Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1881, Page 6

6 THE PULPIT. An Eloquent Sermon by Prof. Swing on Patriotism and Morals. The Resurrection Treated from a Physiological Standpoint by the Rev. J, M. Williamson. Revlew of tho Recent Convention of the New Jerusalem Church by the Rey. L. P. Mercer. A Critical Sermon on the Excellencies and Errors of the Revised Testament, Religions Needs of the Territories—The Tyng Mission—Linooln Park Oburch, Eto, PATRIOTISM A. MORALS, SERMON TY PROF. SWING. Prof. Swing, pastor of the Central Churel, preached toa large congregation yesterday Torenoon, taking for his theme “ Patriotism, and Morals,” Following Is the discourse in full: If Il forget thee, oh Jerusatem, let Ey right hand torget ber eunning,—Welame, exerci ‘The hummi race is_as wontlerful tu Its at- tachments ng {it is in its skill of hand or genius of Intellect. A few yenrs azn, when some benevolent men removed 9 colony of poverty-stricken whites from some pine bar rens of Carolina and gave them an outfit upon teh faring In Pennsylyanta, they pined. aint slihed. and, at last, In wn instpportable homesickness, they returned ta their old, lonely mountains, preferring tho utmost poverty to any sundering of old associations, The more cultivated persons who came to shis tnke shore sifty years ago found home siekness nu worse enemy than the bad hotels, or bad roads, or the treacherous Indians, ‘The hearts of strong men failed at times uniler these assaults of memory. and many who came out boldly to be ploneers went back to New Enghunut or the good-York State to leave to others the honor and profits of erowlng up with the West.) A pioneer cler- gzyman, who was In California tn those early. days when gold drew so many men away wv thelr homes on the Atiantle slope, says It was palafal when a slip arrived to mark the tears—the mental agony—of men who got no letter by the mails, and who must walt another itonth without a word from the blessed fireside of other happier days, It was discovered long ago that we must place muong these deep hiuman attachments the love of comitry, Even If one’s native Jand be a poor one in ellmate, and soll, aud Jaws, yet those reared In It all love It, and Would say, with the Latin, “It 1s sweet to div for one's country.’? Some old monk said that man shoutd possess nll the best qualities of udlog: “Ne should know his own hone; he should work for another; he should love the hand which strikes him; he should cling toonly one master.” It is wonderful with what tenneity a doe will follow his master, though that master be in rags and little able fo feed his brute companions but man is Ihnself of similar nature, for he will hold dear the ting of his country, although itmuy wave over a thin soil, and a harsh climate, and a despotle Government. For even suel a country the eltizen will, if need be, offer up his life, Here are lls fireside, his altar, lils futhors, or thelr graves. But if, in all uations or suites, however linperfeet, this sentiment of.attueliment has reverted itself in beauty and power, what a deep and {impressive pas- sion should we expect in the soul of a citizen wited States fn poor SUL hls Russia or his b what an ardor should the free iat Jand which gives ail und de- Of all natlons none give to the nd asic less than our America, it the daughters of Judah could remember only with tears their beloved — kingdons, marred by the yiees of her rulers and by internal “wars, there 0 rhetoric which anlght express the sneredness of this land to all whose homes are In its confines, Nuurly all duteliigent travelers Inte the olf worlil come back to (is Continent: fully ase sured that our tand offers the must happiness to the most, the happiness of property, of {ne dustry, of distinction, oof Mberty, of edit- auton, of religion. Hers and there an isolated intad retirns sighing for a mon- rhy, but. the wisest esthnate in such mnt ters must be found only by consulting the patois of those entitled to offer an opinion, With almost perf unaninity lotellizer travelers and stud st their vote tn fayor of the mneqmued execilencea of this great Kopublle. | ‘This volume of praise fs growing each yeur larger, and Itty not neeessary any Jonger for it to be sounded by Amertenn lips, We need not fear to sia up all our National pride in the declaration that. among the hun dreds of great emphes existing In reality or: in history, no nation has ever reached” the mnany-sided grentuess already attulned by tho United x, dn a country offering such a present and such a future, patsiotiaan, shoul confess somo tinustial ohifgations to morals, Clivise tung, to love of Chureh and of home, should add a strong and netlve Jove of country, ‘I's couutry Is to be a great arenn of uetlon, Jere new battles of thuugint and faith are to be fought: here tho world’s Chureh ts to be moditied; here religion ts to act along with Tiberty and education; here authority 4s to. give place to persuslon. ‘he scene ismiade wonderfnl bya Flance atthe physical dlinen- sions and qualities of the Republic, It em. Duaces all those gradations of elimate Tn which min lis reached the Iighest elvillza- ton. It reaches toward the south fir enough to possess all the fruits and products of die Bun, and tothe north far enough to possess: all the treasures of the coli, It has all the and wll the minerals; its flelds, Crom ed iver plans rel in wheat to Poeddi vieh in tropleal frults, are ready fot the collage ot in Lakes and rivers and the oceans make its commerce easy, and Uts cthuate healthful, and {ts seenery Death du Our Natton bias large as the fifteen or twenty States while Muipose Europe, All the great Powers, Englund, Gecmnny, France, Spain, Rusala, Norway and Sweden faut nly, could be placed in the United States, and yer there would be land enough remalulng tomake up some Hollands ant Portugals, “The Imagination cannot pleture the possibilities of aland which reaches in one direction 1,700 miles, and In another 3,000, ‘The State of Texas atone fs larger than France, wid de sls Wines as large as Penny) yaniu. ‘The new and rleh region ealled Dae kota, hot worthy of thought witli in recent years, Is as lurgeus that cron old. Spiln Which once rided the European nitions, Suet are the comparisons one may use to tell 1s own heart whit a repablls surrounds hin and hls countrymen, ‘The vastiess of this territory will not com- wl the Nation to break of Its own welght, tone nequired more by conqnest thin she could hold by her laws, but this came fron 4 the violent means by whieh the members of the Central Cite: cmne under the central flag. Rote wasn uulon of distrlets made by farce and sustained by farce, No rational or aye gathetle tes held Gant or Brlouda te tie Tn perlul Cily, ‘Tho subjugated districts wore too barbarous te know the value of centrale Sze Kovernment and Ruinay law, and were, Uke Mesiea, the vietlma af evel ambitious willltary chieftain, ‘The States of Amorics gre bound into one by language, and Institie Hons, and interests, and the rullway and tele. gruph have made our vast domains cous pact as Httle England is made compact by Uke sea; und what iy better than tho Ley Oe unity anade by language, and railway, and the eitutty mate by {elegtapl is ® Uberty and ea ually which take away all motives for revolution, Such is our Natlon, vast, rich, educnted, hewutiful, and Tree; and tn all particulurs a unit—a unton sueh as 0 great statesman once prayed for, “on wid Tnseparable,” ‘Tis current year has come to throw, It possibly, some additional interest jute this SS he enormous gral and imfiueral resources, the cheapness of tand, the ont Teachings of railways, the wonderful hare Vests uf tha past few summers, the gold lnuney, the Jiberty and equality of this couns THE CITICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1881—TEN PAGES, try have Invited Immigration In language tno eloquent to be unheeded, and new citizens are landing upon our soll nt the rate of [000 aday, To the motives before these exites tho despotisin of Furuse {n the form of ux: Tiausting taxes and