Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1881, Page 6

% 6 YHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 9, 1881—TEN PAGES. RELIGIOUS. Meaning of the Last Supper, from a Unitarian Stand- point. Some Hopeful Views of the Mise sionary Problem in Foreign Lands. : The Wonderful Life of the Soul —Sermon by the Rev. L. P, Mercer. Changing Moral Evil to Moral Virtue the End of the Christian Religion. A Chinose Funoral In| Now York— Heathen Rites and Christian Ceremontes. Inatallation of the Rev. EH. 0. Oggel Pastor of the Westminster Church. THE LAST SUPPER. SERMON NY THR NEV. GEORGE MIEN The Rey. George Miln preached to tha usual inrgo congregation tn Unity Church yesterday morning—communton Sunday. His text was: Thia do in remembrance of me.~—Lawie, all, 19, Thus spoke tho leniler of that little band whieh had assembled In a stranger's, hottso tokcep the most sacred of Jewish teasts— the Passover, It was nsolemn moment. aA hush lad fallen upon lis companions, A trator lind Just gone out to complete his accursed bargain with the chief priests, and tho shadow of the cross was already upon Im who was to be lifted up, though the rest knew It not. They werens men op pressed with an Indefinnble torboding of un: foreseen but terrible calamity, and He awaited with sad but ealm expectancy the dooin before Him. It was at this pathetle and thrilling movement that he broke breni and gave it to cach of thom, say- ing. Do this In remembrances of me? Aud thatsimple injunction nas circled and re- elreled the globe. ‘The rite then established has entered every land. ‘The word then ut- tured fs still obeyed’ with enger dolight by inyriads of Christinn souls. Why Is this so? He who spoke that word was possess of no authority to enforce It He was poor, He was powerless, He was unpopular, In- dev, If ono had looked throughout Judea jast then to flud aman of all others whose nano would be first effaced from the pago of history or montioned, 1€ nat all, with mingled pity, and derision, he would have selected Jesus of — Nazureth,—an idenlist he fi on generntion of realists,—n dreaner, Mke Joseph, ae men not given greatly to dreams or mystl clsam,—an Impractical reformer, proposing ‘Utopian scheines ton, community self-sute fielent and compliatsants ina word, atrouble- Some fellow in society, and one far more likely to by consigned ‘to exeeration thau to the reverence of posterity, We must then lonk beneath the surface of hé life which Ile llved in Judea aid Galilee ta tind the seeretof Ills continued and ine erensing glory, “And when we do this we discover a two-fold explanation of Ils per= petuated fame and Influence. First, Me was undoubtedly the greatest religious teacher tho world had ever seen. There was, tn all Fle taught, not only an af. firinative ric throughout, but the character: istle of universality as well. He first Intd the basls of utuiversal rellglon—ot a relige fon to be prescribed by limits no less exten sive than the boundaries of humanity, ie enunciated in elear and ringing tones dues trines only faintly Hsped before, Me hanged “Thoty shalt not’ into “Tio shalt.” 1Le rent tile speechless heavens, Ile revealed God to min, 13 Ue universal Father—our Fathor and fis, Ue ascended beyond tho burriers of creed and rece, and taught in uunistakable terms that priceless truth to which huntnlty is ouly now awakened,— the brothertioud of man.” Tle tangit that fit rallity and virtuy are better vossesstons Ulin arrogatice and view, Tle jald the foundations of solely in pure, morality, and He It was that kindled a blaze of glory in the portals of othe graye itself. In the language of Renan, hid none too friendly biographer, “ Hastirted the world Ina rection,” and tn that di rection It still moves. ‘This of Itself wan account for Is fang, Ho was werent ton er—we sny the grentestof teachers,—and, al- though partially understood in Tis own thues aud country, He las been since, with wonderinl uni nits been awarded tha highest place in the Temple of Fame. Butthis, taken by itself, does not sulll- ciently aveount for the continued and mighty. sway Witell he still exerts over the hearts of nen, Phuto was 0 great teacher, so was Con- fuclus—one of the greatest; and fo was Buddha, But none of these ever kindled the flame of enduring devotion aniung thelr tullowers that Jesus tas. Chey were all ad- tairable and adaired; but name one of uheu Mf you ean—mark the challenge l—who still conthiues to evoke cifectlons so tender, KO pure, 60 romantle, and, withal, so ungtench- able, ‘ag Jesus stilt wins from the least of his disciples, Aud Laccount for thls, dear friends, by saying that the elilet appeal of Jesus is to the affections of minn rathor than to fanatl clsm and race pride, He places love at the basis of loyulty, “If ye love Me, keep my commandments? To makes love the bonit of, brotherhoud—between His diselplus. © This is my_ commandment, that ye love ane another as T have Joved you.” “Nor did It end in precept. “Greater Jove hath no man than this, thata man lay down his lfo for Dis friends.” And He fay down Tis. Ovo easily supplies tho silence of the wirecorded years of Ills life with deeds af loving kervica to Stis mother (the gentle Mary), to Ills father (tho | venera: ble Joseph) and the companions of Als childhood and youth; to the feliaw-wark- men of the carpenter shop In| Nazareth. How helpful, haw gentle would Ig be whose Gospel ways not forgetful of a falliog spare row! And when ut lust Ie broke away from the village home and wont forth Into grent wort miulstering and to minister, how lovingly He sought out the erlppled, tha poor, the Ingane, the leper, ntiswering for all fines the auestion, Who is my nelighuor? and Himself onacting avery shity the part of Aiisown ideal Samaritan! de Jatd down His Ife for Uis friends, Yea, Ie gave It up constuntly to deeds of unrequited, Kindness, He brought Nght to eyes that sa soon forget to render pick love und erititude to Film. Yeu, He ylelaed up His Nfe nt last on Calyary that the pleture, might be complete of a life god- Ike and beautiful, espuullt {ta energies and sneriicing Its Joys for the youd of all whom He came for,” ‘Thls was the pring ob- ject ot that famous scene upon Mount Cal- ‘Ye And there [s withal a tender romauco sur- rounding the very name of Jeausin the hearts oftmen, It ty tho synonyin of wel f-nbnogn- tlon—the equivalent af “devatian atul soll forgot{ul Jove, Jesus} the name that chars our fears and bids our sorrows cease, Vig musio in tho siouer's car, ‘Tia life, and bealth, and peuve, Here, then, wo have the scerct of Ils in- fluence aver the hearts of wen tony, He More than any other wits the deal tencher of pure morality and true religion, and, at the sulve tine, [fy appeals to Lhe affection of the heart. And because mon are stil stirred most easily through thelr affections, the ite veal of Jesus to thatside of thelr nature ts most powerful, As a teacher they ndimire snd revere hla; a friend, they devotedly love diims By these two fucts, then, sluple as ‘They seem, du we account for the porpetwa- ton of this shnple rite, commonly known as. the Lord's Supper, ts Well ng for the potent Sudluence whieh the Christlan system still ex- erty throughout the earth, Ani if we seek for the motive of Jesus in Mnstitutlog this rite, we shail find it with equal ease. Jesus knew men Knowing jen, Ho knew the effervescence of human Jove, Knowing uuat, Ho foresuw the need of & perpetual remtuder to keen alive Ibs nome and fame lu the earth, ‘hers Isa tne dn Shakspeare which will deht up this thought for us—Ainlet'y tronieal rejoinder to Ophelia, utlected by reference to bls father’ deaths “lwo months dead, and not for gotten yet. ‘Then there ts hope; a great qwan's memory may outlive his jife half o eer j,buk by *r lady, he mitst build churches . he must bulld churches if be would Ilve jn the