Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1880, Page 2

nt wr z THE PULPIT. Prof. Swing on the Bringer of "Grace and Truth, ‘ Tho Rev. Herrick Johnson at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, A Sermon to Young Men by the Rev. Dr. Holland. Bishop Cheney on Good Men Ina Bad Place— Christians at Noro’s Court. Dr. Gibson on Signs of ihe Coming Kingdom— Meeting of the Methodist Laymen. THE TRUTH-BRINGER, SERMON NY PROF, SWING. Prof. Swing preached yesterday ab tho,Cen- tral Church, taking ns his text: “Grnce_and truth enme by Jesus Christ.— Jonni, ty 17 Looking upon the human race naa wile field {n which tr uth bas been broadly: planted, and iy tobo still more widely sown, we perceive Itto bo n field of great intcrest. Primitive man spreads out before ue like our earth before Its trees and herbage bad come. Locke saya tho infant's mind {6 nehcet of white paper upon which tho surrounding scene is to inka Its marks of Inngunge, and learning, and custom. ‘What ts thus sald of nn Infant muy be nilirmed of the human race, that It was fur hundreds of years n wide field in which sceds wero to be planted just as our earth, when its flames died awny or its water subsided, was o large burren plain ready for what might come of tree, or flower, or gtnes, Our Weat two hundred years ago wns ono almost unbroken, unrelicved meadow, Men are now lying who saw much of this State and Jown as ono vast aren of uno prod uct, the prairie grass, Lut with the advance of mau this immenso tablot became marked by hia thoughts. His Ideas began to Mil up the rent pngo. Tho annual fires wero checked and the seeds that fell or were planted began to esenpo destruction by flume and to bud and grow. Orchards, and groves, and hedges, and tho grains cate to declare that 2 now oceuprnt higher than tho deer or the wild-fowl had ap- peared to express in the rich but long neglected Boll his wishes, and tastes, and need, and hopes. Mun, after he camo from the hand of the Crent- or, romulned for ages ou outsprend philn ty which idens, true or false, were to grow, and It remains still a vast tablet of wax, or marble, ar brnsa in which may be traced letters or imuges, symbols of some surrounding thought: Much that was Inserlved upon this wide sur- Taco bas had to be erused by subsequent times which came with «truer shou ty and Bome- umes tho crasury was me hull done that the page is covered with two compositions of difer- tnt dates, and euch bandwriting Is made less distinct by tho Intrusion of the other upon the oye and thought, Wha process of iuserlbing and of orasuro and rewriting is Bull golngon. As our vast fleids iu tho West are stil receiving tho maple, tho elin, the apple-tree, the rose, and tho grains, so the wide, eea-ike huimon tilnd is re- ceiving from successive epochs tho truth and fancies of religion, and art, and politics, and ro- mince, that are evolved out of ull tho creative goula, 'Experionce and eelentiiie study and com mon reflection ure enuelng a perpetuul rain of idons to -fall_ now eoftly, now in torrents, upon. tho living landsenpe fi Following this hne of mealtation, whata truth- ‘bringer for eighteen hundred years bus He been who Is called in the Testament tho Truth! Tic ja said to bave brought truth and grace, He is suid to have brought that kind of truth whlet mukes man free, Amid that wroup of person ages who uro remarkuble for what they buve taught the human family this one must always hold w lofty pico. Hu must bo conceded 10 reo above oyen the highest human level, —1 proper sition which will become elear, not when you study simply what ure called t vangetienl doctrines, but also when you consider the widely= aprend dons of richt and wrong, of tho kind and the cruel, which preyail.to-day upon the faco of theearth. Noone, without being very unjust, ean: claim that all our moral principles, and eve elvillzation, have resulted from the life of Christ. Limited travelers and, eunraphers imaty event have thought that the Sissisalpp) all came from tho eastern mountains nid was a continuntion of tho Ohio, but as tho travelers and geographers: extended their reseurch they found another range rising up in tho West, whoso mighty val- Jey myde an amazing contribution to the flood that sweeps through the Southern Stites inte tho Gulf, So there were times tn the history of the Church when tt declared that ull of morals ad fnmortatity held or dreatned of by mu bad, flowed down front Nazareth; but Inter genera tions, in thoir witer rescurch, have discovered. othor mountiin ranges whase cau spring ruins and melting snows have helped make up the Ine tollectual aod moral river which moves through modorn gocicty with go much majesty. Hut tho siime progress of mind which renders tho sure Yoyorsof the scene more Just in later yeurs renders thom perhnups more upprechitive, and thohonor of Jesus may bo greater ina timo when Ho js only a large part of tho world than Ho waa in tho long period when Ie somed all of it. “The wholo of a mole~ LIN ds tees thin the belt of a mountain. If, ns all Christians believe, tha whole history of crrth makes up ono simple plan of tho Alinighty, then the natural religion andthe revenled ure parts of the plan, and no pain is inne by apts 3 the antural to enhunce the revented; for that Is not aninorense of valued, but only a shifting of them from one article to another, both of whieh have tho samo awnor, It has long been the ap- mcent feeling of the Church that the Hiblo bee longed to God, and thit all other truth of morals belonged to rival fnterests, such 1s Paganiamn and Delsm, und that thorefore all fume removed Trom these rival partes and bestowed upon the Church was great glory udded to Jehovah, But bebold! tho men robbed thus were also children of the samo Father, and in pity must this Futhor have looked upon a zenl which Dullt up the fore tunes of ono child by reduulng to beggury nn other. Tho real and wholo truth probably fs that Christinnity is an Inspired supplement udd- ed to a lurgo and (impressive volumu of Nature. Having thus given full credit to the human soul at lirge ng a truth-bringer, let us return to tho proposition that Christ, tar beyond atl athors, merits the fume of a light-carrying star, In order to feel the truth of such o remurk wo must move away from tho centrea of clvillza- tion, where thuro is such x confused muss of othics,and morals, and philosophies, and must: entor {nto those remote borders of civilization whore man dwells tn the most of simpllelty,— plnces Where wo con seo humanity in its slow rrnaition frown Bavaro to intellectial and moral bolug. ‘Thus moving about on the confines of the leading nations, wo find ulmost everywhere tho gructaus footpriute of Christ. Into feeland und Greenlund tho Sermon on tho Mount pe trated a thousund yours ayo, It had, Indeed, Teached both Groonland and Jecland earlier in our ora, but it bus been almovt a thousand yours since the morals and the peculiar delam of tho jaw ‘Testament removed the got Thor, with bis heavy hammer and bis awful thundorbolta, “and over @ wilderness of superstition poured a bon of morning ght. The details are conjectural, ‘Dut in great outline we can sve the tenchings of azareth moving ucrods to the oll Britain not more than three or four centurl ter Ciwsar had set up there the Homan power. Lt is claimed * by somo students of history that Paul in his zent for dis Muster crussed over tito thesy islands nud spoke the frat words of that philos- ophy which was to displace rites of borrld cruclty, but of this there fs only legend rather than proof, Itis of no importance whit mun may have carried to remote lands these best words of duty and hopes st was tho flying of the Words theyiselyeg that innkes the thovight and fact of infercat. “itis true thon tho Palestine truth, elaborated, and wifted, and puritied by tho Bon of Man in bis thirty yours, moved rapidly over tho lung northern ‘coutlue of society, and Er ay Rorthorn aurora lighted up the night t had been long and dark. Chrige Haulty helped make ready Norway, anid Sweden, and Britalu, wod) Germany, und old Gaul, end through them America, fur. the days of greatness that were vest tg thoge Stites in tho future. ‘Tho quails of help thus givon was of a high ordur, for af all idews the sinple truths of right, and kindness, and faith, wud hops ure the beat as the buses of States. ‘The morulist inust proecdo tho patriot and thoatute man, aod even the vrehitect wad the sculptyr, for man cunpot subsist upon the benutlful, nor ‘pou the cnihusiaenns of patriots, but upon the Tundawental, usetul ideas whieh pervade the pubic heart, Mut the bighest form of the ude- wl teright things and kind things, and there. foro {tla that tho special form of truth which Jesusof Nazureth loved and taught passed all over tho northern and temperite zones os a sublime preparation lor whut the patriots were todo for thelr countrics, and what the Hucunian Pauelpies were todo tor the arta and selunces, Saoon virtually said, * Muu must quit the upper air of mere ubstriction, and must get down to is reaidenea,—tho earth.” But this advice ta Jn the abstract