Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1880, Page 5

Hi CUICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8. Pe instend tho, sktos * wero eat for many weeks after the calm Had faiien anid Moselyoolte! had plucked, aprile bined, aummer’s ‘last rege. And bo- gs aieiporchurds blossomed a socond tino, a Camaro one tables from tha wanton s, drcombicr ‘Phi, In our awakened epoch tho of frosts keep away? from tha mind and usual frovre aunaning folie oa nttd ony cud bart era are. all covered over nant with sev Sealure of early life. ath may be that Inan thors ert many wit too hAkd, and dig too spot, activo er iiven ure Who ann Held irinly to thate put overt inbora nan bowNtiCul garment is Doth dutica an immed by a eirdie. TLIs ft rodlecalig old and wire aroneration that ie a fav are dos feat ed by toll the thousnnds of noble men and struyed My Mont alive by it, alive Hot onty in omer tin soul, In these tutor years tho mind body: tiated not to dently, but into life, Bs atin tie up How nnd dttractvo pursuits the Jorn gulenes hus only mado tnan's oxistenco ae ‘and cieher, ih posalbilities at lenat, nnd, As fullerecproable, sn tho reality. hare 1s no fe tiratlun ang Linger to drouniy indulenco, for femptnt My been ronvored tare niteactivy than ices tum cum dignitate ja a motto that enmo Fenn front AD ernot Inziness und of sinves, for comm tenn and cuinult-of this contury tho’ tile mat pas no dignity, Leahor cum dignitate {8 tho yt CHINO, alin ne, 8 boll! oud enters aa ndropof carmine tat colors all tha contents of the crystal oup. If tis fecllug moy be cold in aome fow hearts, tt wits warm in, tho suule of Our fathors and mothers, aud when w+ able to deting tho thought and piexe ite worth the doubttnlanesof ourday aro stil oneampassenl by the off faith, and wee touched with its pathos, In Intolleotunl hours thoy will doubt, but when A howe friend pnases dawn Into Ue grave tho! ‘will Join with tho most devout Cheistian in shu ding toara of hope, of reunion. In tho lofty ont, old ne” Is Dullosophy of the pres therefora not on desert fu the carth, bt on continont, rich in resources, Ita prodiucta, its. f 1% ‘Nowerr and inlld and peaceful In ita aky. Whore tha thost violent pisalona have becume softened tho mind learns to take a wide survey. and tho heart doubles Its love to all and deser.a no one, In that continent mon forgive, and re forgiven, Wornan ta. beautiful in mind and soul, and this ehifrm tnnices up features too divine to be per- eelved: by pele or Romin, Here tho hewrt ceases to be ecetarian, and Leeones rellglous, Here oupaesies fashion throwa away her deas potle svoptre, bere Juwels diminish upon tho person, and simplicity tke that of the blue sky or of tho rca’s bosom eomos buck to that mini from which St wna driven by the fantasies of Pouths And across this pautioent fenrad ‘by all, t is inserlbed upon the modern | but by all to be entered, shinos tho warm’ sun went Avie is inscricied iquustry ie cntling | beans ofu second Wee ce fhe old men out from thalr fate hearth-stonos ——— and is making tho firo remain longer intho cyo DR. 'TILOALAS. jon alow lonuer in tho soul. Snoir- Pat et un tonud fro In tho streots and there {s_ no crowd of rude urchins tomake any gport of thoso who thus carry the omblem of fhur-ecoro years. Having thus binished second ehilldneod by Its apy of notion, the materialism: yooh unites of our tty inimaking man walk Upright ond uuntit he fails lulo the tomb, Rut what has most sceured for gray hairs tholr rightful honors has heen tho gradun wnfoldiny of tho merits of tho cnse. ‘hat progress 0! fhougbt which ling tneuvered the hidden Oxure of Nverty, or of education, or of a wide roilgion, or has unvelied tha powers of tatire and «iver us the uscful arts, hns approached manhood or womunbood as (eatands upon tho Inter border of Tite and has guld, Lot us meditate by thee. Let ys nicaairo the intrinsto, value of that mortal whose feet 160 nppronciiing. slowly tho inovit- Mio grave.” Madern thought Investigates alt things. Heaven itself Is not too bright nor hell tou dark for tts aight. Tt even nttomnnts to gon- Jyzo tho bulng of God, to tearn whothor Deity 1s a person, arf power that inakes for righteous: peas", Such fn sroused intelligence hing come to annlyzo both tho morning and evening of nikin’s enreer, and ft haa passed anew verdict upon what {6 oulled life's decline. As it holdg sacred tho Ifo of child and surrounds thoir youth with all pleasures, and Instrietton, and sollui- tude, ao it seas all of our Inst yents in nv tiew Aght, and crowns with wnusual laurels tho tum- os wrenthed with snow. = Pormit oe to placa Beroro you not a collection of the ponris gath- ered Indeed by anothor Land. The wregt Ger- man poct soll: “Ao toos not make ua childs 4sh, but {t docs lend us back to the slinplicity of¢ ebildren.” Blessed thought that thore are yours: coining which will ysk tho mind to cast nado tl that fs trifling, todiminish the number of forte ela and tho dazzlo of toilct, and wilt tenderly Jead us toward tho most clinrming almplicity! That isa most noble porlod when tho highest wisdom and the longest experience nra mot by tho most perfect simplicity, One can only re- gret thot this meeting could not take plico somowhero else than by the border of the grave; but taking place nt so Inte an hour it makes that hour welzh ngalnst early and toollsh yours: in tho bulanees of ‘rent greatness. Another sad: “Tho cvoutng of fifo brings with it-Its own Inmps."” An ovening in ove sense, Dut {i nnothor sonso a tlino of light. Such of tho Ilght that now. fale upon the human race falls from minds made wise by fong exe erlence and tho purity which comes from tho decline of passions. Our Government Is called the Government of our fathers. not from mera rhetoric, Dut because many of thoso wha mot to fushlon the new Ropubilo met whon thoir forvhenils had become marker by tho caros and storms of timo, In tho old Conzrossos thore wns not tnuch of boyhood or of middle life, but thore waangrent contlucnee of those voncrable in years, They onmo down Crom tho North and up fromthe South with a political wisdom culled from tho study of the old centuries and from tho calmest personnal mneditution, hus the * evening of Iife cume with {ts Intnps,” In politics, in inor~ als, in the rich treasures of Icarning nnd roffico- tion, thervareno yours like the Inst twonty-fyeot man’ er, ‘Tho dace of youth anu of middlo~ ile bo; hen to wirrant conclusions. Hesulta of observation begin to appenr 08 fn outumn, trees grow red or golden with frult, The long poem or drama ‘begins to rise in its intereat na though prepnring for some motnent of grentest surprise, ‘Cho loug oration having cardfully Passed over the details of tho -arguuient begins toentertupon {ta appifoation and yeroration, andtho fecllngs become more deep and. tho a tat more eloquent, Tho words sec to “double thelr sincerity, and the hearers bow tu fuller assent Whon yours sponk. 3 Bays anothor, “As winter, which strips tho + country of its caves, onblos’ 8 to Ree farthor, fo Lime sweeps away Much, and thus enables tho infil to look to things fur away.” Enrly yoars aro Dinded by too much friendship fort small number, A fow companions sro worstiped, tho great multitude is despised. ‘This rich follago of tho heart ia beautiful indeed In romance and fis “pocullae olfico, but thia Isyatter atl,onty a) lonatils suliiehtiess. This rich foliage of love for n little group makes the woods dark like a coped, nid shuts out that broad sunlight which isthe bottor ciubiom of God and of tho Intinit, A dense, shadowy thickot is pleasant for un Boar, butsoon the heart longs to get out and Stand Wherv the ficlda open, und where tho alr doves, atid where tho Haht surrounds us ike an ocean, Age Igves no ono less, but everybody Moro, It thinks of the tintion, the bums fin ily, and tenrs uway the Voll from its beurt and Tovenls a tnfighty compussion, A deep sympathy and o kind toleration come slowly into tho soul, for tho old man says with Goethe, “1 yegjonly tho follies which [ once committed myself.” +, Tho. older pocts—oven Shakepeare—lived in fimea of such avm!