Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1880, Page 3

Prof. 8 Degrees In Christion Life tho Subject of Dr. Thomne’ Sermon. Groce Mothodiet Church Oolobrates Its Thitty-fourth Anniversary. "pe Ryder Will Romain Pastor of St, Paul's it ‘ the Church Debt ts Paid, « MM, a this bold fguro we may mark, besides tho direct Christian doctrine of substitution, n gen- oral Inw of our race, that the good or bad actions of ono do not confine tholr consequences to self, put they project thoir quality upon society, In this grand figure of Paul, {f Christ dicd for all, thon ml beenmno dead, all tho citica and villages, and ull the wido country became a cemetory, for tho hummau race was pnesing through tho shadow ofdeath, 1t was na though the millions of carth allay with eyes closed and with busoma that no longer roso and foll with lifo’s broath, Tho chili thot passed over Christ passed over ontiro hu- manity. Therefore, tho soul is delivered from. that curse uttered in Gehesis,—sinning thou shalt dio,—for if Christ died for it, then has tho aco closed ita eyes and breathed its Inst in its RELIGIOUS. wing Preaches o Sermon on “The Uppor Class.” TIME UPPER CLASS. BRRMON DY PROF, SAWING. Prof. Swing proached ny usual in tho Central Church yeaterday, bis sermon boing ita follows: Tone dled for all then wero all dead.—IL, Cor., represontatlvo, it 1g not my purposo to discties hore tho thoo- royal MRerE TALetitatigen but only to mark the fact that man is nlwpys flving or dying for the multitude, and In hit the thousands a! deuth or spring up into lite, Beyond any doubt cach nou! must live for iteclf Ug tnust attempt from considorations of self, to extrict the most possiblo good from th.se yenra, In his inquiry *whothor life ts worth bying?”’ Mr. Matlock argues greatucad of tho fudividual, and usks mennt by the greatness of society untess tt bo ‘=grcatness of tho individunis who je xouloty? Hu snysthht could not be world which should prod of (ufertor persons. He concludes, thoro- fore, that n grent clvilization menns the abso-- luta greatness of the soparate citizens which tho totalit: humanity elgnides ou! millions bow in tho comin; 80 th cont) a yres up. inake up well minde, and forsclf, and that lif mentul’and spiritual, and self, und the samo many sido waltnre uf man- kind. Which of those nlm fg the greater it would, porbaps, bo vain to inquire, for wa cun= not pass into this renim of soul with balances in hana for weighing all tho forms of ovil and good. All wo need allirm to-day is, that both motives nrolargo and should vombing, and must Ho who should despise the human race would oortainly fail of grent persouul development. Man's years, with all ‘htaand cinotions, tolls and plonsures, ye around two idons—porsonal suc- cess and tho euccess of the multitude, ‘Tho relation of cava one to all wiil be themo enough for this morning. bemore practical. It isa discussion of relations, and hence of dutiva. Christ this pri fea eet, upon our cumbing, In cach soul. ‘thoso thou; must revol aro. only Bia a ltttle above haps, feealls ‘tru bound, yoleo of tho atrin highor # low note tl epouds and mukes u the philosuphy. Tho please us now. If the great aro onty on!nrgod images of com- mon wen and women then thoro must bo taking placo ull through tho ordinary puths of mortals “this Influence of ono oyor only doce a Christ live and dio for many but 8o for many does ench miud live, and tho quality of cach soul files away froin itself, and ilko the escupod perfume of a tlower-gitrden_ visits ad- jacent flutas aud oven descrt wilds. Before tho ud opens tho sieot breath {6 kopt at homo, but. when tho prison walls are broken by the sun and the wind tho cuptive goca froo, So whon tho human mind and heart reach tule gro: open duys in tho world thoir ideas and spirit gd outAviird and become the pubile ho multitude absorbs these wandering hu- manities ag plunts steal molaturo from tho alr, row and flourish when ‘There aro plants which oalr, Thoy nsk for no they are hang! oighteen it thfully tho dignity, and wisdom, and piety of that nuut, common In stature, who led ngreat oxudus from bondage to frocdon. And, done with ite first character, that marbio ttands forany great mori! i col minds stand for the human raco, juat os o mountain-poak stauda for a whole range that may sweop along & thousand miles. A great soul ig only the human spirit nado visible, a3 drops of snow when vnlurged by 0 powerful glass sbow all the beauty of Ince-work or the elegant circles and angles as in geometry, eloquence of a Pericles or a Cicero lay ‘also In other hegtta and winds only unoxpressed. It was the eloquence of the audienco that mado the cloquance of the speaker, ua it is tho sound- of the piano that holpa make tho tho string strikes a resonant board responda and completes tho music. So, 8 great mind tpeaks and tho samo greatness in tho crowd ro- tho wrt or tho poetry, or ughter of aking CABO Wotoo cin Inugh; tho death of a king impresses us bocause wo also must dic, The orator is onc who tells us what at once wo up in earth and no wu ‘The one apoko for tll. rollned sense enablod him mi Fatans and inapy a more dignified branch of tallan apcech the worda worthy ot his ‘and art, and theol that {t contained al benutiful but Itimited world, conid go, for bis religion was in tho verse; tha classics could vefor to it, for ix was a gnilory of vortralta from Romo and ht O~ fraphor could consult it, for all the names of 19 Known lands wero jn these pi Sschoulman could find in it all hladreamy proposl- ons and debates; the lovers could all Un best expression of their tearful Splendes ot tho Krancescas or in the main drama of Heatrice. Tho mighty poom becumne a strange lctionnry of an empire. Sti altured ag woll ns taught; It at onco pro- nounced a word ana then Jnepired tho heart into which the words fell. ‘Thus the one Dante spoke for wll, His voleo was tho volco of tmill- Jons talking und alnging for hundrods of yours, i have only un enlargement of tho Work of onch adult and educated mind, for you are ull at work ut the tauguage of society. You are clthor loading our wide and powerful Bin- Bllsh with vulgurlams, or olse you are making pure the stream of speoch which must fowdown ‘0 tho next genoration, Your relation to spe Moy notbeas great nathnt of the Florontina, Shakepoaro or the En- it itisabsolute aod large. Sre all called up to say whuther tho Kogllsh lan- Ruago shall pass outot your timo buttor than it enine Into it, or whethor aur speech, all inden With vuluriams and ontbs, shall go honco like a stream which, once pure, Issues from the fences ofa Siauishtor-pon or from the dle in ita pollute ut here we notos allen tHlolo, but city, ‘The lah aickena upon Ita bank, This relution of ench toa com gO ‘@ the entire situation of the tndividual and costa tight upon this bigh puth dicty Ja the atorcbouse into which all tho producty of tho scattered acres aro Bosidos_ seeking our personal hap; Des, wo are all makeing woods fc dlustrate: 4nd socloty, ehauty. cf gathorod. frotm rich lown upon the myriad, Dunte made a hingungo for tho land of Italy. ae musient car and his lofty verso, world, Would wo fnd tho first nen, keep nga festal period. Comber! Would wo could, in some truthful Fae, find a record of those who first begun to fea piratian of a new yenr, und tw # aya willlongthon, now tho aun sintto tho suows and disappear; bo will warm the ground ryraing will grow again; fet useat,and 3 oxniting.of bape tho sun-worshipet and beat friend. ls Journeys south in. sumiicr, were marked in is und by thelr benrte, With th rang re tho tng} Now tho d row in Soy wi and ou Grink, ad be morry."