Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1881, Page 6

6 RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing Discourses’ Upon the Affiliations of’ Chris« tianity. Dr. Thomas Speaks to a Crowded House on Vital Issues in Religious Thought. The Rev. J. M. Pullman Proeaches + from Dr. Ryder'’s Pulpit on Gotiy Living. The Qongregation of the Unlon Park Ohuroh Do Some Mora Debt Raising, ‘ AFFILIATIONS OF CHRISTI- , ANITY. SEUMON BY DR. SWING, A large congregation assembled at the Central Church yesterday forenoon to hear Prof, Swing, who took as the subject of his sermon ‘The Alitfations of Christianity.” Following !s the discourse: The wind bloweth where tt pieaseth, and thou benreat tha soutnd thereof, but canst not tell trom whenee ft cometh or whither it gueth.— JON. Hoe Be In spiritual things there Js much that ts in- visible and yet powerful, Society as constl- tuted today Is the result of many forces which once seemed to whirl about ns they Iked In the great past, and to came nnd go fis they wished; and yet, after all, thera was a force in all thesv eddvings of the moral nir, and great seasons were tnude by thom—days of cloud and ditys of sun, winter, and spring, and summer, and autiinn, ‘The mind has not perceptions fine enough nor a grasp broad enough. to gather up these influences of Asia, and Egypt, and Athens, and Rone, and the Christian times, and’ determing just how they combined to make the rlet and varied present. Not only nations, but Individuals affected all the past wortd—indl- viduals whose names even are not upon any record, ‘There blew gently or violently atl over the past certain gales which made the inoral climate of mankind. Some of these unseen winds carried the seeds of uls . and brought [li-health to some nien; sonte of then bore the prineiples of life and made the cheek bloom and the eye brighten; but no one cnn tell Just whence they came nor whither they went. Our population, Iareer then in any former period, iy still studing anid whirting winds that sigh or whisper as they pass, but which utter no definlt words as to whence they come or whither Uhey are flying aud carrying thelr freight. Only ine host general way ean wo mark the compass aint of these variable Zephyrs or storms. By this figure, used with grent effect. by bur Lord, we nny be led to the thought that Christianity sustales Indirect relations to so- elety and Is wider Th Its scope’ than might be Inferred from'n reading or 0 hearing of its enrdinal idens, a3 set forth by its protesstunal theologians and ininisters, Tn most of the creeds, religion 1s quite closuly confined toa sehome of fuat salvation, aud ins harmony With such statements of dogtrine most preachers of the Gospel Lave seen to it that thelr. discutrses shonld he wholly within the eonlines inarked ont by thelr ten op fifty logis of belief, Much os this nbstragtness aut ironlika burdness.of professions Chris. tun teachers have checked the growth and symmetry of our relizion, that religion fins defedt tel guardianship, and has always broken over these philosophic boundaries, As when your orchard blooms, its pertune passes beyond your walls and enrries Joy to the surrounding cottages which may possess no blossoming plant, so fdens and emotions escape from any and all forms of duranee and go wandering afar off, [twas in vain France attempted to have vo part in the ref ormmtion of Luther, which was alfecthig Germany so deaply. Even when the cardial ideng of Luther remained in the North, ce tain deductions and corollaries spraig up in the South of Europe, and white Protestunt- ism ‘was marching up aut of Germany, a tes formed Romanism was maveling up out of Frances and Romanisin, without espoustag i single domme of Luther, was changed In its quality and did) not come ont of ‘the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries the chureh it went in. Winds whieh came from ‘Unseen sonrees Dlew-to and fre over the wn- willing France, and made Fenelons, and Marsillons, and Pasents ontof persons who would have been bigots had thoy Hved fn the former generation, Unristianity, while busying itself chlefly in the preparation of the soul for the flnal bar of Qad, hus ways carried weup which was filed to overilawlng. Ithas been tuo large for elitrel walls and has beeh compelled to ask the ontside world to receive pat tts oo ‘The meldental purtot religion lias wah avery huportint part, able often to cotuntertet the evil tht came from the Churel ns a creator of abstrictions, orof a comtempt of the world. Preached generally aso means for attaining heaven mid escaping hell, Christianity has touched all, truth and sentiment, ond been us attractive along by aie as nlong Its theologlenl avenues and Alghways. ‘The great canal which jolns the Meilterranean and the Hed Sens was exen- vated for’ only one purposes to ald the sorts commerce, Itwas oxnected to carry ships oy a shorter path than the vast elrete around’ Afrien; but, meeting that: expectit- thon, It goes beyond and takes die land fer- tile along its banks, and covers 0 part of the desert, with verdure, ‘The new stream saturates tho adlolning flelds, and also flis the alr with a molsture never before enjoyed by the sands of Sahara. ‘Thus the Christian religion being, as tt is called, w straight path, or a gute adinitung to parndlse, fs algo much Tore than that, and, more or less, blesses the country fur this side of the heavenly Canaan, {ts nssoclations are many and houoraple, It jas kept goou company and has helped qreate uot nssocintions to be enjoyed by others, dn Sts work of “saving men tt has ine volved the discussion of miny grave ques. tions, such ng whether there Js in God? Whether there Ia n second fife? Whether there Is an absolute rlght and wrong? What is conselence? Whit is the basis of morals? What ls right, and hence, what are the rights of man? Whint ts the universe?) Whenes did tt come? ‘These are some of the juguiries which orfstinted in the sanctuary and whieh have inade tha Clureh on fountaty aud patron of a very high and valuable pli Josophiy. That is w great friend of the.liu- mint mind which ean teed it with great ques- tons, for Intellectual power comes fromsuch deep and prolonged debate and when thu ques. tions, besidcs boing intellectually great, are Cll Of pructicnl intercsta, the service performed |y of wu more Importunt character. The mind js iaade by the questions it discusses. If it ax: houate (te yeara upon questions of profit and tons Jn the wurket, it may become slurp, far-avolug, ‘but the fur-seciuy is ke that of a bird of prey, and tho sharpness nay ba that of 4 deteotive en Jargod, The intoroscupiat toyed wt lust the ple verso In its tnvect depurtinent, io astranemer loves {t In Ha great musses, the sportsinin bus bis hoart full’ of the woods und the swamps, the lady or gontleman of fashion is fully alive to the otiquot of uvepts, and cach of thea sntnds curries qt Inst the mark of ita favorit themes of cura and thougnt,. Down upon sucha 2 plasti¢ woul religion hee bet fall forms of study, “7 nave, peautionl, diitoutt, myaterious. pure, and Dewnthful, and civilization stands before ue today: greater, beciwuge it hua been compelled to give muen the to theso forms of meditation and ar- gument. The ditturence between vu stuteamun or u true lawyer and day-lnborer Ik wade by thelr gubjocts uf constant study, a atidy cover ing all tha Ife of cuch. Tho former ean talk wbout and vray, und tae ons and rhves, thy bumble lnborer cin speak only, of detuched pvents—the rain of yésterday or the juurdor of last sWwoek,» Our world, theroturo, mauing from i. Jony canyersation and debuts and sulloquy over those sublitny subjects whieh are augyested nud Tostered by religion, fan grander mental world than It would bave been bud it made no inquiry, about 4 Gil, nor pondered, like Mondet, over the mystery of a life to come, ‘bo Haturuliste und the athelats aud skeptica ef our epoch dy not sceg to estiniute the intel- Jactunt ang spiritant vulite te earth of all this * religous Fotection and emotion, ‘Thelr atudsed dead thom towurd, (hove. things which poasuss Jength, breadth, - and thickness, wid porbapa render, them projudicud witnesses nyalost vil worlds 'nal eapabie of belay wulybedl gud tvade ured. It was, peroupa, well for agience that the vatudies of Guiltua drew bln away tvoin the (deus of tne Chureb, and bo