Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1881, Page 6

creer eer ere et t ’ 6 ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1881—TEN PAGES, rr RELIGIOUS. Prof. Swing’s Sermon on the Ree lation of Young Men to the Church, A Timely Sermon by Dr. Thomas on the Immorality of Ohicngo. Dedication of the Lincoln-Street Methodist : Episcopal Church. Railrond Work of the Young Men's Christian Assooiation—Tal- mage on Profanity. : YOUNG MEN. THEI RELATIONS TO THE CHUNOH—SERMON BY PROF. SWING, s Tho fine wenthor of yestertuy brought out larga congregations {n nll tha churches. At tho Contral Church Prof. Swing preached on Tho Itointions of Young Men to tho Church,” Fol- Jowlng ts the sermon: Young mon Ilkowlso exhort to be sober-mindt- ed —Tittey, (he Ge. Ie will ba a good thomo for the hour if wo shall consider the rvlations of young men to tho Church—what thoso ralations ure, and what thoy ‘ahould be. ‘The former of thoseis tho more aiti- cUlta It fs not only impossible to recall tho past generation or contury to laart of It what was the religious quality of its youth, and thus to institato a comparison, but It 16 almost equally dificult tu s00 Into tho present decp enough to enable Ws to pass judgmont upon ite rellyious status and tondenay, The common feeling, perhups, Is that the young mon of tho presont nro less attachad tothe Church than wero tho youth of furmor generations, but it would bo dificult to prove elther ‘sido of: such n proposition, The Inquiry Js embarragsed by the gront change that bastaken place In the population of the Natlon. When raultitude passes rapidly from 9,000,000 to 50,000,- 000, and spreads out frum n Now England const tocover whole continont, it becomes somo- thlug too vast to be any longer estiinnted In things so hidden 1s thogo of the mind and spirit. ‘Tho Inorense of population ajuno makes tho phe- nomonon of Infidelity and of pioty cach larger than Jt was fo any former Amerienn time, Another sourco of diiliculty lcs in tuo fact that under the iniluence of porsonal frecdom and of what aro called ffboral opinions tn thoo- Jogleat and cectestusticn! matters, the actual Church memborablp fs no longer a mieitsurement of the publia faith is Chtistianity, since large numbers who hold Coristinn yiows and ive morat lifo feel quite freo to romain outside of any Churoh orguntéiation, SAberty in tha Stato promages {Individualism and makes man Jessa gregarious creiture; and it may thus easily bo truo that thore are now thousands ‘of ‘Christians outside of tho formal sanctuary, en- foying thelr personal indepcnsenee—porsons who u hundred years so would havo gone Into tho fold undor that old greyarinn Impulso which nade the multitude follow a Jender or a custom, ‘hia personal {adependenco bas beca nlded, too, by the direct bearing of «liber nye, which docs vot hold that Church olembership Is cyuential to ‘tho soul's salvation, It being almost univeranily uduitted that God's real Church Js an inyislblo. one and Is found wherover the heart whispers or thinks (18 prayer and worship. Uod belong a silent and invialblo spirit, they ure His cbildren who worablp Him In delr aptrits ang du -truth— thd'real Church boing {tke {ta Deity, invisible. It Js thus sean that no one fa warranted fn af- firining that the youth of tho preactit nro not Arlends of religion its once thoy were, nor is ono warranted in ullicming thut thoy ure as friendly. agin former periods. ‘The cnso fs too largo und the ovidence too obecuro to justify a positive verdict. My own snind {inclines ta the boliet that the youth -of our yeneration aro as full of fulth In God and of reverence for tho Courch as wero tho youth.who fought the battles of 1778, We cannot forget that our Revolution followed tho unti-Chureb Mteraturo of Feanvo and tho Jead of cortuin treo thinkers at homo and abroad, aid that our popatation in thosd days was drawn towards Franco by tho fact that from hor cane aytapnthy, and mOnoyeand troops. Princo was rapidly becoming « lender in skepticism aud in Hberty, sud our country, accepting the French lend lr barry, found nota tittle religious donut bound up With tho politicul gift. It wus do- batetl whethor the Pnihwelphin Congress should ‘be opened with prayer, and the religious phrasc- ology common to grave pollticul papers was tine + ysnully absent from our Constituuon, Now En- Kiana jay buvo been deeply tmbyed with ortho- » dox (dens, but th great Stutes of New York, wod Pennsylvania, aud Virginin produced in thoso on suite a burvest of rollglous doubt or indit- ference. 5 at Laing {impossible for us to learn tho com- varatlvo roliglous nttitiide of the youny nen of tho presont, lot ua pugs by that Inquiry to think fs propositions about whieh wo my become, bettor nssurcd. Whut should bo tho relations of the young tothe Church? Thero should be no ~ ‘more ill-will such us was purtonible jn the last century: The Church wns thon fresh from hor work of persecution, For hundreds of years all tio denominations bad clalmed tho right to sup- press by force all opinions bustile to their form Of bellof, and in the exorcise of this right tha ,Catholics and tho Protostants wero xuity of great cruolties. ‘Tho hands of tho religious [ead- ers Wore still red with such Junocent blood when the French infidels came upon the scone, and when Paine and other Americans followed the French uubellef. ‘Those freethinkers stood hore ror-atricken by tho past, and, net knowing that tho tuture would make the public rellzion one or meroy and peace, thoy woru justined in using: such words uy “ priesteraft” and "hypocrites, and inestimating tho Christian religion as a form of public horror aud despot hun. dred yours bave passed, und now, as A general rule, ‘that organization which wag once 40 free to Imprison, or mnnin, or hang, or buen hns be- come us tender-bearted ay philanthropy can wish, and wilino longer cnuse pilin even tog brute, Whut progress tho Roman Catholia Church may have made ds not known, but the Protestant Chureh has passon through Its ago of barbarism and seems by 0 wide sympathy to bo muking amends for ita deeds and dootrines of cricity, It avews by word und by deed its love of toleration ind {ts wbborrence of violence, and avows that tho Jawof love iv tho fundamental iuw of tho Church, Tho mudern Bishop and clerzyman Jaa triond of the people, Ho has nu power oxcupt that of moral porsunsion, and, what is better, he uo longeralating that he houtd over posscas any other weapons than. kiudnose aod logic. ‘Vo look tuward the Protestant Churches und utter with bitterness tho word * prieaterare” is as absttcd o4 It would be to Look. President and ery out. Down with the .” The despotism which the reader of hlatory can see in old Calvinisin, and in the En- glish Church, and in Purlantsm bas passed: wholly -away, and in M3 stead wo havo a Christianity that. hos no power oxcept that of javing kindness. “ Qur youn discard | thu priesteruf” and similar epithets na appl y the Churoh, and whould gee in that institution one of tho moxt puwerrul charities ever knuwn to mankind, It as becomu itrose without therns. Full of ime ‘porfeetions of dorm and of pravtios, the Churel: now surpasses wll organizations in the quantity and quality of the zood-will toward nan it pod- Bevaes. Mts aniiliond af chitdren and youny pore sons come Torta wully from bomes where kine dred ruled and they come to Sunday-scbools or servicud where beauty and bope have displaced . the old aueterity, ‘Tho spocehes framed against religion when ‘Thomns Patng was a youre niu are no don gurapulicitlry and the mun ot today inust put Touother some now wonls If he'would, deseriba justly ainodern sanctuary. The tuod- ern Church ts busy ut tustin all fori of wehemes Tor advunclog the happiness of sovlety. There ary sald tobe 20 Congregational oburchus in London, cach one almost ag independent ad this on all whlch eburcbes stand for the bapplicss f tho powerful iniddta vlnss of that tmumonso centre of tho world, ‘Tho pastors ot those ehirches are fricuds of the ueuple, ayd help form tuo great furee back of John right and (Hadstone. Lhe Congregational clergyman bn ‘Vngland doos not stand nloof from polities as ‘uch uy his brothers ty this country re wont thie idly to stand, but thoy all xo forth Into the arena and jubor for all chat will aid the tmillions, ‘Cho prescice of such ludevondent churches has * Inude tho established church nore populur, and ‘will belp explain the Dreudth and warmth of tho Stauntes ud Arnolds, and Varrun, If whore dusputisn once Hourishod we now sve the Church ueciny any tho quart of n most wise and tendor phitunthropist, We tiist crase the old terms of Tuproach and make up a now catinste of the Jinmensy inatitutlon, The young mun should also romomber this, ‘thut, whereas tne okt Church gave moat or {ta uttcution to the next world, the modern Church nrth, and cares fur ie onward. 