Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1880, Page 2

i tj» Ben oY the thunder, Man, has attempte 4a ¢ When Herodotus attempted to learn wh: 4 VHI CHICAGO TRIBUNE APRIL 12, 153. THE PULPIT. Some Thoughts on Man by Prof, Swing, of the Central . Church, The Rov. Brooke, Herford’s Views , on How to Make the Best of Sunday, Dr. Goodwin's Sermon on the Futuro State and Recognition of Friends. Books and Reading—An Appropriate Scr+ mon by ths Rev. R. D. Sheppard. TILOUGHTS ON MAN. SERMON HY FNOK. SWING. Prof, Swing prenshed to a large audjonce tn the Contral Mustc-Hall yestamlay morning. To took for bis theme, Thoughts on Mun." Fol- Jowing {s tho sermon: Jot ns tunka man uftar our own tmago.—Cen. 1.5% (1) The xreat numbor of addresses and essays Epoken or pablished last week in memory of 2 listingulshed Christin tencher set before tis anow tho fact that tho tayorit idens of that. Inoralist were tho unity and natural equality of mankind, and that the highest duty of ench Iny in secking tho welfare of all, Whitoauch an ane ifversary of [dens ia till fresh in our memories and feelings, let us fall into some retiections ‘ovor that creature—tman—who fa tho subject of endicss speech, and essay, and song, and eormon. Jt js very singular that man should 'mnko the study of himself the ehiet {itelfectual business of his whole history, Ut would seem thut ho should long slnes hive Jeurned who ho Js, ind whence he cane, and for what and whither he gues, but itis a bumiliat- ing confession ho must mnke, that bo has not yet mastered any of his personal problems, ‘fo Ale crodit it must be stuted that hisself-serutiny comes not from bis egotism, but from bls per- ploxity. Man meditates not that he may bonst, ‘Dut that he may not be so wretchedly ignorant. Those thinkers, instead of vainglorying, would be bappy could thoy only find penee and full hopo for tho heart, Man fs indeed tho only: creature thut will draw delight from a mirror, or that would have his own picture palnted, but tho grost study of mun by men comes Moers , trom his sorrows than bis vinity, Tho text informs us that when tho Creator completed tha construction of worlds, and tho Junds, ond seas, and fishes, brutes, nnd fowls, Ho sollloquixed imid the wonderful seene aud sald: “Twillinake a unique being, # belng tat enn 4 guevoy, and ndmire, and lovey and so all else, Sur wit cnres the bird or the fish for My unt- | Norse? Lshull make n croature of 2 diviie ita- turo, and thus what Js ndmirable will bave an admirer. Ho wilt love the colors I have poured ‘out, he will Jove’ tha sounds of the earth, from “ the sighing of the night-wind to the rour of the Tfe will be a vod in minias ‘gure: and after this sollloguy man was mado i the imuye of the Almighty. Scleneo hins ttgain and ngain By; ted x material origin for to express his: presence ero, by allusion to gugea and inherent Properties of mntter, but the most of us “ra cach year more and more convinced that the henomenon ia too lane for the Spline a 10 alt op fun worked far Bouthwurd day after da ¢lbrough Noyembor and December, ho finally concluded that thoro wasan uprer north wind Tost of thoso months by which the sun, tko 1 sship, had its course doilected. Sinvo wo have ail Jearned bow high tho un 1s, and how Inrgu fa bis amass, and that tho otinosphora cannot blow ‘very hard moro than twenty miles above our heads, wo baye lost confidence In the conclusions of the Greek muturailat. He must tind for ts -aome higherand more powerful breeze than apy which this far has carried our ships or our (Binds. So whon nolonco tolls us that man ling onic along through cortaln wild an{ials—npe and kanguroo,—and when wo have learned that . tho ape and kangaroo are not now produc- ing any mon, ipeat or common, wo must Place these sclontists along with uid Herodotus, ‘and nssuro thom that this man [sn sun too bigh and too great to be oxplalned by their little breoto, Herodotus did two things, he overrated the wind, and underrated the sun—n doublo error equaled by our materinlists who underrate aman and overestimate tho brute family. As it seems to me, euch decade of scientific research and |xperligant brings usall back with now ns- surance tothe thought thut man fs a iniquo deing, an isulated creature, having noe nnecator ut God. What hoa always embarrassed tho sclontifio school bas becn tho dificulty In the way of tnds . Ing how 4 God could possitiiy exist. Who set up the Detty? If a Gud made the world who mate this Crentor? Hence comes chiselfort to start tho animal and vegotuble kingdoms in their plico ‘hut the whole problem of Ife may bo solved, ‘But, ag it aovins, the problem {¥ not to find an origin of lifo; for man boing hero as a fact, the question how can life begin Ina Divty 14 settled by the answor that life iy In nan. ‘How aan life start ia unswered by tho fuct that {thug started. ‘What {a to be.sought for fs, therefore, not simply rational oxlstence, but a life that is large enough to make plincts, and stars, and woods, oud animuls, aod birds, and if this creature man cannot perform this tusk, We must assume tho . exiatenve of sone greater fife that can explain tho result, If ono matt cond not bave ‘piiced tho sno inthe pyramids wo must call in two thougand men, Veeniee tho stoncs are in the fi vruinids; and Bo ff man cannot male an onrth ike this, we muat call in more men until we tind: qwfind onough for the result, for tho result is ‘ero and tho mind fs aiso fn existence, ‘This ox- tra quantity of creative and constructive mind, wo call God, Tho question before sulence Js not ono of Hite, but of quantity and power, Man can make a bath or w pebble elrclo in tho alr, but he cannot throw ut a imoon orn Juplter into the field of blue. Butthe moon und Jupiter ure out in tho urure, what must we do or say?’ Tho stones are in tho pyramid. Wo Inust multiply mind by a number infloitly lure, and tina dothg We reach the Owntpotent,—not an assumption of mind, but, mind boing given, tho ogattmption of nlarge auld, Of thls one Jarged urind man is minute copy, Compnred ‘with this World-muker may ts tnsignifcant, but Yet bo fs nn Intugo of tho Deity: Naughet but the ottluenco of Pervad! ants Ueht diving, adic words tins fouchou Nix vuscn tous And tie sph As abt rit duon God's xpleit shite ho sunlight Wy wurop of dew, (2) Have all tho millions which now people our # eurth come from one aicestry? ‘The inquiry is notimportant when we tra studying tho ques- tion of @ Creator, for uw Creator would bo us much demnanded in sturting two or four huni es us ik ordering from the ono omee, But the . study of the questions of min tho inquiry ‘becomes yory practical, for If there tivo severil human races, thon it might bp that sone one quality of tan were ft only to" be underlings iit to be governed by ueuperior cluss. ‘hus the questions of equutity and brotherhood, tho high aid delivate applications of morals and polltses, ‘wait upon tho {dea that onrth's militons are all children of ong hearthetone, Out of this equil- Aty and the consequent freedom of all iy to como tho greatness of the world's future, for out of tho luw of loving cno's neighbor us one's sole there can fssuou spiendor of ciyitlzution thus Tar unacen. <All tho facts seem to mo to indieate the one: ness of mankind, Whathor we took ut man's Physical form und quulitics or ut bis monti) ute Tributes, ho seems always to pee to one origi nal, Tho peouliurity of skull or feuture which stho selentista werd bo necustomed to tind yours und frum whiel they inferred Ro ivoraity ‘ot races, “hus been’ gonerliy masse by by sclentiic minds “ns not “d Being n worthy ground of such vonelusions, A .guurtor of a century age, Nott and (itddon, ‘working together, and fur the purpose of shows “{ug that tho white rave was tho ono doxignuted dn Goneais, and thut all the black raves. wero only servants ot tho higher cluss, qathered into Q targo voluine all tho ev{dence, good and poor, that tho human funily bud beun created in’ dit- Torent grades for different purpo: ut under tho Inter studies of oven tho lenst Christian students tho conclusions of Nott and Glidden huve melted.away, and have left the humun “brothorhood untouched. Furthor studies ainid tho physical changes which unimuls underge Trom tho results uf chutes of climate, or food, or care have let the most of naturitists to cons Teas that all the tribes pon eurth muy have coin froin one pirentage, and ute brothers fn all tho bremith of that term, Tho birds and tho wild anlnids have come . marching or tydny up, not to ontor the ark as tn tho duys of Noah, but to give in testimony that the heyro and the whitu man, the Saxon und the Chinn- Tau, tho Arub und the Luplunder, are all ong in Up tomptes of sulence, and politics, und religion, ko bear and the black bear, the many- colored pigeons, dogy, domestic fuwls, and wut: mus, and tholr yurying sizes, wll assure us that the Varfutions among men do not point out mus ter oud slave or King and vassul, but simply pro: , claim Nature's love of varicty th the small and of unity in tho large, The domestle turkey dlone: 4g one of the beat witnesyes that can be called ta show What changes of color, and habit, and text> ure will tuke pluco, and take pluco ru) when the physical circumstances” have: chan; ‘dit ren obly about $0 yeurs since this wild of such biack, ylossy plumage was eurcled =toy Enginnd and Burg ne <A spockmen of foreign wonders iu tho world of birds. Tho uecounts of bow these ercatures swarmed tn tho woods of Aineriea, ita “becobnuts and corns, came lito the cor-tlelda dn winter, Wout with the cuptured specimens. ee fore the story bud fallen out of memory, the bird, domesticutod, began to chauye color, aud now