Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1880, Page 2

a : holunger explaln ¢ ward THE CHICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, JANUARY 65, 4 1880, ; RELIGIOUS. Formal Opening of the New Cen- tral Church Yesterday F Morning. A Sormon by Prof, Swing on Prot- estantism and lts Ree sults. The New Building of the Sixth Presbyterian Church Dedi- cated to God. Proposed Reorgantzatlon of tho Third Unitarlan Charch--rA Mecting _ Yesterday. Tho Rev, Mr. Appleboo on “Swearing Of” ---Organisation of a Welsh Oongre- gational Ohuroh, Eto. CENTRAL CILURCII, TE DEMICATION YRATERDAY, The olegant now Central Church received its , dedication yosterday. It was not tho dedication of pomp and showy coremony, but of the quivt- estelmplicity, which showed Its real object and sentiment in tha Christin world. The church Minds Itself at home in the now Central Music- Hall, which was, in nanensure, Inllt expressty . for Prof, Swing’s congregution, ‘To sny that Jt is adapted for the purposes Intended fs but repent ing that which bas been truthfully stated be- fore. The announcement that the dediention wouldtake placo yesterday morning drow to- gethor an extra Inrge-sized congreyution, As early ns 10 o'clock tho peoplo began to guther atthe entrance ut State and Randolph streets, though the services dil not cammence until 11, and by that hour overy sent was filled, including: . galleries and boxes, There {s something superbly beautiful about the interfor of tha new church, It ts, without disparaging any church, tho handsomest tn tho ‘conntry, and its nttructiveness of interior, re * gardless of ulmost everything else, cannot help ‘but draw to It large conyregations for soma time to coine. The proportions of urnce, art, and beauty are happily blended in the Intert ‘Tho ight-looking gulleries, though strong ald mnugslyo, tho stained-glass akylight, and the background of the fantastiently-decorated stained-glass windows, all give an appearince of comfort and harmony, Decorntions, acous- ties, and benuty of design must have been care- fully considered. to bring about tho result nt- tained. Confusion might have prevalled had there nat been the best of management in the seating of the vast congregation, which could not have consisted of less than 4,000 ladles and. - gentlemen, Eyerybody who came in time got a zent, and a good one, too, for there {s not u sent inthe houso from whicha good view of tho auditorium and stago ennnot be obtained. ‘The renters of sents, of course, obtained their own, but outsiders cannot complain that even the faintest purtiallty was shown, There wns one slight drawback to tho otherwiso most suc cessful and auspicious dedication: the heating apparatus did not warm tho hall ns it should, and henco there was considerable suffering from tho chilliness of the atmosphere. Thore was no attempt at-any decomtions of the Interior ex- eopt that which bns beon go well and beautifully dono by tho fresco artists on wall and ceiling. The stage was furnished with tho organ, three ebony bent-wood and cnne-sent arm-chalrs, and the pulpit desk, of black-walnut, decornted in tront with a paneled cross, To the right of tha desk was an ebony and yold stand, upon which was a handsome floral lyre, made of carnations, pinks, tea-roseg, and sinjlax, Atu fow minutes to 11 o'clock, Mrs. Runyan, the orgunist of tho ‘church, took her place, as aid Prof. Gill,’ who Ied_ tho alnging. Thus far thore has been no change in the ninsic of tho church, and tho singing was done by the ‘congregution. The services opened with tho nia, of tho hymn commencing, * Thoy who Bee! the throne of grace." When thu vast. audience rose to ita feet, It wus a alght worth seeing. Every one who comes to the Central Church fs provided with» copy of the hymns that oro to be sung, and henco nearly all who can.sing join. Congregationul sluging adds in- + terest to tho service, and yesterday only proved: that fact in a far greuter degree thin ever, After the hymn bad been sung, Prof. Swing rend the seventeenth chaptor of St. Juli, commence ing, “Theso_words.sprke Josue, and HWfted up His eyes to Heaven, and sald; Father, the hour bos comes glority ‘thy on that ‘Thy'Son may glorify Theo.” ‘Tho reading of tho Scriptures, and tho prayer receding it showed how perfect ure the acons- io propertics of this beautiful tuinple, dedicut- ed to music andthe worship of God. It is ab- tulned, too, without tho least sucrifico of sym motry or b After singing tho talinn hymn, “Come, Thou Almighty King,” Prof. Bwing made a few dedieatory remarks. Ho sult that be was sorry to announco that there would bono Friday evening meeting this week, The reason for this lay in the favt that the workmen bad been unuble to finish the small hall, and would not succeed In getting the rouin fn rendl- ness until after the middlc of this month, and perhaps inter, But they could not find fault with them, because ho thought that thoy had done well to get tho Inrgy bal! finished in thne for them to ocoupy ft the first Sunduy of the New Year, which tho en- tlre congregation had 80 ardently deslred, He waa glud that thoy had come {nto this bullding, ‘Therw wus no critieisn in regard to ita fitness. It was perfect as to ult, Hyht, and hearing proper: tes, and he thought the church owed n debt of gratitude tothe mon who had furnished tha Beans to construct the building, and the archl+ tect who must have made n long. ate in order to Dioud ull those purfections. The Murio Com- attov had not yet decided ws to whut thoir musio of the future would be, He thou tht that there wauld bo no ment change, but that tho tongreyational singing would continued, aa itmplie ty at gorvicu wis tho great aitn of tha Contral Church, Prof, kwh then preached the ‘ermon, of which tho Tullowing is the text: Thaovo givon thom thy word.—Juhn, zvil. 1. A fow yours ngo at, Episcopal Heetor of New York advanced tho {den that thy Reformation Which started (n Luther hind shown itself to be 1 woak and unsatisfactory movermunt. Since that cash, rather than bold, uttunines, othor writers ind speakers havo appeared at uniform inter= Fala with tho same burden of hunentations over the genoral tselesness of tho Prot “hurech, in England a High Chureh part and made {t thelr purpose to nppronch as pact as poaalblo the Homan avis without wholly Calling to thom, und this party svon found dintudtors an this sido the Atlande fn Eplscopul clurgymen who loved the nume Catholic, and sighed for the donfession, and for processions and candle: More recently, writers, such it3 M. am anil Ba tug Gonld, hive eviticlked unfavorably the pres- datand future of that Corns of fslatlanny y which 8 necepted by a hundred millions ef eltfeens of Suristun lands, Those oriticlans and discus: Mona seem to inky jt desirable that the Protest~ ant seots should ut thus look at themselves to tee what they are doing that thoy xhould not do, de what thoy are omitting fn the eld of du that thus ayy ono Wise or unwise should donut. thelr business In this world, The fault-tiidiy af the most unreasonable may be of worth If it shold tend uy ai] to un examinition into the merit de demerit of welt, In his book on tho moral ases of dark things, Bushnell sayy that the will- ‘nyneas of tind munto slander mnakes tho up- Aglit oven tho mure careful about tholr ations and wo! Protestantism hus become n general name for ail those Christinn denomtitions that are not Roman.—that wry not, subject to tho Lope, ‘Wheu tho term first cathe into use it atood for far lesd thin {t new representa, for in tho outs it represented agroup of rullug mon who pro- tested against a special degree of Ferdinand and other Papal Princes of Austria, ‘The new tdeas of Martin Luther bud begun to spread ike rairiusfire, and Fordinaud, tn the Diet of 1130, wid pied w decree that those who had cu braced tho now relfgion afiit continue fn tt until a Romi counail should be oulled, tint that in tho tneanthine no others should embrace tho now form of fulth, and that no provcher in this Auterval whould prouch the now ylews of the re- formers. Inasmuch us this fitoryal of onforeed aflonco talphe by very tong, tnd wae virtually a decree af gluvery for tha reformors, glx werful Princes und two Dukes, und tho putes of — thirteen Imperial — towns, such as trashing, and Ulm, anc Nuremburg, protested ugiinst uot a avervo, and ‘Dewun ut o1ce to be called the proteatante.? Aw tine wore away, the new nome expanded until it renched ite prosont dignity aan terin embrac= the mmany Chrjstlun denominations which gppies same of tho cardinal doctrines of tho i sect, That Griginul event in history will term than tho throwing overbs of the tea in our colonial duys, or tha Feaistunce of tho Stuntp-act will explain the want "freedom" or republic,” 4 those actions oxpreagcd a certain spirit in the minds of tho publio, so the protesting of the Germun Princes waa only «detached leaf from a woods that showed which way tho Bturm was blowing, Who severul ucts, judividuul and political, which folluwed Murtin Luther sprung from in newly urvused philosophy, much wider and deeper thu these avts would indicate, and that Fee id plifosuphy ia that