Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1881, Page 9

RELIGIOUS. Dr. Thomas Resumes His Pas- toral Duties at the Peo- plo’s Church, ‘He Reiterates His Theological Views and Regrots the Mothodist Rigidity. prot, Swing’s Sermon on. the Unseen Influences on Mankind, Dr. Gibson's Discourse on the. Death of the Presi- dent. FORBIDDEN 'TO WORK. SERMON BY THE RGY, DM THO! Nowwithstanding tho tiderable weather of yesterday morning, which ‘might well have furnished wn exenee for anybody but nm poilecs men ora reporter to remuln at home, Huoley’s ‘Theatre was picked to tts utmost capaelty at. Dr, ‘Thaniaa’ services, Not only was every sent Jn tho house ocenpled, but they peoplo stood In rows vehi tho seats, dnd ft was with diicults’ that the crow could te recommotated within tke walls of tho building, Tho ladles of tho congregition hig. male speolal efforts to ox tend te the preacher a weleume, and the singe was cluborately decorated with lowers and pints. On tha front of tho Biblo-stand was o great white shield of flowers, tinposed on which swag tho Word * Welcaina "In English violets. After the reguinr deva nl exercises hind veon. performed, Dr. ‘Chomus gaye notlee that xeynlar sorvices would be held cach Bundy at J!a. im. in fiture. Ste hoped that all whose mieans would allow would contribute Lo tho su cvas of tho onterprise and identity themse inure closoly with y heeamlng powerentors. Bu far aa he was c¢ d, he said, ho would tio Tory sorry. to become weultuy by prenching the Gospel. “Ho was sure thet be hid net ide uiich progress in this direction $n to last twen- ty-tive yenrs, and he did nut expert to do ao to any grent extent during tho retainer of his mintry. He would rathor preach for leas iioney than to suffer one person to be turned away from church on account of poverty, His chore was to ts emphatically tha * People's Chureh.” Knowing nothing of autonalities or conditions of men, Tv. ‘Thomas suid he thought st proper to refer to the gicstion of hig status) as kh clerzyman, on which = there hud been sone discussion, | Me did not refer to his rlebt to preach—thit ho got from the Lord~but to his stats under the oivit, law. dnthe (rat place, althougn the trind tt Syen- imore had gone ayninst bin, bo still ond tho rant of appeal, aud ponding the deelston of ‘Anat appenl the Methodist Chureh would not re- wire bi to Blrcender ble ordination papers. With rezurd to the othor phise of the question, dt was the opluton of diatingufshed Inwyers and triste tint be had tho fullest rieht to narcy, ant bury the dead, Tho “People’s wis Wn Incorporated institution, aad: Qe, ite tnlitlstor, posseysmy nll the powers yrant- eatomulniaters by tho nw, Ur. Thomas preqched n sermon detailing at } engi bis condition and ylews, from tha folluw- nz te “Joua sald unto Him, Master, we saw one ensting out dovils in thy names and wo forbade him because he followed nat with us, But atesus sald, Forbid him not, for there Is no man whieh shalt don mighty work (i my name, and ‘Le able guickly to apenk evil of tie, “Por he that Js not eRalst Us Is for vy, For whosuever siall rive you ceup of water to drink, becwise yo: aire Christ’, verily Leny unto you hy shall in no wise fose his reward Mark (1, d5-41, It would be tho deepest ingratitude, my Tricnds, not to vexnowledge your constant sym= pathy and support In tho lure und tryime cons Hicts through which L hayo passed. J could not Ave stood long, The struggl¢ has been fora larger iberty of tho pulpit and an broader tolurition at incdi- vidual oplnlons und doctrinal interpretations fn tho Mothodfat Church, 1 could not be false to my convictlons of truth, nor lesa thin honest: wid opensteurted when standing beforo tho pibiic. Ebelleyed that my views were not too troad or tHberal for a Church whose motte bs, been to “tink and fet think,” and whose wilaslon was tho evingellzntion of tho world. Ant when enlled tu necount for theso teachings, Lo owas unwilling ta bo srothored, or smoked out at the back door. 1 Todt It was eight to stund on tho inside and niake: uw falr und honorable defense, and to plead thut the Chureh was, aad should be, broad enough ta ut lenst tolerate one whose filth was so clenrly within the pate of 1 progressive orthodoxy, And certainly the Church had Just as clear a rlght to Ary ma for thoae viows, and, if it found that thoy were subversive of its ductrines, to expel me, This It has done, { stund before you, and bofore tho world, ng bdne who hus been expelled from the ministry and tho momberahip of the Mothodish Church, Tbaye not been without tho ablest counsel. Wo have mide a eonaclentious defense. We have thus fur been defeated. We bave contended for t prinetplog We huye sought to Ieep tho Church as brand aid fred ng ite was when Ie came from tho hands of Wesley; wo have sought to resisc ine Innuvators who would float the Churels with, ndditiownl standards and doctrinal testa whiet anist nares and mocu tend ta tint ard tagailes its felt of work to those onty who can consent to be thus bound, tt were hurdiy possible not to rofer at this hour w the ono thought that has been and is. gow Hetore our minds; und it may be beat to Ro on with such further observations aud roticu- ‘Uuns oy may be suuzested by the circumstances wader which wo have met. And first, you hive tdloubtless noted tho fact that in all this long discussion nut one of tho speakers on oither side has debuted the subject ot KS merits, ‘That Is, na oe has rated the question a3 to whut fs tho truth or whut {8 tho teaching of the Seriptures. And this ting beon 60 from tho slple reayon that the truth or what: Tw Uldle suse wis nat in the detute at all, only (igo far ng ft nay be assumed that tho Articlos ‘of Religion express the doctrines of thy Hbt The whole discussion has been over the mewn Ing of these standards, and tho poselblo tborty allowed tn tholr Intorprotation, ‘The Lible, with ail Prarestants, ia tlic ital muchacitss tat tha ereeds of the goveral churches have puta com tain Interpretation upon: the Hiule, and In the Methodist Church there {sno power that can eer change $0 much as one word in her Articles of Hofligion. rae must stand Just ay thoy nro W the ond sf time, or so lone ns tho Church continnes to exist—and this would soem @ aufilctont reason why there should bo soni Jatitude allowed in ticir construation, And tt would scorn, aluo, that It should bo a powerful ureumont against oinding the thaught and con- selency of inen by adding to these articles by ‘exalting to tho tovel of standards or criteria ot orthodoxy the catechism or tho Institutes of any tosulogion, Would not he understood na_argitine arainst creeds, They hnve served tho double Litas of defining the special butlels of tho diftarout sect, and at the same time of unrding usitinse dnbovations, ur tho Introduonon of now dove irines, ‘Thus creeds huye surved as a basis of derecnont, and biuve muirked the progress of tellglaus controversy, and fastened, tho polots: that keemed kettled in the Church Citholle, us Woll ae to define the pulnts of ditterentintion ‘where each sect seta up goine doetriny pecull Yo fief. And thus thoy neve bent may bo, du their plied, usctul. Wut thie fact should be noted, that tho midicul dutercnea butweon tomanisn ani Protestantiam Je Quit Romanian mukeg ‘the Church: gho fiat authority, White, Protestantigin “ mnkes tho Hibig Mupreme in ont outers of tulth, Heucy Protestants should rost moro largoly won documentary Christianity, or upon the Word of Gud. And henco, also, croeds whould bo spelled welaly tostntemoms of facts, Bien as thowe af the Aposties' Creed, und should nor enter the fold of philosophy, as does the Athan aan and to gome extent the Nieone, Crest ape this, and to bind men by it, fete bind the Haiftlouey to gomethstug elso than the Word of 1p Seuond fact to bo nolod fa thatin my case 8 only polntatissua waa that of bellut, Aguinat diy cuuructer and fuitbfuluoss fn work thore ero Hi) complaints, Jt was purely u case of apposed horesy thut wason trial, And it was tt e trialof one wha constintly and conseluns oul ailirmed hls belie In God, und Christ, and the futura world, and repuntimes, and rayee. and the