Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1879, Page 6

_ RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing's Sermon on Saving by Works iRather than An Eloquent Memorial Sormon on the Late Dr. De Kovon hy the Rey. Dr. Sullivan. A Speck of War in the Chureh of tho Ascension Growing out of Father Hickoy Oalls tho Oatholio Ohurch the Basis of Oivil and Bo- * ligions Liborty. The Pentecost Revival on the North - ~ BAVED BY WORKS. SENMON NY PROF. SWING, . Prof, Swing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, tatcuy ng bis text: Yea, enith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them. It is often a quality of poctle language that Sts meaning Js obscurey The heart that pours forth the words fs full of creat vislonn and elmiles, which are often seen with difficulty by any subseqtient reader of the hghly-colored language.” ‘The passage I have just read possess thut overflowing fullness which embarrasses with tov much meaning rather than with the usual embarrassment of too little. ply that the righteous dead sre happy because they rest from troubles, and that thelr good. works attend them to the judgment par and This 18 a large import and enough of itself, But the writer may also have congratulated the rightcous that they iu death rest from their labors but that thelr good works continue,—not belng capable of death, they fol- Tow and attend the spirit, nnd arc on tmmortnl as the spirit that performed them. ‘The saints die a8 to their labor and wearlness, but not as to Amf{d nll the shades of thought and feeling which sprang up over this passage, one may well hesitate which form of {ts rich meaning to attribute to doho, as being his passing thought. 12 will, however, he truth enough for the morning, i€ we sbull take the Iesson that the righteous dead ara blessed, in that death terminated thefr Jubors and sorrows, and not their usefulness. but not from influence upon humanity; works continue after then. hovorable acquire by means of nich setf-denlat and much study, and perhaps throuzh great temptation and opposition, is an finperishable ‘osscasion, nud nothing terminates in the grave. exeont the dificuitics whicl attended the long pursuit of such excellence, All the records uf Listory coma to the support of thls sentiment of St. John; for this record of men shows us that our world in all its shapes of good 1s only anaccuinulation of the thoughts, und feelings. and deeds of the faithful, warld {s nothing elee than the works of the saints following along, after the saints them- ‘selves have gone away from their tong and often By tho word “Saint” 1 those ouly who lived wud totled for rellz- nt all those worthy ones who Ilved for the hest good of mankind. For as the word sig ‘uities a holy person we moy well call those holy who lived for the prowess of Jearatuy, und hap ness, nnd liberty.” Aside from the meaning of ris our moral world Is nothing else to-day than the gathered-uv remainders of the lonir ‘The human race long ago sat down a feast having only five loaves and two sinall fishes, nud as the hours of the feast have passed by the Inayes haye expanded, wut what we cull the Churen, ar the learning, or the wisdom of the nineteenth century, {a only the numberiess basketfuls which remain alter the guests have zune home frou. the grand festivity. » One of the cardinal ideas of that wing of the ministerial army called the Adventtats {a that the present labors of thu preacher, and laymen, auPehurch, ant school, are all in vain as to any yesuitin the public guod: that under all these ‘niluences the world ts erowli justify them. their uecfulness, ‘They rest froin care, The character the < worse fnstead of pat the better day will begin only whon Christ shalt come with divine power anid gual aside the childish efforts of man, tdvatico o doctrine she actual history of our earth, n conflict with the Bible command thit man should be n patient and hard laborer in the vine- ‘The Adventist cunnot stand a moment in the presence of history, for all that we enjoy of language, and scien Industry, and improved politics, and improved jomes, and Improved religion, und reformed shuracter 48 nothiuz else than the good works of ihe paat worthies all rolled up into one large rolume. If our Christian effort must hope noth: Ing until the persoual comlug of Christ, then Luther ourht to have hoped nothing und have achieved nothing, and the patriots who conceived the Idea of freedom of conaclenca should have hoped nothing und have achlevyed nothing untit ad enjoyed the bodily presence of their ‘There fe certainly a wide Intellectual and religious difference between the nineteenth cen- tury and the nluth or tenth century, and ft Curia. tlavs, ond patriots, and philanthropists carried, poctety across thut great distance by thehelpotan fnvisiule and spiritual Lord, tt is almoly trifling with the common senso of men to affirm that anend bascometo the goad works of mun And and that nothing great can now be achiey- ed until the seokers ofall goud shall lave the assistance of a visible mul tangible Muster, Men who ean mark what bas been necomplished iu the widedomalt of all quod from Paul tu Wealey, in religion, and from Cresar to Victoria, fo government, and can then say, walt for.Christ to come ond live on bemen of great sentimental nicty, but th oust be quite iucapable of (nding any general Taw of Gods and must be dreamers like the old Bun worshipers, who, at last, leurned to fee nothing but a great glare above them, overthrown by history tg aver- ble, which orderaall its reavers tou patient and coutant work, and tolls them that they shall have ther reward-—that the har- that Inborers aro tov few; that men at they Bow; that even grain sown upon the waters shall be harvested; that the Lord will always be with His tours, for nlucteen centuries, und then aud to the rescue, but ulways with them from the asvenslon to the end of the world, Dumerous aud unmistakable wurde does the Hible aseall in udvance the Second Adyent Useory, und crushes out of ft what Ilttle is left tole of life after its conilict with history. Tt stunts as one of the must cheering awa of earth und us one of the finpressive leasons of the eucred Book thatall the worksof the falthtatara te follow them snd Become ao part ot the public fut the grave iy only a place where the labor ceases und not wherw the results dle, Blessed the dead, because the word d only to thelr fears und thelr weariness, to those guod thoughts amd di thelr tears fell. Ag the older men {othe leurned avocutions, men whose hulr [s wow uray, fn mid. dilo of Ister life, love to met fn remembrance of their school or college Ite, and: will even shed tears {n the deur recollection of early 8 yet would uot desire to yo buck and tras Uhese years of labor, becaueu they feel that they ati] bold tn their minds and hearts all the zoou uf thuse years without being any longer the aluves of thelr tusks, so. those who are xtand ing afar out on the conflace of n udetul fe, poe Vitical, or inoral, or Christian, are not toses thelr curly Works perish, but they are to sce nothing verish except the accidents ot the long ovcupa- Death enda the strugele but vot the empire. What we call Boclety ty one of the me detle cately-atrung harps of which we know sny- thing. ‘Those olfan aceings which will elub torth their louder or softer strains fn the mald- en’e window when only a zephyr passes, ta not nore responsive than are (hose souls of men which stund in the valleys along which move all the winds of thought aud seatimeat, ‘There are Bad influences bend we conflet wilt, yard of this lite, y aud act, and . + Adventista bet . thrown by the es over which i 4 4 | ! p} t two sides to this truth. human race na reudily as up into nobloness. bleeding from blows which fell a hundred fodeed. ara still wi His hearty wre etl o. ‘The Italiane, down by the fron hand which be; thea under the twelve € rage und hunger to-day because robber-lurds an exhausting religion—Roman un Englieh— cut off the sources of happiness long As the guickullver in the gloss tube uf fentist tells hing when a shudaw is over the fields, tells bin when a little ¢ on the sup, a8 the delicate barometer wilt teil us the bight of the Land uunan heart will tell falthfully what o! or old sorrows Maye passed over It in the beau ful forms of despotism wud war, of the Almighty the