Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1879, Page 2

EASTER SUNDAY. _A General Observance of-the Day by Chicago Churches. -Boautiful Floral Docorations the Rule, with a Notablo Exception. Prof, String’s Second Sermon on Col. Ingersoll and {lis Doctrines, The Rov. Dr. Sullivan Bids Farewell to tho Trinity Ohuroh People, Similar Action by the Pastor of tho Cen- tennial Baptist Church. Mr, Pentecost’s Scormon Last Night-- Othor Religious Sorvices, TOE CATHEDRAL. MISCRLLANEOUA BENVICES. At the Cathedral of 8S, Peter and Paul, cor- ner of Washington and Peorla strects, there was no floral display except from the devotional Offerings of the parishioners, which consisted for the most port of calln-lIlles, Tho inck’of Gecoration at this place of worship on Enstor . Bunday was accounted for by Blshop McLaren, who sald that it was hiaoarncst wish to dis- courage the lavish expanditure for floral diaplay inthe Eptscopat churches which had become so common, believing tat it would be more ac ceptable inthe sight of God to uso the money expended for alow for benevolent purposcs, ond be thoucht he wonld have hieown Church act an example in this direction, ‘The Cathedral and the Chane) were filed to over- flowing with parishionors and visitors, and many had to go awny, being anable to find seats, ‘Tho programme for the day was an exceptionally intor- eating one, At To. m. occurred the first service. Holy Communion, at which there were about 110 Communteants. ‘The xecond rervice took placo nt 10:50 a. m., and cnnaisted of Morning Prayer, Confirmation, and Moly Commanton, witha Processional by the chol#, tha proper Canticle, propor Psalms, To Deum, Benedictus, and Anthem. ‘Then tho In- + trolt, the Kytieand Credo, Niccene, by Gounoil; the Ofertory, Maltelujab Chorus by Handel, and Hymn 406, ‘Lord, Forever at Thy Sido," by Weber, Then canta the confrination, with ifymn Oo, ‘Jesus Christ Is Risen To-Uay,” by Wargan, ot which forty-five persona were confirmed, ‘he sermon of the day was then delivered by tho Tishop, who took for bis text, '* The first day lio rosa from the dou," from the Aportles' creed, At 3 p.m, ono of the finest Snnday-schoo) festivals ever neon In the clty took place, In the ovenini the rexitlac oventug prayer was celebrated, Tho offertory at. the close of the morning pruyor brought about $1,000 into tho Trensury of tha Cathedral, CNURCH OF THE EPIPHANY. . “iE is Risen.) ‘ The floral dccorations at tho Church of the Epiphany (Throop streot, opposite Jefferson Park) were beautiful in design and wrought from flowers and plants rich {0 colors and per- fume, and tastefully arranged about the altar, the pulpit, and the baptlsmal font. In the cen- tro of the reredos was a Jarge cross composed of the choleest calla-Ifites, camellias, japonicas, and red and white pffiks, the large flowers first named standing out in pleaslig contrust with tha Jovely ones embedded round them. Im- mediately over the cross wore the words, ‘Ie In Ttlson,"* aud on the right silo of the reredos n floral anchor of camelilasand otter white flowers, and on the Ieft another crouse. composed mostly of ‘cameliiag, both being: memorial pieces. Htesting upon eithar ond of the rotable wore two bouquets, an‘ bolow tho floral offerings the words: ** Holy, Holy, Holy "ts ‘* Hosanna in the Highest; “*Miclula, “Alleluia, Alleluia." The palpit was decorated with a cross, on anchor, and o heart,— all wrought from heantifnl fluwers, and bordered ‘with smilnx, that huny fn gracofal folda aronud the panols, Upon cach wideout the desk waa o bon- quet, ‘The baptlanal font was surmuunted by a oral dealgn of calla-lilics, plnks, aud japonicas, arranged in the form of a large cone, and directly ovor it hungan taro apecimen of the plant known os the “Wandering Jew," whiie In tho corner besiie it, were o cross of flowers and penn Vines" “and ‘plants, A lorge rostic badket ‘containing floral offerings was atso ovservnbte in tho chancel, ‘Tha decorations were denigned and nrranucd by an experienced florist and indica and gentlemen connected with the aster-mornine services were conducted by the Rey. T. N,, Morrieon, Jr., Kector, and his father, ond the ‘former preacited wn appropriate sermon on the text indicated on the altar: ** He is rigen.” | The church was filled to tts {ull capacity, many additional sents thut had been supptled being occupied. Before dinmisslng the congregation the Rector stated that the church was in good financial, conditions aud its floating tudebtedness had beon sottlod. GRAOT EPISCOPAN. DEATH ANOLISIND, 3 ‘Thero was an immense congregation ot Grace . ‘Church, and the floral decorations wore oxcop- © ' CNURCH oF TH tionally finc, the chancel belny o miniature con- servatory, Among the memorials was a pow Bishop's chair, of carved black walnut, elvon in commemoration of John F. Carver, which was get off with Easter Ilies, nil a magatileant crown of callas nnd roses; a brass tablet on murble, in memory of Joba B. Rico, which was handsomely decorated with a garland of ahaded hellotrope; A splendid brass crove, presented by the Sanday gchool, ax an jndication of thelr Jove for M. FP, Kingetand, the lute Suporintendeut; there was alo a floral croas in the faut, in monary of the samo pentiemans a crown, fn mumer? of Charlee Hil; a alileld, in inemory uf M.S. Niche ols; a pillow, in memory of Sra, George Meach; a basket, in memory of Mre. Carver, Mr. W.G, Htb- * bard's window was beautifully adorned {n memory of hla children. In addition to these, there weru a number of crosses, crowns, . baskats, otc, which aaded to the beauty of thu wholo,” ‘The music consisted of ** Christ Risan", by Thomas Spencer Lora: Ts Deum, Louta C, Jacoby; Jubllste, Ed ¥, binlth; Easter Authem, ¥. Gd. Barnett; and the olfestory, **L Know That My Redeemer Tver, Hendol,. ‘The text of Dr, Locke was **Jovus Ubriat, who hath abeliahed -death, snd hath brought Iife und smimortolity to Night through the Gospel," andthe idea of the avr- mon was that immortality te nota Christian idea, but that our Lord brought tt to light,—placed it in ius true Haht relative to mon, and that His abolivh- ing death did not menn the tuking awuy of death, but tho throwing of auch ight upon ft that it loses ita terror and darkness, A great part of our idean of Heaven and Mell are juwt the imagininus of mon, the symbols which were need tu tho Scriptura to describe Heaven and Hol) having been tortured ‘by wen Into realliicw, which oxiat only in thotr ime agination, aud are uot in the Scriptures, ASCIINSION, HASTE SBUVICR3, ~ The Enster festival was observed st the Church of the Ascenston (North LaSalle aud Elm strects) in strict scvordance with the forms of the Church, and the floral decorations and offorlugs wore of the most claborate kind, aud comprised the rarest exotics wrought jn beautt- tful designs, und arranged !n the most tastuful Crosses, auchore, hearts, wreaths, oud bouqueta of a) the {nvorite towers used for munner, such purposes, fucluaing several memorial pieces, accorated the altar, the pulpit, tho dewx, and = the =~ baptismal — font, The Church was filled to {ta utmost copay tee for tho +modiately after the doors wers opene moorning service. The’ Rev. Dr. conducted the servicuseand on ‘rendered thy musical portion of panledledty, intereoting and attractive, inlay Church, tchle, Rector, * gleyng of the Savior from the dead, po exception to the aural custom, SL, JAMES’ EPISCOPAL, ORLEDNATING BASTER, ‘The Rev, D. service Of thé day. * their tasteful arrangement abd | Most noticeable among of calla-Iiles he centre of 3 altar, ucifad Iies in ful) hloaun, faced with festoous oad dev Auove Teredos waa in gilt letters. ** Christ ts Hiven." Dpon the chaucel wails ateitber slde the aliar wi * rosace ond staré, and upon the ajtar ‘walla wore similar groupings of house- mented choir ha ceremonies Enster fe tho great testa day of the Kplacupal aud Jn no other of ite many edifices in Chicago f¢ the day observed with greater jupres- alvoneasand solemalty than jn the Church of the Asceusion, the name of which t+ Indicative of tho Yeuterduy was . Harrla, Rector, ofticiated yester day morning at St. James’ Church, corner of Case and Huron streets, wud preached osermon upon the appropriateness of the observance of Eastor and the holiness, beauty, wad religious importance of she eventa commemorated fu the In other particulars the service was o8 usual. ‘Thu attendance wns, og iu alwaye fs ut St. James’ on Eauter Sunday, very laruc. ‘The floral decoratluus, though pot. 80 profuse os in furmer years, were remarkable for harmony of calor, the devices