Europe, and Englund, and America, ure 1ull Of these spoulmens of life decorated tn ull tho Unts of white, und yellow, und Puy tho animal ae the EaUy Oulore ion forme: 0! t Mad, there ure novpeculluritics jorg mud ‘Maa thugo thus Visible tn atanae mot aaa aa oaly ono infercace can follow—namely; that all tho yarietics of inan mect in the brotberbuod of oe family and duder thy cure of oue Father, mong to proclaim the unity of man. “accident; for ‘God. Prejudicn and aclf-interest in thoorica havo iniluenced naturalistsand have mado thom oxaggorato the difforence betweon white and nogre or tho Indinn and th dooinru a radion! property udgmont. and honor aro no more universal virtues ainong bookmakers than among politicians, and merchants, and tho common inortals who make no hooks, Tho n0- gro In tho vory hort of Africa ig not very black, aid whero. tha ruling families tive incense and In tho rhnde for generations their complexion Appronches more nearly that ot the Indian. The African bishmen are’ not. black, but only cop perecolored, - Thus, in Afrion, amit tribes cons esecil by scientific nen to be all of one race, the color of tho akin, and the thickness ot the lips, and the nutury of tho halr, present many yaria+ tons from any assumed standard, (3) White those physient variations this do not bronk up tho human family, but rather, by thelr aaniness, assure us that wo nreall hold ‘by the wills of one house, whosd floor ts tho grass and roof tho sky, tho mentaland spiritual tratte going Yin Mere aceldents are the shades of tho alin, arthe size of the lips, or tho slinpe of tho foretend or head, whon tho mind is pormittod to apoak, The diMicuity with many who have dented tho untty of the human race has latin partly tn thelr une willingneas'to take the mind Into tholr eximute, Tt counted ditto with Nott and Giddon, of Mobile, that their Inferior min could reason and think and enjoy wit, and could laugh, and ory. and priyy and hope. All these emblems of mutie hood counted wothing whon welghed against color ard shape, thus lending ws to belleve that {hoy wente for tho intrket of slaves rithor thin forthe ndvancoment of human knowledge, ln tho unity of mind and sentiment alt the other Irregutarivies pass away. When we mect it for eigner with hia strange costume, let it ben Chi- numan with his peoulfar face, his almond eyes, ns bral hair, his, mody of ‘walking, his food, a. grent gulf springs up botween him and us, He cannot speak ney nor cam wo speak him. The Inhabltants of two worlds seem indeed to have met, but let an futerpreter come to put into our language his thoughts, and behold the two mortals suddenly atand side by elde, Sup. pose F quote these words, can you tell what was the nation? what the color? what the age? wint: tho shapo of the skull of thelr writer? “When vou Ineet persons on thostreet you should trent em as though thoy wore xuesta In your house. “Tho auperlor man thinks of charioter, tho Ainall man of his comfort" A min who bors rows a book should nee it well, anil if he Injuries itshould replave itwith a now ono.” Now who rald there thinga? Did Frankiiny Did Emerson Utter one of them? Such ts tho unity of the human tice that take away the gecilents of dress, and language, and the bralded lair, and the almond yes, and we do not know Con- Iuelus when ho spenks in hia soul alone. Place the thought of aur thne or mice into our own lanyguqgo and conueal dross and foutures, and We nro nt our wit’ end; we to not often know whether the Iden wna tt- oro yesterday inn mangnzine or was spoken cn 1,000 yenrs nro by the Nile or the ‘Tibor, — the word “telegraph,” or “gunpowder,” or “asteamehip" ocenrs wo can locate the writing, but if tho thought is some trath In morals, or duty, or friemiship, or memory, or love, or re- Mgion, it attaches at once to the hinnan ravo in nny partor tine, The following sung will scent to you to buvo cume from Tom soore: BUI tke daw tn ailence fallin. Drup for thee the nightly tent, thy voleu thie pase recalling, Jeauil an ceho ianine ear, Butit was written a hundred years before our era bein. ‘Thus come the thoughts of ditferent thes telling ug that humanity 1s all one huinan- iy. ‘Thigideatity shines through every song und thought, Shoutd we pass from the fact of a witesprend mental resemblance jn general to uote some more specific resemblance, Wo should find the widely-seattered races to boone In mauy. deli- eato shadings of mental wetion. All tribes have enjoyed wit, Bo the face eyer so binok or yellow, and tha hiir. over so kinked, and tho angle of the forehead high or low, the smile ot one wit hus always passed over this chanycatte fuece, Tho savage races noyer, indeed, laugh ua freely a4 tho clvilized races Inueb, for in order to uy ry eclute anything beautiful, Or grotesiuicy or witty, or gad, {hore ‘must be a tine sensibillty, and thf tho barbarous tribes have not roached, but they hnvo tho beginnings of wit, and of tho sense Of the ridiculous, Just as children ina country school-house huve tho enrlysshapes of Fanlty, or elgquence, or ambltiow. “All through the South Vaciie talands, where min stands nearest to tho brite kingdom, thers may bo found tho ripplo of wlaugh, ‘The travelers Bur- ton and Bowen have found in: tho humblest Negro tribes tho same wit und humor which ina higher formfmnkes tho Auglo-Baxor Inugh at tho drama or over hia Dickens or Coryantes, ‘fho differences of language and the long apacos of ocetn ure tho only {nots which disturb tho unity of mankind. From wit pesto wisdom, and tho miaornblo negro or Zulu, whoso whole rulment and erty would not be worth more than $1 of monoy,, shows by hls wisdom and wit that ho is rolnted to Athona, and Rome, and Paris, ‘Tho negroes of Contral Afrien any, “ 3fo that travols alono will toll lies whon be comos buck" ynitn {s 8 fool whose sheop run away twico”s *. Mar ought to havo a momory.' And those poor Zilus, aguinst whom England sont hor troops, and by whose ruda darts tho editcated son of tho ex-Bmpress died jn netearye Jand, wors Tound to ditfer from the mon of London and Paris only in Jqnopanon and in poverty, These were found to bo biman beings, only they were ehildren, aud thoy wero poor, Thelr proverbs show thut in their unolothed bodies thore Iny tho sitno fewol of a soul, and that the henrt ‘that could hurt a javelin ut an onemy bud its maxis of wisdom, « wisdom which ‘binds Zulu and American together tho moment we foryct tho difference of toiletand of houses and furniture, ‘The Zutu says: * Were not the efophan Jungle the buitalo would feet lunge"; You cannot stop tho sun by running before it"; Do not abuso the crocodile before you hinvo got out of tho river"; *'Ewo einull untelopes can beat a blg one"; A Jobster docs not nsgoclute with a Dird.") And thus runs the Zulu mind, until it bung, like Salomon, covered Ifo wit over with this sunlight of proverbs, (i) Bubat all tho points where the countless tribes inset and affirin thoir oneness, tho most consplcttois Ia the poreeption of the bouutitul, Hero the words seein true that of one blood God haa made all the nations of men.” There ato suid to bo tribes which do not entertain tho ddea of a God or of n future life, but no tribe his been found that bis not some love of tho beuutl- ful, The unity of man ennuot perhaps ulwaysbo Jenrned from their belicf Inu God, for God Is an idea to bo netic but bouuty is not un ides, It Jansontinont and will show tho human bonds of fellowship where ideas fall. Hellgtous feelin, is unlvergal, but not rellidaus idous, Hence mit pray, but nat all hofd to the notion of asccond ife, orn Trinity, or Unity of God. ‘Tho nimun tribes, thorefore, that ure not bound toxethor by doyniiaare bound by emotion, and hive a relig- fon, even If thelr god is only udead ancestor, and All fave tho beautiful, if {6 be only tn its sim lest form, only a necklace of gluss beads or pollshed shells,” Tho sclontifio mind pauses by ml these dear bonds of relationship, and lays Btrulghtedgo upon tho fico to Keo tho unglo or tho furchew), ar passes the bundsall over the sauilto mark is elevations, aud dopresslons, and contour, and) thence draws conclusions uhout the origin of the human, rico, but never gota nay from the nose and skull to Histon to tho subliing harmony thut ia sounding foruvor Within the soul. ‘The ape has w formation aume> What Hke a mang it his a tendency” to make hands out of its fore feet! Wonderful resem. Dinnves for science to collect, but whothor the apes ure like the Zulus guthoring up any uitxe tig, whether any pes nro thinking that "wero: Not the olephune in the Jungle the ox would feel huge," 8a question beneath the study of tho true maturallst. With thom duet ia everything, tho soul nothing, Hut let us return to our thomo. In tha porehea of the bountiful all tha Beuttored children meet, From tho {mmonao stores of bonuty th tho ulvit- {aed world, from our architecture, and statuary, fuid painting, and music, qo Unekward at downward, and this scone nover wholly fades, for the negro girl of the bonrt of Afries will put a wilt Hower In bor hair, anil will ornament poe Uontly a garmont, and will attempt to sing a song and keep toe with some simple tinbour Ine. In oxcnvating old mounds and olf ruins of whose peaplo tho whole history hus bean lost Uehold tho old pottery comos out in grace shapes, and in old tvory thus brought out from forgotton tombs tho hand of somo artist has dubored to make 4 ploturs of sonte object that gnve him delight, f{pre in tho wortd of deco- ration wo ull meot. Judea's daughters that huny burps upon willows, and: Sapphin tos Bung, aud tho Afriouns, and Zales, aud Indians, Who Mnust be cuntent with a fow colored threnda -und beads und a