changetul and ~. awift-paced thought of ion, hospitals, or schools, it matters Uttle which, perpetuate uames wiiich would otherwise he soot forgotten,—tinmortalize la brick and inortar those who woul soon sink Cron bus nan thought. And yet to bulld ehurches sliuply to live tn the thought of nen! Could anything be loss noble than that? A valine Flarleus desire to be cousplouots after death: s certainly ag unworthy ns that vanity whilet expresses Itself In extravamint frivolitics during Hfte. Buta desire to porpetuate one’s Intluenge because that Jifinence ling been no- ble ant elevating—n dosire to rend one's name in the heart's of meth, Haat tinge hearts may be made and kept pure by this presence there,—than this no desire 13 less selfish or more trully worthy. And tls was the mo tive which filed Jesus, ‘This was the ino- tive which lay buck of the {nstitution of this rite which we know as the Lord’s Supper. - Jesus believed in Uinself. Unppy ts tho Churehes ving mysterl ‘he answer is In the toxt, and means Uhat we mast approach Elim in state, enter Into THs mode of feeling and thinking. and follow Its oxample, wo would know whore the Lord dwells we nus Jeave our habitations and enter Uls hablta- tion, If wo would see Hin as He Is wo quast onter Into is ways of life and become ko tn. 2 The world of tho soul 1s what that aotl’s experience makes it, and oxporionce A therefore, to every soul {ts only final test o truth, EC wish to illustrate this propoaltion and Jead on to the supremo lesson of faith, that the Lord lings not given us this wonder. ful history of redemption to be studied as an anclent Hterature, but to be lived over In each ono of ts in tha successive states of our fAshermeh, and Paul, preaching and tent- making, ‘Yd not comprehend that the ovents it which they wero taking part would catry thelr contury Into thos foremost place In the Turht df biatery. Tt inight prove'ntise that the present ne should prove worth dt llgher Mghts of timo, and tt would bo well for Christisns to rise above tho dust, turmoil, and discouragomonts of dally life and take up witer-ranges and bot- ter thtugs, Infant Christlanity grow from the cradieintha manger until It occupied the throne of the Ciesnrs, and it night well bo that the events in this century imight ree no equal jievelonment aig that great ee eae ee init oe hugs Wero to be seoii and heart, y ‘At eee Litung the vell at the past, ‘und looking | Pits whataworkt It ts! | tt ts the onl " world wa know, ‘The old philosophers used back to the first contury of the Clirlstlan era, | to call man a’ microcosm, a Nettle Imaco the inettaments and dark and his temptation menn, lite significance of inan’s fall. lows vatiral affections to jdolatry of of Abraham to forsake hls botter Jand and a better offaprin Tle who allows hiinself to realize anc toll of spirit, which belon of the God nw hig pulses, will man that ean fig that He, Pefinned § in IDs ihe world, so anlielt af it ngs wis elvillzed. a ot inlversas hays anaes Heh: ty alups ne the Aitderncas eau. at tions vie nilaslon, le bellevedt thi e hid Ne Wily, all, wi seen to jon o! ie robably imenn! My ~~ | rend ie aright le story oO! edem the truth, and the Ife. 1ubelleved thatonly ae ha tiler. the daminath thal oPNntiied is tho Immense shadow | tlon rns through the whole, of man” and her phenomena tho " painted vicissitudes of the soul.” ‘Tho soul makes its own world, and draws around {Itself as 9 mirror of {ts states presont, past. or loped for. Wado this by unconsclousty throwing the coloring of changing moods upon the In- animate objects of Nature. We clothe thom with our own feolings and emotions, and viow thom as tinged with the hues of our own minds, ‘Tho play of a thousand pas sions which culminate in joy or grief to the soul, their Nghts and shadows, thelr bright or sombre colors on the objects around us, and Nature scent elthor to sympathize with otit mouds of Joy or sorrow, or to reflect the contrast with’ other states, when that con- trast is most keenly folt. When some in- ward jdy lights up the soul all Nature wonrs”’ @ gayor garb; tho sun Js brighter, the grass greener, tho flow- ers fresher, the birds sing with now y i. Stiris. ns men are morally pire and spiritnally tie. Ha Gharets were ero and the Chiels eitially designed for yout ean thoy ascend into fellowship with | 4, . the Father Of spirits, He believed In, Ills gnelathor, Nation milygion to bring men Into these conditions of life, not only by precept, but by example. Conviction despened within Him ns the yeats went on, tll toward the cloaeof His career wo hear Jin say, “I havoe a baptleat tu bo bapttzeel with; and how, am 1 strattened HITit be accomplished.” But now Ils life was to abruptly end, and there was much to do. ‘The fleld of operation wns so vast, and He had stirred a rt ple at the shore when he would have wrought the world into the fury of the tempest, that, presently subsiding, it nilght be fess stagnant and corrupt. And, 23. Thaye said, the shadow of the cross was al- ready upon Him, Life was to end in afew days, ‘The grave, in which no man could work, was nirendy Beckoning Hint with its shadowy finger. And 80, still {ppealing to tho affections of the men avout ttm, Ie in stitutes the slinplest of ull religious ceremo- nies, and asks them, wheh they break bread together In the future, to think wpon Hs broken Iife and upon the shedding of His blood. Could thore be anything nore totteh- Ing? Could there be anytiilng more sweetly simple? And how dilcult It ts to recognize the elaborate ceremonini of the mass ns th outgrowth of this slinple scene, ¢ But what L wish you to espectally mark at this point {s the far-secing wisdom of Jesus in thus fostering the suntimental devotion of Illy disciples to this outward and yisible seene, Asn sentiment it would have shared the fate of other sentiments,—that, is, 16 would havo del or undergone metanor: plosig so complete ng to be entirely separ- ated from His name, but, united to the sint- plo rite, Lis name and Ills Gospel still Hvo with the promisy of increasing power, And itis In this commemorative sense that we re- member this rite, and in this alone. But it Is often urged tipo us that we Nberal Christinns, so-callud, have ne right to practica it; that ng a form It is dias been separated and Ja, and isolated by differen eae ena and life, and it was the inistow d¢- ome to brank down by cOnmEAL all these Ilnes of domatea- tion, For yoats before tho coming of Christ Rome had been oceupled In this work, and the result was a wonderful intermingling of nations, tot a conglomeration of different peoples, but etomoxencous empire. ‘Thus was the world prepared for tho spréall of Chetatinulty, i The speaker quoted from distingulshed wrilers to show how trade, commerce, tt, and science had been extended by reason of the spread of Roman power and donilnton, Rome became tho grent distributing centre of tendo of the world, and hand in hand with the extension of her commorce went her lnws and dnatibutions.. dfen heennie Recuatomed to Customs: ane ey ta SOMO Jae, ere ees valrtity or when tho soul Is darkened with velve the Iden of a Heavenly Kingdom relgn- | gome heavy grief tho landseapa siniies to ing over all, jonger, the wind only sighs in tho foliage, As it was In those days, so ibis now. Com {tho birds yp Korqotten “and tha ishalows pared with the force of Protestant Christiaut- lengthen.» When our souls are full of lnno- ty to-day the power of old Rome, great ns cent susceptibility to mental perceptions and AE was, amounts to comparatively noth | delights, grand and beautiful forms strike ing. ‘The English-speaking nations are | Upon our senses with Keenest pleasure, and the conquering and colonizing peoples, the wondrous panorama unfolds tu our an ant to thom ts introsted the | monting delight; but absorbed in some self- task of