay any one else in " the congrega- tion, 'l'lwn{mnkurnlnlcflIln\l‘. the pastor, the Rtey, My, Mifler, bnd,_eiven 2000 towards the project, Spencer Warner had contributed 21,000, and the following gentlemen had sube seribed 8400 each: Tuthill K";'F Willlam Best, C. H. Ilildreth, Bamuel Plke, A, J. Smith, “A. ‘W, Rolilns, Mr. and Hrs. K, 1. Forrester, and J. T, Rumsey, Ile also yond the names of fourteen who lind wiven $300 each. 'Lhe payments would bo made, he sald, fn 20 per cent fnstablments, During Capt, Rumsey’s remarks subscrivlions werg taken up In the congregation, and the totnl amotiit subseribed was §14,237 ‘They had been s0 successful that he thought tha pastor conld call on the Soclety to meet and appuint com- n‘ill‘t&ues to contract for the bulldlug of the new edifie, ‘I'ie pastor announced Friday evenlng as the {lme for the Boclety to tneet nnd appolnt a Rulldlng Committee. ‘The congregation was thendismissed with the henedietion. INTANT BAPTISM. TS MANIFOLD BVILS, The Rev., E, XK. Cresscy, paptor, preach last night at the Coventry Strcot Baptist Church o sermon entitled * The Evits of Infant Baptism," s text was Matthew xvi, U und 18: Itut in vain do they worship Me teaching for doctrinea the commandments of men. Uut e answered and saig, Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted ‘shall bo rooted up, In commoncing his discourso tha speaker re- ferred to the growth of the Baptist denomina- tlon, und sald that ¢ had been of late years largee than the growth of aoy other seet. Ho spoke in general torms of the probable future of the varlous evanzelical = denominations, wnd predicted for thut which he represeuted n courso more successful thun nuy other, ‘The doctrine of Infant bLuptldin wos an crroncous one, und the teaching of It was_an offense, an insult, to the Great Hsad of the Chureh, 1t was not authorlzed b?‘ the Beriptures. A very promn- inent Presuytertan divino of Chicago had re- cently sald that Le could not put his tluger upon any pssace In the New Testament recording or communding fofant baptfsm., The argument for a perpetuation of (l:z practico was shinply that the New Chureh, befng the successor of the Churel, followed ;' in * the fooisteps of its rrvdcccnm‘, and, held to the doc- trine und practice. The Presbyterlan Church held that the offspring of Ghristian parents wero born Into the Church amt were born Cliristians, ‘I'he Preshyterians said Mt the euild of Chrls- tian parents was a Ciltfstian 11l the opposite was proven, Lo say that n child who died with- out baptism swas lost’' was to fmpuco God's lovo for Iis littlo ones uhil the provisious of diyine grace. T, oy ‘I'he spealer had hearll Minlsters of scholarly attalnmenta and deep relitzious convietions and learning pructica the righft: of fufant Sbaptism when they micht bave known, hnd they been willing to knov, that suwln practive wasagalnst the uutbority of the Iihly und an {osult fo the wisdom ol tho Creafor. They would say, it spoken to; on the” subject, that the disclpllne -w0f the Church In the words guching for doctrlues the commandments ot "7 Chrlst never was the direction ot muxr wtions, 4 . batized children, thuu’i?L muny preachers fn il of the text they were ¢ reading the Seriptures ot baptismal services stopped short after read! }, that Christ called little chlldren unto Uil and blessed tliem. teaving their audiencea!sh fufer that Ho hnd baptized them. Chris8' himself was {mn- mersed I the Jnrdun,%‘t‘d in followinz the tenchings of Christ the wOrld should follow the example st by Him, it . ‘Thic consecration o GG of babes, by the rite of baptism, and recelviny them into fellowahip by tulth, was slmply ridienlous, when they were not capable” of*" having any faith, nor of knowhys what faithitivas. It was a mocks ery of rellzfon to recci¥o Into fellowsnip nnd communtlon little ones wHose only quallfication was a knowledero of the 'Bible. Hecauae a chitd could auswer correctly altthe questions in the catechism was no evidente of faith and are- lrrlous conviction, Dol {l\gcrmll 13 1 boy prob- ably knew more about the “eatechlsm than did his reverend father, Yet lo hud no foith at that time, und ho hod Jess now, Infant baptism secularized the ehureh aiid ritualized Christisn- fty. 1t led to confused vlews of church-mom- bership, A recent conyention. of ministers had colled up the eubject, and onc ot the divines present hud pucgested thut the r'.