Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1880, Page 7

.. --RELIGIOUS. - prof. Swing Preaches oh “The Religious Sentiment.” , Moody Talks to His Old Congregation " tts Ya Sow, Bo Shall Ye Roap."- peer rae 4 1 Theological Sominary—Preaching’ ae eels tho inaugural Sormon. ——— i thero Inrga. fdeag Pelaginua added some tes ones about grace, While Aumnating taught bla thes to pray for the welfareot tar deud—ong Ing episodes iit old Htprature bela Attguatino’a prayer fur tho huppiin MN white the curtaln will blaze forth tho word “God fan apirit, and they who worthip Him nus worship Him tn apirit and in truth,” A D. lL. MOODY. A TALK TO 118 OL) CONGHEGATION, Tho magnetlo power of 1D, In Moody, th Evangelist, seems to hoalmost as great ns whe} ho crowded tho Vaberyacie night after night fol threo months, Ho bps not ceasod bis work in St, Louls, but, on his way to Galesburg to attend tho Sunday-Sohvol Convention, ho stopped over herd, and tho announcement that he woul preach at thoChicago Avenue Churul Instovene ing drow thithor thd Inrgost congregation that hasbeen within {ta walls for a long time. Jam was anticipated, nnd a squad of policem was sent over from tho station near by to Onward rolted the wave of Ieash The th of a contral father ur Popo eames) tho Idea of initial power enme and combined State and Church; the doa of tho persecution of tho non- bolloving camoy this doctrine renahed, out and kK In Culyiins Helancthon, ty Monry VILL, to Mary, ond George Fox, aud ten thousaay it might well become evident, f to roach God's presence and favor by wy of song. inteneatual aystem, there was Nt to hope for tho millions now dead and yore, mand and beautiful ts tho loving deed the past by Kindness of God if He gious sentiment an and Calvin, and Luther, and Fenelon Dr, Gibson’s Farewell Sermon—Serv: 2 ices Before Bt, George's Society. ————— Rev. Dr. Pope on Rtepmothers—Hoody nnd eis His Sunday-Seliool Children, RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT. SRNMON BY IMOF. BING. Prof, Swink preuched yosterday morning at tho Central Chlireh, taking a6 bis.texts ‘Thon Peter opened . bis, mouth and ‘eald, oF auth 1 percelvc that God Is no respector of airanet ‘Dut in. every, nation ho that fenreth Fim ond worketh righteousness fa necopted of if! . in and work I oa ae all familiar with tho’ viston of St. Potor, In nn age hen ull the greatimen ob- served enrefully tholr dreams to sco If In thom nore might bo royonted front Heaven some duty, br warning, OF @uocossi Or advorsity, It * Manat surpriso wa that Corncliue aud Potor renched some of thelr now thoughts and im- pulses through that gatoway. If God wished in amtriculous manner to teach Peter, or Paul, or Cornelius some lesson not Ilabla to come soon: enough by. any, natural processes of study, dream would ho a good mothod: of making such communteation in an epoch when albmenin nigh or low condition wore watching what Ideas might come to then in the unconsciousness of fleep. Our epoch Is slowly passing outof the (ideeamiand, buts Inrgo part of that historic perlod hus Jooked much toward’ dreams for guidance anil tho tineertalnties of the world, There may have: been n, providentiat part in som visions and Mot in othors, but. omitting {his trrolevant Inquiry and marking only the records and what righ collection of grand dreams nro written down {n the Journal of man’s tet Jncob's dream of a ladder with angels coming down to carth and thon = raturniniz, Pharaoh's vieion of the well-favored anid I+ favored kine, Xenophoo'a’ droum of a yrent Tight around his faraway home, Scipio's dream of Hewven, tho dream of Cresar's wifo tho night pefore the nsgusinition, aud many othora-vecur now to memory to be tho elegant companions of these iluylight revelations to Cornelius. and Yoter, Mut of all those vislons in the voli t+ hua recont, this one of Petor stunds highest og udream of duty, for it told him tha tie Pagan jworld was not outslte of «tha bounds. of foyo ond safety, for God was no reape tor of persons, but a God ronly to: accopt. allinany place nid’ timo that fonred Him and worked rluhteousness. The scene which thus camo up before that disciple wus ono of which nay philosopher or atatesinnit milght have been proud. Such a trance was botter than many, years of hard study bad been to many sages who hudrend, and written, and pondered, ahd died. And itis wondorful that out of: a trance ona hiougetop enine more truth then had come out. of tho qeudemy. From this generalization of the old salnt, from. itaamazing breadth f am Jed to think thut ro-' Hulou isa powerful, human sénthnent, moving: slowly forward toward a moro Intelligent action, Man, reaching some doyolopment of his powers: und standing cinid tho phonomens of the moral world, the indications of a Gy, the feelings of right and wroug, the certainty. of death, and tho probability of nm judgment, for canduct, and of a second’ life of -bapp!- qwas or unhappiness, hus betrayed at, once: a tecling whieh wo ent. religion. Itseems a sentiment made up of miny lesser: ones, fis tho white {heht ls composed of muny colors, A feel~ deg of dependanee, a feeling of responsibitity, love of tho rirht, hatred of the wrong, wt long- ing for endless fe, x love of salem music ind of mystery, all unite to make up 0 kare leading Suthosuul,’ Itimay bo wholly absent from here ning there an individual, for thore fs no phenom- thos of nature that fs without exceptions, Sometines mmind exists that eainot perceive colors, another mid that, dislikes musle, und tometines tmothe® may be found who 1 cold nid perfectly erne! to her olifidron, Nature deals In very large generalities und not In nbso- lu unlvorinls, Amuny thogy widoly-rencning generalties wo inne piney tho rolliious aunt nont, and we may think of itagn human fact, Whethor this sentiment wag Inaite or aime by Fea ig not of value In the argument of toulity’ herd nro many, or at leust a few, clergymen living who are fond of atilvning that roltglon 4 hott all a sentiment, but it Is olther wn intel- Tectunl survey of certain pepanians Just as thenistry 13 an intelicetunl collation of certain facta, or as geometry 18 a careful finding out und recording of the relations of forms. ° 'bose Inve to ratlat: thelr opposita ag being men of poetry or dreamy, teaving It be Inferred that they dre men of a pure and almost diving intel- lecinal ncuinen, But thelr complaints ure | founded, for our world happens to bo 8 son tentnl world, created by a sentimental Deity, tnd tonding toward a gontlinentul destiny; ile tonnded, for thelr inspired St. Peter puts all ‘holr intellectuul riches into one large four-cor- fered shoct nod trents (tall as so much "Tower at Babel” Guk ut roniparad. with tho den. that Ulehould fear God and Wve rightly. Peter bad o =i 4 deen reared Inu time and a nation which qd tight that only ono kind of ant. - ual were of good roport. . Tho ~ crowd 4 of the unworthy waa immense, His re- " Ugion wok not nt all sentimental, It was ns ex- — tetas the work of those who make watches, or . na the tuctles of tho tulitary text-books, In this hon-poetic and bighly exuct attitude bo wont up ouhouse-top to. pray, nnd, behold, be foll into Atranee, and saw comlog down froin Hoaven canvas ny large, no doubt, as 2 pyramid, io Which his favorit aulinats wore all mingled with Iuany creatures not written down In bis roll of Tame. And withthe vislon cumo tho words, Cull not unclean iny of God's handiwork, 1 of Peter's uxuctness und tinoly-out analyais had been Tnvor fost, nnd he had the pleasure of be- coming that kind of a eentimentulist that ean Feo salvation coming down to thoye who carry th their souls tho fear of God and n lave of right fetlon. ‘Thus Veter went up te the housu-top a r ‘hariscu and came down a religioniat,—a man of Kentiinent rathor than of tormaliam, Labored argumentation and study will belp ainan to prea © Calvinist, or a Roman Catholle, or o Maptiet but a tow binple senthnonts will help hh Wy become a child of God. Many have the a gulning two religions,—Christianity and tho huptiat reliyion, or Christianity and Mothod(s orChristiuulty dad Romanian but tho insplrod teaching xceins to indlgate that if you ctnnot ae to two religions Christinnity alone will Ti tits broad and deep sentimon entimont of Peter we ‘a the best revelntle CF tho kindness of Gad, pe tho spiritual welfare of munikind were de Pendent lipon certain intellectual conceptions bids would become of soolaty white those wbso- Hey pure ductrines woro kelog found out and ae nated? Te we have Induced a Heayonly tauees and Its chlidrun are nyt born into in- plgetatat perfection, Io must. unturally be as whee to offer somo’ othor way of -hupploess tn ts tho tirgu human multitude muy walk, 4 e thelr triv fdeas: are slowly coming in one Wy he. The Komanists announred hun the Ot Mears, Mo that thoy. had | found UE intellect untecedenta. of Qod'a Ine bath Mt here, after. hundreds af years cent parson, (hero ure millions who cannot uc- tae ne tho ftumnan premises and conolistonss thay oetlats began thruo centuries ayo to tenth was (hitiling wus no baptism, that, finmersion Teante vnly form of that rites but what te to fr me Of thoda who have boven only sprinkled TeLbte long pertod, und what will become, of thos Who may vot fail to bo finmeraed during Urtay [C8 1h whieh the rite of Inmunersion may tae {ts coming nan undeniable and univers an ‘ed mode of entrance into the Kingdon? 