spreading the Gospel and bearing tho gealiing pursuit we walle Enrougls the leo gind thdings of sulyntion to all lands, China | fel Fee ae era e ee HAE Crude thie and Japan have been opened to the world by | 84¥ these appearances nie MOL ERGs i ‘die Christian mations, und not all tha march of | scenes aro the samo, only ous scoine is dit Tuine in its palmlest days could comparetor | ferent, Ldo not dispute that, for It does not an Instane with the grand tush of commarea iter Hie {hot WEE Ane AbD cArNNeD is roal to tid cotonization of the present time, Coun hae tries of which Augustus Cwsar nevor heard | ;,Secand, the soul makes Its own werld in and never dreamed tind beon opened up, | the actual impressions and changes of form Islam {3 tottering to (ts fntl, and Christianity | Which man tnduces upon natural objects. hos learned more of Africa within the past | We mold and transform thant vt pletsure, quarter of a century than: In 8,000 years bo- and render them responsive to our states of fore, ‘The world hns walted 4,000 gears to | Body or intud, and sugecstive or reflective hour the ruler of Ching say that the Flowery | by thelr outward appearance of auch states Land counted herself s nation among na- | ourselves. ‘The thoughts and affections of within, Ce, CIVILIZATION. Who knowsth tho op ward ond tho spirit of the beast Som earth?” shall have becume dust. “That which the soul come first in thelr outtlow in con- empty and meaningless to. those who have Les ear world ‘Aer tact with :the body of flesh, molding ft al- eminence over tho beasts.” Out of this sober exclinnyge the comivereitt for the moral the | foun colleges, iad China and Jn- | Ways to thelr own shapes. “The syayins ot soltoney. wi wise nut soon since at ory of the ntonement hy, BOY tte frients, 4 ho Invisible soul by love or hate, by joy seeing the real upward movement of man he Who reauri us_ny aving sudiy departed | BUY cumpeting | for tho | learned mou i Lage Of Western nitions as Instructors of thelr } ptlef, by hope or feer, become at once Visita youth, ‘Chis breaitng down of raco-preju- | 1! dice Is not yet complete, but 1s guing forward with a momentim which the Roman Empire never saw. When Christ came the world wits at peace, and the Templo of Janus was from the faith once dellyered ta the saints, and who tre constantly looking toward 14 with affectionate solicltude—why do you cling to torn the historic sense ‘of which you have discarded? And that question du- serves and shall hive, 1f wo can. give ft, 0 Wcountanance and gesture and audtble in tones and speech, But it dos not end hore, ‘The goul uses this plastls body to sculpture and photograph {ts desires’ and thoughts in inaterinl forms; flows out Hito tho oxterlor ments, losed. It cannot be sald that there aro now | World and impresses itsoll by Its industrial | spirit which tonds upward, and is thus dis- falr reply, ‘Co answer It we slmply need’to | 7 f 7 and fine arts. Man tums the forest into * Atata that our conception of the historic sense no ware, Dut the ware of the present aay de frultful fields, tho wilderness into a garden, | tnguishable from tho entire brute world—a of this rito is: Hirst, as to the lle | the Gospel by opening up new. territory. | te rivers }, he | reflection which makes mo ask the question: into new channels; Ina wo! will shape his entire surrotndings Into corre- spondones with his affections, culture, tastes, nid finpulses of usefulness, Theso things are the otitbirthof tho soul from the fret that the prevalling artand industry of a peo- pie and a moneration rotlect the social state of that people and generation. Ench soul has this impulse to linage its Individualities orits surroundings, Lndeed, all our worldly: struggle 1s te overcome opposing conditions sud image ourselves in artand Nature, and the reason wo do not perfectly succeed Is that soclety Is ina mixed condition, and be- toric sense uttnehed to this rite by the Roman Catholic or by the Greek Chureh, it is ours ty say cantidly that wo entirely re- piidiate it. “This fs in no sense a sacritive to us. Itisitimenl. Nor do we belleve in any kense or to nny extent, however slizht, in the doctrine of transubstantiation, ‘The bread and wine tro to tg stich As We use on our tables,—not one Jot or tlttle holler, ‘Thus far we stand then in line with united Protestant. ging and iLasked, Why do you still cling to forms tho historic sense of which you have jeft behind, our only nnswer shall be, Why Conquerers nowadays operate ih Wall street, rathor than upon” tho battlefleld, and 4 ctecent resuect for Bute opinion pinces = Kings and SN DETOrs on thelr good behavior. ‘The Roman systum of highways was grand, but the Roman roads were only footpuths compared to tho railronds of modern times, ‘The incr who build railroads and telegraph lings build better: than sey know; they areas a voice vsying in the wilderness, “Prepare yo the wiy of the Lord; minke Mls paths straight.’ society, enjoymentof heavenly things with the stron; persuasions of sensunl nature may know what tho serpent and realize the IIe who nl- Igelf to own. tho tendency in fils these ol- frets. And contrasts with this the call of Divine truth to the service of Cod and Mdility to duty, may realize In lilmsetf what the ca hls kindred fora slantiled. ha anxiety ton moroly natural life of slovery, to worldly alms: antl imaxting, and contrasts with this the messnz truth, calling him to tha service of fer theatra of itao, and sees In IMimself the solf-will and conceit and barren- ness of good which oppose iis better tn- know whit Israal’s slavery In By pt, the leadership of Moses, and the hard: at it is finpossibie to unter into auy realization of the world without or the worlil of liuman and Divine life, except by Hving It how shall_a inan_ know where the Lord dwolleth? Tho answer is, “Come and ace,’ sant ont a World uf possibility the soul BERWON NY PROF. SWING. Tho beautiful simmer morning yesterday brought out n large number of worshipers, and good congregations wero the rile at all the churches, At the Contral Church Prof, Swing preached on the query, * What Is Cly- Mization ?” Following is the sermon in full: irit of nan that gooth up- it woth dowaward toward thocarth?—Ecclesiaates, ill, 21. In an hour of distrust the author of the book of Ecclesiastes asks, “ Who really knows anything nbout that spirit of man which tins such on upward tendency, and who knows anything about that mind of the beast which looks downward toward tho The common Impression Indeed provalls, that man Is a high kind of being and will climb In this world, and dying will riso toa new hight; and thore is a common impression that the benst looks down for his food and will always go downward until he But who knows the real state of the caso? It may bo thnt all of man’s Jooking up will be labor and hope lost, and that he will meet at last in tho com- mon dust tho brute, which looked down. befatleth the sons of men bofalleth bensts, one thing befalleth thom, Qs tho ono dieth so dicth the other, they have all one breath, so that man hath no pre- drew a conclusion as to the whole of human duty—to fear God and keep His commanda- ‘This old meditation Is able to awaken in our far-off time the. reflection that man isa What is civilization butan accumulation of the many forms of this upward progress? Civillzation Ig the result of obeying the com- mandments of God, or the natural laws of In our century, which surpasses all Its predecessors in tho convicYon, at least, that it has found a high condition of human. welfare, a special study might well be made of the term clvilization, that we all may know whit {s the prize of national and per- ot yy have you discarded the historic sense tt. end American Linned of Eoralge Aftaatans cause the soul is often at war with itself, Ane he be per cat won. tached to this rite by