2 wad ‘#4, near wid remote, uh they wore desUnod to die tonight or tomorrow, It deed to bo asked of the ycung how they atinuld Jove to ‘Russ frow a uy purty ‘ort loud jnugh to the bur -aor Godt Vo hold one's self rendy for sudden death was ouv of tho priine Jessous of all the oldoy time; but the Courch of our time bus found tit a fulthtul aleoparge of curchly duties and y cheerful pursult of lawful pleasure ipyolvea us much readiness for duath ua did the “pabitual solewmulty of the futhurs. Oureariy hus erown uch in respectability fu the lagt hundred: years. Thg Industry, und fverty, and tho wide tducation of the poople buve mudy the earth more uttracttyy, Aud wade those who dwellupon At wore able ta see tho charms of those throc-seore yeurs, pad tustead of bomg te vestibule of pers didion our earth bas begume, iu tho kinder oul of the Church, a vestibuluof heaven, ‘Tho mod- em Chritian adits that the God who mudo parndige made earth also, und thut there niust Lence be poluts Of regeiubluuce, aud if there ure to bu barpy aud wiusio iu heaves tho eu~ chautmont might 18 wall begin hore. With raro and almost contemptibic exceptions the Churcb~ es of tho presunt agreo with Tho wort: ei i Gnd” eilaantbrape je npplied to thone w Apel of Jesus. Tho in of Amusements nt that held by agambler, ov a drunkard, ac a law K Bven wis men not Christians dis- oriininate, and call many things wrong and fins: whish soma wioked or thoughtless ancs have called plensures. $0 the Church discriminates, nud Insista upon amusements that shall ne harm body of rout, but these discriminations Juxt and hrond that thoy hose of the Chureh thnn of human reason, Asa geneml rulo, no young Person cnn well ask career of plonsuro than that permitted by tha It asks tha youn iay games us thou presence of the home virvio, and ta attend that atramn that Is above repronoh, ant miisic that hve na aacociatiana of vico in the If ono nske for ss wider ninge of amuscmonts than thoxo i the tnodern religion be would not o1 UAristtan, Ut noe wat citizen, Christianity. loving this world tan,” “ Panetece, 2 a cnnnot with any Justice oven follow faithtully the has not tho sume ts Churoh loss mind. Ara, {tr-the mnalg, so do ‘not ecom moro t Imoderit aauatuary, eriminate, and coating ‘or nection, deed, to be a good equally fail to bu a good nud reason have mot in this lepartmont of thought. Thy youth of our ty admit that the Chitral Interests the common people, th Viborty, and education, and ments. Thoy acom vomnpel stato that skepticism, or uobolicf, bra not and Inte yours Bu boy, and gol, to vation froin a and dumb, and ag most rensonal that past js personal or even Chroh, sibio = for pany of farmers, wooden plows, and little aickles, and tha finlt, . Vie would nalindo: plengant! pnst, and then would conarit on the ndvances thoy bud all made in ‘their sel- enco and'art; but it ‘Tho” death ” of tye+ admissible as now seo art, and obanies in th ‘Wo seu tho Chur and benlth with a heavy whlp. truthful, Toss ridiculous hope for lusting furne. are uro congregate with their pustors, bulong to somo gone and ab- selote contury; but those are only additional proofs that sovloty docs not ndvance with por- It {9 ditttoult foro regi- arch In parfect lines, ttle slow of oye or car. ‘an bo ns one mun, for million: of minds this kind reatment, itut the a ot man ‘eet evenness af atop, ment of soldiers to Bome solders will be a ot ovens, camp Much sore Is tt di for «larger and fdentitied as not often been tho goou tortune of the Church to moct with such just treatment, but it fa still nddressed as though It wore living uccording to the laws ot Moses and were perfeotiy ilelighted ut all scenes of siifer- ing for optintou's sake. tried, and Sorvetus ta still dying: and Calvin {s stil warming blinselt b ‘These fucta would welxh if an: tempt to prove that Calvin or. a mil digoat Ch 8 herotle show! rlod bud no conception 0! and ‘could not seo in Cliriat divincat quatiti but against tho Galllcos, and Bervetuses, Calving woich nothing, sny more than tho orucl fate of Linuutn and Gartleld ngainst. the viluo of freedom ana republics, The young men of this zenerantion should perceive tho frreluvant nature of much'uttered 1, should resolve that thay bold tha modorn painters, responsible for tho horribte plotures which loved, nor do wa hold sponsible for the clumsy Xerxes, nor iy Tennyson blamed for the liters ture of Congreve aud of Rabelais. On all sles the honor of progress is allowed, excopt on the site of the Church—thore tho sins of tho pretare punished fp tho present, aud thua Galileo 1s still under arrest and Servetus Ja still botng ted out tothe torinent. Wo muat all bo just, and as wo solonce, and wir own fresiness and and cnre notbing for thelr ancest: in ite proront at triny and duty, and feal that tho iow of youth is‘ upon ita fuce, and that th thusinsm ofanew carour is in ita heart. It wauld bo ugrent injustice to our Chacics Sum- ner should somo modern portralt painter place: him upon canvas ad o knight of the twelfth contury in ncont of mail and poletng bid spear foranvasct. Or imaging hitn pictured as su- porlutending. a negro plantation and equipped Christianity has mot with id fy atl mncoting with ons here and there, which, and hearts ta move und one heart. Somo. Jolter. Ho who would * muust take a wide survey and gathor up the gen- oral tondencics of n vast ntoountof thought and Kk ut the Church of Et broad and rational its Christian opinional Li at the Congroyational sootuties of tho samo fan thay are fram arrur, ane Digotry, and suporatition! Coming to our own part of the world, the Eplacopal and Conreza- onal denominat(ons: are overflowing with tho truth of Christlunity os seon in our country. some Proxbstering co! found « clohr sod sim of-un imitation of Jesus loves to be just, that mind can ind in tho pres- ent day aanctuarios wher the croed is us slinplo and true as the Sermon on tho Mount, aro many beautiful and noble altura for tho hourt rant wishos to whisper n prayor, Our allotted timo for remarks bas oxptred, and yet inuch mist remyln unsaid. or smail couse sbould our youth rovenl ¢ wilt or coldness townrd tho modern Chi {dsuch a frionl of "tho human rnoe, such a Miron Of at charitics, and of bike forth, and of biuh morals, and of b Hon, that contempt for the sunctunry fs of leas harm to tho object than to tho cherishes tha sentiinent,. cin lnugh and dospise thesu. altura, witted bo mny be in speech or wit, 11 vpbemeral lite compured with that Institution: + Ls doors are farever open, its lave. 48 perpetual, Ite byinns are perenniilly aweot, Its Lope jy wuniverdal and un eve while he who laughs was borw yesterday an will be buried an forvatten tal h should bo foresent nt some ohurch once onch Sunday, and thun mingle with thotr study of inatorial Lovo of whit pasos awny, this cloment of aptrlt unl things, this atudy of the awful mystorica and: the Liessed hopes upon which thn of God's temple ara Inti, . ‘They aboutd-bo pros. ent, hot to suck perfecting hn the service ar the ounuse thoy Are the children of a oman reo which nocds the assistance of at hoy words and holy services anu of precious promises; present hocause thoy ura the who wks and Ia worth: Jove and worahip of all whom Ho bus called into ecauad Ail Are moving onward toward iW time whan t tinil account must bo nda of the youd and evil" af thy world, deed, presonce at God's bouse {8 not onough; the heart ehould asi to be. admitted gonduut. Loot pow utterly, remavad fhe durides, Indeed, our yout dincourae, but tions of un God belay: presont those prayers and obanting those hymns Possess seh a solemn relation to the grave and atl beyond Its gloom, — : OUR OITY’S MORALS, BEMMON UY DI THOMAS, Tho follawtng oxvoudingly intorcating and vahtablo permon on Tho Morals of Our City” Was preached ln tho Pooplo's Church yesterday at atl by the Hey. Dr, Thomas; ok NOt cvery man on bis o avary mau alsa oa tho things of ge Ny Phyastologicaily considered, man {8 axtdal in ble stegoture; that ts, bo ts built along un up- right spioat column, At tho lower oxtremity ot this uxis aro located tho powers of reprodugtion. At tha iniddie, or centro, Is lovated tho stomaon, At tho Upper oxtromity Is placed tho heud, tho brain, thought and reason, and the ori! eentl- icant, From cych of thoso differentiating centr thore urises a world of forces snd results, ¥ro: tho lower wo have passion and the reproduction of tho epecies. From the niiddle, or stomach, wo buve appotity, bungor, and the vast world of jadustry’ by which be raco is fod. From the unvor, or tho bead und heart, proceed thought, ple. Cu t should, In ront juatioo, istho friend of all the property, and Amusc- fed tu 9 furthor, and time and oter- nity tnt it seoks tho enivation of man boro in his mortal lifo. Su inbors to save his mind, and sive his schodl-houso, tis home. his Hbertys bie buppiness; for secking sal- uture heit tho Cburch hus ox- tented ita Inbors until tt tries. to avert any and mil calamitics. As philanthropy when it first bo~ gun to pity tho blind began soon to pity thedant then the Jame, and then the sinve, and then tho invalid poor, aud found its heurt expanding go ns to hota large asthe world’s sorrows, so Christinulty has added to its duties nnd plensures the resoun of asad hereafter but from tho misfortunes of tho prosont. As tho mind that loves palntings loves lao statuary, and arobitecture, and tmuslo, and then goes out into the wonds and, ficida to nd- mire nll thoso varintions in nature's art, 80 this great salvation which, in the outsot, sprang up otwoen man ands dark eternity, now rushes in between tho soul and even tho troubles of a day. . Reasor must always