9 yitely for humunity, and sublimuly us to tut ee of God, Christianity, a8 a powers Than, Adequinto religion, does ‘not depend cette slow tintolding of truths, but upon the rity te of the plows sentimont. ‘Tho loveor fear Ail Ufa favor haston tw come to him who righted Creutor and who loves to follow tem Chea, Niel us tn the Curistian’s aya preset ist briny I no new law, and I the ex- doen greedy Of the Fathor, so in that system roueee fuved by thelr moralscutiments, all ile tcunary daar Re (BE Ma cate I mr tnt out Mika clouds, are a a Penly only fora finns but porhnpa’ fare there eben, Such o religion of sontiment 15, uf uot only the brondest, wut tho duupost, all ah fA, foritonly ‘will take card Of thot pes th, for toian farnily while upon ita long search dnreg uth, All specialized religions ure tho Aut matt Aad shalluwest, beeause they assume Seve etna can Journ tholr tdvas nnd can ‘bu- Dougan yey essunption that hus failed a roluries tenes ove 1 the Bret two Christian the third ee {bre wp vighty ditforent sects; stem att century Origon cane with a strange ured gyiterpretation; when he hid fully dis Seliplan zeus optuton, Augusting and ind Hees cate to move to und fro du the fourth ting the eres trampling dows thonght, and a) tran) OME, Suet nd Hannital and Bolplo Armiey pled lown tho sume region with tholr tauyie afew geherations carlters. Augustine Cat ue uns Will Was powerl Polaylus, A roey ey NOts Auustine. <uuight | nt Velagite that tay patere. deserved death, athe ae, all men wero born innocent; AUS Felagl ig taut that God cleotud “a tuw to. lifes Hanniie, 28 Ho did nots and thus moved this iy Hn nid this Bel ply alt around the rich aud entity 2 Wdeus, tes held by wou, Wounad,aud childs” ahd to { ron, becuse tho: had" bean one in erand in bungering after Ighteousness, you by bis incoption of truth, no niin en hope for morcy; but, viewed ns afreligious soul and struggling Wo serve God and tude heeomes hopeful, Tako, the Church of two centurics ago, and were ita dons of God or of Josus Christ! strange things It did indeed write down dellbers ately and most solamut: the “universel Deity to Utiman relutions, wonian's rights, Ita divine {dex jof slavery, of intolerance, of persecution, of yplensure, of 8 preserve order, ‘Thole services, hawavor, wera not needed. Quito a numbor of poople was seated before 7 o'clock, and the intlow of hus manity after that hour wis ateady until all the pows and avaliable chairs wore occuplod, Tho accommadations wore ample for all who anmo— Perhaps 2,500, By way of profnce to tho collection, Mr. Moody sald this was tho fourth timo ho bad come baek to tho church during tho past seven or eight years, and ho wanted to aay for tho on- couragemont of tho friends who hail been at work thora that [twas the most satisfactory visit that he had mado. Ho had been more choored than at any timo Jn tho bistory of the church and inission.” He had beow connected with It since its organization,—twenty-one years—and that day was tho prottdost ho’ had ovor secon, Friends thought that ho ought to give all his timo to this éorncr of the Lord's vinoyard, but ho hal felt that God would ratse up workors, and He had done so, He received roporta every week of what was bejng done. Sunday n week nyo there wore 1,450 In thé Sabbath-school; that day thore were upwirds of 1,000, taxing thelr offorts, thoy Ave 8,000 next Sunday, Maying baseebull, going to: beoregardons, to descurnte chureh and taught the vinta wy part of tha ina but ho saw spt i te the glory of Gol, A inde eset 16 all about the Crentor of plications of the a diving idens of Tonat correet views” re; of Christ, tnd the nature o nature of ntonement, and Meavon and Hell, wo tie you to Inform us whit was tht correat nos unit the one held by Hingis? What wits that cor= fon? What delnition hid they of God?) Was Hou man of war? 1 gota consuming flee? What trv notion had “they of Heaven and Hell? geu'in Dante or it tho old eurmony of tha fathors?: Tf tho human rico must tind: oterial ponce by clear apprehension of Diving things, nl the gen erations up to thisdate ure to witlf profound pity, away from tho so- clentor more Inspiration, and the tlon’6f tho'atonen Augustine or by Y roct ide of ing is that tt which wa be looked pon Hut the moment wlied wistom of all tho ans ecent Christiuns, and logk into thelr sentiments, you begin to sce a moral beauty, order beglis to comy aut of contusion, amd the hands of mon begin to Joly in brat pn atid Lautanting, Polugias wn hrygostom and Jerome, aml Culv! and Zuingle, oll dilfering and nt clonded even in fundamentaldpetelies, blend Deeume one [1 thelr prayers. the sentimental alone thoy moet, It js nui.to bo dented that sentiment ts nlded ny the presoncg of the truth, We should all love could we bit forin sole Ceuths Im. Ob, Gait our minds Q form some voneuption of Hiin who ts evory= Ho Cun MAKE suns, ANd MOONS, yotter cn muke Tittle cups those worlds from noth) y would arise could the here feel the tone Of this Delty as it feels tha sovth wind on But tn’ tho absences of such powers and privileges the suntiments of worship untet to the buat they cin, and ymotions will rise up befare the Throne an necoptable incense, Teneo [twas that tho Maj jose cntblein of the Dulty was thy sun and t ‘bodies, brought an neeey ! for, although the Mosn “condoned any iuage of Gi above or eurth bunenth, yet come tp to that spirituality of found thorofore thoir welcome [n that feeling that from home In at Journey of worship. It must iidecd be true that tho moro onlightoned umind ia the better, the stronger, will be Its sentient nlong the path of this light. Could our minds grusp the meaning of tho word niin; equid we sov mun us coming froin God, a3 woiring the Image of that Gods could wo gee eluarly that wo must Jofn in tho laud of immor- tality tho men we meet with here; beyond doubt our busluess rolitions, our charity, our friond- ‘oundly influenced by such it 1 the aubxonce a! is confessed, and by Instead of re- Should doublo,up: Tho children who Bubbith ough} ot th uf Ife, He dtde" if UD tho read BON and golpg olf to wi sont saved there could bh the vithiges und towns in the couptry, , lieved many in the congregation werg net doing much for Christ—perliavs nathing. ie didn't kuow of better field. they couldn't work in June, July, and August, Th was no calendar fn Heavy lorthero. God wits just its Lisspiritin those morths nwfin Janvary or M dn frac idey os to that. jeagco needed wits no! generation by the power of thi nothing but the power of tho meot the wants of the great metropolitan citie: porishing for the want of the hristians would redouble thelr offort torch of guivation, and yo ight thom up with the glory Auothor oncoura| tonal alnging. Cousl more deep They whgulgu’t think ful image of Mie to pote Ali mares can me those beat possl- Gospel, | Ho hope Might : tho homes of ain and I thing was the congregn- on at long tng #iice he tho like, Itwasa sign of bueksliding When sleopy, it The chiroh, tov, was out of debt. He noyer would belong to anuther churoh that wont iuto debt. No money was needed for whut had been done, but it waa proposed to go right on, enlarging th tho Gospel, and $1,000 was wanted to carry on tho work this summer. Thoy should give os tho If thoy didn't give frealy, ‘be Lord could got atong “Thore havo sald ho, “now: Lin the beaver: led thorn so fur 0 borers un Lord prospered them. He didn't, want it. Tt without thom or thelr mon good times tn Chicago, if you hnyen't any moncy, put yotr namo ou Will subscribe ship, would all bu pi vision a common feolliy apeel faver of man nnd God fa culled charity, | or urbanity, or friendship. The scntiment of re- Mition ts nnalugous to that of the bewutital, in advancing toward truth, and vy und successful in its te norunt days. Much of tho decuration of an- tiqulty was base upon false notions int shupen, the nose, tho foroh tho Hinbs, being all out of syminutry, and out o! tho old varihen vessels excavated In old Asti, or in our Now Mexico, mid from our mounds of tincertain date, ura generally quito destitute of the absolute trig 4 form or ornament, thue perhaps, did sume of tho eternal laws of the beautiful begin te appear. Thera tho true Inmet form began to ria tp on the canvas of tho painter or out of .the marble of the sculp- But