The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1875, Page 6

CHURCH LESSONS. Dr. Bellows on the Progress of the American Nation. RBEIGION, POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM. Dz. Portens on the Demoralizing Effects of the Beecher Trial. AMEBICAN DEPENDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE Mr. Beecher’s Closing Sermons * for the Summer. *, ALL SOULS’ CHURCH (NEW YORK). @EBMON YESTERDAY BY THE REV. DR. BELLOWS— STRICTURES ON OUR NATIONAL LIFE. The Rey. Dr, Bellows preached an impressive Sermon yesterday forenoon in All Souls’ caurch, corner of Fourth avenue and Twentieth street. ‘There were but few people present to profit by the | Feverend and eloquent gentieman’s discourse, the @reater bulk of this weil known congregation being in the country rusticating for the summer months, or hearing mute “‘sermous from stones” | “oy the saa seawayes.’’ During the service the | e@ougregation assisted in singing the byma com- amencing with the following verse :— Oh guard our shores from every foe, ith peace our borders bless; With prosperous times our cities crown ; Our flelds with plenteousness, ‘The text for the day was taken from Deuter- onomy, vi., 6, in the words, “And these words which I command thee this day shall be in tuine heart.” Among ether things the preacher said Bhat itis mees for us to assemble in prayer to honor the anniversary of that great celebration which twelve months hence shall have come and goue a hundred times since the American nation ‘was ushered into exfStence. ‘The progress of our hustory has witnessea events of magnificent, won- Geriui, sublime importance, in the seitiement of Vast territories, the building of great cities, the opening up of large rivers, traversed by wonderfu, steamboats, while our immense territories are networked by interminable lines of railroads, But to the aegenerate BACE AFTER RICHES, Which has been brougot about in some measure Dy our unparalleled prosperity as a people, may be ascribed our present love of luxury and 1alling off from those safe, conservative principles so em- Imently possessed by the founders of this vast Re- public. To the desire for a rapid accumulation @l wealth may be attrivuted domestic intelicity, extravagance: increase of crime in Our midst; | ‘want of high-toned honor in tne professions, and QR GuWortny disposition that is too often appar- ent to look upon houest labor as something igno- ble apa unworthy 0: consideration. The evils and Gangers of iaxity or corruptness among Officials are not chargeable to any fault of lemocracy, but muss be laid to the goor of political and religious sectarianism. De- mocracy makes no mistake in tuinking ali wen equal belore the law, buterrsin imagining that | Bll are equally able to enjoy the beuelits of a | free government, The real power in America wells where it was always looked for; not so Much in churters or periodical iegislauon, bus ‘With the people themselyes. WHlATI3 MEANT BY LIBERTY is to allow the individual the greatest possible | exercise of Lis personai will that is consistent | ‘With the rights of his neigpbor. Property is | not to ve more sacred than buman nature; the Jaw ol primogeniture could not be tolerated, bered- itary nobility allowed to exist, nor @ ruling Sovereign to sway bis sceptre in this | Yand of ours. The reduction of our | Jorm Of government to i's lowest terms; 4@ disre- | for ciass government and resolution to be | were the causes tnat acherea America into existence ag nation. Persoual morality aud the | unciple of self-education, together with a de- rmination on the people's part to ignore the tempted inierierence of any governing classes, | were the guiding principles tuat animated our | ferefathers. To these and to their steriimg worth We owe the progress and wealth of the country. | Ne mercantile riches and astonisaing advauces in | mechanical improvements are ali traceable to ‘Mat iertiity of mind and hand waich distinguishes | Ws above all other peoples. And this growth of ‘Wealth and population js due to tne efforts of in- @ividual ation. In the first years of our national life the meagre expense of government gave no eause, and little chance, for corruption, People then went to Congress to oblige their copstitu- ents. Now all that is changed, aad THR CHIKF IMMORALIZER 4m public and in private life is to be found in gov- ernmental influence. Politics are no longer pure or bonorabie as they used to be. Land speca- lators, an army of office holders and crowds ofas- Pirants for servile posts and pisces under govern- ment are tearful sources of public corruption and Gangerous agents to political sentiments. Weare forces to acknowledge that (he causes vi progress have become those of our demoralization. The money grasping tendencies of men in these days are alarming to bevold. Leataples of tuis are to be founa in Congressional rings, Stace rings,fpanal rings, corporation riugs, and rings in all kinds of business, beginning with bankers and brokers, but end DO one KnOWS Where, among sp-cu- Jators of ali kinds. The possibiilties of war were mauch extended by the very means that were adopted to carry iton, It produced a wretched | Glass Of contractors who wade colossal fortunes on | THE MISFORTUNES OF THE PEOPLE. | ‘Then was witnessed such @ Sad state oJ things as | mever bad been dreamed 0! before. The people | Were biindiy tanght to pelieve toat by taking irom | themselves that which was their owa, tuey were | only changing money from one pocket into another, and the geveral amount of riches re- mained th Now we wonder at | unwonted alter having ince the Close of the war ip the | Same style of reckless extravagance that was | usuered in soon after the rebellion broke out. A PERNICIOUS PRESS. The influence of the press is seldom carefully weighed by our people, who sigh for daliy exc: ment. Immense capital is needed to carry on the large daily journais of these days. Owners and managers of theae papers proiess to be | @irectors of public opinion. Lditors Bow take tne | RighWay aud vecome | Ae LITERARY FOOTPADS. | But tt ts to be hoped thai the day bag changed for a better state of things, and a more conserva- ‘ive course seems to be ioresaadowed on tne part | Of the great dally press. Te most provoking part ofit is the insuileravie pretensions ol editors, who esume to iay down tae law on ali points, while | jorantiy writing upon subjects in science, theology or politics, of what they Know notning a@bont. To #0 great an extent are the people pes- tered wit | MERICAN PERIODICALS it they @ become one of the hurtful things which ought to be suppressed, They a) to Make resticss, smart, superficial peopie. ey are sometimes dedicated for montus to- gether to detailing proceedings that ought not to Bome to the puvlic gaze, and recounting lascivi- pus confessions almost as soon as Made. Forming @pinions from the newspapers is like jooking to weather vane to control the wind. There 18 mothing so dangerous to man or God a8 newspa- | per notoriety. Thepreacker then went into the question of bie education ; ciaimed that the Romanists are Bodangerin the institations and peace of the Union by their unprecedented atvempt to exclude | Bhe Bibie from the pudiic schools. He mentioned | ‘he demoralizing influence of monks