torwivonoss of sls, wd jn bolle wa DE beurt, ond ite, Ie wae the trial of ono aa Lettoyed the Bible and tha Apostles’ Cre Sra! the great eplricunl aad waving doctrines $f thu Christian rellgian. Fur whit ton, you Ty, Ask iu amuzemunt, was lon trial? Siiiply ane Cae explanation of some of theay doutrined Pony fram the expliuation of soi others, ater weg Strained coustruction could be tortured i i a grea appusltion. tothe Artivlos of o- kan. Bhoply thot, ang nothing more. mma eitd aud more palntul fut so uo noted 1s, tan eOt FoF the dentul of any dovtrine of Chels- hay. Luton the solo ground of u differoncy ithe tnterprotation of sume of these doctrines, is ave been expulled, not only from the mints Gay Uut from tne momborsblp of the Matuadist tne ees liad the vonterence expelled mo fram rea tulstry wione, thore might baye been tho ie nablo excise that they sought to prevent : hreach ny under Muthoufyt authority; but to. Joes eee frou the Christian Chureh was litte ae bun an outrage upun the religious rights of nese Alay, that it shoutd budone by the follaws tinct cutholia Wesley, and-ju the nume of Wrote oft gif fat to resent a real or supposed Have eee abuse thus L thus spoak—for those aa learned to bour—but to protest, In the a onthe Christianity, agniues u biyutry thet Chupeh Boe 42 uurebuked, Whe dteihodiat anos’ hus grown to be powerfih, but ft cannot Thera to doatfunjustly, nor to wholly disregard Ampowity catbullelty of the axe. at thle brings us to note, in the fourth race, the doctrinal and diselpiinary atetude of ye Churen us ductared by tho uctida of the Houk diver Conference in my” expulsion, And It 18 ont this: It denies tho rigutgot chureh-ment- perelR OF (the buss of churacter, und ox- sence, aad bollaf Jn Carlet, aud sankes, @3 0 sac UHOH, Hotuing less than a full and critical Uttotue Articles uf Nellziou and the standard i= authorities, ‘This ithe only lugieal infer that fe boselble, for [tis an this very round thint Thave beer expelled, not alana Ereant tte ulti Iatry, bat from the Church, And, en tho. aime ground, noane cat enter the Churet without thls.rull assent: and thoae within the Chiireh or the tilaistry, ond baying views alillar tomy own, oan remy there only at the enet of it studied and in enforced alonee as ty thelr pros foundest convictions and thelr deepest feelings, ‘Fula la the fuovtatle logle tn tha vase. far the Choreh makes assent to tho Articles of Rellalon acomllifon of inombership, and now, in iny atts thas put upon them this right construde lon. 11 thia fa to be the policy of the Churoh. If this ie Methodisin, then Phave all my fo been inls- ken: Phave tought the Churel ono of tho tnost Hberat when dn tet it is narrower thai tho narrowest. {Uf thts is Methodian, und ahi bo ao declared by the higher court te whieh my enee hes been appeated, ian Pam nota Mette odiats noe do FE want to bo, and wht are the points of doctrine on wiitel 1 have boon expelted from the Church? 1 court of telat by a majority voto of I ted ehired ny) views converning tho Blhie to be sound, so that those whe bold slinthir views— and nbont aU thoacholurshlp of the worht ayreos with me—imny not for that eatse by expelicd: and that leaves enly two paints to consider, Those nro the atonement aod future punts ment. J belleve tn tho alivinity and the sierl. Deliv death of Corist, but Tdeny, the pen thes ory of the utonement, or that Christ was puns Ished for singor that tho pentlty Of sin was exceed upon Christ. Mat te all dint Tdeuy, WHI the Chitret diseipting all tho ministers who preach the same doutrine? Will (tex. ei all tho members who beleve tho same? 1 pelleve In Fatave and proper punighiment for all unrepented sin, butt not timit ail af God's great merey to this short fife, and fhope the work of salvation wry soinchow 26 on In the tone future, How mbout the many minlstors, nota few of whom Upureonally. know, who hotd sinilir yiowa? How whout tho thousunds of IneMbers who belleve the same? ‘Yo be just, tho Methodist Church otght to have bern with the Episcopney, and exy Bishop Foster; for be tag dented the resurces Hon of the body, and that is taught not only, the Artietes of Hellion, but in the Apostles erecd. Will tho Churett yo on now with this rheid orthodoxy? or will It. after having axe polled ie from the Chureh, permit a greater herusy of 0 Bishop to remain unpunished? T have given tho Jogke and falrness of the case; but ne one expects that th ‘hureb will #O.On With this severy work of dieioline and expulsion, And thet will only show Unit in my onse’ thero: hing been more of exestament, and feoltoy, and prejudico than of calin Judginont and atelot Justice, : Ihttelet us now come to another and more pichalite olsunvation: and that ts to note In the irht of these lute and unpleasant ovents tho Areat progress that suelety hus mnde in to last Tew hundred years. No longer mo than tho sb: teenth and seventeenth ecnlitries a trial for her oxy inennt banishment, or tortiire, or denty for the heretic and tho Impoverlshment of his tar. fly by the contlscation of ts property. There are no putes of history go dark and aad us those of religious persecutions, and trints, and pune Jahments beenuse of thy ditlerences of opition, Atl jt is hard, but only truo, to say tout tho elorgy ond the church ‘Were generally foro- most and most aethve in those cruol and bloody suenes, And that fs true, thowh in a less sense, of Protestants ns well as Catholles, fdekey tells us that “in Sweden all who dissented fron the articles ‘of tho Confession of Angusliiny were banished. In Protestint Switzerhind nue aAnubaptists perished by drownlug; tlivs by the ax; Servotin and wv convert to Judaism by the tiames.” Ans In America tho colonists perseeuted not only the Catholles, but tho Inattensive Quakers, with great severity, A Tope Insticnted the terrible tiassicre of the Al- bbrenses, and an Popo thituked Heaven tor tha mnesnere of St. Bartholomew, at which. 60,000 perished in ono night! Tho widteriying pullosophy of all thugs dark days was tho belief and tenetiing that an error in dgctring was a crime, and as such should be punished, even to death ut the stuko,. We have pneged away trom. the severity of that bloody perl, but there still ingers a remnuat of the colli that there Is sometbhyg criminal in whit: the Church enlis heresy. But thatbeliel is so modified now, und public opinion ts eo far ens Hightenod, that expulsion from tha Chureb for: horegy Is not regitited as necessarily carrying with it the harder doom of exclusion front tha favor ot God. But the Cinech once held such sway over the minds of men that to be exeoin- miinicated was to bo Jost: forever, and a Kine would stand for days and nights bareheaded le the cold to beg the forgiveness of n Pope. Now Wwe nil fect that if we have the forgiveness of Gad we teed not four the wrath atmens and that to bo tinned ont of the Church 18 not 1 arty to tie shutout of tho Kingdom of Heave ‘hwchurch now can Infiiet no heavier pennlty thin expul> alon, And 1 stpposo it ty trae, lsu, that wo ows tha blessings aud protec: tian of the elvll inw to those who live been culled rationalists and loernliists, wore than to tho clergy, Ft su singulair und possitdy togome an unpleasant fet of history that, whilst those whom we cenit intide beer! the friends of liberty, the perseouters have Deen orthodox. And It 13 true nuw Ubat tho nur ruw and severely orthodox are tho. or hunt and prosecute those whom they eall herero- dox, isut we all bave renson to rego in the greuter intelligence and the Jarger toleration: that baye come to bless our awe; tnd that if ibe erty of thought 6 dented in one eburelt {t can be found in unpthor; and that no churek may nny jonger clatin to stand potween the thurman gol and its Muker, or to bold salvation ua its + eluslye gift, Anothor and most important reflection that must now frie Ig in reference ty the ttone work Iu our Master’a cause, und tho obatructions that ie In tho way -or that hinder that work, It wus av in tho day's of Christ as well as now. ‘Tho dlscipies could not always agree mang them- ssives, oven when Christ was with them; thoy contonded ag to who should bo srentest; thoy