Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1881, Page 7

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, RELIGIOUS. A Plea for a Weekly Half<Holiday by the Rov. Brooke Her~ . ford. The Reconcitintions of Soclety— Sermon by the Rev, Dr. . Thomas, Prof. Sw‘inn‘s Disoourse on Christian- ity as a Threefold Re- ligion, REST FROM LABOR. THIE NEED OF A WEEKLY UALF-HOLIDAY 1N CHICAUO, The Rev. Brooke Hetford, pnstor of thoChurch of the Messiah, preachoed to a lnrgo vongregntion yestordny morning, aud urged the introdiction of tho Enulish aystent of tho weokly half-holi- dny In thie city, Followlug 18 tho seri.ow in fulig Man shall not live by bread alone.—Matt., fu., 4. In comaon with the otber minlators of this elty, 1 wus appealed to recently to preach on the boetter obsurvanca of Sundny. It Is not vory Jong alnee 1 did this; morcovor, T think that that gpeciul ground hos been pretty wetl cavered of lite.” And 8o it seemed to me that 1t would bo more to the purpose to eall publio attention to anqeher part of this sume great subject of man's necd uf rest, For 1t ought mnever to ho forgotten ‘thut the whols original meanng of thut vunerable fastitution, the bubb wus, not tho m\crudn?fl of religlous ubaervances, but tho sacredneds ol hwmun rest, Remomber tho Fubbuth tny, “to keep It holy,” dld nat mean * to keen it for snered uses," but sneredly to kuep Its censation from lIfo’s common round of toll. It {soften forgotien that tho anclent command wns not “on it thou shalt do no play™ but shinply **on it thou shalt do no work!'” So that when'l plead that the altered cundition of tho world, and tho greater presaury uf work mid the wreater itrin of 1ifo, demand not meroly tho old truditionnl rest-day, but somothing more, auother hulfsduy fn every week, 1o not turn. 1ng from o religlous subjoct to u merely sceular onu. 1 amstilldenling with thnt highor nspect of lifo for which this place und this duy stand; 1 em pleadlog for -life's resgue from -overmuch ciare and work; Tamn teylng to win lurger opportunily for nund, and heart, und souls Tawm holding up tho apirit of that deop grund word: * Man shull not live Dby bread alone.” i Tthink no vno will doubt that one of the mast prossing needs of 1ifo (i this country—Is mora rest. There 18 not n pudlic writor but has urged this. ‘Thoro 8 not & nowspaper bt occasionally muralizes ubout It, 'Thore 48 hardly o businoss- mun but foels {t. *Mr. lerford,” a merebnnt id to e nwhile ngo, “wo ure fools for goliy on working ns wo do, and still woe do go on, and jLseems us If wo bud to do It Wail, how the “more rest” 8 otner question, but it agree upon tho need. Tho lite 18 suffcring In many W of William Rtuthbone Greg’s most improssive warnlngs (s about whut ho aptly terms * Lifo at bigh pressurp. But, certaioly, o In Amerien deserves the torm oven niore than life (n Eu- gland. Here i Chicngy mon of nll classes iro working tou bord und too long, Every pound or power 13 o, Louok nt the physical mischlef that comes of It. Our busiuess-mon do 1ot got tresh rir und exerclso enough. That Is the roal men ing of ull this dyspopsid, wnd norvous prostri- ton, and of hulf’ waozon new forms of muludy. *that your grandfnthors know nothing of i tho 0ld, wholesume, Now England life. And bow _muny break utterly downl Fhat s ono of the sulddeat things in'this enger husines lire,—tho uumbor onu bewrs of who bave 10 Lo aent right nway tor montbs, somotimes for yenrs, or who die orten compuratively youns men,—just brokendown by this excossive straln, Anditlanot only the ‘physical mischiof, I think that tho deterlorating of lifo by overwork {8 ovon more murked and more wencral in the bigher aspeots of it - Life 13 doveloped bero in altogetbor too narrow » groove. {ts wholo on- eryy hus to go Intu business. Thore 8 nu sur- . plug of thng, still less of strength, for anythiug clse, The rest of man's nuture hardly hus any chance. Howe-llte suffers, They tefl of aman who, having tatled and fost his busingss, wus skod what b Intended dolug, **Well," sulil he, *1 think 1'll go homo aud getucquainted with my wife and children,” ‘That mun is usually credited 1o Now York, but tho story would it quite ns well to Chicago, Intellectual culturo sutfers, From tha Line n youlh unters a.storo, ha uan hordly read a thing oxeeps tho nowspiper. Ke- liglon suffurs, ‘Thousunds of men nre so uttorly exbausted by Saturduy night that whon Bunday comea thoy haven’t nfiiru onough for warship eithor at church or at home, Tho whole life of tho city suffers. It s not meroly that tnen Buvo not Lo 10 8iLon 4 Jury or Berva o i com- mittee; thoy hava not timg aven to foel an ins torest in such things, Aud Bo the Faco goes onl And year by yenr tho old aro dropping out of It exhuusted, the life ghat might buve been not hulf lived, Andycar by year the young are grow- g up into It and getting drwwn fnto ltsuncenshy rush, And bulf Jlving, and halfaf tha many-sided worth of nan- hood, nro loat. And atill, above the clty’s din, and whirr, and_roar, for thoso who ** bave enrs to hear,” Sounds quletly on_that word frought with such mighty weauing,—* Man doth not live by breud atunol” 0f the evil thoro i5 no doubt. * the remedy? Well, L want to polntout to you that tho dl- reotion tn which wo have to look for the rom- edy 1athis: not n slacker work, notIn taking things more cuslly, not in g littic shortening of hours every day, but In wore hollkluys, woero boliday-time. “1 ~do mot knaw that tho averagoe dally hours aro excessive; and as for the pace, thut l8in the very air. But whut is wanted Is more gotting out of tho groove, more 8nlid spnucs of rest wnd lelaure, which mny not merely legson tho steain o littlo, but- divt(notly givo upportunity and fnducoment for other thinge. Avpreacit, our hollduys are go few thut. Enupln bardly even learn how to uso tham. Tho rst Fourthof July that 1 waa here n friend sald to mo, “*An Amerlcna with u holiduy 1s tho wost oiserable mun alivo. Ho doosn't know what in tho world ta do with it1* You know how it 18 whaon a hollday comes. You haven't to bo comprssed 19 - something fact 18 to But whero Is nmade eny plan " for it. You hung around, reading tho nowspiaper, and thou u thiok you might 88 well go Yo ¥ down town and 6pun your miatl; and you go, and lolter awuy an hour or two at tho store, tlll tho dn( in baif done; and thon porbups you tuko n drive out, and then somo more lonfing, und when you aro tirod of lonflue round t home you g0 In to somo nelghbor und do what, If it Wwis womoen who did i1, vou would ¢all +* gosalp- LT and so, gradnally, tho day con®s to un :I‘I,d. aud no wonder you ure glad whon it is o But this wasto of holldays, this uot knowlug what ta do with them, unr; comoa of your not bavin ynuufih of thom, Horo I8 wherw 1 think tho Enoglish might givo you o lesson, They cannot touch you anything in the way .of work, but they iuight as to rest and glny. As for work, thuro Is whers you can teach thom. When @ was over fu England I adviscd ull v Lusinoss frienda to come hore, and to sead m# s0nd ot for s1X months or n yeur betorosattiing dowa to work, in ardor that thoy might just suu the quicker pave, the grealor alurtnoss, tha rendier uda lllll{ of Amwrican lifo, But, on the' other d, T would ilke totave all iny friouds horo go and live tora while In England, that ""’f ni fight loarn, not wark, but reat, and espociully thut they might learn the worth uf holiduys " and how ta usy hollauys. Why, the muro tuinbor of thom would astanish you, llll)ial)l)fls’ muuufacturing dlstricts of Lunca- shire wnd Yorksiire where my Jife has passod not anly are Goad Friduy and Christmus-Day and Now Yeur's-Day absoluto and univorsal hulldu{n. Lut Buster Monday {3 almost go; and at Whitsuntidu the greutor part of the week is hallduy; und thou vvery oity bus ftsaumral fale .