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

i ( i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1880. RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing’s Sermon on The Increasing Breadth of Life.” The Rov, Frederick Courtney Installed as Reotor of St, James’ Epis- copal Church. Resurrection Discnssed by the Rov. E. P. Goolwin, of the First Cone gregatfonal Church. A Four-Years’ Pastorate and Its Re- sults Reviewed by the Rev. G. H. Peeke. ‘(The American Idea" Oommented Upon at Unity Ohuroh by the Rov. * Mr, Cathrop. Closing Exer:il of the Wemoen’s Missionary Bociety of the Universalist Church, CENTRAL CIIURCIL. THE INCREASING DREADTI OF LIFE. Prof. Swing yestoniay preached in Central Church tho following sermon: Z Afterward ho meneured a thousand cublts and {t was a river that J could not pass over, for the waters were rlsen,—waters toswin I,a river that could not bo passed over!—Kzck( fel, TCT hoy Be It ie one beauty of the old Hebrow poocts that sf the firet Import bas fallen out of rome of their songs, and we no longer know what was that great vision tyhich made them ery aloud along tho paths and streots, there genernily springs up some second senso which {a full of truth and benuty for our far-at time, Tho world has lost the fIrat reneon of the pyramids. Wolo not know whether thoy are tombe or 18° tronomical monuments, but thoy do us a8 much gon as thoy brought the Egyptian Kings, for, if they onco sang funereal or mathemattent songs, thoy now slog hymna of grent- nes#, hight, and breadth, and power, and Jong —continuanee. = We —ennnot — stand by the Images of the old prophets and note whit. may have been uppermost in tho thought of Ezekiel, and Isatah, and Malncht, but wo wate all around and over these pyramids of intinmed fin- nyginntion and piety, and can learn from thoin lessons for our day aa precious 18 the oriyinal lesson was for the ges that ure gone. ‘Mun's life, mensured newr its fountain, was a shallow stream; measured In the classic epoch, it flowed up over tha ankles; measured in our period or in some age beyond us, “The waters havo risen,—waters to swiin in, a river that cannot be passed.” Of our own land this ig more triathin of nny other country, but alt through tho civilized nations all: the forces of mental netion und being nre_nasuining larger dhnenslons. In our part of the world per- feet liberty and tho Inherited virtues of race have Leen met bye cllmate and nu imaterit richness which have stimulated all forms of Intellectual life,—the Ife that atirs tho Boil or explores the myateries of sefence or which pon- ders over 1 book or meditates anid the uncer- tula tles of religion, AU these terms, learned " and “ignorint,” and * beautiful and homely,” and broad and “ narrow," are relative terms, and ench age, nu doubt, has seemed broad to Ateuif, and yet tho dimensions of human sood- ness and yrontucasare. boyond doubt, constuntly enlarging, and Jt is safe to any that the Intellect- ‘unl and spiritual séope of our ern fs the lurgest yet seen by man, Weenn find much littleness in the humnn. family somewhere, but it is an diminishing lUttleness,—a little. ness on tho = retroat, For — exninplo in an obscure corner of Now Mexico, thero oceura upon ench St. Putrick’s Dny, a brntat old ceremony conducted by the Penl- tents, which ceremony sconalsts {nu self-Inflleted tortures, a8 tho sufferor creeps toward a cross. ome dle “of thelr tortures, But this , disgusting and — cruel cere- mony wns once popular all over Europe, and drew Into fts diabolical spell such men 1g Poseul and Luther. In this lies the proof of progress that what self-tortures tho Roman Church orice inflicted In all ita gront Capitals, such eg Rome, and Paris, aud London, ft now can + Inflict but only among tho wrutched fanatics of New Mexico,—a district cut off from thocivillzed world. In the progress of the human rice errors and follies do not suddenly rise up and disap- perr. Thoy slowly retreat, as tho wild beasts go further back into the forest when tho nx, andthe plow, and the gun had come to the borders. The song-bird comes with man, and tho gentle aulmals, the rabbit aud the aquirrel, but the ferveious boast na by inetinet moves deeper into. the mountains and woods, So, dreadful doe trincs and custome move aw Wy slowly from ene “Ughtened centres, and yo back tu where human mature {6 stil} full of that quality which mnkes 2 now supply of, fools and fanatics, In asking whether man fs omitking any advances we must ask two questions,—tho one, Does fo}! or crimooxist? tho othor, Tus thls folly or orime retreated from the coutres of elyilization toward Its outskirtay ib te to be regretted that the oman Chireh should still point out any springs ‘of water that posavas divine powers to henl the sick, and that this water should still bo gold In vials to families bere and thorg in our lands but we must offect this regret by the thought thut tho higher Catholics buve handed those amazing: ipringy over to the lower minds, whieh still des tand amazement and miricies, Tt isnot prob- able that Father Terry, of Uticn, who laso much respected by tho Protestant clergy, purchnses any vinls of such miraculous water, nor fs it probable there fs any demand for it in his cot fragations Next to holy eprings, the sacred ambino—i pretty little gold and velvet image ot tho Infant Chrisi—was once na power ty the sick rooms in Rome: but oo yours: 50, when an Amerteun autboress In oocently naked the monks, who wero, custodians of such’n dull and Its Income, whethor they renl- iy thought it would oxpel aickness from the house jnto which It might be carried, they sald, amilingly, “that their business was simply to hire 11 to those who wanted iL—that thoy wero not the custodians of the medical whieh reply we muy well Inter that the supe tion and credulity of the mind iy gridually move fug away from the points of most education, and Ja tinding a tempornry® aaylum in the hovel and on the extremo contines of mankind. Tho evil spirits of the New ‘Lestnment seem to bave wusacdl from the upper classes to the lower, nud rom the lower to the hors of swine, ant from tho swine to tho sea. Inull dates of mun's career hig folllos and cruicltfes muy thus be Been moving downward, to plunge nt lust inte the tan, that great emblem af the final ontombmnent, Having mnde those frenundh statements, lot us Mlustrte. the penoral’ proposition by weckin fow particulars, which, If not all religious, wi ut leust iMlustrate the yrowing browdtn of Chris- ianity. ; Man's lite is growing wider in its individual ality, Few mon are any longer nothing but a fariner, or ft shopkueper, o Tit carpenter, OF it silversmith, “By a gradual aceretion, iu our tand at Joust, cach Jndividual has bevomo somothing More than a speclalist In some form of business or itulustry. Tho education which was once supposed to imply that the youth with such ‘books in bis hand was dusigning to bo a lawyer, or. a ¢lorgyinan,or a physician, no longer ine “volves any such conolusfon, for tho average youth bus become larger than any mere drudge ery, und must be educated reguediess of his forin of inunual or mental Invor, ‘The clergyman ones bad an easy Held of Intelivctual labor, in days when ho could say whitever pleased bin toun audience that admired fargo words and pony of quotation and abscurity, but education ia Veco bo Universil that the uudlenees tat assamble In the churchus tu-duy, from New York to St, Paul or Denver, are composed of persons with much juformation, aud with a powerful common sense, The Inventions of our tines have redoubled the demand for mental culture. A min that cannot read, or write, or think, can hog cotton or sugar cand, but be cannot be un engineer of # #tcam enuine, cannot bo a cons ductor of even 4 froght train, cannot be trusted asoven o switchmun, Tho telegraph operator Tuust be Amun or woman of fulr education, and the thousands of boys who act ug messengers In street and store must bauble to read und write quickly, ‘Thus s bundrod new pursults hive is- sued new demands for a better Informed mind, and are inuking 9 better form of manhood. Bbhould tho muny shapes uf Northorn industry ever ponetrate the South thoy would cqnal tho Church In cowmpelijng that land tu widen out its intellectual | possessions, Michlgun an Georgia bad in 1870 tho sume pouulution,— t w—but compaty thos masses in quality, and Sitchigan bud 63,000 10 years old Unable to write, while Georgia hud 400,000, and while Michlxun liad 8,000scboot-teuchers Georgia hud only 2,0, In Atlanta and Augusta (vor xin. where manu fat wee have sprung up eae ention ta gemanded and is approaching the Btundurd at Lowell and other i ustriat Miwa, ‘Thus the vow forms of mechauleal industry aro hotploy expand tho mental trutulug and tue Tormution of the laborers, thud muking pian wreater, pot a4 a laborer, but us u tna. The nore invention and the more complex inachin- ery the world adopts, the higher will be tho tufud that must manuge these pew huplements. A few simple tiegrovy can pick cotton bulls, Dut they could not manage ‘a rallwuy trait or a eyllnder printing” press, are Parker “onee expressed the with that