Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1881, Page 7

THE PULPIT. Prof. swing Proaches on tho ' Things Useful in Ree ligion. 4 Hope, and Charity the Things that Abide~Dr, Thomas’ Sermon. faith, rho Next Mayor of This City Sketched by the Iter. Dre Nobles ‘ Memorial Discoursa on Hoary Moorhouse by the Bey. G. 0, Nesdham. Anniversary of the Young Men's enty-third iy Christian Association. TUB USEFUL IN RELIGION: 2 SERMON DY PROF. SWING. prof, Swing preached to * largo congregation at the Centeal Church yesterday morning, hia theme being © Tho Useful in Keligion.”” Bul- Jowing Is the Bcrnions “” Wharsoever things aro trite, whatsoever things are bunest, Chet CRE —PU ay (0, Br > Hebzion Is deflued ag tho relation between man and hia Maker, As tho word patriotism” expresses tho conscious aitttudo of tan ‘to bls quuntry. ne" Crlendship” indieates the feelings ofone heart tawards another that fa ofdeared to jrby agsoelation, ag the word “religion” brings pefore ta the tind ns wtifected by ubolicl ina Got, It isa general terta hplying thor logical pnd gontinental ties that blid ‘us te n Creator. Such a relutlon of man toward stich a Belg as tho Deity inuat havo grout outreachings and cune not be any single taought or single emotion, All mck tremendous terms as“ country” and " nae ton "and "God" spread out in,tholr intlueuce like the penetis of raya which teave tho sun, The solumne of Hyht which falls upon a bemispiere atnuon in midsummer left tho.sun tn. .eteeum, around which 1 ghint might throws bis arms, bad be the power tocmbritce such ‘an Indugeriva- blo blast fron n furnnce, but that beunt spread- fog. out ng ft fies through space falls nt last upon half of the globo ing temperaturd so mild that It hurms not the cheeks of un Infantor tho leat of 2 plant, Heligion clams tho Retug of God as a renson of Its cxistence—a ‘entise of the appearnncy in our world . of such a sentiment, but ssuing from that source, this beam Rvreada: cut, Secoutes a hundred. faring of den and truth, god feeling, und Implical almost all other: truths In Its good and Had actiong, Aso wild ying growing itt a tropleul forest starta from a Angle powertul root, but at once, ndyuuces, und, spideriike, throws ite web dyer Dish and log and then cliinbs the palm-tree and covers i hull scroof rich woods with ita luxurious entanle- ment, s0 the sontiment of rulfgion, setting fort from tno hotion of a Supreme Being, throws out hattds anu arms and githors tho homo, the States the literxture, tho piilosupbies, and tho ver; friendships and Joves of municind into its boaut(- fully-spun network, All tho forms of “thought aro nfevted by the proximity of auch x masterly Astronomer und chemist walk often solt- though they wers fa a great presonoe—it fact lending & wise mun to dociare that tho “Cndovout astronomer wero mad’? ane “Lhristinnity is retiyion with the slinple addi- tion of the Chréit-tdea, an uddition which ducs notalfectitusa religion, Dut which leaves it dubject to all thoge reflections whicti-spring “up over she more general term. Tho Christ-{dua, og we Christians assume, only addé value to.all that tfegoud in that natural sentinont which hag per yaged always and everywhere the human multi+ tude, Uy the term “religion,” let us imply Chrldtinnilty, for chat is not only one form of the trath, but It Is the now provalent form, ‘This Immense und Indetinit outrenching of tho’ religious santintent Paul perceived, for In this letter to the Philipinns bo urges bis frionds to, seek all things that were honest and Just or pure orlovely or of good report or virtuous or: wor- tby of praise, and if, whan rollgion was atill so young, such W stint coming tip out of a narrow rivd and narrow Stato, saw its's¢ope of, ine uence, what 1 nany=aididness should hot’ wo dehotd In that sumo bronoh of human. philoso- phy? -In un nge so highly devetoped nv our century ft ought easily to’ uppeur that tho word religion bus become af- fillated in an finportant senee with the useful, 1, the fionest,. the Just, the beautiful. Would we ‘posucssed ‘the power to analyze a great orfghigl briucipla. a8 chemists, aniiazop tubstance, and could learn dolinitly haw much. of tho world’s useful or beautiful, or truc or bonorable, tics within this strange spiritual gub- stance. It's “‘poruiitted -moit of suianco to nn- jyzo the Hight of tho sun or of u tixed star, and tolearn by tho'spectrum what’ ja burning 11. ibote furnaces xo many millions of miles away, , butto the morallss it 18 not peruiltted to explora the secruta of tho apiritual kingdom with exnot. instruments. .We must all bo contant tabemere children on the shore of this inore delicnte:and supnimundane world, And yet, in a genoral superficial way, wo can psd to and fro in this spiritual region, muking great outlines of facts, andcancome dn from enek eurvey nat lvarncd indecd in tho Ways of God to mun, but not 80 holly ignorant na we would have been bad wo attenipted uo fori of resourch, There are con- quests for even childhood tu nchlovg, . : he arguinenta In favor of Christinn- ed or lost by those tines wh thought of religion ue of only a scheme for ing the soul afterdoath., ‘Thia single application ofsuch a philosophy ag that in our Now Tosta- mept prevented the philosophy of Jesus from hastening to wather ull tho homes and Institue 4 Yonsof dime Into ita vine arms to bless thom tnd compelled the biessings of piety to fall upon oaly eternity whon they were equally ready to fafuyon tho Nels of thine. The gailen stutre way ted only to heaven, when thogo steps might dave rst led uy to all that was high In. thls cn Teer, Around the far-away existence of tho foul and Lody all tho old religions atudy wound {welf,—tho Nternture of the world rotreated Into the ubstract In thealoxy and into tho biographies of tho saints, For almost ten centuries atl men of intellect folt under obligations to com- sono treatise =on mictupbysics und al men of sontimentaltsm felt oqual- Jy bound to live long onough in sno favern, or well, or desert to ba ublo to write the Mevand guiferings of u sult.» Only within the lat two centuries has our Ghrlattunity shown Wgns of realizing its brond relations to tho just, and bonest, and benutiful of thesh threo-score Tcat lsat assumes tho unity of tod ten years, the whofo life of inan and deulares tho puts on earth to be a part of the Immortality buyond. Ag childhood ta uttuched to youth and to middie lite ind old aye, g0 timo te In ull ruspects the child. doud of -eternity, and tho Church Ja.a good Rober for us ouly when sho holds this onrth ‘aderly in hor arms. Whett religion nealvots {bis world she 14 n muther that neglects hor In- sot ond Rrotnises to come buck to it in tte miia- hood need. Neglecting it all through infancy. fheneed fever return, Hor love and ‘onre will Offered too inte. he’ modern religion 18 fittding tho error of’ the past, and fa wothly as ough rolnted to all the greatdutios and expori- tnees of gacloty. yaork, In the atudy of to-day, tho, useful fn re- pion. Notinark of menaure allot this utility, {or only tho eyo of Gad cun see such an expanse a leealng, but mark (¢.o8.n child notes tho sky a theoceun. ‘This relation of tho soul to God ay Atected Cartoty law, aud caribly literature, hn Cducution, and moruls, and evan the friond= hips uf manila, Not by any powor of man 2 tho notion of a God bo contined to tho te gocond emotions of a sancwunry or of a magtchambor; butout It ilesa, and tho lawe wit rand the Judge, and the jury,and the iH prea and the accused ortminil or oifendor tle tha tntlvenco of such a provatont nasumpe Yordotwioruy omipe Duta uareeee aa nity only, but all through the cen- turtes tt has bean nferm of dogp taport in tid Mfalrs of tho court-houso, ani. tho stroot, and {te market-pinee, AIL ‘through times thowo remote et When socioty was making Its now boauttos fold Darbarism, puasing Tron usbea up to fectlveness, this diving idua was present: as fffamer of ‘the future, As tt cumes tous mani? sociely fa a work which required tae e® to fashions and. luoking neh cig bobeld that inte that wale of tho ages theo entered coustuntly und deeply... Into droge cat OF Hite, then turning slowly from a mn (ite a river, tila piety emptied many un Chetty oe Pablo mors scom ta have boon red ttborated frown thut. lorly inspiration fupe gto wlnd drew from ite xasumption of a the ct “Thought was formulated ns in lead meeuber ok God, If rationalien should & and Cy er wy to believe that such Jendersas Moses sutton no sonuragtural warrants it n it they would ave been taUctiess—atterly unulatingnshabte froin ast 0 Lorn Teaches ne. Wea vehi they nog come to earth in the Sane or God, “if thelr mission was Divine, eon tes fusion Indeod was it! But note the DatUrah, tiene thele mission Was ordinary and the ap tlee Whut w vtvilizution ins came from Crees bunun feeling that thers {a per= mide seatur. Mad persunul Friend of man ig the taaing thu 8 unlvertol Tho historia fact ru- boat uate he must dignitiud, tha rloeat,- the coma d form of elvilization known fo 1s Rinthagiteetly trom bands whien fushioned bane of a Deity. lo evea eft Bomothing instructive and touching 48 thay Wt’? fables of ttntiquity which ussure eave (wa Pompiius recdiyed wid. from ih telly Waklog up the hiws of curly tome; teivea ty alee how thie and that atutesiman, res treat wen it trom the upper world; bow all ‘the ‘abero sogre wont tu repair to sucred pluces put tent y Bib l wrote down tho will of Heaven Sem that i} and then asked the winds tu scuttus gbt and enigma might be miogled,— Il these leyenda because they s6- t vaxt form of Userulnoss which #encral uame of * civilization * clusions of iorals, and law, aud a the auwuuied chatnhore of. ho duty iy nanheod wag Kugome OF ous luurning, or dur arts, or ale Goud of family or eae und “we see ro all fully aware that the modern Ret Tusbloscd teenie a7 kK Inka THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, JANUARY 1881. 