-barburism aud bardness that tho pleture of the lust years of mun fs not paint- + ed there ns Kindly os “upon tho more modern cauyas of Wordsworth and Tennyson. Somu- Ames an old poot gavon kind look toward the sttating fratno, ng in Waller: 8 aul's dark cottage battered dnd decayed, Jatin new flahe throug ebinks that tine bad mades Burunger by peor wR mon bucono Aa thoy draw nonrur their otornal home, But it is tn the most recont Iiteraturo we must fcok tho finn and best estimates of tho buman individual fn wil his perfods and relations, Our Age inost of wil need hg hegre nan, womin, Sad child, Itdocs not fully yet meusure tho Meaning of tho word “soul.” “Our caldtess to- Wanl the temporance reform, our Ailence tuward tho unfartunate youths, malo and female, whieh Swarin In all our dens of vico, our indiifercney [eet tho fnto of n imililon froomon who, have ng been mado frou by war, and gold, and blood, can yet fud no iberty, remind us that wo bay: not yet earned the meaning of the word “soul,” ut no Age hia yet come along which has Sppronahed tho high estimate our era innkes “i man and woman all aloug from’ birth o fcoth, = In our: thues * only’ of H that have set tho summors and winters Lo- fore tho hitman rice it fs not dlgricoful for onan tourow old. Consing to bo nalave and 0 hs y coming up iito tha intollectual world tha papal Of man, woman to longer convents allvor ar, but with something of Bele fota it toll ite ae story on ber forehend, Only the silly make Lit pet to conconl ** this ightot agoft moan,” Hreehtor says, “that silvers the ovening of Ogco woman was, awod into silonco by her Masters sho was eusily divorced, qonorully-nt thé wanters wills proporty was to hor impossible or we a raaialy in peril, Auacreon told tho Ind beanie? and disgraceful truth that woman. hu ‘auty or nothing: but that blusting of o Bean sot! has passed away, and woman thinks, Rola and addres, and ta adinired til tbe frave recuives her ‘buck to Us dust. Hor love i Passed onward from alover ta the world, nv of this vobler group anys; Uaqyorwhat dud not‘layo? Barth wnd alr segue Nath sea fo howdy wre trona And vibrato on its vory inmoataisinges "Ey not tot you say thi y y FOL name thoueund pintiv bust yourown. NE Woman up outof that old bonda, a Ciluglo sentinont, tn ordering her old. privon tee wea eformed intow homey tn tearing down pape of her clolater, and ordering hor to bee pera frco ond powerfil mind, the modorn By bus inade her last yours on ‘ourth useful, a houvratlo, and beautiful. aut Cur opoch has come wong with a yew ton peutwe catiniute Of ull thd three woore and fon eee No cloud bangs over any part of tho red en seek Ae 4 ths: eniowe cuntey . a ry reculves man in i, 2hmus when ho ta born, sho tenderly catches dea ett Whon ho comes to dla. Birtheday und AV are alike sucred, and caunily. tho, ope torned with Nowora, tho furmur with those yCRe. the latter with those of holy momory, helper naling to clalin that Christluntt popula 0 titke ngo nuble wud happy. When a peat fT yaulusonhy bos come along with a sline fret clear Waching that we re all tho cbil- may, f Gad, and fcuve this world only that wo Thy De im tog bettor one, and wyen this philoso- key tang to one that cumagback from tho rouse af Must by adinitted that such a vellef, Tight U8ko tho lust border of Ifo glow, with a oven, Kruater than that which fatle npon ths ening Infancy, It canuot be doubted nang euch of tha praise of those , who ruin the farther contnos hus spring up about te ep buon that our futhors are not iw aay tS yiaered from oxistance, bye Bro) Ro. rUBOUCE OF at. ra t hima ae that the ship of tho ‘oul 3 Bocloty yor tus wrvat sca. Tt muy be tht oouseyu 'y wholly pervuded by athotsih and its Muti uot Absolute doath, thoro might be Bure PH¢nind old ayo of may and woman, ofne ie cunnot but deeply, feol that in the midst or pect, bellof man would be brokan-hoartud orn M8 & creature of low pussluns, eating apd thay wii because to-morrow he was to dle, and tho face wat would soon fool that the fading ot Ido nut a the ond of ui) worth aud happiness. aihens Hoya thut a grand old ago can iid com outa adequate cause, At least into thd wnollce mot ths inodern estimate the idea of i \ deo} ott apltdam de’ Binh eayer noble bat the gif met the «decline life, Nichter alas, Of Imurortality."” i ari ony ag ota Be, yuyenin morntug."” Another ry 4 ‘other saya: “An honorable old ZO te the childhood of immortullty.” Those ty hus we Purp us gg culled from ihe wisv and thi t * uto the modern catinute u! a lek youre on arth the doctrine of Hiumortullty OPENING OF THE PEOPLE's ONUTOM. ‘Tho first of tho public servives af “Tho Peo- ple's Church" wos: bold yesterday morning at Mooloy's Thentre, where tho lnrge size and high th the spiritualism of character of tho congregation which gatherad evineed tho strong hold whlcl tho pustor, Dr. ‘Thomas, has upon tho pube mind. At 10:30 a m. tho doars of tho thoutre Wore oponed, and In less than Ove minutes tho Churgh ‘Trustecs, who noted the part of yshers fur the ovcnslon, wore obliged to turn tho constant strenin of now- coniors into the galtory, al! the aents in the lower part of tho hotise being occupicd. Tho gallery wos soon filled, and by 11 o'clock—the hour.at which tho services oponed—every seat in tho building waa ‘ocoupied, and the nisles wero crowded with camp-atugla, - The arrangements on tho atuga wero seyorcly imple, For tho accommodation of tho pastor a sma)] table had boon plaved in tho contre and behind Ita vory low-seated chute, in which, when seated, he wns almost entirely hidden from tho congregation's view. On tho tightof tho stage wasn enbingt organ, at which Trot. Tomins dl- rected the musical aervico, «A bouquet of How ers placed upon u staud in the orehestra in front of tho prencher tonded to rellevo the somewhut sombre offuct of the sture-sotting,—n rray-plue chamber of heavy design,—and tho sparse and exceedingly plain furniture it contained. Dr. Thomas opened tho survives by asking the congregation to Join in the chint of the Lord's Prayor, with whlch the order of services upenod. ‘The frst Horlpture lesson was thon rend, after which tho pastor ngain inylted the congregation to take part in the inusical services. He sald that thoro must be in tho audience « large amount of musical tilont, and that, ua It was do- sired that the song service should ben service of ane nape, hu hoped thoy would atl Join in the An old gontloman who found that tho light was not strong enough to cnnblo him to road from tho printed program called out, * Wo enn't road the hymna.” ‘Tho pastor ausweror, “Well, J yitess you all know ft,” and tho congregation thon Joined heartily in singing the bymn," Fron all that dwall below ead skies.” Dr, ‘Thomas then mate nn cloquent prayer, tn which he asked that the eplrit of worstip and of communion with the Unseen, the Eternal, might rest upon tho atidiienco; that each heart might bean tar upon which should bo pliced tin offering of prise and thnks for tho tender Providence that tind been with thom from tholr ehildhvod; that bad beona delivorancy, from dangers, ania comfort in daya of sorroW, Hu asked fora blessing upon the clei, wuthoritles, the public press, and othor Instruments for good, upon the coun at luryoand all ite institutions, —clyil, soclal, and rellgious,—and upon the ands beyond the sens that wero old when two were young. In closing he asked for a blessing upon tho service thoy wero ongigod In, upan those who hid interested themsulyes to proba tho way for Jt, and upon those whose Kindly syin- putbios hnd drawn thom thera, The hymn “ Nenrer, ny God, to Thee". was thon sung, after which the preacher uddrossed tho congregution, stating that lt had long boen his custoin to invite strangers, and friends, and othors who would Ike to spenk to him to como and shake hands with bint the close of tho service, Itoftan happened that there were in tho conyregution praple uitthored-from ten or fifteen’ different Btates, and whon ho shook hands with thom ho felt kuit to them by tho bonds of sympithy, and thought of whothor in tho bottor day they should toy bo bruthors in faot as weil usin nimy. He oxtonded 4 cordial invitation to euch in the audience us desired to eal! upon bin at tho oluse of the sorvico, an tne vitntion which wis vory ponerally accoptod. The rending of the second Xeripturo lesson, sand i vocal sola by n Indy singer, closed tho opening purt of the services. ‘The sermon wns as follows: “1 was glad whou they sald unto nie, Let us go into tho house of tho Lord, Our foot shall stand within thy gutes, o JSesusalom.