-aruuslhmty for the following of the teach- ingz bo Instened where it Helonged, und if 1t werg erroneous It should Le thrown natde, It frnored and viototed the fundamental doctrines of the Hible, nnd was In direct obposition to the eacred teachings of Justillentlon by falth und regcn- eration by thesplrit, It led to the indulgence of fulse liopes, ninl_gave rlse to a vietion of the order of the Gospol: * Belleve and be baptized,” STARTLING STATEMENTS. About the tnd Lifc-Insurancs Company of [inrtford, Conn. To the Editr of The Tribune, CuicAGo, Mareh 15.—On the 4th duy of Feh- ruary, 1564, Tobtatued a policy of insurance on iy hife {n the above Company for $3,000, I waa to pay a premlum of $159 annually, one-half fn cash and one-half In iy note, 1was told that the dividend would eoon be enough to vover my noto, have been paying vrembums and Eving notes until now, fn Febe runry, 1879, I poid o eash $115,09, as follows: Cash premium, §i0.50; interest on Inat noto ($500.63), 330,003 Lotal, 8115.50, My noto fins {n- ereased [rom year to vear, untll it now amounts to SG0LWS. When L tirst took mv nolicy it was worth £2,000, Thien I pali {n cash §70.50, Now my poliey is worth $1,803.5%, ud I pay aunually cash 3015, bestdes griving ndaltional uotes cach year of fucrensed wmounts. Pray what Wil It be worth If L should live ton years! ‘Tho agent of the Company who sont me n blank tiote to slgn for ronewal, accompnnled 4 with a vrinted sheet, which suys: “The Htnn Life- Insurance Unuuml?' of Hartford, Conn,, with its asscts of &21,144,175,20, and its clear surplus of nearly four and o ter mitlion of dollars, "‘Lm its well-known economival management,’? ctey ote. w E Now, whilo it may oxcite my pride to tell mo that I helong to such o magniticent compan vy it 13 not very sattafactory 1o me to know (e f am holplig to swell this ouormous surptus of four and a quarter miltions, | would_ like to know what thia surplus is Kopt for, 1f their nsscts are B2LMLTT5.20, §8 npt that enough o muy all Joss i auy contingeneyl I, thers any good reason why thld su Iyluu shoulid not b distributed among the polle: holdery Who are members of the corporation ! Where Is the necessity of continmally fiereastng it at tho expenso of the * polley-holde It ia trus they tell e they have eiven g tigs vear n divideind of $1480, which wos. tédietel from my uote, 60 08 o add only -BHIT0 th my ala HOte of Inst Vear, Increashtd it from $566.05 Lo &1 From am.m.lsl-uh‘w il § commenced Pyl :naly nrmummub AM Bow paying 3115 cashh, OF_over BYKe cent in_cash aniua'ly un ths wue of wmy p(:'irg, and my note, ol amounting to SIOLES, 18 auntially liereasing, consequently: aunvally reduchz the valuo of g Now, iy judgment, this s out- | rusuits, The poliev-kolders ought not to he | thus mized, ‘There f3 somethi wrong in I this matter, und to Nlustrate & et me call uttvntion to another cuuu.unly, On the 10th duy of May, 1849, | abtained o life poliey fn the Con- tent Mutual Life-lnsurance Chinpany for &3,000, on which I was Lo pay angunual preinfum at §16, one-hall in vash and oue-talf v notes, All] bud to pay on that polley Jast year was §39.57, ns follows: g ) Aunval premtum |, Lews ourplitaeeeevons sor 1y jan Intereat on promium Beedits,, . Totaluerriors 4o 11y, o My poticy fu that Company s worl MARCH 17, 1839—~TWELVE PAGES I should o, £3,000, nndl the premium 18 less evers year,—my annual payment about 1¢ per cent of the Valua of the palley; white on the polley in the Etna Life-Insurance Company of Inrtford I pay uver 8 per cent annually, bo- fldes piving addittonnl notes __overy year nud reduclng my nolk‘{. This I8 Venefiting_oar fanllics with n ven- geance, This shows -the contrast between a company honesfly manared for the henefit of the polidy-holders and a conpany managed to onrich the stockholders ut the riinous exponse of the polley-holiers, About ten daya ago T wrota n letter to the Company and sent it by mall, fn_which I em- badley substantially the nbove facts, and fn- Guired If they intend to go on M this way, To this letter I have recelved no reply, which shows that the Cumpany 18 helug natinged for the beneflt of the stovkholders amd not the policy- holiers, and do not Intend to pive the polfey- holdees nny fuformation of thelr doings, but suverciiously liold tliemsclves above auswering any Inguley tnade to them, ‘The poltey-tiolders have a rightto have this surplus divided among them, They are not de- pendunt upon the whitng or caprices of the man- ag! f this bloated Institutlon. 