gouuht to provent others from work unless thus: “Tollowed" with thomsclyes, or worked Just nathey did, And ft fs 80. now, Tho cause of Chriatia weakened by denominational alifer- oncos and diversions. “And the polit to be noted fy, that those divisions are not about the work to ‘bo dono, nor aver the great doctrines of uxperi- ence and life in religion, but over thouries and questions of optiton, Now, what ts to be tho solution of this prob: len, One very elaple and eeentlugly easy salu tion wontld be 'to emphasize the tifa and the ex. perlence and the work of roliion, and in miut+ tora of doctring and opinion to altow a lurger tatitude for fadividunt opinion, This woult w cone all sincere and eariost souls to Ue Hite and worship and work of the ehurebea, and it woud Keep tho impurtant things In the foreground, and fences nvoit unnecessary dobate and dis cork, And this waa certalnly Coriat’s des of ree ion. It was to love and follow Him; te buve His Bptrit and to do His work. And when the dtsal- ples cniie tind sid to Christ that "Wo saw one eusting out devils in Thy name, and we farbade hint begatwe he followed not with ua" Covlat sult. * Forbid hin not, for no man can dow mikhty, work in My name sand sponte evil of My, So mat Js pot sur ue is against uss and thon thnt wl anight have party only those who did inigity works." but, those who did the Jeast servlee, Ho abil, © Whosouver shail give t enp of water to drink fn beenuge yo ave Coristyy, verily: L say ute you, be shall in no wise lose bis reward.” And that. ought to be tha spleit and teaching of tho vhurches Jn our day, to Welcome hnd enconruye alt workers rather than to Binder and forbid thom. And in this Hybt, Rock itiver Confor- eice has certainty done what Cheiet would not dave done, Vint If the Methodlat, Chureh and other churches, tov, are going 0 Loslst on binding wien to overy point In thoir creeds, rather thin to weleome thom tothe life aud work of relyion, thon More ary but two othor solutions iat | seus tho one te for nll the freer thought of the otltsidy workt lo roma Ov the Outside—and that ia not to solve the protium at all, but to leave it along as it Is—or else lo go ta tha churees broad enough to recelye thom, or to furm indes pendent societies, And this witl f think more aid more bo done, and dong 08 a Nevoasity rather than from obotes. bE think bilependent congro- Kitlone WHE orzanlae for wornhin tn all eur largo: towns and gities, And to these Will mathor tho Brent thought tl masses who wisn fn thelr minds wid hearty to be free, to love no mister but Christ, and who want a religious hama—p pluca for worship nnd an oraanization for work, rivnds, ily 16 our position tosday, Mludored tn Ny anor, aid: then enat out of tho Church of any’ Dirt, you bave gathered wbout ny hy the nine of Christ, and Hburty,and humanity, Not to fyht or contend with others, but with miilice toward none, aud gharity tor all" with (ind foe our Fathor, and Chriat as our Savior, and Qe spirit our comforter, and mankind aa our brothors; with truth aa our good, ald love as our Hfe, and to do goad our retin, du we tke our place mmony the ptlivelans of time, Hrowthe vpon us, 0 Fathor, Son, und Holy Ghost; help tie gual Olt oF) and bully up ‘Shy Klogdom on earth, THE UNSEEN, BENMON BY VROY, SWS Spite of the diaagreenble Weather yeaterduy forenoon there wasit larie congregution In tho Contrat Church, whore frof, Swing preushed on “Tho Unseen.” Followlng Is the aurmont Shilu'we ook Not at tho things that aro econ, Lh Coreg Wee it fn thia tite only wo have uopo tn Chrlat, wo are of all nen trost misueublo—f, Core, Ty 19, It was, perhaps, againat tha Hebrow thought thut Christ was to be an oarthly King the apostle uttered the words that ff Christ wan the hopo of ouly carthly good fa followers must count thomselves milscrabic. Already their chloftaln bud been put to death, and over tho lands and oltles whore ft had been hoped He would rule proud and ervel Homans were bolding at’ abao- lute away, ‘Tho bellovors In Josus were a small band, exposed to perscuution wud death; many had already tasted the bitterness of martyrdom tho futuro bade falr to be also ladon with labora und sorrows, and awaro of ail thega Illa aud fore. bodings, Paul confessed that the Cariétaus were on unhappy multitude jf all they bopod for from thelr Mastop was to bo found Jn thla lite, Lot ua dutuch theko words from thelr original sotting dud exclatim, What a loas if maui fy wholly B porlahabio creature, without 8 od and # suce ond oxlstenvel "rho dental of burun humortality sooms to tu yolve the dental of 8 God fn this world, At icast, if the buman Camily is all burried along through puin and vruel separations to a destlay of dust, some vew dollultion myst be sought fur the Cre- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, OCTOBER ran {dens of justice and henevolence. MH tedn the dootring of gumpunsation by mesns of ac hetter land that loyte finda a reason for benef ina Gud of loves Tho present roventa intuit powers it is thu ti In the phenomena of enrth, take afone, not even Tatas a4 darevented by whit ty culled Nature Hh ata is very har Jronelike, Whether you took toward the sa or tho old the righ of the poor. ‘Tho empire of Tine Isa dexputivon "That dofinition of Gad whieh oxists in all religous creeds, and whieh reposes Mt the mint of tho rade, (4 deduced not from theso earthly seure, but from the Uunuinbered yenrs obeyed All theology Is founded pon promises while enc bevond tho | tent, ‘aken oly iteett this ite will not fitrnish the populir eaneeption of Gad. Adenfil of a Suture fife tues tho eiteet, therefore, to rob Koelely of its behor Ind wise and kind Crontor, ‘Tho luaa ix, therefore, nut dititted tom tat as tevoud the yalicy, bit tt folla upon bia present with, great severity. Tho triumph which the haman race ts to enjoy In eternity reli bnek upon time, and helps fastian tha works, and feelings, and hanes of thieeaphere, Asin the history of nit anbitinas and eultivited youre men and young women tho first third of [te is colored by the pleture of The seven third, and draws here its ost pows ertil (nspleation, and wertl languish aud die were te kecond part lotted out. so tie whole History of tna [9 nitected by what hoexpesta bee yond death, and therefore an injury of Hetven pastens to become an ingiry of Garin, Much of the pened of the heart bars ts borrew: the nvsiined peace ot the bei Ut inniimernble peetng, und hyn, and pa “sin devoted prose whiel draw tholr elas Huenes Of resigniton and contentment fron the world ta cum. Reentl the verses of Hora tua Bonar: Beyond thy auntting nnd the woepitut stingt ba ecient, Hogan the waustnye afi thn aloo tiy, Boyund tho «owt nnd the reap, Trluatl big noon, Love, rent. and honiot Siro font Lord, tarry not, but conte, Noyonit the ptouining and the fading, Tetitt bo Koen, Besoud tho aiming ud the sbadins and from these ne gaudes mate all the ten thousand niterances of the heart Nut show how moet of lnaman bappliess here, ty coulng Cron the quiet ussumptlonof the cou’ grent Futurity, ena oF wan. to tus existenes would invulve a most wondérfal vending of al mora And aplritietl phitusophy. Indeed, there ta corti grand Sorm ot Quinn rellection which would suun cense to oxist—nll that wise nod valmost atihiime meditation thit is foupdod upon dying ideals. When Paul sald, "We look not ot tho | tits Which are seen, but at the things which nro un Been,” he outlined the genius of ati the behest forms of human utterance, Jt is the puseen that afocts most’ deeply wt tho best moralists, And even the greatest atacamen and all the bes roes of Liberty or relliion, A fact so vasteannot seem an neetdontal fact, Tf must appear ns tho expression of a truth of the unlyerse, Wf you Aoloet poetry 13 belie a fir emblem of alt the Kroutest minds have thought, you will beamazed towark whet a part hat been taken by tho Une Aven in that long drama, Homer evoked nid from the spirit world, nod bis grent wacrlors: moved Into its gloomy cloud, testod sald; Ponder, ob juutgert tn pour inmost thouht ‘Tho rattlbudtun ly God'a venguaneu wrouglits Invisible, the wos nro ever nub, Vas through the