ineumplete, for tho arabe, and Indians, and tho Guinea negrocsare not troubled with ethereal, Platonie, or scholastic wropositions. ‘Thuy wet right down to curth, Poe Arub ateula and plunders in o most reuliitic quauner, the Indian beats bie wuinen and chil- + dren and tvs iu ainbush forthe white mun, The African plucks a literal bunch of banund, and ‘then eats and sleeps tn the Htoral sunshine, Thu cardinal fdes of Macon, tbat the mulid must come down to this curth, will depend for its Yulue upon what this ourth may be in the pro vailing Hhouysht. A student in tho urt of writ. ing and speaking asked bisteucber if w writer Cr must Hut toll hard to express bis own M ger self, Tho answer was that ull would depend upon what bimsclf tight bo; there werv instances in which tt would bo better to oxpresa sone uid and beurt not his own, Add to tho Bavoniuy advica the fuct that the dugh ideals of a Man of truth and ruse hud Pussed to aud fro over Europe and America, dauking overywhery some greutien and truns+ THE CINCAGO 'TRIBUNE:'> MONDAY, MARCIL 8, 1880. forming tho carth into a star made by, the Alinighty. for a grand career, and you Mid the completencas of tho now erstem. “Bacon anid. “Oh, man, love your carthly homes!” and be- holt, Cheiat had rain before bln ant had made tho world worth lovings ‘The utititarianisn of Bacon, and Locka, and of the whole last two conturtes, 13 mnde'n part of the highest progress by the undercurrent of splrituadian whiedr me from this Leader In rice and truth, ‘The ald spiritualism which worshiped, and built tem ples, and composed hymns and volumes of cth- rs, and whieh baptized Inte such halite of init) and soul the onee savage races, bas proven itself very powerfnl to restraly matertal pursuits from being execasive tn thelr demands, As the mountahis of California modify tts climate, aud, contine tho winds of the Preltie, and shit ot the Rogawest waves of cold, thus avcurin, that const erpetuitl eperlig, so the tinned eiforta | of (Church, atid mise! and Christina lteratr and) Christian Dive stuod a hlcax barrier to the winds of materiaiism from. ti Wy upon the heart. Even the ble eee Mold organized Christianity, blemishes i tho form of tanaticism or strperstition, defects for which Christ was {no way reaponalblo, will not by any means counterbalan he worth of tat general stream of high and noble: tri which ran through Europy from tha Medtt ninean almost tothe pole in all the formatiy years of the modern great nitions, Tho: Words, better thin man ohad xpoker, spren rapidly from the fand of tho fig aud the oran jo the dreary land of atmost porpetunl frost. The bynin was not wn cmpty priyer of fanutl- cis, but sliuple history, whioh give us all whett young the lines “Brom Greentand’s loy mountain, Krom India’s coral strat and wo can ensily concelye of atime when hus maulty will be gind indeed that there. came Into tho world a spiritual philosophy that could check tho ethies of utholsin all the way from an India ton biewk Greenland, ee But ft was not my purpose to speculate this morning, but ty ilustryte what a truth-bringer has ever been this religion of Christ. IntoChtne 1200 yenrs ago pussed this Gospel of justice, and: purity, and love. There It was finely overcome vy the more powerful name of Confutius, litt in Its quite Jong and quite vigorous career it ndded power to ullor Confuulus dint had bean trie atid goo, It is wonderful to read what 2 pare and simple form of salvation the Roman Catholic infsstonaries carried Inte the midst of: those itl- most countless millions, Whatever wer vices and defects uf Romanism in its ald Kuro pean centres, where lux! and politienl power, ition, and jeutousy Were working rulnin My hearts from Popo tu priest, ft must be ad- mnitted that Rome always beld in her domains many men. of grout plety. We tind them In thnes: when the Popes and tho Kings almost laugh at piety. ‘The distunce between the high in of- Mee w he common people was nv blessing in somo centuries, for thit separation prevented the sing of tho) Throne and the Court oof. him in ~ Petor'e — elfair from passing out to those humblor in Jot. The sensual and wicked rulers were qiar- antined by their superiority. Palaces of sin were thug often surrounted by celly ind huts full of virtue. Goud inen there Were all throug the dark past. Andot the good in this depart> nent of merit the misatonaries are the best, A stndy of elther Catholic or rotestint mixaiong Will ‘disclose the fact that it (su high order of conseiency, and ploty, aud hunine sentiment. that will of its own aecord sall away ton foreign land to teach the tencta of the New Testament, You may pronounce the nnumes of Xavler, and Manette, and Henry Martyn, and Dutt, and dudsén, you may greatly emurge this catalog, 1 flat it to bow roll of men far above ulity Of thosy who minister ut the divine altar, The missionary is n soul that embodies two Iarge sentimenta—love for hit Master and love for men; and this type of men, even golng from ‘eorrupt Binplres, hive been themselves quite jure, and they: spoke words in Chinn and in Indin and Ceylon that were true unduseful. and which Dlenling with the influences: made thett holier, In China 1200 years ago Shey: set upn standard of moral’ excelionce and led niany thonsands up to (t. ‘The questions of conscience and duty which camo before the Roman Church in those days are ta me unknown, but those which uppeared 200 yeurs since nre known, and they were all answered much us Christ would have answered them had they been referred to Hin. The inlstionarics sent back this question: “Muy the Christians here bow {n the form of worship when the drenen a ancestors pues by, provided the mind in the bowin true Gods Rome tnswered © that y night Thoy sent home this question; ““ May o ender who hus guticn i per cent on his coutinue to recelve that per centatter he bak espoused our religion?” ume replied, “Ho may not, bo must reduce hia rate to the lawful fiterest.”| May a pawn-denler to whom Dy Inw, itn article prwned passes as his own ff it is not redeemed in certain days, continue in that trafic after he hus expressed” bis assent to our: doctring?" Rome answered, “Ho mny not, but ho must sell the pawns to ‘tho highest bikler, ‘und [iy bacictadttowner, wil Jt muy bring bee yond the money advanced and legal interest.” “May a mandarin who bos added unlawful wives tohls household ve baptized fito our faith?" Rome nnewered, “He must remove all but hls Jawful wife before ho muy reculye this baptism." ‘Thus run these questions and nnewers tu grent numbers, and all fale minds rending them will feel that, high 13 may huve been the inorals of Confucius, ho loft hundreds of gravo ques- dons to be met by, tho bolder and moro Youetratiog Clio oUt Af you will read he Chinese sige who lnld the foundations of the Ieurned sect in that anciout Empire, you will Had indeed an ainuing quantity of” grand truths, but they are se broad they define nothing: with any exuetness, Ho urges, Kindnices and brotherly love, but bo falls to state whetlor au pnt embodies such fraternal esteem, Ho BAYS: Humility and virtue are -one. Mig- Sortunes come from sensiullty. Disusters frou covotousness,” But he doys not state whother the oki pawnbroker wah covotous man, or whether tha 1-per-vent man hud this beaut! humility. ‘Tho questions whieh sprang up whi the Gospel entered China shows how budly Con+ fuctus had spoken bly words, for mon tht cultivated many vices loved to repent. the shin- ing muxlins of their chief, f, 08 18 ulmost certain, the teachings of Christ. parsed Into the Mongullutn land in the atxth century, why inay we not supposy that meh of tho truth in the Confucinn system passed inte: it trom the Palestine fountain, and inude Cons fuclus a name undor whieh many waters com Dined in one stream? As tho world refers its uld fables to sop, and discoveries In geometry to Euelld, and the Pending to David, iy minty St i local not be true that Ching bea for hundreds of yeira been ascribing to ono of her own children morals tliat camo from a wilo world, und. purtly from. those rare teachings which tho digelples of Christ suit- weed far and wide in that Empire 1200 years ago? Wo can anly Indulge in conjecture here, but this we kuow, that tho diseriminationd and laws of Jesus were once well taught in thit strange, vaat Emplre, und we well imagine that self-pride undo the roll nturled user bo to Confucius many lessons: ose ylory should have rested upon another forehond, It Is, how= over, enough to know that we see in Chin, fround certain mssionary-stitions, tha fout+ prints of Christ, Tho questions and answers ure clenr und ebarp. Duty sprang up. Where thit Tout fell, Old legends say thitt when Christ was achild new towers sprat; up dustantly autot Um ground where Ho walked. We roject the legend, but confess it wis a propheey biden away [n tho sweet iyures of nature, und fds ite fultliuent ft the morals of mankind, which come nenrer to the beauty of Howertny, ui Jesus hus walked acrog the hyiman feld. In the Island of Ceylon, in tho East and West Indias, In Brazil, in ail the great highways wid smatier bypaths of the humin family his this truth-bringer gone. Only tn auch a wide survey enn we learn tho merits of Him who begun tin Palestine to be called the Way, and tho ruth, and the Life. It must bo remembered how des- Utute the human mc hus generally been of that kind of riches which betongs tothe spirit. We dure not select from, modern times BMG lofly Men who have cherished no religious dens, who: may even confess to athelim. aud inter fron uprightnuss that relivrous fens mny be readily. dispensed with fi the formation of 1 good so- clely, Pho probability 1s, that a form of vlvillzas tlon ones fishioned upon wv aplritid basis ean curry along with it muny individuals who deny alt the ol popular tenets, The human nature of wv Btunrt MN may he precisely aimilur to that of a Corixtian philanthropist; for the HED Wee mipplies both these hearts with that pecuilur sontiment, But wo cannot titer rom thid that puro muterialisin over would hive created tho uge whieh can deal out such supplics. It ty more probable that tho vodtiness and virtue of domo uthelsts come from the fact that thelr thes have poured into tholr Tulnds and gould a clvilization wrought out ina. spiritual past, just as we all speak a languid, we dt not form, and ure born Into rhythm o€ diction, in muking whose fect wud, accents we took no part. ring before us 0 noble und honest uthelat, and nu power can be neeribed to hig disbeler until we may. hive Joarned whether athoisin mato up tho nitive air ‘ho breather, and Which was breathed tlio by bie Hote whcesturd. AW the caso naw, stands, Jt rst wid the greatust truth: aved Into thia wide mud . tha o Huming tire will eons sume some Water Without being pit out, so thin roligious sentinent will bear some atheism Without baving fa hope or virtue quenched. Ay puoyent wood will hold yp some ifun without Hluting, #0 tho eplrituallty’ of the Gospel can float an epoch, although some beavy, less hupos fui doutrinces may be cast Upon the walling abi Jt ovenrs tome here that the winds whore making arguments ugulnat the truthfulness or value of Christhinity are not mukiur sn wide enough surt of the case In pot, ‘Eho actual church fs not Christ; the wetual erceds ure not the real grace aud truth now under royluw, Christianity muy bo week th some detalls, and yet bo subline in some other and turgor pots, Of eathamte, Hacon bad bla weak and oven sine ful qualities, Milton had hours of tenature and rudeness, Laither was superativous and he bed aome very fulse opinions, Matthew Hale had a frat Judgment In some ‘particulars, Dons: thenes wis a coward ln battle, Cicero and Civsar Were aliku full of cgotiam, but notwithstanding: tho multitude and pudatulnces of thuse facts, yet these wien were all grand men, and he who should watligr ull thule eatin tea ie wet to ju aboW the cunteny, iy of muan would only show tae Bo sinall survey my be “only a biindness,—a pas of logis pither than on triumph. Bo Christunlty uske fora broud and generous treutinont, It inust not be entangled with Moses, or Bolumon, or Calvin, or with o Haptiat, ors Mothodtst; JL inust pot Bo complicuted with the storivs about Jost jnfuuts or of Bouvet mon tortured in eternal Humes, but ie must, like tho nd uf a diltun ur a Shukspeure, be read In ite Jong and central merit, In thos thotghts a that show the glowing traces of a God. Tho text reemsto tell us how to afudy and ensure this ray of Nght. Grare and truth Avior. Init what grico wae thit ame? Certainly not the grice af tt e Hotthe Bmes of a danaing-glel, not that of n- Venus de Mito or de Medici! No stich physical beauty thus came, Oh, nol The grace that was thus wedded to truth was the Dontatlty of mind that vanity, that tenderness of things which ented Goda Fithor and man a brother, The flrat noun is really an tudjective, and the deep menning is that with Chrise came eractoua truth, If later and hard, ol AKER eume along and taught cruel doctrines, and cruel things, |! thoy had left the cactoud truth behind. Tf they retatned any truth at nil, they certainly had divorced tt trom Ite divine conipanton, and promullged ideas erowded to tho brim with sorrow and lnjustice. The text, therefore, commands va in seeking the merit of the words of Joes jo find only words us full of grace ns of truth, Thos im be words full of equity as betweon God and man, full of aympathy, fall of human equality, fel of cheer, fot hope. The physien! gree which tho painters painted and the ‘Reulptors enarven, expressive of ease, and yentiones nid poner, must bo spiritualized, and stand for the willing- neas of God that ail tis children should find His face In peace, should stand. for the unlyersallty of tho offer of life, should etand for nTivine equity, which In tho Inet day will count the hon caty of cach heathen, and lear the wild Indian's priyer to the Greut Spirit, must stand for an outpoured sunshine of love in whieh the feet of all tittle children walk in tholr early years, must stand for human cheeks wet with the tears of peultence, and fora yolco which bustens to say, “Thy sins be forgiven thee.” It was this gractousness of theso worts which made them rise tipon the winds and fly eo far, Muatenl tones canbe heard further than dis- cords. When tyranta, ko Herod or Nero, who have thundored furth rude decrees, die, tho poputice, tn seercty lauhe: when n Christ dies allwho knew Hin weep. The affection of the Aospel gave It win; Like tho aroma of Howers the winds lover to carry the good naw! It Honted away from Palestine and fell in Lee tand nnd Greenland, and, with shifting giles, fell on the Islandsor [nthe empire of Confuse clus. tnd made the wild flowers of Paganisn and the cultivated blooin of Putestinod grow up inarieh entanglement; but when the human mind attempts to separate the truth from this: grace, the hopes of man bent low, the altars be- Come deserted, and Atheisi begins to compare Steclf with the philosophy of uGod anda ficaven, POWER OF THE WORD. THR REY, MENIICK JOHNSON, OF AUBUIN, KEW foolings . who ff understood to bo on trial, preached at tho Fourth Drosbyterlau Church, corny of Rush und Suportor streets, yesterday morning, and avemed to make a fayornble impression upon. the large congregation. He ts nbout 48 years old, above the nvernge bight, ond evidently'n echolar and a thinker; he basa strong, pleasant voice, easy manners, and Jan good reador. Its text wast For Hila Word was with power,—Iuke, thy 2, It was a new word, ho sald, that fell on tho ear of the world when Jesus begun to tench, Men had yrown used to the spiritually dead doc- trines of the Seribes and Pharisees, Thoy had been killed by tho letter, The sibstance of re- Nglon had faded out even from the minis of many ftling mighty places in the temple of Phy- Incterics, shew-brend, tithes, ment-offerings, and veremanials had been lifted to conspicuity by these precious alepherds of the peopleandinade tho great essentials of religion. Purity, and meroy, ond love, and truth, and Justice wero dropped ont of their instruction, Tho yolco of God was a forgotien sound in thatr bosoms. Jesus saw these men binding burdens on tho people through prejudice and priceterttt, cor rupting the streams thut had once Howed clear from tho fountalns of God, bringing rottenness Jnto the garnished sepulchres, and transform Gad’s house Into aden of thioves, So. when Ilo stood in the Synayog and sald Te had been ane ointed to prench the Gospel to the pees to heat the broken-heurted, and to ect at Hherty them that were bruised, what else coukl thoxd poor, wronged people do but all bear fifo witness, and wonder at the gracious words that proceeded out of His mouth? What promise was herel What: counsel! Whateomfurt! What hope! A new orld opened tothem, God, our Father, took plico, of Abraham, our futher, Worship) in apirit was anbstituter for Uthes and offerings, brathorhood fur caste, love for hw, merey tor suceifice, It was another Gospel. Error, wid prejudice, and | sacerdotal bypoerlay, and soulless forms tnd shriveted up all spiritual life, but human hearts felt: tho cur= rent starting igain with new tdelity uider the tenehlay of this Gatituan with U4 Divine doe tring and life. ‘They awoke us from the dead to a life diving and benutiful, All over tha t= try went the fumo of Hin. “ Wheneo bas thia mun this wisdomy" wis thocry on avery aide. © Thoy marveled nt Us doctrinu; 1is word was: with power,” Thu spenker then went into tho proof. Wher Christ left tho world, he suid, Flls word dd not. leave ft. Ho weumed to huye thrust It out into tho great heart of humanity, giving Jt potent resence there, and the pernuucney of tinmor- ality. The doetrlis grow and spread, though Uo waa crucitied. His very death surcharged it with divine cnergy. Forth tt went. from deri sulem, and, by the marvelousness of ite own ine herent forco, through tho Jnstrumontality of men mosty wnlewrned and toknown, without: philosophy, without wenlth, without acme, with- ontarinics, without combinationsof stutesmen, ne word thit wis with power, usit fell from tho ipa of = Jesus, losing nothing as tt kprend, struck on bluw ont Judaism, and Bwept wi} that = religion wholly of