Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1880, Page 2

4 ‘ WASILINGTON. . Probability of a Presidential Veto of the Little De- . ficlency Bill, " By Reason of Restrictions upon the Selec tion of Marshals Nullifying Na- tonal Election Laws. «Prospect that Some Tariff Mens- ures Will Bo Reported at This Session. : The Committee at Least Showing a Disposition to Consider Them. The Springer-Donnolly Investigation Treasury Investigations—Pa- cific Railroads. THE TANIFE. BOMB PROSPECT OF LEGISLATION. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasnisaton, D.C, April 2.—At Jast there seoms to be prospect that tho Committes of ‘Ways and Moans will report somo taritf measure to tho House for its nretion at this scesion. A special Sub-Cominittes was appointed about two weeks agoto inka into consideration tho numerous bills which havo been referred to the Committeo, and ascertnin whethor an agreo- <mont could not be reached on cortain proposi- *tlons, Soveral meetings have been held, Yes- btorday tho Bub-Committvo was In session nearly allday. Tho sixty or soventy different bills which propuse changes in tho tariff wero rend ; ovor, and to some extent discussed, but no voto |ovas taken on any particular proposition. A ‘prominent member of the Ways and Means Commiltteo, ulso of tho Sub-Committee, fn con { Vorsation with a Trimuny correspondent to-day, Senta that whilo it was yet tuo soon to predict WIAY CHANGES IN TItE TAIUEE would bo recommended, he thought there was no longer any doubt that some measure would ‘be reported to the House, even though tha Com- mittee should not agree. In thut easy ho thought majority and a minority report would bo aub- mitted to tho House. Tho same gentioman sald that there appeared to bee disposition mong members of tho Committoo to make consider- j able concessions in order to reach nn ngreement } in regard to the duty on steel ralla, Ho thought {| the Committce would agree to recommend a re- + duotion from €23 to R40 a ton, or ong conta | pound, This was by i rent n remdtuc- \ menns 60 #1 tion ns ho would like, he sald, but ft was: better than nothing. He does not expect that the Com- mitteo willigres to any aweop ini ehnnges, or {tant the schouule reported wilt cmbracy: vory ‘tbany articles, SUGAR, {Pho advocates of a now sugar-tariff!_ appear \ very Pepetul that tho Comnmilttce of Ways and Menns will reporta bill of some kind to the 4 House, either this or next week. Thoy aro ine + different ng to what the Committee may recon~ mend, although they would of course prefer some mensure that will be uccoptablo to tha general sugar tradu. Gut the grent object to Aecomplish, to whlob thoy ure bonding thoir one ergics, is to have the question brought outof the Committco and submitted to tho Mouse, where they count upon a majority large onough to pass a satisfactory bill, * THE ARMY BILL. PROBABILITY OF A VETO. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘Wasninoton, D, C., April 24,—Tho I’realdent’s conversation with his friends lends thom to believo that ho will veto the Little Deticiency Dillon tho ground that the restriction placed ‘upon tho selection aud use of Deputy Marshals ‘at tho polls nullifies tho}National Ricction tnws, Tho exaninatlon of the restrictive clause in ‘the Army DiI Inregurd to thouscof troops nttho polls bas raised tho question whether it docs not come fully within the objections contulned in the first veto of tho Army Dill passed ut tho extra sosston, The cliuso in tho bill of Instycar, which the President signed, was as follows: “That no mpney pa propriate in this net is appropriated ‘or ahull bo pald for tho substst~ ciive, eqidpment, or transportation, or compen: sation of uny portion of the army of the Uulted States, to be usad ns a police force to Keon pence ae fe polls at any election held within any ‘Tho clauso in the bill Juat sent to the Prest- dont {4 the same ne tho above, with this proviso; “Provided that nothing In. thls provision shall bo constricd to prevent the use of troops to Protect against domestic ylolenvo in ench of the Btates on application of tho Legislature thercof, or of tho Exvoutive when the Legisinturocantot be convened.” If the Army bill 1s votood it will be account of tho effect of this Inst proviso, IT 18 ARGUED ‘that It carriog with it, by implication, the decta- ration that troops oannot bu Kont on cloction daya into a Stato by the General Government to sup. press violence, to protuat ita property, or exe cute the Inws of tha United suites, unless tho Govornor or tho Legislature makes a request: for thom, ‘This view would euuse the Preal- dent's voto of lust your to upply with full force to tho politicnl rider of this session, taken ag 0 whole. if it hud been left in the shupa it owas frst reported jo House, that is, ng it was pnssed ond slaned Jast yer, thero would be no doubts of tts being: approvod now; buttho addition of the proviso quoted nboye la held by muny to entirely change ‘the scope of the vluuse, and to so cimingo It 18 to muke {1 Impossible for tho President to sign tho Dill Until the full effect of this proviso came to bo oxamined thera wasn general bellof that the Army bill would bo signed 4 a mattor of gourso, It is now ut loast very doubtful, NOTES AND NEWS, BPRINGER AND DONNELLY, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Wasustnaton, D. C., April 26.—Thoe Committca ‘to invostigate tho authorabip of tho anonymous lettor sent to Mr. Springer, which Mr, Bpringor hos attributed to Mr. Dunnolly, will meet for or- wanizotion next Wednesday, Tho resolution creating this Committee did not provide 4 Clerk and Deputy Borgeant-at-Arms, which would feom toindicate what hna been strongly sug. Pooted from tha first, that thoro will be no {ne “vestigation. Mr, Randull, it 1s gaid, does not swunt nny snvestignt{on into tho affair, and {a ro ported to have only appointed tho Committee ecauso Mr. Manning hus clamoured for it. ,Carlisix, tho Chairman, in’ addition to his dutics 08 @ momber of tho Ways and Moans Commitwe, hasbeen appoluted Chairman of tho Houso portion of tha Jolut Committee to investigate the alleged frauds on tho revonua 4n connection with the collection of tho tobacco tax, and hag Uttlo tue to attempt to vindicate Mr, Donnelly, TNBABURY ACCOUNTS, Genator Davis’ Special Committeo upon Troasury Accounts, whieh begun ite work of Ine ‘vestigation two years ago, coused tuking tosUl- mony two weoks amo, and sinco that (line its membora have had frequent suvetings to hur- monize thoir conilicting views su thut thoy might mako «# ‘ununimous report. Lust ‘weok this was found to bo - Ime “possible, aud the two ftepublican membors determinod to make o minority report. Tho ‘tivo ruporta will be presented to the Senate next ‘Wodnesdny or carlicr, It is understood that no new factahave been discovered, but that tho investigation bas furnished the grounds for soing valunblo suggcations for improvements in tho methods of Treusury bookkeeping. No Trauds bave been discovered, and no offort hag Deen mado to discover any, Tho Committva Conilnod Itself strictly to ite original task of Taking ttavif Camiliar with the past and preseut mothous of kuoping the accounts, THE KYLLOGG-SPOYFOND CASE. A leading Democratic Senator fy authority for tho stutcment that if the ltupublivans bud called fora division upon the question of taking up Kellogg-Bputfurd casa, cnoigh Doemocrate would have vatod uo to huye defeuted the prop: oaltion fur present consideration. On the othor band. itis probable that a numberof Republicans would have refrained from voting on the ground that it the case must be entered into at ull, bo present isa botter time for (t than ty likely to \\gocur berunfter, und that Jf tho Demoorats dos ‘pate tho matter vigorously tt will only make mutters worse for thulr party, while the Hepube Heans will, of colirse, voto ‘solidly against tho sesoludon from the Commmittea on Priviloged and Elections, They are quite willing the Dem- Ocrutic Benutors who tre Bo dejo should Inunifeat thotr will todo wrong whenover they have the power, 4" THE MATIONAL OUSENVATORY, ‘Mz, Morse bus made up biv mind that the Na- tional Observatory shat! bo wituated where pou- ple who vislt tho Nytlonal Capital cau casily visitit. He has therefore sclected a site near tho Baldlers’ Home, while Admiral Rogers in- ; late that ft whall be bullt somowbery out in | Georgetown, where no onv cun ever yialt It ne without going entirely out of the beaten track Of sight-soving, Br, More's locatien is tu overy ey. prefernblo to the otbor, ands on a meridian ne, PACIFIC RAILROADS, Tho Honsa Coninifttce on Pacific Rallways ts apparently sommittod to tho polloy of refusing: to further oxtend the land rant tothe Northern: Paciflo Mailed. At least eight of its thirteen members have declared themsclves as opposed tothe extension, Difference of opinion exists on the question of what shall be cone with the land grant, or how the Government shall avail itself of Its rights. It ts reported hero that tho Committee is likely to stick, and tho result fa doubtful, POLITICAL, THE CONGRESSIONAL CANVASS IN MINNESOTA. Epectat Dispatch to Tas Chicago Tribune 8. Faun, Minn, April 25.