sidat with un all-soalng oy: With all tho'venxoanee of His wrath Te falta On snarital husts, and breaks thule totteriie walle, Sentters thelr abipy of wees and when the Mei Th Wah Liv manntath biluws, there ty He, You need not by rominded that tho Greek dramatists founded tholr theatres upon the Un gecn. The drama of “ Promethuus Cuaine the drama of Kloy G&dlpus, me drama of Antigone, the touching Merten, the awfil grivts of Hecuba, all reeur now in an instiut to Resure tw that Chat great elass of Uterarare krew out of the Leart’s entanlement with 0 Splrituaf world. In tha Latin poetry the scone reeurs. Dntite, Tasso, and Milton appear, to continie In modern tines the mysteries of the anclonts, and to nesure us that the mind hus never Hved upon earth only, but upon two worlds. It hus ulwaye kept up two hones—the: temporary and tho eternal; aud bas lived as though whout to move from the Jess to whe geenter, The retiex Intluence ot the one to come upon the one Mready occupied seems: inensureless. In Shikspeare we could not Hida substitute for tuo Unseen, for what av awful power there li $n that world of retribution that presses itself In the “Macbeth” und in tho Remaye thewe awful ines, and mos a kugbing comedian, Hut puetry is oaly an emblem of al tho vast guanuty of Intellectual life, It ia the nuind and heart fo tholr best houra, -Prose Is tho Hulds and: woods in wluter, poetry Is tho game landaen pe In. in the klury of Buinmer or In the pensivencss of autaim. Instexd of belne a tnlse farm of toought, It is thought In iis bighest efice and highest enjoyment. If, then, mus ts to be tine fied tow mental kingdom, and ts soon to be Ul vorved rom thy heantifal and divine Unseen, whut an Inexpressi ble losa,not a8 ton Heaven, but astgourenrth) Tho poctry and bigh phtlos- phy of the workd would fecl the Rhock, The heart wold move away trom tho sublime tn ioners. to turn only the pages of avarice or pus- sion. What loss to righteousness! Righteausnzes doeg not follow fran tn intellectual conception of tho right und the wrom. Knowledge will guklo at engipecr, or n machinist, or a com- imander, or a Tartnes, orn statesman. A farmer will not plow cor In September, nor will a General load nn army Into a well-known hopeless dangers; au engineer will pot bulld a bridge’ of straws for boavy transit, but in morals all this following of know!l- cdge la most unecrtaist beentiso of the contll ing dosirea of the heart, When may knows ho toust phint bis telus in tho spriiuz, lle desire fol lows his information, and knowledyo Is netion; Dut to thensuad years ago u poct summed up the holo mora) enso when he gild, “Wo know iho bettor, we perfortn the worse "—n sentimont ated in tha worda, fe know the rizht 2nd we approve It tov, Wo know the wrotig ahd you the wrong phrsuo, Wighteousness thus depends pot only upon knowledge, but algo upon tho Roul's wishes und fnpilies. And it ts this fact which makes su poeta for good tho Intluence of tho Jdon of 1 Jod and of a continuance of man’s existence, Tho Unacen has always rotted uround the homo Of man Hho w great mysterious ovean, making the climate of hia spirii-life, weaving dally for him scenes of turror or of anatebless beauty, Men bayvo attempied to teach tat right sould ‘be pursued for ts own suke, but of sich aa ab. atracion tha most intelleuival moratiet would at Inst become wenry, and would — usk that Als) soul might “be stronzthoned by the better that his iden were of the will of 2 per- sonal God, Agit would detract trom the lire nity of our human nature, should woever learn that we came by chance from chemlea) acdon aud hnye no athor ercator than the elements, 80 would jt detractfrom tho obligavon of right coukl it be shawn to bo nat the biw of any Ienventy Fathor, but only at isotnted order of sequences, Around stieh an tbstract right tho rewards of virtua would lose thule eharue ond the punisument of vice its terror, Wo should all rather disregard a tuw of- nuitare thin dig obey tho reusanable requust af onv we deeply Jove. A person standing (1 tho midst of a right mikes hour nt onee tho pith of truth und of Jove. ‘Tho right ty thus transported from a long wintur tou tropienl ellme., An abstract right ls w cold, dead form, compared With a law of action or belng Issuing from on porgount! God, dlven a Belng who hus tho power and wisdom wilch coult frame such th universa as we behold MM purt with tho eye or by the meusurcments of aclonee, peony everywhere present in all ind- montis, and right bedumes tabnrer of the Wore ship wlven to this Deity. Atholsta nny qusure ta that the right iM independent of the eonsidern> thon ot a God, but fe that contd bo ao, the heart gunnot worship at bron uccessily ag it ean Wore ship the will of a Heavenly Fathor, Listen to the binynt ‘Why way not mine, O Lord! owover dngk It bo, fond wy by hing Gen hand, hoosu und the path for may and thon mark that to nlaw of dark necessity no living soul Kony citer: such sentiment ta oxntted song, With God tn tho inldst of our unl cy tgs rightvonsness ik utded by all those noble sontiinents that pass before we under the sine of reverence, or woranip, or love, or gratitude, ar bone. Honesty, besides being tho best policy, {8 tho boantiful wil of an Juituie soul. ‘The word *polley " fides In preauneo of tls ulory of God, To tho jose sustained by piilosophy ahd right- cousnices Wo iuist dd tha fous eustained by: hupe, Aguln must wo ask (ho pocta to stato for us the buinnn doctrine Of Lope, for compared with the povts tho thuologicut uesembiics and coun uf the Coureb are poor, fallible ste dents’ of olthor time or ctornity, Tho confere ences und the synods in tholr efforts to formu. duty a doctrine are gronpa of children compared with the noble pocts of all aos, ‘lo tearn what wilvation bd Wo must t from tho orocds to tho hymn, * Nearer, My God, to ‘Thee "3 and to learn whut faith is wo must tear the bymy, * Jesus, Laver of Bly Soul." Coming to tho thought af dia tg endiiy In tha grave wo must ask a Keats or 8 Popo to tormulute for us this univorwal ox- peotutlons Swout hoa! Celestial Inivence round mes! Waviny Horailvery binous wer inp had ee Mope leads from woalto xonl Abd opony still and opens on the pout 411, auwthevad on to taith and uneuntined, pours she bites that pile up ull tho mind, ‘Vonnyaun oxpressos ali in one ines he mlaity hopus thot wake us wen, Hopo boluy sieh a bleseud friend of mangt follows fram tho dictu of foxiu tut the greatost hope fs the groatest frivnil of society, Tf there be an oxpoctation that cun comuallke to the sich ond the poor, (ue learned and the nalearned, tho bond and tree, und in the bome of wurcat want, that b8 the one that neods tw by cherished aalong 88 pussible by tho great bost archi to the tawb. No uno wilt deny that the greatest hope known to tun renches out into’ the Une ween, It i8 suatalnad by tho must powerful of attachuinte—the love of Ilfe, Ouco bavi tasted life, wo ailask that it tay continue. A that & mat bath will bo lye for bis tifa; but no guotier docs tho heart realize what tt prizo it haw fu its oxistonce thun before It uppours tho grave in Ite Inexpresalble sadness. It iv auld that the Aftounth your baw votuy before tho soul reullzcn tho strange truto exprussed by tho words, 1 Uvc—a wonderful end blussed rowllaus ton, did thero not come wlong with it tho awful purullel, f shatl dis, Whilo these, two thrllliug selections sro almost browking the heart. ty comes the third thought, My soul will ye again in the Uneven, whut a loss it you atriku ont thly third sentence ynd leave remaln- duy In our world the twot @ Cllve,” and * ft shall die.” You divest suciety of all spirituality the 4 . lett the | moment you yet tt of whoin The hope at all tte past ge: eins tine rane) to look upward, und whose chameter bad heen fashloned by this onating OF the eye toward tho bone of Cod, would ROO Tenet to look only downward upon the ground that was to furnish bin bread for a tow dave and Monn aaye forever, Ashe now fe, ian fe rather an exalted | H. Ifia thatmhts soar dike a bird, ly niusicsor eal scvonery, or by eloqier or by other fornia of power, he fe enaily ot tranced, 11s soit seems often to