inuste of threo notos, ull Join. hands, not in dally companionship, but in’ tha Oonenesd of min and ia the Joye of bin who js galled fho King in His Beauty. Grant the human race time and opportunity and It will sort its onunega In aceonta loud and aweet. Tho Chinese any, Tho mulbeorry-leat in tine be- comussutin.” Yes, indeed, and man js not of humubler worth. Jn thatransformution of whool and Joo his course texture pecomes changed, ye Wfubrio ft for a paluco, aud at inst for ouvens It woukd seem, thorefom, that tho buman rico is 8 unit; also that it came from a personal Gud; and, in all ita conditions, high and low, ro- veals His lnuge, And thts widoly-sproad family {a that Sinmensy, that countless throng, for Which Christ taught, and Hyed, and died, and uvogy from the dead. It way not for 4 few of these countless millions He spring up in earth, but for all, Ho su loved tho world that’ ly cume and aufferod and died In it bebalf, But ono of tho chlor vr- rands of His coming waa to tech you and mu tel, auadated Brother bend nd is the arene of one You must go love the world that you will yourself In your utteinpt to teach tt art, fom, and pioty, Singulur world, whero nes lovablé by Joving others, and beautiful by beutiful action, us tho arin bo- votes strong by putting forth strongth! What an imperishable nine the young Prince of France would bave won bud ha sailed to that re- moto land, Africa, not ay 1 warrior, but as a felond of the humblo races, Tam not reproach- dug the mnemory of such u youth, for wo all pers haps would buve gono @s ambitious soldier quicker than as Piieturapiets, bue 1 would use. his name to filustrute the theories of Joaus Christ and urund possibilities of this world. Ja imperial found fn his tho spirit which moved Xuvler,or Martyn, or Blurquotte, and had Ho lavished timu and money ju touching almple lessons such us Jesus once taught by the sou that youth would have dicd at last alamonted ue rather than the pitied child of a cruc! mis- oy ‘Wout we lomont in the past will no doubt bo that for such a widel we, too, tnust Ive, Munk mau. Continent, whore Sunday corrected in tho futtire of our glébe., Tho cons tral nations have altaya marked with: blood their polnta of contnet with tho sayngo tribes, Btanicy tn his travols, England andl iussle, man and nations have met. the lower forms of ton, too aften to shed bloods but, Inmontable as this record is, the pago of Matory 19 growing fairer evel yenr, and, com ired with tho awful slaughtera of untiquity, our ern fa one of butdiny Bonne. There aro istands in tho sen which wero Rivage Nifty yenra ngo, and which ure now perhips as happy and enlightened 1s our United States, ‘Tho old com- + meres was wont to destroy a rival city. Le eomnterce of to-day nats for ponee, aid henes (t has beenmo an exchange of idear as woll ns a Varter of guods, “Hut charity and polanthe YY are yet In thor infancy. Christ and his teacl ings have only touched the margin of the world, the margin of the soul, Earth will perhaps rin. yotnionycarcer, Uthns great moral questions | to bo solved. Coming from on Deity who must have rational onds in view, our goodly ball will rollon through many springs and summers, sud will long ask tho flowers to return and tho birds to sing white man ts workin, owt ita problens of virtue, and eduention, and usefitners, und Dappinces, Christ has only touched thi mint eli of tha binant soul, Ourzone teat this hour showing only n few spring buds and a alight care poting Gf green, bitt aten faint proofs of anew Rengon come from the fact thet tho sin fs only Moging utew warm rays ucross tho Routhern order, Aa ho shill rise higher tho floral eeeno will afl change. ‘Tho mornhyes and evenings will row fonger, and will help the splendor of fhe high noon. Einblem of the history of mant ‘Thoso iiens of brotherhood mud mutital hetprate ness arv only a little warmth upon tho surficeot: our hedrta, hut a summer ts coming when tho light of nll that fs noblo wilt bo fall, and when those Hving In that blessed pertod will renlize that man was indeed made fn tha fmago of God. SUNDAY. HOW TO NAKE TIF NEST OF IT—ARNAON DY THE REV. DROOKE teiteory, The Roy. Brooke Herforid, pastorof tho Church ‘of tho Mogsiah, preached yestorduy forencon ta n large congregation, taking for bis theme, “How to Make tho Host of Sunday," Following fs tho discourso In full: Ono than astoometh one day above another: ane othae estoumieth every day alike, “Lot ovory man bo Tully peraiaded in is ayn nitid.—Tamanes tlt, 4, Brethren, yo hove begr eniied w borty | any tino sl to tuo foslt.—Uuluttans, rt por tivorty Ine'Bh ve It isa vory coinmon thing to treat tho Sunday gttestion as if it wasn question of its origin or of ite nuthority; of how far ft can be traced buck to tho Jowlsh Sabbath, aud of whether Chriat intended; to abolish ft, or to have It con- tinued under a now fori, Now, t want to leave all those questions to-day,and turn to that which Is nbowt the only practleal one,—simply this Tho Sunday existing, nga generally rec ognized resteday, bow can wo muke tho best of it? T, for one, tit uttorly tired of nil those ques- tions. of {ta: arigin—excopt that they inist nlways be intercstlug poltita of hfstoriedl ob servation, Ag a nimtter of fact, the origin of our modern Sunday is vory composite; many different tafiiences have contributed to make {t whit it is. The Old-World raligions beforo Judaism bad ut least tha Pew iunttigs of a Sab- buth. The Hebrew Sabbath had something to do with the origin of our Sunday, thoitKh cver- tulnly one Sunday fs not the Sabbath. Early Christianity bad a hand in it tou, in setting mon Keeping a weekly duy for worship, when tho ol rest-dny was ou€ of tho question, and tho only way of keeping tho woreh! pay, was by gotting up before Hastie for their lttle Christian meeting. ‘Then Heathonian bad a tinger in it, ut least, for Constantine was still a heathen when he ordered * the venerable day of tho Sun to be kept as a holiday in the citics, thereby gratifying equally the now Christinnity and the fashlonwbic worship of tho Sun-God. Thon for mupy centuries the Catbolly Church kept Bun- day, slmply like any of tho snints’ days,— church going in tho inorning. and, for the re- maindor of the day, sports and games and huppy festival. Thon came Along Protestantism, und, though it did away with almost ull saints’ days, tho Sunday wus too good to be done away? Dud Ib ‘ws kept still in thonid way. Luthor and Calvin stoutly maintained tat it was uot the Sabbath, and that tha old Jowish Sabbath Jaws bud nothing to do with Christinns, And thoy kept men straight in tho Lutharan churches of the always continued ‘be obsorved naa sort of holldny and festivals but in Scotland, and then in England, and tinnlly InNew England, that oxuggerited Protestant= ism, Puritanism converted tha Christin Suns day back into the Ilebrew Sabbath, Yet nol hardly oven into anything so. od as that. No strictest Jew, from Mogos to Hillel, would over hve owned the grim Puritan Babbath! For the Jowish Sabbath, though aday oftvery rigid ub- atlnence from work, was n day of # gone ent of enjoyment. io only Hebrow rostriction was, “On It thou shalt do no work.” ‘Thochlot Purl- tan commandmont would hayo been, if. formu. Intod, * On itthou shalt do no play! And yot just to Puritanisin a ono of these intluences thnt havo contributed to mako our modern Sunday what it ia. Puritanism did this for it: it. topped Qa grew d ot work, inde it much more of a day of complote cesant{on from toll and businesa than tho old Cathotloism or Lutheranism bad over mude it; and thot, so a Was 8 good contribution, by no meus to be ‘urgotten, And so here the Sunday fs, ng tt’ has been shuped and altered by all these differant intlu- ences, And now It is curious to ave how theso diferent influences, after haying each pre- served .hore or. thore its own typuof Sunany, have, us it were, met togothor uyain in thls wide, vurled field of American life, ‘There 1s the old Catholicism, which will yo to muss, oven If tt bag to get up atG o'clock for it, but will shock you by ploy tng curds In tha kitchen in the ovon- ing. Thoro ia the German Burgher.cloment, born of the vl Luthoranism, but which bna quit the Shh ral nuing, und 1a not at nll improved by buying done go, and wants to bo able tospand the wholt day, na in tho Fathor- dund {t was content to spend the afternoon, in the Dilliurd-hall, beor-gurden, or theatre; and on the wand, foeling ws if thoy had a sort of right of predinption over its customs, tra the ropresuntatives of tho old Puritan elomont,— very much modifled, and yet sulll elinging'to somo jotfon of n Sabbath, u sortot speck sierednoss 10 tho whole dny, to bo nll devoted to rellgion,—or, at any rite, none of it to by givon Up either to eorauign Work oF vonmuon pleasure, and It [a becutie of ull thoso different clumenta, existing alle by sida, und HY more or tess coniilet or antagonism, that it really seems sometines ns if “Sunday” were in danger of being lost © altogethor, Now this old Sunday, whieh bas thus coma dows from tho pist, {8 too good an institution to be thus Iot go nud lost. Asn fact, nobody wants {t done awry. Even those who never dream of putting tho day to any religious uso Hke to five ‘up Working thomsctves, though vory often thoy aire not so purticular about suing hat tho poo= plo have a rest. Even those who do tot want to goon working, and chim religious tberty to do so,would not Tika tosoe tha world generally keop- Sng Sty storoa open, becauso thon tholr own par- tiewlur little udgantage would bo vt an ond. So oven those who most sincerely proteat aguinst tho falseSabbution! grounds for sunday: obsurys ance do not wish tw sou