and uns, and tie bad exampio of St. Patrick's Day and | other sectarian parades. in Nis peroration the reverend gentieman predicted a better state of | Whings, Hoth religiously aod politicaly, in the | near future. NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. THR BEY. 8, B. ROSSITER ON “RELIGION, | POLITICS AND PATRIOTIEM.” Notwithstanding the beat of the day a good eudieuce assembica at the Nortn Presbyterian churem on Ninth avenue yesterday morning to hear the sermon of the Rev. 3. B. Rossiter on “Religion, Politics and Patrio\ism.” Taking for his text (Matthew, xxl, 21), “Render unto Owsar the tings that are Cwesar’s, and unto God | the things that are God’s,” the speaker saia:—We re very plainly taught that we owe fealty alike to humanity and to God. There are dutics that | belong to our fellow man; give attention to them; there aro obligations to God; recognize them. | Can man serve God and be a good citizen? If you | perfectiy perform your duty to God you will | fulfl your mission among men, When the date | of our Saviour’s birth fails upom the anniversary | of that of our nation we can do nothing better | $hon to consider from the pulpit man’s relations | the State and ww civilization. Uniess reiigion Poresses itself in wholesome practical acts it is S littie worth. A man ald carry hie religion | Arh him, ‘Taase max be objection vo the jutro | ve if T | pret uetton of polities into the pulpit, but to all ob- jections | may 6ay @ litt 100 18 @ dangerous thing. A man must ¢ enough religion to con- 3 Unreasonabie 1D politics or tro: is acrlone or morals apd tyrapical in State crait. The world i@ scarred with battle re fought in tae name of the God Be The most atrocious crimes have been perpetrated the name vi the Lord Jesos Christ. kK at tae meaning oj politics aud we cease ‘oO tremble av word, The mission of the true politician te Gou-given, The work of him who pilots the Us Seas is Wovie; Lut Lhe political institutions of to-day are Dulit upon siding sand. We find the word corrapted uatli it means bribery, trickery, Mes. 11 would be well, then, for tue permanency of our government Uwe religious duties in relation to pulitics, Out of a couvaision lasting through two han- drea years this dew América began its voiltical life. it was a convulsion t a had 10 it the Intel- jeciual element, The breeseso liverty wasted the pligrim latuers to our shores, aud in the wilder- ness of New Kogiaid we cao discover tr.ces of the same intelectual element, Tbe, came in order that they might found @ State which shogla be Christian as well as political. Rozer Willams called the potut at Walch lig Canoe grounaged in Narragansett Bay “Providence.” God aliows man to govern himseif on this world, and it is one 0: Lae greatest coucessions of the new dispensation, The very attitude oj} our land toward every orher country speaks of religious to erativn. God takes good care of bomanity ii humanity takes care of itself, We to-day find ourselves (under the very shadow ol the Centennial) in attered | oliti- cal conditiog, American city 1D calls tor more Christians; pot less preach ng or prayer for our conntry, but more Oi It; nov party, Dut patriotism; @ revival, pos of sentiment, but of rigiiteousness; @ revival of persenal bonor, na tional credit, commercial mteyrity. We must Jearn to build agaiu upun riguteousness and iaith in our feliow man, ALL SOULS’ CHURCH, BROOKLYN. REY. DR. POBTEOUS ON THE MORAL AND DE- MORALIZING EFFECTS OF THE LATE TRIAL. According to announcement @ discourse was delivered jast evening upon the above subject at the Independeut Episcopal charen, corner Pierre- pont and Clinton streets, Brooklyn, by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Porteous. The nis views were looked for was manifested by the assemblage of a large and iutelligent congregation, who listened throughout with great attention. Every public event, the Doctor said, whether of @ civil, ecclesiastical, Or social character, in times of peace, de- mands from be representatives of the people ecciesiasticai, social and civil criticism. ‘That is the supreme trust which the people re- pose in us, and whether as editors, statesmen or religious teachers, it is tae task imposed upon us henestly, fearlessly and with 8 litvle passion as possible. So place before the public tue idea; trata and the actual aud aver- age practice of men as opposed to the ideal, In times of war ope kind of mstory is made nowadays at a pretty fast rate, and it is hard to faisiy 11; but in times of peace the bis- tory of culture and of civilization is made, and it is our duty to transmit the record truthfully and witn fidelity to posterity, and not to allow the previous prejudices ana partisanship of the hour to falsify 1t; to misrepresent, insult and bedraggie the fair fame of our age and com- munity because of the exhibition of moral disease—epidemic if you will—in our healthy and well disposed — social body. 1 am bere to protest for myself, for you and your children, in the name oi all gooa citi- zens, ali good men of this city, of the land—ay, of all civiuzea people wie live 1n this age—against belug written down as suffering. UNTRUTH—MORBAL LEPROSY to obtain ana spread in our midst asa fine art without raising ap outery against the enormous heard more about our | luterest with which | NEW YORK. HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1875. | certainty. How is it that the spirit of the New Testament is fery, almoat Serce? How does it speak of the truth under every cireamstance? Under the inspiration, guidance and potency of the Holy Gnost? Do the words of | the apostle magnify with heated zeal when he say “The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and | the violent take it by jorce.” He exhorts us to } Heaven-recoguized spip of Siate through treacuer-_ | Strive and to struggle incessantly. This language | Appears stretcued and strainea; it seems almost | Unuatural, But ordioary language will not move | | Our siuggish natures, and we must be forced— | driven, it were—into dotmg good, The yoke is | easy, just as the harvest song is pleasant; out the | Ploughing and burrowing of | Rot "pleasant, Teatameut to waten, as the Son of Man will come when we know not, Also, that the devil goeth about like a roaring Jion seeking W.om he may aevour. The bies-ings of lie are Sweet, but none of the things we are liable to lose are of such transcendant value tuat We canuot afford to lose them. The joys to which We are called it themselves above the ordinary leasuies of the world. We are to go into tue | Coristiun life Rot lanzuidly, luxuriously, easily, es \ boughs, but in Saaness Of spirit, contrition. ‘This 18 not the time Jor laying aside the armor. What is the churacter to which we are called tf only that amount of piety waich we see in the Christiana housenold 1s sudicrent? Look at the condition of those who are called toa church itie, They are ‘careless, never go to church, go out on Sunday, he @ Iittle, drink a@ little, By and bye they are roused a bit, they cease lying, pay their rent, do uot rae Out any more on @ Sunday, pray alittle, do not drink por curse, and avoid former bad habits. It would be absurd to apply the in- tensity of ian.uuage of the New lestament to such &@ change vf Life as this. Can a man be a reputavle Mmemoer of a church without that intensity of zeal Which the New Testament seems to cali ior? Is it envugh (o give up crime and folly? Is tt enough that he lias merely experienced religion? 