{mo tor a day or two,—s0me tivice in tho year; und overy village its fenst-duy, often dutiug frum the tlmes of tho old Baxon saluts; and, morcevor,only s fow years ago Parlintsant vstube lished funt entively extra ™ Bank boliday days when ntl the binks rust close,—~and “these Are rast beconilng goncral throughout other branobes of businuas as woll, liut, I think, most lmportant of ol nmann our Euglish Institutions of rost und lelsure i3 tho Bnllrllr\lny hl"\‘-l\blhhl". ou_should go luto the buslness quarters whostor—und |t would be very much iho o any of thu groat uillea—about noon on Buturduy, you would find everythio in oifico and warctiouse runalig ut oxtra vpood, aud uveryone almost tou busy to be spokon to, Alirre busy tintsbing up the odds aud onds of tho week's work. At 10'cluck the work's work 13done, and overy ono isaway. 1f you should kuu‘}a und dowa thoee husiuess stroots a couple . of hours Intor, you would tlud ovory warebuuso, every ollice, eloged, und thoso business streots are e allent and desorted as at mignight or on Bunday, Do you want to kpow whut the people do withthelr bult-hollduy? Wateh the omnibus and horsg-car lines,—uall orowded as st no othoy Ymo tn tho whole week, with people gojug owe, HBut afl are uot wolng home, ut least not to stay there. Qo tu ' the aruuries of the local voluntear regiments, thoy are all swarming with youne inen who bave bustily donned thofr uniform; inun hour they Will ba sutting off, eithor forulong “nurlis out” of a duzen miles iunl for tho pleasure of tue lhlu?. or to ane of tho out-town ritle runyges for an wftornoon's turget-practice. Uo luto the outskirts of the olty, Every vuount lot, overy Held that cun be runted, bus it oplekut olub or Hta foot- bull olub. G eapeatnily to the milrond donaty, It Is thair very busioat tme. Tho rail fuuds havo apouisl thno-tnbles for Buturday 4fternoons, und run speclal traing at almost Hominal oxeursion farc (0 OVOry countey Fesort Tor twenty miles uround, und countlesy thous idd aviil thowsulvos of them; while to ull Stauong they have speclel rutes for round Hekets avallablo i Monduy, by which thousunds more | et clear mway from the " vity” to country places or the homos Ot distint frionds for nearly twoduys, ‘Fhose rilroad. depots on Haturduy aflornoon uro u Slght for a lover of buwman nature, und capeclally furany one who boliovos that taui dovs uot live the sweetness and besuty of | by bread alono, and who desircs to soo }fo (nter- eated knd happy, * Whnt groups you soe at ovory ons of the d suburhan depota! Hoce is a orickat eleven, with thewr frivnds, off to piay n matoh with gome country elub. Hyro comes great vish of workingmen with thele wi nnd Ohilidron,—it s the omployéa ol Bnmo firin having thuir waual summor plenle. Hero aro twenty or thirty young mon and woman chatting i lttla knois,—you ean suo by thele tin butany cuses that Ing to explore Aomn of the clonghs ur moars where Naturo §8 8 Hitde more profifie than In the city minoke. Thorv Is u Sunday- sehivul tencher, with his olasa from somo mission Rehool, tuking them out to one of the parks for a few plensant houra. There A whole band of fengliers, golng out o soime distriot tenchers' contere: And, more thun nil, the happy fam- fly purties ire ainiply endlusa; und It vou go ont by 0me ot thoss 1rains, it ovory rondshio statfon yiu will seo theut gottiniout s and walting nhout e huppy granps of chilidren who have tono to meot futher, and you sco thom walking off with ity trinnip, gulling bl thoir Titia plns fue tho afterioon: tor that afternoon {s, alike to soung and old, not & more llatloss lousging- e, with mieraly nothing to do, but a Dusitive, buppy bulidoy, pianned for, made wuch of, and look forward toall throuich tho woek, Do 1 meun to key that It {8 universully put 10 theas benutitul uscs? Notwo. Of ouurss thera Are peopls who wso (it adly, 1 min_ afegld tha snloons entieo In sonie oxtri ouatomers, ™ men #0 by with thoir wages I tholr poakots and half #dny belfore them,—though this has boen partly obvidted by the growing praotive of puying waiges sume othor duy than Saturday. No doubt, too, varlous dowoward fines of foliy and vied huve more pussengers that afternoon. But, on tha wholo, 1o ane can sue it, and Hve imidst it all, a8 1 did for many yoars, without rl.‘ulllur thnt 1his Suturdny halt-holiday 8 a sgrent solld sain to tho wholo Hifo aud woll-boly, of the dum- muanity. And It helps SBunduy, too. Of course it takes somo nway. This and that class In tho Bunday-school 18 without a tencher; they are gone off on Butur- duy-to-Monday tickets it tho oountry: and thoro aro vacant pluces in the pows from tho sume cnuro. But you hardiy ever hoar, thero, of people staytig nwny from sheer need to llo slueping aif tho wenriness of a week worked out to tho very end; und, oi the whalo, I am sure thut _tho holliluy neisas a wholvsome proprrin- tiun for the boly-day. Sunday, and worabip, and that alite of 11fo for which thoso things stand, or, nnd tresher, and bettor by thore een this nrehitdo of o good square hulf- dny of bnppy, rexttul hollday-makmg. 1 do not tilnk auy one ean hear of all this— and nil that £ ean say 19 uider the mark, not over {t—=without forling that it would bo & morol- ful and blesssd thing for Chloago If we could bave the snmo half-holiday here. But 13 it possible hero? Woll, I cannot honr of any obstacles here, but Just suob na oxisted (n Manchuster, |nm Just old onnmlih 10 romumbor the chungo, 1 was first ut, u8 1k hoy, to business n u Manchester count= ing-house, i few months before tho huit-hotldny schemu was proposed, and 1 ean remember not only what npry onnnga it win, but how tho idon waa scouted “as improctienblo In the out- set, Muny of tho older business.men would not hour of it at firat, Thoy bud nlwuys worked Baturdiy aftarnoonss why couldn't the younger raco do the same? Dut 1o tho credit of tho vlders, ba it anid, thut thoro Wore no warmer promotors of tho chuigo than some of thoss oldor merohants, who remom- bered how hardly the prolonged husiness hours bud prossed upon thomsolves, and wero glaid to do somothiug to lgoten tho burden for those who oane afler thom, One very speclnl obstuolo oxfsted n Manchoster. Baturday inid been from tine immemorial tha busiest day of the week. It was the great markal-diy, when nil tho country peapls brought in from’ far and near frult, ind vogotables, und tarm-produce; und, stlll woro, It was the groat day for the cot- ton tende, whon all the cottan nunufuoturers of Lancashiro guthored In the groat Manchoster Lixchnnge for thelr bualness. 3o that thore way everything agalust tho Jdea of turning suell w diy Into o more hoif-day and off-day, Aud yet graduslly it wus uccomplished, ‘fho newspupers took It up; meetlings wort hold; 0 atruny tssugiation wa furmed, headed by some ol the letding mer- chauts and publio nien of the eity, to call upon business-men about i, Fleat 1t was adopted in the offices,—in tha pubilic ottices, und by lawyers, ayubltects, ngents, and go forth. 'Thoy tonk it up almost ue once. And almoat at the sime ting guwo of tho lrge wholosale housvs and forckyn merchants, those that were hest able to take un Indepondent stund, took it up, and svon It be- cnme unlversil amoug theso, Then {t was Just about this tmo that tho “Ten-1vura net," for lisulting tho lubor of women and childron in fuc- torles, wis nded,~and Suturduy was mado A halt-day o all cotton * mills, And thon ono unexpectod result followed in tho city, No one had oven ventured to suggost that tho rotall _stores should clase. Lut, whon the oflicos und warchouses wero all shut, the geatlemen nil went out of town, and, of course, tho ldles did not cone lu, and 80 thero wero no oustomors. Tho clerks stood or sat {dle at tho countors; and flrat tho Jonaitg Lookstores closed, aud thon, braneh by branct, the lendin, firinn "o 0 wn indorstandiog: - uutlly al throwgh the great bustne.a hoart of tho clty, thn closing at 1 o'olock on Baturday has bécomo pragucaily univorsal, > - Jhave goto wore Into dotail about all this than I8 usual i a pulpit uddress beewase 1 wish to put this Idou befuro tho business coms munity in u way which ma{ nelino business-men to couslder |t. am - not only addressing you, my friends of this congregation, Dut ' also wddressing tho muttitude of bisiness-mon und employcs who, 1 wopo. will read m{ wordsto-morrow. Frionds, from the very Loglnniug of my rosldence nore thoro hus bean uo fanture of Chiouyo 1ife whioh has struck mo