Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1881, Page 6

” THE CHICAGO TRIBEME: MONDAY, I | SS8I—TEN PAGES RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing’s Sermon on the In- visible One. Che Known and the Unknown—Dis- course by Dr. Thomas, legistry and Disclosure of Sin—Sermon by tho Rov. F. A. Noble. THE INVISIBLE ONE. SEUMON HY PHOK, SWING. ‘The pleasure-giving chanve tn (he atmospheric ronditions brought out a dnrge andicnee at the tentral Chureh ¥ rday morning, before whont lo protehed am Instrretive sermons having for tathome, “The tnvieible Oue." Following is ‘ho discourse: Whom having nat seen ye tova—l Peters ty Although these words were spol regarding: thriat in whom scattered strangers wero found awheving in the days of tho Apostles, tet ts ap- ay them to tho intinit Father, for they express nost truthfully the Christin feeling of our vanes, whieh says at the altar, * Whont not have ngscon wo love." ‘They pluco before us a God inecen but. God loved-two thoughts more than worthy of tho morning study’, When we enlmly ponder upon the subject It Is unazing thatat tho end of muny thousands uf rears, years of constant worehtp and constant aiquiry, the human rico shoutd still possess 80 Attic information avout tts Maker. The soliloquy wf Job that the footprints of God are in the sea, and are therefore enslly erased and not to be followed by ninn ag thoy could tie were thoy mado in the land or even fn the perish- qblo snow, 1s tho soliloquy of even this. fur olf period, and — hearts, tho most devout often wish that tho footprints af the Heavenly Father wore made where the tye, even when blinded by tears, might diseover: om and run along that bright way with: gitd- aess. Hooks have avpeared upon the "Poot arints af a Creator," and yet, after atl such books anve been published and read, tho mind fats back again Inte its old tonginy for some more perfect evidency of tho existence, and presence, and sympathy of God, Tho fact that our rice bug fved, and Inqulred, and struggled ao long pver the perfect solution of this problem and atanas to-day tn tho saine cloud aa that whieh tay nround tho inind and soul of antiquity, my well Icad us to uestiime that there fs something Jo unmeasurable in the Being of Gort that the buman mind will always be kept away froma perfect ralution of this mystery. “Mun inns not be tho victim of insuiliclené evidence so much ag unfitted powers. There ure some things in our wilverse which tho mind flnds Itself unable to disensa or Ju any mune ner to meditate upon. The terms “spice.”* “timo, “oternity,” — apiri matter,” “Lite,” * conseiousness,” self," aro quite outside of the boundaries of thought, Itiseasy for us to repent thesy words, but they stand for the unknown and mark places where woe pause rather thin plices lute which we advance, It is almost certain that the religious unrest which {3 traced In the cutire history of society fas urisen not from an absence of evidence so much ns, from tho fivomprenensibiiity of tho subject, We have not scen Goud, indeed, in eltuer tn ax- ternal or an Internal sense, perbaps not beestsy fle fs not, but rather beenuse we are bind in such astrange direction, ‘wo clements enter juto that Intellectual state enlled eight,—tho one 18 an object to be acon, tho other ts tho fitness of tho eye to sco it, When those two conditions meet there is the resuit called “sight. As an object to be seen God may bo tho greatest of facts, and yet mitu's faculties may not bu fitted for just thar phenomenon ealled Delty, und hence encicty gropes along, ereoting Its altiira toan unknown God,-it having no power to dis- cern such an ontity. Evidently It wns the error of the past toate tempt so tir to find unannlysis of tho Deity ns tonitiem that He swas some central eoibodinient =spme central Ktiy,—u spieit wholly separated from matter, forded by such an early dethitdon. the human furnily tearned to detach the Creator from tho creation, und naw when the selentiig Btudents ind some cnuses extatiog In material things which mouify or niultiply the life sean f1 plants and autmals these eatses become nde. au nd leave the Creator as onee delined no. Task Except that of a non-essential spectator, For common usage in our workily fates it (90 consentence indeed to, use the terms * nilnd and *matier,” and to say that the #lone und the digmond are inaterial, and that the conseios: power of man is mad, that a deld of wheat tsa inatertal product, that a vulume of poo Ls a spirital product; but when wo attempt to tnd some expression of tho [dew of God these terms are wholly inndequate, vo Know no more about the terms than w about the Bet wo attempt to «ett yy God is a Spirit were well if wo only knew whne spirit is; to say that God is matter would be pirdonable If we only. Know whut ig that thing we thus use In the dutinition. But belng in entire Ignorance of the meunluy of the terns ana. used In the definitions of the Father they will never enst uny Hght upon the thing defied, use then as we inay, so long as Lhe world may desire, Each your In our liter times when the great students of nature, and Ja philosophy also, are allgo full of Industry along new paths the dis- unetion between mind and mutter fades, not, perbups, heeause It may not exist, but because man is unublo to mark tha line, Matter ty fond gathoring up Into taell a great mtny potencies not dreained of forrwrly ns bebe In ite cold ree cesses. Ie hus not beech found true that it cone taing all the potencies that make a universe, for ‘thas not yet heen learned ait the inorganic can mike [tself organics that a pleco of.eurth gin, by sun or rain, of ull Intivences combined, he made to produce a plant or an luscet, there delng in the pices of earth no preliminary germ: of such pluntor insvct, Naturalists are. a: cling to find ins material this Shul povwe put thus far thelrexpeettdons have been vain, And yetit would bo foulish to deny that under: the deep research of our century thls tne sonsate grounil beneath our fect hus riven up to new honors and muy well nuke ws cease calllig ita mere clod of the valley, When thoughitul men eame to look into thd physleal min thoy Found that when tho mtd is. paying no atte ton whatever to the temple in which it restdes the temple gervire gous on qulte as well, ‘Tho lungs do not ask you and ine if they may rise and sink, und your heart doos not usk you 1 1t may beat. Yodo not invite your body to dl ner, itidvites you, A recent weltor Biys that, jnost of man's nctlons Are UDcoNsclous Actions, that noble purt or min, the mind, not betiy at allconsulted in the proceedings. The physient possesses wn MAZID powor and #@ Variety of powers. ‘The body attompta to heal its own wounds and dlseu Tho mind, although ox alted by pride of kelt nyd glorifying in the honor of beng a statesman or at poet, les hi Jess in wounds or ste! ‘ondering what ita body will do with tho Durblug fever, A yteti oO railway acehlont cannot appeal to bls spirit but ho mustappeal to. his body with the hope tat it will mend the many or tho éorjous injuries. ti eome of the humidor antinals, the rabbit aud the pigeon, the tunes tions of the body have been fond to go on alter: the bruln, or what fs conmmonly called the nitid, had been whotly removed. Pneh tha tootot a Dratuless rabbit or pigeon and He will lift the foot Just as though tho path were Inteileetually: perceived, fates: which) yo to show that inthe old detiiitions of mind and matter wlory wart stolen trom tho minterhu of our earth to make inore dich the world of soul. The old thoploghins were Vandals in tho one sense that they would ruck and plunder one chy and mike it a dosert waste thut they night trasport to some tayored capital the wold and mnctie decorations waleh: other hands had wrought aud other hearts bad estor taught the warld ‘8 the spirit, and ow ne the Jove, Gar remote un to hute tho Mesh wud Jast It comes to Ju 4 thut the fest: is one subilinest mysterics of Nature, Uwiiy wot at Jeast, the con-cloits soul being tha other only of the #trange partnership, Tv the derlag Jew" you remember how the hadan we der-worker fy suid tu be able to teal even the. sheet and pillow that are under the sleeping man, And the Todian stranger wikhing to: put some mysterious letter upon the ari Of Dsus, eusily’ inde his body: in bed whlle the mind was Utterly absent bis — 1 fable whieh suows: tbat qun’s body bas wimind of ta own, The Intad was locked ny deep stunsber, but tho: {eT Wasa wtrange tures of avlt-adeqinte ids ton and moved Reelf towveld the touett oF at struw, ‘Too warn under the bed-clothing, tho aris will throw themselves ont tu the nightyand ofto the whee und proud man awakes i the morging to Hod that bis wre had wotasked pers ntesion tw expose therm und fin to the uidalyat duinpand chill, Sleepewalkers alten tle thant+ selves to