Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1881, Page 6

he ie ‘RELIGIOUS. The Church's New Year Consid- ered by Prof. Swing. Dr. Thomas Preaches Concerning the Soul's Prosperity. _ God’s Blessings the Topic of a Sermon by the Rev. F. W. Adams. Interesting. ‘Addresses by tho Rey. L. P. Mercer afd tho Rey. Mr. Van Horne. A Gospol Temperance Mesting at Farwell ‘ Tall. ; THE CHURCIYS NEW YEAR. 1 RFMMON DY PROF. BAVING, Prof, Swing preached In Central Church yes terlay morning tou large nudlenee the follow ing sermon: atte rofino thom as allyer ts refined.—Zeeh., rH le In these hours wo aro reminded of tho vast. evolutions of Nature. Yesterday wo changed the dite, and record an tdyancotn time. Itwas not tho choles of any of us, for yenrsin this world are not so plenty that we enn alford to be glad when one of them hns tutcen Ite pluce in tho past. The restatiess movements of Nature con pelted us to recont the beginning of u new circle of months, Wenll nceept, cheerfully as possl- bie, the deerce, and obey what we cannut oppose, but not inany of us are really lad that our days ‘on enrth nre passing rapidly eway, Tn tho mate earth Isa xood place for us nll, We love its scenes nud sounds, and tls pursuits, and honors, and friendabips, and countiess shapes of the goml and tho beautiful, and are not willing to close oureyes forever upon its virtues and bless ins. Hiding from sight ovr personnal regrets over this rapid tint, and looking at such changing dates from nn impersonal standpoint, there ia something grand in. thls forward slip of tne. Yeurs nro the footsteps of our God, They are the spnees In which God makes cvonts, They mark our universe und toll us where God Is und bna been, few expre: sions nro more impressive than the worts, * Ye: terday, to-day, and forever,” beenuay thoy bring before tho Imagination the outline of that long space in whieh the Author of all things has net> ed, ‘Travelers standing upon the field of Wator- Joo are Med with vw xtrange sonsition ng thelr tilnds recall the onsets and repulaes of troops, the filing of long columns, the din of the etn- nons and of the muaketry, the trampling of men and borees upon the wounded, the cloud of ainoke, nnd the. faces of tha Captains and sole dhers in their terrific work, Our wniverse and our earth are in a less puiiful sense pliees where, God lus inoved wlong, the lender of His peculiar hosts, His tnovementa expand into years, ind with Hint a thousand years become nen diy. Some one has compared the enrth tou perdu which swings southward and vorthward, 3 it hangs from the sun, and instead of beating once Aeecond ft beats once a sent, But we must pass away from the poetry of tho fact to turk what thesy new dutes recall to imeinory or to thaurht. ‘These elreles of (he mouths have never come in the nume of routing, but alwaya in the name of 4 progress or n reconstruction. ‘There fs uo monotony in Nature. Every yenr hua been pers Tectly now fy its quality, It uever having bad Its exnet equal in all the tincounted pist. vomits: brief cureer and to his often heavy heurt there, may seem days of dull repetition, but uwity from this incidental, estimate ull the epochs are full of the new und the finpressive. ‘Lhe text is Juss * uted by all modern sulence whon it represents tho Deity ns reflning his work nsaliver Is refined. God ulone, or God and uno ure passing over the fold constantly in this work of reconstruction, and og the fabrics for clothing are woven wrisaes back atnong tho snyaye Jalunders, nnd ure delic cuty gilks mnongy tho French, so ideas, and opin- fons, nnd belicfs are course {nu the outset of thelr history and are refined us the yenrs pass, Often God alone Is tho Master of this changing result, but often God and mun actin companionship sand review, and rendopt, un recon struct ' ‘the ten thousau rude bes . xinnings round tho: feet. These Divine and human bands are refined instruments from whose tonch all issues i greater cleganes und + ulllity. Godand Els hutable companion, tine klnd, are always busy in u reformation, — Ever: . Yeur'ls a page in the history of 0 reformation. Allemerges better thin it went in. Luther's nit wie only tho opening suddenly, in the wind, of a flower that tind long been furming ww dark and hidden bud its color and ume. ‘ ‘Yho innterial carth repents the story of re- forination, for the fossll rucks and fossil bones ussure that once vu course quality of brute Ute held these prairies and those witers, but tholr gUmate and ticlds were a reform over that time “Wwhon, according to Prof. Winchell, it sometines ‘thundered and rained without cessation for hunilred yeurs,—n reform over tho period when tho curth wis go bot that its silverund gold, and iron vlements ineited wid min into crevices, wid forined masses to be struck now by the inatrue Tent of. the miner, At the touch of .tho Almighty tho ciliate, the thunder, tho Btortis “becaiwe retited, und nt His word the ruder life disappenred to make room for mun. ‘After nan nppeared he became the ase aistint of the Creator in this many-sided trans- ~forimation, tnd he remains to-day not tho vice tin of a routing, but the actor in aw wie und tleep progress. At bis touch custome «nd opine jons change, and by us met na he does bls duty, ‘by 60 much duos cach year dle in mero beauty ‘than that In which 1t was born, “It hus becn tho bane of whole eras and whole races that the inyrind bearts uceepted of sleep and chunyelcsness as belng the youl of existe - ones, Indin, with its many mitiions, sunk t+ der the palsy of u religion which mude com. posure the greatest ulm of main ‘lo be at pouey with self, and init, and God was tho per eation of virtue, Sugh i cumposure gecims fn Bome reapeols vers’ charmiug, but it wus the ‘ deuth of indin, because God did nut make of 4 mankind a sivoping ariny, bat umarehing urmy'. ‘ Jn Nature's cconomy sivep isn necessity, but hot an cod. ‘The truco hunianity ta i’ host She whoso bunners ure alwys up, and whose , music ts ‘always un insplring inarch, In this economy niin fa muds the of a perpetunl tuspirition. Hu regrots “tho . time spent in sleep, becuuke tho fituro dis i closes yu inuny new ends to bu reavhed. The hosum of Indl did not beave with feputse, but in {18 much-sought rest the bosom becume motionless, ns though rendy tor the eotin: but tho hourtot America bents with enthusiasm, for ita morrow [fe to be greater thin its past, ‘The changes which ench yeur brings or olfers to tho mind become its Inspiration, and therefore 1 the cnuse of a success, for to be aroused {9 tho iirst element of a triumph, Not onty aro sing- ers, and Actors, aid orators dependentapon an doner impulse and Hable to be jwoved by that Divino alr, but all souls, 0 Hettle ‘aa leEcued are wenk and becalmod until the fuvoring gute springs up. In Indie the soul bus hee calmed tor 3,000 yearay in Amorica It bus curried along by. galo,—the guile ot new hop ; andin a hundred years it hus sailed over ‘ wider sca than india crossed Jn there thou- Bands. “Whut a modifleution and prornces Iu tho for- 4" mation of soils, tu the growth of plants, In the mu *$ tations of plunts, and ef tho forma and colors of 1 antinuls muy by culled restatement In mutters ‘of inith and opinion, As better frulte, ad bets ter Howery, and better noinils came, 60 better opinions present thomselves at euch now poriod, aud in this nover ending possibility of wn proved idun reposes the tuyplration of tho wt é tR morrow must not he ike its past. It must * bp richor, bronder, aweeter, hus upan all the ++ Arens of thought tn all tty forma, potttical, or “, roliyious, or social, thore shines at intervals the Nyhtofa new year, ‘fhe former years retreat and fade away. Thore uro nlways times coming $n with a freguness not detected before. Man ja kept forover wwake by this grand nownes jo sand, ns in journeying through an Bue giuad, or rince,, or Atiericn, dhe stimulated to watch every mils becuse peautiful prospects or wonderful objucta ara Jinble to come any moment Into view, und De- ‘cnuse no two milés WIL be alike? go