so unnstantly as the abseinoo of this weekly halt-holiday, which, through thirty yonrs' usnwo, L bad vome ta feal nlinost s precious, in 1ts way, as Sunday. Itecemed pre- Bumptuous, however, for me to sponk of such muttor, and so I havo only tulked shout it privately; but year by yuur tho fecling bns Krown upon mo untll it has comota moasn word (hat [ must speuk,—to try o arouss Chi- ougo Lo the bonotit wud 'to the practieability of such n weokly hulf-huliday as tiat which 1 bavo deserlbod. Of ¢ourso, when [allude to the practioability of It hore, 1 do so with difidenco, This s mattor whiloh touches a thousand littlo com- plleations of uaage and intorest on which {t would be promuinptuous and absurd In mo to degmatize. And yot there arc some things whioch 1 have learned jn conversution with thoss who du know these matters pravtically which on- courugo me to feol that my {dew 18 ot {inpossi- ble, 1t only somo of tha bualineas-men of tho city will tako hold of 1t and try to work [t out. For ono thlug, I have talked protty widely with thoso who uro engnged in what L nn cnil oflice-business, and I huve not tulked with one who has not sald that to closs at 1 o'clock on_Saturdays would make ceally vory little differcoco 1o them. Lawyers, insuranco-men, ageuts, and commission-ton would loss noth (g by it. Of courso there wight huve to ho oxoe, tions in gotno buay timo, byt that I8 alwuys In ovitablu whutover time be set for olosing, un nieed not ocaur oftoner If tho usual closing hour wero sut for 1o'clock than with uny uthor hour, And, lndeed, tuoy tell mo that.with muny of thain, Suturduy afternoon Is alrendy a sort of sluck thno, und that it only nevds tho change well aturting to be gauarslly adopted. The real stronuth of such n movement—-and its veal ditlicuity—would como in the mutter of tho great wholosals houses with thelr multitudes of omployés, And yat here, too, 18 one of my greutost vraoticul encourugomonts, lu the fuct thitt apang theso thasaturduy bulf-hotiday plan Iy ulrcady boing purtially ourrled out. A lurgo number ‘of tho lowding wiglosale bouses huve been for 4 year or two past in tho babit of clus- g at 3 o'clock_an Baturday afternoons during tho summor, Even this bug beon & great boon. Yet, athll, it anly amounts to going bowne u tictte earflor: ft1s a llttly ousiog.if from o gtriln of business; but it 18 handly enough to set peoe plo bestirring thomaelves to got out Into tho country, or to maka bollday plans with childron and trionds atter tho sort [ have desoribud to Fou, Hat thon sue: tho roul Importunce of thls i o'clock closiy s lo showing what'migtt be. For ‘lotween ologlug | st and u - full balf-hollduy from 31 “o'clook is roully only o ditferenco of n swiglo hour of worklug tme. Becuuso 1t must b bornu In mind chat those Hirma which vloso at i bronk off as usual for the nuon hour, and this would bo snved If they olosad ut 1 und ull worked right on till that tiwe without brouk or tntormission. Aud when it (8 vonsidored what & vaat dilfercncathut twobours' oarlier cloging (with only one haur's luas of thne) would muka to the ultornuun wy & holiday, 18 it tue Bluch to uvk of soma of our public-apirited lendurs of the clty's comwmeralal 1167 kouw that ovon {f theso twu classes~tho oceuplors of oifioes aud tho wholesule morchants—should take tho matter up, thore would still remaln many difioultica before it could be as genyral here os 1 havo desoribed It o Stunchosior, Tha most dillicult Pmuluu; would aucur 10 tho watter of artlsun ubor,~mechunies and workmen dolng upuoitie work by the day or hour. | know t uny chunga “conll only make way slowly wmon; theset vet 1 know, that muny of thAm would bu willlng to muke aaorilives for'ie; and I siould not foel ut gl hapeless ot eyentuully svoing (¢ carrled out, Of course { do not look for such nchumr us Lo proposing 1o be udupted all ut onc, Ioall kinds of work” wnd busiiess. But I do want tosue it atartuid; and ( fosl suro that i¢ 4t is stavted [t wll‘t bo found so ploasunt and o raally belprul to tho strangth and vigor of tho whole community that ILwiil k0" of jt- selfy und whatever diilicultics thers are will wraduully adjust themsclves, And now, frionds, 1 can ouly very ourneatly commond this subject to you, loaunut buthope tuat wuotic Lo busltusseen who biwr ing, uud among thodo who will roud wiut L suy, thers nuy big somo who will taks the matter up wud ko u buglnaiug of it [ know that a noblor soirit 1y rising amung the nerobunts of this eity, Muny of thew aru already loukiug with thought- ful, ouward gaze o toe highor welfure of the cotnmunity,* ‘T'ie nymbor L Increusiog, year Inrr your, of thoso—und ¢ 18 they who 1aust of all sot tho tone at its buslicss doingy—who believe in sumetbilng botter thun_muterisl sucovss, und who want to soe Chicuwo somethin, more than a huge oumgercisl centre. wunt to ses Chloago the grout vommerctsl contro stll) h Gommerce uaone of the no- blu sorvices of muokingd, but [ want to see our city this—uud something woro, Aud a0 § want 10 beo our cltizons stroni, suvccesful bustiesss men—and somoibing more, 1 want to sue tuls mugnificont power of Woatern life put 10 Its fullusu and developed Into manbood whole- soiug, upuy, dnd duitivated ull royud. But how lithla tu cowe? You tulk of instltutlons of cultury. I was at that great mass-mocting tast nlzbt, whon & movement was lusugurated for u noblo publio llbrury und gullory of art. | was proud Lo Lo thory, proud to buvu oveu (ue Buw- MARCH 28, 1881. bleat part in so good @ work. [ listened to tho eloquent words In which somn of aur forcmost cltizena influonce of bouks and thing mora [s want that grand urt wallor timee to gnzo upon 18 trenatir only give men :you must glve them lolgure! More leisuro tinme,~this I8 what 1w pleading for. This I8 the most urgont noed of oitr ity to-diny, [ dn not say that {6 would.be always wisuly used, Hnt when once ft wits obe jocted to John Bright that some extension of iherty wus premature, the people nat being eduedted to It wisely, he replled, * Tho test wny ta ediseats men to use liberty 18 to givo ft10 tham.” 1 aay the rama ol leisurn. Give it tn men, and 1t wiit being an edycation of ity awn. Give it to men, and 1t will oat least the menns of health and the opportunity of progress and improvement. Give [t to men, and bellove that it will grow to e hero what { have Acon L elsewhers,—tho priceloss and chorfshed boon of nn overwrought peoplo, and i savior of 1Ife, and bappingas, and cutture alika to youny and uid, (o rich und pour. RECONCILIATIONS OI' 80CI- BTY. apoke of tho elevating nictures. Rut sote- iy Yo inust hot BERMON 1Y DIt THOMAR, Tho Rev. Dr. Thownns prouchod to bis congre- Raton at the People’s Church yestorduy morn- Ing on tho “Iteconcllintions ot Hoclety." Kol- lowing I8 tho dliscourse: And that ho might reconctlo both unto God In one bidly Ly, the Cross: buviug siain tho cumity thoreby.—Epl., i1, 16, ‘The primury referonce of tho toxt I, I'sup- pose, to tho Jews and Gentlles, Tofore the duys of Christ they were separate people. The Jews were kopt npart from dthor nutlons by their pe- cullar religlous rites, aud they not unnaturally beeama nrrogant and exclusive, and fooked upon all tho othor natlons as unholy, and hencesought to inake the lino of soparation as broad aud s tinet ne possible, And whilst tho Jows thus ul- most dotested the Genttles, and could hardly onll thom human bolnga, tho Gentlles hed tho most soverelyn contempt for the Jows. Thua tho cumity was mutual and doep, One of tho purposes, nnd the rosults of tho coming and.the denth of Chrlst, waato n purt, nt lenst, aholish this distinction: and this He did by abolishing *in Iis flush tho onmity, evea the Inw 6f commandwents contained in ordi- nnnces ''; that Is, those ordinunces that tended toscpurato the two partles were abollshed in Curlst; tha ceremoninl law, belng no longer needed, wus to bo discontinued, and in so for ne it hud oaused this mutual sbparation sud cnmity, that cause was tuken away. And in thus rumoving this outward cause of soparation the way was opencd tor tho deeper principles of a spiritual religion, and fu this tho cownng to- gothor or