Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1880, Page 7

RELIGIOUS. Swing Deduces Some Les- sons from the Beauties of Earth. prof. ogersoll and His Doctrines Do- nounced by the Rev. Irv- ing A. Searics, whe Blessings of Righteousness Set a ty the Pastor of the “* Pourth Presbyterian 3 PS Church, mnerance the Subject of Dr. Noble's se rmou—Tit0 Roy. C. S. Lestor on ‘Gol’s Spirit’? THU WORLD. SERMON DY PROF. SWING. prot. Sing prenched at tho Central Church terday morning, his toxt belug as follows: sf ‘Thy heavens, the work of my fi Lie moon ape tho sturs which Thou i YOO whut is man that ‘Thou art mind. He the ‘011 of mun, that Thou visitost pm D8.n Cy He teria “tleaat, should pulpit. and press {ts most Sincero respects to tho oxternnl wy 4. Blutesmen, editors, mon of selonae, poll- qeanh clergymen, and, Indeed, cduvated men of pil arts, should, Ih gore sontenco oF part- pb, tell atl and cuch other what n marvelous farib is thts oo where wo all dwell tor n poriod only too brief. In our latitude this great pageant of Nature comes Inter thnn to those living: newer tho sun, but It comes, after such a parked and long whiter that tho spactacte of spring and summer is mado. mors iyo by the contrast, Spring and suminer jour North are made by our rough winters na dstinctand beautiful: na Bucon's ombrotdery, wybich ismoro pleasing when there ts lively color upon darks andsotemn ground." Bouthorn jusds surpass our zono in tho duration and yantity of lenves and blossoms, and warm etn- shine, but we, perhaps, .surpiss theeo junds in the grand artistic olfect;for our winter Js n pow- @ful ackaround npon which these decorative months paint thelr tremondous landscape. What oor hearts may want of time, thoy make up by fatensity of appreciution. Bo these mutters os thoy nny, 1¢ muat be admitted that all tho way fren the St, Lawrence to the Amazon, Nature 1s simply too large to be mensured by any of us, and wa shall all Hye nud dic without having dono Juice tothe bills and valleys, the lakes and rivers, andtields and skles around our tents. We sail all resemble tho cutee who fell aseep while Jesus was in thoir company. ‘What folly in us to wish to be elsowhure when wehavo not ae atudied one squaro inilo of prairie, or paid to a_ solemn pine forest tho wor aipofadiy! Tt is not the wistorm of man, but Lismisfortiine, that he always wishes to go clao- where, whan he his not Istened well tohis own Dindsong, nor inudo ny tttemptto guther his tra widiiowers. Dwollora In elttes ‘tro to_bo pitied from May to November, but they need potelgh for far away lands, for just outside of al our noisy, dusty strecta, ton miles away, this sweet kingdom of Nature being, and colors ibesulful us thoso ln Florida, winds as soft, as those in Italy, ura to bo had by the seckor, God basso made our world that they who seck shall find, whethor what they seck {s forgivences oF qlvation, or only a giimpzo of grass ur blos- toms, or morning dew. = Neav to all there aro doors to all who will knock. Tho Psalmist found the glory ‘of God all aroun him, fond it in uel ainaziby quantity that he wondered, among such akics, und clouds, and lights, ant thadowa, and stars, that the Creator could re- member man, and have merey upon him, Mens- neg De bY hunian standurds, itsecms to this old thinker tat fu tho demunds of tho universe Upon the attention of God, win inight ouslly be forgotten. _ This natural world, now putting on its sum- iner beauty, stands reluted to man {nso miny fags that Instead uf its leading tus to fear that God may forgot man, roininda us that it isan arena where the Creutor expecially remembors Hisebildren. Indeed, wll the material creation ems only a part of tho houso of tho soul,—not ofthoesuut of man only,—but of that living, consclous something cailed soul, Weare not sapunered to stato whether there be any mind dos tho human mind that cujoys to-duy our blossoming, curth. Wo naturally conslder myths nll theso- old stories about ipits that lived in the onks, that rusted in 0 breeze, that dragged thetr invisible gure meuts over tho grass, invthe which gave tho an- Gents thelr Dinnug und Pans, myths which. fade Aya, fru. Kterature in tho“ Midsummer ight’s Dream,” whore Puck and Titania aud Oberon tiguro go atrangely. But that mint is tho only forn of Intelligence that Is enjoying tho iminense world, with Its rising and setting Bune, With Its inliait lovoliness, we hnye no right ta My. The fact that no bemg ts visiblo, or tangi~” ble, or audible, exeept uuirsctves would not hie a conelusivo argument thit we hive the world in our keeping, fur na God Ia invistbto,so thoromnay Losomewhers between man and Deity, intolli- sees not within the donmuin of “human sense, lsmissing this Inquiry becnuso We Are Not cum= cent tu discuss It, wo can safely mark the fuct tour external world fs made lnrgoly for nun, Aured to by ubjected to this thoury, that tha tarth and sea, und sky, aro Lonutiful whero man-has i101 been, but this would only (each Us that the universo was not mide for man pil God Hinsct? loves tho henutiful, The conclusion will remain that the relutions of {he world to munaroa part of {te final cause. Man doca not hreathe all the wr thore fe, nor frink all the Water there Ia; ho can only take is cupful from tho rivers, und yer the wir and the water are fur man, fo wo cunnot seo ull poebilis, aml vaics, aud oceans; there ara great: oreste Where nu huttnin foufstep Is to bo Beon Hf beard, and yet ina great sense tho bumnat filly stands usb reason for this vast carthly ;Tbls duinb crention may well come to holt) ua balleva fn tho existence of a Bupreine imine and qt a fiman tilnd as being distinet from material, aygileridge, fo tho vite of Chimouni, all the by is of tha upllited Mont Blah spoke Te God, Tho cruga, tho casuniles, tho Ms tie sen’ of pines, the ty Of. sunlight and moonlight, tha i “diy soaring around thelr nests In tunccesstble a 8 tha wild Lowers In the cdgo of the Bnow, er Wid goats “sporting ‘round tho eagles’ wont the vipory clouds of incense, all aro Tain togetter Into, an nrgument for the uce Wy ot a Gad, Not only do such thoughts pugees & mind that Invented and mide suck a want ut Hey a alyuely nade mind that can oan In the valloy aud look up “with dim eyes aitused {ith tears," Nature buars witness tu the neg fess of man.—to the iyulation and unique: ome, han, Tho countless blossoms of our then zane tho Oelds aud prairies cannot admire ane ven hor cach other, Tho glorious foresta Too gaDhy in thelrown shide and attence. te elds and woods, with all tholr rich decora+ ni walt for man. Ite comes, and sees, and ade ed loves, and thus tho reason of. the te ‘Soxistence 18 complote. could neighboring city, a few woeks ago, ono Most wave seen umong trees In a large aren ale ork ett snough fora purk, 0 bulf-hundrod: Ga Mla eating Qatructurs of stone, It jas bal with tanya polot and turret. Its raiin feet, Wh from wide front entrance back 15) what apat rooms! what parloral whuta lbrary? thee borat whut porches! Suppose, now, Yhltor meet had iuformed the curlous POTS hon Lalnx completed noboly was betule Woln thu houso; that it was slmply to trent that ‘no family was over to move wore, the its, never t0 ging in tho parlors witha tho visitor would have come awl The meee full oF absolute pain at the roultih ‘thou Las ler tho house tho more pninful this tan ange Ht was for no mortals that it was to Hat ancy Re tat, docay without an oceupant. pent ARPA, Now, ho should revisit that plica doreiveg CT, ab tind, that ho” had hewn were ‘end ond that n largo, happy family fare nae ae aud. Cally upprucluti that fe ng et allpain would pias away Tn tho spl rofean tho slogan honae bad found a tilt e Aevc. | Sitch fy one world with man tn It. Walt for ig wot udmiro thomaciyes, they Wavon. Wun; the seu cannot bor its own Tigeit Multa for man; tho rainbow egnnotsou iets for ull us older onos to admire tt, nd Of Ie tattle to suy that who tds tho coed te ids Whovotyald, ‘Mun thls i Ttaueh 03 tho invaning of tho house, and thar pewniticanes, such high and deop thy yep Eb dinwding tidaptation wep Peasy laf than intelligent Maker. Tt gee Bind —as uctute nae Use fon Prvcl; as to detach ft from un up. reason te iuind called mun, Mon ylves ta eat voncaetgy aud God w reagan of imun avd dition ta: tho pm Tok tha material world top ae W Creator, ithasn wonderful part Ban inh he dally Ute of ian, Nature belps ease Is Tnnguige, fn hin Uterature, In hts Frou in is morals, tn bis cellgion, ternal ‘eortat Inipreasts the senses in the ox- ¥ tho sek seins mth of ldngunge., Nuture Fram he tuclhouse where wan teurned words, of th Ae Sensual came tho spiritual. Wospeak Son tag gee Cloatence and 4 torrent af pus- the tong. te ur Ancestors wore lmprossed with a Walch? fiver und tho pawer of torrents, edt {n tha night oF inthe foy, and thus the fox vy think of tho night of ignonince or fide, and hig na ttinents yun had sean the font tea long, (Bis ud hia to aay that we all do fade ta wining that languago wus in the ‘outsot woul, Nudes eror the material world aver into the a Nature | om IS the echoul-mistrosa ta whi “Meg oSe mun went for ing Metion and ifter lopugie¢ tlldran had guno in‘and outa oleh weer Aees Retrange currency of sound, es 180M, ect Avian, oF Hleurn, oF Groeie . Nt tO! wv FEE I took attain agea ad ee cr Up as simp re hota uta guage as the Hebrow; make such a colleetion Da Of eee ee BOW have undor the modern nek, of Gorman, or Enylish. Bo lng of wintlar phenomena within. intimate fs