* must rst have cum. to Er the sun wus thelr de! winced ond sottin Wuter and north tn Persiang fBtisunus ng caught methods of | rapidly Nndi thugg dave ni Slogea: War og ted a Ke {00 muster oft tal tienda qrueture De, a peut nnd ul inal iat hit wor; hi will it Je not only di Slous; sintles once started i the world. i aring, and art, Yation, evant home Poets, opted Bane ite det ally into: randeur of lomo, Ave nave noel! not work. evant Might on wilted and adirmatively from luce or bo mado it ert ‘i be dimly of pant sup- to man, Worn, aid child. ‘This point seems wellt Tho iiferune must. follow ‘ou are natty live only for all others but also K has n twofold ond, tho hysicul welfare of And no themo could persons Mlk jo becomes viaibte Just as cit- cannot bo hidden, but away from tho illustrious personages there Is forever taking place a transforination of the myriad by tho ove. Cltles built upun hills aro very con- spleuous, indeed, but there aro other citic¢s and towns, and, perhaps, some lying vory low, like Veulee, thut seem sunk are centres of immense favor. pictures of tho the gen, which ho muny, and not r, becutgo tho bring then tholr food, sensibility. The passing winds carry tome, doginng, falths, these thin; thei Mankind bas a similar bilosuphics, picking wu tollouts and thon fal and when his pocm ‘was published it included so much of history, ‘aud sontiimont, and fancy 10 worts needod in all that ‘To it the pricet Cr nssion in tho range bocauso It back far onough to the first famities, which bo; tho last week In love of tho the form of huppingss, Ing wome new joy will iscago that fe couta- love to run around ‘cine, in all its varied powor of and Htorature, and general culti- ite palaces of stuteamen and {I of morchunts, and luwyen, aod ed the December festival, and ex- ne bial ras ee et tho © feast was 10 HFUYO us expanded from one day to’ eoven, Tn luys Wberty coverod the Empire. Tho Ne could speuk to bis ras to a friend; * tho Raman Senute botd no suseio buld be declared; no, criminal could) be dest with his mustor; upon the servant at Trlends sent & in this picture wo the schools wor see our Corlatmiy ing its wide aud graceful founda: leads to tho thougbt that somo ‘8 hearts jn the Persian world whore tho ate and drank for all; ugh, AUd gave presonts loved, migot to fricnis that Rome might enlarge tho Joyful- ness and thon hand the weok over to Chris- Uanity, to recelvo, Porhis. tho futura decara- Uons of a deopor charity, ‘Thus othors far away, now rlesping in Poralan maid Roman slust, iaughed, that we might Inuch. and celebrated December's list hours that wo too might Nid oxcuse Cor Joy fulness and friond- ship, Thus what wan individienl once beeame firet Poralan, thon Roman, thon human, Sudh 4# tho law of our earth: from one bosom a {ppueht or an impulan moves forth to become the thought and finpulse of all, Tn auch 1 world itis responsible to Nye, but It is grand if one lives woll. For should tho ruling Idea or the one life bo political, or social, or rollaioits, or tt- Ordry, or inathotic, It passes intu tho being of others: what moved you soon moves ahundred, ‘That Christina ides of which I have spoken IR Reon now toboan exaltation of friendship, n day of fuller brothorhood, a festival which cons contrates all its power wpon the home, and henco it must pass from you to tho next age, not negieoted ur injured, but inden with new and rlohur associations, It must xuther sig nilicance ns its proceeds. Each separate fire- aide must pay tribute to it. The father and mother who eatcem it will love tot thoir own children and give sifts not only to those around tholr own foct, but thoy love tho ehihiren of to- morrow and are tnaking Ifo better for the mill- fons to. come, dtiet 8 the Nomnnna give presents: which now fallat our feot. It ia not the home. of self you thie decorate, but the hearthatone of man, Tho wreathes whi will fade in sour parlors will grow green In tho homes af tha fut- ure, diome Isony of the large influences in this world, Tho days that ornament. its walls and tint cheor its Inmates are diya whieh help make that Nal finish ealled efvilization. Great ns fa inan's duty toward eclf, one of Ws largo occupations ts to help make the eustoma Of nil time. ‘That ts what makes ita momentous: thing for one to be an eminent manor womnn in society,—this stninent person Ives outside of self ond makes custome. A half score of wiae and clegant Indies will ehope tho charncter of 1 village, a hundred loading persons will mark out the social chanucls of acity, it will always be for thom to say whether tho tollet shall he gaudy or almplo and clegant; how importnnt tho dance shail bo, how immenso the party sliall be or how sinall, whotlter all playa nt. tho theatre may be attended, whethor nll actors and actresses are to. bo Judged only Oy, thelr art or by both their art and character. ‘These few onilnent ones ina city dare not acek happiness alone beenugn tholt position in the world makes them tho wenvers of customs, which Wko chains will bind tho hands and fact of society's children for many years tocome. Tho example of tho grentcat be- comes the inw of the ienat.—n fret made very solemn by the thought that the multitude will follow an example of vice soonor than thoy will an example of virtue, ‘Tho Inst half of tho Fifteenth Century and tho firat half of the Bixteenth wero periods mide amnainig In tho fing arta by the sudden turning of a few minds away froin war and Juxucions idleness toward tho beautiful. Lorenzode Mediet cultivated a love for wil Greek and Ronin beuuty. His fortune followed his love, Artints Bprnne tp ground his throne. Angelo and ln- phaol came. Other names followed, In those dave some of tho Indies of highest raukand fort une capoused the arts. It ia sald some of these boautios of daly could recite from memory nl of Homer or Virgil, These nrtixts and thoir patrons and admircra came trooping from Loe renzo’s heart and from thom cume much of that {nteltectual powor which mado the Refornmtion possible, and from tho Sixteenth Century came tho higher colors of the Seventeenth, Thus mon gifted with mind or gold, thus wonen gifted with personal worth and with fart- une, aro always muking tho customs for tho oro nnd arc sending {t onward toward tho sniail and injurious, or olse tke tho group arnund Du Medici aro inspiring it with sen- tmenta that are noble, Could ull, or oven a part, of those who possess that power which cames from wenlth, and education, nnd high position, feol deeply that they cannot possibly live for self only however much thoy might so desire and mointain such a possibiilty, and thon set: |, About the noble pursuit uf making customs for the younger and humbier mililone, civilization would no longor ereap like a anail,—tt would nd vance like the Hht of morning. It isn grave defect of our oountry that Individunts purse thalr pleasiire aiano, and expect the coming gen= oration to find wisdom only In books, But of all books tho most open one, tho chenpeat ono, tha most cloquont one, 18 the book of life scen at all hours. The actions of the upper minority are the volume which ho that rung muy read. An eminent writer, Mra. Jameson, said “Evorything that bas boon in tho world from the beginning is ours, is oven n part of us. Wo belong to the future and shall bo a part of It. WhntI baye scen becomes a part of me.” Since this is true how important that all young oyen should sco tho beautiful In tho ‘churacters around thom! Inourland thoy seo tho str rounding industry and becomo ‘full of netlon; they kee tho lovo'of moncy and extch the con- taglous sentiment; thoy sco tho love of rending and beeame readers. Thus they at once become part of all thoy feo, and you whom they sev bevomo a part of the future. You are cieried beyond your own grayes, and in othora you Inugh, and talk, and woop. Bomoof the plants of enrth fasten wings to their scede—na grent drapery of down, by which they enn ride pon ® zephyr or upon 4 sturm. Then whon tho plant bas passod through its lent, bud, Lower, and ‘fruit, ond ‘bas turned’ yellow. and drooped) in denth,: its sects becomo detached and nro borno far tiny, pore haps a thousand wiles, nv ore,” fallin, into the carthon bed, thoy repoat tho lout and flower story ton now audience, All the favored mon and women of earth tro endowed with similar proporty, ‘Thoy bloom in mind and heart, and wt Jast thoy fade und die, but tho aualitics of tholr life riso upon tho passing wind and are borne awny, and perhaps tur from tho Rravo whoro tho great or good onc sleops some othor hearts retnaot the life-story in evory do- tail ofits beauty, Thus, notwithstanding your sleop undor tho grass, sou nll belong to the future, You cannot drink 4 glngs of spirits or rofrain from the cup, you caunot attend a cburch or remain nwuy, you camiot patronize a high drama or a.low ono, you cannot dress wise- ly or foolishly, you cnnuot use elegunt speech or profaue words without this result; the Inw of aturo will waft thoso seeds of things onward and ronke thoin grow up aa doudly plants or swoot flowers in fluids far away, The thoological mind Is slowly turning toward the thoory that a moral mediation for man is the one wrought out by Jesus Christ. If not turutng toward this idea to ombrnce It, this pub- Ho mind a turning thithor tn i carnest Inquiry. Many have niready ardently embraced it. fain inyself unable to say whethor tho moral intlu- once of Christ isonly a part of His modintoriul work, ortho wholo of that Jutercession. Ono need not healtate to male such n conte: of doubt, for the queation has beon sprung only ro- contly, and scholars and thinkors ure Just begin- ning to take ovidouce and make arguments tn tho caso, So slowly do these causes In reason and oxoyesis proceed that tocry out “1 have found it” would be the purt of ohildish catigin rathor than of patience and ene This is evident, ‘unat tho noral influence of Christ fs au Immenso element