Diucksnulthing or plowing might become tho more accident Of @ mun, and not min the neoident of thio anvil or slowly coming toasts pratifiention, for the mrt gang are all Becoming reading and thinking mon. and while thoy bent the mnvil or follyw the plow thes nro larger than thelr work, and hive Rota for tho xeparaty carver of the winn. ‘The Ingenulty of an age cannot bit exert a retlox Induence upon abl those whe come within the confines of tho ture ttaelf. ‘To make wider tho scope uf each Individual, even tho laborer, his come in later times not only Hberty, not only Christinnity. not only the free sehool to invite eduention, but even tho tecent inventions have conttals the youth of tho land to seck a mene tal development us though for some higher art. 2) Life is widening out in ita politient aspects, Tho wnrest of the Uzar and of England, and even of Germany, hidicates plainly that thore tan vast multitide of men who tive ren to eu fn Intelloctinl altitude that thoy oun perceive that all government should be for the good of tho people. ‘Those who fire ballots or lay tore pedoes for killing 1 Royal ruler are tho Tow tn whose minds it truth has tamed wp into a fae naticism. In our poor, sensitive John Brown tho onernt truth that our black men should be free med up Into a kind of madness; but, far back of John Hrown, there wasa rapidly-growing sentiinent, laying up feealingsand thoughts for the future. Soin Franer. In Viki there were millions of hearts that were wondering how lon: they aud thelr, loved country nv biecd under the despotisin’ of brutal personage had Just announced two hundred thousand more heads would fall before he could bnve peace, whon Charlotte Corday, a beautiful young girl, nroso Inasteange resnlve, and, trivellng two days to. Paria, gained necess to the great murderer, and with a quick dugger she slew the ouv who was playing tho pinny, Often thus theso during acts: are the exp loetant ot passion that has become too powerful in some one heart. | Right or weonk fn thoinselves, they often are the heralds of a new polities that is forining in the heurts of tho imultitude., All tho turninifa In Europe are cor- tainly indieations that the multitudes nro be. comfng Jess and less willing to be made the fool of either the ttix-coilector or of the m ot the battlefield. {tis true that the Tf niways rturved and tho Tuxsinng but heon oppressed, but the omert of changes Hes on tho fuet that these partics no lumger bexr pi tlently their poverty: aud oppression, (f tho now. The wish js world’s Indust ws widened out so that tho new machines aod trades mny bo man aged, {f tho farmer is not only a. farms er, then also govern- but Js also a oman, nlent unust wilun out and roveal more of renzon, and tho Kh must, like the farmer, be purtly n Klug, but largely nian. The King ones had as easy an olfive as that of the old clergyman, The people once seemed to loys to be wall taxed aud Oppressed, and were fund of making tow bows Wuen thoy siw the slightest ahudow of a throne, ‘but there fan growl demand for Kings and Queens of great cominon sense and of humane feclings,—n whlening out of polltical ileus whieh vit lagt nll the oynd nations will be compelied to confess, This expanding process, which reached tho black shives a fow years ngo, will go forward to mike tiniversal the liberty and the clevation of tho whites, by a kifd of mockery cniled free, if we world inark one more Miustration of the assertion that man fs becomlag u larger mind and a larger heart, we can find [t in tho present condition of woman, At no one place can we better seo the radical changes for the bettor in tho Nfe of humanity than nt tho stand- pa of the modern. worn. When we look nto the face of our mother, or wife, or daughter, or cultivated friends in this hatf of the Intel- tectual world, wo cannot but wonder It nmaze~ ment if these ure tho beings who have no soul In some Innds, ond who were moro slaves In the clusdic lands, and who in all tho barbarous tribes have done all the work in eld and house, and who ull through the Middle Ayes of Christendom were niindof miserabloappendage tothe noble nny of men. Why, even in the Mosaig tigo, out of which” came Chriss thintty, but came morning out of night, a owonnn could not bring any Kind of Inwsutt tgalnst oon TMU, atta man night divorce a wife if he would only tuke tho pains to give herd pleco of writing to that effect. She muat feave tho house like i servant girito whom ono way give a certificate not.of good service, but of service, And you remember that in Solomon's magnificent temple there waa an outer court Into which the heathen could come, an Inner court Jute which women could come, but Into the rand Interior, where the wenlth und art of the period hnd done thelr best work, and whers God Himself coulu bo found, only the neu were worthy to enter. Tho first definition of man was so furrow that only tho King or loyal farnities were Included fi it, By degrees twas enlarged untll many adult men could enjoy its honors, but [ttle children, and women, aud slaves wero not ndiitted into {ts environs, Infants were sili really. Wives wera ‘whippoil, bought nnd sold, die yorcod ut pleasure, or Killed; in same comntric: deud slaves were not bur! Thero wero r= vines or sinkholes Into which dead slaves were thrown, You could tind tho pluces by watching the carrion birds In their cirellng ight. Cleero, in the 400 or 100 letters he lett wri to friend: mentions often hls fathor, but never hls mothe he divorced’ two wives; loved his daughter, f deetl, but was reproved by Roman statesmen for weeping for her when she dled. Nero killed bis mother, and Bencen, tla moral ynuiie, mide no complain. Jt thus’ seems. to have taken the huinan race a lone thne to expand the word mun to Beh proportion that into its nuble- nes, and security, and peace the woman and tho Uitte child could take refizo: but at lust Into this gimnntic ark tho werkeat and humblest wuthor themselves, and aro quite kate aa tho storms of fe come and the foods climb higher, ‘Thus have wo stout at several points of obsere yatlonand have everywhere murked tho oxpand- ing of human life, Tt inugt follow, thoreforo, that man's religion must be constantly assuming Efouee diners ons Ii ith rensonnblenesss, fn ity indness, in fits application ta common life and in its exnltation of grent principles. As ald Judaisin throw open Its yntes ut tho advent of Jesus, to ndinit the Gentile tribes, go cach fore mula of a special century must open in the next: to admit now installments of reason, and love, and usefulness. The Methodism ond Buptlet systems ‘nnd the Calvinia nud Bplscopacy of to- dny bave omitted much and added much. When waters pass through sharp, clean sund thoy tx- sue purer, but when brooks tow through woods where the maple and oak leaves of autumn Le steeping In tho little slillow channel, the waters emerge from the forest binck or red. Christl- unity flowing through tho tmiddle and moro eeent centuries waa deepl, My tho plgmants in the dark old woods throug! which It tide inoved sluagishly; but, now pusa- ing along through this cpuch ag through a yreat pliln of cleaner eand, the atrenin beconies clear~ er by far, A moregenoral education, n general liberty, the onlargement of tho word man & Btrengthenlng of the body, and mind, and soul by Industry, a growth of the rational faculty, the Inquiries of philosophers, . and statesmen, and sefontista, the deeper study of tho Script- tires by tho greatest scholars, aro. fauta which have combined to create a elenn white sand, through which a flood once clouded dovs ‘now and munt horentier tow, Had the solentifie skeptics nssniled Christlan!- ty ahundred years ago with those arguments with which thoy have recently nssuiled it, tho Injury doue the Church would have been im: monet, but furtunitely they came when the Chureh had begun to draw power from hergon- eral truths, and wis guning strength from 1 ea heyond the reneh of tha microscope und crucible, To mike great bayeo of our religiuus fdlens tho miutorialiata of our day” cnmo too lites, ‘They call to mind soino German theologtins—Dr, Tholuck and his compuntons—who bid heant that, the Amertear Tiaptist always inde a note of the plaice, and hour, and intnute when hia soul bad been con- verted, Itéeemed amzing and rather clillateh that nny class of Christiins should possess such n railway time-table of splritunl things; and when Dr. Robinson, once of Cincinnatl, but then of Now York, tho yrentost and beet of Buptlet clergyman, was In Germany, and at a reedption with those amazed scholars, one of them, Dr. ‘'Tholuck himactf, aaked him gravely at what timo he beenne a child of God, Hat tho quese tion had como thirty years too tite, Aninze- ment tind curiosity were chart Into ndiniri thon and delight whon tho able clergyman “Las converted whon religion eoused to 1 duty and became a pleasure.” It was my ie ait in writing -this discourse to give it a practical form, dnd to urge the men and women of education and of Coll aympathy: with thia widening Christianity to maku thir Sennaty pasa onward toward neti love. If Mothodism und Presbyterluntain and their orthos dox