military. service creates motive within Uieir own homes, Hone ts always dear, bit there hin be turmoi)s and Wrongs at home that can brent: up its and make the heart wish fora new esper- iment. ‘The of nations have at inst made unhappy the homes of tens of thousands of their best common veople, and: these nre tly- ing by tens of thousands to this promishig country, lt is no longer tha Evropean paupers who come, but it ts the Tory peuple, largely, who have some money, anil some skill, and much industry, [tis one of the pathetic scenes of the day to sco these roups, many thousands of miles from. thelr dear fathurlands, but with faces bright will the hopes of new happiness in our North: west, All through tho spring months theso Migiims have been moving along a crusade In search of the comforts of life—n march nore noble and wise than the fanatteal crue sndes of tha eleventh century. So extraor- dinary fy this iuvasion of our domnln that it demands tow a new study from Christhin or philanthropist. Patrlotisnt should ast what are Its duties in these great days? = Must tho Christinn content Himself by sounding the prabe. of iis nation? Or must he nak” that Hamil gra tion be checked by Taw? It is evident ¥. a xreat day in the history of Amerlean aifalrs, and must invelve, therefore, some great dutles, As to whether the Influx of strangers should be prevented, one ean only stbinit opinions, It would seem that, the Clineso should come only in quite Ihuited numbers, heenuse they are so far removed from all the Ideas that exist in this land. Our Nation can unttralize but slowly those Asintics, bit to the European hosts otir gutes should be thrown open, for they. are our brethren; they know Amerlea, and approve of her, and love her. ‘They come because they prefer our laws, and our jndustrics, wid our lands, Here rich fields have been for ages Walling for atiuuman geeupant. ‘Lexus alone could support all the -Lrish in the Emerald Iste, and give them all sueh eon. fort and happluess as they have never known under the seeptre of even a Christian Queen, Dakota Is ns jarge as five Irelands, 1t would seem only a fori of seltishness or thought: Tesness which vould ask the Irish, or the Swede, or the German to remain away from the fertile fells of this country, where for ages the. sin his shone and tho rains fallen upon rich Nelds which saw no man seeking from them a harvest, and. no children run- ning to them for wild-Howers, It mine be that this) fertlie West ins Inin here in all Mts varied wealth and beauty for ten thousand = yenrs, waiting — for min to come to” enjoy the fells and terminate the solitnds of dumb Nature, It would ban misfortune If, now that the Adlantic has been overcome, an inen, wom en, and children are ready to cone to. this hew scene, sone Inw should rise up and be a more crud! barrier thin the sen between the honorable poor of Europe and the overtlow- ine plenty of Amerien, Humanity: joins with Nebraska and Kansas, tnd a score of States, in inviting the rich and poor from the old Emptres, ‘ Itisaimatteraf option how large an iim. eration show be permitted it fs not amat: ter of opinion that the patriotism of us all should compel ua to make a grand prepara. tlon for the tnoral welfare of the living wave, Coming hither, these strangers should be rapidly transtormed, As the patriots now Iving wil have no opportunity to dio for thelr country, as no wars will soon come agnin when thoy can say with the classic, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, they may rejoice in the fact that they can live for the Nation. It ought to be as. sweet and beautiful to Ive for one’s country as to dle for it. ‘The vast ntumbers tanding from every ship should atonee enter upon na iife as new In noralsas in ellmate oragricniture, The chureh, the mission church, the mission Sunday-sehool, the cheap moral newspitper, the rest of Sunduy, temperance laws, selools of Industry and of all practical ealllis should reach the wilderness or the pralrig dong with the tmmigrant. Patriotism, not being required any longer to shoulder it miskel, must take up moral weapons ant necomplish by the school-house and elureh and Hwerature what our fathers may hive sought by the sword,—thusafery and welfare of the Nation. ‘The sword has been beaten Into plowshare, the spenr inte a pruning: hook, and, learning war no more, the heracs of tory: and of tomorrow nitet be heroes in a splritual warfare or else sink Into unworthy grave It woukl seem an de- fect in the economy of our earth If there could be ono stblime —patrint- tsm except that which: Is caused or revenled by the bloody field, because sueh a taw would make war wore useful than peace; but the economy of our world ts most wise if there are spiritual channels atong whieh the heart may pattr its love of country, George Peabody was- one of these soldiers upon the second battlefield, dn the first strizele of our Nation its physienl forces Were to be met,—tha early French, the In- tans, aud tho British, Such conflicts are brief but terrible. ‘Then comes the tong spiritual contest in whieh the struggle ls with Indolence, fznornuce, and view Man- houd must be created out ofcourse materktl, Washington was hero in the former shape of battle; George Peabody iy the Intter eon test; and the courage which led mong musket-balls was no greater or grander thin the one which gave six uiilions of dollars for his contre perpetnal good, In Baltt- more nnd taf tha South there aro tive mlll- Jons, the Income of whieh turns mito editen- fon, and will do so. for generations to come, ‘his is the union of patriotism and morals whieh inight se carry forward this Natlon that hn twenty-five years it would sliame atl lilstory in the edie ention, and morality, and industry of ita mill. fous, Nothing but patriotism thus directed can meet the Incoming host and the rnthye- born host and make then worthy eltizens of i noble republic. So amizing ling been the growth of the mna- terlat riches of tho United States that George Peabody was poor compared with many Amerteans who are now diving. There are many citizens who could present to public Instruction five millions and stl be much Neher tran aver was the American banker of London, Aamiliion lias greatly lessened Its yizo (nthe Inst twenty yenrs. It fs oils a “fraetlon now of sonw colossal fortuness hus iu the good It would achieve among the com- mion Peoule A nillion posse: wngelle power, 1b would help transform quite an ariny of children; It world: transforms new State into a pleture of elvillzution, What is eatled tho refnament of the older States hus come greatly from that kind of application of money which hax built colleges, nnd sehools, and libraries, and elure! No gyod comes without’ a cause, For all the uxcellenes of the thintic soclety we see causes everywhe! CUUSES “pethig and long con What milllous of inoney have been given to Yale, sud Mut. yard, and Princeton, and to the Jibraries and schools of every art! A patrlotisin besides that of the Battfetictl Lins passed all over the Eustern States, ad has verltied for the hae dredth tne theadage thatthe pen fs mtgtitier than the sword, At least the sword is drawn invain unless the soldiers of worals follow the soldiers of the sword inl make Into wen r those Whom war has inade into citizens. Ln die old centuries, after the sword eame the collector of taxes or the drifter of con- deripts, and peace hind no fruity and cinplres, no security, Tour land war has been only A temporary task from whieh the w pop lation has turned quickly a possible to men tal and industrial pursuits, What lis given such imenning and grandeur to the stragele of 1776 Is been the zeal tu the pur. suit OF morals which followed tho zeal of Concord and Yorktown, ‘The battletivld of the clahteenth contury Ls made divine by the morals of the nineteenth, It Is wid sueh reilections as these that we con neasure the meaning of wil the home julssion work of the churches and the found: {ing of institutes of whatever mune, If only the thousands of dollars given ta the Cone cromtional Board und