be tyson winsess xreat lonelngs came to be ret feo trom ati Tapriganniche and to move out into the titinit, Wo shire not astimate ita by what we seu inthe Joweat miultttide, in tha dene ef vice, or in the savage tribes, beeanse fn judging of fruits and Mowers wo mitist net atlact (bese eaten of warts or nipped by an untimely Trost, tut th: have Formed a perfect development 1 ain, and tho dow, and the cals whe npy wag bat we Rnd hint being easily inep emily cnebanted, and we pereerva: tit elvillnn i from hie htbors aa toa or from hia hours Of joepiration and atet ars And this, thon, Wo Know! that Ut ling Leen the tial, tylsg before the heart, that hae Kept no tiviitly Area wil Show taupatrince of wi tH the study OF eternities, {Po tho joa OT philosophy, and rhebteonanesa, and Nope iaust be added now a los of ininan happinesa, Yom nee not be reminded that ich for happiness we all | Heep thinkers Wt temp? to thi some other motlves of damian exe brence and aevion, and (may hey tat (here bow subiiner theory of nine Uni the theory of hts Happlest tite, int nif these sane thinkers ad- mile that tne bishest enjoyment of bene 14m motive so tiniversil, aid aa lawful, and eo powe erful that the mind need nat deptore the fact Uhat ita togic will not end [ts quest over tat ot otid and ala, AT the inittfons of cuit eek happiness. Thie wis thole cate when Euypt Ind thy fountiations of her throes It was suit the elise of mankind whon the flzrling «ailed to America. A common pleasare hug nlwvity tht by the humble, the bighest plo: eine been aunt by tho, buhest, the child ng for ite toye, A Cornel Kites her son awiew draws Joy, from the Ktiurs, a Mozart trom hls musi, but ali the seattered races anid cles have drawn the most of thelr huappi tho aluiple consetousness OF knowledye that those wo Love ¢ awe waniee Sie thie marstigg it he mind. happlies4 dees nat dope Hue of body andl Htepon want we: shall do, or we bear, nur Ubu what wil the loved ontes will do or eve, It ite esis lone a9 It flows sweetly forward, one atiiyze thin form of Dlestedness, otson his no Dalanees fy whieh It can wetrh the thit supreme Joy, Tt could as giatly: Ynity or God. fut bere wo alt are, antl ed of ie fre ores tha, millions have tome stegd hotline. sot te thotr itt hands, for hands caunot geusp such op fy thety bos, this Imprisoned Deity cal Lwet and by pleadings whtch eanot be pressed In words the butane family agks to he bermitted to Hive. The begins of nan tre fahuitly expressed Ut the words of the Snine that Hf In this Wie only ian bas bope he ia miserable, Ob} what a loss of Mteman Joy If the erave Is tha abaotate end of ench heart) Neerly all who dutve aunk tay in this sleep have dried up thelr tears with theexpoctatton of a better world, All those who once lived, front the thine of tha saluts und mrctyrs to tho Erlend who left your own side yesterday and passed AWiLy tosand np a partotie ples from to. tonth that God would give back tuelr sweet Ife. T8XI—TEN PAGES, Wever aHeeessTuh “fenced at oth wand he the e0} alway hud th all the ttle * bepume of religion? Holfeiniesest would be att. come ty Cod not 1s they do now, drawn by HI fove, won by the power of truth, attrteted hy “tho buts uf holies,” £4 aa howaver Mmueh to! Dutaimply aud solely becaee (t pald them walltovomny, A pretty "kingdom of fleaven tive tinder sien at method of Tt docs, indeed, at Mest sieht Whirl thing te have to any. Phere f4 one event te tho puhtevidta and to the wheked” ore avil under the an”: but very ort wil shaw that as things are the world Inwhien we Ive at presont it ia very well (hat It ts eo, tix of grent linpurtanee, thon, for our peace Of tata deny to meas tho thonseit that we citi: vi or Intends voy ke Front tho atte uniformly so, wuenee? ff religions people peat of vverything, hat fleah Ie heir te ‘There would be tone of it joteing in rizhteatss 1 to putter for jw wo should goon wialolatrations Auy tneans fallow trom thie that G hin wat peel [a invfordiay after inisfortiine, sorruw after are row. ra that all who Kn the bottows of thelr heute? Es this naan visit we ntin pity fl Th thea tot byt from thie that the bard 6 an Think yo that those cighte whoun thy tower fo Siloam teil, and slew them, were anima nhoye all wen that dwolt in derus Amt Just ne we have Blom? “1 ttl y ner renaon ty {chee those on what weeat thes Tall, <0 weithor hav HALON ta conelde and pity ure “a delualon and a anare’ when mon that dave been con=pleuous fate duit we. If we bad b consulted, shoutd have leen Inelined to reser’ for the Dnsy and tte bith Bur there t4 tar mora than this in the words “The rightonus and thy wisn, in the hind of God” any in tha senay that they Are wither for both mivet it their works, are better sete that thes are safes hand of God" they are in tho by Lord khoweth then not that enough ? cannot tell, by anythin Abat ure fia’: tind Tho onlooker trom tile ide rns Unit the ty jos itis with Tim whe J eas a the wis OKR Of fron Minti He deers rding to lev, and often pring tea what ¥ mere onlouker, Mt a ki all things: those tat lave [inn that while, to the ure ue ise and merciful Fathor, rk Louerber foor woudl t0 f #0 it.comes to pass: we ot the sworkd, all thins ene alike to ail the people of God enjoying from tho His * that test: is hele pest aense Hie trae that And here we can sve how a to understand those promis sinht xeeins to contradict what tbe wise mrt ys about Vall things comme vlllte to nth” ike one of the thost wirikiing of theur tiple that nasurance in the alae * A thousugd shall fall at tay elde, and ten thous Rand at thy right band; Wut ft si Dowd that ment a certain tmmunlty Tides it mean that in we no dunmutits befalls thom Which at lirst wi OL come from boty hari? earthyike ke that) of Chios, or aw sponsor nt hundstip ke that recent sad The hearthstane of the living and tue borial flelds of the dead ask that fe, that river of Tnppiness, nny rollon, And it tnust be remenye that if there be hope aniy inthis tite. the seene of deaolation does not Inelide only what Js calted the rabtte, bat it fuchides al whe hay lived, and even Jess Chriathinself has no phice any louver In the onjverso, The havocol the past acomplete and isto be fully equated by tho havoc of the future, No unanawerab vebule of tomnort obtorn all thbrieine mine jut n busy, und after wll that bas been sald we still epenk of ath dnd death ua tho unseen. You have heen ed today fo estiinate rotghly thy Iees sockty: would sustain should it dianies all thought of a better land, ‘The denial of a Ged would qitiekty folluw, then would come a rapid deettng at all that i8 fofty and aplritund in philosophy, then would come no deciiie In that rizitednsness: which seems inore fi inapinition of the heart than n palley of the Judginent; hope would wane In the vnat assemblages Of mortals and thon wonld depart from these shores all that hipple heat which cumex from tho intense love ut, Hfe, of self, nud of all those held most dear” AU those sid losses urge in favor of the hun Uhat min isa child of the algies, ad that tho Bent d dead bave met or will ect tn the res newed but greatly sweetened couselananess of i ‘The Winsoen ta not the 3 tor ume was whe our Httle carth was not. even within the borders of an angel's dream, and tine was when to the wise men of Persia or old G the Ropublle of America was behind impenes frable veils. Beholding thus the disposition of Nature to diselose bor desfigns picee ty piece, wo kevin not only fivited. bur commanded by our tying and loving Geil to belleve that behind the Unecen His love ia coneeuiing (ia everlant- Ing happiness of His ehlidren. GOD'S PROVIDENCE. SERMON BY TILE REV. 4 MONO GHIYON, 1. Dy ‘Tho following discourse was dellvered by tho Rev. J. Monro Gibeon, 1. 