Laman eoul fs the sonsitlye plunt wuuse leaves droop at 4 touch. repeats to-day this lesson of public suscoptibill- bys for that slavery which our forefaters from an to rind above the ecu, TH CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 24, 18799-TWELVE PAGES’ England planted here inthe troublesome past affects still the States whoro the sickly wind onve biew, and makes the negro atitl the victim of ernelty and Injustica; and makes the majority of the white men sult willing to evcure by violence and decelt the ends which ff valunbio should come guy, by industry and honor. Thus the bad decds of pach age go following alon, just as the plements which savages prick {ato the skin in youth remaln on’ the hands, and check, and forehead, while the flesh holds the spark of Ife. with its dark lines and tattooed the statesmen of the Slave States, and go where they may, unl say what they may. there are to be acen atill the same fttres, nnd embicmna, and letters in thelr souls put there in Indfa ink by our inistaken ancestors, But {t isnotonty the talfans under the Cresars and Popes, and Tre «1 under gristocrats, and the Sonth under slavery, that we sea the sensl+ tIvenese of Suctety to all external tll, but fo our own North we eee the gout showing like a pho- tocrapher’s plate all the mean passions which stand before tat strange mirror, the heart. In the common tnirror of the parior the image is done when that which made it passes by, ut It je Rot ko with the susceptible mind of nian When anything beautt{ul or deformed makes its picture on the soul aml pisses on it does not take {ts image away with it but Ivaves it to be there throuzh long tite or ferever. Thus tho Sensi ivetigs of Soclety becomes au appalling quality. IL was my purpose to-day to allude only to the everlasting influence of ‘good deeds. ‘These Society in its extreme sensibility catches nnd appropriates. Nothing of Paul died except his troubles, Tt ts sald that his body was small and deformed, that his eyes wers so weak tht he coutd seldom endure’ the full sunlight, and to these Ils he added the sufferinzs of sconreines, and at last he was ted out toa crucl block to | be behunded, but nothing of Paul has cone to anend except his many sorrows; bis works have come along, and are young, and freak. att beautiful at the end of many centurles, Earth to-day, all through Its elvillzed nations, Is better beeatise St. Puul watked to and froin it for a few yeara with hits Jove and self-sacrifice, Nor are we to auiphors that Hternture, and art, and xelenee, amd written religion are the onty works which remain in the world after the noble ones have gune away; forthe real truth §s Ut there are unwritten, unformulated ideas and sentiments, Works never carved or palnted, which help form suage, and which go on with ft Just og influential aa the literature of the schot- ars, or the visible pictures of the artists, or the read or heard vloquence of the saiuts, The mothers of usall, mothers perhaps who ore dead now, ictt un no literature, no art, no selonces: they composed no philosophy, and yet onward comes their power not mutch abated: hy any hillock fn the centetery of the city, or in the churebyari of the village, Thus with all those fufluences which affect society. ‘They aro not al) stored away in those urna which we cali Iterature and the arts, but outside of these visl- bla urns, so ornamented {ndeod with exquisite workmanship, there roves, and rambles, und marches, and udvanees, the good of the past, a baliny, frageant south wind coming fram towers that cannot be separated into piuk and rose, ant from gardens that belong to no one man, but to fn great tropical zone. Dear to an age are its books, and architecture, and paintings, ond statues, anid relizivus creeds; but these ure only the places Where some human spirits hive be- come the occupant of bodies, Outside of these incarnations thera are forces filling the air like the invisible nugels which ministered to Christ in the wilderness. Ou many ucconnts st 1s well that there fs always passing around through the common alr an influence distinct from that embodied in hooks; fur itis often much truer and better than that firmly set io letters, and hardened {nto erceds. A tberal clerevinan {n this State fing Just published a pamphlet showing what awful doctrines ara lying upon the pages of Preshyterlan philosuphy. Me bas with deep paln discovered such words as the followings * By the decree of God, for the manifestation of Uis glory, some men and angels arc predesti- nated unty everlusting Ife, und others furevr- dlained to everlasting death; aud the number of cach is “eo certain and definite that it can- not be alther fnereased or dimintstied.”? “Others, not elected " (that fs, other infants, other mb and angels, and other women, is the piain, logteal inference), “although they may he called by the untulatry of the Word, und may have sumé common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come to Christ, and, there- Jore, cannot he saved. | Much css can men not professing the Christian rellzion be saved fn any other way whatsoever, be they never 50 diligent to frame their Hyves according to the light of nature ond tho Jaw of that rellgton they do profess; und to ussert and maintain that they inay be enved is very peroicious und to be detested.* Now these would be sad words in the oxtrema if there were no Presbyterian soul, and thought, and feclluy besides what these words contain. And certainly those atatements should at once be africken from their doctrinal books; but it ts conforting to know that there fs a human soul, even a Presbyterian soul, that cannot be im- prisoned in stich dogmas, but which wanders out in [ts own lHberty, und no more believes that an infant or an honest man will be pun- ished fi hel! than tnis writer ur even Mr, Inger- soll belisves in any such fate of childhood or of honesty, It fa a great misfortuno that the churches do not bold i rise up and create a liar mony between thelr Mterature and thelr hearts, but, since they ara unable to do this, ict us rejuive Mit there Is sweeping along an unwrit- ten Chrlationity that is far truer and sweeter than the ono that was long ago crystallized into nu body. Asa proof thatthe writings of men do not contain all of this migrating good of a time mark the conduct -ol Catholic and Protestant {n theso Intter days. ‘The Archbishop of Cin- elnpati thanks Protestants und Catholics for thelr aynipathics, and alludes to those of neither re- ligion, thus showing that in the heart of the aged priest, full of sorrow und full therefore of hamanity, the Protestants have at lust a relle- fon, though his books have always called us in- Mhtels, nnd although his forms ordained the Ia- mented Foley a Bishop i partibus infideliun, "Thus [t appears Unt the souls of men are not imprlsoned In conercte words, but are let toose upon tha sender winds, and xo to and fro upon errands of wide mercy, Uselul as ra- Hious books are, the human soul is truer than its books, It will thus appear that the immense mulul- tude of those who compose no volumes, wno write no Homerte or Dantenn verses, who leave us no paintings und no music, who design no inarbie structures, who draw up ng lawa of State, who invent no fygentous machines, may In thefr good Hves be making that thought ail feeling which flows sround each individual, as the silent and unseen alr enwraps: our earth, Messed not only the dead man, but also the dea nzes which died tn any form of good for resting from their turmoils und blunders, their works Ilye after them, and, the efghteenth cen tury wills its Inve nnd learning to the ntue- teenth, ns friend leaves pitts to friend, It ia this principle of Hunan life which renders all honourable work eo sacred, All good work, be it,amid material things, or intellectual things, or religions things, fs done for all, Besides our owndally fea at sunset, we, if we work, will have helped bulld up the nation's Navit’ of tne dustry, lave helped check the thde of idfcness; snd have helped move the blood of the work's heart. ‘The foborer im the wheat-tleld of Mlute- satu he)js suff the zratu abips on. the Atluntic, and helps run the languishing mills of Britain, ‘There are natlons now inthe Old) Work aud States fa the uew, whore ldleness fa the fatal vice. Could qnisstonarles of Industry repuir thither, who