18 that all? Does that explain the extraordinary lan- guage of tue New Testament? | have | Meard tnat if a man lives on an average, accepts the morality of the circle in woich he moves, there 18 no such need of watching, aud that such views of ine cannot reer to cutich life, Experience has nothing to justly such language as that. Let us 100k at those Who have not such elements of churca lie. | Selfishness is their great. characteristic. They | Cam Only leel secure by living for themselves to | toe negiecr 0. otiers, seeking their own good for its OWu Bake, Lf the Unweaned ciiid eeks sleep, | Seeks rest and nourisnment, dv we not easily per- | ceive that it was nature gave 1 the desire, but When It bezius (0 develop into # higher organiza- ion it seeks &@ higher good. Men can be good church meuvers Withoub that extraordinary de- gree of zeal, We can be gvod in social hie, in slop life, in political lie, abd every day we can appeal to God, Can apy one obtain that degree o! ervor easily? Do you ever doit? Did youever try? | Don’t you smiue? Wuea thisis put to a congre- gation 1s not tmat the prevailing feeling? But ail tuis will, gil tis Waletiny always commends itself to God, living as you ougit to live. . Ibis easier to love God with your whole soul than to Jove your neighvor as yourself—to live with nim, take siights from bim, be Cheated by him and still | love bum. Can any one desire it? Does auy one | do itt Hasany one any conception of it? Whe lives that life? They woula silence me if I | preacked¢ that there was no Trinity; but when I bay love your neigabor as yourself mep say that | 18 enthusiasm; it 18 almost folly—enthu- slastic = gust That 18 the very slopping over of imbecility—mere sentiment, 1 will not say these men are infidels. ‘They may be men who have been touched oy the Holy Ghost, but only touched once. Look at the way in wnich the proud man acts: Mark nis sense oO! superior- ity. Pride isaseniiment, nota judgment. It Is born with us. Some men are born with a sense of sovereignty, and it wells out like a mountain | ‘roma level plain, “Humble thyseti—*Blessed are | the poor in spirit’? Oan any one undertake to overcome bis; ride when he jojnsa church ? What does ne do with bis pride? Men must endeavor to control (his spirit o1 domineering pride that jifts tuem above their fellows and makes them be- lieve they are gods, Paul was an instance Of ex. falsiucation sougat to be let stand, asx if the | cessive pride, eoupied with great exec cancer, the epidemic, wi @ representative | tive abuity, before he was converted account of the moral scate of tae com#| 02 his persecuting tour and became a munity—of ihe age. We do not go to the hospi- talS “aud inurmaries to ascertain the general health of the community, bor to tne penitentiaries and Stace prisons tor statistica of its healuny morality, DO more than we accept or adimiy tue LATE TRIAL 1s a legitimate outcome of the prevailing and un- questioned virtue of our times. The coudition of Social lie and code of honor which it represented and revesled are exceptional, and will, We are ; sure, prove evanescent. heart of the eople 1s sound jn morality, secure in | onor and proiundiy and practically religious. ‘ols {8 evicent to the most obtuse from the almest uiversal contempt which the reveailngs of this trial have provoked, the disgust and ioath- ing which the nauseous details have created, apd the manller sense of justice, homor and purity which its FALSIFICATION, PARTISANSHIP AND PERJURY have brought into active and beautiful protest, i speak a8 no paid advocate or as hired apoio- gist ior the bdeautiiul city in which it a8 my honor to live and labor, but must put on record my aimiration of its peopie, and my respect for tue men of juagment and the betier to serve toem and contribute something, however small, toward susiaining the reputation of the One and the integrity and morality of the other, Ispeak to-nignt of the MORAL EFFECTS OF THE TRIA! L, and would fuin nope so to catch and emphasize | the prote-t os my Deighbors, iellow workers a brother citizens as that the repetition of such @ degrading, demoralizing and abject scandal shal be jorever impossitie. Ranking myselt as com- etent to indicate the right from the wrong @ public matter like tos, 1 con- ceive it to be part of my work to ask you to consider with me wherein tue trial wW.th ail its surroundings, issues, expenses and general importance bas demoralized or Susceptible of demoralizing the tone and spirit, the lortuue and jeatures, the faitn and feeling of ‘nis community. The trial in truta is now PUBLIC PROPERTY nd its judicial and legal termination—most in- adequate, undeciaed und prejudiciai—seems to me to demand @ less passionate and more un- biassed consideration, and be made the subj of both Warning and protest. It is phenomenal and take ic upon myself, without con- sideration with others, but upon ma- ture redection to say that it. is an uniair tuiog to its past history, to its real good- ness to make this trai an exponent of the gener- al social comdition and religious ieeling and faith of the whole community, aud I shall proceed to | show that this 18 not the case, but very much otherwise. Here let me speak for Ww In0- ment upon tne fact that this trial do expression of justice and the more rig’ judgment of the wany against the loathsomeness ‘of the detalis of the trial Its perjury, 118 pre- Judice, 11s details aave evoked tu*the people an iter contempt—bitter disgust. Men have awakened to @ true sense of What Tighteoushess means, of What charity meaus, oi Whas idelity to trienas means, and tis deem no Small advantage to this community, Never have men sown themselves so alive to the. necessity of Justice, trathfulness and righteousness. But tue demoralizing effects, the speaker sald, exceeded the moral represent the healtny, moral lie or the truthiu ness of the cit; d while it has veen freely said that we are adulterous in the eye, slanderous in the lip, uulaituiul to iriends and perjurers in court; that we are jtvellers, views and in our morality, tuat isan unjust ac- ion. So far as it is vindictive, it 1s cruel, and jalse. gteatest mo effects of the trial, the moral cour- age, th HE nse Of honor, manly effect of the uialL It bas shaken the holiness of friendship, 1t has Spread abroad an idea that there is no jus- tice lo be Optained in the land; the right has been confounded wita thé wrong ana the wrong wita the rigut. THE RFFECT OF THE TRIAL ON CHRISTIANITY. Peovle had said that Christianity would be alfected by the rial, but Cnhris- uanity, the speaker said, dia not Gepeud upon one man or one tmetitution. Christi- anity is the growta of the human soul; it 1s the property not of one church nor Of one country but it 18 the property of the human | miod; wherever Christianity is taught virtue and civilization have @ firm foothoid and nothing that 1 evilean touch them, not even the gates Of well Can assail them succesmuily, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. NR. BEECHER'S LAST SERMONS—WHAT MAKES A GOOD CHURCH MEMBER. Avery large crowd w