the nani ree thousand ycurs of doing fn tho long i and tho Grecks? with the mmount for tho support of the Gospel in this city,” “Hila text wag: “To nut decelyed; God ts not mocked; for whatgouver 2 man sowoth, that shall he also reap, Forbe that soweth to tho flesh, shall of lesh reap corruption; but be tho: tho Spiritreap Ifo over- t isn very onsy thing Twill venture ta say that tho fire not many dy this congregation ‘to-night that have not boon decelved—been decelyed wt intimate frienls—by some of your Kins- I will come a Mitle nenrer'than that, n been deceived by" Sopiselves. rucunwhile ta hin figures were Hinireahdoucoe | . He not develveu™ sopirute comollness; y your for tho fitat about my own, “Tho human heart ty deecic- Mil above nll things, und desporately wicked,” Wo may deceive our neighbors, and tinke thom bolfove we nre better than wo are; wo may doe eclve ourselves and innke ourgelyes bellove that, we are botter nad truer thin we reolly are; but we must keop in mind. that we cannot deceive God, God never decelves us. ‘That fs tho diffor- jad of tho Bible and the God ‘ho God of this world isn do- celver, and hns heen from the tina of the cren- bas bean truc to oval mide, nnd when we come toa text becomes us to listen, and to take it in, There are augreat tnany mon who den; ofse up tho Bible and thoy prench it constant! ago, wud what had tt be canwhilo betwecn tufuncy ‘The waswer conics unsought,— the centuries bad all deawn coustant dollght from {ts nbsalute Queens had sat down In dumb wander before pulntings at whieh our pupils in lindscape apd Hgures would high, tis probable thut ¢ Egyptian Kings were immensely proud of statue ary and puinungs fer which noone fu our ige ivy rooin in house or gallery. Tho Queen ered long before churm- 'd Jiousy of Cedars, when you and Lwould uot have HMngered a moment unless to laugh; and yot those errora of th eternal faot counted for ittle ngalnst tie Queen, for tho passion’ fur tho heart, and it owed syectly nlong when the birda sing over hor und the trees waved tholr perfumed Jouyes us shu pnssed. “Sho wont hou with her heart full of tho wotderful and benutl- ful, and it wus this sonsibllity, dais ability to bo inoved perbups to tears, that mudo her name tuke Its plice in Mterature, and which assures ug that shu would buye. Athens, or Rome, vr Florence, Looktuyr upon this emotion called the beautiful, wo must Voter's vision there alsa, ond let. down from tho sky w great ship sail the Jour corners and contuln jug tho’ mingled ornamonts of many nations, with the words call uot that ugly or without merit which some sincere und tender heart once loved, Let not 4 few mistakes of Ine or color make you doom us sive whom how Iying you woul tho grave detains wud conceuls. Parullul with such o sentiment was the gentl- mont of Christhinity, Chrlat and His disctpies poured upon this religious feeling u new tht, but not all eyosenn perceive this light ang learn all its shades und qualities, Many do noc read cortainly: the pages about tho wtonenent, or nhout the exact nature of Chrlat: one way, others anothor way, tho them and communion; the Romnunlst says the broud becomes the Lord's bodys 'Culvin did not id ty suodurn Christinns Sabwathy ondless thoughts uroso in tho un~ counted hearts, but tho All-Wise and the All- God seems to Buy to fu the depths of your 80! A religion of senthinent other name fora Christianity of action’ and, Instend of bulng a wei und’ oversympathotio furm it fs the Christianity now most demynded by our world, Whilo the ages are debating the intellect question to find Just where truth dwolls, what ure wo wiite do? While the Jutticst mind: examining Grouk words ubout baptism, or wbout: atonement, or Hoitven, or conversion, whit are miyrinds toany, or think, or perforin? If tho prescnt resembles tho past, not more thin one iquiry will bo wettled to euch hundred years, years alnce tt was .proposud to show that baptiain {6 by fininerslon only, ang yot only a few have beard not all who have heard ence between th of this world, T° that toxt, yet closo Ing things: in Solomon’ Hl sowed twonty beautiful was in her zo. Many a. Fouping iu tears nnd in pidterne a whut ho survod in bis youth, L want to divide this toxt—I don't dlvisions—tirstly, yoing to ulvide this one into when ® man sows he expects to roap; second, be expects to renp tho gaino kind that he sows; third, he oxpects to reap moro than ho sows: fourth, {ignorance of tho secd sown mukes uo difference about tho laryest. You may think you nre sowing good weed but be sowlig bad seed, und say you do it ignorantiy; but God's Foun cue in hell oF usually make rdly,—but 1 am been an art lover in deorco Is that you shin! man on carth Heaven. A farmor sowing grain expects ta ‘onng min learning st trade louks fore 0 thine When ho will roap. A studont up curly and Into oxpects to reap, Some mun in this town don't enrn onough to pay thoir bourd. Ask thom why, and i hoy’ are laying the foundation of 1 Ly ATE BOWIy NOW. ugrand harvest in rev of souloty all through 8 or brutes those 1 ndmire, byt whom practicing medioino fe, when mon sow thi oxpeot to reap, [f nmin sowed onts be wouldn’ Iwok for potatoes, and ho wouldn't expect to got potatoes if he sowed anata, If he plinted water. inelons he wouldn't look for cneumbars. If hr lanted wheat he wouldn't expect thistles, This truth rung through und everyday Ne spiritual things. A man is wn lo tho luwof tho nature, commerce, You will tind jt true ive my chile Lett merchant torch to be dishonest to his, customers, that clork will he dishonest to him, .1e teavh his clerk to Ho in selling goods, and it will He hus to reap, tion of time, Thiya In my mind now of niman who a few years ago was Very pt }nent where ho ‘iived. miles, was ro wenlthy word WAS ug gi vould vonimind = thougands and us © Do you ull love £8, you aro ntt ane i dren, and it with not be long t is thorefore only an- and deceive me, charactor; and if Porhups not one within Ai -gan who was tho pride of hia t hotel, and In that hotol hud’ a lived a widow, and she had wn only son, night after ulynt to tho ht he came home, drunk. Tho pleaded with that futher not to sell hor boy any more Hqner, Tle trampled hor ontroatiog under foot. v Mou would sell u'whoin he pleased, Ilo would not have bis business interfered with, That woman's tens and entreath wolght with thut fathor. months before hor buy Mied a drunkard’s'grive. years rolled away, aud? tho ‘hut son was ndmittes bar. and one nf whlow went une ee, Wit bive been vonvinced, must ostitnte tha dusire to be. buptized inte must confess un into God's house, bringlig even un ON yours singe Calvin des ed the obligution of the Sunduy ov Bubbith, and all tho churches are still wondering how Bunday should be observedy but may. Torbid that we should walt fordnformation fron auch o world,—let us full back pun tho rell fous sentiment and dedieate a purt or tho who of thut day for publlo or private worship, Ant, while the tnuny disputunts are attempting {4 J reach a conclusion td to wo yf ane ropmiir to Wn Jt was nat many ty the bunks of tho rive head, and blow out his Uaried in tho. game eemctery with tho widow’ gon, ‘That father sowed the wind and the whirlwind," and went down a rufned Ttwory't do to goof and luugh it 1 sulemn r pit a revolver to lus +] duy will bo thodrunkurag of to-morrow. Ifyou that. You can't get around it, God Bive sturtol on a downward course give it up whit you ROW. t d? ‘Duvid committod Christ was, yond ri “Wo purcelve thit nu arta true Savior, we would love to follaw ‘hoe. We must dq gs those ayes did with tho Dewitifal before Jess cume; thoy loved thut which tho classics afterwurd uunlyzed und dus Pharuoh’s daughter kiaaod Mosos long bofary tho Greeks measured the and Juden's daughters made and ng muals Jong beture Bectboven aud Qur eulfering world cqn- ol for religious truth to arrive; it ‘needs immediate religious action, The words “What shall { bollover" must muke rouin for What inust I be und doy" "Not that tlic former question ts not tportant, but tint ite full unswer comes Haws whoronts the thio f, wn eternal truth prld. Some ndvancesyoards truths of Hborty, and broth erhood, and industry, and of buucat These, wo doubt, w whole army fe £ on of undoubted: tunote may bu ulnaiity, but in this long you and Twill live-und grow old and fude and ortunity to turn into life | we know and felt of the piritual world. Here iu this region of the sen- reatest rosponslbility rests, The external symbols bave varied, compared creed and ereed toy other tha yratusof poll: ‘of diferent birds, but have you not 1 from all such comparutive thor ology thore dwells In tho finermost bourt an emotion which sumatimes incites to prayer, somethines to 4 study of Cirist,often to a gulemn thought of anatherworld mon thore is a religion—a t tiat, oF Presbyterian, ‘comes; a inost