—Pealma, exit, 1-2, “ We tttoat this morning, my friends, under now surroundings, Our place of worship and our relations us pastor and people in the organiza. tlon are now. And yot not ll is oithor new or strange. God is overywhoro the samu; Josus Christ {s tho sumo, "yosterdny, to-day, and for- over." Our minds nro tho samo; truth, nud Justice, und love, and prayer, and hope are tha samo, whothor we mvot it this temple of art, or at altars long consecrated, And yot, it may bo proper to give to ourselves and to othors soma oxplaniation of tho rousuns why wo thus meot, . Those may-bo found malnly in two facta, tho one general, the other somes whut personal, Tho general fact fa found in tho Pecullur vunditions of socloty in our midat, in which thousands of our peopto, so far ag ehuruh relauiona are concersed, aro pravtically homes less. Why this 1s so, wo may not now tuko thine to inquire ot longth. ‘The causes aro many. Bono, from comlng tito a strange olty and bo- ing far removed from former tles, have dropped away from their old church relations, Others tiro homologs from Inck of imterest in the Sub- bath aud religion, or becatsa of sinful desiros and nasoulntions, that loud thant to other plicos, Ani ail] othors uru on tho outside because of anunbellof that'rend¢rs fulth and worship to thom scomingly ugatess, it not absurd. But ati nnothor, and a Inrierclass, aro tiomeluss who Are Not at hourt Inidal,and yet tnd thomachycs «} unable to agssont to all the bollofs of most of tha churches, In tho formns in which thoso baliofs nro held. ‘his large clings of our beat minds, whore prountion is in the malin intettectual, and whoa ives aro quity exemplary, cannot go and do not desiroto go into any durk wnboliof; and yet from micntal ditlloultics thoy ind thomsolyes un- nblo to followshlp sume of tho sovero fering of what wo calltho orthodgx fulth, Thoy may be able to accept the doctrfies of Inspiration, and atonement, and future punishmont, but not in |. the rigid aud unylelding shapes in which thoy are ofton enat, And yet all those minds rover onco the high and tho holy, und feel the need of song, and prayer, and publio worship, Aud thus froin ono cuuso and Another we have tho and fuot that not one-half of our population in this great olty, und in onr whole country ad woll, uro found in any Of our churches -on the Babbath day. It has bye: ae id and hoped that to a People’s Church, a church where uw larger personal Mberty in mutters of bollof would not be a bar to admission nor a cause of complaint or critioln; a ahiuroh that should try to emphasize conduct, and right: ouusness, and experience, und tfo moro, and apeulat dogwins less, many would gladly como, In this hope nnd desire a tumber of benevolent Rontlomon, moat of thom, L think. nut members of any denomination, but lovers of the good and tho truy, have formod an nesvclation with tho view of encouraging such a service at this, ‘The othor fact, In explunnuion of thia seryico, relntes to myself, and yet a reference to it onve for wil may not be {inpropor at this hour, For eara my conscience his been culling mo a seu ‘uut Jnto‘gho highway,—to gu to the peoplo with any word 1 coultt aay or ny work J could do, Hut my judginent sal id nll tho. time, "Stuy in the organiziuons ar churohos airendy formed, aud work there.” ‘Tole t huve tricd to doz and have tried to welcoma nll, and to win all to the love and service of God, J have stood on the tuside and triud to work on the outaide, For yeura inthis olty my thne and Jabors -haye gone to those not incinbers of nny chureh. 1 tive resolved that Mt could bu soy; 1 havo been ghoul that Bo many homes and so many warn hearts anid thoughtful minds bade welcome f homes of Frigaditlp, and of sorrow or joy, ‘Lo nil {nt the hume what | have sald (1 the pulpit whon thoy guthored around me thers. Lbuve sought, not to put burdons heat faith, but to muke tho way us plaiu as 1 vould, and not to ask athora to belleve what] could not myscl belteve; and whon thuy bolloved less or dilferently we faye mot and parted tu peace abd love,—agreving iy whut wo conld, differing where wo must,--ond in thie way lL ubuusd have been glad to Ko on mit iny days, foellig that L was try: ue o Dring all tmitie Acid, go fur as L could reuch them, to the Church on the simple busts of A how heart and Htes of pragioal, righteousness; of love to God ond inan, But Chave not been pormitted to vontitie ue thig course i ess either to myself, or to the church ju whlch Llabored. Sy brathrea in tho mintutry have thought yy viows, on moro questions “of doctrine, were too | libernl: Have thought them unsound, and that tho Chureh could oot, at least without pru- test, pesinit thetr promulgution under its name, or Crain {ta pulpits, And go L waa pluced under condure, and hyve so remained for more than twoyeara, Thavo folt all the time that L havo not departed essentially from tho faith of tho Chureh,—cortainly not more thug some othors havo.—nor from its genlue, and spirit, and work, nor transcended the bounds of Its Droad biatoria Uborty, That queation {8 seon to bo tricd; but mneaniime [felt that f could not well ga (oo new dhargo with thy troublo hanging over mo, and tho pashli of being suspondod before the year waa bulf out, Lumatill, of course, i metber of the Methodist Church, and of the tock River Conference, and hope to go live und dloy but in the supernumerary selavion +h which I now stand, I huve fete ut porfert berty to accopt your generous cull wud to engage. 1D oO broad ovangelicul ministry ta this place durin the pendency of tue questions of thuse doctrjuul ditferences; and in tuts relution ehall try to gerve you us falthfully ag £ can. ‘And thus, a focling on your part that such o | serylec ns this might help in tho continan cate of Christ: night entist many hearts In Christian work; itt wathor in and give wchurch home fomnny Uhnt perlinps woull not. yo clsewheres nnd the possiblity on my part to engage with yon In wich & Work, have brought us together at his hour. Many questions may naturally arisens to what yo sliail do, or try to do. Bo far ast xnow te Is not tho purpose of any one to project upon the world a new denomination, Tt would seem that tho world bas enovgh of thosernlrenly. Tho Inost wo art, Or can vliim to be, for the presout nt lenat, isolinply fin fndgpontent congregation, inceting to worship God atter such forins as we may toink beat. Jt ts not our purpose tu proselyto from other churohes, nor to vompeto in onny unfalr way far the patronage of ‘Use public.“ Our fe: pore Ia to provide a church home for families, and for every inin, and strangers in tho elt: who have no reguinr pince of worship, ‘That all may ba nble to come, and muy: Teel perfeolly freo ty come the price of the avats hia horn plneod very low, nod no premiums have been Peaemitted, and ninny sents bave been purpuscly oft uneolds Boma have given lurge prices whore they could have bud the same reeomines dations nt far lower Oyures, For this generosi= ty woure thankful, And this inthe name of God wo open this place for Le worship, and for tho fellowship and communion of His vblldren of whatever name or falth who may hore incet, and for every work of Jove and holpfuiiess to huunanlty that our hands and hearts may Nn todo, Tat us not begin by formulnting lengthy articles of falths but mthor lot us move togathor in spirit. in heart, and Ufo, and Christian work, Tollowing tho cominands of God, seoking the mind thut was in Christ, and dn all me: fatty beauty, and churity trying towalk aa He walked, Tho phrage “House ot the Lori” hat in the nheient days a moro local and defnit meaning than now. It thon meant the Templo of Zion. Our Saylor inn large sonae delocalized the old idea of worship by tonching that © God is Spirit,” and that not lone on Mount Gorizim, Hor yot tt Jerusatom, should men worships fur the “ hour cometh, and now §s, when tho true Wworshipors shall worship tho Fathor In spirit and in truth; for the Father secketh stich to wor: ship hin” And comlag still furthor into the dovtelia af spirit, Paul tells us our bodies are tho tuinples of tha Holy Ghosts attd that Instend of the dend worship of tho past, or tho alfering of aniinals stain in saegitice, we should yy Bent “our bodies a fofag snerilice, holy, accey able unto God, which 14 our rensonnble service, ‘Thus thore [sa progresaiyve developmentof tho ideal worship, carrying us forward from the Vaherniels und tha Temple of ot, and tho afte fori of Slain animals, on to tho later Aden when tho whole carth {8 God's temple, ond the Vodfes of men tho divelling-place ot His spirit, une tho offering of the earnest servile ortho heart and tho Ife upon tho altarsof loyo und au the must neceptable service. In this targer fdea of worship all pinees are holy when used for holy purposos, ‘This hour, this toinplo, 1s ancred to God and humanity, If we ory to it honrts that hunger for righteousness ond fives that long to be consecrated to all that is true nnd good. Human life Ié largely made up ot longings and desires that find thelr outer oxpreasion ti the Various Inatitutions of society; tho Institutions that guthor up and consecrate and conserve the .