shouhl tcaeh no doctrine hat indus- try, ther would be the advance beralds of ugreat. salvation, Beneath the daily wages of each ta. borer there is. a second reward coming along, o guoddeed fallowhes bin in the shape of! a eased aud reformed racealded by his example, Charles Mav ay Mid not get inte is poem on “Dally Work ? all the merits of such employ- meut, THe sang wells : Nol Let us work! We onty nek Jteward propurhoned to our tisk; Ve have no quarrel wiih the great d with rank, with mil or bank, fy our ani wth, And can retatn, for age aud pain, A fraction, Wo are teh indeed, ‘ Hut ho might have well added stanza upon the example of the tofler, how he arouses the sleepy blood of hls uelehbor nnd starts the vines on oler homes than bia own, Ho whu plants Nowers by bls own door phints them by bls utheitar's door, dt. Jobn ds, however, looking at thia matter of good works while he ja standing on the edie of tombs. Tio percetves in iat volemn place, 08 fn clearer Hgbt; the magnitude of human ace thos, When these actions are holy and woud they uttend the heart when tt returna ta {ts Creator, aud they shine back upon the earth be- neath, It may be that at the grave among “the dead wo like John can mark best ihe value of an nective Ife, If ro, we nyed uot luck for new- Iemade graves, We'can find tombs where, per- haps, peraunul (riendvbip can help the fmagina. Mon wid the memory to read all this subtle significance. Gu softly te where your own fricnd may restdu peace, and ob! whate memur, comics forth out of the rust You are ulfected by it. Tt will shupy your thoughts alwa: t is whut Bryant called the “Flood of Yénra! Or gu to the bur) place of thut College Preals Gent Who bas Just died as St. John any the Lord." Ue sut down before hls in the inorning; Is heal sunk suddenly on bis bosoms because the heart had ceased to beat. The vye aw no inore of carth, the lips could no fonger maye in language. But mark wuat remaingd, Quite an army of mon tn the prime of Me re- alu in wl the walks of manifold duty, who ‘Thus slavery caine , wero molded into better mental and moral shape by that hand of De hoven, which had a tonch’ of both love nnd learning. Some teachers tmpart only scholarattp, ant send ont a learned but not a warm mat- Hoody but this President gave out to lis students a force of knowledze nud a forco of friendship, Knowlodge ts indecd power, and so the pen is mightlereghan the aword, but. the knowledge that fa warned wtp by sympathy ts the greatest power, and the pen that glows with love is mightier than n Damascus blade, ‘This tiro-sided shane of education which deenly molds the chatnetar of the youne will follow him tong in tits valtev of inpressive, sensitive minds, Ilis religion was not, pertinys, youray— certnoly not ming in its detalts, for he was fond of emblems ail ceremonies, and loved the ald inyateries of the sanetuary,—but yet you ad Pant oll of sonra tne debted to him for a part of the — eivil- ization which modilics the Weat, aud makes the stn rise and set upon sweeter and better homes. | Who would wish to mount up into the aspires of the Episcopal churenes and take down belle which do not ring for our worship, or would silence the organs which lo not chant forth our * Credo” and our “(aria P When a teacher has helped slinpo inte beauty the minds and hearts of thousands of young men, he hns helped to ennodle that. part of the world fn which wo are allto live and dic. Andina world where govlety 18 the crenture of fnilucnes and absorbs the deeds cf the righteous as the thiraty ground drinks in n sutnmer ratn wo 0 all bless the memory of one who for inany taught at once to so many young men the best truths of man and God. My chief thought this morning fs that Society is n sensitive substance receiving the jood anil bad from all who pass through Jt with aroused soula, In sich 9 world, to be an iniluential goud man is the highest wish that can grow up inthe heart. Sucta wish and the fulfillment of (t imakes even St. John decinre then “hiessed,”? for ag they pass through the erave thelr works become both a merit In their own bosom aud a leh streaming away from them to the loved country and friends Jett behind, Blessed the righteous dead, for only thelr sore rows, tot thelr good, Have found an end. ‘The voets have taught us to believe that when the sun is rising or sutting clouds luye to gather atthe scene, that iu thelr great shades and changes of coloring they may fturm un escort for the iight-brinzer, or may form mighty cates through which he may rise ur slok. In man’s world something stmflar {s seen. All the foot ones, the deep thinking und the wise-actin, the past, stand in majesty nround;the East, out of which a new generation {s rising, aud form an encampment of honor, gates of rizhtcousness and piety, through which the rising souls passing can enter well upon their clreuit nerosa the sky. ‘The nobic souls of yesterday ure gates uf glory through which we children pour along into the fields of life. Greatest of ail these, nud yet the brother of all and fn full sympathy with all, was He of Nazareth. How fils works bave fol- Jowed Him! Even those who receive nothing of His uivine mission confcss that Ho hus sure passed all who have Uyed in the quality and quantity of good that has fallen back a rich mautle fram Tits shoulders to be caught by shoulders of men exposec to many a storm. JAMES DU KOVEN, D. D. MEMORIAL, BENMON DY THE REY. Dit. SULLIVAN, ‘The Rey. Ur. Sullivan preached to a large congregation at ‘Trinkty Episcopal Church yea- terday morning, taking for his theme the lifo and warks of the lato dames Do Koyen, D.D., of Racine. Following fs the sermon: Lmust work the works of Ilim that sent mo while it fs day; the night cometh, when no man can work.—Joha, by, 4. ‘Tho Immedinte occaston of this utterance of Christ you wil doubtless remember, ‘The dis- efples, attracted by the spectacle of a man who ad been born blind, sitting by the temple ate, could not resist the temptation to {indulge thelr curiosity as to the Gunl causes of the affliction that had fallen on him. Accordlugty, starting from the gratultous hypothesis that calamities of unusual severity took their rise in slus un- usually heinous, elther fn the sufferer or in some one very nearly related to him, they asked our Lord: “Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he. was born blind!’ On one or the other of thesa thegrics, it acemed to them, his biinduess must bo &ecounted for, and on clther of them they {elt themsclyes coufront- ed with a perplexing diMculty; for if, on the onc hand, the Joss of sight wae a punishment for bis own sin, then, in belng born blind, he had been punished, In nnticipation as ft were, for o sin he had not yet committed, but which God foresaw he would commit sometime in the future. , If, on the other hand, he was puntshea for some treat sin which hail darkened the Hives of his parents, was it just, nay, did it not vio- lute the first orinciples of justice, that God's providence should permit the terrible cutall of a purents’ transgression to descend to hisiunucent, ehildren? Our Lord, however, disposes of the whole difficulty with bis customary wisdom. [f, ho renlics, substantially, youarcin search of the ultimate origin of this man’s blindness, you must, not stop short In your investigation of his ain or his parents’ sin; ‘the final, primal root of the evil Hes deeper down, ‘To accept this ug a settlement of the mystery fs to play on the mere surface of thin No, the true origin of this aml © bee other avil must be traced still farther back, God permits the evil, that through its existence He indy work outa purpose which never could have been accompllehed in any: other way. His blindness bad been a Mfelong sorrow to this poor sufferer, but God hod meantit tobe a platform on which Te micht exhibit [isown wonder-worklng power, —" Thine the works-of God inight be mado tantfest In hin.” And then, passiug by on natural transition to himeclf as the duly authorized mantiester, and secing in the rants uarrowing horizon of His own earthly Ufo the elearly-defined vision of the cross and sepulehre, und Knowing that but a brlef tnterval separated [ffm from them, our Lord elves titter- ance to the holy necesglty gliat lay upon Hm to crowd Into the’ Httle space that remained to Ith al that He could of zeal and devotion to Als Father's