24, 7 tho marks of 5,000 or 0,000 yonrs. Tho rolentieti Rather around a traverse section of one of those front troea In Culifornin or of a codar in Lebas hon, and, counting tha layera of growth, thoy AgurO WB thitt for 4,000 yeara tho Aut hee cheered them and the wind has whispored in thelr lenyves. OF dome utd onke ta the Goria forenta Caetiies “Biya: © They pre cotemporary with tho creator of the carth and were gives mun ast aay ol ot fomertility.? As those lovers uf dum) Natura, gitthor about these mounrchs of tthe wouls und read in thelr Ane texture tho Kell-kept reeord of thoir age so can wo lovers of iviny man Jonk Intv that prodigy which we eajl* gout- ety.” and etn eco that Ave or atx thousind yours Were cunsuinod In currying together the mental Aud moral materials whieh made at lant gut ct Myrogite. Kvers teyond ur page of history which places before tian Moses consulting his Jubovah, oF A Divi composing a psi, or an Kvyptlan repilring to a temple, or 9 Greek atatesinin consulting an oriele, or 1 Bourstes, foltowing his datnon, or an Epletetas or & Mus in prayersor a Paul tte the rapture of his wospel, tells us that tho immense tetility of to- Way whieh we call “enlyghtoninent.” or “the age,” or “modern Ruclety was planted ina Btrabine that ecumed ty cone from a Gud, wad awrow in an alr whieh blew sweot nid vernal ns from the ner varadles, What othor warmth ‘hora nny hive beon exept that of religious faith we canner guys there war, ideo, miteh othor Tifluonee, but ft ts alo evident that tho strange power of religion entered deeply into every Institution from the founding of an em pire to the sotemolzing of a mnarringe or tho sete tig forth pou a journey. Jets not ug ensy ty trace tho’action oft tnoral force as it fs te note the quality and annuity of Wphysleal power. Matrcun tote how much fund, aden ori river has tiken away or ins brought. He oun mensure baw high the winds of nes hive piled tho sands at thé head of unis hake, Michigun; but not so exnetiy can be determing how art, or wary oe Industry, of worahip hua Uirned this way or that the iow of thuiight ee Mfein man. When wo come to the moral king- dain wo have voine to the stores af the tadellinte. Exnct incisurements cease; but not go with grout approxiinnte ineasuroments. Thoy nre poseible, and eve easy; and tmong thesa np- Proxiinate ontiinites let us pluco the assertion that down from religious ori bus camo to tan the Brontest quantity of tho useful in human existence, While tho parish pr pistor has been uslng his puilosophy only for comforting or niarming the soul na to anothor Ute, tiat phitusophy, wider than Its minister bas been in pir tha atondiy the tiseti) ite this partaf mins heritage. Nothing ean he con- celved of ty being of more vulue than the focl- img that man came from a Master Workman and has to rortder a final recount. ‘This ohne tenet has, perhaps, more deeply affected character and suciety than hive all tho wallories of urtor ull the orations of the statesmen; for not only has it been (tert where it bas becn, Dut te tas fallen almost everywhere, Muny Lexengio the Influence of tho tine arts and of tha pace letters, but few tn the great nations hava cen ablo tu avold the Ider tant man enine from 4 Juat Judge and(inuat reappear sunie day at Ly bar, This tdca hus luin far buck of the pulice onton the olds und villagus where the people hove passed In nnd out of thelr lonely and ’Rucred homes, aud his. sustained coiplres and republics with tho now blood of virtua. when, view bad Aled tho thronc-reams and tho homes of tho rent with its hopeloas weakness, While inouareks have been ruining grand countries by tholr sins, tho common. people have continued thelr prayers, and-have mde the snivation dreamed of far another clime bucome the biesscd snivation of this vale of trouble. Many thes in tho open book of history do wo rend how the widespread retigion of farm and viilngo tlowod fn Wpun dissolute cities to wash away thelr Idlo- hess, and vanity, atid folly, Cuus Cromwett ro- tormed England, thus pengantry sived' France. Man fs a delicate arganizauon, ‘ie may be rude in bis barbarian form of existences, but when hia intellect his becume awaltened, 1s in the clnasic period, or in Wurope or Atneriea, bo fg tntluxibly no longer, but bo Is evermore a moat delicutely-attuned harp. Money, or plena- Ure, or ambition, the winceoup, the dinnor-table, tho gambling-silvon, will quietly but terribly overthrow 1 soul onco beautiful in symmetry. Tho vuttertly, the Urock emblem of man, {s\n good symbal of bis soul, not only becuse that soul ts Ro spiritual, but nléo because It {8 80 caste ly crushed or tarnished. {ta dow: enslly rubs of Ike that on tho wing of Ita symbol. Lut, thanks to tho Maker of mun, this soul fs as sr ausceptivie’ to furces and tonvhes of the goud, ‘aud enn gathor. gulden powder for its wie ug truly na {t can have the clegunt dust brnated att. Intellectunl sensitlyeness ia a readiness to ain a well ag ta tose, wad: therefore It Is that the af- Memutions of religion huve been of immense mu- mentum in this awakened ‘earth. Sveloty: hug been spell-bound amid tho puyeantry of the auc- ond world, Kings have trembled at the name of Jehoval, Hence It was that Knox dared utter his whole mind evon in the presence, of a. thrang; bounce Massillon poured out hig bold words. “For hundreds of years nll the rulers of earth bid wale be “thore was ono Klog they’ dured not lesniee, ss i 3 Aftor Luthor and Lord Bacon our roligion bes “camo moro tono ever a publiebonotactor. Uncun ted tna philosophy Whose afin was the practical, tho prowreas of all forms of science and Induse try, Before bis day thought bud beet ubstruct. Wise men froin Platu to Abolard. aud ip tho group of schoolmen hud proferrod to -toll ata definition of man rather thun at hts food or eluthing or his house, Schalurs fled to enyes or ‘fotosts that thoy migheludulke it purd thought Aid escape the preaatie, of thingy. To buvo suthing und to be removed from woat nny onc ‘else mizbt possess was the fundamental idea of the avorayo thinkers who lived and fine. in the frat iftcen‘centuries. Bicun neked philosophy to begin the now task of binssing man, Te must make ronds, study ngrloulture, build better houses, better waguns, botter ships, tauke better laws,’ sourch out ores and study timber, and bandle afresh tho hainmer of the sinith and tho crucible of tho chemist. It must make man's {inmediato welfare ita constant pareans Thus Jiacon apencd a new gateway, und ont of Iteamu our elghteorth and “ninoteenth centuries, «A strange oyont was meunwhile transplring if tho religious hemisphere, While Bacan's prinelptey wore nttracting socloty toward the devolopmeut Of this ‘Ute and this carte tho rofarm andor Luther was turniog Chrlatinnity away from end Jess ritos and external nets and hopes and was Nttempting to substitute, practical'virtno for old, charms wud -superstitions. Philosophy found CUhriatanity ready for a change and Chriatiunity found philosophy ready to" como’ down from (is cold bight gnd touch tho ‘enrthly. yenra of man- Kinds” 1twne 8 raro, combination, Moth those sbupes of thought began tolove the work, und from that momenta new value eprang tip In tho pubis bollof ina God ahd a Saviar. ‘That bolict consed ta make anchorites und monks and use- loss speculators and. m to make yatuubie fen.and women, Out of Christinnity camo flocking, ke buppy song birds from n wood, alt the new doctfines of philenthropy and many of tho now ang high eatiuates of human Ifo. Cut: Inosg forever frommore abstraction’ the Church mivG ita tntiueges in favor of education, und collogos’ “and ‘aendemles aprang ‘up in tho old and new worlds, misafonury anipa anficd, re- publica began to be dronmed of i the name of this Divino equality and Justice. Bo porfoculy Jn nocord did tho new philosuphy and the new religion walk for the 200 years aftor Broun and Luthor thut thoy muse bo estimated togothor by any one who ahall ask what, hns moat blessud Hurope and America, For, whilo the practical mothod of Bacon pointod out a new. path for nit. Hons to follow, {t waa the tove and uotivity oF Christinnity whlob persuitded the multitude to uceeptof the new path. If the Dncontan pbl- fosophy polnted out the value of tyo college schovl-houso, religion revouled tha tonderest heurt and tret built snd cadauwed tha Colle it Bucon was tho brutus of tho Inte conturies Chris- tanity Was tholr heart. Palloaophy faa Aiiger- bourd ablote paint out n roud, but not to traval Jn it; Christlanity had the life and the enthusl- ngm which could run long the many miles. Light and iove met. ‘bhat te whiea is dotlaed ns binding nun to God Also bound man to man, and honee wo cant fad a foundation fn tho mortern world olther of a State, or of a eolleres or of w school of art, or of an nsylim, or of n {tte erature In which tho falrhandof religious bullet hus not placed a