thelr bedsteads ta prevent their bodles from wiiking wbout Inthe night when what the person culls dlinselt" fs euitnd asleep, All which facts yu to show that when wo have divide ed our world nie two parts, mind and aaatter, We buve done smelting of oniy questlonnbls reality und value. We have made disthivdona hot trivenongh tocxplain al the fiety, And yetlt has heen with such premises man tnd ap. Prouched a delinition of Gol, and, a8 a result, the Creator Is so reparuted tyom_ our material world thit) iiuny are ‘wondering whether thero be ouny demand tor aw Creator, Ia not the world complete without iH The question i¢ Heel? a peiltlo prlacipill, Tor We ussume that wo have a deliaition of the world. ‘Tho world complete withouta Deity) ‘That depends upou what ly that amnacing ayyres wate culled the world. rhups God is a part of ‘Ubat Very universe which seomd so conplety without His presence. Without avewlny puns thelsa we must sill way that a bird or a teh ora plant ora isan ora sundet ora Bunriwe Muy be wunion tn some ianner of Creator and created, et pren of atoms und.a God. thy mind feels unable at thines to avira thy presence of Rupreme mand, i tauet with parrultel huaility: eontess itself Unable po. ulliem tho absence of } 1 that Mind, One doubt ts balanced by tho othor. If, as ‘Tyndall aflirms, * mutter posserses eves potenoy of life," thon It conses to be the dust of whieh our fathers thought the world wos mat and becomes Heelf a part of Him whon we have notecen. For the selentitie minds shoul te- member that we tire not seeking after t Hoaye enty Father imide di gome once papular model. We are not attwehed te the notion that Ie must he the venernhle form of colossal Mases or that) He shall be Ike ten thot sand thunders or liken torrie storm, "Tho words “Every patency will neet{orr what as, well, nul If our material world contains in ftselt ‘ ypatoney' of Tif, thon it fs) Indec Jenet the garments of the Onnitpotent. | Oniitpas tent Is tho sume term as “every potency,” and, 08 theology minde the. former tern and “science, the fatter, ta it not ture that tho tivo fornis of thought setthtg out in dlifercat directions have at inst met? What the rethrinus heart asks Cor faut power creater than tat of mann power oF Mieht, power of wiadont, © power of laste, 1 power of love, and if entangled tnand troweh cour material wortd there [san billnit: * patencin” the heart isantistod. ‘That heart i not desirous that its Jehovah should bo gathered up inte phive, aid embodied jan form, and to_ be passiug like a King tn and outof seaic temp of blazing stones; but more than willing ts lt that tls Diety should be as high, and ns wide, mud ag deep nd tho imnivergn Itseit, Indeed. h athoucht I4 in dinpressive harmon that old aspostroaphe: “Whither shall {yo from Thy aperiinr aki ine shall tly from ‘Thy presence ft ascend up into hesven thou art theres if Pmake my bed in hell behold Phau art chore | 1 Ctake tho wings of tho morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of tho sea even there shail Phy hind lead me and Thy right hand shall hold on If V say surely the derkiess shall cover ine then even cho mhght -then on te the shail be light abort me. The darkness hideth not from ‘Thee, Tho darkness aud the tight are alike to The Much more fully should these words fall into harmony with the reliciags sens tment of to-day, for in showlng tho, wonders of the material kingdom science fas noe destroyed the Creator bat bas taken Him from a central ily to minke Ih inonnipresent power, as uel fi the blooming plint andfn the ephem. ert fovect ns in the midst of aay ehole of Waytliage senye Panthetsm makes att ife tobe Got. Sach ta tdentitteadon of God and Nature: 44 not tude exsentied by these new stitdtes, Inet It [4 made ess pe Crestorand bis work bo Inextrienbly interwoven. We ure ait with God and God with us, ‘The boyndaries bet ween mitt = ter and spirit diseppenr, not to Teave us mutes rhalists, for we donot Know what muittter lay nob to leave us spiritualist only, for we do not know wont spirltis: but to dedye us ehlideen of meusureless world and 2 meusureless God wham not hiwwing seen we love, {tis elalining too much for the office of Christ that He in any way or degree explains the niture of God's relation to the materiut universo, Christ atlirms the fact of the Heavenly Father and vifolds the moral ateibnites ag eecn In love, and wisdom, und forgiveness, but he on attempt t Hight pon those potencies fy Nature which 80 found the student ried these mysteries, Indeed, the history of Jesus only complleates this question af matter aud nnd, forthe body of Christ came tute n room wher tho doors were closed; tt was ¥ invisible In alternite hours, itwalked now heave {iy pon the earth and thon it arose inthe ale and slowly vanished from bhutan stb Tt was, the moral qualities of the Det which were brougnt to light) fu N the question how) or” whera Jehovah what ty the Hne between flesh and soul, betw nophint and a pount, rose nnd ithonsght, 0 den drop anda tear, s left t1 atl its flowing garments of benuty and mystery, ‘Tho mystery deepens: ag the powers of man advanee. Ene century, Instead of sluiplifying tho unlverse, lds to its ininensity and to its tntellectial compllentions, which soon embarrass all who look at It above or bonenth or around. Tho savage finds a solition much sooner than does bls enlightened contom- porary, for, us the lurgoe the Isinnd (he more wai dees it require to surround it, so the larger the Island of kuowledze becomes the wroater is the sea of tho Unitnown which washes ds greater shore. Wil this cloud never lft itself und sifer some sin of warn and loving beam to bathe our world thus groping tits night? Probably not. Hut ne one cin answe: tor, being tnable to fathom the pect ortho pre ent, why shonid min, this twice billed, let down his sounding-lne [nto earth's tuture? here remualis to bet nt ok a most strange, and Peautifas, ind cheering part of this text From the oid galat. Peter's utter was not addressed to Jews who had been reared in the traditions about w Christ, and who had seen the Mun of Nazareth as ho taught, or walked, or performed wondersor when he was puttodenth, put it was wn nifectionnty letter to those “atran gers" who had lived far away from those avents and evidences which bad come and gone in the twenty-live years which had intervened, ‘wenty-live yenre sweep way utany evidences ofsuch publi teachers and public deaths, and they bhint the feelings and memories of mans: of the witnesses who may bo still above the ground. Hutin those days of coldness and of fading recollections unthy stripers. espoused the religion of the absent and favtsible Lord, andto those St. Peter sent this letter [ail of pathos abut’ Til whoo not inving seen thoy ved.” What an embtematle letter forms alft ‘or we have come into our globe long after lis deep foundations were fald. ‘he band of the Master Workinun wasnot scen by us, nor by those who tuught us in infuney, ‘The morning stars sing befure we came, tho Hoods parted to make room for continents and islands, life eama of bird and b and at some pulntand thie min and womturappented, the oy two rational bo fuses upon globe where ior menents und Beas, and where summers and wloters had heen com tog ated gots, while ages slowly passed, No spoken word bad ever uefore disturbed the earth's sHence, no human fori had ever made footprint by luke or strewn, AL these days full of tho Smpressive nets. of ereation had passed long before we came. Into the scene, and here men wander Unaequninted with the thrilling history of thelr. ree und thelr God. ‘Thus ure we once nore tho “strangers ™ ns in the letter, and tous come, with 1 hope In them, the words, * Not huving acon we love." - Tho humun heart having tho spirit of retigion, not autfering vice nor useless skepticism to chill the soul. toves the unseen Fathor, and in ity best Iuments asks for no perfect unveiting of a face so diving. It knows tit between the finite and tho iutlnit am iuacecesiblo bight stands and that man Js fur down fn tho vale, It accepts of the great separation. It save, without com plalot, ns tho b 4 atre higher thin the earth soare God's thouxhta above its thoughts. Pre- Kioptueus souls there tre which apenk in fas inillar terms of the Deity, but the teuly reliious turks the bight of the Divine and boasts of 1 famllinrity, but says humbly, bam a Sstranger’ Jdonot Know Thee; ‘Thon urt too great. In tho valley the human beart ives, but tt ts nota valley of perfect huinillatton, for flowers are nbundint there, and outpourtig ts the song; thore the cotture, the home, the happiness, etch one of whilet is the yift of God. Not baving seen ifm ines love Him, nots they love a enild, or frivnd, or fn mothor, Cor Jove ts its inany aba us there aro objects of alfection. ‘To love nehild and to