fit pnatuy through the valley of life tho thoughtful tit! conatintly and carnestly, becuse now tori of idua und ‘trathare forey ning. and wo two porlods will bo found of ong mage. Stile this chinging scene that botps make tho futellcet, ‘The Journey of Ututs mude nluny an unrecorded, wumnpped road whenve cach traveler feels that ho fea diseover, Nature bid nade a perfect ox sii ploration und mapping tropossible, so that there. i! Will ulwayy boa nuw world forevery Columbusy notuContinont fur cach, but un dilwud of no * contemptible mnuunitude, : ‘Theso thoughts being us to the conclusion that _ 4 theological opinion should be confessed to be in general a changing opinion, 8 form of thought whieh God ana imu are reliniog os xilver ie Fyllned,. The assntuption thut the Lible bs un inspired volume docs not exclude thls refloiog process. Providence deca not abandon religion whan Te bas impelled some of Hie varliest chile dren lo speak, but Ho follows all fils begun works, aid seems never wily from the human Tully, Lowe assume a Providence we ennnot exelude iim at times and at tines adialt Hime ito human alfalrs; but if thore be any presunae of God Ju seligious ar political matters It oumht tobe a constant pres the luglio of , Baturo taallin favor of constancy, ‘Thers ja sarpetnt refining of doctriag betwoen bunny “| and Divine bunds, and cach uge ouboya 4 B better faith than = wis anjoyed by ja Bho uxos thug passed befure. he , mini at ukes ¥ Never-ceasing review, und as hagunye iwbroves it xcopy and power of expressiul 20 46 there a perpetual advance I the Value of 4 She thing expressed. ‘Tho try useuined abarper outline. Ax the early portraits of the hywun fave. as seen upon Exyptinn tablets, were only rude oudines, und leave tho tuodern spectator in doubt whether the limage stood for map gr a wou. e slave ora Kings un four ednturics Jutervenca before the pencil could Ul out the joni expressions of the Juco, 40 dens bavetlwuys lain iu rude outling, as Gustapely eeu bour’s whylp, and Lave loug mmulned thus, ) i a t i 4 ' ay \ i A att i 1 4 ( 4 i 4 \ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1881. taking on only alittle of synimetry and tint In ench generation, The assumption by the Church that ic his found any Noal formula of any dogina hua long been InJurious, for that assnimption has prevented tho Church from making rapid itso af tho wew light of successive times. Not only has the Chureh fated to enjoy the benetita of such Inerenserd information, but it bas alse often forfeited tho aympatiy of un mice by Keen. ing so far Inet it, At has nscale and dunin fatten so Yar behind sglenee and ration nism that tho grent. men oof different verlods fave bean ecrnapalterd to trends with can Jompt or neglept the soecalied sanotintry of God, Sometimes the priesti.at, tho altar. has ine warily tnughed at the words which He outward- ly utterdd wittydeep solonmnity. Our world is 60 flexible that to be th hurniony with the world thonlogy shoutd have been flexible, not a tnblet of fron, but one of wax. Music bas wrown more rapldly than the Scotch Chnreh, and to-day, by: muy congregations, musical lusteinents are supposed 1 praainte of imploty, ahthoven good ainging ts thought to belong tothe parlor or the coneert, tnd not to the surety, Such a res sult comes to pugs from the fret that Scotland made up ite budget of retiglous opinion nnd emotion three conturics azo, and one of these opinions was that no chinge in Divine things cimever coine. ‘Thus knew year was exeided and the world moved away from tho Chiire naw springtime should at intervals cot fessad by wil the denominations, Flowers once bedutiful are tow dent, ‘The public looks forward for some now growth, If anany of tho doctrines of tho Chnreh were once ornaments of the garden, standing thare in suy they ure dead now from reet to branch. ‘Tho sun has gone so far south that a frost game and nipped diem, Prof. Smith perecives thoeo dend atatks and wonld mike thom and burt them iu antielpation of the new spring, ‘The Chureh: carriigns this man beenuse ho studies, white tho nee faculty exeept memory. It Jonks forward only tot Heavens ag lo cart, Ib only looks back, Muet of the glory of attr world fies tint ft Its conting Men but in its coming self. Inill- ven but eoviety stay hore, vidunis go to nnd upon it must come naw thoughts and now ns, wll thi re tof now auasons. Luthor nvitr and Kdwards did once liv nd il u Hewat, und did bour Crust, but thoy met with an nutumn andilicd, They will not bo exe peoted to decuraty host pring, Most inen nre animals, very few ure Immortelles, The Chiro attempts ta keep her oll blossoms by pattie thom in a vase, and by watering thom nt times with the holy water of her tears, Unt ft is al in vabi. When new blos~ goms have como the very matd-servant will throw the old drled bouquets Into tho street. As gray biirs come nfter a time to mun, so do thoy’ vane to many a doctvine, Man hits for yeurs ruddy cheek, a foutsten tight aa tt fawn'e, 0 C08 bead smooth as marble, a ringing laugh. Hee ext all thins at all hours, and enn steep i whero and it any time: but years and years Dass, and tho ehenks sink, and tho step totters, theeye no longer stragstes to concent lebter, theform onve ereet and quick 13 very slow, and comes In leaning upon a enne. ‘This Is tho hls- tory of munya theological tenct. It was once young, bad n Huyhed fuce, walked wlony Like lags people in the church-pows looked love nnd gyinpathy at tho beutifol thing; but every, New Year marked. un abitemenc al thewe quill. tes, and ufter n few. centuries bid passed the dogina ig seen, dent, and blind, and dumb, and teuning upon a staf and all says “13 thls that dogma which once #0 mute hearts thutter In the ehttrehenistes? fy this that beauty whieh led dovtora of divinity captive 2” Trath 1480 neg that thoworld hasnever been able tosee Itnll atonce. A desig Christ, or an Atonement, ora Heaven andahell is a notion two great to bo fully comprehended by the first generation, Eurth seemed thit and simul to those who first locked nt it. Itwas bounded by Water, und was the one gront thing of the unl ve The stars were Little sparks, nsigntiennt vompared with the ground on whieh tho men then stood, Lite by little society aularged its estimate of this plinet, and after six or ten thousand yeurs of stidy (t found a globe that turned oi its axts, that had tye continents, that had as many oceans, that -revolyad areund tho Btn, thing wits 15,009,000 of talles from that stir, nud was yet pulled around by an invisible rope WMOWOK Of miles long, But not yet has the hue main nif lenrned all about this ono planat, Should the hnquiry goon. more will be learned inthe next thousand years, So of greit no tong as at Christ. an’ immortality, 0 God, Heaven, abell, .Notat the first ghince did man pee all these wonders, Ho muy huve thought 30 and have so suid, but so the ancients said tho curth wos Mut. Mankind bas never been back wird pout saying things. The oli confessions of faith revent no ditidnee of utterance, And yet, after wit this holy boldness, it remains true That sume {dens wre Bo lurye that tt takes tansy generations nethig ina commun zeal to gather Up tho sum-total of tho faet. As mew carriod thinber and stones down frum the mommtaing to build Solumon’g bouse, 80 the generations carry tugetuer slowly the conceptions and sentiments which are to make up, ut Inst, the whole truth of Gol, Eneh age is possessor of un increased power tu discern and realize, and, tu meet this mower, the thligs to be discerned must be on- ktrged. ‘The nnclents were nble te think of only asin God who eoutld dwell upon an Olympus und conid sit atin feasts but with tha new gritsp: of which humanity is enpable, this tinage of Delty must by expanded unetll It shill move awuy from a mountaln to Hil parunriatty Yhu history of tho mld Is tha history ot Ine ceasitnt rendjustinent, Opinions are [ke invon- Hons, opan always to iinprovern tx. Mitehine before they ga Mito actin servi in very marvelous and completo, but it rarely happens: that