which comes ta ny tu oe * under a Tania a Protestantism, Let us sec! some of i Brioe! ipioa, Its fret principle in point of time was that the sitmplo sno tnust become tho only document of + ony jug power upon the bellef and conduct of the Chrlstion. The long lino of Popes and councils hud made 0 muny laws aud rulings, bud voted authority to so many legends, nnd had conferred so much powor upon ehurelt aticinis ty declare, from the to time, the will of God, that All had become a perfect chavs; and, white tho Foergaremon proplo, wero sorely, opprereotl by. ho rulings of either ignorant or bad men, the upper clisses never knew what to do or helleve next, nor what might in tho next yenr or decade bdo demanded of tholr falth: and conduct, It tl ready Reomed to them that the very office and claims of the Pope had been created in the cen: turles long after Christ; that the doctrine of {udttizenves and ‘oxplationa by fines and foating, and that tho purehaslng: of sul- vation by money, and many other Papal notions, had “"been fabricated lout after Jesus had uttered what hu supnaced Was ni adequate word for the guldiuce of His disci+ Pleas Indeed, the Roman power nyowed Its righta nnd ability to prociaim to tho chirch membership froin time to tine now doctrines which God hia not seo fit to revent In the days of Jesus; and #§ between the wonls of tho Title and the now words which the Papal wisdom was supplying to the multitude, and was linble to Rpply more abundantly’, the Veotustanta mute © Wo will take tho plain teactiings of Cl considor the Divine revelation 14 closed lunyunge of tho text Christ anid, "7 have thom the word." ‘That was only tov high and too ainindant for the hearts any human addition, as they ind every reason to belleve, would come only as an errorora view. The Infalllbility of the Pope and of hfs counells had come more than once Into sod contllet with the teach- iugsy of tho Divine Master, Tt has been always) conceded that Chilliugworth — ex. ressed best this first rontiment of the ree Eirmers, and us he lived In tho first contury: of our Protestant perlod, and ag he had himself been In the Roman Catholle conmunton, his words ingy well be inserted hero. Writing ton papal magnate, he saya: Know then, lr, that when I suy that in. prudence tho Proteatint re- Neton is tobe preferred before yours, Lilo not, on the ono aide, understand by your religion the doetring of Dellarmine or Baronhis or any other private min amongst ¥ nor the doetring of the Sorbome, of the Jesuits. or of the Domin= feans, or of any other particular company among yous but] mean that wherein you all agree, ar brofeas to nyree,—the doctrine of the Couneil of front.—so accordingly, on tho otbor side, by the: religion of Protestants Tide not understand tho doctrine of Luther or Calvin or Melanethon, nor the confession of Atgshury or Geneva, nor tho entechisnn of delbory, nor tho artleles of the Church of England: no, nor tho hurmouy of Protestant confess but that in whieh they all agree, and to which they all sibserthe, with a greater harmony, asa perieet rule of faith and prnoticu: that is the Bible.” Porbups no one has, ever sinco this Chilling- worth, stated Letter this rst truth which wis written down in tho doctrinnl entegory of the reformer, And fu this prime statement we that Romunivin, instend of being a yrent uma. ny, was Just what it necuses Protestuntisny of being—n great confusion of tongues: and that the reformers were turning back to the Bible in th standard that would be both aim= ple and unchangeable. Ont of one tumult bad come tho Waldenses {1 the twelfth century; out. of another bad come tho Lollards tn the fours teenth century; and up had sprung the revolt of Savonuroln in the Hftventh century, preevding: that of Luthor In tho sixteenth; and Prot estintism was not on pursult of end- less variety fo) much na itn elfort after tho peace of the New ‘Testament. Ine deed, i the fourth century. the latins of the State and Papil Church werg denied, and an pe position seat founded called the Katharal, tho simplitied or the purified, thus showlig is that Romunisn never enjoyed tun more oF doctrinal inity than 1s exstomary ta all the other forms bE hunmn oplaion, Upon, either. religious or politien) subjects; but, on the opposit, Just like oll philosophies, it has been toased about ke storiny aca, Protestantism was a pursuit of ample truth of fuith agd duty. Wo may here quote again some words frum the same carly exponent of tho system, Chillingworth says, “Teannot find any rest for the syle of my foot ‘but upon this rock only (the ible), Leo plainly that there tre Popes iginst Popes, and Councils against Councils, Romo fathers nauinst other fathers, the sume futhers nuniingt themselves, traditional! Interpretations of Scripture are pre- ten detl, but few or nonv are to be found. . ss Ina word, there is no suticlent certainty exeept that of tho Serlpturo for any considering man 10 balla ypon.”” Rotting forth with this fdea that tho Dihie was tho sole foundation of tho Christian's faith, Protestantism began to enst aside all that hed sprung up out of legend and sinple human de- crees, und in this work ft fell upon more and more of simple and yaltrablo nelbte, ad one of these was the right of Andividital Judginent. The volve of human ptthority sunk to i whis- per, and the voice of ench burnin mind Inereased in power and [iriese. dn tho Pret few gencra- tions of its Ifo the reformed religion could not live up to its own fundamental fdens, for tt soon enme to pis that 4% n man denied the doctring of the Keforined Church he was ubout ss badly purseunted or tormented 29 he wild have been hud ho dented fu some districts the authority of the Pope, Thomen who Jed the reforin hd procielet more Hberty than they would grant tk practice, but it line always been trie that tho thoory of exch virtne has outrun its }ractles: ur Colonies raged tho tag of Iberty, lut under that flag thoy bought and sold slaves, and yet the colontes woro grand- ly founded In that they hud 1 thoory which wis Mv itself noble, and which would grow uatit at Jnst the buy fry and selling of shives would cunse, and tho fulfillment grow always nearer. ‘Thus Protestantism snnounced 1 right of private Judginent far beyond what. it eould conceive of or grant, Mit it surpassed the Romnn Chureh, in that it made tho mmnouncement, for ns Rencra~ Hons passed slowly away. the ‘doetrine proved more and more real, ani greater became tho toleration of ul religious oplitons. ‘These are therefore the two Inrgest dens tn Protestantism that the simpler tho words of be- Hef and the forms tho better, aud that therefore the Hible should be tho one base line of Christian progress, and the other I4 that eneh Individual must read this Bible for himself and be his own Dna eourt of appen). Preachers may attempt to enlighten him, but they must not use force, They: muy burlurgiments at hhn, but thoy must not twist his thutnbs, nor heap fiyots wround him, This Inst doctrine of personal lberty hag proven: the master bullder of this Christian temple. Allirmed once only to protect Christina from foree and awful crucity, it hus developed into the most influential principle of all modern civilization, [te uction Is twofold, favorable a3 townrd religion, favorable ns toward all the: forms of Mntellectun) progress, Coming to the wonls of Christ and Ills tmmedinte followers, the most of free minds cannot Mnd anything but the alinplest principles of morala, Delivered from the wilderness of legend und from the hundreds: of decrees and rules of fuillbie wen, the anisd sees i fow general doetrints valuable for this world and the next, it sees slnple charity, feex, In the min, Just ona faee—that of Christ—und tn that spectacle his 1 st Numan Ife. Our const surveyors, at great palne, with tho ‘most oxnet Insttnments measied Off a Dage Tne on some small plain on the Athi tie beach, aud, thouve provveding, they eunld form ntrinngte having a aida aud two angles fivens and from these threo given quantities earn tho length of asecond Hne. ‘Thus, from the one mensiired base these surveyors ndyanced antl) thoy hud mapped tho whole const, noar and far, Ab Was netual Ly tholr extinimtes, tnd cic day waa 0 progress, ‘Thus the Reformition ine yited the public mind to cone to Just one bas Une,—that one drawn by the teatbtal One of Nazareth, to turn away from tho legendas of the inidily ages, and from tho obscure volumes of the fathers, Lo come tothis one. given quantity, expressed with #0 nmch exnetness, aud from that base to move out upon the ourlyiag islands and continents, Millions heard tho bivitaton and came, Mut thoy dtd mut vame in any Inthian perfection, Many brotght with thom much of the inlddle ages thoy were toll Ing to eseape, Calvin und) Luther, and Indeed tho entire geanp of reformers, bronght With thom miueh of outside speculation, Shes’ threw away much, and retalned nie ya a wi of West katoi, thoy took with thon: tholr pick of hounds: apd dwks, as thou they could have &port on Vhe way and be Romy agata ina few days, buys Ing Ho ndequate esthuute of the Mistunce to be passed over, md the battles to bo faght, and