fde.vreke up bla frluuil- t institution tliat be dyred to muke Pp atop ta ble aatrenetmy: bit bis density ki value of skepticient came Crom the foul and ox~ treme badness and-tguorance of the Church ut Hise. tt ts io history Utab privat do- bea ustropogier and bia sebuol frou "Ob, Gallleuns, why: do. yo jute the skys" but not always have the tenets of Christianity buen as thoy then Were, su cniply Of preutuess.; In whe flee centuries Coriauaolty bus dealt in wavy lolty of the Fathor, TH CHICAGO TRIBUNE. forms of study, and It is toward theso times that skepticism tn fill of Injustice. The hostility of tho old clturoh to sclonca scems to bo nt Inst equaled by tho hostility of aciencn to rottgion, but with’ thie diferenee—tho hoetillty of the Church wae neeldental and temporary, wanes that of selence to tho Charen seoms togieal and perpetual, Ail along this path tho cloaest ate dente of material altars have revealed at teust w coldness toward a xpiritual kingdom, n world of tho soul, Lucretius, ono of the onrlicat naturalist, denied that nature posrossed any Gods and Pliny, fond of the winds, and tho tides, and storms, nnd volea- Toen, sitll thas" ‘woe a form of tandnoss, 4 puerile and perniuious: Mlusion.” It wauld seem that the exclusive study of matorin) Inws and resultn has always untitted the sclentitic mind for doing Justice to the worth of Christinnity us a prt of this it tlectund furniture and wealth of society. Considering the world na asohool-house whero uit enter as tittle children and remnin to bo made root nen and women, the atheist takes away etidles more sublime than any he can bring into the ruom, The course of study alnks where be anes, and the cntses of power and benuty being lessened, wo must einerge at Inst from tho sehool-houae, having In the wind and heart fewer of the noble results, Wo cannot take away tate and retin tho results, Lod by tho lshorent grentnees of {te topics of study, and thought, and oritory, and conversy ton, Christianity naturally bad to seek ussoclie tons with tearniug, and to bicss tho world by betug the founder of colleges, and schools, antl Iterature. ‘Ta advance itself and defend (trelf it early founded auch universities as those of England and Germany. Tho courses have boun often narrow, 0 course In tho lingunage of Rome and Greece, but the inct of note is ditt it founded and supported colleges when no other organized force was able to lay any foundations of learning of any form, If the world In tho olden times had ‘not inuct lenrulug, religion helped fond whnt schools It posses: planting of colleges and universities iy Founda of lencning in gencral, for whit attine Key there tre between brinehes of learning! A few branches expanded Into muny, and. achvola founded for educating theologians aud priests soon educated povts, ind luwyers, and men of sclence mud art. ‘Thus lodirectly religion blessed suricty, and while per castle bury about: Henyon, it was muking this life. nobler and better, No form of religious unbelief ‘possess the organization, tho enthusiued, tit could found institudons in those earty periods, We must elve the Cuurch credit for’ the good, done by its relations to education and ml! loara- ne and Iiterature In the Christian ora. tt his work upon Heligion and Science” Dr. Draper concludes that the Church checked learns iow rither than advirnced it. He aites tho Muri rieg It destroyed or the studies it checked, but the enlumities be eltes reat rather upon barbire barisia thin upon Christianity: for untions wero mude Christian by a King rather than by any tenobing or development of Individidds, Pasa fam wore the innek of Christianity and. did ite own works in the nanto of Jeatts, “In ita essence se eee ced hak teen the friend of tha mind, Tho cdiseipicr nrownd Joss beentne students that they nicht be able to present tho themes of thoirtnith and to meet its opponents, Christ tacoursed with the wise men, and since His day. Als disviples have reyuired to what forms of Jeurning jay within thelr reaoh, They begin a speci or wisu study of thelr proseut and thoir pust. it has therefore come to pars continually that out of the fostering care of the.sanctuary such minds us Shakspenre, Bacort, Milton, Angelo, Dunte, and bundreds upon hondreds of tlts- trious comprers buve come, colored by thiainay- uilleeatate of plety, Not that thoy were all nuvlo righteous by thelr relutions to Gau's wor- ship: but their grentness and benutys agvor of the teniple, We mark this apiritunlity in Addl- son and Jobngon even when ploty itself{was not vonspicuons. Thesv by-paths of religion are not set ntl pointed out. Under tts iinputae, the arts bave riscn up in great proportions und perfection, The prime idea of Christianity was nv glos rlous God, und tho “second “Iden waa) in the outset on glorious iene a) xo far buck ag the tines of M the favo tiust by yelled tn Jehovah’: preseice, ao sublime and thrilling was the sight, God has alwitys been the supremely beauutut. lleaven, she dwolling-piace of the Alinighty, hias been a x ‘by dweilloy-pltes of such a miatehtess King. Pant lured that neeye butt soon, nor ear heurd, vor heart conceived of such charm, John, In bia effort to spenk of the world to eame, exhntsted the preclous stones and the treasures of gold and pearl und uppeals tu burps, aud sume, and bright angels that he ous convey onceptlon of that country beyond the "ou Wn came. to our ent with tons of tho Lewutiful—Godt and Heaven—and tri these the urts res celved a new tinpulse: ond while arehitectire atrugesled tong wad gird to build a temple worthy of such a Delty and sugh a paradise, piloting tolled to tnd colurs rich enomh for ite Willy, and statuary gought for marbles white anuueh for the tnages of salts, wid musta In- bored tu tind tanes sweet enuugh for its byin, 1f you should raise tho Inquiry whethor atholsiun or skeptiolam could bave moved forth Into paths 80 Vilried and By lmpressive, you will be guddane [i sturtled by the absence of ndequate motive. the supromely beautifnl Is wanting. Thoy start from a negation, and inust be wanting in sub- Himity aud nection. But as light ean stream down from the sun, aud as torrente ein tenn down thy sifes of mounting, 60 can the beaut Tul become a dorsiiant passion iy a philosopay whieh pusseasca at one end of ft a blessed Creator and a beautlful Jerusmem, fhe human fumily setting torth contd not nd vance’ far without bullding a temple and composing a song, As the romance, and bentth, aud vivagity of early yours palut all the days and hours witb colors rich na those of the rose or of the summer sunects ad youth Iaanartist who mikes the vorth bis gallury and studio, #0 the tivo enrdinal doctrines of religion, God ant Heaven, buye covered ony ourth nll over with the tones of inusiv and the works of art. Thoy ya an ndequute source of the subitine unt eautiful. fe From the same Immense tenets has come to Dumanity tho must af its moral beauty. The notions vf God aod Heaven are not only the toneta of relllon,. but they are tho erentest of the world. Ine no department of thought do they tind -any rivalry, ‘They Nee wnapprosehnble on all Bldes, “By the Chureh they have been developed and sown widecuat over the world until atl neurts are pers vadeo by,thoir influence. All other doctelues of the Bible ure dwatted by these lofty companion truths, Other ideas stop at Methodtst, or Cale vinistic, or Rantist boundaries, but theso have no confines—they move everywhere, Dut chose two stand for ablgh moral bonuty, ‘Thus beauty: pusses from the golden streets, and pearly gates, and aweot base to the spirit of min and bos comes an obligation of righteousness. Not iany can doa witkéd action without feoling that thoy have olfonded God und Lave suited the robes of Heaven. Inperfeet ns the bumun race (a, more of Ita moral worth coutes from these two tpyes than from wth other sources combined, ‘Lhe orlininal Jaws of the state aro only pluced thro In thy pring of the loweat forms Of mane hood, the niaiaelts, of the ettizens, old and young, hiving been ted away from such a necd by 8 epiritual odueution which always enveloped them—not when they were in tho Cuureh, low- bowlnyg ut ber alturs, hut when they wero ae whore in the paths thia side of the grave. As the Crusaders once amid adore tris und beartesini- foys cheered onward by sucing, «as they aup- posed, heavenly kalghts marching