forma—strick a blow ut idolutey, and made all idols tho outensts of civillzation—struek a blow at Imperial Rome, and supped assinider tho Proudcat dceptre the world had ever known, ‘This new doetrine, peesing from its tow bo- Binuings, met aud conquered three of its chlef- ext foes, and for 1,bu0 yours the world hud been given proof of [ta might, There was nota power on earth that hud not fi some way op: poxed this word—not a power on carth that hid not been discomfted by it. In comparison with these pi foes of the past, modern Inge jain svermed Uke an Insignificant nlgmy. ro weapon learning could dnote m° tho arscaals of tho past, or selence de. vido, had been “employed — to bren (ia Damarcus bind of truth, to dull tho keen edgo of thisaword of tho spirit, to impnir tho temper and efticleney of this Ilghty yor stinple speech of dunuas yur to-duy It was tuinhedded Ii the world’s best institutions; it gave Inws to nll leading civilizations; It was at pence with tho great uplifting forces Of hitmen society, and dome of tho foremost minds of the race wid quillions o€ tho trucat hearts yielded to ite be- heats, cheerfully acknowledged {ts binding oblt- gations, and thanked God for (ts transforming ower, Men might die, ait tholr memories not; ustiiutions perish, eeegens full, govarumonts full, but the Word of the Lord would abidu for ever, In giving tho reason why thoro was such might {n this slmplo speeeh of Jesus, tho speaker sald THs word was truth, It vould not bitve stood 80 one ‘8 Kir if ie wer not. Error anc falachgod bad bad great championship, and hut done some hurd battling, and achleved limited though tom Horry victory, but thoy had slink away from tho tight. Alltruth was not mighty. ‘The’ siuplest: wuth of imuthemntics—two ad, two make four—bad the permeneneyof tmmor- fatty, but there waa no power Init.” Jt had ros spect to things’ relations. There was moral truth that tual respect to persons, and inen hid Ultorotl this kind of truth, grand und imporishns ble, dbhad been of foree tn the work; wrom been righted: by ity but ite had bud me such power 243 the Word of eaus—hid found ne wuch landeient in the groat heart of humanity. Jesus word was wnlvorsal truth, ell trth, te truth. ‘Trach had come from athor—-not wholly trathy chal bad boon mixed with {t, Not sowith tho truth of desis. Men hud aiftod its it had had rough wine nowlngs but the wholo gum of Hin talc wig without mistake, or defeet, or tlw. ‘Thy saucers of Els enemies, with hute in’ thelr hearty for Uitm, and munterous Intent, only brought golden, truth to His Ips. IMs word was love, ‘Truth wis mighty, even it when truth and lov vt hurnesxed her —nbyolute trat and perfect loye,—thoy did move the world. ‘Trutu was tothe ttelleet whut love. war to the heart. The inind with no truth ty feed on was tt desert places the heart with no Jovy to feud on would han beaker waste, Truth and love moved the whole man, and thy word tht hat the must of those two wus the greater forco In itself—was the mightiest. Christ's wonls overtlowed with both. ‘Truth and love jet and tilugled da ther fall tholr fullness and opuleneo, Blinon aud Mary, and the taheruen felt the power of the word, and entered wilh filad bearta Into the Rlugdom of God. Love hid hoon Ia the word of men before, but not such love as thig-—so full, so outreaching, self-fore gotthig, workl-onbraciog, Vo love the “lovely, and lovable wis not much, ‘Lo be buiteted tor our thoughts and take ft pattently, what glory was thuty - Buc ta be wronged for our Wwell-datng, and ty contluue the woll-doing q i du spite of the wrong, to have tho recul) of our honedietion ua OG steelf felt quick and sharp by mulediction, our blesstug returnet by curalig, our lave by bites ty live calmly, to blogs enemntes, to pay thoir sleepless onuilty With friendship, and to go on dolng it, not Lnpulsty dy, but conxclontloualy, aed wid cong Junly, was the subline of love, the heart of God dn tho Gospel. This mde so pions und go oy, tho word that fell from tha Wie of were wou by Hm, They could not His word, rord wie with power, nut only because tt was truth und love, but because it was Hneolt, Dehind ft was a lites init was alife, fhe forea oF His peromuliy: du [Mla speceb. ‘This was furnensanibly so with wll men whoee word Was powers it owas pretminently eo with Jest. Son knew it. felt ft, ueknowledged i, Christ was ws mutt the truth now aa ile wis the: day He spoke It, Uence the battle about the parson of Jesus of Naztroth. Get Um awuy atl His truth was dead. ‘Shouse wh opposed thy God- pel anew that He did not say “Como to the yuth,” but Como te Mo." When butnan hearts cought the word and beld tty it waa Christ the: bad,—nob an abstract thing, His word wus wit powur, becnusy It wis occesury to muna deep Got poud. Ie told bin what he twos needed to Agnow. | Miu did not need to know that bo wis a lane thero) was mw God; . but how the .aloner cand his God co SOINY ” bos gether du reconclted aud recyactling loves how sinful man contd be Justified with the holy God, Tho blood of suoritiee, countless heen- a, fastingn, roduryes, eelt-himilintions, mings, bhilorophica, honsted oracter, mck, and trees, and sbining stirs had all failed to answer to these vital questions. Men, sick of forins, groped in tho durkness, Souls siaitien with tho bilndness of alu felt for the light, apse and victims of Satan's falschood Ungored ond thirsted after tho truth. It ene at last. “Behold tho Lamb of God, which taketh away tho sin of the world.! Men wanted: away to be saved, and Jeats snd) “Tt am tha way." Men hungered for truth, and Jesus eaid, “Lam tho truth” Men nad lost tho Ifo of Gad and werg groping for (tt, and Jesus sald, “1 am the ite” They looked at credentials; thoy witnessed His mighty deeds; thoy saw Him dies and for eighteen centurt they had named Hhn Gol. He it was whose Divine word bad cleared auf tho mystery, lifted awiy tho burdens, changed tours Into songs of deliveninee, and Re red the sweetest bin of vonsolation into all wounded spirits. The grim, feree skeleton titd been transformed into nn wigel with a goldon keys rendy to open the wates and Tet us {nto tho Paradise of God. Men knew that thore was Joy for sorrow, henuty for shes, Hfo for denth, “It was no wonder that the Wort was with power—was truth, love, Him- self; tint {t atiswered man's deepest need, How coutd ft be otha rwise? Notwithstanding all satd_ about its wondorful power, the poor, werk, self-willed sinner might realst the Word, but of this he might he suro: It would show Its paver by-and-by. Tf tt didn't win him it. would break hitn. Tf would come . Condemnation might be tn tt where only bencdletion had plice now, We should listen to it, hee It, take it to our hearts, for the world would juitro'us. tom re FOR YOUNG MEN. THE NEY, We As HOLLAND preached the third of tis Forlee of sermons to young mon yosterday evening, ut Trinity Eptse copul Church, on tho corner of ‘'wenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue. The subject was “ Husiness and Roligion,” and the text chogon was Matthow, xxy,, 10; “Then bo thnt,bad re- celyed the fivo talenta went and traded with tho game, and mudo thom ottor Aye talents.” What tho preachor know of business was, of course, Blinply whnt be saw and heard of It from tho outside, Ho bad never engaged elthor in its Profits or its troubles, Ho kuew ita laws simply ag ho knew tho Inws of human nature, and, being human, ho sympathized with those men who wero engryed tn .the dimeult and trying enterprise of © trade, and who vometimes from the keenness of the pursuit of wealth were Teil into ain, w bich fids admission to all branches of work, entering even the pul- pit. So faras he was sequalnted with the meth- «xls and alms of business, he could not fall into thit misapprehonsion of it which tinfortunately was too common wt the preaent tine. An [den Was eommon among the young man of to-day all that business wis a ahurt-cut to wonlth; that was, in fact, asort of tegithnate larceny. Of 1 thb many ways of anmasing wealth they profer- red tho most Indolunt, Thuy despised the plow and luoked forward to waklug up woulthy somo day, through somo Jucky speculation involving tho employment of neither eupltut nor arduous lubor, hey engaged in day-dreuning, and very frequently wnsted tholr earnings In denis upon Change ‘and othor ventures which only in n fow enses proved successiul, Itnever neeurred to them atull that the possession of n Jarge fortune was tho resultof a life spent in bird and continuous tabor, These young men were buoyed with the stories of men who hid ‘Ueconte suddenly rich, utterly forgetful of those yh 1 become suddenly poor, and of the Tuect that In the speculative onterprises In whieh they enyaged, and iu which they hoped to fer returiof 100 or 1,000 to one for thelr Invest- ment, the odia were equally rene that they would -got “no return at nlt for it. aAvcording the Ile of rome people, religion und bueiness did not mix well. Trade meant that thoy were to buy as ebeup and sell as deur as thoy could; that thoy wero to take all the advantaygo they could of tholr neighbor, Me- Uxion could not