waa a lunge which stood upon und surrounded by Pho retaulo waa mounted withabank of cut-lowers from which Le crous veuied lo hove arleva, ond was tuatefully the ¢ ne Wee a reat varicty of rare oxotics and other besutiful ouse-plants rich tn foliage aod blowsoma, At the 4 front or ibe chancel on either elde and arrsoged ‘he puluit, at the right and in fruut of cel, was wrapped in whlte, upon walch were devices of eet tte at was edged with festoons of Ing desk was nimost bid behind Bahicld of white and tibe tosos, and the otlier articles of farnitare bora different thongh equally beantifn! deatyne, Tho aills of tho beautiful memorial window were hid beneath hanks of cut- flowers, violets, rosea, carnations, and smilax. The white-marble baptismal font at the Jeft and tn front of tho chancel was filled with s hank of calla- Illes, from the centro of which bank rose a cross formed of the same beantiful Mowers, ‘Iho entlro Arfangement waa rich and tastefal. At 4 o'clock p.m, waa observed ths annual Enater gunday-sechool festival, In which the echol- ars take so much delight and pride, ST. STEPIIEN’S CHURCH, FLOWERS AND PRAISR, =~ Enater nt Bt. Stephen's Episcopal Church was duly observed with tho services adapted to the day, the Rov, Henry G. Perry officiating. The altar especially attrnctod attention as adorned with beautiful flowers and planta; the chancol also being decorated with various trating vince from hanging baskets, Wuminated mottoes, em- bicnintio devices, banners, otc. At tho Rastor festival of the Sunday-achool inthe afternoon there wore eoveral hundred mombers and others present, The carols, ‘*O Hark the Sound of Voices" and ‘To-day Our Blessed Savior," re nung, and the asacmbly nddressed by the Mr. Perry, after which came tho presentation of offerings, banners, and prizes, School-Superintend- ent Hrooks giving tho annual roport. Tho exer- cixes closed with soging, prayers, and the benedic- tion, followed by liberal distribution to all mem- ers of the traditional Raster egg, and oranges for every little one of the school. The Rev, Mr. Perry's discourses durin# the day wore to attentive congrogations upon the great theme of the ileaare rection, and at evenlog service haptisam was admin- intered. ‘ihe day was one of festival enjoyment from first to last for the parish and its friends, CURIST CUUROI. CONFIRMATION SERVICES, , Extra chaira had to be placed In Christ Church (Reformed Episcopal) to accommodate tnte comers, a8 all the powa were filicd before the services began, Thero were Jarge callas {a the font, and in Ine with it, inside the balustrade, wore o profusion ot baskets, stars, hearts, and crosaon of rosos, ferns, and amilax. Tho most noticeablo of the plecea wana ctoss fully four feet bin, of ¢allas and different colored ruses, enperbly blended. The memoriais were fev, at Jenst not inany were acknowledged. irs, MeDon- ald gent In acrons ‘in Memory of mother," and a star ‘*in memory of daughter"; and Mra, dames Irvino a crown **in memory of }recloua Charlic."* The music consisted of Kastor Anthem, Millard; To Denim, Darley; Jubelate in Fy Garrott; **Ho te Nisen,"* Gadsby; Largo, Handel; *'They havo taken away my*Lord,” Stamer. Bishop Cheney aid not preach @ sermon, but ilelivarcd a confirmn- tlon addreas toa claas of twenty-four. In addition to these, nine wore received by letter, —one from a Tiaptlat, one from a Presbyterian, and one from Congregationaliat church. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, ‘THE srinit’s ASSURANOB. At the Second Universalist Churct, corner of Washington and Sangamon streets, the decora- tions were most claborate, and the effect was as fine os could well be imagined. Thero is a large recess back of the pulpit, and fn the back- ground of this was arranged os erent varloty of flowers and plants, consisting of calla-lilies, fuchslas, candy-tuft, roses, amilax, ete, which wero rearud one above the other in pyramid form, In front of this was placed ao screen, congisting of slendcr strings of delicate overgeen folinge suspended from a rod crossing the upper portion of the arch, and caurht up at the bottom in Imitation of enr- tains. In the centre of the rod was suspended atriplo bouquet of delicate blossoms. Thy offect of the whole waa that of an immense pattlement eof flowers and rore plants partially couceniod by lace drapery, and St was charming {n tho extreme. Another fcatnre which added beauty to tho scene waa the nresenco of hanging baskuta on olttior aide of the arch. On both sideeot the pulpit wero, JarreJardinters of flowers; 8 centro-tabla loaded with ‘floral gifts stood a iittto to ona side, and arranged ina tasty manner about upon the ‘plat- form wore a large number of plants, consisting of leaf ferne, needle plants, umbrella plants, and other rare tropical productions. Dr. Sumner Ellis preacheu a sermon from the following text: ** Now, Ho that hath wrought ns for the self- same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the spirit, "—Z/, Cor.. U.. 5. ‘Tha principal points to which the épeaker Invited the attontion of hia hearers were, first, the desira for immortality—the earnest ¢f tho spirit; second, tho soul's Grat fruits of eternal things; and, nally, the assurance of the spirit, drawn from the reva= Jations of tho divine aternal. A number of now weinbers were reculyed into the Churck ot tho closo of tho servicus. 8ST, PAUL’S CHURCH. DAPTISMAL ¥ZRVICKS, At St, Paul's (Universalist) Church thero was a very Inrge congregation, nnd appropriate services were held. Tho church was decorated, but not with any claboratuness, but especidl at- tention seemed to have been paid to the music, which sas solect, appropriate, and benutifully rendered by the church choir. The Rey. Dr. Ryder, the pastor, spoke brietly, taking as his theme the words, '*Oh, grave, whoro is thy vic- tory,” Bt the conclusion of which the rite of bap- iain was administered fo quitea nutnber, and etiit more were admitted to church fellowsbin. Tho exercizes closed with the annual collection for de- numinational purposes, ond the administering of the Sacrament, INGERSOLL. ‘TNE DEPECTSIN M18 ADDHESSES. Prof. Swing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, taking os his text: It ply thoy might foc) after God and ond Him. Acts, weil, 27. These two discourses are not spoken regard- ing tho man, Robert G. Ingersoll, but regarding the addrerees which he is delivering and fs othier- wise publishing. ‘The man Ingersoll {a sald to be, fa fs private life, kind, nelghborly, humane, and fn many ways an example which might be imitated with great prdfit by thousands who ropresent themselves as holding the Pagan or the Christian religion, Wut, wore this author and lecturers mean, wieked mau, I should still be bound to consider hig thoughts apart from the thinker just o8 wo doal witn Bacon’s {deas apart from hla moral qualities, and the politics of Alexaudor Mnuillton apart from the. infirmities of his moral ascotuincnts. Tho {intellect of such an Individual as the one beforo us is a thinking inachine, It makes a survey of the ree Nioue landscape. Objocte atrike it tlut escape you and mo. His oyes are not those of a preach- or, not those of 4 bishop, nor thore.of an evan- Relist ike Mr, Moony, not those of a moralist Uke Dymond or Willlam Penn, not those of Theodore Parker or Emerson, but they are a viaion purely his own, and our task 1g limited to. the inquiry what this pecutlar seuse dtacoyers in our wide and varied world. We perceive at once that theao addressca do nut offer us any system af philosophy for woman, or child, or State, and therefore they cannut aspire tobe suv valuabla Montor to tell each young ‘Telemachus now to live, ‘They ore the speeches of o lawysr retalied by one client of a large case.. Men’ trained §n a profession come by degroca into the profersiou’s channel, and flow only fa the one direction, anc always between the samo banks. ‘The inaster of a learned profession at last becomes its slave, Ho who follows faithfully auy call- ing Weare at lust a soul of that coliliys's sbape. You remember the dedth secna of tho poor, old scboulmaster, Ie had assembled the hove and girls in the winter mornings and had disinissed them winter evenings after sundown; uid had done this for titty long years. Que winter Mon- Guy ho did not appear.” Death hod struck his old and feeble pulays but, dytny, bis mind fol- lowed ita beautiful but hareow’ rlyersbed, und Dis Inst words were: “It is wrowing dark, the school te diamisscd, tet the girls pass unt itet.!? Very rarely doea the mun in te pulpit, or at the har, or in statesmanship