jane with wd sensibility, Hore wut, guthored “up inte anex- debated qual wholy duy for the soul, t! ont fn tho extornal gt even when the down huart where = David reap what hh udultery, David conumitted murder, from a fofty summit, sald, Bataan atmed but he brome do! and whon Nathan camo and told bin God by sin, from the hour that went down to hi As BONO One told hin to put awy: Nathan left him uni \ there was no poco in that home. ‘Tho sword lls oldest son committed Tliy of hia heurt, con jed agalust David and drove him from the throne. David was pid bavk in his own coin. Aa sume ono has salt © Gud's inill grinds slow, but it grinds sure,’ David, tho mun of God, grievous sin, God ashe sowed, And was unsheuthud. mitted inurde! who committed such et, anid ho had to reup 0 reaped with bittor tours, ‘vhore {sat a character fn that whole ook sin us tho chnracter of Daykt does, und, lot me say to you to-ni let ag bo carefal about win, the only thing In upptniess {1 pus Ufo ortho wide world we havo 1 har can ona H a 2 tb LORD ne 4 } Kingdom of God ta eng tho only thing that can make our bomos dari and our lyes bitter {4 ain. ‘Bee how tt was in tho casoof Jacob. Io wont in to bis father, whe was blind on account of old and ied to bin when be told him be He started out witha ilo on ble ilps. grumbling over ing. “Ito's qui ‘wit and geo how devolved hira in regurd to his wife, and sans bald. bli they now whut thoy had dong with had sold biin Into slavery, there was Jacob being putd back in bis own hed in hia youth took ite haying had un o| ethor us Wo vom shed woods orto teed that nwa, Jucod, and way cor Biltty ¢ Inthe soul of most Got punished emple service, into or Muthodlst thought us such never ought Oouur, 1 tere rr ity, bt forming Jeo Tint i | Growing, ant twenty F¥icu And a striuge ceo |, ground, und twen ‘donot move. In this fur | af rd {| e huinan eye ennnot puriv- trate, stunds with fayluble posts and curtuing & tubernaclo of Godt, and here ty this, bol, the last judgment for you und mou will bi if hore wo have becn worahlppers bowlng iin teousness cuch post will (urn Into rst ut last, and become the eul- ‘ull forutvoness und of an tummortul ring up all aro np whut ho If a man fs a docolver und dishonest it will all come baok in time, ooplo think, becnuse the oxi curcled out, that God dan't Judge tho world because of ein. Somot! Juegment comes-auddenfy, aa tt did upon Judqs, Kometimos it. doesn't como for montha'tdd sometimes not fon your bat it wil overthké ta -noaner or later In Yhia lifo or in the lite td.dumo, Tha next point L Want fo enll your attentdgh to is thia; We reap thors, than wo sow, »Whon I was out in Kansus. inst week a farhier Picked me up an of corn anid ghid: MT bad two cars ,,@ko that off of j"tne talk.” There were oyet 1,100 korncis ench ear, or 2,200 kernols of cof to the one kerniol of seed he bad planted. Bo you will nd in tho epiritual world, Lf n man tells ono lic, you will find there will bo a hundred lies tola to lin, 1 havo a young ian in uid mind that went'fiton saloun one night with bis pockets filed with hig emptover's money. He badn’t any thought of saunbling itaway, but his friands got bit to drinking, and, whilo he wasn liquor, they: took nil ho hud, and tho next morning, when Lorent- ized what ho had done, he found ho badn'tfunds onough to reatoro tho inaney. He saw waa ruined. It was in’. a dittle in England, He touk ‘tho’ “first shi Hull, salled ‘to New York, anf camo: when he got.thora, Ho had left twa bel children at home, and thoy didn’t know Where ho was, Ho raid ho was 8 ruined man, did bo will nover recover from thit ono nights net, Think oft! Ono night, and be bad blighted his own Ife, and js reaping tho fruite of-It now, Tonce readin history of a nan, that had great infitonce with a King, and the King wanted hia advice about mall something ‘that: would torture tile subjects: Ho advised gy wy make enge BO arringed that a man, couldn’t.oithor sthad up or iia down inside of i Tho cage wis made, and tho first man tho Hing got angry with was thoman who had a vised him whit'to do. Howes put into this cage, and the King kept him thoro fourteen years, 1 took him five minutes, perhies, to plant that seud, and fourteen: yours reap It, 1 romembor prenéning here four yonrs Ro from tho text, ‘Arise, nnd go up to Bethel.” At thojngulry meeting A man one tome nnd sald: ir, Moody, L want to go up to Hethol, butTam afratd I havo got to gg through the Pen ftentiaty to get there, Lam a fugitive from sue, tics. Lhaye been hiding heru since September,” Ard ho put his band on my shoulder and cried aa if his heart would broak. Tho poor man wus reaping, In an unguarded moment be had come | multted forgery. Ho sald tome, "I have a wifo and threo lovely childron out In Missouri, and here fam, punished in oxile. J want to bo u Christian, but bow can Ido tt without going bavk and giving taysulf up to tho law?" J suid, "Let na pray,” and we prayed and wept, slo by side, Tt wus Hard tu renp, Wut it was Just. 1 bollove it was right, God hag sufd wo must reap whore wo have sowed, and I den't seo how n tmunean com plain of this low that God has given us. 1 tried to put mysolf In hls pluce, dt buve a wife and three children myself, and It would be pretty hurd to bring disgrace ou thom. 1 didnt know what to say, but 2D tnully sald to him, “1 will pray for you, Come und reo ny to-inorrow.” Ho naverenine, but T yat letter from him in which he sald: You needn't, trouble yourself over mo. 1 bolung to the Lord, and I'nt going back aud glyo inyself up.” He went homo and bid hiioself auny fo his house for one long weok, and every night, when the children were put to bed and to Bop, tho father would ateal In and weep over thém, afrald to kisa them for fear he would wake thotn up, The poet, man was reapiog. He sowed tho wind, aud jo was reaping the whirlwind, After being “there n week, ho embraced hls wife and left, without giving the children oven a parting kiss, Ho was tried on elgtt Indictinents, and sent to tho Penitentiary for nineteen jong yeurs. When I went to St. Louis I tound his wife one of tho lovellest Chriatlin women J over met, and T couldn't help weeping ts she told mo the ehildren didu't know where thotr futher was, Sho had been trying to cover uphis disgrace,—to cover up tho seed ho hid sown. One of the children‘was rick ono day, and thoughtit was hard that tho fathor didn't como, and yet ashe couldn't tall whore ho wits, + Wasn't tho ronping hurd? Wnen't tt bitter? 1 wont to tho Governor to see if [couldn't get 0 pardon, but the Governor snid: “No. Justice must take its course, Tho man has made bie own bed, and bo must Me tipon if." went into tho prison and talked with tho prisoner, and if could baye that man stand upon tho: platform bere to-night and = tik five minutes, he would tell you that the roaping time fs hnrd‘and ditter, and beg of oyery sinan and woman Hero to ‘give up Blt, Docause of Its bitter fruits and consequences. Lot mo bog of you hore to-night to xlve up sit. ‘Bit vome one says, * If aw mun ts going to reap whut he sows, how docs tho. atonement come in?” If that nian wus herg to-night he would toll you tht God has forgiven him through Jesus Christ, His Son, that there fs peaco and joy Jn big heart, and ho can louk-up and lain God hla fathor, und Jesus Christ ua bla elder brother, and Leaven as his future home, But that don't chanyo the, fict that the man has got to reap, 8 ho | gowed, od rides in ts chuglot -of two whecls,—justice nnd mercy.- God may forgive me for getting drunk, but if 1 brenk my ler while Lam drunk I have got. to-go through lifu with one log. ‘The penalty of sin isdenth. ‘Tho ponuilty {s not settled yot. And yet men stund up bere in the strects of Chicago and say this fan'ttrue. But God says, “Dhe soul that sine noth, itshall die.” A’ luw without # penalty would bo an absurdity. The Mussachusotts Legislature passed auch a law 2 few yeurs ago and became the Innghing-stock of ‘the wholo State, Suppose wa had such 4y.Jaw hore, and a chat aloe my wails Mote Sues bltn, aud Bo wild, ook yeur wate! whan you going to da about ity?“ Wolly” Tan i P aay, tho bowed his head, wept tke a child, an nnd tho reaping In bitter, Sut to-night, i want toturn from any sins, God will meroy upon you, an God will bless you. BAPTIST SEMINARY, SENMON BY THR REY. 1. C. WOODS, ho, prt! gation from tho following text: Lsuld, Horo nin Ts send mo.