| dens nnd prineiples most dent to the mind and the heart.” Thus one gathers up winder the word eclence tho methods of investigation and tho a5 certulned tacts of nature and life. Coinprehon- sively scletice stauds for all these, aud out of thoi we construct, If not a real,at least au ideal temple tn which we place our ksiowled zo of atoms and globes, of stars tnd suns, of towers and fossils; and to this tomple all the Investigators from every tield bring tholr teeasures, “‘Soward this temple gh the thoughtful ones of earth turn with fe®ilnys akin to worship. Or, wo gathor up tha inethiods and results of the many tbinkora in Metaphysiecs,—that realm just be. yond tho vorder-line of the materini, where tho: mind reignd In tha kingdom of thought, aud wo: call this Phitosophy. Here ure tho naines of Pythagoras, of Pinto and Aristotle, of Katt, and Hey and Consinehere the lovers of truth have tn all ages found dolight. To this tomple tho hungry minds of every land bave turned with longing eyes; tole men and women hive lournoyed by the long and wenry way of much wird studs arid patient reiieetion, Onco rouched, tho doors open upon a vast inner world of nentat luwa tn which tnind abides ferover. And a0 wali, over the oright Urea und sheltering roofs, over lover and childhood, over motho hood and fathurhood, we write tho sicred wort Homo; and over ull these Inippy homes we lett lupo tog, and cull this our Country, and of it we Sing, and for tt we five, aud to tts altara wo bring, If need be, the gnerifice of Ife lteclf. ‘And now, 1f tho question, be naked, why: the heurts of mankind turn to tha * House of tho Lord,” we are already far anour way to tho answer, Tho mauifold lifeof aman opens out Josnphy; it tukes in not alone thesconcs of Lome- and country; butin mithese, and through all these, and above all those wun diseerns tho pereagnce, and tho need of nh sumathing that wo ave named Kellylon, And this diviny fen; Uris gront fot of life, this need aboye all othiors, hua bullt u temple deeper and larger, and nigher than allothors—a temifle tint, liko tho over Bpunning sky, gathorg within and bonenth Ite Brunt walls and domes tho tronsures of eclence and philosophy, and home, and country. Dut Whilst this te true, and whilst it fs nlso trie that all theso things that gather. and “hold the mind in the hourt of the rev, ought to be, and properly tniersteod nro, a part of religion, it Js truu further, that re- Myton supplements thom ull; Is the crown and completion of all. -I do notimenn to say tit science and philosophy, and hone, and country, may not fi sumo sense oxigt Apart from tho ro- ligions Idea, at heurt, spurt from its fll percep- tton and recognition; but Tdo mean to suy that tho roligiiia ideas and the rellgivus needs of inatt tre so a part of hig nature, and thut alt truth and principles tn tholr tnailty so point to reilyfon, that mankind must somotiow seek nnd find ot her attara the bronidest und deqpest ane awers to tho profound mysteries of iif, and ‘Unit to these altars tho rico must over come for help, for consolution, and nopa in tho great hours of trint and surcow. 2 Lot us look ata few of the treasures that nro gathered within this temple of religlon—this “House of the Lord,” First, ina genoral senso, {t contalnsthoareana of truth; notin tho more teehnien! sense of shutting fo that whieh ty myaterluis, but 1 tho bronder gonso that all truth ta ln sume way re- Inted to tho truths of retiylon; and that the spe- efal idens and principica of rellwton, such 0g tho ideas of God, und dtity, and destiny are found hero notas reasoned ont of but nyu revelation from Henvon. It 1s perfectly computont for tho reason of man to judge of this revelation, and to {uturpet but thore ure truths hero thit the nniided reayon cannot lind out,—traths, not contrary to reason, Lut boyond {ts discovery, and yot, whon made known, perfectly eonyonunt with Ite highest inductions, Religion docs not oluiin to have crented theso truth, any more that astronomy clulmsa to havecrented tho stara or ego y the rocks nid fossils, Tho universo pand God’ re facts, apart from our knowl edyo af’ tho facts, thoi or not, nd. Bo tra life douth and the great laws— of rightoous- ness, facts in themselyos, Itellyion dows not. muke them so3 but it recognizes thom,’ uid it comes to ug with the truth of God concorning them, And oll those wrent faots and inyateriod gomohow naturally take: their place fn tho “ House of the Lord"; and this being 80, tho thinkers will nlwass bo fuund gathering about those suvred shrines. Ede notion ta say that thoy will guthor to this or to that churell, orhold to this or Uint special thoory or interprotutions for sume Of those tre outgrown; tho thought of tho axe hus passed by und lott thom beblnd; but, Tio sity that tho House of the Lord, in the Jorge aad tery lie sense of the Divine conscious. ead in min, aud i the breadth and enthollolty that inclides ail truth and all the Jovers of truth, will vyur and toro tnd more tid tha freaiea intnds knocking at its doors, and kneol- nent ita altars, and roveronuy rending tho words of prophuts aud apostles, ‘and of Hitn who spake ag never tan spake. aA second reason why munkind turns to tho “House of tho Lor" iniy bo found tn ite trenaures of literature and uth “Choro fsa vory close relation and dependence oven betvoun certian forms of Iterature und urt and the fdoas and sontiments of religion upon whieh thoy aro founded, and from whlol thoy dnlw tholr fuspiration, Homer, and Dante, and Milton draw largely upon, tho world of ruliglous ideas und Jinugitiutions, The wrt ot all ages hus found ita fdenta, good or bad, tn the doninaln of the sqvred. Angelo, bens, atid Htnhaul minde arctimmortal bucwuse they Wrought upon ime mortal Chomos. Aud the suing ts truy of tho- grent musters in music, Thu gront harmonies of Mozurt, of Buethoyen, of Hunde, and Haydn come singing down through tho cunturios bos enuse they sing of immortal thomes, Choro must be a Mossinh In fact before there can be snob a crontion In song. Thu vist cutbedriats of Buropo, with tholr statuary, oid benitines, al tell how tho diving sentiment in (lo brent. of man fag been etirred, nnd how ft bas strug | gled for objective reatlaation. And Ut {4 310 sural tribute to the “House of the Lord" that tho whole wathotie world should bring oforings of boauty und day them upon ite alters, and this bainy'#0, ull tho lovers of the beautiful will be drawn thot way, A thint reason why mankind turn (o the “ House of the Lord." inuy be found 1 the docs trues of life uid salvation that ure thore tiught, “The lnw of the Lord ig purfect, converting ho soul; the testimony of the Lord fs sure, making wise the simplo, ‘Tho atatulos of thy Lurid are right, pojotulug thy huart, «3.» Store to desired dre they than wold, yea, than niueh fe. wold.” The question of what is right rises In line portanoy with thoughtful minds atiove all othe cra. And horo the *fuw of tho Lord ie pers toot.” Tho moral inw, the Inw of love ta ad and inan, ns interpreted by Joma Curlét, 13 bo- yond Controversy; it admits of nu oxception; It Will stantVforevor; It fa tho haw of the universe, A fourth reason for turning to tho “ House af tho Lord’ ts, thut here tho wants of the heart ureiot, Hore ts pardon tor tha ponitents here iy anlvation, detivercney trom tho guilt and power Of ain, the regeneration of thy heart, the renuwlog of the Holy (host, Here ls found not alone a cold law of Huey but the life and service of love, ; Here the loyoof Gut in Christ ty roe youled, “God iu Christ rovouciing the world unto (imself," iitting souls out of sin wud fillinar thomn with the mind that was tn tha Buvior— nuking thei go hike Chrivt that duty, that right Hving is Hobe burdan but a delight, a joy for- over. Here mankind ad comfort in the hours of pala and sorrow, aud bope tn the darkneds of death and the grave. Jiorv tho yulcu of religion is board tolling of tha lite beyond, telling that the toyed ones Kone before stand ut the beauti- ful xates ond Watch and walt fur our camiu; ayy, they como Out to moet Us, they walk oven ow by ‘uur wide, D yelcotne, wutoomne then, ta tho Mouse of the Lordi” Wolcomo all who come to worship hore, Like tho city above, tho or Whethor wo know hot alone upon tho fivtty of sclenes and plif-* and | gates stand open night and day, and the Fathor wasta for tho prodtxay tocomo home, and tho Good Shepherd goes but futo tho wilderness to Muni the lost, ‘ Py Long azo, when the word of Cyrus camo tothe enfidron of Yernel in Chaldean bontnge that they cout return to Zion, the response want “Twas Jad when thoy aahl unto ine, let us go Inte the Touse of tho Lord.) May we be aia hero to- duy—siad of this home of some and prayer, and worship, May we say ono.to tho othor, © Let us go into the House of tho Lord,” Say le to your neighbors, to strangers, tothe poor and tho teh, to the wandering, to tho penttont, to the fallen, to the doubtor—aay to nll that God is love, that Christ diod to save, that we are all brothers, brothera in tife and death. And O, may Heaven grant that our feut ae not