Grawn to Plymonth church yesterday morning by the knowledge that Mr. Beecher would preach his the vacation, and many went in expectation of hearing some reference to the result of tue great trial, There was the usual feature of decorating the church with Sowers, one splendia bouquet be- ing placed on the at Mr. Beecher’s right. Ajl eyes were fastened on the great preacher, and ae foeling akin to triumph seemed tg pervade the vast congregation. Mr. Beecher looked caim ana in his usual spirits, ana bis voice bad the same full, sonorous ring as ever. Agood deal of interest was added to the occasion by the appearance of Theodore Tilton in the gallery, accompanied by his daughter Florence, and Mr. Swinton was also present taking notes. Whetmer the presence of his adversary aflected mr. Beecher to any extent it is mot easy to say, but he certainly showed no sign of feeling, though he must Bave noticed his nce. It is also worthy of note that several new members were received into the church and made their profession of faith in the usual way. The text of the sermon was taken from Hebrews xii, 2, 3, When we open the book of the New Testament we see that men are called toa new life, Tt is there that the writer of unwrinkled brow laya Gown our role of lise with voice of auerring loose in our religioua | I take it as one of the grandest and | Jast sermon before | Coristian, When be became a Christlan he worked for others, not for himseli; stood for and sutered jor other men, noc or himself. Have you ever undertaken in a small way to subdue your pride? | Have you ever striven and leit that it was not subdued? Has it not required all the energies of your mind to subdue it? Look at passion as | Vengelul feeling, the ferocity oi it, how it fames | out, What upmappiness an uncontrolled temper brings between man and wile, between brother between frieuds, On that man could learn even that much of Corist !—wnat divine grace lef down 'r.m leaven | Our (deal of wnat It is to be a Christian must be every day reiresued; every day We need to be cautioned, MR. BEECHER’S FAREWELL SERMON. Mr. Beecher preached his farewell sermon, pre- vious to his summer vacation, last evening at Plymouth church, taking as the subject of nis dis- course the clusing passage in the last chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel—“Go ye therefore, and teach | all nations, baptizing them in the name of the | Patuer, and of the Son, und of tne Holy Ghost; | Teaentng them to observe all things whatsoever Ihave commanded you, and, lo, J am with you alway, even unto the end of the woild. Agen.” Mr. Beecher also referred to the same passages at the close of St. Mark’s and St. Luke’s gospels, which he read, After the sermon, which was remarkable for its unusual vigor and earnestness, the pastor read | the following cable despatches from Europe :— | The Rey. Joseph P. Thompson, former pastor | of the New York Tabernacle churca, sent’ me, said Mr, Beecher, tos despatch to-day from | and sister, | Berlin; it 18 persongi to myself and it was not | thought proper to read it, but to-night, as I sat at supper, 1 received another cable message, irom the Temple church, in Londen, England, Dr. Parker, pastor, who, you will all remember, present With us three years ago, and as this is addressed not to me, but to the church, 1 have concluded to read them buth. From te Rev. Joseph 0. fh ompson :— BERLIN, July 4, 1875, “Rey, HENRY WARD BEECHER:— “Love, conildeuce, lorever | “J.P, THOMPSON.” From Dr. Parker’s congregation :— | “The congregation assembied oa this Sabbath | bi iay, eps Mr. BEEcuRR—That 1s to-nignt's congregation. ‘There 18 five hours’ difference—it is one o'clock in London new. “The congregation assembled on this Sabbath | evening in the City Temple, London, enthusiast- | cally responds to Dr. Parker's request to tele- graph iraternal greetings to the pastor and co: gregation of Piymoutn church. It assures Mr. Beecner of coutinued evidence of love, and thanks his noble people for upholaing him so Steadiastily in the time of his great alliction.”? | (Loud applause.) Mr. Sage then rose in his pew and addressed Mr.* Beecner. | Mr. BexcHaR—Mr, Sage. Mr. SaGx—i will read the reply of the church, and request Mr. Beecher to read in our hearing | the 124th Psalm. “Rev. J. Parker, London, England :— “Piymouth church returns grateful thanks for the novie sympathy of yourself and church and congregatien, Read im our behalf the 124th Psaim.' Mr. Beecher then read the psaim slowly and im- pressively. | — ‘The services were conciuded by singing the well | known tune calied “Beecher,” which was sung by | the congregation in an entuusiastic manner, EIGHTEENTH STREET METHODIST CHURCH, AMERICAN DEPZNDENCR AND INDEPENDENCE— SERMON BY M. T. TERRY. The Rev. M. T. Terry, at tha Eighteenth street Methodist church, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, yesterday morning preached on “American Depencence and Independence.” On opening his discourse he said:—The universal brotherhood of, man is one important lesson of my text, Another 1s that God determines the physical qualities of every nation and its geo- graphical and historical position. This proposi- tion we can illustrate by our own history, This | very day teaches us that we are ali dependent | upon God. While we celebrate our independence we at the same me recognize our dependence upon God, “God maketh nations.” This is avery | mportant proposition, He, in His own wise de- | termination, determines when mations shali rise | and prosper or decay. We can illustrate | this in our own history—in its discovery and slow settlement, It took generations before the country could be im any degree colonified by the various nations, Then many years passed be- fore the colonies freed themselves from the op- pression of @ foreign Power and before our nation was made, This: was somewhat similar to the growth of other nations, as that of Israel, for in. | stance. They had to goto another country to | Seek liberty. God took several hundred years to Piant a liberty-lbving on this Continent, So we can see that no set of men make nations, but they are made by God, who determines all cneir periods of history. OUR FAVORED COUNTRY, Another proposition is tnat God finds the na- tional territory. Ours, as we can proudly say, is @ goodly land, and He bh Diessed us with every kind of patural production. The ‘vast variety of | Seenery, the longest rivers and the highest | Mountains on the face of the earta, the | Wonderfal resources of onr land and its 'pecu- | larly favorable central location between Europe | and Asia—ali this reminds us of the care God has takes Of His “vineyasd.” it has been frequently said that our pecoliarly central location makes tu Baton the beat eVanuelizer Of the world, } et him take his cross and follow me?” | i sunshined into righteousaess siiting on’ the | | asleep, the tefmpest came, and the sailors drew | high places o! the land. God determines the epochs of a nation’s history. ‘This country was discovered ten years alter the birth of Marun Luther. He brought us imto the world a8 a nation while the great genius of Protestantism was revolutionizing the world, (nus He fitted us for our work as & Mighty evangel liberty and religion by select this time for our birth nation, Th