the rolatlon between words and the external world that it {s, perhaps, trie that no one but a lovur of Nature can ovor reaelt a leh and powerful langue He ts out of tho fold OF relative suggestion when he fs out with Nature, The tongue becomes paralyzed soon unless the hourt and brain cujoy this groatoul+ door alr. Folly in eemputhy, with flekd, and sea, and aky, they ecom fo reward tho friondship by helplug thelr admirers to spouk. Jt is truc tho words ire all Jn the lexicon, but thoy are not. nllin our mind and heurt. Reading will give 1s muny, hut a love of Nature will pour into the malt thousinds of terms which cama from tho World of sense, and whieh are full of the aroma of tho flelds or hills, {t follows that that which bolped mako words elps tnake Htornture. When you ride or walk through tho flelds, when you ‘go forth east or West Across plain of mountain, you are not Blins ply looking like « ebiid upon things that aro pretty, you are not almply sinelling perfumes, as wlidy tay from her gold or glass vial contain- Ing an extract of miisk or roses; you aro doin, more; you are gliding ylong a a form Lenuty and grandeur which enter into the found- ations of Iteraturs, Your hour bas come for seclng what it was that transformed Job Into Doct tour thousand (ears ng ¢ What mado David compose tho Bth and igth Psalms; what liclped Homer enrichen the wandorings of Ulysses: hat decorated tho history of nene; what helped Beatrice and tho anints to build up that floral Pyeamalst called Dante, a verse bite tor in lis delinentions of punishments, but aweet when it comes to snenk of the strrs, or uf plnins,-or tho whispering woods of Chinsals you ure fully amid that which helped Milton in his greator und minor pocins, which winted for Shukapeare and his uge, and for Byron and Scott, and for ull the innumerable throng which in prose and puotry have Intlimest tho heart. In rumaueo, Nataro vies with tho suntlinont of love tu lend euptive tho render, and Neh pucing as the “Lady of the Lake” tha ola tho rival of the hidy. But ras imay puss itp inty higher letters, and you twill find tat tho greittcet minds in thelr effdrts to teach philoso- Dhy or religion often usk tho beauty of to irra: tonal world to be for thota an Inspiration, aud for tha render or Istonor an enticement, ‘The sermons of Dr. Dick onthe wondersof tho Hoav> ens touched the soul of his generations thoy were reprinted in foreign langiuiges, because their thoughts wore those of man. Chalmers wis on indifferent preacher in the gute set, ond boasted that Saturday was all tho tima that prepurution tur the pulpit domunded, but fs ustronoued aormons awakened nut only tha audience hut the soul of the writer, by compol- How that soul to feel the vastness of tho unl~ verso, and tho consequent greatness of manand his God. ‘Thus tho external world juapived Chalmors; aud when Custelir, the poctic states- man, wishes to teach U4 his form of religious belief ho pieces ua faa boat and asks us to drift abont with him dn the ingoons of Vanico while he talks, that the peace and swootness of Natura may hulp bear us to tho sweetness of faith. Webster asked tho Inst rays of the sctting aun to help bis oration; Gray asked tho country chureh sard with tts ivy and yew to help bim in his ponsive sollinquy; while Humboldt, dytog, arked his watchers to draw back the ourtun ‘that he miele seu the suntight oice more. ‘Nine will permit us only to allude to these in- fluences of Nuture, Let tis confess its relations toour pleasure, What a happiness comes frum the surrounding landscape we may infer from tho quickened pulse of our Leart when spring and summer aro coming back tous. When in tho carly morning In Juno or Muy the song of birds Dewins to cue in ut the open window, be= fore the sun bee yet risén to muke tho vine- leaves cast their shanows on the chamber wall, tho heurt not broken feels the worth of life and would love ty feo) that it could stay a thousand summers in such a world. Tho older wo grow the richer tho scene becomes, | In such dowy and soft mornings business men forget tholr trafic and cnres for the hour, and seetn rich in simply tho power to live and breathe, When tho mid- Rriuea minds of the Middle Ayes became ro- gious, they often fled into deus and pioomy convents, not only that they might es- cape tho pleasures of society, but tuo beauty of Nature. Tuppiness was supposed a form of sin. For tho heart to bent quick aud strong Was not in harmouy with thy deserts ot total depravity,“ Some saints lived in the bot- toms of stitilow wells that they might seo noth. ing of morning and evening; some tons of thou- sundds fn monasteries, whose gloom was thelr as- suriucs of anivation; Thomas a’Kempls, one of tho noblest of the class, would not walk forth into the wonds lest tho richness of the scene might mako bim forgot the Creator. Thue that whole monastic perlod shows by {ts caverns, and. cells, and windowless walls” against. what a rigantie power It contended in its offort ta shut the grand gates and windows of earth and Heaven. From tho extreme wretchedness of monks and nuns, from tho rapid decline of their Incntal powers and moral natures wo may infer whut a inutilation of the suit! It Is, to bepnarita it from its sublime friend aud companion.—tho ‘benutiful earth, Turn from thls indirect testimony to tho evi- dence dirvet. Onu of the must touching parn- graphs in Milton {s that in tho third buok of his “ Puradiso Lost," where he Inments that blind- neas which closed to him all theintinit ploturings of fight. He attempted tu brace up bis stricken soul with the momory of great companionship in this midnight: Diind Thamyats and blind Monies, and by allusion to thut bird which sings {n tho nights - Binge darkling, and in abadiost covort hid, Thos hor nucturnal nore, But, notwithstanding this erent assoclation, Mil- ton's soul was embittered by tho fact that With the year onsonn returned, but not to hi roturned Duy or the swoot anproauh of oye un morn, Or siyht of vernul Livoin or summer's roea, But thoro ts no limit to this dircct witnessing, for.tho strowm of trivelors crossing land and sea that they may mark tho grandeur of conti= nentand of ocen,—a longing which will grow lurger ngs rapidly ns education comos along to wuken the heurt, tella us that we aro encamped for a few years in. tho world whero mush of human pleasure (s always to como, not trom earning one, but from ‘the winuzing surround- iugs of our tents, Our earthly home is in itselt ry rye enjoyment. dave we not now secn that tho material world sustuing relations to languuge, that to literature and pleasure? Butthe merit of Acld aud sen and aa is not all spoken, fur the God who mide the unlyerse fn $0 much of wisdom and bencvo- lence ordained that the lovers of Nature sbauld eguapo many temptations to sin, And hero {a a practicnl lesson Jor those whose life is nlmost wholly before thom, for those who'cun look onward and sco gorgeous seasons § far in advance, trees | bearing blosaotns and fruit, which trees aro not yet planted by busbandinan or by the prolific baud atu What a privilege to have fifty yours bofore you, instead of back of you. In tho mune Agemont of thit Incoming and flexible life, eo onnily, shuped for success or fov fallure. God bus auld It, that they who full tn love with tls world, Iils fivids, und woods, and skics shall moro casily ayold tho smutres of sin und crime and the dons of teinptation and vico. Nuture will not indeed sive the soul, The vino wd trea covered bills of carth will uever equal that hill which has a cross ou its auiminit. But the love of oxtornat nature will help displaco many a bad affection, ond “lltho soul with sentimeuts whose purity huikes thom nkin ta tha deoper sontimont of religion. Could: thor only bo somo rapid transit which could carry 50,000 young persons: out of our city cach ovening ut b o'clock, and pluco vach ou or each two upon thoir own ucro of ground, where they could labor awhile, and could sev the sup act amid in grout puyennt ut tinted clouds, this multitude would thus tnd soonest that Wisdom whose wyseare, pleasantnesaund whose paths ure peace, All hourts of nny awalconod tfo must be tilled With objocts of delight, Mducution ts the growth of otoutional power, Isolated inon, wen shut Up in houges, on long voy nee or In arctic wine tora, or fn the dark city, till thelr bourts with giines, they pass to guinbling, to all yfce, but, permitted to pusd early yenrs whore Nature fe all around tho mind and spirit, whorg sho en: ters tho oye, aud tho var, and even tho lungs and the bloud, the Lourt needs no help fram Bin, Hency, often, whilo in some uld kingdom tho city and the puluco havo sunk the peasantry have peun aff] industrious, and pure, wud bappy. Amid tho tmuny ways and muans devised for saving our youth from all forms of moral mse fortune Jot us mention ay worthy of cnumerns tlon, at least, a love of Nature und an acre of ground, Tho soll {slike music, always pure, You cannot inike o plane ora harp utter un ogth or tell o falsehood, And [ huvo often thought that no string or pipo wilisound athoiatmn, but thit thoy will all attempt to procluim a divine origin: forqunkind. Like music, the earth refuses to bo an incentive ta vice. You can go to the very ulturs of the Almighty with bor Gowers in your hand; you cun ove Ty A BweNE Of whuut Into tho sauctuary, or lny (upon the coffin whoro old age has gone to slcup, and the bighost morals und plety welcome tho offeriuga. ‘Vho transition