--Tho interest in Congressional polltics tn this Stato Is nearly all confined to the Sccon District. + Agood many newspapers tn tho First District firo crying out rebolliously ogainst Mr. Dun- nell'a votes to rotain tho tariff on paper and pn- per-ematerinis; anditiscertain that his high- tariff opinions aro notin nccord with thoso of his constituonts or the people of Minnesota tn general; but this feellng is scarcely strong enough to break his firm grip upon tho party organization, and ha will probably be renoml- nated without much dimculty. . Indeed, tho op- position to him is not dofinit enough to havo act- tied upon a candidate with whom to oppose him Jn tho Convention, In this (the Third) district, Mr. Washburn's claims to a renomination aro gonorally con- coded. ‘Tho Second District 1s tho only place whero there 1s nny chance of n contest. Thie{s the district, it will bo romombered, which two yours ngo elected {fenry Pochlor, un excoilent Gor- mun Democrat, becuuse It bud besonte some whut wenry of Maj. Strait, also nn exceltont wenticman, who had yoted on the Republican aside in tho House of Representatives withant Moing much olke, Pochlors mnajority. was only TH, and the clreumstances of his lection dun onstrate the facility with which he can be denten ly 2 candidate who enn command the Hoputh- Henn vote. Tue Trtvexs was promptly tne formed when Gordon E. Cole, of Fari- Vault, consontel to bo a candidate for Congross, von sone , and was gi suMficiently plain hints as to his qualifications and eapaeity, Ho is the ablest, best known, and Strongest Ropublican In the Second District. oe would challenge tho enthusiasm of every voter, aud would carry tho district ay a larger majori- HY, than it has given any candiduto for Congress since It was organized, Onee clected, he would apecdlly tuke a bigh piace among members, and would ‘reflect credit upon the State he repre- sented, He ta nlawyer of lary practice and experience, nnd a mun of broad general culture. He Jy capnblo of something more thun sitting in his gent and voting. Ho $6 fitted by his editen- Hon and training to take part In the discussion Of and netion pon important questions of pub- Hu polloy, He would do what not erary: th gressinin does by a great MOO H Corp nko an intelligent purt in National legislation, Ho would bo i useful member to his country os well ng to his district. Jt might be supposed, when Mr. Cole had once consonted to be & enndidate, that there would be no question of his nomination, ile namo was res with a good deal of ‘onthusinsm Upon {ts first announcement, ind bo 1s still tho Apparent choice of a lnrge majority of tho newspapers in bisdistrict. But thore ure soma locul centrds of opposition growing up, whieh promise that his nominntion will not bo so easy and aoantiay busns would bo most pleasant for bin, colirse, this opposition ts in tho in+ terest of toch candinatos,—favorit sons of am- bitlous countica,—who have bullt up local parties and manufactured local influence. Singularly enough, it {8 whispered that Maj. Strait would like to be ncandidute ngain. He npparently do- mands thy nomination os vindication, as though the Republican party hud caused him to bo beaten in the Second Vistrict two yenrs ago, instend of tho reverse, His friends are puehing hisclatins nodosa yot forcibly; and it is alto- gether likely that he will go tu the District Co Yontion supported by the vote of his county, Beott. Ho ly burdly in uw position, however, to command a inrger following. Goodie County Is wonderfully prolific of candidates; butber pollticinns, in making choice of one of the lot upon whuin to consolidute thelr preferences for Memberot Congress, have, curl- ously, overlooked Gon, Jennigon, the wit and or- ator, and Gen, Flubbard, the focal warrior and statesman, to boom for Mnrtin 8, Chandler, an cilnently respectable citizen, but whose main qualliication for Congressional position appears to be that bo fins been Sheriff of tho county Cor twantystwo years, b These two are all tho local candidagtesin oppo- sition to Cole that havo yet dovelopell: but thoro are likely tobe moro, Ex-Treasurer Plauntor, of Brown County, has a griovance in the failure of tho Inst State Republican Convention to ro- nominate him. He muy come to the Convention, with a local apis athis buck. and deniind a yindleation, The danger ia, that cnough of these Soca Darla ny roe uy ic apneiye Cole's sup) oO we panilar, —brond, . universal character which it shoult have, He is not Hkely to huve much heip from outside of Als distrivt, #8 tho politicians of the State look Upon his conspleuous ability with a certain aus- i clon, and nre haunted with the thoitght that, f once started upward, bo pales advance too rapldly, und endanger somebody cleo. Ontside of the polltfetuns, however, hls prospective en- try Into public life ts peraed with the greatest interest In all parts of tho Stute, . Thus the enn- vasa in the Becond District is attracting more attention thau any recent pouiticat event. It Tulrly divides tho honors with the Presidential question. ‘ —— ILLINOIS. Apectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, DANviLty, UL, April 2i.—The most exciting Ropublioun primary elovtion ever witnessad in Vermilion County came off yosterday, There were fivo candidates for Circuit Clork, two for Proseouting Attornoy, threo for Coronor, and six for tho Legisiaturo, with two to nominate. Returns recelved at thls hour show Hawes for Clork, Gatland for Prosecuting Attorney, Cun- uinghany for Coroner, and Holdon and Butters ticld for Representatives have a majority of the dolegutes, re OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yous, April 2—Arrived, Britannin, from Liverpool; Hlantyn, from Antwarp, Lonpox, April #5.~Steamship Gellert, from Now York, and Hiloots, from Phlludelptila, are rived out, — Dincovorics in Ornithology. Laranite City Uo: dence Denver Tribune, Lately L huye mudo some valuable diacoverios rolutive to ornithology, and L will close this lot. ter by glviug some of thom to the pubic, for [ love to shud Information right ond left, like a Normui School, Whon tho soft gout wind began to kigs our checks, and tho horserndish and North Park Prospeotor begun to start, tho swift-winged awnllows drew neu ta ey picturosyue homie on East Fifth streot. ands T hoped, with a great, anxious, throbbing hope, that they would build Dbenenth the Gothiv enyves of my ranch, » L would take my guitar at tho sunset hour aod sit nt ny door {n'a camp-chalr with the ain glory of tha dying duy buthing mo ina foot of olden: Haht wud touchin, up my chubby ‘orm, and if would warble “When Spar- rows Huild” an old solo in J which seems to fit my volee, and the swallows would tit around mo on treloss wing, and kK and sling mud ovor mo till the cows cum hon Vhis thing had gone on for several duys, and tho little mud-hauses under thoenves were pret- ty near ready, and turpentiny and quicksilver, and Ute and aquafortisand wlaut-powder and a. fenthor, bud mide my homo n howling wilder we that smeliod Ikea city drug-storo In per. tion. Burit ditn't kill tho bua, It ploased thom. ‘They called a ineeting, and tendered me a voto of thunks for the kind attentions with whieh they had been recolved. Phoy ate all these dine Dolfeal drugs, not only on regular duys, but right along through Lent. Tyotiund, and resolved to insure tho house and burn itdown, Que ovoning when 1 felt sud Qnd | worn, and wis trying to golnea myself Db: trilllig, a fow snatches from Stendotssohn’s “Wail written tho key of Q for u baritona volce, wnelyhbor camo along and stopped to feun over tho gute and drink in tho Hood of nuclody which I wus spilling out on the oyentog alr, When I got through and stopped to tune my guitar anew, and seratoh w warn place on my arm, bo usked it ft were not atratd thut those swaliows would bring Dedbuigs to tho house, Thad honrd that befory, butt thought it was a campaign tic. Tucted on the suggestion, hows over, aud, taking a long pole from behiud tho door, whure 1 keop it for pictorial Bible mon, L Hnocied yen &'dobe cottage and proceeded to examine Jt was levol full of {imported Merino, and Cote- wold, nnd Southdown, wid Karly Rose, and Puch oss Of oiuoub an and twenty-ounce pipping, and Book-no-further budbugs, There were Bou? bigs in modest ery ulsters, and bedhings in dregs of wine und old gold, bedbugs fn awhes of odes, gid buddies In slephanta’ browdth, bed> sbigw with thelr night clothes on and In morning Wrippers, bods that werd {ual ing on the night shift, and bedvuye that had been at work ull day and were dust olny, to bed, 1 killed all 4 could und thon droyo tho rest. Into w pan of cou oll, When one undertook to got out of the pan I shot him, ‘Phte ountict lasted savoral days. 1 negleotod my otbor bus! ness and owitled morning pruyers wulil thero wus a great cul, and the swift-winged swale lows homeward flow, Whon thoae feathered songaters cure around my humble cot another apring they will mout with a cold, unwelcuino Fecontlon, Isbull not ovon ask them to