a Rotwish Church | aries by telegraph in twenty-four hours. ‘Tho wanting things for wrong ends, t { H . confesgedly more anelent than yours? But | whole commerco of old Home. for ayear | _‘Tiitrd), we ean see how it must bein the | /s iy own Impression we fe. farther than this. We repudiate alte- wether that concuption of the Lord's Supper founded Upon the commercial theory of tho atonsment. We do not belleve—we say It calmly nid advisediy—that one Godt died to uppeaso another, We do not helinve Ina contract between two Deltivs, the result of which Is that one of then Is riuthlesly slain ty exalt the Justices of the other, « We do not believe ‘that sstvation is purehnsed by the twony of Jesus us cloth is bought with money, And if this fy one of the hlstoric Toundations of this rite we repudiate It, Dut we elatn, and we would do it witht all moilusty, that we arg loyal to the historic senge of this rite.” We go back of Murtln Luther, We go back of the Popes, We xo back of afl the Couuctls,—Nicean, Constuntl- nople, Ephesus, Chalcedon-and, as Paul withdrew us cause from the provineial courton an appeal to Cresur, wa withdraw ours from the noisy wrangles of huuitn Judgment and carry the nppent to Jesus, We enter the chamber where this rite was frst spiritual world. If tha soul makes its own way here in splte of the Incrtia and resist- anca of mnttwr, how much more in a world whose substances are as living ns tho body which moves among then. In this stuto uf being there {yn discrest difference between the nind, which is spiritual, and the substances on which It works, whieh are ma- terinl, and owing to this difference between the nature of the soul and the nature of ina- terial substances it 1s compelled to act upon thein through a whole sories of accommo- dated mediums.’ But the spiritual world, which fs the mind’s. normal and permanent sphere,tsn world of spiritual or psychival sub- stances, and of the same nature as the soul. This tendeney of man’s emotions and thoughts to Impress themselves upon ott- ward things is immedlately realized. Tho soul thers macts with na obstacles in the outilow of its desires and conceptions, but the ebb aud flow of its own tides of feellng and thought iinpress thelr motion und form upon all surrounding spiritual substances. world not equal the bisiiess of Chicago for -one month. | In 2703 the British Partiameut wrovided that nelther educntion nor Juristinnity should ba tunght by the East India Company, so that the pioneers Cary and Marstiiman fad to begin thelr mis- slonary work in provinces of India under: the rule of native Prinesy, Now in over 6,000 villages of Uindostan thors are Christian tenehers, . ‘The general dee y of faith in tho old relig- fons at the thne of the comng of Christ was higuly favorable to the spread of the Gospel. Once overy hill, fountain, and grove had Its deities, [ts fatins, and dryads, but there were disintegrating forces hades etn this whole. sale Pantheon, and tho felt ln the power of tho gods was broken by the fores of philoso- phy. ft wes finposstble for the tribes eonquered by Rome to rotain faith in the gos, who failed to save then’ In thelr time of trouble, and In seatehitug around for new objects of adoration they lost faith tn ull, ‘The hour had arrlved for the formulation of the laws of Nature, the human multitude, the universe, ‘They lived up statutes of sunshine, and soll, eolebrated by Him wih Hs dlgel- ey of The achievements of linugination, the | aside from these two cmbarrassments man Is les. We observe the finnillur gathor- aul riict seligion, and ne huwer of Hinporars transient world of our dreams, the | like tho lily, his glory comes from the tact ing, more Ike on family ment” than | Mr, Iumphrey sald he belleved that like | Pleomens of niesinerism, all contirm this, |.and obedience of law. Ils beauty, and in ceclestasticnl rite,’ hey recline | disintearathig forees were now at work, sap. | Md show that the substance of the world of | ‘color, wid porfume are called by a pecullur Jy Ortental style upon the divans and rugs, tun tenn funtiarly upon cach other, One of them, the boldest und most loving of the throug, leans upon the bosom of the Master huself, “Liat supper,” sys Martin Luther, as guoted by Dean Stanley in his work on Christian Institutions, “wileh Christ held With Ills Digeiples, in which Hoe made them Ili farewell, nist have heen full of frlendly heart Intercourse, for Clirlst spoke mind can, under the erentive Impulse of thought and yolltion, take instantancous shape expressive of the ideas of the mind, And thug [tls most trig of all in tho lif to come that “ the soul ts Sts own place and can make o heaven of hell, 0 hell ot heaven.” Its wold Is what the intentions, thoughts, urposes, and affections of its own will make It. ‘Ihe sconery of Heaven Is the antbirth of the pure affection and chaste thoughts of the angela, thelr heavenly culture and God- uaine,—civilization, Why tua lowlng_ 91 plug the foundations of heathonism as water Wears wyiy the rock. ‘The trust of toe heathen In” his, stone dr wooden Idol goes down when ta lal uroves powerless against the fifteen-Ineh rifled cannon of the foreigner, ic 1s inmpossible for the traveled diln- doo merchant to retain belief tn the Shastay, which deciure the world to be acireular plain four handred million miles In etreuference with n mountaln 200,000 iilles high In the middle of it ‘Che cailronds this nature may be? just 03 tenderly and eordially to thomas a father spenks to his dear children from whom he Js q . . | breathed inspiracon,’ According to the | that many laws are made Iinpressive only by ol nied tw ‘hart, tie tats with tholt intirultios ef Hadi: pins oh sscntinding ovate, nneels f wouptlen of Hie fants love the sssnunptlon that they caine roth a In- aud had patience with them, thongh thoy were | ‘the , i and wisdom, he gin of the aplr' elllgent lawmaker, and the greater this Inw- wo slow to understand, and Haped all hg white cea euania -are-eulthue thelr Nols for Ol 7 nietal, aud very few new temples are golng | Wit, world ahines near or romute, Whe where. con Ceableness iM Thenthentaine fuleblazing or belted with clouda, flam- and Mohammedan teachers deplore from Te, with gold or gleaming with sliver. thair pulplis the decadence of [slain Like Tis residence on mountalu-tops or In yale the fee-bound river, Uo Water 1a rushing on | 1633, tn stately forests or by sounding seas, below and wearlng iuuinst {ts chains, and | 1 silken tents or palaces of sparkling gems, those who listen in thought will heat the | ils city, His temple, tis nesociates, Ils like babes. But that ust have been Joyous, frlendly, and delightfal conversation when Pillin snd “Show us tho Father’; ‘Thoinas: “We know not the way,” and Peter, “1 wilt gco-with Thee to prison orto deathe” It was just sel a slimple seene that we conceive the but in sume old, dead reader who m Greek crown which hae rst communion to have been. [twas not an | coming erast. fond,—nll are corresponding images of His | coma dust; but wore we in England, and tho ordinance of the Christian Church, for the uy Interior spiritual condition, ‘Tho flowers | same words were placed before us ng the im- Chureh was not as yot organized, : Tits Wg a missionary age. Lose than n if My dt was Dlussom. and the birds sing responsive to notun actual commemoration of tha dead i . 