friends are raveniing more of reason and ebnarity and are pusaing by the small to build up tho groat. why should not the lawyors, and ter ord, und the seholurs frequent every broad chureh of ‘whatever namo, aud thus help onward the Hiogt aucred purl of nuy' nition its reltuion ? IE fe fa indeed: widening, this generous intorpre= tation should nut be expected of tho clergy alone, but oquidly of those outelde of the teme ple. Ye tho pulpit has become ably to cust aside hivch and forget and forgive much, thoro uro thousands of acholara in other fesalons who should show in eaual ingness to forgive and forget, What wt mental and moral pity it would be after a now age. hus inade most of tho churches couse tholr mints diserhisinations and cast themset! upol tio one loader, Christ, the educated mon outside shoulit becom cold nnd narrow, and thud, by at tranginiyration of soul, make to appeal ke un angel in worldly men that which from tho hogoma of churchmen had gona out ne wv devil, Tt ust be confossed Hut Gven a witenulny and Kind Chyistiauity may bo false, It is nlways: possible that my Hy ne without a God and may be destined to dust only; but umd tho multitudes who belleve ina God and a future, it should always be & practical question whethor [. being outsidy of tha chureh, am as wido and enerots Inmind w6 Lusk those to b’ who are neeling wround the altur or speaking above {ty railing, Not only ie in broad Colylatst dike Norman MuoLewd a noble plees of mane hood—Christlin mankoot—to | look upon, but bo 1g wmifld mainer skeptic of tolormut heart a similuy though lessor detail in moral beauty. A skeptio who can Say “HF one-fourth prt of whut you pronch ts true, f ball: love religia: fg us “broud ju lis epirit ns was Macleod, the Prvabyterlan, or Channtug, tho Unitarian, Two ovils can soon he seen fie thu realm of thouglt, tho one, thoologinns refustuy to seo the world; the othur, the educated and worldly refusing to see natural or revealed rellyion, vient to me that our times buying been ity hostile to revelation In ere tre muy now Lt ATH ho know Vittle about Chris- Han thought and bopo us they now ox: fat, but who buve drawn thelr opinions from uo wenk, sod crugl, and -reyretted past, Thoy have grown up tg munhood or Wounhood | anid the Teullngs ond aseociations that a church tv a plice tu which the tl eyedujous are wont to resort, Al which multl- tudo, Jurge end perbups educated sbould submit the whole care ton Cull review, Indeed tt often Anppcns even with those reared In the ehurch that the deeistona bf youth are made only before te preliminary court.—u half-asteep mniigistrate of the yillnge—ond that the matter murt be re. fervodt for i Anal hearing to that graver tribunal which meets fnintidle or later tife. Up to this bar of enlmer justice the educated ekeptics should come tn the fall powor and sweeter brenth of later days in thelr history and In tho Church's history, and give a reborring to all the ovidence, We da not wish yaw to accept the Christianity of the by-gone period, but of your peril, Jiat as we do nat ask yor te love the pol- tes of Ciwenr or tho Josuite, but that of our ny onieration. Cast away, the sermons of Thomna Hooker and Jonathan Edwards ag you do the plays of the old passion drama or tho vile gar Hterature of Uabelifs, for tho horrible his No more oternal Mtn in religion thin tho vil- gar line inartand letters, Put nside thora sere tons and reqd Chalmers, and Mneloud, and Channing, andithe Gospels, und upon this grand. hearing seek some new verdlet in your heart of hearts. Walk as through 1 new world, and while such exponents of Christ's philosophy uro gpentelag to you fram tho world of prose, permit Wordsworth, and ‘Tennyson, and Le rellow,y, and Whittler to sing to you tho new piety from tholr hight of poetry, and Jet organ and” hymn add their kind and pathetic tones to the round, tranaforming argument Into melody; and ff you should not become n devotee and brentho a pa to tho Christiin’s God, you nt lonst will beeome tt child of lesa prejudice and of a wiser anid teopor Justice, No tho nottal sitiation of man upon tho Rlabe what it mny, be the problems inany and dificult, SUL this Met stands, that ft Is not permitted ts to ‘Afliem that thore is no Gud ind no second life. A truly broad mind mitst adniit the whole gravity: and oven raternuitts of theso years, and dares not enst ono alge sinile of ridiciile tipon that theory which belleves inn God and whieh oxpecta to fin tho grave to be the solemn portal to another Jond. A widening himan life Is not one which suthors ip tho contradictions and falso opinions: of fallivio men, and which “Inughs away those days over such a collvetion of things ainuaing, weird, and groterqie, but it is rather one whic! being able to laugh easily dnd oftuy, also fecls all through tho spirit that thoro Js something divino in man, something strangely mysterious, and that perhaps no philosophy tlowa around 18 with waters ao Ilfe-giving and” 60 tpristnur and deep as that one of roll goa which, like the brook sinitten from tho old rock, uow follows us ucross these desert Aands, ; 8ST. JAMES’ EPISCOPAL. INSTALDATION BERVICER. Tho Roy. Frederick Courtney, late Rector of Bt. ‘Thomas’ Eptscopal Church, Now York, was Instulled yesterday morning ns Rector of St James’ Church,vorner of Huron and Cass streets, tho Rt-Rev. Bishop McLaren, assisted by Canon Street and the Hov, Mr. Lows, oMointing, [tis nearly elght months since tho former lector of St. James’, tho Rov, Dr. Harris, now Hishop of Michigun, resigned bis charge to assume tho high responsibilities of hla new offices, During that perfod St. Jnmes’ has been without a shep- herd, A call was extended to the Kov. Mr. Courtney Inst fall, and in September ho was duly econscorated. It was announced some days ago that he would arrive in the city durlig the past week, aid the vast church wns thronged yesterday morning by communteants and worshipers to wittiess tho Installution cere- monies. Never did Rector meot with a moro general and generous welcome, Mr, Courtney's reputation its a minister has traveled abendd of bin. A mut of plain min ners, deep earnestness, a clear, thinker, pos sessed of in easy but exceedingly Impresulve do~ divery, be is at oll times a powerful. and not ine frequently nn eloquent, exponent of the truths ho proclatins. Personuily, his appenrinee 13 Hain, but attrictive withal, a tall, well- pullt’ man of middie age, with a high forchend, ou yo ae Dinek hatr, a smooth “fice, wit eeption of side-whiskers of the eminently English cut, o prominent nore, a mouth denot- ing Orinness and decision, his presence 13 not only Inviting but commanding, His voice ts strong, and at times sonorous, though modulated, when oveaston requires, ton degree that would soem to hidiente tho anton of a natural tatent and subsequent. clocutionnry training. While a pleusing spenker, his quullttentions in that re- gard are not at tho expense of enrnestness, which evems to be bis chief chunicteristic, The church decorations yesterduy morntn; were of churueter appre printo to the gli Easter season, The wall buck of tho altar bore: tho Inscription in tluminated text "1 know that = my Hedeemer yeth," while the altar’ Itself was ornnmented with four. lire vases containing culla ilfes and dainty aprigs of bright green, A ainntibr vase, tiled with Hiles, occupied the spacey iminediately tn front. ‘Two floral-stands within tho chancel- railing, nnd n wealth of floral attractions drap- Ing the book-stand, completed the decorations. ‘Tho now Ktector, at the bexlnulay of the sorv~ fee, sut In front of tho chancel, with tho Senior Warden, Mr. Celt. Larrabe, on his left, and tho Junior Wardon, Mr. If. A. Towner, on bis right. ‘The Kev. Mr. Lewis occupied tho chalr at the leftof the chancel steps, Canon Street 0 similar position on the right, and Iishop MeLuren a position within. tho railing. ‘Tho firat lesson was rend by the Hey. Mr. Lewls, and was drawn from Ezeklel, xxxill., 1-10. Tho second lesson, froin Johny, x., 1-19 was rend by Canon Street. The ordination hymn was No. 270, beginuiug with the suunAns Lon’, puar thy apirit from on hia! Sri Rhororgatged secrante tess: Gravy und alts tu cuch supply, and cloth thy priosts with righteousness, After tho siuging of the hymn, tho new Rector and the Sentor und Juntor Wardens advanced to the railing, and Bishop MeLaron, na nstitutor, proceeded with the olfice Gf institution of tho minister, delivering tho address prescribed In tho form of tho lotter of Institution, ‘Che Senior Warden thon formully dollvered to tho now minfater tho keys of the church, attrehed to 0 allken ribbon, and tho minister responded in the usta) form. The Institutor thereupon re celved tho ininister within tho railing, und pro» sented bin with the Biblo, books of common prayer,canons,ote. The eholr sang the anthem, “ Laudate Nomen,” and Bishop MeLaren mada tho formal prayer, and pronounced tho benodlo- tion, The new minister then knelt at the altar and presented the fornial supplleation for hini nelf, followed with tho prayer for the church. Tho Wardens returned to thelr powa, aud tho new Hector gave out the hymn begluning; Father