cervice,—"' T must: work the works of Him tat sent me while it fs day; the night cometh, when no min can work.?? Now, tn the strictness of thelr primary appl- cation these words belong ta our Lord” exclu- sively, both tn regard to the work [lo was com- missioned to do and the clear and exnet fore- slight that He possessed of the Ilmitatiuns sct to the tine given Him for the doing of it. In both these respects Christ stead ulane, and no mere mun ean clain fellowship wlth Attn, Christ wua distinctly consclous of two things: Firat, Ho knew Himself to be the world's ap- pofnted deliverer, and tat the process by which that deliverance was to be wrouuht out thyolved for Hina flery baptism of suifering; and, see: ond, He knew thy very moment at whi ch tho cup would be placed ty Ilis hand, and the night of an ull but. impenetrable darkness would gnther round Him, bidliyz from fm fer a mo- ent of unutterable agony the sunshine of His Father's countenance; and the knowledge of all this, drawing tnomentarily nearer aud near- er. converted Hla earthly life into on pro- longed sorrow which onfy reached its climax on the Cross of Calvary, intiese reapects, then, wo have nothing in comton with Christ. Heru Yo trod the wines presa ulone, Not tous, happily, is given the power tu forecast the future, and know the bouudary-lines that coniine it. Like travelers along at uuknown road, we seo th ible horl- zon indeed, but we know not at what moment our sunmay set, and the nicht of the gravels deep darkness close round us, putting its tinal aud irreversible seul on our earthly work. But for this yery reason docs the solemn summons that Hes couched ander this divine utterance ap- peal tousull the more impresaively, For it Chilst felt hhaselt impelled to a holy and evers furreaslug urgency In falling the purpose of ALls buna fe, because He knew not only tho fuct, but the ume, the soanner, and all. tho uther attendant clreumstances of Htsdeuth, how much tore docs It dvecome you and ime to be found, ns the Apostle expresses ft, “always abounding in the work of the Lord," seelms Uiat, though certaln of the ultimate {uct of the night of death, wo do nut know at vhat hour it may come, aud cacnat tell but it y fall npon us silentiy, suddenly, nalsedersly, castiuss no gathering twilight shadows before it to herald its approaeh. Teed seareely iy brethren, that these thouglite are suggested by the event which, dure hyg tho past Week, has overepread aur Church with gloom. ‘The sudden and ingly premulure removal of the Jato Warden of Racine has inflected uw foss not merely on the College of which he was the head, sur the town with which he was identified, nor the dlucese of which fo was an honored Presbyter, but on the whole commnunton of the Protestant Episcopal Church. But few will be found amony the 3,000 pulpits of thls Church—vven those whose te: yg differed most widely from his—fn which testimonies will not te borne to his departed worth, lodeed, the universality of the fin pression—the shock, I rosie uy—awakened by the aunonncement of his death Le itself a testl- mony of deepest @guilleance. 1 Know of uo qnun in the Church, Bishop or otherwise, whose removal would bu more gencrally mourned, and thig because, though a3 a theologian the acknuwiedved head and champion of on oul of thought, éyet as a mun ho bele avhoule, amt was beloved by all,mysclf una- yoidably hindered from Jofnlug with others in paying hin the lost oftices of Chilatian love und personal respect. I yet kaow thut tears full upon bis grave from eves that could vot sea with bin Ju all things, aud hearts mourn for bis loss that conactentious! Bret some of hfs teachings. The scerct of a_aorrovw eo universal, under such rare int pecular circumstances, is worth My pursonal ae- quatntance sith Dr, De Koven was very Imited, partly from tha fact that my worl Iny af a portly, understand. from the wobap- y and Unebristian tendency of marked diverst- J thoughts to produce wide Limited, however, as (twas, ft was finpossiblo to know such a man even slightly and not feel drawn to him by a fascl- Thera was ama: netism tn his nature which fastened on you and followed you, and even, after you bad risen fon in a railway- frnin or clscwhore, drew yur back, almost Uneonecionsis, to resume ft again, and this mot any mero physical magnetism, but some- Oring higher, nobler, nore encred far—the mag- that alvaya seemed as though tt had just come forth from communion with God, and tlaelf bathed, suffused, fnterpen- etrated in every thre of Its deluge by this accret celestial fnduches, taust. faly draw other pouls inno solving, Wherein did tt Mol direction different. on you can from ifs, and tes of thevlogt social separatio natton all but frresistible. from a ensual conve! nettain of a Zavul within the elrele uf ita sanvtifslug power, Hfe tat las anywhere come under my obsere seena more perfect Muara. yg phrase of the Psulimist, was but vation bave Ie tlon of that str! “The beauty of holinces,” for in it thera nothing to repel from. the Chriatlan life, everything tu win, and woo, and attract, waa the purity not of the snow that chills, of the stinlkgbt tat warms, and gladdens, vivifies. Nor was {tan affectation of purit at ontside gavk, worn for duty nnd bropricty's sake,—It was rather a wel, woven from within, ary Outcome Of RInturE st receases, by liabttunl “nenitence towards (od and faith fw the Lord Jerus Christ,* and for which therefore was re- served, ant ling already been fulfiled, to sect are the pure in the spontancous, lee eleansed, in tte deep gracious benediction, *' Bi heart, for they shall eve God One of the peentiar featur character was its comple! removed snd Hug from the unsearelin conttibute to the perfeciness of a charac! and blended together in beautiful harmony, ‘The diatinguishtug characteristics of the tead- {ug Avostles were found In hin in happy combi- ractical, ko James; fervid, though nut impulsive, like Peter; John, and gentle Like the oak, In the toughness of his fibre, where potyurs of resist- ance were needed, he was also like the sonsi- tive plant in aympathetle susceptibility tu the Wise nas the serpent fu his methods of work and admin: istration, lo was'yct harmless us the dove, and Firm og a rock, yea, frrerocably firm, iu his own convic- fions,—so firm that cren the frequent oppor- we the highest honors at the Church's bestowal could not tempt him to de- part from tis adopted sentiments even by a huir’s breadth, he was at the samo thine broad in his sympathies, and Incapable of one unkind or unforgiving thought to any nian who felt, nation. Learned, Ike Pants ho was, witha, loving, lke St and tender as any woman, touch of another’s pain ar sorrow, as incapable of inilicting a wound, tunity of reachin himself compelled to differ troua hh convention fvor, to oppuse him, or yote. Enduwed with lofty intellectual power, he was vet, for sweet unconsciousness and beau- lity, like a little child sittings at the Can wo wonder, brethren, that aman so rlehly endowed, alice by nature aud by grace, and blessed with a character so strong yet.so symmetrical, should draw men to him witha power, often ot a resistleas fascination, and bind them to himself jn the bonds of clos- eat and most loving brotheriood? Can we won- der that not merely 2 family, ora college, or a Mocese, but the whole Church, should weep and mourn thata Hfe so beautiful. so gifted with capacities for the bighest and most enduring forme of usefulness, should have terininated 50 goon und suddenly, its sun darkened at mid- day, while ns yet {thad but reached its zenith? Of Dr. De Kovon’s Iabors a3 an educator, I Sutlive ft to sny that in thia directlon the influence ho wiolded will be felt, over n wide area, down t It Is Intposstblo to think of him In this aspect, and not associate him with the great Arnold of Rugby, who, did s0 much to uf ‘practlee of education tif) hum! feet of Jesus. cannot satay to apeal at nny Jength. latest generations. reseuo the theory an from old mistakes: ut it on and abuses, nature {3. {in the soft, receptive soul of thelr yout thoughts and beliefs which have preserved them from sinking into the anire of stu or wandering: away into the dreary, desulate wastes of {n> fidelity. | Asn preacher, none whohave overheord Dr. Do Koven ean forget the singular power ke possessed His sermous, y written, Such were his powers