4 century ago Christianity sild the {dew of angele thoughts, Morning und ovening forelgn missions was revolting, Now it the formuln coutalned that the fenr- ing of God and tho keeping of Lis commmand- ments fg quch a summing up of the clements of civilization as no modern definition can surpass, In order that this may bo true, the Inws of God must bo made the equivalent of Hils commandments must not be simply tho ten of the Decalog, nor the additional specinl commands of Christianity, or uf any special religion, but they must be the laws of all action and be- ing ‘The constant discovery and obedlence of law are the ciusey which push unward The beauty of the liltes, which Clirist saw and admired, came from thelr keeping tho laws of their part of fully to tho and rain, and wind, and dew. ‘They diifer from nian latwo particulars,—thoy do not need to study and discover thelr Inws, and need not consclous- ly obey them, Man must first find his laws he must afterward be willing to obey it; but not clvilization be a perfect fol- natural law, regardless of the votion that the law must have como from a God? Is not its essence contained In the diseovery and obeying of natural regulation: regardless of the question “who or whit "7 it may bo that tho knowledge and tho obedienco are the es- sentint. eloments of the progress, but i nthelstic theory of our world omits the fact glver, the more powerful aro the statutes, A few words found written in a legal form, Janguare, would not secure ony aed niedern regard, fe 1 perntve rulu of the land, we should feel that lary strange thus In- Christ, for Chrlat wag stil nilve, It did not coine and go, spring and sununer pass and re- | power, ‘Che rolation of a Juvolve bellef inn tried personal Gud, for PS Ir eT REE RT TR Ene turn, not 1h ‘abedigneo tog revolving globe, | to tha destiny pf law is that doctrine did not make tts appearances un- | God each year to the sprend of the Gospel, | bit ay representing the far more wonterful | timate, and “when tho mental, til the second contury, and thon came ag ait unwelcome Interloper, No, It was the shnplest of all slinplo ilies. Jesus, fore- sell is death, and wishing to be. re wembered for the truth Tt tavght and for the power of that truth in the redemptivn of huninulty, Inks UIs amie and Its memory to the breaking of bread. by Lis disciples, so that at aay Une or anywhere’ they ‘imeet to- gethor wil sit foguther, in tho future their thought would lovingly recur to that avon Ang scene iit yonder Judean at when Ie broke bread for them, and avith His own hands passed to them -the cup, ‘This then, ‘The measure of nsefulness of an evangelleal nioral, and physieal rules of church Is now shown by tho Interest it takes. In foreign inission work, ‘The women’s work anong women in indie is on power ful dynamic force, and creates an ute inosphere in which amissionary — clfort can be carried: on, Phe apostles had the gift of tonnes, but the present age has the Bible in 250 langunges and dialects, and four-fifths of those who dwell upon tho earth cau read the Sertptures tn thele nutlve tongues, All these fucts testify with Irro- slstlble force that the day of the Lord is at revolutions in the spiritual life of tho soul itself, And so is Holl in its seonery the outbirth of the greedy affections and Impure thoughts of dovlis, the objective semblance of all tholr Inward wickedness, subtlety, foulness, birrenness of life, and riot of do- light. ‘Thus to the soul when it cames tito Its normal hone hereafter, the world without is a magic inirror on whieh It projects tho won- ders of the world within, ‘The world of the soul both hare and hereafter ts what the spirit cit appropriate to itself elthor ateeatly or mediately through the budy, is as bound- less fn possfbility of oxtont, virloty, and per- dignity, San Inws of hunger and thirst; nobleness and honor, 1" | v * and benevolence nud friends, I the historle truth, us. Ie and, | dias euuaxed dn niluslolnry Wore fection or Inldyousness of form und in ca- | personal greatness, which derive wu new ime Keums to us, vonnuekat with = this | converstons is malntained the twentieth con- | pacity to give delight, gourl, or evil, as in vite. Partlelyution In te in the eonmenee- ment did notlavelve doctrinal subscription. Ut was not dreamed of, Shane Te cliel involve was love for Jesus, and a-dexire to honor Hin. Aud beesuse we share In those eno tlons, because We reverence the great Teacher of Nazareth beyond alt others, because wo aro strengthonad by Tis words of consaling aynipathy and nsuleioe sildanee, because we , are trying ta tread tn Elis footsteps on our way through Ife, becatwe wo share Its adoring love for the Father, and because wo wish to acknowledyze openly to the world the Jnighty cabe wo owe to Hit for nn axamploso helpful, and go glorious, we shall today, in man’s possibility of fueling and thought und yolitiun boundless, As to the real uitallty of his dulight tn his world hore, and as to the real oxtunt of varioty and form of his world hereafter, man can haya so inch and no tury will seo a majority of the natives of that Jand at least nominally Christians, Conturles of Christiin culture and forces of which the curly Chureth Kaw nothing, He Bold tie. elforts of the misslonary of to-day, and there ny bo {trluaplia at Chitat in the near future PENTA ensuite | of andes eyerignee aC Hilal the suocuss ie past atfords no real attitude taward good and evil, “toward Indicutton. . fas Lage and Tis. whag an imorcttil Inws ot " tt, nO miuitsra a! yal Inpulsas ay TITE LIKE OF TILE SOUL, thotuzhts of usefulness which you make your SERMON DY THE UK. Te 3% MERCH, own by purhose, and place, mid effurt, color ‘Tho Hav, 1. P, Mercor_adiressed. the Now the worl in witleh your soul lives naw, aud Jerusatum Church at Uershey Muste-Hall | Wil fashion Wholly te einselves the world Jn which vou shall ive hereatter, will of a great God, ‘The these earthy soldiers, Beneal ns the consolation of Looking human but feel each wt the constitution mind and heart, x Ponds largely upon an attendant feoling that tho same shinple fashion, eat and drink | to- strated hai ond Lad Sallowing th But New follow fora moment another line of | the hw is the will of some power not sil gether In is name, Ont doing thts Involves | Cutline of the sermon, the subject bolug | thought ‘The world of human lite and his. | avoided by tha wicked and “worthy. off Ho profession of pastlayalty. Ltinvolyes no | ‘Lhe Wonderful Life of the Soul”; tury In whieh the ‘soul lives Is what the gout | hope and love of the good. [f amaterial unl- prophesy of future porfection. What it Thoy sald unto Mlin, Master, whero dwolle | snakes it We are ina sense” the inhurltors | vorse bas evolved the {dea that man must be est ‘thour Ho walt untothom, “Come and | ofall the past. Mistery, with Its achiove- Boe —JOhth by I-39, 4 ments and failures, Its Huctuations and strug. ‘Two of Jolin’s dtaclptes having heard him flea belongs to us; whit It has wrought out say of Jests, Behold the Lamb of God:that | 10 slow expertniont we can live over suck taketh awny the olny of tho world,” followed | Hi the ight of its own conscatonas, | Yt Aim; and when Jesus asked them, © What! ohrontels uf, deus, A mann wnny fll his seek yo?" they. sald, * Muster, whore dwell- monory with If and may, be nble to write it est Thou?” Monnawered them, Come and | with date ma yot see nothing, dos busponk Js our unfaillng loye and rov- erence Cor Jesus. Jooking at it In thia sonse, I cordially in- vilo ng many as think thay cun beneftt from participation In this simple scone to unite with us in tt, Independent of all theological connections, lude pendont of wil Chureh rela. ons, Icls our Father's table, in honor. of our Brothor; and alluur Father's children are that law Is awfal In sublinity | It sue, thorefnre, an tn assed by an antin aren y i jeune, anid welcome to It If you feel luporfeet, still It was 5 ~ | a8 We may ‘look ate pleture and ses only | maker, lets ask wint ore those laws the come, for Androw and Pitilp were ithipur- ere ilke ie rales Pe DIS Stseuie pale, Thiade deals of tha pant were | obudience of which makes man pasa upward fect, If you fear future Iniperfection, still is tt imade by | byiman souls flowing out | above all tha brute conditions? ‘Nhe answer comm, for did Hot Peter fall and agulnre- | St