the Presbyterian or “plscopal Board or any religious Board could be trimmed Into millions, tren should wo souk Republio that would be able to juiold and govern and bless sll who micht sail to its shores or be borne to its contines, Ln this Rea outlook all denominational names tend inte one, for while the Preabytorinn Churel ts making good Presbyterians. It bs nok biz also good eltizens, and so each elute in Lolly for itsel¢ tolls for mankind, 4 bright Sunday morning any onvof you will pause vt 10 o'elock In frout ata great Roni Jutholle churel: and gee two or tires thou. sand Trish or German Cathotles pour out hite the street from a morning mass you cannot but ark the neatness, aliiost the elegance ot dress of the muititade, AIL the domestle servants deelare by thelr faces that they haya found country which gives regular work, und goud waxes, and good food, and free nes cess to papers and bouks, Many of that inultitude have peen greatly changed slice they were poor passengers In some cailgrant shiv or rillway trai Pho county this. helps the Romun Chureh to de here whit it could not do tn Treland, and the Chureh iin Tetris assists the country to rexenurnte Its new hosts, What ts demanded fy) that all these spiritual powers sould be redoubled in all party of the Nution that the moral pro- vislon for the citizens, new ur old, might € equal the enlarged demand, Our land pus: se now everything society necds except tho power rapidly to educate Its population Into Christlan morats. AI things are pro- fected upon wv grand. seale execpt religions things, Compared with past. thnes these splr- Ituat advantages are large, but they are now outstripped by the Industry, and fnvention, and wealth of the Nation. Our eftles and posal experience God's idea of aman, as momen aril known by Adam in Eden once, and, | be. bly, reform the dearest of Christian ns- soclations for eternity; and, as iny surgi soul, already rocked by the transporte of tha Antinit hour, fondly foretetis, meet and greet one fong-translated kindred [Tn the new nid wndecaylng home of God, then we shall have taken only our first, our initial, lesson Tn that v lo fashilonn- ¢ ton; tho dead Incredible Is, too, « hion. ‘Tha AML know the power of fi Masses of inen and women Insist upon move {ue on this capricious tlde, Renson andthe | and lowertng ft at 1id pleasure. [oo Word of God have a poor chance In those | off our flow of tifa every moment, but, allow- Tnstdlays auninst fashion. In it to resume next moment, wa do nat ‘Third—The literal resurrection of the dead | notice the Interruption, Can ithe tess. than nay be by some discredited because It menus | His power, however, that starts the stream the netual bar af {ualsment nnd the fullest | of vitality after its arrest? Some day God but tho Interval {s so short that woe not detect It, God, whom we call Nature, stands atthe gate of our phystology rash villages have outgrown our plety. The yWhieh the Atonement of our Lord | personal accuntabliity, dy and soul to- | willdrop the finte for a decade, nenntury, a grandest of Nations now appeals uot | desis Christ adimitied us. gether, en sinned, and 1 body and soul are | ert. ‘Chis will constitute aw apprectabla Ine to oour Prosbyteriantsim oor arthedasy Some, however, took upon tha boily—their | to be resurrected In the reseurrection it wowld | terruntion, We are raced to call stein ces alone, but alse to our pattlotign, and | own b With a peenttarly wnfelendly sen tobe for purposes of Judgment and pens | sation af tha flow of Hfeduath, God wilt lek n asks us all to aird on the spiritual armor Mat our laud, free from tivapots, free from ehains, tty be mnie free from ignorance and sin, ‘The Chiristh have here nnd of more yalitg, than ever | dl Jerusalem was to those who sang in captivity “ such a tnournfil psalin, and may well sing fis | the those old words, “1f 1 farget thee, oh my country, may ony right hand forget her cunning.” These remarks are offered to-iay notin a July enthusiasm, but from reniembrance that all the home mission causes aro now bes fore the Churches with appeals far help for the next year; and beeatse the tilux of jin migrants is so great as to be wonderful, and to be full of fnauiry as te thednuty of Chris: tians and philanthropists.” We behold ni exotdtts from the old world to the new, an exodus which will long eontinue, antl! niillons of strangers shall bo found in our cities, and towns, aud fields, The old thrones woult mock at the Republic lad they not such troubles at home as tu inake tntinely all derision flung toward Amertea, You who belong by birth and lifelong association to thls country know all its wants; the re- sponsibility is grentest where the knowledge is greatest, sad where tha most of favors have fallen, Our own Bryant sang that the Kings of Europe knew not What cordint welcomes groot the guest Ty tho lone rivers of the Weat, Jtow faith fe kept and truth kings, trea from In the gray 3 grow to be old and cc elr the meaning of pain tear of real regret be Dondage to purely phys! withstanding all thi cisin of the bod, unfortunate, he soul . against the sont, tire called upon to contend, that Hes, and famesy anid defeat: bury your soul frot virtue choice, by w! Itinight have stood trie, In woodland bomes: . And where tho occan-border foams, There's freedom nt our gates, and rest For enrth's downtrodden and oppressed, A shelter for the hunted bend, For tho starved worker toll and bread: Dower at thy bounds Stops and calls buck bis baftled hounds, No, the old world knows not In the full what aNation bs springing where between the two oeenns, bite wteall Know the impressive fact. It is seen by your eyes, itts heard by, your ears, it Is felt Ino the aulekened inf uses, tit the heart, but all this seene, so great beyond words, will fade away like a mirage orn mist of. the morning unless your patrlutism enter the aren of murals and ight the battles of the mind as your fatters ffale the wars of blood, and death, and erty’. THE RESURRECTION, RERMON BY THE MEV. dM. WILLTAMSON, ‘The Mey, Mr, Willlumson preached the following sermon yesterday moriting in the First Methodist Church; Why should it bo thoughita thing Incredible sith you that God should raise the dend?"—<Acta, trol, 8 : Lam free to neknowledge that the longer I live with my body the better L like tt, L know inyself, and am wot infrequently and most courteuusly reminded by loving friends, that wine ds far from an ident body. Its propor tlons, Lan tald, are ungainly; its Inek of en durance often embarrasses; Its not Infre- quent palns discourage my desire for long life, and Its hereditary tendency to unanticl- pated mortality sometimes crowds my soul with strangely mnysterlousdread. Nutwith- standing all this, giowever, I believe In my body, and win delighted to know that Lamto live in It, after the momentary episode of the graye, forever. ‘The life, including the soul, that formed and continues iny present body will, In God’s good tine, reform and re- continue It evermore, ‘That is the doetrine of the resurrection as stated by God's Word In the lightof modern biotogicat learning, God mide ube first hiiain body exnetly ts imine would be to-day bat for sin. ‘The poor human body f3 wnfortiumite, and Is suitering for the sing of its inaster, the fnperint dpint that occupies and controls Hef cannot think, and ao of courae cannot say, just how beautltnl and berfect the mid of nian is, but this statement it seems to me L dare venture, that nana mind Is not one whit more beau- tiful and perfect, in nu way mere fearfully wonderfil, than his body. | Why, if suet a remark be not napardonably unphtlosoph- feal, utinit power was as much tuxed to ereate the first luman body as the frat human mind. Indeed, ag iny possibly untue Christ appears upon the se for the sad predieninen Itis our disloyal souls nm Apustle’s surprise, resurrection of the dead, with retined sel grat before they were, without consuiting Paul saw it. Let us lave this vast questi versitles, the nth inet assent, why should 1t hy physleally by the power of Not