1will only ndd that §f uny gentleman doubts the truth of my statemnent, 1€ ho will eall av my oflice [ will show him the evidence of the facts abovo stated. Evrnrr Van Buney, No. 174 LaSalle steeot, Ruom A2, THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. . Awful Sorry, Ta the Editor of The Tridune. TPARA, 111, March 16.—Why do you allow such nincompoops and consummate fools to alr thelr tiwaddie uud - nonseusical utterances as Mr. D. n, l’ln;;rn‘y, of Bloomington, did In yopr lssuc of Thuradny last? Such articles are only caleu- lated to Injure your paper in_the minds of seo- slble peopfe. Yours, PHiLIP JACEBON. The Four Gospols, To the Editor of The Tribune. Crtoaco, March 16.—In his letter tc Tre Tiisuse of March 9, “B, A, UM cxpresses re- grets that the parables and sayings of Christ have not been mode the subjeets of {llustration by some superior artlet, und mentions Dorc’s Dante and Milton s cxamnles. 3. A, UV fs auparently unaware that the samo housa that issued thoso works hos prepared an editfon of the Four Goapele, magnificently fllustrated by AL Bida, What Dore has done for Dante und Miltou, Bldn bas doune far the teachings of Christ.. Nay, more; for while Dore startles us by the awful vividuess of his work, Bida, by the beanty and truth of his drawings, linparts o reality and sublimity to the tenchings of our Savior that leaves a lasting fmpression on the mind. J. B, WaTsoN. Bomo Corrootlons, Ta the Tdilor of The Tribune. Davesront, In., March 15.—Will you allow me to correct ong or two crrors made by your corgespondent in his otherwise very satisfactory report of a conversation hield with me in Des Moines, In,, and published in your lssue of the Oth Inst.? Ha scems to havo understood mo to sav that the 8ix Compaules had formerly been engazed in the business of fnporcing Clincso laborers under contract. What I did say was, that the Six Compauies had nover, to my knowledge, done onything of the kind, but that individual Chinninen bad sometices contracted with men in China to coma to America und work o specl- fled time for apecified wages. He scems also to have understood me to say that in Chinn wives arc nothing but concubines und slaves to men. But L was spenking only of the unfortuvatu Chincso women und girla who aro purchascd from tho nilserably poor nnd de- eraded, or kidnapped and fmported to Califor- nin by a vile class of my countrymen, und sold for the vilest of purposes. 1 was not speakling of the wives and mothersin Chiua, who, a8 a generul proposition, are ns chaste and virtuous as the wives nnd mothiers of this country, ‘The general condition of women fn China is not 6o clevated nnd respected ns in - this Chrls- tian civhization, but In China wives und moth- ere bave u legitimate and honorable place in society, above that of the mere concublne, Truly, CuAN Pax Kwarn A Good Suggostion, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cmicaao, March 16,~Is it not about time that we were having o change? In the clden time men trained themselves to fight the bull, the bear, the lion, the tiger, and otheranimals. Vast amphitheatres were bullt, and largronssemblares of people gathered ot stated times to witness tha prowess of he gladiator,, As jieoplo’bécame mora ivllized and enlight- ened these things came to bo regarded as bar- barous, and were discarded, and other amuse- ments were invented to satfsfv the eravings of o little more enlightened barbarlsm, until down to the present day we find men training horses to trot and run ot break-neck speed, reenrdless of the effect it bas ipon the constitution of this, the nobiest animal that God hos given him for o helpmeet. Ve llnd other men ond even women training themselves to see who can walk or runm the greatest number of ‘miles in o given time, thereby placing themselves below the brute cre- atlon,—tor what animal would, of his own free will, do the lkol—and, by exerting themselves beyoud thelr strength, roinlug their health and rendering their lves miserable during the re- matnder of their days, Althourh we have a few pluces where, unknown to the average police- man, we still *flhit the tirer,” and have sct the “bulls™ und the ** bears ¥ to {ighting each other, yet bavo we not progressed cunouph beyond theso barbarous amusements 8o that they might be done away with and otliers substituted more Kuitabla to this our bonsted Christinu oge, Wauld it not be n good fdea for the community at largo to form themselves (nto elubs or su- cteties, und offer premiums to those that would prove themselves the most hooest, upright, and xl-hnrl;nblo, sud who léad the most virtuous ives’ Could we not huye something that would ele- vate us above an anfmal, nud exalt us to that high and voble stutlon that God intended us to occuny, only o Mttle below the angels? Yes, ivo us a clionge. | AMERICAN, A Unlon Boldlor’s Roflootlons, To the Ediior of The Tribune. . Cmicaco, March 15.