drama oa fe, wis, full of sug | from thee’ affections and thoughts, and | hasnt Inst become purfectly obvious. All pane? Andot Hin in whose house thia | gestlon and nioaning beyond the. tine | mean noting apart. from the purposes and | laws, physical, mental, and jndustrial, and able Is spread it ts pald that, having layed | and place. In tho mere lternt study. of the | ideas thoy relect, ‘Lo road history aright we | moral, play an essential part in this furge ly own, which were jnideed loved, 1a loved | Gospels Ib seems untuportant, for in that human drama, OF all th niuat yo back amon the people who voted and Ilye over tholr Hite, wil them unto the end, ‘Through all D and ato ity, Nielove that wo mitts seo and and Inpertection, i thelit anes rape yalty, He love ich mngans simply foot In ourselves tho notives which antimated them, ‘Thase who assed Over Man the present a view It ls'a snatch of historical and personal warned Oi narrative thrown in tha shade by ovents one catsy, but that he bs. t = org ata ut won wediincae desis | are coupacnt In tilt owt fy canuoe tal | Guru cual Uke aan diag fan - other's 3 those @ ise} When his budy andinind rl d ys eo Te Te BY. | } ‘Cor are nol brilied with por herols | van es 0} ty WTORSCOK i ‘The Rev, J, L, Humphrey, Sceretury of tlio geo? 9 deads, do not fel the power and worth, and ride Tad wae ‘Tore aro those who say ite 13 only a myth: ical Image before the superatitiods eye ot fulth; others say that Ie 3 in a vague un Kuowable somewhere called Heaven. Others Know sumothiuy of the Bible world, of RYDE and Axsyrio, of Binal and Canaan, but it grows, ever more: and American Board of Fourelgh,’ Misslons, preached yesterday tiarniug in the Now Ene gland Congregational Church on Some Hopeful Views of the Minslonary Probton,” ‘Tho revered guntloman rend from the slx- teenth chapter of Mutthow, tha first to the have no eye for the beauty of heavenly sive rifles, All that fu heat In human endeavor, all thas fy wordt In human evil and error, wo ean make our own by, suelng its luman fuillies fa au peal va an following Out thelr mpitise bin thott, . hows nore an wirert use how to make this Bible history neas, the juumense breadth of therefore comes Nearest to makin thon. i workl, . ‘There are: others who know} ours own and to realizes and | fluence of y streams, third verses inclusive, and tovk hits text from ae tie nets dealings Wi man vite joa ways ti NGCOL agined ge Sve Met the wordy, “Cun ye not discern the signa of | in the past, the wonders if te Pree ta Copurloneo.” Oe HE AOAE | pene esas, OF eseR marked 8 KExypt and the Wilderiiess, In the tabernacle mid tennle of rue, In the iearnation ond its marvelous niystary uf mercy; but the Iiistory [a wire allzed fn oxperience, and growa ever wore Ubcertaln and iniprobable, How aol! it be otherwisa? Low shall we know all tha Di. the soul’s experlunce, ‘Phe olements of that world are all iu die soul, but we cun only verity its miraciilous histery In the Nvying experience of the inter action of those ele meat ae srl fale fandency, fo ulttiiate muselves in deeds, Jia allowa him- self. 1 contrast bla childlike aud lunocent ‘e he words gweographies of the past. die salu that there was a Divine warrant for forecasting conclusions from appent-" ances, but the difficulty was that no age fully comprehended itselt, Peter gud Johry the whol ono humanity are concelved of as coming from One, oni- iaclent, and all-powerful, and righteous,— the lnfinit Creator of the universe, those rules contain within thom na potency which athe- isin daro not claim. There ure many laws of soclety which do not ask for any external will seek food and drink without wuiting to Inquira who made the tn the universe of nn athelst man would attempt to keep out of the fre and outof tho water, but there are laws of morals, of right and wrong, of portance from the fouling that they aro the long roll 0} political and religlous, has’ resulted from the feeling that God places men i great erlses and carries forward Ws pinns through Itho self-de- ninl of the missionary, within the eloquence of tha philanthropist, under the dusteloud of tho wars for freedom, under tho hend of the dying patriot. we can all see the forin of Gad belug the explanation of all sublime good, religions tear, @ cannot that the obligation of n jaw de- Firtuong tt is Indeed 9 noble prinelol {t came from an intintt Creator who can make tev thoi: sund worlds, and towards whose prescnee we aro all marching by the way of the grave, rtant element in clvilization that it i a fol lowing of the lows out, uMing then this yalue ot the Inw- 8 ages Which have alone has wat wun is nob wy stnply result from world, Our age only dees the many-sileds raed ant jn to the future of furnishing it with melvittene Not yot has our era reached 9 perfec ora very bigh manhood, but tt cer yes, m1 for the ght see the nw would at ones remeinber that the Egyptian, or Sanserit, or enneted it had bo- lnuer Jawmaker heroes, t talnly ta the one porimitted tirst to note the fuct that human Welfare is a stream made wp of a con- 5} of which in the In surveying history we readily learn that the Greeks falled to produce the highest or- der of saclety because they did nat study gouge of the Inws of man to make him move ly upward, ‘They discovered only sume of the polntsin which be was superior to the brute, ‘The intellectual and eathotio In | of the beautiful in tho o: the soul woro wonderfully doveloped in that marvelous peninsula, and these yielded so large resitlts that the age seemed to have all riches, ‘The arts and Hterature overshadowed all else, = ‘They monopolized Greece and reduced to starvation other — adjuncts of hiunayn nature, When tho pinetroes hive the early woods all to themacives they hold the sull against all other forms of trea and plant, and no otk or maplo can bo found No wild flower or wild berry can find alr and sunshine cnough to make thelr life possible. Allissolitude, except ng tothe one companion —the ping; thecolor ls the greon of tha pine, tha parfumo is that of pine, the breeze Is tha which sighs through pine, It fa nll beanti- ful, but not with the beauty of a world, but with only the Imited charting of the plue, When a tornado sweeps along atid cuts out Arent openings In this old monopoly, then the maply finds room for its autumn, tints, and the wild blackberry and strawberry tine and chance for their flower and their tarvest for the birds. ‘These hasten Into the opening to show how broad the world Is in its vere. table kingdom, Greece was too much a field that grew only one product—broad compared with tho Asin that was dying behind it; was harrow as seo beside that condition of mankind which lay far away In the advance, It was necessary storms should come and make openings In tho great forests and pre- pare a welcome for the morals of Jesus and tho mental pliilosophics nud physical seionces of other times, - Christlanity has generally Teponted, the blunder of underestimating the breadth of God's laws, and has attempted to make a clyilization out of a plan of salvation. Not only are tho Ten Canimaudinents too narrow fn bitals of human greatness, but In all the doctrines of what the Church call salvation taken together too Ilmited to compel the spirit of tian to go upwards, Taken alone hoy ninke a bird with one Wing, which can Nutter but not fly, ‘The Christians of the Middlo Ages wera thus iniperfect, and tho Imperfeetfon crowded close upon modern thes. ‘Tho question, What must mat do to be saved? Ly of Immense importance, but itis only one of the great inquiries of our world, and ff turns Into an evil when ft displaces such questions as what must inan do to be well governed, or well educated, or well housed, or well mannered, orwell respected ? Progress {3 not the obedience of tha Gospel alone, but It is also the obedience of science and