only stand within these enrthly temples, but. that we may stand together In the Jerusalen above, A GREAT MIRACLE. - THM EV. 1, My COLLIRSON, pastor of the Fullorton Avenue Presbyterian Church, preached ton very Inrge congregation yesterday morning, hia subject being, “ Did the Bun Stand Bulle” iis text was: Anil thera was nodny Ike that befora {tt or after it, that the Tord henrkened unto the voice ofa man: for the Lord fought Cor leracl— Munhia, ty 14. Teall your attontion, he sald, ton study of tho elrcumetances of one of. tho most important Dattles of tho world's history. ‘Tho tuttles of Marathon, of Cann, of Water- loo, atl had an important inttrence over human history, changing the current of the affalrs of the whole world. Thoro have been but fow such Wuttlos, Ceonsy, tho historian, numbers but fifteen snch decisive buttios since the Legin- ning of tho world, Tho battio ot Ajnton, or Nethhoron, described in this chapter, deserves to be num- vered amongst’ them, for by the, victory gained in thia battle resulta follawed which haye intluenced tho history of the world ever since, It was tho battle of Hothhoron that established the foothold of the Ternelites In Canaan, Up to the thine of this battle the Israelites had been only itivadera; from the time of this hatte thoy took the position of conquerors, nud began to settle down in dio new land, and te beeome the nation that ever since has played so wonderful Vpirt in the hiktory of the world, Tho wattle must have been severe and bloaly, for it began nt daylight and the sun was riding igh fy intd-hoayen, standing over the mount- ning, whelt tho Philistines were driven up the steep puss of Betbhoron, and chased down tho eter sido of tha mountains townrds thelr own bind, Thon tho Lord, who had hetped His peopto be- richo with 1 mnsbty hand and a ktretehed-out arm, Himself discomtted tho heathen army. “ Sweeping up from the Mediterrancan, thoro como one of those torrille ballatorms wat are irene In that region, Yho Philistines, necustomed to the country and how rushing down-hilll, had far outstripped the pursuing Jaraclites, must of wham wero toiling up the eastern sido uf tho mountain, but the Lerrifiestorwn met the Using army, “and there were more that dicd with tho hultstones than thoy sem the children of Isracl slew with tho sword,” Joshua stood pon some high ridge or peuk of the niountains, his tony spenr fn hls hand, views ing with anxiety the rapidly tying host golug down the western declivities, and tho toiling Tse ruclites pursuing;. looking up at the sun bigh above bls head, . and io pala middiy? noun over tho Mediterrancin Valiey of Ajnlot, he dreaded lust the day should prove too short for the work of conquest, and, stretching out ls eponr, he uttered an agonizing prayor to God to sty that -aun and. moon until the victory shoul! be complete, ly some remarkable manner, elthor miracu- lous or natural, tho prayer was answered, and tho Jaraelitos had tho light of tho sun until tho strongholds of ilobron, and Jarinith, and Laebish, and Eglon were In the bands of Israel and tho five confederate Kings wero killed, and the mastery of Phillstia from the mountains to. tho Mediterranean was in tho hands of Israch, Tt was a terriile blow. ‘Tho hosts of tho living Goi, by w single sweeping onsiaizht, had do- stroyed the armies and possesses the fortresses of tho heathen, iduintrous Philtstines, whos Inipidtone une eye te and buinan snerlfices, and reign of blgod, und just, and vice, ant idolatry bad for conturios cried aloud to God for vengeance. ‘There nre sometimes nations that come to deserve to be swept off tho fuco of the onrth, Such nations were theso Cannanites, But our study this moruing 18 with Isravl ratbor than with them. : a Qoeply-interesting question ariscs as to the nature of God's nnswor to Joshuu’s prayer about tho aun and tho moun, And the. queatton 1s simply thia: | Havo we here recorded u stupond> ous intracle? Did the curth readily may in her revolution upon ber axis? Or, nguln: Wns this recorded event only an extraordinary ovonty ate wo to bolloyve that what ocuurred was almply ne prion enHon oF daylight? It has occurred ou cusionnlly in puoullur conditiona of tho niosphero that in some linited aren on the curth’s surface tho ain iis appeared to stay for awhile, so that, by some Mbt piower of atinos- pheria refraction, duy light his been prolouged orn unuaunl thine, Or, again: ts this morcly uv poctic, fwurative mule of deseriblug tho uitnoss Of Uhyt diy, 80 that wo nre not to be- luve that tho day waa literally lengthoned, any inore than we tke Ituratly {ha oxpression of David, “Lot tho hills olnp thoir hands,” or thit remurkuble expression in tho bate tlo sume of Deboruh the prophetess, “The stars in | their courses fought saainst Sisera"? Tn a word, buve wo hore a miracla reconted nt ull, and, if so, how great wa thit miriclo. Belleving wsweilo that this chapter 1s purt of tht Seripture glven by inaplration of God, the question shnply becomes ono for scholars to doterming, What docs the Hebrow monn? Firat notice, If any mun desires to be- Hove that this passage ta Uurative, and not It. eral, ho ly at perfeot Iberty todo Ko without tho ainallest «disrespect to God's Word, Me ia onls: belleving whut poy a devout and learned schol sound in the fulth hus believed In refer- ence to this passage, and for the following rea- suns: . Tho parsnge ts o quotation from the Hook JTusher. Itis not prose, but povtry. The Boole Jushor was, Ike the Mook of Panlins, a kong br hyina book, David slugs that in the pres- ened of tho Lord the hills and the mountains akip, the wators tive, the trees of tho Meld clap -thelr hands. Hu sings Curthor that, when ho was in tronblo tho Lord "bowed the beuvons and camo down; be stretched his baud out of the bight; he took ine and drew ine out of many waters.” No ous dreams of thinking that those ure Hterat, Thoy are feurative Uxprossions, and tho psalms are full of such, and go It 1s auld thig snatch of saered sony from the Hook of Jnaher ts uly w hishly figurative description of tho grentiess of that day when tho sun and tho arson as still to see the great victory of ehovalt, y You may tnko thia view If you will, “It cannot ‘be proved to bo wrong, but 1 confess that m, iniad dvss not incline to It, Tho linprossion is strong upon my mind a4 Lread tho history that wo hive here tho nevauntof nm mirnelo worked in. anawer to prayer, and 1 lean to tho Heeral Intorpretation that for a time tho sun did not aut, but continued to. glvo ght upon Canaan, 5 Hut, if a miracte, how yrent wore tho moans miido uso of tonccompllsh thia end? Here wo mut deat soluly with conjecture. itia ns easy for God to stay tho garth in her wheellug and roiling and to hold ineheck afl the powers of tho universe sit was for flim: to’ orvate thin efirth and send hor splinting trough space; but, itis noc necessary for us to conjecture that’ ny suoh stupendous mitucto was wrought on the oecuaton colubrated wt the grunt day, The Snspived song toes not eny that the cart was stayed, but siniply tint tho sui did not sot, bute ronalied tn view above the horizon of Sit, Glbeon., A. very sliuple ntunwepheric change, -caustng no dieturbunes tothe uulvorsa, ts quite AUNIoiont to wvcount for this phecsonay. A niltacle we should, L think, belteve it to neo been, but no greater miriore than was tho still dug of the atorin on the Luke of Guiting, or tho rilwtng of that storm that swept up from the Mediturrancean upon the Philistine army, Hut, whatever interpretation the Hebrow Beholur nay Hive to thin pussityo, oa boing It- eral or thyrative, the yrand fot remalns, with nll its towsons, that Jostiua priyed for belp in Me hour of wnxiety, und the Lord helped bin, Lot ws glance at ‘the tenchings, plain anu ob- vious, that Ilo upon tho surtuve of this history of tho battle of Hethboron, Wo nro reminded tn this plstory that Jehovah {sn God of Judgment tipon sinful and Qod-fore ting nitions, or communitics, or persons.’ ~ The hletory of tho Deluge, where a sinful workd was Judged und destroyed! tho lurid Atary of the ‘olties of tho plain, Sodom and.do- yorrabl of that scorehed plain that to-dayapptts “tho vyvofr the travelars tho fato of the Philistines, and the tragedy of Dothhuron, the dostruction OF Jericho the nightly: city, tho desolation of Jerusalem, once tho quucn of citlus, the eand- mounds that cover proud Ninoveli and Babylon, the disappearance of the unpurntat churebes of, the Hook of Jtevelution, all dectare to us the old truth onoe thundered from Sinaly ao Lord, Tour dod bs u jealous God, Ho ts increiful and” long-atYoring, Lu watts lou, Hosends again and Aguln tls messages and lly wardlis, bit Judge iment Anal, irevvacablu, sweeping, und terribl comes atinst to the unrepentant. Let the kis Ot gleginneo be rofused, und even Christ Hin golf will bon destroyer! Let tho kiss of tiltbful nilogianoy be given, und * blessed ure all thoy that put their trust in Him.” hour that rushing Ubilisting host tearing’ dowa tho bloody puss; Ieee tho sweeping tem: pea carconlug over the plain to meet thom; 1 out the wiugry thunder, and tho crashing bull, and ns wrigs of wicked mon in death; and t abuddor as L realize something of tho wrath of Jehovah, Tsou that lone mun standlag in prayer on Gideon's biyht, bis poor weak urn and bis sitigio apour sfrutebed out tn prayer to God; £ sve tho prolonged sunshine, the vledge of favor und of victory, and Ithink of Jebovab, mnlubty to aavo, bonding down His ear to the prayer of inortal man. Keoplig ils promises forever end ever, saving by the vowor of His outstretched aru, rewarding obedience with full protection, think (on of = the = Divine Son, God manifest in the — fleas, saying in ono bruath, “Wo unta you ypoceite'; saying in tho next breath, * Pear not {ite dock; it te your Futhor's good pleasure to give you tho Kingdom" telling the mourner and {oy sine bur dened to cong to Hin for rellef, promising form ivoncss, ond heallug, and lite otorual, sealing {ls pronilées with Hig own life's Uloud, und mant> fosttug Hs power over ala, ana death, and Fell, di the grove, “iv the Cristian in, thq darkest hour or tn tho | oy of Judgment. tho prot ” fail. “When thou prasust through the waters Twill ‘bo with thee, and throagh tho rivers thoy shall not overtlow thee, Wher thot watkest through tho fire thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon, theo, for! am the Lord thy Gul, the Holy One of Is ‘thy Savior.” — INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, A THE BV, G. 1, VAN HORNE, pastor of the Michigan Avenue Methodist Church, delivered n eermon yesterday morning on tho subject of “Intellectual Freedom in Cariatlenlty Ha spoke from tho following xt And yoshall know the truth, and the truth Shall inake you tree. If, therefore, the Bon shall inake you ree, ye shall be freo Indeod.—Jonn, Wo ailrmed that Christianity, or the systom of religion as taught in the Now Testament Soript- Ures, was not ay finpedinient tothe developmont of tho human Intellcet, but wo beltoved, how- ovor, that ceclesinsticul formulas and conven: Youn! or denominational creeds, 1 fouked at In cortaln ways, inight become impediments In the way of frov thought and barriers to tho highestdoveloptuentor oir intellizent faculties. Crueds wero not always free from personal or 80+ vial projudice, and consequently wore Mable to Vo tinetured with error, and errors wero cere taluly linpediments to freedom of intellect. It was tot an uncommon blunder to confound Christhinity with Ecclesfasticism, and it shout ‘bo borne in mind alifays that tho orced was not the cross, but a beaten path fending to tou cross, Paty apa should neither be limited or cone founded with tho Chrixtinn Church, Tho former oxisted vofore the late omtgrowth of the former, ‘The Church might Daye mieh or Httie of real Christianity 40 it. ns Itdidordid not conform to and able by the aplrit and genius of Jesus Christ. Chriatinnlty was in hurtnony with Intetlectunt freedom, und was n supporter and pramoterof the same AR A aystem of norats or religion, {t nélthor the hody or mite In bondage. Inna sense did it bovame an kapedinent to the mareh of intelicctunl freedom, ‘Tho reverend speuker thon quoted Bishop E; 0. Haven, who held that Christianity was the defender of trea utight. It was certatnly agrent fallacy, tho sponker anid, to atinpuse that tn order to ve wel ed in sulentific knowledge, or to bon well-read phil: osopher, it wits necessary or essential to be ant Curistinn, Such 1 view was not only erroneous, Dut it was -superiicinl, and -lt Indicated an nb- sonce of knowledge concerning the system of Coristlunity, A quotation. Crom the * Bucyelas pedin Urithanies.* I whieh the ion that whos- Uhty existed between reliiiun and sclenee waa contradivled, way read by the reverend apenker, in support of “tho stand he had tuken, = There could | no hos. tlity, he maintained, ns wai impossibla for truth ty be at variance with leit, ar for aclontine, pallosopbte, ur religious truths to bo antagonistic to cach other. Chrise trinity had originated all the older and Impor- tunt universities aud cea eae of oth Etiropa and America, nad the spenker cited a number of thom. ‘Tho fnets were patuit to all sehulare that universities and colleges ouly sprang up und lived amid Christian civillzntion. No other religion had any need of those schools for tho intellectual and moral development of nan, If Christiunity wax an finpediment to the nde vanee of tho Intellect... 03 Kotng people vainly tuaserted, how did it bappen that In nearly every: instance Carigtinn Intellect had founded these xehools for the very purpoen, of advancing or devoloping tho fitellect? Why, it Christian support was removed from those Institutions of learning, thay. would be obliged te close their doors for want of patronage. Prof, Swing and Dr,J.G, Holland wore quoted on the sub- J ety ane thelr views corresponded with those of the spunkers Tt wis 4 comtnon notion among some thinkers that mén of brilltunt intellect, and especially of selautine attainments, were, sn class, infidels jn religion, and tbat the simplo fact: thot n oholar was a Christinn wns sulliciont oyidence of bis inferiority, Tho speaker didnot think that this was truc. Christinulty bad never shrank a8 intollect has expanded, Neither bad tho human Intellect becume innotive, or rex tarded, or fossitized whenever it ind been bap- tized with the spirit of Christ. Ag it had oc- curred in tho beginning, so it tnd occurred agaln. And God sald, "Let there be Nght," and ght wha, .The hight of truth hud shone through the exalted Buthybus of Straup, which wis to supplant God ns the author of life, aud proved | to be anty sulphate of Hine: rot, Tyndall bad virtually udmitted the superiority of tho Christinn conception of life when bo asyort- od that “ every attempt made In ona day to gon- erate tife, Independent of antecedent Ife, hid utterly broken down." Christianity taught in countion orlgin.a common fall.a commen broth. erhvod, 2 vauimon snivation, and ita principics, its proclamations, its promises, and Jts prayers were all universal. Bacon and Locke wero not embarrassed in thinking out their grand systuins of philosophy beenuse they were on their kuces before tha Lord Josus Christ. Hugh dSiller, Dane, and Cuvier — certainly = were not Smpeded in thelr selentitic Investigntiona; because thoy betleved In revenlod religion. And Agassiz, that prineo of eviontista, with uneovercd head, in prayer ta God on Penikese Istand, found that net of devotion no ubstructlon to the onward sweep Gf hls freo intellect. Giillleo, Kepler, ang Nowton found no Intellectual shrinkage whilo making ont the heavens, and computtiug the detinces of stars, and of welxking the planeta inf balance buonuge thoy Lelleved that God uvade them aud upheld thoin by the word of His power. Milton and Dante wore not inferior poets, though they roverently worshiped a por- sontl Delty. Tho words of Addison and Sir Walter saatt were none the leas brillant because they were Christians, Mozart, Heethoven, Haydn, and Handel had written music that has never been surpassed, and tholr best musie waa ine tengely religious, Leonirdo, Michacl Angelo. Raping, und Correyio wero genni the acknowlndged masters In art; their predictions not surpassed, and thelt penells glowed as y produced on canvas the subilinest scenes sugested by revealed religion, he atutesmanship of Franktin, Adame, and Webster ranked inferior to none, and thoy thought after God, The mind of Wasbiagton was tono the less great bovatse at Vulloy Farge ho had knett In the snow in pruyor to God, The legal powers of Iluckstone, of Kent, and of Story lost none of tholr Judicial lustre bes enusa they aeeented the gospel of JeauK Christ. And Judge Mutler, recently elected in Pennsylvania, was none the quatitied Cor oloso digcrimination and Just declélons because on nssumning the dutics of the uilice ho reveront~ dy bowed bts bond and thus raed May lo who judgeth judges, the Divine Master and Futher, atrengthon and yuido ine in the effort to administer Justice to my followemen.” Willian HH. Bewnrd was nut emburrassed in his eritionl work of diptomney beenuse he bolieved in tho ‘Christin religion. And Chief-Juaticn Chase waa fino sense embarrassed fy his important deolsions which affeated tho destinies of our Nas Gn and tho peace of the world becattso ho ace eoptod the Carlst of God. Abraham Lincoln, who aeked the praycra of 2 Ubristian poopla for himself, was not embarrnased