take off oir T have formed tho {dou somehow, from watch: lug tho vceuntric, nuryous Higutot the swallow, that, when bo makes onvof those swift Hank movements with the spood of chaln-lightniug, he muat be noting from the finputas of a large, earnest, triangular bodbug of the boanling. riety. I may be wrong, but { buve wiven this ter & good: of attention, whother this thoory bo correct or nut Ido not care, Stis good enough forme. MiuL NYE. ——<———— Norvous debility, weakness, and doc! vented by a timoly uso of Malt Bisterss = PPS = g THE CHICAGO RELLGLOUS. Deism and Atheism the Subjcot of Prof. Swing's Sermon, Dr. Gthson Announces Mls Acceptance of tho London Call, CZ And Reviows the Work of His Six Years’ Pastorate in Ohicago, The Story of Jonah and tho Whalo the Basis of a Sormon by tho Rov. E, P. Goodwin. DEISM AND ATIIBISM. RERMON NY PROF, SWING, Prof. Swing preached nt the Central Church yesterday morning, ns follows: God may bo all i AlL—I, Cor, rv. 28. Ench ago has its own peculiar form of belief and of distrust. Our period {s, perhaps, making more Inquiry than any other period over tho radical question of tho existence of nGod. Itis not satisfied by the Intettectunl exercise afforted by tho discussion of mere euperticial problems, such as whether thore ts n Trinity, or an ine spired volumy, or n Divinity-founded church,— n form of surmiso where two sides quite meet tho demand of old doubters and disputants, As man has become of Inte yoars bolder and moro futonao, and, perhaps, more coldly logical, ho raises deeper question, Whether thero {s o Creator, a personal God? There nro not many ntholsts, for it is not tho principle of tho mind to amfrm boldly thnt thore fs no such First Causo; but thore isa large nuinber of men, young und nid, and women, too, who are learning to spenk withoutconfidence and with reluctance regarding that Bolng whom tho sou) should sco clenrly as tho Heavenly Father. IJtis, perhaps, impossible to be fully an. atholst. A mind may be an Abolitionist, or a Atepublican, or an aristocrat, ora turit! advocate, or aecttled boltaver in free trade, but it enunot 80 easily become suttiod down in an athoisim, simply because the evidenca that thoro is no Gyd cannot by any possibility be gathered uy! and weighed, It thoro be any defect {1 the evl- dence, thon there must bo to that degree nwa vering In tho judginent. Rationally atholsm fs imipuselule, but pincttrally aad dornant oun ensting ita Inuence, ttashadow over the life, and. thoughts, and feelings, utholem ts only too pos- sible in our bumble earth, ‘The pulpit has no special magto or marvolous charm by which ft ean compel mankind to bee llew wa Crentor, Man cannot create argu- menta; he must simply collect thom. Honco all the pulpits ttipon enrth, Pugau and Christian cannot fabricate an argument that will compel humanity,to say " Yes, thore 1s a God,” for the argument is furalshed by Nature jn its fullness or defects, und all tho fogicians in the world eunnot add to whit Nature tins sald, nor can they erage any part of her inflexible speech. If tbe humiliating to think that all the ministers of religion ennnotindd anything to the nitural proofs uf a Deity, itis cheering to feel that all tho athalsts who now speak, ur who may yet apoak, will never be able to tuke anything awny. aAt tha close of alt tholr eloquence wo shall ale ways bo able to sy “Tt fa still quite probablo thore 1a n God,” nm the sidvof yico thera aay come n disbelief in a Creator, but upon the sido of reason such Lasuranve can novor come, for tho final demonstration of atheism Is ron- dered wholly {impossible by the tomb,—that id= Journment of the court of inquiry, Having no mayical power, the pulpit ean come to the world only in tho name of a student of these questions; and of a student not baving an interest that may bins his utement nat lend him to sco light where thore 1s darkness, but a stuttent having tho foterest which upholds him in the study und toll. Tho tntluel and tho ants Christian do tho pulpit at large an injustico when thoy represout tho clergy ns being men olther without thought or with ouly projudiced thought, The real truth fa that men must be prepossessed somewhat with n theory bofora thoy will consont to study It, This love docs not Imply an exnggeration of evidence and conclite sion, but It implies a zcal that witlland tho mind to study up the truths of tho case, Hugh Millor, and Cuvier, und Audubon cams to thelr branches of acicnco With a powerful love of thom, but this love did not lead them to fabricate data and conclusions. It only braced them up to seck outtha fucts with Infinit patience, All men must come to tholr work with # love of it. This love will not be nv pre judice, but a atimulug. ‘To tho pulpit tho Intel mind ahould concede tha truthfulness and rightness of npro- josesion thutinny not supply and fabricate Acts, but that nay make thoir labors a piens- uru Instend of a bondage. The true clergymin islike the gevlogist or botuntst, notdruwing froin his prepossessions hts logic, but only hia zoal and reward, And so vast is tho Influence of morals and of spiritual ideas upon human Ife that it ought to be conceded to tho Brera clergyman that bls 2eul f4 ng well founded as tho enthusiasm ofan Audubon, who only studies birds, or of u Cuvier, who studies only brutes, or oven of a Newton, who studics only butks o| mutorials, Making Wlowance for miny oxcep- tlong, you, my young fricnis, will upon enters fog nny of the inodern churches find tho minis- ter of religion thinking nlong amid bis spiritual Problems with tho sume carnestnosa and honor ‘that marked the old statesmen when thoy bont over the problems of liberty, or that marked 9 William Harvey when ho studicd tho circulation: of tho blood, | All are alike studonts of tho end- Joss pugos of Nature, In pondering upon go radicul a question ag tho existence of it God, it may be well for thoso young and old mon who aro bitterly hostito to the church to romomber that that is not o cburch question, hut a humau inauiry, Whothor there {8 nn inspired yolume, whether thore should be « Pope or a Blehop, those ure ecctesl+ auatical thomes, but tho fact of a Creator has nilways been wt human tniguley just ns dear to phllogoph 18 to rullyion, Just as amazing to the reek dnd Homan liwyorg us to tho Apostles, 4 attructiyve to Xenophon as to Puloy. It may well commend to tho candor and seriousness of all men that this bellof ina God did not orlul+ nate with a church, but enme into tho world by commund of that reasoning from effect to cause whith belongs to tho buman mind in its universal form, The church builds indeed upon the idea; but take the church all away and tho iden would remuin, Tho church builias its temples upon the carth, hut romove all these bullide ings and tho earth would romain, and so the spiritual church bullds upon the assumption of a Deity; but destroy all these places of Worsh!; and burn all the priests of religion and lo! one! blossoming spring would romind you of a Cro+ ator, and Rach death-bed in your house would inke your heart becoine an tar and you a dee Vout priest In your own atricken family, Jhut passing from those seemingly useful pro- Uminurics to the grout question itself it appears: tome that no argument for the oxistenco of God wil over be more Influential than that drawn from tho uxistence of an fminense quane we of facts whivh muterlallam cannot explain, All, from enrly history to tho lutest dates, have folt that there fs in this world a cortain intellectual action which cannot vo oxpluined without nasuming an intellectual source. Tuc notlon of Pinto that intolluct ine destrucublo is no longer held, but tho dlyision of tho phenomena of the universe Auto mental and physical phonomena has been univeraally ndinitted; and up to this date all efforts to ‘identify those have beon entire fatl ures, We goum now to baye Just passed through a hulf contury which hus made tho most learned and profound excursions Into tha materini laboratories and laws; and ‘this oxetirsion has brought back no explanition whatever of tha instinct of a bird to south, or of a spider to spin n web, or of a beuvor to fell a treo. Our sclentife inen, industrious and learned fis thoy aro, cannot pass over tho white gulf that Moa between # Jump of any nad the orlole’s nest ora din of elny and a bird-sur walka about our world wu are met by tho feeliug that iniud bus been boro und thore, and, as Wwe Pereeive that ft wns not man’s mind, Must assumo thata yroater than man exists. Tho arguinont being now spread over several thousand ~— yours, and having assumed ull posable forme, wo Reem compotont at list to aeleot from the mass tho most impressive testl- mony, and that aveme to be tho fact that there is in our Unlverse and intelleotunl action, which in antnilnit bulk somewhere wo my ag well call “dod. Bantholsm te the assumption that cach Dird, and fish, nnd man ia a part of this Mind, just'ay each ray of Tight (ny coll or onc rill of water ta a part of tho common Mubt or sea. Delain is tho ussumption that God td ono great mind, and that all other lifo wore mado by