in the miaslon: of Jesus, Bo fmnense , ‘thut In itsolf alone It could expluin the manger ond the crown of thorns, No humuin mind ean grasp tho influcnes of Curist upon nll the mill- Jons whohavelived in tho clyilized lands since He rennio, andtaught, and dod, He, funn amazing mannor, Ived for all, and died forall, ‘vo Him ail oyes have turned, Tho mindof the morualist baa listened to Hts precepts, tho bumbio have beon exalted by Mls choering words, tho paaraitvs, boon mato. rich in spirit, the sinner a8 boon inelted by Ila uppenis, the little chil- dren have felt that He, atonco, was a futher and a mothor, tho dying have culled Him the resure rection ind the life, Ontof His nama a clustor of bonovolent socloties have sprung into boing. Upon Hila naw repose the inipressive churches of the continents, with thelr arches, and spires, and domes. ‘Thohymn and the organ tones tau ag teouit from ‘Hla sympathotle heart, Our comoterics aro mado choortul with: marbles and flowors because of Christ's idow of immortality, Nover from any ono being has thero passed ov the human farlly such a variedapiritual power. Around tho crosé tntilions huve stood assembled for almost two thousand .yenra,—nssembled 11 virtue, in pationce, in apninces, hope, It this moral result is not all that was meant by tho miasion of tho Son of Man, it is ut tenet more than all human words can mensure or express, and whatuver inay ut least bo the conclusion o the Chureb, the Nazarono will romaln the Savior of mankind, Returning to estimate tho relations of tho ‘upper clasa to tho millions, wo inuat conulude t socicty ia the storebouse of ull thelr excel- lence, For tt thoy enoh aud all live, Thoir con duct, tholr oxunplo, tows along with tholr lin- kuage, As Roman words aro heard In all our speoch, us they aro heard in tho Italian, Fronch, German, and English, 20 havo Roman idens cone to tts; and thua will all your customs pass on- ward aud fall tote Shed of the next cuntury, ‘What # work will our porfod baye accomplished should it hand down to the noxt zenerudon nut only ood monuy, and railways, und good machines, but also u cortain wisdom of dress, 0 love of a homo with ite indoseribable charm, a Jovo of industry, What a destiny if you could WL bolp transite puro literature, 2 purodrainy, ndogp love of oll that fs good in thls world, an a broud and almple religion! In tho sublime philosophy of Christianity there {3 another society, running upon a higher plano, but parnilel with | thie aweeping tloud of human helms. Gur world coming frow an Tnilnit Creator, Its forma of Nifo rigo bighor and bigbor, 18 though ina stong strife to climb to the vommon source. Just ubovo tho inunof carth rulizion. seed nnothor usgembly, the men of tho Better Land. As tho former centuries ull poured their richvs onward and cast far along Intoour Gay ark andl bent Cy aud wisdom, and apissioned sentiment, so tha aoolaty of varth $s dismiasing {ts souta by thor ganda and iniliione inty some other and grander world, Somo pass uway in tho whitenvss of Ine finey and childhood? soine, go wun whitenod by the sorrows of this world, but pass onward they do ina countiews host, walted by the con~ mand of tho Alinighty to some other ehure, The noblo life of the tudividual here alfects alo that Wpper county and thus the flowers planted by the towb of the good wond tholr purfume up ike inconse to the open windows In mun's purudise. ~ DEGREESIN RELIGIOUS LIFE TIDE REV. UI THOMAS Preached tho following sermon tn Hooloy’s Tho- atre yustorday morning: ‘Lot us go on to porfoution, Hel, Mey 1. Lhaye long thought that some of tho distinc. tions or nce drawn fn soclety aro oftun too Qrbitrary and severe, They do not always dogerive correctly tho real facts intho case; and thoy frequently lewd to fulso clasaiiications, ‘Thus wo have the genaral classifications of tho good and tho bad; or of saints and sinners, The mistake ts not In atipposing that thoro ore auch qualitica ns goodness and badnoss; or that thore fresdintsand sinnera (nthe worl:t,—oapecially the Jatter,—but tn the too arbitrary and ex- clusive nppilention of thesy tering it savlaty, by which we draw lines, and «cen to gay “ those on this side are good; thurs on the thor alde are bad." ‘Thus wo are apt to drawn gencral tine of church-memberah!p, and to enlt these who havo Joined tho church good; to reaurd those who have not joined asnot guod, And then, those in our church inay think that tho membors of some other church nro toterably, or even rently good, but that somehow thoy are better. And this may be; and Iti:nay be, and fa gonerally true, that Rvod men seek ahome insomochureh, But the polnt to which I wish to come ts this: that we aro apt to use thoxo terins Ina too nore row or exclusive scnee, 26 though tho sninta, 8 wo call them, were wholly good, and tho sinners, ns weenil them, were wholly bud, I suppose that It is true that the qualities or tho principles that go tomnke up the charneters that wo de- nominate ns guod or bul aro real or even mitu- ally oxolusive, That le, truth or Justice or purte ty, abstractly considered, are positive qualities, ond ns such must exclude thelr opposite, na fatschood, and fraud, and luet. Ana thero moy by enses whore these qualitiesor principles netu- ally exist in all thefr fullnesa,—aore concreted it individual lives; fo that wa mivht sny of sneb that they nro {nthe fullest sunso eainta or sine Nera. Lut a survey of the great body of man- kind—of the bron average of socloty, both within tho churches and without, must lend us to aay that thero ounlities or principles that goto innko up charactor and that are in themselves mutually oxclualyo, nevertholess dwell in mixed degrees, or unbound more or eas in nearly all Hves, T have been much with tha darkest and worst mon, but I never yet mot onu Out of whom all traces of «ood weru wholly gone. ‘Chore was ulways to be sven soine teel- ing of gontlencas or respect or kindness or rev- orence for God or love for man, And I nave had considerable expericnco with tho stints, and have found many most truco and lovable, but few Indeed have I found, aven among the clergy, who seemed incapable of any prejudice or un- Ainduess or injustico, .[ have sometimes round tho rarest and sweotest fives wholly on the out- side, atid somotimes tho darkeat and most ae- contive on the Inside. Ant theso thoughte muy bring us to a study of what may be called degrees In tho religiotts life, ‘or to thut conception of human life that recog- nizes the presence of a mensuro at least of ree Maious principle und purpose and atrlving in hearts that are generally classed a8. prolly ein ful, This conception of degreca in reticion opens up nie the way for us to study it in ite higher developments, 1 think It Ig not best naa rule to study the subject of religion by Heelf; or as something not related to uthor things; for broully cons aldered it 14 purt of our whole Ife, and hence 18 best understood whon studied nlong tho brand Runlogies of thought and experiences, And wo may got a better yiow of whnt we may call the degrees of religion by observing the degrees thnt wo recognize in other things. And pore wo opal very wide fleld, for the fact of degrecs ig seen and confeased In simost. every departinent of unture and life. We bave degrees in hardness and softness, In cold and bent, In motsture and dryness, in strongth ond weakness, in Nght and darkness. But tt la tara in the line of our subject to considvr tho doctrine or fuct’ of degrees in the things in which wo hive a part is actors or workers, and fn tho social relations of iife. And here we alull find that almost everything with whieh wo hnve to do stretches over at loug way, and on through many stages, 60 that {f {6 not always cnsy togay Just where things begin or where thoy ond. Itis not ulwnys easy bo pute things Into oxuct quantities, or to set dofinit mite, Suppose wo tako architecture. Whoro shail we eny it begins, or whoru does It end? Tho very first efforts of man to construct a shelter from tho heator the cold wore movements: in the direction of butldine. These first efforts wore possibly no more than benling towether bushes andfustening thom nbont a pole, or tying them iu the centre, Then possibly came another step in building rough walla of logs or undressed stones, with 8 iro built on the ground under tho centro of tho bark roof. Then came walls built of logs notehed at the corners; and then came a Hoor of boards, with n chimney on tha outaide. and a roof of etraw or shingles. -And from these Uttle bexinnings urchitecture has gono-on, tll wo hnve all iis Gner forms, as the sacred, tho du- meastic, and the military, eveh of which have be- cum great studies, and have reaultod in our fing improved dwellings, and grout militury for= Ufecations, and magnificent