Perhaps fost with iv tal mortillts.so when Calvite id Buther revolted from. Papal complications to march to the Christ of tho ‘Testament, they Mittle knew how Caraway was that eablem of simplicity and Delt, and what a stripping off of old Follles tho march invalved, and on the way whitt bittles of aplojon must be fought; but on thoy eum, having ficed dismixaed tho Pope, but attended by a pack of useless mysterics, Thesu fell away as tho yeura ” passed and (o-dity wimoat iil the Protestant sects are Appronch{ag toward one harmony of doetrine— tho result of 6 longecontinuc MpUrison With: tho one iden. Tn religion the right of tndiyidunl futerpretation fs winost cumplote, Naver waa the Capal Church tn its most teiaphal tines more harmonlous brotherhood tia tho Prot. estant Church now appears, Not tint there ia no fil-will unywhero elthor between Be or in+ dlvidunls, but that in tho oman Chur ad much.” Barth has ne porteet lov ndard of or ship. ‘Tho word brotherhood {g always only. an outline of an nbsoly(s affection Just as our word ftriend- God tf only a child's wkuteh of the Crontor, When we read of the Papal dissensions ta ‘ rope, bow nummy. priests are disregarding the tenchiugs of tho Fither at Home, how the Ultras montune IMshops and pricsta wage intellectual warfare with tho inoderite Catholics who sire slow to accept tho claims of the conteal power of Maly, und perceive that) Paris and Rome ho more agree; tu rellilon thu do tho different branches! of tho Preshyterian family: or of the Episcopal fumily, wo muy, do- clare that there fa no real porfeat brothorhoodt upon ty sido, and with this truth lu mind wo, guny well uflirm that the Protestunt Churches’ equal in their common good-will for each other that denomination which ntwaya bonsta of a noverschungluy unity. ‘Tho nction of this right of private Judgment, dase gn beun seen to he fivornble towurd tho growth of religion, will bo ween to be favorable ua toward the growth of tho Individual, When all Christians waited to tearn whut thelr eu: periors would say, {n the centuries whun it wis, iinurk of piety to uccept just whut wn in- nounced, and when to ftdulge tu any private opinion waa to finperll the cternil inter- ests of tho suul, tho individual mind bo- cumo rot oo thinkor ut ® recelvers Tt used ty be the tron luw of the purcnts of tho past Reuora tion that in presence of oldor per~ bu Hidren must hear and not speak. In tho olt church tho multitudes wery children ani nust meckly Hsten to whut tholr superiors might bo suying, and thus they became total strangers toull bublts of reasoniog and thought, and were over developed us mental receivers. ‘Tho Polonfie iy the play waa nota puro cruntion by Shukspeare, but & most commons character to ‘be found in tho olden thoes anywhere, for tho millions Were accustomed ta watch thelr nyna- ter’s fave to seo whethor the cloud looked Ike. a cumel, or ike a wensel, ar ko n whale, and whon thoy heard the inaster’s word, thoy know At onec in what likeness tho cloud was rien. Protestantism is on looking away from the face of wuthority toward the cloud tteelf, and foward a conclusion deduced from a direct comparison between the cloud and tho weasel. It is therefore ns development of enc mith a drawing outof the perronatity of eneh aaul that Ives in its tniiuenee, Each prop: osition of religion thta passes into the hands of countless critios or exnminers, and under this inevssant.ecrutiny tho real morit or defect of tho proposition fs wont to appear, and two re- sults come atonee, the purifylng of tho tenets of religion and growth of man’s discriminating: niver. z ‘The hares made by the Romanists that Prot. estuntign 1s only a dental, and cannot bo ow Mother Church for 1 soul, ts a8 badly founded as woul be tho chi that American, llberty Is only a rejection of lexitinncy,—a denial of a throne, whereas our (berty was wholty done with its denlatof na throne nt the ond of seven years, and ft embarked then upon onv of the Moat positive cnreera known [niall history. It ccnsed to be n protest against King George, and became positive | ‘philosophy, 0 tt ond so new that {ft resembled the Deity Mwerenting a world. Ask tho gixnutic Natlan which to-day tes here between two oeeatia with Its 60,000.00 of people, clothed, and fed, nnd educated, living amit a restiess industry, and amid treastines of wheat and gold, and surround: ed by Bich comforts of fife na ainaze tho nations where King, aid Emperor, aud Pope onee liyed itech mmunificence, whether Ita genlus 1s it negation, and shold ft say“ You" from nll tte hills and vales, from all (ts roaring mills and tly- Ing trots, then shall Tndmit that Protestantism isa simple discontent, and that In what Is ented * Mother Church alone enn tho heart tind ‘ofige, Hut no such reply can come, Ine stent of being a protest, that protest was only tho tint indicntion of on new and almost divine fe which was coming along to separate the useful from tho wscless or harmful, and to wake up the sleeping rout of the Individual, Protestantism ts no longer 1 wit’ Hon tho Homan Catholics, [tis indeed an Opposlt philosophy, but It {4 no longer an aotive Protest or even any conscious opposition, It wins nent in tho diya wher It eden loud pros test. and almost ndechiration of war, but mimes ance prmly Uxed are better sented upon their thrones than ever was King or Queen, Tha name beomnes an old tandmark and a imemoary, and will follow for centuries the secta whieh ‘once used Ita tera] import. We hold to tho Indes pendence Day, and evlebrate st with drum and gun, but we pre no longer seeking any rights Trom England, stragaiing for release, Bo Prot- estuntion: no fonger uses ite ilrst thought and Impulse, but lt la busy with its posithve. princ!- ples altting rellglous: idens to find those that are: tho miost trac; and busy with tho fadlvidunl, calling forth all his emottonal and imental re- AuMrves. Wo eannot give the reformers credit for In- vonting or dlycovering this form moral thought. ‘They notmore saw the futitro tha Franklin foresaw the telegraph or Witt tho railway engine and trans Hoy have fame enough without being granted the honors of reading the future, but its the uel and won- ders of electricity and steam unfolded 4s timo wivanced, 80 the values and beauties of Prot- eatantiain thished forth as the generations slow- ly passed by, and what was begun ns a simplify. ing of a worship became % general enlargement: ot theimind. ‘this quality of the new religion reyenled {tself,—namely: tint while Romanian, could enlarge the iden of the Church, Prot: estuntian could enlarge the Idea of man. Under the former philosophy the institution of worship Brow; under the latter philosophy the worshiper grow and beenme ennobled. Romantsm is the exoltation of church, Protestantisin the exalt tlon of Inimanity, To the Romantist the Church ig everything, and honce whit thought, and love, and money the Yapal ehildren are laying upon their altar, the children af tho Reformers aro #iving for'tho construction and reconstruction of mon This Porleee human Individuality is not un espausal of egatism, for no one cun Bay that u Protestant f¢ more egotlstic thin any other shape of mimhood, but [tis an espousal of Independent thought, and study, and sentiment, ry enco fs n progress of all tearntng, and and art. it does not spend serits| looks as being dangerous, it makes better books and permits merit to compete with merit in the open murkets it doves not iL up its vars that no heretical word may fall therein Ike asong of Cireo to work an enchantmont, but it guys to mh “Spenk on, and If your words are nottruc twill prove that fact to you on the spot, and tho alnyer will be slain,” Romanian puts cotton in tho enrs of Ulysses, Protostant- iin kills tho enchuntress go that subsequent bullors can go by the (stands in peuce, It is not my purpose to oppose to-day tho eluims of the Cutholic Church, for it is itolng good work {n our world too prono to get wholly, funy from n God, and from a Hell anda Heavens but it is my wish to show In the most reasonable inunnerthatof tho two Imimanso forms of re- lgion Protestantism 1s greater fn usefulness, and the comparisons made ara only for tho pur- pose of making clear tho pointa in debato, Next tu the charms of seeking 4 simple creed In tho Bible cumes this virtue of bulldlng up tho Indl- Viduality of man, If now any one shill say that much of this exnitation of tho individual springs: frum clvil iberty and not from any form of church denomination, tho reply Is rendy, that our civil berty: begun, in rellglous Ibert, and that much of the glory of tha State must bo as- eribed to) tho thought and conclusions and herolam of tho religious champions of freedom. Religion has ulweys heen such it element in nature, stich wt inpnopoly. of reflection and en tione, that thoro lins bean no growth of elvil Il erty Inthe 1800. yenrs oxeopt that which was naked for at tho aitars of God, Or, at lonst, the conyerse fs true, Ut man cannot bo declared a free man while he ls commanded to bow to some religious superior other thin God, The spiritunt partof tho soul [sso largo that when there {4 servitude little