and counters marchmyg and waving banners upon dilatant MouTItUN- tops, go. bas tho human mudtitude murched tho \ettor toward ull duty and virtua Tron tho fut that there bus wlwiys been before it this vision of God and of au angels country, ‘Thus bayve we Reon sume of the most marked alliiiutions of rolizion, It cannot pays along tt seclusion and unknown, It cannot: wrap its glonk around it und move among tho peopta a Presbyterian, or an Eplscopatlun, or a catholic, {sotnted and not touching und untoneheds IE wreuta all und ig by ail ercoted, nnd enters a paluce oF n cottage 18 A distinguished guest, It his dong this for thousandeel yeura, It baw (scoursed upon nil subjucta—the Suite, the ‘Howe, tho marringo tte, the children wrannd tho hearth, the right path in business, the right puth in pleasures if hns encouraged mil arts, und bua given them subjects; it hus touched literne ture: and “has begwesl itto be benevolent uod puro. ‘That outapread pageant culled the hue niin race Ia the Ktrangest Keone fn the universe Tt isan tinazing phenomenon of Soul, it bua beard sounds and has gathered them Up Into musies It his suen colors wud hus wrought. tem Into paintings: It hag thought and lenrned to express [ts thonght 1 five" und hus rosea boa went. It his bean so flexible that ull things. u bent its {¢ buy buon vo plant that tho vary e a finpreased It; it hug been en tender Tide $C hits mist), sity babe, Over, and around, wd within, this nemy have played those winds of religion, by diy and night, in all time, We hear the sound thereof, and not knowing all avout the Infinit kingdam of Qa, Whence ThowD Ktrange ales come and whithor lends wo yet Know that they ure forces whioll, carry forward well'the hearta they touch. Aa’ though the breath of Gad they bear the soul ane ward, Without them we should seem Leealined. forever in an unknown Bea, i VITAL ISSUES, ° REWMON NY Dit THOMAS, An hnimense iidlenee greeted Dr, Thomas Yexterday moraing at the People's Churel (looley's Theatre), many of whom donb Jess wore prompted by it desire to hee what the Doctor ibght way on the aetion ot the recont Judiciat Conferences at Lerre IMnute touching his appeal tram the deelston of the Mout iver Conference Wi expelling hh from the Methodht Church and ilotstry. ‘Sho Duetor selected as the theme of hubs ati course © Vital Issues im Lelighous Thought! Followlng {4 the sermon: : ’ Lot not your houre be troubled; ye helleve in Gots believe alia in Me. la My Bi are many munsians.—Julin, PA ara Bones Laat weok $ was outel the elty, and ag 7 Journoyed trom plnen to place L observed fie busy Ife of ny tellow-bvings; everywhure they seeined to bo lia harry, aud all full oe work, Gr enre, or thought, Lf met and cane Yprsed-with Strom earnest young un ys two colleges; “1 talked with husineds-mep, with fav 2 Ml physlelaus, And elorzynen, and with day-labocers, und F litened to cone Verdations ot the trains and in the hotels ns Atle groups dicetavedl the ufalys of the world and thy Chureh, aud the great questions of re . ei wi Nglon, And I thonzht of nll these things, O this strange, this many-phased, this kalof- doscopie life, As dhe trains enter or leave tho diferent elties and viiigis, or sweop- Mont gver the proides, you see the spires of the chirehes — potnting upward, and cold, ond stl, you seo the white mar blo keeping silent watch by tho dend, Oneca they rode on tho cnra and walked the strects and Labored, and bought, and sold, and laughed, and talked, and sor- rowed, and went as we do now; but one by one they have disappenred—gone from tho earth; gono from tho busy ntfatrs of life; gone, ak! where are they now? - +; Not with books; put out 1 tho great world of Nfo and things did 1 study tast week. And on Wednesday morning sat down in my room at the hotel with the ever-present vision of your faces rising tp before me, to prepare for this hour. ‘The evening bofore I had taiked till a Into hour with that sweet- spirited Christian and eminent scholar, Dr. Newman Smythe, ‘Together wo hat! looked over the field of thought that now les before tho troubled ‘minds of this questioning age. It was the morning of the day on whieh would assembio the Judicial Conference that should hear, or refuse to hear, my appeal, and should decide whether one holding the views of tfe, and God, and the future thot I hold could be necounted worthy of 1 place in the membership or ministry of that brateh of the ehureh called Methodtsts, F And ag Lthus sat and thought of myself, ant of you, nnd of. the grent world of labor and care, of faith and doubt all about me, this gnestion arose: What are tho vitel Issues {nall thls strange seone of mingled Nghts mul shnidows; this scene of debate, of falth, and donbt! And itscemed to me then, and sevms now, that the renal, the vital issues, are too often lost sigh} of in the world of bellet, anc that the controversies of our time aro Jnrgely over matters of minor importance, and hence fail to grapple with the world’s real need, in the wort of religions bellef a fow pnts fire fundamental; they constitute the basis upon which the whole structure mist stand. “They ave ay the soll and the roots of the tree. ‘They are the principles upon which all else depends. ‘These conecded, the fact of religion, or that there Is that on which to bulld “a religton, ly established, "These points doubted, all isin doubt. Deny these, and then all is dented: logically, there Is nothing left over which to debate, ‘Take these facts away, and there Is nothing on whieh to build, dn their briefest statement these facts are two: God and immortality. You camuot have areliglon without these, Having these, or adanittiag th there ara two othors that follow: revelation and righteousness, ‘These are tho vital questions before ourage of thought, ‘These are the vital Issues be- fore tho religions world to-day. Saye these to (houghtand faith, and vou have saved res ligion. Lse these and rellgion ts lost, Let us look briefly at these four reat facts, The firat hs Got And Co oamight say that this one faet earrlus with it the other three; or, nt least, without it, the others must fall. ‘Thw theistic debate is the ons debate of the Ke, and he who belleves In God. has the reat bottom truth of all faith, aud henee fs, nv a large sense, a believers for 2 bullet in God carries with 1, or at least opens. up the way to,'a belief In the future fife, and in the manifestation of Gad to man, and in the fact of clitracter, or rightvonstess, 7 Agulusta belief In God, there riso up in our sing, the cold materintistic conceptions of the universe, Men used to think thot the supernatural was just beyond the natural, and, tholy knowledie of the natural bulng so Minited, they found the supernatural: 1 veyrthing they could not explain, An Npse wis d supernatural event, and ‘so re xtorms and earthquikes and opidemtes, w But men haye come to an enlarged view of natures and .they seo now that nll thesa tings that were ones regarited ag milraculotts tre porfectly pafural “thnk overs tity Is under Jaw; that in ee ean” be ealtculated hundreds of years — before ts ppearanee, and that epldemtes are bred In stoughs of foul elties, Man now Tooks upon pature as a vast. systent of Ji€e nnd fores und tw tn itself, and hence many, Bot finding God in the near beyond. where Ho was ones thotight to realde, are settling down to # belief in natura and Inw, but are letting go of the thought of God. And thus losing sight of God, the next step iy natural and cusy; they begin to doubt splrits to qhestion the fact of spirit in. nan, und henee to doubt Immortality. Man, to thelr thought, is sumehow evolved, or born of nature; helives his sppolnted days; what we call thonht is but a seeretion or resultot a material brains and hence when nature has run tty course, man disappenrs In death, and. {gas If he had never been, 4 Now itis uot difleuit to see how broad, how radteal, and far-reaching is the diiter- etice between these two theorles, If nitive is a Ulli, uncenselous force, the universe 1 rout, soif-axistent something that inoves au by its own liws, and if man iw anly a living organ- ism grown up Uke a plint or an anital, to iver few days anu then be no more, if this beso thera in no ers for a rollgion, und no Wnts | ey it, But Ue there be an unseen world, {f with all tis arrangement, and order, and luv of the ma- torial universe there ts that