—Jattah, vi, 8 had tuken tho bighest rauk among the prophots, and he had described tho state of the poople o! ave an inety willlngie: jane wherover calle’ bo the spirit o wuntoil His work done, Ho wanted {t done wall, Humble men were ofwn chosen, to high study and meditition upon the law of tho Lord thoroughly educated ministers, ebaracterized a tender, Aftor the intelectual qualifientions wo passed the vision scen by Isalub. No man coul been burned Intww bis soul, Clear, constant, question was, "Is thore w personal God?” Mux ons be would do much toward estublishing thy wore required, ‘The Gospel proachor should know his own ro- sonnl observation. Beforo kalyation cou! worts «to Individuals’ or rebuke alna better crept into many Beartas and tho holiness uf G needed 4 froo, botd, and glowing assertion, duys you shan't doit” “Buty have done it ho, would say; Yand what. you golng to do‘nbout it? There is no ponillty ty your law.” Alawwithout n punnity ts absurd. God has a ponulty to Hs law, and that penuty Js death, ‘who (4 ‘of God fs eternal Mfe, end (fn man c fous his sina and turn from thom, God fs willin to forgive bim and give him oterial life. thore ure tho vunsequences of; Bin Unt wo ba ot to reap. Law two young men, who had oy dently been drinking, out riding this afternoon, A wheel broke, but tho borse whs stopped justin thne. Suppose thoy bac met death right thore. ‘They would bavo reaped what thoy nowod. It is because 1 love you tant Fwarn you, somo people tell us the moment we begin to worn thom that we are thelr enemies,’ Do you belleve that Ahab hod a tricr friend than Bilin, Judas thin Josus Christ, Hurod than John tho Hnptlst?, a few yenrs ago a traln was golng. Into Duston, nd tho express was coming pretty moar it, A mun started up tho treek with f.inntern that ho might warn tho train what was coming, Ho fell down und broke tho Janturit. Hoe bad no thine to gut another, nnd whon- the engine came up whore he wus ho throw the broken lantern right ut the vnylngor, and the engineer, when hugaw tho broken lantern coming nt his Toot, rovorsed tho steam just 4 the to suve the triln. ‘hat cngineor might have beon angry at the man for throwing the broken lantern at hing but thy mag wanted to warn him that there was dungor ahead, Thore are mon who say that there ixno truth in this text, but thore fan reaplng-time coming by und by, If aman shalt not turn from bls sin, bow is God golng to pure don bin? Suppose iny son should stan! $3 while Lam away from home, I xo bome and my sory~ ant tolla” me of tf, and that ho bi been off squanioring tho mony. Whou my Kon comes fatsay, “Huye you buon to. ny, drawer and tuken out $57" * Yea f baves) “What have you done with it?" have been ata gitloon - Aud spent it for drink.” “Are you sorry?" “No, 1 am not sorry.’ “Won't you’ promiso | mo. that you will not Yo that again? “No, Lwill promiso to do it tho firat chunee got.” Wel, my boy, L for- rive you.” ‘hit would bo the common of dealing with him, ‘hut is the way incr iy about forgivingand forgetting. ‘hotho nm give up sin or not, God Joves thom and will Tor ive everybody." Away with such a doctrino! Lot amit put awry ain and roturn to tho Lord, and Ho will abun nantly pardon, but if aman wont give up ain how 48 God golny to forgive him? “Tho moment a man is willlng to give many ministers of the Gospel.—thoy wera un- it pownr went hand in hand, ‘There should come from overy soul that has felt “Hetold me, send FI crowded the treasury of tho Foreign BY heart, briin and pocketbook, should always bo He ths eyount of tho Great Jehoval, | thoy suld, * Behold me, send me, Send mo guy was nssured, aud we should hear from thom yet. the chureh. ‘This should be avoldud, The Gose mau, imbued with tho spirit of God, and experi- ! himeclt. He should take fh God's work tirat and huimunity afterward, ° Yo shalt not be barron orunfraltful in the Knowledge uf Jesus Christ, our Savior,’ TUB REY, 1 0, MABIE, ap sin God meota him with tho offer of salvation, and bicsses him. Don’t be decolved Dy tho fulay doctrines of tha day, with the tdea that thore ia no future perdition, and: that God won't puniah an, God bus been: doing It for 0,000 years, and will dott, If fu didn't rpare tils8on, wilt Hoaparo sinnore? Wo warn you, the Misslonury Socloty af the Suintuary tn tho ‘the following texts and Jesus boys af you to give up sin. Young | of our fultu; who, forthe Joy thut was sot bos mun, if you are dianoncat, give It iyou are fora "ili onduted the crouse deapluing the lying nnd docolviny, give thom up. Pou Wyeu-bp, Te ytu sow a handful you will ronp a bushel. If you sow, wu fow seed thoy will’ spread, and ‘také root, and bring forthan abundant harvest. It fw only question of time, ‘bo morderete drinkors of to- thronu of God,"—Lebrei ‘There was o tandene; neds In tho Christian ehuracter, A fow men Oo hing. WV toonigute Hate tt na Gad uate Ite Taba from missed of mon counting for noghing. Wo should ith wil your heart, ‘Torn tw God, aod i¢ will bo no buat day of your Ife, + The laut thought ig that you may bo gowin; whut you think ‘ts tho boal kind af soud, but it don't éatisty, You muy think you are sowing Puioat when, porhups, you, aru ‘sowing thistlus, fut it won't wands up wheat, Your fynorunce won't ‘help "you, Ie you gow thintiea, thoro? wills. Uo thistles to horvest, If you sow thorns you will have to ruup thom, If ta put a thorn Jute your moth en's Mfa you will get thorns frunt your own chile Pant. ayoung mon treuta.bla mother with seorn and contempt, by ad by when he beonmes: i futhor, hie Hittle eiiidron: will tira away’ tron bimand treat him in the sune way, Young man, if you have got a godly. wAyINY muthor, trout hor dines yal wilt not ujways have bor, If you have wu fathor who woeps over wes thank God for that, You cannot altord to pula thorn ty hile piitow, Te you du you will have to reap tho samo kind of seod by and by. ‘Your huryest- ‘Uae will como, La te What ary you sowing? What kind of acca? If Qfariner was wow ln bad seed you would tell him of {t, ond shaw him how to spw tha right kind of goed. Whut t¥ tho harveat going to ba? When we left horo and went to Hoaton, a youn, aun game into the mcoting whose Life was foul,’ dark, and bitter, ie hud become a cont) ned age, God was lending tho world to the human aud practical side of Hare Wo weronow tuught that a thorough Christian wus the highest style of mun, and It true manhood. ‘There bud arisen an thquiry of Inte as to whether Christ was par excellende o mon It was not custamary for students lo a ply the tests of muntinesd 10 Christ, and a foul- tht of indignation was nroused when the ques. tlon was put to them, But this wie an nyowben overything and uvery one wus put to the tost, though nossutorn, liky ours, hud ovor presented fis vury heart to be plercod, and we neud fear no teats of Christ'a muntiness.” Hughes, in bis work on Thu Manliness of Christ," bad suid that he hud oxumined the Gospol life of Christ for tho purpose of apply iaar the test of mantiness to Jesus Christ, an that tho aublimity of individual vell-sasortion utd the subliinity of self-sucritive woru proial- hontin Christ's dhuraoter, proving Hit & man In every wonse of the word,—tho muntiost of men. Sore. Ho was tho supor-munilost of men, wbining {ku tho sun over the univonic. Christ was wore thin buwan, pour w uuiquo relay ton t the. Supreme Helng.—the tmuge of tho pminipresont God in hutaun form, It was iinpod: sible to ellininute tho supernatural from tho ebaructer of Jesus, umbler and drunkant, Ho sald | when hoksind’| It would bo presumption, thorefors, to deny 4 ho mantiness of Christ, ug tt bad bee nto the muetings that’ he want to get Wurm 4") tit iy bud, ppt that it @ decont humd to yu th they. wouldn't catot him listening to such utuft AN wal! were provohing there. But ova wight whén ho; was thore 1 was ranch from this text, gnd*! he sald that TL pofnted. right down to. hinge a God used that text himup, *£ holtoyy; that fago," be sald; “T thought that man’ had’ been lying all tho while, but that fs truoj "fara" reaping my rovard. Te got up and wert but, Tut wo afterwards got 6 note from him wailing for our prayers, and for fovur yoRrs ho hay ben’ used by God oilghtily in loading souls te Chribt,’ There nay bo some such men hero, and I want’ to wet this text right down Into tholr boarts tonlght to curry with thomviinuw tole NOUS and iyto: tholr busliyoan site. mon tay rin in tho! souls, Bu not decetved:* Whilo 1 wave sr TLouls, and was preaching. one night from this pume text, ® Huc-lopking ina ib the, youn ‘wis (ho universal archetype of humanity,—tho untroubled iingge uf tho Daity, Wo were given models of sone fow characteristics of inanhood, but ull those tmotels wero get guido ty tho ‘presentation of Chris) .whos was perfect in ory churucturiatic. Vl th avery, naliqual: ty Jesua = Chrigt wus foun uke | ,Puange in the world it enlarged ‘hrough overy zone. Christ saw tho mup of blac Ptory unrolled to His masterly ove, aod saw that rolgn would ba universal, What diplomatist, .ofruler, or promior could do this? Jesus was (hoe Coundor of tho true fullowship of men, ant ‘Mijn was naturally a social aulinul Thoro was nq land on ourth inwhich mon were not on that fi jo. on Which God {a to place all men in tho coufter. Ho was daily {parting 4 divine ful- hi (i turned to aman