tho making of *tbo twalu one in Chrlst,” ono In tho groat Inw of lovo to God and wman, And thus, whilst the text has this speelflc menniug In referenco to tho Jows and Gentllos, it at tho enme timo lays down the genoral lnws or principles that must beoffective in tho recou- cllintions of soclety ‘that now, as well a8 thon, are a0 much needed. Auditls to this brouder subjeot wo sbnll turn our thoughts, It s & strungo fuct, and vne (hat may not Le caslly expluined, that human life 18 8o full of notugoniams: that we are so often found, not in fricndly contesta or comnetitions meroly, but In oposition one 1o the other, and sametimes in open hustility. These antagonlsmsaro founid wven tn our Individuul lives; they are found be- tween fudividualg and familics; they are fouud in the world of thought andin the soctal and religlous wordd, In some form thoy enter into noarly alt tho attalrs of life, Eometimues thoy aro intense and bittor, and lead to wars and perscoutions; moroe, yencrally, however, thoy areso far restrainod or reconcllod us to Lo loss barmful and to often ultimate {n good. ‘That wo may get r view of theso antagonisms, lot us lovk over the flulds where the contliets rge. Iutho world of thougit we have not only l‘rlnndlf" striviags for success or mastery of truth, but wo buve oppositi schools of thuught, These aro foumd In- phllosopby, In seleuce, in wovernmont, and (i rellgion. Indeed wa mny suy that thought i souie form enters lnto nenrly all tho antagonlziug forces of sucluty. In philosophy the workl bas hnd the Ronls {ats und the Idealsts; und In solonce wo have tho Creatfonists and tho Evolutionlsts, und thoe Mutorinlists und tho Spiritunlists; and I gove ernment wo havo totarcbles and dumoorautos; ana jn rotlzlon wa have the Grook, tho Rowan, and the Prutestunt, and 1n the Profestant the muny ditfteront socts, And then In the field of religion we huve not only the ditferent schiools of thourht, euch contending that It I8 right, but wa havo tho uenostics, whio suy wo know notbing about it, and the influels, who'say it is all flotion, —all i drons or o legend coming (o us frout the warld’s oulldbood, “And all thoss schould ot thought in wovernmient nnd religlon bucoine in somy Aense purtlua, aud each sooks for tho mastory, Often I the pust they. vy sought for thak mastory ju the dustruocion of thelr op- ponents by liré and sword; and though that rorm of contost 18 not 80 YOIMOU 1! till tho lines aro 8o vlearly drawn us to divide the op- posing forcos, and ofton tu greatly disturb tho poncy and fl'h!mluhl?s of life by tha bitturnoss of apirit or the hurdnoss of words, Tha - lines betweon tho Romunlsts und tho Protestuuts nro drawn ninost wa glearly 13 thoy wore In the duys of Chirlst botween Juws und Uentlllus; nid the difforent denvminaticns, though nominejly frionds, have but litlo yeal love or Interovurde. Or, from this brond lold let us note mors pir- tloularly the antnzonlsw in one or two spuulal directions, In the suctal world wo bavo cia von- tliots going on betwoen tomporance und ntoin- porunee, aud botween lubor und cupital. ‘Tovie who munufucture und scll Hquors ure gonerally ontlroly willing to biive thoir business taxed ns othor industrivs are; but tho buslinesa bus boen thought to be productivoof cortnin ovils in socl- o and bonce bay been pluced yndor speciul ro- stfictivo iid rogulutory laws, Not content with this, anothior party in sgokiug 0 prohibitory lnw, forbldding the manufucture or sale pltoether, particuluriy the aulo unly for specinl and necee- sury purposes Than Another purty recommonds rustricting the salo of distitlud Jiquors and por- mitting thot of the mildor.driuks, anch us wino and bgee. uuu‘mrlymyl temporance 18 In tho modernta uso of sthnulants; unothor party suys 1t (s in totnl nbatinence, In the souiul fietd wa huvo atso the laubor and eapitul contlot. ‘Tha cupitnllst cuntonds that ho hua & right Lo mun- ul"u hits own bualnosss o rlrkt to hire labor for whut It will bring in the murkot; s right to Hx his own prices; that s monoy 18 bis ows, and that ho 18 Interestod n keeping wagnd ns low us lmnnll)m: that he must look W himself and his husinoss, und not Lo huw hls lborers get wioni, furchor thay to pay them their wuges. ‘ho lu- borers, on the othor hand, suy that tie hours of WOEK 076 100 1, t thoy canniot livo come fortubly on the wige: Ived, and that some- how things sbould bo more evonly distributed, and that tho profts of libor shuuld not all go to the employer. Aud thus thero 18 o cuntest g ing on ovor tho tomperance und the lubor quos- tions, And those und othor mattors fu the socinl anwigoniams uf HEw lead up (nto the groat ques- tons uf government that rango all the way from liburty tu despotism, 1T wo turn to tho world of morals aud rotllou ‘moro spooloally,—for ull theio questions huvo a moral and rallgious gide,—huro we shull tind the antugonisms botwoon right and wrong, us such, or a8 principlos; iotwaen Justive und ]n‘ilmlw teuth und_falsohood, purity and hupurity, und oolwoan tho stutul hourt wnd tho lnw of God, ‘Thasy, 1n tholr nuture, stund opposed the one to the othor; wnd, bulug thus rudical, thore can be HO cqmpromiso; nght caunot yleld to wrong; hullness caunut nuke a comprotise with sin, Then there urise heru ulso many quess tons it are not 80 nulluull( ru- Inted to unchanging prinetples of morafity, but Lelong rathor to the expodleat orthe prudontial; yuestipng that admit of 4 cortaln Ixtitude of fn- turprotation und use, Under this clussification coimd such wiiecations as tho proper obsorvancy «f the Subbith, and the distuiotions betwoon tho Cburch und tho world, ‘I'ho avservunce of tho Hubbitth bus travoled ull the way fron tho ex- tremo soverlty of the Mosule lnw aud of the Luritans] on to the loosencss and the indiffer- ence of tho Gormana and the French, The hags botween the Church and thu world have bren drawn all the way from tho ascotle und iwonustlo idens at tho eurly uud Middlo Aucs, when tho 1deuw of saintablp was to ubundon the world,—10 heeome @ realuse, ta live In oaves, und dross (n sackeloth, aud eat roots; all tho way from gthase 10 tho uise und atliuence, and tho” most costl and fastilonubly juhuroles, whure woalth, sus fashion, and pride hold full eway. Imngine onu of the old-timo eaints, burehowded nnd bure~ footod, vovered with only n coarsv cloth or thoskinof u wiid boust, loun snd bollows oyod und pule, bis bare kuges caltoused from long lmuuu: Nnagine suoh & sulint coming with #tadl In hund 10 & fashiounble church of to«day! ‘Thy wudlonon would bo frightensd by bis sp- punraiico; und ho bimsolt would run sway froimn he orgah, wnd (ho ctolr, and tho preaching ?uluksr thun most modern profossors would rui roin a round dunco or a clrous. A hundred such suints would not bo mbls to pay the sulury of a city Junitor, much lvss to keop up the ex- ponses of u church. And thus we find soclety Illl(ln{ n the ex- troius, and tho debates, und the nutagonisins of thought, and govorninent, wnd morls, and re- Hglon., ‘And the question nriso as to tow fur it 1y desirable, and it desirabio, kow far possibloy and by what means possibio’ to " muke of thd twaln sue,' or to unify the muny. And wo must all pereuivo that wo bitve come 1p o n larg snd muny-sldod sublet, 118 8 question of 1bo ugos; 8ng wu sunnot bope ta acttly It even in_ thought, wnd muych e in practice, ut thid hour; but wo lmldr look over the eld and gutbor such light and hulp a3 we can. Waen wo study buwuuity wo flud that the FA00 e substantiuily vue,—ong ju bature wid oue In wants, Howsvor ditfercat wo may ssows to bo.