of Merctos, Low thing ear, Attentive tu our Gurnont prayor, Aftor tho singing of tho hymn, the Reotor na- cended the pulpit, and proceeded to deliver his introductory sermon, basing his remarks on the Tollowlug tex! Huts wo were allowed of God, to be put tn trust with tho Guapel, ovon au wo apedk, nob ie vlunaing mon, but God, which trivth ove howrtA—i. Thea, thay de “You may well bolove,” tho reverouil gentlo- man begin, “that this is no ordiiary moment In tho foot your new Rector; thut mind and heart ave Cull; that every bre of his body tlngles with Intensity of emotion; that ho eamot from this point fogk bnek upon the past, eithor that from which ho hus been so immediately sev> ered or that whivh flea so remote, or look around upon the upturned faces of those who nro to bo his aheop henceforward, and think of what tho future may howilbly unfold, without belng de- Souths: thank tal that, ht the good providence of God, ho hus beon permitted tht morning to be by tho chlot pastor of the dlovese Inxtituted Into the oflicy which he ts henceforth to Hil, And in thinking of that. T should say to you this morne ing the words that [have Just read for tho text wore suagosted to my mind,” ‘The subject of thode words was the Goapol—or glad tidings. In this connection ba desired to call nttontion to the condition of nnkind, as It might be contemplated by ono on tho outalde af the system, ‘The natural question to such it ane would ho, “ How al, those things become whit & = thoy arey? and © Why did thoy become whut the He would geo man'a wanta and his endeavors to supply thein, Io would con great vonmeroial ity lilo this cndenyoring to supply the largest wants of the great: world, ly. Ing around ft und boyond tho seus, Agni, ho would soo those who wore trying to supply tho intellectual wants of tho community and tha world. He would aoe that umnicind, as a whole, belloved in tho existence of 4 Cod to worship and obey. ‘There wis a yreat dent oof the noise of ntholsm, but the nmnount of uthuisin in the world, compared with the number of thosa who beilove In tho existonea of a God who it was thelr duty to worship and oboy, wus: von eral, Tho stranger, on hia rst glance at this world, would find also that man wad possessed Of moral ‘blindnoss and perversity, that rendered him unable to discover God for hiinself, and un willing ta do God's Wil whon roveated to bln. Tiow many, oven in this Christian olty and this udvanced day, were absont from tho church on the Bubbath? low many were reading the sun day papers, which put inte their coluinns a taf amount of retiiour matter for’ their rend. ord, Who, aftor rouding {t, proceeded to read wll the rest of tho pavers, when thoy might Juat j3 well read it any athar day in the week? Upon those things cane the message of tho Gospel. It wus in two parts, Tho frat was tho micauiyo of forgivencas. Man was a sinner, God wis holy, and iis mcssongers cume with tho glud tidings of great Joy, ‘Tho seoond purt of thasy glad dings was thut it supplied 4 motive,—tho motive for holle Hew,—and than must have aimotive tf ho would et on in this world. The example set for bls imitation wae that of Christ himself, But there waa o furthor incentlye—v further motive for haliness—in tho vonsciousneas of personnt Lone Mt received through the sulferings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Another thing in the Cig tUdings was tho power to attain the object of man's being which was granted, Naturally, man's will Was pubject to bls pusslons, ‘Tho power of these ad tidings mady ft possible ta reverse tha re- hatlon. ‘Thore wns something moro In thase glad thls inys—the promises thoy held out that nun should become perfect ih the. Eluaven beyond, us God la perfect, and boly us God la holy, How was this ministry regarded in tho Bible,— inthotexty Not ava property, but us a trust, ranted In. tho first iuvtuuge’ by Chrlut to the welve Apostles; thon ty tho guvonty Disel plus: then to Mutthtia; and then Jn part to Puul and Barnabas, tozbe preached by them. Some might buy Christ had not yiven tho Guspe ‘trust: sitive those early days. bat Wild dittusted by Payl wnt ir Talat ‘I at ni A the sane iolawion crowith he "ead doen untrusted. Ts wi recolved tho = trust: tne on) auallur naniner, and this it bad come. manne ihe cuireh of the present day, The Chorch, In short, cluded that Christ bad promised to be with the rmints- tors of the apostolig succession untl the ond of the world, and that they were tutrusted with there fail tilings to epenk unto the peoplo committed to thole charge. Tho Apostics’ Crued was a series of fadts Which could not bo controverted or gotten rid of, ‘The facts of tho Chriatinn revelation were what had been committed to tho Churet's trust, One aot of facta win comprised in the life and death of desua, and capable of verifiention by: fuvestigntion. Another aet comprised those only capable of being yeritied by expericnee,— a act of facts comprised in what wero eatled myatories oof the. Kingdom of — Wenvon, ho menning, and rela- tive seuporenrieg of those facts becaine more thoroughly apprehonded aa time went on, Ike the phonomenn of Nature, they remained xed and irravocable, Tho deductions from thom wero Hko the conclusions of sclentific men with regard to the phenomernn of Nature, ‘Thoy syero tho most rensonable and tho most Hkely tt tho minds of those who mado thom, and further Investigation confirmed, upset, or moditied the conclusions of those who went before, The text indicnted, negatively and positively, tho way in which ininlators wight to ndonister thin grent trust. Some ministers apparently tried to diaplense tho peoplo, and, when the peas ple wore diaplensed, concelyed that thoy were cing persecuted for rahteonsnces’ ake, whores aa it wis all tho time thofr own wrong-hended- nese, Tho true minister, in denonunelng ain and ultering his warnings, must naturally disploaso, but hie duty was clear. He should sock to por- rundo the sinners to ropentance, a What waa ft to plenso God? In tho first place it consisted in keeping nothing back. Again, the minister intfst not exaggerate or weuken tho fore of wtruth, and he must learn to keep the proportion of the fuith, not expounding ono piasnze ina way which would disturb (te ngrece ment with others, The miniater, above all, must geck to win souls to God—not for himself, In conclusion, tho reyerend gontloninn agked his henrers whit thoy wera going to da to help him keep thia trust. Hundreds oft hearts in Now York were, he know, supplicating God for thom and him, that he tnight o his mouth boldly to mako known the message of tho Gospel. “Io earnestly called upon hls hearers, therefore, not. to stop praying for bi now, but to in every way hold up his hands, strengthen his heart, and my Gol to enable him to keep tho trust commnitted to hia charge, and to administer It not ns plearing men, but us pleas. Ing God; so that, when the grent day should came, thoy might be his juy and bis crown of rejoleing. ‘he sermon was followed by the colobration of tho communion, the entire services occupying over three hours, RESURRECTION. THE REY. E. 1% GOODWIN pronchod 1 sermon yesterday morning at the First Congregational Chureh, corner of Ann und ‘Washington streets, having for bis subject “Tho Nogurrection of the Body,” and for his toxt £ Corinthians, xvi, 20: Tint now is Christ risen from tho slead and beeotne the firat fruits of thom that slept, Tn opening, the pronoler stated that ho would not be able to deal In bis sermon with tho sul Ject in Its fullness, and on the following Sabbath morning he would consider such points in cone nection with itas were not coy ored by his pres- ‘et discourse, in which ho would consider tho nature of tho resurrection and glorificution of tho bodies of truo bollovers, Thero was no doctrine more full of comfort than this, nor was thore one over which fo inany well-intentioned people had stumbled. It was an casy mattor to ralao dificulties in connection with the Freaniny of thoScriptures, and there were some who four Iteusier todeny tho resurrection of the body han to explain It, Thore were some who thought tha, the ullusions to the resurrection were figurative in thoir nnture, and who cited Christ's amiswer to tho Suddueee, “(od fa not the God of the douad, but of tho Ilying,” uy if it sot aside tha iden thal tho souls of the patrtarchs were. still allvo., Otbors hold that tho resurrection was purely spiritual in its nature, and quote tho words, "1 nm tho resurrection und the life,” in support of thelr view. thors, agaln, huld that the soul 1s, 14 ft wort body Inside the natural body,—an inte tanible egsence which at deuth casts of tho outer tuferlal and gross covering us a glove. ‘This wus the doctrine of Swedenbory, and hence uroso a bellef that tho resurrection {4 coincident with denth. Stitt others hold that the: animal Ife of mun ia never destroyed, and that this vital prinetple will take nto itsolf mutter, and 80 constitute # heavenly body, "The question was one that could not bo sottled by our phitogophy, It was almply n question of fact—of what tho Scriptures taught in regard to It Did thoy tench a