be possessed by onu who looked upon business in this light. It simply meant a right sort of a life, A nun could not sot apart certain amount of his time to tho tricks of trade and a certain amount to tho'demands of religion, After ull, money could not. satisfy the soul: after denth it must bo Joft behind, and the belng must stand before his Maker stripped of all his posscsalons; when a ecriust ho had given to a bere gar would bo a richer possession to him than all the riches tho world over produce. Money was the very blood of our humanity, and therefore It was right for overy man to sevk It, Fle who bad ft well was tho better for itin pro- partion. ty tho aniount he possessed, but he who haul it not well, oven though ho possessed mill- fons, was nota bit the better for it. It seomed to him that tho merchint Bhould be the largest- minded of men, The lawyer was a special plead. er; tho farmer, tho doctor, tho mechanic lived in yory natrow spheres. Tho investmonts of tho merchant led bim to,watch phyaloul, polit- Jeal, and rellglous affairs in all’ parts of tho world, for they ull, In nll plices, nifucted his wel- f With modorn. faui}ities for communtone don before hitn, opening up tho whole world to. his boek and enll, the oN mint oxpunded Inte a fullor man than bo who otended to a aneoinity, ‘The relations botweenn merchant and his ons. | tomers cultivated wonderfully ploasunt sockil; ‘quaulltics “in both, “Tho city morchunts beeitine: ee of geniuiity and Aire to tholr count tends, and tho cxamplaof & Christhin, hones culdvated merchant was a vast power as on ox- ainple intheland, The fate of credit which had taken tho plnce of the old cna system in tho commerce of tha world was a powor for tho reformation of mon grantor than anything olse except Christiunity. Heforo it ouine {ito wee a man was valted simoly ut tho umount of base metal which bo commanded, and suspiefon, not truat, was the Iuw of trato. “Now, the question Of clarautor wis ut tho bottom of tends chit ucter wig wealth, and tho maker of monuy wis Bence far beyond the money which he pos- soaked, * , Another sign of the improved condition of ‘Dialness, nnd a very silo ot wis the gon crosity of imorehunts, How quickly w merchant who had fallen, tito bad. luck would be holped: upon his feet again by his fellows, who hud found that what was Hood for thomselyes wis good also Cor others, and granted iL accordingly. Considering how Uttle merchants were tn te immedinta pusscasion of money, thelr liberulity with it wos wonderful, Poople iu. other professions “hud a much morn futl- inate acquaintunce with monoy than ho, The, farmer ont tho closes of | tho ‘cur's Work held in hls hand tho result of bis hibor; but the morchant bad but ttle cantnet ‘with the money whieh he cinployed in his busl- ness. Notwithetauding this to wae most Whoral imnongst nen. Nowhoro was this fret more aps } parent thin in this country, wherg the henefia. tlons to tha land by rlek iierehunts In colleges, art muscuins, und othor kindred Institutions were nore numerous thyn in any other country in tho world, BISHOP CHUNHY. GOOD MEN IN A HAD PLACR. | * Bishop Chenvy pronvhod last ovening at Christ Church, Michigan avenna und ‘twenty-fourth Btrevt, on Good Mon in a Bad Placo," taking his toxt from Philippians, iv, 223 All tho siints salty you, chicily thoy “that are of Casur’s household, 4 ‘Tho Blahop sald that it. wasn legond of. tho Civil War that on tho battlefuld of Shiloh a dove swept acrvss tho ‘scene of carnugde It seemed strange that the amblun af -ponve shoutd be aven Inauch a pluce, and $t aeomud strange also to conceive of saints in ‘tha how hold of Cwsar, In tho. gorgeous palaces and glorious buildings tuhablted by the Emperor, who could look for disciples of the mook-and Jowly Josue? This Ciwsar waa not: the gront Augustus, the pure-minded Nutva, or the noble Weujan, No, the oifumliate fac and the evil oyus were the fice und ut Nero, thy despot, stained with the blood e own kindred, hie mother and his wife, Gd those arouid him wero tho panderers Mo his benstly just, Those who sreriticn d all mantiood and deeeney Tor the amuseinent of tholr brat master, Ani, yotin that awful compantonship, among these fernes of crime and orgies Of vive, ther were silnts, “Tt was: dinpossiile to trauslite tho text in ay othor way than that given, titat {tas ono might, Yes, thoro were Buintsof Gad in the househotd of Nero. And inthis congregution thors were not ane. Dut muny young men over whom In cariler days Amother'sétove bud brooted who found it hard futeed to tive a Chelation life. The atmosphere of thelr dally ves was miwhotesomu and do morallzing, " ‘Chey might guy that thelr only + hone was " boarding-house, it room which thoy probably “shured with another, and that other porhipa a scoters and a scarner, Thon fy tisiness life thore were other and: perhaps greater ditioulties. Prohubly thoy Were not dalled upon by thelr omplos Alahonoat dots Or to Hos med yet, in ther instances, they heard the wonts 0! kentation designed to gloss over the fucts tho purpose of driving a burgaineand then the = Whispered boat of this ducecesful “sharpness.” Yet nll these dificulties were but email come pared with those ai tho miulnta whe followed ‘uriat evel in tho halisof the impious Cesar, the Hendof crime who murders! hia iwn mother, An older min thin the on first referred 0 ie was peuhen ly pesca in the nagregution, night say, * 0 wish my niinieter would ‘Change with me to-norraw und Hs hurry and excitement of the time crowded into a few hours there 1 can bo exe pected te remember and live up te Ch [eit patra Buch wman would say that fa sy, tolllay Hite he bud no the, but that when he had gotten tirvgeh and retired from busi Yess bo would do something for Chrlat, Yet hi ditticuiticd fu tubing up thu crogs would not, tf Inerenaed a thousand tinea, compare Tor an moment with thogs which the valuts who formed ry yurt of the household of Nero had to cqutend Anothor clisa had stapled out weil, with the. West Intentions th the world ta lead a Christian lite, Dut had becomo dishoartened ani bad fuinted by tho way, ‘Thoy could wot barinunizo thoir daily business and tho Christian lita thoy woukl bive Iked to lead, and thoy mid thut, austess they, vould vetlns from wctual coutuct with this busy world and, secure In some convent or far from the bn hum of men, could spend thelr dayy in prayer. coat ne uve ta ne a ualandor on Christian ible was yoyouled atone’. tothe monk and the heruilt, ne Cherfstlay" wanted # region ! THN his whtelt bade hint put honest timber into his bull tng) honest, work into ls bookkeontis which fold hin to give rixtoen onnecs to tho. pound, uni three fevtto tho yard: which, in tho mind of tho lawyer, would ontwolgh ‘tho largeat re- tulntng-fer. What was wanted wasn Christin tty Foreoininon tite w raltaton whtets coud be 4 wed In business, and should tuach nil men tobe honost, just, and trug, twits een by tho toxt that St. Paul, welling from Homo to tho Dellevors nt Paitippi, von veyed tothem more expeelaliy and nbove all othors the Christian. greetings of tho. anints who wero of the househokd of Nero. The Christian weestlar must hot shrink from ditteuttics, dangers, and temptations, nor alin the battle when life and hops depended on the issue. Christiins mist face and overcome temptation, nol, coward-Hke, decline ie Biri gle. Victory would erown the bunuers of tho Children of Chriat If thoy wore carnest, alncere, find rendy for the ight. and thay would not only conquer but grow stronger with overy struggle. THE COMING KINGDOM. THE REV, Int J. MOSKO GIngON preached nesermonon “Tho Signs of the Com- ing Kingdum” fast evening in the Second Pres- byterlun Church, Michtyan nvenne, cornor of Twontleth street, taking for bls toxt tho olghth and ninth chaptors of Matthow. The speaker sald that ou tho Sabbath evening before hu had taken for bis text Christ’s Sermon on tho Mount, setting forth the teuching of Christ; that evening, he would apenk of tho sub- Jeot sotting forth the ninnner bf His healing. He thought that a general {den of the Seriptures could be arrived at best by taking 1 series of Inrge subjects, and in this way going through the Book. Mu alluded to tho diferent subjects which had been digeussed. They had passed over this subject once before; but at that time: thoy wero simply searching for evle dence; now thoy would consider tha sume thome inthe light of the Gospet. = Tho present treated a of miracles, There were n great miny infidels In this day who wero Intelilgent wien, dnd thors were also many who wore not go tntelilgent. Some of the intelligent ubters, who were Iarge-minded men, whest treuting of the subject of mirncles were satistled simply to diy that tho Apostalia writers were wistaken when thoy attributed the occurrences which thoy deserthed to supernatural entxos, Thoy dif not doubt for an Instant the hiclty uf | Matthow, Mark, Luke, or Joku, Dut thos sald thit those men, being Milterate, put down strange ineldents sto Diving uterposition beenuse thoy could not understand thom. They drow fustrations to show tho truth of thetr opinions, ena y sie whothor, should 1 aiifor ty whose truthfulness we had iniplicit contdence, return from a loug voyage and state that he had acon a mernield, wo would not be disposed to think that hls) senses had decelved hin? They asked what we should think of nmin who professed that be. had seen a white-wingedt man floating of over tha Rocky Mountains,— and thoy vuntured to compure these illustrations to the miracles of Christ... ‘Tho apenker thought this was not fair,—that It was dodging the: question. Could wo doubt the Interfe of Gait wo hud x Christ go to thre of Lazarus, tfter he hud iain dead tho sep four days, nnd, Bln by bidding the dend man to como | forth, be US BG the tattor walle out In his graye-clothes? When we saw Christ walking upon tho water and stilling the tempest, would we be upt to aseribe Itto Natural cHutos, ind deny the huud of God in the work?) Tho spenker thought not. Tho principal objection which modern Hberallsts had to the pt mirnales wis tho terin “anaryelous,” The truth was thit the nent. All the bistoriesot thes seribed thom ns“ worka,"—not “maryel- ous works,” or oven “ wonderful works.’ Thore was, however, another word which was often ured, und that was “ales”; ho would, therefore, tise thut word, us it better defined the works of Christ. Another word that was sso cluted with the word "signs" was * power,” Bhould a poul of thunder break forth in tho midst of a olear sky, wo shold regurd this usa xlgn. Ho loved thit term, and he belleved that tobe correct, + Most of the miracles which our Savior per- formed wero miracles of healing or miracles of merey. ‘Thoro ,was but one which, perhaps, could not como tinder etthor head und. that wus tho withering of the fig (rec. Even thnt, tho speaker sald, was a miruclo of meroy, In that flo taught un important — desson thereby, He took an inanimate onieae for treatment; He did not pain flesh and blood. A. uinjority of the miracles of Christ were henling miracles, and heneo Ha was catled * Tho Great. Physician.” A cough waa not a discasd, neither wero aches and pains; they were merely symp- toms. Christ suid that He eaiy Into the workd to take away oursins, In the elghth chapter of Matthow it was recorded, “ ILimeelf boro our tn firmitics.” ile cured pain and hented diseaso that dio might better reavl the beurts of men aud commund thelr conildence, Tho two usally went togethor, and whon Foe healed the sick Ho drow a moral. The speaker described tho healing of tho paralytic as iin Uinstration of his point, Thoy brought the sick mun to Christ, no, doubt thinking tht he would’ siniply bg tronted | for’ the Hut Christ. whon He looked wnon sy. {lo'poor mun, know dhat tyere. was Komtisny behind the complaint sf palsy, and: [le accord= fngly approached bim and sul, Bo, of uot cheers thy palsy will sobn teuve thou?” Noz Ilo sali, Bon, be OF Rood chur; thy sins be for. iven theo.” And when Ifo save tho ineradulons voks of tho people, He luokedl ubout Flin unen thom and sufd, * BOt that ye may know tat tho Soni of Man fa ahle to forgivo eli, whieh ty caster, to say *'Thy sins bo forgiven theo,’ or to beul digeriao? ? ” And ho auld tito tho inan alck of t pulay, " Ariso, take up thy bod and wall the mun took up hig bed “aud entered bis own if iW. a OUKE, - ‘Phis Cheiat carried Is apiritual work and TUs Physical work olong togethor, and this was tho reiaon why He wrought so great a work tn the world. ‘The spenker drew from this lesson the theory that the Kingdom of God was worked by: mens of sighs, und ho belloved that we now had our aligns of tho thos precisely as thoy did of old, only in a ditferent for GOSPEL SERVICES. LAYMEN'R MEETING AT THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH. ‘There was n Gospel servico at the First Meth. oiist Church Inst evening, conducted not by gentlemen who fill pulpits, but by a number of prominont liyimen from various parts of the elty, Tho attendances was very large, and the Interest appurently at high tdo. After tho uaunal introductory servicos tho Rev. John Williamson, pastor af the church, formally stated the character of the meoting, remarking that tho gentlemen who wore to conduot tt hac niutny of thom beon converted late in life, and wero now ournestly finbuad with tha work’ of saving others, Tho Gospel, happily, was not only applicubte to those who wero udvanced in Ure, but to tho young as woll, to rich and poor, — to everybody, With these Introductory ro- marks, hu, aurrendered tho meeting into tho hands of the gentlemen boforo hima, Mr. Matthor, of Park Avenue, tho leader of tho serviees, followed in prayer and with the reading of 9 portion of: Isatuh, Mx, and Ixili, after whieh he wnnounced that tho mecting would bo of the experlenco-ylying character, From what bo had heard of the expericnces of those who were to speak, ho thought he could sifoly promisp that it would by sndoud sutercat~ ing and valuable, Ahymn was sung, and thon Mr, Kollogg, of Trinity, nroso to rulatu his experience, Hu wus not, he glu, one of those alluded to as having ‘bovn converted late In Ufo, Lhanks bo to God, ha ‘bad oxpurienved the great: changa tn ble youth, God bad kepthim and blessud bim ever since, aud he was able and glad to tostify that godil- Jess was ndeod proftayle fy all things. Faltb was nvovssary In relight, na it was tn the come anfnest affairs of life. The promises Christ hud wnude He wus ublo to keup, und would keop thom Af one would put trase itn. Mr. Wilhums, of Grant Phivg, celatod his ros aous experince trom his -youth up, with Its alternating perlods of clovation and depression, Led away from the dectrines of the Church, bo relapsed fnto the plttubte condition known us neither hot nor colt. Tioatlly wrouad from his fothurgy, aid Toaking tothe Lard Jesus Christ, ho waw Whit be had naver dreamed was in Chyist, t wae lite luuking at tin through i gliss ad> stad tO thy proper focts, and reverting a ls yuutios, How things were chimed? Prom that inginomble hour te this he tnd obtained a knowhehee of salvation by fulth through Christ, quid be wanted to warn any who were trying to aie thomeclves that thoy had beat atop short and throw thomselyves on fftm, “devas bs nine,” bein Str, Salford, of Micht- un Avenue, in the quick, energetic manner of HW Drishiesdeinan, A dow yours ago he was bent on wordly ‘amusements went td the thentres and word,—and could truly say, with miny another mu, ve been-there weit.” Than God, he hud been arrested in bie career aad Urought tu know tho precfonsnessof love for Christ! Whatua shame it was that the theatres, ‘and tho inoumerible bell-holes of the great city, were open even on Bunday night te entice ‘yates nen to ruind He had belluved the prone des of God, and hud experionced a certainty in rellgion, He could now look Luuk on whut were anea plenaurca, but new appeared to him in sholr tne Hgbt.—imere husks of unusements,— for he reulizod that there wits wothe ving real, true, or pure outside. of Christ, Ue now Kaow: what It wins to Jove tho Lord with all his benrt, soul, and mind, wid, while bo dida't know much bout tho next life, he hud found that thoobservauce of the commandinent, vo. Lilus peace in thls, and belioved it would s entranes Into the Hfe beyond. + wrborn wis uso ably to say, * Joaus Ja tulne. 9 sourht shadows for yours, aud bad found it un cinpty life, When ho sum: med it all up three yeuns nyo, and took pn ine Nentory, bo fuund there wai nothing In it. ‘bank God, he began to try the Christian way for biraself, and by could truly any that ho hud found {t brought the only roa, irug ilisfuation hp pe over oxpericneed. Hy couldn't clain re ‘oction yet, Lut bo did cluiuy that be had aut- pfuction and peaoo, aud he usked the pruyers of all progent that bo muyht continue fa the Chrise wu lite. é ‘Mr, Chase, of Michlzan Avenue, spoke of Ute) Ms tong Jouraoy in which it was rewsonnbio ty + deaire the best compuny,—the company Of LU) who on carth gave His whole life in going about and doing good. Mr. Lattiner, of Michigan Avenue, satd that threo minutes once formed a very important tine In bis life, when kneeling down’ by his Cathor's ahte, ho was convicted of #ln and cons verted to Christ. Tt wis forty years age, bit tho fire fa bis aout had never burned out alnee. True, be had experienced many ups and downs, ut he had never rejected Chiriat or doubted the, truth of God's Word. Indeed, if he had a doubt= ing hair in his head ho would pull it out, for Moubts were tho Devil's favorit manna of tompt- ing tho Christin. Christ waa found tho mo- ment ono sought Mhu, for Ho was even more ready to give thin sinnora were to nsk. Mr Laudeay, of Grant Ph remetmbored tho first Bundy In duly, forty-Ove years ago, when he gave his heart to God, aid testified to the pence and satisfretion he had experienced ever sinec. Religion, he sald, should bo a cause for tho greatest cnthusinmn ne those who pos- cessed it, nied should QU them with a holy ambt- tion to being. othors to tho cross of Christ.” At the close of his romarke ho arn a alinplo song ofan Christtin mother for her wayward boy ina war that affegted overs body In tho audience, Ne. Matthor; in closing tho acrvice, sufd thelr only purpose tn coming togethor and relating these experlonces was the salvation of “souls, sineo every life not controtted by Jesus Christ woa a fallure, We gave an invitation for any who thirated after righteousness to rlau durhy; tho aingiug of tho closing hymu,’and several availed themselves of tho privilege and ro- malned during the Inquiry-mecting which fol- lowed, RAILROADS. ST. ‘LOUIS & MEXICAN GULF. Col, Henry C, Young, of SpringNeld, Mo. bins been In St.