cunquests of Alexander in rrying Western civilization eastward into Asia Was @ mighty preparation for the Successiu! growth of tae Juristian religion, God 18 everywhere in history, and makes all things work together for the glory | | of His name, Tnus He gave us our civilization, the greatest ama most glorious on tae face of the earth, | OUR GREAT INSTITUTIONS, God has made Bil navions and ail men of one Our nation guarantees life, libert and the ve leave 8 blood, y “We oniy appeal | to your glorious sense of God’s mustery, and leave you iree to joi any cnurch you picase.’” Another thing for Wuica we ought to be grateful 1s our system of edacation, exceptional unl form, by which ail cblidren of the Repub- | He eh: be imbued with honor, truth and justice. Its great opject 1s to make men taink for | themselves. The great difference between Protes- | tants and Catholics is that the latter will not tol- erate apy system of pubilo education. in ail countries Where they have sway they purposeiv keep tne people ignorant. it takes God some years to work out our system toa pitch of perfec- ion, but tree education for all willever ve the greatest feature in our national character. We are just half way between Europe, the land of ideas, and Asia, the land of peoples, Isthere no suggestion in this location that tas is to be a land of peoples with ideas? We shall evangelize them and present to the world the sight of myriads of peopies with the ideas of love, justice, wuth, honor and religious glory. 8T. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday morning the congregation was visibiy diminished from the usual large numbers who attend the high mass+ | Ma Schinz, the organist, cut down nis musical | programme to the narrowest point, and there | Was, 80 to speak, no sermon. The Rev. Father Kearney, however, ascedded the pulpit and read the Gospei of the day, which was taken from ee i-* | Matthew vil, 16-21. The Gospel speaks of the tree belng known by its fratt, and from this he imeulcated the necessity there was for parents looking over their chil- dren’s recreations, that they might guard them from temptations and dangers, Especially auring the ensuing two months, when the children Would be on vacation, 1t was doubly necessary that close attention should be bestowed by parents, the cuildren being thea to a g: lent without the custumary control* of ir teachers and the salety of the schoolroom, Aguimst picnics and excursions the speaker most earnestly prutesved, Many a doy and young girl, he said, Might date their ruin irom the impres- sion made upon tieir young minds at these pleas- ure parues. If the clildren were to goat dil to these picnics and excursions their ‘ents Should not jail to accompany them nave a constant Watch over them. He besought fatir and mothers not to wegiect this duty, for as they eee ee: tneir children 60 would they be judged ry Go 4 The mass sung by the choir was Salieri’s, At the offertory Mme, Bredeili sang @ Salve Regina by G, Bagioil. ‘Ine celebrant of the Mass was the Re aiber Doyle; one of the recently ordainea 8. A SERMON BY THE SBA. FOURTH OF JULY DISCOURSE TO SUMMES VISITORS. LONG BRANOK, July 4, 1875, This morning the Seaside chapel was weil filea With an attentive congregation, composed mainly of summer visitors from the hotels, Tae chapel is only open tbrougn the summer, and though tue pastor of it and of the viliage church, Rev. J. B. Wilson, a Dutch Reformed clergyman, preachea this morning, he proposes to invite some of the pulpit ceiebrities from New Yorks during the season, and make the place peculiarly attractive to the transient custom of the metropolis, who, while they are at the seaside, want very little re- yigion, but what they do Lave of it weil pepperea and spiced. Mr. Wilson chose nis text irom Jonah 1, 8—“What is thy country, and of What people art thou?’ The preacher said that Jonah found it dangerous to run away from the presence of the Lord. The ship he was in was drawing toits destination. Jonah was fast Jots to ind who should be sacrificed. Jonah tola ‘em he was the cause of their trouble. This quotation, “What is thy trouble?’ and whe cir- camstances under which it was uttered, suggested @ train of thought to me this morning. Let us consider our country and our nation, our dangers and duties ascitizens, Whatis our country? A free and Christian one, which God bas blessed in the past century of its existence; one, indeed, whicn has been blessed above all othegs, Coun- tries, like individuals, must pass through sieges of misfortune; but the struggle makes them the purer and better. But by liberty and independ- ence we have been paid a thousand fold for all we have gone through, and tne sun now shines all the brighter ior the clouds whica temporarily obscured it. ‘The. very name of Our land causes our hearts to throb with joy. What our ancestors fongut for with their biodd | We shall deiend. When Jonan was asked, “of what people art thou?” ne answered, “i am a Hebrew.” At that time it carried cousidcravle | weight and power. The Hebrews were a people who aad suffered for freedom and fougnt for it. They looked on prosperity With @ chastened spirit and recognized tliat thelr woudertul triumphs were oaty turough the power Of God. If it were A great thing Jor Paul to say he wasa Roman how much greater for us to say we are American citizens. But let this not blind us, Phere are daugers which lie in our pathway to strike @ deathblow at our liberties. To-day, the ninety-nintm anniversary of American Independ- ence, We should be alive to the importance of the event as it promises for the future. The en- couraging aspect is not without its dark side, Discussions are going on throughout the land avout admitting the Book of God to our youth. ihe edu. cation of the masses is @ serious question. Prot- estant America 1s put against the hierarchial despotism of Rome and the athelstic tendency of | the age is everywhere checking sue progress of religivus liber'y. 1 feel alarmed at this, Ynere is not that. attention paid to the Sabbatn which it demands. Disrespect for this day is seen in the Ratiroad companies run | Sunday trains, steamboats travel on Sanday, newspapers are issued on that day, botels keep open their varrooms and lager beer gardens, opem their doors in defiance of civil law. Tae power which reigns supreme here grants licenses for this thing with impunity, working a terrible wrong. Sabbath breaking and intemperance are our two greatest evils. ‘The preacher went on in this strain and finisned up by advising that more it stringent laws be passed and t ey be ob rved. WORSHIP IN THE WOODS. DR. NEWMAN ON OUB COUNTRY’S PROGRESS AND THE DANGERS IAT THBEATEN BER FROM | JESUITISM. Sra Curr, L. L, Jaly 4, 1875. To-day was inaugurated at this place the first of the series of entertainments which the trustees of the Camp Meeting Association promise shall come off here durmg the summer. An audience of six or eight hundred persons gathered in the Metro- politan Tabernacle, to whom Dr. J, P. Newman, of Washington, discoursed eloquently on themes ap- propriate to our national aunive®ary. An organ, built in Boston and worked by a gentieman from the “Hub,” aided the congregation in tueir praise of Go@-and country. it is said by some to be a ction of the great