clear, material, objective resurrection, or amply 0 spiritual one? Byen ns tho existence of God is believed In as a God whose attributes of omnfscenes and onmnipo- te cannot be denied, 80 must belief be no- corded to His doctrines wherever thoy are tald down fn tho Scriptures, not because they can Philoxepbize thom, but beeause they are tho plainly taught truths of God, ‘Tho resurrection wis something apa which no human theory could be built, and to tha Seriptures ulone could man look for 8 comprehension of the doctrine, Te was not worth while to dwell upon the tdea that the resurrection ‘whe fnrativo, as it wis outoft reason to suppose that Christ spoke first of all Nyuratively aout the resurrection of Anzirua from thedead, and thon raised bim in reatlty, ‘The epiritual theory was disproved by the ox- prions used by our Lord previous to tho rils- ng of Saurus “Thy brother shall riso again.” ‘This did not mean av spiritual birth. Liars was 8 good min, and there wie 10 necesalty of n spiritual resurrection for him. ‘he Swedenborgian theory waa Uelioved in by amore people than uny of thoxe previously men- toned, aud it was an inyenlous une, but tho Serlpttires plant too many diticulties fn the way of It belict to make itacceptuble. In tho trae pices tho Scriptures wore irreconcllod with the dea of the resurrection occurring nt death. Christ were, us stuted inthe text, the tlrat frulta, the harvest fs to follow; honey tho dend are yet tu rise, for Chriat 18 tho first fruits of thom that have died, It wus hardly to bo bellcved that Christ spoke about the resurrection. of the body without meuning the resurrection of an objective body, Such wis Christ's resurrcetion, which Is sut forth us the basis and tyno that of alt mankind, Tho barveat will be like tho rat fruit, al Unt rise ngain will, necording to Pan! bodics like unto those of Jesus, Tho « With what body will thoy cumo? ts nsked. An objector wants to know what sort of dwol- ling plnce | the restirrected with havo. Puut calls tho question foolish as presainyg for an answor tou mystery which God dovs not seo Nttoexplain, What Paul tenobes fy, thut just us certaloly as the seed grows Into tho pre BO, surely will the resurrection be ina visible, tins gible body, vitally relnted to the body that wan poe in tho ground. Tho only question fn regard 0 it wan ono of fuct, and itis pluiniy tathe in tho Berlptures that tho reaurrection jsof tho body that was put inthe ground, and if it doce not teach that tt does not tench anything, In 1. Corinthians, xv, 62, bi, nro the words: “ina moment, In tho winking of un eyo, at tho last trump, for the last trunipet shall sound, and the dead shall be rateed incorruptible, an wo shall bo changed, For this corruptiblo must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on Immortality.” Was it not the body that was sown In corruption that was to be rnlsed fu invorrepuion, and wis not tho time ofall this the coming of tho Lord Jeaus Cherikt? It could not be auld that this language was figurativo; it moant a reullatic aud object- iyo resurrection, Tn ttom,, vill, 11, aro the worda: “ But if tha spirit of 1iim tint raised np Jesus from tho deat dwell lv you, he that ralsed up Christ from the feud shall uso quicken your mortal bodies His spirit that dwelleth in you." And in cpistly to the Philippians, f11., 20,21, ure tho words; “For our conversation is in Heaven; fram whence tisa we look for our Saylor, tho Lord Jesus Chriat, who shall change our vile body, that ft inay be fashioned like unto Elbs glostou body, accuniing tothe working whereby io la uble even to subdue all things unto Hin sele.”) Stoh testimony us this wud unequivocal, and sorvetl to touch as cortainly us lunginye can touch that there Is to be a realletio resurrection, And that It is to take place at tho coming of the Lard, Ut hud been asker how it could bo that tho res- Urreotion of bodies which had erumbled Into dust and returned again to earth—had renp- peared in antimt and vegotalile Hfe—contd ba accompllahed. ‘This could not be understood by mun, who had better Jenve to God the question of philosophy, satisfied in Elis Rarer, to accomn- pilah the apparent iinpossibility, But, for the Sutiafuction of the skeptical, the avcompllah- mente of modern xolunce, with whose ald inotals could bo appagently destroyod und again res united in thoir full balk and purity, und the guses of tho alr docomposed and nguin conjoloed together, might be quoted us giving a proof that even inn could do that which not so long ago would have been deemed finpossibte, | And sural If the chomist with hte hitie vat of avid could do these Chhigs, the Onmlselont and Om- nipotent Godt could reconstruct anybody and everybody that hid ever bud oxiitunce, Nhu doctrine of tho resurrection of the body ald not neeessurily imply the presurvation of the (dontity of the person, Jt was not to be sup. posal that the rowirrouted bilnd man would be blind, the dwurt uw dwarf, and tho cripplo a erlp- pls, ‘The teachings of Buripture nindo a more pouutiful belleg when they made the Hkoneus of the Lord Jesuad that which would belong to tho body which bud urisun again, FOUR YEAKS’ WORK, THE MEV, G. I. PEEKR, of tho Leavitt Street Congregational Church, preached a sermon yesterday morning in com> memnaration of tho completion of hls fourth pustornl ycur with bis present luck. The house wus iilled: The church, ainee the Rey, Bir,Pecko came to minister to it, bes succeeded romarka- bly well, and to-day Is une of the most tlouriah- ing, considenug its locality, in tho olty, Mr. VPevko took big text from tho second chapter: ¢ Bt. Paul's Eplatle to the Corinthiuns, fourth and fifth verves, ue follows; , * And my specch antl ny preaching -wis not with ontleing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstrution of tho Spirit and of powe That your fulth should not stand tn tho wis- dom of ‘men, byt In the power of God. Tho speaker held that {f Christianity had moved the world, lt wus accomplished through ite great and boly motives, It bud peuctrated and perforuted the pulaces of Rome during Puut's time, Christlaulty bad been tho servant of the world for Curlst’s suke, Fulliblu mon anid faltitle cthirehes had started mensuros to furthor their interests, which had fallon to tho grind, Agalist.tho setf-eccking apirit of moetr stood the self-snerineing spirit af Christ. Ite urged tho dinking of nll lesser motives, and the conquest of the henrt only hrough Christ in thto servico of Cini Christinnity had not won. Its way in tho world ause it tnd sald, “ie hoppy.” Tt had proelutmed tho doctrine of servico to God, even throwgh long rutterings to obey God, and to follow Cod In obedience, It hid no inducement. to offer otler than an obas dence to God to reach Heaven, He praised tho Sisters of Charity, who so kinds nisterud ta tho sick, and who, he sald, wore “servants oft God for Chrint’a nike.” Hving a Chriatiitce Uf going about iminietering to the sick ma, Men's seltishnes ould aecomplish toth= ng. ~Thoy were tobe Judged without p: prejudice, Hoe held tl thore wi torenoh God. Thero wero many dite it witys, and thoy might all att the sameond. They mizht rest nasured, however, that the way which each — thoitght tho easiest and were most desirous of pursultiz waa not tho God expeeted phe way of God and His Justice, Paul had a grand id of God and Chriat, and he alyays asked tho uestion, “What doca Christ want?" Tho Thureh enrrled out the wark of Christ on carth, Tle said_n Cricnd of bis hnet told hint that Btephon Tyng. Jr. commenced to build his $200,000 qiureh when ho tnd only $50,000 and trudted to Go for the balance, God didn't furnteh that balance. Tf aman shold commence to build a house on the samme busis he would be eatled a lunatle, and ho didn't know as it was much different {nthe ather case, Common eenso hit something ta do with bullding 9 chturch as well osn house. Tyng's action wasn't business, Yor he Mud attatned a great pame Inthe Church, He heli that the Congregationnlists had achieved auceess becnuse thoy thought aloud. Ho held that free thought should not bo suppressed, but whulesomely «is mL, The Siniths—and thoy were a numerous family—had opened freee thoueht, rooms in most” Orthotox Scotland, Ratlonallsm had even taken hold ot pita and had thore been discussed. Ho advocated freedom of thought in the broadest sonae, and If thoy discussed things inn - wholesome split Christ wok! be always with them. Christ did not advocate a single chureh, bit advocated tho: Truth, and that it should be upheld by tho Church, ‘Truth must grow larger, and now aides inust bo developed feom It from day to day. Religion meant righteousness and that which was best for God and the people, Alludifg to his ministry of tho church, Mr. Peeke anid that In his for scars of connection with it he had enjoyed ndegree of pleasiire be had not autleipated. He had been allowed n free pulpit. Hig, ministry. had been counted i success; “but anceers had in the congregation: and not with bimaelt. The ehurel had recelyed since 1876, 262 members; by letter, Wy hy confession, school, 65. Membership nt tho present the, 410, He had seen the time whon this membership