—1 was at the birth of the Repubifesn party; I hope I may not mourn at its funeral, because 1 trust it will outlive me, When the echocs of Sumter's guns swept over the Northern hills, with othiers 1 went at the vall of iy country to lielp to prove we were o Nutlon, bound togethier by ties that conld not bo sundered at the caprico of any one of the States fecting oggrieved. For four years, amid tho whock of battle, Wit the croans of wounded men and the crics of agony, of the dying for dirgo like musie, we swept pn to victory, Amid the prans of the multitude, amid the rejolcings ot ull patriots, amid thie sympathy nnd Tove of the noble and good, amid the cheerannd smiles of foir wamen und houest men, we te- turned to mothers, wives, nnd sweethearts, con- tent that our work wus accomplished, and that from thie_wreck, desolation, wnd confusion of battlo had arlscn a new Awmerfea, 4 ‘Then wa knew, or thought we kuew, that hier fouudations were Inld g0 deep und sure that no unu would sver question we wero a Natlon and reutly on United Stotes. Fuurtcen years have passed, and wo behold our cdifice, comented by the blood of half milllon meny and which cost four billlous of dollurs to erget, cricked from dome to founda- tlonestone, wnd lable to full at avy time, A conmnidn, vulgar rat, onte uvon a time, dug & hole under i stone buildiug, aud the watera penetrating by tat channel undermined that house uud it fell. > Flie men we et fu battle and whipped have industriousty due s hole under our Natlonal editlev, wnd, Totting in a stream of State-rights dovtrines, now threaten the demolition of the building, At first they taught a mild doctrine; but, thriviog op thy diluted article, huvegradu: ully taken to the strongestdrink, Calhioun wus nilidness, und Yaucey meckness, compured with such men as J, C, 8, Blackburn, ot Kentuel In the winter of 72" this shrickine dervish from Woudford County sat fn o bavk-room of the Capltol Hotel, In” Frankfort, und gloried aver his part In the Rebellon, aml from the fultuess of hia neart saild hio was only sorry that s did not_succeed, ‘Then a member of tho Kentucky Legislaturo, ho hns now rlsunton Congressmun, ond vxpoets on Tuesday to nount tu the Bpeukership, by the sid of votesof Northern doughfuces und lckapitttes, 1 can have a little respect, anid n great deal of patience, with such men us Lamar, who weut with their Statea: but for the Biuckburns, id omns genus, who fuught because they wunted to be, wid were, traltors, and have never repented, und never will repeat, 1 have nothing bu hatred and contempt., o Such men will let the deadly fever sweep over he outh rather than that the ustion shoukl be recosnlzed o having power to cstablish quurantioe, Such men want 10 census unle 1ho Btute can boss the job; and the Btate's su- pervislon meuns throwing bromleast over the luud & ho s to puptlation snd resources, ml perpetuation to them, for ton years at least, of power, No Federal eye must overlook the bailot-box, for attention there means Louest balloia ond the proectfon of the wenk; they want the tissue ballot and Traud—to cower ihe weak at point of piatol or cun. ‘The politictan of the South thinks he was born to rule,—tlnt by divinoright * the educated nuderatty should trampls upon the weak wud ignorant or nse them 03 o means to llvlu end of politieal nnd personal aggrandize~ ment, ‘I'he negro eltting in bis Jowly cabin {s called 1o the door, and a hullet poes crashing through hia skulls the biack crimlual haa dared to voto a Rupublican ballot, The scourwe comes, ninl the white office-spaker and gettor flies to the North amd leaves fila property to be protucterd by the negro. He returns to go at onco Lo sow- hig amony the *fenorant the treat State-rights dottrine that n part is greater than the whole, mnd woo to the one who refuses to Maten wnd lteed. Allow me, as an humble individusd, to ady to these