ts ona fron tho relation of tho oxiernul world to public morats to Its rolution to religion, Allure ware that tho argument in avur of a God may be dened, but tho argument In favor of no Gal may mect us tt sooums A bolder rejection, ‘Thu uthoiste muy toll at thelr part of their debate, Let ns preter to toll ut those ors which cow our boat toward immortals ity, Wo may seo tn the cori, and summer tha fovoiuttinn o a Delty, There ts the King to his penuty's From the llttle dujsy wy to tho onk the diatance twyreut. Only agreat mind cau pass over it eruatlvaly. pon a Blleaua pale in Wise consin, woeru a benutifil Gothte church over. looks mutiny Inkes, and where tho branches of trees touched tho stumud gliss of tho windaws, tho worshipers on a Sunday moral in June read only a short service Unit thoy might move trom the alates and alturouteldy ta bo more pore tectly In the presence of God, When you sce the wood of tho ouk ortho pine you that the Creatur wished that tree to stan own strength, but when you seo the vino reuch: out tendrila, you mist udmilt that 1 must take hold of something stronger than fteelf. This tendrll {8 strujght and pliant until tt touohe ft pectin. JUthen curly aud burdens tito fron, ty would ApsWee for vines wnat elhinb: trees or attach to fenoca, but how ar walls to be covered with foliage? A toudelt ennnot grasp the aurface of brick or stone. To- hold! along comes the iy which spreads out ttle hands upon a perpendicular wall, nud thus will clutaber ail over custo, or eathedrul, or cot- digo. -,'Thuy pause whore you muy and meditate by any tree however glguutio, or by any flower howover buniblo, aud they combine to say that they wore made by u Wisdom quite separute from thomsclves. ‘Thus tho external world, after helplag us fasiton a lunguage, after com- {ng to inspire a [ternture and awaken geolus, utter ministoring to butwan pleasure or bappl+ Desa, after {nvitloyg us to pursuits thataldinorals aud repeat the benediction * Blessed the urea heart," comes with one more excellence In that it utters oue more Impressive aruument ip favor . Z THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 17, 1880. of the belug of a God whois mindful of mun, and who, notwithatanding tho tmmenaity of the ‘universe, visits the aons of man In tholr sojourn ‘on tis emallest of stars. INGERSOLLIEM. SZNNON DY THE REV, IRVING A BEANLES. ‘Tho Rev, Irving A.Searles, pastor of the Bonth Sido Christian Church, corner of Prnirio avenuo and Thirtteth streat, prenched tho following sere moon last ovening toa largo audience, his text being: Wherefore by thelr frujta yo shall know thein.—AMalt,, ttl, 22, Christinnity, huving been in the world over eighteen hundred years, may be fairly Judged by ita frults. Ono of the first fruits that wo find upon this treo is tho rights of woman. Among tho: savages woman is but tho slave of man. Reforo tho dawn of tho Christtun ora her condl- ton even In the so-called civilized nations was but little better, In ancient Greeee and Lome, the State, not the family, occupied the highest lace, Marriage was sanctioned only so fur #8 jt waa conducive to tha prosperity of tho Btate. Piatu'e {dea of a pertect stato of things was “it community of wives, a8 the child would be loss attraoted to the parents and more to the Stat Among the Grecks the wife led a life of ave sion from socicty, She wis vot permitted wo appenr upon tho streets unveiled. The kitchen was her province. Bho wis tho hourekeepor, not tho Som pinion of ber husband, Tho cluss of women that shall be namvless hero were the women of society. Chriatianity declured against this social degra dationof woman. It enid: * There Is nolther malo nor female, for ye are ull ong in Christ.” From this timo dates a revolution in the social condi- ton of woman, Now, When tho Mormon wishos to establish his hurom be must go beyond tho Almits of our Christin civilization. We have Mormon Church in this city, but polygnmy is repudiated hy it, The lands where mothor, wife, and siater aro sucred ure tho Jands where tho cross of Christ has gone, ‘There is no apeos tole more unnatind than 4 woman sneoriug nt the Christian religion, Itmuarvol not that sho was Inst at the cross and first at the aepuletire, ‘The second frult found upon this tree is tho tights of the child. In tho anefont world, ws the State was pluced nbove tho funily, it was in some cnses required by Inw that deformed chile dren should be put todenth, In Rome tho ox- position of children was practiced, The purent who was tov kind-hearted to Kill his chitd out. right would convey ie to some to: pluce and lenve it to die of starvation und uxposure, Tho Roman law gave tho futber ebsulute control over hig ehild, He could kill {tor sell it into slavery. ‘This authority of the futhor aver tho son continued duriug the entira litetime of the netion, e Could the Ganges speak, what storics could It toll of tho wronir of ebildhyodi ‘The Killing of one-third of the tufant populavon of Chinu bas for nges been legalized, Priecmeet cume announcing the rights of chitihood. Chriat said: "Sutter little ebildren to come unto ino and forbid them not, fur uf such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” From this time dates a rovelution In the con: dition of childhood. If you would tust this uvsdon, let 9 parcnt now dunt with bia child na the Homan {athor was permitted to do, The spenker rgcalled n story of an {dtotic child. Tha pirents saw that ithad no mind, amd reaiized int 18 long na it ved it would bow disgrace to the funtly, * But how to dispose of it was na problem.” Suddenly thu nelghbora missed tho child, The parents, whon asked us to {ta whure- abouts, returned only avasiva answers, Aftor a timo senroh of tho premises wus instituted. In adark corner of tho cellar was found the child In au tran cage. The pvor creature, reduced to A more akoloton, was almost dead from starvi- ton. The parents were dealt with to the full axtent of the luw, and barely eseaped death at tho hands of tho {ndisnant community, Before Christlanity dawned upon the world such 4 deed would hive called forth no caniment. No votca would bave been heard pleading for tho ebild, and no arm upilfted to avenge its wrongs. ‘The next fruit found upon this trea Js the souetity of human life. In the ancient world hut little value was attached to human Iife. Some of tho best philosophors recommended sulcide, The sports of tho amphithentre wero inatituted when thousands were * butchered ta mnke# Romag boliday.* | Only the other dn; the story oumo of u huthen King who wasili, and, agn means of cure by sneriticu, murdered fu cold blood hundreds of his subjects. Butunder the tniluence of Christianity tho yaluo of human Hfo is more and more recog: nized, Atone tlno In England they would bay aman for ateuling a sheep, but now tho dent! penalty is reluctant to fotlaw oven tho crimes of murdor and treason, No steamboat carrying: prssopgerscan cross our likes witbout baity proiced with llfe-preservors. Our sobvvl buildings must be constructed with due regard to means of egressin the event of fire. Our gront bridges must be regularly inspected. Out- side of Christian lands thora 1s no auch sanctity attached to human life. . ‘The next frult found on this tree ts tho educn- tion of the common:peaple., The anclent world bad its institutions of learning, but thoy were only for the few, The common sobuols, ‘for tha masecs, area product of Chrietinnity. In v1 rious ways Mr. Ingersoll chargcs that Chris- tunity isn foo to eduoition, He says to tho Church: “Bo true to your history, Turn out the nstronomors, tho geologists, tha nuturaliats, tho chemists, and all the honest sciontists.” Hus Christinnity or infidolity been the better friend to the cnuso of eduontion In this country? This fan question of fact, and whatare tho favts? Harvard University is our oldest institution of learning. Is that a product of infidelity? The Rey, John Harvard Hava $3,100 to this enter. Tigo, and tho sustitution bearing hia name was ‘ounded. 1s Yale College n product of infidol- ity Eleven ministers of tho Gospel cuina topether, eavh bringing an armful of books, and Inid thom down, saving: 81 give these to tho founding of a cullegu in Connucti- ent.” And Yale Coltego wns founted, In tho United States aro about 800 colleges and uni- versities, Thirty of these aro supported by tha Stnto, and thy %0 by tho churchos, 8o Intimatoly blended is Christianity with ot- ucation that when allusion {fg mare to a college tho quory {8 at once suggested, Under whut de- nominational control ts that school? Girard allege fn Ponneylvania Is the only ono in tho United Statos that ts distinotively infidel tn Ita orig t this country have 270 colleges, and intidelity hay one, Still [Ingersoll oa bonst that Christianity is the foo of education! ‘Tho last fruit nanied ns found on this troo was mornitty, Tue aponker satd he could not even hint at the gross immoralitios that porvaded tho ost snciotion of tha nnclont workt, Sulllca It to any that iu thoir raligious gervices wure prace ticod such shamoful deods that if ther wero to eceur here tho police would convey the entiro audience to prison, and the indignant. come munity would tear tho chureh aditiva into frar~ ments, Christinnity struuk nt the root of ah this evil when it sald; Tho puro in beart shall see God.” Tarorallty obtains in Christian lands, but it !