tier something that. wo cull spirit, und itin this 1s tho world of lite, and thought, ond principle, and love, and Gols £ God js within luw, Got {s _Inw, if God fy thought, and bonor, and prin viple, und richt, ‘and love, and If mun fa spirit, {Pf mun is thought, and conseiutive, und love, thon, man is Q puct of this unecen Universe, of this great moral order, of this spiritual existenue, and thon man ta finmortat, And whos you hive noe fucts you have that on which to bulld uy religion. and when these two, or rathor.this one groat faet, of 4 living Gad fs admitted, then the way ta eney to tho othors. If God fst if man fs 0 sp! rit, and ag such 18 related to Goud, thon tho way 1s Open for tha truth, for the trot of ruvolution. Yu billove Jn Gods belleve also tn Mo," wttd our Savior tu tho Jov You have in tho flret wrout fact, that out of which tho other arldes, Chrigt, the muulfestion of Gad, the rov- elution of Gol in the form, and thought, and feeling (of man. You have in tho propheta and In Christ the revelation of great spiritual truths, And, teaving this, you have its purpose In character orrigbtcousness, Herortre Uruthe that reinte to the spirit, and bore wre tine mortal beings translating these truths into exe perlenca, and transmitting thorn Into charter and ull this before tho open nites of oternity. and thug it appears thitt tho vital issues in the rolizious thought of our thine are tho fundu- muntal truths, ‘Tho ‘real question before this nge isnot the diiferonce botween one sect and Anothor, or whinh iy nearest tho truth—this niiy be important—but tho ren! question is, Have wo nny rellglon ntull? ‘Cho vital provlem in thought now fa tho thelstio prublet, 18 theron Goud In thers nnything on which to basoany rollglon? Is thore ny future for man? or docs all end heree Js thory iiny such 2 thing ua spirit? Mas muon a souly Not What js tho futuro of thy soul? but Is there any such thing na soul? Or docs mun, as man, return to the dust ad thongh he hud never been? 1s there Any rovelntion? any truth commy down trom above? Not what,or bow fa revelation? but ts there any such thing ut ull? And fy thore ny aven thing 1a virtue, aa character based pon prlielpla and formed through volltivaul cone duct? Or ta man thy result of 1 ture fortuitous goneurrunce of tome and forces, pushed vtone by elroumetanced, and having no bighor mative thun tu avoid what file ne can, secure whit pause 46 possible, add ondure whut pulus he myuat : ‘Tuose aru the vital Issues in thought, and ho who uccepts the ullirmative of these proposl- Uons—who velfeved thase ¢roat truths of a live tog God, of tmortullty, of revolution, and right= cousned—is a believer nm the intellectual aeuse Of that term; aad If ho Hyves these truths be ba ao rellgidug man, Now, if (have clearly npprehondodt ‘and fairly stated tho vital festiee that confront tha relig~, fous thontyht of nur age, tho-view of the aubjoce we whieh we arvived should suxgeat Bune weofuil relivetion: ight of these facts wo nny sew Kirstin the the trrolevancy nid the wttur inndequitey of mideb OF tho cuntroversy of our day te meet tha Teul weds of the religions world. "Tho vital Is- sues OF religious Thought, nv we bave seen, aro bound up tow few great truths, But the debates in the religious wortd are darxely. woout ques Tone that tauch but remotely, if at ull, these Saota of those mmportnuey; and they are Of such A naturd ue tu werken und divide mankind yithor thin unite toem upon the common aad edgenthi centred of falth. Instead of pructing and welvormtiug all who belluve thode great truths us fellow-workers in a conumion cause, questions of pillospphy and Qae mutapbyslcal distiietions thont God ure brought forward, and bhoute revolution and tha future stato: and Upon Nheso divisions uriee, and parties ira formedaud, mon ure forced lo give Upthelr honest convies Mone or xo ontuile of the churches and vtaud ulones und between the Boverul voots thoru is Dut Httle rent fchlowshlp In elther.forn or spirit. Vror, bing, In urdur to muck tha nouds of the tye and of bis wider uae toalliypes of ninth, und to be trie to hla own broader concope Honset: the Diving fe. end love, ventured to Hepart Justa litte from the eld definitions, and for dolng thls wat expelled from the church, Dy, Ryder, the oldest pastor in our city, aud i firny Oetlever In Gord, anid Ctiriat, and righteous. bead, vad Intoortality; but buying a better hope Ot the fay-olt resulty of that funmuortullty, fa for thitt Ropu excluded frous whet are called *avane ween charebes aud meetings. Ho bas told that be has ptten shod tears becuuse of this lusion. Aud thug the dobutes Ko on ubout the forms and Wot the substance of truth aud retlyion. 1 was told thy other day of ® xvod Episcopal winister who said he dalguteay whut be pleased in the pulpet—imighs ; ‘ MONDAY, DECEMBER (5, 1881—TWELVE PAGS oO leny the divinity of Christ, and nothing | will probably po aubsorived at tho sorvices noxt: 0 that of Mr. Thi ary. would ba sald bau ity out if he should venture | Suuday mornin, BOARD OF TRADE. trentmont, — Gut quire alte, <oRterton to suggest a chinge in tho form. uf his voat= _————--- i - tho Interior. Tike Mr. Jeanison, siterent ig Inenta thora would 28, trouble at anew. ikl MARRIAGT. a ~ haa chosen fo Sarry bis aunersieuy nga, Ininicy athe wil woe tolemie seerat rocieies, | WHAT THE RILE Aya oN -timstinen | A Critical Examination of the | use Freel entiral bog Sud othors, hive sone exacting rule about ninusetnonts or dress; whd 90 it Is; tho debates: and the divisions gu on, not about great pringi- ples and saving truths, but over tho forms of those truths and over questions that sbuuld bo Jott to the Individun! consclence. One sect In Ohlo split over longe-tail aud shortetall coats, und now thoy have tho lons-tail and tho short- tall partion, And over in Towa thoy had a church trial of 0 prenchor for winting to wear buttons Inatodd of hooks and eyos, : ow, tha Vital Issue. the vital need of the world, ts bellef In God and righteousness and the future, And hence ali those minor Grey tons should bo tert to the domain af individual opinion, or should be releweted ta the fleld at piltesonhy, and the Church of Chrlat should broad cnouuh to hold all those tndividunl diferonces} the Church Cathotle should be ns broad na trith, aid bonce ns brond ns tho thought of nuin, And it should gladly woleamo ne bellovers and workers mit who can gather about tho grent truths of God nnd immortality, And tho diy {s not distant when, [f tho battle that ts upoti us, and thot is prossig upon and Urlving in the picket linos, and tnust bo fought the fow vital issues, tho churches bo glal of the powerful intellect of James Murtineau to uphold and de- fond tho great. doctrine of = apirit and God and smimortality, And thoy will welcome the works of such scholars ag Caleta, and Stanley, nud Farrar, Tho thinkers seo, ani nll but thenarrow dogmutists avo, that the vital Jeayes are Seite fins to tha front; that the great questions of God, and the soul, and tho future tre usking fur solution and verliieation, and that {f these are sa veil to faith, the falth of tho world issayed, Upon this battle all fs to be won or Jost. Second—Itaving seen tho Importance of a fow great truths to our world, and having seon tho Inndequivy of so much ot our medern religions: debate to meet this emergency, we may now note tho onportuneness of tha broador thinking of the now school of orthodoxy thut [a coms log to the front In our’ day, Ant you have noticed this fnot, that the prond ortho- doxy is uot troubling Ityelt’ nor troubling others abuut points of mittor Importance, It geen a dnrger work to bo dong, It Is not debating the tots Of baptiam,or tho atyle of a cont, or whothor it fa wrong to playn pss of croquet, or whethor Jonah was actully. swallowed by whale; not this. ‘Tho thinkers in the troad or- thodox school are at work on the'vital issues of reilgion; and thoy nre trying to do two things: {hoy aro trytny to free rollglon from tho suliu- lastic neeretions that have guthored about lt and tide It an unnecessary burden to thought; and thoy are trying Jo 68o presentite yroat moral truths us to make them accord with tho deupest {utultions of man’s morn! nature, and to make them seem worthy of 1 God, and hence as belfs to falth in God and fmmortuiity, Teannot now enlarge upon these polnts ns © ahould Ike to