enttodrals. Dut who shall say whon nrtin this ine bowing? It cortainly did not begin at tho top or best and work down. Had men nevor built acnbin wo could nevor have had a Mausaloum ora st. Peter's. Wo must include the first builders along fwith tho Inst. though thoir beginnings word Indeed very amall, and thelr clatins to arch itecture very slicht. Or, If wo look into tho eld of nrt, of sculpture, nnd painting, wo can ensily Imagine tht the iirst utforta must bave been very tude indeed. But tho effort to fashion any living thing in clay, or to cut {taut in wood, or to mark It on the sand, or to put {¢ in colors upon a board or phan nv pe of cloth, wasn beginning, and tho highor forms of art that wiye us the tino Greek modols, or tho matchless Madonnus, should not blush to confoss thelr fur off and nurble origin, And tho saine is truc of othor polugs. Men first found that they could flont on u log, and-thon they dug out the log and mado tt poor canoe; andafter n while camo tho great ships with whitened sailé driven beforo-tho ocoan breeze, are told that our good frat puronts mado “aprons of leayes,"—nn old translation of tho Bible read *brocehes stead of aprons, and was known us tho “ Urveches" edition of the Scriptures. Then they made, or tho Lord mado- for thom, olothes of tho aking of boasts, Our raco his gone on and made a gront many kinds of patterns of clothes ainces Dut there nro degrecs in, tho nrt, and Wo must not rule out Adam ond Evo. Ani so itis too of agriculture, and cooking, ana all tho in- ventions of nan. Or tnko tho samo don In Icarning: there aro degrees all the way from tho ulfabet to tho grimmaor of alonguage: and from the multi Heution table to the calculus. Anil so ft {5 too In the Knowledge of medicine, or law, or philos- uphy, Tor put the subject In the light of gootal rota tlons. Whata grout esis we havo in eltizen- ship tt our country. Wo nny say that mon elthor aro or are not citizens undor the forins of Inw: but how different these citizens, Some are real statesmen; others aro only pono: gone are peacoful and prosperous bullders i socloty, whilst others are consumers or Heats om, and somo are in Juile and bdridewells, What differonces in Bronorty. Somu own thousands of acres of land, and havo | nono; some own =wholo_blovks of bulldings, and others haye noyer slopt be- neath nroof they could call tholr own; and eae all have somethings ond sometimes tho lftte that tho poor havo Js more than tho much that Is owned by tha rich, Of, who can measure health, or huppiness, or love, or beauty?, What degrees wo havo In all thego things. And yet, In all these degrees, we recognizo cach individ unt life; wo accord each one ble placo, however Jow {n the acnlo his degree may be. Having thug approuched our subject by tho way of thoee broad anulogics, lot us now look at- tho degrees that may be recognized in religion, ‘Wo inight, In the 1 HAL oF thoscanntogies, show that religion, Uke other things, bas had a pro- uressive davolopment fram the lower ta the higher Corina of thought and expression. Thuw the rellgfous {dea tins traveled all tho way from polytholsm to monotholam;. and from tho formal _ and = material . rites and sacrifices of Judaism to the moro spiritual worship of Christianity, in which tho worabipor brings, not the body of an animal from the told to buslain and offered upon some blazing ultar, but brings aga rensonnble duty bis own body, all his powors of tind und spirit, to ho offored on evory altar of truth and duty und justicuand love fn the caus of his raco, and in praiso and honor to God, But tt is moro in the Nao of our urpose to unfold this ductrine of degroes in roe gion as found in tho nature and jn the beliefs and pappriehous of mankind, In all thogo nnalowies that we have been tra- cing wo muat scak In the nature of muna somo. fae that leads him to take hid place, bigh or Jow, In the gealo of tho attutrs of lito, ‘Phoro i Bomes itn. in tho naturo and the nocd of on ruco that has lod thei to be everywhere bulld- em, and farmers, and traders, and students; something that hus ted thom to love and to wed; to usu tha chiscl nnd the brush. And it i uv this oneness of naturo and striving that we sco the onences of our kind, And itda Just here that wo get our ryt thoughts of dozrocsin the religious Jife, All haye a something in wnturo and need that Iles back of the various degrees ur manifestations of the rellylous lito of our raco, that ts ovor and every whore struge gling upward, Let us not deny Uiatin somo ruces this moral naturo ts fudeed very low— vory fecblo und indistinct tu ite utterances, and very courgo fn its muulfestations. Yet it te there. And lot ua confess, ulso, that very often in. the more cultured nations ere are low and Drutal natures to bo found, in whom tho te- Nyfond Itupulse ty overborie by tho dominance of the fest; and that very often wo vee tho heart negieoted and all overgrown by pride or Sorldlintds ax daekened and scarred by sin. Yot even In all those jy left something t rolates: thom to’ God and draws them sto a better ltfo, Though murred and covered over by sin, tho inago of God 1s. stl thores and often from thosg who seem almost wholly Jost thoro will como by tho power and renew! of thy Moly Spirit tho most loving and beautltul tives, And thus we have in tho nature and the need of man the buals of a broad doctrine of degrees jn religion; degrees extending ull tho way from thogo who, by adark fomnporainont, suom almost shut in from the Nght of Houven, to thoge -who have a natural Hlumination or openness of vision that mukes tho Divine casily porcelved, Now from this natural basis of degrees wo muy pass to notice degrees of faith, deyroes Of exporlunce, aud degrocs of moral powor and bounty in iro: “Buch uf Mose opens up u wide pela ‘or study, and one that ought to be protitas le, Lot us take, first, the subject of falth. Wo tony havo been thinking all ulong that thoro la Goertaln foros or duilultuess Jatonslty of DECIMBER 20, 1880 Soith that must be renehod beforo one can be | ind brings them back to the present time, The anid fohoabeliever, That is trunit by a bee ,| (auts of the ercape of the Israciites, God's Hover you mean one who has come toneortain | chosen people, trom Fyspt, thelr wanderings kind of futh or to some definit line of bellef. through thu wildernoss, thelr trials, and their But who shall say whore faith begins. or how [foul victory must.’ ba kept | in tho Jow down fn the tineertaln and tho dari it may [ect of niemery. They must remember He ad reed beneath the aol, or geope naone [froin whet thoy have deseended and waticing In the night and waiting for theday? "by whom thay buve been led. That Wake the heathen nitions who bave placed : bravery would bu crowned by vietory and butnntt Jnaues of God tn thotr temples and bow down | {xhoranee by Divine wisdom, Krom where they before these us before (i Shall wo say thoy | begin to remember the pianhood of x people bee have no faith? Thoytnve a falth in aomething |'gink It awakens them to Divine love, and finat- that ta divino, and aro roarchine after that i Jy leads thom to prosperity. ‘They could learn somothing. Or take tho Hutinns whooneceamped | many leseons fram [ebrow history. No nation ‘on thesy #hores whore now.stands our beautiful | mdr church could despise or ignore {ta history. olty with al tts churches. ‘fhoy maw God in the | That history should be kept in mind to remind clouds, and heard ffm tn tha. winds: and in til} thom of humility andof struggles, to make thom thro Untunght minds and hearts the Father bf‘ remindful of the kininesaes and aesintatico they fll muy aco 4 desire to Know and bellove, and {n'| recelved from charitably and helpful hands, and this Ha sees the princinio of faith; a Principle | to whom the Chureh ts greatly indebted. | It tint mas often be purcr and deeper than 'y | would lend thom to inquire why they should re- found in ininds more enilghtencde: And an wo] ce! inust net exclude thesineere heathen from tho | ey. In 1847 this Moclety began its blatory from worll of falth, but reckon them rather as te | old Clark Street Chirch, tt bullt a modest levers yet tow down In the seale."t'And this | frame structure costing 1200 on Dearborn classification must Include ates ill thé incere | street. The carly inonths of tho Kociety were souls who bow at Sohammodan of Morineo | characterized by religious revivais and bird altars, Their faith may be and is in wnany | work inthe cause of God, Tho original mem thins very dmperfeat, ‘Thoy read anothor | bership ot forty was raptdly augmented and tho Bible, but itis their ible, and thoy reverence: | old chapel hod to be enlarged. Then followed it na we raveronee ours. “fg disusters that shook the edifice to the very [rye ‘Thon thore ts alargo clnss scattered all