that eat near him and sau: "That ta po, One night I got to drinking, and, in an an; fit, cominitted acrimo thataent me to tho DPenl- tontlary for four iong yoars, That ono night in nealoon blusted my soul.” How true It was, It Intruo that somo of you are ‘alread; Foaping, you havo God will forgive you, and lowsh{p to mankind by conforring bicssings and nm all « Christ van ina peau! Mar senso a gon of man in ho waa arccond Adam, a recond frthor of mankind. We inight bo brow Hon with the putting our ball ht Into eonnecs he Hedeemer by | fin His word, {and by aurron- dering tohim absolutely,—subordinating our humanity, It was only by this means that a true maniiness conid dured the cross, and thus despised tho shame nc- {ta aublimo net nevor equalgd Oo Bulcrings of alt the martyrs, Ho hal d contempt the shamo wtke Him fool. ights id Find ‘reorie, Hy no mere man had such elovation and grandout over been oxpérienced. Not even tho resurrection had equaled the crus eifzion In its sublimity. No mero mantiness that man contd talk of ‘could evor devotion to tho well-being of a 1 ae nm the Son of Man bul come into the world and suffered all tho tguominy and self-sacrifice, held ip uttor cor Al a we The excrolscs of tho thirteonth annunl Com: mt ont ae " meneementof the Duyllst Union Thpological Seminary wero inaugurated yesterday morning: Attbe Second Haptist Church with tho annunl sorinon before the Theological Union, which was delivered by tha Hev. H. 0, Woods, of Mine nenpolis, Minn., who preached to a large congro- and had contemned, Also I beard tho voicoof tha Lord, saying, Whom shell LT eund, and who Will rosfor uer ‘hon In onclent history, sald the reverend spenker, thore were two religious orders,—-tho pricsts and tho prophets,—both commanding yrent respect and exerting grent Influence. Tho pricethood was intensely conservative, and thero bad for yenrs been no perceptible growth in its boundarics, At the thno that Samuol was divinely commisstoned to recall the peopla to the pure worship of the Great Johovah he had furmed the prophetic order, and, ns yoars rolled by, tha priesthood had become less poworful, while tho propleta had gained a large follows fog. Guspel, ministry of tho present tga. combined some of tho cssen- tlat elements of the ancient — proph- ecy and priesthood, ritualism especially being a characteriatio of tho Intter order. Isaiah tightly the conturions had of tho night this, wis tho Son with tho mroat Model before tho atid they should pattern thoir manhood after Him, Tho must become super-maniy, In order that may be able to bear and despise tha shame na Jesus did, Whon mon should say Why bide your bri a7" they should despise their shame, Like our Savior, they should besuper-ineniy and ht Rifts in a i C. Lorimor will dollyer the | jou re tho Rhetorical Boclety of fi this venting at 7145 o'vlock In tho Firat Baptist Church, His subject will bo "Tho Rolution of the Pulpit to Several Problems,"* DR, GIBSON. TS FAREWELL SRILION, Tho Nev, J. Monro Gibson, of the Becond Presbyterian Church, takes final tonve of tho city to-morrow afternoon to accept tho call re- cently received from England. He occupted his old pulpit. yesterday for the Inst tine, and preached his farowell scrmon In tho morning to avery largo congreyatton. Tho following wos hia tine in rt torullglousbelicf, The toxt it into Tantuh’s churneter, and was deserving of deep study. It had beon undor the Divine Jnspiration that ho had oxpressed his 5 ‘his should tho Gospel minister, To be w prophet or preacher a mun should be qualified au Sul vrepnred for bis work. When God i God Is able to make nll grace abound toward No cured more for quailty than for avanti, you, that ye always having all sutticien ty ‘ imny abound to every good work.—. positions, but weak or indifferent men hover were, as they lacked the eurnestnoss Ko essential to successful ministerial work. ¥amuc}, for instance, bad organized five schouls: for the preparation of men for tha minlatey. Hu had been earnest in bis work, and bad been quul- fied and commissioned by God, It was by He sald, by way of Introducing his dlacotrae, that tho sermon be was nbout to proach would he bis lust to the congregationasn whole, for his evening adress would simply Len continuation of hls series of locturos on the Gospol of St. Matthew. From this he wenton to say that ho had not {intended to again rofor to his soprrating from tho chureh, but since his attention had icon culled to certain reports Injurlous to the Sceslon of tho church, and silence tight be con- strued into acquicscency, be tolt constrained to say that the report that the Session had beon in diferont to his going or staying, or that any part of the Session, or nn desirous that he shaw foundation. ‘Tho spenker thon expressed his } obligation to each meniber of the Bese sion, and repeated his convictions expressed two weeks before thit everything that had been done be tho best und kinilest motives, tho best Interests that he hud been hble to bold tho post of leader tmong the people. As a rule, in thuso carly days tho chugon men of God had bcon the noblest, men, and the present aye demanded ‘he standard of ministerial onltura should be ralsed with tho elevation of tho times, A infulster of the Gospel wits called tobe a lender, and should bave that Dreudth of culture and depth of thought which momber of it, was to tho moral and aplrituul requirements of a leavo, wero without Gospel minister. He should havo 1 correct and clonr vision of a spiritual and judividuat Soa, ae Jvhoynh's prophet until tha sense of God hud which contemplated not on! of tho congregation, but bls own. continuing, in great sorrow at parting from tho high Christhin character ho would always entertain tho yreatest respect, anil rn py tf personal friondship would continue unimpaired after Ha acknowledged, ere sonul fooling of God was essential ton minfster of tha Gospel In tho present ays. Tho grout {yy and Tyndall hud denied tha existence of nuch | Scsslan fOr whose n belng, and thulr opinions bad Altered down even to tho lowest strata of socloty, curry- ing tholr polluting iniluenco with them, qt was ‘neecssnry that the minister should meet aod muster the skeptic, and if he could defoat bin with bis own weap: ntifying to bia feelinge, or 0 the tritest and kindilest of Christian spirit, and also referred tothe uniforin courtesy and liberallty of the Trustees, ua well liberality of those who bad codporated in tho recent efforts to remove tho debt of tho church, expressing the hope that these efforts would bo duly seconded by tho on- tire congregation, Tho speaker thi ‘vollef In cho idea and the presence of a personal jad. Wo needed 4 vision of the Cruvitiod One, tbat overy feuture and Muoninent could be graven on our hoarta, and dlepel the idea that the oxistence of a personal Gud was a barron MMeality. It was nlyo of a personal Christ that our churches wanted to henr. Thoy wero tred of novel aermons, which were prenehed a8 n sen- sntion of the hour, and Clirlat and His existence ‘ns to tho cnory in took up his text, and spoke at length therofrom, calling attention to the un- resources of the stead of tho {Church His people's wants, and tho conditions under which theso resources worenvallable forindividualsand congregations, ‘The blessing bad to be avcepted, he said, In tho way it was promised, coming through tho work- tho heart, and witha view to very good Work, If wo hud this Rources, aud n deep self-knowledge should, ns- sist him in culouluting his timits. We disvoyered whit man woes tn hig nature in the Hight of per. for tho supply of preached to others it should be preached to ‘one's self, One must testify, and not thoorize. If we cnio tu despise Inetend of pity the fallen, wo had become forgotfil of tho pit out of which woe bud beon drawn, No man could speuk fitter Ing of grace in abounding in oy grace, everything ise would coma unto wa, we simply wanted onjoyment, spiritual or othor. romise of the wxt mi but If It was good we wante: thon the promise was alt suiliciont If wo Jooked ahead, asking Diessings, and seoking the promotion of thu influence of tho Church, then we conld rely upon the reliance would not be misplaced. All tho bicss~ ings ever recelyed bad coine ‘from Gol, was tho gama now and forever, and tho mero change of the pastorate could have no injurious effect upan the church, for the power within and above us would ‘nuatnin It, pastoral changes ofton tho rulo that a congro- gation would seatter, but he hoped no such thing would havo tu be recorded in this cure, for tho unity of tho church und its future for good iso nbuve very personal consideration, and he belloved {t would, He concluded with n touching reference tothe” Acvountability of pistor und people for the mny- b thoy hid improved thir opportu- nitica for doing and getting geod, and a personnt both