-Louls tately trying to Induce capltal- fats to tuke hold and build tho St. Louls & Mex- {etn Gulf Kallrond. This tmportant enterpriss was first sturted In 1873, and u company formed embraclug in Its directory some of the most in- dluential capitalists in the Southwest and the Enst, and, but for the panto tn 187}, the rund would now be in operation. A reporter of tho Bt. Louls Republican had nn interview with Col. Young regurding the project, of which tho fol- towing nee tho most Important parts: “ Pleaso give the place of beginning and tho Intended terminus.” © The original plat was to bulld from Plerco City south to Satine Paes tn the Ktate of Lexus, 2 tho Mexiean Gulf vin Fayettevitte and ‘tStnith, Ark., thence by the most direot und Praetleable ne to Sabine Poss.” “What is the distynca by this road from St. Louis to Sable Pass?" “ Ehght hundred miles? “This, thon, will be tho shortost lino of rall- road froit St, Louls to tho Gulf of Sexteo?* “Yes, slr. -Jt ia seventy miles shorter than vin St. Louis & Iron Mountain Rudlroad, and wonky te miles shorter: thin via St. Louls & ren lady and Missourl, Kansus & Voxas aslronily.* “ Whnt Is tho character of tho country south of Pierce City?” : ‘hat portion of Arkunsns through “It ts good, which the rod will run is noted for tts Gye tine ber, mineral, nnd the richness of tho soil. ‘Tho Conntics of Benton, Washington, and Crawford uro densely poputated.by an industrious, ener- etic, und Intelligent people, and I yers’ much doubt whethor thore tro thred countics in Sonth- Weat Missouri that ship #0 much whent, tobacco, and stock ns those three counties do.’ At Tort Staith you rench the cottun district, and fron there, to Babine Pass Nustenyantities of cotton are grown. Indeed this rond Will puss througl thy flnest cotton country on this continent, and by making the connection intended te will be- Ghing the Lest paylug road weat of tho Missis- sippi.”” * What roads do you expect to connect with?” “At Fort Kinlth we cross the Little Rock & Tort Smith Railroad. We would get a lurgo Dusingss from this road. At Longviow, in tho State@e Texus, we cross tho Texas & Pacitic and tap tho Interantional & Great Nortliern, The Toxns & Pacite ts being pushed rapidly to tho Pacific const, and by the trunk Iino ‘and {ts branehes ‘drains Central and Northwestern Texas, ‘This railrond has no northern outlet, hence the road 1 represent would be more likely to command ita business than either tho Si. Louis & Jron Mountain or Missouri, Kansns & *rexus Rallronds, it being the shortest Hne tu: Louis or Ohieigo. tho Intornutlonal & Gre: Northern Is _ destined to Ko to the City of Mexico, It fs how. or will te in a few months completed to San Antonia, and will then bo pushed Into Mexico via Laredo on the Mia Grande. The flutter road eompleted and the St, Louls & Mexican Gulf Railrond, and {t places St. Louis in direet. cominunteation with Mexico, and brings to hor door tho commeree of A country so vast in resources that you or any other Fenton of your olty cannot comprehend its value unless you could’ soo and know tho country ns well as T do" “Tho running of this road would greatly tn- ure to tho Interest of tho St. Louls & Sun Mran- alavo Rastroud Company, would it not?” “Not so much to tho Interest of that railrond company 16 to the Interest of St. Louls. [twould nike the St. Louis & Bin Franolsco Rallroad to &t. Louls whut the Ponnsylyanin Contral: Rail- roud {8 to Philadelphia, 1f, however, a railroad should be built down from the North and occupy tho. lino of: road f tepresont, “In. that -ayont te world Hee your city to tnke from her a bua ners sho is legitimately entitled to, and seriously affect tho buxiness of the 8t. Louis & San Fran- elseo Hullrond. » “An L to understand you to say that the busl- ness Of Bouthwest Missouri, Northwest Arku! fae ‘Loxas, and Sfexleo could ‘bo diverted-from pouise” . *Yoa, sir that: {8 what [ moan to say, and it Is strange your bustness men cannot ace It na 1 do, You aronware that Chicago, at this tine, bus no Southern outlot to the Gulf of Mexico. Tuo MIs- sourl, Kansas & Toxity, Ruflroad was builtin tho interest of Chicago, Thntrailroud has new passed Juto the hands of Mr. Gould and 4s opernted fit tho Interest of St. Louls. Chicugo must build south or pay tributa to the great raltrond wuto> erat. Tho history of that city will not juatity tho conclusion that.sho will wuletly submit and pormit her rival to contro! tho business of tho Southwestern Stites and Mexico.” *Butean Chicago competo for tho business of Moxico and tho Southwestern States?" “She cannot only compete, but cut off the Dushivas of a inrge portion of the business of the country L have name The Chicago & Al- ton Ruflronad_ilready hes down to Cedar City, opposit JeiTerion City. Should that éorpo- ration determine to build south from Jetferson: City, Chicngo Is brought within 1,051 miles of the Gulf of Mexteo, whereas heretofore, when using tho Miasourl, Kunsay & Texas Rallrond, she was compelled to travel 1.210 imtles, Tho Ine of roud 1 ani here to tnslat upon your people te ald in hullding will bo bullt,—if not in the Interest of Kt. Louis, then fi tho interest of Chileno. {ho busthese of the country domunds ite iminedinte completion. It ts” no longer op- vont with cupitatlats, but is a muit- ter of absolute necessity. And capital, to pro- tect Investments already mado in. rijlroads, South and North, will bulfd this road, Your city cout, be tt atnnll expenditure of monoy, scours this road, aud by doing so would tn all’ timo to 18 coTumnad the trade of Southwest Missourt, mihwest Arkansas, the Indian Territo: xus, and “Mexico, This done, and St. Loula needs no More to mike her what Naturo bis de- signed, Tho diissourl Paoitlo, the St, Louis & Iron Mountahy and St, Laiis & San Francisco Auuitrondts should be foetered by your ely. You hive done all for the Mirsourl Piolile tht could bu expected, But, to command the business of tho country I have mentioned, it l necessary for your people to asslat, If thoy donot, your wides awuko neighbor and rival alster will slop in and tuke from you your best trade.” INDIANAPOLIS & KVANSVILLE. Speclat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuite. InpiaNAvotis, Ind. Mureh 7.—Tho organiza: of tho Indinnupolls & Kyunsvttte Nullrond Com= plny was comploted yeaterduy for the purpose of acqulring the Evunsvillo, Washington & Worthington Rattway, partially built. botween Evansville and Washington, and of comple! ing It to Indiunnpolis, 9 distance of 185 miles, ‘Tho following is tho Board of Dl- roctors: Tho Hon, John C, Now, ex+ ‘Tronaurer, of the United States; {ngram Fletohor, of Moasra, Flotcher .& Sharp, bankers; Gon. George. DB. Wright, formorly Rocolyor of the Indlunapolls, luomington & Weatérn Itoil- woud; ‘Ty A, Lowis, who has beon long oonneuted with our rallroud interests; Col. A, D, Strolght, Charles Viel, -Prysident of tho Firat. 2 Honnt Bank of “Ryanevillo; | Mf. Henning, Presldant of the Citizens’ National Bunk of Evanavilloy J.J. Kloiner, Mayor of Evansville; gud Ut. . Uervuys uf ‘ured Haute, tho woll= known rillroud-bulldor, The atiicors nro tho Hon, John C. New, President; It, G, ervey, Vicu-Presidont and Generil. Stanayort GB Lowis, Suoretary and Truastiror, Evansville has vated tho roid’ $150,000, aud, when finished, it will irae connect Indidnapolls with the beat coul-Netds In Indiana. CHICAGO & ATLANTIC RAILROAD, New offorta are now belug made w curry out the project of byildinga new tine to connect. the Atluntid & Groat Western Rallrond with this city, maklug a Muo to be known os -the Chicayo ‘S Atlantio Rutlroad Company, This Company was organized and tho road ebartered Just pre- vious to the panto af 1873. The panig put a stop to furthor proceediugy, The late boom in rail- voad property, howgyer, has Inatllted now life in the old Company,aud stops ary now boing taken evs promiso to result iu the carly. bulldiog of oe Hue, and which will give Chio another tne via the ‘Aduntlo & Great, Wostern and Erle Halroada, Some ald bas lutely boen votod by various townahipa Blong the pruposed Une; apd’conslderablo onthbustasuy Ly Ino curry ing out of the worl me 0 Direvtors of thia roud fg soon to bu"held In this clty ta, take Somat wotlon Fespursding tho mutter, ‘Tho Chicago & Atiantle Rullroad. is to. run through saveral of tho aldeat, most popu- ‘lous, and fertile counties in Western Ohio, and will pusa In an cast uid weat direction across Ine sian. griversing tho most productive countica 0 State, F + LOUISVILLE .& 8T, LOUIS, Sptctat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. * Loutsyst.e, Ky. March 7.