room remitings far any form of clvil relenso, Tn tho splritaal cmanctpution whieh Protestantism proclaimed it concealed a powerful civil freedom destined to follow us yarled brrvest attends the udyanelng sun, it might suem at frat as though Rumanian In its uttnchinent to the Idea of church would exalt tho {den of God inore than its rival would fn’ Ste cndiess devotion to man, but the facts do pot sustain such n surmise, for few Ronmnists will be found who will afirm that thoir eect surpasacs the othor Christian sects {n elthor morullty or ploty. They wil not claim that thelr priests and monks surpass the Protestant clergy of all grades In slncere und fervent zenl for God tho Father and Christ the Son, Nor cun they clalin that those countrics wholly under their fleas, such as Thaly 2 Span and Portugal, sirpitss In holiness the nities whieh nay be fountin Scotland or Bigiand. ‘The ficts all indicate that the philosophy which hus depressed mun to litt up tho Chureh bus not brought God any nearer to tho henrt than the philosophy which | his poured Its care out su lavishly upon. man himn- self. It remiuins undeniable, therefore, that the reformed religion bus enthroued mun without dethroning hls God, thus hinting at the thought “as being probably truc that tho best service of Gol is an iidireat service of Mim through Hs childegn. Christ binted at this principle when he commanded hia followers to give the drink of water not to the Delty but to ench thiraty soul, for that was done for dod which was done for Hfs children. If therefore thory be any form of religion whieh has been wont to bund a cup of water, or of editeation, or caf Uberty, or ot awakened) ambition to a min destitute of those rieh things, that religion may toke to Itself the words " Inusmitch ay yo have Hone this unto ono of tho least of these ny brethren, yo have done ttento mee" As mut enunot Hid the Deity exposed and clothe Ti nor sick wud comfort Hm, aor in prison to visit Tim, he nist pour out bis charity upon man in stead ant aurve the Muker through hls crention, Qe the explanation what it muy, it stints munifest that Protcstantisi fa not surpassed Ww uy eet in the most clovated spirituality fi exalts the wholy Hite of man without neglecting the person! approach of the heart to tho altars atthe Amiguty. tn two_vory kirge particulars thereforys we ‘tnd that Protustintian by not 1 tathtres-not a futture in its efforts to tid tn the Bible a constant and sate guide, and not a fatlire: in Its caponsnl of tho Individual right nnd great. nesd of Inn. On xome other Bunday let us evel Wore eluients uf tte strength ind inore wisure ance that it has yet a great work todo among men ‘Vo whut better tdeas oan wo dedicnto thls now pice of worship to-day thin (ta. these two houg his, —the sinplo words of Christ and hls dis- elples and to the private right of euch mind to welgh for himsel? all those words Gf hope and nur, ly those words we shall all find erced wnough, und in tho sincore tind thoughtful ditfor- eneos of men wo oan note only the gradwal up- rixtug of the mind by wens of its thoughts; and wht beauty porfect concord inay fall a will pert ps CIN. by the pun Of intellectual freedom; Yor tho soul 18 not ulwaya tnMamied by hivmony, but often by contiicts. Whut_ wateh- words nro thoso, the Gospel und Personal Liberty! Let our creed bo simple, our Ives upright, our argument fearicea, but cureful and just, and deconited with love for alk manklid, | Planting yourselves Upon auch o baste whit will prevent the service which you begin hero to-day from boing perpetual? ff with case our elty of half uo millon can furnish such an udience composed of such people, what may it not do in the yours not fur avay whon thoso streotg shall have doubled thoir throngs, which, ko you and me, will wish to study tho duties and problems of thla pussing life? Should ho who now mlulsters to you Tall la body: or mind or soul, uy sooner or lafer hu will, you will Quel that should you call t fur bettor work. toan from any city and from any ono of tha reut donominitions be will como not retuotisnt~ jy but with whilnosa; come with his Prosby'teriun Or Congregutiont thought; for the liberty you ask you will he swift to uvocord. ‘No tho simple. text bt the Hible lut us dodicate our form of temple to-day. If other musio shall sound here Mn the scculur days of the weck, lot us moet hero on the snered: oye tosurpass it with tho hymns of t Divine religion. A new your and alow building eannot Indeed bring us'a new religion, for tho truths of ur Muster know nuth- {ug about the notation of thnes. If thera wore angels or mon Hying a million ago, thoy had 0 more perfect law uf conduct than that moral law we tind tu Chriat, and should thore he mon on earth a iulllion yours from this day, thoy will not be ablu then to announce g eveed truor than tho lessons of the Bon of Gort, ‘The now spiritual riches which alone we cun Dring to these now scenes Is a now love’ of God, and 4 how love of man, and w new devotion to al the duties and hopes of tho Christlan pil- grhunge, Attho conclusion of the sermon the Lord's Nourer, My God, to by tho Doxolugy, Prot, ity tine pro- Pruyer was olfered, and Thee,” sung, followed Swing thon pronounced the benediction, and the Aedtention of tho new Contral Church was con eluded. SIXTIL PRESBYTERIAN, THE NRW NUILDING devoted to tho uso of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, situated on tho corner of Oak and Vin- eenties avenues, wis dodicatcd yestertay morn- ing with appropriate ecromonica, Tho lot upon which this beautiful church Atands has a front of 104 fect on Vincennes ave- nueand elghty-nino feot on Oak avenue, the church covering nearly the entire ares. ‘Tho structure ts of Lemont stone, rock-facod, with dreased Columbia sandstone for trimmings to doors, windows, ote, wll the colum ns, enps moldings, ete. belng of tho Ixtter stuno, The style belongs to the carly English or eteventh century Gothic, Tho walls are solid, and simple in treatment, the details being bold and master- ly. Tho roofs are of tho best quality of un- changeoblo alnte, The harinontous proportions of tho tower and spiro at tho northonst angle are deserving of all commendation, and tho broken Unesof tho bullding contribute in no little dee gree to tho picturesqueness of tho design, The Spiro Is 140 fect high. The audlonco room {a entered by two noble Porches fronting on Vincennes avenue and from n hooded doorway on Oale aventte, All of thomare largo, with commodious vestlhites. Thorots also an chtrance from the pastor's study and from tho chapel corridor, In the qudltoriinm the speakersand hearers are brought Into such relations with ench other ns to aceuro All the advantages of maguetic Interecommunl- cation, the circular arrangements of the puws and tho amphithoatrient section of the toor making even tho distant sittings seem near, and grouping tho audience so that tho spenkor bus thom atlunier hiseye, It Is lglted from tho fast by five clustered windows on the ground Ane, sitpplomented by a magnificent rose wine dow fifteen feet In diameter. The sides yleld inellow Heht through beat windows of much novelty In design. AH these windows are fitted — with —cathodral gies, aud the quality and reposs of color and dignity of design ure excellent, The pews tre arranged §n concentric circles, with wiles radiating from tho plitform to the various doorwnys, he gholr multery ta placed behind tho tiple plat. form and rilsed only a few steps above it, The chotr front, pulpit platform, and pews fre all of black waltiut—tandsome in design, and tinely wrought; the ettshions of deep maroon, the pow ends ehiboritely Inlaid with while holly ornn- mentation, each one being diferent In design. The nudlence-room ceiling Is divided into navo and itfstos, the nave portinu being forty feet high and semt-polygonnl. ‘tho aisle cellings wre twenty-three feet high. Size of room, BS ated feet elght inches by ninety feet four Inche: seating capacity. 