favor and the hoart loves an Institution ao vast, so compact, and 8 full of the welfareat overy human boing, Church {s sympathy orgat Wellington or Napolaon,, * Wo come now to 1 reflection which it seems all fair-minded zpats of edtienuion should adopt le, that they dare not hold tho tnodern Church responsible for tho past unless wime out of tho essential nature of tho Christinn roligion. If dfoava made yy mistakes thoy were hi: This contury cannot attend to tho Mogafe business. If Cal- vin tniide any mistakes our g) Calvin, but tous the blundor Js of Httle iimpor- tance. Ittsot no signiticanco in tho groat spir~ dtual affairs of tho world, any bad doctrines, thon fs Christlautty deeply eoncerneds tut we need tot care In the lenst what may bave been sald by a Pope, orn thoologhia, Itmuay concorn a whether a momber of his denemination 18 tnith- ful to Presbyterin idens, hut it fa of no concorn to the Methodist, or Episcapatian, or Catholic. This Christispity ist vast falth, which 1s not disturbed by a Moses, or 1 Solomon, ur a Calvin, by an apostie. to” bo tbo pecullarities or Pope, or Jesult, or monk, or ritualist, or mots physician, Tho Inws of our common human niture extend to the Church tho same {ndul- pense thos wrant to sconce or politics, and that # relense from all taint from tho Ungulshed lecturer nguinst the Bot now, boing called pipe ric Man Hot only from nized 1s was no urmy of Af Jesun Christ tnujht Vhureh would an ta address § came to such a trifling Inte his audience Qulitco ts Btitt being one should nt- [s ago had made a ainst the Church, and will be Just. “We do not medieval artists 80 the living shipbuiliers roe bonta of Cwsar or EI in Li nny Ci Moule ¥ ta art of this army will the Church justico ons thero uisy bo ristianity nade up For no unjust ron, Tho individual who ingd, and with thoir into- auch a id wouls ebould nnd gontimont, and’ mety. Around these gathors tho world of books, aud bonuty, and religion, Dut, whilst wa may in thought thus difforen- tinto ana toonto the powers of tho Individual, yet the wholo man fs so rotated that wa cannot in faotseparnte these sevori! parts, Each parthas its place and its function, but allgnro so codsdl- nated as to constitute but ono boing. Between those scyoral powers thore should bo harmony And reciprocal notion, Bnoh human totng ts, (1° f fense, a community or'n kingdom, and une doudtedly n true phitosaphy, as well, as a truo. noratity or religion, would say that reason and coneclonce should be king; that all the powors of body, and mind, and heart should be subject to this highor rulc, And so it Is whon wo lvok at man in his nssoclate life, or at n number of menand women comlug togothor in whut wo enll soctoty—in tho homo, and tho city, and.tho State, ‘Those to- Rothor tnnke up the soolal orlor, and as the In- dividual in bis diferont parts and tho relations of those 1s one, Bola soolety Inn brond sense one. In the body, one member serves the other; aud son tho soaiul order wo tro menbers one of tho othor; we are Rervants ono of tho otiter, and heney dependant one upon tho otbar, and hence, niso, If one momber-suffers all the body suffers with It. ‘Tho hands cannot say tro have no neeil of tho feut, the foot eaunot siy wo have no os pe tho oyes, Tho hady cannot sny T have nonced of “ho mind, nor the mind Uhave ne ueed of the Dody, nor rotson J huve no need of the affections. And ao thore fa 8 closa interdepondence . be- teun nil the parisof that Inrger persunallty or body that wo call Kocloty, Ono part of the city government cannot say, 1 have no need of the others. It bas need; it takes tho uvitad offorts of nil the departments of tho city—tho scltvol, tho polico, the fire, and the judiolalepartmonts—all together to give us a xood administration; tho public wolfire fs dependent upon all there forces, And so tt ennnot be a matter of Indiffer- once to Alien Ina uly: or community whother ita tances are sound or (te saultury: regutiitions ro perfect. Nor van it be aront- ter of indifferenco whetber tho morals of a community aro good or bad. thore by sntemperanco, ur social impurity, or gambling, or corrupt public umusements, or alich negieot or desecration of the Sabbuth and tho institutions of religion as tond to blunt tha moral xonsibitities nod -Joave tho heart burs ron, or to tL It with bad desires, all must be uf- fected more or less, and bence these things must become matters of public cancer, Now with these thoughts before tis ict is look at n fow of tho facts that go to show somothing of the moral condition of our own alty. And that we muy know tho worst, lot us look, not for the good, but for tha bad; not for tho best, but. for the worst; atleast, 80 fur as that worst may ¢ told. Last weok a gentlemtan employed by ono bf our beneyolent socictics pluced before mo 4 map of that district lying between State and - Clark,\and Congross and Fourteenth atreats. And to: ny utter amuzemont told mo that thero nro Within thoso nurrow Nmits 6%) saluons, 00 Pinges Of asalguntion, 3,000 fallon women, and 3,00 yous mon who dally visit the. silouns, ‘Thoro ure four varicty thoatres, 125 concert sane Joons, and fifteen gambling houses. Of course I havo only his statemont for these Netres, and ho tld not elim that thoy were entirely accurato, but Lam told tho polive think thom rather une der than over tha real fret. Ie ts estinnted that thore nre about 4,090 sn- Joons Jn tho city nt, large, aud that tholr annual snics nmount to $12,000,000, Every theatre in tho clty so fur ns T know, but one, is open overy Sunday night, Go any Sunday ufternoon to ne corner of Madisun and Hnisted streets, and you Willscon string of hore and youth nonzly to blocks lony standing in line and waiting for tho doors to open for tha matings; and you cau sco the saine thing on overy Sunday ovening. You will nutice that [huve referred to only a fow forms of tminorallty in our midst, und havo apocificd but two locnlitics. It abould not be ine ferred from thoso statements that those by nny means oxhaust tho list of ovils nor tho luonlitios where they nbound. Tore ure tho sing of lux ury, aod extortion, and oppression; nor, aro in- temporance and impurity found alone in the Jower and the darker purtions of the city. ‘Tho: often tind shelter and scurecy In marblo man slong and on the avenues of fashion.“ Nor should it bo Inferred, on the other hand, that, our ity ts wholly corrupt. It 1s “not tauch worse, i suppose, if any, than othor cities, And We buye boro our fult proportion of true and noble mon sud women, sut still those sturtling facts of immorality in our midst shoultl cause usto Btop: and think; and thought tho task fy not a pleasant one, it muy nono tao toss bo oar duty toloukat this durker sido of our soeint life, 3 A philosophical study of the caso would lead us to ask why these things arc eo. And hero wo shalt bo thrown back pon onr anatyals Of tho Btruotire and nature pf man. Wo found’ him built along anaxts, with points of divergence opening out into the threefold wortd of passion, appetite, and the highor powers of reason, and Sontimont, and yonseienoe; and that in the prop~ ac ordering ur regutition of human [tte man should be governed by his: Intellect and moral sense, Ani tho piilusophy of.tho caso in Delet Ja this: | These pursona ure ving on tho lower eee oftheir belug. Their world lice nlong tho {nes projected trom the conters of appetite and passion, ‘They dv not rise to the upper pline of thoir being; thoy du not live hy reason and con- sdjence, ‘noir lives are largely given up to tho Kratilcacions and pleasures of tho sonscs. If a devper philosophy asks why thls is so, tho answer fs atlll to be found in the nature of town bimaelt, and In tho {nfluenecs that surround bis Pathway, Physival life in ita Inst analysis is, T auppose, buts kind of athnulation or oxcltation, roduced by the vontact of the germ with outer forcus orconiitions. ‘Thus the grain is quick- ened to the sell, and animal life ie nourished andaet in motion by alr, and water, and foud. ‘Thea are all silinulnnis, but natura bus ao tempered of tnoditlad thom that they do. not excite beyond natate of healthy action. But huture bus certain herbs and plants that poe seas tho atimutating proportics mn bigher a Fes ag ton, and collec, sud tobacco, und mai Ind baya ludrned tholr plowsure-yiving efouts, and bive sought thom out and cultivated thom with raro skill and Jndustry, so that they ure used by covery ulvillzod nution, Hut tho mind) of (ian bas ne further; bis chemistry bas taught him to chango or rocombine the forces “of nnturoy to extract the opium from tho poppy, utd to produoy alcu- bol from tho corn and the rye, And thus man his in bia oasy reach a sure snd potrorful agent of intoxication, of over-stimulavion; and tnd- ing tho exhilturating otfcots of this, many sook by aquiek way to renoh and enjoy tus plensures. And then, a8 tho revction comes on und they sink bolow the norentl plune, thoy xu back to the battle to revive thele waning spirits, or.tadrown thelr sorrows in forgetfulnuss, The drinker 18 not content to tve on nature's slower but stendlerand safer stimulants, He wants an ine tonsifled life; @ Hfe sotin a higher key and rune wig at a Areata speed that is te be found is nature's simple, buitlthy food and