over!) ditions {iil the erlais of 187 came, when (no Bo- Christinn lands to, whom the thought of n pet-| clety hud lust all {ts proporty. and, only $1,000 sonnl God is not plain. When thoy lok trp there | were ruved tron the wrecks Cit the Workers seems to be no answerlng Suirit speaking back, ] of tho Society were not discouraged; tt only to thelr souls. And yet, all thoao inindas ree Nat- | apurred than on to afeater exertions, Ani Ure, and stand with ‘a cortain fouling of revere | whittaver success bad been achieved since thon ence before the awful depths and spaces of tke | was inniniy dite to the unawerving devotion of ature, and the grandcurand glory of the mile | about twenty lidies, Tholr work waa followed nightaky, ‘They feel the svutemn mystery of | by an ert of success and n revival of religion in Ifo and death ai about thom: and thor hearts:| which many who then became mem are often moved hy the Joyaand sorrows of thelr | bers were afterwards found among the race. The world that Ia even Mes cloxauboue | villara of the church, Then came the them—closer than the garments they wear—xnd | bullding of Grace Church, a beautiful sanctuut thoy feel ita preaence, und laugh, aid weep, dnd | with a name prophetic of God's deatings. hope, and fear, They Bee the silent, reaistiess | most prosporour season followed, God adding to Felen ot iuw, nod In its all-pervading prenenoe | tho ehureh daily such an needed siving. The thoy may not be able to look up and see that | great fire destroyed tholr baitding, but brought this ta largely a world of etfecta rather than of | about a spirit of cohesion and devotion truly ud- chuees, and that tho uppor and uneren world | mirable. and the structure was again rebuilt, of causation {a evermore bending down | and stands to-lay a proud tmontinent of thelr and touching (and moving this; dud that | zealand devetion. Such a resuine of prosperity tho loves ond lives of our ‘world’ are | und grace should always be kept in mind. The forever ristug up and passing inte the immortal | past your has been particularly characterized by atnte. They may not see and believe theso prnepaseil and pence; $5,000 of the church debt things; ang yet who shall say that they have no heen liguidnted. There has been mised be- faith? Who shall say that in this profound | sides for expenses and charitabloand missionary mystery of life, and In the deep silence of death, | purposes, $10,000, For 25,000 of this amount tharg may uot bea something thit f4 ag God to [ they are Indebted to the Trustees of the Chirk them? And who eball euy that in their rovers } Streot church. What tight be the spiritiun) fe once for Nature and Ife, and In thotr struyleuf | of the church hereafter no ono could tall; eter- mind, and In the ersing of the heart, Heagon | nity atone could reven! that. bs imay not beara prayers And thon nwed into ‘These were nunlversury reflections, but thera revercnee, and won oT res ‘Worv othor reticctions [nan hottr Uke th It these ininds often—yes, generally—necept the | tha remembrance of those whose phices ure great moral order of society ng useful, ns benell- | missed, whose fatniilnr aces were no mora vis- vont. They accept truth, and honur, and parity, | ible, und whose words of wisdom could no lots and Juatico, and love uinong wen, ‘They believe | or be hoard, and thoge thut remuin are left for In tose things; and, thus believing, they be- | nnother year of history. They must remember Hove in tha order of Henvon: they believe in tho | bow the whole history of the Methodist Church manifested Mfe of God in tho world;4ua thus | bas een fn the hearts of a few men fired with thoy belleve in God though they knpw It not. | misslonary endeavors. This congregation could We must not ony, thom all place ‘mong bee | not do toss, but wught todo better, He hoped to Meyers, Wo should not guy, ever, that thoy | seo the when not a dullar of Indebtedness have no retlzions faith, would incumber their church, The church wis And baving sald these things, itis easy tosny | built upon the love of Christ. It prospered In that wo must also make roum for all whobe- | the past and multitudes ussembied to listen tu love in God and in the futuro life. And having | the Divine word and souls were rived and cons sald this, we must include umong bohevers tho { verted. These meuns etill existed and were Jews, who cannot believe in Curist as wedo; | the machinery to be put in operation by the and we mustinclude also all the inany divisions | o hildren of their fathers to be perpetuated by of tho Christian roligion,—the Greck and the | the generitions that are yetto come. With those Roman, and all the Protostitat forms of fulth, | dofinitions It appeared pluti that thelr devotion Now I in not saying that all these are Chylatitn | and iove of God was tho, cause of their pros} falth; nor thatall ure allke perfect. or allka | perity. Then glance at history, and such history: powerful in uplifting the life, or assuting in | will ect thom to refreshing reilections, and they death. Tom saying rather tho opposit cf thiss | will work with more devotion thin ever before, but at tho same thie am trying tose enlarge tho | If these things abound there will be a people scale ot bellef, or the flefd of fulth, us to that God will honor and Jead us heretofore; and, chido all lovers of truth,—to pe then: a placo | while their ineans were so umple, they shouldda In God's great school where all tire learners, the work of love and wisdom and erect a monn Let us paas now to note tho degrees of experl> | mont for tho retications of those that ure to ence {n religion. Hore niso tho acalo is extund- follow. | . ed, the fleld very large, taking in tho wholo Teo 0 DR. RYDER range of moral ling from tho faintest con- ievana one orup to tho clearest ght Of | so wane neMAIN IF THT, CHURCH DENT 18 PArD. Wo maychave been thinking that only thoso Tho Rav. W, H. Ryder, of St. Paul's Univer- who have come jatg ey sere axparie: Tie Ballst Church, at the close of his sermon yestorday PERO OF HenGD Have “any aco, oF shod morning, uddressed his congresntion on n topic Included, when wo rpenk of experience in ro- Iigion. And that would be tru If you mnko | {1 which both preacher and congregation, to- that your standard or mexsuring-point. But | gethor with n large portion of the people of Clil- betoré God nll the minds that think, and alltho | cago generally, bave been grentiy futerested for hearts that feol, hnve néenae of or an exper. _ tor’ mye fence in those things. It mon, think, thelr | Soe srebksamiatc Ths Decleor pase rc cpericneos if tholshengts | moval to New York City to assuiue tho pastoral feet e att tien that fs TERE REICH also. The relution over tho Church of tho DivinoPaternity, thinking. may buve resulted jn confusion, | the pulpit of which has been filled for these or darkness, or doubts or it may bive | many yours by tho Kev, Dr. Chapin. Ae will be led on tw ight and acortuinty of truth; but it a a ‘wis n ment oxperioncs, "And 80 of the heart, | Rou by the Doctor's address, one of bis reasons ‘The feeling of right, tho fecling of duty, tha | for serlously inclining to mako the move {s a xeneo of responsluility, tho consciousness of | somewhat now one, tothogencral public at tenst, Impurity—of 6 nature not like God, tho convic- | and hls remaining 1s now conditional upon the ee are ‘ex, ! pon of alnful dome uete all aro experiences. | payment of tho church debt, amounting to some force; or thoy may lwad to a rejection of re- | $50,000, by tho lat of January next, The ad- Ugion for tho timo; or thoy may Iead on to | dross wasus follows: , reformution—to conscorttion to God und to tho Custertaxy Fiennes: As you welt know, I fustrance of purdon and tho fullnoss of Ils | have been for sume tino considering whether £ {ovo in the soul; but, whatevor be tho resutt, | hind better realgn tho pastorate of thia church cach ong bas hud some oxperionos in religion. | und reinoce to New York City. ft seems but Sratoutrelimion. Asin tio stairs of cdi Of | Suet to you ond to all parties fn Interest that I ‘8 such toner treatmont and so much mer. jove and ten s business, of love, of atndy, of farining or pler- | abauld distinctly state my present purpose, chundise, goin religion, Each one it our world My Judginent from tho first hus Inclined to- hus thonght or felt About tt In Bomoe way, We | ward New York, but my esmpnthles and my at- hear men say, © My expertoned in farting. or tn | tnchnient to this church and its members, an trad, or in uw, or in, tnediciue has been #o | to this city and tho Northwest, in which I hay and and when thoy talk about rolidon | a wide Ucqualntance, huve never really given eactt one hus an oxperience of some Kind. One | thoteeonsent, Stilt, { think I should ore this enya, “It 