ft leas ob- but only more freely and hap. ily. When Theodore Parker—and you now what a fierce denouncer of ull moro traditionalism ho was,—whon ho lay dying at Florence, bo usked whut day it was, “Lt is Sun~ "sald tho friend beslda hin, ‘a blessod day." Yes, yea," he unéwored, Mit 16 a Dicssed duy, whet onco one gets over tho superstition of it!" Who docs not feel that? Tho world works 80 hard! 1£ is something awful, tho fetn ouorgy with which men have to keep at Itt no stopping, or so fttel Men ure of In tho morning with farelly Mino to take tholr Kittle children on their knees and glyo thom aklas and a blessing, Whon they come home at night thoy nro almost top tired for any really happy home-lifo, {same timos think the world wold go ind, just frenzicd with strain und ressuro, but for thie blessed ol institutlon of aenielay. VAIL this ma: teach uswhatis tho fret thing to be sul on this matter of “how to make tho best of Sunday "namely thiss that in urder to winko tho best of Hunday thore nut bo mn Bune day to inake tho best of, aud that this ought to be Vory sivredly preserved and protected, Yes, even by law, if heed bo. Thave not the ellght- est objcotion ta using the help of tho law to pro tect any lustitutlon walch sodluty laagrocd upon as for the common gout, 1 plea for it nut a3 a rellylous institution; religion may havo orlys inuted tt, ag religion instituted many things, but it bas grown quite bovond being & roligious ine stituiion,—It tau olyil inatitution, a part of the soclul framowoerk of modern ify, und L think so oluty bas 1 porfect right to protect this from {ne Ttringemont. ‘To a cortiin extony you know thi legal pro- tectlun of the woekly rest-duy ts ulroady carried out without oven tho slightest objection. All Juw vourts must bo clogod on Bundiys no legal processes can fase; none of tho Lite or trun: agtlons of commerce ure yalld on that day; Bune aay ta, by law, ne day ty allanol viliga—und no ong over objects to those provisions, Thusu are tho busul conditions fora public holiday; und, Ad thoy ure things in which walform and ‘guttiod dotion fs necossiry, the community translates tho yoneral senso of what la right Into ita law, And yot, rua, those provisions carry the whole principle of Jowul cuforcemunt, Those, once wdmitted, a they unlyorauly ure, tho culy quce- tlon is bow fur tito detail tt fa neccayary or wiso for atch legislation to qe, or course aa little into detall us may bey for tnlouto tegislation ta mimost always vexatious and bad; and still, as the law batt nizes this rost-duy aa a great publle institutlon, the law: shontd Insist that tt abull not bo nullified or frit+ tered away by indly! dual oupiiity or curelesnuss, What is wanted sto atop all the ordiury work of tho world that cannot show for itself somo cluim or necessity or public wulity. Lot noces+ ality Bud Dublio ‘utility be very Hberally intore proted; but when, without auy such real plow in oO World, meu varry vu whole budlnces ti order tosteal 4 march oh thelr fellows who keup aay closed, of uimply because y- don't care enough ‘abouts rusteduy for themsvlyoa or thelr employds,~thon for ons, cannot wa any Touson why sooloty should not atep ny and enforce in tho small matter the principlo it bas cstublishea {a the Inrgor. You aco, atch an institution as thts rest-day ly peculs farly Hable to ba injured, Serhaps destroyed for whole clussea, by the soltlsfucss of carelusness of a Cow Individuals, One man opeulug bisstore, or currying on bis business, uiay virtiuutiy oblige all in tho sume strevt or in the samo business 0 do the same,—aud yot they tay do ft unwilling. ly, not Itke to du it;—but you know how imperae tive competition Now, I don't aco any rhymo or rengon fn altowing that; and t would fava no. mero hesitation dno miaking tho reortlel trant citizen tae tho Ane! tn this matter than T would In tho matter of repairs ue his sidewalk or paying hls school-tax, Sl, when nll this ts satd, HE coos not amon t to much practically. [tis always kivd to cafores. such Inwws fulivtdually. You Amertcana don't Iike todo it.. You let people wo thelr own way In honpa of things, even in defiance of tho Inw, inthis country is {ino other country In tho world, You tute to interfere with any one. 80 that all the more hayg we to fall Wtek nt last Upon fulfvidual aetton and) persona influence. Tho mores thore Is no Inw, or nono which Is one 1, wil the mora need of principle and that ep the principle in vigw, Besides, npart fromthe publlo fmportance of tho Sunday ng a gencral rest-day, consider tts Amportwnce to the Individual Thtnk what It Menns in this bnay, eager cammunity, whero rough tha weok almost overy tains tine fs given up to some caforeed necessity of tofl;, consider what it fs, that after all, by the Institit. tion of Hunlays one-seventh of even the buslest, Annn’s wholo thine and fife (his own,—it his on aposal, One-soventh of fel Ten solid yenrs of tha life of any one who tives to tho threo “svoro and tent What a boow hat an oppor Nunity! Is auch a sites of preetons life to bo treated a Jf it really did not matter whatls dono With 12) Is it to bo'teft asin sort of no man's of Lime, to be oeunpled Justas things may cluinee, to be fort to alip away witht plice or Purposo? Burely that isa pity, and ye that Is. tho way svith too many ut present. They simply haven't any thought or purpose for tholr Sun> days: theso como, and onre got throtigh Just 8 the pussing ‘inelinntion tormino, If — this” oor that whieh thoy spend thisor: that Sunday ts chat longed, thoy only nak: Well, what 13 thore wrong? dati not T do this? Well, thera nay bo nothing uctunlly wrong, and yet a untt's Bunidaya may be speut ko ns tobe of vory Hite good to him, so ag ta have nothing to ehow for Them, Bo ng to be almost total waste and loss! 1 toll you It fs a bly question, this,—of how to make tho best of Sunday, How. thon, {s tho trne nnawer to this question to bo got al? Ia it not this-by considering Whut ura tho clements of trod, good, happy Innate ifo whlub the busy six days aro must pt to leave unsupplied, und then to try to lay out Sunday so ous to make up deficioneler, to supply theso missing elements? ‘Thnt Ls the true way to put tho question; and 6 1 look, at the buay, hurrying, absorbed Ifo of men tho week through, there secm to he four great clomonts of Hfe-satliy eft out, and for Which, thorefore, Sinday’ {8 specials: wanted, and which should’ manly govern {ts uae, ‘These four neoded vlemonts of Ifo are (1) rests (2) home and family Uifes ) rolfgions cultures an () tho higher exorelse of inind ad thought, I put rest os tho first thins of all, thongh not tho highest, 1 think rest is beantiful Divine thing,—rest for tha wenry toiler, rost for the tinxiuus heart. “Ifo glyeth his beluyed sleep," or, as’ it should read, with an even deeper meaning, “ile giveth his belavad in tholr sloop." Why, it wns reat that Was tho whole of tho earllest Siubbath ideal “Thou shalt keep tho Sabbath holy "didn't. mean thou shalt keep tho diy asa relhelous ac- cusion, but thou shult very saoredly orp Its rest. So therenl Subbath-brenking, in the heart of the ancient meaning, fa, a Inteinglny, without tho strongest need, upon life’s diy rest thnes. Tho worst Rabbath-brenkor in those inodorn diya is not tho merchant who tikes a drive on a Sunday afternoon, but the merehant who Keape his clocks working overtone for tny= thing but tho must pressing neccesity; tho nui or wourtn who docs not ave that those in hls or hor einploy haye tholr rest and theirholidnys just as strictly us that thos du their work, «Rat, evart when this fs fairly dono for ordinary days, sult Ife is vory hard and busy, and tho: first 1 for Sunday ts to hove all strain Mttod off fro! life this day} Have nothing to do with uny Sunday work! Don't ylold to tho temptation of busy times to look aver your lettemt or post up your booka! Thoro fs no real gain Init! As far fa you oan, keep off oven yo thoughts of it. One of England's busiest! Te ere when ho threw of hig oflielal robe, used to say, “Lio thore, Lord Chancellor!" aud thot he gave hint self up aie? to his childron and home! Not ensy to du? Not due it might bo donu more than itis! And thou tha Buaday at home should bo plunnod out for just the fullest, sweetest reat. If the menl-hours other days aro n strain; 1f tho risting-hour other days forces you to get up lke soldiers atthe Dugluecall, ro- ax thom on sunday. ‘There ts something vory delightful in betug adie to Ne wt haute or. tive later. Only lot tho Inter hour be kept to,—thore 1a no ron! gain to life or rest In wipunctualits: any day of the week, This touchos upon that other neoded use of Sunday—for family und home life, think some of tho buppiest tines inn trua home shoukt ba the maa! thiess In the truest Nght onch monl in a loving, united fatally Ja 8 sort of loving communion, bringing all hopplly toggthorulior all thelr sepurate tasks and ways, }ut most days in this Intsy city jifo the mena hyo to be mere Foe (lsies, 16 shoul bo ditforent on tho Sunday, ltisu great thing to mukeu Mi start for the day,—-und so, if you would make the best of Sunduiy, let there bo no lounging down at hale x dozen diiferent. times; dexin by velmp ait happily togothur, And all through tho Sunday, let those two Jdons —roat und family ife—go hand tu hand. If you havo frionds In to eb yous let It be to shure our homeriife-with ,wito und children, not to renk ituporspoll it! Lhe redecming thing about that Conthiongd Sunny, that some rill at 80, is thut in those | pr-egirdens that your Gere min birgber und yor Brench vuvrier tire so Yond of frequenting they have tholr wives and eblldren with thom. Hottor—It seunia te our quiot English or Amorican