a nntching does not ne mu readJistment: of some part. Out in tho field of action these needs: hecume evident, and no sooner docs 4, rallway or manufacturing Interest announce sine tuw Interest thin forth cones n yront m= provement upon the, original work of gonlius, Reudjusttnentor parts, redistriution of power, tre Wwatebwords in the world of wheels, and hlevora, anid pti va, nd plines. Thus in the actual Held of work, theulugical niauhines often fail, and thoy nro taken buck to the shop, aud by: help af many new apalluncos aud chunzes are: made at Just to perform formankind 2 valuable service, Always crippled und always ubout to dio [a the church = whieh stamps its first formulas with tho word “perfection,” and refuses to adimit of ine pravenmate, Tnallother shapea of uetlon ait sing the world gathers up the wisdom of ene year and attempts to add it te the wisdom of Sestorday. A modern patotiug, ar a inodern statue, or a modern cathedral 18 not what one mind thinks or feels, but it is what wt artists have thought. [tis a grown fled with tho fow- vls of muny bands, In the Cathedral of St, Peter ur of st, Tuinl thore fre the arebitectural studies and foves of G00 yours, Athis cumulative in our wide earth. Coristhin doctring ust bua pen vaae into whier ull times can place towers, Ituomn must be onde for tho ninetevath century, inch New-Year Day ag it comes suys ta the Chur “You niust keep open bose, you inust leave room forme, ‘The account between mun and iniaand man and God is not closed. Laat yeur did not think next your's: thouglitwany more Thun it mide next your's laughter ar shed next yeur's lears, Not only will next spring bring: Trosh, bright grass, butit wil bring fresh notions: and feultugs in the Zones of the spirit.” ‘Those fleeting thnes do nok <a: request pore reajustinunts o. doetring it chat provedura, ‘Tula wo know, thie if iy shall refs to kuep (ey formas Wloxigopen ta recelye new facts tho yrent talde throng will go crashing wong aud make for Itwelf toruulus of virtne, und ploty, and sal vation. When, in the seventecath and cightecuth conturies, the Romun Church refused ta natke any reatitements, the mighty France und Gur- tuany outside broke the sifunee, und rationally compelled the wrk of the Lord to go forward. Th our era common Htorature will remodel opine Jon, turt will cone to tts aid, the press will speak, euch shape of thought will become a pulple fall of cloquenes to compensate humanity for the silence of that pulpit ordained of God, Tho retiections over the ohinges which time mutkes are wot allot a Joyful quality, Ut te a subline spectacle to seg our earth Dullling. up ite truths from 70 tonge, and oven trom year tu year, but tears may well cume to the’ oye when we count tho mlnds that ure tang to this dvanelny theology or seicnes of potities, So- cloty. fa @ hungry monster thit consumes precions mon at overy fonst, Tho Dr. Conpin whu bus Just passed from this existance illus. thitos tho nud luvoo made of the tnilvidual that elviliaation at dure may be mide clo For at halt century that one mnlad thought deeply for aan, Ce ant tongue spoke cloquuntly for naw, tbat ove heart felt deeply for man, and new Hive lets him fall ns tho woods cust a yellow lout, tia tew yours the atmence ao paintal ww ria will not bo folt. Vhe silence under the grass wilt be equated by the slienca above bh New yeurs will gf idea, and eloquence, Tho sermons full of fervor yesterday will never glow ngain, Othor eloquent ones will come who will be untitled ta be heard, Eauh beart has only tts day, retalnding all that to live for uavtulneds Is wiser dod nobler than tative for tame, Phe most of fan xgoce under the grasa with tho othor wreaths pluced upon tho colt, ‘To compose that vist and fimortal thing called truth, miliions of iniuda are cone suined, ‘There must be claewhore u compensa ton for tha Individual tits rudely Cord Cron fre, Agecond life, a roadjustment beyond the tomb, fa the only explunntion uf that destroyin, ugel which moves found fro fu our atreuta un homes. Sovlety fa Immortal here, man ts tine mortal horoafier, Burt consumes our great ones and our luved ones, but Heaven lake dawn in pity and recelves thom to herself, Kurth refines nan na sliver ts reflaed,—rotiies, but dues not bert After tha dross of, the body nnd’ soul Inve been consumed the apirit thug whitened beglus clsuwvbery a higher life, ——— 5 THE SOUL'S PROSPERITY, BEIMON BY DN. THOMAS, >» The ev. IL W. Dhomus pronehed yesterday at the People's Chute tho following auruion: Helovod, b wish above ull things that, thou Imuyest prosper and "be in health, even as thy Boul progpereth. notin, (b,, Une of the marked chaructoristics of tho Scriptures, and evpeclally of the New ‘Testa- tunt, is to bo found I tho doctrine of pum will, or of well-whibing among mon. We tind seuttcored through all Utepature some expression of this sentient, aud often it rises to tender- aves and fulneda; but in the teachings of Chyrlet und the Apostles it ta ompbasized asa principle uodaiife. Lous wo tnd our Saylor duying that woe sbould not only love our friends und those who love us, but that we should tove our ene- une, and sbould wisi well of those who would doug evil, And this same doutrine runsthruugh all tho writlugy uf tho Apostion. Lt was nut only u \ loud onward tH new dostrine or a command of Christ and His disol- ples, but nlite; wn Cecting of, good-will In tho henrt, that found expression Mn words of ryimpnas thy and eucouragement, and ta helpful deeds, Amt henco wo tad oyorywherw Inthe Now Tes- mont euch tender and endearing terma as “be- loved," and “dearly below and “brother and slater,” ani " felloweluborers,” and“ come pantons.” And this life was ao fall and all-con- trolling {i those enrly nnd tendur years of Chrit- tlanity that In tha Epistles of Paut and Jolin And others they tention many by name, and ro for often to litte nets of Kindness that wero not forgotton, ‘Tho sixteenth’ chapter of tomans is composed lnrgely of those perdonal snlutn- tons nnd expressions of love; nnd in that one ehapter some twentysslx persons wre mentioned ‘by name, ‘ It isa gront forward and upward, my friends, ff ve ean rench the polnt where we nro really well-wishors one of tho othor, It means more than wo tiny at frst think, Tt menny that we wish othors nity prosper in business and in tho professions of fife, though that prosperity may Aland fn the wiy of our own gruatest stecess, Tt mens tint monupoly by one, or by the few, ‘Lut that wo desire the plenty nnd tho well-doln; of ali, that all mity afitre the benwtlts of sacl und tho bounties of tenvon. To bave, deep dowa In tha heart, this wish, this desire for tho prosperity of others, 1s to be lifted above sellishs hess, and to Itnow something of the broad tfc of Corlat whe toved all, and died for all, Tobave this spiritof well-wishing for all isto haven Mire within that ig ever wolling up and towing cont to bless the world, It is oho of the encuurnging frets of suctety that we-bave reached a polut where we have a few great ane that so bind tp and express tho thonghta and feclinrs of all that we sens to lose: for the tine our nurrower indiyidualities and to live tho trond fife of all, Suen mus nnd the New-Year's hotidays., On thoso days we svom to rejotee in the targe and tender fe of Chris faire wmide. bronder tang the Anes that nit off tho sects; we are Christinos. And with tho beginulng of a new senr wo wish oven other well. We wiah tho good of the past inay be continued: we wish ita burdens may be Ughtoneds we wish tho future to be ric {n bless- ings toatl Yosterday was full of such yrovt~ ings ull over nur land; and this moring we incet, Trrust, with our hearta still warn and full of sruod will for all the world, Thave sat uhat to really have this state of mind, thi vist le for olhiors, Isto be far on tho way te a Christian Ifo: it tg Indeed to be aChriatlan ty spirit, for it is the spirit of Christ. And nuving thls spirit, and Hving gt, and breath: Ing It du words isu prayers n prayer often of- fered and heard when we muy