vscapo this inuld- ing hand of bie pursuit, We are all clay i the hands of that potter which ts called a pursuit. A purault fs scldom an oveau of water; dt fa mora commonly a canal,, But it there bo mn class of men more modi (gt than others io language and forms of speech the lawyers compose such a class; for it ia never thelr business to present both sides. At ig their especial duty 60 to aera B part of the facte as that they shall seem to bo the whole facts, and next. to thefr power of presenting o cause must come thefr power to concent all ‘as- pects unfavorable to their purpose, A pishisos pher nvust seo and set forth at once both eldes of all queations, but a Jawyer muat learn to see the one side of 1 casc, for there fa another man expressly employed to sce the reverse of thy shiokl. But few of us aro Billasophers. When We wish to exhibit somethlig we fustantly cut of all Ng excopt that waich will fall upon our goods, Tf we are Apion only a yard of silk, Wo will vetl the aun and move about to find the right poaltion, aud then light # little more cas, that tho dclda, and hills, and heavens may all withdraw, and permit us to sev the fold of a bride's drexa, ‘Thus ull the profeastous, honored by bolug pailod Tes roedy do maura OF te at in the lignt nee @xXCep! a fabric a" age Whe Toldod by their eilifu) fingers, me Men of iutensu emotional power like alr. Ingor- soll, ond men who, like bim, wave heurta us full ut color asa painter's shop, aro wont beyond com- and | mon to none THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: © ho! peeaian, npon one object rather than diffuse it over the world. There can Awaken, and ontertain, and shake, and unsettle, ‘but thon, after all ts over, wo all mnt rook for nal guides men who are calmer and who eptead gentice tints with thelr bras. Jam, therefore, of the optoion that none of ne’ should follow any ono man, but rather all men; should evok that ganeral Ampreasion, that wido-roaching common renso, which knows little of cestasy and little of despntr, ‘Theso ** Addrorses ander notice nro wonderful concentrations of wit, and fin, and tears, anid logic, , but concentrations upon minor polnts, ‘They ato se~ Yoro tion a little groap of men, upon Mtoralrsta an ‘old Calvintate, and old Pores, and old monks, but they do not weigh and measure fuily the rollgion of such a holng as Jeans Cheiat, nor tonch the ideas and actions of the lmman raco nway from these fading forma of hunian naywo, Tf you wt ap: nose thone orations to be delivered in a conrt whers tho Catyintets have anplicd for the powor to govern rome island and autdue it to thelr sdape of plety, and that Mr, Ingersoll tins 9 home and estates on that Island, and sces the new dynaety coming slong, then thale oloquence and point can be unilorstood, and they ara Phillppica worthy of the old Greok; but when we remember how Imaginary aro. those Calviniats and thet ieinnd, nud what 2 vaet world there te that does not desire to enforce a religion, ant that would not disturd even the reside of the most bold infidel, then the basis of tho eloquence Ulsanpears, and the pecches: become only the anger of one who has had bad dreame about hia follow. man. ‘They aro Philippics against bigots rather ren against holy men. These addresses do injuatice to tho Habraw history. Atawyer ban a right to be oncslded and narrow when be is pi naling the cause of his cHont, but whon he ts addressing # public upon a religion’, or polltical, or social question, narrow: noss in bis discourse must bo considered an {n- firmity, or elec an act of injuetice, These speeches betray oither anconactous narrowness or willfutin- justico, Bot str. Ingersoll {a the ombodiment of sincerity, necording to thosa who enjoy his ac. unintance, and therefore wa most conclude that the cast of hts mind Is euch that ft {6 led bither and thithor by that uartowness whico belongs no mora joa high Catvinist than to a high infidel, If the Wdeture upon ‘Moses had boon mora thoughtful, it would have eonfessed that thero were several forms of the man ‘*Moacs,“— the historic ‘*Moses," the Tebrow Moses," and the Calvinistle **Mosca’; and then, after thia concesston, he mirht haye assailed tho “*Calvinistic Mogen" to hia heart's content, For this special form of '* Moses" jn very valnernble, This Puritanic Moses wrote the Pontatench; he gave nn account of his orn, death; he alluded to tho Kings of Jarnel, and to the towns that did not come into extetence until several centarlea after hls own exfetence had terminated, thie ** Mosca '*. was not an Egyptign, and an Enstern rout in Jane guage and Sigueca of apeech, bnt he was a Monk or a Puritan, ond when ho said a ‘*ril," or-on *‘upple,”’ of a ** serpent,” ha meant that thing called rib," of on “**applo," ora ** serpent"; thin Uterailstic Mores was not a child of tho old Nile found in tho ruahes by a King's daughter, bat he waa born tn the dark ages, and was brought up by some clergyman assembled in the fifteenth cen- tury. ‘Thin **Moses" {8 very frail. Io faints when the nineteenth century looka at him. Ant yet this te the ‘Moses whose '* mistakes" nf- ford Mr. Ingereoll such amusement and snch themes for rhetorical practice. But if the Ad- esses had been broad, and spoken for that larger andlenco called humanity, they wonld have asked ous fo mark the “mistakes of the Moses of Webrow times and of common histury, Dnt they didnot droam of this. Standing fn tho presence of one of tho-grantest “figures of Egyptian and Hebrew antiquity, Mr. Ingersoll fatled to seo this personage, nnd permit- ted nothing to come npon his fiold of vislon except those sixteenth century theolugians who distorted alike the mission of Mosea and of Christ, and even of the Almighty. ‘To set forth the mistakes of the historic **Mowes" would not be sny eas: task, One doing this wonld bo compelled to asl us to mark tha blunders of a leader who ptanned {reedum for slaves; who bore complaininga from an ignorant people yntil he won the fame of nnu- enal meckness, one who did In realtty what infidels only have dreamed of dotng—living and dying for the people; the mistakes of one whose ten laws Ore atllt the fundamental dens of n State, of onc who orgarized a nation which lived and flourished for 1,600 yeara; the infataken of ono who divested the idea of God of bestiniity and began to clothe it with the notlons of wiadom and jnatice, and cvon tenderness; the follics of one who established In- dustry and education, and a higher form of re- gion, and gave the nation holding these virtues such on impulec that in the hour of dissolving It produced a Jesus Christ and the twelve Apoatica; and thus did more fn its death than Atheism could achieve fn all the cons of geolouy. ‘There ts, it is true, 8 time and a place for frony, but after {i haw done ite work amtd the accidental of atime ora place there romains yet much to bo studied by the sober Intellect snd loved by the heart which really cares for the useful and the true, It is estentially a amall mattor that some poctle mind, some Frolssart, or some Herodotna, came plong perhapa after the reigns of David ond Solomon, and gathered np all the truths of ald Hebrew tradition, and all the legends too, and wove then together, for out of anch wn- tanglements the cesential ideas genorally rino ‘op just as noble pine trees at» Inet iso up above the bramblos and thickats at thelr baae, and evermore stand in tho full presonce ofraln, and air, ond son. Above the brambles and thorn of legend, at which the narrow ove may Inagh, there rises up from the Mosaic so!) o growth of moral troth that catchos.at Inst full aunatine and full breeze; o growth that will long make o rey shadow for the graven af Christian and infidol jeneath, ‘The errors of legend nro so tnlmportant that even n Divine Hook may carry them, Tt will thus appear that the method of the ad- drussas (a very defective, It ts novo wide survey of a two-thotaand-year Fetiod in human enviliza- tion, n period when. the Hebrews wera making im. perlshablo the good of the Egyntlans who wero dying from viccs snd deapotiim, but is only the ramble of asntirist having a sharp eye for defecta and a most ready sun rae. ‘All the by-gone periods muy bo paseed over In tio manners, We may yo forth for vur Inughter or for our penstyencas and wisdom. duvenat siw ald Remo fall of dissolnie men ond womon, Virgil saw it full of literature, Tacitus found It not deatitute of patriots and ho- roves; ond whon dJuvenal found tho husbands all debancheer, und the wives oll hypocrites, thore the most calm and elegant bisturlans found the mos excellont Agricota, and