tastea—tho Sunday afternoon stroll out into tho flelds or parks, any= where whore there ja, euma pleawint xinting of cloar, sunny aan und sonto Bweot Blt of tree: and grass, and lowers, However, It is nat tn purpose to attempt to lay down the details of such’ things, but at tho beginning of making the beat of Sunday I am sure that these two things como,—rest and quiet compinlonship, whether at hue or In tho country, with Ifv's closest and tonderest friends, i But now, wbove rest, abuye evon family-lifto, I must put, a8 the grent contral use of Budi to a Christhin,—-or to any ong who wants to be o Chriathin,—(ts opportunity of worsulp and relig- jons oulture, dlurk why: not because Sunday: is uw spectully holy day; not beenuse it {4 moro our duty to be Christians that day than any other; pene lenst of all, Croat aug ides that religious oxerefses this duy will compensate for 4 Weok of worldllneas; but simply because this 4s just tho biglesé sido and clemont fu mun’sun- ture, and other dnys—as n fact—(¢ ts sadly left: out of ‘uccount, and this day it_docs come fairly before us, and we have toisure for it, and oppor> tunity for It, and compuntonsbip in It, 1 put it to you, that men ore muking a terrible mistake whe treat this religious clement {1 life as something which docs not amount to much, and the carnest uttontion to which—on the ono day when such carnnst attention ts practicable shiny Just bo loft to tne Inclination of the hour or tha uttruction of this ay that apeelul service, You know the valug ne rolizion on ‘the brondor, Jungor viow of mmunkihd ani of Ife, You know that a oity with the churches und all that thoy atand for loft out would be a pooror, mennor Dinco ayery Way, You know that a untion with all tho Maley yond Parkor, und Chinuings iefe ont from Its blstory und {ts molding tntiu- ences would by a coarser, more ignoble uation. in this larger view of tho fntlucnces which mako nen und people yatt seo clonrly that religion 4s, somvhoty, onv of tha noblest, most essential five tors, And doyou think you cin porsonnlly oyado tho wront universal truth and leave religion out of your life, or only give n little slack, fndulon occastonal Ihtorust to tt and yet your Judividial Ufo be all the samo?- You cunnot, Sot it down to profeasfoniiiem ff you will, bat I caunsel you with all tho power tint fa {nme to snye some part of oyery one of those Wlessed Sunday rest- days for tho oarnest endeavor to renow within your boing those great thoughts, and faiths, and hopes, und charities of religion! Ivis nota matter of spending somo vory large proportion of tho Sunday hours in the ebtureh or poring over tho Bible, but spend some portion, aud that very carnostly, 1 have no iden of thore beth somo virtie in reposted attendances at churel, My own thought would bos one geryico on tho Sunday, but to that givo tho full nphotnted thno aud your whole heart! Best of all is it for that qathoring of people to worship to be in the morn- inas {Lisi poorwhitticas way of spending Sunday that tnzylig wbout in tho morning, and only turnhuy out to tho ovoning Bervies. Morning, when the world Is fresy and your benrt ts frean} ‘Yo prayor, to urayor, for tho morning break: ed area in her Siauurssiniia nwakes Mls tight te on ait buluw und above— ‘The teue of gladnoxs, and ify, wid love. Qh chun, vn the Lrouth oF thfseurly alr, Bend upwards th luconso of yraterul prayort Tam always douttrul about evening sorvices, nltoguther. Provably thore is nothing whol bad ud to answer for ¥o ininy poor, worthless ser- UIONs ag tho sort af convontionnl iden that evory uunlator should muot bts people twloo a Bun- day with soy tresh word tosaytothom, Idon't Gvon feel sure whother the timo might not bo Dotter employed by people, us well uy by preacher! Sunday dvoning, In a true tome, with a little ae happy inualo, aud swoot come Panionship of old and youny, 16 0 batter closing: of the day, after all, than for the cliters to bo Horna Out uyuin to ow lecture, leuving tho atitidrou to cloge the day wearily by thomactyes, Only, tho trouble js, that thore tira wo few homes whore tho Bunday ovening would be spont that way,—too often the children are * loft to thom solves," anyhow,--aud: better than tho futhor atettoig with meee or two, Merely smoking the hours away with Juat tho sume sort of talk ‘wbout businoss or polities that ho hus In the horec-cur or tho store and whenever thoy tho week + through—bettor thai ta coma out “to ebtirdh aguin, und bring tho frionds and nolghbors atone tool ‘Hut, onve more tany, Lam not bore to plit out tho details of @ Sunday thnestible, but to urge you to feet u little moro tho lneatimuble worth, Of this free day in every week, and to think over for Yourselves, ag ond of tho most finportunt things lu tho laying out of life, what are tho best Used to put your Sunday to, und thon to put it to those usdat Only bewin tho day with w happy und lob Me frat sollt, regular eugigeinont bu the assembling with yourftellows men for the worwilp of God und a fulr, earnust look into the lity of Chrlat's grout hopes and teachings, and you hardly can mato a very bad Bauday: ofit by whatovor you may foul Inclined to do the — reumluder af tho day, For those two things—hamne-compansonship and worship—will get the Keynote of the day fo a struin which will continuo naturally inte quict, thoughtful channela, Eimerson, in that beautl- ful, revont word of his about uulay, says that it tivitus to tha nobiedt sociuty aud the noblest golitude, Tdo not think whore tho Beart has boen attuned to carnest worship and religious thought that it fa Mkely to want bolstoroue Blerieres oneal whatover toniptation may somtimes arise to thesa, it will not be fur thesy that tho heart will provide. In its tawugrneeut | consideration of how bv to.tisn tho day, This duy tho more wo can Navaatone, both Iifo's come anon work and Ilfo’s common plonsiros, the het- tor. So put miway your work, covor up your Wilinrd-tabtes, oloao tho novel. evon at tho moat Interesting chapter, and this net beens these hings conatiiute Rone mysterious iilyulty of Ra] pet ena but “beenuso Sunday ds wanted for something elie and better, Thore ‘fs go much that wants your interest, your time, that on tho common days you have hardly telaury of heart for, oven if yott have leisure of mera thio! So much, fy homan We, that. they des we hardly think about; so much In thi great, glortous work! of God'a that in tho hurtying steps of othar days wo batilly seo. Gtye thisone day to these higher, rarer Interests; give It to thom first fsa duty, and thon, by and by, it will be a pleasure adn joy, —nnd the Sunitay shall bo no day of grim roe straint or weary lstnesness, bit tho awoctes! purest, happlest, brightest of all the sove id ho sweetener, Lelpor, strongthener, sanctiier of tho rest, ‘ TIE FULURE STATE, REUMON HY THE REV, Mt, GOODWIN. Tho Nov. 5. P. Goodwin, D.D., pustor of tho First Congregational Churoh, proached yortere day morniug on The Recoguitton of Friends— tho lorifled Body.” Ils text was: 7 Hut now fs Christ rixqry and) become tho frat Inita of thent that sleph--L. Coriuthiens, xr. 21. Ho endeavored last Sabbath, ho said, to show that (ho resurrection of Christ implied and necessitntod a resurrection of tho bodies of all tre bellevers,—that wns, that tho Seripture Aununge reapooting tho doctrino of tho resur- rection would not bo entlatled with a figurative meaning is simply affirming that the soul did not porish gt death, nor with a spiritual mean Ang as signifying tho morat quickening or recog= nitton of the soul when It recolves divine Ife of faith in Christ; that, on the vontrary, tho Serlpture expressly alticmed a truo objective vistllo resurrection of the bodies of ail trug bollevers, whlet resurrection wis not Av nere separation of nt tomatertal und fmmors tal, but Invisible enswathament of the soul, and Ald not oucuy at death, but at some future time, —numely. the return and vistblo mounifestation of tho Lord Jesus Chrfat, And this fs att inpiled and involved: in the resurrection of Christ, wtileh was sot forth not only as the ground and Meee of n resurrection. but hs the exact syins il and fereshowing of that resurrection in kind, tho first frults proveding and aymbollaing the harvest. Ho wished to answer a fow very natural ques: tlona with which some wont homo nh week nos Tt the resurrection bo of this sort resurrection of the body, or on bodily resurrection, at tho sounding of the trumpet and the coming of tha Lorl,—whut were we to think of the spirits of departed believers ties tiveen death and the resurrection? Were thoy disombodietd spirits? Wero thoy visihto or in- visible? Mal they senses? Could ther talk? Did they communiante with each other? Whore did thoy dwelt? Thoro were different opinions on the subs One was that the souls of bellevers Deeame unconseros,—fell asleep at death and remnined so untll the resurreetion, Othors thought that the souls of tho righteous passed nat inte Heaven, but into uw lowor condition or estate which they culled Parndise,—n state of vonselonaness, it a kind of preparatory Heavy On this whole matter tho jeripiures bid ono such teaching ns apositively exeluded differences of opinion, For Himsetf, he might .suy tho Seriptures scomod elearly to teach that the souls of « partied apirita entered at once on the full Joys of Henven. Tho word paradise uged by the Lord In addressing the penitent thief, which was thought by some to look towards an intermediate stitto, did nos reem to bear that tnenning. Paul used it when he sald he could not tell whethor he was tn the body or out of tho body, Ils explanntion wad thut hoe was caught wp into tho third Henven, In Rovelation the word