do, but thole gonornl bearings and Pirpuses are custly seen, Take, as an example, tho Bibie, The truth that the broad orthodoxy wants tosuve—and It wants, to save it becnttso it Is a truth—Iis the. fact of revelation; thut God has spoxen to man, ‘Thoy Hind that this truth, like gold In the mountain, 14 imbedded tn bistory aud blography, and, posglbly, some of jit has been flouted to 1s through tradition, and, it may be, is. mixed up with a solarlae of legends but the truth ts there, The soul going where ft Is fects it; knows it bg its power and adaptution -to {ts own Ww: ‘Tho broad orthodoxy dona not burden Itself nor othors with useless attempts to defend tho erlticnl apeurrey or plenury Inspiration of all ps of tho Bibie, It seoks to find fits use as wuk of life to guide und help tion. And it isa mistate, It Is waste of time and Inbor, for tha Free Church of Scottund to be tryin Prof, Sinith for bis views. He [s right; ho Is trying to ave truth, and not to destroy it, ‘This {s one part of tha work the new ortho- doxy is trying to do, Another, and tt more In portnnt part of Its mission, is to ga conceive Aud prerent the great nora) truths of religion ng to harmonize thom with the deep and incradicn- blo tutaitions of the human sunt; and hence ta plice the sou) on n ground of aymnpathy and oneness with tho thought of God, and then to ko. present. theae truths and works of God tint they a appear worthy of Gui, or be consonant with tho thought af Gad, and with tho thought of Immortality and righteousness; and hence, niogatner make these zrent truths a fuot to the mind and the heurt of tha world; and hence 0 with, In doing thoso thingsy the broad orthodoxy bad to movify, or restite rome of the oli) doc trines, and it does this, not from danbt, but fram. the high etandpolnt of 1 nenror heart-faith in. God, and In reverent loyalty to bis truth, Com: {rug with tha heurt, und tke Joh, leaning upon tha very bosom of: Chriet, the ntonenent loss Tuck of Ita mystery, and [3 retloved of Ita hurd, cold, legal aspects, and becomes i yreattruth o: the soul, a truth of the suffering uf love to auve, and benee a power upon the ire. In this love God [a brought so neir to tho heart that the henrt may Know Gat without tho arguments of reason; may know Il as tho anewering of all {ts orles anid tours; na the answoring uf wll Ite highest aspirations nnd ideals, — Stand> ing this in tho light and fife of love wling ult worlds, the gutss of the future tly opon —thoy must open when love leuds the way, and Lnmortullty is t Inet; and vtornul tite Ie ale roudy begun, And standing tu the life of overe lustung love, the bron hudoxy dovs not clove torovor the doors of pessibilit mud hope nt the Inuinent of death, with u moral untverse all Im= perfect, and sin and rebeliion forever enthroned, yut lenves all souls with God, ana hopes that tn tho ages to come somothlag more worthy of tha Neart’s conception of a Father, of a God, muy uppenr. The old orthodoxy closes forever tho door of hove anu possibility ut the moment of douth—jovs nut permit oven a hope, nor the fol- lowing of tha deud with wn unspoken prayer or wish for tholr restoration; and by all this Hcapale hus tho olf! ortbodexy unconsetiualy vast a dark and troubled dontit over tho faith ef man in any future, und caused acloud to settle down over tho very thought and glory of God. Tha new orthodoxy comes In with tho better hope that will help to save tho world-faith In God and In tho future, : The vital issues of religious thought gathor thus epont a few wront trittha; and it fa uw sul mistake for tha Christian world to divide and weuken its forces over points of minor intarcst; or to try to furee upbn the troubled mind and hoart of this age propositions that, If main- tained, tond not to Btrenythen but to weaken Tulth In tho grent vital truths. Whatweullyecd dg thut thy heart be opened up to Gad, to Christ, to revolution, to rihtvousnoss, to Immortality, And stunding in this Bweet experience, In tho henrt'a reaiizauion of foye and Gud, tt 1d onsy to. Dolleve in Christ; onay to bollove tn the futures tho vision of the soul le not shut In by tho vale of Nesh and sonsaof timo; but tho “many man- sions" ot our Fathor’a houss—munsioos of thought and ua pentane: and bopy and iife reo up in bomuty all about us; wo ure in them now; und donth fd but the open door through which wa soon shall puss to tho brighter glory boyund. Of souls in trouble, bere you can find reat. GODLY LIVING, SERMON BY TUE REV. J. M, PULLMAN, OF NEW YORK, Tho ey, J, .M. Pulluan, of Now York City, who is nt present visiting relatives and friends in this elty, occupled the pulpit at yestorday niorning’s service at St Pauls Unlversallst (Dr. Ryder’s) Chiureh, Michtyan avenue, near Sixteenth street, ‘Tho text was tuken from tho secund chapter ot Titus, verses 11 and 1%, revisgd edition, reading ay follows; = = Yor tho graco of Qod bath appeared, bringing saivation to all mon, Jnetructiyy ti, to the ine tent that, donying unjodiiness und worldly lusts, Wo should tye soberly, and righteously, and god- y in thid prosont world. After first valling attention to the fmpor- tant Improvement in the revised toxt over the old, Dr. Pullinan proceedetl to show at con siderable length how Universalism taught mien to livo us thus dirceted, substituting for tho feur of an endlega perdition tho urgent motive that Ife was a race in.whleh thu Inggard was al- witya 4 loser, and oll men should ambraco Chriss tunity now, becnuse It wus tho only truly good Hfe to lend, und becnuse every duy ono postponed leading ‘tt, bo wits losiay und Missing tho ehief glory and blessings of tho PReaune ite, ‘Troubles ought to. be steps to a ighor Ife, but thoy were not bo; Joys wuro It. ful und evanescent, whore they onult to hedeop ond nbidtng. ‘Lhe provess of rostorine 2 soul to righteouancas wus indnitly ore terrible than any picture or ropresontation of danmation Keottid aver Le made, ft was ureed by some that thy duvtring of cudiess perdidon ought to bo jnaiutuined, if ouly tor tha bonvilt of tho brutal aud Jowur orcers of humanity, Christ did uot wet thus, During ils days in Jorusuiem tHe in. yurlably addressed the raubla in words of tenderness und compasaion, and It was only when He wont into the Firth avenues and Mich= yun avenues of thevity that Hoe culled His heur- eras a gonurntion of vipers, and muds reforeuce tu the condemontion uf Gehonnn. Tho sermon Wis Iberally intursporsed with boa tifulslimiles aud {tuvtrations, whivh the Doctor picked up on his travel, and applied to the humun soul scok- ing walyution, $ ——- DEBT-RAISING. PROMPT WORK IN THE UNION PANE CON> UREGATIONAL CHURCH At the Unlon Park Congregational Chure)i yesterday morniug, the Roy, 2r. Noble, tn place of dolivering q sermon, stated that the 920,000 debt which had for some time Leen hanging over the church had all been sub- seribed with the oxgeption of $1,100, which he hoped would be: ralsed by the congrogu- tion present, If any moro than. tho stipu- tuted amount wus subserlbed, tho surplus would be put to tho debtot $3,000 which the church alo owed, Tho latter umount need not ueacasurily bo paid Immediately, though ‘of coursa {t would “bo wipod out if it could’ bo done, Cards wero distributed by the ‘Trustecs, .and tho redult” wus $2,200 was raised, Vhoyoverond gontiowun than stuted that the balauce of the $400 debt would bo ralsed next Bunday, which would leave, the church entirely free from locumbrauco. ‘This whicl ince at mo e iutercel, with the exception of the $4,100, which And the Lora Cod snid, Lt ly not good tint the man should be alone; 1 will miko hima holp meet for him, . . . and tha Lord God . . . mado he a woman, and brought her unto the man. . . . ‘Thero- fore shall © man lonve his father and his nother, and shall cleave wnto his wife: and they shall be one tlesh.—Gen., 1h, 18-24 (Seo Deitt,, xeth, 13-29). Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, whieh he path given thee under tha. sin, alt the days of thy vanity: for that fs thy. por- on in this life, aud tn thy fabor wilel thou takest under the sttt.