resume physical liv A Paul's logieal m erent! deat, 1116 so minded, : Y dnd ft seems to me, that a God able to create fore mnt seer eee inet ow, frond the living Is able also to rniso the dead; and. us readily ns wlth my body. llow we | Lean see as many good reasons for raising can continue to bu men and women without wwthis to My poor thought luconcelyvable. ae this necessity before us whut do we obser One whom we know Fels slek, then very sick, und dies. We study to seetire resigni- thon of heart in what may be n° great personal loss by guying that only hls poor, frall body dled—that dls mind his spirit, his real self, li the order of Gad's loving Providence, hits ted to its inmertall: tyand its crown, Worthless body to the ground, falter In ut- terance and fade tn complexion us with the attending clergyman we try to say, Barth to eurth, ashes to ashes, dist to dust,” and then we turn away lo awalt the switt coming to ourselves of nu Kindred fate, As we retrace our steps homeward from the great, silent elty of the dead, we eannot but wonter, not why our frlend tved at all, but why ald he livedn the body ? ‘There may be easy reasons, spectally ta the religiously taught, why tho Athiess spirit shoul fora season finger tn thin of shadows and af discipling to) pre: mire to glory ta the bilssfal surprises of the eternal day, and the commun era of purfect ttre now, conspicnons ton, vital doctrines in a body. be rejected, all fall. will be thy plagues; destruction. Marvel Hee, they. tell us, to tila that we WHE be eternally lata aside Tam notable to explain this $j common aversion | Rng that tha body feeble, vs do lose thelr lustre, and hnimun cheeks rnddy charms, Wenriness fallows only moderate exertion, sickness mny surprise us abany moment, and accident may rob life of its Joys ina moment any day, Wo oll know have cried many a eof our enforced eal conditions, Not- his possible and just eritl. itself fs not less Whatever of evil we may urge against the body, we may urge still more In the soul, not fi the body, are lodged tho evils against which wo it Is the soul Justs, and dishonora, and des But would you gindly your sight forever, be= cause It has thus criminally misbehaved? When T scold now, It ls not my body, but my soul, that must bear my wrath, Taught by divine precept and practice, 1 aun happy, to report a strong partiality for tho of forgiveness, and yet L nn not just. ready to, foritlyg my own soul for its erline of hich Llost the fiver of my Gad, "The linian soul was not compalled to sin, Tho fall orsinnl wed ly, and each thine it is repeated, Is nut a\nd man fa loved and God is feavedy |. 4.5 pitzpase, butinan’s invention. It Is all need. jess and inexcusably wieked ne of moral dos- olation caused by man’s rebellion against the infinit wistton of his Creator, it elvet, by sneritielat redemption, a chosen few to eternal life, but to save n lost race from the eifects the evil choice of the human soul ins entailed, If any one, then, is to be blaine weareall in under the condemnation of God, guilty at the bar of consclence, cansulodily unholy in heart, not our unforti- nate bodies, “Grave, just-and goad enough to redeem min’s sinful soul, could not fall to dons much algo for his suffering body, My text is plaluly an expression of the Paul had doubtless been hearing, as nll modern apostles hear, crave doubts expressed og to the ngssititity: of the Suppose meny | how are the angels? Who has any just ide vain In tho vonceits and authority of fancied Naas athy dupe ile scholarship, were reasoning ti ence without so muchas alluding ta God's connection with the mighty marvel. ovidently believed In tho resurreetion of the dend, beeause Gad had personally assured him of the fact. For aught may-have been supernaturally empowered to Took into nature; he muy have seen what we, putiiic penetration, only sus. pect.—the existence of 2 provision for the re- suinptlots of physical living after the disinte- jon of duath and the grave, how animates our bodies was in existence 'Shis we positively know our Bibles, selentific as well as Biblical candor, may not this sume iife last when our present organization shall have tirned again to dust? ‘There is no sclentitic or Bibtieal reason why not. If, then, our life—the cause of form hn our physicn! organization—may, indeed must, continue after they dissolve Inideath, who will deny the sclentiie possiptilty of our be- Ing rebuilt by Its efielency? Bue this would he the resurrection of the Intman body, ns then, for the present, lon, Ur the Hehtof these selentitic Intimations, where Pant left: tt with the purpose and bower of God. None bub the half-edneated are athelstleal, Paur's the only centers of real learning, are all thelstleal, ‘That Is, theso scholarly sents of original Investigation believe. in the existence of God as man’s Creator, the final verdict of human thought. Only Now, my brethren, a thoughta thing Ineredible with you that God, whe made man physic: ally once, should re-start him thus again tn the resurrection? If man imay begin to live Cod, why insy he after the Inter- ruption of the grave by tho sane power? nil, devoutly and intelli- gentiy theistical ns’ i was, was, evidently y surprised that any one should for ‘a moment doubt God's power to raise the Lt seemed to Paul, tho dead as for muking the living, ‘Tho Sadducees In Pinl's day were, as they fn thelr dental and hatred of this great doctrine of tho resurrec- Like all errorists, the Suulucues dented ney Jected the doctrine of immortality, that of tuigels, spirits, and rewards, ete. So relnted aro all of the leading doctrines of the Word of God and evangelical theology, that, Lf one ‘ ; A Hac ay {itallty sn aoe 7 porting element of a perfect body of truth. Ke eames pliteid, Viens say, dear brother, what doctring is granted, and received to-day: by. those who deny the resurrection of the dead} A complicated scheme cannot be necepted, while any of the particulars are rejected. Dut the question raised by the text Is not Yot fully answered. Nooneean doubt God's ability to de it If that is His plan. Let us pour mortals reverently imeaver In tha DI- Ving Presenee while God Hinself addresses us os to tls whl on this subject: 1 will ransom them trom the power of the grave; L will redeem them from death; O death, £ O grave, T will be thy notat this: for the hour is coming, In the which all that are in the tumian fod’s Now, when is not to ofanangel? How woulda real man, turned Into a real angel, look, and feel, and nel? On the contrary, lvtus urge that, sincs men are nen, and angels are angels, they will quite ikely so remain forever. Isuspeet, ton, that in thelr spiritual natures men and angels are not atall alike, 1 look upon the resurrection asa teu pane reassertion of Eden, physle- ally, morally, sockally, and esthetically, for an'eternity, Lighth—But, last of all, skeptics tnsist . that Christians must be wrong, beenuse the resurretion of the dend ts selentifieally—that is, nrithinetically—impossible, When a main dies, tho half-eduented sagely fustruct us, his. body soun passes into Irrevocable decay and disintegration, The matter of which he was physically organized, we-are told, soon turns Into gases, and trifle of residual dust, which are linmedintely absorbed ng nutriment by vegetable organizers, upon which animals live, aud sv the materint of decensed humanity pursttes oan endless round, ‘This, the material universe, as far ag organized, Is self-sustaining. Que genor- ation passes nay in a benevolent provision known nas death, and another Immedintely follows to subsist upon its ruins, Melt here, it is Insisted, is tho insuperable objec- tlon to the doctrine of the resurrection of ‘the human body. How will [t be possible to find any particular body when: it, shall Tes Paul know Paul ‘Tho life that Many nen, L fear, tire not living with | the mate remain down wotll He ts plensed to our suffrages whether or nota day of judg. Hiterruntert physteal {fe will How on again, relished even bythe Church? I feel my soul | man passes his prime, Indeed, a man passes Judgment ‘Sami abet them tnprepared. | his flow of life. In tho resurrection, when will not be imatter enough, itis gravely ine | an Inimortal, sinless, perfect, and mature the end of the world. But inf the first resurrection uintter, God's ability, tuo, to snstiln all of ll human souls forever, Our fatth has io | The Rev. 1. 