Javea patriot ave diferent forms of the sume sentiment. As the object rises ht greatness the feeling changes, gud when quien siy they love God they must mean that to Hie they ulfer the tributes of ad. ration. aud geaniude, and worship. Though botding Him,we love the lathilt power and sweep oF His hiwss hws vader walet great suns: hing in the heavy 1 dewedrops aparkte on the rim of a leafs lnws whieh invite tu the sume. wall the sparrow and tho tyy, the one to mike n nest, the athor to hide and shelter it wht Ht and full of chirping young; laws which carry the shows of Februnry onward to, tarn, inte warm molstire for the Howera of May: huws whieh have lalt the deep foundations of the human racy as [tow dwells in tho continents and tse wads and still marches omaird, Not having seen we love, becuse of the uvidence upon al Bided that thore has always beon beneath our plauet the alfection of in” Almizhty Vather, an alfec- tlon seen dn the Joy eof ail ‘Ife of all grades, beard in-tha lunghter of Hts children and tie the more quigt happiness of later yours, Not having seen wo fove, hot becuse 1 universs enmy Front Ils: tansy hand, a univetse so nilglity ta tte stan and speohul forms and cies, and having such v swoop Of yours that Tito iomeEnts In tho vastexpanse of Une, but love Tim alsa beeause tt plensed thts Javidibly One to entl from nothingness this “yeu” and this ne" to be a purt of this bor Nitol world, a consclous soul in tho midst of tho subline scene, ‘This life with ia thoughts and fevtings, tts dear ontrouchings, is aura. Whit sorrows It hisare wnder the care of Gol. und, indeed, under this Power not seen falls all the pny irs of the actlye soul, busthe coturs dark or bright. Unseen Init) love 1 heneo te Hs templo wo come, Wo come with song, for Mo ts in the midst of tho vibrating airs we cone with our prayers, for Te hears nnd tle pities: wo vane with our alns, for Tle ao loved the world that ho sends {¢ the hope of a foruiveness; we come With our Cours, tov thoy soon dry from our: faces in the holy ale of [1s temple; we como with our mortal frames, for ont of this aise God thoro issnes world upon world, and, eatlet into life hy thisCreater, we expect In Him always to lye aad move und have being, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, MON BY 1 THOMAS, Tuo Rov, De, ‘Thomas, pastor of the People's Chureh, Hooley's Thoutre, prouched yesterday Inuratog toa hinge congregation, his subject bes ing"'The Kuown and the Unknown,” Follows ing Is the surmons % Now E know dn parts [ Cory 2th, 22. Let us (maging a child site lig on tho banks of nyreat river, aud throwlug pebbles and sticks Into tho gently-llowing water, , Itwatches the ripples as thoy widen into great clroles, aud Beos thy atleks font away with the current, ‘Thon tt looky up tho stream and wonders where the water comes from, and watehing It passing by it wonders where it goes to. . A few yours lator It learns Jo thu study of geography that the river rises In the swiinps dnd Mat landd fur up in tho north, aud that, pasalng on auiny huntreds of dnilles, and widening In its course, It 18 at bust lust in the Gulf of Mexicu, and that the Gulls lost in the Atlantic. Thon it learns that tho waters of tho ocean ure wbsorbed by tha rays of tbo sun und carried buck in currents of ulr in the form of Uyht vapors, and thie these ‘condense and Talt upon the carth taruln and spew, ‘hon tho lurger child tukes =oup — chenilstry, and here it learns that water 1s composed of two elements called oxygen und bydrogen; and iu tho study of physical geography It ts told that the Lib mountulus and tho motion of the curth und tho play of electric currents huyg something ta do with circulation of the ates and askhie what tho alr is, the chemistry says dt Is eomposed of oxyzen and nitrowen, And by this time tho now youn man thlaks he muderstands: tall; he knows all nbout (tand la satiated, Ho does know something about it—much more than he did when asa ebild he sit throwing pebbles Into the streams but how litte ho knows yet, or cnn know, as to the origin and nalire of sir ond water, What fs oxygen? whut Is hydrogen? what Is ultrogen? By what Inw do thoy combing to make air and water? Mow came these clements, that we this mime, tobe? whutis thelr arigin? what thelr secret helng? ‘That young wan may stidty until ho ts wray with age and ho can never know. There will always be a deep tiknown tat he cannot explain. But because he cannot know everys shail he any that he eiinot know any Atathor shoutd ho say, “Now 1 know in het us Linnie furain no ohlld for the frst, tine looking nt tho wlfabet of a Inngiinge. Th ote serves Unt the lotterd have diferent shapes, nid than is told the mines of these letters wind: 14 tauuht how to combine them inte aytiubles and words, and thea to arringe the words bite sit: fences, AC Brat the task ts dildeults each letter has tobe tooked at atrefully und each ward spelted out slowly: but in thao the echt! comes to know the Letters atta rhiice and to, spell and read with ease. “Then the boy or gird learns tat there ary other books that open ont inte y Netds ot teneaing, One te catled History said the enlld beging to reat oof the discovery tnd early settlement of one vountry. and passes along to the Itevelution und the War of fr, and Into Rebellion. And then the history of the Constitution stiulied und the ives of the Presidents are read, But thon tho pene learns that theory [4a history tack of the Thlted Stites, and taking ap tho history of England he Minds that it is relsted to that of ben and) Germany nid Rusaln, and that. these ran back tite Rone und Greeee, and Mat (hese tke hold of Persia and Babylon, uid Egypt, and tho tow grown p man nod worn find that: this puth of history: that began te thor own eountey lends. olf inte ib dark and distant and very uncertain past. whero 114 lost fneteroity, Hut what shal thea rend= ers, these students of the gust. say? Shalt thoy: sty that, beeause they have reached a morning: nH history whines only i na tine of one world wi Adin twiltent that is itselt lost at nivht,, therefore they know nothing of history big of the past Journoyings, and ward, ernments of ong earth? Certalai rathor say “tho Know fn pict Tinagine, again, ehild looking out upon the paths that lend co tho sprays and tho mendow and piss on to the telds und woodlunds beyond, And then follow that ehlld us he Jexras tho rout to tho nearest neighbor, and then to tho village beyond; und thorns a yoith be flids that the pathaand rouds over whic he hus traveled widen out inte great Hhgliwit To studs and wonders whare these begin and where they end, and alter awnlle when amit. ts curiosity leads hin to travel, snd he crosges the continent and cones to the sea, nnd tking a ship he suils to other lands, aud he trave these, und after awhile a Bayard Testor bus walked over England and Gerunay. iad Minabolltand a Seward brave been around tho wortd, and 1 Livingston anda Stanicy have ploved Atrien, aid at Baker his sought long for ho source of the liver Nite, Now stuul all those great travelers come back ind sity Laat because: thoy have not been everywhere and seen every? thitne that thorefure they hive, not ber where nor seen anytuing? No, not this: but ratho? that thoy have seen and fearned much, Dnt that nich tore remained to be geen and learned, Tho * Cosmos” of bumbotdt and the voyage of Seward tell muen: they abound In wise observations, and ugeril fuets and rellue- U these great inen must come back and sity Know in parte? Min, et ust place our ehild at the window, or outin the yard at the eventing, und wo thud It gazing xt the moon, und thea wt tittle later Wok- fur Up in wonder at tho mang stars that fl tho: sky. After awhile tho boy begins to nsk ques: tions about the moon und tho stars, He notices that tho moon that was fall crows fess, and becomes at dust only n ball clrele and then is lest, Ho watehes the actting sun, und he says, “Sante thine Twill know more about those thing: Thon he begins to study; he i tok that tho earth 13 tore tha 100000) of miles distant from the stn; he is told that the siutisso hirgo that Ie ib were hollow 1,000,000 worlds the size of onr earth could be enst ato it andthat yet. there would be reom for KI more. He learns that our curth passes it tho stint (a days: and then fs toll that great Juplter—s00,000400 infles away—requires twelve yeurs for bly longer Journey around the great ‘centen! orb, and that fer ott Uranus. and Neptune toke clyhty and 14 yeurs for their longer march throuith tho heavens, And our sou ann fearns that ‘our sun withadl its phinets is only one of at system of suna, and that these rise i auch agrandenr and inure on nan order so sublime that the mind enn only wonder and adore, And now, whit ahd! our’ Neytons, and Nersehels, and Wittsons, und Mitchellssay? Shall say, * We