wats considered very lurge for n church, He asked tho church to ict asa whole, Ho asked thom to give way to any Individual opinion which might mine tho spirit of unity among them. He was ile wityn willing to give way toan opinion for the xoml of the church andof Christ, His past four yenrs of minfatry had been yeura of pence aud prosperity, and penco ‘and unity added to tho’ strength of the vhureh., Free thought and free apee should ho eneouraged. Ho hoped to see the ehitreh mem- bership doubled In tha next four years, Thoy hid netono too many members, and thoy lind none to spare, They tad prospered and enlirgerd, and {€ ealted for enturged nnd broader views an churity. He advocated the erection of a new and lurger edifice in tho near future, Ho alluded to the improyements which bad gone on nround thom during tho past four years, the vast blocks of stores ain) houses that hud been erceted. Tho next four yours world xve the pralrics further covered with new hovses, New peone would come ninong them, thelr membership would be doubled, and they would need a much larger chureh. He-wanted them to consider (hla mate har EROURB SLANT, and work fo altuln the grout on TIE AMERICAN IDBA, THE REV. 8 1 CATHROD, of Syrucuse, N. Y., presehed Inst evening tn Unity Church to a metinmesized audience, his subject being Tho Ameriean en." | Tho rev erend gentleman svlected bis toxt from tho third vonw of tho sixty-soventh Pantins Let the people praise hoo, O God; tot all the poo- plo praivo Thee, Mr. Cathrop said that ton ensual observer be- fore the War It would havo secmed that tho American Idea was to nequire more. More land, moro States, muro dollars, more mince, more stars In tho fing. Such seemed to be tho desire of all, It was natural that Americans should feel this way, for the country wus i grent one. It ineluded o vast aren of and and millions upon nilllions of men, Yet It was necessary to onter a protest against this worship of crude numbers, Tho word of one mun wns considered as noth- ing, that of ono thourand something, of a bun- dred thousand important, of w milion divine, Y¥ ct thero wna something In numbers aftor all. In ematl towns one could find 'n good many things, but It required cities of from two hun- dred thourund tou million people before the highest development of urban clyillzation couidy be reached. Quly fn London, with its four mil- Yon inbabitants, was it --alblo to huve such pirka, pleturo-sallers, zociogical gardens, and othor educational nid vy. * to Institutions ns are found thors. But nu eves city was posallilo copt where there wag 1: fmmeno nation bel it. There vould .ne n tine when nation would So oe ed 19 8 flrat-cliss One un- Tess it and seve anllllon oitizens. ‘Thore would somoa Yer* when tho Unlted States woul haya 5 + palution, Tho land muxt be fitted up, afleonds bullt, and deserts brought undor “ultiention before this tine, The Amoer- sonn iden required numbors, because there wre a reat muny people in the world, The mission of Armerfea was to the millions. ft demanded eed tee and right for alt: mun and women, Milllong require nlurge binmibor gC, algnificant units to lenven tho muss with Jdens, Tho por- petal ery which used ta urge, that "Wo are it country,” muitst, oun ho putan end to. We aren youny Sonnteys but {t would bo only nfow yoara’ before we should be racognizod’ ws the grentost nition on the eurth, Tt would be said that a hundred million huckstors, swindlers, and thieves should rule, Yot wo cau to-dny beur Sweeney tulk, and “ Bosa” Tweed Ja nut ten years In tha pst. Ainerioa has too many men who can count only to the noxt 4th of March or tho frit Tues. day in November. There are too few who hive knowledge of tho political history of the pnat, whutover little they know of the present. Tt skillful, mechanical Inventian, America stands confessedly unrivaled, but :ho standard of work done by Ameriean ‘workiuen, or rather by workmen ju America, Is low. Every master mechinto knows how dificult tt is to tid honest work done by workmen. | This sort of thing will not Inst. It hue begun to be seen that good work pays In the iunutacturo of steel and fron tools n Philadelphia frm leads tha world, In astronomical instruments Ameorien outranied oll notions, There wns plenty of room at tho top for mon who did tholr work well, But met, and women too, must be content to serve thelr Wppronticeship, Our books aro getting better piluted over, yo 3 our publig Nbrarles wry bet jer managed than in a ho past. Now fs it with selenco and iterature? The American niin fs coming; supreme in all, Wuke Emerson, and all must ne- knowledge that tho coming min ta with us, Take Bryant, Lowoll, Whittier, and Emerson bhnself, and all must own that tho Muso fy weil represented) in Amerlen, It fs a healthy fuct thut America has not yet produced a Swinburne, Tho Muse of America stugs x heulthy song and wholesome, In history there are such names ts Pregcott and othors standing tn tho front rani Tn theology, acience. ustronomy, and physiology theory are nen Ju America who yleld to none, No tonger hus this country to borrow from older forms of civilization, Mart there ty yet mtch to learn, ‘There ta still room for tiny good singers in Amerien, ‘The areival of biapleed shigors 14. stro sim of n developed civill- wantlons t oi et which — cannot. bo hidtion or dlszuteed that tho existing oondl- ons are not favorable for tho development uf tho higher branchos of music, On the stage, Cushinan, Moot, Jefferson, and many othors bave demonstrated that thls cow try 1s not inferior ta the older nations. At tho sunto time it bus te bo conceded that Ammoricnt haw not yot produced one greatdramatio author. In sculpture thero are names enough to show that tho American idea has mado a food bogin= nlug. ‘This country ta rich in eloquent speakers, When an Amorican knows anything ho ean put it into portable shape better than any mun on the planet. Yet it i# true that there avo very fow American publlo men who are fully noqualited with any yrent subject. There ts yo royal road to learnings greatuesa comes by law and snot by luck, Quo thing wits certain tho Atmorigan people would never be content with medlocrity, They would elthor bo greatly good or yeeay ‘base, - jo Amoricun idea wis basod on democracy, Tho heavens are open to ull mon, ‘Sclence, re- Tigion, and philosophy are democratic. Hoyal writers buve disloyal audlonces. Mon to-duy: took not nt the cuticle of thoir teachers, but at tholr princlplos, ‘The double portion of | the spirit of divine genius shall doscend upon those ‘who can sve and apprecinte true muniiness and truth In all things. tho architesture of the prosent no ston ts despised if it by useful, whethor It be used in tho foundation or ay the top stone of the upper piunucle, THE LIGHT. SENNON BY THY REY. OLYMITA BROWN WITLIS. ‘Tho socond day's sessiom of tha Universallat Women’s Asgvolation of Iilinols wos begun yes terduy morning in the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Bangusgon and Washington streets, by W Bhort ‘vermon by the Rey, Olympia Bruwa Willis from tho texts Whorvfore be saith, Awako, thou that sloop- oat, and arise from tho dead, and Christ shall lye thee light.—Lyph., vi, 14. Lifo, the reverend ludy suld, was the great Aniiuting and puritlying power of earth, Bo- fore.tifv bad been upon the carth all had been denduess. Hut whon tho Lord hud sald “Let there bo light," tho pulao of life bogun fo beat, und the whole universe begun to show glgns of animation. In these days of progposa gud sel- entific discovery we realized more than over that Harbt was the life of the world. The whole world rejofeed in the ght. When tho morning Aight came the hurry nnd bustle of Ife bexan, and quict was resioved at the setting of the alr. All creatures toved the hght, and all tho ant- mato ureation prafsed God for tho Haht, Darke ness wae shunned by nll, and tho darkness of tho soul was dispelled by the glorious Tht of truth, ‘Tho existence Of our forefathers bad been a Dank, but Httle by. tittle the Tight of God's truth had dawned upon the minds of the opie, anid ea auw nil things transitured, brightened, and thon tho ora of progress begnn, ‘Truly tho light was tho fife of the work, Boliish- neasand bigotry hart ariidiunl iain uses: before ite Intluones, and the present enlighteninent of man testified to 1s power. It had shown men thole obligntions to ono anothor and to Gor, broken the fotters of the enslaved, crumbled the walls of deapotiam, and thrown halo around tho world. ‘Tho Indy coneluded by putting tn an appent to. the congregation to lend it ey bund to the Ladies’ Miaslonary Society af the che esd become Mght-benrera in the cause of Christ. The olosing exercisra wero held at tho Churek of tho Redeemer last ovening, corner of Xan- gamon nnd Washington streejs, Tho attend. Anes way very large, and tho proceesings of rathor wn Inforwul character, consisting of muate by thochurch eholr, and brief nddres ‘Tho meeting wna opened with prayer by Mra. Dixon, of Bluo Island, and, after ringing, J. IL Hwan, Superintendent of the Simdayeschool of &t. Paul's Chureh, spoke brictly in tho interest of tho missionary