Souihern nutocrats that the bulk of the people of the North belleve that this United Statos Is n Nation, witha enpital N§ tht the result of the War ‘was belleved to mean that the nlinbitauts of one Btats had equal rights, and should have equal protection, in all Btutes; that the ballot-box was fres to all allke who were Iaw-nbiding eftizensi and that poor. und rlch, learned and ignorant, should stand he- fore the world with the proudest title our Ite- public can bestow, that of cltizens of the UNITED BTATES. B. K. B, e —— HORTICULTUREL. That Lifo Question Onco More—TLifo Ta In- finite~Lifo tsell Is Divluo—Thers Is but Oun Beif-Exlatent Lifo=All Eise Have Lifo from Him, p From Our Own Correrpondent. Joragr, 1L, March 14,—The question of the origin of plant and anfmal lfe, whichwas startea by Dr. Humplrey in‘his cesay upou that subject, 18 nn joteresting one, It called out Judgo Lamphlere, who prescoted another view of the subject, Wo will now closu this discussion with A few general observations,—vicwing thosubject In {ta brondest nspect. 8 Our sclentists, not sighting a world within, or nbove, or other than tlhe natural, profess ‘‘to see In matter tue promise atd potency of every form of }fe,” Unhoppy fellows, *secking the Mving among the dead." The truth Is, this questton does not belong to their department. Not all “the laboratories, d{ssccting-rooms, and schools of the savans’! arc ablo to give any solu- tion of the enigma of life. 1t is not possible for those who * dwell n the sunless chambers of nn exclusively secular philosophy ? to sco clearly to read ‘‘the writing on the wall,” which ero ansiers to lite's questlons. ‘What definition shall we give to Lifo? Joseph Cook says: *Lifo 13 the power that direets bloplasm.”” Bichal's definition of Life “The sum of the tunctions by which death {8 resisted,” 8. T. Coldrize defines Lifo thus: consists in belng ablo to live.” Dr. Fletcher hos this circultous definition: ) Lifo conelsts in the sum of the characteristic nctlons of orzanized helnge, performed by vir- tue of a specific susceptibility acted upon by speciflc stimull.’! Alas for the detinitions drageing thelr slow cmfum nlnnE. "he word Life is derived from n Hebrew word fLeb) which significs the Leart. And hero wo lave lotimation in the word. itsolf of what life ftself 15, The beart fs a correspondont of the affections; nnd the broad hint Is, that Life itsels" s Love ltself, The ancient Egyptions used o heart, placed in the mldst of o censer of flam, for the blero- Iyphic of Ileaven,—{molylug tuercby that Teaven {8 the source to the world, as tho heart 13 to the buay, of all actiity and life. “Surcly‘ this is another hint o the right direc- on. But actually to deflne Lifo in its essence fsbe- yond the power of the finite to do. The fiaite cannot comprehend the Infivite. Life is infnlie, Lifo {tscif Is divine! The Lord alono is Life dtself! Al elso have Hfe from Him, ' It s not now remarded knowledire o supernatural First Cause. In o genceral way, men grant that the Lord pives life awd support; but do they know that the Lord alone is Life, and Life itself; that no form of 1ife, not even the soul of mau itsclf, has Life In ftself; but that nll forma aro recipients of Life from the Divine? ; Man believes most firmly, and ba _will hardly bo persunded otheriwise, thist he hias Life Inhim- self; that he lives by annborn, vital enerey, to naintain which it i8°only needed that ho *feed and sleopd? - 5 : The Lifo of man and the *Lifo But it is not 8o, Lite of thy unlverse are ,.an, infux from .the Divine; and ft must bo constant, elss all would droop and die. ‘The plants in the garden do not live by the sunshive of yesterdny, but by dally ond me- mentary supolies. .Each fnstant the Life nust bo rouewed, *‘Give us this dally bread,” Is the unlversal prayer. ‘There Is u sweet something, wifeh we fall to reach with our **chemisirics nnd edeed tools,' that causes things, To know anythi con- cerulug the rattonnlo of existeuce, the mind must not rest in phenomenn, 1t must not stop in the mera cantewplation of effects. One nust recognize the zreat law which shows the relation of worlds material to worlds spir- oy our itual, ‘This vistblo Nature {8 n correspondent of what exists, substantial nnd real, in the spiritual world, Withuut this conncetlon, nelther man uor universe could subslst for a moment.’ ‘I'hicro fs a epirital universe just as certalnly as thero 18 o natural universe, for the two worlds are one by corruspondence; they are in the rela- tion of cduse and effeet, We cannot eseapo this presence. *If Inscend up nto Heaven, 'Thou art thero! It [ moke my bed fu Iiell, bebiold! Thou art there. If I toke the wings of the morning, and y to the utter- wost parts of the sea, oven then shall Thy h:m:l' lead me, and Thy right haud ehull hald me.' But, without o knowledge of discrect degrees, caused ennnot be seen, aud the mind rests In effeets oulv, which are continuous, The subject, of course, (s too large to be pom- pressed futo the compnss of o newapaper- artiele. The few hints here eiven will sugrest the direetfon in which the truth lies, und witl fuaieato how large o question It is which pro- posca to trace Life back to its orlgin, 018 . L, B THE I’RlN CESS MURAT. Wall Remembored In Bordentows, No Jo Where 8o Oneco Tuught Schiool. Neto York Sun, The death of the Princess Lucion Murat {n Tarls, two weeks neo, Is spoken of by the corre- spondents as a serlous loss to the soclery of the gay capital. Her death boas also Lrought up reminiscences of her in Bordentown, N, J., where shie llved with her husband for so many vears, Prince Lueien Murat, who dicd last April, was tlie son of the Bean Subreur, Joachim, King of Naples, aud bis,wife Caroline, sister of Nupo- leon I After the fall of his uncle ho hived for somo timo with bis wother nt Trleste, but re- duced cireumstancees, und constant aunoyances from the Buurbon pollce, soon compolled him to emjgrate to Amecrica, Ilo settled os o modest farmer vear Hordentown, and mareied Miss Carolino Georging Fraser, — Ho was not successtul in busiucss, und the youne couple hudd to take pupils, They had five children,— Princess Caroline, marricd to Buron ac Chassi- ran, and now dead 3 Princo Joaclm, matried to tho' duuebter of Brinco de Wazram; Princess Anna, now Duchiess do Motehy; the famous <Lrluco Achille, marnied to Prineess Dadisn of the Caucusua, s constuutly flightige itors; und Prince Lout: Freneh navy. ‘Th Iast-uamed chile one born In'France; all the othiers are natives of New Jersey, In 1840, when Louls Napoleon bewan his work of resurrecting the Empive, the Murats roturoed to France, became smlllenll)‘ richy und bave ever sluce occupled' their well- Known position in Paris soclety, Luclen returned to France bofore his family, in 1643, und ot oues came forwerd ot the elee- tions ol the Loty for the Cunstituente, A proe- lamation of his fa stll] preserveds . Yesterday, atter thirty years of exile, I was permitted 1o see Frouco ngain, and this great bapplucss ol a sun wno scea his mother was grauted to ma by the Republie. Baulshed by the ehemivs of Frauce, 1bring you from the United States a thirty yeara' experfenco in Re- publican institutions, " ‘Tats decluration of Republican sympathies did not provent bim from aceepting the December wrf d'etat und the emplre, Id Sam Woud, ut’ Bordentown, who was Prinee Luciow's “conchinas, remembers thu Priucesa very well, as do most of thy, elder vil- Tug 1t was anly ufter the Priuce’s extravas gances had exhausted his mceans, und his al- huuuw nad beew ent down to ¥1,200 o ?'nr, that his wife was compellea to open her school. ter pupils wers iftcen young ladies frow Cuba, Ot her ehtldren tho Htifo Annle was tne pet of the villagers, The oldst son, Joachim, was best” known by the knfekname ol “gonuy.” Bam Wood taught bim to swim in the Delaware, whea litle Jo was only years old, Tho ex-~oachman hlnse! s o'mizhity swhinmer, and fn his tine was regarced us o sort of Boyton and \Webb combiued. Ju 1840 he took the Strachan sliyer modal st the Interoational cootest on the Her his cred- now au_otifcer in the unscientific to ac- ifts of . ventine, Hydo Park, London, . this medal,—a pieco about the llz:mu(“.l." hay dodlar, containing o bas-reliof of g g e strusiting between two swang, ‘The tal) Aeyinain was at '&l_llllhllu valet to Josopy lxg"' parte, who Hived b n rplunald mansioy oo endish square. Biint sava lio hos ofter | o3T: on Louis Napolcon in f1mt howso, Halleg * Do | remoimber Pricco Murat? gy g toa reporter, With o stroug nasal Lwwany i ctuphasls i the laet“ayllable, whicy' ey 2 ‘houneed on atrletly phonetle nrlnulp)u;. th stould say Tdid, I dravo lis horse, oo hves In his family for two Yenre, wnd 1y, Tl Josoph Lionaparte's etiploy for sevey, "5, yoswta finer man dn all Jorscy than ot Murat, I remember i woll—i rogy m""“ Jolly SounzTrenchiman, with Y oIV as nustache, and full of il Kinds of il h’"hl Ilis \mclannth used to give him nlllhv-nc ek that he wanted, and Murat used to lc\unhdm“![’ as fstasho got it His time was -umclr v shooting i ilshing; when ko wasme o ] that bu was horse-racing and betting on lao"lh sume kind. 