or impeded by those prayers, or with love and reapoot ho bud for those. Christan prin- elplea, in solving the great ‘problona | of National Hntey and human froodom, or in safely: gulding our Ship oft State through tho perils of acivilwar. And Gon. Guetield will not make a less better Presidont becuse he believes in a errontl God, the Kible, and the Christian re- igion, And be will bo nonu the worse or rue stricted in hia Intellectual froedaiw as or Chiol Executive tor baving tn tts onelior years taught thoxs truths (n the suminary and preachod thom ima tho pulpit. helt anky developed great Z re. aut) er th flourishod beat tn tho frvedom of Christian elyiiization, and he who struck a blow atChristianity expended that weak forge to push our civilization baok into barbers tum and tho fatelleet into bondage. AMUSEMENTS. GERMAN DILAMA, Dr. Molnrich Laubo's German translntion of Bardou's much-talked-ot and criticised play of “Daniel Rocha” was produced lust evening at MoVicker's, by Callmer & Invnstein’s German dramutio company, ‘This drima is not as pow- ortul na many otbors from tho pun of Burdou. Nut tt fs anovelty, It ts nuyel tn ite subject and the treatwent thoroof, ‘Thora is not a single creation of character (nthe wholo play, and yet every part stands out a porfect entity. Byeey character fs slmply a typo of. sct of core tata modern opinlons crystallized into a human botng, Hverybody in tho play ts cultured, ro- fined, and ri They represent, espeulytly tho yomen, the very highest types of modern culture, and they aru brought together Vera ty fndividials thay ns oxponantt ‘of tho various phases which modern culture has {pressed 1 madern thought, ‘The play, tre allot Surdou’s warks (6 davaht ut interest anttt Ty da ubout half through, ‘The frat two wee are entimly cold, and appreeiatiye manifestations were het fairly onled out until tho oud at tho third act. ‘Phe fourth vet, with its wonderfil inixturo of pusslon, tenderness, and auporb sit tutions, proves to bo higtly effective, saad calla, forte great enthusiasm, and the Afth act Is hardly less effective, Dantel fochitt, tne princl. pid Character, {8 vvidently a genticmun well vought up attd honest in bis convictions. Yot ull that is known about bla fs that he dove not Delloyo there 12.4 Uod, and be thinks bello. ina God fy one of tho jnost injurious tings la. which mon or wonnus eat induce. Te eaonia ta’ be o feador of that purty in Franco which tonsiilens tho wnnibitation uf all pubis belluf tho chiot endof man. Like uiost atholsts, Roche ts ine tensuly Intolerant, and anyone that dood not fs be velloves te seldown na an fj to bly opinion, the eblef quality In manor woman ivan dnenpacky to paliavy anys thing that cuunot bo proved. Aw Hochit says 80 docs. his friend and avgretary, one Dr. Hidaclu, ‘The fumule churucters are no more Hving cntt> tles than tho two types of ridical atholuim entled Rochat and Bidache. Thoy constat of an old Indy and bor nioce, ‘The old lady believes thus the church eho wis brought up iu ts the only church in whieh salvacon can by any possibility be found. Hes niece, leas partloular about forms and creeds, is uldo wu fervent ber Hevor In gunoral revealed religion, und roverons Ual faith enters Into her overy thougnt and act. The aunt ls called Mra, Powers and tho nluce Leah Hendergon. 'Thorv ts auotbor iuco, whose quilct, wravoful love-scenus wilh a young mun who ves Hot know whether be bas quy bellef vor belloye mornings, and tho Jattur wis tho. nor cares whethor ho ing any, form the comedy purtof tho play. Thero ts pinced between theso extremes of bellof and non-beljef another type of inodern phon fa philosopher and rciontist, galled Furgts, who seems to be tnnble to rench positive conclusions when appenicd to by olther site. Danted Rochal ia traveling to Switzerland on his way to detlver a apecch at Fernoy on the ov- easion of the centenary of the death of Vol- talre. Thera he merts Afrs, Powers and her two nieces, flu falla in love with the eldor cme, Mist Leah Henderaon, and is aceepted by her. Leah is harried te Rocket by a civil magistrate, His wife, howovor, is not Batiefed with the Iny thurs tinge, but faststs upon its confirmation by n re- Tglous pereinoiy Yo go with her to church or to rooognize the authority of any Christian tlos to bind him would be for Rochat to ntiicate his leadership of the pure of which he is the recognized bead $1 France, Ho rovents to Leah that be fs nn atholst, and thathe eoutd not gradty hor wish. Tho horrorottho girl atthis discovers soon melts inte pity for her lover, and Ue beausiful deve otee hopes that aha will bo nble to save tha man she loves from perdition. He claims that he istegully minrried, bit Bho insista that such marrinza is of noconsideration., He will not ield his athoism, and she wit) not yteld her aith. Here the unbelieving lover,~—her hus- band ashe thinks Liimeclt,—aud tho vetlevin: gitl—his wife, ay ahe does not believe herself. aro brought together and a scene enmes of intngled discussion and sy, OF mppenl and counter nppeal, of ecatatic dovotion on tho one hand and Irritated sense on tho other, the ke of Which {8 scareety found {n tho whole rango of nucient or modern literature. ‘Tho end of the Germmin version a8 given lnat night diifers from that of the Buglish version now bet Played ut the Union Squnre Theatre fu Now York, ‘In the English yvorsiont the unbes Keving min remains un unbelivvor, and tho «i rifted with a reverential nature, reinninia n aticver. . Sho goes her way and he goes his. In tho German version, huwover, thoy inike tp at tho Inst moment, and oinbrace 1s man and wife, It is hardis: pena that this play in pers formed inveh butter at tho Uniem Squnro Then- re, New York, with its acteoted cust, than It was by Colimorand Isunstein's German cam- manny at MeVieker’s Inst evening, This 4 fy. long oofls the heat = Gernina stock company that has evar plnyed in Chicano, The wnton of the Milwaukee and Chicago Ger- man theatres under one management has enabled the directors (o gelectn far more powers ful company than they could have done other- wise, for ft enables thom to perform each play alternately at each place. Mr. Hichurd gave 1s powerful delineation of the athelat Vanfel Rechat, and but ttle fault could he found with bis acting, Mr. Meyer, na Dr. Iidache, was in his clement, and gave a tine performance. - The prin for aplondid voting, however, belougs to Mise Heringar, who assumed the pirt of Leah Henuterton, ‘This Inds inade Keefirat appearance I Chicavo and at ance established herself cin the good yritcon of her audience by giving 8 performance so pows erful and so full uf emotion and tenderness ng fo sntiaty everybody that the reputation that proceed her, as heing one of the nblest. and moat tecompliaued Germun lending Indles inthe country, waa woll funded and deserved, Bho Is the best Gerinnan emotional actres4 that has ap> peared here for a lony thine, Credit for good acting 14 nlso duc to Mr. Hel> mer, who gave the part ot Caxtnir Murgis, Mes, Murkhatn, who aseumed the part of Ara. Pows era, and Aties Kneelowek, who rendered the part of EetherHendereon. Tho others tn tho onst nll did fairly well, and helped to make the per- formance a success. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. | . Barlow Wilson, Primrose, and West's min- strets began an cnmgement at this thoatre Inst night. The house ws crowded fn every part, and many people were, before the rising of tho curtain, turned from the ‘doors nnble.to obtain admiaston. The entertainment seemed to please, although thore was nothing particularly novel in tho progam, nor was there shown much originality on tho part of nny of the performers, ‘The usual features were presentod in tho first part, which was opened by Mr. George Gale singing m song nbuut un cinpty cradie and ny absent baby. The subsequent. neta included a orathor — clever Koni. and-dance teat, comprising Primrose, West, Fox, Ward, Daiy, Doyle, Turner, and Mackin: 4 bad imitation of Bryant and Hooy'a musical net a Fields and Hanson; actever lot of clog-dan- elng, come ninusing imitations on tho violln by Mr. Eddio Fox, anda ventriloquist, gave same examples of his skill, which scemed t o please, The etuaing sketeh, “Fun on the Brussolls," wis course sad Btupid,, : 9 —— AN EAVESDROPPING EVE. The following appears in London Fun acscrib- ing what was scent’ and beard by an “English infas" who cume out with Sarab Borntardt: “Aysoon us tho pilot had loft. carrying Mr. George 8. Boyer away in n flood of tears, Sara rushed to ber cabin. Sodid I, and wes soon an onibued witness of the great creature's every action, “By tho way, 1 quite forgot to say that in tho hurry of parting, wnd tho crowding round ber fur last ombraces, tho ulstur was torn open, and | bits of hur expensively-triinmed robe bancuth flew right and foft as sha was torn with enn tlonal spnams nnd admiring huga, Ony of thoso Dite—n piece of bronde fringe—1-solod, In trans: ports at huving auch a souventr of our décase, ind it will form No. Lof my large colication of souvenira of Bara. * But to return to tho holy tu the panel. Tho first thing tho grent: erenture did was to look tn tho «inss. Unrolling ber ulster, scarves, and swathing bands, sha stood ju ber slinple palgnoir, A monument of fragile Juspurcopelbility. 