Hin a4 u workinan makes a watch, Atholin 4a the dentnt of both those and the ns- sumption that tho dust tw the parent of bird, and Neh, and mun, OF these theories, Delain ju tho most rational, Panthotsia offers no valld reason why wn Insect sbould be a part of the Dalty, Punthelsm stands upon & pardonuble and ovon a thoughtful basis compared with athofan, but as compared with Dela ite claims to our faith seem inferlor, Que world ts bo Iven to Indivicuullze ita life that wo ecem bound tu indl- iduniize the Bupremne Powor and disoard pane tholau, ‘The eansoiousness of Lord Bucon wae guito distinet from that of Newton or Socrates, fou eannot recall my droums, nor can 1 know Our Cry Sees Muga leas 1s man entitled with 18 dog or biy horse, All is separate by ourcarth. It hag no pan-humanisin, ne pun-antnialiam, aud honey wo must deny it a pan-tholan, and muat douglie our Creator to bave personulity as als> Unct from yo and me as wo aro distinct from euch athor, In a univorge of individualé God is 6inply the Greatest, tholsin ta tho most uninviting of tho throo thoories. Tt cunnot toad ui aeroes from matter to mind, and thorerore tt ls compelled to deny the exlstonce of mind and aftirin that it f¥ only auncoident of matter, and that u bind that cun diy tn the air is ouly as the dust that can fly in the wir, and that between Swing chips oud guia Qub thore ts no essenttal difercnco, 8 pluoed iu the absurd attitude of cou fosslng ite of many grudos and thon of denying watilt bigber grady called Diving. 1t ove Ip this corth a uiilion epecics, from # buttertly up too saint, and (ben says there may nut be vue more turns of Life callod Deity. Of the three furms of belief or surmiso it 18 the woskeat in logic Quality; ix moral quality itis of still humblor TRIBUNE: MONDAY, pretensions, for it Is quite empty of motive and hopes Tioism risca up tho greatest of tho aroun, and having ruled tho work! thus far, {twill doubtless be the dominant opinion of humanity ns long as thornccshall entire, itisaimpie, ttis natural. Finding mind {nthe wild—mint iy" ied detinge, painting, carving, writing, apouking, finest, Fowl, reaping—it gl up tho discuasten whether thore can bo siteh @ thing ts an intelii- gence—It sees {0 onal hands, and then has no task left tt but to muaine that thore Isnn intel~ Hgenco still Iigher than mun. Aa the dome of the aky fs greater (han the dome of &t, Peter it Infers that Natuce hus au urotitect greator than Angelo. Tn Delen God Is the mind and poworor mancarried onward to tho Supreme, Under this Kea of a God all thoepeetfeations of 1fe fall nnd find fll oxplanation; nud it seems tho only nssumption that willoxplain tho physieal pice nomena of tho universe. Tt 1s asking tao much of Innnimnate material tomako naystem of workds such thatone star shall send Tight and heat bei an carth and mnko fa sol send forth violets, and grasses, and (recs, and ahatl make four sensone, and flnolly make antoals and then inaty, shell induco another planet to retlect light Be Uprl tpon this sunie carts itis nsking too much of material things to hy thom. arranges ing tho deposit of dew at night, and tho showers of ratnand tho ripening intitences of tho nutiinn months; itis asking too mitch of dliiat rid ashes to expeet thom tomuke beautiful Dirds to fly in the afr, andbenui [fil golt- ash and eilver-fsh to live inthe eal brooks; too much to oxpeet tho power of dl to originte the len of purple grapes and tho Dinan peng We know that the matorint forces cau help tong all these slinpea of the wonderful. but If mit = isin, the denth of nature, can do sich wonderful worke, tan should Jnment that he hasa wind, for he has been wholly surpassed by clay Uhat had fn tho outesct nelthor ifagior mind. ft om world did’ not begin fn a personal tntelthrenes but bemin with material forms of low quality man should be fleapiinttl Jy bis eplrituak ante ure and might well wlelt hlisetf a clod that he night thus have tho hope of starting a universe, Our world was fashioned clthor hy something above nnn or by something beneath him. Tf hy something benenth man we mnleht all well de- servo to go back to that miscratle weakness nid ignorance that could armnge tho four seasons nid muke clay turn into birds and violets! What ds human progress buta perpetual golng wyay from tho primitive potencies that made worlds? But if tho universe was mide by some One above man -then progress is nu march toward Ilm, net moving awny from the crentlye power Dut toward it, and exch yenr that bears us on- ward In mental growth 43. yenrof Joy, This materialism places all areatness back of many Delem plices tt before him. With alt hig pride of soul and intellect man fs eurpassed by iho slime of tho sea If thoro he no God, for that slime maite tho lifo of carth. Tho gener etntoment that ft is asking too much of alr, carth, fl, and water, that’, they should mako tho ninazing thihs that surround us needs to bo enforecd by a glance at particu Inrs. Look at mind fn Its tninutost embodiment. Man. is too Inrgo to be fully seen, Man who speaks, nnd sings, aud laughs, and butlds cities, bridgos, rallways, ships, who makes witches nnd onmines, who writes books and apenks to n friend o thousand tmilos away, {8 too vast to be sire yoyed, Lotus drop down to creatures a million tines less In welght than tnin. and kaving brain million tines smaller. ‘Tho honey-beo 1s 80 smull f talces 6,0W of thom to welgh a pound. A large man weighing 200 pounds is equal to a million of theso famous workers, Now, Jf our Universo his no Universal Intellect that made and permentes the bechive, thon tho old ooze of some oldseastandans tho Inventor of the honeys making colony. Look now xt the diltleulty of such a hypothesis. In the honoy-beo's brain, Which Is not Inrger than a pin-head, we find tha following dens; Thu awarmn fs just moving into anew houso,—a box ora hollow tree, (1) Thor gathor a conrso kind of gluten and stop up ail tho croviccs and holes, (2) Thoy thon paint or varnish the futerior. () They construct cells, 4) Thoy fill thom with neetnr, (5) They seal up hese Nettle jars. (6) hey appoint about twenty of thelr nuruber to ventilate tho house by mule ing their wings yo ut inealculablu velocity. (7) Theso ventilutora stand in wax to keep from elny nioved by their own wings, (8) Thoy ara relleyved by othor bees ovory hulf hour, (0) The colony must buve aquoun. (10) Whon a hive is about to sond forth n swarm a new queen fa tle- veloped for those destined to remnaln. (11) But if the now queen gots her growth n fow days too soon she Ja kept itt ber cell by new heavy conte ings of wax, for if she should come out before tho othorjs gono thors would bo war In the Jand. (2) Ifa queen is killed, 2 new queen ts made by chang! ne the food of some common grubinitscclt, (i) In riiny days, when honoy cannot be gathored, the swarm mikes a largo advance supply of comb. (4) OF the drones, which will not work, thero aro only about twenty to tho 8,000 or 0,000, and theso never dia # nnt- ural doath, but are kilicd in August or Septein- ber by tho workers, 14 not being worthy of the food thoy would noed In tho winter, (15) Tho honey-bue will rajao from any partof o tield and iret itsown hive, though there muy be tt hundred hives in tho lot or mirden. (14) Thoy from sunshine to the total durkness of thole ive und move to the exact polnt of thelr tisk and never got two tasks confounded, (17) Tne! build their colls In that hexagon form whiel combines the most strength and the moat contuining powor with the least outlay of labor ond material, A Fronch muathomaticlnn baying made a calculation td find whet angle was the most economical for, to foliow in thoir detl- ente urebitccture, differed not ndegreo buta few aminutes from the- afylo In use by the wise ine Beet, but su! uent caloulations have shown that tho mathomutiolau made an orror and that the bee waa right, Herv are sevonteen different {dena ina brain notlaryor than a mustani-sced, nod Tavirm that it is usking too muoh of tho old outing dust of Luerotiusor of nll nthotsm to muke tt thus centralize in the honoy-bee so many beau tiful, and strange, and useful intellectual con- coptions. This simplo, tolling nectur-deulur ought by ftgulf alone to overthrow all belivf that our universe camo without thought, Ry the bechiva stood Aristotle pondering; thoro stood Virgil to compose his fourth Georgic; Aris- tomachus toyotod sixty years to this study; another clugsio moved out into a solitude with o few hives that tho world might not dis- tueb hig rescnrohes; by this house of wonders stood Cicero and Pliny; and tho multitude of gront watehors hus only incronsed as moter mes have come, and Brougham and Lubbock, and Germans and Amoricnns without number have been drawn into this circle of ouchuntment, Our own country In its Langatroth has shown thut the study of this Uttlo marvel belongs Lo alt thes aud continents and consumes the wholv lifeof a Greek philosophor or an Aineriean, clergymun, Tho beo, which as nu insect has en- Joyed more commentators than Dante or Shak- spoare and moro Dlogranhios than Napoteon or ivenr, did not