art, for the snine God that made mana eandidate for a school-house andan industry. ‘The fifteenth century was full of roligious faith, but it was cqually full of idleness and Ignorance. The only laws sought by schol- ars were the Inws of 9 future salvation, All defined and redefined the terns of theology, and failed to define such words a8 agricult- ure, aid mechanics, and industry, and liber- ty, and equality. ‘Che whole human family attompted to walk ag upon one foot, and ess of an ndvanco was mado in tho first sixteen centuries than has been made in the last three, Walking through the sixteenth cent- ury you would have found each man, you met to bo n Christian, but you would have found iim to be also a beggar, Noone studied or dreamed of such a thing a3 a no- bie and great society upon carth, All wera busy preparing fur another world,—some begging thelr way thitherward, same weep: ing out their time, some sito up forty: or filty consecutive years with solitary ineditn- tion, In all these dreary ages civilization was impossible, and for each one bright name Admitted for some one merit Into his- tory, millions upon millions died without possessing any knowledge of human ‘rights and. privileges, and possible greatness, and not knowlng anything of the earth or af tho country that was to give thon an unknown grave. He would bo an enemy of the human raco who should cast any contempt upon the question proposed to men: “Are you a Christian?” But the spirit of man cannot riso by such a study alone, but also by work- Ing out afirmative answors to such other questtons ag these: Are you an Industrious man? Are youn righteots man? Ara you & temperate inan? = Aro you n thoughiful man? Are younkind man? Out ofa score of such affirmative replies the rcatness ot soctety rises Ilkka those snjestic trees in Call- fornla which spring from a soll deep as tha trees are high, and which spread tholr boughs In an air ever imild and full of life from mountain or sea. ‘The whole duty of man {sto keep the Commandments of God, but If those commandments Ho like n net- work all over earth, then the man or tha azo thatis keeping only the commandments of simple platy is not regarding God, but {s dis- regarding Mis word in many great partic. ulars, ‘The question “Are you religious 2”? is only one in the groat entechism of Nature, and “it ma answered =by man ns) on ochil Greece sald to cach eltizen, “Are you a lovor of the bean- ful?” Roni, said, “Arp you 9 military man?? Tho middle centuries sald, “Are you orthodox yin the falth?” The chivalric po- riod said, “Are you romantic? Can you ride way after the hounds?” Each age said was ng woak and narrow as the sun- Wzht that would pass through, the eye of a needle, ‘To ba valuable the suniight must pour through a vaat window; bost fs it when thero ts no window at allebut when lt pours down trom the whole broad sky, Our ern hag not come to a perfect human wolfare, butit has done so much toward solving erent aucstions of progress that It begins to throw great light upon the inquir: i “What constitutes the clyilized conditiqn Religion or morals, ag coming from God, must bercomponont part. Tho intellectual life of ous period Is niso an cssen mee, for man must be so nwakened andy strong that he can perceive the obligittons of Soclaty ‘The mind spat i enlightuned thatsuch {deas ag the ata vat Fa fellow creature will not be retalned: in ‘tts pure depths; so culightencd thatthe notion of religious persecution can tind no favor, How fatal is tho absence of intellectual pow- er may be inferred from seanes now taking ace In the rural districts In Russia, where Shirtatians are mobbing the Jows, and dolng this In the name of God; not having yet reachod the !ntellectual power to reullze that God fs not 4 highwayman nor an intinit as- sasin, Russia ls thus sean to be far away from the shores of an Ideal humanity, for, having religion without Intellectual power, her peasantry are Hable to become as mad. men, and to make their villages red with blood, and fire—a fact showing how deeply the Church Injured goctety in those périnds whon it taught 0 way of salvation without tenching or studying all the sclences of ‘this world. ‘Tho streams of blood which flowed allover Europe ln the triumphant days of the Church compel us to admit. that inan aay say bls prayurs nt the altar and then emerge from his worship having many ele ments of the wild brute,—the Command: metts of God being not those of religlo alone, but of a wide and variod life, Not only in Rugsia is elvilization made Im- perfoct and frall by the absence of & broad and deep intelligence, but so in our con- tinont, which 1s tho most lofty of nll nations, the spirit of man ls held downward by mill- stones upon the nening neck, ‘The Nation whieh pays iiions iw year for carrying iinnginary mall-bags along iinaginary high- ways by ineans of imaginary steamboats and shadow horses and shadow wagons ts ag yet a nation of mingled chilitren and thieves,—of which chanty hopes the enildren aro In the majority, ‘Tho Nation which rater fn band of Mormons not only to defy all {ts own laws and soll Its good name, but to send onils- saries all over Enrope to ply black arts upon the soft minds of the ignorant and helpless, must be confessed to bu a Nation whose great. ness js a matter of hope more than of fruition, And It must also bo admitted that a Government which will Heenge 3,000 saloons In any large city lias tnany of tho traits of the old Judas, in that iv botrays Its own youth to rutn for au income of silver, Of hese specimen vices there fs no explanation possible excopt that found in the fact that elvilization comes from barbarlsm, and has not yet gotten out of slaht of its nnvestor, ‘es seein to have found two clements ina Kigh olyilization—religion and futellectual power, Butthis power needs a furthor re- mark, Mental life comes from the presence and dignity of Inbor, A great ma ust be one of manual Industry, of popular and fash- Sonnble Industry, because idleness of body passed to the mind, and is always an emblem of a coming sleep, ‘Lhe roar of physical action Iyan unfailing sign that the spiritual netivity ii real. ‘Thus the mason and carpens fer, and the plowman, and the merchant grouse the scliolar and the atudent, and the din of the material [a repeated softly in. the soul, The flying train and the salllng ship help make tha versea of the oe! aud the Wialoin of the President and the discoveries ofthe inventor, It isa Rlory of our country that fits wheels, and spindles, and plowa have waked the inind from reposy and made ita creator af the good, ‘The commanduents of God ary this seen to reach out and includy the numberless pur- sults of the shop and field. Equally do the: include the pursuit of the beautiful; for it man mst percelve the relatlons arouad hin, he must oy some menus reach a sensibility of nature that these wants of his fellow-inan nay pleture themselves upon hls spirit, Some power must pollsh the plate upon which the most delicate image is to fall, A cultlyated mother will wakeir If ber child even sigha In the night; but by the side of a half-drunken father # little son can strangle, and stroggle, anddle. Sensibility Is one o! the divinest elements of a perfect soolety, and tha isthe fact which polnts cut the office Under that torm falls the woe Me Of mang tho pathotle, and from these ets, the inv the farts, Man entetus the prang minted 4 and pathotle fi the heart, i popute lovely, Mudie fault with tho iden UPeular intges Ho ‘would have made diseaae 2% glows and koud heatth eaten, Wan has boen kinder than the ti Hh Salitte WA AS Heltild hegtus to ook gear When the benutiful of God he gett iM Admieg in his own bosom that affection iat Ctehieg and poworfitl, ‘The imarning qe2eetlouy Ditd, the greatness of the sea yeens of perfume of the rose, the slzning oF eet and winds, are