—Leelcalustes, 1, 2. ‘Tho Lord will ent off the man that docth this, tho master and tito scholar, out of the taburnacles of Jacob, and hin that offereth an offering tinto the Lord of hosts. And this have yo done amin, covering the altar of tho Lord with teard, with weoplag, and with erylrur out, Jnsomuch that no regarded not the olferiig any inore, or recelvoth (t with ood will at your band, Yet yo say, Wherefore? [o- cause the Lord hath been witness between theo and the wife of thy youth, against whom thot hast dealt treucherously; yet is sho thy com- panton, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had ho tho residue of tho Spirit, and whorefore one? ‘That he might scok a godly seed. Therefore take teed to your apirit, and lot none dex! treachoroualy ugiinst tho wite of his youth. For the Lord, the God of Jarael salth, that he batath puttiog awoy.—Mal, ioe . Wherefore thoy are no more twain, but ono flesh, Whut therefore God bath jotned toxethor, let no man putasunder . «Moses, beenad of tho hardness of your benrta, suitor you to. put away your wives; but from tho beginning ft Was HOt WO Mathey Thre, 3-12, And his disciples naked him again of the samo mintter, and bo sald unto them, Whoever shall put away his wife, and marry noothor, commit. teth udditery nualust hers and i a woman shall putaway her husband, and be married to an- othor, aho committeth adultery.—Mark, 2, 2-12, Aud whosoover marrieth her that ls put away from hoe husbund, committeth adultery.—Luke, Vi 18. For tho woman which hath n husband, Is bound by the law to ber husband so lone as ho Uveths but if her husband be dend, ae fs loosed from tho lnw of hor husband. 80 than, ff white her husband fiveth, she be married to qnother man, she shall be called an ndulterosy; but If her Wusbhand be dead, sho is free Crom that lw; 80 that ste Is no nduitercss, thoih sho bo mare vied to another mau.—fton., Vile 2, And unto tho married [ command, yot_not T, ‘but tho Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if sho depart, lot her remain ununarriod, or be reconciled to her husband; und let not the litsband putaway hiswife. . . . Art thaw bound unto 2 wife? seck nut to be Joused, Art thou loused from a wife? seok not T Cores Vides Ey 10, Uy 27, 39, mbinit yourselves unto your husbands, agunto the Lord. For the huabind fa the hen¢ of the wife, ovens Christ is tho head of tho Church; and he fs the Suvior of the body. ‘hore- fore tis the Chureh ls subjoct unto Christ, 80 let (ho wives bo to thelr own husbands In avery= \bing, Husbands love your wives, even og Christ algo loved tho Church, and gave himself for Jt; that he palgnt, snnutify and clounse it with tho washing of wator by cho word; that ho utight present it to himself a glorious church, not having apot or wrinkle, or any auch thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love thelr wives, as thelr own, bodies. He thatloveth nis wife loveth him- self, . . . Lebevery one uf you in particular so tava his wife oven ns himself; and tho wifo See thot ghe revorence her Husband.—Eplisy Vs dds A Bishop thon must be blameless, the husband of one wife, . . . Let tha Dencons be tho husbands of one wife,—I Tin, til, 128. Likowiso yo wives, bo in subjection ta your own husbands, . . . Likewise yo husbands, dwell with thom according to Knowledge, givin honor unto tho wifo, a8 unto the wenkor vessel, and us bog holrs togethor af tho graco of Ifa: vot your prayors be not binduredi—L Peby (ly 7. For proventing unhappiness In marriage, seo —Hecteataaticnay Coe Ie Malte, e0Nbn 19-21; Jdinea, Voy 15-2HI8 £0. 7 By ttnth Vey G10, Ponnlly—Lev., r2., 10: 1 Cur, v.. 9-10; 2 Cor, thy, 9 We Neb.’ zh; ds Revs ‘ext, 163 Be werlthy 7220, STONEHENGE. Its Proposed Westornation with Theories About Tis Uses and Its Bulldern London Standard, Tho heavy hand of the “ restorer,” it Isroport- ed, bas.nt laut been laid on Stonchenge, At ono of tho recent nrebieologicul meetings, the pusal- Dilly of thls sucrliego bomg committed was scouted ag too terrible even for discussion, an enthuslustic clorgyman oven going so far ns’ t declare that (ff the wonderful megaliths of Bully bury Pluin wore to be ruined in the mistukon idea of preserving tnom ho would be tho frat. to “knock tho deseerator on tae hea Now le histine, Stenchengu, which for ugea bag beon the Mevea of antiquarics, will, before long, con- slat of nm sorlea of stones aufely buttressed, liko #0 muny other anelent orcetiond, by propa und seufoldiug. Should this report prove true—though. we would fain dqupt it—It is avt- Mout that Sir John Lubbouk’s bill for the pros. orvation of snoient monuments bas been too Jong detnyed. Indved, go ne hing Btonohenye, Atunding wolrd-like in the midst of the solitiry Piatn of Sallsbury, been rewarded ns de jure tho praporty of tho nution, that ono is pt to forget that cle facto it hua iw tundlord na inuch as haa tho Cat and Buxpipes ortho Bluc Boar Tavern, und that, so fur ag tho ‘written Inw of the land could rostrain him, hu might tomorrow bronk Up these momoriuly of 4 bygone aya itno motal fur the muddy road that raus hard by, Stonoheusy aud the pluln on whicb it ts erected aro indeed singularly righ in hitatoricul memo- rlea. Sopulcbinl mounds dot thia undulating solitude, and the dikes, trenches, mark linus, nuit botinduries of the dnvjout tribes af South Uritain are commingled with enrth-works, foi rossed, aud otbor defensive works of thelr cu quurors, Horo tan British trail," there a Ro- mau rond. ‘ho mound wore tho keonest-eyed antiquary bus considerable trouble in tracing the. romuins of street and walls wus succcsalyoly a Stronghold of Calta, Romuns, aud Saxons, * It Is stl ww It was in Popys' timo stupendous ‘and inthuurivns have not, in the coursa of two centuries, in spite of ail thelr speculations ovor the yrent stones, yot much bo- youd tho plous “God knows what tholr uae was" of tho quondam Presidont of the Royal $o- ciety. It Joos before us on the solitary plain ng grand and inysterlous as aver. ‘his, bow over, we know—when Sormnlete« it must bive consisted of two concentric olroles of upright stonas, Inclosing two ollipses, tho wholevatruct= Ure surrounded by double mound and a glreulur ditch. Outelde’ this boundary wus a single upright stone, aud tho appronch was wy an aventio ayo bordersd ‘on cuch aide by a inound and ditch. Tne outer clr cle consiated of thirty biocka of stone, cach ubout sixtegu feet from tho ground, placed at intervals of thrao ond a hulf teot from each other, and connected along thu top by a sorius Of imposts, ‘Lois outer virelo Is coniposed of Wiltstitro “saracna,” 9 siliceous stone found In the ‘ntinediale nelwaborhood, But tho iuner clrelo, Whlob also congists of thirty piilira, ia made up of syenite und other rocks, whlch must bayo been brought from 4 great diitance, moat prob ably from tho Lower Biluctin of Noreh Vem brokeshite and Carnarvonshire, Unlike the outer cirele, the tinier one is of unbewn blocks and vory indistinct. But tho Muvst part of Blonchenge ts the cilipse inside tho circle. It la formed uf ten or twelyo blocks of sandstone, sixteou ito twenty-two feet iu hight, and fur- nlabed with wa impost, while innermost of all te another elllpia, composed of ninctecn uprights of sycnito, sliuilar in alze:to those of the tuner vircla, In the cell thua formed 1s tho so-called * altar,” consisting of a elub of tho micucvous sandstone of the nulghberhuod, If tho plan of Btonuhonge ts doubtful, itnuso Is utterly Problomationt, Sudeed, overy theory —ind tho literature of the subject would tly moderatelysalzed librury+is eo moh in the reuhin of fancy, that Horace Walpole was nut wore oynteal tun just when be declurodt that euch CSD tor, Attributed to It that kind of antiquity of which bo binsetf was most fond, Nearly evory prominont bistorical porsanage from tho Devil to tho Druids have at one tine or waothor been credited with ity erection. Tho former a atitl by tho Wiltahire ruaties belluyed to be the architect; the Jutter, however, have {ho suifrayes of the urchivologists, Geullrey of Mounouth held the doctrine that it was a jmonuinont over the Britons murdered by Lone sist, wod Unit the stones wero bruught from Ireland by the aid af Merlin, thu Enohautor, Iolo Jones favored tho iden of its’ tele nan tample, dedicatod to the God Costus, and Valter Churicton attributed it to the Daues,who in popular esteem divida with thu Romuns tho gredi¢ of building all great works which cannot bo very cluurly ussixued to anyone oliv, Aylute Summies will have it that the Phunicland wore tho builders vf Stonehenge, aul Bishop Gibson sumgesta the Lritons. “Dr, Btukuly, however, was tho lirst Who Rave