1? Mercer delivered 1 dis- Hifth~Some algo deny the resurrection of | Jerusalem Churel—A ftevlow of tho Recent “Gol len splrit,’ say they, “and so shou even so send Lyon” have bodles, when Ile has none Uhngelf 2 and preach Itis work, ‘Choy wore ‘faulty, Jationships of our present tives, Let no ong | and splritless from the shock of 1 trent dls. oye {n God’s way, which will be the best verta busy world from stn and wiekedness expetiient of the resurrection He provided strength, but in the name of the Almighty; upon us, and so the will of God Is absolutely necvasities destined to pass aveny when wo or overpowered by their commission they when our earthly life ends, Lord descended upon thom, with tha power & purely spiritual condition, We ata all tolit working through thom, was to evangelizothe ing of the holy spirit, preiiguring, as it did, splritual Me znd this scene of the Y yet waiting for the power from_on high, and ple of the New Chureh to-day with sulemn ond coming and the establishment of His Why, inal the Lord had actually appeared fn the world Him. taken from them; that He had commis: preach the rad{eal doctrines of [is Gospels of the New Church, and apyointed that referenee to the dudement-Day. Were God, | ralse it, Que morning, 111 the sweet by-nnd in IMs Timitless benevolence, to aubinit to | by, He will choose to raisé ft, and our long: went should ever be held, hovw,.do you thn ‘This will be the resurrection, Now, God be: the voting would go? Is tho idea ‘generally iis to-tiny to trap this te Just tha moment sinking Into sickening sadness as I reflect | his prime because, at a certain age, God upon the countless throngs whose Hteral | begins gradually, but appreciably, to cut. off “atrth—Some object to this doctrino be- | the perfect flow returns, each mat, therefore, enutse of Its Inconcelvable maguitude. There | will find ihuself in the heatty and bloont ai sisted, In tha wide world to reclothe tn flesh ‘y th. Dour friends, shall we net all so be- and food all that have lived from preatinn to feve nnd live as to haye 9 persontl part in infinit spaec ts fled, aecording to selonce, with oraantznblo THE NEW CUURCH. theas bodies after the resurrection Is not . 2S REV, stCE inore wonderful than {is ability to sustain SERMON MY THE HEV. ty B. MENCEIL Ul ehanee hera but In Qod’s goodness and | course tn Hershey Muste-ifall yesterday’ power, ‘morning on the “Progress of the New the body because, ns they think, It Is Incon- Gene AON " Y enertl Convention.” Ie. tank for a text Is tire nnd covete . alstent with pure and voveted polritualtty John 2 “As My Father hath sent Me, we bo In eternity.” Why,” we are asked, “should God want his redeemed ehildren to The risen Lord stood before Is npostles Such Inquiry 18 nat worth pressing. and comutssioned them to go in [lly name Sixth—To the resurrection muny object he- cause, ns they feel certain, it would Involve | sinful mon, full of errors and wrong, ambl- the revival of many of the embarrassing re- | Hous from. the first, and were now crushed ba troubled by medelies of thie: iia Tt Appolutment, Without the Influence of learn- ing or position, what could they do to cons way, and the Sway imost pleasureable, Let tg remember"that when God willed tho | te Inunility and righteousness? But they for all the details, Upon th Doivint Ons Were not sent out in their own wisdom and eience there enn be flashed no surprises, as i the breath of the Divine Master was to be trustworthy, Many of the relationships of | upon them and in them. Whether pleased Ife, ns the marriage relation, spring from do, ‘These ure coneesstons to huinnn society did not understand its signifiennce till, on that for significant putrnoses, bubnre site to ond | tay of Pentecost, tho spirit of the sloriticd Seventh—It 1s alvo sald that the resurrec- | of the highest, to train the Church on earth, tion 1s tuineeessary; that we enn do bottersIn | Not thelr influence und power, but the spirit to ng to bens the angels are. Wel a ngplru to pe gurely are, Well, but | vonid, ~ ‘Thrice holy, then, to tho New Church, was this commemoration of the giv- the second coming of the Lord in the spirit and power of 11s word, and the triumph of few feeble und. faw npostles, sent out to preach the glorious Gospel delivered to then, dependent solely upon It for influence and BhGERaE, was one that might well fill the peo- meditntion, For they, too, were commis- stoned ty preach the gospel of the Lord’ssee- Chureh in’ the genuine doctrines of truth, ‘They were to prochain the good news that of spirits in His gloriiled person, in like inau- ner us the uposties on Ascenston-Day beheld stoned and sent out Uls apostles nnew, throughout the whole spiritual world, to that Ife had reveaied these doctrines in the world also, brought them to the knowledge chureh to teach these doctrines; that this was indeed ‘His holy promise, — to come onagiin and to send down out of Heaven from Iimself, is Holy City, the Now Jerusalom, to be tho tabernacle of God among men; that He would bring in Tho Unt- have passed through so many organic | Hahtand power among men, and establish iy forms?” One very largo man of this gen- Its evertasting Kingdom onenrth, This Gos. This Is | eration may contribute. tos make | pel tho New Church had as astro word of ong very small one of the next, | deliverance. And who wero they that they should be called to make It known! Returning from the National Council of the New Church, and considering Its fevble- hess In nttnbers, and wisdom, and Influence, there was comfort In the reflection that not unto them but unto the Lord God and the aumb belonged wiidom and. strength. ‘The New Chureh was the fewest of all people, aid in nowlse remarkable for influence, or earning, or goodness. Tholr statistics were s0 few that they were almost ashamed to own them. What, therefore, were they to count funong the multiform religious movements of the age, and why should they set thom- selves up us the preachers of faith that was to transfuse tho world’s thinking and briny down the life of Heaven upon earth? itt would Indeed be the hight of fanaticism and presumption did thelr commission rest upot anything they could call “their own,” or Upon any other reason than that, In reveal- ing the truths of fuith for the New Church the Lord had sald, As My father hath sent Me, even so send L you.” 2 ‘The New Church found tha samo diffical- {ies to contend with now us did the feeble apostles, ‘These facts taught tho New Church the great fmportiunce of {ts work, Inthe dependence wpon the spir- ttof the Lord for success, and, finally, eontl- dence In the face of all discouragement in that wherewith He had set Iis Word to nee ‘hese polnta were nll recalled f tha reports of the associa- tlons and churches, ‘They showed no great Increase In strength, and yet it was manifest that the extent of the Influence existing was tnealeulably Inereased by the breaking down of prejudices, the circulation of books and tracts, and the wide publication of sermons, By multiform agencies, too vartous and in- slgniflennt In themselves to be tabulated, and yet sufficient to form foeal points for the in and now, Iu the resurrection, which one wil be entitied to the body? ‘There Is only mat- ter cnongh placed to the credit of both wen to renntke the body of the larger, aud fet the Ittic man has his rights, Here the physteal clothing of a large man, having been cut down by nature to fta sinall one, the Inree inat returns ut least to claim this part of his personil estate. ‘The vexation inequity Is solvable, God must have some other way. aAndso He has, The doctrine of the restir- rection docs not assert the absurdity raised by this objection, What this doctrine ioes clain fs that every