prabably come from 2 materint origin but from some Muster ‘Thought. Kor if wo nrc to beliove that tho beo that thus fabri- entes, and tho spider that spins a wel, and tho worn that sping alk out of tho mulberry lent ara rogults of senseless antecedents why should wo Jaugh = at Aladdin, = who made incest and filled them = with riches rubbing nn old lamp? Lf an old sen wash- fog in and ont ona muddy shore a million yeara gavo eine all, this scene of thought and tifo, what {4 thore of marvel in Aladdin's lamp or ring? ‘Tho marvel once was that thoro was no rational Sinle between his old lamp and his now palace, but if our wise creatures alkcome from, rimitive ooze, thon no deniand remains for ri jonal enusution, and tho “Armbian Nights" tight well bedumo. a text-book in tho now science of crention. Dolam expiains tho man, tho bird, tho spiders, the honoy-pee, by snying that those aro the form which the Master 3tind hus chosen to erento, Matter is passive, Wo nover seo itin a spontaneous notion, Mind fa an energy, and heneo it fd moro readily ussumed na the world's Artiticcr. Jt hus wishes, and tastes, and inven. tion, and intelligence, und powers, nud thus stands forth us the most probable Creator, Gir Mito giobe, viowod apart from the stars, in itgclf a wonderful diaplay of oxuquise taste, Ban, + with fu intollvotial wora despairs of ovor seeing it all and of tust- ng more than one drop of sta full cup. When ‘wo are born among mountalus wo hope to visit tho mighty plains whore tho grass waves Ike tho ocean; born on those prilrics we dosire to #00 niso tho ooilons of Colorado or Switzorland: roared In tho north our hourts hope to soe somo day the tropics in tholr rlobncas, nnd born in tho tropics man longs ty journey at some tine in life to whore the snowestorm drapos the hills in white, ‘The morning fa na beautitul aa the oyening, and the heart would fecl the loga deeply: If it woro to be deprived of high noan or tho Bereno midaight of sutmmor, Look whithor you may, burk the dew on your vines in the mdorn- ing or mark a flocoy cloud pass over the moon at Wyht, hear a song bird or the clamor of n brook ora luke, and all lg tho bewiltoriug yarlation of f inate too ndicas and wonderful for ous short life over to oxamine, Wo must dio and leayo ft It camo from Uno above, One who doos not dle—a Holme wo calt Innit, The tden of Delsin being thua tho most probe able of tho threo thaorlos of tho orlgin of what iin usand ground ws, and tho world having Rpont thousands of years in tho toulk of come paring: ete: these threo hypothoses, would We hot nll best surconder ta tho greatest prob- nbvity and be skeptics and wundorers no more? It la more thin poxsible that some alufiiness of tho soul fy making the argument for tho oxlst- onee of an omnipresent God Sopenr weaker than jt fy in the logicnt realty. Thiy thought and four should nuke us bnaton tha more to withdraw from fe degort of unbelief and ta pass over fate Hatt paradise of falth which moet Invites and sluuds with opon gate. Your your ro rapidly ia away, It will bo atleast stmnge Af you htiuld tivo and dio fa this carth without having oupfesiod reverently {ti Author, Why should juan live only.un antinal if by chance ho {Kun cneainpinont of Deity? Wo found a little creature into whose small brain the Doty had pluced a score obatmingo thoughts, Dut tate man the sume Creator tus poured millions of iene and feel, Why deny this or any longer Houde? Become v student and a dovout chitd of God. Cull the universe tho palace of your Fathor; cull all beauty the beauty of [is home; cull the sun Elis Hebt, and the mioriiiag und avatie ing tho light and heavy curtaing of the tutinita- bic munsiou; and call our carth a floor where wo Moye to and fro a few yours: aud call tho gravo tho piace whero man falnting I death Js caught: by tho Jnvislbic but loving arms, DR, GIBSON, NH ACOKITS THM LONDON CALL. ‘The Hav, J. Monro Gibson, pastor of the Soo- ond Presbyterian Churoh, corner Michigan, avo- nue and Twentloth atroct, pragobod an anni+ versary serinon yesterday morning, and, a3 wis Anticipated by some, told bis congregation that ho had mado up big mind to accept the call of PRLIL 26, 1880. At, John’s Wood, London, Thero was uw Inigo nutnber of peoplo present, all the pows being oceupied, and the rnpouncement surprised not a few of tho members who had supposed that the Doctor wag so much attached to the Becond Choreh nnd Chteago that ho would continie ta the field where ho had accomplished se much good, Histext was: * My times are ta Thy hand, =P%, rrrt, 13, ‘This day 1s tho sixth niniversary of my settle. ment ns pa: C this congreyation. lt hag not been my habit to take notice of those occearios Some of you kindly surprised me last year by Utthe floral memorial o€ my ACth nudiversiry, But even then thore was no memorial sermon, [ have purpowly allowed overy such occasion to piss oF necoUNtot wstroue ‘dislike to porsonal references in the pulpit. On this occuston, bow- Tain constenined to depart from my un- ng etistont hitherta, It svems appropritty to begin by looking over tho past. In doing so wo have whundant causo Tor gratitude, Nothing hus occurred du these Bx yours to disturb tho hrrinony between pastor aud people.. There have been faults and shorteonings on both sites of courac. Tt would Het beeomne ino on such an oveasion to speak of yours, even If Dlind them In my inind, which 1 hitve not, As for inyeell, while Phnye been pain fully conscious alt tho the of woful shorteam- ings, culling for largo forbearance, 1 forbenr= ance which his certainly been oxcrelaed inn very remarkable dogree, Lean novertholeas say inl stiverity that L bavo tried to serve my Master with w good conscience i this work ty which six years ugo you culled ine. My ruling motives ‘havo not been | selfish,” wnless Tam ‘greatly deeolved, T finve not nl- Towed ny attention to bo distracted hy arig thing. outshio my duty as aiminister of Christ. Dhave eut off Iterary und philosophical stiutles, which wero very aitmetive to me, to give myself Wholly to the work of tho minktry, Tho frults which these yerrs hive yleldud hive beon mich loss than thay infght have beons and yct thero havo beon enough to call for grateful neknowl- edgnient. ‘There is somo evidence that many huye been editted, and some comforted, There havo been those who havo teatiticd, apparcnily with all eandor, iat they have learned to valio their [bles more, and uso them ty grreater nd- vantage; and that isa geent Ung. ‘There have not been go many couversions a4 thory ought to Inve been, and yet a goodly number have been added tothe church—#80 fh all, 253 by letter and 227 by profession of faith. Probably the number added tothe membership docs nut represent all that has been done in tho way of conversion, Burely there has been not a ittle good seed sown; and Justus T have undoubtedly renped a harvest from the labors of iny predecessor, 80 miny my sticeessor reap somo harvest from scod that Lhavye sown, recording to the oft-quoted saying of our Lord: “Ono sowoth, and another Tenpeth," ‘There ig much to bo thankful for in contem- plating the uctive work of the church, ‘To be- gin with, wo haye a noble band of Sabbath- schoo! workerd, about 160 in all, When, 2 fow woaks ago, the grenter number of them gath- ered togethor tn the church-pariors, and fll these rooms with a happy throng, [ felt proud of on ney, andayciin and again thought whit aw privilege ivwas for any chureh to bayva so many willing workers in a single depactinent of, Christlan activity. ‘Chen the Mndustrinl School has been falthfully and pattentty kopt up, rice compllshing miteh good, Tho Missionary So- cloty also has shown inerousing zoul und earnest= dress, tid has been making itself felt moro and anore 03 a splrituel power in the church. There bas been no remission in tho devotion of thosa Who attend to tho clothing of the poor: and the Jadies' prayer-inceting, though amall, has been Tull of eurnestuess and life, The young peo- ple's mecting, for which I worked go bard for two yours, has been established on such a fout- ing that it needs no further pustoral enre; and. tho apirit of earnestness which t@ manifosted there { consider one of the most hopetul thin, {n tho present state of the church, Nor would 1 omit to Gaines my appreciation of tho Inbors of that Ittle band who wre ongaged In tho sor.c~ whut thankless nnd discournglng task of trying to guide to tho house of God the Syenaerlag feet of some who seem to have turnod tholr backs on nll that is good, ‘This lends us to think of one cause of rogro! vite? iy Inability to do more in tho way a! bringing in the tion-church-going people nround us.