—diTsront in tustoaynd doalres, und thoughts, und conduat,~'veare noveritsluss ouu o tha dnal Atulysis of our being,—ono in tho fucts and prin- clblu ¢ muko Ly duwan, Aud when wostudy the fucts outsidy of ourselves—ing fuots or lnws of uature nnd of worality—we Hnd that (hoy aro uniform; they ure everywhere tho sains. Aud thore Gulng s substuntial upity In fho niture uf el wud oaturel uod moral Juw bu- tug the sawe, ft would suem rouvonable that there should be a goueral ugroomwent (u thougut, and priooiple, und couduot. Aud this fs un< doubtodly so; but thls ugreement wust be s uvodesdlovd uud 30 socured a3 uot g lotestorg with the genorat plan and purpore of lfe. What thut plan or pitrposo (8 opens tp another very Iargu question, and ono that wa cannot now connldur only In wo far as It is 8 noeessury part of our present subiject, Onn part of the plun of our being certainly is, that we shoutd have ons separate (ndividaal(- « mgent hava bown one man ao diren thut he would huvu lllied the world; or one for ench continent. {lut lastead of that wo have in uur warld w great many emaller men, Anothor part of tho plan ovidently is, that the Individunl wtronld hiy Ortain. Aol of liberty, Tho plan mixh| n beuy to 111 the world with be- tngs who ahoitld live by {netinot, s does the hrutn oroktion: or to ba shuped imeansclounly, an trees and flowers wro abaped. Hut we Hrd that tho plan of our hemg s 10 ondow us with nobler facultics, und place U8 upon a hixher plane,~a plane of reason, and volition, And e Aponsibility, - And stiil another partof the plan i, that a8 [ndividunis we shonld como tognther nssoctitaly, or in what wo call svclety: and that through tho relntins and the tutercourso of rogiety, through inbur, and disulpline, and trial, wo should he cducnted, should comu to strength and devolopment In intelligonce, and voliuon, and viriuo, And naw, with thesp thoughts tn view, lot us turn nealn to the antagonisma of socloty, and ask how far, und by what monns, (8 roconoilia tion deatrnble or posible? Ono wiy to re lo tho antngonisms of socl« oty would bo for oiie mau to rule all tho rest; to tol] thom what to boliove, and what to do, and they 1o soe that thoy obey, Hut that 1s to lose slybt of. and to lurgely dostroy, the Individunlity Or tho nuasses; (o lose or sink the Individulity, and the reuson, and the volltion of tho many in the one. Thut'in povery in religlon, and despot- Ism i0 government. 1t is Lo wear Or nttucn alt tho individual minds and bearts to the mind and heartof a Popo or u King, and have thom worked s by mnncbinery, And honeo the reonclliation of soclety can never cume In that way. And wo inust seek sume solution that will couservo the Individuality wnd tho liberty of ench ono. Anothor sufution would bo for edct ano to go of nlone und live by himself; and thon each ong could luve bis own way, But thut would end thu ruce with one generutlons or If each tumily went wlone, then we should scon have patri- archal und tribal governments und rellgions; und these would come to to une upon tha ofher, and hence to antagonize. Or, auothor sotution cloacly related to this would be for fur those who o like-minded In politics, and retlgion, and sociul Idops to associnto togethor: tu form churcties and parties, 8 18 tho plan WO 0r upon now In this uuunu‘{'. and in miny respeats it seems to work well; but the troubia Is that there pirtles und sects bave not oach & BCparate countyy n which to live In, and hence thoy touch cuelr othor; thoy may buvo their own fdens uud grlnulp'cl nmong thoritkelves, but thoy aro reluated W tho hurger body—retated to und purts of tha causo of u common country und roligion: and largur still, they ore paris of the world and of humanity, And as_such wo react u where It la nocogauty for lurgor pro- vistons: for thoso reconcllntions of axmlnxlv by which it will by possible, nut for ouo poople & gat alung, but for the whole world.—~for hutngue ity 10 do Its Lest work, Good lovks toall, ‘And now what shull wo suy? How far and by what other nieans shill wo #ook reconofllation? 1t would seom that soclety shoull not continuo tu bo eo divided, to stund 80 upart, Hut how come togethor? 1L must bia by recenallindon, or drawing, and not by force. Forco begots forco, and the only result can be olther 4 vuntinue fikht ur_tho subjugation or destruction of onc purty. Nor shouid it bo by any yielding of prin- eiple, nor ut tha expense of individunt rights and of peo Judgient, To ylold these would be to lose munhood und to havd unity m a dead or an indiiferent monotony, Wiat society wants 18 to retuin all Its houlthful variety and indsvid- wality and independence, and yet tend towards hl;un‘u grout coticlliutions that shall mako muu- nd one, Lot us lm]ulre how this sball bo dono in somo of the fickis where we have found the antag- onfems to exist. ‘Wu havo soon that the world §8 full of the nn- tagonism of thought, What shall wo do tere? Wo nust nelther repress inquiry, nor uttempt to compel bellofs, Either of those would prove destructivo of the onds of our being. Whnt wo need 18 a highoer intelligenve, kod 8 greator luve of truth. A higher [otelligoneo will enabiv all to 50U tho facts of Life ua they ure; und ns tho fucts are not AL war, us wo ahall come to sco thom a8 they ure, we shall consoquontly colgo to sou mure nearly nliko. And with tho ail-controlllng love of truth as u guiding .prinviple we shull be willing, us wa conie 1o see our orrors, to give thom up. But thig love of truth muat bo strong- er than tho love of purty or the pawer of preju- dice. It has Loen tne lovo of tlese thut hus g0 divided mankind. And when with uil our Intels Ilgonce we miuy not Lo ablo to_seo nlike, still whare euch i8 the sincere lover of truth, we shall find in thisa bund ot union, and ench will be rendy to have his theory shown to be fulse if truth roquirod it, # Whit saall wu do tn questions of government? The geconoilintion hare 18 to bo found In govern- mant selt-imposed or by representution. In tuis way wo rulo ourselves; the law 13 ju our own hupdy. Wo surrender oertuin righits; we submit to ba govarned it wo nay wlso he pro- tected, It s a inutuil cowpuot, and suclety can in this way hiwvo its laws ns wise uud ns just uy It j# capnbto of frivuing and ndministeriog. A In this way nny be wvolded the dangers of ugurpution ot authority on the one hand and of anareby or the loss of authurity on the other, And in'thls I8 to be found at luat tho soluclon of the problems that now ko trouble tho Uovern- wonts of the Old World, Thon wo bave lolt tho roliglon, Waut shail hero? 1t ono sensoe there canbono rocongilintion: ar ruthor uo ylnldmfi onone side, The growt tuws of morality or the principles of rigateous- ness can nover change. Thoy can nover coin- pound an ovil of wny kind, Thoy must stand forever g8 they are, Men must submit to thelr oundinons, und uot thoy ylold to men, Men tulk nbout breaking iho lnws of naturoor of God. They may vrouk thelr own neeka: but thoy ean never bresk tha luws, Thoy may bring ruin and death to thomselves, but tho luws ko on Just the sumo, And nny st- tompt ta comprumise jusiioe, or teuth, of Tigut in uny way must in the end bring trouble and not rest; tonfusion dud not ngrevinont. Hut ln guother sunso thore maey bo i reconelll- ntion of the contonding pucties, “I'ho differsnces of roligluus balief are to Lo recouctled by w clurer knowledyo und n decper love of truth. ‘The sumo principles wust apply equully lu re- liglon as thoy do in soivnce ur mllnsuémy. As furia wo eail wo shiould soek to know tho truth, aud tho truth “hould be suprome. And If, us must otten bo the cuse, weuanilot see alike, thon tho 8pirlt af truth should nuiko us ono; that is, the love of truth in which all should be nited, And thon 1u n'l(‘,lun moro thiu In anytning vise wo shoulil be wble to unitu (n tha common bundy of churactor, uf usofulness, ot experionce, of brotharhood. Aud thero snould be, und thary must comu, that broudor cathollolty that shall fullowship nll who love and follow the spirit and the tewchings of ounr lonl And In tany things thit bolong to tho oxpedient, and i whoion thoro is larger latitude for individual Juugmout und conacience, thoro should be i larger Hnerty. This is so, too, fu simitur quusions of elvil law and noalety, 1t applies to temperunco and to tho Sabtmth. Onu_inust nat uasumo o b consclonco fur anothor, and tha rights of all must ba reapected. And theru are B0Ine things hoere that oan he best sottled by mudorate monsures, or by those vompromisay that soom, all thitsed considered, to bu Most st toall. Lugree witn Dr. Hyder n thls, and think e ling sugwestod some wiso monauros, It s ull wrong wison suoh non ws Dr. Crosby are abised bucause of thelr houest conviotons, honestly stated. 