found o wife of spotiera fame in the daughter Domitian, Thus in the very genorations in which tha Jampoonn of Juvenal found only vico, behold wo sce beauty and virtua in full bloom around the homes of ‘Tacitus, and Agelcola, and Miny. Thos all the floldaof human thonynt Ie open ty tho invasion of those whu wish to mock, ani of thoao who wish to admire. And. beyond doubt when Mr. Ingergoll shall nave ut- terea bla Inst thought over the Mistakes of Mouen, some other form of Intellect could glean in tho gains field and Jeave covered with the traths of Mores, 2 nobler and larger tablot, Varmit ine now, in imltation of tho styte of these addresacs, to nak you to look at the sevantconth century, Why, it all drip, tn blood? Horror upon Horrors! The King of Persia put to death somo of the Royal family and put anttho eyos of all tho Test,—oves the oyes of infants, Rusala boying her ern) oppression of Poland. Prussia, the lupe of Europa, ia dexoloted by a war, which never Mfted ita black clout for thirty years, In thia wretched century camo the mnassacra of Prague anil the forci- ble banishment of 30,000 Protestant familie Allowing five pergons to a family, Jt will thn: pear that 150,000 were driven from their ho! and country. Farther south, In France, a few yearn vefore, 700.000 Protestants had been mur- dered tu twenty-four houre, Afterward came tho Neentious Court of Loulé XIV, 3 while over In En- gland noble men and women were being behoadcd. or otherwise slain in dreadful numbers, Tho beautiful Quecn Mary ts bohended Just ae the century begins, id Eesox js ba- headed tn {ts full opening, And in its clos France re-entora the scene, revokes the odict of Nantes, and senda into exily 300,000 of her buet citizens, hns drozred along the seventeenth centnry, on it would vem plee ing und woeping, and gasping in perpetual dying, What_a picture! Amazing indeed, Unt narrow and falaut I nave been thinking onty of tho *+mistakes" of a tins, Juat Jopk at that century again with a wider survey and fs happlerheart, ud lot wo seo in it a matchices Une of tmmortal worthica, = There flourished Oustayas, laying the foundations of our liberty; there lived Grotiua writing down the holiest prin- ciples of duty; thers we ace Caliles inventing the toloxcope, nud beholding tho starry sky; thero sita Kepler Madtng the highest Jaws of aatronomy; near these aro the French preachers, Bosauct, Fenelon, and Masstlon, whose fame has not been equaled; there, too, Pascal aud Corneille, But thie te not all, It te not one-third the splendor of that one epoch, for, crosa the Channel, and behold, you muet Shuk- aspeare, tod Lord Bacon, and Milton, and Lucko,and while thease divine minds are cutupodlog thelr boos Cromwott {a ovorthrowing geapots, and a Republic spritige np ae by enchantineht, Thus thesoventeenth century, which awhile ago keomed only a period that a kind Heart might iat atricken from history, now cumed back to ua'as tho sublime dawn of postry, and uctence, and eloquence, snd liberty, ‘The trath te we must move through Whe Freaent. and the past with both eyes wide open, and with 9 mind willing to. xnow all aud to drew a concloston. froin the whole combined cloud of witnesses. ‘The author of the adudresses docs not do this, Hoe docs not ako a witlesurvey nor draw conclusions trom widoly scattered facts, and hence, aftor he hus spoken about the horrors of the pavente ets orof the Church, there remalus that age or that Church. cinptylng rich treasuros Into the genaral clyiliz tion, purifying tho burburous aves, awakiog the Wllect, atiinulating tho arte, {nvpiring zuod wor: olovating the Hfe'of the Iving, by wetting befuro man 8 God and a future exlutence. Our Cbrie- Uanity bas a ebrew origin, ‘he Sermun on tho Muant was begin by Moses, ‘Thu eloquence of Mr, Ingere art of Hogarth or John Leach,—Alfucuts, and wit- ty, aod interesting art, but very Uimited in ite Fabge. Hoyarth was whthout a rival in tis ability to pletire the **ulstakes” of warrlay **Nake's Progresa.” tho peculiarity of ‘*ece Lane" and **Gin Lane"; and bls art was legitt- Tate in ite eld, but ta fold was narrow, und took no notice of the eternal veauty of tines a9 paluted by Rubens or Raphact, After Hogarth hid wald all he conld seo gud believe about marnage, there stood the holy relation in ftw historic greatness, fing millions of homes with {ta peace snd friend- ship, nolwithstanding the mirth-proveking pencil, ‘YLus tho ideas of * “and ** Church," and ** Heaven," and **God™ ie before Mr, Ingereull to be pletured by hie skilifal derision, but alter tha the artist hse drawa his littis Puritanie Hubrow and bivabnurd Heaven, and hos painted hly Httte gods, snd how imned hia old Papal Heaven and Heli, Ahothur ecune opens and thero untarnished aro the deop things of “right and wrong, the ftamortul hopes of man, onda Heavenly Father which can- uot be placed upou a jeuter's canvas, Juhu Lecce found the wesk points in all Koglish high and low lily, Tho fashions, sod sports, an entertainments, and tho current politics, undars wont fora generation the torture uf his pictures, his sketched, ble cartoons, but the moment the Laugh had euded the boinus of Englund, the happy social life of rich wud pour, the fearning aud wis- dow of ber etatusuicn were back in tucks place just js mich Ika tho and of a MO. AY APRIL ‘14, 1879: is tha son fe in hie pldde aftors nolay thunder. torm bas parsed by. This narrowness of survey which marke Mr. In-* ersoll'a aatimale of the Hebrow period and of tho wman Chittech follows him fn his thonghts about another Mfe and tho oxlstence of a God, ite de- ios that any regard whatever should be paid to a. evcond life,” Heaven deserves no conalderation at: our hands, Wo enys in his lectnre on the Coda: **Heason, observation, and experience have taught ‘na that happinces 1a the only govdy that tho time to be happy f# now, and the way to ba hanpy is tomake others co. ‘Thin fs enough for us. In this bellef we fre content {o hive and die,’ Sach assertions na these no broadly reaching mind could make, for the broad mind, not knowing but that there may hen avcond Iife, having no pdaltiva information on that point, fa bowad to admitall that uncertainty, and that hope t8. 8 most tawful clement in that strange mingling which makes up the soul, As Mr. Ingee- soll does not know whonce man came so bo knows: not whithor he goon, and therofara he must hime eelf stand and permit othors to stand in the pres- ence of death na in the presence of a ee imyatery that, at least, should silence all doxmatism of priest or Infidel, The logic of the addrcrses may a Atted forthe common jury, buat they too rude for man who Ja weeping his way along bo- tween birth and death, © ‘ In some better hoorthe lawyer forgets his petit dury and addresses the human ‘sont, On the title pace of A recent volumo he saya in anbetance that: “*The dream of tmmortal fifo has always exleterdt in the heart of man, and will remain there in all ite mntchicss charms, born not of any book of creed, but aut of hnman affection"; and baing not born of reason and sorise, he can but roject tte hopes, hels personally above being molded in thought, or action, by such a fable of the heart. In calling such a dream a fable ho is pty of that very dog- matism which be #o bates in Calvin and Edwards, for [if Calvin was too certain that he knew God's will, Mr, Ingorsoll te too certain that he knows God not toexist, It often bepnens that the daz- matiam of the bigot must await its exact paralicl in the docmatiem of the athelat. ‘Tho tdeas of a fnture lifo anda God ara thus in these addresses rudely set aside aa though this author had shown the real origin and deatiny of the Universe, and lhatl found out the sectot of the grave. Iie would pay no attentton to the Idea of God, Ho wonld not bo gnilty of any worship tn this life. Mle says: '*1¢ by any possibility the exiatence of A power superior to and: independent of naturo shall te demonstrated there will ba Utne enough then to kneel. Until then lot ua stand orect. In auch language wo find only 8 porfect over- throw of the method ‘of tha buman sonl; for tha son) has novar dared wait for any auch cerfainty in ony of the -patha before it, has alwaya been compelled to build np bofore itself the largest pos- elble motives and hopes,.and then live far them, and abide the consequences, Itis wonderfnl that a man who will pluck a riclot aud draw delight from its tender color and sti! more delicate perfume will sternly command the human race not ta hold tnitshands any flower of immortality, lest. by chanco its Josves may at last withor, If