@not sanotloned by thy better oluss of soclaty. Mr. Ingersoll has two grown-up duughtors, ox- collont young lacies, of who it ia said that thoy havo never been insidawchuroh, But Mr. Ine gorsoll would not buve brought up his daughtors ina lund where there wore no churches, W. FI, vated) mv mado the tour of the world, nals, ee ja no social lifo outside of Chris+ jan lands," ‘ Now, should thia tree, with such fruit, come down? Ingersoll answors in the alflrmutive, and with his little butchet hacks awny. Ho reminds mo of the old énilor who went to hear Jonny Lind, ‘Ticketa to the concert were & ench, ‘This Ignorant sailor Baty the crowd hurrylug by to hear tho singiny, ang he bougbt a tickot and entered tho hall, Jonny Lind sang with almost angolic sweetness. Rownd after round of ap- pluuso gracted tha strstiny stanzas. ‘Tera rolled dawn nearly overy free. But, hur! ‘There fs hourd a snore, The old raitor is sand usteep! Tho, strains that enrapturo nll othor hoar' Behold tho millions of all lands who sit enraptured undor thustory of the Cross, Seo the teurs of penitonce tull, followed by thetearsof rejoicing. Hear tho anthems of praise that, comlog from pardoned. souls, rise until they leap over thy jasper walls and angels tako up tha song. But bark} Lhear usnore, Ingursoll ty fastasicep! ‘fo him thera iano benuty In nll this, If 3tr, Ingersoll could contrive to cut down this toon Cart antiy, WARE bas bo to offer in the lace 0 Pistiohacl Angelo onco steppod into a church whore workmen were onguxed In painting igs ures Wpoutho walls and colling. Ho observe that tho paiutings wore yot correctly made. Ho said nothing, howover, bit taking o brush ho produced a‘ pulnting that was right. Amun asked him why bo had not found fault with the work that had beon done, Angcla replied: “1 criticlsy uot by nding fault, but hy creation." Uf Ingersoll dada not iko the plotitre of Chriss tlanity, let him tako a brush and maiko a better .ot bim critioisn not by finding fautt, but by creution. tones new of n little yellow dog that ever ovening would go out into the front yard), and, niountlig the muta-nost, alt und bow! tor bours at tho moon, ‘That dog would throw his whole soul into that olfort. Ho would froth at tho month, Ho was not a doe of, much natural abilfty, but ha wus sincere, While that doy could howl! at the moon, ho could not well pro- duce an orb ke lt, Every generation bas had {tg mon who would grow! ut Ubristiunity, but none of. thom have constructod a luminury ike it. Supag shay wivo tholr lungs a rest und try tholr sktil ut arobltecturo, Mr, Ingoraall bitnselt Is indopted ta Chriatiani- ty for tha noble sentiments which overy now and thon spring forth from amid tho encors in bis addres very ong of thos cominontt. ble features of his loctures are unnaunced in tho Bible which he nssulls, A Jogrnaliat of this ulty has deliycred an interesthiy levture, churgin, Mr lngersolt with pinglarism, ‘The speaker nl> loged that allot Tngersoti’s Jokes almed at that which is sacred may be found in old tntidel books pubis thor 10 this country or Eniland. ook and pago were cited in support of thie charge. The speaker was not prepared tu any where Ingersoll obtainod hig dirt, but ho can tell whore ho procured bis tlawers, Every ono of them wag culled from Christianity, and thon ho turnod and smote tho One who banded bin tho ougue: Whee Ingersol, Jootured In Boston a Christian man stool at the door of the ball und banded a oopy of tho Now ‘Testament to ouch perion as ho ontered the buliding. That man was wise. ‘Truth is the best antidote toerror; the Bible the best answor to Ingervollism. RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THE PEACE OF GOD, » Whe Rev. Dr, Herriok Johagon, the new pastor at tho Fourth Presbfterian Cyurab, corner of Rush and Superior streets, preached to o very Jargo congregation yesterday morning, senrcely n rent being vacant. Is text was: For tha Kingdom of God fs not meat and drink, but righteousness, and pence, and joy in tho Huly Ghost.—Romans, zie. Theso words, he sald, eteod in a connection which clonrly indicated tholr meaning. Waul wna discussing tha law of things Indifferent— things neither enjoined nor prohibited by tho Word of God,—and npplied this law to the dis- Unetion of ments, concerning which sone con- troversy had arisen among tho early Christians. ‘The Jows were disposed to bind the Gentile cons verts to thefr own customs, as observed under tho typleat dispensation of the Old ‘Testument. They still ching to many of the externale of thotr rituatistte service. evon though born anow of God under the new dispensntion; still re- tained many dlatinctions which bad been ens Joined under Mores, but whieh nelthor Christ nor His Apustles had mude charneteristio of the Christian religion. Among theso were diatino- Hons in regard to ments and drinks, Paul are sued for liborty in those non-essentlals, and yet hy sald, * Let not your good be cvil spoken of." The Inw of condelence and the law of love were higher than tho Jaw of lberts; aud must suuritica bis Mborty In obedlerivs to law of love. Christinnity did not consist of ax. ternalities—forins, ceremonies, and outward observations. Some mensure of forms war of course indispensable. Wo could not have an outward expression of Chri fianity—n yisllo representation of relige fon—Wwithout forma. But Christianity it- self, trite rellgion—that which was of God in Chirlt Josus—consiated of something interanl and spiritual, snmothing real and vital; rigtt- consness, and pence, and Joy. Men rate fondle furly prony to ‘cling to externals fn religious servic, -We were creatures of sicht and sense, Splritual reality was hurder to attain, and wo thd not Ike sclf-denial and Inbor, Form was a thing of manufacturc-a thing to be wnde. Sub- stance was by agoney of birth and tofl—n thing to be. Our reputation was what we came to bo thought of: our churacter what we came to be Reputation wus form; charactor was aubatt n Were prone to think more of thelr reputas thanof thelr character. Hence wa bad too b of the mechanical plety and too litte i tye Stemibapshtfy in tho chureb ranks was “ishionable now. siufering for Gad's sake utd the truth’s sake was not 89 common now as In old days: (twas not in avis now; and It was therefore probable that the Church had more to-dny in hor fold who made tho Kingdain of God fo consist of mont and drink than ape did in the stormy thes when It cost sumothing ta ace knowledge Christ and to be a professor of iodll noss, Novertheless, tho distinction of right and wrong, of tritth and erreur, of form and subs BANCO, Way ocernil, ‘The speaker defined righteousness to bo ripe- negs.—tmora} rectitude, conformity: to right rule, It was the foundation of the Kingdom of God,— of heaven In every man’s soul, and the supers structure too, A true religion was Wuilt on it. Every Christian chureb bad. this in itas warp and woof. Righteousness, Inthe mening of the text, wus for a mun so to live as to be properly denomlonted a righteous man —seeking tiith fully to alecharge all the duties he owed both to God and his fellow-mon. It wasn comprotien- sive term, having reference to what a inun wan and did ns as what he secmed and suid. We = eshoukt de justly in. all thligs before God, and not ng in tho sight of man. ‘Tho real testof religion wis not how wo kept tho Subbath, though keeping tho Sabbath was essentil; not bow many tines we suid our prayers Unt bow a niin lived and loved through: ho week fu bla funfly and not among men. Forms wero nothlug; lito was everything, “Dy their fruits yo shall know them. If any man bay not the Spirit of Christ he ts none of us.” Peaco was anothor constituent of true relig fon. Paul doubticss used the word in its largest sense, us implying concord with self, concord with the brethren, and concord with Gud. Christians forgot, this, Thoy sought for puuce, but did not find it. Tho renson wis that thoy Ignored the prior cgndition, Thoy wera more earnest about buving: pace than they wero about dulug righteousne:! low could a inn bo ht penco in heart whon he was not right incon- scluice? Wo hud so little of tho peuco of the Gospel because we hurt so little of tho rightaous- ness of the Gospel, Pence came from right rela. tion toGod, It was the fruit of obodienee, tho child of purity. ‘hero ene no pence, aud would be none, until mon did suatly, If sncleties, indl- yiduuls, and governments were puro they would 0 peaceful. ‘That peace wax en evil peace which shut truth out’of doors. If pence and truth could nut bo’ companions, if they inust wrt company, thon, by all means shut the door fo pentee. It would come by and by if we kept truth on our side, If assured of Christ's peace, then indeed was tho fingdom of Ged within us, We did not have ‘joy enough—tho Joy that enme from religion—Chriat'’s Joy. We had como to Jook upon it too much nen longing of the future. We neared to give it the present tanso, Joy was enjoined again and again us the duty of hellovers. | 1f we bud sung our miscreres when wo should have sung our exnitations it was ba cause we had falled to fulfil tha necessary con- ditions of joy. Joy without religion was but a Beet, wandering Hagur. It enme of tho Holy Shost, and lifted oye into tho divine atmos- phere: A soul with such Doseibillty ot joy within {ts reich defighted not in giltter ani gewsuws, in finery “6f food and dress, in tho ripgling and gabbiiog of entertainments gotten on tt tho Interest of the devil, ‘he Kingitom of God was within us, and that Kingdom wuy righteousness, and pence, and joy. How much of that fey, had bis bearers? How much of that pence aid they? Just 18 much us they bad of the righteousness, for that was tho tost and measure of the othor twa. Ho righteous, then,” be sald, in elosing, do Fight hence Just things and peace like a rh tl a How through your souls, and your joy uli? se INTEMPERANCE, THE EVILS OF STRONG DRINK, Tho Rev. F. A. Nobhy pruuched Inst evening to a large congregation In the Union Park Congre- gatfonal Church from the following texte: Wine isa mocker, strong drink 18 raging; and Phasoovur fa decolved thoreby is nut wise.