1t Is wrong nlsu, uot to consider tha tastos and tho bubita of our forvign follow- cltizons, Wo shoukd uot foreo things, but wait for growth und moral convicdons. And nuw wo como to tha central thought of our tuxti thut to which we bave boun all tho timo tonding. It 1s this: Uhrist, tho grout roconciliog powor in socloty: or Carlst, the uton- ing or unilying power; for tho words uro tho suino In thoir raot meaniug. They mean to draw togathor, to minke of ouw mind, Lo wnlto. n this sensw, Christ uppours In onr discordant world; 1 this scuse, flo comes tnta ita loroo an- tuganisins, In this souso, Hu dtandi ut the point where the reconeiliations aro alone possinie, 1n this sonse, Ho is the world's reconcitiution, tho world’s utonumont. Ho standa for iaw, for the ovorlasting princl- ‘:MB of righteousnpss, He oxalts the luw, He onord the law, Ha (ives the lawi Ho 1 the law, the ambudiment of the very prinolples of moral- fty, Ho ls God with us, Bt whilst Ha isGod in law, He{s God in lovey God comiing tu seok und $0 save: tha Fathor coining to sve His oldron, The luw of rigbtenusnesy, thus rovuniod, cone victs of sin, and the luw ot lave, thus roveuled, mults the hwirts tu ponlence, wnd uesures the conselence, &ud cinbles the sinunor to trust; and theu the litu, the love of God Hows 1n ta ros ucatlona of morals and o tho roconllintions now the noul, to make thy heart Thus Chriat reconcli 4, und ro- uows thom in righiteuusness. And thus tle works atthe heart, &t tho centro of sucloly, maklog men right trst withing atonlug tho hoart Lo the wront luwe of rlgbtcousness and love, Then be stunds ut the ventre af the world's florco antigonismd, and wnoounces the groat doutelnw of hutman brothorhod that wo are il the children of God; that we kre of ane blood, of une nature; thut we ury bruthers, und boico shoula ifve us brothors, and luve us brothers und suifer nne fur the otbor us brothers. And around thess principles tho groat reconclliu. tiona mugt guihar, Here must be found the finer laws of (iburty and justios that ko decpor and do borter than auy ‘und all statutory liw, Horo 18 the higher law of right, of conscloico, of llving s brothors. ~And {n_ tho antagonterms of thought, , (He argues not, but announces; ductarce 'the great truths of God, of Immortality, of aflor-duaty rewarids and sutfun and then pormita the youls of mon ta svarch, to lovk, to fuquire. Hero aro the fuots, and flo kuows well that the miud and beart made for truth and love will ot forsuke thom. And wmidst the vcoontricltios uud ox- truvugauces of mankind He wont nat to the axtromes of oithor tho Prnrisous ur the Sfonus- tica, but lved 4 paro, shuplo, goud (1fe, rojoloing L the wedding, eating end drinkiug with sinners, ropruving wruufl Llyaning tttle cuildren, feeds {1 the bungry, hunling (o slck, and wooping ut the grave, And In followne thls Lo will vur world oomo to brotherhood 1ad Its grout antag- anisws will tnd reconvillution in teuth wnd juve, A THRHEFOLD RELIGION, BEEMON BY ROV, 8WING, P'rof. Bwing, pasior of tho Coniral Church, preachod yustorduy foronoon to a -largy andle ouoo, o touk for his the no ** A Tarvofold Ko ligion.” Follpwing s tha scrmon: 'ho Bon of wa cawo cating sud d = _"’.l‘fi: S ng rin king. Wo wero utl uppolated by Nature to gpoud this . Iife with p condition of mind that should mens- uro all things by means of compurison. Having seen tho rill wo Jleclary the river to be lare; from a little inland luke wo roach the conntu- slon that the occan Is vasti from tho ilttle mounda of carth In o puark or over the dend budy of n loved oo wao pass to the notion that Mt Blang 1s an elevation of awful grandour, From the materin! kingdoin man passes lntn the mantal, carrying with bim the same rod of measuremont, nud ho estitnates his principles in sclence, or in IRw, or in ethics, or in politica by comprring them with snmo contemporury tdous or ldeas whoso dimenslons aro proserved in his- tory. The greatness of English of American in- Atltutions (s n relative groutaess, tho suvages or the dark Ages helng n mombor of the Iargo nnd choering cunparison, As & oara- VAn omerges from weoks in the desort, fully oapablo of judging of the beauty of gruss and clear, coul water, 80 mai, when he attompta to measuro any ono of his forma of prosperity, places himsclf for a timo back of that ussumed good and marke in his memory tho thorny path which led him to the better resuit, Statesmen declare that a wood politienl philosophy which birings tho most hap- piness tothe most, thus measuring cach new republio by thuse dead or dying despotisms ‘which brough Its greatest good ooly totho smati- est nuniber, It In1ny wish In theso remarks to Pluce Chriatianity i1 the ndst of o great cowm- bArison that in A jreneral and most Just mauncr we may learn sumething of ita relative greats ness, If that will always bo the hest governmet which shall meet beat tho most wants of soatety, that will bo the most warthy roilgion which sball guther up into ltself the most and most Inlluen- tinl Ideus i the dopartmentof pioty, Mun is 8o complex a being that his wants are many. o revonls muntal wants, and splrltunl wants, and phyalcal wants, and under cach of these large gencoralizations thare aprings up a varioty of needs which no arithmetlolan conld ever enu- merato. A sclonce ot a philosuphy which sball picet the need of this crenture must be onu of almost infinit broudih and vlustiolty, Tho nar- rowness of the Arctie clinate unufits [t for tho home of wan, It can supply coarso ment and wirm furs, and can thus foed uod clothe I8 inbnbitauts, but [t cannot supply tho linpulso which vomes from commerce und agrls cuiture, and wechunics, and music, und nrt, sad sucial lfo. Tho cliinate s thus too snuil for man, Tha temperate zone 18 tho only parallel that has breadib enough to meet the nature of an intolligent bolug. As with olinates, 80 With religious ur politionl 1dens, thoy foust be 8o com- urehgnelve that they cun produce and nourish great indiviguuls and groat nations, Witk such f rolleeton in mind let us glunee ut threo re- ligious systems for tha purposs of warking tho suporlority of the Iast in the serles,—the ideal Christinnity of the presont. (1) The Hebrow roligion, callod genoraily for convenience Masgaisi, ot partially one bumnn need, the need of o God. It wntbored up tho floating atar-dust of polythelsm, usd muda It into a I|llflu gluobe cuiled Jobovab, It was a wondertul centrulization of u superbuman power thut onco was ditfused through all space, here bud been A mililon divinities of more or leas importunce, but undor the wand of Moses tho acuttered fragments of the divine assem- biod themse!'ves togethor and found that hol! Ono of the Tabernucly and tha Temple, thousand years were consuwmed in the gatberin, up of thiswtomized De; L wnyin birds bonats, in fimages, in sacred groves and siered fountains, in the storm in tho alf and in tho shudows of tho night, but it was luborioualy sought for through puieo aod war, and by tho timo David took up bis harp to siog u psuim or Isalah put ou sneacluth to wall o warniog or n prophecy tho, Ilrs had learned to pronounce tho one word, * God,” und the bedrt to feel that to this Oue must boolferod every saorifice und each bymn and prayerof worship,” The value uf such 4’ reaolution, of many lnto oue, of such hnratony A comlng from pogan chnos, caunot bo mousured. Thu oncness of God and tho quality of that Supreme Boing ure rellglous works 8o _great that the modern wartd must al- ways look bick tu the Hebrew nation as to tha foster-muthor of [t4 religlous sentiment. Tho Western civillzation, which now reuches from tho Mediterratican to tho towns of Oregun, cumo not “from Bgypt or ludly, or from Greece, but rathor from thase mountuins und plulng where Moses compoged lnws una Isualab ehipsodies, And yot must we not confuss thut tho rellalon of Moses wus compused 100 largely of Doity and o sparingly of man? And notot Delty jo uli tho biest velitiona of 1 God to his chlldran, but of Delty os tho King of aState. Mun's depend- onco upon his polltical surrounding Is very