scurecly think Wo are praying, Prayer ls tho desire of the heart, It ig culled here a“ wish,"—that which the heart wishud for anothers and often in parting or niceting, whon wo say, 1 wish you well,” or mee be with you,” or * God bless you,” the heart ulters 4 prayer Just us sincere and Just as iceuptuble befure one Heavenly Fathor asf wo wore upon our knees, [ ike those sulutntions, nO keep the heart warm; they Hft the soul nuove. While tho whole spirit.of tho New Testament and of religion ty that of good will to ath, the wish, ug in the text, ig often personal, John here wishes prosperity for bis * betoved Gaius,” or Unis as it might better bo writtes, Tho, lume occurs some tive times in the Acta and tho Epiaties, und It fs not important that we tu- quire whetber one or several persons be mvant, though itis likely thore were several in the churches of that name. And we, too, may wish prosperity for those nearest us in blood and the des of (riendship, and not thereby weaken our prayers for the good of al. AS we stand this morning Just within tho open kutes of the hew yeur, lot us think upon the gens Grat subject of prosperity; and tore especially fet. ng think upon the prosperity of the soul. ‘The prosper oF min [ny broud sensu ineans a great deal. ‘Tho wordimeand to inerense, to do well, to get nlong, or to be carried forward. In tho text three things are set forth: proaperl- ty In the sense of property. and in bealth,. and Progperity of the soul. And this cnumeration seems quite exhuustive, for when one Is pros= peraits tall these—In proverty, aud health, and sonl—there 1s not much élse to be dealrad, Bit often wo tnd prosperity to be partitt. One may: ie prosperous In proporty, but not have bealta to enjoy it; er he my buve health, but no prop. erty; or he may have bealth and property, but his‘soul may be ina bad stato; ho may be Agno. rantor sinful, or both, Or his saul, like that of this * Cains." may be prosperous, but he may, luck healt of body and tho necessary posses slong to make lite complete, tt wonl! seem no more than reasonablo that we should all wish for prosperity tu cach of these things. There ts no reason in the nature of things why tine should necessarily bo deprived of fy real goad. know the facts wre thit most of us live at aur days in somo kad. of want or pelvation; aud [ know, too that - there used to be nn Idea that the body should be kept poge and almost destitute that’ the soul mignt ave mere; und it fy still thought by gone that sickness {3 good for tullion; but nil those thoo- tes are more or less faulty, Wealth may gonb. gorb the mind nto eatise: it to forget tho life of the hort, and wbounding health nay -tead one to love only bodily pursuits und pleasures, and poverty und ateckiess muy prove Hiselplhiary, inay load one to think of ay tig ruther than ive ing? but after ull, plenty ts better, than witnt, aid health better than elokn Aud we cla hurdly think that it is tho of God that wo should ve eithor sick or poor, When we look at nuture, [t Ig nlmost Javish in {ts provisions for huinan comfort. A thousand Inxuries in the form of the varios fruits ‘und: grains and tho diferent kinds of foud and drink wait upon tha wppotite, | Every form of toxtura Ig possible for eluthing the body, ‘Ihe eye may wander over Uelda of ever-changtng beauty, and | the or nover tlre of sound, Tho true philosophy. af life ts not fh eeeing on how little we ean sub- siaty—that Is the ddex of the Anviuge,—but rather In seeing how much we enn properly provide und rlebttully use, Ard soit Is inhentth, Plants, and birds, ind aninitls aro generally healthy; they abound In fe amd beruty, Mun fs about the only adicly, Cul, thero is, Anil Sthink moro and more that wo dishonor God and ‘dishonor oursolves by boing lek. Lenn say these things Lecuuge Unaye been sick more thin the most oF you. Hut ldo not churgo {6 to Gu, nor tike iny credit to mysolf, A better knowled: sot the — lnwa of Iifo, wurrouL ings, and. better inight have prevented «It, And am vertain that when we il join in tho sume wish or prayer for health and pleaty, we wc only what our Fathor Is willlng tbat wesnould have, And wo are i the Ine of God's will when we wish und work for these things, Ol what a boautitul and bappy world thls would be, contd wo drive away want aut didenses could we bring In plenty und health. We wish it for the now year; and wishing, let us work for it. And now fet uz took at tho prospority of the soul, Wecan all note the presence or the ab- setiee of prodperity in those othor things, We aay when Gnols well und xalning property that he {8 prosperous in these tind, Now tut bualness {¥ netlye, and prices ure goud, und money plouty, and all huve something to do, wo sity’ cant the country. is prosperous; ite poputution 18 tn ereaaing, Its credit good, no signa of wary all fs prosperous, und we sly the times ire gov. and this ie wil true, and we should rejoice that tt fs so,- But within euch ong and within wl thla outer Ite of tabor and buying and sclling, within all thls world of ma- tern prosperity, chore (sn finer lifes a world of Maer torees; a world whose inurkets do tut He opun to the public gaze, und whose values may fut be quoted tn the morning oreyenuug papors; but yet it bs a world more real and of moru last- hug Wort thin allelse. It fs tha world, tho lif, of the soul, When wo study this inuer world of the soul wo find that here, as tn nitturind things, prosperity {a conditloned along cortain great laws. ‘Lhie iy truth Chine 38 nut ulways perceived; or at loust mutnicind do not nways sven to recognize tt and touctuponit, ‘Therv is a feeling with many that wailst proaperity in otbar tings ts not ou uldental, or a muturdl result contig along with- out curevor eTork, thir solehow the soul will Anko citro of {xelf. Wonll know well enough that health aud business prosperity ean be hud cooly at the price of xtrlot attention and abu. diviive to thy jaws that guveri there things. And, knowing this, we try tuobserve these couditions, We know that pure air and nourishing food, and. proper excreise and rest, und temperate bublts wre vsauntnil to health. Tian age loss wie people tay dave gone on violiting these laws and: laid thelr sickness to Providence; but now we know those thiiyes tro governed by Uxed inwa, dni go in the world of work und business. We know Chat tndustry'. and veonomy, aud wood mange. nent ure ewsentind to success. And it the suul+ workl (ho same great fiat of hw 18 upparent, und the doul can progpor ouly ua It observes Uhyse laws, Let ua inquire, then, what is soul-prosperity, and bow It may bo attalaed?, Wo iiny say tit the soul is prosperous when it ta Uviig [te true ife and golug forward, or growing inauch (hings us knowledge, and purity, und uve, And it fy not prosperons, nor can It be, If it wblde in ignorance, and corruption, und hatred or anger, ‘Cho soul muy Hye, or exist, in ao very tow und bil state, Just aa tho body may in discuse and poverty, It tu prosper ib must sonwhow yet rid of these bal conditions and cone Inte summouthing hlyber wid better, It inay be set down ae a iw of tho soul a law fh the wiorat world, thut tho “goul that sinneth whult dle,” aud thit the * wages of sin Is leath,” From thls hoy mere ty no eacupo, It fs wulf-act. ing, selt-coforeing, Whut is, tho ponulty follows alone i the Mae of cause and eiftvet, or itis mutuenl result, ‘To sit is to miss tho murk or the ond of bemy, tt is to travel along the wrong Poad—to Journey away from tho soul's broperite, In doing this tho ddul dle; not inthe gense of becoming extiict or ceasing to be, but in the suns of diwlntabinsg, growlng tess, of lose Jug (ta butter nuture and tuking on bad prine eipted und habits, Aud thls buttyg do, to ala id te die, in this or uny other world, Tt anay be sct down ws another of the laws of the splrit, or of tho workd of uoral forces and principles, thatto do eight is tu lve. ‘This ts thre bluln touching’of the Word of God, “ir tho wieked fureuke lis owing und do that which 6 right ne shall lve! Blessed ure Neid that) du Hila