drink, Nore ts the philosophical and the physiological atutement of tho tompurance question; ur rather that of intompernnce. It is mun fiving ‘from ond in the world of his stomach; itis mun with the fearfully uugmented puwerof a cbemistry that supplieg hin with intoxleants, nena this subjoot further tn tho light of philosophy, or in tho nuture uf things, wo tind another tact. It is this: In tho codrdinnta ac. on and Interdependence of min's boully and montul or higher and lower powers there {4 also the fact of tho unity of bis being that wo bave noticod. ‘Thoro is henco n correlative uation, 80 that if you turn the forces of his nature upon -or ovorvatiinate any ouu of the three great con- tres from which the three wurlds af his tacos ure projected you ultimately tnvolve bis wholo Doing, And bones thore is a corralutive fminor- allty, Alife east upon the plunc of the senses taunt te curry all tha appetites and pusalane olony in Its onward aweop, And benvo a drink- {og man is upt to be leentious, and a fcoutious Basis pe to be a drinking mn. Anita life Projected from those contres {a apt to Ue—in- leud it neoesaurlly la—logsened trom the bonds of bighor obligatiion—ts on 0 plano below renson and vonsdience, und hence ly ready for other {inmorulitics, such us gambling or Babe bath desecration, And thus it is that wo tid ourrelative or reciprocal vices, one pla; ing upon and feoding the othor, and wo. tind: also, thoso groups of evil appetites and parsions congroguting in corrosponding places, as low drinksag-saloons, vilo theutros, buuscsof shame, und dons of gambting. And in tho nature of things thero fs nuothor result. A life projectod from thetwo lowor con trea at tman's being, and driven to exovds, uot only bastens tho decay of theso pawors, but reaches up and uffeots tho mind and the moral fuoultlos, and in tiue drags tho wholo boing some to utter cullapye and ruip, und to an varly Q, t is tho philosophy of tho temperancu Seaton and of tho social purity quosuon. That ts the oxplanition, and, in fone of its stuyos, tho condition of that durk district lying botwoon Cinrk und State etrocts. ‘That is the Mfovor some of ite phases, upon which those 42,000 young men in that districtare venturing: many of them, doubtless, at (ost with besiteting atepa, and nyn{nat tha protost of reason and con- solence; none of them, possibly, with the thought of going tha whole length of the downward roud, But one started, tho diiloulty ts to stop: the torriulo danger fs that thay will Be awept down tho stream av by a mighty torrent. ‘The desoont to death fs casy. ‘'hié 1s tho path that so oinny thougntlosa and uncarod-fur boya find awalting tholr mexporicnced feut; ayo, by the quick ale lnruments of senve, fnviting them to enter upon what steins to be its Howory way, * Hut thore Ja anathor mapoct to this aubjoct, ‘To philosophize upon ft 1s valuatle aa a means of Understanding It, But it is to stand of and stuay ita orlgin and progress ns a pbysiciaa would atudy tho course of # dlecaso. Tho sube feat fa moro than y thoury; tt La aw soolal prob. jum with which we have to dealin society, Bur some, may suy. Why bother ourselves about thesy thirige? Why not lot those Boa lo choose tholrown manner of fe? Why should the pule pit, or the or the law take cognizance of 0 theso thlugy at uli? Y thts Hovlety, or” that Tho reason ty simpl iaeger, personality made up ‘Of the many, ts it- bell, Uke tho individuals of which tt fv composed, aunt. [f one part suitor, all mustsuter, Tacre (aa law of close Interdepondonce and distribu. don running through tho whole sucht ordor, just us there fain tue human body. One such Mniserublu wrotch as Gulicau cua strike a blow atthe Navow's heart: can taku away a loved Prusidont, and cause all the poople end all the world to inouru, Tho torch of the Inooudiary way buraa wholo city. Tho doceltful lechir way ruloa home. Tne meanest buryl murder tho best citizen. ‘The virus o may descend to childron unborn—may bang over thew uaa cloud and welgh them dows ike avuniton. Itisa matter of social welfare and of social necossity that wo “luok not every oni fo tho things of himsolf, but to tho things o| othors.’ And then thoro ara tho highor consid. orations of benovoloncs, of Christian charity, of tho love Wo snould boar to all, howover far thoy have wandored or low thoy have fatlon, They are human; thoy nro our brothers and sistors in tho lnrgor intl OF humanity. Tut what shall bo done? What can wo do to initiate oF cure tho diseases of our vust social order? Horo tho question naturally divides ttself, or comes unor two gonoral clnssilications of it and the religions. i. is Organized uniter ir roteation. Boclaty na found it religious organizations works from the standpolnt of love und good will for man. Kind, Hut whilst thus soparate tho two may and should work corrolntively for ano gront end. What, thon, can and what ought the civil Inv todo? ‘ite fist great purpose ts to protest men in thelr rights of property and lite. Dut what Is property? It Is simply tho result of Inbor. What Is money? Simply tho ropresentativo valuo of Inbor: {t will purchase so much Inbor, or the results of that dnbor. And, this boing 80, wambling fe rogarded by tho Inw as a crime agalnst society, It produces nothing. It offers Be aan ont In value, Mence the nw fore It {s found that tho Indiscriminnto snic and uso of liquors tund to unfit many persone for waerul Ufo; tend to tdleness and wiste of REOHDE ye It mukes mon unsafe tn snciotys tt is closely re- intea to thoft and burglary, and Just and mur- der, It prodteos a large pirt of tho criminals that prey upon socloty; that ronder property and Hfo unsafo. Honco tho in, or tho volte of society spenking, throggh the law, suys this traf flo inust be regulated. And aa the business ta more dangerous than othor forms of business, tho law justly pisces upon It benvior tux, That is, necks to make tho trailio pay tho uxpense to which ft Pus avolety, and this fs certainty not unjust. Ilko tho term taxing better than I+ conaing, us the Inttor seus to make socloty in doraa the trafic, aud henve responsible for the ovils if may produc ‘ha tact Is, sovloty, nt Tenat In Its presont atate, Ja notable ta provont the salo of Hatiwr. Gut it is ablo tu tax (t, to make It bear tho tinancini burdens" that Itsoif ofentes nud smposes ‘upon the community. Tho oblef of our polico force asks for imura mon, They are needed; poncenbio citizens: are not safe on tho strects nor lit thelr hon He recommends that tho monoy bo ratsod by inareasing tha tax on saloons. That fa Just Thay cronte tho noccasity for more polica; Jot thoin pay tho extra expense tothe city, The reaont tax on beer snioons is 81 per week, Why not make It $57 ‘That would reduco the numter, and heneo the ovil. Snloons selling whisky should bo taxed $10 or 20 por wook. It fs from the whisky that the gruntost danger arises, und it should payin proportion. ‘This would reduce the number of such srioons; it ie put them under tho cusior survolilanco of 0 Ine fm Finiing that many persons loso thoir self. control under the tavit and power of strong drink, sovlety makes It an olfehse tu soll Mquor to habitual drunkards. ‘This te Just. Looking 1 the protection of {ts Tutiro citizens, so- elaty secks to guard the rising generation against forming the bulit of drinking when young, and 0, is just. Tho man who will ecliton trun’ ) or who will make monoy at the fearful expenro of tho mornis of the future: by selling to Inuxperienced childret, deserves the,tull penalty of the luw, Q But some witt aay, Why not abolish the whole. evil at onco by a prohibitory ui? Yes, but you cannot doit; nt least not now. And 1 am not cortain that it is wiso to attumpt ft.. 1 think if our present laws could be enforced, and ff wo could discriminnte between distilled and fer-, imonted drinks, and strictly proven the udulter- ation of the Inttar, wo should sco tho larger part of the evils of intemperance disappear. ‘This ia practicable. Our Gers felloweeltizeng will unite with us for the purpose, Wo should still buve left nll the neguments we havo now to dine suatle the young and the old from the nso of oven tho inildce drinks, Tho position of Dr. Howard Crosby fa wall worth consideration, And thon the Jaws wa have showld be enforced. Tbelleve in law and In poantty, and in law-nuid~ Ing cltizons; and it makos one ashimod aud righteously mad to sce the laws openly detied from day today, It may be that there Is some thing in it thas Teunnot understand, but {t docs goum that those. gambling dens and pro- miscuous | concert-salovus could be sup. pee hoy ought to be suporessed, Thoir liconeo should be revoked. Not out of rovense -but for the suke of common decency and yy Hc respoct{ and anfoty, Lwaschaptain of 1 pen- ftentiury three youn Tknow the lives af tid men.us Wwoll as those of good; and I tell you these men fear tho Inw: and.if it wore understood that tha law would be atrictly inforced wo should soon ve our social atmosphere purified. If the people would sny it must be dona, it will bo done, But thoro [6 tho moral, the rollyluus aide of thia question yet -to be considered, The Stuto tmkes nu provision for religious culture boyond tho protection ft aifords to cach sect, and tho gxemplion of church proverty, from