person’s physical life will resume, after the Interruption of the grave, by tho pawer of God. utaven you Insist, perhaps, “Tow can the identical body that died be secured again??? “Tlundreds may have possessed It, at least In part, and nov Whose shull it turit out to be in the morning of the resurree- ton?” ‘Tho embarrassment here signltion, arises from an utterly mistaken {dea of what a human body really is. It is enrrently be- Heved that the human body fs wn orgnniza- tlon of measurably fixed identity, changing not far from ones In seven yeurs; thet ones in suven years we exchange our ol mniscles, and nerves, and bones, and ’skin for new ones, x0 that a pian who lives to celebrate his seml-centenninl birthday ling “parted with seven badies, and is Just snugly fixed in the elghth, This ts the usual but very er roncous supposition. ‘Che human body dous ot change fram old to new once in’ seven aes or In any other delnit length of time, No suet thiye'as idontity can be atlirmed of the human organization. ‘Thy humin bor In ntl its tisues, fy an uninterrupted prov: es8,—a ceaseless flow trough the channels of organization. Cortainly, the doctrine of the resurrection does not promise us. any particular boily, beenuse we never hid any alike re. Christian realizations but just why tis wonderful i ma particular body, | lt promises us aresump- | lux vt the Divine Spirit though the badly ‘shot be aris ta rau for an hour in pruves a pal! eae tle Alec: mnt pital ening Hon at piysien} MWving by the poster ot Ch Bending jfteavenns ihe Tolthy at ae he morning twillght, aul then rot into ob- dae io Wee! te MW the sense of the instrumental Known | NOV hurch fault a nearing and reception livion thrangh all the lone day, {snot elenr | Soy this body, yet Inany flesh 1 shall geo f tively Indes | With a eonstantly. inerensings number wlio to the eniltnest and devoutest reflection It 1s not hard, perhaps, to see just how the soul, all humorial, has a good chance, but who ean eal! the boty as fortunate? Reason Joluy, the Word of God ii teaching that boy and soul were we first eatially intended for im- mortallty, but now we know only the soul is thus favored, ‘The purty sting proves to be the party fortunate. ‘Te body ts called upon of herbs, und ei you. For as in Adam all Christ shall all be made alive resurrection of the dead, was ordered to keop. Who ean explain the Apparent unfairness? Is not: the striking and prevalent phenomenon of death an ine pressive deelavation of the defeat of Diving Puen AWWhy ereate the body but tor an nnmortal ta? May be the soul and body de together, 1 antimal organization may utterly and lrreyocably perish, what alse Is sure toondure ? In the extremity of our embarrassment the ne of the yexurrection, forestiutowed win, wind plainly dixclosed by revelne jared] body, i spiritual body, Arosa and ascended Gad, whom I shall see for tnyself, and mine eyes shall behold, aml not another, ‘Th dead mon shall ve; togother with my dead body shull they arise. Awnke and sig, ye that dwell In duats for thy dew 1s ag the dew thshall east out the dead, But lf the spirit of Uti that ralsed up Jesus from the dead dwell th you, 7 up Chirlst from the dead shall alse quicken to sulfey on neewunt of tha bud company it | four inortal bodes by thos Pi tak dscullo elt Le that ratsed ft fs sown In eor- ruption, it. is raised tn Incorruption with the effects of sin upon it lett out). sown natural [that ts, 2 sln-acensed] body, {tis raised a spiritual [that is, by alu auntie ‘There is a natural and there is. Who shall vile body, that (tinny be fashloned WKY unto Ms glorious body for the body In whieh Ho ], according to tha. work: as life, which, we know, exls pondently of our antinal orginizngon, Dam the same man L was ten yeurs ako; In per- sonal Identity, when Lentered the mlntstry; but physically 1 ain not the same, ag the beautiful Rovk River, on whose banks 1 preached, is nov te same, ‘The life of the human body fs thus like the waiters of n flowhiy stream, always filing Its banks, and yet never fora moment standin sul. ‘Phis unceasing vital flow, like the watery ons to which Chave iustratively re- ferred, leaves In the courses and on the banks it vould not count with its Taeuibaralit, The 58,000 volumes of the writhigs of the Chureh,, dtstributed to tha clergy; the 00,000 tracts iureregating over 2,000,000 pages, distributed during tho past yenr by one society alone; the Inerensed circulation of sermons through the secuiar press, and of books through the regular trade; all this was a ministry sent out into the world, ttl hyhnue Itaclt aud pro- dueing converts who could not be counted, ‘There was 0 eowin recognition nmong the peopig of the New Church of the remarkable 0 also is tho of organizution its deposits of uutrigon, ns { transformation In the faith of a e- Hoe te. | well is bears way lisdébrisof axeren. Our | lygtous worl, “and” the progress of S| bodies are, thon, not subjected to purlodic, | New Church’ Ideas, coupled with a but to constant, change, We have one boty, only as we linve one Mississippl, one Olilo, and one Rock River, ‘This leads me to say that itis a plain fact of human phestology, that we die and are ralsed from the dead stalls, In the ultimate vell-work of which our boiles are composed. strengthoned appreelation of the Importance of thelr own distinetive work, ‘Tho genuine eathollelty ofthe New Church peoplo had hover been so apparent as now. ‘They svomed to have all enught the hope snc with that the hannbte and devout In all churehes might recolvo the truths of the N chiauge our é s t New Churel and ton, contes to our relief. ‘This doctrine, | (he Whereby He is able oven to subdue all | Puystcally speaklige wa ave a vastus at | te them, and yet remain unknown, ‘The tranglated Into an: English detlaition, means tonnes tntit Hhawelty ihe, conear ini the vital culls, ‘Pho celt ig the physteat indie | acti! New Chureh upon the earth might bo that every hina body, as well as every hus Hi ti raved pul Any ng eit ho tie faith vitlnal. Now, willions of those eolls dle and | very large, while. the corporates: body was twan sou Is hnwortal by the power of Gad | Peg baptavendy: and averthrow the faith | arg safsed trai the dead ian every healthy | very sniall, for the New Chureh conslats of that In the fe at the future men are | PC ROME,” ele, ole, bady daily, tn planof God. Physieally, the | all who acknowledge Jesus Christ as God to tye ons they do now, with Now who, after duly Welghing this vast | death that consigns our bodles io the (dmb, | with us, in faet, and shun evil as sins wusalnst this difference: that thelr bodies will, by ax | array uf evitence, can longer doubt the Dl- | that invotves aur change of worlds, and tint | Him, learning day by. day more. and though thelr sols had been sintess. ‘Phe | Vine tntention? Lt will be sean that the Old | we all dread so mnch, is but the simultaneous tore (of tha falth of God.” ‘There resurrection will Introduce the redeamed Lito | wid the Now Tostaments emphasize this doce | appliention to all tho vital cells that com. | were New Chureh men who ha never aavcond Eden of physleal as well as spire | tine with nlmost equal distinetness; and pose these badies of a prinetple uyeracilye | avon a New Chureh preacher, or read, itual lunnortallty, trom whose perfect se | Mao thut If the Seriptures hore marshaled to | with the individual membersof tho ning. If, | to thelr own knowledge, % New Churett curity and beatiful roposy no inan wilt | siipport tho doctring of the resurrectlon | asa matter of fact, this istho way the himan | book, but who, nevertheless, could not have naan wander, fiman probation opened In | ave Tusuillclent no ono need hope to received the fulth save there had been aise the Eden of Agias human probation will tre winpluntly cnd hn the second Eten on life's fait, lumiortal shore, God's origin plan of assorlated physteal and spiritual mantiood ht deathless conthimnce of being In this world was broken up, ai we know. by the sin ot the race, but It is to be gloriously and tri- (ophnntly