'Che thivd _\?nr that he eamg 4 hura ha apent 830,000 in four months, Atw" tima hie kept forty liorses for driving. ghe He Loumht about 100 ncres gt | the Trenton rond, north of h fitted it up in 'the French stylo: brick mansion housa fn front, und the by stables, and outhouses of stone or brigk T Inz @ square in tho rear, Tnside i ey o horaes, cattle, stock, and cverything chc]‘ i lived s hiah and sient money ao fast ey o Uucle Joseoh couldn’s stand it. When the II gentleman went to Europe in 183y [ heard hud tell the Prince that ho would give bim Bl it he'd stop sporting and ambling aeq )ie quict life, Murat wouldn't take [t on |no' terms, 1o wanted the money out nng out, n’d euid hie wasn't going to bo frottod iy e ditions, Howas as fund of hunting ny b or; of the girls, and that 1 saving o good g Whien he was rleged out.in fs velvet shogyjy, sult, with a jaunty cap nod fowling plece, n' wras w mighty bandsome fellow, nd you rouigas bigme them for falllug {0 love with himn ‘Lhe Atmanach de_totha hus the late Brip s ““of the Lorda of Lovat," chiefs of the () Frasor. T Pall all Gacttte, speaking o o lady’s doath, says; ** Her relationshyp (Mh: Frasera of Lovat may, perhaps, noy ultozeihey be buyoud eriticlsm; but what 18 certain g that she never shrunk from any hardship or any gelf. sncrifica when the Weifate of one slio ga tached to was at stake. ‘Phe Princeas Luien was a8 simple fn her greatness as she hag been. nobla In her obscurity. She wos entirely wigp, out any affectatlon, nnd splendar rather borey " her. Bhe always had the most unmistaksbly Yunkea nasal twang ?fl have, fudecd, Pring Joachim, - Prince Achille, and the Dushey gy Mouchy), and would have been happier, robz. l|}y. in Nutw .xlnrnu (:| lllrnvhh:ul Illml.‘:ne bud am. ple vpportuniy of doinir groud to othe the Gours o aythe Tulries kel io was tnarrfed to the Prince Lu August, 1831, and survived him nnu‘s eunui: aver ten mouths. —— PEDESTRIANISAL, s o Some Facts About the Sclenco of Walking. Xamous Wniks of the Past, New York 2imes, Tn his lecture beforo the Academy of Sclencey on Tuesday night, Prof. Trowbridge pofnted by remarks with some cirlous nud interesting refer. encos to thie scienco of walking. 1t appearsthay, ou the nverage, & mau raiscs himsell one foch and o quarter at overy step. Taklng thisdatom, With the average length of step n walking sta ordinary pace, & mon Hts his own weight one foot from the ground In cvery twenty-three feot traversed, and expends an amount of fures cqual to one foot-ton for every 518 to 400 fe2t traveled. Tliero ore, of course, large varis. tlous from this averate, but the vule dedoek’ blu from it {s, that the higher 8 man lifta big. selt {n walking tho greater the exertlon fn traversing auy given distance: so that o mag ralsing his body ouly one Inch per step 1ilts bls owi welzht once overy twenty-elght feet, or thiereabout, while, convcr:ulrv. snuther, ralslag e body an fnch und.s lalf, {i1ts his own weight one foot for every nloeteen or Lvents travereed, Ly ascertalning the man's welght, the length of I8 pace, und the hight to which he ralses Lim. self,at euch utep, It 18 thus pussible todetermina with mathematical exactuess how many feet he will bave to walk in order to perfurin s work equal to one fuot-ton. For an average walker, us before stated, this distance varles from %3 to 400 feet, ‘The oxertion of walking n mile, there fore, may Lo roughly stated s equivalent tothat of lifting lhlrlfieu to fifteen tons one foot from the ground, Now, according to physiologists, an able-bodied man _ is capable of “pere forming a_day's wotk cquivalent to from 800 to 400 lnn’l-lon!mbr. &,lt‘vn"n"!. 