8), ‘The henting and ventil Hon ure al thitcan be desired. ‘The Ighting [s ‘by 8 sunburner and side Uichts, ‘Tho freseving Is certainly most artistle, and harmonizes perfectly with the atuined glass, enshions, and carpets, a cheerful effect is produced, and it Is well cons cclved and urtfully executed, ‘The acauatics of the rvom ure perfect and attest the care whieh Mr, Willcox, the urohitect, bestowed upon the — proportions of the — church. A. nietform with rending-dosk takes the place of tho old-fashioned pulpit, and behind this and separated from (t by 8 solid yietitfon of walnut wood the cholr uregented. Yesterduy tha plat- form was covered with flowers and exotia plants, nnd tho partition was draped with over Ereens, Iberally Interspersed with flowers. ‘Tho Kev, H, 7, Miller, pastor of the church; Prof. Iuckman, of the Northwestern 'Thoologluat Semloary; Prof, Pronela L. Patton, 2. D., and the yenerable * Father" Sewall, occupied the platform at tho morning session. The edltleo wits crowded to Ita utinost capnelty, chalrs belng pies in every aisio, aud many persons stand- ng. five services commenced with an organ yolun- tary, followed by an onthe by tho chofr, Prof. Bhi an invoked the Blying blessing, and tho congregution sing ALL ball tho power name.” Portions of Seripture-—Samte, vile 19-1 and two verses froin tho sixth enapter at Seeond Chronicles~were rend by Prof. Blickinan. ‘The prayer of dedication was made by “ Father” Sewall, and, after the singing of another hymn dy tho conyregation, Prof, F. 1. Patton preached tho dedieatory sermon from the text: And from thence Te ros und wont unto the borders of ‘tyro und Bidan, and entered Into n house, and would linve no man know it; but Iv could nut be Wide—St, Marky 7g Prof. Patton suid he would call epeeinl atten- tion to tho lnst eluwouf the verse, * But He could not be bid." wo things were notleewble: our Lord's desire tu pacity publicity, und THs failure toda so, Taking 1s o1lpotenee for oxituple, what.n grand opportunity there would, have been for Jesua to become x populur {dol it He hind chosen to gxorvise His powars, Ho would work i infracly when He could do good thereby, and wo reag:of Hit curing the sick and ralsing tha dendéSit when a miiniele was desired fn order to, ktisty His own hunger Christ did not exerg@Milis power. Stranie to any, that, possessing Ail’ thoso rosourceys, Jesus of Nazurett way anything but a populur idol, for tho popular yoru wait tunst Ht nnd the people erled, “Away with Tim, itis not fit for thi man to live.” “Chrlat's sublime represston of Iimself throws light upon His ebaraeter and’ the work which He enmo to do, One attribute filustrates another, The fuet possessed! = pawers which Ho refused to use shows hls atneority, and 1s rent argument tn favor of His divinity, Tho death of Christ was not tho result of tinforesecn, clreumstanees or popular prejudice, Christ came tadio, Notice ulso tho further passage. Giving Ils disciples strict Injunctions to secrecy, per He could not be hid, “Men might not love iffm, but they could not ignore Him, ‘The tows of 1s miracles \sprend Uke wilu-lre throughout the whole country, Jesus wis amarked min, The cuinmon people heard Him gladly, but thore wag ‘smaller chic of nurroweminded men who ope, posed, feared, and hated Hin, The doctors of tho Templo could never forget the 12-year-oll ad whoillapnted with and yanquished thom fu debate, and it wis not too much tusay Unt thers: was tt coturio of chief priests and Reribes whe eubstantinily tgreed that Jesus of Nazareth was an unsufe man, The vommitteo sent ta exuming hlin reported: * Never man spake Ike this nun.” Jesus stood Ina polent{c nttitude toward tho Pharisees and Serthes, Ife opposed thoir practice and thele thonlogy, and told thoin thoy had perverted tho Word of God. Ho wits reformer, and the reforms He propuscd wero: aianoLeiually: opposed tu the Interests of tho priests, Christ could not bo hid. Christiaulty eannot be Ignored, Tho religion of Christ 15 1 conquor- Ing one. Other mon hive risen Ike stuns, reached the zenith, and faded away tato ever= dnating nlght, but tha mine of Chrlat, Ul Jone-sturof northorn latitudes, knows elt! riging nor setting, ‘Tho learned Jews and the Gontites, the selt-righteots and tho wieked, ul ullico. fpposed Christinnlty, but becnuse they dd not Uke it did nat” prove that tt wus false, Tt mado: ite way in aplte of All opposition and conquered ‘the world, dosus ‘ppented to what ts deep und abiding in man’s niture, and the peinul pie Ifo prenched are ns trp toy as when thoy were uttered. He preached A cosmopolitin’ religion, destined to conquer tho whols world and adapted to all peoples, When Ho Introduged thla new depart Ure in rellglous Ife Ho did noteluin tint the religion He preached was ono more toadidto those in nee, bE tht it wns to supphint all otbora. Christhintty contained ono dlstinetive clement Inwhleh all others were wanting, ‘Pals was tho incurnite Son of God, who dled for alte ners, ‘Teneher of compirative theology shaw taut othor rellions contaln common grounds ot Deller and common tenets, such us tho oxbitenee of 4 God aud 4 future fife, but Christianity atone oto to manicind a Savior, the Son of God, who dled that they intght ve. Tt atoud alone and it enisted the aympathies of all mon wheres preached, Christianity was a universal religlon, to be yaderstood of nll men and adapted te. tho needa of ullsinners, Tt was the roligion of the poor. Christ sotup no educational or intel. ectual qualifeation for salvation. Tho Chris- Yan Heaven was not designed for any anid) elias, but for all mon who belleved, Christ suid that whoover would put contidonce tn it should bo assured of cterml life. Chrlat came to gelvon practical solution of the probloms whileb had oxerelyed the minds of Unkers and pacers for nges before Hie ndvent. Mon bil thought out God's existenoe, rensoniyye buck fram effoor ta cause, and had arrived at some (aint idea: of an everlasting life, Christ eno to formulate those great fuuts into 1 bo- Me Riiaho Trench. the true God, aud the heirs of the Apostles wero given an uadurunico uf What wis truc. flo come naa great thinker, to take hold of the iyeat fucta whieh underiia hinan- ity, John Stuart Mil bad acknowlAdgod tho logt dl eoherenee of the Phllusophy or yy but bud fuforred that It miyut yet ted by another religion equally vo uit the tifeon earth of Jesua Christ, uth on tho crosy, formed the strong- oat argument for the finite vhtrieter of the re- Myton which He proached, Ho uid to the slek, “Take | up y bod and. walk,” and the alek mon walked and leaped, sun i thia showed the Divinity of Christ. Ho anid ® Dostroy thig teniply, aiid in threo daya it wball rise dzain, ‘This fe auld spouklug of the denth thut Hy shoul! die, But tho Juwa thought Ho spoke of tho ‘Templo In Jerusalem, and thoy ronounced Him at bhvsphemer, and emnulentned Um todeath, ‘They took Hin it His word, and He fuliiied it. he stsiug sin on the third day tovked down aes an chiply sepulchre, Chrlut hud risen, and Ils word was proven trite, Ayowed disciples. and) pronounced focs of Christ ullke sponk of Hin, and to porwoution 3 WOll a8 propagation is in a grout measure due the presvnt atticude and condition of the Chrise tan religion. Judas Iscariot was notte be ox- eused, but he was a factor in the grout work which was designed from tho beginning, The perivoutora of tho ourly Christiuns wero Not to bu oxcused, but tlioy, tao, tad tholr part. ‘Tho question’ was inallages, * What think yO of Christ? Chrlutiungs must nover forget hat the word js but a amutl part of the unl- vorde, uid that n vontury ld but u short time for tho presentution of ond uplsode in God's great: plan. Men forgot that thoy can ouly sey a Uitte way, and dn this yreat university of tho world, under ulfferent trujning and ditorent feuchirs, God wus training wou to u blghor be- of gnd a avttled orthodoxy which should be so- cure ugulnst all tho ‘attacks of skepticism and unbellot, God's purposo lay behind It aj) and would worked out tn Hfsown time, Chria- tlana should bo encouraged In thelr labors gud strive curnostly to fuldll the commands of thelr mighty) Muster, even though they could seo bit a little way and could riot fully comprohonid the great planof tha ctornitias. ‘Thu wiala system of Christlunity wis harmo nious and symmetrieal, and lia oflinne was the Incarnation. Botweon min and God thoro wits no gp? the Hicarnate Son of God was tho bridga between tho two. Christionity was tho mitre ringo between mun and Ged mate cerita hy tho fneammationef the Son of Aad, God becom ing nnn; man rising up to meet God} and both tnited in tho person of the Son of God, who wis: ntoneo Gadand man, Christ camo on eurtiy, lived His spoticss life, died His racrificint! death, and rose fron tho grave to the richt hand of ils Fathers all to secure to man snivation, Henyen and earth might pass nway, but the word of the Lord endureth forever and over. Chrtat witl come tugain, and when He docs come it will be trie, ns it wie ducing Hs petty pile image, that ile cannat be pid. All will roo (int, all will come before the grent white throne mil bo Judged thoro for tho deeds dono in tho bodys TIIRD UNITARIAN. AN EFFORT.TO REORGANIZE: Tho Roy. Dr. Algor prenched a sermon to tho old congregation of tho Thin! Unitarian Church, at tho corner of Monruc and Lnitlin streots, yes~ torduy nftornoon atid o'cloek, Tho auditorium was well fed. There hos been a reawakening: ofthe members of the ‘Third Unitarian Society of late, and a aroun feellng has been mani fested to reorgunize the chutrel, which bing re- mained dormant for seven or olght months, A meoting was helt a weok ago yesterday, and 2 suelable was bold ty thes parlors of tho church one evening last weolt, whivh was woll attonded, The Interest of the old mombors havlug revived te such nu extent, It wis decided that Dr. Alger should bo invited to preach to the congregation yesterday, <" Thoreverend gentleman took for hla text the following passuge of Scriptura: : GaN tu, sont THF tua hy. word The spenker dellyered a doctrinal discourse, expressing bis. sentiments fn aceordanea with the Unitarion bellef, He satd the true religion of Christ did not consist of a dogmatic bellcf, nor init rigid ritual, butof a broad knowledge of the Bible ‘and the love of Gol and kindness to