thta ides of a future ilfo should at lost fail, which scoms!m- | possible, the hnman heart will be all the purer and happier from having held all through these yeara 8 lily so sweet and so white, ‘ gic cannot make such short work of tho ro- Ngfous sentiments. Mr. Ingersoll asys: "If you can over find 9 God, jurt let _mo know, and I ahall knecl, Until then f shall stand erect.” What ine justice to that dellcato form of reason, which has moved the world for perhaps 10,000 fyenrs! We donot propore to Ad ‘God or 4 future life. What. the world nas found lony since fs tho deop hope in a God, and the measurciess hove that the dying loved ones of this world will mect in 4 iand thot ts hotter. Nobody hag cumo to the hisman taco to lut it know that a God has been found, but many have come to {beaying: *' My dear children Jet ua trast. that nll this matchless universe came from 4 Creator, and that from Ilim wealso camo." So. many sodso holy wero these voices, and Bo to- sponalye was tho heart, that avon this trust the Tin yand tho dying havo knelt and have told their longings to the Jnvisibic. The human race has not been haughty, It has been willing to kneel. Ita heart has never been atone, noritsknees brasa, It has stood erect in battle whero liberty was to be won, it has beon os erect as an infldel when a bosom was to bo bared for arrows or bullets, or when thoneck waa to bo unclothed for the fatal ax, put in mo- ments of hope and lonying it bas bent piling. in prayer. Tho advice of tho Addresses not to kucoi ‘until yon have touched and bandied tha Creator is advice thut civilization has alwa: for it has wovon all its gorguous fabri delicate robabilities, —possamer threada spin by the heart. Fame, and learuine, and art, and happiness are ail simple possibilities bofore each yonth. Mo-does pot dare say, Make me sure of reaulte, and I will gird myself for the'preaent; he casts himself upon tho bettor of two possibitities, ond te borne along toward av unknown ond. Thug bas the human race denlt with the intimations of rotigion, Ithue Cast iteelf upon the better hope, and, being at per- fect liberty to espouse Athelam, has always ro- pudiatod it as boing 8 paralysis of the soul, and a porfect reveraol of the common logic of socloty. The world has always been perfectly frec to use the form of ronsoning which Mr. Ingersoll sug- geste. No Westminster desombly no Calvin com- polled thie human famtly trom O1 ‘Egypt to Greece 0 think the universe had a Croator, The hd haa always boon free to suppose that such a as day and pight and spring and summer, creatufes as tho nightingale and inan, such a star as the aun all came froin mud and wator and fro mingling of their own accord; but the world has had no wide use foretch conclusions. Of its own free choice, it has avoided Athcismand has never ‘wade up anywhore’s ‘civilization without discarid- jug the iden of waiting for n demonstration, and without cepousing the idea that all noble socicty repores upon lofty hopes. Out of beantifal posel- Dilitles the soul garments aro wovon, It thus appears that the Addresses aro dofectlvo aa guides for auy man'e ilfo ordeath. They con- stltute bill of exceptions against certain hard rul- ings in some local and ignorsnt courte, but as leodings in the great tribunal whore the whole fumas fanitly stands ansonibled, to get the wirest decisions about duty and happiness and the posal- bility of there being u God and 6 second life, the possible valuo of 8 hope for the dying. thay cach |. Tam the Reanrrection and the Bife.” He had ba qadneho ond all falt far short. ae see only thes relizion of soma fanatic, and think it the religion of Jesng orof mankind. ‘Thoy see a God damning honest mon and conclude that ts what {4 meant by Jeho- yah. ‘They sce a heaven with some Ilttle sect in tho midst of it, and spoak os, though thoy wero what ts meant by the Immortality of man. They note tho falites of the Puritans and Papists, and infer that, if thero were no religion in tho world, thera would bo no bad judument or bad passions.” They fall, too, tomark the delicacy of man's practical logic which {s not tronlike, walting for tho absolute end of alldonbt, but which te bonding and hope- fn), and atands ready furever to found Immango motives, and soclety, aud church, and homes upon thu greater and better of two prouabili fos that lle within this world of cload, ‘Thoy asaert tho ardo- quacy of carthly happiness an an end of boing, and fail fo mark that earthly happiness has always do- pended apon high morals, and father, and mother, aud child, and social life, and all mental dovelon- ienthave found tholr fall meaning until a warm and brvad religion has shed ita cheering light. Tho husnan race cannot And Its aupreme good {n baying afew actus of ground, and in scoing the grass grow, ant in hearing the birds sing. ‘These mako wome daya dolight(ul indeed, bat man, with his retinue of art, and statoumauship, and morals, and temptations, and virtuce, aud joys, ond sorrows, and partings, and death demands the assumption of a God and tho expectations of a resurrection from tho dust. Under auch a temple as aocioty, the foundation must bo deep, To thosa who read or hear these addresson of Mr, Ingersoll let me say: Haar thom, read them if you ‘wish, for they will show you what a sad caricature of Christianity waa that which cana duwn to ns from the Dark Ages. but, having thus bean taught by an cnemy, thon diamine the lauxhter, and look at religion in tho widest forms of its doctrine and experiance, Weare now wormed dally not to fol- low partisona in politics, becanse they will eclinso & country by n little chaly in oftce, thoy will make ns villave outwetgh acontiuent. ‘These aiddresues of a talonted lawyer warn us vaually agalnst truut. ing the partisung in relfgion,—the dim-eyed zeal which makes a elty sa small ae their own hearts, a Bible as cold and ag hardas adamant; but now, having beon taught to shun partisans {n politics and in Christianity, tet us learn to restet one more form of partisau,—the partisan of an theism and a hopelcas grave. Lot us at times Tangh with bi, Jet ua adinire his ncutenvas, let ‘Us confers the honesty of his te, but for our guides or Ideas tn the world apiritual lot na scck Soi0 mountain of thougst where tho nurvoy. ts oroader, and tenderer, agd more Juat, from which Mgnt no good Her concealed; but looking from which we can #eo the graat landscape of the soni, sumv of it bathed in Haht, rome of it lying io shadow, butall of it invtructive snd fall’ of tm pressivoness, % TRINITY | CHURCH. - DR. SULLIVAN'S FAREWELL, The Rey, Edward Sullivan, D. D., preached his forewell sermon yesterday morning in ‘Trinlty Church, Twenty-sixth street und Michi- Kau avenue, to an Immense congregation, The beautiful edifice was crowded to tho utmoat ca pacity, aud accommodation was proylied by seats In the alsles for,geveral hundred ladics, ‘The floral. decorations.of the oltur were very fine, No attempt had been made to adorn the church otherwisy, the entire efforts belnje con- centrated at this point, , ‘The altar, reredoa, pul- pit, and chancel were crowded with floral offer- juga in the shape of crosscs, anchora, shiclis, and mottocs. In frout of the pulpit wasa beautiful tablet, worked in red on o whito ground, with tho words, ‘Acts 2033." Noth. ing could possibly haye been more uppropriate than this, the sacred text roferred to reading, “Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more, Of the other decorations, the ehlef were a beautiful white crvss on a groen ground on the reredos. A aplondid suchor fn white flowers graced the lecturu, In front of the baptisinal gout, In red Jesters on o whito backsround, were the Words, **Ha Shall Keep ‘Thee 4u all Places Whither Shou Govst.” ‘lo tho right of tho sitar atoud a beautiful pyramid of greon, with lilles and pther lowers above, and crowned by agrescent aud. starin white, Tho regular eeryicca of a festival. day wero bad, Mr, Sullivan boing unassisted, aud the musle was very accoptably rendered, Dr, Sullivan took for his text St. John, xl. “*1 am the Resurrection and the Life.” Ho w shat uo more eubliine utterancos had over been made, The langasye of the Savior} lofty though It. waa, carriud with it itd own abundant ylodicatlun, end proved that the man Christ Jesua who uttered these worda was in very truth one with Almighty God. Nefersiug to thy day (eeators the upeaker abowed that it was symbolical and commemora- tive of the triuinph of life over death and all tte -terrore, ‘This triumph could be achiuvod by Chris- tusulty alone, ‘Thu old . philosuphers, — sus- tatued