— WOW, Ley Le : And to knowledge, temperance; and to tume perunco, ‘pationooy ‘and to paticnao, godlincss.— AL. Peter, 4,6. ~ 5 There wero two things, sali tho reverond gon- tleman, that he ndmitted in spewking of intem- porance, First, hu belloved that ono could bo intemperate In othor ways than through the ine Nucnce of strong drink: and, second, that a man might bo intemperateund glyen to excesses in many sensed. Mon were constantly pushing both body and mind into intemperanco by ex. cess of uppetite, lust, and unholy desires, ‘Tem- erance in the Beriptural senso wisi moditicn- Jon of overy appetite,-a porfect sclt-control, tho holding of overy bud tondenoy In checis, und tho inainteuntivo of an cqupolso tn ovory RGnsu, ‘Thore were tnuny other evils In the warld be- sido strong drink, and ta curu any one hundred misebiefs would fenve more work to bo done, The spenker, having mado both of those xdmis- sions, went on to suy that tn his judyment there was ne ono dyil sy threatening to Individuals and to the Btite, to. tha mental and ioral powers, a8 strony drivis. were alarming, but inteniperanco ‘ing monstor, as it feud to innumers NB. piynne whetted tho knife and eo the pistol of the nesusin. tt nerved the iucendtary to upply tho tore. Himaido the bright ninn stupld, and the beadstrong man a brute, It led to deeds of criminality and shumo, und mindo every sin wore, It scattered desolation, and sorrow, and death with (t. There wero nora broken constitutions, more cripples, more paupers, more erlininuls, more julls, morv policemen produced by the terrible iniluenco of strong drink thaw’ by nny other vil. ‘The seaffold lifted ite Hhootly form tuore fre- quently because of strong arink, und there were more broken honies, bitter feellugs, wives und mothers that die of broken hearts through ita ageney thin through that of any othor curse of mankind. The dexointion caused by estrone drink in evory walk of Hfe was duplotod by the spoakor in graphic langunge, a4 there was more uf everything that was bad, ald the revercil gentleman, so thers was less hteverythiug that was qood, Thoru was lose ordur, vss sunshine, less faith in God, less of Diving joy in our homes, Ther was more of helland less of hexven op earth on uvcount of this torrible curse, ‘Tho speaker thon asked what was the course of tho individual in the face of this evil, There wero three positions to be taken. First, ono might say ho would drink as muck as bo winited, whenever ho wanted, and whit ho wanted, and tuke the consequences. Becund, a main might say he would. drink moderately, taking an ve Hs sional Easege wine. Anil, thin, the position df total abstinence might be taken. ‘The first post tlon Was taken by common consent, a8 ie min peu 1d drink tu excess unless driven to ft, and It iid betwen tho two lattur grounis, ‘he kpeaker sild thut ho shokd way, witte Rreut omphusis, "Let Haver alonel’ tt Might bo wuld | thal tqwer could oe used without betny abised, but thers. were temptue tlons, and tho bust way was te Wet liquor alone, Yo ubstaln wholly was the prudent polloy, and tho tnun who did not touch bywor wie tho mute ono, One might think that be had Judgmont wud soll-peapect enough to withdraw when he was bolng drawn Into tho vortex, bat that man should beware, God bud said, Wine ts a mocker; stronk drink is raging." ‘Tho spenker Ukened tho growth of the drinking bablt upon men to the clluging of tho piriaita to tha trve,— Uttle and hinveunt-looking at test, but gown, until lt econ iet tho tree itscif und suatiered its soeds to begin tho destriction anew, ifow many scholara, staicsinen, hiwyers, and meatn tho bighor wilksof life bud Tolluwed ench other tute the decp abyss of drunkenness. Thoro wus no saurifice wins would vot maka for Hauor when once under tte turritic power, ‘The speuker vited sovorul Instances illustrating the downfall of men of high ehnracter throuyts the intuonce of ulcuhol. Whea he suw uy young: mn, aired his occasional glass of wine bo wus led with sorrow, us it wis impossible for any, man to touch liquor and not be conquered py if. The appetite for strong drink wus often con: evuled Inu nan's system, and only required a little cvaxlug to bring itout, If the futhor Kont soaked with tjuor hy might kauw that bo was laying utruln which would lend to un ox- ploslog ainong bia children utter bin. Arter putting fn a strong plea for total abstinence, the tpeakes related 9 little pollce-court episode ilustrating the depths to which a man might bo brought by whisky. + There were two arguincnts put forth for tho modvrate uso uf Hquors. Onu was that it was nore: Heuniy bat couragrous to take nnocea- wional drink than torefuse, The reverend gen Heman had no wish to disaipate this elnim, still ha deemed tt much safer tora mat to abstain ontirely from the uso of liquors, Tho Lord bad eud, “Load us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," and this strong drink wits a temptation, The apooker held that it was more manly to refuen fr these times, when every sideboard bad its decnnter, when the arlonns were made sonttractive, and when ¢cluts wero organized almply for indulgence In tha cup, Drinking on the part of one man encouraged drinking on the part of others, and not na few are toppled over by bad examples. Longfellow haa put theso words {nto the mouth of tho angel: “Touch the gobiet not; it will make thy heurt sore ta ita core.” Dr, Noble said. tn conclusion, that hn sbould continue the topic next Sunday evening and apeak on “The Rolation of Law to the Traffic In Tntoxicating Liquor.” Ho had been a Maine min, knew the Sones of the Liquor Jaw in that State, and would Iike to expiain it to cor- rect orroneous Impressions about it, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. SERMON DY THE REY, MR. LESTER, Tho Rov. Churles Stantey Lester preached yesterday morning in St. Paul's Episcopal Chureh, Hydo Park, from Jobn, xlv., 18: “ Jesus sald unto His disciples, ‘If yo tove Me, keep Sy oummandinents, and [ will pray the Fathor and Ho sbull give you anothur comforter that he may abldo with you forever, sven tho Spirit of Truth, whoin tho world cannot receive, because it aeuth Him not, nelther knoweth bim; but ys know him, for bo dwolleth in you and shall be in yo ‘There {sno fact or feature of the Cbriatinn falth, tho speaker sald, moro strongly assorted in dogma and yct less influential in tho practical affairs of life that that which concerns the bu- ing and working of the Spirit of God, We con- fens In the Crued that ‘wo believe in tho Huly Ghost, and = yet . often without — tho. slightest consciousness ns to what or why wo he- love, perbaps evun with w prejudice aguinet the term “ ghost" Inberited from our chiidboud’s terrors. But we make this confession because tt §s purtoftho universal creed of Christendom, We nro willing to assent to tho proposition that: the Holy Ghust te the third person of the Trinity, because this Is the orthodox und catholic tradt+ Uon, und yet It isa muttor of futellectutl theol- ogy, which exerts no iniluenee upon the pruc- tleul affairs of life. We will ucknowiedye that the Holy Ghost spoke by the prophets beeatac romance has elevated the Hebrew prophets Into tho rank of giperbumuan men, We ttre ready to the sume concern the Christian Apostics, who buve seemed to us te ftand upon a unique platform of rpecial Diving favor. In fuct, the multitude of Christian men are substantially agreed tbat centurios ago there were strange doings by, the Spirit of Gud iu human affairs, manifestations and propbecies, and gifts und powers, {nspira- on of truth and Divine ambitions for a better Ife poured Into human heurts, but by slow de- grees this new Divine inluence begin to fade away, und that now for many bundred years tho Chriatiun world has been obliged to ‘draw ita knowledge of truth entirely from tho Insplru- uon for n better life. ‘This widespread, batf-confessed bolicf of the present day 1s lurgely tho outgrowth of r- munee, the pleasing drupery which time weayes for history, and amounts ton sileut confession that tho world ts retrograding, that tho belps and tnducements to live grand, divinely humun lives have been growing. continuutlly ‘less, im- piuine, tho hulf-confessed excuse that if wo bird ved in the days of the prophets we would bave thrown no stones, as the nen of thelr gen- eration did, or if we had bad the benefit of apos- tolio provcning, wo would have vied with Bt. Paul in his zeul for the conversion of the world, Adintration for tho paat has been a woakness of oyery age and the comfortable excuse for appre- eiating the opportunities of tho present and tnuking tho present a new era of growth in the Kingdum of God, Thore {sno doubt that the theologians baye been lurguly to blame for cro- ating the Impracticnl aspects of the Christinn faith, for they hive been more anzious to estab- lsh the fucts of the past than to Impress men with the opportunities of the prescnt. But while wo are poet i to