few stones, A grout relationship to une object becomes a high rolatiouship to all abjeots, Tho son of a Klng if free to move, 1f bis coulis roy rulned by some ignorance or.vico, reveals toevon a beggar the attributes of high nature, Tho beggur fools that tho mite tn bls hand came from soma superior soul. [tiv ditteule for a Royal child or a Royul adult ta travel in disguise, The dignity and culture will hetray thelr presence, So the relation of man toy God cunuat by vonfined to manin g sunctuary of nan enguyed in privors butit attaches to himusn soul, und wilt attest bin in ait bly motions ds nolwhbor, or friend, or soldior, or utatuentun, Agu inind educated ean- hot bo one day cultivated and tho noxt day ritdo and ignorant, but must nove along to the grave. ‘with ull its richness of loarning aud power, so tho nilud religious ennnot escape from. that quality of ite esaenvo, but in ail relations tn thine it will tash forth fn this bright colorof oternity, Religion sots aut by bolug tho rolation of mun to Cou, but it has not gono far un tts way betore tt has become a relation of man to man, Tho pinve In Hts chutns hus hoard some one whiaporing “itherty,” and looking up he bagseon the torm or Roliglun; the ignorant have agsombled thum= solves nrouad’a motherly turd to be instructed, ‘And ber nuine whose love thus Altractog wu tuuubt has generally been tteblon; the sek in tha hospital buve secon thia Religion come not only ag u salvation, but as n teadur purse of tho body; putriots-atrugyling for Hberty hayy econ 8 bright sword drawa on thelr bebult,and Ig] the Upratsed aim Was that of this sume Moasenger between man and Jehovuh, Grand in ity lessons und work to fit mun for tho skies, this pluty bas an Intintt pplication du this to. Itty as Cull of uthity ag of beauty or of mystery, Ie bus ubown ttuelf to be tho prince of tho dsctul pul- losophiog, It is a gute which Indeed blows down trom gho unseen billy of ctornity, but touching our world thin gale becomes inden with health and beoumes tho very breath of life. Itawoopa over tnation and ite citizony becumo frue, und moral, and happy: it touches the bourt and, it warm with virtue and ohurily; tt passea in ht tho window of tho dying and bo bus hope. Re- gion und the useful vain fricuds so Joluod In uiitory and in ings that oo must pronouncd Uhent us wedded th tho tomplo of Nature, fusop- arable forover. Ce THINGS TIIAT ADBIDH, SERMON DY THE KEV, Di, THOMAK + ‘Tho following sormon, having for ita thamo "Tho Tonge that Abido," was proached ypster- duy giopning to @ jargecongrogution jy tho Poopto's Church: ‘ ‘ And now abldcth falth, hope, charity, those three; but the yroatest of thesd Is olurity.—/, Core, ZUky 13. " In our study of the arowth ‘of, tdeas* on last Bubbuth,; we noied some of the chunges ¢hut oceutin the transitions of mind and thoight from childhood to manhood, We referred lea to the ehtidhood of the world, and to the changes that havo oceurrod In soeloty by the growth of stich fdeas ng Justis and [Iherty. Let a take up tis troruiig the closely related thonaht or sutject of tho things that able, or remain In tho midst of all (hechangus that come, not only to the dndividual mind, but abide through the growth of tha nges. * Thero are always those who aro alarined at changes In the soci order. Thoy somehow think that change tneand destruction; or, if not thut, nt least something not so good us for things to remain as thoy nro. This tinny, Indeed, sume times be thy ensey but in tho farger wid longer view oof things chanses nre goneraily seen to be fn the direation of Progress, and senerally ty the Hoo of what may be called the world’s natttral growth. ‘There wre many now who sve only evil and discournue. ment In the changes through whieh the dublic faith Is passing on the mtbject of raligion. Thoy have been taught that vortain things aro trae tn rollglon and thut thoso things are essential; thoy have caine te look unon rellgion from certain Ktaudpoinis, and to eee It wearing cortaly yur Inonts; And when thoy ace peopte departing fron those, nnd sce roligiun changing its feems, thoy. view those things with mlarm, They regard thom as drifting, —as movlug nwity from tho ald foundations, Now, this mity bo so In soine casos; but a Inrye looking at the andject may show that Instead of our aye driteiuc Inte Inilolity, We Se rathoe In a astute of transinon ton larger and better fuith, And it ts tho purpose of tha present discourse to call attention to the things Unat remulns tu slow that fulth, and hope, and ebarity sti! abide: that in tho midst of all the chanyes of belluf thoy continues they may take on othar forms, but thoy pre not fost, Asa starting pulnt to this, lotus note carefully a fow things. ‘The iirst is, that wo should discriminate be- trveen nebnuge of falth and tho losa of fujth, ‘To confound those té to eunfuse the whole sub- Ject, both in personal: experience and tn the brouder stuay of tho filth of the world, We tind in things apart froin religiun that we often chatige our opinions, ang hence chauye our be Mefas but wo do pot say tht we hive Jost our falth, but rather thatit hus ehanwerd, and often in tho changeit is greatly onlurged. ‘Thus, tn acience, men once thought that tho earth wns stationary,—was flit—and that tho aun moved Around It ovory twenty-four hours. And when they came tu seo tholr mistake,—to goa that, Ine stead of tho sun movins, thocnrth simply turned on its own uxis, and thus giving us nlyht and day, thoy did not call it u toss of faith, but a wis and a very weaut gain. It ts true thore wore those who ut the tho fauught tho new tho. ory, and pezacgtad those who adopted tt, and emMled tt tntidetity aud denying tho Bible; but now Allconfvas Chat the change of bollef wis a #rowth und not i lugs, and the World 1s thoruby" richer und not poorer in faith, It was thought in the’ Music age leuth was the proper penalty for many vers sutall of fonses, and thal evil should be returned fur evil "an eyo for ae ye”; and the old Englilan law madg stealing & enpltal uifense, and iinprsoned nen fordebt and turned witches, But wedo Hot count that tho world bits lost’ fulth in tho cbitige that nus brouwbht 13 amilder and 0 juater form of luwa. und u kinder treatment of tho in fortunate und the criminal eltsses. We count itagain of Huth, We have tot lost tha ten of Jaw und Justice; but have come to have clearer and better (dens, Lhe falth nbldes, but ino butter form. And go It isin matters of religion. A chango of belief is vorttinly not niways toss, Tho Jows belloved that sulvation Lotonged Lo thems that they wero Uudl's favored poople. And it tovk u ntlracly to convert Pater to the faltte clint. tho Goapel was Intendad fur the Gentiles na well fs the Jaws; but who the change came Peter did not regard it 93 logs of Cult, but ts a jrin., 0s a brouder fasight into tho purpases of God's, ces fove in Christ. Jobu Calvin taught that od did not Intend tosuve all munkind—did not that Christ died only, wauttosnye them,—and for tho gleat Mut certulnly Arininians do’ not regard = it nd ou joss of faith when iu Beotland and tn our own country tho = fulth oof the Culvinistte thelr creuds; ta getting ehuruhos Jeouterovtne, too ttrwe for thom; and-thut these churches are: now prenebing uw freo sillvution for nll. Wo ay: the change in fulth Is a xrowty; and we say thit hs tho duter form of fulth ta lurger and botter than tho old formes wore, 8a fs thoro @ galt, and, nota Joss by the chunge, It wis nut rogurded by any but our Iteman' Catholic friends na a lo4s when Luther wought to tike of the burdens that wero pulnpon the pyople and to remove tho forms of ceremonies that stuod botwoun them and God; but rathor buve all Protestanis Jooked upon itas a gain, us giving the world a lirger fuith in whieh tho peoply have become Kinga and priests unto God, And so, When tho wortd in our day 1s coming to suaro nt tirger faith and hopo in God in-referenee to tho future condition of mankind, It le a groweh of faith und not wdaiing, nor a drifting Into iniidellty, It ts, i lirgor duith in, the ‘purpose and the powor of Chriattogave, [tian lurger faith ta the tovo of tut’ makes that Jove eternal—thut tooks supowit not only aa working now atone to save man from sin, but belleves that. it will broud aver suits furever,.and forever be golng out to souk and to sive the loat, , Mn, Wo should notcanfound falth with bo Mer just as others bollove, If weil this, we shallthon tnke our stand with one school or with those who belleve n3 we believe, nid regard atl others ag without filth, Aad tuts mistake iy much more common thhn wo muy have thuucht. Tedéxplaing hich of the compluint that we bear about fandelity growing so rapidly in our du. Itoxplains much of what is called the decline of faith in tho churebes, and thoir apparent loss of Intorest, ‘Certaln forms of faith hive been fixed. Ups oertain creeds huve been formulated as thu’ | fulky of Cheistinnity, and tho Suriptiros have been interpreted to sult thogy forms of bellof:. and now when the faith of our age is outyrowmy’ some of those forms and is comme into lnrger and bettor betiefs, the dootora of these croodsa— those who ore trying to defond thon and ta tuko caro of thom, And wua seom tu think that they contain ill tho truth thore 4s, and thit not to bee Jleve us thay teach ty to become Inthiel—ure cry inw ont that the people nra going iuto unbellct. Thus the Free Church wf Scotland is trying to hold the people ton belict In tho Htoral Mapiras tion of the Biblo, - 19. opposed to tho broader views of Prof. Robertson © Rmith; and in this country «tha theologinns = are trying to hold the people to the ol Views uf a ponal atonoment,—that Cheiet was punished for tho sins of man,—and trying to hold then dowa to tho hard fateh that all God's wondertiul lovo fs revealed - in Christ Insts galy during tho fow brief yoursof man's ourthly lifes that beyond tho grave there 1s no possible chanvo for souls te aco und to fursike their alns; or if thoy dit, that thorn would bu no weroy Cor them. And tbo cull ft unbelleft the loss of faith, when tha fait ‘of tho world, not the unfalta, is no longor able to Accept tho old and bard views of the puat, It ig unbelief in tue ono dircotion, but itis an ale huost tnilnit growth of fuity In tha other, Another fuot to bu noted Is tho stranya tond- oney there lain people to nocuse, or tu suspout otbors who dilfer from thom of Uolng in Bone way {nginocro, or of ay dotuated by low und unworthy imutivos: or of not belloving the vid theories beeaitsa rar ee want to, av beuause thoy aro wicked, ‘Tuls hublt of attributing ins sinderity or falsoness Of motive to nthers te tao comtnon in ovr day; it intone common among thosy who think thoy nro the defonuera of tho falth, Thoy aro tou fond ot calling thowe who hold othor or broader views than tholr own une scholarly ov supertictal, or of anying that thoy wants lirgor Hoense for sinning, or that they ure hot pions, or that they aro hindering tho work of religion, ‘The question ougbt miturally to arise {n such minds, why others nro more npt_ to be Insincere than thooiselves? Indeed. If such charges wers to be mide they would como with just as much probability of truth from the othor aide, ‘One inore point to be noticod te tho Mserim- ination betweon filth In the formal und fulth in tho casential tn religion, Falttiiutho forms of fn doctrine may change, and yet Fulth iy te doce tering itaelf be malntainad, And this explains very many of tho changes thut are yuln on now, Men are looking at the questions of Gm, und Christ, and tho ntonoment, and the Bible, and the future iife diiferently from whnt thoy once did, ‘They aro looking at the authority of tha Church, and at the utllity of tho saornments, and tho valuea of coruinonivs differently feu whut thoy once did, Thore has Leen a grout change in tho pubilo mini on these #ubjects sino tho days of dpibury liut when we como to luok wt tho heart of religion, at goodness of life, and ut reverence for God and trast tn od, and atthe Bible ws contalaing the bihuat law of duty, and at Christ a4 rovenling the love of (ind to the world, and reconciling tho world to God to righteousness; when wo look nt these things, Tthink they have u larger hold upon mankind, docper hold upon the heurt aud the Ife, than bn tho ugea of nuthority-and of « larger deyrou of Auperstitious reverencs and of formul ubsery- ances, And thus wo may soo that through all tho ohanges of falth, fulth itself bas not beoy lost. Ie bus romulned ad fulth, an bello, oa trusty ‘ portioning: things bolloved huve changed or taken ditfurent shupes in the mind, snd it attll abides {a the initet por all thoghanges that are going on now, ‘The mint und teart of OUF wage ure nut without hinge and saving bollefs, and adarge bopo and love. And this vlow, If corrost, und 1 think it 16, Ja cortuiniy very on couragings Taytupathieg with all who @tand by the old forma in wolet yroat truths once found exproasion, und sour bucuuse the propte are growing uway from than, ‘Tht ty, Laympathtso with thole aluourity, and with tho pain thoso things oust thon; but | oanuot share thor dla- couraging Views. [do not believe, for inatance, that in whut uev called the Uruader views of ore Unodoxy that ure Bo filling the laud now, there ts unbelfof, Leal tt fatthy « higbur faith; u vottor faltb; 6 faith from which not one clement of rightuousnoss te left outs a fulth that cau be wa. capted by inilitons af minds who could nut av- cept thavalder und soverer statements, 1 bos Novy that iv the iiboral churches tere ta mye ing faith—-fulth thut wakes strong chiructers, Deuutlful ves; and no one can queaitun tho fuct that ghurity wus voyer so abundant os garth wa And It is wlyg (o dissourdye ouraulyos, wilsoull and eonfusa things by saying ull this larger tuith ts jutidelity becuase: It hus de- irted frum the forma ly whled Be ages tried ies the truth. | Bultur, fur better. confess Ut the world fy coming to tty utauboud und to the Iteas of manhood, than to mouru because tho nineteenth century has yrown away from the sixteonth coutury and ovn no longer wearits urimenta, Wo tye, thon, tho statement of the text, and the fret by mney nad fe, that faleh, and hope, and etmety abbles that cnet whieh is titior and essenthil in religion rebut. Paul looked Nt the workd'« geawths he looked at tho ratetent in reliyion,—e the techtonts of tie, or Krowth, oF cheemmataneee: but ne aired tho ane honey of futh, and hope, and charity, And hive {ny reached the conclusion that the hithor mene kind hia changed, ond ts atill changing, iit that it haa not been lost, but that a Lirger and better faith, and hope, and charity are coming in to “tike the piace of the old, fet us now ook briefly it thou three graces. these rent facts in wir religion, wid nak wherein lics the secret and the power of tholr permanency? What Is faith, and way toes It abldo in the mind and heartoer many Falth ts the old's 04+ sent to truth, and the hearts celle: Upon tt. ‘The mind nsgents to trath truth, beuase il perceives ft, xed {tas such, Tho mitnd ts wide For truth, nied truth 6 una for the iitnd, ‘Pout is, tho ny fa aiited te the other, Just ng Meht is nulted to the eye, of som And when truth eninos natural for tha talid st recount it nnd tondmit it, Atl honvo we tind that ir world ling always been full of bellofs un ut Jeets—on history, xclen ligton. 5 fallen q Tndged It hus bean tuo full of helivla— too rete te Lelieve,—und tenes his often lies ed without suilldientevidenvo, and bia there bas had to enter upon the 0 of yedxiinination and” of Dug tha Saige, And this may set tip it bubit oF critleising, of rejecting, that inny be. come for the thie dessriet Hulloving tuo much und too cusiiy at frat, tho tendency tion fa to douut top intich und tuo eually, ‘Tuts ie the condluun of many now. But the mind will rewct Seon tes nN axtremes, and tons at tat toon proper mediuin, And thus wa find it now, ‘Tho great body of tankind are not volng with the extrowies of either nidieniian ‘oF consurvatlam, but are cacekie the truth that tes between the two, Being in work! of wrent tnoral trutns, the wind and heart cannot wetaway trom thei; it ts utterly Linpossiule for our world to give up rolious thousgnt ar to fall into’ utter religions unbelluft und siinply bee cutge the pret facts of religion are forever thrusting themselves upott the attention. Ant go fulth abldes, and mustaiblda, It may obnage a mmny’ things, but ati Wt travels atone the arent ines of God, und Christ, und iinmortality, and righteousness, It thinks diterently wid Detter of God now than it onge did—sees nore OF His love und terey, Man belleve diiferontly nbout fatire punishment frou. want thoy onus daly but sell they hold fst to the ilens of God, and Justice, and propor retribution. ‘They look pon the ibly diiferently, bat still they televe it contalns ute reverted willof God, hoy thin differently about the Atonement, vut ne bold tu the yrent hiv of the Vieuriousueas uf | And thare (s not only tho ussent of the mind and hoartto rollgious truth, but there 13 0 resting Upon those truths, As the nitare of the iniud and tho piesgnice of truth compel nssent, ao the needs of tho condition! OF fife lead to trust, vho hetrt wants domothing an which to regi ‘Tho soul, fouling ts need, custs Havll trustiog’ upun the unseen power, the tntinit love, And inva we thought how grout a thing It {9 to by linn work! of tulth,—w world of trust? Tt menns that we are ina world of faces, a world of troth, wud that we peretive these and rust in thom, We talleva the uulvorse is ruled by ait ntinlt Huinge; that it i ruled fa wisdem and ovo; that the divine curo ig over the tives of ull men; that * Christ Jeans came Inte tho world to gaye sinuors'; that we may, huve pardun, und penee, and hollness by llvea of obedience aad trusts we belleve that we ure {mmortil—that we shall hve forever; tant we shill know even other In tho worhl of spirits. Ul! what falth wbides through all the ehunyes of times whae fulth In God. und goodnesé and tho life to come, Not only does tiith guide out tupe Journeys along with It. Falth begins by accepting whit the mind says fa trae, nud ends by resting in that: trust, And na bellofa uke aotd of the things tint He beyond the prozeng tad as trust god un beyond where reason mu pue and Hyves n life of rest what it cannot abwis's see or trace tho way, Out wiinplys trusts, ft thoreby prepitres tho way for hope. Hopy 19 thatiiner something that xned before wai gous Beture ronson, und even befora falth; keeps nbead in the soul's march Into the .fitture, atid senting — backward an suyiig. | Cou on; Love tho was's it will bo-tvetter and briguter utter wwoille.” Mopy always tells: or a to-more row, and jn that to-morrow tt holds out a prom. fixe of somnehiug better. Without tt wo snoutd allsink inte despale, Bueiwith te when atl is dark we still loak furwartl. We have clanppolit= iments, we have sorrows thatwe tell only cours ‘selves; howes are brokeu‘/ip, loved ones yo awiy, tho beurt Unda not Merest; we are old or poor or alck, but still wersepe. OF beautiful angel of tho skies, how shust thou ever been present to cheer our ilvex—been prosent to wpeak words of comfort Whon all other yuicus were alient, There {s nothing tore wondurtal or blessed in our poor tyes than hope, And thank God, it tog abides. It. awbidos througtt all tha darkuess and chatuas of Hie. And atony Avkth the broider’ betlofs’ Of aur age, hupy ts openine ups larger workt” Deapalr tind well ni ee closed the srutes of duykuess forever nbout ‘all who bud gone from ous, shores Unrecunciled to Goi, Varenewed In bearte but hope has some. bow -bocn: etronger: thin tgolopesy:. mid: wollat-| mon thougtit Hoy Lelleved’ong thing, thought ust believe it. and Y supposo dit othe; yet, mothors niways -carried un unex hope that somuhow tho children nae bore in pula would,, pot sulfer forever, le Methodist woinan of Towa sald t “If thero Is nny bronder hope for tho future, wo mathers wint to know it; for tie of finve buried ealidron who were not ‘converter Oat how bus tho vyoleo and tenoh ing of despalr sought to bent back hope us It bus tried to follow loved oes ‘to tho dark world, ‘But the hopo thut will put laapite: hero will not stap ub tho portals of death, but will yo on aud hope that somehow Stenntty gan do more thin time, Aud hope not only rbides now, but along with faith it will bless all the lives yet to come to our world, ° Charity abides, This Is tho Inst and the grent- gat uf the three xruces mundoned i the text. Fuitn reste ou truth. lope rests on faith, trinseands fith and Hives tn tho rightness o| the future, Churity ta the life of tho hoart; tt 1s loves [t Is tant state of tho utfections “thit thinkoth no ovil, that rejoleys not fn iniquity, but rejuieoth in the truths beareth all cilnusa, hopeth all things, endureth: all things.” Paul guys “Churity never faileth'’s prophecies will full, and knowledge pias away, but charity, tho richest of nll tho hic’ teeusures, shall never fwil, 1b 4a nearest God, must Hike God; for God fs love. Aud why will it not faite iy dues forever. vide in our world’ Why ere aud, deatousy, and hatrad ‘out, G or enisa it to diey We have seen that falth Is fed uF ft world of truth; thut hope journeys along with truth and faith, and then goes on in advance, carrying uw lyehtto beckon tho Koul forward. Mut whut dovs love rest upon? What dooa tt fved upon? What ts ita life? It falls uot beeauso God fails nut. It ives bacansy Gol lives. There Is someting im Jove that cannot beur restraint, that will nut be shutin, that is ever goluw out sceking to tind und bless othors, It must buve a hirger work) thunncif, And thus the nuture, thalove of Gad be forth In SaUatE out Christ went: rele lls Ing yood, feuding the hungry, and healing tho sake and the ituly 8; irit of Tivo ia now brood- ing over all souls und broathing upgn thon the ite of love. Wuru it not for tits boundless econ, this evorshining ou, thie exhaustioss fountain, our world would sink {ite nigat and winter, and tuve would div. But God koapa love allvo=-kueps it alive in tho midut of strirea und contentions and jJewlousies;' keepa It ullve in spite of the sharp coimpetttions of tride, and through the furcencss of butties, Sun ta to the {muge of God, and sommobuw that which {3 Ike Got" survives, And God haa appointed niany chinnels through which this river of Wife halt thew, together in the love of homo and tho tles of dived; Ho binds communities and nations to- wether by tho bonds of a cominon need und de- pend i. God hath bullded y beautiful temple ‘or love Where ull the children of artand sony und piety india home, And love, frow its very: nature of unsolflahuess, la foraver pourmiy out its rlohes, troasures, und this ts tho wtrange lito that the wore ft gives tho more ft his. Chorlty fa the great regulating privelple of Ife, At Isto take from tho world all envy and oppression, st will onuse slavery and war to cengo. Te will MIE all hearts with w tender sym pe y—Jjustice. It is love ty God and man. It i roligion, tio that buth love hath entered Kiugdom of Heaven. O4 rich 1s tho hoart thut has fulth and bono and: charity; rich is our world uvciuse these ubile, ‘bis pricoloss wenlth is freo to nls it walls to ft and bless oyery hourt that fy open to tra coming. And tt la aw treasure, a lito that Abldes, Te docs unt tuk: wings and fly away with wealth, but loves to nbido with the puor; It docs ‘not fade with the bloam of youth, but yoes on toto sleknoss and old aye, and makes pencoful tho dying hour. Tuith, hope, ct aN reba aro iho gout tite hore, und those will be its Joy when tiny Is uo more, OUR NEXT MAYOR, BEUMON BY TH WEY. II. NOW. ‘Tho Itov, De. Noblo, uf the Union Hark Con- grewatlonul Church, proached to big conzroguy Won yosturday ovuntng on tha ‘subject of * Our Next Mayor.” “Ho baa for hia text; * When the rightouus iro inauthority the poo. plo rejoleo) but whoa tho wicked bearcta rulo to poople moura—Frov., 2z2lb,, 2, Ho wantod to gay a quod word for the noxt Mayor of the City of Objouxo, and bo had better do It now befure they know who ho was. Ono thing Waa certuini tho dignity and roaponsi- ullity 6¢- the ollico woro sugh us to watlity tho ambition of any ordinary man, J¢ had ule ways been deamoy a great honor to ba the Gov. ernor pf wu Btato; a yroat many sought fo rawch that bonar, and groat subeming took pluce bo. fore the posluon was attuliad, ‘bo sume thing uppllod in ne less degrey (o'tue Muyorulty of o great city. Thorvure bing States woose bipulu- tlond ave lossy Gann that ot the City of Calougo. Oregon, Huote Island, and Delaware oilyht be rofled Into one and Cofeasro would beat tho all y 18.000, Vermont, with hee Green Mountings, aad Nevada, with hor sitver-orawuud rocks, cums bined, muke a stndiler population thuo ours. Almust as lurgs us the State of Malne, Cone nostlout, or Weat Virginia at present, ina fow youre abo would be lurzec thaw any of thei. fuking tutu consideration tho question cf the interestg of tho city,—lta tratiio und trada, its railroad, bunk. grain, cattlo, and other juterosts which edntered in the City of O iletgo.—i8 would wurpkie vyua a Ch! Jo Citleen te ave tO Wout | duis pes An dinportanes thoy had swollon, and ft would be seen that man having ail these under his cara woul need to be poraussud of the very Highest montal and moral — qiulifieattons, ‘Tha question of good governinent to this woualry wonte ta the Fatard Jurgely revolve dren) the ‘testion of good governincat ti tha eittes.—0<- beeintly the Linge cities, EC thoueht were «iver fe wit tho tage elticd are Always dolme, this, would be morg apparent. ‘They were perpecittly Uringing to themselves the dingeros chises of society, PC boy came inte the world In neountey, place with adevided Lent in the direction ou! oviledolog he would not country phic 1, Chieayo. England, Germany wore constantly foading thisenuntry with thelr pauper und criminal cinases, Ond these avttted them ed fo tho turge eltles of Atnerica, ‘The but elnssen of tininigrants tuok ta tho country, but tha men with erlminal tntent—those who had tefe Ghote country for the purpose Of eadape ing Ita Judtivefound thelr way io New York, Haste Cileage, ‘Chess igen nna tholr orn zillion tin thy Largo cities. Hands of sociales, Utils eltques who designed to, prey upon the curing OF othors, dit not get tee country’ purty, but in the cities, and. ay Chit cng held inuny societies of peopl all prepared and only ewalting an opportunity to make un ontureni. In tho hate War one of the bardest tasks was to kovp the large elties behaving thomealye When tho rallrond strike weeurred tho trouble wie not ty be found inthe country. but fa the elties Where tha urgatizntions svoking to ude dermlis property for some days hell te coun= try fnatwe. ‘Tho tand bud not yet realized tho serlotts nature of the tisk wader its repubiiatn form of government uf controlling these clusses: In the elties, The inan who wns lit tobe Mayor of the City of Coleazo buyght to Understand how to ny ple hand of authority upon those criminsl clusaca aad when to ilo it to the best advantage. ‘The functions of Muyor of any city were two- fold: First, it was bis budiness to execute tho juwa, Hu wie nota jegistator. It wag not his Uatatness elthor to nuke law or to take the place of a Judye wad say what the law muant, but it wus his to execute tt, It mtzht be wlaw concerning the cleaning of tho sidewulkas or one relating ty the eranting of Jousus; ort law conuerning gambling dei pisces where young men, the vierks in stor und oilices, the surg und brothora: of reputable eftizens were rulned: ur one calling upon nin to Tesguiato the Y,00) saloons inf the alts whieh sears kako thousands of young tion down to ruin. Whitover this law be, be ahoutd execute ft. 'Tho vreacher altudad to the Guneruts it tho opening uf the War and the manner in whieh thoy sought to nscertuin the tong of public opti dow before declding tonet upon the commands thoy recelved from Washington, At lust, how ever, tha Government got tien who, when tho order came. put It 1 execution, murched neross tho Jand to the sea, and upon iichmond, and the collapse of the ‘Rebellion was tho result. Tho City uf Chicugo did not want a tnat at tho heud of the City Guverninent who, when ctlled Upon to execute a liw, would took inte it and ae whether it was to his ‘poilltical udvautuge to ju 80. ‘Tho preacher wanted the noxt Mayor ot Chi- cuge ty Ue winni who would execute the luw. Had the people realized that thoy bud lawa upon We Hquor true and tho Sunday question? As thoy passed wong tho Atreeta they oul not realize it, and the question arose, (tow was it that tho pollo oficurs, su quick to discover sume things, did not seem to fad this out? ‘Tho truth waa Unit thelr uxcuso would ba that public uplilan would not back them up in enforcing ic IW. ‘Tne preacher read the city ordinances and State hws acalngt tho admission of injnars to guloons, dgalust giving Uquor to miners or ine toxteated persons, and agamat Sabbath-break- ing. Was it-the place fora City Mayor to stup and say that he could not exneute these hws becunse the feullug of inany of tha peuple was asulnst IY ‘ Every Sunday theatres were open In tho City of Chicago; ininurs thronged saloony and gamble in thom the week through: stloous were kuptopen after 12 o'clock Suturday nlygtit. ‘The next Mayor should be 2 tan who would put un end to all this, ’ Tho second functlon of the Mayor was in bending, bis energies In the dtrection of tha Im- provemoént of tho inurnly of the city. of the wrowth of manhood and womunbood of the city. Itintwonty seurs from now the «ity hud an pobutettont of aw sniition ora miltton aud a hile of nhubitants, and Its trude bid fnerensed fn pro- portion, yet atthe guine time the city will bo wantiug In bich-toned manbood und woman. hood. where would) the —oylory. oot Chlengo The men who bid it dn thoir power to improve the moral tone of the elty would tind In fty exercise the highest duty which Uod bas placed tipon thom, As tt now stood, notwithstanding that the sober Judiment. of the Stute and city bud deslared In tuyor oF tho hiws be had rend, yet every diy the sons and duitebters of tho eitizuns were in peri, and every day there were dragged down {ite penii- Mau gone of tho noblest suns and dnugbters of the city, In the eifort to rit tho city und Nation and tho world of tho evil of intemperance a grat work bad been going on, ‘no inuvement. ‘or the hist twenty=tlvo vuurs ind been stead~ Hy, pressing forwanl and. rowing in force, "Thy "sentient uf” — problaltion brid Avvanced steadily, and In tweuty-five yeara toorepenplewil wave the suing thonghts rue wort ie Myce ta US THOS’ UW had reeard- ing the old institution of slavery, ‘She Muyor of Chicago should” not be an ab atruvtionist ta tho. temparinee movement, but ont Tally alive to ite blessings. and to the nd> yantayos of the other Jawa which had been re ferred to. * As yet no convention bad been held; no anme had been mentioned, and he only stax) up to plead that the next Muyor injyat be su tunre a "60 trav. nh eltizen, that.every moral mat and woman in Chleage would bo gind to soe Its interests placed ta his Keeping. ‘the potttieal intriguery wquld Koon begin, and both parties would goon nominate choir candidates, and nuthing would be lett but to tuke a choles betweon the twa men when the wire-pulters and schomers hud selected ns tholr stundsrd-vearers, und be culled upon tho men whe loved purity and inorality inore thin purty, schools more than aalouna, churches more than thoatres, who loved ta soo the young men and Woinon saved. rather than Inepeetleds to sev to ft that tho mut to-oceupy this poaltion Aust be winin of charucter, of: purity, wd at mmorallty. ICO men of Chicago, of whoin he knew, belonging to bath parties wonld sot purty questions aside und vombiuo fur tho support UCD 8 un, tho traders, manlpuluters, und ax: wrindors of party would not buved word to euy ag to who wus to be tho next Muyorof tao city. If this were done they would save tho city from the disauter of the eleation of a Mayor who hid abe svlutely no Utness forthe high aud finportant ulllco, ITENRY MOORIIOUSE, MEMONMAL SERMON BY THE REY, GEORGE edd Cc, NEEDIUAM, The Rev, Goorgu C, Neoddnm proached o sor- mon inChlgago Avenue Church, corner of La Haile strvot, yeaterdny morning upon the * Early Life, Conversion, and Ministry of tho Evangol- list Moorhouse.” 1a text was: “tant Christ shall bo mugatiled In my body, whethor it bo by lifo or by deith,.. 3 © For mo to live ts Christ, and 6 die fs galn."— Philipptana, by 20-21. g ‘Tho preacher gald that he had chosen this text beoauso tho Inst totter which tho deur brothor of whose life ha would apeak bad writton so fully aecorded with its spirit. A short thme previous to Henry Moorbouse’a death, Maj. Whipple, of Chicaro, then working As un evangellatin Scotland, proposed to visit London, and, on bis way there, to spend a day. with Moorhouse in Munchestar. He wroto to him to this effect, but bo was not able tu seo bis beloved co-worker; by tho timo Bluj. Whipple aturted southwards Henry Moorhouse was ul- roxdy with the Lord, Maj. Whipple would have been a welcome visitor at tha homo of tho ovangellat, who, in answer to his etter, wrote aay lng that he bad just got our of bed for tho lirat ing after a long aicknoss, but that if bo was still In tho world when his Chicago frivnd passed through Muuchoster ho would be glad to see tl. do ntso expressed aideop interest jo the work which Maj, Wilnpia Was accomplish- tng In Glasgow. ‘Two of tho sentences jn tho lottor were au characteristic of tho spirit of thy writer as to bo worthy of special micnuon, They wores . “Pray that I may snfor for Chriat botter than over IL preachud for tim," and * Fonly wane to glorify Ll." Heney Moorhouse had flved for Chriat, and. now he wua peoulving the roward. Living Cor Christ was tho bentof his lif. During seven: tuon yeara the prouckee hud known hia, Ho bad failings, no duubt. He wus wansidered by guute to bs coventrio, but {twas very burd to Judxe correotly of this ebaryo of vcunntriclty, and. whilo many who did not understand the Mian tuliudyed him, yot those who knew him Leat know that ho was pale loving Christian who wanted only to tive und work for the glory of Jusua Christ, ‘This dusire waa over prusont with bin alter ke vugaged In bis lite-wark, wid event night jo bly wluep he hud boon hourd to ery outs "Lwant to five for iim, to work for Ulin, to glorify tim." ‘Cho pruiuebur then datalled tha pocullar chain of circumstances which fed to the conversion of Henry Moorhouse, ‘Thirty yeurs uxo ow nnite who: bud run away from bis bome in Livervoul, after wandering about tho world, turued up at Bao Franclwvo, whore, tur the trast thio, hy folt the urrowd of the Almighty in his consgiones, in this frame or mind he went back to bis ‘native land und fanded Ju Liverpool a pour, humules oonviotad slunor, Ie ruturned tu bis bone an mudo a pesoludon that be would give tho rust of biadays ta God. He did not kuow the ways of aulyadon; by sought for peaoe in valu, dle wont tothe gravt Exhibidon to Sydenkun Paluvo, London, to the bope tbat bis inind wlght bo dl verted. It wae of no avail, however, und, rusbing from the | plus, uti wae urreated by uo Duok-stall, at waleh be ohused u Bible,” He tuok the teuln buck ty Live wi. Bil woking For in be determined to avo all treed oc bls former tite, To bad Womnedian, und by destroyed the wurdroby ho had used in tile profession, but tala brow Lin ne panoe, He bad onbirod énme Cuculbuse his alstur’s howe, und hu bycaiy posaudsed of the {dew that a sufy walck by bad purvbased was of @ more urntmuntul dewign taal be shoul own, and bo doatroyed it, but withuutin any way improving hia mental oonditlug. One night bo shut bitnael? up in bis rool wits bis Witie, aud when tle inoriing Hyzht viol in throug, tho window be bacauis vonverial to Jusis | ‘This wan war Joun (onbieton, wae nfteryirds bee Wat Uvangellss, wad tprvugh whose preaching the collier, Weaver, was brought to the trith, One evening white Weaver was preaching Ina tentin Londen, a young man passing by and hearing a noite inside cami to the conclusion that Hwag a clrous, and that a row wad going on ninone Sitoceupanta, Ho wasn lightewenrht Dindihatef sone prominence, and, obeying his Justigets, he bittoned: up his cant and duahed lute the place. in the anticipation of enjoying tho fut which, he thought, wie In progress, As ho entered, the Evangelist Wever, who wos conducting W revival meeting In tho tent, rivuted hig attention by tha utterance of the single word, “Jesus. Ho wns at once con. verted. Mo puthia faith In Jeans Christ, and went homo nnd delighted hie fathor and mothor by telling them of tha change which be had A le This young man was Honry Muor- ouse, At that time ho was an fuctlone sort, —a bein Jauk.” as thos val thei in ine dad bis great trvde oectirred overy Sat- urday evening, Cav night white Lo waa selling goods. in the wnldst of tho oxehtement attending: stood sudduily before elise known as tho erat relics enthusinst whe. fter his conversion, had decided hover ugain to mir fh heat-covering. As this extraurdine rs A before young Moorhuuse be enlled Thon oghtest to be aut in the Bireet with thy Bible and tot handling the dev- Wshummer here.” The nin disappaured; Moore hotse stoppad the sale and at once cast about him for tug means of entering the service of Me told Hambleton, whont bo met, that ho wanted to preach, and, full of w longing to tell tho people the story of the cross, be necumn= panied that evanzellatin his movemonts, Not yet able ty provch the word, bs contented biin- self for tho present with exhibiting nt tho gites of fatrs and other public gnthocings a bunrd, ereeted uponn pole, bearing two texte. ‘Tole action brouht duwa upon bitin a great dent of, xbtise, which be stood in on proper Christian epilt, frequently receiving blows front passers: a which bo did nut return. Hambleton at thie tine acted us bis theological professor, and they studiod tue Bible aud together truveled about the country, until as his mind expanded tho beantles of tho book took hold of tim, and ho soy slants that Jesus Curist was bls friond und ayiors Seventcon oar go the preacher was altting In bis ollicu i Dublin, when three men entered who had Dyes upon thoir shoutders and Bibles in thelr nds. uv of then was Joshua Poole, the con- verted dddler, kuown tn England as Plddler Juss.” Anothor was tha Sankey of that time, Henry Usner, und tho third wis Honey Sfoore house, Shortly after thole arrival in’ Dublin, Moorhouse was tutroduced to the prencher, to whom he suid, fervently: “Beloved, t aim glad toaue thee; I lovo thee,"—a greeting which w once established bim firinis in. tha preacher's heart, and from thatting on thoy were tntl- mute friends, Henry Moorbouse's frat public address be- fons an catlebtened uudience wus on vers trying ordinl to tin. Tt ovcurred ut Mansion Halt, Dublin. Moorhouse tinde an excellent Btart. ‘Dut was evidently on the polntof breaking dows wuon Poole, who was In the audiene 4 hls diluina, and, In order tu give bitn a oe wet over it. called out to Blin, *'Enery, slg yor Henry did so, aud at tho oud of it tad regalned his self-possvisiun and was able to go on with his address, which produced such nn cf- fect that tho puople In tho nudionce duelded that the youuy min tad talents which should be eul- tyated, anu a movement was set On fuvt having this objeot in View, ‘fwo “qualities alded Sfoorhouse in tho early part Of bis carcer.—his wreat drunutic power un Isaptness tn thisirating polits with Interest+ ing und appropriate stories. Later on {1 life, however, he nbandoned the employineut of the dramatic ability be possessed. preacher told of Muurhouse's yisita_ to Americn, and read an_interesting letter from Thomas Klinber, tho Quaker which be duseribed tho manner f hotse succeeded in converting nim. Mr. Kimber, who fs one of tuo wealthiest mem= bers of the Buciety of Friends, bat Invited Moorbouse to visit him, and on bis arrival, Juse before supper-time, went to the door to wel- come him. fe extended hls hand house stuvd In the poreb und salt ber, are you a Cuelatiin?™ This waeexrevod- Ingiy embirrassing, and the wealthy and digni- fled” Quuker winced beneath a quosdun woich bad ‘heen given in go publig Wh manner, and ungwere'l that thatavis in mitter between hii and his God. Me, Muorhousa replied: “No. Mr. Kot thie ig mimuttor botween spucand we, aud wo will discuss it this very’ ight," Me. Kimber Praposedt that they should goin toBupper, aud that after the ment thoy could ropalr tow privity ruonr und ther discuss tho matter, Mr. Morehuttse Bld: ! “No, Mr. Kimber; tho Lord told me to ask tho owner of this house whether bo was a Cheistian, and J will nut tuke supper until I baye an anawe: ep Thus brought face to face with this entueat: Chrivthin, Mr, Kindler, who, though at that cine wu gvnurous promoter of Christian work, was nos a Christhin, did uot dure to claim the asstipynce of hig secuptuuce or of the honor of tho Suviorss., Mune, and wus forced ta nuswer that ho was nor whit. wad culled a Christian, but. with God's gree, that would be :the lust thine he would 0 AY Mt ‘The ve: Chri: to aay intunpe with Mr. Kimber waa, yer udvantizeols td tho- young TVigCt st whl was iustrueted by bin in“ grunmar, and beenme groatly fmmpraved in tho use af the English lane quae. 5 Mr. Noorhous visited Chicago Ove times, nnd both Mr. Muody and Muj. Walpple confessed big power, ‘fn Amerien be was very successful us elsewhere, and to-duy there were hundreds of “prencters bere and in England who were repent- ing Moorhouse’s sermons every Sundiy, Ta I8it the preacher necoinpanied fim on 7a trip to Scotland, during whlch be remurked to tho evangelist that he had a very bad cough, eliciting the answor, “Never mind; when the Muster wants wo 1 nm ready, to go." Durlug his lat trip to America, Moorhouse, puifering from nervous prostra tion, caused by’ the ‘Com Le peri tronblea round bts heart. wileh Hnolly caused biy death, kept much to himscif, and many peopie blamed hin for this, but this Wits Hujtist. 1d tho Iman Was at the tine unable ty Kochilly ontertiin hls visitors. After returning to England he was sulferlug fo that he coutd wat preach uny more, and, stil wuxlons to promote the work of Corlst, bo. got wn Bite carriage in witeh he wont bout selling chodp Uibies and ‘Testaments, In Iv he sold B),Q nnd In 1339 TU.00 coples of the Ftoly Word, and at the suing tine distributed yru- tultously two inition tracts, Tn his Inst inoments be waa attended by his old friend Huintieton, ‘Tho meeting was a very tundur one. After saing tatk, Hambleton re- mutrked, “fener, my had, we will soon meet up yonder.” ‘Lhe slek mun turned tog Hittle erlp- pled dtughter who gut by, sald All ts well,” aud passed way’. Tn conclusion, the preachor informed the au- diene that the deceusid cyargeliae hid left be- bhid bin a whiow and childeen, and hoped ther heurts Would be softened to gond some yift to the widow. | He hoped to be able to ralse 30) For thout In Catengo, ond diat othor wiulsters of the elty would ralse 80 nore, He wus not yot pres pared ta receive subseripdons, but would be ina short tine, Y. M. C. A. ANNUAL MEETING YESTENDAY APTERNOON, An oncouraging eign of tho thines was the jorge interest that was munifested in the twen- ty-thind aunlversury of the Young 3fen's Chris- (fan Association, which was hold utd:ud yestor> day nfteruvoo. The hall was moro than two- thirds Mted with an Intorested qudience of Indies and gentlemen, which, considering tho grout inclomency of tho weather, waa much Jarger than was anticipated. Tho stage was vo- cupled by tho Farwell Hall cholr and the Third Preabyterian Chureh quartet, Inoludlug Misses Kittle Wallace and Pauline Rommolas, and Stesara, Charios If. Clark and A. I, Goldemi{dt, Mr, PF. T. Sulrd presided ut the orgun. Among the prominent gontiomun who sat on tho plutforia were the Hay, Dr. E, ». Goodwin, tha Rev, Fredoriok Courtney, tho Kov, Jnmes Powoll, tho Hoy, Honry G. Porry, the Rev, Robert Shepherd, tuo Mev. Mr, Caldwoll; Robert Weldonsall, Secrotary of the Inter- nadonnl Committoe Y, 4. C.A.; I, EB, Brown, Stato Secrotary; KR. H. ‘Thane, who led tho singing of tho cholr; E.G, Kolth, Juhn V, Far- well, Hi, ‘DT. Homingway, Edward Ely, Cyrus Berite » Prof. ¥, W, Fisk, U. F, Gatos, He IL foray thy, ieious to tho calling toonter tho choir and tho ‘Third Presbyterian Church quartet sung suvoral picecs, str. Blbridwe U. Kelth, tbe Prose ident, then wnnouticed thut the Hey, BB, Goud: win wouk! open tho proveudlogs by reading Crom tho Holy Scripture, folluwlog with prayer, ‘Tho roverend geuttemon muy an earnest gup> Hioutton. rhunktys God for tho powur und grace iu bul bestowed wud tho youd work Hu bad vine powered tho Asgoctution to do, and that ite ates cose night be furcbor entunced by God's grace aud ussistiuce, dir, Keith thon stated that ho would notrendor nny statistionl report us President, ad thls bad bwon loft Ly custum to tho Socretary, iy thought that the figurcs would not show what bud actually buen dono, ilu hoped shay tho woud gown woul! bring forth youd fruit, The groatneed of the Associution wie 1 Jarier, botter Ventilated pico in thy beart of the clty,—a build mig cuuaeuallinea, and well appointed, wile should be a vountor attruotion w the plices of vicu Which drew Away young mon, fe thought ‘that sueb n buliding should 02 constructed coins mendurate with the greatavsad und comulorclal interesty of the city, ‘Choy noodud y more hearty cobpermtion of Coristtan you mun, ‘Thurs should -by wore wetive Workers wmong young wou, Hy nppouted te the young men to ad hy tala grout work with prayers und moncy, and to show tholr Interest by laboring wocn they could In tho Lard’s vinuyard. Th the abacuce of tho Tronsurer, Mr. [4 J. Gagu, dir, 21. Ui. Forsyth road the annual report, which showed receipts ats follaway) Donitona, B50; rents, Bildd; membership, 453 thee colluncuud, $1,000; totil, $12,0%, OF this winoune 26,68) hud bosnexpemded in. atlurles atid tua bulancy tn keeping up tho tHbriry, rondinge roorus, gas, and in vurlous milscellunvous ways, leaving un band a taulaace nf 878. ‘The report of the Bdecretury, Bt. AT. Hemings way, Wits it Yory fenythy anid ably document, whlen yuvo a bistory of the ¥, af C. A. wince ite incur thn The Assnclavon hid pid eleven Pevsidents, all uf whain Were alive, and tgoltided Cyrus Buatiey, Jobo V. Farwell, Ded. He Hollise ter, Be By Jucous, BE, B. Well 1, WW,’ Kultur, D1. Soxaly, G2 OM. Handosione N. Houten, 2. W. Hurvey, wud &, u. Keith. The figures showed ng follows: Total numbor Of noon mertings held during tho yonr, Iks to- tal attondance, 0X8, ‘There wero thirty-three Sunday night Gorpel meotings, at which there Wis g totnl attentunce of 16,570; ninoty-clght Gospel tenperines meetings, which ware ate tended ly ®) pergous. There were tifty-two, commercutl truvelers’ ineatings, with wt ationd- ance only of LER; and tiftyetwo young men's