retricd in the resurrection. Cam so delichted with the mysterlous perfection of the physteal body, and sa contldent ain't of ita original titte to kunnortality, that £ hall the doctrine of the resurrection with glad: hess, Dut for sha, our workl would have known no death, and so no,resurreetions but, a8 things are now, becuse of sin, it is God's deelared purpose to close up the present physical fife of the race ti death, and beght again, and for famortality, dn the marniiag of the resurrection, Lite, oxtatlag before are smunization, ag it suanitenthy nist haye done, ia the Jusitumentality God employs to ould ity, iipon by life, matte {zed, mto niy body, much older, f eannot say. body, ganization. of Hite then, Biblically sustain the doctrines of immortal- atonenient, prayer, purity, faith, ete, Lut it be kept In nubid steadily that there is ho scientific embarrassment to prevent or qualify our faith In the Serlptures that fore- toll the certain resurrection of the human body, ‘That my body, for example, is now allve there is ‘not a shaduw of a doubt, Unico It was not allye—did not exist, Acted, ‘a8 formed, oF organ- The life that formed ny body in, therefore, older than my body, How Life, thori, us the bulider of my body, bs independent af my My physleal organization did not nuke ty fife, but Hfe made my Organtantion, ten, aud not its cana, a there for thinking that the dlisalu- ton of organlantion Ja death means the exe netion of Ife? Such an wnverlptural and J body alles, under what. pliyslologieal provis- fon day It risengain? = Why, manifestly by | thiet organization devoted to tha bronebln the simultaueous apvlication to-n mass of | and printing of the definkt doctrines which cells of Ue sane prinelply precisely that naw | the Lord had revealed, effects ony Individual collutar renewals, ‘The | ‘the effort. to elenpen and extend the clr- inition cells may dig as the one dues, and the | culation of the New Chureh works was one inion may Ive again, ws the one does, 1] that the General Convention took measures cunnot ses that God would rexort to any new | to sceure. ‘The Convention referred—and principle iy the promised death aud resurree- | this Wis an important fact—tho reviston o! Uon of the human body than that constantly | tho New ‘Testament to the Ecclesiastical employed by Hii to toltow death with edit | Committee far examinationand report, ‘Three the well-nnderstood processes of physlotogy, | aspects of the now version were committed When our bodies ure working healthtully, | speelnily 10 the Committee,—its agreement wiliions of nileroscopts colls dle and hye | with the doctrines of the Now Chureh, tt4 tumin daily, Let us tx our attention upon | valtte as a contivent of tao spiritual sense, onechosen from any tissue, It fuliils its | and the expedioncy of Introduelng it Into the intssion, dics and Is replaced by one Just ke | churches, to be read in the. afiives. of It, an iuappreeinble interval ocsurring be- | worshly, ‘There were seholars in the New tween tho cellular death and the cellular res- | Church competent to pasa an opliton upon urrection, or resmnption, ‘The old coll must | tts eritten! weeuracy, but le was by the be dend and gone before the now one | eriterlon of the spiritual sense that the New can tivo and thrive in its place, | Churel: would have to fudge, phystent or: 8 tha eifeet nt reason, the human body the tirst time, wid why, in | hopoless presumption is, aa well, utterly une | Thave in imy mind two small takes about i It was Impossible and unimportant to the name of acenee, tot ma lustst, may” ‘ilo | sclontitte, Is thore, too, way xaielent reason | milo apart. ane several fee Inghor' thin. the | speak of the Convention's work In detall, hot employ i Just a castly the secon tue | why the life that formed our budles oneo may | other, und emptying Into [t through a smalt | Its deliberations were nut tree fron diyidons to do the same work, or ti tho resutrycllon? | vatagaln? May not the Creator retinploy be losed by agate | of opinion mul earnest differences, but ava ‘There ure vo selentitlc reasons that can be urged nyaahist Ue Peminntton of vhysleal living in Ube resurrection that cannot be jist us sucessfully urged against tts beghuilig In the marvel of generacion, and especially | the restrrection ia thas seripturally certaly agaist Its begining hy the first represent: nd | mititiently possible, w) alive of the human race, EC Adan contd bee | look wpon it as Wholly ineredi ain to dive os an adull by the power of dod wbonce. why may he not qualn? And, If tt is possible'furhin this to tive again, why may not)? Let itnever be forgottun that nay body that my Ife, whieh extsted before Ddtd, and) will continue to exist when am dead, inay build, with bo any body, nn wilt mot vertalnly look dike my h and cannot, Tam nastred, fall to be re occupied by me as of old. Now, my dear brethren, when our redeemed souly regnter our tnmortal bodies, and get falrly settled tn. the survrising bilss of the new relation, and Hirat—Beeunse thu: fats. Lknow Lspeals ac proaf an which It rests, ology. Ils first and chosen Inatranes trleve the waste of death, Ho says He willdo tt In the resurrection, But,” some one urges, it tality to re. su disposed ? the doctrine of ¥ 10,60 many » not know these Ivisedly when I say’ that not ten faa hundred of these who deny the doctrine of the resurreetion over ertt= jeally examined the Biblical and blutogieat Lulso know Lspeak advisedly when Tsay that behind, or wader- neath, Nie faith ot the Charen of Christ in the doctrine of the resurrection of the human body, a8 Onmnipotent evidence are the pluln declarations of modern physi- Second—''o pronounce the resurrection of stream, ‘Chia stream nus situated about one-fourth of a inile trom the upper lake, One day my companion agreed whole It was inarked by brotherly considera. hi to take his station at the outlet of tho strenm, thon and harmony, rough the gutharing appenred the glorious light that: the New at the lower jake, to wateh the effect upod | Church was quietly and surely bringing for- the flow oveasioned by my ageney at tho gate, | ward the day: when the earth should be full 1 troppod tho gute and let it remain down a | of the knowledge uf the Lord, minute and then raised It again. ‘This bre peated a dozen times, Afterwards | sald to THE REVISION, SERMON HY THE REV, Ke te GALVIN. iy Trani I prank ctr tha taka lit 8 usual (low ? fe assured ine it did, But Linow it alid uot out-outdow us usual. 1 | | ‘Tho Rev, EI. Galvin, pastor of the ‘Third Unitarian Church, preached yeaterday morn- tng on “The Guin to Protestant Chelatlunity hut avtunily broken the even flow, but so brlatly: esto bo Lanppreciabte to dln * ne distance frou ne. another time [ closed: Yow ant.” Fole the mate fora day and the bed of the. stream ¥ Bie teaviatony of Eee Sestutueh Fol: become quite dry, In the morning T ratsud { !ewlng ts tha sermon tu full: favor, | ft, and the usual ow was resumed. Now, f PT ee aa Fira Killuth, Lut the Spirit this collttar death that ts cola on within us | #lveth Hfo—TL. Cor. tthe G. every moment ly a realdeath, and ly follawed | One of the beneficent results which, 1 be- by areal resumption of life, or a resurrec- | lieve, will come from tho recent revision of —, the New Testiment fs not Only ay dnstas C mato of the hook Itself, but a tanger aye Oe tlon of {ts teachings, T Obptecja. If you ask why so many have i fer tlines closed the Bible aint tenet contents with tndliterence, Bare ty tho anawe plain, Itts to no small extent teonnge et 80 Of the Irrational claims whieh have hom pe {t by so large nt portion of the nea mle fn In the atlvoeacy of tho rigid tloeteh tho plenary aud ufallibte lnspiration roe! whole Scriptures, the Churely hay val Ae deavored to silence Iunan Tensor. ae Svliute ten(dojtey:of their course, In inet ape ins been to make a fetish of the Bible In thetr worship of the att : sacrificed tho spirit, whieh glee ine have thus, instead of making the ible a th ay means of sptritual quickening aryl helpnee Ness, thoy have made ita