taxation, Tho Btate wrisely. provides for the public educa. ton of Its children, but In tho echools thors Is no provision for moral instruction, and there is nove except that which comes nlong incidental Jy, in disciptine and throuwh tho goudness of the teachors, ‘Thia, I nin gind to say, {3 luryor than Is xcnerally thought; tr usa cligs, there are no better peoptu in this lund than tho teachers In tho public schould.” i=: : Now, how dows relfion look pan all this pib- Jig hnmorality, and whit tlocs it propose to do, and what nonolcs doce It bring to tho ‘work? As probably the boat answer to this question, fot us nek how Christ lonked nt, the world, nnd how Ho pout, tusavo mon, Jesus did not dis- regard the physical wants of tho poopie, but fed tho hungry, and healed tho alck, and Intructed tho Ignorant, Ho did not disregurd the olvil au thoritles, but taught obedience to tho Inws nod respoct for tho rulers, . Ho looked upon all thoxa thiogs ng corrulative forces for good, And Paul wont 8p far as to say of clvil rulers that thoy wore the ininistersof God; or that clvilauthority fs somottung tu tho Hud of tho diviuo order of eoolaty, ; 4 But Jesus did not stop with those things: nor did Eo begin with thom. . Ho sought and found: tho sourco of morat disorder In tho henrtsut tho Peopis. Hosaw in much of all the civil and roUious formnlity of tus day only “ whitened sopulchres "—falr without, but dark and cor- rupt within, Hu taught that “out of tho boart procecd adulterios, and farnicutions, and ovitthoughts.” His formula was, “frat mako clean that which {3 within.” | And honoo lite toachjng wasto tho heurt, and fis mission to tho heurt, and His boating and salvation for the soulsofmon,- Io bruught man the truth and tha Inw of God; Ho uppenied to the consuienco; mukes it an alfonso to sell liquor to He appontod to tho sonae nt sin and Fit and to the Judgment to come,- Ho revenied the spirit world and tho [ify beyond, . He placed tho souls Of men Ih tho light of two worlds, and bade them stand bofare conscience, and tuw, aud reapousl. bility, And Ho tne 80 nor the hearts aud needs of the people, and with such searching doctrines of truth and rigbtoousnoss, and such torfdor words of aympathy and salvation that the poor heard him gladly,,and publicans, and eln- hors, and Blagdalons, robuked for win, and yot drawn and won by meroy, and love, und the sight of bope of pardon and purity, enime to Hie feet. Ho wont where tho peopio were, and nto aud drank with them, He did not teach alnng in the synigog, vor ina costly chureh, off nmong tho rlvh, so expensive that the puer “could not rent a po it his puipit was io the fluld of on the mount, or by” the souside, or 11 hokhipyar at the well by tho way. And tho disetplos followed Bis example, und went amany tho people, und worked wud taught. Josus planted a church, but be did not catybilat a fot of sects, Built nraund some spout Goggin iy and narrowor thin the growing heart and mil of the world; but planted a chtireb that was to bo As broad its truth, and na Wroad is tho wants of moun, and so catholla that It could welcome and cheer on wll who, in Hla nome, wore trying to do good, and 60 loving aud tondor 'thyt jt would go out into tho highways and gather up the poor, and the bult, and tho bind—n ehtrch, a religion of tho heart and tho lif, that could watcome tho Jopera and the harluts who sought healing and forglvoness. ‘ And this is just what tho church and religion should bo and do ju our diy, Rollgfon bus to deal with the heart of tho world, with the upper, Part of inan's uxidal nature, with the reason, with tho conscience, with tho nfactions; and it Is kbrough these and by tho regenoration uf the heart, uf tho vory springs of botng, that the ap- petites ‘and prsslons of the world aro to be cone rolled, It is only us thosoul stands before God, and vonseionco, and right, and Hminortallty, and responsibility that It guts that purchase, that footing or power, by whica it can assort its su- remioy and rule, Aud thon, ns the love of, ou, tho life af God, comes into the soul, It is” oiado new, and munis sayou from within, Aad it is with this truth, and this life, and thie symputby that the churoh should go inte these placea of the lost, the fulton, tho drunken, the rofano, ang try tu stve them. And nover was bis Work mord noodud in thié ofty and country than today. “the wasics need education, wa bettor auntiary laws, and better homes, aud food, and wages, and alt ‘those help sovlotys but it ts from tbe atandpulnt of the heart, of conscience, and God, ond iminortatity that the great ovils of goolety aro to bu cured, And thory are allabont us the boulnnings of thts work atnong tho poopte and for the peuplo; and Godisin it. Ile touchud the hoart af lien Hogan, and tho prize-fiynter kuooled tn bis own saloon and eal, *O Gud, havy meroy on mo, acd J will try to bo a wotter, mun," and’ God hoard that priyer; and now Brother Hoxan is at work ua bust he-can wmong the hard und yexleoted olanscs. God touched the hourt of Col, Clark, and bo jsut work right down in that bardust part of the citys andit is, I think, the only work there, I wish wo could got tho Vurk Theatre of nights, 1 would gladly go, aud our cholr would wo, and work all wintor without cost. [ wish thore wus sumo wey to reach all thoso neglected: boys on Halsted street with somuthing better than tho theatra on Sunday, Ido not uxrco with Dr. Jobnyon jn bis sweeping denunelution of tho-thentre—It has beon In the world a ton; time, and bas {te piitoey and may be proper aut useful: but Hunday js not tho day for auch Alnusements; and theso boys nocd and must have some other food on which ta grow and make mop. Aud J tell you the questions of In- worality aro pecowing ‘ver woligbty in our.day. Tho goods of the poor neglected childrea and youth growluy vp in our inldet should be a bur dva upon every buart that knows wuything of tha luveof Gow. y Anothor plessed Bad hopeful work fn our midst 44 wnat of the Woman's Christian ‘Vempergnce Union. Lhoy hold prayer-uieetings every day. ‘Thoy bavo established a coffes and readiug rovin 1 Desplaines stroct, ‘Thoy have assumed the Font aod tha work of tho Miunlo Brooks Mis- wlon"; they aro at work among the Gorimans, and tho colored poople, aud ja every place where thoy van yet a fyotlng or Und an opendeor; and, : it they nro willing to do the work, surely tho nen ought fo bo willing to Lot us glyo then: our Christian offering noxt Bundas, Ttoll you, m; in working over and enn all thoso Corins of waya to 80 live and ‘urnish tho money. frionis, sovlety neods, needs, more of tho spirit and work of Cl over tho saints itr the oburches, but out among the negicated, and fore fottyn, nnd fallen, Lotus help in every way wo onl, and Jet tas try by all labor that the world HAVO USB oradte and will soon shit bo better becutse wo came to ite shores, Y. MO. A. vO Us 1 grAyO THE RATNOAD DRANCTT of the Y. M. CG. A, atrect. room auntisoment, aut Canal stree Sunday at Juterost bearin| speract. Mr. Bdwin Socrotury, uf tho was sti welfare elyhteen ensulag rewding-rooms and Ay and Mr. Cobb ron charyo of tho first “station. rallroad upon raltrord remomber that nny. result In-acarued zauon, DEDIOATION,: ° THE LINCOLN ATREET METIODIST CHUN. SNomosoven yours ago tho Koy. W. 2. King started out on the thon almost yacant pratrio, 0 Methodist Episcopal mission, This was Jn the ylutnity of ‘Twenty-socond street and Blue Island avenue. Itwasa simple, unpretentious beginning, a small room, ina frame building, furnishing the place wheratn services were’held, Gradually the interost In tho mis¢lon tnoruased and thore was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Tho little onca'were yatherod into tho fold, and Bro. Klong - organized a Jari of which Bro. Butler Paper Company, Inthe summor of 175 Rtrueturo, bordor| st Qoorgo W: M the most tho ttle outa; innke in improving tho * stations ‘0 Sunday-svbool, loss, of tho J. Wy fs tho Superintendent, tho intasion-house was. blown down ina storm, but Bro. King falterod not. Anow one-story bri spring up, at tho corfer of Lincoln ana Wet ‘Twenty-accond Btreats, and from ft hns grown the dtneolu Streat M. E. Churab, whoas new.bultd- dng waa dodicated pentoeny. It 1s a plain brick ug on the xothla stylo of ohureh bullding urebitocture, fn tho form of comfortably kent 800 persons. ing tg houted by furnaco an rr ou cite i a wey, protiy elve lainps bat ny tho main budy af tho chureh, ro plain, olled Georgia orders NS triminings, lackwalnut, and there t for uco in singing, ‘The building stands cost $1,.K00, and fy 78xl0) feet, comprising three lots. The building cost $8,413, and the total value, including furulshtug, {3 $10,800, The church ‘has no debt, as payment was proviced for yoatartny, $4,400 bol worker Is now at Indianapolis, In 1870 two othor “stations” wore aturted at Detrolt and Columbus, Tho following year Mr. Ingersoll wns appointed to bis prosent position, ana there are now some thing over seventy-tivo branches, forty of which are well organized and cuntrolied by Sccreta- rios, ant! over fifty railroad companies are con- tributing towards tholr success The Now Yori Central Hailreud nlouo pays the silaries of no jess than nine Scoretariog In charzo of “atutions,” Mr. Ingersoll give his huarers 