by aa indoumitabla will and the hope td of on immortality to which they bellaved desth to be tho portni, tad «in cortain canes faced dinaotution with equanlarits, ‘but they had acon motlern philonophorn who failed to duwo, Apart from the Goenel uf Jeans Chirlat, death waa an enomny watching forman like a wild benat for ite prey. Nut Christ stoud by tha opon grave, and, pointing Into Its gloom, sald; *'Fear not; tite chased Immortality for man with Ells own precions Hood. Tho sharpest sting of death warsin, That ‘Was the terror which outwelvhed ali athors, Thera came up accusing memories, thoughts of time wasted antl opportnnitics lost, and the sinner cowerod before the droadful nroxpcct. Dr, Suiilivan closed. tis brief ecrmon, and to« ferrod te hia leaving Trinity Church ina few briet and woll-choron words which drow tears from the eyes of tha gronter part of tho congregation. lo enid thnt thoy met for tho Inet time in God'a house ne minteter and people. ‘The bond that had bound thom together for woll-niah oloven yeara 10 the hollest of alt relationships must to-day bo broken, Links that had connected them for a number of years and had been hallowed hy memo- Hen and ancrad associations muat be eeverad, Thoy must part to-day to go thal several ways,—ho to feed a distant fald: they to be ministered to by other handa than his. “Those who had known him in the perfect freedom of mutual conforenco knew that. in taking this step hie had been actuated by no sordid motives or vclfiah principles,—that he aimpiy liad the pura Gcalre to do that which waa bost and wisest, beat. for them, beat for himaclf, best most of all for tho glory of God, Ho asked thom, as tho last and final ovidence of the ¢onfidenco which they had ever ro-. Posed in him, to belia¢e that ho had ever been pnra and sinceré in his motives, and that nothing short of the clearest and plaincet indications given to him hye Aten we 8s well as by the conacionsneas of what ho had felt to be the lager of Providence, could havedecited him on the step tie had talon. Tho step Was one the taking of which involved to ulm in meny ways seecrious lous and pain and personal sacrifice, Io felt and shonld feel itdecpty and keenly fora jong time tocoine, It would bo im- essblo that he should pasa throngh an ordeal ike this ‘and not feela pang atnking through the very depthe of hie soul, Ho could not close without asking hia hearers to go with him in a brief ro- troapect of his ministry, Hie then reviewed the prticlpal events connectea with bis pastorate, divolling anecially on the unt- form eupport which he bad met with ander all circum stancod. On Tuesday evening an opportunity will be afforded to oll membors of the conzrecation to take leave of their late pastor, who wil! be at the reeidence. of Mr. Raymond, No, 111 Calumet avenue, to exhange a liond-shako withall CENTENNIAL BAPTIST. DR. MEWITIS DEPARTURE. The Rey. Dr, Hewitt, of the Centennial Bap- tist Church, tendered Ii!s realenation some tima ago, on account of bis health, and Tuesday evening last some of the mombers of hits con- gregation gaye him a surprise party and a sub- stantiat present os a token of the esteem tn which he had been held, and yesterday morning he preached his farewell sermon, at the conclu- éton of which ha said: I complete. to-day my work of your pastor# In view of this have but Nttletoray, Tho pne- torate has beon short, and the reeults fess than I hid hoped; porliaps because we have teft our ‘*trat loved.” J can ray that I have on- doavored to do my duty, and that many of you have nobly done the same, and tho frultage, thongh, not all wa could desire, te yot fall of en- conragoment. Tho dntlte two yeara‘has been a lime of atrinzenoy and dearth, both Rnancialty and retigionaly, and what has been accomplished has beon done in the face of dificuities. Wo have lost much in various ways, but we have on overy haut gained more. When 'we havo lost forty-six from our membership, we have galned ninety-six, make ing 8 net increnao of fifty. Among those who havo, during this time, come omong uM orc many of our most substantial and active mem- bors, It would bo invidious, Peclinnss to montion names, but on little — reflection willshow that nearly half the working force of the church, and 6 like proportion of those holding pows inthe house, have come in with na during these two years, ‘In flnnnces wo have more than held our own, boing really in considerably better condition to-day than two years since, besiites ‘bnilding and paying for our pleasant new rooms. Our praycr-mectinza wero nover so Jarge as during the past winter, and our Sunday-school never more prosperous than now. There is nothing hero af note to boast aithor on my part or yotir.own, but thero {@ in theso facts Mitch ground for encouragement. If Bo much has been done, how much mote may bo accomplished inthe futuro! A steady improvement of equal pace will In ten years givo you a church of niembers, with proporty free from debt. I thank you for the Fecopera on you have given me, and for tho kindness shown to mie and imine, especialty in the rocent pleasant ang ‘fruitful (fruitdishfal) surprise visit. I bid you god- Spced, and pray that the fire of first-love may not ‘Uut flame up overinore brightly, giv- fog you both lignt and cheer, and constraining Phan to persevere ‘o the end in the important work God has here given you ta do, ‘Tho reverend gentleman will go from hore to Kanens ina fow vaya in quest of health, and from thence to Colorads, ,, Rants we PENTECOST. crinist’s nasurtrecrion. ‘The Easter sorvices at the Chicago Avenua Church last evening, conducted by Mesers, Pentecost and Stebbins, were to have closed the Tabors of those two ovangolists at that sanc- tuary, but by general request avother unton meeting will be held at the came placo next Sun- day olebt. The audience Inst evening was a very large one, bein made up of representa- tives of about all the Protestant churches on _the North Side, the intention to make the gath- ‘ering a uvion mecting boing fully carried out. ‘The meeting was opaned by the singing of the hymn ‘* Look, ye paints, the Rignt Ta Glorious.” A nuniber. of requeats for prayer wore mado, and remembered tn a fervent petition by tha Rev, Robert D. Sheppard, ‘1 Cave My Life for Theef" was then sung, and Mr. Btebblna delighted the au- dienco with his singing of ** Words of Lifo.' While a freo-wwil! offcring was being taken up, the cholr sang snothor hymo, after which Mr. Btob- Ding ang ‘* Hallelnjab! Te Ie Rison.” Mr. Pentecost then announced bia text Philip- plans, 1, 10: *!That I might know Him, and the power of His resurrection.” It was not tho mero fact of tha resurrection that Pant wished to know, but' the real significanco of “that, fact.—{te relation to him, and his relation to it, **8a with as to-night,” con- tinued Mr. Pentecost. Tu the firat place, tno fact of the resurrection vindicated the cluim Jaig down by Christ to bu tha Son of God, The svorld of the Jews copied this claim, and Mis crncifxion wus Min ution on the charzo of binsphemy, ‘Iho New. tament was full of passages guing to show that His resurrection was to bo—and was in Hie mind from the begiuning to bo—the vindlcation of this claim, somo of which passugos Mr. fentecoxt Proceeded to quote, ‘These pointed not only to His redurroction, but to His subsequent glory whon Ifo should be seen coming in the cloude and exercising dominion over all thin: the King of Kine. The resurrection of dcsus Christ, therefore, stood related to the whole Gospel schomo as the key-stona to the arch. If Christ were not ralacd from the dead, everything amounted to nothing, the Goupe) wasn fraud, and tho hope of the world a binsted and ruined one, fut the fact of tho resurrection was pares, beyond peradventure; and the significance of the resurrection in rotation to tho whole Gospel achemwe was that {t catabilahed this clalm to Jesus belng tho incarnate (od, the fon of God, ond therofore carried with {rail the proiniees that Jesus mato; #0 that Ihe fabric of sitatianthy toatod solidly on the fact of the resur- rectlon, In the next place, tho resnrrection restored ton solld basta the hope of a} nen who, then and nov, laid hold on Christ. giich a thrill of hopo touk Possession of the souls of those sorrow-stricken disciples on the way to Eminaus, of Mary, ond of Chriatiuns in every Inter se. Hat, besides extah- Hating this claint and Inspiring this hope, it made aura the fact of the forzivoness of wins, How should this man, If Jio were dead, ratify to unthe forgivonons of sinst On the truvo Uo discharged the owfnl debt, and