stiumbling-bieee thousands, ni bloth a ‘The Protestant reformers dente Mbitity of the Pope of Rote, and ete give the Bible freely into the hands of the wople, that they might use th 1 , Jaeinant in its Laterpretation, yy atiate yory anon, transferred the Papnt eluhn fe falllbility to the Hible Viselfe ana gee He oxcrelae of reason in the stucly of Its ee Nes, A hundred years ago—nay, ey yy ngo—itwoult. have been finnoseati feats ganize committee of prominent clergynt and othor Biblleal scliolars from variant liglots denominations — in England per aAmarlen to undertake the work af rey my the whote Bible in the Hichtof the most ng partial scholarship, "The Mere Proposition 8 do such a thing would have Toused the y he determined opposition. If would have ieee rexarded ag an attempt to undernine tty NGF Aounilations of religions faith, oe his much fins been proved, the revised versionvlns tine neers of verbal changes may be made fn the text and nota few passiges entirely dropped as erroneous, and yet the Christian faith 3k: 7 ou firmer ground. Christendom will not be rent asunder by this movement, ‘There wilt, of course, bo many critleisins ‘on the Work that lings been done, but let the endeay vto produce a purer text be cordially In dorsed In ali the Churehes, and it wil eal the respect of all honest minds. Let i ruling desire be to give generous encourage ment to avery Iuman soul to search une trammeled for the spirit that giveth Wife In these. vow estameny seritithes, and that wilt he areturn to tho trite priiciples of Protest, ant Christianity. R B f Protest In undertaking to pass §i fovea version of fis New with «very humble nite of my ability. ‘The nen who have dona that grey work are men of sich scholarship and ett eal ability ng 1 can lay no elaims to; Tsitaply express my opinions for what they are worth: ‘The first thime that attracts our attention In the new version Is the change in the Mt rangement of the text. Instend of being broken up Into verses and chapters each one of the Gospels and Hplstles 1s a connected whole, divided only Into paragraphs, the old numbers of the’ chuptors and verses be ing placed In the margin for the purpose of convenient reference, i We find algo that quotations from ' the Psalms and Prophets are given In metrical form, and thus hinve greater prominence, These are marked improvements on tho oll version, in which the conueetion of thought 1s often broken by the division and subdivis ion of the tex: The plan of numbering the chapter and verses at the top. of each page in thonew version is misleading, and should be changed, Many would, doubtless, prefer to see the prouiinent features in cach fnilieated In the heading of the pages—e, g.: John Haptist’s Preaching, Christ’s Sermon on the Moun Parable of tho Good Samaritan, The Wits ow’s Mite, ete. {i pursuing the review of the revised yer. sion, I have carefully studied the “list ot readings and renderings preferred by the American Committee,” and haye compared ath of these with tho scholarly transtatton ot Tischendorfs Inst edition of the Greek Tostament, made th 188 by tha Rev, George t. Noyes, D. D., Inte Professor of Hebrew and Dexter Lecturer on Btbileal Literature in the Cambridge Divinity Sehool of Har. yard University, and with the Greek text of ‘Tischendorf’s clahth edition, ajd also Dean Alford’s Greok ‘Testament of INis, tus look first atsome of the most marked ehunges which have been made In the text in accordance with the new ight that has been thrown upon It from older MSS, ‘Tho doxology to the Lord's Prayer fs omlt- ted ng belng no part of tho original text. The word abn is rightly rondered in the passage (Matt.,vi., 1), "Tak ye do not your alms {your righteousn fore men.” ‘The word “ offend,” In passages as “If thy right eye offend or, thy right hand offend thee,” Is changed 1 catisetlt thee to stumble,”—f ete fab nite sin, “Tho ght of the body is the eyo” fs better rendered “Phe Inmp of the body js the eye.” Tho misguiding words “Take no thought for your life” are changed to Be not anxious for your fe.” ‘Lhe third and fourth verses of the fifth ghaptor of John’s Gospel, whielt attributed the stirring of Bethesan’s water te the descent of an angel, are omitted as an ie terpolntion. ‘Tho account of the woman ac cused before Jesus asanAdulteress(Jolin, vill, 1-11) is separated from the test, und is spoker oft in the margin ag omitted by most of tht ancient authorities, Dr. Andrews Nortos says of this passage that the welght of tex Uniony ts that it was not written by Jol But af the sume tho hy saw no ground “fol questioning the truth of thy necount; it ls re Jnted Ina striking and natural manner, and bears an intAnsic character of probablllty To states, as a * probable solution as any thal it was written down In Greek by two dilfer ent individuals, from the oral narration of John, and afterward appended to his Gospel, in whitch ithad not been Inserted by hin selt. ‘Tho revised verslon in the same muanuet separates the last twelve verses of aah Gospul from the context, and. states on the margin that the two oldest Gree 5 me somo other authorites omit them. ‘They wt regurited 1 sparlous by Pischentterf, Alferd, antl Noyes, Inthe In speaking of the vaeaney made rid number of the ‘welve Diselples by the de of Judas, the old verston reads: Mis Bis ia riek Jet’ another take.” - ‘This word ui doubtless used to give support ton pe nent doctrine of the Chureti of Eugtan yiz.: that of tho “upostolle succession i thelr clergy, ‘The word. bishovrick In 14 Creek text, whieh Is quoted dlreetly fren id Hebrow Pant, means simply office, a given so in the revised toxt. Instead of the rendering of Acts “And the Lord added to the Chur tract auch as should bo saved,” wa juve the rit reaiting, * And the Lord added to thei ie is, to ely, humber| day by day those were being saved, Avery taurked error ns been corrected It Acts, vil, 69, ‘Tho oll verston reads; and they stoned Stephen, calting upon (ih snylng, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, + that word God fs printed In ftalles, si how f iy it was not In the Greek text, but supple oy the transintors, ‘Tho revised version bie And thoy stoned Stephen, calling mine Lord;” of, as itis more correctly rene! by Dr. Noyes, “Making suppl jeation miiytg, “Lord Jesus, receive my spltlt. T ment Upon the estamentt, Tdo 4, ily lf ats, Vill yaovonth verse af Acti vt { pitiipay tes oat the Eunuch's eo . Hy dant, doth nine: jee to is Seat ti ., Sols the latter yi ura ‘of ‘Acts, Ww act B hard for thee to ek against the pricks.’ US ets, xil, Swe ‘Ant the anachronls * After Enater,” whieh Js rlehtly elanger “Aftor the Pissover.” And jn tho litter Verse of the twenty-first chapter wutea Nat peeullar wording: "And after those | aye took up our carriage [iusteatt of at re wane, as it Js Bivot Int the revised tes! went up to Jerusalem, me Amune other radical changes yo aia call your attention to the First ee tte John, HL, 16, which reads in tho old at be Toreby perculve we the love of ue the eanas he {att down hs ETO fen knw new Version it reads aricht, f wo love, because Ie [referring to Christ} Jald down His life for us. >to whiled Anothor very pense change, tO aHIe Latluded In my hist discourse, an oaptet ston of tho seventh verse of thet Hee that the Word, of 1, Epistle of Joh, There are bear revord fn Heaven, the Father, Mires are and the Holy Ghost; and these (i ; one, shai : ‘The only place {n tho entire New Testa where the word atonement occurs © King James yersign is in. Ror rt it fi, Ut ls exnetly the sume word bn ire la that which fs eleawhore rendered Tee subst Hon, and this latter word, las bet tuted In the new text, ‘The whole: Lil in Chureh has strenuously vinnie due opposition to the popular orto re tring, that the true Gospel docurii is abel conelllution of all wen to tied tira ess, wid obadicnce to the spirit at Huhteaisn F hole hot the atonement tor die sins 0! chests World through tho shuddllis | OF Stage blood, and the transference of His ter ih to Hess fothose who confessed Well oy, ti Th og be no such transitl