0 quantity of good wilvice, sonul experiences an to t Axe and prometo the raliroad branch of the us- sociation, Muny of. ofticials of only commonded the wera notive mumbers and workers, and were likewise oflicera of the ¥. M. C, A. hanks to tho fostering enro and guldanco of the mother {natitution, Is rapid~ ly doveloping Into an organization which enntiot failto work great good both among raiirond inen and tho ronds by whom thoy were omployed. Thoro are tn tho city threo “stations,” ns thoy nro enlled—ono at the corner of Forty-soventh tid Btate streets, anothor nt tho corner of Kin- zie and Canal streets, for which n now building has recontly beon ercoted at tho jolut oxponse of tho Northwestern and Milwaukee & St. Paul Ronds, anu yot anothor, at Ni Those“ stations” vomprisy reading- Nbrary, and In somo cnses parlors, bath rooms. Tho ony ut 65h t comprisca nolvan,neut, and cvom- * fortably furniahed lecture and rending room, {1 tho reutr of which meals are served. ineut-tloor fs set apurt for bath-rooms and beds, for ni of which accommodations tho patrous o the brauch pay minimum prices, services are ‘held in the lecturo-roou ternoun, aud during the week thore are lectures and practical talke upon subjects of upon tholr omployment, with soolal, musical, and uther entortalnments Inter- D, Ingersoll, tho Hatlroud é Intornnttonal Committeo of tho Young Men’s Christian Associations, who fs temponirily stopplig in the alty, lectured nt this branch yeaterday, upon th d growth of the oryanizution. succesaful and indofatignblo workor In tha cause, aud travels thoussods work of porfecting organizations of the throughout the country. In bis talk yesteritay, which was of an informal nnturesMr. Ingersol) sald that tho first railroad rondl Ibrary which bo had been ,ablo to find trace of tod in 185%, It was dealgued to promote the balan, soviul, montal, moral, and apltitual f associated rullroad men. 8, origin an Mr, {nigeraoll ts 1 of: miles rane ngeroom and During tho years & great Number wore Btarted In largo railrond contres with varying success, and ovoentua:! of Inaattion, tn 1872 thoso intoreste Abyaries woro brought to- wothor ot Cleveland; mainly through the excr- tlons of George W, Cobb, who, was formorly the ond man of negro minstrel troupe. ‘The consequence was tho ore gunization of the railrond branvh of tho ¥. M,C, wns appointed Secret ou.” This e hut always in mn & Rontul wood fellow, HON per yoar.” the rosult of hls per- je best ways to encurrs promincnt country organization, TE doponded omployés to make tho work thoroughly sttccessful, and thoy should nlways 1 thoy migbt was mure to oneots to thomecives,. conclualon dtr. Ingursoll ‘aiswored auch quics- tlons ns tho audienico chose fo nak bim concern- ing the best ways of making tho rooms nttractl ¥1 and thus promoting and stiniulating the orgnul- Greek" vross, ‘Tharo Ig no attompt, elther in the faterlor or ux- terior, ablinnecessury decoration, {ox for tho hutnble worshipers of Christ, and It {ssolld and substuotial for the Tt isa bulld- 8 purposes in- tended, Tho bulking is 50 by 76 fvct, and tho {ntorlor 18 dosixaed especially for Sunday-school accummodation, 1s tho guilerics and sides cin bo divided into classrooms. Tho whoto will ‘Tho diy chan serfbed at tho services during the day, {DeAY, EQUevay,, Higenbothauy, and 250 oaoh, ‘Aside from thes beon given wu goodly amount of matorial and funds ducing the coustruution of the editico, It ig in a locality where it {4 dolng great good to tho service af God, and iputod." tlome a9,hou Ais Hol; rant. rapidly bulldiug up. thy, supbiatries 0} longed to anoths: ain tut Bayh + prossing bis uduilracion hi wt muda ditional and erwards took vurrent and werd through goneradons, dotract from tha ny do # Christ cave a man, sulfor, ant tho Inquiry. PROYVANITY. BERMON BY THY REY, DI. TALMAGE. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. Buooxtyy, Doc, 16,—The Hoy, I, Do Witt ‘Yalmago preached to u lurgo audience in. the Brooklyn Tavernuclo this muraing, He took as his toxt tho winth vorso of the sccond chupter of Jov, *Curso God and dic," the sermon being in hia series of discourged on tha ton modern times. Jn opentag bie discourse, Dr, ‘Talmage pictured tho prosperous condition of Job with bis tlooks and bords, bis possessions of all kinda, and bis loyed family of chitdren. und bands of hostiic muraudors. bud stripped Alm of alltboec, Although thus aillotcd, pro- Og Sopendod verbal . Ovrua El, SMoCarnick de. HH. At, t. D, Fowler: contributing 0 UMQUNL thore have where tuore {8 a vast y the Misstonory Scorotary, preiched -in the morning. In the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock theru was a jubiloo Sundty-achool service, In which Messrs, H. M, Hixenbotham, 8. D, Bowlor, T. W. Harvey, O. H. Horton, and Cyrus I. MeCormlek Jr, Sach mado interesting addresses, At 7 o'clook in the evunin; t tho Chicago P Lindsny, John Bf, Lathiner, Schemmorhorn, . Mr, Goorge W, Moga, Super Intoniont of. tho Sundsy-achool, led: tho singing. At $ o'clock tho Kev, Dr, Arthur Edward preached the dedicator: necessity of 9 thoroug) order to Daye faith in Goud, ond to b munion with Him and tho following gon: Band, conducted tunny, leader; Uhurles sermon, showin, bellof In tho tH Dn under tho influence of Sptrit. Tho Kav, Dr. Willing thon for- mully dedigvated tho building and tothe Board of Teustocs, The o under wuspices of nn excucdingly hopetul obarioter, and sts location is one that promlsos Pt ool to that purt of the city, whiob is 60 nod it over rob starts OURIST’S. MISSION, SERMON UY THE REV. J, E. WRIGHT, OF MADISON, Wis. ‘Tho tev. J. 8, Wright, pastor of the Firat Pros* byterlun Churob, of Madison, Wis. to whoni a call was oxtoudad last wouk from the Jetforson Park Proabyterian ‘Church, this city, oocyplad tho pulpit of tho Jutterchuroh yesterday morn- ing, and elaborated the toxt t; 6s “This 18 & Mithiul of uccoptntion, that Christ’ Josus camo into tho world to gave ainuers.” tlotnnn sald that the statement ombodiad in the 10 auutad paseo wus Of apccial intere gst to the Christian ot today, camo into tho world to srve alnucrs,” waa ox- pitcit_ and vory sutiafactory to tha follower of .Unrist. It onme to bis perplexiiics; srostunlly armed bim gaint tho akeptics and worldly-wise non, and enuuled him to etand impregnablo to tn ancora and mookerlon of tho sonifer at religion, Tho statemont was not Timothy's own, but be te profaced tho toxt by ox- 8 of it in the words, It and worthy of neceptation.* 1 did not namo its author, nor was the author At wus ono of thoso traditional ‘Which the Horiptures ware In its upon dnatruction, id multitudes of these trie fragments, Which alt- formin tho Scriptures, became presorved by vouveying thom from mind to miidand handing them down As tho Now ‘I'catamont was not completed until tho end of the frat contury, it is hot surprising af truths should ba Incorporated, ‘Tht iy inspiration or the Bible. Barly Onrlatiang might have ho people o£ tho prosent time, * Wit hind an iniinit throne to bi gupaintously dio?" ple aud comprobensive answer was nocded, and iho statomont formulated was sullictent to mect ens from Limo- ying, hod Worthy Tho reverend Kon- “Sant Christ Win the timy of that thea traditon~ We did not infaftiblity of plagues of Disoasa, hurrivaucs, fe contra at Tha cullings ne, with Dinckwainut Tanity would’ not have removed ono of tho nfilotions of his body, would not havo restored qmeothe tamels, and would not have brought Ifo. toaaligio nna of hisdead ohiliten, Yer from tho penfanity with which tho land is cursed today ono would think that Aomo Kent Ndvantage could be derived from the wee of profane and binsphomous Innguage. Childron swear, tgen BWour, Inilen aivour, 19. Wholo country ‘Is Wasted with tho evil. ‘Tho habit tna grown from tho fnot that the young often think Jt in evidonco of mnaniiness. Tho sponkor had hime solf heard children on the streote, but baroly able to walk, who could not thik stralght, you who could bo understood onough to find out that thoy wero dumning thelr own sottlsand the sols of thotr compnntons. At cortain nee 8 youn man was opt to be ns much ashamed gf not bes ing nbla to swear tuently ng ho was of tho dirzi- neas from his iirat clyar. Mon abstained from swearing In clognnt druving-roomea who had no roveronce for God but gront respect for tho Indies. Many foll into tho habit through the frequont tse of whut wore called by-words. No harm might be intended by this habit of speeoh, but It was a vory. ensy transi- tion from this:kind of talk to that which was positively obnoxious. Nout . Web- ster, in his dictionary, gave 10,00) epithots yy, which to express Ines Ho, gayo whote armorics of denunciations, by which foorn, carieaturo, weath, or contempt could bo adeqantaly expressed with: more force than wis conveyed by any of tho serics uf profane words, ‘The habit of sworjng was on the Inoronse, and was creeping up into tho higher elrelea, Ono wild, torrifia wave of blasphomy was swocping all ovor the Iand; ‘Tho spenker wont on ta suy that ho balleved onowgt les wore told in the custom-house overy duy to sink It, Smagyilitxe. although it be done nyuinat a positive oath, was, {n surie oircles, looked on ng n positive Joke.