on tho third dav He camo forth ont of that debtar'a — prison,—the graye,—aond, because He was risen, salvation hud come nod was declarud the forgiveness of ains. It ‘was the fact of the resurrection that gavo pawer to the pronching of thé Goapel to-day. |" Did any ono Sapporo men could have bean persnaded to balleve ine dead Curist? Tho power of tha Gospel rested: not only in this, that it preached a crucified Christ, but alac im tho fact that it preached a Clirlat Who bad been dead but Who wus alive forevermore, Finally, tho resurrection guaranteed Chriat'a accond coming, pustiing us on into those cternnl hopes of the propheta, of David, as revealed In the ‘Mesalantc Paalms, of the Apostics, and the blewed martyrs, ‘The meeting cloran with singing and prayer, and the pronouncing of the benodiciion, BAPTIST TABERNACLE, PLANS FOR A BUILDING. ‘Tho Hapigt Tabernacle, a misston of the First. Church, tsackin out of a home, the buildingithas been occupying on Wabash avenue having been rented for business purpusea, ‘The congregation are thiuking of building o place of worship at once, aud yosterday afternoon met to discuss some propositions betora them, The Mutho- Aiate, who own the rufus of the old Wabash Avo- yuo Church, cornor of Wabash ayenua and Harrison atreet, have proposed to lease thom this property, and they think ,very favorably of tho terma and Jocatton, and of taking the old walle oud bullding up a placa “in which to incet, Ono plan, tho Atting up of a basement with 8 tomporary roof, will cost abont $4,000; and | another, to repair tho walls and add a permanent root and ft up tho bavament, will cout $7,500, Whilo (he meeting took no action, the latter plan mot the mout favor, tho carrying out of whiot, it was thought, would result {i ballaing up a Saputat church in tha beart or tho city. The Sunday School of the ‘Taberpacle yesterday pledged 200. to the - onturpride, an it is lieved that the congrexation, which now has a Taembervhip of olghty persons, with ‘what aid they can gut from tho ontalde, will be able to raise the" necessary balance, ‘Iho matter ie to bo laid before the preachers’ mectlug this morolng, and further canvassed before any declulve sctlon ta taken, and fn the weantine the Suuday-wchool will meet at, ihe ‘Wabash Arenne Mfethodiat Chnreby cornctof Walnen avenuo and Fourteenth ec . ELSEWNERE. GALRsHURG. Bpectal Dispatch to The Tribune, GAtesnuna, 11., April 18.—Easter service ‘was held at most of the churches to-lay, many of which were beautifully decorated with floral Offerings, aspectally the Uniyorsatist and Hpts- copal, at which churches Eastor is always an tm- portant day, ‘Thia afternoon the mambers of Galesburg Commandery, No, 8, held commemo- Fativo rorvico nt GracoUhureh, The ltector, G, li. Higgtue, doliverad the discuurac, AVRINGFIELD. Apectat Dispatch to The Tribune. Spntxarteup, WL, April 13,—Faster Sanday was yeneraily and anpropristely observed by the varlous churches of this city. Tho sermons were Renorally upon the subject of the Resurrection, t thé Episcopal Church tho Knights Teinplar participated in the xorvices, ‘The day was nll that could have beeudestred and the attendance in all the churches very large. INDIANAPOLIS, Kpecial Dianatch to The Tribune, Inntaxarouis, Apnl 1%.—The weather to-day was all that contd be desired, and Easter services wero attended by Ingo congregation: nhonn- ‘usnal display of flowers was made everywhere, bat tho mnslc was much platner than usual, especially in the Eplacopal churches, f MILWAURER, Mitwarrer, April 19—Atd o'clock this afternoon the olficgrs of the Grand Commaniery of Knights Templar, escorted by the Wisconsin and St. John's Commanierics, proceeded to St. Paul's Episcopal Chureh, and engaged in the public observance of Easter according to tho ritunlof the Order, An immense congregation waa prosent to witness the ceremonies, which wore vory impreaaiva, ee CANADA. . The Tunnel—Gratitudo— The Governor. General—Tho Rifleomon—Tho Tarlf—Letet- loreTtoma, . &nectat Dipatch to The Tribune, Toronto, April 13.—The plans for the con- struction of the tunnel under the Detrolt River, approved of by the Governmont, show that the tunnel will be 8,700 feet In length, extending from Stonoy Island to Anderdon on the Cana- dian side. Itis the {ntentlon of ‘the Canada, Southern Raflway Company, who are doing the work, to lay a double track nud double arches, 80 that there willbe no danger of nceldents by colliaion, The work {s to be begun by the 1st of April. Thetunnol ls catimated to cost $1,- 600,000. Ex-Alderman Boustead hos a gold medallion from the people of Memphis, Tenn., in grateful recoguilion of his own efforts anc those of Toronto {nu gending ald to tle yellowfever suf- crers Tast summer. : Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Toronto, Ont., April 1%—A 100-yard run- ning race, best thrée in flyo, took place at Wood- Dine Park,near this city, yesterday afternoon, bo- tween Henry, of Chicago, Sparks, of Toronto, Moulton, of St, Louis, and Harris, of Hamilton, It was won by Henry, who took the third, fitth, aul itty heats, Moulton second, and Marri third. Tononto, Ont., April 13.—A fire to-night do- atroyed P, ©, Allen’s statlonory store, RR. Bulland’s music store and dwelilng, and W. G. Gibson’s printing office. Loss, $355,000; inaur- ance, $15,000.. * . Spectat Mevatea ta The Tritune, + Ottawa, April 13.—Those who accuse his Ex- cellency, the Governor-General, of boluy remiss fn his duties in having neglected to have go {n- formed himself of the merits of the Letellier case a9 to be able to give an immediate decision on the question when roferred to him, do his Excellency a gross injuatico,. It is known be- Yond doubt that the Marquis of Lorne, almost immediately after bo had assumed the discharge of bis dutics at Uttnwa, sont to the Library for the debates, otc., bearing on the case, aud also such volumes oa treated on the constitutional gapect of tha question. There is every reason to bellevo that hu gave an exhaustive consideration to the question, ir A. ‘I, Galt is in town, for the purpose, tt ja understood, of conferring with the Mintster of Finauce respecting the opening up of forcign trade. Private advices from Montreal speak conf: dently of s brilliant affair in the latter city on the 4th of May. The disposition of troops is already under consideration. © ‘There are to bo three batteries of horse artillery, perbaps four, and these wil be‘posted on theright of the lino, The Thirteanth Brooklyn Battalion will have the place of honor on the first line. The Exeeytive Committes of the Dominion Rifle Association held a meeting to complete the programme of prizes for the annaal competition, to bo hetd nt Ottawa on the 10th of September next. Cash prizes aggregating $3,050 will be offered, Including a special from his Excollency, the Governor General, of £50," an 8 Hon, Minister of Militia and Defense of $200, In the competition for the Merchants’ of London and MecDuugall Cups, cash prizes bave been added. His Excollency’s prize is arranged. relatively to the Queen's prize at Wimbicdon, The Canadien Wimbledon team for 1880 will be selected from the thirty compotitors in the Governor-General competition. ‘The Wimbledon team for this year will gall from Quebee on the Qtst of June. ‘Tho: Wimbledon meeting is ar- ranged to commence on the 14th of July noxt, The Cauaion team will be commanded this year by Lleut,-Col. O'Neil, the Hon. J. G. Blanchet, Sncaker of the House of Commons, with Capt. Boyd, of the Fitty-fourth Battory, a8 second oflicor. Martin{ rifles are uow on the way out from England for distribution to the members of the Wimbledon teat for practice, According fo statistics produced by Senator Gunn, iu a speech oxplanutory of the effect which tho sugar dutics witl have, the people of Canada were better olf under the old tucifl than they will be under the new, In the fiscal yeur of 1663, when the permanent sugar tariff “was introduced, the imports of auzar wore 57,000,000 potinds and §,000,000 pounds of cano-fuice, pay- 1280,00U. In 1875 tha tariff on sugar for ig was reduced one-fourth of a cont, equal to $250,000 per auuum on the then consutnption, Antho tlseal year of 1878 the trade almost doubted In yolumne, the consumption rese to 108,000,000 pounds, soven-cleliths of which generatly wos high-urade sugar, und contributed $2,600,000 in duty, or moro than double tha amouut of Treyenue on sugar in 1808, ‘The consumer re- velved a purer article at a cheaver rate than pre- viously. “In Manilla, and in the West and Kogt Indies, the duty on rat sugars, which the tariff will force through the retinure' hinds to the bulk of 120, ore pounds, will bo $1,560,000, while 105,060, pounds of the higher grades of sugar would bo $2,643,250, showing a protection in favor of the refiner of 81,183,250, at a loss to the revenue of over 1,000,000, ‘Ihe duty on raw sugar ig equivalent to 40 per cent, and on the refloed 57 per cent, or a protection of 17}¢ por cent, Should ono firm refluo all the sugar used in Canada, tt would net $1,000,000 per aunum, Avectat Disvatch to The Tribune, Quand, April 13.