our fellywemon, The Unitariang did not assull orthddoxy’ or Cntholictsm from any unkindness, but slmply bocause. their doctrines wero untrie, dishonorable to God, and an insult. to tho Intolllgenco of human, belongs. The apeuker gaye some statements which had been made by noted divines at different times, is ilusttations ' to. show tho truth of his statements. Ie denounced tho cx tremes of Cilvinism, which taught people to believe thnt liberal Christianity was fileo doctrine, which was hated by God. He thon provveded to define liberal Christinulty, ani ex- platned that tho term included not only Unt tarians but all Universulists, all Quakers, all Spiritunlists, all Swodenborginns, and many oth- ers. Ho quoted from distinguished authors and tho words of distingulshed Calvinistio ministers to sustiin this point, Dr, Alger next presented the Catholic view of religion, ‘This Churoh sald thore was no religion except through 1 total subintaston to the ghastly guidance of the Church—to tho priests. The Culvinists sud: there Was no religton except through the Atonoment. All othors were dammed; that ull. tho prent mon of other nyes and generations who had gone before us were now dwelling in Hell and suftering ungpeakuble torments. Ono celebrated preacher had written that nll the forty-two ehildren who mocked Elijah were now suffering ull the dngnish of tho damned,—as if it were not enough thatall tho litte bora Und girls sboukt suffor a horrible death hy belug torn in pieces by euvage beurs, ut thoy must sulfer u much greater misery: through countless ager. Catholicism tatght that nll little children who were not baptized before deuth must yo wandering through the uncomfortable felds of Jurqatery, and perhaps never vomo to tho clysiin realms of prrudlse, Foollsh superstitions, certain ridienlous’ cere- monica pefformed ones every seven days, pare tleular forms for worshiping Qod on partlenlar oceitslons, rnd all Kindred nonsense would no more solvo the problent of Christianity than the indonbeams would melt down the mountains, ‘To sum up it one brief epitome, be would say this: Make Nattre evtl, the Iible Mone Divine, and Heaven any in the distunes, and your renl- Jaation will full) your fmaginution. Make earth t Babel, nnd you will ¢: “ie nee the fruits of its muke Hoenven an fndlatinct, tinuginary plnce, and you inny never bo able to And tt Hut, on the contrary, miko Heaven sturt bore, and continue in growth jn graces do good to your fellowemen, and live aa near right ns it is possible for you to lve, and you will tind that. your reallzation will notdlsuppolut your antlul- ntfons, ® ‘Tho Rey. B. J. Galvin, who has just arrived tn Chicago‘after » gojourn of three or four years upon the Paotile Slope, and who ta tok! ng in hand the matter of reurgunizing the ‘Third Uni- turfant Church, supplemented tho sermon of Dr. Alier by w fow renurks upon the sume subject, nd epoke O word or two about that church {t- if, Ho invited all who were literested In ita rminizition to remuin for a short time after ho Kervices. THe also iniounced that thore would be anothur eervico in the church next Sunday afternoon nt 3 o'clock. After the ponure ation wis dismissod, tho Rey. Mr. Galyin invlied those who remained to come forward to the front pews. He thot ine vited Mr, D, L. Shorey, 1 member of tho Society: of the Messlutt, to wddreas tho assembly. Mr. Shoroy sald ho did not mewn to sny that if thoy did not reorganize the Third Society that the Messin Seeloty would not yo on Just is they: find been going ‘oli In the. good work; but they needed the ‘Third Church in Chiengo; fpey needed the strength and mornl Iniinence which could be derived from numbers. Unitarlaniam was organized in Chlengo over forty yours ago. When this great olty wig but a wildernces Uni torhinisin took a foremost rank ench us was fmuid fn but few large cities, He said the peo- ple could not have great privileges mywhoro without paying for them, and they would havo topay’ for Unitarfuntam as well ag nnything else, io had folt and “had told several that when the great pante was over with, when tho tines becnino prosperous ouce nore, then the Third Church: could he reorgan- jzed und carried on with success. Ho believed the wuspiclous me had come, 2 De, Alger was called: tipon, and added to what. Mr. Bhorey hud said by using 0 conelusivo argue ment in favor of reorganisation. Ho reluted an aueedote of aman whom hy saw out In Colorado. lust summer, Io wast good man and & pure man, but he tokl the spenker that he hal be- come so tinbued with orthodoxy In his youth that he found It impossible to shake off tho ter- rorlsins. which it inspired, even though ho did not credic tts absurdities, As ta lny upon io SONG ony looking at the beautiful scenery, he felt perfeotly happy exeopt for one thing, and whut did tho people think that one thing wast lt was God, fit was not for God, be could thoroughly enjoy tho beauties of Nitro, ‘This was a fecling which he could not shake off. "Now," 6ald tho spuntur, “is (he chance for this Soclety to re- onmulze. and be at work in disabuslng the minis of tho poonte, Who bid been thus led tite ona.” Mr M. Wanzor aatd aomo of tho old mom bers of tho Sociuty: find requested Ain to take hold and help get things to running, aid he wa willlng todo tls shure of the work. Ho su; gested that tho fret thing done should be to ap- polit gs committee of tye to agt tn connection with tha Board of Trustees to ualleat funds and reorgunize the Sociuty ? The sugeesiion was acted wpon without put- tog ft in the form of a mation, and the Commit- toe uppolated, conaiatlng of tho following go- demens Jttis Loveduy, OB. Einos, FC. Wile gon, Dr. Houlines, and (2. ‘alte. The ‘Trustevs now In ollice tre TL M, Hisuoek, Dy, J. H, Wool- ley And aiitam: Lombun, the other two having ert the city. ‘Tho tivances of tho Church Ktayd about ag fol- he Society bis adobe Gf about STU, upon whieh an mitiual fatervat haa to bu paklor $000 or $6. Besides this, there fs an obligation of 85,000, luaned by the Contral Onitariin Boalo- ty nt Moston, upon which no interest te Pp Threo men hava tlecudy teen four Thint 5 who gro willing be ono of flve to pay’. the annual interest, and it Js thought that tho othor two wil ba found shortly, and that the soulety willie roargunkzed, ‘There have buen no aerviods wliee list May, _ in ensue they succeed in roargati- iatng, the Rot. Ue L Galyta with probably became the pastor, Cho uuiuil meoting of tho Bocloty wilt tako pluge next Slonday oveniag, tho 12th Inet, JAMES KAY APPLEBEE, A KERMON ON “ BWRAIING OPETR. Jamos Kuy Appicbee considered “ Syvoaring OIF for the Now Your" {n his sermon yestorday morning before the Chlengo Freo Religious Church, at No, 804 Cottage Grove avonuc. Hh text was na followas . : Arhy, und lot us ue hence, Johny x04 Bt. Thore wero two ways, eakl ho, of mensoring tho passing away of thav,—ona by tho recur rengo of birthdays, and the athor by the roury renov of such days us New-Year's, whon thou- sands cherished tho snmo goncral emotions at one and the sqnie tine, Buttho duy, and tho thoughts {tf Inapired; jussed uway, and iu" ay fow weeks It would be’ hard to recall the fervency of those emotiona and the Nrnnosa of tho rosolutions then formed. What had become of. the swearing of done twelve matiths ayo, renewed !n the swearing olf of three duys nyo? And where, in threo: weeks’ tine, would tho present swedring uff bo? Tho prcgont, wousuring It by years, hud vot so much relation to life as u drop of water to tho ocean, a8 4 narrow streak of gunshine bursting in upon wdungoon’s durknoss to tho bold splendor of tho orb of doy muking ull things warm without. ‘Tho world, which had bousted an Alexander, a Napoloon, and luttorly a Grant to preserve to maukiud tha unbroken grandcur of this great Ropublic, and which hud cchopd with Bhok- Sponre’s subtime spooch, was but u. shadowy seene in whith tho forms of Ifo strutted for a time and thon departed. Compured with lfy, It wad asa talc that ts told, Life would onduro, while tho world waxed old, Ty common consent the New-Year's senson find come to bo set npart aa a reckming time with Individuala ns wel! ns soctetios, much ng the merchint choso his day for striking his balance and lading Just where he atood. And the prie- tlea might botndulged in on this oceasion for tho purpose of glancing at tho posidfon of this ehureh, He regretted to say that the attendants on {ta services did not number tho full Ust of noines on Its register, Ta pronching was worth something, or it was worth nothing. If tho Cor- nor, It waa but right that ho ‘should exvect Jorger benriugs Hf tho Jattor, all that was neces. sury Was to nequalnt hin with that fact, and he would =mako way for some ono ifcrentian = was the altree vof ull rollylous Woeralism. Tf they could not be moved by any higher motive ‘than foar of bell thon there was ne ignorant, Eg revivalist who wits not. tholy moral auporior, It thos: did not belleve tna futury hell to bo shunned, thoy. at least beloved In this present world, and: that tt salle, ‘bo tinproved; and tho higher motive was furnished by a desire to destroy the present hell in which so many were dyollltig.