great. Itis palnful to read what suiforings the Bfluulu have undergone ut tho bandsol thoir overnoes, and [t isdellghtful to read what peace and success thoy have enjoyed under i Periclos, or nn Augustus, or a Vietorl, To ‘ho 1ubrow stuple much comfort eame ndeod! from tolr Jod. but L was only o comparative prosperity, for tho-true God sbould bu nore thin o King, mor thait evon n goud King, wherens tho Doty of tho lcbrews was not unly u Kiug alono but beowasan fron King, an sbivluto and sevore motrch, Tho Hubrow world in its long bistory wis not socking the Crentor of the universe, us wo 0w underatand thoso words, bt it wus sock: fug a4 monareh for tho Hebrew throne, and found i politics justend ot o roligion. Mosalsin was thus 4 perfeet “oeeting of i fow human wants, but not all these wants, not oven s weotng of sume of the largost religlous wants, Under thls Divino King, Moses and Joshun nnd thoir suceussurs beeama teerifie o tho destrucdon of wajoining tribes and in tho cnuetment und execution of domestio luws,—rosults which camo from tho study of nopartof religlon ex- cept the fdon of God; and no purt of God excopt hfs rolution to u Stutu, Tho afterceurriug phrusg in the Ol Testamunt, *’Chus saith tho Lord," roveald the dofect of that dispensiction, for they teach us that the leaders bud nevee heand the yoluo of renson or mures,—tad not attempted to tind unything in tho wind or henet, but bd been roared 1o the bellet that wli ordors must be 1ssucd to mun from the alrabove b or from a0mo sacred BLules, or Wikt como from sowe bewitehed fanutie. To seok s God Wllll\t}n.'lll lmnull fur tho children of lsruel: that from hrickyurd sluves thoy bocame tho oxilva of re- liglony, und at Iast’ founded a stute whish eelipsed tho mothor of nutlons: that thoy com- posed Inws Of groat worth,uid that thoy framed and sang paaims which bavy outlasted the liternture of tho Pharouhs are to b mattors of erputunl aduirition: but Mosalim wis dos eetivo [ that it suughitonly the word wnd powur of ‘God, and_not the word and power of wan, Tho *'Thus suith the Lurd " | u pbruso which deponds for M8 truth und pawer upun whitt mun, and woman, aud obild are sayiug i the lund whero thut order from tho sky {8 raln- ing down. When Joshus wont galnst tho mil- Jolning tribes with sword, and souar, und toreb, und ditt not sutfer svon mu ntunt to live, tho words, *'Thud salth the Lord,” were too nurrow, for Gud permits His childrou to spenk, und, in- doed, the bust volee of (Jud I8 that. which I8 ut- tored by the tours Of & mother or by tho ftng- cont oyes of o bubo, Musilsin was too mueh the religlon of u monyreh wd too little e religion of man. [thelped fushion 8 sucoesdtul Stato, bt it botrays (ta inadaguacy 10 tho fuet that at tho end of i thoudand seuars tt coukl produoy such strangom to human rights A3 David and Holomon, ind sich sublime writers us tsainh und hut whoso warnings and tears were poured aut, not ovor mith but ovor the trovblos of the natlon, In many particulars it wis n rellglon which onutted mankind. It rosumbled Chlvinism in boing tho religlon of only a mon- arch. 1t {8, indood, ditioul tn dotine tho simply wonl rollglon. No terin {s fu more constant uso, and yot not many words ann equal 1t in dolving o oluar oxplunation., Wo feel positive, howavor, at last that -1t stands for a lango quuntity of thoughts, nnd oxporionces, and sonthinonts, ‘wnd 18 undor a piinful vctipss whon it I8 only tho stattito of i Hiate, for man §v broader thun hls couutry. A pation niowds & fov great laws, but in tho tind und boart thoro st b found po- oulise muditations about lire, und duty, wnd douthi thore oharity must km-‘. burnlig tha tomple-tiros of 1 pepotund fove; thore penitenod must shed teara; thore honovolonco niust bloss ull and tendorness forgiva ull, and thore too mUAL FBLITT CVOrY TORE U8 11 prsses ulong the droam of un exlstence buyond tho bhenomonon of doath, Nuounwoean fully formulnte reliyion into olther dootrines or dutics. As woll undes- tuko to wako a philosupby out of love or out of the ninbition of the stuilont or the staiesman. Heligion luys down doctrines just as arobitecty put down the deep foundatlons of & tenple of Hrt or plety, but ua abovo thosv foundations the arohitect beglus to introduee thousund foems ol thought and sentiment of which the foundations know und cars nothing, so rolurdon, by vlufil t- torod Its geont prinviples, ndvunces hoydid thom nid erontes un lndividual wortd too vurled und o rivh to bo embraced (0 any detinition or du- orlption, Undur sach doiinition of rollglon Judalsn lalls short, 1t discovored a King [or u nution, but it did not divoover ma! “The tiobrew (aith of to-duy resembles that of tha Puntatcuch un moro thun the aress und ‘home of Bolomon won'il tow rosemblo the vuince und toilets of Vietoriu's bousstiold, Oue Rubrow cltlaona aro not furiher trom the tamb oF Moses thun they uro frow bis thongutd, W ureall borno awity from tho pust by drins not tho loaw powoerful from being fuvisible, Inio tho Judainn Of tosday bas prssid the wpirit of Coristinnity without tho eanhimtl dugmn; Jist i the spirit of Nberty I8 croepnig Inlo coutompuniry nutons without bty utteaded by any torinl overtarow af old fmunties o ol threones, 'Pho ronl Soanism died wven bufure th wilvent of tho greut Neza- rono, Home und Grovee hid tostixod it with their newor thougtit, Chriat Himsol! reaohed s manbood In w tiine whicn lund tully begun ta wish for somothing brouder wnd swoster than tho 1AW of Slosew us seon in tho dying romnants of the Hebrow race, 'Thy prmeoittiuns of the Jows buye coma not from thelr ewswmblanca to tha mgo of Mosss but from el denlal of tho divine nature und mission of Jusus, This ly tho denfal that bus bold them for ehtoon conturiss t0 the menory of thelr Jorusalem und which hus axposed theu to the pussions of Thosw lenoraut Coriatinns who Bave sttompted to pleasu God by tortaring the carmios oF His Son, Modvrn Hobrewlsm 18 no tlonger tho religion of Moics, ho Ualviniate und the Puritany uro tho lutest wtforts of man 1o glve back o clvilizition tho peoullar thealogy walch ugos igo laid (e busis af the Juwish wtute, Modern Holiwewism I3 un ol plant desply ulféoted for the buttor by a uuw clmate und w now cuitlvation, and is not the Judaléw introduoed hero lu this lowson of cow- arison We bavo 6een that the religion of the Pen- tateuch wud uarrowed ot voly by buing slwnly . [ tho rellgton of Uod rathor than of man, but 1t ] was made narrower stlll by belng & study ol God only as baing tha Mounareh of ‘a Htate, " Let us noto now A defoet In that Eastern veligion which so desply marked antlquity, India, prt‘ and even the best nen of Groeee, 1t wan nl through and thruugh a one-sidod and ohscure philosophy of the soul. It separnted the soul ront the body, nnd Indacd frow nli the nifalrs of the carth, und If Mosaism blundered by hewg only the fint of An nbsolute monarch, the Oriental falths have committed as had an error by boing blind partisuns of the human spirit. Although much of tho dianourse and literature of that fat-nl world 18 confusod as & voluma of atnoke rolling up from s bUrnIng oity, yet wocnn discorn everywhoro tha effort to deprealaty tho body and all ‘the oarthly affairs and an equul offart to induce min te beliove that his mantel pire, was eising ke “an cxuwlation o At Inst ubsarbod (oo an wpper and moro diving | substance, Hupp thoy who could trent tho physicil. waorld with tho most berteot contompt, “I'0 huld up an nem until it had withored from finpeded circulation and Mause, to Ataro At tho aun for montns until the eyes wero ruined, to bu a be; gar from choico that tho bidy mivht this bo nun’hr. that It wis worthy of only the poorest of faud and ol that ooly av uncortain titnes, to seorn ono's kindred and to fargat the mnthor who guve thein Life, wors some of tho shape § tukon by this worship of the soul. Tha hook called *Tho Light of Aaln* 18 n colloction {n- deed of the sunboama which fell tor thousands Of yours upan tho nutlve land of our race, hut, 1f the poetic mind were w8 tund of suundiig tho nhyrs of darkness ar of marking tho rinlianco of light, Mr. Arnold eould himself produce