- In utond where the namo of God so often became tha football of what are vallod reapectabla olr~ eles, ono could not expect thac It shottld oxcite any feelings of vetieration when, in the presence: of tho County-Clerk, Judgo, or Legisintive As-+ sembly, itwas used In sulemn adjuration, ite- Hovtion on the folly and Uselesness of the babit would show that profintty never started a bevy Jond or unraveled a.tangted sicvin. Aftor elving n serloy of examples as to tho Biaotuta ete of the toxt, Dr, Lulmngo olused ag follows: 3 One summer, among the Now England bills, thera wis an evening memorablo for storm ati darkness, Tho clouds, whlen had boon all diy qathoring, at Jast unlimbored thoir batterios. the Housatonir, that tluwe in allunce save as tho paddles of pleasure-partica rattio in the raw- Jooks, was lashed into foitm, and tts waves stng- ered, not knowity whore to lay themsuives, no hills Jarred at tho rumbiinw of Go's chati- ota, Binding sheots of rain drove tho eat to the bard aud boat against ihe window-pane as if todush itin, ‘Tho corn-felds throw tholr crowns of guld nt tho feotof the storm-king. After tho night shutin, it wasu double night, ita binck mantle was rent with tho lightnings, anid inte its locks were twisted the leaves of ‘upronted onks, and shreds of cunvis torn from tho mista of tho beached shipping. It was such anight as niakes your thunk God for abelter, anc and bids you opan:the door to let in gvan tho Spaniel, howling outside with tho terfor, Wa went to sleep under tho full. binst ot’ Henven's 4rent orchestra, ond tho forests ‘with uplifted volco, in choiring hosts that tilled afl tho sido of tho mountains, pratsing tho Lord, Wo waked ot until tho flngors OF tho sunny morn touchod our oyelids. Wo looked. out, and Housntonte. slopt iis quict us at infant's droam. Pillars of white cloud, sct up along tho heavens, luoked ike tho custles of tho bicst, but for hicrarons of Heaven on tho beach of the uztirea gen. Tho trees sparkled ws though thore bad been gome grenturior iu Heaven aud each leaf bad been God-nppolnted to catch an angel's tenra, It scemoi ns If God, our Father, bad looked dowit upon enrth, [kis wayward child, and stooped to ber tenrewat chevk, and itissed it. _ Evon 60 will the darknoss of our country’s crime. and aulfer- Jog be litted, God will rot! back tho night of storm and betas {n tho morning of joy. golden light will, wild the city rpire, and striki tho forests of Maino, and tinga tho innsts of Mobile, and, with me ond resting upon tho At~ Inntty beagh and tho other un, tho Pucilic const, God will spring a groat ruinbow-nrch of peace, In tokon of @Verinsting covenant that tho lant shall nover again bo deluged with erin.” TROTHINGHAM. AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT THAT IEE TSS ‘ NOT RECANTED, Spectat Dispatch to The Chteago Tribun, Toston, Dec, 18.-Tho alleged change In tho views of the Rov. O. B, Frothinghut, which has ‘occasioned 80 inuch comment since ita publici- Uon in tho New York Evening Post, was ven- tiated by tho Koy. M. J, Savage, of the Church. of tho Unity (Unitariun), today, ‘Thists the tirst nuthorized stntomentof the cnse. Mr. Savage claimed that tho treatment of this matter at tho hands of the-orthodox press is _nothtog tesa than 4 disgracoful. Inspito of Frothinguam's expllolt declaration that bo has recanted nothing, not. gone buck ono step, abandoned no position onco hold, thoy still . per- slat ju holdiog-‘him.up.as a convert, 44 an oxamplo and propheoy of the falluro of ‘feoe thought. Mr, Bayage gave the following outline of Mr, Frothinghum's viows: Mx. Froth- Ingham docs not regurd, any sclonce that do- sorves tho name ns tending toward materiallsat. He would not mit freo thought on any subject orin any direction, Ho ia uot in tho least In- clined to go back to any past church atatoment ororced, “ Why, Mr. Savage, J know too much for that,’ said bo tho other day. Whtle ho bas posymuathy, with destruotion for its own sake, ho thinks " tho work of destruction for the sake of higher and better building has not yet ong bale fur gnoust” I nsked bia if ho woul Diot out anything he ins weitten and published. ’ Notono single word,” was his unawer, © would only supplontont hore aud there with ad- ditional atntoments.” Ll usked os: ealally, ubout “The Cradle of the Church,” which would por haps bocalled his most dostruotive pli of criticiam, _— Ho-suld: * I would inake no nbabgo in it ia now in got vy tho historiont Josus. térial . Josus und the Chri ng two distinct and aopnrate. things.’” ‘oO put it Into my own phrase, I should say he has come to boa pronounced ‘Thoist, Tho point to- ward which his thoughts convergo fs the mode of communtoation betwoon the Divine mind and the hunuin, To quoto his own words in convor- sation. he said: “ For many years I huve boon inclined to provo that ovorytilng comes out of the eurth below; thig ratigion is purely urthiy hing mada by mio, his fu tte origin, som himegolf,- to - uso Bir. I bave. not, as Ww takon enough account of the working {n the world of a Divino inind, a Power above man, working an and theough bin to lift and loud.” And in his own use of thas torm, ho looks for largér revelations of God and truth in aS 3 *T hopo,” suid ho,-* that now light wilt breat out, not of Gad's word, in tho senso of a book, but of God's untvorsc.” ‘tho new light, he thinks, will como, not, by studying old creeds, or stundards, or Bibles, but by looke tug forward for uaw manifestations ugh natural methods tn tho human soul, BLSEWDERE. DEDICATION OF A- UNITARIAN CHunch. Sr. Louis, Mo., Deo, 17.—The Unitarian Church of tho Desslnh, which was orocted ut a cost of $80,000, all of whiob has beon pald,fand of which the Rov. Dr. John Snydoria pastor, was formally dedicated Inst evening, Tho Rov. J. L, Jones, of Chiougo, and tho Nov, Dr. 3. W, Bollawa, of Now York, partiolyated in the dedtoutory services. ‘Tho church was-bouutifully decornted with rare exutics, Tho -pastor, Dr, Suydor, dolivered o short addross of woloome, and «Dr. Bollows preacbed the dedicatory sermor, .Tho sorvives concluded with on address by Chancellor W, G, Eliot, of Washington Untvoratty, this olty, + " ‘S PIMESTS CIANGED, Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Dunvguy, Iu,, Doc. 17.—Spveral changos have bowen made by Bishop Hennossy. Of priests in thls dioceso, ° Fathor Carland hay beon trans. forrod from Lourdes to Contre Grove, rendored vacant by tho denth of the Hey, J. A. Guiti The Rov. P. “MoMaton bas taken chatwe of Wavorlys Fathor Murpby, formerly pastor of tha cathodrnl, Is in obarge ‘of Ackloy. Futhor Honnossy has been promoted from tho curacy of Boone to tho pastorate of Waukoma, (OUDINATION AT BALTIIORE, Special Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, Darrirone, Md., Doo, 17,.—The annual ordioa~ tlon of St. Mary's Cathatla Taoologicul Sem{nur: of Murylund tdok place today ut tho cathedral in this city, ‘Tho imposing coremonics werv per- formed by Archblunop Gibbons, nsslated a number of the vlorgy nad tho Kev, Paut Chanay us inaster of coremuntes. The imujority, of tho studenta ordained wero from the Western Btntos, Vhosa ordained ta tl pricathood Murtar, of calesy ot J. Hoyle, WAL Hart, of Springths J. d. Bere Amuitz those ordained Deacons wore J. .3 J. M, Dunn and D, D, Chicago; and Vatrick Kano, of St, Louls, Bub-Deacons—J. P. Fotos, of St, Lowte; Owen TF. Kelly, of Chicawoz: Bérnard. Duncan and F, Klostorman, of Cineinnath O. Among thoso udmitted to minor orders arg B. Gale Le yO Mevbun, ot Chicagas I, Ih Bt Peoria, ii,; J. 13. Landora, of Detroit; —Con- way, of Cluuinnath FRVANGELICAL CONVENTION. 5 Spectat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Paxron, lil, Deo, 18.—Tho Evangelical Asso. station of Chlougo will hold a convention of evanyolical workers of this section uf the Ktate at this place noxt ‘Tuvsday and Wednesday (Dov, 20 and 31), . W. Bliss, tho Chicago ovan- Hist, has been louding revival meotings here for tho past five weoks, and has acuampliuhed much guod, Netweon, itty and 100 have boon hopofylly convertod. ‘Thla convonuon Is in roe, pponse wWacull for ald from the surrounding ow nt : Atnong thono who will_be prosont from Chie cago aid assist In tho work aro B. F. Jacobs, D, W. Patten, G, M. Morton, EB. W, Bllus, Joba Curricy Miss bs Veyur, and Mr, gud Mrs, A. Pate eraon, | Freo entertulnmunt will be provilod by tho Paxton peuple, and all strangers will: bo beartlly welcomed. —SE a Mrs, Oaslan EB. mean Finds Her Chile ren, MT 2 Br. PAUL Minn, Dev. 10—A, cable dispatoh gays that tho widow of Onutsn KE, Dodge hus at length found ber children, wha bud bout: oe questored in Knylqud eluve the death of hor 2 e ,000,00) moro on whisky than thoy al husband tndor a provision of bis wilt, tho Chancery Court avarded tele ean that er, VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, + St. Lutko'a Moapttal, To the Ratitar of The Chteago Tribune, : Curoaao, Deo. 17.