are lost inthe tna and might 3 of all these worlds, and know noth- ing??? Certalnly not, But rather say, “Wo know In. part’; we have learned something of the laws that) govern tho movements of the heavenly bod! wo hays learned to calculite thelr ‘orbits: we enn tell Just where they wil be at nny hour ti te your. and we ean foretell un te periliellon of the planets will ceour, and we ean tute the pros else moment of in cellpse atany purt of tho enrth; but with all tis there ig a decper beyond that we cunnot tell, Once mores let us. think ofa ehild or vyouth Just entering upon the period of retteetion. ‘The Young man or the young worn, Carnie away from the things that avo seen, ‘turalng wwuy from the outer world of sense, ys L want to know something of myself; something of the mind that: percelyes, and reasons, and know: aud slowly these students of tho inner world come to abstract themselves In thought from tho outer world, and they begin a life of tntros spections; they begin to observe thelr own Mental stites nad movements, and thos come at Jasttg classify the mind ay having powers to fern, wud” to remember, and to PENSONY, and = to) imagine, and to wil ‘Then they take up tho aifcetions, and the mural sense or conscience, nnd they Nod atter a while that tho frst buoks they read were any primurs as lt were; that erent schools of philosophy have ark ind Libraries have grown, Up abort the study af the mid and the heart of man. | What shall these students of psy say? Shall they aay that the mind el rasp; Unit in the Houpout anulysis we wwe ciunnot tell what mind isg we cannot tell ¢ haw it ten fore we know notsny that. thoy should i not whut Phite, and Des enrtes, and: Fie eel, and Hamilton any, Those great thinkers cannot meree tn al things; but they ages in this, that iat has at thinking powor, Uiant he bas mind, but all como hack from thelr long studies ready ta confess that thoy * Know oaly in parts” wad this iy whit our youiye students should sity. It is what thoy will say when forty sunmiers have como and Kone, And now, with these suggestions, and in tho Hight of those analogies, let us take up the sub- Jeet af retigios “ Let us think of ourselyes its. eblidren—chil- dren of a few more or lesa years—sitting on tho pikes ck walking along tha sty a ves of the river: ‘ting. As we look ont upon this Ww itd waters ace deep and wie, Thor along und wasted the shorus of Gur work! through all the long centuries of the past. "Phe ehituood of many generations has been rocked to steep by this streain; here tho dreams af Jove have cone to happy south, and on Urese waters: have heen east tho barks of pleasure aud the ships of commerce and war, All have been Intinehed wpon this great river, and all bave been borne on to the sporutess sea beyond, My thie xtra we Bit and think to-day; and wo usk questions about religions about Gey AE the pasty about tho soul and the Future world; and, agin everyting else, we must be content ut lust to say Lut, "Now wo know ln part.” ‘ As We muse by this river of The we ask whence its waters came, und whither they Ho. Woe look up the strenti, wo look sown; we tre congelous that wenre boing borne along with the carrent. But whence eume itt und whence cue wer Wo xo bal: ta memory alittle way, and thea the memories of those older thin oure selves ou fittle furthor, ani bistory and tridi+ Hon tike up the years and carry us buck for forty or titty centuries; but even there ture was, and men sid women Hyed and divd aa we do now. .As we go buck, Hike followaig a river to ita xonren, the BtrouaT of Hianu svomns Jess wile, nnd the way grows dark, il at dust: we loge uur way, But still the great question of the oriiia of things preasvs upon tho ii ng mind. Wo try Noy the way back ih the history af tho ourth as hit wway in the rocks; and then we go on tn thougtt and speculgtion tik we stand ata polnt where all the solid arlids wore but Butea, OP a NebuloUs Kass 1 thon wo tho tuwsé by waich thoy were cone ptt ad globes and took thole plies in the orderly heave: And we go buck and searety for the oFigin of ‘life, and wo trace if from tho radiate itd the mollusk on ap to man. Bue atilt the great past la unexpluls ind {ho inh asks for causa turks for that whieh Jigs Drok of all Chat we have been studs ug, ‘Tho naturalist says It ls Nuturo; the thelst saya It ta God. And thon the thotst asks tho naturalist “What made Nattire’; and tho naturaiat tur Wrouin aud tks tho heist "Who tude Gods? And both are silent, Something is; something inust always hive been: for hud thors been Une when thore was nothing, nuiijig had cons Unned; for-something cannot be pruduced out of nothing. And thud we know something [33 that we aro; that Une and Ife bave been tn the lou, puat. We isnuw that there is intelligences that thore 13 dushgn; that somehow things are yolng on after aplany and that means a designer, a phumers but as vo, us larger chiliron, git on the banks of this great river wo Must confess that its Taro fountains Me beyond our reach,—-beyund our wiinost thought te conceive or power to tmagine. Wo Must Buy that “we know tn part"; wo kuow lity of whatis; we go back us fur us we oun, hut soon wo nro dost in bletory und lost in thought. Hut because we cannot know cyery~ thing ia the past, dnd all about the origin wad pried of things, shatl wo therefore say wo wow nothing? Certainly not; but suy rathor that “now we know in part.” Anil bo who wo study the subject of religion wo fod tb has 0 4 Bistery whose orut xrows din lu the distant and fur-olf years. Wo can enally trace the distory of Sothodigne through tte hundred yearas we can easily tad our way buck to the days of Henry the Eigota, and lathe tines of Calvin aod Luther; wad we enn follow Luck the histary ok Mywnulsms to the sixth or deventh centuries; wad we ean tritce our way buek to Christy but the great atrenti of history bevomes teas wille—it is no longer it erent river when we get tn ty the ties fow: evotoriea of tho Christian ern And thou wo can follow the strenun of back fo Moses and Abrahams but fursuit days and persemtiuces grow the distanes, A few chapter eur Tb vover hundreds of yet well require volumes ave sketche ver Uneertuintios as to the tate: authorahip of the buoks ie the Mitte sl seen sirange tous inthe Hyrht of ae centuries, Noe should we writtngs of the Olu and New 18 in broker and detuened: minis these do not all ¢ (stub us If dears determining corres sled ben those iin it rita; wor if ft shoud net pave didieulty (1 Ureek te por H the res otter Tie reer tatty, ored out tnd aters Voted reyaerdect Nor should italien nsf some texts that thy advoun uf a verbal Inspiration have. all nlong rewarded as put there by tho Alinignty: bro to bo Ib out ag the new: verston ns Unters polutions, 19 wholly the work of mati. A brow View Of Mhly subject. anould lead us to expect. hp ndvanes to tad ditieuios and ineertincy: in tho fureatt histaries of gion and te the Mible that hits come down to through so many eontarics, that hae passed f Tad abould we be: nue the were Elbe tied pret Heng uit this long we know te part; wo knew thing. notueh to iide ourtect lithe patlis of rlyht+ COUSsNesss VUE M pot kiew att, Let ta think of ourselves agua ag Ue ebitdren of Hine, floating dows [ts inystle strenin andl ast Jog whither we go. We hive lookerl SUreain, tntve tried to follow It to tts sonree, unt we weru fost fat distant past where ull history and triditfon grew dtm, nd tinaliy lefts stand= The ane gazing (ote a deep unknown. And naw, 18 thiny Js beaelnge ag tonward, we eau but ask, To Wwhatare we tendo? Wo tivo seen fricuds and neighvars one hy one disappearing tn the dle tuncelost to our, gaze in the Ihnitless sens, Tho ships all seem te go one way. Un the oveans of time they, Bo and “they res turn? they leave “New York, they lund at Laverpuol, they come back ining but the ships that tnuch the seas of cternity seem to sal ony way, atid io come buck po nivre. As vt fook duwn tho strenin of the tt Is Indeed ver short und Its eurrent very raphl | A whole wen eratlon—itvyre than athousand tulliton of hana aus pi out through the muirrow stralts of duath every thirty-threo years. We cnn tollow ho Luckward way of our rice for thousunds of . bitt haw stort the distance we aint follow aay soul into the future, Soon all 4 lost te sight und sound, und the gold elay of thuse we lov sues buck to dust, Aud now whntde wo kuowoft that future to which we ttre all hstening? 