1s all very: dark to ime;” anothor | havedvetded togo tut for the new attitude saya, “C wus disappointed fn such a mun who | whieh Cum ussurcd this purists will hereafter oc~ intde A profession, and fF lost my falth;" auother | cupy if 1 remain. says, 1 believe tn religion; I respect tt: 1love | Connected with tho building and furnishing of xvod peoples but.1 pave never taken itup ty | this edifice, and chtetty In consequence of the self; and anothor says, “Lam trying to lo | doprveiation of tho old church tut, n large in~ along and do right, but I never joined the | debtedners wis placed pate this property, At ehureb;" and stilt another sys, “tho love of | various times you buve reduced that indebted- Christconstraineth mo, and T must live fer Him | hess, so that at present. thure remains but who died for al and I like that oxperience | 359,000, This sum, though but little more than botter than thoothors. Now whut J nmtrying to | naif of what we did owe, is # severe tax upon do hero th not to suy that all these oxpericnees | tho resources of the Society and a hindrave to are alike valunblo; they are not; but atthe same | 9 in ronoy ways. Thuye over felt as if 1 would timo Tam trying to so culurgo our conceptions | nat leave tho parish, provided alwnys tho paz- of this subject that We shall look upon all us | igh was united fn me, until. 1 saw the last dollar having a pinco tu the grent workd of religious | of this debt pald atid the parish wholly fro oxperlonee; and to show that It has many de- | from every auch {ncumbrunce. Lut this oppore grees, reaching all tho way from the lowost to | tunity toremove to Now York bas tempted mo the highest stutes of the soul, in two ways; There nro nlsu degrees in the moral power Firat, tho poaltion is desirable, boing the reo- and beauty of roligion. Wo muy have thought | ognized lending chureh in the denomination, It al along that only those who attain to great | would give mu an upporcunity, under favorable borfeotion should be regarded as religious at_ | conditions, of dole tho best ‘work of which L all, That would bo so If tlitworo tho only | om capable. Furthormore, the demand for iny atandard; but it {a not. Hucnuse religion bas | romoval on the partof the New York friends not dono everything for % man wo suoull not | gooms tobe carnest and Unntilmous, Bay that it has not done anything, If the Second, I bexin to realize, as perhaps 1 bavo thought and fear of God or tho hope of Hoaven | nover dane before, that life {s ebing uway, Tho bas Won tho soul from nny vieo or led {tto any | onrish fs bindored and restrained by this incn- virtuo, that ts 10 mucli. ligion has 60 | Bas or dcbee Tutn porsonally weary: of bearing: obunged the spirit of one's life that he ts fullof | gpoutic and tuking about {t, and fool as ff £ Penitenca for all wrong, and full of forsivences | would Uke, in tho fow yours of active ministerial und churity; if itinake bim Uko Curist in ll | inbor which romutn tome, to be relieved of alt longing and love, and outpouring of life for tho A world if it make him truthful and Just ia nil his | {tether cinbarrassmont and solfeltude of this ways, it bas dono more,—done all thut religion tan effort {snow making to pay the enttro can do. Aud 84, too. 1 would Inoludo all here | inguuteduess Of this churehs ‘Thor te mucl Who, nro, Ae way mado better In life or reason. fo beltove that tho effurt will bo success bt 4 e ful, ‘Tho proposition to pay the debt was nai ‘Tho view of roligion that wo have been pre- | mudo py me, but hy vourcnsen: wind Lan usked, sonting should feud us all ton broad and moat | Wityou remain with us if tho dobt fs pati; considurnta charity for our fellow-beings in | sy answorto thls Inquiry 1s," Yes,—l cannot whatevor degreo of light or darkness, or hows | yoslar tha appeal. ilut while Lauswor Jour ever tow or bikh in tho scale of degrees alone | question frankly, I must with just tho sume which our human Ilyes find thelr pluco, Wouto | fmnnknessdociate that, uniess this expeotntion all members of n greut fninily, eneh one bearing | py realized, L eannot romain. As Luuderstand, fn some tneagure tho innye of God; each ono | tho wubscription to pay: the debt Is having a place In the achoul of roligious thouzht | ponditioned wpon omy continuing = your and oxperfence, and conduct, ‘9 Bhould not pastor, If, thorefore, that subscription is ‘6itc~ go draw our bumun nes of distinction as to | Ccasrui, Leball remain in Chieayo, and no one Jeave nny out; but rither so ns take thom wll tt. | amome'you all will rejoice ‘inore heartily thin ‘Tho best may become better, and the worst nocd TRIE qoiknow that you. have nobly W ae ihe not despair. yittory for woieh you havo tande such generous Our subject should lend us tonsk where wo | gnerife that St. Paul's Church owes nuthe stand,—whoro in talth, ia experionco, In con- | ine to uny se vue Christian wood-will. duot, "Wo should seok tho cloarest tight and tho | fia? Sou need an extonsion of timo. in which highest and most helpful views of ruligion. We | to make up thle subscription, and itis but just shoutd hunger and thirstafter tts richest and | that you should havo it. fullest experiencos—to Know tho blabth and ‘This, thon, fa the substance of what I now say: depth and length and breadth of the love | y will’ give'you until the 1st day In Jagpury of God; tu know the fullnoas of purity and tho | yext to couiplote the subscription to pay. the riches of faith and lovo; to bons perfect ns Wo | entire indebtedness of St, Paul's Chureb. “Ef at may in pationce, and forbearinco, and forgive | that time the payment of tho indebtedness {8 Neas towant others. We should scok ta be por | satisfactorily guumintecd, [ will neceie to your, tot In our lives,+perfect iu truth and honesty | requost and romain sour pastor; If it 18 not, £ and wil uprightnoss among mon, shall at that Lime resign tho charge which L shall We should romonibor, too, that this isa por | then tinve held Just tenty-one years, sonal work. We iny holo each othor by areo- ‘That thore should be nu tlsundorstanding bo- ciation, by sympathy, by @ public servico of sonx | twoen us, it id proper that | should add that, and prayor ke thd: but atti eaoh soul must | should 1 romais with yor, tt will be on precisuly think and atet, mat pray and livo far itselr. Wo | the game conditions.as [f nothing had beun sald. should be both receptive and active—receptive | ayout my xolug to New York and our cburch- to all truth and fusplration that muy come tous | debt bad not been pald, for 1 must bo in tho from above; and netive in the Sie SEEN OE Bp: | future, a8 | have been in tho prst, entirety free panes menna of gritce, OF what possibilities | ty fon you or to retire from tho active work of He within cach human sout—posstbilities of | tho ministry whonevor Lmuy think {t bovt go fulth, of expericnco, of practice, Haw abundant | go, dust us” you Will be freo to dailies mo and our privilexes aud bolbs on overy band. Our | einploy soma othor person to olliciate ae your whole tite ign sehool, and Natura, and Provi- | ininister whenever your Intcresta can be bettor donce, and Revelution, the Floly Spirit wait | gubseryod thoreby. Our relations to cach other upon Us astouchers. All Of tito is, or may bo. 4 | just remaln us thoy mlwaya have beun—olthor school of transactional piety, or for the exercise party wishing to dlgaolye tho connection must of overy virtus, How animating tho scons, how | civy the otherthree months’ notice. Inepiring the hope, how bigh tho ideal! tue id thon, nfter 8 pause, the Doctor added: muke to-morrow botter than to-day—it may bo “Yhat laall Tbuyeto gay, 1 should be glad botter; wo muy be rlohor in-tatth and experi: | nor to refer to ft again In any way, oxcept to Qnco; we muy be wiser and atrongor to doand | stund up hero with you and have ano good hale fo sufor, And thus shall oternity be botter | jeujub churus,in view of tho fact thit thodebt ts than tlio, . pul i It Jone fulkiny jp DFetRGh fiat wo waut er io noxt two weeks, 8 ev daige,' GRACE METHODIST CHUROH, | br. itydor was oven more impressive than ate TANTY-FOUNTI ANNIVERSARY. | tine all abroui bia adilrve ana nb tinned tho ny dey o! is Feelin us evident responsible Grace Muthodlst Bplscopal Churuh oelobmted for tho alight quavoring and trumulonsness nos ite thirty-fourth anulversnry yesterday, The lev. | ticeuble In bis volee, After tho congregation Robert D. Shoppard preached a powerful annl- bal Bas asus, a Beier at ee eiabioue , " ens went forwurd f Yorsary sermon, showlny tho grout work ‘ao- | think him for tue hone he Hell ont of stilt roe complished by tha congregation sinc its organl- It Pat's, and to assur bim that zation, and the lessons to bo’dorived froma Pareto fort would bo mada to Ui anes rehearsnt of its