of mental abstraction ae nie ideas, but the yery wordalu which he would clothe them, in the stluney of bla study, and thus, with out putting pen to vaper, to take all this aa thy careful und laborious thought into the pulpit and deliver it with an ease of manner, diction, anda beauty of expression which held the Matener enchafued of riveting his bearers’ attention, og I have untlerstoud, were very rare he was necustomed to elaborate not onl; product of a nial and accuracy of frou the tirat word to the last. Aso theologian, Is wide und varied accom: piishments have been universally conceded, ‘Thoroughly versed tn auclent, patriatle lore, he cts of mod ern theological thought, and when defend ing his own peculiar tenets, did so with an fearmug which, if tt did nut cons vince his opponents, invariably compelled their That his dvctrinal views were of what is ‘commonly known os the advanced type wus owlng, perhaps, somewhat, was Vint to somo is a mero theory, adopted for {nshion's sake, wud to others a Pag p, ine unported, tideed, to hls a wit 8 formularies, but atso tu harmony with the tne atinets of his own nature, which was siucularly To hi the mystery of the actual presence of the glorided humanity of ‘Orin of the material clemnents that typify His body nnd blood was for himeolf a most prectous and essential truth, which helped hin to realize the Sayior’s near ness, and therefure, and because tie felt that it tended to inalntain the honor duu to Clirlet and tu promote the growth and deepen the volume of the Church's spiritual life, he clung to it tenaclously, and defended it elequently with { pen, and purted with tt only when death caine, nud fu a moment translated bis emancipated spirit to a world whose peace ta never broken by the strife of tongues, amd where Christ is seen no longer through the poor din syinbols, of sacraments and shadows, but * {nee'to faco,” * which ts far was equally fainitar with all the a eloquence ant admiration and respect. tothe peculiar muld fu whieh dts mind cast. carefully reasoned out, was to hia ad tense conviction, tind clearly, by Scriptura’ and the Churel devout and reverent. Christ In und uuder the tungue wn medlum of efens ane better.” ‘Timo presses, however, and therctore I pass his briof and too unworthy review at the cerecr 60 eudly and suddenly terminated to ong hts of which the ru or two of tho practical tl temo fs 80 abundantly suggestive, How, for exuinple, enveloped fig of the pure Joviny ning," nothi turely, Wise purposes. ull ith take or Juilure. of ag terminated, Translated, rather is folt constrained to ro- tered by the Iimitations, and fallures, qn dleny polntments that attend on the life tht now f Decause the sul, released from the trammets of this prison-houss of elay, and clothed upon with the beauty and power of the resurrectlon body, tyounts ever higher and higher into the knowtedd@e of God's works und ways, to find, in all tts {initable progress, bitt one mystery that. absoltttely refuses to yield up its secret, —the incomprchensibis mystery of tho Tritna Got, the great “1 of Dr. De Koyeu's chess, Tt was rounder, full orbed, a perfect sphere, aa much so as the necessary defectiveness of all merely human things would permit it to he. Doubtless, in his own toner Hfe, the growing elvarness of lis apir- {tual vison would reveal secret blemishes to be < defects to be supplied eriches hidden in Christ; ‘Dut so far as ttman cyes could seo there was every grace und excelleney (i him that could ers Some good men are eminent for oug trate in varticular, and some for another, but fn him features even secmi{nuly the most opposite met, tod a sound and enduring basis, Like him, the late Warden of Raclue Collece appreelated the superiority of thy principle of prevention, ff possible, aver that of punishinent as a means of cure, nnd with this viow It was bis practice to appeal vividly and forcibly to all that was ood, and winniig, and gencrousin a boy's uasure, and to shrow him upon his own seuss of honor; not, indeed, 13 4 directly Christian mo- tive, but as amoral shich) aud restraint by no means to be {euored or disparaged, because & pupil who can bo persuaded to honor and re- apect the Inws and instincts of ils own better nature does Jn sv far honor Him whose pity that With this, however, there was in- varinbly combined thu sulll stronger appeal of direvtly religious teaching, enforced In cloquent. public chapel uddresses, urged th aifectlouate private personal counsel, and, mightiest peraia- slon of all, {ustrated in the uniform tenor of a consistent, blumeless life. And, us the result of all this, there are thousands of the young men of our Church seattered ull over this broad conti- nent who revere tis memory and callliim blessed, as having been God's instrument in imolantly, advanced fraternity,—the which prevailed in the codes o! natlons of to-day. serf, nerved the slave, taught the monarch that he was but a man jects, stood mon. could ba no absolute freedom from restraint, Wero all men allowed to belleve us they chose and to act upon thelr own beliefs, then would there be muravr, and theft, und the Indulgence {in ecnauality, all justified, supported, and con- doned by religion. ‘There must be well asa clvil restraint. taucht this restruinc in tho guiso of obsdienco «to =the = dawa, of = God and ian. And not only was tho Catholic Church to bo judged in this mattor by its teachings, but by the results of 9 practical application of {ts teachligs, Church hind, in addition to the teaching of tha doctrine of equality und untyersal fraternity, and thereby breaking the power of oppressive Governments, imnutgration from Avla that threatened to over- run aut overturn the countries uf had beon said that the Catholic Churelt wi eponetbte for the bloodthirsty scones aud events do We reconcile auch a ters nifnation of such a Hfe with our natural concep- tlonat the fitness of things! Cut short tu its very prime, It is ny though the suo were tu be in midnight darkuees even at noon- day, Are not good and wise men needed {in the earth, that they should be taken away just when their power of beveling the Chureb aud bless ing society {3 at ite very highest! That the help- Tess fofant of few days or years old suould be removed, almost befure it has well begun, to vo, or that the old und deerepld, who have outilyed all their visible capacity of usefulness, should bo taken, this ws do not wonder at, but tut the masterly intellect should be clouded, and the strong Rand paralyzed, and the beat- heart stitled when mane hood was ut its very prine,—here, verily, te 0 mnystery before whlei, were it not for our falth, as Chfistlua men, wo might well stand per- plexed and bewildered, But that faith enlarges: the horizon of our thought, and teaches us that to Him whose messenger death is, and to whom “all his ways ary knuwa from the begins yean befall His children preima- either too laty or tuo early for His ull- Perfection is the attribute of 3 plung, and there fs bo possibility of mls And the sawe faith which teaches us this teaches us algo that carecra of honor und of usefulness which death sevms to cut prematurely abort cannot rightly be yaeii @ male perfect, or hud eternal Ife. Thi by our con etervat life, netther could the bearer explaln natural lite. yet both existed and laid bebind our souses, Wo knew we bad eternal life by Just as wo kpow wo bad nalurat Ilfy by its want. word. Death to tho Christian, whether mints- ter, teacher, or otherwise, so far from narrow {ng his Ife down to scanty dimenalons, rather expands {t {nto proportions yet wider, for ho passes “through the grave und gate of death | to possibilities af usofulness broad as the uol- verse nil ondicen as cternity, Death to tie | servant who fs faitbully working “the work of Him that sent him" 18 not only not the cessa- Hon of benz, but it is hls entrance on another ant better belng, better beeausa fuller, Inrger, vobler every way,—hecause not hindered anil fet- Am.” And ng of ita sceming promaturencas, 60 of the sudienners. the awful suddenness of the death, whatdocs {t teach? Surely this, that, foatations, The moral outcome of natural life, with all of Its: passions; was sing but the out- como of spiritual or ctornal life was love, and wo know when wo enjoyed It, becausg it mada us consclotts of new relations with God nul tha world. = When bo rst