1, ford y pustor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, in the Presbyterian Chureh, &t. John's Wood, London, on Sunday morning, Sept. 2, upon the acension of tha derensy of Con. Gaenetl, Inte President of the United States of Ameren, Tho} riahteaus, and thy wise. and thelr works aro In thy hand of Gat,—Leclestantler, Uy 1, ‘This {8 tho sober avcond thought of w wie man who hns been gorely troubled fir bis mind by dwelling on the inyateries of Providence, Wont his hasty firet thouyht waa. and how he came to take a recond thought about tt, will be best seen by looking biel 2 Uetle, Ills special sturnbling-bieck 1s act forth in verse fourteen of tha precediug chapter: * There bu just men, unto whom it happenoth according to the work of the wieked; ayatn, there be wicked mon, to whom It happencth recording to the work of tho rlichtuouss trait that thls iso ds vanity.””. Such war tho iystery Which set him aethipkiog. Ills first. haaty conclusion $s one which 1s tao olten drawna—namely: that, Ignsinuch ns Provi- denco shows no cspech favor to the works of the righteous, tt is scarcely worth while troub- Img oursulves to perform them, Noble ae lofty wis In life are all very well in thelr was, ‘Lut It ovidently dove nol pay to saeriilee present enjoyment to thom: and thorefore he t¥ tho wigest mat who trouties himsolf least about the. futuro and those idenis which tt professes to sot before ua, and muikes the bust of ‘tho ood things of thiy lfe, which bave nothing of the fdenl but very much of tho real to commend them to us, Whur i the use of flying ou hich and missing everything, when one might at toust take life eaay while It iste, and, enjoy its pleasures whilo be may? Such Reems tebe the iden iu bia mind when bo says: Then | coms AMonded mirth, beeauso no inin hath no better thing undor the sun than to eat, and tu drink, and to by merry.” A most deploratte coneii- ante In 3 sion, yet one wh It would be very hurd to ree wlat of tho basis of that agnostivisn, or utter Iyg- nornace of everything beyand tho region of the senses, Whluh fd do Lushionable ft vortute quire ters in oly dity, But though he is a doubter and sorely por- ploxed for the moment, tte [a no Inildel or age nostly, for oven in that very skeptical Kentence We hnve heen quating be lets ap an uxpression which shows that he bis some anchorare yey: “Phat shall abide with him’ ho says, “all the days of his hfe woleh God giveth bli wader the sun” Bolg as he velluver di Gad there is hopo for hin” That dark viow of dif, wevord- Ing to which tho best nig In it hita teat, drink, aud bo merry,” will not last long if he really Dolleves that God bus anstiing to do with it, And sa, ncourdingiy. Wo fog it. In tho very next yorse bo says: When 1 appiiod ining hoart to know wisdous, and to see the business that is dono upon the earth for also there le unat nolther day nor night seern sleep with tis oye3)s then behold all tho works of God, that a nun cannot Nid out the work that bi done under tho Bun? becnuse though aan labor to seek it ont, YOt he Khall not tind its yea, fartuor, Hea ® wise Wan think to know ft, yet sual be vot bo nble tu tind I" Tt Ie a’ great polit sminad ta find unt bow ititle we know of tho work of God, and how foollyh tt ls to try te Judge of tt by the amull fragments of it wecan, bee, ‘Tho dark thoughts be fad been thinkuy bud all been connected with man and hts wor! In time, tho vory beat of which gouina so often ty come to auch a tamentubie end, But the Hurkuess bugis to diskppede as soot na bo ate Iowa bis taiud to rest on the thought of Gott and His. work! in eternity, the end of whieh no oman cn eee, Thus tho way ia Proparad for that culm contidence Which la expressed [i the loxt, in woleh we fad, fs we romarked ut the bexinning, Uo sutvore er second thought on tho subject whivh bad so greatly distressed bia,“ Forull this [eons sidured In my beart oven to declare ail (hiss that tho righteous, und the wido, and thelr works sro. In the aud of Gon." A midst important aud ro assuring truth! Let ts dwell on it for @ little, ‘Sho fret thauzht suggested {3 a newathye ono; that "tho rigutcons, end the wise, und choir works tre in tbe baud of Gud," and therefore withdrawn from the eight of mon. ‘hat this is the thought Immediately iu view is ovidont from what follows: “No pun knoweth ofther inte ‘or batzol by all that l¥ before them.” That ta, that ne mad in particular fa tha object of God's Suvor or dtsfayor from anything that appours iu tho clroumstuncea of bls outward lite. And then bo goes on to gay sul wore pointedly: SAlL things come alike toallt there te one vont Ww the Flgbteaus, and to the wicked; to the youl, and tothe clean, and tO tho wueleany to bin that sacrificetu, and fo Bit tat gaveliticeth not: oa te the good, su bs the sioner; and bo that swoaroth, ax be thut feareth av oath.” By the Hino ho Bas got this length the dark views scow tu bave come back ugaln, for bospouke of thisae “anovilunder tho sun.” But stop a monont lotus think a ite about thie, Ia it roully an ovil? Suppose, now, Ut things wore arranged we wony thougbtiess people say they ought to bet suppose that “all things’ did: got “come alike to all"; that a righteous wan, for exumplo, was pover killed of burt {ou railway avoldent! thut plous people bad an absolute immunity from epidemic dikouses, aud, iu fact, frum ail itzerhind, nina who "has made je auirn to escape, thousts wl Manifestly not. peta sich a thlty PepUsee tur Sut such 1s not the ru Dut why are we w body that is referr nue nied thee Von we fd this naauranees buat mode the Lord which fs my relive, ¢ Y habltation. there still ne Lard nis refuge” Mo one exe tad Kometines bi anarvelous tnt of TY neting. by any meus, upposy that ic ie the man’e dtu when It $9 sald, That a nth mukes, tis * habitation,” the init himself In tint higher Ut Tbettewe thet the late Presi= rites, whore all rigbt-heart= ed men und women wre mourniog Now, Wap ot anly one ot tho “righteots and the wise,” but (hat be was one who“ dyvett In the sceret plice of the Most tiga! who wecrninake, the Lord he lives tn Cod, dont of the tinted» Lord, he Ia my iy. The bultet of thy assusin Tankled there, and weeks of ageny evsned. Lut ‘That brave spirit wena sound, und atrong. and brave ante the end, The cmb? Has the end come? Hus tho univ soon the laste that brave man? Nuy, verily. He lives, tn God with nit the righteous and tho We mourn his loss, the hyraxved fanny und fi them, we huve now to enuse to weep nds and tens of thousands fire a nd inuititudes tech as it T blow; but thas" not come rhthteous and the wis ‘are in the tiand nat Lnspenkavle eomtort 114 poor hady, The righteous and the wise, und tholr work: aro ta the baud of God?" "The mystery of Hrov! no darker lovk when w * than whert we think of thems oun life is ent short Just uuxohulness 8 opeiiiig hefore tt afer lou yours of efrnest and siccess> ful prephration, how terribly tuystertous do tho ways of Providence nppeat! an When KoMe xrent and goo Wark bas wetusly been begin, and earnest hearts nce looking on 88 oF hope aid expectation, and all W's hopes ure fixed At auch a time what a Coit. fort it beto thi that net only the righteous but “thelr works “ure in the hand of God. e he comfort of that ussuranute been more needed thin under ta sh Jus waleh now ao sorely U2 Kindred voyond the sea. awe nll mourn is mysterious enough, inv! tho noble eburacter of tho “wise aid righteous AW whe hus been taken away jos when we think of ls value to Nation over which he presidad and of ‘eat and “inuelt-necded worl which he had go boldly aud with steh proniive of success Juat set his hand, doubted Unt the work was thust Heed (il, aid nothing seemed more evident than that he wits and there, ne pooner las haps stilt mort 2 ONE aly WHOM tn dow of this great es tho faith of utr ‘ho sad -evout whi but it iy tenfold of reform ta de cannot be the main to to Its stricken down~and how? By tho bullet of uo dhe the very moniest of thut wreteh. » AL test slight (seemed ay if the work of Gartield were In the 1 r teuul And sy it would Lo wero there not o God “Gad retguethy the earth bo yiid, and the righteous ayy se und thelr works ure in ills ban i the work of President Gareld is Lo this band” AIL ag It always bas been. We nay not by able to follow tt naw and Kee how it fares, Ui we ny be sure that God will see that ft davs not -Kicbtnd as We Hl NOW to sve how bo the surest Whatover may be there ean be Tut there 13. vome to naught. ATO, wre WY NUE permitted the removal of tre workman Din, of torwarittng tho work? iivy OF tho proseut President, no