all contagious, anno iat been nent thom beeomes Infectar. having ears cat ever separate hia heart qu 20 rom this mnie tn the blood, “we fd bran Is this Rood heatth that ult the be wectious is enjoyed by Intel or saint tly whe touching the garments af Nate ftom pagses tong tn her royat purple’ 8 the ould we pursiie the tantey fy shoukd find that civilization 1S fit rider we Mate Nob Ln some one quality, prsine ot Inany aunlitles that suctety pases feel Towhess put into the breadth ap ime mighty. ‘That this breadtly ang ful ine Ab be ‘reached, there must boa yess a7 equality of the people, so that the oe, of the cpooh must not be songnt | ata favored capital or metropnit “9 few barous state ny show a few greg Ajer but civilization must be the contiti ald, and honcocannot existexcept wher ah ot all, and equality, = Aw all the eee of heaven imingle and ~ comeoethttt admirable blug so full og “upset hence, 80 nll tho throngs any and streets must be so reformed and taught pur they shall ench be a part of that ioe Hf that ealfed manhootd,—each be a part ret foul ofblue, All who in any manner me people Bre servants of Corl, helping tat hot spirit of man whicl gocth ‘upward | rd ly, leaving tho lowlands of the brute oa When musle was youns it heme ‘with vibration of n single string, ‘That was {ha but lt wasa monotony. Other stringer? added as the ages eanio and went, Aye? the monotony was swallowed up in th st flood of melody and harmony that eam a the guinea harp, Society once war ce single-stringed. If it prayed | itdla not thine, Init thought it dict not toll; He ieee Cenk: bor it omitted liberty: tf it'dreamed oti ie ty tt forgot God. “But as 2 eeneranes sweep along new tones chime {nto tht = sie once so low and dull.” ‘The spirit of a will have climbed a hight far up toward ne sky, when God and all Ilis laws having tbe surah way eosiioiNe Seat a et combine in th forth music from a full fee and sound A. WEEK'S REFLECTIONS, ADDRESS HY THE NEY, JOUN WILLtAnsoy atthe First Methodist Church yesterday morning, the pastor, the Rev, John Willian son, anuotnced that he had been unable, on account of sickness, ty prepare Tegular ets mon, and would merely give the congrega. tion soine reflections he had had during the week, These reflectlons wore not Irreligtous, vodka aome sure Fariaps More spiritual han others, yet he bolloved thoy wero without profit. an He had reconcluded during the week that tho incompleteness of the present life de mands a future one, To illustrate this he elted the case of 8 man who had died at the age of 70, and whoso friends, being asked what he had accomplished in life, answered that he had amassed $500,000, ‘The question thon arose whother there were not as many reasons for him to have made 9 mililon as well as halfa million. Such being the cas did he not die with his life-work unfinished Again, he might have become a very {tele Tectualinan, the master of half a dozen languages, and familinr with thelr Mtera- tures. “Was there not reason that he should have learned twelve languages and become acquainted with as many literatures? Thera ‘was no denying tis: or, that such being the ense, he had Hyed an unfinished tife. The man of sclgnce who had loft wulearned ous or more of Its branches, the temperance man who had fallen short of securing prohibitury legislation and conyerting all the drunkards: theso died after livin Incomplete lives. All this proved incontostably that the life man kind {8 now living is not its career—the earth ig not its home, — If this were all there is of it, then man begins with a splendid promise of a career nid always falls of ae complishing It, Iuman Jife, then, $4 not an end, but a menns to an end; and by and by tha career will be reached through tha dreaded episody of death, which |s God's method of uplifting man to that place where the real problem of life is to be solved. ‘The preacher then said that thore are two undisputed facta which require explanation and which are hard to explain, and thesetwo are right In the constitution of men's souls. They are: “Lought” and “1 ought not.” hese aro facts ag brillant as the meridian sunlight. Associated with the consciousness uf these two facts came oth ers, such as “I know I ought to be” and “1 know I ought not to be,” and “1 ought to do,” and “Tought not to do”; “1 know I can do what L ought,” and “1 know I can avold doing what Lought not.” When the human betng {is and does what he ought he feels a commendation; and when he dues the oppoalt ho Is consciously condemned. ‘The a Tou he? and “1 oust not” mean ac countability, and no explanation could ven of thom that did not have aecountabll- ty nyo part of It, ant with it came, of neces- pity, the person to whom the accountability tO, 3 During the weck, the prencher sald, he had had o little cominercial thought. le hs wondered whether Mr, Moody and Me. Ingersoll pay the pubite what they cost It, De the; return to the public adequate com- merelal returns for what they exact? ‘They demand from it more, horhapay (han any two living men. Asan example of Mr, Moods’s worth, the preacher sald he know one mau in Chiara who was some years 1go 2 Wo! 7 Jess, profligate Inevrinte. He was a man of great. natural powers which were bk translated Into money. Moody led tlm ig Christ, and Inst year the proacler C4 hin. living in hig own house he a woll-cared-for-and happy family, During the Inst year this man bad, convert Nal powers into $3,000, whieh he had expen A, nnd thus benetited’ the public to that extent, ‘The preacher could give the names 0! mon Jn Chicago who wero thus commer lly unproductive untll they lind been made, bre duotive through Mir. Muoily’s adilnisl i. tions. ‘These ten ure now, earning on average of $1,000 each, To A cere Moody had been worth In this way ot le i: $100,000 to the City of Chicago in (he “i yoar and this too, only in, the way 2 Ae Yerting inebrinte, men. What ts ater Gites Is true of ie tle oF ta war} ia he commercial value eae a divau 44 work was cortaluly not lest nan eure tia question of IToW much has Ingersoll mady for tho elyllized worked same thnu? He may have emane!ya e soma stray souls that were enttae pir fnlth, but how many men have on ele blot ‘by: his tonching to convert ther Ws ployed ‘powers to thecreation of pubile nth The value of the work hy ins dong i way would not aimomnt to one stn ation Another problem worthy of coust oi og was the question of the malt ema moral law. ‘The queation regarding aed was Whether tt was extremely wise at tremely stupid, ‘There are {wo i nulinafa,—the rational, of which tat th in sole exemplar, and the Irrational, Wr an clude the | remainder ot, ns UE y ve pas If two Hons possess vetweul tans Gnovgh meat for a ment for one het TT falland the weaker 64 The atconget oat men nner, ‘etunilar elt cumstances ani one of sie wl tegen ug, Tf, whon this matter can 108 al law wh Wnnselt for his fellow-men 1s Fr to the “Pho preacher sald that he had mai here: conclusion that bellefs aro Men T eutiun fore must have causes, 3 woud e of lit for examplo tho bellef In the doch sings mortality, ‘This was belleved NH phen oy tbe a yeu and Was ‘only an expression of ator In that constitution, ek, had asked ¥ hn durlug tho wes 42 of WO nine ivhat ts sald, to be the HT ‘heatd y or fly sald he ot it this could only proved the vihat this allright? ‘The preacher told hlay ie Curls was not his anderstanding of It existence © tlan Churel boldly assumed the exe Christ God and His incarnation hy eet ne pur ‘The young man then asked, to prove tl pose of the Christian mallet the pre the Bible Is the yori af eGhiisthan Teligiee er answered, OF much more, Me) this Wb60" wiyhal finds It easter " 1yBUINO factory by tie. OUNE | etigiont ee te Spepose, Of tL ayy preacte Tstt to borpetuays etter Jesu, cut er answered, “Oh NO. 5 anal te gave SINNOTS te we psaue God's existence