thought of Gud ft was with fear, bevauac he knew he was a einer, Dut now he called tom Him through love, and Ind a desire to please Him and todo Hie wilt, and fooked forward to something beyond the grave, Ho knew ho had a new Ife by its mani- festations. He loved overybody beenuse the love of od—eternal life—was in his heart. His rolations with men were entiroly different from what they wera when he thought of God tv fear. Natural Ufo was well enough through Prosperity, bit when adversity wind death camo the want ufn new Ifo was folt. Tternat life brought a knowledyo of our sins forgiven, and was the gift of God. None were tov high or iow to receive ft, und all we had to do to get it was to nak for it, believing that we world revelye tt. If we had it theaun wouldshine brighter tous, the birds sing sweeter, nud our whole being would bo changed. We uecded it, unl it wasn gift at our command if we only believed in Christ, had even for the youngest and healthiest amongst us, It fa but a very thie partition, a narrow boundary Ine that soparates us from the invisl- ble workd. Tins world fs not far away from any of us, or, If it be, tt needs but the breaking of & bloud-vessel, or the snapping of a heartatring, and ino moment the soul ts hurried into the yery miust of ite dread faithful. follower of Christ, who fs doing his work, however imperfectly, yet ns unto Gad, and as though he every moment felt that the Master's loving cye ts resting on hin, I know of no form of death easter, less agonizliyz, or nore to be coveted’ ‘Tis true, our matchless Litany tenches us to pray, From sudden death, good realities, And for the Lord, deliver us," and this we may well pray when death comes suddenly in the seuss of finding tho — soul unready for it, and ao taking her by surprise, her sins unpardoned, her long account with the righteous Judge unscttled,—the accumulated gullt of the ovil tions of a Hfetine #8 untaken awny,—but to tle Christan sudden death, {€ not sudden glory, means release from sin, and suffering, and sorrow, und immediate translation to n perfect peaco and deen renose, auch as they only can conceive who have already tasted of its sweetness, not, any of us, how or under what clrcumstances wo shall be summoned to go out of this old familar world and faca the strange, unknown thoughts, and words, and ace fit hying heavily on her, Brethren, we know mysterica that awalt us on tho other sido the dark river, the hidden wastings of some Ilngering discasc, or suddenly, tustantuncously, in the fullness of seeming health and. vigor, and without time to bid one tender farewel for mercy, But this 1 do know, that only ho who Is alrvady looking in faith to the Cross of the Cruelfied one, aml leaning on a power stronger than his own for deliverance from the thraldom of indwelling evil, can contemplate, without fear or trembl[ny, the awful uncertainty that attends, at every step, on Iiis earthy cx- istenco. For him, clinging to this simple but all-suflelng trust, the darkness of the nizht of death shall he dispelled before the shinin stn tht ehall never set. tuany other trust, the shadow of the dark valley mnnat deepen into a midnight gloom that shall nuyor sco the light of morning, vhother slowly and eradually, by or offer one final prayer gota Without {t, or clliyelnge THE CATMOLIC CHUROH LECTURE BY FATHER MICKEY. The Rev. John W. Hickey, ©. My lectured Inst night nt St. Patrick's Church, corner Dos- plainos and Adams strects, for the benefit of the parish schools of St. Patrick's Parish. As the attendance was Jarge a handsome sum was realized. aubject ot his discourse, “The Catholic Church, the Basle of Civil and Religious Liberty."* commenced his address by saying that of late It hud been frequently sald that the Catnolle Church could not exist did it not deprive its in a ineasure, fore refuting nquired as. argued that there. was no such thing os ab- solute freedom from restraint, nor could there be any such thing, ‘There was, always had beon, und always would be {n all races, classes, tribes, und conditions of peoplo certain restraints im- posed by, nul for the protection of, chose so- ‘The reyerond speaker choso for the Ho children of their {ntellectual thelr physical lHberty, that statement, to what liberty and, Be- tho speaker wos, nnd etles. Otherwise the worla would be a chaos, There were differonces, of course, In the degrecs of fiberty or freegom from restraint, The peo- ple of no two countries or nations of the world eujoyed exactly the same degrees of individual or clyil Mberty. civil or individual Hberty was unknown, Un- der the anclent Grecian nnd Roman Coy- ernments ernment was protected by Inws and customs, but Individuality was lost sight of in that pro- tection. which It was the mission of the Catholic Church ta establish, foster, und teach the doctrine of clyil Mberty. Almost the primary doctrine of Cath- olicity was that all men were equal before the sight of God. The Catholle Church had taught and spread that doctrine through the knowa world, and by means of it the countries and peonle of Europe had been elevated and res- cued from a state ot abject slavery. ‘It still taught the doctrines. of equality and unlyersal fraternity, nud to its teaching the clyilized countries of the world were their There had beon times when was tifa the cose, ‘Tha Gov- ‘The Individual himself had no rights ie Government was hound to respect. indebted for eniilghtenment and their freedom, was oo Catholic priest who first that doctrine of cquality nm doctrine of ¢irlspriudence the civilized ‘That doctrine freed tho Ilka the loweat of his sub- nud impressed upon the master that ho upon the same footing with lis bonds- ‘As in clyility, so in religion, thers a religious as The Catholle Church. The Catholic heaten back the tide of pagan It TO* Europe qinsequent upon the Spanish Inqulsitton aul the massacre. of the uyue- nots. History did not warrant any such assertions, The Spanieh Inquisition was planned, executed, nnd fostered by Ferdinand, who uscd sone Cutholic privats, wid eyen some Bishops, in the furtherance of his designs. But the en: tlre Inquisition was a political measures with which the Church had nothing to do,und for which the Church was not r bility nnd the oditm should bo Isid ut the doors of the chief actors in the tortures. could be sald of the butchery of,the Huguenots, That was @ _pollttcal feature, not a religiuus - fanaticism. telpators and abettors of the massacre were Catholics, but they did vot act under the direction of their religious aupertors. served the instructions of their political rulers and the Church Knew nothing of tt, had no land fn {t, did not advise It or support it, ‘The night ho enid of all similar oppressions, the odium of which had been cust upon the Catho- lv Church, Ker that the Catholle Chureh was the bi clytl und religious Hburty, and the friend of the pour und the oppressed, pousible. ‘Ihe responsl- ‘The same It was true tt some of the par- They but m8 To canclusion, the spea' Heted of all PENTECOST. REVIVAL ARRVICES LAST BVENING, ‘The Rov. Dr, Pentecost commenced a serlesot Gospel-meetings in what is known ns Moody's Church last cvcnlug, after a week of successful labor at Gracu Methodist Church. was filled, but the audience did not overflow, as has been the cass upon acveral occasions during: hie pre exorcli und Mre, Stebbins sang, aud cholr which Mr, Stebbins has called to hia aid, Ms, Pautevost then mado some atouncements, and took us the subject of bis disvouras * Eternal Life.” Eternal life, be said, was not natural Iife, but somethiug given throuch Christ. ip: mortullty Was not cterual Hfe, nor yet a cdn- tinutty of feuliny, nora living on and conquering ald age, wor yet the cutting off of the penal consequences of sin, thivg we coulu not deyelop, something confer. red upon us,—the Ifo of Gs was another basis of life, 8 partaking of dlving. life, and it came to us through the Mo! ‘Tho best fruit was obtaluavle only b aud tho graft depended upon the ol Gustenance. der sentence of death in The editlee hing iu the city, The usunl devotionnl were gone through with, In which Mr. also the select on aud it was some- od in the soul. 1b Ny Ghoat. crafting, tock for, 8o it was with man, who was une liviue an Adam- Nife, Ho could do nothing in binself, but by belicyings on Christ he waa graft- ed to tho new tree of | Iife, and ia Vife wus val, no im tuary thing, and it could be tested fousooss. Ho could not explain Neither could be scen or grasped, its manifestations, falth, and confessed His power and goodness, Jn concluston the speaker ureed his bearers to ask theinevlyes whether or not they had eter- nal life, and eloquently admonished those who bad not to suck ft ut once, ‘The exercises elosed with singing by Mr. Steb- bins and the choir, nnd Benediction by the Rey. Mr, Kimball! ‘Tha meetings aro to be continued during the week, tele Saturday evening, the subject this evening being the “ Fouls of the Bible.” ‘Thurs- day evening a sermon will be preached to young mene ‘The Bible readings will be hold every day at tho Fourth Presbyterian Church, “THOU SHALT NOT Kin.” SERMON KY THE NEV, To MERCER, The Rey... P. Mercer delivered a dlecourae in Hershey Hall yesterday morning upan the subject of Murder,” taking for tlie text of bis reniarka the comimaudment, “Thow shalt fot wi? Ve sald that the, annals of crime showed us that the cause of murder in the majority of enses was passion,~sudden auger. This was not confined to any one class; it was found ‘among the hich as wellas the low. ‘The Devil ‘was the father of murderers, and was himself a murderer from his carlicst history. ‘This eriine grew out of anger, fostercd with a desire for re- venge; so, to harbor ane feelings of thts kind, was to intend murder. It was contrary to judgment to bo angry with our fellows. ‘Whoso is amgered with his brother without a cause has oven now committed murder.” Anger upon sudden {m- pulse was not Incanpatible with human charity, There were frequent cases where a person was angered more atan ovil than with the -perpe- trator thereof, This sort, of anger wa Hked to call * righteous fudfenation.” [t was no man’s duty to crush out this sentiment of opposition in his nature, but It was avery man's duty to subject his feelings to the Divine will, Every persot would find in lis nature an instinet of self-love and indtviduality, whieh sonictimes pave vent to sudden and violent anger, which, it not cheeked, woul ultinately lead to murder. Those who were given to sudden out- bursts of resentment = were generally quick to repentance, and wo loved those persons most—not because of thelr quick pas- sion, but because of thelr quick repentance and their sorrow for thelr hasty conduct, Another peculiarity was not fnfrequently added to the individual with ao tendency to quick resent- mont, and that was the element of jealousy. When the two were tnited. then a spirit of hatred and revenge usually promoted the per- son to carry his resentment wil inetinctive gelf-love further, until a erime ts necoinpiished, ‘This was a bad nuttre, und the thet manifesta tions should be checked. Ie sald that anger was the springing up of sudden fires; hatred must bo cherlahed; revenga must ho eatistied. Anger was ire from hell, but hatred waa the same- tire, nourished and kept alive by constant care, sud revongo wos the outgrowth of this caro aud watehfulness of a dangerous clement. It was the wise course; thereforg, to chock the firat appearance ut anger, bofore It had grown to proportions which wo: could not control. Let the fire of enmity, hatred, and revenge be not fed, and the dally papers would not be called upon to chronicle coltinos of erime each day. Let ta be quick to resent evil and cherlat righteous indignation, but todo this it was not uecessary to cherish Uuttred nor plan revenge, ‘From enmity, hatred, aud malice, and all uncharttablenesa, goud Lord deliver us." When by - advovatin; false prinviples we lead others todo or thin! wrong, then We ere personally responsible; so that the one who talked or wrote against re- Maton was a murderer of sont, and was respon- ‘slote in the just proportion in whieh he leads souls astray, ‘The loud-nouthed fufldel who proclaimei agalnst the Bible and agalust God, nnd ridiculed the faith of others, was nlrcady a spiritual murderer, and was a murderer from the beginning, SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. ADDNESSES DY THE RAV. CLINTON 100K" AND OTHERS, Dr. Clinton Locke addressed his people last evening inGracu Eplscopal Church upon the subject of Sunday-sehools, Ho sald they had become a very important factor in religious work, and It was Important tit more attention should be pald to it, Headylsed a general wal ing up upati the subject, with aview of urous- ing more interest. He thought it might be a goo plan to orgunize a system for reaching the hearts of the people by means of leasor-papers, ag many of the orthodox churches had done. Mr. Locke introduced Mr. Whitchouse, Super- intundent of St. dames! Sunday-Sehool, who de+ Hivered a bricf address. Mr. Whitehouse also thought thit a wreat deat of Importance shoul be attached to Sunday-schoois, He alluded to the plan that tind been conceived to organize a Bunday-8ehool Associntion, which should haye for tts object the awakening of inare interest in Sabbath-schools aud have the work carried on as it should be, Ho felt thatinen in the Epis- copal Church took less futerest fn Sunday. achouls than those tn almost any ather denonit- nation, ‘There wero thousands of young men, young women, and children who mizht be Drought into Sunday-school by a Ittle persun- ston, nnd much good Influenes could be exercised, upon the community by this means, Mr. O. Hamer, Secretary of the Assoctation, being called upon, sald thatthe had not expect- ed to be asked to subinit a report of the doings of the Agsvclatlon so vurly, but he wonld give an outing of aftulre, ‘Thera wero twenty-three achools now in the Assoclation. ‘The total num. ber of scholars In the main school was 8,483; {1 the Bible-chasses, 285; in the: infant depart- tnents, O34, making a total of 4447 In all the departinents of the twenty-three schools. @'here were many moro females than males fn the schools. ‘Ihe attendance was shout = 73 In the twenty-thres schools there were 03 teachurs, 91 of whan were males, and 271 females, ‘Thera was a difference of abut 10 per cent fn the ate tendanes of the mules nut females. Mr. Hunter sald the Association was continually re- caving complaints of the system of teaching, but he thought ic might bo more the fault of the administration of the systum than of tho system itaclf. Mr. George Gardner, Superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Chureh of the Epiphany, offered a few suggestions, which ho thought might be of use to the Sunday-sehuol workers, picked up by him in the course of a long wex- perience, RITUALISM. ASPRCK OF WAR IN ‘THE CHUCH OF THE AS- CENSION, There was published in yesterday's Trinune 8 statement to the effect Uiat Bishop McLaren had declined to adaiulster Use rite of conflrina- tion at the Church of the Ascension on account of the practices and teachings of the Rector, Some doubt exiated as to tha correctness of this, it belng asserted that there was a post- pavement of the ceremony on account of thy lines of the Hishop. ‘The statement, how- ever, was true, Jt uppears that ‘Thursday hid been set apart for thy corfrination, and that the Bishop sent the Rector u Jutter in which ho stuted Umthe would nut contlrm sny onu for reavons which le would give in on subsequent Ictter, So the services were postponed. In the subsequent fetter the Hishop gaye hts reasons, which were substane tiatly that he objected 40 the Mector’s peentiar views amt practices regarding the icharkat. ‘the peculiarities ure said to by the clevution uf the Jost and the reteution of the sacred clus ments. Bo far as can bu ascertained, ho charced of heresy have been preferred against the Kee: tor, nur Is there ta be an investization to ay taln the truth of “reports.” Evidently there is wu misconception, or o misunderstundinys, which will undouotedly be dissipated by a cone ference whea Bishop McLaren returua to the city; and itis expected that the coulirmation will take place about Easter —<——$_$_— P)ilow.Laces, For the benefit of lovers of pillow-laces somes body has made the following aivisions into styles: Mediaval, with ite grotesque groups, wreaths, und Crees, down tu 1550; geometrical, with {ts squares nud cireles, from 130 to 10; renaissance, With {ts lowing leaves wud garlands, from 160 to 1720; rovoco, with ite still atid dis- connected bouquet und Howers, from \720 10 and dotted, with its