- This has beon a burdon to me from tho beginning, ‘There tan strange prejudice among tha people I refer to against coming Into 0 church liko this. Some Wave been Inclined to blaine the system of pow rents, but It mist bo Yemembered that In the evening we lave plenty: ofroom, but through tho generosity of the Trust- Pesan pom hotdogs allsents arefrecin tho even. ing, ane Btill we cannot get thom in, Foe this bur- den thore las been some relief in the opportu. nity offered in Farwell Hall for three yeurs past of “miniatering (without any nadditionnl work except that of ace to many who could not ho reached here. fn this work’ thoro bus been much encourugemont, I have known cuses of Jovanna who had been brought up as Chriatinns, ut who had become estranged from the church slice they came to this city, with whom Lhave pleaded oftenand earnestly without success; and yet thesy sume porsons would come reguinrly without any ivitntion, to the ball, though tho distance Was many times greater, than to the ehurch, and the sermon proached the very same, Teel that the work dono thora has hoot a good. work, and It Tra fairly credited as part of the mission work of this church, In reward to tinancin! matters, thoro ls causo for thankfulness that wo bayo passed through those yeurs of serlagulicy: without any difticulty, ‘The ability and liverallty of the churgh buvo been such us to well maintain tho good name It hna always enjoyed for tho genorous support of tho Gospel and every good cnuse, Itf4 proper alsu apeciatly to adknowledgo tho liberality which was shown about five years ago in tho payment of two-thirds of tho’ largo debt. My own. epinien ja that Itinight have beon ull paid by this time; but, not claiming to knuw the ability of tho congregation go well as many others, I have been content to wait, I havo great hopes, however, that this acason will wit- hess its entire removal. As to tho xpirituni Mfo of tho churoh, tt Ja dit- fleult to form an Intelligent estimute,: Thero are innny signs of ita presence, thoro uro somo. Indications of {ta absence, In so far ws ft ia Incking, thero nro no doubt many causes, to some of which I have culled attention from time to time; but tho oconsion prompts me ta tho confession that I grently fear one chiof causo haa been dofleiency of spiritunilty in tho pastor, Lot us hope and pray that this may bo remedied In tho future.” On the whole, how- ever, considering all tho hindrances, I do think that tho church Is Ina opal Btate, not only io its outward condition but in ite innor spiritual life. a and now, looking from the past to the future, it seoms—and it is with a sorrow I cannot ox- press that Tsay It—that Iam not Ikely to bo privileged inuch Jones to take an notive part with you in the good work you ure doing. Tho three weoks i hitd given to tha conalderation of this subject came to nn end on Wednesday Inet; and, ag the result of much earnest and nuxlous thought, and dally prayer for Hea venk: suld- anco, Lhnyo come to the conclusion that It la my: duty to Hston tothe call from London, Thavoe not forntally accepted, beonuso tho formal pus pers have not yet como to hand; but L have had a largo number of lettgra and. cable mussages, anticipating all that the formul documents cans tain; und, baving allowed proovedinga to go fore ward, Tam committed to the translation, oannot reheurse all tho vonsiderations that have been presont to my.mind ou the ono aldo and thoother. L cannot hope to give you my: polnt of view; but Lum sure that {f I could—it A could put any of you in my position, so 18 to Took nt the situation with my eyos,—yuu would fully Juatity mo In the courso 1 nin taking, Ihave boon yery reticent on the subject ever Alnce tha onl! ome wp, chicily becuse T know that n thine ko this ts 4 orittent time in the hie- tory of 1 congrogation, and nn unwise utterines night do great burm, 1 hope to bo guided by thospiritof wisdom in the fow things 1 shall pny now, irat, 1 wish to show how freo Tam from an; responsibility for the prosentation of this call, Notunly had T given no cneouragoment, but £ hud utterly discouraged tt When In Scotland Inst duinmor Lhd atetter from tho Moderator of tho Session of St. John’s Wood Churalt, relcin, AFL would constdor'a cull from it. T replied thal T could not give tt any considuration whatever; that it wasurulo on whieh 1 always noted to Hsten to no proposals of that kind when on ya- eatton. But, lest thoy should suppose from this that the way might bo opon at sume future thine, Jaulded thos words (L quote frum copy of lotter)s “Bint 1 feel bound In honor td say furthor that lf docs not svetn to mo . that, oven {fL had the chalvo falrly and honorably bofore tne, T could seu st to bo ee) duty to loave my work tnChiengo.” ‘That totter, oF couraa, ended tho matter, Nota syllable pussed between us afterwards Uh tho vuble message announel tho cult wag prise mo, You will understar thon that [ald fuol the forco of what my corres spoudeut sald in the lottor which arrived four dnys laters "This ts a elrenmstanco [reference belny to its coming {n spite of such positive dis- courtyomont) which ioparts an elemont {nto a wit which Lam sure yout will scriously pon- der"? 2 ‘The call coming In thla way, I folt constrained to glyo ttounkideration, and next Sabbath wvens ing Informed tho Hession. Tho Elders bold a Lipa by themselyes, and a deputation waited. one tho following day. Noxt Sabbath morn: hig 1 mada an unnouncamont frum the pulpit which Tilnd hig beon, variously inisundarstood, Tt wns litended to mako {t ovidout that Chad nu desire by delaying any anawer tostic up the congregition toda nnything, ALL] wanted wos thang toconsider tho question fully, und I had had so winny ovidonces of tho kindly fuollngs of the congregution that L was quite willing to tuke thom for granted without any foruinl expression ot thom, “At tliat ¢imo the pegploin London had notone syllable of encouragement, Linention this bovatuse samo haye eupposed that my mind was mide upto Ao com tho beginning. The truth ds, that iny mind was thon in aiuite dias tracted conditton. Thad written tt tetter prom. feing conslduration, It will prove to you bow undeolded my wind was at that the when) tell you that for soveral days 1 found it ono of the most dificult questions Tover had to decide. whother or not f should antiofpate thy arrival of that lotter by # telegram canceling It. ‘Tho Burne letter, whilo promising vonsldcration, re- served the right of staying all proveedings till the uthof April, From all thf you will seo that L havo not boon atall busty ia the matter. t pens well aware of gate ase seek wat yale: in consonting to this change, ‘Tho jon ote Pecabyteriun, minister in London i'n very ditforont in! row tht of tho Rabine of a obureh tke this inthis country. The Prosby- torlan Churen {5 strony here; it fe weak in Lone dan; but yo one can we that it 1a unchrjst!an, at all events, to ieaye that which Ip strongand take up that which is weak, As to the two spheres of influence, 1% is uliicult to compare them. In somo reapcota, which nro very obvious, this has the fawning In othor respects, which ure lesa obvlona, at il ovents to ts, that te better, But one thing 1 know: that efiher the one or tho othor Is 0 wide cnotgt aphero for mo to acoupy. it would tnke ino too long to spenk of the many weighty vonsiderations which hare heen Merged upon mo bs Londen friends. Sufties it to suy, that y sermod very strong nt tho ‘rst, and have appertred ag aay each tino I have looked nt thom; oud the convietion haa heen growing that thore in there avery Inte and congenial sphere of usefulnesaihere Tocan tusg to bost ndvantage any powora Lhave. 1 do not conceal the fret that there are personal and family reasons which havo influenced tno somes whit. Not-undily, howover, hope, 7 trast T have not been seliish In the mattor, This at all events Lean say, that T havo hud proposnlamade to ma’ which nppenicd more strongly to selfish — considerations, and —whifel” wero eet yaaide «with — ecirecly nny hosRi tion! And, herides, thin’ call ‘itaclf was no tomptution to me, when it seemed clearly iny duty to set (t aside Inst simmer. Ono Mtn 1 ‘my mention without any impropriety: thal the chango will probably give my bath tho thio and the opportunities which are wanting hero to progeeitio some favorit lines of study which fire so closely nesogiated with ministerial work thut, in tho now conditions which tha change will bring, thoy will be a help, rather than a hindrance, to my pastoral c@liciency, 0 Beasion was kind Snail: to polnt to tho flourishing condition of the chureh, which Tad nit. Bat in this conection it inust bo remom~ bered that it fa only under thoso conditions I could mako a change with honor. Kor, if tha chureh were not Hourlsling, 1t would elther he my fault or its nfsfortune, If It wero iy fauit, Tshould lenvo in dlagrace. If ft wore its mis- fortune, tt would be u disgrace for mo ta leave, Just boeause,the church Is in sual a flourishing condition, it js {na position to puss Bifely through tho trial whieh a change of pustors Urlngs. T see no reason why you should sot bavo inthis pulpit ina very short tino one of the best men that this count pr nny. country, ean turnish. If [imagined myself at all neces: anry to tho continued prosperity of tho chureh, 1 atiould not think of going; but 1 do not. tind of Fok {n tho exngyorution of personal friendship, have teen plensed to exe preag it eo: but oven though you night have altch a inistaken iden as a sober judament, you nitust remomber that thore tire others tn