was eed te dogarlbo: Henvens and the parable of tho rich man and Lazarus looked tr the same way. ut mare dus elaive wera Paul's words in Philipplang, f 23, and algo In 1, Corinthians, y.. 8 which gave us ta keow tat departed wellevera wero with Christ, and Chriat was not In Parndise,—in an jntorinediite statte,—tho Sorlptures aficining that ho was at the right hand of the Father in tho heavenly, plices, Bellovers wero hones: represented as being Immetintely utter deash with Christ, with no intervoning sleep or uneon- eclousness, but 2a ontoring upon tho full glory of their cds home. «As respeetcd the othoc question, whethor tho soul had or hud not some form of Investiture after Inying ustde its earthly body, tho answer was more datetalt. Christian scholara were uot agreed in tholr vlows respeuting Jt. Ona class, rupresonted by Dr. Hodge, of Princeton, wf firmed that tho Scriptures nover spoke of nian's haying any otbor, a? Desidvs bis earthly tubernncla and the body whick ko Ja to hayo at tha rosurroction, Othors—somo of tho tending German divines and commentutors— hold thut the Soriptures alllrm a proper body as the investiture of thusoulafter death, Hodid not. uttatupt ta decida batwoen these views, But thore was a diiliculty tn thinking of tho spirit 1s dlavmbodied, If tho common idea bo corrcet, and tho soul, after leavlug tho body, was csson- tilly Invisible without any corporeal Investl- ture, what ahoukl we aay of ile condition or atiri« ‘utes or experiences? “It went to Heaven, but: was it aby moro Xslvla there than hero? How did it hold fallawshlp, with otbor Inylglblo and Ineorporcal spirits? Ho did not sea wherein thore was any Sorlptural objection to tha idea of some forin of Investiture of tho soul atter death, ‘othe resurrection of tho body mido certain, ho thonght, person! recognitions in the life to come, {twas quite n certainty that the glarl- ted hummnuntty would havo ita forecnat In tho mold of tho earthly for Identity of person, Sndividuality of being, seomed to require this. ‘Any essential chutiga in our form wauld sect to bo Inconsistent with our remaining human, Cortuinly Christ retained Is body, While wo cold not explain tho changes that wero wraught, wo stil! hid the fict. Doubtless thoro wie wt mysterious transformation. Like that would be ours, He belloved wo would know, and know without the necessity of tin Iutrodite- tion, not only our own peronut Tricnds, but the heroes and herolnes of the faith, Whother we should know our dear ones thore as we left aff knawlug thom hore, was « qivs. tlon which be had no wisdom, and he know of no Eeripture to make answer. We wore loft to cherish such conveptions ns most satisticd the longings of our hearts, only taking heed that wo aid ie Pete et highor ufo to fhe. level aud nenlity of this by curryiny over Our on fens ac experiences, Ho betloved tho rocoxnt tlong Deg nt onen, Tho ductriny of tho resurrection of tho body, ontrytng tho oxnitntion and tho glorification of it, was i dootring of vast und blessed meaning which it was Impossible to ndequatoly state, tauch less to overthrow. It wna so taken slinply on tha side of tha reese from tuatily an noyanees and {ls which were insapieiiin, from this life. After tho resurrection tho body that wus to bo would havo muryolouts endow monts, It would doubtiess be @iubjout to tho bohests of tho will; its Intellcatunl capacity ox- ceed that af the present ono, Wa should never he mlsted by false impresstons, or opinions, or Judgment, ‘@ should sco things as thoy Were, nnd tho perceptions of our sania would bo so quickened thit what wo learned now by painful processes would be tulten tn by intuitions. In some gense wo might be pormit- ted to Reo and know us God baw and know, Tivery froulty would be of heavenly pattern, and tho soul stendily sweep wider aud wi ler horizons of tho things of God, And tho hetven of ourJoy, and ponce, and blessednoys would bo a lnrier, richer, moro amazing Heaven with oach suv. ccuding cyclo of tho eternity that know no cad All this Was eentered in Rnd conditioned upon tho persona) viaiblo retura of the Lord Jesus Christ, On stich x coming bung all our hopes. All shoult hold fast to it, wing by the olen ‘witness of the Wonl, that * Whon Ho aball np- pene wo shall bd Ike ELtm, for we shall soo Him aa He te. BOOKS AND READING. BERMON NY THE NEY. 1. DA KHERPAND. Tho Roy. 1K, D, Shoppard, pastor of Graca Mothodist Bplavopat Chutroh, prenchod lust ovon- ing on“ Books ang Honding." Following {8 tho discourage in Lule ‘Ofmnklug many books thor fs no, ond, and m rewaing lew wentinone of 0 10 osh.= Bicol tt n ued ‘To ovcasion of ny prosenting such a topic ns 1 bring to-night is oyldent to you all who ‘haye seen tho shelves of our new library stocked with moro than 600 volumes of choice books, which In. tho yoursto onme -aro bo multiplied muny Umou,—and who have obscrvod tho olfort to ine terest our youth in tho bost periodical and news- papor literature of our times in our reading: room. Andif it were truo jn the time of Solo- mon that manuscript books {nereased unwar- rantably fast, and {¢ wore 9 source of wouri- neas to keop pace with them, how much moro fy If truo in this book-muking ayo, that might well bo doguribed as the rolyn of typography. Thore aro many opinions about books and reudiug, and probably the common ‘ono that Ie most to bo combated ts that which proceeds from @ naturo in whivb the taste for reading hne‘not been compotently culttvuted. It {4 no secret that a largo proportion of people re- gard books with ayorsion, Many boys and girls fulrly hate tho sight of them. Muny milddle- aged peoplo regard it a durunce vilo to bo abut tip with 4 books and many old people who havo spent thelr yours activoly can find no goluco in ‘books, and no soonor take one up than they get droway and fail to snoring, 1f wousk the dei- nition of a book, wo umy speadily discover how unwisa {3 tho avorsion vf childhood, how {nox- ousablo js the indiiferance of people in ulddle life. And how boreft of comfort peapla who haye vome to the evening twilight of humun Ife without a taste for reading! A book {8 u scuiment of tho great eum of human knowledge sot down ina form thut can be line rted from mind to inind, enriching afl with ho treasures which onc mind hus nequirod or authored; or, uf Afiiton more grandly uxpresses ft “A good book fg tho precious life-blood of a. mastor apirit stored and treasured up ott pur- pose for a life beyond life.” We are naturally unindolont race, Tt costy us an ctfort to lear to rend; and many of us can remember the cus: Ugutions wo received ere we could spell out the wimple gontencus of .our priumury read- ‘ors aud when tasks wero scl us at nwre advanced stages of Dur poqulroments, Wo well rumomber the struggle with our Inclinations, and the unanimous vote of uur faoultiog that tho Wiro man apake truly when ho anid that much study, or, tor that matter, lito study, fs a woarlneas to tho flesh. Tut whatdertrablothing Js wot attained at tho cost of weariness when ‘rat wo not hand to ft? And (tis no argument ngainat the nilssion of books (ft they tuke rink nlongstlo of virtite, or wealth, or good nine Aino tho pelpea tit mist by cantonded for, Thoy contaln within them tho story of tho paat the recorda of sclenee, tho thoughts of fren and good nen long dead, who being dead yet speak through thom; thoy revorl the fundies and tho fro of gentis, the sparkle -of wit tho charm of pustry, tho ingtruction ol history and philosophy. ry a iulstukos to regard: thom ns dead, uninteresting, nid Ufelers things. Tho most pros Tound and vital truth t3 committed 0 118 day the 4 volume of a book. of which It issntd, “Tho words J aponk to you fier are apleit and thoy fre || x Ife." J ttoubt iit that truth, and elogunnco, and pootry may bove gronter charm, 18 spoken from living lips, than whon read rom cold ehar= neters of type or pens but apecch fs only one form of expression, anil typo nnothor, snd thotigh tho life, the genius, the fire of 1 epenker Are tn frrosiatible churn, nud hold a high piace among the good Iniuences wat may mold our minds Aud characters, yot n book may nat bo shorn of the porgonitlity of tho Writer. “With tho poems of donor. imay bo nssoeinted the Polnd bard of oven eftics,” and with tho drama of Bhakspearo tho high: browed genius of Avon, aud with tho sormann of Robortsan tho orect, manly byuring, the altive soulof tho Jucumbent’of Trintiy Chapel Trighton. Tho personal quullty eo futerest: speech fs not altogether Incking in bo ‘et, Unt Mynis quality of Emporis thought that forma the ohicf charin of specolt fs best preserved fn such mitiuor that it can be rend and re-rend till tho force of great truths, imperfectly apprelionded at first, my find deep fodgment in our souls. | Maurice wroto a book on tho friendship of books, full of tender rexard for tho volumes that tid become n genuine help and solace to bin dn fe, To hin hls books wero not dead things, but intimately reminding him of tho personal qualities of tha men who instenoted him, “And fo such an extent ild Preseott regard his books, that he counted ft B personal Inetlnity, Gren log ground for divorce of frlaudshlp, on tho part ef anyons who abused: ayolme of hls Ibrary.. This personal quality nttaching to books we Undorstand in the Inter- est that wo hive in volumes whigh trivnts wo have known havo written, Wo have waded through ming at vapid: volume bocnnes ong We know bas written it; and if but this propor and persounl interost may attach to worthy vohimes that have gone forth Inte tho world, T far umeh of the aversion te beoks nught he cured, aA regued for thom night be culllyated nmounting almost to reverence, That will Loon vital