'lrul!l thg preraee at from 25010 850; Prof. Trowe AT any event, walk of twenty-(ivo to. thirty miles must e conslfs cred a3 the equivalent of a_day’s work fo mus cular exertion, and forty miles a day as a mure than ordinary performauce. But here comes fo another factor. Bupposing a mao capable of maling flfty miles in ten houra without extmor dinary” exertlon, to what extent can fe s celnrato his pace consistent with good azere zate performaunco protracted for mauy bours, nder ordinary circumstauces, were th ques- tonproposed to an uyerazy student of phylol- ogv, of how long the man whbo makes Gity miles n ten hours can sustaln the apparently ust double exertion of walking ten miles sn ottr, the avswer would be five hours. Bub such, accordlng to Dr. Houhton’s law, is oot by any mosns_the case. On the contrary, the uvumber of hours a'iuan can beor the ex traordinacy exertfon of ' ten miles e hour s to the wwnber of wlles that ba vau bear the ordinary exertion of flve miles a5 the cubo of his to theeubg of 10. In other terny, Tie would be able to beur the. uxzmurdxnax‘ straf only un bour and a quarter, und to walk ooly twélve and a haif conseeutive miles, To put the groblem .in a form more lkely to ocur la ordinary Hfe, Ifa man can walk fivo miles 2 hour for ten hours without droppluy, Liow lou can he walk at tho rate ot slx miles nn bour ‘fhe auswer sclence talkes to this problem sin these terms: As the cubeof 0 (210) fs tothe cuhe of § (125), so s 10 1o the numher fobeas- certalued, whieh, upon mnking the caleulatiood required, I8 lound t0 be five hotrs forty-seved miuutes uud thirteen uid one-third scronds, D; Lut litele more than ulf the orlginal ten. U course, 1 proctieal 1ife, with 1is coustantly varying conditions, sowo allowance must be maile “for necidental or Incldental fciorsy but tho. rale remalns thut the tan who wsked extraordiuary excrilons ot the outsel lutd In the long ritn. As to the pluck or w:ll—w""; of which ordinary parlance inakes such Ire u:ufl quotations, It 1s only ailother name for um° shouldera, asound lieart und lungs, e nervous centres of movement, und oy cumm: tent phygielan cou make ou these point, ety very briel exmmination, an estimate 50 mar1I nccurate na between any two menot thl"w tromiug (hat it would bo eafo to wazer tho sunus un the fasuo of a trial of enduratce, "I'he proposteruus extent to which wdull 3 compotitive striviugs have of Ite been indul \&‘ in In.this country “might woll lead sore to s ugzhue int the passion Tor this particular bf;:lw of gport wos nuyer botors exbibited fu 8 i i whimsicaly not to say ubsurd, ‘This u“v-"mu; Wwoutkl be a rasl conclusion, os niaty rIulm‘u( exhibitions are recorded in the mmnf: lm:mh periodical Nteraturs eapeclally pertalullis LR performances, With but a {umlug refurel i the walk ot Caot. Darclav, in 1820, ofu (e saud miles tn u thous.ud liours, the awOBivc ment of which set the inbubltants of W Newmarket 8o ncarly beside llwnucl\‘hs" - wonder and udmirotion thot nothing a‘f‘m,, sottug the church-bolls ringing woul lsl-l“fl e, we may mention o famous walk tol l»n a3 tho dnwua: Itegister for 1788, In thut y«'"n Trisn gentiaman named Whslley lokd 8 Wt 420,000 that he would perfosm a walking from Loudon to Constantinople und ruturn, s liso! attira belng o swallow-tafl biue cuat, o bl Walsteoat, buckukin _ brocclics, uiid Wb und his wespou of defense u stout "l’m| ‘e cccontrle individual returned in A.” = tn clujm Lis wionfigs, and was everaft s 0s *Jerusalem ¥ Whalloy,” A very mm;lrm feat of walkingg fora auil stako was neriocl in more recent tmes by legs unpro tz e Capt. Ross waa with a shootiug pnn.ylum” nr] 1all, (o Kincardineshire, the thie of B0, beliyz August, Forseven or cloht l."a‘:mnu liad beeri‘ wading walst-bigh amoni the il ta, shootig sulpo, uud_had well uur;nfu SR duner. A?zcrme meal, Capt, Hoss ; o und _he was shortly afterwurd swaky e 8ir Keith Huy, * Rdss, old fellow, «{; Ay Sir Keltls, * jump up, I wunt you to L“fl" 1 umpiro with Lorda IKouuedy to Ian:t:m ‘ have'mad ebim u bee of £3,500 a nut Lt tliero on foot. before him. ‘The L’nm‘l e 100 mfics, und Capt. Roas thus contiBit, g, story: *OIT wo started there und then, \\'t hot shoes and sl1k stockings on our fect. s g straight ucross the mountaing, und 1t (n e Wif {ah wulk, I ealled to tay servaut Lo ;luxl.'"“‘ iy wulking shovs nml warsted SWCREER o Lord Kenuedy did the same. “N'u‘fi“lfll ot after wo had gous seven or elebt ik wy funcy my disgust when I uismrer«i_-"m e Jdiot had bronght we, worsted nuc“,‘_ fygion taiuly, but with thom & palr of “"m) e atver 1 bootsl Th sole of oue baot vanis el hadd gon foar und tweuty miles, sud el to flulsh the walk barclooted. Wo w‘:ub- ulgght, next day, sud the nex night, I renta all the way,” We crossed the by making o perfectly straight Hao, 20 u"lll' lost verpess up 1 o'cloek o, m, 8 el o coach road, which, 1 thirty-six |'nu«| louger thau by weY ¢ mouut g - "4