the con regulon who do not take Unis view of tho case; und among those are porsons whose opinion 18 ‘| entitled to. great welght, and hag all the more welght with ma because it agrees with my own, It my be that a new voice and 4 fresh way of presontiug truth woulkt be better for tho con gtegution, ‘Chere must be a certain degree of sameness in the ministrations of the samy inan, Thavo tried {o securo variety, and think Lhavo been inn menstire siecessful; and yet aome- thing entirals: new may be the very chine you need. But whatever muy be thought of this, we must not forget that tho true prosperity of tho ehurch does not depend on min, Again and ngaln his it been observed that, whero disas- trous consequences have been predicted In cons sequencs of the loaving of some pastors who hid deen considered successful, tho result has been pula uitorcny from what was expected, Some- thes Ebeliove chinges tre necessary tn order ta teach pastors how well tho peapio and thoenuso can do without thom, and to conylive the peo- ple that tho blessing comes, not from man, but rom God atone. ‘Through all changes it Is a comfort to know that our times are In the hand of God. Idonotdony that thero have been and still Aro sume ditferenccs of opinion in regard to methods of church work, and, whut 13 more {m= portant to me, my duticsas pustor of the chttrel; bit L have two very good ruasons for not enter- ing into particulars here, Elrst, this would bo tho worst time of all to open up such questions. And next, I-have been treated with Buch ex- ceoding Kindness by those from whom Ehuve differed, thut T have no compliint to make, I go not recall a slugte unkind word that bas been suld tome by auy one, On the contrary, L fool that personally [have received quite os much consideration ns Twus entiticd to, and in those respects in which tho dilforences exist Lhayo avery reagon not only to dolieve, but to know, that thoso who hive trkon tha othor viow hive not only had the interests of the congregation ut heart. ‘necording ta their conception of thom, butalso my own. None of these things have disturbed our harmony; and if only this fpiett {s continued to tho end, ng I bollevo it will be, though tho sorrow of parting will not bo leas- oned, it will at all ovents bo attended with hothing which will give causo for future regrat. Tbelleve that my labors havo been used to some extent by tho gront Hend of tho Church in bulding up tbla congregation; but 1 honestly vellovo that another can do better work fin brhiging its great force to bear upon tho masses of the pone in this groat city. Thoro isn probe tom thut all our churches have to faoo. And tho man who can do work in thut direction {s tho min that wilt do the work the times most need, I do truat that, in tho solution of this problom, tay. BuccestOr: will bo more of holp to you than t nye been, a\ good deal has beon'sald on thisside of tho Rrent uced of mon hore, This is open to doubt. a\nd tho opinions of thoso on the othor side are just os strong thetat present tho greator need lathore. My views in regarl to the Importance of work in London bayo been vory much. changed since I began to considbr this question. Aud {am moro inclined than formerly to tho opinion of one of the loading ministers of that city, who is urging moto come, and says that nowhere alga cin ono accomplish more in tho course of ushort life for the cause of Christ. And thon it must be romomborci! that up to this tno tho drain hag been nll the othor way. “You can number by the seore tho men Brithin has sent to America. Should thor be absolutely ne reelprocniion? Is it not good that, there should ho some snterchango between tho countries? Would not some Amorican idens be as good for Dritain as some British {dons for us? And yot, though Jargely American in ideas, I am golbe back to my own country; and. you will not wonder that this should haye attractions for me. Not that £ have a word to say against this country. On tho contrary, Lam convinced that nowhere under tho stn can n stranger revelvo— T shall not say u heartior welcome, hut s0 hearty a welcome us in Chicago, 1 havo becn treated, not as a forvigner, hut ag ono of yourselves; and jf any dift- feronco has boon mado, {t bas boon in tho di- reation of oxeess of kindness und hospitality. 2 leave my kind friends horo with a very beayy sheart, and tho sleoplesncss of thres weeks a ly witnosace t tho sovority of tho strug. le, Fehull love Aimurica nono the less, proba- ly olitho more, that I roturn to England; and Tehinil put the alx your! of iny mintatry in Chi congo sido by sido with tho nine years of my min- istry In Bontroal among tho memorics that shall be forever groen, Our thnes aro in tho handof Got, What a comfort it {s to be ussurod of this. Whon I left Montreal T wis povorel condemned by many cr ‘whoso esteem was vory tleur to mo, and towards the ond .of tho orden! thors tha way through | tho Beomed very hurd, and yet, Joviog kludnoss of tho rl, ave nover since I came into thia delightful ctr clo of Christinn frtends beon left for one moment to doubt that I was guided aright. And thosama confidonee carries ino through thoso dark days. One diferonce L note with dcop appreciation, havo not yot honrd judument expressed in re- gard to what I oum doing, This Tupproututs nore than T can tell, Al who haya spoken havo spoken Kindly; and It touches mo vory much to. ougervo how some, who havo no opportunity of looking at tho muttor ual do, yot express tholr conildence that, howover mistaken tho courso, tho motives are houorablo, With all my beart 1 thank you for your charity. Your times aa woll na niin aro fn tho hand of God; _ and thorofore, though you too muy feel tho pain of sepuration for a’ tine, you will by and by discover that the Lord has somothing far better in store for you, 1 peg that Ho may in duo thine send you u pastor who will avold my wistukes, he freo from my faults, and havo grace und strength fn larger measure to take {ho leadership of this Fooplo in tho great work eyed aot 1. 0 ir hs sion and 00 ant meoting of the Be: and congrogntion will bo hold at the church Wodntsday pyoning to Pieper Broquest ta tho Proagytory to dissolve ho pastoral tle. ——- THD STONY OF JONAIL BERMON DY THE REY. B. P. GOODWIN, Tho Roy. E. P, Goodwin preached in tho First Congregational Church yesterday oyoning upon Jonah, 2, 17.2 “Now tho Lord had prepared o great tlsh to swallow up Jonab, and Jounh wasin the belly of tho fish threo days and threo nights." No record of the Scripture, tho speakor sald, wis moro ridiculed than this atory of Jonah, ‘Tho skeptics and tha rationalists barbed their shafts with sncers at this Diblical narration, Thoy said, his ls the kind of teaching that ts to Danish superstition aud fill tho world with truth.” Ingorsoll, in bty Icctura on “Tho Mis- takes of Moses,” made cepuolully morry over it, and very fow ukeptical urgunionts would bo Spin lte | {hat did not buttress thomsclves with OFys . ‘The record waa plain that thoro was a prophot hained Jonab, also a city named Ninoveb, a sou. port named Joppa, and that the prophot waa called upon to perform a certain miasion. ‘There wus no need, thon, to look upon tho story Ag anallegory, Thon thore wus a ship, a story onda tah, and why could ft not havo been ono Wig enough to swillow Jonuh ¥ Vhus fur thora Was nothing unnatural. it would, however, of course bo hupossible for a mun to ve for three. dyyaiu tho belly of a fish by imatural methods, vas thon by supernatural mound that Jonah was enubled to da go, by an oxerclde o¢ tho pers soonl power and will uf God, which was ise played in diferent parts of the nurrutive. Tho storm that urosu waa not an acotdontal one, Gut gent it. So that the question of the crodi- bility of tho story ceases to rest upon nutural grounils, i Nor was thoro tu tho story anything which jared “ate fully more thaw other purts of tha le, Untvorsal oxporience, upon which worofound- ed thoobjoctions to tho story of Jonuh, was not infallible, The King of Siam, spcatclow tn the ut of his own kuowlodyo, rldfoulod travelers who told him that water in tholr |and became so hurd thot borses could travel upon it. Shera ‘Wis a tiny whon the atoain-cngine was a natural Imposalbility; all the world agreed upon thi poluty novertheloss, the stoumeeoging has as pel ‘ God did things in a way of Fils owy, aud limits could not be agsigued ast to how He should noe goupllik anything. If tho Seriptures are cral- ible, thou Christians must hold to tho records “which contain supernatural cvents—tbat ts, avonts not moving in accord with tte natural jaw. Tha recon! uf Joush aud the whale was almoly one of those pupurnatural ovyents, and than Inst yo Spee thore waa no moro ronson why longo bellef than any otvor tulrieles, fur instance, Christ's Hy Took tn tho fish's month for moneys Ghee that Potor did so and ford money there net Tors remarkable thin that, the whale awnieet Jounh, ‘Tho record of the Lord feeding then thowaind, or of the woman, child, and who lived Ro Longe upon i ertat, and others, Of ike nature. Tike alt neta of God, thoy nee tho right of Hisetatm to omnipotence; they eet oventa which Gol chosy to have. wroggeet order to ahow that Ho waa God, oven though ie broke through what mon call mexorablo tvs, onder to orown His temp, Tho Bible nye tolling nbottt the God of philosophy, il Jesus Christ, when asked by tho Phartsces 1 n sign, allied to tho sign of tho prophet Jona taking tho story nan symbol anda typo ct own shutting up in the tomb, ood ag jadi owing Hs resurrestion. a Rood ft mhoutit oh of the Scriptiy soning eat ry ade Tho rtory of Jonun was the whieh to consider tho claims of thosn ptfeeese Chelatians who bellove that whnt thoy tern in Binaller things of tha Ulbie, which they ANect were intended for a less learned ago than the Present, shoul not now bo studfod, "e prencher then eonstdored at length the method of the philosophers who with all thotr learn esagreed among thomselves and ahed no nt ht upon angeiling the handled, Tho Uhrig. unity which was Mised pot, nt teller tne Keriptuires was on tho side of probabilities st cortalnttes, tho ride which gave that whieh y, best to manvwhilo, at hest, tho phitorophta beled ‘was ono of uncort: id nutagonigms, CROP NOTES. ILLINOIS. Spectal Dispatch to The Chteago Tribune, JENSEYVILLE, Jersey Co. April 25.