commutids ments, that they may buve right to the tree of Ute." tie that doth rigbteousneas, ob fy rightouus." est hor ayant LENO pI feaplues upon doing she will of Gud, und tho will of Gad ta bus tho revealed oxpruliloa of tho eternal uws Of rightegusndss—lawe that aviile ihthe very natura of things, or in the nature and life of Qod Iblansetf, And vow froin these we cone to anothor law or comiltion of the sunl's Prusperitys' or rathor, wo nyay gall it the ogly way open ub possible b/ which the goul iay Gome frogs tho deatia of in tnto the itfe of riguteousness. it ls ta forsake the wrong aid turn to tug sivat. There muy be mauy “syste ut salvation,” aud mauy tiv tt sora to ortes and creods, butif this be loft out, thay aro awerteas to do tho soul goods aud it this be put and elucarcty acted upon, the soul wilt conto {nto A bottor state with nny ereed, or any syste of falth or worship. If wo should go ta ong who Js not prosperoud tt yori tings, and tnd him extravagant, and [lo, and destructly would any to him, You nitist spend Juste you must tj worl you must provent this waste; and that way you cin get a start In property und better doing.” If wo tind one sick, nnd kee that ho la intemperate in his hnbits; that he Is breaking down tho powors of Hifo, wo say, You must be enrofuls you muat observe tho Inwa of health" and {t Is iiscloss to come to men with theories 0 medicine or political economy tiniess you can fet, thom to reform thelr ways. And it Is Just so In religion. The tirst thing to do ts for tha soul to step doing wrong and to cummenco duing right. int those slmpto acta menn a gront deal in tho world of the soul. They monn that tho soul fluds that it is wrongs tint itis poor; that It Is sinful; thatlt needs meross tat it needs tho help of God, It means that the soul sees before it some better way, and bag fulth enough to try to enter upon It. “It may bo that some souls may come to louk upon thosa things and to act upon “thom simply on the ground of natural laws with. out tho thought of God. And if so, thoy do woll todo oven that; and thoy will get 4 vortain re- sult from those Iiwa. Butns 7 look at the soul It {8 related to God, and responsible to Gud, and tho thought of Gurl and of tis hus comer in to quicken and Intensify all ite feelings and nets, And In this light the soul shout not hito its alns, but confess thom to God, and In a true sorrow forsuke thea—look up In prayer for anion. And the soul that does thls wilt tind Jnd's forgiving mercy, “If we confess our sing, Ne ts flthfut nm! just to forgive our sing." Now tho ean! needs not only merey, or forgive- ness for the ports it needs tnore; It-necils ro- nowing: it needs help to lead the new life, And here cons tha promise§ and tho fact that Goud willerente a new hearts Unt God will put iis spirit within the souls will S10 tho soul with His own life aud love. ‘This 1 bolteve, this {know to benfuct. ‘Ths Is tho Iving experience of all who sincorely tura away from ein and give thomaelves to God. And this follows alone the line of “ consing to do ovil, and learning to do well id tho theories of non ns to how God can pirdon, and ag to what Corist did to make pirdun possible, are tot built go important as that we all come to know His love shed wlrond In our hearts. It we yet that, by whutovor the- ory, wo huve the result in lifes 1f wo fall of this, our theories are of but little value. Now, when tho soul bas vroken nway from sin and como Inty this uew life of Goid,—thils life of fove, und trast, und hopa, and obedience, it bis entered upon tho highway of prosperity. i not shy that all souls tnust rench this: by the sume oxpericnces or feelings, for wo differ in temperatucnts, and our paat lives have not been alike; but whit 1 do eay fs, that ench soul should forsake sin nnd come undee tho great law of righteousneas, und seck to be juwardly pure, to Jove the right, und ty. be atoned or reconelled tn fd tho grent law of fove to God and man. And tho soul that fs nt wor with itself, at war with duty aud the will of Gud, or tying ‘in’ the prace tleu of Known ain, {s not and cannot be prosper- ous, Wo wight Jugt as well talk of dobauchees being healthy, or: tdloness and waste being suc- cesstut fa business, Having ontered upon the Inws3 of: spiritual rosperity, thon tho incang aod the result lie be~ fore the soul, ‘ Tho metus are found in n continued ire of obedience to tho laws of God, or tho Iuws of life. ‘These ure found in vur duty toe God and man, ‘To God we owe love, reverence, prayer, trast, und tho observance of tho Sabbath ind public worsblp, and tho saeraments. ‘Lo mun we owe love, truth, honvaty, und all that is fair, and noble, and helprul in life, Now those are duties without which tho soul cannot -prosper; bit with 0 heart runewed and given to God thoy bes come a delight, a joys so tht tho suul fits Ite self borne along iin Joyous love of righteous- ness rathor than botnd by a cold, hued law of Ani bole in this life of lovo, this fife of God, this Ife of Ilverty, It linds all these beuutlful graves und traits of charucter us tte vossesslons. It hing a grent epiritual wonlth withlij—the wealth of fuith, and tove, and bope, aAnd tis Inner Ife gous out In huburs’ and prays to bless thé world, Ad bein in this state tho soul ly at peave with ftyelf,—nt peace with ita own eonselonsness of right: and duty; at peace with God and mun; burmonized with tho great hw of its own lifg nnd with the moral order of the untverse, ‘The saul, fn thasd conditions, flids openingout heforo ft a wonderfully brond and rie Ite, Tt §3 tt port of all that’ fs pure, and pool, and sym- pathotio inthe world, {¢ takes hold of al that subove, {tis opun to tho volce and Inspitation orGod, It peated In companionship with the Divine. It Journdy's beneath an wky of hnsmor- tality. It js one with Christ: “To five fy Christ, and to dio is gain.” And being in this blessed state {t knows that yomebow all things must work for guod, id that nothing enn separate tt trom the luws of God, It is sute in the midst of persecutions, or silelions. ar losses, or, trials, une It Woks forwsrd to the dying hour ug the opening of tho gites to Paradise, victory and conyigtion, And while loading this heuvenly life,—sitting in heavenly places with Chelst.—it ts tilted! Nth a holy toveand eympathy forall mind,—forall strugsling, and want, and sutfering In thowUt{d. Ittecls tat ull thesesours belong to Gois tht’ thoy are. hntnortals. chat they ure brothers {i that’ Kingdom, souls that tire larger thun Trace, or limgunge, or countrys that work! of soufs whore Gad ts Father, a Chelat is King. 0 blessed tito when tho soul ts free {n purity and‘HMeh inull the cumpanionsiups of gaints and anzeis—rich in wll love, and syii> pathy, und hope. 4 ‘This prospurity!#f souls, Ike prospority, in other things, aboutids in varios degrees in dif ferent lives; and {ike tha prosperity of weultm, or learning, ov art’ ai a comtry, the prospority ‘uf song comes tou fthor init wealth of religious Ufe Ina communtty! ur country, “Tho sou-tite of innn—the soul-wéatth of the world—cames to- gothor Inui the piiter forms that servos tho body and tho expressions of those tuner: princt+ ples, ‘Pho soul-Hfé of the world is secon in its temples of rural In its Ieunelys, In hymns, ine nyors, in serdions; Inall tho life of faith, and principles, and charity in the world. Wo stand to-dity, my friunds, Upon ong of those die viding tines that mark off tho yearsof our varthly lives. We look uut jupon the world of business, tho world of loss om gun In pro nee Wo hive dust emerged Crom,a long period of financial de- pression; we are eptering upon at untold pros- perity tu tho world,of commerce, of agriculture, of building, of all publle und private finprove- mont, ‘Twenty year henue the wealth of our clty and our country will bo afmost doubled, Wo all rejoicg in this. lt menns work fur ali; bread: fur alt; plenty forall. leimound lurger comfurts and better dotng la all worldly things, But all this outer life f@ to.you. and to ime, and toatl only fora brlof