to those who had and who bud not apirituel buncitt fram bis mitnistra- tions, offoring tho suggestion that, whilo pray ho prosented for n pastor who should be! tho wants of all, thore should bespeulul entronty for ono whose labors might bo Divssod partiou- larly to those not ronebod by himeuif. _ &T. GEORGE. BERMON NY THE REV, PREDERICK COURTNEY, The Cathedral Church of 83, Peter and Paul, corner of Wost Wushington and Peorin streota, was yesterday crowded to Ita utmost capacity, tho occasion balng a speciit sorvicu of ayen- song, held ut tho annual festival service of Bt. Goorgo's Renevolent Association of Chiongo. On althor eldo abovo tho altar was bung un Amorican and British flag, which was tho only attempt ut decoration. Tho services began promptly at 4:00 p.m. and lnsted until 6 o'clock, choral wervices wero held, buing conducted in tho various parts by Canon Knowles, wistated by Clinton Lucke, thin could John tho Baptist, a recluac, be nbt bo tultilled, ashe, ha preached tho Gospel to himself In hls solitude before ministering to tho spirltunl wants of others. Tho Holy Que should be presented (n nll His glory, und tho hore rors of damnation should not Ue thude to net as an intinidntloa which would force inen to bo- Hevea in God, A secret unbellef jn the inttonkad romise, and our Thy. cloanging power of the blood of Jesua Christ must bo an individual exporlenco to the Gospel minieter, In Igninh's porsonal expericuce thore cyine to him tho revolution of sulvation full aud Iree. Tho Gospel preacher was tho mes- senger of, aulyntion to tho lost man. His great theine was Christ and tho crucifixion, and ho should tnderstand how to proneb ft. It wus truth that wos contral in the Christiun system, and should bo known by ox- perience, Tho ministers were sent to answor the question, * Whatshull [do to besaved?" and thoy should have w clonr answer for it. If they dudged the queation they would be of no use to + men, ‘Thit was tho seerct of tho failure of dt had bean in able to answer thia question. The pulpit should be devoted toa greater service thin tho read- jing of, essnys on moral and esthatic aubjecta. Thora’ was a mora grindeur {tn tho cross of Christ which always npilfted the man who lived under its shadow, mnd personal character and TH { ‘ Thotruc Gospel preacher niust forget himsalt, nod Jeainh was a tine typeof this sentiment, ’| Jchoynh wanted a messonger, and he wanted to qo. Without a thought of himself, he bud anid, © Tehold me, send me,” and he hnd been sont, the power of the cleansing blood the answer ." Vhen the call would become porsonal. Bomo would be called to fore elgn lands, some to tho country, othors to tho elty, to snyo souls froni tho power of alo. Some would be called upon to replenish jasionary Society und othor charitable tnetitutions, Hand and The full cuthedral ‘These young men were on the threshold of tho ministry... Would thoy succeed? Wo cond in a ensure divine what that Cuture'would be. Had Sooloty. Tho Society was represented its officors in the porsons of Georgy B. Gooch, Josoph Willams, Wiithune | Haragwanuth, J.C, W. Bailoy, Altred Booth, aud Joseph Wright. ‘Tho music of tho special chornl service wna where, and E willgo?’ If thoy had thelr future But thoy should be careful, Tho cuttured win- Hiebard Barnard, Jeter was intuitively drawn toward the cultured tmombers of bis congregntion, and tho too fre= quont result was the absurice of tho masses from pel prencher, thorefore, should be every inch a rd, Christlan Suldiurs,” follows Cantate Domine" and Baraly's 4 Deus Au anthom of Stainer'a was sung and Handel's * Worthy Ts Thu sorvicu cloked with the ue Donutiful ‘wad proached by tho Rev, Frederick Courtnyy, Hevtor of St. James’ Church, Chicuyo, Ie ane nounced us his text the following, which Js of tho tirst: verse of tho frst ebhapter Book of Huth: * And a certain man of Dethle- hom-Judah went to xojourn in the und his wife and two Bons,’ Hook of Ruth, be sald, fsa Jowleh tdyt which takes us buck fram all the turmoil and Dustle of Ifo to which we ore accustomed fia Wo think of Uils mnan ti ur his wifo and two Bons to find ab hen thom in the lund of Moab umonist strangers. It fA Btrexs of clrcumstuncus thit he was to such a dire necessity, Uy this wo are rominded of tho thiurs now taking place similar to those of that ancient day. ker th rehoursed tho principil causes of sneh intgri- First comus fuming, which fs the same chuse that Influgneed many of those who owed nilegiance tothe monaroh of Great Hritaln to leave that country and seek & new home aorosy OB waste of waters, Over-population is ans necessarily crowds out som, to acak a menne of living not te be found athome, Tho mune couse brings skilicd mus chanics, ‘Tho love of adventure incites muny,— that apiritin man which begins In the nursery, and which, belng fostered In some natures, nee cuasitates thelr atrikliy ence with ain, Ho should know Jcsua Christ by clear, too dally oxporlumpe, Ho should forget | hefore the sermon, Lami" ufter it. Magnifieut of Prout, In the evening tho Rev, H.C. Mublo, of Indian+ npolls Ind, dellvored thu qnumul sermon before First Baptlst Churuh. Ils subject waa" The SupereMuntiness of Christ,” and ho spoke from *Touking unto Joaus, tho nuthor and finiehor shun, und eaet down at the right bund of the wl \1 the aponkor, In tho renching of our day, which every one must Bhve uatlved, toward the expression of mantle ‘The spenker then wloxd aut aa colossal fixures in history, tho be thankful to God that we Ved ithe presont wus tho general beliof othor causa which tat the love of Christ wus essentiul to ut into new lands, ho strive to iind an outlet for thelr Aubltion brings many fron the mother-country, as tho dosiru to tht ifornia, whieh hurried tens of housands from the shores of Huglaud, ‘hese juen of ambition are the ones to ave and seize att opportunity, ‘hon there uro some who Hye tn bf their tines, tho reformers and overnment. | Buny hor and found an ry exuberant spirits, seokors after new forins oO! of such a mold baye come ayy lun. then there Is tho most notable caus, which fa buva como hure vitber to paugate tholr fulth av missionaries or bevuuse it religion was distastari) to Lhosg Ia wutbor~ has been a frultful rene vauntries for campelliny mon to leave thelr fathort Elitnuleeb wont out from Hetbichol wito and sons ho took his religion with him. | No bo imagined than hor mothoreine id her to ruture to the tans faithful husb: Ath the rollgion, Thousands son in all tes an more touchy; the expostulation of Rath with nw who pho Urgae i wor ovary diy, Tho Christ of history eiug proven ovory dy, Tho 0 it nf foau. Bho had w and, who bud hough ‘those whose saly If may leave the profession of Jon becuse they never had tho roulit; t leave bly true religion, bocattay it thor ould” ber found, Chrtmtantty m ‘ E wie bent i a baits t of bis soul ant was never Deaton or cutwitted, but with every doud spread out belnyg, ‘Though much {4 changed, the now country mitat ulwiye ring back vivid remombranous 01 id. book is used changes hero and thoro to sult condition of No ono loaves tho country of his birth but onn say, “If 1 for ut theo, lot my Might hand lose horounning, and ut my tongue vleuve to the rvof of wy mouth.” He (eon ucvount of whatever cnuse they loft, ngllebuen wil ways acknowledge thut they havo bronghk with thom the dearnst and sweot- grb romernl brance of the land where thoy wero ‘Tho sponkor closod with an ologient anpeat ti behnifet tho charity towarde. foliow-country= mert and tho work of tho St, Goorge’s Socicty, of bal SLCES niat betes munud of the Society. vrs mito be at tho come “STEPMOTHERS, i ‘THE IRV. T. B. POT, ae pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Inst ovening dolivered n discourse upon tho aubject of “Stopmethors.” Tho roverend gen . tloman sald that tho eubject ind been suggosted to him by an artteto recontly published in onoof the daily papers, from ono who {n hor sacred capacity of a second mothor to motherlegs chit- dren complained that sho was prevented from enjoying soclut and church privileges, which sho lover, because of tho fact that sho was com- neiled to care for and roar na family of chitdren not her awn, ’ ‘The sponkor anid that, find the subjectof tho communication been politics, or any of tho cur- rent topies of tho day, be should not have beon sodeoply Interested, but referring to tho mrity and sucred pespenetillity. of tho homme, It minedintely struck bim, In tie heart of every man, Wotan, and child thore grew beautoutis plant of family aifecton and fvo. ‘and somo of tho grandest and most beautiful poems ovar written wera Inspired by tho namo of mother. Many who did not undarstand the power of tho Chureh would, upon Investigation, fd that the tradition of a holy and Ruuctified maternity wis one of the enrdinnl polnts in the ‘ritual ant doctrine of that