grant the fete and gind to tracetho working uf the spirit of God in ancient: duy's. what we need most to know and believe for our present help fs that the spirit of God fs still workiug among mankind, and to trace the manifestation and realize the puwwer of that Divino influence to-day, It seems to me that if we are to haven practical belief concern- ing God, ff He is to bo more than a name which ouncentrites the awe and reverence for tho un- known, we must recognize Iilm not only: as tho intelligent trstonuse of all existing things, but ag the sourco-and origin of every form uf Life every variety of force. Noone has been able to tell us yot what life ts or what forcols, Science may tefl us someot the laws which govern life, and deduce Its formulns frum the observed operation of the forces. It muy show tis that so subtle and intangible a form ns thought {s convertible Into force, and that tho various forces aro convertible into cach. othor; that the forces combine to muke life, but it always arrives in ita reacarchesnt n Rreatun- known, and cannot tell us what itis that gives Mifa its vitullty or force {ta power. Tho name for the unknown in all ages ~=has — beun God, and when aotonce reuches ita mit tt becomes n new ro- yealor to mon of God na tho suurce of force and Lfs, uniess we are all to accept tha Impossible sion that the Infinit adaptedness of the sprang from nothing by chance. This c now bellef, or old belief revived, which sclonca niust impress more and more upon the con- solousness of men, will muke the universe scem more of n house tind household, and God more of A prosent reality us tle in whom we Hive, and Move, and have our boing, The worll and ull that it condemns will be n constant rovelation of the one vital energy that comes from God, and in using and controiling forces in guiding and cultuvating Hves we shull bo in reallty, and not by povtic license, fallow-workers ‘with God, Botting uside us irrelevant to our present those munifestations of Divine energy whieh we call forces, and crossing the arbitrary Ino botween force and life, wo note four definit forms of life didoring from ench othor as tt would uppear only fn the degree and Iutonsity of tho Tapered lfe, In the vegetable world wo havo life appurent- ly unconscious of everything, developing its Kruco and beauty, unfolding (ts flowers and ripening ita frults fu blind obedience to the forcea Which constitute tte biddon Jif), and yet with a fuint approuch to consciousness in that: tho plant will turn towards the sun and strike its roots tawnrds thu ricbest earth, thus seeking those conditions most favorubto to the dovelop- ment of ite Hfe. Inthe animal world we havo life gifted with one form of consciousness, lifo consclous of its surroundings, but not of its self, life able to sock and anjoy tts awn com fort and gifted with on instinct as to ita awn tieeds and tho meana of supplylog them more unerring than tho rowson of man, In tho higher Corins of auimal life there is 80 nenr an * approach to life in its human form of self-con- aciousness that the clusest observers are inable ta determine whother the noblost autmals do not form olour distinctions botween thomselves and the world around them, But this ts the distinguishing foature of life tn ts human form,—the viear consciousness of sult, the ubility to rmaon, and the power to uct upon the outafde world. If humanity wore not 80 ull a story, If we had not grown accustomod to mankind's ability ie contro! and ganitim to create, owe shoul bu. overwhelmed at the possible magnificence of tho human mind already shown nt the raidour of tha Homun powers, nnd roallze man {ini ne tn reniity ehitdren of God,und that thorn ape bit ‘one nore stop between the buguan and vine, And this one step {a tho third form of con- selous life, tho cunsolousness of God.—ol God asretated to us,of God as dwelllug in us, of God ne lending us on to tho fulleat development of His own (inpartod Ute, There ara wradutions also In the fines of men from brutality to godli- ness, from mero sensuous axistence to conscious vlavionship with a Heavenly Fathor, gradations vatablishend LA heritage and surroundings, and ye no sie rigid fottors oxist thie min mity not, tho will, browk thom and tranaplint himself into mora favorublo surronuiings for tha develope nent of his Hite. The universal cons¢eiquancss af (uit fuct Isone of the most rual elumonts in the prictieal life of tho world ite {8 bound to thos» conditions in which {t tint unfolds: but that every nian is froe to follow the best umbittona which appeal to bine to fitprove tila condition tn Ute. Tn thy old day: snetons, und tn vountel ths would not hold tru: but in Burope and America tho Individualiain provess tas been going on for three buudred Yours, prewhing (ho new gospel of individual Opportunities and individual reaponsibilitios, and supplying the tirst condition of progress tn tho synse of dissatisfurtion with things as thoy are, ‘No longer is the wountry buy duntont to live and die within the nurrow Hryits of bis ane euttral firm, oa ois fathers wore, Mit must obsy tho Napisy to go out inte a turgor world and to onter into a hirger ffe,—to onjuy, to Hecomip lab, to ncquire things that bad never entered into his futbor'a drowms. Aud the result ty not only his own vnhirgement in sympathy and power, but that from the same cause, within this present ounbury, this Httle oarts of ound bad been ting: formed juta a totally wew world, ‘Chis ta but an Mustration from the human development in muiturlal things, but it indicates the method of avery vurlety of human yrowth,—thrst diasntls> faction, then an tdeal, and thon & conselous tins pulse tawards tho fileal, What can this impulse ho which fvads n man out of bis narrow spbore into nabler opportinities of powor, ut anew quickening from tho only source of Ufo, a new Destowul of the vital forvo from the Spirit of tho diviug God? U1 dows not oltor the fact becauso men do not kuow aud recognize the power thut is Joadiny thom, because seme men hive not the knuwl+ anlge 0} . Itdoes notulter the fact that the Inipuléo ts Divino, becauso ew powers are su often eres to ovil, becauso overy progress in civilisation becomes 8 progress int © appor. Ta ay vies. ae may, coat oe uro is prodigy! H cir race sos rod bes! Antinit alroams of new mi rigid clitaa di where caste prove w power to humanity, that here and thore one and anothor from among the childrva of mon juuy reooxnuize that all tho hum powers aro gifts of God, and so opter upun thy ful} cousclousness of God aa He that dwellcth in us, us Ho with whom and for whont woure to work fur tho complete developmeut of ourselves and uy felluw-mou, Tninediate results of the Divine lavishnoss are disappulnt- log; but when we judgy tho world by cunturice we find that humauity has wonderfully duvel- oped in tho kugwledyo of God, What (git that that no man’s: has placed the Hebrew prophets tipon their grand pinnacle of honor befor the world? fA. spiration? Most certainly; the consciousness of God, and right, and duty: and thoy shing by contrast, since they were the only mon in their day and generation who were nob wholly given up te brutality and Hcentiousness; men who dared fo-herte in the name of God againat tho wickedness of court, priesthood, and peupla, All honer to their falth and bravery: but ono of thein belleved and sid that tho timo waa coming when # pruubet should not be unique among mon, but wi tho shirt of God should bo poures out apon all tlesh, and the whole world be of the knowledge of tho Lurd as tho waters cover tha sen. ‘That time bas suroly not come yet, but ts it not coming? Where onco thore wns but n single tnan to protest againet mn ocean of Inlqufly tharo are now 1 million of men and mora as fully conscious of the presence of Almighty God, nv atrong In their convictions of human rightand humun duty ag wus fealih when he thundered in the name of tho Lord of Hosta, and ns heartily sorry for tho sins of men as when Jereminh wept over tho coming destruce Mon of Jerusalem, We speak of tho Christian Apostles asinepired, and au they were, fully conseluus of the prozenea: of God within them, fully conscious that thelr Master had Intrusted to them the glad tidings of etornnl iife, fully conscions that tho world needed tobave their messaye, aud thotr living faith made thetn brave and strong. | But if wa nre to fdentlfy usurpation with infallibillty and argue. ns men have nreued, that every apostolic utterance isthe voice of Gaito men, then wo must choory between two conclusions, Hithor the Pope fs an infallivle oracle to-day or tho Divine hetps to men to became faithful soldiors and servants of thoir Lord are infinitly fewer in tho nineteenth century than in the frst. Wo cannot accept elther conclusion, and there- foro must assign infallibility to God alone, regarding Inspirution us the foundation in individund hgarts ofa new development of Ife, tho conxefotikness of God, the consciousness of our intimate Telntionsiit with Him as sons to it fathor,of the unity of Divine and human ine teresta, of the cooperation of God with inet for thonttalnment and accomplishinent of nit that fs tru and beautiful and som, It is this consciousness und this alone which makes fife real and gives ita meaning which presents us objects that will not disnppolnt, ambitions that will not mock, Visions that will not fade away. Men inay beltove that there sn God as a con: veniont exphiinationof the existence of the unt- verse, thoy iy clothe