day... Twanty yenrs Henee most of Gs will be gone. Tho ulty will be full of poo- ploand fullot life and: business,—or buying and rolling, of comtug-and goiny,—but uuny of us wit not bo here. To-day we wish cach other progpyrity in all things; wo wish peavo, aud plonty, and benteh to all; lutas 2? stand in tho inluyt Of all those pissing and dissolving scones, 1 think of tho inner, the Nner, thy finmur- tat lite of tho souts-and Lagk what uf its pros- perity? Ara we Individually building up a bonus tfulworld of trata, and filth, and tove, and hope? Do our lives take hold upon the etermuly Do we look over info tho wuyceu? Are wo full of tenderness and sympathy for mankind? Aro wo rich toward God? Aud 2 look out upon all tho hurryipg milllons—upon wlund and a world Jiled with cities and rich plains, and upon lukes und sens whitened with slips, and Lusk what of tho guul-weulth of socluty? Whnt of the tinor dnner world of truth, aud Justice, and love among men? Are wo becoming more and more rooted In God and all good pringiples? Are, wo building friendship and goodewiltt Ara wo buildlug the unseen temples and niters of tho hourt? Do wo welcome truth, and prayer.uad spirituality? Are wo building up tho King- dom of God on curth? . Aud L thank God tout in tho tildst of tho Kingdoms that are aed and ‘tha thrones that are falluig tho Ingdum of Christ 14 riaing. ‘Poly ia tho brights ost, the best duy our world lus aver seen, More truth, more charity, more yocd will on ourch thin ever beforut O brothors, lot us live und work ag nover before, Le we are wanderers, lut us come home tu our Fathor's house. ile walts to welcome tho wort. [ff we have nover bowed tho hoart irprayor, let us howin to-day, If wo dru in durknuss or doubt, thore (s light aboad. If Wa tire poor, or sick, or discounted, there will bo Joy by and'by, It faved onus sleop, you wilt meet thom {nthe morning, Moeloved, from this tomplo of worship, frou this house of prayer.wo wish cack othor—we wish ntl mankind=poaco and bicssings pu ourth aud Joy furever, GOD’S BLESSINGS, THE REV, ¥. We ADAMS, Hector of St, Mutthow's Roformed Episcopnt Church, prenchod a very eloquent serinon your tornduy furenvon upon * Tho Conditions When Wo diay Expect God's Greatest Blessing." Tho roverond genutioman took hie text from salacul, Ul, 10: * Bring yo all tho tithes Into the store. houso, that thera may be tment in Sine house, and prove Me now horowith, salth tho Losd of hosts, Jf 1 will not open you tho windows of Hoayen aud pour you out a Uicasing, thut there shull not be rvom enovyh ta recolve it." From the toxt tha sveuker advanced tho thought that to overy porson Who profuased to bau child of God the paramount question was, under. what circumstances thoy could certainly oxpest God's Diessing, A study of tho chapter from which the text was tukon showed that, whilo tho people of that nyu bud not Poulty neyieated to bring tithes tintodhe house of Gi thoy hud Hut brought those Uthos whieh Ind been commanded uf thom, They had brought wavenud broud,+ and this polludon bad been placed upon God's altar, It was tn tho kind aud churneter of their tithes, for which the peopte ere rebuked dod, ‘The ‘uecusution ot {uluchl showed that peovlo aight outwardly woem to be serving God, yet thole spiritut wore sblp inight nut be tho least jn uccord with the commands of God, Such a result us exhausting tho owe of God to grant Dluasings wa im Possible, forthe resources of God ure Intinit. Tuo wills God's temple ure. syuimotricul, completa Christian character, Tev- ory prayer tut fy olfered Fram an individual heart, oF orery poun of pralwo sung by the ips of that fndividual, {3 tho fuconse that is over Arley to God from ite altura, Its etorehousg 13 the vonsvoratod heurts und lives of its members, Into thia temple they bring thelr sucriticea, trials, Usreavemonts—tholr battles aetna temptations, their p gal buntons, and thoir gurvives for others,—ayd God uccopts the olfers ing. ‘Tho speaker dwult upon the necessity of wo conducting all business and suclat relations Ubas thoy miyat contribute to jue glory of Gud, tho hour of and bo in thamselyes a tithe brought to tho hopse of Gad, A life of fellawahip tnstres us. that we nro bringing ta God's aturchouse our tithe of svoial relntionahip, | ‘There may be rome heart that Is renily to bo bronk under ite erahing weight of burdens, which may havo its burdens lifted by somo Christlike word] which wo may spotk, or act which we inny do for tt Lot tis spent the word and do the nef, and thon brite in that tithe of eomforted honrt into Go's storehouse. Wo ura told in tho Word of God: And wise men have foretold, tliat thore shall bo in days to come it Uiels whon righteous. neas aball prevall, and pyrity and holiness shall be tha manifest aptelt in tho hearts aud lives of the humanity that shall then dwoll on the earth, Lnt.us over Femombor thit thia millennial time shall only come when God's command aud prom {go In tho text fa fulfilled. + TIE KINGDOM OF GOD. AEKMON RY THE REV. be Pe MERCER. Yestortay morning in the Union Swedenvor- glan Church, Herahoy Muale-tHalt, tho Rev. L. P. Mercer, bofuro a large congregation, preached a Now-Year's sermon oon Judgment and -Prophecy," baste bis text upon the words from the Lord's Frayer, “Tay Kingdom." Ho hotd \that when Kingdoms and rulers wore estabtishod on earth thoy formulated social and moral inwa upon tho divine foundation, and even Kings found that they were subserviont to a higher power. Tho laws were found to be not mundo by mnen. They wero baged upon that idea, “Thy Kingdom come.” And under tho Divino law ft was found that nothing oxtfated -whioh was unconnected. Everything under the Divine Government was mado. In conformity to that law cin the = yery = nature af things, All the grent discoveries In science were tho natural result of thote Diving hiws, ‘Tho law of human fife was plauted tn the soul itself, which made it comprohond all that was fren and good, and holy. ‘The coming of God's Kingdom wis tho developmont of law iu man, ‘The Lord's works were like unto Himself, Man was made for the Kingdom of God, and when thoy prayed “Thy Ltn gee come” thoy only did that which God bad ordained tham to do, Thoy bullaved tho grout love of Goi If thoy would hear tha hoavenly nuisio i tho home of tho angels. Hore there was a love of God be- gotten of obedience, and thors cach loved his Nelzhvor as himself. ‘here was the very purity of harmony in this celeatial home where tho Kingdom had come, The samo was trav of tha aptrituat as woll as of the betvoniy angels, And dn all those grand and harmontous biendings pie iy Kingdom of God was tho only thought, Kingdom. come" was tho prinelple of tholt lives,—It was tholr love of God which brought the heaven ia and penentit burmony, Tho Kingdom of God in ite duties invatved rightcousness tothe Lord. If the human soul wis in the Lord thoro was a, healthy obedionce to Uls ways, There was happiness sublime, ‘Thero was order and harmony within that soul, ‘Tho soul tat wae ju God wig conscious of all that was fove, rest, perco, and parity, and ft did not lose tho iden of its responsibility or Ita trust, whieh was Imposed upon itby the willofGod, Man owad doyotion to God, but he also owed w duty und love to his fellow-man.. Men somotines felt thoir desolation, as being without fricnda, Sume men talked of the Foolishness of prayer, but ne appeal to God, made in sincerity. was ovor pussed unheeded, ~The heart found its re- Uef at tho throne of Grace, They had nothing Which thy Id not receive, and became nothhig which they cauld not vive. Whon a main pared ening Into the Kingdom of Heaven, he ene tered his home and found his place. Ile was welcomed, Ifo found his friends aud associates, who stood with open arma to recelve him ond mike hin wolcome, He was neither n guest nora spectator, nelthor was io a stringer, but he found himsolf at-home in his Father's house, ready to obey the loving Fathor, ‘The right retntions with God illed the soul with righteousness and also with a love for follow- men, Min