reasons for cliesing Brone- houge 13 a Druidient structure, a view which bud since that date been nocopted by a mujurky of urchwolugisis. Of couniy the theorists ho are over on the lookout fur “astronomical mons menta”™ buve, to their own complete entistucs ton, demonstrated thut theso greut stones wero erected on Ballsbury Pui to ix tha wxnat port at whic iho’ sun roso on dildsummer- my, And thut they inaivato a knowldge of tho legal courses almost tou profound tu be nate ural, In the midst of these ausry dlapinuuts It 4a pleasant. to lgntousir eburd Houre, who, thougo he spent thu better nart of a lite fy tho nolghborbowl of Btonetiungy, declines ta pros pounce judginent in favor of any one of thom. Indecd, of late the. Drufdical theory luis beott Solling jute wumowhat evil ndor, and uxtreme skepticism ls being displayed us to the aie uf tho Btonchenge group. ‘Tho Tuct uf the stoned bus Jog hawn would point to their boing of 4 more yevent date than the many liko structures sete tored over tha country, while the discovery of olrelas, alinost Wentid iu nearly overy countsy from Judta to Poru, bas abaken tho old uuntue in thelr having anything to do with the Druids, ‘Tho probabllity sous to bo that, like the rudur, unbown msasca of Avebury, thoy niurk tho spc where the prisuitive Celtic tribes met to adit. faster Justice and discuss their nutlunul atalra, Sunilar cireles, which wo know were used tor this purpose, still exiat both in this und in olhor countries, & Plans for the New Build ing. What a“ Tribune” Reporter Saw at a Private Viow of the Archi- teots’ Work. The Leading Features in Theso Ornate and Carefully-Treated Doe signs. With an Analysis of Thelr Morita and De- merits, Their Excollenoics and Faults. Probably tho Anest exhibition of compotitive designs over offered by Chtengo architects wad Preacnted to tho Itval-Eatute Committee of the Board of ‘Trade lost week, and will be exposed to tho viow of the members of the bonri this ‘Morning. Although the committee have full authority In the matter, the Chairman, Mr. Honaley, in courtesy to the large uumber of ine terested members, dectded to ylve avery one an opportunity to examine tho designs, and for, that purpose carpuntera were engayed yesturday’ in orecting two rnoks,oue in cach end of the hall, upon which the various architects, after drawing ctita for positions, wore Inst evening enguged in hangiug thelr plins. A difficulty was mot in providing o sufficient amount of room for all tho plans, as some of the competitora bud pre- Parod so many ns to requiro much more room thin wis allotted to thom; but na this ts only a protimiuary exhibition, this defect cnn of courso be vaally remedied. On tho whole, the dlaptay is ono that retlocts great credit upon the cotpeting architects, who, in’ every ‘case, seem. tohuvoe ondeayored to show a building which shall bo worthy both tho designer and projuct- ors, Asis well known, slx architects were In- vited tou pad compotition—Messrs, Boy mgton, Thivor & Till, Randolpny Burngum. & Hoots Jonnison, and Thomas, “Each architect person- ally superintended tho hanging of bis plans, and every accommodation tus given by the custodl- an of the hull that was possivlo in the Hmited room ut bis disposal, TIE LALGEST DISPLAY OF PLANS, No.1 in position on tho racks, ja by Messrs, Burnham & uot, who offer three distinct de- Bins, shown in detail by na many sets of ground plans, sections, ete, three water- color perspectives, done in Mr. Luutropo's buat style, and a fnely-calorud drawing. showing the proposed treatment in color of thoir large hath ‘These designs ure all in oxcollent taste, curofully stu died, and bow a innsterly hundilug: of detail, which s characteristic of those archl= tocta, Ono’ desizn,in tho Romanceqio atyle, Shows uv iarga dome over the centre of tho building, which ts given up entiroly to tho. pir- poses of the Nourd of ‘Trade, no apace bong utilized for ollices, except on tho ground tor. Asccond dosign gives tho front portion af tho building outirely to tho ‘main bull, but in the reur, or southern portion, ten storier of ollicea avo curried up, surmounted by,a square tower. This doslyn ty treated In the/style of tho Re- nilssance, and, nlthough fundled with much boldneys of design, hus an un- bulunced affect which might be objection- able, Tho third desizn, offered by these urctil- tects, fg more rogulur in form, und seems to have # more utilitarian arrangement. Tho Tront on Jackson street is symetrically grouped, ‘with n large centre tower and 4 sinaller corner nvition, the ain building being ive stories In, ight, or threo stories of olives nbove the iain hull, Its style [Is a nerrer approach to tha : Gothle than the othors, although nbt In bondage to any deflocd period, and thy grouping of the parte 48 generally good. In tholr plans Messrs. surnam & Hoot show. sever! different nr- ringements, in nil enses, however, huving 0 Aberal ontrance from Juckson steeut directly to the innin ball, with wide stulreases and sovoral elevators. THI CATI-BOAND ROOM is placed in the southeast corner, opening dl- reutly from the muin hall and corridors, givin Hight from two uldes, while the rovina for olticers obeupy the southwest corner, ‘Tho baseuont {i each plan bas a corridor ax- tending through the middie of the buildtyy, with ollices opentug from it, aa Mm the present building, whtle in the contre of this corridor aire safoty-deposit vaults, aA fonture of ong de- sign Is nv outside grand untrance from Juckson Btreot, by t Meht of stone steps, whigh, though it must necessnrily shorten tha bullding, givos u zood effect to the front, oe 8 Noxt in ordor 48 tho design of Mr. C, P, Thomas, waleh f¥ ns not{cuable for tha small ‘nuinbor of drawings us thosy previously dosoribed ure for the Jargo number. Enough fs shown, bowoyer, to give x very good idea uf a destgn in classic Tonnuissince, sy:mmetricul in {ta arrangemont aud neat and tustoful in its nrehitecturat treatment. Like several of the othors, it has o central tower with corner paviltons on Javkeon street, but tho entrince to tho malin hull ds by menue ot a corridor, with stairs ut tho southern end, as in the presont building, In fact, tho general arrangement is an improved plan of the buliding now used by the bourd, enlarged in size, uni with tho addition of upper storles of offices. Lhe genural uttoct of the Interior, of which fA ting porspective ts givou, Is that of tho 8t. Louls Chamber of Commerce, although tho details richer thun in that buliding. | dhe coll- ing of tho hull {s lighted from tho roof, und tha Cutl-Board room fy tn tho southwoat corner, tho ollicers’ rooms bdiug in the southeast, Alto- gether, thia design, machoupte prosonting less novel features thin uny of the others, has a yery attractive nppeurutice, + ‘ Silp No. ¢ having buen drawn by Mr, Jennison, ‘his plan comes next In order on the boards. Al- thougb it can scarcoly be called a carefully studied plan, it presents such RADICAL FEATURES ve in arrangoment and construction, as to attract immediate attention, Tho exterior, which is stown by ® mammoth perspective very rich in color ‘and oxcendinyly bold {a treatment, is generally gothlo in character, boing destxned, bowovor, with a freedom which ty ml- Most orratio. Tho main bull, 1% foot in widen, (6 without columus, bulng roofed over by immenaa arohes of Urick, which extend through tho skto walls and stund on large granit columns nt tholr Spring, white tho crowns of those arches are separated by gigantic frou poste, forming a truss-work ‘nt tho baso of a dome. Ou tho haunches of these archos are the sovoral stories. of offices, clght In hight, which, of course, tn- crenso in numbor iy they riso. ‘By what teat of engineering it would be possible to construct such a building, uud, when constructed, to kuen itin place, may be expluincd to the committer, , t certainly is not obvious to the casual ob- server, A glunce at the pling showed soine od fentures, though edd care seama ta have pun bestowed upon thelr arrangomonts than in tho case of thoothors. The entrance to the hall is by a wide corridor froi Jackson atreot, with atnirs ut its Kouthorn end. ‘his corridor, In- stead of containing snfuty-vaults, ag in othor plans, 1s dcnominated Ww rough-weathor payee inont,’ Intended evidently to make’ a “'Chunge Alley" for tho new building. ‘Tho apice No. 4 was souured by Mr. 