—The nian who was found | an unconscloue stato on the fIllnois: Central teaite road track at Kensington {ast Thuerduy nigne was ordered to be sont to the Cook County Hos. pitul, but through mistake was brought to gt, Tavke'n Hospital. Wo dit not rotusa to admis vim, but took charyo of him temporarily, We having no rooms, and ho Uaing in w very Althy. conflition, yave bim a bath, put a new sult a clothes on him, and telophoned to tho police sta. tlon to take him to Cook County 1 itwas originully intended he auonid Hah ‘thera Tho onpacity, of St. Lukors Honpltal tn wat ex: tensive, yot wo novor rofusd ndinission tones, rozardicss of sex, creed, or coniition, a Ing accommodations. "ALT, Kina Megs, Moaldent Surgeon, Dakota IreeeGrant Lands, To.the Editor of The Chicaga Tribune, SPringviety, Ill, Dec. 19—Scoing a fetter in Your issuo of tho 16th inquiring nbout Hakniq Treg lands for settlora, will you kindly, alloy me togive “Morrison littto information and the addrgsses of several really rolinblo perséns, 1 writo only of what I know, and rofer only to gentlemen whose judgment and word are nlikg to bo trusted, Iam starting a small “colony'* of oltizonized English peoplo in Davison County, attd nenr to the Chicago, Milwaukee £ 8t. Paul Hallrowd. ‘The land all around fs very good, and {ts qitallty vacles but very little iu tho sovaray townehips.” Tho -totut cost, Including locatte, foos touttorneya and. the Governmant Aveeed expenses, was $10.50. We wero boncat! and honorably troated by all parties, We entor upon our homostends and -pregimptions to tinprove our innds and form our colony carly in Apeil, 1482, All “free clnting” In that inmo. diate Violnity aro oxhausted, ‘That tomnany pers sons would bo a serious drawback, na) thinic the “frevolniue” is tho caslost and, simplest way to legitimately Drocitre “frecegrant” Innds, Tho quantity of land fs ullke 10 auy ono of the three olnims, apd the Govornment and ather cx. ‘pensos ure Just tho samo for cach. “ Morrison” or othors muy procure maps, flvo cents cach, and any other essential infornintion free trom Johnson Brog,,-attornoys, Mitchell, D.'.: J, Miraclo, Plankington, Aurora County. D. Nicholls, civil ongincer, Huron, D. f.; or Capt, Hughes,’ Government Land Agont, Yankton, Having mado two visita to Dakota this pust summor, I predict for that Territory a promis. fugly prosperous future. Tho vlimate ts invixe orating, tho wator abundant and good, and the Inbabltants an industrious, gover, and enter pristug class of peopl + Wall. APrLECK. Who Disgraceful Varco at Washington, ‘Ib the Bditor of ‘The Chicago ‘trioune, Orrawa, Ii,, Doc, 17.—If your correspondent “Observer” is rigbt, aad n man apon triat bag aright to interrupt tho proceedings of a court to abuso and insult the Judge and to revilo the witnosses, & now ora-in oriminal trials will at once bo innugurated. Every orliuinal who feels hia cnso to be hopoless, and who has a desire to glorify bimsclf jn tho cyos of his * pala” of the gatteral public, may honceforth bo oxpected to treat us to a repotition of tho disgraceful scencs of tho past fow days, Evory person of sense and Judgment bas teen ashamed and disgusted in rending the nccount of what has been al- lowed ta go.0n in ntrial which ought, in uyory suspect of the cago, ta bo conducted with a dix. anit y honiciny its Importance. 4f the npplauding speotators were out of the court-room, tho nasasin would have less to tompthim ‘to oxhibit his pecullar traits. Tha Judge ouglit promptly to clear the court at the rat outbreak of laughter, and “teach the look ere-on that Justice has-righta which uro to be ifn court has no powor to protect {tscf, ttt i court has no powor to protect {tse farcv. if n criminal ea pour Out. bia venom counsel, witnoss, and Judge, make ondless ha Angues and read irrolovnat matter by tho bulf hour, we may expect criminal trints, in agra: vated cases, to become 18 longtby as tho crim. inal inay choose to . make them, and our court. rooms to become tho pinco for oxhibitions of tho Vilust pugsions of humanity. * If the carefu: Hlyguardod rights of tho prisoner are abused by him, as in this case, tho rights of tho people ought to bo more carefully provided for, A provision that ‘tho accpsed shall be re- anoved from tha court-room fn oase of abusive or disorderly ponte and tho trial procecd wihoue him, would effectually stop pa bustle re : 8. D, . Khe McClellan Inquest. +_\ , To the Edltor of The Chicago Tribune, ,, CitrcaGo, Deo, 18.—In your Issue of tho 17tuT aco an article in which tho vordict of n Coroner's Jury at Brighton Park js mado to adjudgo mo with." negtect und crucity" jn- permitting one Daniel McClellan, who bad recolyed fatat In- jurics on the night of Deo, 14 by being atruck ‘by an engine * to lay twelve hours without at- tempting to rotlevo his sufferings In any way.” Now, tho facts aro simply tnoso;, ,Tho verdict of. that jury, in ao far as it-rolates to me, ia © .gross misatntomont of the caso, and entiroly fulso, I reached tho man (McCiclian) nbout 0:40 p.m, in response to m message from tho Alton Railroad oftico, and found him in the roundhouse of this company at Brighton Park, My first impression was ta have bim conyoyod to somo hottso closo by, and I {immediately asked Of the growd present if somo one could not offer sucha place, Tho only answor rovoived wat that tho yardmastor of tho Grand ‘Trunk Road ‘Was the only man who knew him, that bo was an old friend of tho Injurod sman, that myh came from tho samo place in Canada, and that be nad boon sunt for and was likely to nrrivo at any time, * ' “dn oxnmination had revented the fnjtirios. to ‘bo of n pusitively fatal oharnoter, it poimg Im- posaiblo to furnish any assistance which would bo of any uso... . It fs not truc, as statod in the verdict, that the man was In any pain or conscious. of any.fevl- ing whatever, to was, on the contrary, io & atuto of. utter collnpso, and, in so far us con- aclousness of feoliny: {a cuncorned or ability to suffor might be, was as woil off in tho round: houage ag in a King’s palace, I wulted forthe coming of tho yardmastor, which was about midnight,’ gavo him a atato- mont of tho caso, und advised him to bovo the man romoyod to t more suitable place, to which ho respondod that bp bad no piace to take bite toy that cho boarding-house thore was full; that the man hd only recently arrived from Canada, going to work the Gay provious; and that he was unawaro of bia boarding-placo, ana must nov- esgarily remain whoro ho was, And as ho was rosting (n wn inolosod bullding near a Jargo Dre, Jaubnmilt that it was ull auy poysinian could do under the circumstances. ‘Kvapectfully, Osan J. Pius, M.D, Monoy Spent by the Irish for Whisky. ‘Th the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Nowtan Bonne, VALPARAISO, Ind., Deo. 1% —Belloving that yourvaluablo and oxtonsive- road Journal Is over ready to fpurt eformie lon on Iending topics,and gt tho samo timo favor the propagation of truth and the oradlea tion of crroneous teachinu, I desire tt formod through your columas. whothor & atatoment mado bya teacher in this schvol to her olass of pupils {8 correot—viz.: ‘Thut the Irish peoplo in thelr native land expended, 80, don rent, ‘Tho abuvo etatement was put forth in a recen® discusslon at this school on tho strongth of the teuchor’s veracity, whioh fs very much qucé6- donod, If correct. Muny of the Irish and Irish-American sts dents havo takon offenao at tho statement, hoe Heving it to bo of 8 maligainge fondangy. The Irish students here—and need Lay all tho lov- ora of tlverty also?—put moro vuniidance in the statemonts that appenrod in Tae THe from, tho pons of’ Mr, Redpath and Bir. Looke (Nasby), and f bulfeve that the onorinous amount wllozo: 9 bo Spee béurs an orronoous brand wpoo ta very fnce. Ty oGnelusion, I desire to say that many of t¥ fellow-countrymon—studonts—do uot dcsire i have thoir natlye fand fold up asan oxamplo 0! those pornictous vious ia our political goonomy Gliasos, bere or anywhoro also,when we fervon! a Ty bolléyo them to. bo fulso, Wo did not com Hore to be insultod, but to loarn and pay for our Instruction. Yours, In bonulf of truth, OK. [Wo havo not the statistlos at hand showing how mucn the Iriah apend on Mquor, Thoy une doubtudly drink moro than {a good for thers both {u°Iroland and Amorica, Tho schoal toucher, bowaver, got hor fyures much toobighs Ono thing tacertain, tho Irish spoud far los money on Hquor than elthor tho English oF Seotoh, . Tho returns show tat in 2860 whe poopie of England, Iroland, and Scotland oxpend nearly 700 millions of dollars for aloohollo arta No other people in tho world spa as tautch monoy, for Intoxivating drink as the Trittuh. Partly on account of tho Father Bathe . ows tectotal temperanvo pledges taken by tal a ivns of Irish, and partly by reason of thelr pore orty, tho Irish people consumo far 1cs8 ae 5 per capita than tho Englistrand Bootch. Tie Trlsb only numbér a Httle more than on0-s0¥ y . of the population of ¢ho two tslands, and is improbuble that they spend mote than ‘ppo-tenl ; of tho wholo amount wasted on liquor oe culling St one-tenth, tho sum spout for whle a ‘by tho Irish wonld be somothing tess ath Hitons of dollqrs, “The total ‘Fonts of i Blahd—country and elty—oxcooeds 60 sillions go that the female teacher of the sorrtiere Thidiana Normal Svbool” class exagweratod ory Reeatly. But “Nasby" {3 high authority " 4 Uquoredrinkiog, and wo refer our correspo! to him for an opinion on the subject.ED-1 ——_—— Women that have boon bedriddon for Youre have been vatirely cured of reinale weuktiuss DY fete ae ato pour end tq ye ie Vestors avenue, Lyun, Muss, tor pampulele +