14 there a future, or does death emball? Tf tne soul lives on, what shall be its Ife? Shall we tow exci ochoc there? Shall love, atid beauty, and Joyuing bope,be with Us thore uy they are Wit ts Hera? shall we wall, and Culk, and.soe, and hear? Shall we go ow learning? Suall we remember the live we Lived: on iny Yes; 7 betieve we slut wo shill Know each utter; Wi tuk, and love, and buileve, and this you Heves but we do’ not know? wo have not come to that world; It ty ze fw the future, und as auch It is not matter of knowledge, but faith and hope, And fa tis respect It is not untike tho pasts that, foo, Js maintter of faithy--thut iy, tho past iv I, Where we begli to lee. We nover lover knew itinexperience. And lieve In the past, Nature bears the tn vrent ire: some of the Works of mun must he very ok. We luok upon these works,<upon the ati of eltles, Upon montiments and. pyramids: wwe rend the iuseriptlons; we suy mun and women hike ourselves liyetan the long age, And so ot tho future. We eannot iow icnow it. but we belleve in ft. We cannot think that all) the thournt, and sony, and love ef our workl are Jost In death, ‘There is sumethiys withio us tut: Duta us hope, tt bids us belleve, iat tie question arises, Do we Know. the futire of ally Do.we Know tint we shall exist after death? E will not suy that, erlticully speaking, we do Kuow anytiing about its” aud yet, in tho sense ot being assured ol tho fact, [ eers tiulnly think we muy know, ho Unseen world fy not wholly unkygown. ‘The ships nmy scum toull sailang way, Uub in reatity thoy donot. dosuy Christ came ont from that unseen world; eae ws AN nuefent spirit, A rensun. a Logos, _untedated the days of | Avraliim—tbat sured back into the ; arson God tbe dwelt rth. Ho talked of fove nnd duty, fe told of the future, He went back into that deep ane seen Where wre tho munslons of our ¥ shonse. He brought lite and linato light. And thon the Seriptures are full ot the doctrines of the minisiry of the ange! We are told that tho angels came to Abram ind Bots thoy cana to Jncob; they fed the hungry Prophet, and comforted the diseonzetute figar. shall walk, ane 1 ourselves} rejolex. “This, Weare told that they sang at our Savlor's birth, with Wii dn 1s: tat LBs C) that choy Journ and thronged In tegions about Ils cross, 2 toh tise (iat Moses and: Eins cuine | nd taiked on the mount, Now tl this to our dull, inbyleving senses may seu but ag adrenwornategend. Tut to the sprit, to Tath, (t may seem not only real, but entirely reasomiblo. Why shoukl it be thought strange that the angels ghyuld coma and walk upon ourearth? Why strange that Moses and i¥ shoud return? ‘The wonder to me. Ls, not that thore were these few uppearances, but that there were not many more. ‘Lhe wonder to me ia that the angels do not now walk the earth he the sight of men ay thoy once did int mothers do not coms buck to tile to thely emitdren, tniak thoy du. L think the anges are nl abort us; thut our Erionls walk by’ ie side; lune the splelt world ts not perealvea by us. Ttanay be best dat itshould not be, Buel belle®o that it isrenls that no deop spices, like those chit sepnrage the stars, He between our ourth and the heavenly workl; Tbeheve tho, seus ure not wide, and upon thelr peaceful waters the wn seen ships al to und fro, and tiie ail the time there Is eoming,—a coming of angels to our world, as well as at going away Of immortal doula. Of could we but eeonnd bear, the whole Upper world would be Atle with eplrle forms and Che sons tho angels sing, Thoy hover around Us; Unpercelyed they HI the wiry thoy wonder atthe love that cruwns us, and thoy wait to curry us hone, And thus, my frlonds, we journcy, we rest, wo wilk and bik’ nlong these shores OF thie, Our days ure few; our pawors are Hnilted; we know but Ltde, but little even of tho things of which we think wo know most, Tho Hnknown pressus In upon ts from nbove and benesth, and frou vlthyr side. Tt fs nearer to us that tho garments wo wear. Indeed, there Is nothing that we Know, exinestively. A drow of wit ore grain of sand, orn blado of yriss, or tho thought of it ehlid deties ulthinate wpulysis,—starts questions that we cannot newer. We pursue our various studtes in. delonee und philosuph, wind all we can go hur ttle way ull is Tulth ov known, O this but in enet beyond thie oujeatirs or wholly iin the was stanknownl How tinocks its trom the oven and the sktes, frum the tho and tho stiral Not atl mockery; enctuintinent, rather, should L say, for thor js xemetling to enchint, to inspire, to dure on ward in this mystlo is itelf a promise ‘and a JAmmortality; of the endless y tls delet life we muy learn go inich—may know so dmeh, may fove und b eh, OF what aball the eternal yours reveal re we feet the stirrings, the qulckommnygs of the spiritelife with: to us; we und know the broudings of tho Splritor Ged; we hear tho volua of duty; wo know the Liw ot right; we know parcun and punts witnessing and leadag of the ifs of God if the soul. ‘hose my bo us prosunt, as real as pateiotisin, or tie love af home, Orany otuor fact of consciousness, AB such let us ‘aceept the religious fe, and nie Hye and rejofee. Great indved iy our: pris tlt Ie this tittle space of belng In whiten wa tind uur cradles and our graves: wo aay Khow und doourduty. Ut hers we may walk with God; walk in tho flyht of truth und pence live tho Mite of Justice and lov and journey to life eternnl, Of than God for our beng; thank God that we five ut wily thunk God) fur Hfe, thowueh burdened with: eure and) pressed with want and worn with diss cause. Iti ny beginning ft isn spring-thines and what is now 80 feablo shall yet bo strong: whit is durls stall soon by Hebt; this corrupthole ata son put anineereuption, and thls morte slit soon put on tmmortality, and deata stall be swallowed up in Victory, OF thunks be to God, who giveth us tho victory through Jesus Christ Thon let us do our work ita best we can now— Journey by the Tight we have now, und wit the coming of tosmorrow, | Sometines the brooks and the strowns by which we live seem (3 aoe! ua, togay "dat men may coms and me muy go, but Wo goon forever,” Yes, tung: brooks, yuu yo on fureveriatter muy be eters mil—and we toa go an forever; for hope und fove can over die, It duth not yat upper what wo shall be, but when Christ shuld appear we indi bg like Mim, for we shall eo lim as io se . DISCLOSURE OF SIN, BERMON HY TIS KEV, Fe A. NODLE ‘The tuv, FP. A. Noble, pastorot the Union Park ongrogntional Church, preached ta bls congro- gation yesterday morning upon “Registry ana Disclosure of Sin,” havlog for bls tox Be stro your ln will Hud you out.—Nuambera, ng covered that shall not be revealed, nothing bid that sbull not be known. Luke, lt, 2 Asuxempllfylng tho fact that the pre-Chris- tlan anglent bad a consclousness af the force conyoyei in the texts, tho preacher elted tho presence in the old Gree mythology of tho dle vinity Nemeals, who was georedted with supers natural power in the knowlege of Wil erime und Ww merelless pursult of tho ermminat unl outraged justice tad been avenged. his most severe coneupuon by the Pagan mind of the diving wrath of Heaven was a fice of moro thi Iterary or blaturie Interests it showed that the conselousnuss of quilt and {ty consequences was vommion teal aged. ‘Tnoushttul inen, then a how, felt that weonwdamy exclted diving dis pleasure and that stn could pot remain wodtes covered, "Tho Scriptures abounded, tn unequiys oeul dtatemunts lo this eifuct “There was vo mottling away trom Gad, and fo concoalios any thing from ils oye, before which all Uatugs were hiked und open. In uthor words, thers waa a registry uf avery sli, uo mutter how slight, and soancror later there would be a disclosure Ot it It was a law of inin’s nuture, u back-neting Hie fluence upon {t, that wantever sprung oUt OF the YOUL Wad gure to recon pan It awain, Somes thing was added ty the record; i draco wag Luft = tuntalling te perteet behind, the tine and of Nature keeping it word, or yuirpoxe, ample evidenes tnt! Hons, ft dit not ne debaucheries from 8a mornling, rity night to Mor sinned in seeret ‘ere every day Test and no diplamney or dee aut at the wortd's abet. On thy broade waa made equally plain. Maen! the Engiish and Trish nations, said that it wa hopeless for it potate-fed people to compete ono whieh was corn-fed, qin] the well thy one which w@s pluched by want, Th the sti way ws his actions stamped thelr ite Upon a tant, so alay wotld bls meditations, i rich one stood would tell coneeritng itvelt, revealing the nuture of tho volt and climate la whied it grew, and ibe ills a) Hons ana the faslest (aire 1 hon the fre seorehed is nost favorutie to its ek en ‘ont esi observation, but when God ete them through and throngt. oven tholr mast meditations waukl bo They were up with them upon tholr elntracters a thoughts. rt want saw Oro “in tree before mite reetfort of the wine tho satay tree Inte ¥e tletlars could be lea wuttered from drought, 1h when tho season wa clopment, hore f which tore against IL. nest of its 1fe—whe Men were nb! te eon transient ought. and found engraved upon takin vomplete record of thelt dott ‘The prevailing temper ot the b itsett i mast eases outwardly, tho’ ont, and