had 1 conscious nature. In natuca man roge above all things, baying the freedom of that conscious niture, from which was only des manded an obedience to God, ‘Thoy should pray to be shown tho right, the Jaw und order of Heaven. Thoro was nothing compulsory, Man Inust coma svillingly, into tho Kingdom vf God, Tho Lord revealed His truth, not only in the aly Seriptnros but In miany ‘other ways, Ho revealed Himself in nature to man, ‘Tho angels were with souls that loved God, They enred for thom whenover thoy. prayed “thy Kingdom come," and they holpud thom with hope; and Jos, and cncrness, , . ‘Lhe Lord not only reventod tho truth concern- ing Ulmself and ourselves, but Ie provided in the Chitrenh n tlold bf work aud a forbeanince, Which provided fextures for the carrying out of fis work, ‘Thoy were slow to learn tho rultorn- Uon of tholrown pocullar actions. ‘The tind jan always faltered aud looked to himself, Not so with the man of aggression, rush, and ouorey, who saw nothing but sucetas niead. Thoy should live In tho consideration of ong another, ‘hoy should rather seok points of agreoments than points of duferences, and mike love the foundation of the Church. If thoy wero schooltx! in this, the very love of God, thoy lentnad to be imoderate, and set aside thelr own peculiarities, and lve in pencoand love, They should leara to pructica that incckest of all feaces, charity, and whon the Kingdom of Gad caine'tt would brlug to thew bicasings and Joys unnumbered. FINST THINGS. TNE REV. GARRET 1. VAN TONNE pronched yusterduy morning in the Michigan fromm the following toxt: s Ag lot those also firat bo proved,—I, Timothy, iy 10, A The royerond gentleman bogan by saying that the trast Sabbath of the now yenr was ao fitting tie for sorious roltection ns to what should bo our courso for tho days to come. Commercial men reviewed their businoss, and, taking ne- countof stock, know where they stood tinan- elally. They also Inid out plius for botter busl- nesa, improving on past failures and profiting Dy pist successes, Bo ebonlil wo do In regard to Splritunl matters. There were some things that we needed to ullow us first in point of Impor- tunco as wo started ont with tho naw calendar, and we should namo w fow of theso rst things. Wo should bo thankful for pust mercios. Paul had anid, “First I think God." Anticipation must not Builor us to overlook pust renatlzntion, New positions must not eclipse" old relations. New resolves must not obscure past receptions. And new favora must not obliterate tha memury + of-pietinerdics, We should po thinktul far pete we huye had as we louk into the opening 1 re, rut bo reconalled to th othor important matter, ‘his wus 1 good tine to settle ofd differences and begin to do better. Jueob and Esau iyed forty sears and hud never exchanged 2 word with ono anothor, Whan thoy hud renched the nge of STycirs thoy had become reconoiled, bid fallen on each othor'a nooks and wept 13 brothers, ‘Think how long the yenra ere that bad bear nude bitter by their aul- mosity. A litte envy or hated embittered whole life. As faras possible wo should vo this year reconciled with nlf mon, “ Firat onat tho buam outot thing own eye.” We Judged from appenrnnees, and frequently Juugod titsely, ‘This your, befure wo Judyed, we should sco that wo were prepared to cast the first stone, If our oye wis alnyle our wholo body would be full of Mena, and things would look Ityht about us. A single thread of onyy or Jealousy in ouroyo would muke our brothor's oye uppvar as if A bow was in it Clounsy first that witlen ts within” Tho splritial should not bo vbyorbed by tho core moninly ‘Tho Pbariseea washed tho outside of tho wup nud fafled to see that the inside was of tho greater villue, * [t would not pay to put too much labor on the surface aud forget tho Ine torlar. Ornamontation of u fara was all woll if tho soll wus not neglected; the value of the farm wis not in the ornumentation of Ita surface, but in the richness und depth of: woil,. Bo the vuluo of: a man was not in his outwanl adoraing, but in the dopth und. tebness of his moral character. ‘Tho returued cuptivea “built their nitar before thoy built the temple, Sa we should geo that the wltur of our hearts was trast cleansed, thon the exterior could be ndorned and benutited. “Seek yo first tho Kingdom of God and His rigbtenuenuss, und all other things shull be added unto you," t Woutd ynphooy prove this? Was it capablo of proot? Hollyion waa frat beounse It was chief, nnd wo should geok It first, God's mathountles were much Ike ours, “We placed the nu. meral *L" nnd added olphors for values, ft depended, howovpr, on which sidoof the numeral tho clphera were placed na lo whethor the value was tnerouscdl. or diminixhod, The kingdom ahoutd be feat, not lust, with uss “ Birat pure’? was Goil's order, and to follow tt was to be In harmony with universal uw, tutto purse tho cppostt curse wae to antagonize the Divine wisdont. ‘There wore taur pelnsipal rene guns why wa should live mp to this laws Firat, because purity waa tho goul's normal condition and godlingas our original etute; second, purity waa tho ogsontinl charucturistic of tho heavonly Brito, Ag it bruught buppinuss; third, purity way tho casuntial requistt fur entering that beaventy atate, for nh mun must accept God tofore ho could enter-it, und fourth, this purity Inuit: Le obtulned on this elde of tha grave, us exchange of duutiuy tn otornity was impossible, Wo should set up a stundard such us God bi given ud, and we should murch up to it and sup. portit. In conclusion, the reverend yontieman roluted tho following anecdote; ‘Lhe calurser- gant ofa reginent udvauced too far ty front of tho Hn of butte to suit bis Colonel, who shonted for the colora to be brought back. ‘Tho color-boaror shonted In return, “Colonel, bring up your inen; these colors never yo buck.” Bu, he sald, woatould this your being our tuentul and inoral fusultles to God's standard, and not ouuse the standard of purity, to bo lowered to our iuiperfections. We should prove those frst things, and the redult would be beuctichal tous aud to ut manklad. —r+—. GOOD SAMARITANS. ADDNESS WY PROF, VOUTER AT FAUWELL HALL, Undor tho auspiovs of tho Woman's Chriatiun ‘Tomperunce Union and the Young Men's Chriuy thin Agsoclation a vory satlsfuctory tomperance meeting wus bold lavt ulabt in Farwoll Mul. Botwoen 800 and 400 persons wore present, aod (hoy wore ontortuined for an bour or more by somo oxcellent sloging and an uble address by Prof, Quorge Foster, an claquént advocate in tho cause of towperance, formerly of the Uni- veralty of Now Brunswick. «+ } Prot, Foster waa introduced by Mr. J, Bolden, brothor,"" was an- a country on wore banished from tho tables of the hosts; and ho roferred particularly to 0 telegram from one wreat city which thore on Now-Yeur’ tnieroonis, and wore not to be fond in the par- than you Avonua Mothodist Church on “First ‘Chings," | ganerated by danas, Dut ite vameds, Hike dovenes and Inso Yontment, 1 by the form» conatituitonal as wold curtuln to eure Cutareh, us vacelie virus tau pro ‘Sey the most kupartant modical discovery allon, Ikpy. ©. vl Write: “One facknzo praducud 3 tndlcal eur ontirely cured wmomber et my family whe ra ade GU roadway, Det freer ines Dit pewuy & Co. lots, and aold that bia remarka would partake nsmuch of tho nature of neermon as of n tompernice Icoturo, Hut this would bo in keeping with tho day and with tho character of tho organiza- tlonstindor which tho mocting was told. The Iden from which bo should draw hts remarks would bu that augsestod in the nuswer given by Christ to the Inwyer whon tho tattor asked whnt ho should do to sccuro ctornal'life. ‘Tha answer waa that the Inwyor should Jove the Lor and algo love his nolghbor as hintaolf; aud to ox- pluin what was mennt by 1 neighbor Chriat told tho story of the man who fell among thieves while on tho road: from Jeruaatom to Jericho, While tho tnnn was lying In the road bleeding find half dond, a priest pnssed him by and also a Lovito, but a stronger Samuritnn—dreased