1 Knew sho was there, and could sev tho large bunch of stephunotis at ter shoulder, but tho Aperture was so small that it wae only for on in- stunt that aby filled tho aren of sight, “Sho was calm even to siillng, and after touching up her checks with white and ber oye- Inshus with bistre, she touched the cluctric rong which stood ona carved lyory pedestal atthe dour of her marine boudolr, andit {ts silvery ontl hor stalf of ton followers sppearod togethor at ber door, Thero waa the novellst who writes bur stories, the soulptor winy touches up her statue tts, tha painter who ginzea into sunpo hor paint- ings, thy tutor to Atnurive, the groom of tho chambor, tha musician, the prompter, the jester fn ordinary, und athors whoso duties } could not alving, Bletlug down in 0 large hammock ued with ‘igured satin’ und fringed with silvor Dells, shy guve tho onler tounpack. All sho sag and did was done and said with thoso lan. catenin, lotuseating ultra and griicos 60 well own to her adinirers, *Dé-buller-mol tout ga sat vite—vite! f “In the twinkling of several oyer her boudoir beens fh ginal Parisian poiitco—Vonetlan w)ossoa, chony und ivory carvings, gold franies, terra-cottn busts, murblo statuuts, onyx cups, and vermelt safvers d(d not straw (he room, tut ench found {ts place fun way which proved that many, rehotrsnls of this transformution-souno Inust-have tuken place previously. “the loveliest Oriental rujs, the most exquisit Porsian embrolderies, the qituintost Japaneso silk piintlugs, filled tho corners or illuminated tho atouls and sofus, * flow it was tho bolo in the panol was never stopped by somo hanging minature of intervon: ing tapestry was.o wonder, And thore abe wis fylug, bor Onre feet fi allppers: covered with tonrls, funning herself with bitinming-birdy! wings fratened toxethor with dhunond haks. “Justopposlt ina was te celebrated ailyer eqiin nod with roxe-antin, sid tho Ivory skelo- ton holding tho toilet-ginss before her, “Then the ten fullowors sit yrively on tho Jongest of the Peralun) rugs and taking from Various concontinents fi thofr dress suidry musica! instruments, tho folluwing: chorus wus sung with evstatle sighs of fuith and devotion; P (Trunalation,) 1 Sagat ro shan nur pan ru eat tse GEA Eg ury ued tion prulxinn, Mhonul hat ean hour ineruaen thy fame, “My feoble Mnes do uot uretond to give tho vigor of tho original stanaa, and when Tide tut nablaw. contd be more religious in its convie~ ton, or Jess niiteal in tts nevompantinont, you wil ronallly bultove it was ngtranye xeon. 6 s+ Tho pilot walte alongytde ta cnrey thoxe Ines, Moro in my noxt, Extremely Snteresting aud most cxuitiug,”" —— DRAMATIC NOTES, “The Ranker's Daughter” to-niytt at Mooley‘s, ‘Tho John'f, Raymond and the Joo Sfurphy Gompuntes wore In town yesterday, ‘Tho varioty troupy of Snetlbukor & Benton witl be sven at tho Olymplo this evening, ‘phis ovontng “A Gentleman from Novada,'t with Joo Polk as tho star, will be soun at Mo Vioker's. oa) Joby f.. Kaymnond's company will leave tho olty this morntog for Dixon, Ul, whore they will Appenr to-night Mr, Wit Davis, the mannger of tho Grand AipuarnHoltny joft for Now York last nlgbt Ila will bo nbsuut fora weak, ‘ i “Around tho World in Elahty Days," vor @laboratoly, It te sald, will be progontod this oveniuy by tue Kiraifys ot Haverlya All the mombors of the Agnos Robortson coms pany left for w York ycstorday afternoon, rept My. Luke Martin, who joing Joc Murphy's roupe. - BMru. Dion Houcloault saya whe has two new ploces {n band—one nn adaptation and lovallza- on of 1 play by Dunas, which $8 bolug dune over by Cuzouran—which eho will upper in abortly after Christmas, . A swoct singer of Olnoinnati, tho Hidorady of the tulnstrel ian, warblos over Havorly *e black forty In thjs way: “Tho stugiog isu dollyhtful fonture, is real aeneD winging, tinged with tho suulful clement whieh the itary {inbuos into his uielodics. Whother ho fa aust or Joyful he is ulways baraionious, while tn his fun he is simply uproarioualy fanny.” Tho Now York vorrespoudont of the Ploncer Prees thluks that if the reiterated demand for an Atnerican play ts not anawored, it will got bo bes euuso thy uiledyod play weight fe backward about vomiug forward, Never iu tho blatory of the country Were thoru wo muuy Americun plays On tho wtago ng there sre this mouth, and albinos all tho authors aro atatours. Another enrious | fact id, tore than oyt-hulf of them ary intimate Iriends who meet in socloty or ery woek, Btoold Mackayo way bo vacopted, fur hu fe a profosajonal playweibt. But here aro Anna Dickinson, Edgar Fawcoth, John Habberton, ‘Townsend Vervy, Nat Obits, and tho duthor of “Lowa ‘‘Teunle” and § 3 to those may bo wdded the author and the musioal |.” composer of * Deseret,” all old acquaintances, . who have breathed about tho anine social and political atinosphere, “Othore of the samo ‘act’ are inthe dranintic suds, Georgo Edgar Mont oners, Of tho Times, having A pinay half dones sunner, editor of Puck, being busy on f oomla Opera; and Proudilt having lof out a comedy, Abboy Sage Hichardson, too, hna a eorinus and very strong play tn her portfolio ready for some enterprising manager, ‘These ure nil new to the. public, and T think almost alt of thom have been atimulnted to write for the atnge by Miss Diok- inson's bravo vonture two years ago. Tho New York Evening Dost siya: It ts reporte- exl in tho yossiny nelyhvorhoad of Union Squara that Mr. Haverly has agalt tacde up his tnind ta visit Europe, He has done this before, but at the last nomont hing determined to remain at. home ritber than face the terrors of the voyare. Even his audacity, at Is whiapored, quatia nt the Hhoueue of rent-sickness. ut it fs declared that ho will surety go thiq time, with the view of sn=* eitring Etiropain fovgities, and csoccinily the - | elaborate “apeemeie” of “Tho Christina ©! Free aloe indrawttng Pnuanad audlannes tg 1 Porte Bt. Murtin In, Paris. ‘This pleco, 9! course, 1s Intended for Niblo’a, ¥ bai ef MUSICAS, NOTES, “The Queen's Handkerchief,” 1 now comlo opera by Johann Strauss, hus been bought by Augustin Daly, ‘The Litta concert company, composed of Mile, SAuta, soprano; Miss Hattio Moline, altos Mr. HL, Cleveland, tenor and pianist; Me. B. HL” Groves, busso; and Mr.Jobn Skelton, cornots have sinrtoi on tholr Weatorn tour. 1 Mr, Thomns' work with the recontly-organ- fzed Philharinonte Chorus tins . already, proe. greased ao far that he is nhle to announce p pers | formance of Livethoven's. Ninth Symphony for - one of his concerts. ft Ia probable that goon Mr. Thonias will givo notice of other choral works which be Jutends to yive this senson, Francois de Itiintal will soon be produced at tho Grund Opera In Paris, Mr. Atubroise'Lhomas, * the coniposer, Having finally found tho jong gourht-for Mrtitcatec in thd parson of Alo. Bortha Baldi, a ebarming Fireon possessing: & sweet und powerful yolee. Mile. Baldi will make. her débutas Marguerite In Gonnod's Faust.” She will, {t fs thought, tllso make m most excele lent Gretchen, Mr, Roscovity, the tho Firat Methodist. Pianiete will givon recital at Church on ‘Thursday oven= ing next, with the following progmin: Grieg’e concerto In A tatnor, op. Ty the Ngpinntag Song,” from "The Flying Dutchman"; und the followlng numbers train Chopin, Nocturnes np. «| % No. 1s op. 15, No. up, if, No.2: muairkas, i, No. 1; Btudo, barcarole, op. Ip. 42; bercouar, ope allnds, op, 62; and tara op. 0) polonuise, op. telle, op. +1. The Cinelnnat! Gazette enys: “Tho enthue sinstlc vontiemen and musicelavers whos fow weeks azo forme tho resolve to supply what {s mupposed tobe an cssontlal thing in ‘all com- munities laying claim to musical culturo—a series of orchestra concerts—bave had oocasion aince to question the gonuineness of thelr proud city’s protensions, A number of thon have been working very hard to securo subscription, god yet the umber of season tlekots subscribed Ie not mach more than one-hir of the minimum limit which Mr. Ballenbere set down as ossen~ tal te the carrying out vf the project. up to date about 200 ticketa have been subscribed, whereas 703 ure neoded . 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