—n_ hell of Igngrance, fitolorinee, crecdal narrowness, pov- cele ict and shine, Unilke ttost churches, bellpY or disbelief in some dogmntor other con- stituted no bund of unity in this, But it would be well, ut this anapiclous senson, to swear Of... svartain things which =o hud too nud ebiracterized thon. Suppose, for instines, they swore off vomliy lite, BworD off (not eoming nt all, swork olf the! moral eowarlice Involved In permitting 1 few snow. flakes or tainedcupa to prove stronger than tholr atthchment toa principle, awoke om grumbling itive the chairs were hurd and somewhat mortifying to the flesh they accommodated, Thoy were tho,best chalra tho church cout af- for nt present. and [0 would never bo able to atgrd better §€ tho members. permitted such sina mortiications of the flesh to defeat thalr grand church principles. Supposo they swore oral noness, udlference, enrelesness, Anil mnestiess, and then. in tle wards of the text, thoy would “aria and go hence,” tn grander puths of usefulness, to the sunlight of ‘wider freedom, to the Delectable Mountains of warmer life, és Past experiences, howover prinful, wero of {n- enlenlably yal In tho sun tol of life, "Po le= stroy one of thom would he to destroy the aym- metry of the whole, The instinct ty minke good wives was of itaclf miindication of a striving lo better, Tha mun who resolved to smoke: NeIMOre than one elger practically confessed that bo had been smoking # little’ too mitch. The good resolve might come to nothing, but in the making of ft one hid ao psex of i better Aifo than tht which he was lending, Unt he was afrald that this was about all the good that those: resolutions did. It wis nut good to dure Nfv with too many clasts Peet Man shout be ready to guard himself by a living principle of vight within hhnxcif rither than by somo lonet tpsoructed mumpart from without, If he would not or could not do that, however, the nuxt best thing he coutd do was to rule him sell by menus of some outward ly. ‘There was virtue (n this pledging to do and not to do, but thore was a far higher yivuue in that eclf-polsed Judgment that found in avery emergency its own hiward and loving law of right. In thls lay: thofr fitting aspiration Cor the new your—nn ns- pirition after tho virtues of the noblest elitdren of the racy; an asplation which would ery out to then to arlgy and zo hence" from 1” past. narrow, dwarfed, and crucl to au futuro bright: and great, and to all good and inureiful. A WELSIL CILURCIL 178 OLGANIZATION EFFECTED. The orgunizntion of a Welsh Congregations! Chureh was elfected yesterday aftornoon at the Unton Park Church, the regular acrvices in the Welsh Innguaye having been performed tn the |, Morning. At tho afternoon session there \ about seventy-five presont, ‘The — ser lees opened with tho rending of tho Seriptures by tho Rey, John P. Williams, of Thacine, Wis, which was followed by singing. ‘Tho Roy. F. A. Noble, pastor of the Union Park Chureh, then detivered an inveention {1 usta, whiel: was followed by ndiscourse fin Welsh by: the Rev. Simuol Philip: Ville, Wis, Thon came another hyn and the readlug of t articles of faith and chureh government, fol- lowed by tho consenting thereto by the ment of the now organization. Che ceremony of tending the right hand, of fellowship was pre- sided over by tho Rey, John Davies, of Blucmont, Wis, and tho prayer of recognition and conse- cration was offered by Prof, Franitin W. Fisk, tn Engush, After the officers had becn uly it stalled an Enalish address was delivered by Prot, Hourdioan, and the conzregntion was dismissed with tho bencdiation. The regular seryices will be hold in the elusa-room ag 2380 aud 7:30 ouch Sunday, ORDINATION AT SPRINQFIELD, Th, Spectat Dispateh to The Unteagn Tribune, BruinqeieL, OL, Jin, 4.—The Rt, Rev.Gcorge F. Seymour, Bishop of Springileld, this moruing ordiined to the privathaod tho Roy. 1G, Whit- loy, Deacon. ‘Vhis was tho first ordination ever belt in this elty, and tho second tn the diocese,— tho first belug that of Mred.G. Wright to the dluconata in Decatur Inst week, Tho ordiiation sermon was preached hy the Roy. Dr, Easter, of nose ae The ay Dr, Corbyn, of Quiney, ‘ssisted fn the services, all tho clergy present unlting inthe tmposition of hands. he muste was partleihirly ‘linpressiye. ‘The newly-or- dutued priest will continue to offletute ut Waver- ly ond SManstlekt. THE GLASGOW BANK. Roport of the Liquidutors of tho City of Glasgow Bank—The Mixery Caused by the Process of Paylng tho Credite Orne London Datly News, Dec, 18. Tho report of tho Mquidutors of the City of “Glasgow Bune carvics uv govd deal further one of tho most. painful sturles ever told Vn modern thas, Aga ture businoss statomunt, and apart: from tha glimpaos it gives of a widesprond so- celal ruin, the report may bo regarded ns sligue Intly satisfactory, ‘Tho bunk closed on the 2d of October In last year, and Its unfortrnate ahare- holdors rosolyed on a voluntary Hquitition “twonty days afterward, Thoy already say ruin before thom, und thls report tolls how wide and. hopelosa it hus been. When tho bank failed Its dobts to depositors and others amounted to 21,805,500. The ussets were nob known, During the fiseal year of tho fquidution the Bim of £4,850,608 huts heen realized fron. theso ussots, and £4,452,068 have been collected’ from tho unfortunate sharcholdera. OF this 20,080,000 add, litte inere thin £100,000 bins been ex- pended hithe casts of Uquidation, and th q with tho exception of a balance of £1,000, bits eon paid to the creditors. Tho proforatly and secured creditors buve. reecived pyer 21,500,000, and threo dividends, making togethor Vis $a dn tho pound, have been puld to the unsooured creditors, absorbing rather more thin 27,250,000, ‘Tho niitysdobta amount in round numbers tu 23,810,000, und tha: Assets, with tho sume stl to by recovered from. tho shareholders whose means ure vat uttorly exhnusted, amount to about £4,508,000, leaving an balitnes of £408,000 to week the Interest payable on elalms mid tho further cost af the liquidation, ‘hess Agures are reyarded by the Hyuidators as leaving nO doubt that a) the | ereditors of tho bank will eventuallyybo pat in fall. They promise that a further paynient shallepeodily be up the total of tho divi- but the or a vane inade whieh will briyj deus to, Aftoun shilling? in the pounds next iyo ehiiinges may bo postponed altevatle period, us the further pre dation, whieh consists Nrast of thy dlsposal wots very diltlealt to realize, and second, of the further squcezing of in fnetedimintshing Hat of gvontributor not yet absolutely rulued, will be a tedlous procoay, ‘The,terrible story of tho recovory of those four miillots froin the shareholders of the bank Is full of suggestions of suifering and ruln, The lst of the persons Hable to contribute consisted , of 1.810 separate Individuals, “‘Thuro wero only 1003 sharevolders in thojrawn right, and there wero 13 bolivs of tritatees which comprised 434 fudivisial names, There wore 108 persons who Hid Yeon brought da by holding stovls he- longlig, to thelr wives, and thirty-four vhuvebolders or bodies of shareholders, In the “gceond week of November tn lust year dil these people recolved a call to pay £500 on neqount of every £10 af stuck thoy huld in tho bi ‘Tho amoune thus called up was over EAU, and at tho duto of the report 2 Ittle Jess thitu nlf of it had been realized, The soc- ond onl was inade in Aprit last, and amounted to a ne arezey tor covery £1 of xtock. By the tine this was sent out tho number of the vontiibutors hid werluusly diminished. TAtlya- tlon had resulted in tho removal several mod From the Ist; others had been Gntlrely rulucd™ by tha frst call, und the second enll was, consequently, sent to only L518 persons. ts hlominud nnionit wits nearly 23,000,000, but, It had only realized ut the date of tho report a lt- Uo tore than £220,000, The It secon not to have undergone much diminution by the dis+ hongst- course of runuing away. Thore are only bal€ a dozen whose addresses hayo. bot been scoverod, and thore wre elghteon whom since the stoppage have Toft thelr places of ‘abolo and have Mot beech trived. ‘Tho tirvt call was putd in full by 442 of tho shareholders and suventysnine bodies of trustvos; even the second gall found elgbtyelve Porsond and twenty-seven budlos of: triatoes ablo to discharge It, and there aro still sixty: eight who ary expected to pay itin full oventu ally, Adarge number aeom to have mudo thelr utors who could only pay hatt n. million out of three millions and “a quarter domanded frog them, and wero then ruined. Tho hankenptotes uaner this eall were only lve. Unior cach ¢ howaver, (hore romain a considerthle numte riddl, Tat tho whole amount. of the ruin spread ainuny {hap 1,800 people has not yeb been fully piehet, oven at tho ond of the frat ye Kuidation. ‘Tho fallure of tho Glagow Rank hug, thoroforo, resulted $n the, entire rity of moro than a thousand persot t 13 Inpossible for oven tho livelicat tinngination to depict the vast aggrogate of misery thus caused, py pee COLORADO MINING. Product of the Rtnto for 1879—Some Lenidvillo