Him with attriiutes cx- pressive of thelr reverence and fur, but this Is tnerely cold phllosaphs tion, nnd supplies ne tn emtbusinsin for the thin; Christian tn we bu or ignorant superstl> wpleation of m happy that ure good. AS nothing to do with such tunsatlefying vi jess, but must labor to make renal to ourselves Our Lord's revelation of God us flta Fatherand our Father; our Father, who bas imparted His lifo to usasn motive ower, and yiven us work tudo. Here is where, inspiration becomes a practicable mutter of tho daily life, Our work in this fife fs manifold in its variety to dig or bulli. to buy and sell, to write and think, set, these are but the individ ul orbits whleb circle round the central sun of tho righteousness of Christ; these arc but the sepurite means by which cach one is tu work tow~ ardathe perfection of the churacter of ovr Lord, This ia tha definit: work that our Father bag aiven us todo: to build upa moral kingdom in this world. to govern und train ourselves that wo may be lights to lighten othor men In the way of Pattonce and perseverence, honor and love, When we come out upot this brond piano of moni! consciousness, where lowship with God, where not sume indafinit or grievous burden, but our Father's work, and where right is no longer an abstraction, but our Lord's ehar- acter to be formed inus, thon wo ure actully horn again into. a now Ifa, we havo recelved a new gift from that inflnit stream of life which pours from the fountain of existence, and wo are ns truly inspired and Mled and helped and tided by tho eplrit. of God xs any mou who ever ived. Evory new intlux of Ife will ufect men in different ways, but it {a not at ull necessary that tho veritable gift by the spirit of God should show Itself in great omotional exaltae tion. A sober enthusiasm, paticnt, persistent, and consistent, will accomplish murs thin any audden burst of devotion. The ability to ens dure, the power's bo falthful In little things, the Blrength t) say om, Will Botanbertanays. the world than any gener of fanaticism. We do not need men tw say of us ua of the Apostics on the day of Pentecost: “These men urv full of new wine.” Their now burst of life hud to settle fteclf = and otuke its beurinys for the conilict. befure they wero ready to enter upon their mission to the world atiirge. But ruther lot men say of us, “Those men are honest and fulthful, always consistent, always reliable, and thoir faith is no fantom of tha intellect, but the dufinit Ihe of tho life of the Son of Mun shining in thelr tives, ‘Tholr Lord and Master is yeritably living in them and thoy in Him." Such, men and brethren, is our Christin goal. Nouncertain glimmer, no vaguo dogmatiem, but tho sume Spirit of the Infinit whose fullness made our Lord divine, dwelling In us to raise ug up to the higher lovel of the Divine maniiness of the suns of God, je grandest. manifestation of the spirit of Gol in human hearts is neithor prophecy, nor Bpeech, nor knowledge, but simply tha chr. ity that suffereth long and (s kind: that hopeth and endureth and never falleth; the love of our Heavenly Father, and sincere brotherly kind. ness towards our fellow-men,—such nre tho gifts and manifestations of tho Spirit of God, the real Inspiration of which we are to look and work in ourselves and othors, Let us, therefore, more fully realize our prayer, that our Heavenly Father would cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Ills Holy Spirit; that be would give us the Spirit to think and to do such things as are right; and, bythe same Eptrit, grant us to have aright Judgment tn alt Yilegs: pemetaver lag he rengun- ablenes® of our Lord's declaration: "If yo, beln evil, give good gifts to your children, how muc! More shall your Heavenly Futhor give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Hin?" SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK. ‘TNE AMERICAN UNION, Spectat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, WULADELPHIA, Pay May’ 13,—If tho religion of the Bible fs to prevail no inore sure or price tical method of helping forward to this most do~ sirable end can possibly bo found thon to begin with the children and yuuth: honce the Sunday- schoo! has buvomoe almost uolversally popularin Trotestant countries, Its orlinal purpose wus to teach the truths of the Bible tu neglected children, [t sprung {nto betng aa a missionary effort wolely, and for a thie wus curried forward asauch., The churches found it valuable and adopted it ns partof ita work in the local church, Tt has become ono of tho mostauecussful feeders of the Church, and in genera! the plunver of church life as well ng its nursery. Still this fact does not diminish the finporuince of mlasion Sunday-schual work where other ngencles huve not yet broken preuna ‘The tifty-sixth anniversary of the American Bunitay-sehoo! Union, buld in Broadway ‘Tabor nacle, New York, the past week, furnishes facts in proof of this. ‘Yne Union {8 pretminently the ploncer Sun- day-schval misslunury society of our lund. Lust yeur ite missionnries planted on average of vs hew Sunday-schools per day, alded cight ols schools per day, aud distributed thirty-seven Bibles aud Testaments perday, Sinco it was ors anized {t bus brought 2,016,6% scholurs into Sunday-scboo!, aud cnilered 141,085, persone us teachers. Tho cost hus boot oly €2,010,698.80, It a botter record bas over been iwade in pruc- ten! Christian work we have yet to ecg it. No wonder then, thut such men us tho ov, Rien Thowns, D. b, the Mev. J. Niccults, D. D., and the Rev, E. P. Goniwin consented to ap- peanen. tho platform of Broad ay Tabernicle just week to plend for the American Sundays School Union, They knuw practically, of tho work, from having seen it. Butoundors not need to seo n work Uko thts to know It is duvaluable, who velloves tu the Bible and bas uny fuith i tenchin it to children. Whother people belleve it or uot, thore {s tobe. a test puttoour religious systitutions in tho yours come, that. will not have bud a preces Wont In our National history. Dr. Goodwin culled: attention to this, and urged It upon the attene Hon of the audience, fi imight ve a question of National Ute with us. He referred to the vnat- ness of the areut New West--jurser tn ny than the old Roman Etptre when in ber day being poopled by a multitude from Europe. Yn sone uf tho new ‘Territories instinitions un~ friendly to the Gospel and Christlin progress and morutity: even had gained a foothold and were shaping the laws to form tholr abom- fnatlons wid ayuinat Christianity. Lf those gront ‘Territoriva are ty be beld for good order, law, and Christinuity,tho dunduy-school, be Celt, is to Baye ny important part in doing 1G He invited mon ob wealth to look to thts Held and work aan profitable and invitieg ene in which to do Fut with thelr monoy, ‘The Union bad nota single missionary in sume of these Territories, When 4o inuch wasdeponding upon the planting of tho {nstituulons of the Gospol, at the very beginulag: of things, Dr. Niccolla assured merchants and muuufact. urers hut this was an fuvestment that would pay back tothem dollar for dollar, for Bible Kivowled © promotes intelligence and sobriety, and thrift, Buch communitica bave mora want te bo suppiied than the A irae degraded, und improvident While this waa not tho highest motive for benevulonce, tt was a prictical one. Me bad seon the work in thy Southwost and kuew wheroot he wpoko when ho assured the people this was emlnuntly successful fu that whieh it claimed to do, tle came not to say yleasant things to please tbe officers nf tho nluns he spoke because be bad convictions on tho slibject based upon uctual knowledge of the ite means fel- duty means et8, Der, Thomas betloved tn tt heenuso if wast Union work for Diblo @tudy. It went into the eparsoly sottled communities and brought tho poople together, as nolghbors and friunds to study tho Word of God, ‘This wus one of tho vory best methods of raising up an intelllgont constituency for churcbes when tho tine cones for forming them, GERMAN OATIIOLICS, MEETING IN BT, LOUIS. : Br, Louis, uy 16—The Gurman Roman Cath- olic Association of the United Status, which ombraces some 85 sepurite societive, baving a incnibervhlp of ayor 25,000, will mest bere to- morrow in ite twonty-tfth anuual session. Twenty-two Statos are expected tu be rupro- sented on this occasion by about 200 dolegates, ‘Tule belng the twenty-fifth oonventios of the Association, it was celebrated to-day as the bllver jublice by uppropriaw rellglous serylocs 7 Inthe morning and an Immense and imposing parade this afternoon, Great crowds came ta!:) the city frum within a radius of -100 miles, and an excursion party of several hundred arcived from Cineint muti. AM these people, together with tho largo number of home soototion, deles sites from abroad, church dignitaries, ang others, Jolned In the of tho longest ever even In the city. Tho Cons vention will be in session four days, and ox- Paces to transact an uutsual amountof buste a8, MISCELLANEOUS. AMERICAN TIDLE SOCIETY. Loviaviuw Fr, Ky May 16.