small Sowers, ¥ wud bees, frou 1770 ta 1810, THE RED RAG. Continuation of the Communist On. rousol at tho Exposition Much Stale Beer, More Vile Tobac. ani Red-Hot Speech. An Examination of Thelr Mili. tary Organizations, ‘The grand carousal of tha Communists wag contlutted ull day yesterday, and did not come tonconclusion until sn early hour this morn. ing. The Snturday-night festivities tasted uo. yesterday morning, when the erowd commenced to disperse, sum ot those preset, howaver, did not go home, but remuined In the building to take part, in yeaterday'a festiritics, to save 10 cente each, the admiesfor fee which was charged. ter 12 o'clock the Communists, with thelr af1 ters, couatis, and aunts, and the hables, began arriving, and at about 8 ofclock there wers about 8,090 persons In the building, which wag the WMuhest number ronehed during the day. ‘The grand hail tooked exactly like an immense beer-garden, wiitet {n the time boing. Rudely-constructed tables and, benches were jlaced throughout the nail and were occupied by the thirsty Boclallsts ant these appendages who drank the foamlug Jager with vonatderable relish, aud smoked vile elznrs and worse tobacco out of dirty pipes to bichten the pleasure. Tu drink beer und smoke tobacco wag about the only ninusement offered. was made to carry out the programmo of Su day night, butwith parttal srecess only. 0 Lenr und Webr Verein and the other mtlitary organizations were too Hired to go through the amounced exhibltfon drill, aud therefore they only marched through the hall without aring und then went bnek aguln to their camplng core Bhortly afterswaris tt wos decided to ro gale the crowd with somo speeches Goldwater mounted the music-si troduced Mr, T. mounted a stool, and sald this grand demon. Btrotion mist fll them with pride aud joy, spite of the misrepresentations of the capltalist press they had galned this glorious success, ‘They wero celebrating the anniversary of the Paris Commune in 1818 and 1871, because their brethren fought for the same priciples that they were fle hting for to-day. é why the Socialists should wot succeed in the Our forofathers, in 1770, fought for the samo end ns tho Socialists now, und they were not denounced as Communtsts, thieves, murderers, and scoundrels by a capltal- ‘The capitalists were not afrald of the UE T or 3 o'clos Several thou. ‘There was tio reason present covtest, they carried, but of sence that bas been gathered by the working classes, who wero making steady advances for human Iberty. ‘The ruling powers object to the progress of the nge, and to retard {t they would resort to arms, and for the purpose of repellmg such attack the Socialists nad or- ganized their milltary compantes. not mean tu Neht unybody with arms uvless attacked trst, but menot to achieve their ands cauidle means If possible. Parsons was the next speaker, object of this grand Unt of! the French: and German Communists wanted during the dark days of 1848 unt {S71 was to catablish a self-governing Republic, and for this thoy re- ceived the abuso of the capitalist preas of the ‘The Sacialist Labor Party had the san object In view tow that the Paris Cominuulsts had then, After explaluin demonstration, whole world, ‘They meant to PLAGE LALOR IN POWER. The yita) question was whicther capital shoutd govern Inbor, or Inbur should gavern capital. {t was their determiuation that labor should gov- Why shouid tubor uot own or con- trol what ft produces! ‘They would obtain this end in apiteof heayen oud hell. Invat make the laws by which they are to bo governed. The capitalists by the display of military organizations und ubtse might ‘intimls date the Socialists, but they would exercise amt havo their rights {a spite of all opposition, the talk of the capltalist press about dividing away with religion and, soctal ah, “They should have nothing to do with the capitalists whatever, ond invariae bly give them» wide berth, ‘They knew what they wanted. They wauted toruly und they meant to rule. Mr. Paul Grotkau then made a speech In Ger man, and exhorted the Socialists tu steer clear of the Republicans, Democrats, und Natloval- ists, whe all were striving to Keep them in bondage and deprive them of thelr rights, ‘Tho subjuzation of labor was the only religion of all the pulltical partles in thiscouutry, dares to differ from them -was deuounced uso scoundrel, thief, and ar. It was the capitalists’ only desire to hunt them down, put them fa prisons, und deprive them of justice, ‘The 80> cinlists deinund higher progrees ud more Hb- It the workluy classes ut the coming election would do thelr duty, they could make wWurent step towards thelr NUeratlon. was within thelr gras) out ag they bad on th dates for Mayor and other offices were men of the highest charaeter and re whom oven the capitalists coul Mr. John MeAulif concluded the speschinsk- volug over the same groundas the other properly, dofty Telutions, was 1 they only would turn tation, agatust jd Bay nothing, ergs he balance of the day and evening was spent in drinking beer, singing songs, and ju dancing. THE SOCIALIST MILITARY COMPANIES do a great deal of boasting about the strength und dlaviplius of their respective organizations, but if those that were on exhloitiun at the E: position Bultding Saturday night and yesterday were falr sumples of them, Chicago bas very Nttle to fear, The oflicers nnd men Hed 60 possible to get ut the truth, except oy avtual observation. One tuld a reporter that the Lebr und Welr Verein contamed efit con- panies of 20 men each; another etated that there Were but four compautes, while a third, who doubless come wearer the truth, said there werg only two compuntus, and hinted that thelr complete orzanization was onty prospective. ‘This command ig the boads and priaa of the Cummunista; upon thls body of brave warrlocs they profess to base thelr hopes of victory, It is claimed for thei that they are alimcat entire Jy comoosed of men who have seen service in the Ol Country. ‘They all took as though they but judging from their Mancuyres it could not have beon military service Unt wus meaut, Suintest sign of disc! There was not he Hoo in\tho ranks, and every mun was bent chtelly upon looking out for ‘is Own personal mtercsts, whatever they might The tactles off the Lebr und Wehr Verciu nee mado up ot a conglomeration of Scott, Hardee and Cuscy, and Upton wuthorl tles, with a falr sprinkling of smodern miuver niants, composed by dicir awn ofllcers, mid exe vented by the mun accordhug to individual vere sfon aud understanding. firmed by a number of military men, that ty orat tho most three, compantes of dlselplin men, stich ag inlght be picked from ei Firat or Sueond Reulent of the Quards, would vo amply sullictent tu acattur the whole raft of them. Besides the Lehr und Webr Verein, there were represented the Jiger Verein, tho Bu hurufan Shurpshootera, and the Labor Guard, all of which were reported to pussess larg numbers, but, all told, there WEnY Not 150 MEN dn uniform at the Exposition Building: yesterday or Saturday. niebt, ‘The Lenr und Weir Veretty the Bohcmiun Sharpshooterd, and the Labor Guard drill under Engiiah command: two haying adopted dwaer Verein theag of Prussia, with ian command. Tt was adzertleed b happen to be. Certain it is, a8 ale the Committee that ao exhtbltion drill would take pluce yestorday at- ternvon, und June numbers uf veo it, but were disappotuted, i it was a mistake on the part of the Committee, Inber of excus peuple cauiv 10 and they furolshed o vreat nuy The men were too tired, having nleht,—ulthough they lively enough; then some of them hom und lett thelr guny, and a variet; reasons was ulven why they cout But those who came tu a sd iu their sleeves, und went in humbugs, aud with whub ight have hud for them of were skipptn co the dill wid Ut only laugh, away proclainilay the Hittle respect they an tho start obifterated. ‘She receipts at the doors mus! onorinous; und ft was confldentlally friend of the writer, who succeed into their coufldence by appearing to be one & qmuney for Ure mauve park then, that the q Wri, BTID UUILIONy Was tu gu toward purchasing: amd equimnents fur the imilltary org in order te place thom upon uo bert ‘Yon’ thousand dollars would go a long with theta, us thelr untforina ary worth 9 4 80 vents cach, thelr accoutrements $2.00, aut their muskets from 87 to $lL,