Gilmore Jubilee organ, bought at greatly reduced cost; others, however, declare it is a new affair, built expressly for this encamp- ment. It is still im the rough, unfinished and unkempt. But to-morrow they purpose to have it im better shape and order and to give an organ concert in the morning at eleven and in the even- ing at eight o'clock. Tne procee ward paying for it, And, a8 a further step towara liquidating its cost, a collection was taken up yea- terday alter the sermon, but, failing to satisiy the demands of the managers, Alderman Falconer moved and other meubers Keconded the sugges- tion to take up subscriptions of $100. Im this way & certain sum Was reached Which the trustees probably had in mind, On Tuesday the Rev, Mra Ostrander and a troupe of manulactured Orientaiists will give ILLUSTRATED LECTURES, morning and evening, of Bible manners and ous- toms, to which an admisison fee of fifty centa is to be chargea. Then on Wednesday and Thursday for the same amount we can enjoy a concert by half a hundred Five Points’ culiaren and an “Old Foiks” group of singers. it had been designed vo get op a series Of biblical spelling matcnes and definitions of Bible words for to-morrow, but the pedagogues were unable to attend becanse of the nearness of the national anniversary, The graua musical jubilee or jamboree that was to have come off on Jane 23 has had to take a back seat, and is now promised to us in August. Large promiaggy With Amal) Doriormanaea are the CANAL ent will be upon which evidénily this encampm ran this yes THE DISCOURSE OF DR. NEWMAN this morning was based on Psalm exivil., 20~“He hath not deals so with any uation.” This, the Doctor remarked, is @ national psalm, composed by the inspired bard to celebrate Jehoval’s praise im view of the prosperity of the Jewish nation. It 18 & psalm remarkable for its diction amd wppropriateness, It affirms that all nature 18 subject tos tne Divine control. He counts the stars and the winds are wrapped up in His fists, ‘Toe hail and the rain are with Him the elements of good or of evil, This psalm also contains the solemp assertion that God bestows His diessings on nations for diferemt purposes according to the mission thateach nation is to accomplish. There ts no other psaim in the Bible so appro- Priate for this day as this, The Doctor called at- tention to two pomts suggested by the text and the day. First, the superior rignts and advan- tages that we enjoy #8 ® people, and, secondly, the duties tnat we owe to God, to ourselves, and to cther nations. God hath made of one blood all nations of men that dwell on the face of the earth, and hath fixed the boundaries of their babi- tations. If we glance atthe carth we shall fina that between the twentieth and thirty-sixth de- grees north latitude ali the great nations Of the past have lived, and all those of the present dwell, 1f1sa narrow zone, and yet we may con- tract it ten degrees and the same remark is trug of those political Powers that dwell between this beit, Itis true thatnorth and south of that zone there have and do extsr great nations; but no one will claim that either those of the mortn or the south have been potent in giving sentument to mankind, Cas! your eye and your mind along this parallel and you will tind Nineveh, Babylon, Persia, Greece aid Rome in that small region— that littie patch of land which bas given to the world the very GREATEST ELEMENTS OF POWER, letters, commerce aud Christianity. Within that same belt of Powers to-day stands ltaly aud Rus- sla, the coming Power of Europe; and Austria, rejuvenated and rising from the thraldom 0 ages; Italy, united and free; and witain this narrow limit also Siands Prussia, Germany, Voiland, France, Spain and our own Republic, in which the blessings more specifically described bere In this psalm are enjoyed. Witu a shore tine extendin, farther than the circumference of the glove; wit! @ continent washed by two oceans, it is but @ sixth less than all the area of Europe. By what arithmetic shall we estimaté our national wealta or the comforts that we possess, Traveilers go to sunny italy to spend their winters under its mild sky, but there are clearer skies and pleasanter winters in our Own Florida. They go to Witngss the Alps aud to climb their sides, but we have greater and grander mountains iu our own land, go to Switzerlund or Sweden or. the British [si w glory over lakes and cascades and cataracts, but our country bas them in grandeur and great- ness aukuown In any other. Where on the giobe shall we go to ind weaitn go aifused as gere ? Other lands can boast of more milluounatres, but where 18 there 80 much competence among the masses a8 May be found here in these Untied States, Here comiort waits upon competence, and competence is the irait oi honest toll and industry. Take two facts tuat will illustrate this point. Tne emigrants who have come to this country have sent back $50,000,000 in gold to their iriends on ‘the other sige. And then take that otner fact that in our own centemary year $10,000,000 were laid on the aitars of Go a of the Church. No man need be & pauper here, and to be @ pauper is to be acriminal, We havé area suficient to give a farm to every human being op the face of tho eartn, and California alone can furnisn money to all mankind, Suck @ couatry, with such resources, shouid draw from every heart HALLELUJAHS TO GOD, and all the earto should shout “Amen!” (The #amens” came with a heartiness responsive to the suggestion.) It isa graad tact in our history (Dr. Newuian continued) that our tathers commenced Waere other nations left off. “Dr. Newman then skeiched the origin of the nations of old, which were founded by barbarians and whose de- Scendants continued in the same or a semi-bar- barous condition, But lt was nvtso with us. 16 Was ordained that the mea who jald tue founda- tion of this Republic should be true noblemen, bearing the image o! the Divin id heavenly God, vee. Washington, tue father of our eoantry, stands out among the statesmen of the past aud Et ent sublime in bis Christian heroism ana rgeness of conception and without an imitator -| in his utter unseifisnness. Nowhere did a nation stars with go much brains, much love ang as this, Wit one exception, and that was toe Jewish nation founded by Abraham. Our fathers were not siaves. ‘They were English lreemen. And because théy were such they rose in their might and declared that where there Was no representation there should « be no taxation, Had Patrick Henry be¢n admil- ted to tne British parliament as the representa- Uve of the American colonies we might have been to-day the most faithful of Kuglaud’s posses- sions. Dr, Newman wexs reierred to the revolutions headed by Tell, by Cromwell and other patriots of old, and contrasted the narrowness of their ideas and aims with tne largeness and uulversality of the aims and principles of the patriots of the American Revolution, The iatter warred not lor a State or @ canton, bul for ali men. And those graudsires of our nation proclaimed that all men are created free and equal, and endowed wWitu certal inalienable rights. @he straggie through which our {athers ought was not for themselves alone, but for the oppressed of every land. ‘hey looked forward to the futare and announced @ jactioug