—Tho sixty-fourth sion, making {tone , anniversary of the American Dible Society was, , held at Broadway Tabernacle in this city this + nfternoon, whero an audience of 3,000 gathered, giving close nttentlon for two anda half hours to the interesting exercises. An address welcome was Kavanagh. ond response made by tho Rav Melenn, Corresponiting Sceretary of A résumé of une v2 Sohn Newman, Scudder, Mi: and the ev. ee De. the Svclety. jwcloty for te by the Rov. iven by the vonerabio Bi the work of tha was presented Elo- the D,, Naw Orleans; Hlehop Newman, 1. D., and the lonary ta India, Us hn AMonback wore present us deputation from the General Confore an services in! held In eight the city. WastttxaTon, D. Muet ley tend nls iy ing in the chureh ts invite the Wi acasion at Cinciinatl. ‘To-night union ho Interest uf the Soolety ara bulng orten of the hirgest churches Iv RESIGNED, ¢ May 1,—Tho Itev. Clay pastor of All-Souts' Churob, | hi resignation. ‘Thers Isa. 3 Rey. Robert Colle yer, of New York, to asstrme tho pastorate. . BUNDAY ONSERVANCE. Tho Congregational Churoh was filed thir evening with « public meeting In tho interest_ ob Sunday obsurvance, preme Court, inany Senators, Representatives, and citizens occu} Suntics Biron, of the presided, and President Haye: prominent the platform, : pled suit: MARINE NEWS. WOME GA'TIERINGS. On her Inst t DOCK NOTES, é rip down the lukes the schooner Chate* Jotte Koad te anid wo hnyo wet 91) bushels of grain through a defective stup-water In her centre-bosra’ bos, Capt. Richard Tyrroll, of the tug Htobort Tarrant, has returned from ni trip to Buffalo, and witl put bts tug In commission (o-day. ite pull tive J. Ta Thue and Willie Hrown, nw inntch yesterday, botween the litte su.ted in favor of the lutter. The attendance was email and mainly abscur 110. ‘The steamer Flora carried not less than 700 excure slonists to South Chicago yesterday. THE NEW YORK WATERWAYS. | OMWEGO'S GRUDGE AGAINST NUFFALO. . New York Herald, May 0. Wo print to- day a further instatimont of our intere esting vorrespondonce relating to the trade of New York as It may bo affected by the completion of the” Welland Cant from Uawero, al enlargement. ‘his letter, writter sPrevonts views of yraater tucal than, general interost. Ib ian matter.of comparative in= difference tot 0 TOILE, aI Usweuo. All thot Now Yew York cares wraln trade for exportation comes: route, and It willing to neo he City of New York whethar Wealerg Sheator wersrates, 4 foristbat the this elty by sonia favors the choapwat route. Ttinauita Usrrego vellyso tutula tf the swore would prov. fowurdors can underbid tele Huftuty rivals in the Price of freiunta, But they need Awake indeed, 4 they aro avacloun. entorprising, slocpl tu by very wide fro to steal @ warch on and indomitable lduluatine, Oh uve aluplenh sistomont uf the caso em to ide of all the advantages woul reel ‘on the si ‘The wisiance by cant from Orwoxo to New distance from But Liswega. York only bait tho Tt won “ork, expected, Welland Canal was ‘Openers facie greater part of the tite Uaweto. tt cago could Uris withaal w complotels, or tour time: could pass. cont of frelan of the vossol enauzh was saved In vai diate would divert ‘the. the Uppor Lakes to us aerued tht ossels louding at Chie ae‘iown Lake Ontario as wol ty therefura a8 breaking bulk, und Lat by stortent canul navigation by one-hult tho Wnevitably pass throught York. ‘Tho Ls to New lans upsct that caleniation er heen buildlog luke vessels of three wv tho ‘eapacity ut the Inrgest, whinit hroush tho Wellund Canol As Lis diminished in propurtion to the oi Take froithis ute Burtt Averbulanes the nuusiap canal route, end Wullaly tee tained its Aupromaed, ive UnlaredWolland Canal may, perbaps, a8 Oswego wis Mave some re Welland wints nit can the pi en benedt and appinud {1s enenty und spirit. re Cannt is opened. ‘Tho Drupority tu that enterprising 1 partially redress this disadvantages an camplotely folled before, sue will on for distrust after the eninrszod "ho people of New Yarie. Utgle Lawn, uftalo by ros rozand teas But te on take mwny tho truly of ried of frelzhis wo shall expect to be judyed, not by Its expectations, but by Its success tn fultiling theme s " By UYPALO, O8WEGO'S LOGY. ante Herald correspondent, writtng from Oswego, 8 not quit iyo to threntan 1 ts Usweyo's bi of the Tyaltny Yam quit their turbulent, 4 them to Hultato, to aura that Oxwogo's fours mothers clitldren by, snying they wilt "ax Peruvian mothers used. faarre on their offspring; but nes, navertholoar. , hoid {8 pometning here that Buide. © bosirid row world like a Colussue.” and thot, comumorelally sheaking, Osweuann have’ only at present 10 * peop abont und find dishonorable graves. It was aurey Out of. this channel of thought thata prominaat Ose weran, whose fuc bare mention u nt the bare mention of the new Welland eban= the siniles: Hol eatd: “itis God'n not pre Notte Oniario birth by Huttul unk. ‘Tho ut! verbial, and tho way Hutfato has lovked after numt one to thedetriment of number to would til volume if wpread upon the record, But trom a suiliclently vloraied polntot view: fC hearing of tho threste and the matt ta be ont ont thy buliding of Nathing tens, tt apt the Buttalontah an American ith wan bellored moment, butorv, olinded ab Butalo, and now wreathod in procitenco tn Oswego that Duftslo cats Vu jo InHueNcO ERvE KOIUE Holst to the re- tor avliisunens of loca) trade 18 pron or natout ooking Bt complaluta on, Hoth sides tt can bo safely afirined that Oswero has yet an inimortant part to ta inles af the country. Ino of wator comtounteation between th Dene ast perl, whlel r it the gre way uround th Fly tt co.amursinl dies ts altuation te eeriainty on the sad runing 1 wil at hal wuny of thom yet Mnde= five lt permanently & high place ting places of commerce on sta 0 work, GENERAL NOTES, Bi ‘Tho stenmebi Clemons with a lund of stone, AM-DARGE ACCIDENTS, wary Florence, on hor way to Mount wrung ® feak on Lake St. Clatron Thursday evening, und tiled so rapidly that ning curd: In order to bri found on examination her port bow. mate cnn tell he 7 stave ity js of atone had to be thrown ovorbuard ng tho Ivak above tho water. lbwos that a lurco holo had beoa although relther Captain nor No there, ‘Ihe bow was with ove {Laci mien diMeully bronybt to Detroit, woure the damase wil ba required, fhe stenmi-targe Morning Star Jost the key from. ow shaie while coniiny down the St. Clale Hivor, on, ‘Thursday, ‘The wheal by the ruriter, trott unuer sal anothor koy.-% wndthy, binge tnnagud ty Foxe Les }yostueduy, whore dames Quign putin fruit Bree Presa, bth, LAKE PORTS. UETROIT, Spectat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Detnott. Mich. Say 1—Passed uo~Propollors 8. Paul, Avantic, Commodore, Prussia, Juntats, Warers Jy, Arieunuzstonm-barges Chauncoy Lurlbut and coa~ fort, If. Howard and barges, Inter-(ouatr, Ub. ness und barges, and bargoy a lun, dation, aker 1, Gnnner, [uss Albany, Chains ‘Turne: + raer and bi Sine May und baryer, Cle runt and consort, wud Ontonazon wndda City and consort, fandont, B, F. Uruce, lig Niugure Pour ItunoN, Sic! Jers Colorado, Bt, tn Vaverly, J. urea, Intor-Ucean und eumart. Uuran Ui ows sorta, James Davison and culisort. sin ware, iloney, aghoonors Ho bY Gentil Tan He P Aiartataie pown-Propoiters {luxati, wroum Alfred, Wind~southy van achounera Hol Bawyor, A, Hi, Halley, honey Awe . WY, in hth tenmer Pearl: Molyina, Ellen Danial 8 Tate: ont Tihatie, womory, Hopunli chuonors men ‘Monwungun, BLsryuobte, OFT dene Kershaw, W. IL, Berouun, Lersf rt onurs Choncy. men Oryaslar. Oe= Col, Cook, ‘Tim i. “Maret, Slontani, Carling Mone Alaska und eansnrt, Bata sierapeltors -\tnska 1 e in Uridacatiede and ssnooners Nolte Li. duines Viske. dr, Cuba, Soothe, at. salt, Me iu s i. Caras chouner Senstor, Kingtsuers as, Hollycrnss wn jwnin and ‘consortia, Muy Ik-Paasad Up=Propel= Nukntig cuenuodire, Doras Hulbert wnid co: fund batyes, I me, Wiltan ian, Urls, Jinnna, Ce th id barges, ¥, echt wanite ye ve Doanes tus setigaiane inst, We iy. Big eauUtidat, Cuindua Cd Nise. Storry, , G. ftoustitan, Vela ty Montcalm, Munturey, tonte wok, Mighty weather tuo, CLEVELAND, Snyctal Dispatch to The Chlenga Tribune, VE Do Muay Ith entorad—Propollur Core ‘Marien Wall, Bara reat Hui, UT. lisredupan, Arizons, Duluth, mer enrad—Prope wndiag: Rounoksy Avun Chl mero andisgy er. Bs. Mural, Cytlingtord, fumyers Chitayo. cont: Jury Portaxe, oval} Canto Gualt dang ull, Afiiwauked, eee AMNELATUOTG, Bpretat Disyateh to The Chicago Tribune, AMITENHTBL br = 1a, Ont, May Id~The Prince Alfred folcusud thy seuodnor Auyusta, ashure at North ur rout, tody, I ie wha ous tired feel, wut bauble uf cart uid ty be lulivered, sho wis broudae ty abled Spectat Dispatch to The Chicago Pour Cou Schooner Feutoe, wid La now tranaterey cuud On hur voyars not tual ry bor: ite oppoalt Auihersl to Partie Ligue by the tug Hovtor, ames pe ner OBIE, thy steaia-barge Stormy 1s tas dies POUT COLUUENE, 3 c or ht: sat night riage, Sant UN, Muy 16—Passed Wade! Charlotte tu, propolior Alum Aluurv, Stoairea! to Erle, weny: ro, ‘Arrived jo-da: SN eCoe 0 at y~Schoonors China, Eile of jon, Nis tor, ANtolOpe, Bi anit id propoller City of we Catbariggs, * eu, Bpectal Dispatcr to The Cateaga Tri: Eis, Mi — yrcalisuar propeller thous: Propel! ene pails Alouna, ore rn, Taledus propeller Frindivill,!éehoonera. U, Hl. Wwedks and Seopeuke, City. ropeller Junin Rhous, liyht Toledu; prppuiles Al Special Dis Escanana c veilus wend AL, Be murchandise, Chicago; ry ENCANAMA. é tch to The Chtbsoo Tribune * Mich. May ik—Arrived—I'ru alters Talend: schooners Conattiaton done qiitahell, Burortev, Lupetite, Jeaes Bucy wen, and Hertha i oaiiats Mudipailer, GaWavv ascot Hale Hunt, D. D. Corresponding Seerotiry, | showing increased work and ellicioncy. quent and atitring addresses were mado. by "4 ie ulmer, D. Z Key, W. BP, les und ratty.