8, M. Rau datph, to whose quict and unpretentious dealyn, ‘nished fn Indinsink shading, ano turna with somowhat of « feeling of relief from the more Selly scalored, drawings around jt. Here Is ueen adesticn in French Gothic, showing, perhaps, 1. slight want ot atudy in some of the dotalls, but withnl combining domo exceltent Idene of! ay rangemout with novolty and good taste, Tho prinelpal front hus a contre tower, which is jolnudt to sido or corner towers by o two-story arcuate, carried oy yranit columns anil covering Ww broud and vasy Hight of stone stairs, from the coutro ouch way ty tho main ball. A PECULIARITY OF THE FRONT whieh one of tho othor designors bayo scomott to observe, {6 that the centre tower js pluved in the middlo of Lu Sullo strect, whieh {t seme ts not the middie of tho pruposod now building. ‘this inequahty Mr. Uanduiph has conveuled by an olpyitor-tower in the northwost vorner, 1m which ore alevators connecting with tha halls und oftices, Tuore {¥ ne corridor running length ‘Wise the building bere ag fin each of tho other lungs, but the centro portion {s wrranged In an adinicaulo tunier for sufety-doposlt vaults in faut thig scons to be the only design in wale, ampic feaurity ing beon given to this poruon of the bulling, aft the other plans bolne very inses curely wrrauged in thia particular, ‘Tho central portion of the main bull ta open to the roof, and 4 largo akyligbt extending over it i through ok gluse coiling, Ag algo tho Cull Hoard” room, which Is uited — nerods corridor tho wouthern oud of the bullding, with the officers, rooms on thovother alde, A feuture, which 14 shown ouly in thia plan, Jaw houting chamber, extending entirely around the bullding over the alvlo ofthe ruin ball, trom whlen through an anet arcade in the clurestory fresh and warmed alr ty ultnitted to the hall and drawn out at the Noor, On tho outer watts ure two or three storica of olicos over the inaln hull, S design of Bpuco No. 6 is ovguplod by the Sousa. Buwor & 1}, whlen ts in THE WENMAN CLASSIC STYLE socommon Ih the vicinity of Borla, It hue, unlike the othyr deatzns, 10 taword or etrongly> Murked featurca, but iy very carefully devlynud .| and olaborutuly drawn, ‘Thu general arrunes tient of the plins 18 slullar. to tho: ofhors, with a contre corritor througo the ground toon, with umpire stale und vlovater accu dado. Thcmain hull Is urranged within higa ¢ tral portion wad a double atale, ping bra rows of columns sround 1b” Over this pre two rows of ollices, With nh centro corridor, and with the finer alllogs opening on aud liehied by the muin hall, Tho Cult-Bourd roow in this pliu ts iv the. contre of the southern portion, with tke ug. culation aud atticers’ routs on each side, No. 4, end the lst, it thy tt fs the design of Sir, Hoyington, who slows 4 very clomunt druwings, und wv tnely-drawn porspootive of the exterlor und Interior, tho Jatter @ very tr tatle pleco of voloring by Mr, Welch, Pho ure rangement of {his plin ts alinilarto the others, end yet hus some yery atrikliue features, The desigu is in classy Heonalsance very ike Uuuing. He his, however, tn tens] of briok, which, aithong! Inindted material, fs yi Ty in i maintain & permanent posit! *3 likely tg tobe fenced that wa constant al Hes gontraction Inaide ‘ tho wall ae tho tise of go much fron teanetrustio™ froccdingly disastrous, Whi two rawve.o pilens, lighted th over the main bail, and the bneome corridors, the contre por Pile doposit vaults, porhon Dolag S AMPLE STAINWAYS fro nhown, and sovoral otoy Hourd room I this. pint ts hha Sop eS Call sated an tuo sontuern bortion of the bulluins, ee cl yo ln f vibe alge Ot Ie : iz On tho cage and wea 1080 Dians show nn ay wiilo in wonderful, considering tnteg ot bor whiloh bns beont ziven the architects ine gee somo tospeuts—tho buslost part of thoes Hvory pin has many excellent idens, co Sok tarnly hus boon a wika exponditur on Wyle Of tho cammittes, drawing, ne it dors th bey thoughts from tho ‘tending milnds in ai (ao Ut Alon, With the ald of a expert to auger which, It {stunderstond, thoy will hnverttieot ets strange {tf from Bo much that ts novel, and eet ful, and beautiful nm building coun ie oyolved nt once an ornament to the oft: at le oPbdit allko to architect and projester 2204 : IS HE HUMAN? ——. An Exhibldton of Kxtraordtnar tortlons Before a Class of dents, ¥ Co Medleat tus Cleveland Herat, ‘The announcement that Mr. Chartes 11 War. ren, tho celebrated contortionist, would give a, exhibition before tho students ut — ho Ki Medical Coltego yesterday moraing townie Flerald reportor in the amphithaatre AL the ae pointed hour, Mr, Warron is, in bls line, undount * ei gronteat wonder oyor brought before ate ‘cal protession, The fuct that Dr. Mumitton hag dovoted several pages to bis caso In his “Now Surgery" {a umple guarantee that {ile contours tions aro really phonomenal and worthy the cone alderation of modical scionce, Concerning hita Dr. Hamilton says: “1 think It may be anfely sold that if Mr, Warron does not dislocate bls hips, thon nono of those saver or cight easea hithorto roported, and roferred to by me in my ‘Treatics on Fracturog and Distocntlons,' yy 8. Yeritable dislocations, No caso has Yet, 80 far asl koow, beon verified by an Autopsy. And it 1d to be hoped thut, in tho Interest of eelonce Mr. Warron will lenve a request that upon death a careful disseotion of his tly be wade by competent persons.” Hia exhibition Wednesday morning WAIA most remurkable ono, notwithstanding that ne Dro- feased himself hamperod by n temporary attack of rheumntisin, He began by deploying a diss location of his thumb, whlch wns perfect. ‘The Btudouts woro permitted ta examine with the sense of touch this pecullar phenomena. ‘The subject thon exhibited a dislocution of the wrist equully romarkublo, Next ho produced by must cular contraction partial subyienoid disloca. ion of both shouldors, whieh Dr. Kitchen Pros nounced a most romurkable fent. This was followed by a alalocation of tho scapula Upwards aud a partial distucation of tho tursal Yous, But the most remarkable feat, that which henge the greatost consternntion to tho medical profossion, was 2 complete luxation of both hips upwards and backwards. ‘Chis avcomplisn. tent, which has beon tho subject of the inost. careful study by Dr. [umtiton, was commented upon by Dr, Kitchon at some longih, Mr. Warron nlso twisted bis ankios na if iq feet hung upon & swivel, and produced a sube luxation of tho lower Juw. Another performs auco of bia was the withdrawal. of tho vicera from tho abdomen, and forolng of thom Into the chest. This feat he performed with alterna efforts, producing an offect go unnitural as to call forth most enthusiastic applauga from the students, Dr. Kitohon then measured tho chest expanse sion of the subjuot, stating that the customary Mmit Is about three duches. ‘Tho result was two Ineasurements, thirty and a half inches fn stato of contraction, aud thirty-nine toches In O stute of expansion, muling n ditfercnce of olght and no hulf inches, ‘This difference bag Ucen ng bigh aa twelve inches. On a former occusion, when Dr. Kitchen measured the exbibltor, the difference amounted to eloven inches. This falling of, mee with a cough of Mr. Warren's, sungestee tho tear, which was afterwards corroborated by teatle mony, thut the gentioman {8 it candilate for the rip of that princo of discuses, consumption, ho exposure of auch-an exhibition as that of Wednesday morning, together with tho aboor tool naturo of bis work, cannot bo very con duoive to longevity. Mr, wi; Joints aba Wiirren concluded his performance by ling bis ira, and than perforined a eericsof gyrations and contortions which uro ate Ine describanic, During all tho exhibition the diss piiy of musoles and surface markings of the ody wis most instructive to those Interested io, tho study of anatomy. Tho unowaly of Mr Warren's onso is -tha fuct thut be Is able to pros duco by muscular action a voluntary dislucas tion of nearly overy Joint in the boys Mr, Warren 1a now traveling and exhibiting his poyaion! yorsatillty to the medical profession atthe lending medloal colleges in the land, tHe hus bovn, in former yeurs, connected with differ ent orgunizations a8 un athlete, but now dee votes all bis tlinoto the causcof medicatsctence, ———————— Liquid or Dry. 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