—Tho’ fact ha: Teuked out bore that tho Loulsvillo' & &t. Louis AlrLiug his been purchased by C, P, Hunting- ton, & Co, who wlll ty ft Ing tho great Central Pueite systems nen with extonda from Lontinviiio to St. Bonin to bo bultt by the ald of county beet yeas to part, na wells by tho enpltal of Ite prety ‘The rond will, when enilrely finisty tho rlehost paeia of tnatann and tiny Ceo neoting nt Bt. fouls with Huntingun eet Pacitlo interests, mud at Lautavile ea ghia 9 Iwas Loutnvitte, Ginoliontt 8 whose terminal polni it. Mies Tho Chomnpenke & One, than IVI td Paelile people an Inaenive Hine of toe cette jog from tho notte tu the Atinntis iesyta'e pOrers aro nn wor’) ridin a chor Cheanponko & Olio fea Te ge feck oF th 1 Bterilng, 1 distanee of ent nite pe ui, tonaton will be finisher by next f1 RICHMOND & ALLEGIENY Rrciiwory,Va. Mareh Z—Tho following organization of the new Richinond & Alle, thie Rallrond Company, which nog Durebaeat 1, property and franchises of tho dumes tir Fs Kanawha Canal Company: Georgy M, hart mow, Hurtford, Conn. Presidents IL, Pre Hichmond, Vice-Prasidont; Sheppara tl » mut, Now York, Boctotary nnd ‘Trenvurcey Uo tho following Dirovtors: Francis 0. tre bd Gan, New ones ue Gi et ulluct, ¢ Cyrn 1. ok, C cusos Money Millor, Coluintiter gee ieks Che { NB, 0.3 stunes g, Bate, Atattioy and’ Charles 8. Worthan eg STATE AFTAIRS, < i SCO NETS: ADTBON, Wis. Maroh 4.In tho Aca) morning Joint resolutions wero doptea te bh ing for cutting off business on ‘Thureday noxt, and providing for n generat adournment ong week fron to-inorrow. All the Comintttecs were Anatructed to report by next. Wednesday, Sonate bills were concurred In providing fore More efficient organization of the State tntliting appropriating $2,000 to tho State Agricuttural Hoolety, $400 to the Contral Wisconsin Arrte enltural Society, aud $35,000 bo the Milwaukee Industrial School for Girls: giving the North Wisconsin Hallway power to grade forty miles of tho new. road this yeury Instoud of complete Ing twenty miles, Assombly bilis Wero pnaged regulatin; of interest, on legal rato at 8 and omuriey an ‘The Committee on Btato Aalrs reported tide versely on the Assembly Joint resolutions Dre viding for fomute sulfrago, ts thore {8 no recon that it pussed the Assembly by a constitutional, minority. . G ‘he Governor sent in i viowof tho favorable uction by Canereae eet poudiog DIM to construct reservoirs upan-tho headwaters of the Upper Missiestppl, Wisconeln St. Crolx, und Chippowa Hivors, urging tho Stat) to’ withdraw from salo, tte lnnids tube to hans quirod in tho ereetton of such dats and reso volrs: also to provide legislition enubling the Govornment to prosecute tho work withuutdes lny, it 18 ostimatod that there will bo required in ‘Wikeonsin for this work 60,141 reres fy Jand, and 740 nerea of achnottnnds LAP A DIL was prased authorizing the St. Pant & Chicugo Short Line Railway to build over fn ku St. Croix, seer te Malia ee AA DID waa killed onabling Follenz & Renttoy to Telog cult nainst the Stato for tho balaned aly Jeged to be due on the contrat of the Northerg, Insane Asylum, IOWA. Des Morves, In, March 6.—In tho Sonate thig morning the prohibitory constitutlonat amends mont was put over to next Thursday, owing to tho absenvo of soveral Senators, when Serdtor Nichols, of Renton County, sprung upon the Senate a resolution declaring that any Sen ator who yotes nyo on nny proposed amends ment to the Constitution ugroes to sald amends ment, and by so voting declures tt ought to bo adopted. The resolution erented consilerable exoitomont, and Senator Fostor argued at length that an aMrmatiye vote was simply to allow it ta zo ta the people, and not an Indorsement thores of. Ho wis followed by soveral. on the san eldo, and the dlscussion occupied tho entiro ses sion. . In the House tho bill providing that tho rege istration of voters slitll not apply to a towne ship within which {3 a city of tho second class passed, ‘Tho bill changing the law rolativo to taking up estray animals passed, . ex: The Dill giving EE in counties in debt power to transfer one fund to another nesccd Mimo bill prohibiting trafic in hogs affected with hog cholera passad, OBITUARY. ¥ FRANCES POWER COBBE, - - “Moston Advertiser, March 8. ‘Miss Frnnecs Power Cobbo, whose death Is an: nounced, wis born Duc, 4, 182, at Dublin, ob Engllsh ancestors, and educated ot Brighton Sho has spent tho best part of hor life in Lone don, Sho was interosted at an early day in re+ gious matters, and aftor considerable reading in various directions became deeply interested in the writings of Theodoro Parker, After her mother’s death sho inqtilred of him as to ime mortality; his answor wus his “Sermon of tho Immortal Life,” Tho two wera Intimate friends and close corresponients ovor sinco; but thoy neyor saw euch othor until 1800, at Florence, Parker, in rocelving hor, sald; ‘Jt ts strange that we should meet thus at Inst, Lut you do not seo inc; only the momory of mo. Thoy who wish mo well wish ue ‘2 speudy. depurt+ uro to tho other worl.” Shoe Favs, bin ilowors—tua-roses and Milles of tho valley. His spirits cnmo back to him onca , moro; Miss | Cabbo | caught a altmpse of tha man'a powors.. Do not speak of your focl- Ho," ho Rutld, it mukes mu too uuhappy fuge for mo, to leave you.” Ho wanted to soo ber overy day. Jt was his last joy on varth. A few duys luterbe -Wns No more. “Miss Cabo was tho frat to elit his works (in twelve volumes, London: 186b'65). a preface, on the religious demands. o Age, was reprinted in this uty fr Usk, Opon the donth of hor futhor Miss Cobbo traveled In the Enat and in Italy, aud, in consequence, wrote ber “Italles: Brief Notes on Politica, People, and Places in Italy," 1804, and the “Cities of the Tat,” 1601, tho lator boing reprinta from Frusrs Muyazine, After hor return she, wis for a shore timo nssociuted with Miss Mary Carponter {n the Red Hougo Iteformatory, but her labors wore ters minated by an uceldant; however, thoy resulted in hor “Stidles Now and Old of Euitcal and Socl Subjects.” In 1800 she mude her second visit to italy, whon she mot Theodore Parker, and it was {n sono mensuire due to him that sho espou tho cause of the Union during tho War, In ber “Drokon Lights: an Inquiry Into tho Present Condition aid Satire Prospucts of Iteligiods Fatth," 1864, may bo found a statement on tho vurlous. schools of tho English Church hd eritient revlow of Remin's writings, Tho" Hs: say on Intuitive Moris,” 1860, ia directed against tho ultititarians, and [s considered by some to bo her ableat production. Its xeqtel tyeontalned it her "i ous Duty,” of 186s. In 1860 she pul Ished: n work, tho title of which lug become clagsien), “Criminals, Idiots, Wemun, and Mine ora? 14 the Clussiticntion Kound? A. Discusston on the Laws Concerning the Property of Mare riod Women." 3483 Cuhibo was ono of tho prine alpal contributors to. the London periodleals, and prominent in reformatury and phitanthrople Jnbors.- Sho oppnsud viviseation; she defende: and helped ty culurge tho rigits of womens ste Was 0 strong advocute of Hhystent euljure, #0 honest lover of moral houlth; anid sho leuves tho world better than sho has found it tis but natural that she had many frlunds fn Americs, particularly in this olty. ‘ COT. R. Ta WILSON. Bptetat Dlapateh to The Catcugn ‘Tribune. BreULANG, ML, Marah %—Col Iubort Ls Wile son, one of Sterling's oldest reatdonts, dio this morning ut bla residency In the city, at the ripe old age of Th ycars, He wns born In Washingtos County, Pennsylvania, Sept, 1, 1805 camo: to Titinola sin Ine, "1 came to this clty, and was . Clerk © tho Ctreult Court trom that your unt 280, during which time he wit Teoonter ( Deeds for fourteun yours, and Proburo Juatloy for olght: yours, “In tho early purt 0 the Hebellion he: was oa inombur : the Cluy Guards, of Washington, 1.0. ands shortly wftor thoi disbundmont, was nppulutey by President: Lincely toa Puymimiter’s posites in the urmy, ‘After four yours of bon acrvice be returned to Steyll ns which bus nH hishome since that time. On acuount of Jong rosidence in’ this county, Col, Visor wel dQ bhy death wl i‘ known overywherg, and universally regretted by overy one who known bf ‘ im. * JUDGE WAVES, Lovrevitas, K; ro T—W, HT. Minyet, AP poluted Judgo af tho Voderul Court of Ken tucky early in Soptembor, 1870, to sucess “4 Judge Bland Ballard, died suddenly of hearts discaso In this city this aftornoon. Judie Hast wos 8 youre nf uo, und was froin Springllelt, ny, During tho War ho waa a brave sol’ Urigtow's regiinent.: Tt will be reinemibored ier Judge Hullurd’a death, lust August, wus ul and of heurt-discuse, ero eta TIM MOREIS. (1 ..Provuprnom,, it. L, March. T—Tim Morris member of tho frst Ethiopian minstrel trips onthe roud, thirty-four-youra ayy, und in ¢ ‘business over uinod, died Suturday. GRANT'S JOURNEY HOME. Special Dispatch to The Cateago Tribune Nuw Ontzawy, La, March 7.—Gon, Grant 6 ‘ party have rocelvod pussugo from Vora Crux 08 tho ritieh steamahip Haytien, which 1a due bere an the 1th, <a s jd ruinous crematics and use that whule AY some! cautiiive—Gloun's 5ulphyr Sony /