blstory. Ho took hid toxt from | the churen debt, with already Satteriny, pros Deuteronomy, vighth er second verso; | pouts of success, “And thou shult remombor all: tho way which = * tho Lord thy Goi fod thov theso forty yoary in A NEW -MISSION, “4 tho wilderness, to humble thee and to prove thee ITS INAUGURATION YRETEKDAY, to know what was fu thy hoarte whether thou Somo weeks ugo the Now Enuland Congregn: ‘wouldest koup }Ils commandments orno." + tlonal Church resolved to extend the work of All nations, churches, soclotied, ond famillea | the suclety by catabllubiog a Mission Sabbath- had thotr apniversurics and birthdays, and they | echool, and yosterday aftornoon tho resolution came together to revive incmorics uf tho past, | took shape In tho starting of a schoo! at the cory ‘The Church of Jesus Christ should bu romindud'| ner of Sedxwiok and Bixol atrvcta, ta bo known Of its biavory, ‘They wore beginning to-day the | us “fhe Sedgwick Strect Sunday-Sehuol,” thirty-fourth yeurof thelr Church history, and'| to be under tho superintendence of W, wera in the region of the third anniversary p¢ | Harrison Bradley, The — nvlghborbout tH tho cooupanuy of this beautiful templo which | One in wale there) a Will be the chureh for thon and tholr children | without Sabluth-seboo! privilewess formuany yours to come. Itlsno furefetched'| raovumont prowlses to bo eininently fancy to compara thelr ry with thator tha | Ovgronu bundred children wore enrolled, and childran of Jeract, who wero led forty yearsin | thy services of ut least twenty-lve teachers the wilderness to finally laud in uw placo where | huye been pledged, ftven of whom were pres there was peace, plenty, uid prosperity. A, ont yesterday, Tho school will grow, no doubt, Teviow of thut bistory feuds thom to rumeniber | beyond the dimensions of the quartons now oc What, with Diving power, fortitudo, faith, and {| cupied, having bud such a tuvcrablo sturt, and Giscipling, great can be accomulléned. | ittatntended to udd to it an industrial subool, ’ Drayer-incetings, ote, with tho expectation that eno ditane- day 8 church will grow upin that vicinity, Y. M. C. A. i “INDIANAPOLIS, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. INtMANAPOLIs, Ind, Dec. 18.—The twenty- rixth annonl statement of the Young Men's Christian Association of Indlannpolls was reat! in oll the churches to-day, Tho zypinasium and bath-rooms have beon syecessful, 20 per- sons holding tickets at the close of the year, the whole number Jasued aineo the Inst report being 422, The reading-room is supplicd with one hundred and eight periodicals, including dally and weekly papers and magazines, nil of which have been donated, The roomshave been open to the flowor-mlssion for canoultation and work, Tempepinea meetings have been huld In this chapet Rett wood resnits, The Satuctay afternoon Fewing-sehuol has been continued with ga results. The Gospel meetings Sun- day evenings have recomplished a good work, Tee dally average nctendance at the rooms has been not fir from 400, and the number of meetinzs helt has been 1.073, with an fuegrewite attendance of 0%, The receipts for the sear ending Kept. 3, from voluntary: contributions were #0.(1, the total receipts bee ing €1, nearly aller which haa heen ex- pended, Nearly all the miniaters of the city preached to-day on subjects touching the work of the Association, the annual reunion of which willoccur noxt Wodneaday. Attorney-General Baldwin dolivered the annual address, ELSEWHERE, DEDICATION, Special Dispatch to The Chicam Tribune, Decatur, Ul, Dee. 1%—Tho new German Lutheran Chureb—an imposing one-story brick structure on West, Wood street, this eity—was dedicated to-day with apmoprinte ceremonies, conducted by tho pastor, the Rov, Landgrag, as- alnted by the Rev. J. ‘f. Boetticher, of Mount Pulaski, WL; tho Nev. C. Mruner, of Champaign, Mi; and tho Key. Mr. Zahm, of Nokomis, Wl, ‘The church hasn seating-eapnelty for 400 peo- ple, and Ip thirty-five by sixty feet In size, with additional spree for tho pulpit, and altar, and cholr-gallery, = Of nll cough remedies we have ever nsed, Dr. itil’ Cough Syrupis tho best. Price 25 UTNE TRA NONDRIL TO ACCOMM DATE OUI S Hehed Hratieh Olives inthe ‘diterone Divinions. ws genunalet) below, ‘whore advarhaunonts” will” be taken forthe saino pricy as chanild at the Mi Office, and will be, Fceieed Batt to ock pr. & Mt, KIMMS, Nuoksollurs und Statichers, 125 J. Tyronty-eccondest, i WW. F, BOG if} Cottmme Grovo-ar, GAM orthwest corner Thirty! ni - AEA ADUCEM AS, Druezisy cornor Thirty-irst aud SION,” [U. Druggista, Tt Soath » Htationor, otc, ‘estern-by, MOD 7, Deugglet, HJ Live Laland-ay., corner of'lwalfth en its Iie G. WEMUCK.dowalor, Nowadealer, and Fancy Gonide 7 Lakesnt’ coruve dnnoin, Ti ECRHAPS, Bruwslsh oil Went Madison-at, core BAUGUSH'SACUBSON, Drugcist, 40 North Tasted, corner InalanaS ont DIVISION. 2. HURLINGHAM CU, Drualsts, 405 North oat, COPE Hivhsi + Drugeists, 075 Lareaboe-st, ia FM, WILLEAMS & Ci corner sy 1 Printing and, Advortising ry Depot 4% B. Divisions, pila. is W. th. NEE Agent, Nowa uta State PERSONAL,” PBOSALCITANY IU ANY BUSINESS IM: quiring services at privat dutectiver If s0 nd dreas D5, ‘Tribune attic DNAL— at Linlngton’s, 45 un Uiat hls prices und. roi saw fram house, easy torn: price £2. the southeast corne Gn aroall cash TURNER & NOD ib Pa f for ‘two fumiilens very Also small hous und lot oi Fullerton-av.. aid Perry-aty fund oney torms, at €.1Uh Washinuton-at. ‘OR SALH—A BULLI ENTY Feet tent of Sheniwaneur. MATSUN Wanhingtinnt, BCOND> AL, 16 MONTH-FIRST FLOOR AND raturnenv. Fh, frome cuttage, 1 Urlek, 17 Fillmoro-at. #3, T°, NENT—! hastment at Fillmore-st. £17, two-ntort i rearot upper floor, 36 Filimuro-at, Inquire at Ui Wonterntenv, i South Side. NT it fintshed in ne batheoumes, two fasine Glegant chandeligns, snd ov ine briek burn goes vith the hutse, ‘Tho rheht ynirty can vet this fora heard. ing-honse at a baruin, PREY W. PALMER, 13 Dearbornest. ‘ Went Siac. PPO RENT—UPPEI FLOOR OF a) WEST WANIT- five pleasant und doe im. nultable for lhe wired, + Gouth Side. (PO RENT—AN MLEGANT TOUSR, NO. 37 iuaneay., With zuseticcures. doubly winiaws, Cte. Apply at once wo J Dearborn FPO MENT—NICRLY-FURN it gle oren aulte) xt rensinnble mtos. ‘Eransients acon eae oa (PORESTIPLEARANT KUIAISTED ROOMH 128 Michtgansav. Ail modern improvemonts, * Fo it! '£—STORES, OFFICES, &c. Store: ve RENT—STORK AND BABEL Adamarat.; cheap, to nel ten given immediately. LEQUULD SLA La Sation NO. EAST Wsne it, bat To NT=FINST AND BECOND buxument 18 East Madisunest. 1, Washington-st, oun DORA AND ‘OT WIN, 13} TS, FUE STORY HICK STORE, WXWO feot, on northyast corner Wabasteay. and Van Wares AVERBI IL. 127 Dearbern-sb, Ww AV ARTE STO “hE wlecuntly furnt: South sd ret suno-tront ate BON TIL, 46 Went y TANTRD=TO RERT-STORE SUITANLE FOR w OF 1t00MS se Ken tier an vie MAT= ‘att At anuiple-routn, Uuquestionable rotorences Y rear South Side, wurth uf Ade Si iRUNnY attloe, i MUSICAL IN WLBT, DAVIS & COR 5 Garay UMMGny VIANOS, stony Solohistiet pinnos, with thera ‘of boat makes, rt ee He zopree Aree WW, KIMI ATa Cornur State and Adama-nts. Chicago, Pianos ‘AND oncaNs oN INSTALLMENTS, Av W. We MALLS,” CORNEL STAT AND ADAMB-ATS, © {HTT lz| | ND ONGANS, Pianos aN Oe tos, HA! 3" SPANOS. ESTRY_ AND 3 STORY 6 UNin foraans, ‘A magaiticont stock of Grund, Upright, and Square Pianos, und Organs of all stylos, at lowor prices und Gifts, und 10 Hinto-ste GAT OW fur b sours) onste: than wor anes BTURY & Lym BUYS FINET-CLARS Ul PAD) square plnno, tuily wirrante Torus €1S dawn mn Hany tay acu itt i 10 naan plunos cheap. ADAM MAIS Won Audlaitoat, NORTH CLARK-8T., d BAIL 4’HE DUDE Ry al wk, #1 per month, That di a a i ge Motels. BNTON HQUSE HES! $14 A DAY HOUBH IN ‘Aniorica, 22 wid 24) Suuth Clark-st.. unposite Cu Wm-luuse, Now marble, butting hundwomuly fu Rinhod Huon Bicunts,}4 cont, #14 monly, A conte, DENTON MAUZY, proprlowr. ANENC i OF WRATH AND Hurrinon-ats, Hompclivant ‘ud Foul PORN Hi blocks south of the Palmer per ihre wi ui ta ir WOUk, ae bonne ite a AV. NEAU MAD. Fatde to travatiny ly bowrd BS per Ww" BO HOURE, it STATE ST, Orrostts die Hoursciteuins und buasu, Bao pur day er week? day ban $i AND ue, with privaty TOATH—FO GUNTLEMAN, Wik i Tiburie, i children, nut tweacead 41S por 9 fully. Woteruncen givun, © Adurena N21 BOAwDT AND, SUH OF iooss UY GENTLE ‘ wan and wife in wiriotly privat farully. Rurer- iio given wid roqulra tn ay Lyi beled for rat-cluas accommoduuions, "Ho shows peed nub Coll or aduruss A Sionitlishs Paluier Houaw, ea eta erenrerreaherea 5 ty : hint eam w+ TOK BALE-ANOUT FIFE ANDARD LAW 0 kw, including Plater s Digest Us) to Bh, tive Yoru Ain Docwlonst eis Partai LOUIS WEDEI, Puwnbrukor gts bouth Clabes. WANTED—MALE HELP, ~~ Pendes. WARTED.BooK