work, urging tit whore our trosire was sthero was our heart cei Hie contented that thy inasionary work waa tho basis of nll churels orgnnantions, and that with- out it nothing could te done, It had bean started by our Lord and Savior, and he: rejolead that there wore xo inuny present to testify tholr in- terest In ft and tholr love for it. ‘The Itev, Dr. Ityder wos the noxt speaker. Ilo sald ho bud manifested his deep interest In the: work by closlig hls church for tho evening, nnd proceeded to argue that without missionary work the religious denominations would buve: hid no existence, The Presbyterians had one faith, the Methodista anothor, and tho Univers Rullsta sul) nnother; but thoy wi all works Ing to a general’ ond. Bach denomination represented something tho othors did not and they were nil bont upon dole Food, an tone could he dlepensed with at this the. Ife remembered that Dr. Thomus had recently prenched that one could be & good Methodist without belleving In oternal punishment, and ho might have been right; but the fact was that, (fF allof the denominations agrocd, tho Universnt- Jat Chiireh would ati haved work to do, ‘Tho doctrine of eternal punishment was being pressed, but above and beyond this was the fact that there was to bo in end to nll things, Tho churches ‘could never agres upon doctrinal polnta, of course, but this was no reason why tha oilastonary worl: shoul not he pushed, nor yee why tho Universallsta should degort thor standant of Vellef. One cottd bo a Methodist or Preshyto- rinn, It was sifd, by coming around occasional: and paying, or‘not paying, thotr bills; tut this yas noe Unlvorsullam, for Universalists felt that thelr Church and filth needed all the gunport it could got, and: thoy pave it aaa matter of right rathor than duty. Thoy loved thelr faith the moro becatise thoy were constantly being porees cuted, and this explained tholr growth, and gave tho misalonary work its great importance, Ifo cloret y commending: the work of tho Women's — Asrociution oudurging his hearers todo all ia thelr power to promote the missionary cause, to the end that Universaliam might aproad and take a still deeper hold upon the popular beart,—not only in Chicago and tho State, but where. Mrs, Dixon fallowed tn n fow remarics, and sho was followed by Ald. Throop, who sald the Unt- versalist, faith was dear to him, and ever would be, He believed in Universalism, and bis fulth had beon strengthoned by time, It had always been a comfort to him, and would be to the end, He oxperlenced its bonefits constantly, and lt was it blessing no one more heartily enjoyed, and what was good for himself ho regarded 1s rood for hls telghbors; thorefore sb gave hunrtiast support to tho misslonary “work, and hoped to seo It greatly extended. Tho closing nddress was by tho Rov. Mia. Olympla Brown Willi, whieh was an ope for the support of tho women In tholr missionary: work. She eontended that Uniyeranliam meant: mnore to women than men, because thoy wel oftener culled upon to test the faith, and closed by urging her hearers to join the Missionary Association. A colleetion was then taken for the cause after which quite a number enma forward and added tholr names tothe rollaof tho Agsucli- tion, and tho moeting adjourned, MARRIAGE IN EGYPT. Girls Sometimes Metrothed at the Ago of Five Yoars and Marricd at Ten-'Lhe Price of a Wife from Fivo Shillings te $1,600, When an Egyptlan wants a wife, he ts not als lowed to visit tho harems of his friends to se+ lect one, for Mobammed forbade men to ce tho fave of any wonun thoy could marry.—thatis to shy, any besides their mothors or. sisters, A man 4s, thorefore, obliged to employ a “ khut- beh," or matehmuker, to find ono for him, for which service, of cotrsc, sho expects *back- sheesh,"—that ts, payment. Tho khutbeb, hive {ny found a girl, recommends her to the man ns exceedingly beautiful and eminently suitable to. him. ‘Tho futhor is thon waited upon to nscer- tuln the dowry ho requires, for all wives tre pir cbased as thoy, were (iu patriarchal duys. When Jacob hud no money to pay for Rachel ho served her futher soyen yeura san equiva lent; and, when duped, was obliged to serve tt second time to sccuro his prize. (Gon, xxix.) Fathers stlll refirse to give a younger daughter in marriage before an elder shall have been murried. The people of Armenia, in Aslutla Turkey, forbid a younzer son to marcy before an elder, and this is likewise tho law of the findoos, ‘The price of 1 wife varies from 6 shillings to $100. The girl muy not be more than 6 ord Tee but, whatever hor nge, Uwoethirds of he dowry 13 at once pald to hor father, In the presence. of witnvsscs. ‘The fathor then, or his Tropresuntative, says; 1 betroth: ta thoe my danghter,” and the young man responds, +1 neceptof such botrothal.” Unless aniong tho lower cluwes, tho fathor oxpends the dowry In tho porehase of droga, orients, or furniture for the oride, which never becomy the property of her husband. Even whou betrothed, the {n- tereourse of the partics Is very restricted. ‘Tho Arabs will not allow thom to ave cinch other, bit thu Jows are not quite soastringent. Tho be his trothitls often continuo for yeurs bufore i ane ent down demands bis wife, ‘Thus * Saniwsan wi and talked té tho womun," or capaourod “after a timo he returned to take he! sare demanded itt tho age of 10. and hotwee and W yenns; but after 10 few men will suck thent, and the, duwry expectod fs thon propor- tlonably low, Girls in Egypt aro often mothors at 13 and grandmothers it 20, nid in Perste thoy are said To he mothers at 1, gravdimothers wt und past ebittbearing at a Whon a aun demands hotrothed i day’ fa fixed for the nuptials, an for soven nights before he is oxpectod to give feast, which, bowover, I furnished by tho wucats themselves. This, one ‘sends eoitco, Another rico, wnothor sugdr, ote, Che priucis put thne of this continued fenat Ig the night efore the consummation. Tho conduct ts 4 trusted to the “ferlend of the Deridegroor (Mohn, (i, 20) About the middle of this ny tho bride urrives ut tho house and retires to the bas rom, whore sho its with hor mothor, sisters, and fomule friends. At the third or tourth wateh of the nlght—three or four hours after sumsct—tho bridegroam, who hig not yot seen his fair ono, Koes le tho mosque to pray, accompanied by “ ncalinds," or torches and linterns, with music, Upon his return ho fa intraduced to his by with whom, baving ava her nttendant a pres: enttoretire, he ts loft uloje. Ho then throws off hor yoll and for tho tlrst time sees hor fice, If sutistied, ho informs tho women nutside, who fumedintoly, express thelr Joy by sora y tho Au wi, which Is eehoct women tn t the bouge and thon by those fh the nelybbar hood, —————$__— Queen Victorin’n Last Lovoo, London World, Tho luvéo on Wednesday lasted oxactly wn hour and a hall, and in that time no less thin TAG pupae through tho presenve-chumber, of Which number 3G were presentations, Her Shades vy renalned oxuctly an hour and ten mine utes, after which tho Princesa Uoatrice took her plico, All thia timo hor Majesty rematned standing, the bettor to return tho obvisunes mide, and fow cun realize the great strain tue Involved. | It fs not, howover, tho actual Lathe do much that prevents her Balesty staging. it out asa fecllag of slokness and faintness that come over hor, i ‘One tneldent was tho presentation ef apetl- tlon by Lignt-Col, Sutherland Dowson, of tha Youth Regiment.) The complaint on Cal Dows son's part dy that an olllctil at tho Horse Guurds declined to uceedo to his application for prefer= mont without first huving his palin well olled, Tho Duke of Cambridge waa furious at tho;prese entation of the petition being allowed; bul the right {4 too old-establiatied, Ib apponta, to bu ube rogated, oven at tho will or a royal Duke, and Bo hor Mujesty received tho petition in persun, Another eplaodo was the fact of a navalotiiver, with uedala for two campalyns, passing with ao woodon leg,—not 2 cork linitution, such as Mr, hor We mle supply, but adownright honest wooden stun wit, made itle beard oven through the velvet pile of the carpeting. A Primitive MURTY, Landon ‘Times, Our Genova correspondent writes under dato Murel The gulleat Protestant commune i Switzerland, probably in Europe, an certainly tho jnvst prluitive, td that of Abliindebenon, in the elrglo of Suunen, Canton Berne, Abliine chenen, a word lterilly alunifying * a Hittls ou iying place,” a wituated inv Iwinote mountain Vulloy, 4,008 feet ubove the lovel of the euu, and ite unsophisticated Inhubitines contrive te ponse with most of tho nppondayes which are considered inseparable froin madorn civilization. Slr Wilfrid Latwaon will be ploased to Tourn that they do not possess a uliylo atte ats De. Richardson infght posaltty tind in Abtn chongn tho Hyyels after whieh ho slgba; for al- belt thore ig iut n doctor in tho villago, there beon uv death for many yours and right to take up bis abate hore = he would rec from a troublo of which he has more than onco feblingly Gormplninad, os though tho com- mune enjoys the blessings of @ penny pout it hus only oue delivery of letters a week, Aa muy bo supposed in thes elreumstances, do not command n very rendy ral borhood. Commoreo and mundieratta aro cot apleucus. by their dhsenves there [6 nelther binckamith, baker, Seheuler/ ahh, nor shopkeoper Innil the commune; and tho peopte being all hontcst nna poncoablo, they require neither no- tary, huwyer, nor poticeninn. Every fourteen daya a peddier with n yan goes the ronnd of the commune, and anpplies the housewives with all that they want in the shape of crockery, drap- ery, thread, noedics, pnper, and sundrioss food {s provided hy thoir own (looks, herds, and poul- try, nnd, tt f@ hardly necessary to say, 119 th hive little need for ready money, the Abin Hers keep no banker. ‘They have a tiny irch with neinglo boll, and stisAstanding Joko In the placo thut when a girl is born they ring a pel, but on the birth of a lad thoy rlag only: one bell, peta by aupposed, porhnpa, that tho Inhabitants af this xequvatored vulloy tnd -thoir lives somowhat hard and tnonotorous, bit a correspondent writing thence toa Zurleh papor Bays this {s 80 far frum being the ene that thoy enjoy a far larger mnensitre of happiness than falls to the lot of most tnen, and have no desire to pxcnange thelr Alpine home for tho Life uf let ltl CROP NOTES. IN THE NORTHWEST. Bpectat Dupatch to The Chicago Tribune. . Br, Paut, April 4.