Tho ana, the man witht warped inoral satire, would not be able te concent thesu defects, aid tho tan of faving heart. of large falth,of eurnest trust in God, woul) re} ils person. thes ‘eat yet revi ev. Por the elur Herot i my to provide hin pride, self-Indulyence, ov CON he had been gullty,—nll these would by written out thore and brought to diaelosure In the charneter which ho Urought with hin to the Jodyment seat of Got. aut men could rin away from thomyoives or chun) register ind disclosures of sin could not ehaoged. The heart of on oimin who stoned felt an almost Irresistible destre te tell of its sin, A fearful burs den iny upon his sa Scif-inte enused men to try to hide their erimes from the dotective, bat Ue consclousiess of Luiqitty was: something from which no inen could be free, and In nany thatances [t had compelled eriminads to contess, AS Webster suid, fhe xuilty soul enpnot keep its own src As an example of this the preacher cited a case whieh came up tr tho inqitiry-room where aw young man of oe aeknowledge that when 20 years of ge be hat Inirned. down propurty bequeathed film by bis father for the purpose of getting tho insurance, Tre suceeeded In his a sift ROL the inoney, and was never suspected, He married und “pros- peat und yet the momory of his crime hinted hin so dat bls haly hgd turned prematurely waite. Do whut he could, no peaes would coma to lis soul, und he asked the advlenof those nresent us te what he should do, He was advised back tu tho insiries com at, and then to ask pence from ia God, Ho did tg advised, made weican-breaat tothe Insurance company, vepald tham in fall, aud. In cuiswer to bis prayer, be found that peace which ho.had not onjoyed for twelve yours. Crhulouls generally wanted others to share 1 knowledge of their gullt, HL would seers that tho oppudlt would be the ease, vet thoy wore nev> erat thely ease until choy) hid dropped a hint to aomebodly of thelr erime., and it wis upon thls fnet that deteetlves relled priucipally for success In ferroting out evil-doors, Of course It was possible for slnuers to Keep their sin from the eyes of the world, but when tbo soul stood before the full Dinze ot Nght at the bar of final neeount, the story would bo told and alt the ovl: dences of sla ind of vloluted eonseienee would de shown forth, Itshould be remembered’ above all that God any bound to disetose ain. He puted sla; there was noalti which wus not offendlye to bln, and ho would discover i VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Save Your Money, Th the Eultor of The Chicayo ‘Ivtoune. Cieauo, Fob, 1.—If a young mun, tho son of fn ofd trend or an acquaintince, cames to you for tho luan of 36, and tellsn plausible atory, it will be as well to Investigute before handing ont tho money Thore area number of young men with the beat familly connections in this city who pre taking this course of Inte to obtalin money to spend In gambling dens. A hint to the’ angus peeting publie muy save many dollars to fami lies that cnn make better use of thelr. money, and posstily be the menus of stopping rome of thuse young men from thole downward course, MRUDENU. A Worthy Object. T) the Editor of Tue Chieaga Tribune. Curcaco, Fob. HI teust that tho woll-to-do English communsty of this city will extend thelr patronage th behalf of the St. George's Benoves lent Sovlety bull which takes place nt the Sher- mun HHouso on Lbursday evening. In eonses quence of the sevority of the winter tho dee mand on tho ehurity fund of tho Society has beon unusinily large. As this ts the only charit- nblo inetitution by which Englishinen In destl- tute ‘cumstances can obtain relief, It is to he penal ull persons of English dosceut will lend a te plng hand towards thls worthy abject tn 1 Heving thelr poorer fellow-citizons. speetfutly, Yours re A Mrwunn. WESTERN PATENTS. List of Patonts Insucd to Western Ine Ventors the Past Week, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, » Wasittxaton, D.C. Fob. AH Evans & Lo. report the followhig pitents issued tho past week to inventors of the Northwestern States: ALLINOD. 'T, Butterworth, Quiney, wrain-cnr door, u ve Coonley, Chico, drive-chali {two ents). G. HL. Cormack, Rockford, oatnenl-muchina (relysue). de M, Dodge, Chicago, drive-chaln, Joie, Chivago, elevator, ut aton, Chicago, birh-holting devico. AG, Byans, Macomb, cultivator, W.D, Ewart, Chicitgo, buckle, GoW, Foster, Chicago, telephone. J. EL Foster, Chicago, nuling-machine, A. Gonld, Chlango, eriinping-innchine. DM. Halgnt und Strogsimat, Gawege, mitten, 11, Johnson und Hoyer, Chicago, hose-nozalo, Kurfoot, Chiciuze, scoop. j 1. Leuraged, Daaville, Cornlture spring, 8. Lovke, Chicago, teket-redl und recopta- MeCallum, Toone, milk-cooler, W.'¥, Perry, Uhleago, car-coupling, CAH Sallsiury und Stevens, Do Kalb, wiro- feney stretchor, * G.K, Smith, Frecfort, mold for mold- boards, WISCONSIN, Affand Jordans, Milwaukee, baking oven. Reuttle, Portage, lox and foot protector, Bits, Dayton, pegging Jack and boach, G, Tanbo, Wattsuw, car heator and ventilutar, Gland A. Raymond, Waupun, grinding-slll, A. Kuntord, Oshkosh, clovi MICINGAS, D, &. Buck, Hastings, feneo, W. i, Flach, Planwell, feeding-rack, 8.0, Lothar, Grand Kuplds, straw-cutter, DL Merritt, Marquette, cluteh and brake. BE. P Newnan, Dimondale, copysholder, 8. U, Itathbun, Carleton, churn B. Rice, Rust Suglauw, manufacture ot Mee. J. G, Richards, Buebannn, collar-pad. 4. V. Rouse, Downglag, potlordixger, Rousseuu, Votrolt, ollecup, JB Bobring, Ogden, yute-tlnge. Smith, Jackson, corset, xwitth, Muniateo, brake for log-carriors, J Weight, Hudson, washing-muchine, MINNESOTA, H. Kollor, Sauk Centre, fanning-mill, W. Buhonek, St, Paul, stove-bick. TWA, 1. G, Baldwin, Oskaloosa, walling thach ne, .iLund ©, ff, Beekman and Clayton, Cluy- tan, windiiil. Boorseh, Davenport, horas-honnet. iy und J. @, Jacubyou, Ridgeway, arate juntizer, B. Marion, Fort dfudlaon, fish-hook, 8. A. Gaui, Kollogg, pum, buckut, and vatve, INDIANA, OT, Chamberlain, Signor, und Straw, Elkhart, windmlil. King, Indianapolis, gratu-drill genring, B. Keantlin, Latnyette, evapecuting-pan, HJ. Swan, indtanapolta, illuminated push- button, NEURARIA, N. Bwenson, Lindquist, and Hedlund, 8wedon- bury, plow. $$ Negtecting Wer Schpol to Get Married. Utica Herat The udimone ina rathor ¢ weit tiled in the County Clurk's olliva of Lewis anty, Last March’ Rosalie Sisith oni hurseif to tench the district school in tha of Croghim far twelve weeks, After elit v she qot untrrled and wont olf for a two weeks’ wedding tour without tho knowledge of tho 'Trustoc, Michucl ‘Tovey. On her return she fount abothor teacher installed ip her place, Sho brought sult to recover wages for thy full torm bofure the Justice In Harrisville, aud suce eceded. The County Court, to which an appeal was tude, reverses the decision. == Hrown’s Bronchtal ‘froches will }stop a cough by direetly relieving tho Irritauog of the throat, gud wilh hot disorder tho stomayh fike yough BYTUMM, RO CONS A bUX eer enga bas junt narvisny transcript af what vias sent forth from the soul fh thought, ‘The man with bloodahot ORS Histed and Hips pale with rage pros outward appenre that he wens neslnve: to ungoverahle ap. Tithe pollea that vertnta men who attend RK aiy to Lnesiiess al week fon give way to Many young men who thought they: publishiog thelr slug to the workl—tho facet was atl ateng mui ft could keep it Hi WE national tite alt this ry, contrasting: vith Other things Hf waiion would invurlably Jen rexcellent’ qualities, To sup. pose mini could doons thing right along aul une tries of It in his Intellectant and ng waste tly in the face of ell aman od it was only Meccan tt hI with the whole story of nis lifo with {ts negicets hoosliye, fulschoods, onths, slinders, dishonesties, meu ppt, envy, hatred, nil the erlines: bo Jaws of cause and ‘effect, the tw aE bd it. STATE MILITI The First Regiment Coneratulates It- solf on Being Out of Debt. Annual Inspection and Muster to Bo Held Noxt Month. Adjutant-Gencral Townaend’s Report on the New York Troops. FINST REGIMENT. The Boartof Olieers of tho First Megiment held an adjourned anoual meeting in thor roomdat tho remory lagt Wednesday eventug, Col, Swain presiding. ‘The report of tho Treas: urer was rend and approved, It showed thy regiment to bo entirely aut of debt. A Unit rez portot the encampment at Oconomowou wis also submitted and approved. According to report. ly the Fines Committes af the inte fac, the regiinent cleaved about $2,048), The te hiving Stunding Commitives were appointed wy the eommunder: Flan LlenteCol i. 1 Knox, Capt, BB. Davis or Cy and Capt. GM. Lovejoy, Hell, and Lesclt. a Moye ttt TAeuts, dordun and Wadsworth. A speci comtaitiees to revise the tniiforin dress was leo appoluted, con- slening of Dlout.