step towards acquiring tnste for ool, books—Just ns from it proper resntd for peopla wa stop up into regard for propor assuciations, And this leads imo to say that books, like compintons, ave to be carefully chosen; that avery one who: fuvites or company fy nota proper person to choose for 2 friend; and nintd all tha books that have beon sent forth Into tte world invit- ing attention we ure to exercise skillfully: tho the right of choice. Sir Thomits Brown speaks Well on this subjeet, 1s upon iil othors that he cssny's, When he suys “Els nut a melnieholy utternnee of my own, but thailesire of better heads; that thore were a general synod, not to unite tho Incomputlbie dliterences of religion, but forthe bonett of barmony to reduce it 1s it lay at first, toa fow and solid nuthors, and to condemn to the tlre those swarms und millions of rhapsodies, begotten only. to distmet and abuse the wenker judginent of scholirs, and fo maintain the tride and mystery of typogeaphers." | ‘Lime does tho work of tho yf ho suggests, It sclects the good and ensis tho bad away, It alixes the nine of classic to that which Ia worthy to live, and nssociites: therewith tho personal chaructertetics and spirit of Ita nuthor int such a matiner that woe can make tho yolume a friend, All this ts pre= emlnently Mlustrated In that prince of books which we call the Bible, the: book whieh Theo- doro Parker #0 Juminously describes in its oh noter and inuences “thls collection of books has taken euch n hold on the world ag no other. Itisread on wsabbath tn alithe hundred thoue sand putpits of our land, Tho sun nover sets on its gleamlng pyge. It soos equally to: tho cottage of tho“ phiin man aud the palace of the King. It {8 woven Into tho Iteratura of tho seholur: and colors tho talk of tho. wtreot. ‘Lhe bark of the merchant eannpt sil tho xea without It. No alips of wer go tb the contlict tub the Bible isthore. Itenters imon's closcts, minglos in all tho grief and cheor- fulness uf lite, Tho affianced miiden prays God in Seripture for strongth iu her now duties. Mennre married py Seripture. The Biblo at toads thom In sickness, when the foyer of U1 world jg on tham. ‘Tho neling howd tinds a softer pillow when the Bible is undornenth. ‘Tho macinor escaping from shipwreck clutches this tirstof his treastires, and keeps It suered to his God. It woos with the peddier in hls urowded: pick, cheers lim at oventide when ho sits down, dusty und fatigued, and brightens tho freshness of his morning fyvo, tt blesses us whon Wo ure born, give nines to halt of Christendom, rejoices with us, has syin- pathy for our mourning, tempers “our urief to finor issues. It Js tho Lotter purt of our sermons, Is lifts man above himself, ‘The best of uttered prayers are In its storied speccl,— wherewith our fathers ond tho pneriarcha prayed. ‘Tho thntd ninn nbout awaking from nisdream of life looks Yaron the pluss of Bostptrita, und his oye grows bright, Ito dogs not fear to staud alone, to trend tho way un- known and distunt, to take tho dread atsel by tho band, and bid farewell to wife, and babes, And home, Men rest ou this their dourest hupes, It tells thom of God and of His blussed Yon, of earthly dutics und of heavenly rest.” Such Is tho: function of the Great Bool, and by inference muy bo learned the vuluo of all lesser books. Ignorant as we ure, thoy supply us with knowledge,—seope in fe, and relations to all tho. world bo- alde—und it can be — presonted only asaduty akinto all othor roligious duties, that: books—zoou books—shauld hold irae place in our compuntonsilp and osteem, *They are tho windows through which the soul looks," and a home without books ts Ike n room without wiudows, No puronts bave a right to bring. up thelr children without books, If they have tho means to buy thom. Jt tau wronp to their fat ilies, They cheat thoin, Chiltron learn to read py belug ii the presence of books. ‘Tho Jove .of icnowludge comes with ‘reading, and the mint grows upon it; und the love of Knowledye tn wt young mind fs almost a warrant againss the f- ‘erlor excitement of passlins and vices, Dapent of roading of books with a view to genuine proiit, nut for tho oxoltoment of a plot or highs y-colored romanco, ar story of thrilling ndvont= ure that never hupponed, Theory books that ono dnd better by Ignorant of how to reid than to touch thalr polluting: mgos,—books ‘that intnister to pasaton, that Instill wrong vlows: of life, that are worse to rend than te spond one's hours In idleness, which is wicked enough. Jt has been well sald that the rain of most inen dates from some yacunt hour, Ovowpation is the armor of the soul, and tho train of Mdloness isborne up by wll the vicos! 1 remomber a satirival poomi in which tho doyil is roprosonted ns fabing for mon and adaptliy bls built to tho tusteand temperament of hls prey,—but the idler, be auld, pleased him mist because be bit at tho nnked hook. ‘Von young mun itway from home friondless and forlorn in a great city, tho houra of poril ure those between siinset and bedtime, for tho moon and staré sco more sin ta & single hour than the sun fat whole day's clruult, Blossog be that young min who wt such hours betakes binsolf ty his books for which ho has acquired a tasto, or finds his way to somo accessible rending-roon, wherw pitra Iterntura ministers to tho furnish- {og of his inind and ‘his protection from tha temptations of fdla moments, Somo books that have beon desoribod us cold but sure frionds may bye 4 frlond to tho frivndiess, tho Mbrary wu Home to the hometess. Mia taste for Nays carry hit inte the best poss and cnable him to converse with men who will instruct him by thelr wisdom, and charm him by thate wits who will soopie hiin whon trotted, retrosh him when weury/counsol him when perplexod, and aympathize with bin at all thnes, 1 would to Ged that tho mission of books were appreciated fi all our. Pieture-bovka for the — little folks, with tha stories and descriptions read thom; books of ongy avionce, and history, und travol for the young folks; novels on which the stamp of timo and criticism buyve plagod thotr favor, charts of history, ang solid rouilling for tno oldor folks, Ornamontul books ure woll enough, but AC thoy absorb tho capitil taba invested in bouks for uso they are an ubomiAAtion,—as Bene sn wutiof tho gilt-edgyd, cumbrous fanily Mblo that wns Neyer mount for use, on whose dusty gover might ba traced the word damnation, But there ts nnothor Intoreating branoh of our subjcot—tho porlodioal toruturo of our men to which £ wish to call attention,—journals of Utornture, of wclonce, of art, roviowing books, desoribing ourrent ovents, and declaring the nowa of tho day. jore Is i, vico connected with tholr perusal, wndalaon virtue, andgontine growth in mind and sympathy, Tho poriodl. cul Uiterature of our tne bas ndvanced ta such an oxcellenco aa ulmost to cover tho whole field of lourning, Buch a collection of pos riodical Htorature wo haye pluoud in our reads ing-room,—whore a spare hour every evening misy bo pant with famense prone, un hour that might idly bo spent othorwheres, or might bo worse spont, Tho function of purtodienl titern- tury, it night almost ba sald, Ja that of a feeder for higher terature, via; books that havo als viticed to place in tho readin of learning fyom which they cannot bo moval, Popularly, al traotively,winsomely, periodio literature gets in dove wilh learning: A minguzing artele gives you tho tasto to rend 9 troutiso; a skuteh Inte: vats you {nu biography; u Dried chapter th mu ural history gives youu relish for moro; ilustm. tions begults you Where othorwise you would Det. venturo—and = thus these suinptas of iiteraturo give youwrellsh for the whole dy. Let the tute for reading be auguirud thug, and means will by found to geutity ft, even at tho oxpense of more hariwwtul Picaturos, ‘That pergon ta dulland stupid fidoed who cannot bu uttructed by the eplendld periadical Jiterature: of our own land, in tho service of which art, and wealth, and taste, and lvorning, and the best Mtorary genius {8 carnestly uinployods and if the young men of opportunity of the 2 presont generation should grow up without iatedligenes, homos; |. und w love for lourning they have no excuse if thoy aro stupid und unlovely characters, with- Out ability to converse on Overy topic and With a sympathetlo lutorest for all humun atfulrs that aro brought to thelr notice in tho porl- odicul Mtoraturo of | tho — tintes, ero one = uceupant of he Feitding-room ty o of that Is not noglected probably in your utton tlon at your hones, tae probably yots fur moro utténtion thin it doaurvos. Lrefor to the dally newspaper, with Its advertisomonts, its marriugo and death notices, Its trade current its nows from home and pbrond, Its criminal column, tte partte sun oditoriata,—its politic morality, A mat that hoy not inuich thine to rend his no businass pope ing over 2 newapnpee as hls only tntellectunt Stimitlos aystemationtly and dally. That which As important news can bo sennned {nin fow mo Trents, and it 4 esaential to note lt, Wolnve no” Duainess to neguiro tho tastes of the Athentana, that went about hearing and telling some now thing. Tho tentency to make guasipers will ho on atron if the newspaper fs our abanrh. ie iterary adviser, ior §8 a elnglo hiper nm .sate -gutdo In mnattora ‘of . mor. > ality or polities, Thoy aro eet up tt tho Anterest. of pitrtics amd candidates, of interests of ono setand atnothor, and presiimo to nike popular opinion, and onrry us in tholr pockets, and do oue thinking, The Ife of a newspaper ‘on queations of governniont and morals 1s too. truly i record of Inconsistoncy,—prociatning: thom gulites that cannot be followedy-to