—Tho Ploncer Preaa will pub- Ush to-morrow dispatches from twonty or thirty points In Minnesota showing tho progress of spring seeding. The curlous fact is shown that operations are more advanced In tho Northorn part of tho Btate, on tho line of tho Bt. Paul & Munitobn Road, than in tho sonthorn countics,: whoro rains havo flooded low-lying grounds, and delayed work, Tho following ore the principal features of tho dispatches from tho more Ime portant localities: MOWER COUNTY, Austin, Minn, April 4.—Thoro hns bean vory Uttic, If nny, seceding In this nefyhborhood this spring. If tho rains bold off, many of tho farms ers on high lands will gata good etart noxt worl, About tho samo breath of Innd will bo sown to whout this year as Just; if any differonco a dos ercngo, te ANOKA COUNTY. ANOKA, Minn, April 4—The prospoct of an Inerenso In nereage of wheat sown in this vicinity Js fully 23 per cent over Inst year, Muny farmers will put In 50 per cent more, Seeding hus ntready commenced on high ground, é DAKOTA, COUNTY, HAstinas, April 4.—Sceding has not yet coms Baha! a thia vicinity. More wheat will bo sown In tho count, seed can bo Frat aoa Se pee . sitenane countr. 4 LANESDORO, . are thne tho emi “in this poction Wit bolt woul condition for seeding tho first of next week, ‘Uho acreago will bo about tho same os Just season, = Jasnirort county. ILLMAR, April 4—Socding has commenced, Dut is retarded by bad wenthor, ‘Thore will bo au tnerense in “breadth of wheat sown. Good dudgea ustinate nbout onc-aixth.in thls county, Which will bo about 16,000 neres over lust years |, Inervasy prinelpully in districts south. ie WASHINGTON COUNTY. TELWATEN, April 4.—Tho ground fs so wot that no seeding hug been doen thia vicinity ay yet. Th uge to be put ito whoat Js larger STRVENS COUNTY, Monts, April4.—Seeding haa not yat come ee (Stevan) ed ibare oa bo hirgely invrensed oreo v! in planted thi sengon over any othor. pe OP eal e aod BTEARNS COUNTY, . Sauk Centre, April4.—Tho farmors aro pro= paring to commence seeding wa soon as tht ground will udinit of tt. Tho fnercused acreaw 48 catiinated nt 10to 15 per cont this sonse shat cauatly Bist pstwoen tae farms npened and moro’ extensive breakiugs on ob farms, nearly all of which will be in Wwicat. os ba dere count, LAKE City, April 4.-Tha farmers yonorali Ju this part of Wabasha County will eat None monico veediug until about "ABELL 12 There will bewsnuall tnerease In tho werengo of . wheat sown this your. Thore will wlso be sumo increaso in the nerengo of barloy. . WILKIN COUNTY. RECKINRIDGE, April 4.—Seeding has fatrl: begin in this vienity, Tho outlook 8 all that could be desired, both for the prospective crop. and brerking. It is folr to estimate that thoro: will be murketed here the products of $0,000 ores In excess of Just year, ROUTHERN DAKOTA. Broux Farts, April 4—It Is generally catl- muted by tho, bese. posted men “in this Soctiva that the nervage of wheat this senson will not execed that of Inst. owing {rivoipally. to the Gonrolly wt read. here me Howewirs bo an neronso of abo! er cont In tho ac corn, vats, barley, ‘es, wtan es nee i} IOWA. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuns, Buntwnatos, In, April 4.—Tho outlook for bountiful crops tho coming svuson fs gladdening the hearts of farmers and horticulturists in this soction. of country, and fmparting a tone of ehcerfulness and contidenco to all branchos of business, such aa hua .not beon scon horo for PH and has completoly dispelled tho avpro- onsluns which provatled curly in’ tho season ‘over tho thon Prospective fallure of the winters wheat crop, hough tho wouther during the winter was not favorable to tt largo yield of wine ter-whont, tho fine ‘wonthor -of tuo pust few weeks haa -Imparted life and visor to wi that was not absolutoly + killed by winter-frosts and — thawa; ‘and. it fa now discovered that many flelds in. which tho plunt was thought to bo ontirely destroyed wre giving algns of yluldings fulr crop, It is the xenoral opinion mong fitrmers now, that the yietd ot this ceroal will not be loss than two- thirds of « good nveragd, and probably more. Owing to tho largety-inercased nerengo sown, this will make the ‘winter-wheat.orop of this season fully ogial to previous yours. The spring furm-work is woll advanced, and nearly. all small grains were sown before the recent rains, and wero grently benoflted. terobys Tho prospect for fruit Is pronounced by frult-grow= era to be unprecedentedly ewe and, unless thoro should occur unsensonably late frosts, the frult-crop will bo tmmense, S “ TULINOIS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Craxtoy, Ill, April 4—Tho whoat-crop {s booming up In fine Btylo alnce tho-oponing of #pring, and tho prospects aro good fora heavy erop. + Fs swctal Dispatch to The Catcaga Tribune. : Dwiaur, Wh, April 4.—Those of us who have our lands’ tiled thank the Lord, for wo can goo ‘a0! prospect of getting to work the prosent: woek, ‘Those who lutye not, sev only mud and: water on oyery side, Nothing bus been dono on tho farms for over 8 weok, continucd and heavy rains have fllon, and everything Is at o stand- still, ‘The sousay ta lute, ee 4 2 WISGONSIN. _ Botciak Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, Warentown, Wie, April 4—Favorabio roe ports contliue to bo reculyed regurdlng. tho winter whcut in this section, und ft may now bo oluimog with cortaluty that av a general thi tho felds have piesaod through the rine ie od cuilition, Upon low ground where water his wlood a intge portion of tha soason the wheat {a protty genorally killed, but tho she tered plows have dono eplendidly; and, from ft present healthy, vigorous appourancy, a full yield is promisad. t : oe STATE UNIVERSITY. Rpectat Dispatch to The Chietgo Tribunes _ Crramvaran, UL, April 4.—LheBtato University at Champaign {fs aguin well .at {ts work, the spring (erin buying commenced March 2. The University Dattation is ugaln under organiza- tlon,—Liout, Willian I, Wood, of the Elghteonth United States Infantry, having been detailed to take command, in placo of Liout. Dinwiddig, ‘Undor tha now organization of ‘tho attalion, tho commissioned officers arg chosen from tho Junior and the: ton-commissiined from tho phomore Citas. ‘The Velll-fall, which was considerably ingiired by tho lato atorn, la belay rapidly rey J, and will soon be fu condition for tho drills to bo resumed." The tnatrutments for tho Use of the Signal Station which hus been catublished ut tho University bayo ulrondy ure rived, and the work of thatdopartmont wilfyvon comincnice A hearty good-focling bas pguly been established between the Facu ty aud tue dents, and tho labors of the torin hive begun with tho accustomed ontintelasia aud good will, a$$ WOOD-PULP, Bysetal Dupatch to. The Chicago Tribune; Weoronn, Wis, April 4.—Ono of the extensive pulp-munufucturera at Appleton hug cut large quantities of spruce in this vicinity. and alonr the Hino of tho Wisvonsin Central Railway. It haa been nscortainod that It {¢ far superior to poplar, and costs but tritlo more, 1¢ te cette inated that there is enough spruce on tbe. Ine of this roud tumake a quistor of a iniiljon of eords, and that wilhin the next threo yours ini 66 ot ft Will have bgon Fahy sipped to, Apatelin, a wouyie rain fo pulp. shore aro alan jLicey quantities a1 me material qu the lio c ie Rena cote ball uttat fir np of Co! on 18 * wal Cosas tore paw a A Clone Guess, ' . Toon Amstordam churchyard {s a gravo with the opitunh “Eifon Nyt! or *exaotly under uy palr of wippers. it if that of « rich old mou, who, believing bo would only iyo a cortain nuni- ber of years, divided vut his fortune inte yonriy Anata) inontay determiued to:bavo @ geod. tin He ouloulated wbout right, and when ho was dy ing ha bald all hig. dobte wud fund that he bod nothing loft but a palr of sUippors