doubt that tha “apolla vyxtear”” fy douned, renn polities hada terrible tyes no donut did bis best ut it was tog strong knows whether oven Tout hydra Le to struggle with tt. however strong and resolute, con accomplish 1 reforny of (hut Rind withot y publig gpinton, Hts vu a distiaes, and ta wonder iat rooted abuses are noLAt once TeInoVved, Our expuriunce with the woes of Freland ongtt at ledst to teach us tis leaayn, Publte opinion, iidecd, was powerfally with the lite President in his Wotimwy: and yer party spirit ran very high ng an opposin suet now party spirit baits te ust, an aplnlon everywhere demande that the work of Vhere is mare education of pitite aplalon bia erbila Uke this than dn dees Tbolleve that tho Au Wil bo tho denth-biow of tho yisy to eritelse from retorm shall go on, ales of ordinary bullet of Galt Atmorican pydrine Aint thon think how much good Go visity brought out af so ‘nink how North and south bavo clasped hands round tho bedside and the Dior of the The blood of hitudreds uf Tent n sudritice itbo sald that even though be wero nu. 1 the beat, was shed in ‘vain, whont by it thore has bean brought about o union not of Rtatoa atlune, but, for tho tirt tae: perhaps, a universal unlon of hearts’ Shon, too Ita no stonil matter that tho ayine pathy of other nations has been drawn oul do nobly, and espectilly that England and Ameria buve beun su fused into one, during those nnxlous weeks culmuating in thoes days of fore What a bieased thing it fs to thin Joafousies ang hearthurnings of tess Chun twele ty years ago, which boded #0 It for the world's istury, ara now sv cutlrely a thing of tho past. Most af the hurd feelings and rankled on this aldo af: the At! yedrsof tho War were burivd (un tho grave of That there has been great ndvanee give then; ahd now, wot the erave of Chir fletd, we wuther as the children of one family, bowed under a common sorrow, that those inay be everlastiig bonds of amity, that henceforth the twa grout King nations ny hy bert bo evere When we thluk of those things tay wo not bor Heve that, ihuch as was expen! reasonubly vapeote bis Hite bad been eared, ful io stiit ifwher und better comics? {f #0, do. we hot v0 bow tho Lord may bnve yered 1a His own way those banumore bh were rive continually vatdont What wits Rho objed of those prayors? Were thoy not Co and the ark ot the distinguish autte: pnolf and bls work?—that wits od bas Just done that whieb wl Cin it bo wala, then, that the pra anewertd ? Ho and his work alt the wollo have been, aro now, "in the hand of God!" And do we Wotsce Low even the long agony, tuntulizing alternations reat y culumi. gredt Presttont. Thousands was not thought (ae to preserve tho Unio the blood of on courted the nobles projudiees whieh jantio during the May God crant 1, of President his tragto death may bu ble prayers whi tho wounded Ba Wolte wate between “hope and aymptoms da; ot tho great ends whieh hig death ae rvervod Driggiuy ut Im strong rellut ealready served tiasp hori os, batt His anid those berue quallt ull the world bus admired, and calling forth tho of all hearts tar beyond what would have been otherwise possibler” Yeu, pogsibic i soine Meagure to fee as WELL Os t uve that ull bag been * in tho hand of God suk Hy muse ee tou Ct and 1 dv so by lumnuly asklug the question, works io the uand of God? Aro yon and yout iret, ave you yours or the ni of the Aliisnty Tt not, let mo entreat you tecome withodt deliv. You never ean. have abilities pence: and atftaty until you ure in Fils hand. We eannot promise you any change fn tho outward cirenmytanees ot you? Uf, seeing that water the present diapeusation of things there i gud must be “ane event to tha rgbteant and tothe owleked’: bat there will bi Bo vast diferenes in your Iuward experienced, ‘Thou your ontwird We bo ws checkered niever. your inward life will beat rest in God, “Jun the world ye shall have tritiation,” says Christ, “but ln Mr ye shat have pence.” Yat will be. ta tse tho” baitlfal laniaintze ef thy prophet fsitah,** bid in the stidow of ts hand,” Gnd there ne Git eau eons pene yous Mut though tie evenvear your fe may not mork you ote a chthtor Gad, there ought to bow mark which every ate vat seomtho mark of “tho rightectie anu tho whee"; your chnaruge for aid conduct." The foundation of God strndeth aure, huvinue tht kent ye Lord [erases eth thom that tre fifa: and fot yon Cite mameth the name of Chistdepnrt trom dalanity, Tho Urst ef Usece ta God's; thy second ts yours The Divine efde is Vetted bat tha hamean side shOdeL be open toatl. And you. who yourselves are in the hand of God, sev that yotir works ure thore also. You know it sonietinies han 4 thint a nha hisetf may be snved. and yet his work be fost, A ttt piny belong te the riyghteons.” and Hot tos (ie wise,” who M shull shine as tie brightness of the froument” and who, “titrniug mony 19 Piehtesusness, will shine ag the tara for ever anbever,” Amin mety be resting on} the sttre fountation © and his work got, what [a says abott this in bbs t » the Coriithting, the third ehapters & Tf any qnitn’s work aball be Uitened, bo atall eulter toes boc he himeds eal ne gaved, yor so ts by tre," ‘The grout question l, not whether we bo Hoi Aieh or Witte. whether our work be rent ue eomilh saccewsful oy tinaurcessful isthe eye of the workt. Ils, whether it be stone Prot dave to, Cirktond hrachestiin spin, 1 that ve ee, then, however Ht we may fad ourselves able A thongh wetons he et teide by sloktnes¢ and able to de nothing, yet God will nee cept the purpose of the heart on Mie pein Chit IE there be feet willing mind ft i eepted aceardine to) tuit amen hath, aid xecordun: to that be hath not.” Therefore, SWhatsoever thy band iindettr to dado it with the night "2 ort pat it in tie New Testament form, © Therefore, my beloved: brethrety hey atondfast. Immovabes, aways abound work of the Lord, fortenimet nay your labor i# not in vain be th ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL. Annual Meetlay of the Socle The naga meeting of § itul Soe elety wag held at St. dates’ Couret-last eventos in aceordanct with the old enstom of holdin the meeting In son churen the Sunday evooting Proveding St. ful: Ys and reports of the atl. ‘The Inclemen nthar precited a furge attendance, but did not int wilh the earryhuy out of the program, Bishop MeLaren presided, and after einguig.and prayer spoke privity of the inerits of, tho hospital. and of ihe goad work iUwas dong,’ commending it ns One ot the noblest charities in the land, beeuttee tt feud eonductud outsidy of thy pale of aeeturiane igus, _ The Rey, Dr, Loeke, President of the soe follower by rentinw the report of the ‘Traat whut set forth tuat the year Just closing bud One of the fost HHoCER aT (fh the fnstory of tho fastitition, about Iu mary patients tit been eared for th last. yenr, the Gost of 1 being $1.0) per day, and beside, a debt of EV fal teed pitt of. The report reterred (0 the fuet that tie bulldiog of an ndeition to the ke wat contemplated at the earliest yh We euebass dunted the MAE fo Cn Present Mitt, ‘ Winkh, and other conte bet baying contritoted sal eror the purengse of mare groghd op Miehagii venue, with which seventy fect bad buen secured ut a cost of pet Further sot forth that there was a buluiee to the credit of the building fd of ST and S200 mare wad expected to be tes Quzed from the sale oft hinte: street prop rhich woud put the manners fy wo way OF commenchig the new budding at an early day Ja gunelusion, it wits shown tbat the following: ehurebes dnd individu: tad contributed Sd) Hel the piety feds in the hospttats Unit wren of the Ase Mra PD, Armour, In % Lelter, Hil, Wiiliim Holes, Jona De Raver, Det, Waveler, Mes and) Mrs, muehouse, Bei. Sheldon dry i. 2 K, Fairbank, Be. burned, We oF, dattned, and Mr ~ Smith, ‘This nianner of ving sis busily commended, and thanks were returned ty the thedicat stall of the fustitation antl to the Mittron, and regret were expressed: ft the deathor De. Me U. Heydock Gnd Mrs, Ryerson during the year, who biel siwnays mantis tested weep iat inthe hospitul wo THE THEASERER'S REPORT Waa next presented, and was read by De, Locke, Tt showed