-Col. Knox, Capt. Buchimtn, aid Kicut. Belt. Holmes of VIE ANNUAL INSPECTION, ‘tho Aasistnut Inspector-Generals of Itrigades have recelved thele orders for the mnnunl ine speetion aud muster to take ¢ Col. 1. H, Hiemilton, of Quincy, Inapeetor-Ge ora, has also written tho Assistants personal letters defining tu detall somo of the require- ments of bis order, hd requesting those vlllecrs: te ment him for consultation at tho office of the AdJutunt-Genernl In Spriugield on the morn fuof tho Sith, Col Hamilton ty determined that the inapection this rest) be done tt tt Must thorungh and complete innnuer, rad tho eonipunies or reiments who have not protited by thelr advantages in the past will fare the words For it In the future. ‘che followlng geueral order has been issued by G ‘Torrence, commander of the Elrst Iirhrade, to the commanders fi his division, and ina tew Hreulue will be gent out by the Axsistunt ispecturt ‘ Htott Durand, baying been com- y° the Governor and Commanders! f, Is hereby annotinced ns a eetor-Ceneral of the Flest Briar obeyed and resected) nceovdingly. muniertians to him thorld be addvesse Hrigute Headquarters, Moum 1, 268 Wabash avenue, Chicao. + “TL in campllunce with orders from General Hendquurters, Stute of Tilnols, “Mid, Elilott Durand, Assistant. Inspector-Geueral, will pro eced to mike tin Inspection of the Kirst Bri wade, Mingis Natlonul Guard; such inspcedon to be commenced onthe Ist and: completed on or before the ist of Murel next. “It. Vartietie attention ts called to Gen- oral Orders Nu. 1, Generat Headquarters, Ad- Jutant-General's Oni eurrent. sores, ind General Orders No. etoreGoncrul’s Dee partment, dated Jin Strict obudictice ty these orders will be required, “IV, Maj. Durand will notify commanders of realments, battilluns, and batteries ot the tine wppotated by him £ ter. “By order of Brig-Gi Ny © Asstatane Adjutani-General” It is quito fikely: dint whon tho fepeetorsGone eral Issued his order to tho effect that vompany commanders shoutd forward uw sunple copy ut thelr mustor-rotis tothe Beleady-tispectar for revision, It was not done throurh any lick of courtesy to the Captatns, but in arcer to ennble the Tugpector to eatublish a ylforny style, throughout the bende, and thus Yaciliiate the work, us many of tho Incompetent company ofivers have been weeded out of the service, by Gue ness or another, dince the last luspecuon. [tls posslbio that 1 recommendation of Mal. Dana, Inspector of tha Second Briguite, tn his report of a yenrago, wight huye bed some welgie: in influencing Cot, Unmilton to Incorporate the provision fn his order whieh Js so ollensive toone ox-ollicer of the Nation! Guard. Mad. Dana aays: "Tt was'sapposed the exphuiations printed on the muster-colts were sullicient ta in- sure thoir hefug correctly mde ont, but onty at Caw were soy the masority hid to, t matted ta me after correction ‘nake them eheck up with | r 5 quited more tin your general order required t pplotlon of the entire report, tnmy 184 the suguestion wis tudo that be overcome by sending out arly Me Copy to bo prepared and Inapector, with the deseriptlye king up. L Jind, bowover, that the descriptive: bouks tre got: properly Kept, and would be of no uso in that respects" NEW YORK MILLA. Adjutant-Genernl Townsend, New York, has Issued Ils annual report, which is as concise and complete adocument as the public Is usually permitted to read. Hla subject matter ta ads inleubly arranged under respective heads, and his suggestions ure In tho ninin prneticabte, Ho utlves tho present organtzation, which comprises glx divisions, eloven brigades, twenty-one regl- incats, five battalions, and thirty-six separate compunies of “infnutry, seven troops of euyalry, and ton separate batteries of artillery, making nb aggregute of 18,110 ollicers und enlisted: ined. ‘The Now York troops are armed with Reming- ton ries, calture WW. He depreeates the fet thut the enllbre is not the same ns that of the ville used by tho regular army, but considers thatasan offset to thls dlvadvantage the State fs constantly lu reserve 10,0 rounds of m= soe at which woul! give auinple time for tho muntificture of 8 Inch more ns was needed be- fore the supply would be exhausted. ‘Thu force is now eampletely unifarmed and equipped by thu Stite, An averse outlay OF SH.003 a your hag been Mads by tho State forcncampmests nnd Wo practice for the past seven yours. ‘Theeo new arnmories hive been built by the State dure Ing the past ‘year and turned over to dliferont gomimands, . Gen, Townsend advocates a comptete reor- ganization of the troups in the Suite, inakiog: three classes, tho troops of the first and second. chisses to be composed, as far ae females of tue regulurly-uniformed and eniiated troops of the Natlonnt Guard, to be designated tha “National Guard, the rennnder of the cnrolled militia to: comnpuse the third class, nnd to be Known ws tho third-eluss; tho tera of enlistment ot the frst anid sec asses to bo tivo amd tye spectively, and when such troops si served honorably and: fuitufully through their reapeetive terms of enlistinent to be banorably dlscharged and becom troups of the third-chiss, with all the privileges and exemptions attowed by lnw, excepting thit Moy stall be Hable to tiflltary duty within the teits resigned to such elnss. The troops of the Uist clos are to be indie to be called into service of tho Wnited, Stites — lrst; yhen this: elngy shall have heeamoe exhausted. then the aocnnd a class, uid Gnally those of the thint cla: algo favors the abandonment vf the elec pringiple among troups, and tho: fltling of vae éaucies by a regular Une. of promotion, when oMleers are campotent to Mil yaenueies in bigher grades, BUGLAU-CALL! Capt. Henry B. Slumgns, of G Company, ‘rwolfth Infantry, bus tendered his resignution, Company I, Second Regiinent, will give its gece ond reception andexhibltion-drlllat tho armory Monday ovoning, Peb, #1. An eteetion is ordered to be hold nt tho armory of Company &, First Cavalry, Feb, 18, to ebooss a Captuln for aatd company, to Mt nn original vuenney. Capt. IL J, faker, Company D, Sixth Infantry, bis tundered his restgnution, In thls resigua- Hon the Sixth loses ono or its most falthtul and ellelent ollleers, Capt. Charics 1H, Ingalls, 1 Company, Twelfth Infantry, recommends tha discharge of privates Jacob B. Beo nnd Seth 2, Baird, “for the good of the service,” At higown requost, Corporal Jotm Douglas, Company %, Sixth Battatlon, bas been reduced to the rinks, and Private Hugh Lesile bas beoa promoted to his place, Cnpt.Georgo W. Taylor, B Company, Sixth Infantry, recommunda the honorable dléchurse of Privites CL, Mulligan, W. U. Poster, and J. Purker, on gecount of relaovil, Ancetection will tuke pleco ut the armory at Company. 8, Flot: Regiment, next Wedneadny eveulng, for the purpose of selecting 8 Second Lioutenant, view Archibald, resigned, Private Gorritt Worthington, Company 1, First.Reglinont, has boen promoted ta the poste ton of Hight General Gultaof the regiment, Nils place hereafter will bo at boudquarters, Capt. J. N. Buchanan, Company A, Firat Regl- ment, recommonds tho hanoruble discharge uf Sorgt. Charles B. Ayres und Privuto Eugene C, darn byte on account of absonce from the Lats, ‘The following have been newly elected oMleers of Company 8, Thiel Regiment, Elgin: Cupid William W. Krapes First Lieutenant, Orrin Willintws; Second Lieutenant, Thaddous MM. Kauttmat Company Kal the Second Reghnent hag beon organized, with twenty-tlvo men usu starter, b Capt, Engle, Tormerty wn ofleer of thu Beudnd. Voie voxtinent now hus an orguulzation of tua compuntes. First Lieut. 8, 1. Brooks, Company 1, First Reglwent, hus teuderod hie resignation, on ad+ count of removal to 5t. faub Hig Llosa will bo folt by the company, for bo was o hurd worker and w gous euldior, ‘The Rockford Ritles—Company Bi, Third Rogi-, inént—will bold Jos fifth agnual “recoptlon Tacs. day night, Feb. 23 Urlg.