whom, wo dave not pin our frith. ‘Thon, too, tho sens of responalbility ia swenkened by the tnperson. nity of the editorinl writer, Ho $s only we nnd represents n corporation. Ho docs not apenk as, nanan witht conselonee, wha must give an ace count for that which ho writes In that sort of conipuuty, advising ts an toral queations with Interested motive, Tho sense of individuntian is lost, and consclonce ia ‘depraved. Nowa. papers: shot intallibly a achnol of good muannors, and, charitable Judgment, and disinterested nintive, An tidependont news: pauper, conducted on high moral gronnd, would ‘not pay in tho world constituted a8 it 18 ut prog. ent. ‘They have uses, noble ties, but not ns our svlo InteHectual and moral ndvigors, and as Mauriec hus weil sald, "Thos aro mischievous to our knowledge, misehievous to our morality, whon thoy lead us to be contont with thom: aclyns, when thoy induce ua to draw our knowl. edge ov our moratity fram than; nad Leaunt it thunger whon the uttompt to enlarga tholr fune- tion so fully as to oceupy our Ielsure time, as. they secin tu bo doing, to muko thom our {dol, our oracle, On the week day thoygconsume thme that might hoe given to sulld learning, and. on the Lord's day they atent time that ought to Ue given to the Word of God and the worship of tho sanotufiry. They fll‘ tholy logitimate Tunction thoy help us and make andthe world or ourselves and: God, ‘This is the test of the nowspnper as. f tho bonte, and ought to be tho ruling! e ws applicd to books and roading Buch Noursary trontment L bring you tila Sabbath night on this tiportant topic in tho interest of Antetligenvo, of morals, and polsion, The sufety of youth, the proiitof manhood, and the com. fort of old nyo, I seo in th of bouks, and a taste for reading # potent instrument: to: inuke the world better. And Leount ft tho faire. est promise of 8 youny man that ho fs acquiring’ niove for learning, though it be nat thes a worrincas to tho flesh. Wo havo young men enough who speitd thelr spare money on canes, aud neckties, and fuxhfoniblogarments,tobacco, theatre, opera, kid-gloves, and tho like, A youth with a book In hig hand {8 hotter ornamented thin with gloves or one. “An edition of Shake: gpenra Je better than a tieket to tho thoatro, An hourspent over Wilhelm Tell with o German dictionary fs Infinitly moro profitable than an, evening at tho opera, and not nearly as expen’ sive, nnd will tond to muko the young nian quite us interesting. An oyening tn tho reading-room is fur moro yatuntie than the samo timo spent in ally compliment or piuotinaleas gigric, and enn bo dono, according to iny thinking, with far utore Kelf-respect, I ber you ta count books your friends, aud chiotly that princo of books: that reveals the will of God tomen, Mako time for thelr verusn), think over tholr messagcs, through thom know tho world bettor ‘and your relf botter, and, aboyo all, know God better, in’ whom Js all wisdom and hitelligonoo, MISCELLANEOUS. FOREIGN MIast0NS. BPRINGETELD, Ul, April 11.—Tho Worthweatarn Branch of the Womnn's Forelgn Missfonary 80+ cloty of the Mothodist Epfsoopnt Church, ropres Fenting tho States of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, meets in this clty this weok, Tha ' sessions begin Wodnesday imorniug and closo , Friday nfternootr, Soveral hundred fadfos will ho present ns delegates. UNION MEETINGS. ; Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune, Astnoy, Ill, April 11.—Tho Rov, H. P. Wolton, | evangelist, of Detroit, has ¢elosed a most suct cosufit] gories of union mectings which hnvd | beon hold hore for nu month pust. Over fifty favo thoir numes ns docided for a bottor if Tho churches have been greatly instructed, aya promiso nore ernest and deolded efforts forth gencral good, Mr, Welton instructs the min and apnea te tho conscience, ‘Nc excitement ‘Theo! ir oni 10 mlasion ty has no} id 80 good a Work, vy . OLEOMARGARINE, i Investigated by a Coneresstonal ‘Cons | mittce—Tho Buttor-Makers Indignant : Ovor the Manner i Which the Invess ligation Was Conducted, i | New Youk, Aprit %—Tho oloomargarine), tankors scored a point on the butter-dealers toy’ day by inviting the House Agriculture Commits \ tee to inspeot tha manufucture of tho. artiolo|/ Vitght members’ responded. The chomist of the Coinmitteo was Mr. Steclo, of North Carolina, ) who bad 1 deal to aay Aout stearjno, butterino, and Ingtine, while, Committee went througtt , tha manufactory,“ weer rhnaee Penne First, tho room was: visited whoro tho tallow of oxen, cows, and cattle genornlly was rocolved, , ond separated from anything of. tho non-fat nature, Thy tallow was bolted bofore tha crea of tho Committee, and thon transferred to tho hented-room, .whers it Is churned. Tho hoated sronne, is drawn off inte vats oon. tufuing chopped Ico, which sarves to congest, the oluomarguring, Then the yellow aubstanca ds churned In milk to give it avor-and salt on Aunito,.tha poloring nittter, 1s udded. thor mombers of tha Committoo scomod ti be well satisiied that tha methods of manufao: turo Woro nF that could bo wished, Thoy talke to tho employ és, drunk mill, smolied of tho ole margnrinous product, inspected tho cloan aut unpalnted Intorlors, and guid very little, The: “thoy embarked on a Government tug, and float: ed down tho North and up tho Eust Hivers, whit thoy ate: luncheon and discussed tha merits of olcomurgarine. * “ In tho evening tho olcomargorine-mnkes gave the Committco 4 banquot in Delmonico's. Meantime tho buttor-denlors ware holding an In- dignation mevting, and denouncing — th olcomargarine-makers for Imposing. on th Congressinen. Sir.. Ronl criticised tho man. ver du which tho olooumargarine-dealers 1 tempted to ndvertise thoir progross. Mr, Care helleved that olgomargarino was {injurious to tho health, and its miuuufnctura was a fraud upon the Bepduoor. and consumor. Br. Livy Ball a people tnd vast sums of monc: in tho butter business, and the were eqgae: #reat thado that pad beon built up was jeops ardized by halt "a dozen oleomarguring-inin< ufucturers. ‘wenty porsona engnged in the trade vould throw as much oleomargnrino on the market us would swamp all tho butter-dealers. Olcomnargarine was yory injurious to, dyspeptie persons, Mrs Ferris sald tho destruction of tho butter * business would aifect tho wealth of the Nution. ‘The man who inyonted olcomurgarine was now languishing ina South Amorican prison for ate tompting to pasa off a mixture of base motals Ae gold. It was not allowed to bo given to the panpord ow Blackwoll'’s Intand. Other. gontio- mon spoke to tho samo offect, nad an committes Was appolnted to Interview the Congressman. | TELEGRAPHIC. The Delunoy vs, tho Pago Patent. - PNMladelphia Times; April 8 The announcement. was made, last ovoning « that a company, composed of. capitalists of this city and some of tha Eustorn” States, had pure ohused tho Delaney Patont ‘Telegraph Rolay, an instrument claimed to bon porfeotsubstitute for tHo Pago patent, owned and used by tha West orn Union, Inquiry shows this to bo truo, the sale having taken place In this city within the pst few days und a oontrot peels bown mada estorday by the now owners with Partick & airter, manufacturers of tolegrapir machinery und supplies, on Second streot, for the construd- tfon of several hundred Instruments;to bo putin 1g0-N8 SOON AS possiblo, All thia uetion comeson the hucls of tho reoent decision of Judge Blatch- ford, of tho Unitod Htates Cirouft Court in Now York, granting the Wostern Union Company, an injunedon to reatratn u local company of thatcity (tho Homo Hurglar-Alarin Company) from 1a fringing on its pargut vight. ‘Thig doclelun af- feots nut only all tho opposition telograph com panles of the country which ulso uso the Pa} patont, butull tha: grent rallrond Ines of the gountry,—the Pennaylvanta, th s Oblo, tho Unton Puolie, and. atl Juy Gould's Sites rovory annot which ugo tho Pago patent, — and all of which, by appileation in this recen suit against the Burglur-Alarm Company. io Noty York, from thelr own choloo, became co-dofenduuts, dtr, Dolunoy, tho patentee of tho now relay, exphuinod faat nfght tho po altton of things. The Paye patent, ho says, {6 60 ftor-rouching Jn ita otfeots 1s to be aa indisponsas ble ta tho vlegraph systom—so far as wat le known i tho Morse system Is concorngd—as & wheel fs to a wagon. . Necessarily, if Judge Hntehford's dootstou is sustuined by the hight court, to. which it will“ dunbtless bo appealed, tho Western Union Company .will able fo mukoswhat terms it pleases with all tho raflréad companies und opposition tote egraph Hines, and will bavo them completely in its power, so fur ad thelr telegraph fuuitities are concerned, . To avort this tug now company hus oryanized and bought out tho Delanuy ree tay. Pols, it is olulmed, fs not only wu perfect substitute for tho Page patent, but is auporiot toil, without at uff being an tifringemont oo it. dt waw patonted iy 1875 by Patric) formerly chlef opérator of the old Telegraph Company, nt tendent of the Suuthorn & Atlante Come puny, but ins nover been in use, for the reason, ius Sr, Delynoy oxplalins, that the emergency het hover boforu risen, the Western Union never having ong so fur ig it has ju tho present case with rofercnco ta Its claims of oxciusive riKat tae a Biese patak, » Betas: paya he . Fight o1 rns Vor! ae tageous to hiroself and thuty thi Tatontion of fs vc re jo in Lod nie Gorapany'is bo havo hs re an In'uso in A suving of one-th! in the wor hy waing the srath-provt Carpet Lint i¢ ng. Uno only tbat nulls favtured of colton and paper. ‘Two kinds, sexed sod plain, American Carpot Lining Co., New York wud Boston. For saly by all carpot dealoph