tbat whe cecalpta had beet $14,003 aad the expenditures $105, leaving a Ft ‘balunee on hand, The aopand billy aucunted to abot S14ed, und the assets ot the fostitation in prope ecly and seeuritics were placed wt $00,000, Fol- lowing too fending te reverend gentleman spoke of the tirgent watta of the. husplttl, soho WOlod Wistnore Pour, AbOUL S19 C0 b fer sustitin the dispense! nnd avout) S15 to punt the biniding, Mor the manos ratgen the past year had been by privave subeeripuons, and de returned thinks fer tho Mtbertiity dis- played in eustaininy tho institution. The report of thy medieal tueulty was read sby. Dy, Couuauers, and showed that during we your Sb patients bud been treated, at fisehaded, and ditt there bad been 27 births and as many deaths, The didpensary patients had womberud 1.161, and thelr midonality a ay follows: drulaua fF Maret iG 2 Sweden od AENTOS ty Scoun, Dene Eraland turk, Hone Norway, beaeh, Mellglous- iy they had buen divided ws follows: Eplacu- pation 40, Methodiat oh Lutheran ‘ougregin= toma H, Baptine & Peesbylornay ‘4 Cathulla 88, dews 4. no ciinen t, and Evangelista, Sweden borg fiat, Cottarian, aud Caristiun, f each, The Conplata’s report showed that thore had been fourteen baptisms and four burial, nad twelve persuns had partaken of Hoty Com miunlon it the chapel aud twenty-six in tho wards, The patients generally were spoken of AS having manifested the deepest huterest tn alt tho religions exercises, and thanks were ro- turned to the Sisters of st, Luku’s for their uilnistrations, Tho ox va closed with brief addresses by the Hon. (db Uurtow snd tha Hey, Pranelas Courtney, butt of whonr eulsmended tha work of St Luke's he worthy of the sympathy and support of all classes, a Au Tnterrupred Wedding, Uniontown (Iiy.) eouluty hua boon xlven a shook from which jt will tike « lone whily to res co ‘ho trouble culniinted at i wodting, Tho nbout-to-by bride was young, rellied, and, ua her nseuline aequantinees aver, beauutul, ‘Vhe groom bud been titeaduced inte the beat elrele of Uniontown people a lew ibonths befare and had completely won the confidence of the young won’ purents, He wag handsar sonolarly, and of Liseinuting miunners, Aw or so nize the friends ot tha brale met ap the church wero the eeremony was to be pore formed, did soon the bride herself otter with towing vell aid rosy ebeeks, Lh Clery) tan, Whose services hud been secured for iho occasion, eyed thy bridegroom closoly, and, when thu fitter drew near, Ue good min ure af sia break ag though both amazed and Horr “foanndt marry thls man," bo sald, recovers ing quickly, “Why not, sir,"neked tho bride's father rising in anger from his sunt and moving taward the clergy mutt, * Because Lo marrled this man to another worm at Eyanayille, Ind, fess thaa a year ago.” Rome of tho ladics faluted, tho bridegroom: elect weaticulated violent protestations, und the wedditur purty cullipsud. Luveatinatlog #owel that tho churke was well foundad. ad Col, Purdy duvnd Tho Academy annuun Col. B.S. Purdy Basha, of the Lary Stult. ° Col, Purdy was bora tu Tho Stato or d York, and revolved his selentitic tralmiyr at Weat Point, Atan early age ho surved ander Gon. Stone on the cadastear eurvey of Kono and Lower California, and afierwinl saw Ker loaln the Wir with the southern Suttes, Kor several sears past be bas teen. one of the magt promiuent of the Aimerlent ailleers wider ded, ‘tune Hawt, Chit at the Exyptha General Runt, and hie been long engaged wn survey work in Upner Egypt. lo served with Ismatt Byub Pada fu tie Darfur oxpedition, and took a loade {ng port tn dayiog down tho wap at tht pros {nuc. As Iutuly ua play Hol. Haray extibited his eomap of Parkur ata meeting of tha Cairo Geographitead Survey, and read a paper on Dlg Journey to Dara and (ofra-el- Nahas, givin AME AecoUNt OF tho Lihabltante and. resources o| Darfur, te fue and tora, bydrography, ate, Cul, Purdy was only 43 yenra of uge at thy thine of bis denth. : oe MMothor Man BWecovorody? wrote no Uiinals girl to her Eustorn relatives, he tuk bitters tor a lung tlie, but without any ood, So, when shu board of the virtues of iiney> Wort, she wot a box, and Jt bag come pletely cured ber, 40 that she cat du as miel, Work how as ebe could before we moved West, Since she hus gor well every one about bore Is tain 1 Rev advertisement, LAKE NAVIGATIO For Ractna and Milwaukes twies ond Wp tl Buiday shop savegunte Peloe For Grata Tiyvon, via Sfiiwauken, turtog datiy ae $ tm. ands p. ma Badday worming oxcop Fur buuboyyatt, Manitowoc Ludington, wid Santee tops dally at Ha. ty Mundi ort uxcdao mage se Then a aaa a boy ports, eaves dubu, Fayette, Siguomlues, Sturgeon Bay, gu all Cato guportor tGwag, via Hseanaba, Satuniay Wor Frangturt, Piorport, Arcau Py 43 Ban, wn saturduy at cpa ia Manta RoR NS Inuunsis Casts tha Sfe-itho Wut baa have withdrawn. feu corrected tluiustable uenday, Gee ea HATILRO AND DEPARTURE OF WHALES — BRPLASATION, MaAincs—tiituntay oxvopted, fAlonday oxeepted, $)ally. Chtengo & Nortnwentern Matiway. For Mape‘t mC ants “Sunday excepted, Dos Moines Ni chart, Mucktard § 140. hears Meeitond & Diburae, Pere wn & Grea Hay. Mi tnukee Tterongorsy enee. Se: Murra A Monit we Minnesnta & ventra te hind Contr) Unkota, Hh via Tanesy tiie woekesess: Swepitie-Car Accotninus nucer Depot, an Can haven Adunieeats bGnteshurg.Ottawa & Bt Avrora suniny t H cont sind ne. of Halivs avert Monet vimutealns enya and tirelye ftom Contrat: Lo- kee ck ht. Pus Tins, OFcopE 4 & Ocunuhiowar m1 Blovonn Voint end ashiund § Allkwnuker, Mauston, and Peateig| ned Pet zen (at iis id Am, and 6:0) poe attire b dnlly, Sunday oxceptud, Chtenue at Alton, Donat. Weet Sida, ercnoe studisat and Canate Mudicors' and Adame. Teckel Onlees, ithe, Hotat, wtik Pini f er, Hebi Tx. Depot foot of Lal atond foot of Twanty. ono) eter ae Hotton trnliner Houser Sats Grand aA tonne Fuck DUT ADAMI caniny Hleht te Gilaan turday ight rund to Leos Wabash, Ht. Lone ds Pactie Eattway. on Depot, Mtaty snd Twolfthente, AU Btaterst, valk, Pheke lewn, He Sou UI ‘usu and Grand jroeine oto oe “Dally except Munday: i Cure from Chicago to Bt, Parlor Day Conchas, 0 to Mt. Louis, and Kes 10 with revolving clinica, Chica: wnluig-Chale Xcapiug Cars, Chtcaya to Luphibal and fo change of Day Couchos Chicaga ty Bt Louli or Kunsas Clty, Chicnzo, Mock ivinnd & Pactie Rattroad. ‘urnorof Van Buren und Shorman-sts, ‘Ticket, KClark-xt., Sherman Huuso, Palner House, Grand Macite Hotel, and 76 Canal, cornor Mauisun, Davenport & Pooria xpress, Couned buds Fast Express. at 8_EBBE EB ‘01 Raneaa Uy, beavon worth 1 Rt Paul Minn ive Islund Accommodation, Blue Isisad Accommadation, Hue (sling Accommmodato Hine tslind Accommodation, Hluo band Accommudation,, {uo ixfand sreomumodation, South Chtengo Accommodation Pouth Chicaxe Accommodation, ‘theatre, Hirin Stee * 4 Seet SSURSESSSESD BESS ca |BEEEESEEEEBE BEBB BE ‘Dally excont Sundays, Holly excont, Natu goally except Mondaye ¢ihuredaya ni only. (sundata only, Michigan Central Ratirond, Land foot of Twenty-secondest, larkest.,nautheust corer of an= duiph, Grund Mucitie Motel, and Palmer Ut Depotr,foot uf Lal MMekot otices, it stitaday axcunter ‘Saturday vxeet aSaturanys teave wt fr Luke Shore & Michixan Southern Ratiway, Hives at doputs, Van Huron-st., head, fh ey, hirdvst. 2 Hoss an oltices br thu (rand Paciio Hoteland Valmet Molt (via Muti Ling), puclal Now Vork x Galt Hxproes, Bultimore & Ohto ositlun Building and fout of Twenty Suds. dckwt uficad, S$ Claskeaty Grand Paciiic Motul, aad Dopo (Exposition Bulk undnya excouied. AIP ta He & O. Grains ington City, and ontire tratna through frou, ork without change, Blowping-Cars botw iy und vi Pe Bie = nukakee Line, 1s, foot Of Lako-st. und foot of Twanty-seconds Tieket Uilluus ab y Urund Paciiy Hat i Chicagy and New ¥i A Bitisburs, #G Wayoe & and at Dovut Mntl and Kzpross. tio fsxvroew (dally, Pittsburg, Clnchunats ds 8G Louls 3 linet and Kokomo Al of Adaty uDd CB Hark-ot,, Grand Paclti eaten West Ride, Logavsport Account Seu pis puult 3: Chicago & Eastern fillnole Baliroad. Danville toute), » Wear state. Uirihk’e Expread (cor. “Dally, d 'Truak Rallway. Depot cornor of Twalfth and State-ats.