Church, ‘Tho name of stopmothor was nover mentioned exceptinan uniertone, indicating that thoro wns something fn the very nano that suyored of fear. Thore had doubtless beon cases of persons called to fli the vneant pines of a mother who wero} unworthy, whose blows and abuso had driven from pleasint homes many yout girls who, not receiving tho longed-for and wall- remembered love and interest of a mother, had sought It in tho by-waya of n heartless world, to thoir own rhame and sorrow. Tho wife who walked beside hér husbund tn tho light of affeus tion and Christian resignation waa honored of God, and the womsn who was called to tho post- ton of a mother to children not her own before her ona of tho most trying and self-de- ping tasks that falls to the [ot of womanhood, Bho was open to suaploion at the outset. Many oO woman pluced in > this posi+ ton has retired fu her private place of prayer, and there wept ns bitter tewra over tho Wwreek of her happiness as ever did a mother over the cof of an only child. No ono knew to what extent Hyves were -iniluenced by tho prayers of those wo loved, and the speaker drow a beautiful word pleture of a mathor's love and Interest In her children, Ho said about tho most helpless and cheerlesa place inthis world was darkened hotmo in which sata mun with mothoricss children ynthered about him, to whom hig relations could not be no intimate 18 those of a mothor, It was often 2 neccasity that. tho placo thus innde vacant by death should he filled, and to say that a oman who thus brought into his home nn second partner “waa in any. degreo less worthy than he who lived alone, was doing ylolencu to bd'é word, and yiving to the huinan heart an folmus which God had not [ishited those, ‘The light that shone around tho fireside yesterday. might be gone to-morrow, Every relation of womanhood Yoelonged to and sprung from the heart the world over, and the woman who occu. pled tho xacrod trust and fulfilled tho duties of a mother’s place to motherless ehitdren was worthy of and should recelve the prayers of all good men and womon, THE TABERNACLE, MOODY AMONG TIE CIITLDNEN, Yesterduy afternoun Mr, Moody yisited his Sunday-sclool nt the Tebernacla, on the corner of La Salle street and Chicago avonuo, after an nbaouce of alx months, The scholars assembled to the number of over 1400, and there was great doy when thoy found thotr old teader once more anong thom, The little ones crowded round him aud shook hands with him, and many of tho very little ones insisted on extending a warmer welcome. The business of tho afternoon wont on ng usual, and at 3 o'clock the various curtains and sereens used to sutxlivide tho scholara into cluases wure pulled down and the Instruction in the lesson of tho dny was begun, While this wad in progress Mr. Muody yielted the different clasaca, chatting for n moment with tho teacher of cach, aud, after in apt word or two dropped to the cager-listentng children, fitted off to an- ©: othor part of tho bullding, everywhere meeting with a warm welcome from tho delighted gath- ering. ta Atihi0 p.m. tho signal was rung to bring tho Instrucuon to 9 close, and onw by one tho aun ‘talons were mised, while the clasd-rooma, in which special instruction {6 yiven to infants and adults, became omptied of tholr oecupants, who ro- paired. tothe body.of tha Tabernacle in order to honr Mr. Moody's address, crt While this concentration of the various olasso# into ono solid congrogution was In progress, Sie perintendent Hiteheock culled upon the chil- dren to slng Hymn No. 50, a tuneful molody, which, however, lucked tho iuspiriting nature of many of thé bynins sung by the Tabernacle schulura. It was vory aweally sung, but thero wars too much suprino in the volume of sound, and, in order to wake tho boys up to tho neocs~ sity of showing Mr. Moody that his Sunday-school had not forgotten how toalng, thoSuperintendent called upot thom to give "Pull for the Bhore,”” Tho invitation wna uecopted and tho stirring: chorus of tho spirited hymn was splondidly sung, the poutheal tenors combining ty the pro= duction of a volume of molody. that made the Tabernacle ring nyula, - Mr. Moody wis palpably moved by tho famil- far sound In the familar scone, aod after tho first Verde was over Le stepped: to the front of tho platform and nsked the children to putdown thelr books, as-he wanted to seo how many of thom could sing tho words from momory, Thora was no diminution upparontly in the minber of valecs after tho buoks hed beon Jufd aside, 10 that {tis rensonuble to conclude that the whole Sunday-school knew the words 2s woll as tho tuno of tho hymn by heurt, “Are thi any moro claasca to con In, Mr. THitchcou! tho evauwellst asked, whon tho byinn was finishes Just one more,” sald the Superintendent, and tho sebolars sung “What a friend we haye in Jvsus,” while the Inst clnas camo In, when the body and deop galeries of tho Tabernnele wero almost, tilled with children and adulta, A noto from tho warning bell brought the assembly to alience, and Mr, Moody advanced to his old place ‘on the platforin und addressed them. lle sald that ho was vory, very much plenaed, and he bo- M Vit did te on yorxd Lo tell whon he was plenaed, Hu hid Geen connected with tha Sun+ day school gineo it first opened, and he always used to nd the month of May tho blackeat senson of tho year bccuuse on moylng-lay they aed Lo lowo about one-fourth of thofr teachers nnd scholars, jwho) went to reside In othor portions uf tho city, a | lox over which ho had often wept. Ho boelleved that the Sunduy-svhool ho wns ad- dressing was the Mest he bad seen in any part of the worl. Ho hud never secon another whoro there were In attendunce so miny adults, whero * such good order wan ea or where the Diblo . clases were 80 well tll wll of whieh both * amozed and dellybted hin, Ho wanted to make n fow suggestions. Many of the Uiblo clises were very large, and he wanted both texchers and. scholars to feol that ‘they were abort of iniastonuries, and would go onto the atreataand pick up childron who did not nttead Bunduy-sehool, and bring them Itt. Tho abernacly should contain from 1,000 yo 6,000 children overy Sunday afternoon, quny Gf whom are now” descorating the Sabbal Mn the Geran bogrcgarienn: ‘They’ should muke tho Stnday-school as chourful ‘ag posul- Div, so that ohilitran who were brought to it, whilo ut first thoy mijzht bu a little shy and awe ward, would spout find friends and learn to tke. the exerelies. Ho wished that thoy would turn tho entire sun whool Into mcommittco of tho whole to scuru inore scholars, Bo that is Might atleast be made to inereuse as much in the noxt six months ua it bid in those Just From the Sunday-sehoo! records ho saw te attendance Init November waa oot; tt” December it tnerensed to 3,2 fn February It was 1208; fnat month it wae 1,463, asd the recortt of the current afternvon showed an attendance of LGN, He had been wondoring of Inte if he could do anything to promote tho missionary spirit whton he hud before alluded to, and bo hut proposition to muke to tho scholurs whlch, i Mr. Ilitehoook thought It was e wise one, ho intended to curry out. He was going bavk to Bt Louls and ho ‘was taking ws 0 preaunt to his. little boy there a couple of inforoscupte ohurina, =ono of which revealed a ploture of tho infant Sunuel praying to the Lord, with seventy words of tho Seriptures, while the othor contained tho Ten Commandinenta, Whuthe proposed to do was to offer u slinilay palr of churns to ony boy orgitl who would bring to tho Sunduy-echool five now acholurs,—not sultolira from other Sun- day-achools, with which he hud to deatre to b terforo, but children who attended no Sunday. echool, Dovs this look too much Ike hiring thom to - ‘po ralintonarigs, Mr, Hitchcock?" the speaker sald, vito ai the Superintendont answored mM romptly. mien In that caso,” Mr. Moody went on to say, we ho pitied hig watch from bls pockot, “(il yo further, aud the boy who ‘bri inthe most acholira botweon now aud next November ‘will got this watoh. Tt alu't much of & watch, but. I've cnrsicd itn long time and { know it’s a go good imokeopor, Hero's the watoh, Br. Hitohcock."” Mr. Moody handed the timepleco—a vory nico ailyer-cased hunting watch—over tu tho Super- intondent, aud brought bis address to @ cluso with a few words upon the Sunduyeschool lesson, ofthe says which was Christ's ordoring the Httlu ebildren to bo brought wito him ' "Tho Bunday-school was ten dismissoa “vith: tho singing of the Voxology, | S “THE METHODISTS, BENVICES AT THE CONFRRENCE, Syectal Dispatch to Ths CAtcugo Tribune, Ctnotnnatt, 0,, May %.—Bishop Blmpson Preached In the Muslo-Hfall this aftornoon to an sudience thut packed It tothe utmost, Malf an hour before tho sorvices cumnmenoud the hall was so full that thocrowd was towing out as Woll as ln, and yor over 6,000 romained through