hidden in this old Dook (the ible, but loug forgot- ven or Ignored), that ail'men are free and ail mene are bretbers. The Doctor then referred to the lead- Ing ideas Of the ancient governments and peoples, ior instance the Greeks setting up puillosopny he ide’ Which should elevaie men, aud tie ews THE IDEA OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM a8 necessary to insure the greatest goud of man; batour tataers took another ide:—that of the equality and brotherhood and freedom oi ail. be Uni0n Of Church and State in tae past con- tributed much to this nation’s prosperity. We shunned it as something to be @readed by every wise slatebmun and true minister of tae Gospel. It snouid be remarked tuat"Xnose who come to us as emigrants are the best biood of the working Classes OL the Old World. Fifty per ceat come to us between the ages of eignteen aud thirty, and they bring an average of $30 apiece in gold, and emigrants from some Gistricts oring a8 ign an average $1,000 each. be total amount brougis into this country by emigrants 18 over $500,000,000, They come from Oppression and from persecution | nd from poverty, ana they find bere an ssyluin and@ home. They uring their prejudices and their ignorance as well as their gold with them. It is true toat sellisnness underies emigration. It was 60 im the past—it is so to-day. The foreigner comes here to make @ living and he may be under o solemn oath to do all in his power against us. But let um come and let us do what we can to Americanize nd Clirigtianize all who come to us We vid them ali welcome, Our domain is large enough for the universe. History repeats itself, There sion, anu, tf I read the signs of aid the Doctor, the! the times arig! unifcattony dispersion = took in Asia—the anification will In America, ‘To-day, jour thousand years of wand of Noxh meetin Our lund, Here are the sons of Ham im our Southera States, of Shem on our Western border, and of Japhet spread all over the land, And old Noah is to-day looxing down on ‘the reunion of nis sons, Who have waudered s0 long over the globe, ‘Tue Doctor referred ais0 to our example upon the nations of the earta, and remarked that were our fathers permitted to turn to earth to-day they wouid raise their ha) in wonder and in gratitade at the BESULTS OF ONH HUNDRED YEARS’ INFLUENOR of thia Republic on tuo world. Time is an im- portant clement in ali the purposes of God in the Gevelopment Oo! mind a well as of matter. The conaition,of any peopie is imierad! the government ander which they live. tor then contrasted the governments of the world @ hundred ng d ago—when this Republic was } jounded—with what they are to-day. And, refer- Ting to cach, he pointed out some characteristic of each which bas grown up from the influence of American ideas on them. No nation in Europe, he said, has More regard to-day for America than Russia, ‘eee a8 4 Lussian nobleman said to we Doctor lately, “When the question oi the East comes Up for settlement, as it must come by aad by, Russia will expect the sympathy of America, whose missionaries ar all that by toed property, Ory if Look at King on the throne anda aiace, WNO sent for Peasali Smith, yman, that might ing! fuiness of salvation in Jesus tian General, Von Moltke, praying before bis soldi- ers and Bismarck “fighting the devil and the Pope andthe Jesuits.” Passing over very muck more that the Doctor had to say about Italy, where @- Methodist minister pri the Gospel | to-day as freely aa uid in the Tavernacle at Sea Cliff and a colporteur wai! r the Vatican to band Hi # Bivie ‘oly Pavuer about Austria, Spain, ye Mooay a4 sanesy fears ago ly and Sanke: ‘would not be germitted Lo preach im her cl i to-day the Archbishop of Canterbury gives his ap- agi tJ the ministry Of these Ameri¢an laymen. ir. Newman ‘hougut tt was worth the race living ars tO see the results that appoar toe ‘arth. Referring to OUR SYSTEMS OF KDUCATION, OF LAW AND OF 0) RELIGK of government which have transformed the man- hood of our coumtry, he thought these very ele- ments of our past and present greatness wou! the weapons of our destruction Mnvrai sentiment which upuolds the law were destroyed our government would fall to pieces ike rope of sand. That religions liberty, for Which We thank God might and morning, may yet prove our downfall, Tne foreign who c to our shores looking to-day to the Holy Fatner to convert us to his faith, They are trying to drive the Bible out of our public sehoois and to | destroy our free institutions, I speak not against Roman Catholics as a church, I would not lift my voice OF My hand to take from them a single one 0 Wey consitotional tigate; pak, Wauld JUt bow whenever he comes out; Voice and hand against any organization that would seek to destroy OF 0) re witn any of those nee Bat de war ue na 56 Ae e ing to make o/ our co! made of the countries of t id World. I say to the Holy Father in Rome and to the Cardinalin New York and to tie Jesuits ull over tne land, cy What we accord to you we ursetves, and Wu you dowt lke bave it any way. (Cries of ‘Ame: Dr. Newman then read from Catholic writings of prelates ana journais to show what the avowed pu poses o! the Jesuits are should they ever get tbe ascendancy tu ‘ais land, ana be bade his hearers look well fo (heir govern~ ment and their free instituiions, and he predicted that a Congress of all the great Cnristian nations would be heid some time when. on the dome of whatever Capitol in which they meet, shall be the cross that We worship and the Oag thai we love, and wien they shall declare that all m cy brothers and tuat there snali be war uo more, for Jesus Obrist shuil be acknowiedgeu King of e3, and He sali reign over this earsb and this: brotherhood of man in the boundiessoess of His love, Auten. BOWDOIN COLLEGE. THE BACCALAUREATE SERMON, BY PRESIDENT CHAMBERLAIN, ON ‘GOOD AND EVI.’? Borurnarton, Me., July 4, 1875, The exescises of Commencem-nt week at Bow~ doin opened yesterday by the baccalaureate ad~ dress of the President, belore tie graduating class. In accordance with the ancient and time- honored custom, this address was elivered in the old Congregational church, betier known, per- haps, a8 the “Uhureh on the Hull,” wuich stands just outside the College campus, shaded by its drooping elms. ‘The following Is an abstract of THE SERMON, ‘ The discourse was suggested by the text—If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkuess, how great is that darkness ?? Matthew Vi., 23. Good and evil are familiar things, yet they gain new force from this metaphor of ligit and dark- ness; the analogieseare Vivid and vital, and carry our thooghis to workings and results, Lhus 1p Old mysteries there were symuois to devote the passage from ignorance to knowledge. By these names, too, old nations of the Orient distinguished between thems: lves and others joo,ed on as bar- barians. The Persians—fire-worshippers—deemed themselves the bl-ssed of heaven, They were Iran, kingdom of ligut and peace, wotle all around was Juran, darkness and unrest, So God's truth is light and Satau’s error darkness, Something more 1s meant by the expression in the text than — whe action of & single faculty in conscience or moral jadgment. This is, doubtless, included in the meaning; but tt seems to reach beyond, and involve