i compunion volumu on *The Drkness of As," and the two books would seein Inseparabilo, liko the "Day' and ** Night" uf Thorwaldson, It wus tho far-reachtng shadow of old Asia that struck with deuth sumo of the Uroeks and Rum- ans, and that marle early Christlanity found (ta orders of hermits and anchorites, and monks and nuos,—a sbhadow which has not yut wholly litud itsolf from one great branch of the Chriy- tin muititude, Buddhlam, tho grontest of the Eastern falths, and whioh (8 ucceptad by KOKKN af mortuls, Isono uf the most confused theories about the sonl evor written down by tho mind, saie or infnng. awake or nsleep. Ita primo doctring Is that Nuturais an fllusion, a vRCuUnL ni un- reafity, a nightmare, and that inan and tho vils worm aro poysieally upona tovel, Man's morit and bappiness will “begin when ho shall escapo from tho flesh And rise to joln Nirvuna. The sottl {0 wau I8 llable to be rohdra at death in n low heato or roptile, and only nn absorption Into Nirvann wili stop the w.mdurmF of the epirit, Out of this entanglod muss of dogmis— Intermingled Howers und weeds, whero thore ura n thousand weeds for one sweot Slower—sprang up ceramontes without ond, & mytholugy ity bad as thut of the interlor of Africa, n transcens dentalism compared with whose darknuss that of Plotinus was n perfect noonday, and thore came k4o a priesteralt which bus held the mtll- fons In a horrid bondage, phyaical and Intetlect- ual. Out of that rellgious swamp swarmed thy monks, and, uscotics, snd torturors whicl, having helped to ' ruln il tho Eust becatme the plague of Chrlstlunity in ull thoss centuries when the caves and tho woods wero full of starving and monning aud eeawling saints. A youth studying tor the Budiduisi priesthoad must nut study much truth; he must eut only the crumbs from the table of his supuy- riors; be must live near (e roots of troes; he muss wear only A soiled gurinent, and It must be in rags; he must not drink pure water: he must not remove his elothiag nt night; he must bnve no property, but must beg bis dally support. Buch ure tiie fingl ravinge of that relirion which made the soul as sepnrated from the hordy its es- pecial cure—n roligion which touched with death Buman Industry nnd all the passiona nnd nmbi- tlons whict were planted in the bosni ta e tho Inspirution of this beautiful world. 1f tho East waus tho crud|u ol tho human race, thls Huddhisin. al forms, bus donwall it coull to ma tho aame Knet hecoino nlso tho geavo of the rio Huat a retlgion to be of valug must not be an In- cubus, sltting heavy as lron ou tho breast, mnat not bo a sloop of the individual and of tho uge. but It must bu ns spirmg as martisl musie, ul all bours buranguing uod Seading and_chooring tho murching neny, There 18 4 geoup ol paasions whichare nobleand powerful. Atbition, the tove of knowledye, tho love of sell, tho love of jrope erty, the tove of God und of friends, of home, the lovo of eouutry, the love of the beautiral, the iove of plessure, the Jnexpressiblo attuchinent to life, aro feclings of divine quality, and those aro the motive powers of bumunity,” Thore can Dbe no great manhood, no great nation, o great apoeh Whora thesw passiony ure frownwd down fn o publlo philosopng or pewotiooe. A rellidon which ennuoot let fall {ts benediotion tinon thes powerful emotiuns ean hever b anything but u degrndution of mankind, Unon (ts nltar we need cast oo flowers, hefore it woneed not kneel 10 repent i pray 1t ean do nothing for man excopt baston bis mental and phvsleal decline, Humanity needs somothing better, Let us hope that romething bettor bas come, After clghtcon bunired yedrs of o new dispon- Bation onve passud away Wo should now be pee- mitted to place Christinnlty down $i the midst ot the world's reflilous group, and to ke at onec that (t 13 tho broadest, amnd henee most npplientle of ull faitha, Moativm was the stwly of Gol; Buddhistn o study of tho sout. Christiunity lsn threotold rellgion.—n Kty of Ginl, and of the soul, knd of tho earth,—the plllln!mmlv that loves the body, tho spirit, wnd the Defty, Ite Founder “18_callel * the Son of God and the Son of wman, because He belongel to both worlds at once, Ile cumo entig and drinking, beeauss ml tho pleasures of the curth are luwful plessures, He ciume pray lng and teuching beenuse the relwlous wnd spirituni things of man are us absalute s ure the corn and the wine. Ho wus ns willingly present at u marelage ns In tho temple of worship, San of mun, Ho was a symbol of all the perfeetion ot humuin nature: for tho word 8o’ stands tor the youth, the love, the buoy the cathir, slisin, the hope, the full pow tho raea, the boginning of vur ern thore was ponred inte roligion this humenso fumnn element. 1o the lehrow woses ndespotic, irresponsible King: In Hfimtoolsm we gsee i elond of 8ok called the soul; in the opening ol our ern ncurtaln rises and man, beautitul (n Lody nud soui, uppears-in tho presonce of Ono 10 loiger o Monnreh but o Heavenly Friend: fur o calls man i and louking up Earth retuena the atfeerlol recoanition by suying Our Father, 'There i8 no contempt for eiri i any part of this thoory of the new era. I Itomnunian 1he wscetiolam of Egyptlan and Asjatie ans v Atill tinwers and stowly fudes and e Calviniam thore ewme nzain, 1o Hve foz ho rataliam of Indla and Grecees but ln Christlanity, pure and simple s it cae trom Jesus, il tho mentnl und emotional pawers ol man can take refuge and find new lite, 1t ono of tho uiost perfect blondings over yot seen of body snd soul und Deity, of enrth and Heaven, of crndlo and ygrave and resurrection Jt4 lawa v the laws of " Nature. 1t Nata i commanded man to cat, thia taith nsks for no starving snints; IF Naturo blds man to tol, thi retlglon does not command 118 dovoteos to live by bogwary; If Natero nas Jmplanted ambition und 1ove [ the mind, this piety coummonds those who kneel nt 113 altar to go feam thoiv prayer to tho arenn of Jawful contest, and to abjects of rationul love, fludithi b, all wesee Is “un- roulity, lllusion, vieuity.” Christlunicy mverses all thoso terms, and makes man feel that lifo i~ &0 reul, $0 full, a0 great (hat by vor th tiqull and In time, fultuo: churacter Jt t5 a8 Lrond us wnn, thilit the State, fur tho State hus no pootry, wo romanco, und snys nuthing of it country b the tomb, It 14 kmply ns wido us all tho bimnn riee, for it smlles upon’ tho Industeies, the literatures, tho arts; it remindy man of hi: wroutness und destings 1t s him with tende ness aml puathos, and thus helps bulld his tem- plog and plunt the vines by hia cottage, Comlng vomy u 8un of 3lun, no bumin intecest I8 ot from bes solloltude, Tmpedoed at times by the remunats of old Faganisu e in doctring and in coromonies, and ot timos batiod by niholsm or commaon unbellef, it 8o moots tho wunts of the humnn rea thit (6 woulid weoin thut auy howrt is justitled i1 the thought thit thly mll‘{lnll I yuut by your escaping from ull the old delays, und i~ approsching & truth and simplicity of doctrine aud n groatuess of result whileh ahutl fad no parallel ln all the old blood-staluod puges of Telfglous history, CATARRII CURL. a Swallowing Poison. Swallowiug and intuliug the noxlous inpuritios generatod by Catnern, podeah 0L ulono (N nas Wnu, but tho stoninch and lunds No tusrely Famuiy, Ik dodenienand Insojutile anuts, G wibly runch or orudicaty e vir Cutirrlt, ‘Pts faot explains U He Meye il ~ LWEEI, B4 YHCCUTO YIEWS 13 L) bra- pracadunted salo with uis- ra vouuHmatl-lox, s un; Jetied tentlumaniala teuin i y thousatids who ns i © Loen eured by this i Iy Cura the most nporunt - ol e L wha liy sut- Hon 4 &4 N Clarkaat.. 1X ywatw 1did st broith throuh s until & usd Wol by Moyur's Catargls AL B Wheupy, drs sari, b m o ] i 1L Rentarod o L . A, Blew, ol afrin 1 DL e, G A S is tmloil il res nib e, MISCELLANEOUS o, {DR. LUCAS, 183 mouth Clurkat, Hered by tha Hiate ul Tilinuia for the 4spec; acluntitiu, uiid spuody e’ 0l BEIVALS, N0V OUR LRI I, w0d Briuury dbuasos. COnIUILLIOE Trow Huuih | B, 10 % WBU Y L0 6 b DUALTA 1 B 12 b ol ¥ THEEIDR. KEAN, Aupavt 173 Bouth Clark: Chicago. 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