Guspal mectings, with an Attendance Of 2.02). at requests for priyer presented xs held, The seventeen even- re attended uy 7,700 people, while the twenty-three Stnuay afternoon Mible tect~ Uros hu an-attendanee of 15,52. ‘The attend- ance at the readitg-room was 45,135, and at the gyimnnsium 20.10%, Number of baths taken, Bae Papers and traots distributed, 25,634: ployment found for men and bors, 404, Tho, present tnembership of the Association {$ 1,268. Tho statistics uf the railroad work shaw as fol dows: Number of meetings fur raiicond, mon,, hs attenduice, Wiis; ationdunce nt railway inen’a rending-rooins, Ahte; visita to cubouses and engines, 3 Visits to awitch and {ng men, 2075; Visite to rnuud-houses, shops, fepots, an ollleva, L789; vinta to fdutilles, 2158; yislls to siek und injtired, 385, ‘here were WW occtipations represented in tho applicants for work, and 22 nntionulltios. ‘Tho. nutiroud oftieials had rendered Aa ald in their branch of the work. The report treated in an. oxhitustive wiv af alt tha work that had been: done by the Association, and also urged tho nevesalty of hinving a ttew and commodius bulld+ iny.tor the use or the Assoctutlart, - Vho quirtet sang “Nest inthe Lord” at tho conchitelon of tha reading of tho reporta, Presiveut Keith thanked the pastord of this olty for tho nid that thoy had given at all times to the Associntion, The ley. Fred. Courtney was then Introduced: and apoke to the Youuy men, ad Bald that what sbrought thom to Chleage wag the wish and witk to getrich, It was one of the inain xentiments with thom, and with men generally, ‘Those who Devnmne broken down in other altles locked to Chtengo to tntke money, It was a sentimont tun prevall i Gvory where: Jn tho church, In the Aagovlation, nega, The mere fact of wille ing to be rich was nothing to bo thankful for. They willud to by rich fit order to enjoy them- selves, and net to beoomnd rich that they might conseentte themselves and their riches toUod. ‘Thora wore tots of people th Chluago who savored to xet along without religion very well, This was another prevailing sentlmant, ut relixlon miht become wealthy, nd loving fithers, husbands, wood nefghbors, charitubic, ote. These men might bo intellectual to the highest dogree, und mor’ withal, but they had nut those lufty ideas whieh religion brought and gavetuinen. Religion bad, pawucea the Hoblest men and women, who bad, elped mankind, Thoy hud lifted up men aod Woinen from the digs, and innde yood people of thom. Hellgion wud made men consecrate themselves and thelr riches to Almighty God. It cume to relieve men, I aick- nesa and death. When thors vamo tho hour of doubt, way the heart needed somethin, to tenn on, there wits erty but religion and turning to God for support, Rellion withsomne People wns a garment which they put on Sumy morning and took it ot Sutiday night. They took thelr God nut of tho buok-box in) churoh on Sunday, und put it back when tho service wus over, Some men were ono thing on tho Hosrd Trade una another thing In the church, ‘They hud to stand — vefore God naked, — stand before Him as thoy were. Every niin oxercised on cortaln Athount of intuence whivl he could use io Vurjous ways In every position and action tu lfe. He could exorvise it In spucch and conduct. He Must bo consistent in everything. Tho trouvla was that thore wis too imneh Inconslatoncy In the church, ‘Tho speakor did not moan the ine conglstenuy whieh questioned tuo right of going to chureh on Sunduy morning und then to tho thontre Monday evening, and which beld that fin ougat not to bandio bis Bible on Sunday and a paek of curdaon Monday, He bad no ale lusions ta those. He wanted inen to bo Chels- Uunly consistent,—to speak the truth, help those {ndoubt, ete. He sald thut It took a brave man in Chivuzo to be a Christin in the presence of bys employers and ussoulaqes. It was cusy enough not to be aChristiun, but to ben follower Of Jesua required grit and fortitude. ff There wiku letter read from tho Rev, A. Be Kittradge, who was umivotdably detained, Tho Rev. Dr. Lorlinur waa delayed nt Buffalo, and Dr. Hatileld was kept uway' by Ulnegs, The Rev. James Powell avoke a fow words, in the nbsencu of the other speakers. He felt that there were adversaries in the wuy of thoir worl Which thoy had to vanquish. He felt encouraged Mt the reports ho bud heard of the work done by tha Assouintion. Cheisthia associitions were tha right uru of the chnroles, which sont aut, Christians tu work tu every nation on tho carth, The Association give to the world the fuct of the unity of tho Cheisthin Chtrcn. It took to allscets, Tho services vlosed with singing the Doxotysy and the pronouncing of the benedic- tlon by the ev, Henry G. Pert ig J a THE COURTS. DIVORCES. William H. 1. MeConnell fied a bilt Suturday asking for a divorce from bis wifoRmma oa tho ground of ‘desartion. , oe 1 Mifred Tl. Sptigad'ntsoasks for o divorce from Jennie Sprague: cause, desertion and adultery.’ Judge Garinor granted a divorce to -Olite A. Loeke from Abeain E. Lovke, of the grouud of drunkenness, x = UNITED STATES COURTS. . Edward P, Allis filed a bit Saturday’ against the Rovk Island Lumber Manufacturing Com+ pany to prevent it from using’ a patent for hora locks for sawinills, jasued orginally to Nelson F. Beokwith on tho 26th of December, 16th. Shnilar suits were begun by Allis against Jer, mun 8. Kentor & Son, Tho Dimock & Gould Com= pany. and Weponhausor& Denkman, Jobn Davis Hed i bill aeainst George We Alge - kins tu reatratn hin from using a patent devi Tor clutch bovks for sinngtering: purposes Ise yea Sept. aly 1, to Samuel Davis and Windsor elund. The testimony in tho ease of Cunningham vs, Cainpbell was concluded Saturday: Werere dudes Blodgett, und thts moruing tho charge tu the. Jury wilt be given, : : STATE: COURTS." - ee O. L. Mann begun a suit In debt Saturday, for tho use of B.'l. Gump, ngainst Johu Ford, Heary arma, and Amos J, Snelt, claiming $1,000 dam- ages, +. wt George C, Merrill, administrator of the estate » of J, W, Merrill, deceased, commenced a sult to trespass on the cuso against thu Lake Shora & Michigan Southern Hallrond Company, laying dainuges wt 5,00). B Ehaabeth $f. Pop began a sult for, $9,000 Ayuinst the Chicnga & Western tidinna Mallroud Company, tho Chicaygu &' Eastern Utlyols Malle Fond Company, tho Wabash, St. Loula & Puclite Ruitroud, the Chicago & Grund Truok Hailroud Compuny, ind tho Lown of Like. Nlenacd TM ace commenced a sult for $10,000 Gnmuges ugaiust the “Inter-Occan Pavtishing ompuuy. = uhunua Tlogermann began a sult Io replovin orninst Orrin L. Sunn, Joseph Schoeninger, Cutbarinu Bruett, und ‘Theodore Woblors, tu re- cover a quantity of furniture, some counters, Cte, valucd at €1,0W0.. ce Hae £ THE CALL Jupaz Druuaonp—General busines, : Jubak BLOPGETI~10, 19, 21, 2, 24, 20, 00, 2, 40, 41, 42, 4, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 62, 64,54, No. 16, Cunniugham vs. Campbell, on trial; Instructions only ta be ylvan,. APPELLATE Count—Not In seasion to-day, Sfo- tong to-morrow, se Junar GAnx—Call of condemuation calendar. No ens on trial. , ‘ Jupor SaiTi—-No pretintnary call, Telal enll + cna Ci y Ce i y, an trink. P) owae Wut subox-nue’ Wit. 108: 191,223,237 to 1, and It, No. 104, Gulloway va, Kirby, on Juban JAwedox—Contestod motions, |: JUDGE GARDNER—Contested motions,” Call to- morrow—13, 3, th, Rory oa No, 703, Spolyht vi. U 1, ON trial, x Mina RoneNs—200s5, 107, 198, £00, 202, 200, 208, to 20744, Inolusl No cuge on trial, JUDGR ANTHONY—64, 41, BS, 50, 87, 00, 02, O. O84, RT, 9S, 101, 1023, 100,104, tod, No. #680; Borinelater va, Slyeringhouso, u ro tetas 3 dupax Tunsy—Coutested motions, | at Junge DArxus—Contusted motions, Cuminan Count—Jupar Hawks—Nos, 616, GAT, GAY, OS, O84, UBY, 701, Ub), atid TUS, JUDGMENTS. Burenion Count—Junas WiLttamgox—T, 8. Albright et al va. Jusoph Bova’ and David Witkowstceys verdict, $490.44, and motion fornew eC a a bak GARY—Stui a af Culcayo} verdict In fuvor of defundaut Lor $2,000, GASOLINE. : Bpecial Duapateh to The Chicago Tribune. + tr, Louts, Mo,, dan, 23.—Tho Board of Under+ writers bas udopted u resolution to interdict the uso of gusollng tn any building which is Insured or tho contents of which uro insured. Tho uf- Soir will probably rafse the fiveliust kind of row, There ure a yery Jarga numberof gugoline Btoves in use hore, during the sumiuur inouths ospocialiy, As thoy ‘omit but very’ little heat they arelooked upon with uiueb fivor ia most kitehony, At the same time it is booming & quugtion that gasollue hav cattsed u great imaty costly bluses. It ts the underwriters nguinst the housokor pore, With the formoy # little abead at Chie writing. i a fund-Wuvos tn tho Mixsisslpph. | Atnony tho ticta brought to light by the ros cent. United Butea survey of tho Niaslasippl Miver is the existence of moving sand waves ia tho trou. ‘Those nour Helena, to water fromm - tVuirtuen to thirty fout doop, the report says, are, thoy lug duwn the tlyar at an average rate of blybteun lout a day. ‘Lhuse sand waves buve a uyuraye fongth, counting frous eres’ to crew, |. Of ubout SU fet, un extreme length of abous | 800 fovt, aid un average tightof ubout tlyg Coat, aud an oxteema hight ot efyht reer from vatto: tocrest. Thevsistence of sind waved of au large diinenslons, und moving with auch veln= © 1y, does Hol seein to hive basa observyd before on the Lower Migdiasivpl, : L