not merely moral disceroment, bat im- tellect, Imagination, aspiration, impulse toward the ideal good. We could enforee a truth from the narrower side, but we should miss something, We should come short of the sweep aud strength of the lesson. The power of Christ’s figures of speech was not in points of nicety. His analogies were broad and striking, such as seize upon the common mind. They will not bear to be pushed out in metaphysical refinements nor reduced te scientific analysis. They make their point by im- pression, not by exactitude. First, then, this ligt within us is a great light, It snows us trath in relation to conauct, This is what we most od in the mazy and perilous ways of life. More- over, iv is an authoritative guide, It declares the Way, the means and the measures by wiuch alone we can attain the true end of our being. Our Ganger is that we shall follow that impulse of our nature which is the most clamvrous at the mo ment rather tian shape our action according to the law of our whole nature, recognizing what ia higher and lower, and, maintaining due sabordi- hation, beld tue novicst good our higuess aim. This ught ig @ quickeney. Cherished @nd vivifies, Obeyed, at 18 the joy oi lue, every command which at the same tune confers tne power to obey. The law flushed trom Sinal overwhelmed the faculties it adares-ed. It pro- claimed with glories and terrors that could not be borne, ‘This Ls the way; walk ye init!’ But this light comes and dwells with: us, the abidin; promise and forerunner of the exceeuiug rewar Surely this inward light if @ great light, and we may bless God for it, whose, Indeed, it 1s, seal, and Sceptre, and crown. But all this, blessea as it 1s, May be changed to darkness, And it is a great darkness. First, because it was a great light; it held @ vital oilice. Second, this change ts loss— deprivation. So we miss the prizes of life, and greatly fail, Tuird, itis a great destruction, Itia NOt simply deatu, but the power to kul. The king- om of daikness is an active Kingdom. This ligué when darkened will notsurrender its prerogative, Made to be a guide, it wii still be a guide, ana when it knocks at last we must enter, tuougp un- willing guests. Weil does our Saviour exclaim, “How great thelr darkness |” Tiird, and we are responsible for the change. Tue light was our keeping. God made notning for evil, but ali for good. he free will has wroughc the wrong. Without freedom there could o¢ uo worth im being nor good in tue universe. All would be necessity, durk, cold, eternal. So if ireedom is necessary that oeing may be a blessing. God can- not be blamed for evil which tue iree spirit has wrought through perversion, diame is on it, notod Dim. So then we are respousivie for the issue of our bicssings. The main doctrine of this discourse is personai responsi. bility. wil wield’ the inexorable laws. Spirit 18 above matter, above ratare, We are responsible jor our laculties, first, of the boay, that 1s, for health; second, of the mind, that 3s, Jor sanity. The voy ts not evil, but made for noble ministries; ¢ach should be subordinate to whe higher and ail conspire to the wighest. This health and, to a certain degree, uoucr control. ‘rae laws recognized in training jor the mastery im athletic contests are the true principles of temperance. So of the mind. We are to keep ourselvés sound aud sane, Petting and conrling of sanity euould be rebuked. We saould not cherish the cowardiy thought and weak will which invite despair, (Third, wo are -respon- sible for our affections. Weare apt to say that love must go its own Way, apd countless treache: 128 ald wrongs come from this, Lhe Bible makes love the subject of command. We are to love Goa Who is ali-worthy, and our neighbor, who is less 80. Love is commauded as vy a law, and law ig addressed yo tie will, kence We are bound to love the lovable and hate the hateful. «A sound heart is as important as @ sound mind. ‘Third, We are respousibie for aims and character, It is the distinction and giory of man that he cam ehoose his supreme end, So for our ideals, the dream we cherist, the torms of our Wish aud worship. nese lurgeily affect us. Every man has them, good or evil. They are nov allof heaven. We way not say what snall come, but Can What ehall stay. Over these we uave con- trol. We make them blessea ministries, regene: ting, enlarging, upliiting. onsible also for our belie! puted, Men think honesty is all that 1s needed and that belief is controlied by evidence. This is anerror. We are witener governed by feeling than judgment and gre not honest in accounting to ourselves for our veliefs, Mere honesty, often bilnd aud wayward and obstinate, is no guarantee of acceptances Fiith, for our conscience; ior it, nob less than to it. We are bound not only to obey its pointing, but see that it points right. The value of 16 is that, lke @ Compass, it is at lustrament capavie of guiding. Are we Bot right to Jollow comscience, suci as it 1s? Not unless we have done our best witm it Conscience has even’ braced men in wrong, 80 then conscience is under our caarge, and jor ita use we are subject to iaw and held responsible by penalties, Tne lessons are that we should beed our lignt and not suffer it to be obscured or perverted by carelessuess or outrage. ‘There is a Presumption in {favor of the old and triea, the hear and dear. When we are able we must prove ali things, even these, and wold fast the good. There is @ presumption tn favor of the religion in which we were reared and itis right to accept {t unti irresistible reasons prove someé- thing else more true, The old maxim, “Our country, rigacs or wrong,” is not to ve decried. Times will come when we must strike for life om the instant and take care of health at lelsur When conscience supports error tuere is crim! ignorance aud perversion. We coniuse right and wiong by false sympathy. We biame everybody except the drunkard for his drunkeuness. The criminal at the halter we make @ hero and help him to be master of the situation. Tuts defeats ‘the intent of the jaw. It isan argumest against capital panishment, We smouid be carciul utver- ing as in receiving trutm; otherwise we break down the One spiritual sense. Our sins of this. kind are many. We see it ip society, in business, in politics and tue press, Our treatment of our light will determine destiny. That this lignt with. in Is divine we because Christ appeuled to it for the recognition of tis doctrine and authority, By the law of that same light is tested our accept- ance of Christ. Even Ais merit cannot avail jor Us Unkess We are true to our light, A FATAL STAB, Coroner Simms was notified last nigutto take the snte-mortem statemeat of Jonu Carland; whou the physicians reported as dying, at his resicence, No. 20 North Portiand avenue, Brook- lyn, from the effects of @ stab wound. Garland received his Injuries during an affray ‘3, on Flush- of Jum, and on the sidewalk in ' front Two young mei med Edward Jomes Koggs got into * fignt, and Uar- @iriend of Boggs, tried tu separate A Crowd collecte: ne of contestant Tight side, the knule penetra Reid were arrested, and are still in custody. Yesterday Micharl Dwyer, another of the party, rrendered himself, and was lovked up in be Fourth precingt station house, ting the jiver, Boggs