—Tho Council_of the Re- form Association of the District of Quebec have unantmously adopted a resolution which saya: “Wo fully approve of tha action of Livit,- Gov. Letellior in romoving from oflica a Minis: try whict-did uot represent public opioton nor command public confidence, and which, sure ronwerltig its independence to railway ringe, trampled alike on Une prerouatives of the Crown und interests of the people; that as the people of this Province in sustatntuy the Joly admints- tration ot the polls, after that administration had assumed the responsibility. of the uction of the Lieutepant-Governor, gavo a solemn and deliberative approval of the course adopted by his Tlonor, we regard the Interforence of the’ Dominion Government therein as untwarruntablo, snd os tending to destroy the autonomy of this province; that wo deplore the tonu of that portion of the press which, whilo claiming to hold Conservative principles, is distoya! and revolutionary in ite attacks upon the distinguished porsonuge who represents hor Majesty at Ottawa,” A torrtbte burst of {ndignation {s excited hera “by an outrageous and most indecent attack in the Ottawa correspontence of the Courrier du Canada upon the propriaty observed by the Vice-Regal inmates of Ridewu atl, Nothing eat exceed the inslnuation which fs sought to be curefully convoyed, The EAornaey and Lfstorical Society are_mov- Ing in the direction of s monument to Cham- plains the founder of Quebec, and also propose oO urge Upon the City Couucll the propriety of bla name elny perpetuated in connection with the proposed Kiosks on Dufforin terrace, MONTREAL, April 18.—Count Zaba, the cele- brated listorfan, {8 now in the city, and will preced ta Ottawa, to pay bis regpocts to the jovernor-Gencral, after which hé returas to Polund, his native country, Special Mupatch to The Tribune. Lonnon, April 13,—The Rey. Dr, Cochran, of Brnntford, has veen nominated by the Presby- terfan Synod, now in sesgion here, as Modcra- tor for thu next Geuoral Assembly. a MANGLED. . Bpeciat Dispatch (0 The Tribune, LaBaurs, Il, April 18—About o nuillo east of this city the Peru accommodation train Inst evening struck William. Harvicker, a resident of the cast part ofthe towuablp, fracturing tho, buck of his skull and, badly lucorating the back of bis ueck, Le was brought to this clty, and ta: {uw precarious conultton, ‘Aigpatch from Tyctyo says: Gift-Bearing Egyptinns 4, Their Way to Constan. tinople. 7 A Conflagration of Alarm Ohoracter Now Raging in Cairo, ing Bismarck About -to Undertaky to Bulldoze the United States, Attempt to Boost Princo MMiton a Buried tomb, 4 Sorious Labor Complications in Ingo, trial Centros in England, RGYPT. ‘THM SULTAN'S PROPOSAL, Loxvon, April 18.—The London Observer nn derstands that officiat circles, both in London and Paris, consider that recourse should not be had to the Bultan's authority to solve the Feyptiad diMeulty exceps alter very carefal de Nberation. No step trill, therefore, be taken {g refcronca to tho Bultan's Proposition, unt France and Engiand have full opportunity con. certing s common course. A DISPATOM PROM CATNO states that business t¢ completely suspended, anid is Wkely to remain so till the decislon of England and Franco ta known, ‘The Govern. ment Js collecting ynoney throughout the pro. inces, using avery means of coimputston, An imtnedlate levy of 10,000 soldiers. ling becn of. dered, Aspecinl envoy bas been sent by thy Khedivo to Constantinople. Ho took with big a largo sum of monoy for the Sultan. Lonnon, April 13.—A dispatch from Alexay. dria says a great fire fs raging in Calro, and bay destroyed blocks of butldinga hundrods of yards long. _GREAT BRITAIN, MAATERS’ NAPACITY, Newcastix, April 18.—The propesition of thy coat-minors, that wages bo reduced now 6 to 74 per cent for various classes of work, and that the romalnder of the masters’ demands be sate initted to arbitration, has beon rejected. Along and feuttless discussion followed thts action, Mectinys were leld to-any, at wbih 17,000 mon wore present. ‘They declared thelr determination to resist the masters’ domands, DURTIAM. Lonpon, April 18.—Tho Masters’ Committe at Durham has fInally decided to call a meeting Wodnosday to discuss the proposals of th nilnurs, though the Cominittcs Orat pnased reo. lations declaring that those proposals had te creased the difference, Themen at -tmenty Mors colleries will strike to-dey, a majority of . them because of threats, RUSSIA, es ALL WBLLs - 81, Prrensnuna, April 13.—The Emperor, the reception of Ambassadore to-day, eafd a was going on very well. It fs inferred: froa this that the project for a conference of Powes Js baling favorably reecived, ; DEATH OF AN ARCHBISHOP, Loxpor, April 18,—Irmocent, Metropolitsd of Moscow, and formerly Missionary Bishop of Alaska, is dead. ° ANXIOUS. : Russia has sent a circular to the Powers tmp Jingo bastening..of- the work of the vars Boundary Commissions, -abuve all tha one’ work on the line of the Balkans. GERMANY. BISMANCK WILL NOW TAKE US IN HAND. Lonpon, April 18.—A dispatch from Berlia states that Gormany, though entertalaing 0» {dea of annoxing the Samoan Istuuds, tutcnaste protect Gorman interests nud prevent tb: Amoricans from estavltshing themsolyes ther, to the detriment of other nations. ¢ Benin, April 13.—Gen, Mavteufal has d+ clined the Governorahip of Alsaco-Lorraluc. BURMAN, . THY BITUATION, Lonpon, April 18,—A dispatch from Rangoot states tat the King of Burmah has Jost all te fluepce, and his Ministers are again supreme, 4 “Three steamers aro in readiness bere to carry troops beyond the frontier, should the Kiug of Burmah suddenly declare war, a it {8 zonorally belluyed he futeuds to dos" . ITALY. GAnInALDT. Rone, April 18.—Gen, Garibaldl was taken {a ‘o carringo to the Quirtual Sunday, and tho King conversed with bim privatoly to the carriage for half an hour. ECOLESIABTIOAL. It {3 posatble Cardinal Hohentohs will go 4 Berlin ou a confidenttal mission. quay viotonta will probably visit the King and Queen of Italy at Monza, AFGHANISTAN, YAKOOD KAN. Lonpon, April 18,—A corresponitent at 1+ hore sayn Maj, Cavognarl will probably go Cabul with a small cscort to andeayor to coe vince Yakoob Khan of tho futility of reaistatice Maj. Cayagtari is hopeful of success, Holss good authority, but pothaps over sanguine. Is {a certain that Yokoob. ta invltiug the frontler tribea against tho British ; TURKEY. MOBILIZATION. Lonnon, April 13.—A dlapatch from Phill» Povolis says Gun, Stolzpin intends to order thd mobilization of the gyinnastic societies, whor members are yoluntecrs, commanded by tt? Russlans, Gon, Btolypin has informed te le ternational Commiestoners that the iinmedist? object of monilization fs to replaco the Russtat troops who are evacuating the Rhodopo Hue i SERVIA. YRINCK MILAN, Vianna, April 18,—A shell burfed {n tho rot orploded near Princes Milan while ha was walk ing at Nisv Tucsday, Hs. alde-de-camp 4 wounded. It ts not known whether thoet plosfon was the result of a plot to assassioat? the Prince, 5 — ST. LOUIS PRINTERS, t 8r. Loots, April 18.—About 200 printers ol this city held a meeting this afternoan und of ganized the St, Louls Typographical Protectitd Unton, About 160 members folucd, und more will probably do so. Applteation will bo mado to the Tuternationsh Typographical Unton for a charter. —<——— FINANCIAL. Scuanton, Pa. April 18.—Tho Providened Savings Bank & Truat Company, of Provident Pa, suspended yesterday, belng unable to mee its obligations, after haying taken advantsce tho sixty-days' law, Thu Mabilities are 875,008 assots, $100,000, priucipally in notes aud bonds oh ues probably not ior than half ca collected. ia ———— SUICIDE. Apactal Dispatch to The Tribune i TwpmaNavouis, April 13,—Mra, Mutilda walt ington, of #t. Waynes committed suicide & the Insane Hospital yosterday by banging. as asister tn the ja ward where the es was committod, an inmate of ten years’ cual mont a a If you have rheumatiam, neuralgis, of a broimy spratb,or cut tse *irawive iuussnsid Panace Awoadorful remedy, rice, 25 cots.