DINDER. ADDRESS GAZETTH, VWVASTED-AT ONCEA MECITANIO TO TUN daor-tenon machine un stuck doors. Must bo ulek, Also une panul-ralses huni, Steady work, Ad~ reas at oneo to A. A. BUWW EIS, Commorcial Louse, Museating, 10, Employnient Agenct¢s, 7 OAP, fares 20 wor choppers.cic. CHIMISTIAN & CO, stings Went Sindlsoneens OO asta Waleee Misccliancotsn. fh eatabilehed trade in Wonturn Thinows ed Hamorn Jown. Address, stating roferences and salary ex- ~ pectar, J 45 Velbune oMce, ‘AN INTELLIGENT STRADY BUY , Neat one with a knowledan of datatis pers Fenl estate proferred, ‘AadTosS L1G, Tie egg tap 3 ‘ TH fora taintny to Ve ‘AS FANTED—A FIRST-CLASS MAN TO TRAVEL for on old-estabiiahied want. tnd ttoor hows Must hnvoexparionee na silosman jn thisline, Ad> ribuna mien, PANEUIAE & ee ¥ PANTER — Vormanen INFOS MAN Olt SALESMAN.) W2Forma notion. “Address L127, Trbune, . \VASTED-AGENTH—ENERGHTIO MEN, WITH * 0 tal, "Seni niainpefor papore and inveatignys: or cuit at. a Fi nnd 2) North Clarkest, MICE & CO, Chiengo. W ANTED— at througout the TW IN “CHICAGO AND te to soll an elogantl gMmvod portrait of Archbishop Fechan, Sainply copy @® conte. F' ons fize fre, Py FOX, COLA & CO. 24 Done Chicauo, <i ws TED—CANVASSERS TO SED THD polish suporive fur cleaning furniture, needio ganen, nibams, Jawalty, nuvattios, aid fa ncy goodar 4 fy fAaday can’ easily bo snndo. 'C. My TiMinaTon, iF. WANTED-FEMALE JIELYP. . Domestica. ANTENA CAVAMLE Guity abs yyligteaonc, “Gormun or Sand) a TAN TPN Aly AV GIRL, TO WAIT ON n Houws Bout Clatene eee \VANreo-K Gilt, ro Wadi Didiipe-AND WWAEROGA HU "Sade Se een St ee “WHST WASIINGTON-ST.. A inond girl to av noeond ware nod wanton wable Employment Agencies _ =O GEUMAN AND SCANDINA= Vinn iris for private tamitios, hotels, and board+ Ingshousis at, DUSKE'S oftice, 1 Milwankee-av. Miscetinneous. — We PANTED—A WOMAN 3) 'T0 4) TEARS OF AGH Whu hos bad uxperionce In sicknose und enre uf children, und is willing to nuke hersalf nsoful aramut_,- the nuke, whyre oshur servants are kopt.. Addryae r Lah vriyvad S Ruolikoepers,Clerkn, &c. QITUATION WASTED BY A BUSINESS MAN gutaide. For an intecaler uddress ML 24, ‘Cribune.. MinceNancons, ITUATION WA p—1. 0. 0, F. ATEN’ Nm ‘Atigiber of the fraternity. ad have euplogs ment Hranper in elty, coed penmin, and grr Mate Wisconsin winuy University. Mos lind expurience 6 anleo, und “1 ribuni atic. yn ePaPer Feport= * of Inco exparience by dan. 1. elthor in city of ¥. GNS WANTED — WISCONGIN GIRLS, couks, general, second, dining, wd jnundry works xnod wire wanted; unter by Holl teloyiong; elty feo, di. Bureny of iewisiry. 235 Weat Monroest, ANC 2A. nett hits tore Pima bev Dodd, u handsome tay, 18 THT eriane, atid Lil ta pandsamn; ho was sired Sy Young Columbus, Behan Allen mar ; he t suring: Lo wil wnrrant Bim xoond and tt titin hr #15 i viatcired ui fast trotting horse Johuh te A rent, Wiesbunds high, tong tat tall minne, ts very mttractt¥o ahd hundsomus there V4 90 ithe galted ur handsomor borwe goes th Was miteod on tue, Fntrinwn aired oy Almont the geuat aire t fanwas trotting mure Kentucky Mald; he showed a fol uty Hust Stay In 2:84 at xblel timo 1 paid B80 for bling £ will row sell ttm for S40 and warrant hid pary, tuctly sound and kind, and take you byhinit him and, show tho ting, Also a tiny, sleigh, ortiund, enter, fryletrhnmed with red plush fur é; « Hno, y ness, $i: an elevunt wolyering robe for 845, cust Yeu will tind everything us represunted and war) rantad. Will evan trinl with the horses to respunisl- Div party if desired. ‘They can be sven at uny time nt \" - priente wtablo in alley, $n rear of rosidonea IZM ine dlana-nv.. between ‘Twalfth and ‘Chirtoonth-sts, Concha in attundance, cost £1 kind, und BAM UF VERY USEYOG WOItK-NORSES 24. wit be rold very low tls week, os owner has no Jurther usa fur them, md will not rofuny any reason able offer: they ure dando yours old, chunky bullt, wolgh 248) pounsis, J. trac workurs singlo oF double, and warranted: sutind and kindy woutd sell suparaic. und Rivet wook's teint, Call ut einblo 12H Mivhiatti-ny, A tone MITCHELIS. Us AST WASHING: f nil kinds, carrinies, burgies, nnd hatness, no vavanidetunie ac lowe ae or will ‘ exelinnie. made, z a A. NIGH” Asso! OF -SrAIGHS LERE | + {hit we WHIT set At cost to cloxe them ont, BO to § Wabusti-av WNOVEI & MLANI: sO SAL t TL SEM, NI : rund-huraos ean trot totter than 24k Wil all very choup for Thauire in'barn, ar Must have monoy, aon Qi THIN BAIGAIN—s00 Wil), HUY THE HeoT pale of Work-hoemes ever offered at this prico in the citys they cost MY! lust apeing: coer are wort more HOw, os ahoy ure neclimated and city- ey ure hinkt-brothers, i und 7 yon Shows chUNky-Dullts welith’ 4, trav pullers, single or dunble; ary both bp; Warmint thom sound und kind, and given woo Phy can by seen at any time ot barn, iat Sle! un-ny.. betwoun Eldeiie and Harmon-couris, Man In chirgo Is authorived to aelty ownur-has givon up Dusinees, by 75 With hoy S175 Vrove ian A RELIANLE AND WELI- Hiursoy Ho ty 6 yenrs old; 14 Ay, stylishand handsome, and & naant delivers trotted inn matinee laat, Huver heen tmined for epead, but he is Inltin 22382 Airy ts trot fast ux ho hns ae Rood strate of blood in his voina na ean be truced ‘to, any trutter of the naer ho tthe trod by durold, thy stro, uf Maud 8, din full slater to the faruous Lady Thorn; tie is warmnted ound and kind und free from fault or uetitshs ronson for nolling so lum, ha is tue proparty « ata lady who cannot Fido on account of Mi-healti, Sal a Areal co, 13 Michteen: FANG Sia ON DIAMONDS WATCHES Cte, at Unesiinit broxors' rates, 1, VAUNDE Jtounind wud y Li itandulbheat. Ratablisbod 103k ‘ASIRUM LOANED ON FURNITURE, MANOS dnichinery, ote, wlthaut removatt und other Kod, coltaturnis, Wf RING, 0 6, Mad(son-at., Root 2 FUR ULD GOLD AND BILVEU— don ae GOLTSSID'S toga aad non a SI'S Lona uh W Ease Madisonevt Eatabe Cant ray J Atuner to | pies or every deact Mutlian Odicy Clee Hnked 1), * GC, COL SCO, Tid DEARUORN-ST., LAS 4. xovarn! sunt to losn at band 7 por cunt on Chile cago rel estate tor throg or tive yours. [ TRICE PAID PO STATE SAVINGS: aud Fidulity Bank books, und Scandinavian No» Wonal Hinnk vertiticatn, WMA MOLSIc% Gonoral BRT Broker, at Wai TLOa88 OX ROUNITORE, PIANOS. ETO. WITH 40r withuilt removal, wiihout publtelty; legal Inter= lsstons, “140 ituatn 'O LOAN ON FURNITURE. HTC, WITH OWA Ge WAIMIEN Or Wave Moninvarste TO LOAN AY LOWEST RATES ON so dmipguved city rant astute In wuims to sult, SNOND, tut Washingtoneat, BU MSS CHANCES, J. ASIUSALE—ONEHALE INTHILEST IN A LEADS CaMncGitity nemspanae, aad. Jabeotted ta Couteal Mlnob honn tidy wookly fue of 1Q0 and over. Buu AN, KELLUGU, TW Jucksun-ut,, Chicaxo, WAI CiHANCE—RETIRING from business, £ offer my old-atablished dry= gooils business fur snio, located on ong uf the bose Dusliivas atruota in the city. Addrow L 2, ‘Tribune, yeous SALE=A HOOT AND SUOK STORE IN TO- wk, the cipilat und Wading clty of Kanuna; pop intion da, and aruwing rapidly, or particulars Wunwed AC HABDINETS Ht Nort canter Conewsus th 1 iA FINE FAMILY LIQUOK STOKE ALOT AY ethntdaid bustnuss in w wood Sound uavjun noise phot} reavun, wachange of businuss, Inquire ob a pout Hutated-ate S J1QON IN A GOOD BTAND, DOING GOOD BUBI- nos, for sale vary cheap for cash; large house, low runt, {ngulre inimedintely und make an offer, Ad- Una NB Trtbune OMleo, W NEED—A ‘GUUD TUBINESS-ALAN WITIL $000 to takes controlling interest inn ftirst~ frye taaiinfnctaty uvidenegemyen as teats yeu tury ov “ : ve ty Dusliuas, HENNY WALLGl, dite Ur yori i it ‘ Bt Ti TH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Wit £N wish to soll casteoir clothing, ct Fpaln and bad= Ying can got nn afer from B. MEUSCILEL, bu Nine at. J will py 2 por cont wore thin, other dealurs ti ho elty. {Witenes tho nuibur, od Blatuent. “ ALLY Ad’ A i= ACS, 1710 Btntueat. (old Nu, wd), yattondud to, Katablished lel per UF NO, 8 WHEELER € WILSON AND DUs Tudaticn, ullroly How, und latuat tmipeavud, very ehean, "Loan Oltive, 125 Chirk-st, Room 2. - pro, BAU-CHEAD, ONE TINCIL BOW BN- ing Gnd @@ruirea'pawur bullor, complet We W. MALSIE By cnn) tL. DODHICH, ATTOUNEY AY LAW. E oa Phileas wi a Ihstnese wutotty und leaally traiteactods INSTRUCTION, CAUD OF TIAN NOOK EREING OPVIONS, ——- tu Hi : phitulastun, vx port) tuuxht by the buokkee itaurd'or Trude dene Adatuss 5, ‘relbune oli nye TF LAW, BIDKARS Ox Givitade For F %. BUGGIES, BTC, ee Ei hdatine ys Advance ot low Tass KONGE PALUCY, tld Weal Monroveat. - Lie RECOM 13, FRANKS AS TLE REST AA iiviswe on love, mutringy. hail. and busliioas Auulre, tatury wrospocts. tal Wve Stud widest, Us: JRO BALESA LARUE List OF VESSEI9 UNA (uitierstAs whee FUR BALE} BART VAN Po einaabar Kae further articular upp WU Chitin or a Buatesty nue COUct & 1UNs Ges eo BiOWN 4 Coucrul Whare BUlWO Ne Xe | NAB. p