Statintion. Denver Tribune, Jan, 1, Tho mining ‘Industry in Colorado during the yeur 1870 mado n grand step in advance. Not only fn the yfeld of precfous motals, but in ox. tent. of unexplored country opened up to settle ment, tho your 1870 Is not appronohed by any that has preceded It. Cotorady has added to tho world’s wealth in preefous metals, since Its frat settloment? over $101,000,000, Ils product of prectowa metals for tho year Igy ‘Was $19,110,004, In 1878 (t was €9,820,443.12, show. ing wn Inerenso in ono yenr of $0,200,118.88. Total,, Prey 0 ITI, Take County shows the enormous Inorenae of $8,759,605.00, Clear Crock and Park Counties arp the only ones whieh do not show on snereaso. LEADYILLE. At tho beginning of tho yenr 1879 senrcely trrenty mines cota he eounted In tho Ist of prov ducers of milling ore at Lenilville. At tho be ghining of [Hsu fully sixty mines have attained tht muni. a8 reyurds the minos it mine ‘bo observed In Fetusat Uiaé the tron Mine exbibfts the grentest atcral opening pon the ven; the Morning Star, tho largest shows of minvral without support: ing timbors; tho “Little Pittsburg group, the heiviost, Rtendy production; tho Crysolite group tho moat rapid development into tho first wink of producers; tho Breeee, the ebampton tron deposits tho Columudo Prine, tho gold tne nunzay the Rightind Chist Consotidation, the most minssive of revent discoveries; the Ponders y crete tho great furore of tho your, because be ow the supposed Hine of contict, and fnally by the Robert Loe, tho richest depusit of ore ever mined feous wallver lode. Same of the con solliations number from two to twelvo dlstrict elaéins, und the list of producing proportics 1 ' as follows: Consolldutions—Cryaolite, Little Pittaburg, Sminil Hopes, Mining Poal, Ade Wighlund Chlet Jide, Avgenthio, Tron, Breece, und Virgiitus, ‘unten, Bobert BT Iittle Chile, Annie. Dy ice, Climax, Carbonate, Jou Bati ‘ankes Doodle, Evening Btar, Morning Stir, Colorado Prince, Little Ince, Nevada, Crescent, Etna, Long & Herey, Pondery, Forshkon, Agausiz, Siittgalen Nueson, Silver Wave, Silver Cord, ‘Little Blin Helcher, Little Giant, Unelo Sam, Henrietta Miles, and others, Tho subjolned fist ranges from men who Packed theie blankets Into Leadville up to tho who had capital with whieh to. begin operations amd docs not tnelude tn full the sities made by © cach or all Interests yet helt by them, but only Buch transnetiona as fre recalled by the writer, ‘Tho Het could be prently extended by seareling + the records and by mention of the army of busi: & ness men: E Diele and Pat Dillon, $150,000 from sate of Little Chief Mine. ’ eRe Spencer, $6,000 silo of {uterest In Cryao- 0 Mine, duck Cilhoun, $17,000 from sale of Interest in Dhete Prt Mine. . Peter Kilnefticr, $62,000 sale of Scoopor Mine, George Washburn, $62,000 from same prop: erty. Mikko Morrls, $10,000 Wolfo ‘Tone Mine, A. 1. Wood, 810,08) Tron Mine, 2 Langhorne, 303500 Vitltuire SEino, W, Johitson, $02,400 Virlture Mine. $2,600 Vulture Mine. Moure, 9.000 Virlturo Mine. . 0, $1,000 Vulture Mino, $11,500 Vulture afino. £0,000 Vulture Mlue. oy $18,000 Vultiire Ming, Guorge 1, Fryer, $10,000 New Discovery, Charles, Paty and John Gallugher, | $2500 Cumnbird and othor mines, A. P. Moore, 325,00), Mituhless Mine. 1, Henton Wilzus, $75,000, Matchless and othor mibitng propert glut Borden, 8250,000, Crysolite and othor nies, more B, Chaffeo, $125,000, New Discovery ne, August Rlgche, $202,500, Little Pittsburg Mine, ae We ‘Tabor, %1,000,000, Litthe Pittsburg + Consolidation 4 Jumes Menloy, Mike Sfaukor Patrlok Nash, and Michael Brown, 85,000, Colorado Prince, Howard Ovlatt, 805.00, Sevoper Mine, 4, J, Cooper, 242,000, Scoaper Mine, r Jolin Bartten, Jr, $40,000, Now Discovery, F.C. Kavanigh, C, Visscher, D. Riuney,, W. K, Aurchinell, Charles and Poter Petersen, and Movk, 2195,00), Denver City Ming, Monroe and George Witllumns, $50,000, vit Mine, 175,000, Sinugelor Ming, le Bene Cee sonou Onan mante Cala: nding ne, i ies, S000 obort Raddy & Jan . Lee Mino, Jaimes W. Younsor{#U,000 for yne-olghth tntere est, Deer Lodo Mine, Gorn T. Hook, $110,000 from Little Pittsburg Mine atid ore, é elsun Hallock and Capt. Albert Cooper, $250 000, Carbonate Mine, agin Plummer, $800,000, Yankee Doodle Mine. : Lrecea estate, 875,000, Breeco Mines, . ‘Nun Foloy, $07,000 In. Matchless, $25,000 in Dnlon Enna, and owns UO) etock in High- lant Chief Consulidntion, bealdos awulng other valunblo proports George W. ‘rimbto, $100,000 In“ Winnemuc, # and now Inigely Interested tn other valuuble in{nies, 8. H, Fosa, $125,000 tn Winnemuo, and boavily interested In Highland Chict aud numerous other mines, Jed, TL Uaseom, $25, owner in Highland Chief Consolidatl Charles W. ankersley, who ts credited with the Highhund Chief Consolldation, made $5),00 ont of the trinsaction, and {5 the ownor af inters eats In any valuably’ properties In the district, y W, Wolcott made $115,000 on sulv of Nobert E. Loo Ming. f Jumes V. Dexter realized $20,000 from salo of Tobert B. Lev Mine, and his mining Interests worth $00,000, ; dames ¥. Marshall hus an Intorest Jn the Ttob- ert E. Leo Mino worth $200,000, (oy, Routt, George U. Corning,and Jnmes Wat fou pee Fh by renson of ownership of the Murn- ng Star Mino, “E's, Frita mnede $100,000 on sale of Little Chief and other mines, Jacob Saunders, Willluiy Parker, and Col, 1 YL, Hopkins divtded $110,000 on gato of the Staull Hopes Mining Pool property, 5 William He Hush, of Clarendon, has made $0,001 by rent ostuto and other investments. These names are ty part a Met of thova who. illlpved in Lendvilla mines und roted accord: | ugly. : & Stimates haye boon going tho rounds of the ress fm which $15*000,000 to $30,000,000 Were tien foned ns the estimated yield of the Leudville mnines of 187. Estimated by our most cunservis five anine-ownors ind mf men hive yariel Shinply from $10,000,000 to $13,000,000," ‘To thasd who speak flippantly of “imiitons,” the sub> Jofnnd figures ure Pee ‘ully submitted for consideration: | SUATLUIG monn just $31,449.08 Tor cnoh day of the your, 81,010.10 for euch hour Of the day, $2183 for ench Ininute of the hour, ond 341 25-0) vents every aeoond of wah day an hyght for the entire your. To othors tho total yield wilt be a9 cloarly une derstood summarized thus: ‘vons of ore), meets) 00, Union Eminu, and jon, ‘Pas GP nd soc Aer, ‘ante nf Myer on Ounces wt ely “agate Valu uf gold, o 1298 Total... ee 1 677,08 Tho yold from California Gulch, in tho hoe mediante vicinity of Leadville, aud from the phivor dialogs of the vouuty, has amounted hiring tho past your ton total of $80,000, swelllus the yell, as above given, to n:grand total RIGA, Tho production of the carbanate nities for 1680 will depend entirely on the dis, position of the ownora. If thore bo * forced production". from the reserves Alcondy, ox ploited, the greatest yiell of the Novuda bo ann ent bo Golipaod, but If work vontinues of Nt the prosent thio tho output of 1870 vat . searecly be duubled in 180 by the now devoloped propertics and the numerous incoming pro ducers, ————_——— How to Write to a Sorvan Ono of tho Fronch nowspupora hay boon lnvo® {gating the subject of how to begin and ends letter written to « domestic concorning bose: hold affaira, Tho problem was to hit the happy and devorons mean butwaen familiarity ant frigidity, For a mnlatress te addreaa her mold servant ag “My dear Migde~—," or My deat Corulle,” or “dty deur" at ull, whon giving ber ordera by lottor, was felt ta be too familiar while not tu addreas ber with any conventions formula, but alinply to write out the required dl revtions, was deemed to be too frigid, gapeckilly in the caso of n servant, old, fulthful, and at: tached. Again, before slgning her name ahonld ihe Fala riots uson rae ee “Yours Rae © Yours, ofa." or plain“ Yours?" or should appund hor signature withone lt? Sovernl ludls ica with tho Mquidatora by giving wp tho hole of thelr properly at ‘oneon Of hole, co) {iid not podsezs property enough to enably thom to nivet the tirst oll, They pald about 90 per centot it and bad then to ask for a discharge, Som patd {bo whelo yalug of thelr estates by tho help of friends, und were thon loft in undis- turbed enjoyment uf them. . Others made a pommplore surrender of wil thoy prssessed 10 1ho Hiquidutors, ‘Pho firat call rogulted tn forty- olght bankrupteles tn nddition to those sottle- enter und thoro still: remain forty cases tn which It Is expected the full amount will yet he pal. Tho second call svoms scarcely co have been. so crushing as = tho firat, Tho poorest 2 been ~ weeded out, ‘There “wore, however, 210 contrib have attompted toaolye the sunecian ‘by forwank tug models of auch letters. Ono of these niodels cestaiuly: ta tervo, dignified, nnd Kindly, aa fole ow! i rH “ MADEMOIELLE EULALIE; Please to prepare mny tollot tur the weitson, a uxt hoalth." Thops to Bud you fn 4 » “huqeste Devapaae.”* passe so SCOEe , Jt, for It nover disappoints, Dr, Bull’ * cong By for BoRettlaeRpolts. De pie siete Ts Tho scorct of complextonal, lovolinoss 1s % Koop, aes porea ‘opens QGlonn's Sulphur 5007 4 y enses whieh hive. tnt ot boon duatt with; ang! i