iia wowtnds and carried him to a placo of rest ond safety. And in the same way tho Lord Intended: pesplo of Hester to perform = Sninaritan-like acts. Christinnity should not bu of two kinds—one 1 servicotaGod,and tho other agervice to frl- fow-men—but should combine both, in tho story or the thioves the privat and Lovites neted tho parts of men whose Christianity was only a service to God; but the Simiritan loved God and Hkewlag loved. tila nelghvor. People ware not doing thole Christian duty. in attendin church and prayer-meetings whon soc! In Its tnldst tho very strongholds of robbers, To be cety haul thieves and Atire, those thiaves and robbers were notof tho samo class that Infested tha, suburvs of Jerusalem, They were worse, for any fathor would rather have his gon fall smone actun! thieves that into the dens of iniquity tu bo found fn cities and villages, and even protected and Ieonged by tho sovorelyn Inw. Tho one wrecked the purse for tho time being, but tho othor wrecked tho soul forever. Two hundred and fifty thousand grogeollery were protected by tho fnw, but as soon aa tho chiem between tho professions and practices of Christians wis bridged this stato of affairs woukt ba done away with, and Ingersoll and infidelity would fall to give plaice to true Chriatinuity. ‘Tho duty ofa modern simnaeitan thonyyae, notonly tobind tho wounds of the victim but todoefend hin nugninst tho attack of tho soul-robbers; not only toraise a drunkard from tho Futter. but to light Against the legalizing of the liquor traltic, he apenker commented on the oucournging: Indications of a better stato of uitalra ns shown by tho fact that In many or tho elties of thie New-Yeur's Day wine and Iquor HI that tho drunken mon Day wora confined to the lors. Itwas tho unholy alliance between tho barroom and tho parior which supported tho former and disgraced the Inttor. Mra, 1, 3. Curse spoke to the meeting bricily, Appeativu, to thom todo something for the cause o tempernuce by contributing iterally to tha subscription to bo taken up at tho close of the meeting. Prof. Foster will deliver a number of other addresses during the wook, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. A Now “Coroporative ? Wrinkles ‘To the Edltor of The Chieago Tribune. Boaup or Epucation, Exar, I, Deo. 28.— Ttuke tho liberty of writing you upun a subject of great importance to many in this elty nnd community, and perhups to muny ‘others not realdenta here. From the information tho cireulurs of the Hartford Lite & Aniulty Company, would yan recommond the insurinee adopted by that Compiny? We bive ven In tan of no mare sy mputiy, with cobperative companies ave, bit do not the “ Sufety Fund De- posit” fonture, and the varying rate of assepaing the mombors hero presonted, commend this Qoine puny to public favor? An early reply froin you, olthor by letter or through your Balch. will ron- der valuable service to muny inguircrs hore, as well ag to yours most respectfully, C. B. Kirpan, : Superintendent Public Schools, [Answenr—I€ tho “ safoty fund” schomo of tho * Hartford Life & Anoulty"’ has any merit whatever, it fs badly dwarfed by tho fact that tho Compuny is endeavoring to obtatn tusincas by artifices which, if not decoitful, aro at loust questiounblo. Thoy are particulnrly objection- ablo finan organization that appeals in its elr- culurs and other advertisements directly to tho contidence of the public, and slurs to honor and standing of companies many years Its sontor and many times larger in business and nssots. First—It advortises $90,674.42 of nggots in o manner to give tho Impression that {ts so-called “wafety fund” system is backed up—mnade “abso- lutely safo"’—thoreby, Tho ‘fact is those same assets wore accumulated underand by its oll sy- tem of insurance,—the same methods, virtually, as have beon and are pursued by the old inocom- ponics,—and must be held to. mect Its old-time contracts, Tuteioe “ plan” are not secured by thogo assets atall, 3 * Second—It publishes without date tho namesof ,Sovoral prominent mdividuats aud firms of Hart- ford, Conn., Juchuding. that. of, ox-Gov, Jos. It, -Iawloy, recommending the Company and its of- ficers to tho public. heso names and rocom- mendations wore obtainad before the Company adopted Its new," plan,” and whon it was dolug gamall but upparently snfo business on tho wall-sottled and time-trien principles of logitt- matollfe-insuranco. it have just publishod a Jettcr indignnntly pro- testing ngalust tho use of their names to bolster tho * now departure, telling commentary alike upon tho Company and tho whole scheme of “cobperutivo" Iifo-In- aurance. ane ‘Thoso who * Insure" under Its now- The gentlemen who glgned which wa reproduce as a “We, tho underalgued, do heroby cortify that ‘our alenaturea to n piper communding the Hurt. ford Life & ls Company te tha confidence und patromige oft long time bofore the ndoption by that Com pany of a Cobperntive or Safety Fund Dopartment, We were nover asked to Indore wish to bo.tinderatoud ts revomui dorsing tho Cone Department of anid Company. George I, Bratnard, Luvius J, Hondee, Joseph it Mark Howurd, Georgo Sf. Bartholomew, IL, Kel- logg, H. Blanchard,” io publlo, were obtalned a ud wo do not ing orin- Chuso, Cuve, Locitwood & Hawtoy, Mr. Kimball, and othar men of inquiring minds and level hénds, can Judge {f such an or- ganization is worthy of confidence, ‘whatoyer uuiy bé Its * plan. ” Finally, ns to the “plan” itself, Any “codp- erative” voncorn that adopts graduated pre- mluma, © safety fund or resorve, conforms to mortulity tables, and carefully selects its risks, improves Itself by 60 doing. Tho moro safe: guanisit throws about {ts business, and tho oarer it approaches, tho: methods’ of tho old- lino companies, the better It bevomes, But there fa no Ilfe-hisurance as sccuro ns, or In any way comparablo to, thut obtainable from tho well-known, ‘old-linc institutions, " Codp- orative Insurance" of any Kind is stmply no insurance at all.) —————— ‘The Rev, E. Jose, Sutton, Neb, recom- monds Hamburg Drops as sure remed: dyspepsia, iclne tteserves recommendation, afd L shall not fall to maka It known among my con- gregation. i, for Ile says: ‘This wonderful Qied- : CATARIIL CURE. Swallowing Poison. Swaullowing and inhaling the noxtous Impuritios i tarell, puteat not alyle to nial fomach: and. Tuna. Nu, murcly ta jublo wnurts, can pos Touch or oradicaty thu virwlont poriled o ‘Ths fact vxplalnn tho wondertul curus Be. Wel De Meyer's now inoculative 0 ululuonts uve by Uli ara wbsorbed ueuns Membrane thruughout tho system and tux 1ocas muitidotey ths HeAmAll-Pox, Thy unprucedonted vale with unnde ve Tighted tuatimonials fraus many thousnnds who, at it atuyes of tho itxcuso, have t wonderful, rowed yes Meeesat 1 rend aarrer nity Om De the uct that Wel Taylor, W Nobie Ie Hroukl yy © ate furad from Cutuern for 40 91 Pe . Ys, 0b cured ine nftui ‘onts. N erly i80b Howes, hiner speak ean i 1 or ‘who havo uscd 1 witt se fanny rod ye HE. 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NOTCH OF ANSESNMENT, OFFICE OF THE OREGON RANAVAY & NAVIGATION COMPANY, x 20 N attomte New Your, Nov, %,.18%.~Tho following resolution yaa Deen passed Ly'tho Hunrd of Directors: Hosolved, ‘That a second asdessinunt ot twanty pe! cont upun the subscriptions for tl Cn pital Stock of this Company tnithorized by the Spocial Etoukhatery Mesting ike et. 2 1a), "be and the saute is horoby ordered juyable Jan, J, 1881, at thy Company's ottico In Now York. s ;Stuckholders are requested to prosent, or mall their Subsoription Cortiticates with # in order HAE HG BION PAN OER WIRER, Prommaroe, NAVIGATION. _o ee aaaeeed NORTH GERMAN LLOYD. New York--London--Parls, Steamers sail Itecry Saturday from New Xorlt For Southampton and dremun. Passongora booked for London nnd Paris at Jowent ruts, Hater of pumuun from Now York, te Kouthampton, Londen, Mayry, und Mrolmen, fret cubin, RUT savondeclims cabin, WD; ateurnuo, ROL Mte= lurn fickots ut reduced Tutus. 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