—Whog nover looked better. “Acrenga larger than erer, a\bout 20,000 bushols old whent-unsold. No; for sale. Farmers preparing to plant corn, Speciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, LipentyvitLer, Luke Co,, April 25.—Slight jay: erense In nereugo of apring whont, Nono tog shipment. More onta ond tess flax sown thay Jnst epring, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Menpo7za, La Salle Co., April St,—Constderatig Qdessn wheat suwn Inst fall, but about all dead, Spring whont looking well. ipectal DMapateh to The Chiengo Tribune, ” Lona, Iroquois Co., April 23.—Onts about al] sown, Lnrgor aren than lust year. More flax wif be sawn thin tet season, About onc-hulf the corn marketed, Special Diepateh to ‘The Chteago Tribune, Donaon, Union Co, April 25.—Winter whey nover Jooking better, Agroage 20 per cent ins erensy over list yenr, Wheat stands well; is a f dark greon color. Peaches, pears, and oppig all right so fur, Speetat Dtapatch to The Chicago Tribune, =” SouTn Eran, Wl, April 2.—The past tro diya have been cold and rainy,—not a very ed fo ume for farnt-work, Thiseannot be called a ward spring, on account of 80 mrh wenther. Tho grass i tho pastures now affords. the cattle some feed, but thoy will hive to teed mostly from tho granurios. ‘Thoro tas been 4 pout Inaiy potatoes plinted this spring, and the armors will cndeivor to, nt lent, rilse onougy, for tholr own uso; last Benson, the Potts ‘ did not do well, and most of tho lemons © to buy potatoes this spring, Thospring seedingts now neurly all done, and some have cominenced plowing for corn. Speciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tritune, Dyiaue, Ill, Apel a No work can bo dong on tho furm for at least four dasa, on account of , the tremendous rin of Saturday night. Al though we are sutiect to Just such storms ove fenson, we don’t think that for yenrs wo hay Been us much Water on the ground ay thoro to-day. The week Just, closed hns been cold and grain and grasa have grown slowly. Thg weather is mild, and tho skies cloar and bright, " MINNESOTA. Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Bt. Paut, Minn, April 25.—Advices fron various points In tho southorn part of tho Fiat indicate that tho atorm of Friday night wi heavy and widesprond, with hoavy wind and considerable halt, ‘Tho dull, cold weather cont tinucd through yostorday and to-day with occas afonal rains, Secding will bo delayed by the wet Whore {t is not finished, which Is tho case In tha low-lying southenstern counties. In Mower County, one of tho largest wheat countlesot tho State, one-half the urea romnins wnsown, ‘and this ground has been flooded so a8 rene) vent the resuniption of work for two or days. ‘Cho cold wenthor will dolny tho germinad tlon of seed where sown, All thls wot weather, however, puts soil in excellent condition ta withstand tater droughts, and the soason fs gene orally the moat favorablo for years. z Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, . ‘Rocursten, Minn. April 24.—Tho heavy rat and hail Friday night hus provented: any scedt ing. Mteports ire coming in more discotiraging regarding the winter-wheat crop, The nert fow diys will tell differently. Fifty por cent: least has beun destroyed. 5 Special Dispatch ‘to The Chicago Tribune, EXOTA, Olinsteud Co., April 25.—Spring-whest : alisown. Ground in order. Acrengo your. : % Mat Dispaten to, The ONteage Tribune, |“ FAUMINGTON, Dakoti Co., April 25.—Wheat 1d all ja, ive. increase in nerenge. Very title ol¢ wheat loft, Special Dispatch to ‘The Chicago Tribune, * FIntMone, Fillmore Co., April 25,—Ground not in good condition for socding. Very ttle som Not much old wheat jeft over. A Far; special to tha Ploncer-Press east: «Yosterday wis n‘day of rain and snow ng this morning the ground was covored with fout inches of snow. It Is warm, and tho snow is . rapidly molting. Half tho whont ts in, but the balance will not all bo fn before the Jet of May Tho Boring has beon unusually backward; molsturo, howevor, is taken as o goad omen of a big wheat crop,” oi IKKANSAS, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. ; Granapa, Nemauha Co. April 2%.—Wintet Wheat nearly nil killod ont, , Small noreage of ontasown, Bulk of the corn has been fed out | Cattle doing woll, Ono-half tho feeders hare shipped to markat, “ Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. MICHIGAN VALLRY, Osage Co, April 25—Un- toss we got rain goon, winter whont will bo below tho avernyo of Inst year, Late sown suffering for want of miln, Donot look- for moro than oho-thinl of a crop. No ruin to soak the ground for one month. High winds every day. Old wheat about all sold. 3 Special Dispatch to The Chicago Triduns Aminaros, Atchison Co., April 25.—Wheat in this county ia budly winter killed. Thoro will notbooyver hnif n crop in this county. Olt wheat about all gold, Corn planting progressing: rapldly, Crop-prospeots fuvorable except fof wheat, Spectat Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune. Berorr, Mitcholl Co., April 25.—More thanone- half tho fatl whent will be plowed up. Vory lite tle old wheut on hand, Tho largest noreuge of corn will be planted ayer known in the bistory of tho county. TOWA, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunte Cinornnati, Appanonso Co,, Aprit, 25.—Spring wheat up aud looking woll, Acreage same & Inst year, No old wheat left, Elghty por ceat of tho corn shipped, Acrengo of oats inc 20 por cont, and avroage of flax decreased 2 por cont, Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Warne, Hunry Co. April 25.—Spring whont all Bown, No inorcuso in acrougo over Inst year ‘Ol wheat mostly sold, 'Chreo-fourths the obra sold, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunk Br0ux City, In. April 25.—Thora was o llebt but genoralraln yesterday, Spring groin mostly Mn falreondition, Enrly-sown wheut more for ward than naual. Tate sown some hurt by dry wenthor and bigh winds blowing the seed out 0 tho ground. Yon ticlds will be plowed up ao Planted to corn. 5 NEBRASKA. a Spectat Dispatch to The Chieago Tribune Carttoun, Washington Co., April B--Farmerd all through gcoding, Ground too dry to Insure & good stand,’ Simul Incrongo in acreage over fast Year. No whout in hands of farioors, ‘ Speetal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. | Macon, Franklin Co,, April 23.—Spring wheat allsown, Ground vory dry, aAccenge inerc ad percent over lust sutdon, Very little ot Sea loft, Nourly all the curn out ‘of farmers SYMPATHY FOR WHITTAKER. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune ¢ CLavRLAND, O,, April 2.—A_ mnsa-meetlog colored peoplo was held to-night In tho Eve Btroot Colured Methodiat Churels to consider he luto outrage upon Cydot Whittaker at Well Volant, Tho Ruy. 't, H. Jackson, pastor of the churob, delivered an address, In which bo re- counted the numerous insults hoaped ba colored people, and oxborted then to us resont sucht outrages by éverys legal sneal Resolutions wero unanimously udopted com wounclng the uct as brutal and cowurdly vee nl tho imputatlow of thextecd to Whill Fa Himself ng anattcmpe to whitewnuh tho wire allure ond an Jngult lo his manhood; exten i ampatny: to Whittakor; oxpreastny conten pial honesty; und thanking Prealdent t rr ‘or asalyning District Attorney Townsend Bs alstant counsel for the untortunute cadets a ODD-FELLOWS' CELEBRATION. Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicuga Tribum. te Dixon, 10, April 2.—Extensiye and clabort! a Preparations are belng mado by the our’ lows of this city, gonorously alded by our cl zens, for the celebration which takes place bere on Tucadoy, tho ¥ith, Arches aro belug sprunt over our principal streets, and evergreens lift aud mottocs ure liberally proyided for the 09 ‘ucvssio ; . Galbeburg, isto ‘deliver tho oration: pede lolbals te Knowles’ Insect Powder Gun ts by fartbo Whe