<Gen. ‘Torrence und stir and many other villvors of tho | First Irignde have been favited, ‘The former recep- tong given by this command hud go pleusunt wo effegt upon all who partlelanted thay thore Beoms to ben roneral Juelinntio: overy ono to nutend thla yenre OOF he part of The nrement coutnined In ¢ ho last THE TRIES NATED Nowe, Tegaty SUN ot transmission “af enereapamton Treardins the Hing tinanawered, and Jt le fale tg Cull tee that it emnnot bo withority, ‘The Hoston Inacers, coventystiy Wihurrive in this ely on tho th, en 2 stone, Now Orleans, and wil be revel ved ming tee for by the Fiest Tntantey, ‘The Lateertey commnded hy fe yethees nseetustiy Uhirlestown Cadets, “hoy will bre Falmer House. veins Company HH, of tho Prst logimont, 4 ander’ iW temporary clon mete ets weeusSfully contratfeted Me the aha Of alt the commisaoned ‘otiicers f Htc 1 As undlersiond that the matter has ces ene gaged the attentian of the Colonot ex Tad hee WHE ho Woubt take atepy hme Hieo the company under the comand af competent oliver tor Sha present or tyes ee to the senlor nonecommissioned ante eetet provision should have been made hy eee oliver huving charge, O last Tho valuntece soldier who tale edition of tho Army Iteyulatlons, jmibiteeos Tesh ns a correyt gilite it tullltnes ae et Vinnie Hs eneral orders tor ane tron yunes have bud ta effect uf chum ts rexuhittons ned tho code to such an extent ee they can searerly by recognized In same pet AS Ui exnple, one OF Mo aections wees that no man nader Zt yenrs of are shal ees cepted asa reerutt without tho written eon of hls ptrents or geurdian ent BILL TO IMPROVE STREETS, It In Wholly Unnecessary, ond wi \ a Ben Brand in Operatlon—Whatss ne manont? Would Mean—General tag ‘ fs xem Would We Baormousdy Incrouncd, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Citcadg, Feb. 1 have watehed with Inter. est the discussion tn your valuable paper of the Mill revently passed by the Kenute of thts State relative to the manner of previding means for the luiprovement of streets Is whut Is denomt. nated 2 permanent manner,” and beg leave to offer some suggestions an that subject, See, lot Art 0, City and Villuge ac Provides “that the corporate authorities of cities, towns, and villages ure hereby vested with power ty make -loeal. tinproveents by spectal nescey. ment or by speelal taxation of contiguous prope erty, or otherwise, ag they aball by ordinance presertbe." Fee, 2 provides, “When any such city or village shall, by ordinance, provide for tho make tmgof any lvewl improvement, It stutl, by the same ordlounce, prescribe whether the sug shale haley uy. ene ASSCRSTENt OF by sper celal taxation of contiguous property : taxation, or bots eee Property oF general ‘These tire the provisions of our pre: andatwill be observed that unlinit conferred on the City Couneil to rats defray tho vost of street Improvements, ‘They imay provide that a street shall bo ed and tho eo ad fory. monorn tuxition, or by special axation of the abutting property, oe Assessnien| or athorwiso. oe ‘Tho only addidonil power conferred by the Proposed ‘bill ts to exempt tho property that might atherwise be Hable to spociil assessinent orspeelal taxation for certaln improvements Upon tho passive of an ordinance which con- {his a provision that when tho streeet in ques. on shall be improved in the tmauner ad by tho menus proscribed In tho ordinance (vin; special assessment or special taxation of con tytous vroperty) to tho ‘satisfaction of the proper officer or depurtment of tho city, It shall hot therentter be tinproved by mntsina of sheclal usseaainent orapecial uixition.” [i othor words, At this ben valid enactment, tho elty ts bound irrevocably thorerfter to pay for tue finproye- nent of stich streets as tay be Improved under grdinanco of this character by general taxanon, win thoroughly satisited that this is the most vielous piece of legishition before the General a\sgeimbly of this Stute sineo tho adoption of the new Constitution, 80 fras the property interests of our citizens ure conecrned. ‘The frumor of tho bill endeavors to meet one very obvious objection to the bill In Sec.3, whieh provides that * No tinprovementshull be ordered by virtueor this net, unless the sumo shall beoft substantial and permanent character” sand theta sume section, and iminedlately Lollowlng, occurs this language: “And wi any street shall bo Hilled, gurbed, and paved, or elther of thom, ia uecordance with an ordinance passed, 18 afore sali, sich strect shall not thoreafter be Niled, curbed, aid paved, or olthor of thom, 1s the caso Inay be, by special assessment: or special uixae Bon of contiguous property, but by general tax- on. The provisions of tho first paragraph of thir section, amount to nothing as a check upon the Counch—as will be seen by reference to tho last parigraph. Whatever tho City Council way io thoir collective wisdom call a permanent im provement” would be conchusiyy on that sub- ect, ‘They nro the judges. Tho cheapest ind’ poorest improvement that can be de> vised, df ordered in tha imitaner pres gerlbe would exempt the property from further assessment, Who would raise any question ng to the charapter of tho improve: ment? ‘The only partics who could object would he the parties issessed. And dovs any one Line aging thut thoy would object to a cheap tt. provement, when upon paylig for it they wautld caenpo furthor assessment? (tis a matter of wo moment to them whethor the improvement bo netually permutiont or otherwise, If thoy have ‘ny interest it is in wetting off as ohedply as possible,” fv Is guid that the object of this Inw, Is to pro- vido for “permuvent pavements" in the Duginess portion of tho city, ete. 1 tmagine that the number and character of tho ™ perma. nent linprovements” that, would be demanded in all parts of tho elty within ono year by cons stituents of the diferent Aldermen would as tonigh nnd appal our Taepasers beyond meas: ure, ‘This subject is fullot suggestions. Taxcs ure now tolerably certain as to amount, and wil remaln so us long a8 the present limitation cr. ists, ‘Phia bill, should It becomo a Jaw, would within a very few years render repent of thlt limitation necessury, and our taxpayers would Ue groaning under ah ever-increasing burden of tixntion caused by tho Inrger wopropriation: necessitry to repair and veplico thaso “ perms nent improvements.” See. ¥ Art. 9 of Constitution 1870 provides: “The Genoril Assembly muy vest the corporate authoritles of cities, towns, and vilinges with power to make local improvements by special Hesessment, Or speci, tuxauon of contiguous property, or othorwise, T know that thia section fs nota grant of power to tho Legiaintitre, but a linitadon on Its power, and, from the lingungo employed, Ih {3 easy 10 percolye that as n limitation it amounts to Hoth ngv—leaving the mannur of musty tical te provements and of rutaing the moncy to pay for thom wholly with tho Generul Assembly. But does. this confer upon tho General Asseablt wer to piss hiwe which In thelr operatle Greato contrtot obligations in respect ta lors iinprovements, whi a subsequent Legit ture could not repeal? This inquiry be comes pertinent when wo contemplite t contingeney of the repent of this law whea {ts vielous Operation shall have made its reped Hucossary.* Supp: Ha nt charter, edd power tt means to nse that the next General Ae setbly should repoal this law and provule t i. therentter loeul | aprovaments shantd bo imal by special ussessmont only, ita thoy have u power todo, Would tho caurts bold the exer Uon clause of the repented law as to streets rs proved under It operative? [ely a grave quer don. If they did, tha new tw would te gt equal and unjust, and, it they dtd iota larg clans of our fellow-eltizens who have lives fn permanent improvements" would be out ie pocket, so to speuk, Much more could be vor ten illustrating tho dungers which this legis ton will tend to, but 1 will not farther, trespe on your tine, CITIZES. oe River and Warbur Appropriation fF tho Artesia Crock. New York Sun. Tt wasn Wostern Congressman Who Itved upon adistunt pralrio; And not a creek or river ran, On any nip that be coukd sean, ‘Whrough all hls distriet, wide and wtry>, Tut when he got to Washington: é And lowrned tho by ways of tho citys ‘This atntestian from tho Western 6uns ‘To bls surprise, Was plaved upon A frdt-clagy, canvus-buck corel {too Ho to the Chairman sald one ers “T vaw itglves mo, sir, the shlvers, To think of whut my folks will say When nota cont to them wo pay For all thotr harbors and their rivers. “Though no‘er a stream can uso the ¢a8t My peopla surly will oxpoct It, And my ollicial nego will stnusty Unices by action strong wid brash Lcan appropriate and collect st. “In all my district there Is not F ‘ <A spring ohalybento or miurnesiaty And water never can ba got ‘For any purpose, collar hot. ,, Except by boring wells artesian. ie you knews ‘Tho Chatrman sald; “1 thought you X! My frlund, want this comuitcen's move Any arteslan well wil de i When our report ty bur onal a By Crlends of mutual [provement 50, when tho grand report was mader fo mony mittions it umounted, And in tho total aun, that laid ‘All proviuus Nguros iu the ehuder od ‘Artesia Creck was lurgely’ eouuted . ——— A Word in’ seasons Ulastrating the trueism thal He i season” can often bring faye son or household, Mr. W. W. gist, Springtield, ‘Tonn., tells | have a customer whose wit te for ten or twelve muntls, 50 that evel walked In that time, As almost aft aed had been ted, and the dovtors Haves aco relieve hea, L told the husband oh oy gid wet Ol), Hoe procured two bottles, te Much Mare than one be walking around the room. esate sword rue ——— eg ad Futr ak{n, cosy cheoks, buoyant era weetcst breath ju Mop Bitters: