The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 10

LOVE AND WISDOM —_——— The Divines ef New York and Brooklyn Preaching Christ. ———_ +-—_— WHAT CASTETH OUT FEAR. seiohasomale Holiness the Messiah’s Kingdom— The Christian's Portion. A CRY FOR NEW TRUTH. God's Law and Man's Law—The At- torneys of Both. THE LIFE OF ST. AGNES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, LOVE SUPERIOR TO F¥EAR—SERMON BY HENEY WARD BEECHER. A new feature in church music was introduced at Plymouth church yesterday, im accordance with a resolation of the Music Committee. It consists tn prefacing the hymn to be sung by the congregation with @ verse selected {rom the Scriptures, and having the same tenor as the hymn which follows, This in- ‘troduction is chanted by (be choir, and then the con- Bregation break in with the hymn, at the close of which the choir chant anotber extra verse, This ser- vice seemed to give much pleasure to all concerned, three hymns being rendered in that way, under direc tion of tr. Heory Camp, conductor of the choir. The victory of love over tear was the subject of Mr, Beecher’s discourse, the text being drawn from tho fourth chapter of Jonn's first epistie—“There is no Jear im love; but pertect love casteth out fear: because fear bath torment, He that fearoth not is mado por- fect in love.’ Cettain preachers, he said, declaim against lax theology and cry out continually that the law mast mot be remitted, that men need the scourge and to be filled with fear in order to bring them undor the Influence of the Gospel. Mr. Beecher would not fleny the truth of these propositions, but held that thoy do not hold good universally. The ideal Instruction in religion, the consummation of Bll teachmg according to John, was love. That apostic said that if a man dwelt in fear he was just so much tess than pertect, for lear had torment. Humuin life began ¥ery low, and as it do- veloped from a purely anima! stage toward an intelloc- tual and moral one the influences brought to bear on It at each stage were necessarily different, Many men Feemed to think that because fear was necessary at any stage of a man’s development that it 18 necessary all the way through That was as if a schoolmaster. being necessary for a boy was to be buckled on to his back all the rest of his lie. | No man was a good schoolmaster who Drought a schuiar up in sucha way as to have him need a teacher all his life; aud this was true also in spititual watters Human life might be said to be divided imo two parts or periods, that of bondage And that of liberty, with a wide margin between of in- termediate inixture, partly bondage and partly liberty. In the one, the ruling motive was fear,and tn the other, love.” For this reason all the way through the Law, as it was calied, thropgb the Old Testament, tho Motive is “Thou shalt not,” for it 1s the bindering of evil that the Tev Commandments mostly embrace. In | the New Testament the whoie phraseology was changed | to “Thou shalt.” The one was the dissuasion of tear And the other was the persuasion of love. THE KOD AND THE CHILD. The Old Testament was adapted w a race struggling up trom animalhuod. The reign of fear always preceded the moral sentiment. A child could not be prevented from putting his hand into the fire by advice which he was not old enough to understand, but it ho thrust it in once the pain would teach him not to do it aguin. Iu like manner to men must be applied such motives as they ure susceptible to, Mr, Beecher did not, for tbis reason, agree with those who think | thildren should not be punished physically tor weong- doing and that they snould only be taught to act right from iotives of duty. Ii a child, he said, Was ot susceptibieto the head, there was anotuor | partwhere he could be made to {ocl. (Laughter.) The administration of law was necessarily rude and course among men 1n the lower stages of development. | In that coudiuon the majority of nen could only be reached through the iniluence of tear, and in that state | it was periectly normal and was the best thing possible at the time, though it would lead to something betier. This was true also in theology. In the earlier tates of time what was becessacy was to roduce | upon the minds of men the fundamental Oistinctions between right und wrong, (0 dis- | suade them from wrong apd persuade them to Qo rigbt, aud that was only possible turough fear in | the first’ 1ostance, A God ol thunder was therefore set up belore men to intensity their feelings. Nowa- days, however, men reached ten times as high a point | of sensibility by one-thousandth part of the vigor, just | asa sensitive mun suffers more trom some Sight lapse pt duty than a coarse man does {rom having com- mitted a’ terrible crime. Coarse or unclevated men | neeced the Dantean pictures of the Old Testament to be placed before their minds continually, but if Mr. Beecher did it before bis congregation they would not forgive bim and they should not, | WHEN ‘TO TURN ON THUNDER. Men caid old tashioned preaching was dying out, and that the tarthor one goes irom centres of civilization the more be finds the old doctrines preached. Tne doctrine was the same, but as men went farther from the centres sof sensibility they needed stronger moral medicines, and they got them, “If it is found,’? said Mr. Beecher, | “(bat men will not listen to reason or the presentation of the higher aspects of the Divine Jove and beauty, then try the grade of motive below; the mixture, or, ‘98 1t used to be called, the alternation of hope and fear. If that won’: do try a Jarger measure of severity and ) harshness, if need be, fear; und then, if you fail, sound the diapason, let out the harsh thunder of the Jaw, ‘The soul tuat sinneth shali die; uncloud the future and uncover the pit, aud let the smoke of their torment asOnd belore their cyes—avy thing rathnor than they snould perish! But you are not to let this plau run paratiel with vour whole teaching,” Men who acted right from conscientious motives were under the kondage of tear and could not be :n | state called the cbildren of light aud liberty, be- | love cast out | t cause conscience had iear, and pertect fear. Mr. Beecher reviewed the peculiar notions heid by many so-called Christians and the manner of Iifo they adopted in order to be saved, Many when they become couv , he said, have an impression that they are som to be hfted from the :owness of sin, thal the Holy Spirit 1s a sort of stationary engine on the top and that there is a rope attached to a car and all they bave to do 18 to hold on and be drawn up, Every Coristian life, he said, bas in itan clement ot conscience, it is rising {rom successive stages, and every map, consciously or unconsciously, goes through these stages between tear, duty and love as understood iu the text, THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. THE LEGAL PROFESSION--sERMON BY T. WITT TALMAGE. “This morning | preach to the legal profession,” Mr. Talmage yesterday. ‘Next Sunday I shall speak to the members of the medical profession, and then the merchants, mechanics, clerks and commercial travellers, until | have addressed all the chief occupa- tions.”” lt seems, continued the pastor, taking for bis text the Epistio of Titus, 111., 13, that Paul bad a friend who was a barrister, Zenas by naine, whom he invited to come and sec him. He had a warm attachment for the man and wished to provide for his comfort and secu- rity, and so he writes to Titus:—“Bring Zenas, the “lawyer, tome.” This man belonged to a profession which has often bad amoug iis fuilowors ardent sup- porters of Curiet and the Gospel, Some ofthe mightiest pleas over made by barristers were made In favor of Christianity, «s when Daniel Webster plead in the famous Girard will caso, gaying that any attempt to ‘g1ve an education without Christianity ts low, vulgar and debasing, Yet notwithstanding all this there bas ‘come down a style of prejndice against that prolession which is well expressed in the vid epitapn:— od works wonders now and tho Here lies « Jawyer, an honest rm: A prominont clergy maa of the last century wrote :— “There isa society of men brought up from their youth in the art of proving, according as they aro id, that white is black and biack is white.”?” This Ton to pay debits they ape the consequences DE reed more genial moro straightforward than ‘are in that occupation, If 1 were on trial tor Loni byedird or my tite and wanted evenbanded jus- tee nitsstered to me, | Would rather have my case submited to u jury of twelve lawyers thun tweive »elergymen. Mombers of the legal profeesion, 1 be- ’ keener sense of Justice and less violeuce m the sacred calling; ¢ temptations an he Lecgion ng het we hat his ition with only avecoss, ‘By so much a8 bin so much d ards, We all b apotner, and therefore all | for yourselves. Have you selected one? Wo have an i foro God and the books were opened,” | largely augmented: | soprano ot the church, are interested in the morality and Christian integrity o1 the legal protession. TEMPTATION® AND RESPONSIBILITING, But how is the attorney to decide by what princi- ples he should conduct himself in regard to his clients God alone ean direct him. To that tribunal he m be appeliapt, and be will getan answer. 1 quote you the decision of the Supreme Court of heaven avy man lack wisdom let bim ask of God, who giveth to ail men williugly, aud it shall be given him.” What a busy scene ts an’ attorney's office! Good and vad @come there; somo trytt to see how they can escape solenin marital obligations; others how they 3 figain, to try and 8 pay for a house they have burned down; while hundreds and huol Is come lor the simple errand of avoiding paying ther honest debts, Now itis not a very casy thing to ad- vise the settlement of a suit when you know its con- tnuance would open te youa mine of wealth, Its no easy thing to give up the contesting of a will tu the Surrogate’s Court because you know the testator was 1m sound mind, Under these temptations there are svores of men who have gone down, and some of them, frow being the pride of the State have become a dis. grace 10 the Tombs court room. Every one wants the —e power of the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ, f to is SCEPTICISM. or's great temptations ie scepti- cism. y is the lifetime busimess of men ot that prote You make it perpetual; you get so used to asking the sharp question Why?’ and mak. ing the unaided reason superior i6 the emotions that ; the religion of Jesus Christ, which is ab man’s | reason, 18 not believed in by some of you. The moat brilhant orator in the last Presidential caupaign is ® foe to Christianity, and ho wrote a book in which, on tue first page, be inseribed:--‘Au honest -God i 'the noblest work of than."? Scepticism is the mighti temptation of the legal man, He who can resist ali | temptations to induelity, ke Jobn McLane, who stepped trom the Supreme Court of the United States to superintend @ Sunday school union, deserves gratu- lauion and encominm. Ob! let me call on you to quit | asking questions and begin believing, The mightiest | men become believers, vot through their heads but | through thoir hearts. [f you don’t become Christian tll you reason this whole thing out in regard to Christ ‘and the immortality of the soul you will never bes | come Christian at all, SARNATH BUEAKING. Anothor great temptation 1s to Sabbath breaking. A trial has been going on for ten or fifteen davs; the evi- | dence is all in Saturday aight; the Judge says, “Crier, adjourn the cuurt w ten o’clock on Monday morn- jug.” On Monday the counsel has to sum up bis | case. Thousands of dollars, the reputation, pe | the life ot the client might depend on the: succ | his plea, How will he spend tho intervening Sunday ¥ There 18 not one lawyer out ot a hundred who would not yteld to the temptation to break the Lord’s day | under such circumstances, and*yet if he does he ruins bis own soul, What, my brother, you can’t do before twelve o'clock on Saturday night and atter twelve o’clock on Sunday night the Lord doesn’t want you to do, Besides, you want the twenty-four hours of rest to give you that electrical power which wiil be worth © than all the dry study you can give Ifa duesn’t take rest one day out of seven ho robs three—God, his own soul and his client, Chiet Justice | Hale says:—''When { don't properly keep the Lord’ day all the rest of the week is unhappy and unsuc- The Orst of a cessful.” lay {rom the highest statute book in the unt Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” ‘The legal gentleman who breaks that statute may seem at first to have the advantage, but | be who Keeps it wiil have in the Jong run a larger pat- ronage and greater success than those who break it. The observance of the Lord’s statute pays uotonly spiritually, but it pays tn hard dollars and cents. intemperance {3 another great temptation of the legal protession, 1 have seen them go down by scores— the flower of the American Bar, ruined in reputation | ang ruined in everything, ‘TRE LAST LAWSUIT. Another powerful temptation for legal minds is to allow themsclves to be absorved with their profession so a8 to shut out the great future. You all know that you who have so often tried others will be all tried j Yourselves, Death will serve on you all a writ of ejeciment. All the affairs of your life will be presented ina bill of particulars, There will be no appeal to a higher court, for this ts the highest. There willbe no turning State’s evidence, no moving of a nonsuit— the case wili come on inexorably. You, my brethien, so often advocates for others, will need an advocate advocate in the Lord Jes! when your case will be call Some have departed thi Christ. Ut ts uncertain | on; be ye also reudy, fe like Corfstiavs, others still sceptics, in the latter caso it was the unpar., doned sinner versus the Lord God «imighty. Ab! | what a disastrous litigation! Bebold He cumes, the Judge, through the clouds of heaven; a great white throne the judicial bench; the archangel’s voico that sbatl wake the dead the crier; the pound of the last thunderbolt, the fall of the gavel; “Come, ye blessed !”” “Dopart, ye cursed!’? the acquittal or the condemna- tion, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand be- THE FESTIVAL OF ST. AGNES. St. Agnes’ Evo! Ab, bitter chill it was! | ‘The owl for aii bis terthers was a’col and yesterday the festival of St. Agnes in the Catno- lic Church was acold aud uvpleasant day, although not as cold as Keats has represented in bis beautiful poem, The Church of St. Agnes, in East Forty-third street, was crowded to its utmost capacity at the solemu high mass yesterday, on the occasion of the cclebration of the festival of the patron saint ot the Church, An especial musical programme had been ar- ringed by Sig. Marzo, the orgamst and choir director, and the missionary priest, the Rev, Father Langeake 8.J., preached a sermon on the lessons to be drawn from the story of St Agnes. The music of the Kyrie Eleison, Gloria in Excelsis and Agnus Dei waz from Le Prevost’s Mass in nd that of the Crodo, Sanctus andthe solo O Salutari, from Giouza’s grand Easter Mass. The ordinery choir of the church had been The Christe Eleison, a soprano solo, was charmingly sung by Miss Lottie Simpson, the ‘The Offertory solo was sung by Sig. Brignoli. Mrs, Robinson, Prof. Salmson and Messrs, Riedcl and Baldwin also took solo parts during the service. The services of . this church are at present beid in the basement, the church itseif not yet being finished. It 18 expected to be ready tor occupation in the latter part of April or beginning of May. Father Langeake took no text for his. germon, but, afvor readiug the gospel for tho day, tmmediateiy commenced his dis- Course. St. Agnes lived in the beginning of the third century and was the only daughter of wealthy and noble parents, liviog in Rome, but these parents, in addition to their worldly wealth and nobility, pos- sessed the far worthier. wealth and nobility of Chris- tiapity, and they carly instracted their dauchter in the mysteries of the Christian faith, and she became an earnest and faithful Ghristian, When but thirteea ‘cors old she Was sought in marriage by several noble mang, but she refased them all, «aying that she was betrothed to Jesus. Christ, tor which she was put to death, and thas ascended to heaven with the two greatest pals, those of virginity aed martyrdom. Marriage isa boly state; tne Cathohe Church teaches that {t is a sacrament; but there fs a better part, a more holy state—that of virginity. The preacher bere gave numerous examples of this, and quoted largely from St. Paul and others in support of this position, The Christianity of the present day 1s of the frce and casv style, but Christ bas told us that we can- not serve God and Mammon, — It {s our duty not only toadmure these heroes and heromes of the Church, but endeavor to imitate them. We can doitif we wili, the grace of God is ever with us to make us strong to daro and suffer tor His sake. Between the world and Christ there is enmity, and wo must choose one or the other, | we cannot have both, story of St. Agnes there are three lessons to be drawn—first, to parents to watch oloscly over their children, teach them by ex- ample no less than. by precapt; keep them from evil | associates, give them Christian education, inspire them with alove for the Charch anda firm faith in Christianity, always remembering that they aro only lent to us and that parents are reponsible for the saivi- tion of their children, Secoud, to the young, to re | member that purity of life 1s only to bo ha id kept | by copstant sell-restraint, that an uninterrupted fol- lowing of, worldiy pleasures avill wean them away from Christ and jeopardize their chances for heaven, and, finally, to both young and old to cultivate iruc manli- ness of spirit and courage to do what is right and say “No” to what is wrong. St. Agnes, although but a lit. tle girl of thirteen years, had all this, and was awarded the crown of martyrdom. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. THE CHRISTIAN’S PORTION—SERMON BY REV. | DR. HEPWORTH, “{ want to take you from the Iand of Goshen to the top of Sinai,” was the rather startling announcemont of Mr. Hepworth yesterday morning. {t appeared, | however, that the proposed trip is to be taken (in im- | agination) this evening at the Church of the Disciples | for the very moderate price of twenty-five cents ahead, | and the traveiling community are to be lighted on thoir way by numerous stereopticon views, This isto be the | first ofa series of lectures Mr. Hepworth proposes giving ou the Holy Laud. The preacher began his discourse by saying:—In the Grst opistie to Corinthians, tii, 21, 22, 25, you will find these remarkable and suggestive words :—''therefore, let no man glory im mea. For all things are yours; whether Paul or Apollos, or Cepbas, or the world, or iife or death, or things present, or | things to come; all are yours; and ye are Coriat’s and Christ 1s God’s."’ There are two olasses of persons 1p the community equally offensive rst, those who profess to bo moro than they are; who belong within the narrow circlo of poverty, but claim to possess great wealth; who are uncultured, but profess refino- ment of taste; wuo are immoral in their lives, but who try to impress the community with their sensitive. hese concerning religious things. Such people always find their way at last into the baiane weighed and found wanting. The world has a way of uncovering ail deceit in the jong run—ol stripping every onw of bis disguise and geting at the truth of | things. One may deceive for a litle und prosper. One aoes not decet lor long, and im the ead ne site in sackcloth and ashes of remorse and regret. ‘The woras which I have chosen for my text natarally open up this subject fo consiaeration, THE CHRISTIAN’S GREAT PORBKBSIONR. They are the aan Promise from the lips of Om- Hi | | | | Aipotence that all things are ours if ill but be. como the loyal suojects of our Piehutat Sovereign, vr, to change tho figure, if wo will become the obedient children of @ loving Father. Since we Feceived | the title decd so a large property it a over the property from end to end and make au inv tory resources, God says in the Orst place that all rsons are Ours, whetber it be Puul, or Apolios, or Bepnas Tho whole world, brethren, is yours, all tho experience of the past is at your service, and you may proit by it. You kaow we are em by example very greatly. When you read the lives of those who have climbed high, the climbing instinct grows hot within us, 1 look back to the creat men of the pas and, measuring myself by them as a criterion, wonder that I have done so little; I wonder that I can sit at ease iu my home, when men, and women two, have given their lives, their all, for the good of their fellow men. Why is it thet you, who rich, can be so forgetiul of the world’s wants; that you hoard a dollar when the Lord wants it? We build a high around our own narrow lives and sit atease, not lis- tening to the cry of those who are begging ior that we know not what to do with, Christ says all persons are yours, and from their lives you can learn how to build your own lives. Look ito their hearts and find tho secret of their strength and use it to make yourself strong. You have secu un artist building nis mosaic with bis canning iwetrament, He looks through tho pile of stones beloro him aod finds a piece of the right sizo to fit, and he goes on fitting piece by piece till bis picture is dnished. Well, brethren, ay we not db this spiritually’ {fl want perlection, and know that all persons are ours, | look into one man’s heart and find why it is he ts so happy and cheerful, and having found out, { trapster to my own soul the origin of his joy. i don't rob him, L only add to myself, The high experience of all the saints of the past can be transierred into yours and mine tli our lives ure transiormed by the influence, Not only are all persons yours, but all 4hings wo; you bave a right und title to everything you gee, and we aro not half grate(nl enough to God forthe mere physical enjoyments He givos us day by day. | would that your religion made you bappier; 1 would cover tho whole of buman iife with the ripple of gladness if i could, ‘Tho tendency of the riptures js to lilt ua above tho poisonous fox on the ground up above, where the air is clear and bracing. And Death is yours. Is that not strange? We have looked upon Death as the grim monster who overcomes all, Jeath is the conqueror of all and Christ is the victor over Death. When Jesus came Death died, and now he walks like a man who casts no‘shadow and who speaks geutly instead of harsnly, Whatcan Death do tous? Let bio do his best—-what is his'best? ‘To take me from my troubles to where I’il have no more, He can do that; ler him do itwhen he will, Whoot usis afradothim? He carries us siinply up to our Father’s home; hoe can do pothing more, 1s it not a wonderful promise God has given us? Allis yours; apd then He saya, * And you are Christ’s and Christ is God's.” See the logic of it, God has all things and Christ bas ail things, and the promise is that they who love Christ have all that Ho poxsesses, Yo we have all things, und so God and Christ and we are folded up ia the arms of the game omnipo- tence, MASONIC TEMPLE, WISDOM—SERMON BY REY. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM, “Wisdom is a loving spirit,” quoted: Rov. 0.. B. Frothingham yesterday morving. These words are’ found in the book of Ecclesiasies, and were written somewhere about threo hundred years before the com- ing of Christ, The book is characterized by deep earnestness. Its key word, if 1 muy uso the term, is wisdom. To wisdom are ascribed all the qualities that im the Scriptures are ascribed to religion—a kind of be well towalk | on which be should raise the su; omnipotence, Wisdom can ao all things, Nothing is | secure from the eye of wisdom; wisdom is the mirror ofthe Almighty’s greatness. It is the inspiration of God. Wisdom is not learning simply, for learned men are often very much overwixe than wise, 1t is not genius, for gemins is apt to becccentric, Itis not faith, for faith is built on experience, rests on observation, and only runs out long on the firm lessons which knowledge discloses, ‘The kuowleage of nature’s laws and obedience to their demands— this is wissom. It Js a practical spirit, Lt deals purely with the comfort of life, It takes things as they are, It inds some good in the lowest, Wisdom is Kuowledge of the world; but whatis the world? ‘The worl avery vague expressiou. The world is what we it. A narrow mind has a narrow world, abroad miud a large world, unda thin minda thin world, The worid to many consists iu cating, drink- tpg and amusing onesolf, whose politics consists im simply putting a cortain jon into acertuin place. What is tho wisdom corresponding to a world of such dimensions. This world that has ho wide sympsthy, that demands no heroism, escapes trouble and sufler- ing, and endeavors to keep out of the way of dark ex- periences, The speaker contrasted aconception of the larger world as one grander, higher, more sym- pathotic, hopelul and unselish, and recited an occur- rence of a poor woman who, while sitting on a curb- stone in the city bogging foralma for her sick child, had the child frozen in berarms, 1t naturally produced an inquiry, Wbere were the Pistiuns in thig Christian city that coald permit such a thing to bappen? But protest was conirontea by protest, and one of the world’s large ud beartiest workers—one whose whole life had been dovoted to the attempt to help and comfort the poor and the sorrowfal—came out and de- clared that this outcry against the uncharitableness of the world wasa faise cry. The speaker said that the heartiossness and indifference which tue world decried ‘was occasioned becaure the conditions of life had not been observed—because we had not looked at things as they wore. A really kind hearted person might reluse to give alms to beggars on the supposition that thoy were frauds and impostors and a heeding to their request produced idleness and pauperism. The speaker remarked that the neglect to study Ube social conditions of wealth and poverty had begotten an apathy, apparently, which was hopeless. The old syst t helpfulness was abolished; the now system of wise benclaction had not yet been fully studied. The speaker also touched upon tbe female suffrage question and said that the adjustment of women with our modern society was peeded, There were complatuts about it which must be listened to with commiiseration, The question was how to bring about a new adjustinent; how to accommodate the old system with the new. He recommended that women should accept what privileges wero granted them, walk through every ovr that was opened for them into alarger plane, Little by little they would gain a new footing. It would not be acquired by any act of the Legisiature or by change of jaws, lor laws were not changed. They were obsolete by disuse. Womon must demand their place, and by earnestness and per- severance work their way into society and assumo a Bew position. ‘fhe spouker closed his sermon by urging upon all the study of true wisdom, which would lift them upon ahigher plane of Iie, and acting upon nobier princi- ples would be a blessing to the necdy and untortanate and finally convey them to a brighter world whose gates would be wide open to receive them. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REV. FE. P. FARNHAM ON THE CLAIMS OF TRUTH. The young minister from Rochester, N. ¥., who oc- cupied the pulpit yesterday morning chose for his text portion of the Gospel of St. Jobn, chapter vit, verse 87—*‘To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the trath.”” “The words of the text,’ said Mr, Farn- bam, ‘may be taken as a proof of the divine purpose of Christ in coming into the world. They are no holi- day expressions, They arc the words showing the in- tention of no mere experiment, of no ambitious enter- prise, to be given up when there should be any doubt of its fuldiment or when its accomplishment of tho ends proposed should begin to look unfavorable, The resulu of Christ’s own life, coming as a litle child and as the Son of God, is the result of a detinite purpose. Christ’s mission wus to make Known to God’s people the wisdom of God; to bear witness to the truth of God’s Word and God's promises: The testimony of the entire Gospel | of St. John is to prove that Christ was in reality the Son of God, ablo words of and we have the Christ himself to assertion, After cighteen centuries of coriti- eam and faithful study it stands cloarly proven that Christ’s nativity 18 tbat of the Son of God, and that His mission on earth was the ctnbodiment of transparent ptrity and the trath itself, We may then uncoutradict- prove the | tke it for grapted, and it is not the duty ot every Christian minister to go back into the records and researches of these exhtcen centurics 10 prove tho trosh of Christ’s words or of St, John's Gospel, There was no iniddie ground for Christ and thore 18 none for us. Either Christ must bo accepted ax the embodiment of truth and purity or He must be considered ag the embodiment of 1 ood, He is clearly left tw us ax the Christ of the Bible, and it would be profane to look further for proof of His idenut He came to make known tho eternal truth, and His mission has been recognized overy whore and by all Christian poopie, The prints worthy of imme- diate consideration, contended Mr. Farnham, are two—the one arjsing from tue nature of truth tteell, that it is reality and therefore is unalterable and should be believed; and the second arixes from the conditions of gur wu winds, There 18 no possible chance of deception in truth. We have the inherent reality ap cannot go beyond i. ‘Truth cannot be warped out of shape by any force of circumstances, Hie who will not believe in realities caanot be consid. ered asa sane Man; HO child, even, would intrust its recious things to one who did not believe in realities. (truth casi bo tampered with it ts no reality worthy of no consideration; but it is no cloud of mo! ing mist to ve blown away, no cloud of summer dust, to settic down and be brushed aside, Even the most confirmed sceptics canno: combat the roaitties ot life. SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. NEW TRUTH EssuNTIAL TO NUMAN PROGRESB— SERMON BY REV. CHAUNCRY GiLES, Rev. Chauncey Giles preached yesterday at tho Swedenborgian church, Thifty-fifth street, between Fourth and Lexington avenues, The subject of bi discourse was that new trutb 1s essential to all human progress in nations and iu morals, Such progress, he said, was always effected tn-cyclos, and tho difficulty which stood fn its way Was not tn obtaining new truth, ‘Dut tn getting rid of old errors. The mind was, In fact, afraid to truss the fiiimitable power and goodness of the Lord. Every religion was regarded by its a herents as final, but history and enlightened reason taught that none could be final that was based on the mero appearance of truth, It was trath that gave to ‘Us power over naturo, over m: and over ourselves. It was the staff upon which man should lean, the basis | THE TEST OF BELIEF--SERMON BY REV. perstructure being, the royal sceptre by which he should rule over mind and nati ‘History showed mazeud doubt that man’s m the control of the material universe ween effected by th means of truth. Without it man would continue to do the same work in the same way; each succeeding generation would bea stereotyped copy of the preceding. But oew truth was tbe most potent agent to break up old prejudices. For instance, tho discovery of steam bad modified the form of all human activities. It had brought the remote near, and i magic touch was fe! all our surroundings, Ip the same way the hodee is came into operation and de- veloped higher possibilities in the intercommunica- tion of buman thought Some truths sceme: slowe: said the preacher, in reaching us than others, and they were not, th re, the less beneficent, The higher the truth, th wer was its pl ess, Every man and woman, evers Church and every nation would stand still if there was not new truth to jit them up and help them on. Every principle was limited in its possibilities, It could reach a certain point, but be- yond that it could make no prerws. he speed of the engine gave out alter reaching « certaiu limit, und then came the necessity for a new prinoiple or truth to arrive at further attainments. In the samo way with moral progress, ove principle could carry us to a cer- taip attainment, but no further. Greece and Rome were, for instance, the consummate flower and truituge of certain principles, but there was ootbing ‘o carry them beyond tho porition w bad gained, and, consequentiy, they began to decline ad Pp away. It ‘was the same tning the case of religion. Certain principlos would carry them a little way, or what to 801 might seein @ great way, but sooner or later there appeared a bar- rier to their advance. Thoy were as oid bottles that would not bear the effervesconce of new wine, old gar- ments that could not be made serviceable because the} were worn threadbare and their texture was too weai to bear the strain. The preacher proceeded to apply ‘these principles to the Christian religion as repre. sented by the Greek, the Roman Catholic and the Protestant charches. No one, ho said, was more roudy than he to admit the good which tho Episco- patian Chureh had accomplished, but it showed uo pew rath, had no re: or source to draw from extend. ing the limits ot ritual life, while in its preaching and polity there was no clement of spiritual progress beyond which 1t hud ulready atiained, In conclusion the preacher argued that God did not intend to put these Itmits to man’s attainments, but rather had or- same that we should see and know Him in a cloarer ight, WASHINGLON SQUARE M. E. CHURCH. DR. 2 HAZLETON, Roy. Dr. Hazloton, of the Irish Wesleyan Church, preached yesterduy morning in the Washington squaro Methodist Spiseopal church, taking for his text 1. Corinthians, xxii, 4. He said:—The Jews require asign, but the evidences necessary for the establish- ment of any new system must vary with the condition and circumstances of those to whom they aro offered. Hence tho Jews, on an offer of the Gospel, sought after asign. Tho Grecks, familiar with philosophy, sought after wisdom or knowledge, and it was with them no crimo to look for evidence. Though one of the twelve aposties suid, “Uniess } shall seo in bis hands the print of the natis, and tbrust my hand into his side | will not bolicve;” but he mercly gought evidence, when given he cried out, “My God!’ It is, therefore, only criminal not to be satisfied with good evidence, Power 1 seen in great objects, wisdom in smaller things. Power 1s seen in the creation of the world when Jehovah spoke and all things sprang into exist ence, Wisdom in the order and harmony Into wnich matter was arranged, But the power of Christ is morul power—the power which feeling aud good can tnfluenco on man. Should | then ask you for a speci men of divine wisdom lead me not to the heights above or to the depths beneath, but let me ascend the hill of Calvary und thero find ‘tho exceeding goodness and greutuess of God. ¢ ‘tho reverend gentleman coticluded by making an appew) ov bebalt uf a school in Dublin for whe educa- tion of clergymen’s sone, Ho said:—I appeal to you on behali of old Ireland, who, for centuries pust, has been under foreign power, and as a consequence we have been beggurs to you and England, but you know how wo have beeu drained by emigration, The stipends of ministers are so small that only a very few can live decently, and the consequence is they cannot educate their chiidren. Just now the lease of a school for tho education of ministers’ sous has expired, about £10,000 being due. Half of this sum has been sub- serived in Kuglaud, and tt is expected that the remaimn- der can be made up jo this country and Canada. There is. nothing to which you could give that so much goud would come from asa little assistance to old Ireland, Wo never regret anything ‘we give to God. You, the first church 1 this city that bas sbown your hbet ality in allowing me to address you, willalso give me the pieasuro of saying when I. return to Ireland how much you sympathize with them. FOURTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. REV. DR. CROSBY ON THE MESSIAH’S KINGDOM. At the gothic church corner of Fourth avenve and Twenty-second street yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Crosby, one of the exponents ot old-tashioned Pros- byterianism, taking his text trom the prophet Isaiah, preacbed to a full congregation upon the nature of the Messiah’s kingdom. Dr. Crosby defined it as all included in the word *tholmess,” and proceeded to the Practical application of the text. This he considered under two héads—first, our appropriate position as Tespects tho kingdom of the Messiah, and second, our appropriate posture in regard to it. The former he illustrated by comparing the dead reckoning used in cloudy weathor to ascertgin tho ship’s position with the ceriainty with which tho same point may be cal- culated irom the sunandstars, He rezarded thestudy | of nature and tho speculations of science as to the future, as aspecies of dead reckoning; while, ou the other hand, the statements of revelation are exact, defivite and authoritative, He would bo a very stupid naviga- tor who snould resort to the dead reckoning while the sun was unclouded, the skies clear and the data were available for an exact calculation. As to the future of the soul, there were three classes of opinions growing out ol the uncertainty fostered by scepticism. There were, first, those who believed in oo future, To such when a man dicd that was the end of him. All came up out of the earth and all went down into the earth again, was a second class who held a moro lent view of future destiny, and would dwell | upun the absorption of man the univer: ‘Lboir Instincts revolted against the bar- Ten materialism propagated by their brother sceptics, and they resorted to a kind of poetic pantheism to avoid it, The third class were very candid persons avd would neither affirm vor deny. Their argument was that as nothing could be scientifically known except by experience, therefore no man coud have & well grounded’ opinion either as to the natu or as to the existeuce of @ futuro lile, All thei theories, and the many alued to them, Dr, Crosby r garded as only so many ways of taking the dead reck- oping while the sun shines, and tn contrast with their vagueness and uncertainty be pointed to thé detinite- ness of revelation us concerns human destiny. He neat explained the relation between holiness and good works. A man could vot, he said, be saved by philan- twropy. That was not holivess, but simply doing good to mankind according toone’sown theory ; Whereas (no requirement of true holiness was the alliance ol the soul to God. Holiness produced good works, kindly deeds, loving tenderness to mankind; but these were but ovi- denceso! holiness, Tho thing itself was a partaking ol the soul in the life ot God—a rescue of the soul trom the premonition of eternal doom imeident to the pat- ural state of man. Pursuing the contrast ho had insti- tuted Into its practical beurings on morals, he inquired what motives to purity, beutity and holiness ot life, were offered by vagueness and uncertainty as to the future life? “If when a inan died it was the end of bim, what motive had he for moral development, for the culture of his faculties, for rectitude of conduct? He concluded with a brief exhortation and prayer, There ST. TERESA’S CHUKOH. | OPENING OF THE JESUITS’ MISSION FOR MEN— DISCOURSE BY REV, FATHER DAMEN ON ‘‘THE PRODIGAL 60N.” Hundreds were turned away yesterday morning from the half-past'ten o'clock services at St, Teresa’s Roman Catholic chareb, corner of Rutgers and Henry streets, A mission, under supervision of tne Jesuit Fathers, bas been going on during tho past woek. ‘The first soven duys were specially devoted to women, and this week the men will havo an opportunity of availing themselves of the solomn’ blessings promised thom by the holy men who conduct this mission. Re ‘Mr, C. O'Farrell is pastor of St. Teresa’s, und to his zealous exertions the congregation are principally in- debted for this religious awakening, Rev, Father Damen preuéhed the sermon yestorday at half-past ten o'clock. High mags was sung by Rev, Father Ward, The reverend presener read the gospel of the day, 5t Luke, xv,, irom which he too< ine textol his discourse;—! will arise ad go to my futner, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against Heavon and belore thee.’ This gospel contains the parable of the lost sheep and of the prodi- , and irow its iessons the Ri Winer Damen redan cloquent and touehing Jated upon the muin points of the prodig and return to his father's home; bow temptation lured hin to a life of iniquity im a forcign land; how ne ieil @ Victim to the worst of all bi he at length came back in of arcjoicing parent. ‘The speaker compared this parable to the picturo of a sivner tarninz his back upon our Heavenly Father, leaving behind him the sacraments and the communion table and entering upon a career of infamy and crime, heediess of tuture rewurds or punishments in the world tocome, The terrible cousequences of such a carcer wore also painted mn glowing language, All were then exhorted to tend the make their peace with God; 10 ladios wi requested Induce their husbands, fathers und brothers to avail themsel ft this ope portunity, aud k to their acquaintances of all denominations in relation to 1 subse The true philosopher was the mas who attended to his religious duties, regurdiess of the vanitics and passions of this life. Wealth, honors and emolumenis wero nothing when compared with the lasting bappiness of eternity, What would it profita man ifhe gained the whole world and lost his own soul? Tho roverend preacher, Iu conciudin called attention to the fact. that services would bo hold daily in the charch at five and half. eight o'clock in the morning and half-past se’ o'clock in th Ho prayed that all. tho men might come and edifice upon those occasions, HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1877. THE STAGE DEFENDED. ‘BEY. CANTING CRITICS. Thave found actors Tule, both male and femaie, said the Rev Fred Bell in bis sermon at the Brooklya Academy of Music yesterday morning, to te noble, honorable, studious, high toned, benevolent, and ex- ceedingly sensitive, and any one who knows anything about the drama knows that the profession requires @ poetic nature whieh is far removed trom coarseness and the animal nature which is essential to sensuality, bus death to high art. The ase may put on the lion's skip, but hia bray betrays him whether it is ou the stage or in the pulpit. Iftbwis true, and it is, the wholesale denunciation of the stage is unjust, The stage is under disadvantage, 1t is {riendless, especially when we consider that the dramatic forms an element of success in both stage and pulpit, ! go further, and gay that one might loarn of the other. The pulpit would be more effective if it underwent the discipline of the stage, while the stage would be advantaged by the purity and influence of the pulpit, I do really hope that Preaching 48 Dot considered altogether a protession, though I know a greut many preacho' Dave veeu made to order. We can fx up preachers any lime, any where, no matter what the qualuy may be. ‘If you will show me a man who has jailed ag a lawyer, a mechanic, a tradesman, a merchant, a laborer or a larmer, or at selling tea oven, | will show you a man, ag a rule, who wail iail as a preacher, Show mea successtul preacber and | will show you # man who would excol at anything. Preaching would not se olten be powerless if it were more oe, studied from tbe actors’ point of view. Nay, it would bo far more effective and grand in {i accomplishments, more souls would be saved, peop! would listen more attentively, There would bo complaining about their audiences and no going to sleep, and sinners would be saved by huudreds it wo had live men in the puipit. You remember the reply ol Garrick to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who asked the great actor:— “How is i that you gentlemen of the stage can affoct your audience go much?” “Oh, well,” said Garrick, “we actors speak of things imaginary as i they were real, while too many in the pulpit, speak of thinga real asif they were imaginary, ’? THE DRAMATIC INSTINCT. This is the greut trouble. 1 think it isa fact that no one will deny that the drama has « foothold and pat- Tonnage next tothe pplpt and the press, You may as well tell the sun wot to shino as to bope tu stop the drama, by denunciation, It will never stop ‘and why? Because there is too strongly developed in man the dramatic elements of both tragedy and comedy. Men will havo the drama—rest assured of that, [vis one of the powers of thiz present world. It has fought its way to butnan recognition as an art. It has gained the feid in Duman egieem us un agreeable pastime, and 1 hold i to bo per- sucution to oppose it turtoer, (Applause.) Since this is a fact, and I hold it 18, let tho’ pulpit tace it. Letit doit mautully, not with unfriendly oriti- cisms, but with intelligence and rational piety. Who is going to deny thut the American theatre needs re- It needs reforming by the true lovers of the drama actors ‘© «unfortunate and dissipated and a ice to the profession. These are durk spots which are regretted by the majority of actors, I stand hore this morning to say that tho trical profession will cowpare favorably with any other in the world. Further, I emphatically deny tbo statement that there is more drunkenness and sen- Buality tm the theatrical projession than in any otber. Ideuy it. (Applause,) Stop! Do you wish to have proof? lam making no mistakes. © If vou will take the trouble to examine the police records vou will tind the names of as few uctors as of any other protession, not even excopting the preachers of the Gospel. HOW TO HELP THE STAGE. Then, what should be do! oretorm the theatre? 1 reply, “Roach down the hand of charity and tuke it up. Throw around it the safeguards of moraity. Tuke it out of ite urroundings and Christiayize it, Bring it up to the level of itself. make tt an auxiliary in the great work of making. meu better. Make it safe, honorable and thoroughly cleai Let us instruct | men in the proper use of it. Let usdefena Pps against dissipation in the use of either time, morals or money.’’ | And so | ask this morning, docs the pulpit propose to drag the drama before the tribunal of the Church, and, taking it by the throat, ask for its condemnation? In the language of the Saviour I reply to church mem- bers, I reply to ministers of the Gospel, ‘He that without sin among you, les him tirst cast a stone,"? There is more harm dono to the cause of Christ and religion by the inconsistency of its professors than all the theatres put together, and inthe name of God 1 warn the bypocrite, 1speak to you who won't go to the theatre op any account, Oh, no! you would not bo seen im such a piace. You would not ride on a car or show yourself on the Sabbath aay. Of course not But 1 will tell you what you would uo, You would damp the reputation of your neighbor by slender or get the better ol him to-morruw morning in a business transaction if you could. (Ap- plause,) Oh, yo hypocrites! the time will come when your mask shall be torn off and the cloak which bas hidden the whitewashed sepulchro shall be taken away. Your corrupt and filtby heart shall bo laid bare, and at the juugment day belore the men and angels and the all-geemg oye of Almighty God then shall you under- stand what the Saviour said when be addressed the hypocrites in His time, **How sball ye oscape. the con- | demoation of hell?” If, instead of denouncing the | drama, we can heip to’ purify it, by Gou’s heip we might succeed then in extending God’s kingdom and promoting His glory. LECTURES LAST EVENING. standard of know om. TO THE INTEMPERATE, In the Church of the Ascension last evening the pastor, Rev. John Cotton Smith, D. D., in the last of a course of lectures, discussed the evils of intemperance. Dealing with what he considered the indescribable miserics occasioned to the fumilies of those who had become addicted to the excessive uso of intoxicating drinks—miseriea which he deemed even worse than tose ewhich were experienced by the men who drank—bo came to consider, the peculiarities of human in the different climates ot the earth. In the had beeu tound that the uso of intox- 8 most common, and that in them most injurious, Aud yet the ques- tious seemed to remain nut wholly decided. Wasnota certain quantity of spirituous liquor good tor a mao? and, Ought spirituous liquors to be used otherwise than u8 @ medicino? 1t was clear to him that the quéstions bad not yet been decided by the Tecognized authorities im such matters to the entire eatistaction of those who needed a well defined judg- ; but ne felt suro, with the progress which had been made toward arriving at knowl was tor the best in human hile, that th would afford a satisfactory rule. If that decwion should be that there was, im many cases, a noed for a moderate use Of jutoxicating drinks, then there would remain the necessity jor a struggle against their excessive use. But, if the decision should be that alcoholic drinks sbuuld onty be used as a modi- cine and notas a drink, they there would be equal necessity for a struggle to set aside their use except when ordered by physicians, It was high time thut some decision bad been arrived at. Among the bigher classes degradation of mind and body followed, with its accompanying misery to the family. Differing from — the higher class of victims were those who labored tur bread tor themselves and families, and they were often placed in ‘the position of fveliug that they must have some ex- hilarant to enavle them to perform toe laber required Jor the sustenance of their lamilics, These men and their families often resided in inferior tenement houses, where the existing conditions were not such as tended Ww & Continuance of the needed vitality, In that connection be felt tbat there was great need for an improvement tn the peculiar character of the homes of a very large number of our laboring class, to have them better ventilated aud mado more pleas- ant tn other regards, #0 thut they could be looked upon by those who use them as a substitute for the ale- house. Concerning the condition of the comparativoly wealthy who used alcoholic drinks be felt that there wag great hope for improvem almost imme- diate tuture; but tor ihe poor was conscious that au cflort was needed for the improvement of their homes and general surroundings, « THE NEW 1DEA--ITS MEANING INTERPRETED BY PROFESSOR ADLUR- “A great confusion of belicfs1s being made,” sald Pro, fessor Felix Adler yesterday morning in Standard Hall, ‘Science is subverting the most ancient creeds of mon, now showing how they conflict with Rature’s laws, now proving bow antagonistic they are to bis: tory. It behooves us, theroiore, to inquire into the moral bearings of this revolution, How shall we alleviate those timid Learts who are seeing so much they bad believed to be among the varieties of liie now eipking into the pete og of uncertainty? These now conceptious are called ‘fhe New ideal.’ Does the new reign leave us feeble and forlorn, or docs it the battle fur the good, The modueval make Ws stronger in aud witbal braver aud greater meu? idea, which the new ideal ofa supposititrous and trai decrees the word was ised, the voncerns o1 th’ Ite dwindled into insignificance, while the cye looked wistfully upon the dim, nocortain promises of the hereulter. ‘The ascetic ideas of 1 have Jett their imprint upon ¢) ali the European vations. Tho new idoal is directly opposed to the superstitious. It teaches that there is nothing contaminating in itself; 1t te in our thoughts the evil lies, The now ideal seeks to ro- turn to nature, not to fleo irom it, In re- ality, waturo is the most fleeting of all things, of which wo he catch a passing glimmer through the tions of this world, Jn action and fruition nauire ap- world, and so in man. ture wo m we know mysteri whono Workings we teel."” Adler instanced many forme of prayer nd present times, ‘Among the Hindoo: , ‘such eflicacy was ascribud to prayer that it ‘wus believed the gods could not resist its appeala, The priests could command them, andthe influ. ence of the priests became & suporior power to the will of the gous. Against all these forms of supplication the modetu view of life FRED BELL ON THE DRAMA AND ote gets ite eh protest, The world is ae well adapted, pray for a change in {tis it 8 to pray for ite destruct! The ran com 16 work (hen the droaght id the famine aro also His, * uods help those who help themselves.’ Wo are placed in a world with which we are but half acquainted. We have gress programs: latterly bay bave learned to Sates difficulties, Why thon call in the supersatural? It will not come, cail vou ever so lowlly. It does but eup you from whatyou most nved—seil-help. We have but part of our true interitance ta this world, Let us strugglo bravely for it all.” A MODERN CAIN. ENMITY BETWEEN BROTHERS CaUSED BY & FICKLE WOMsN—THE YOUNGER WAYLAID AND SHOT—THS SEARCH FOR THE BODY AND THE DISCOVERY—DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MURDERER. MooytviLiy, Pa,, Jen. 20, 1827. Up in the Welch Mountains, three miles trom this lumbering village, lives @ family by the name of Lis- top, consisting of an old maa, bis wile, and, until toa days ago, two sons, named John and William. The men were all woodchoppers, and, while being ignorant and coarse, bad never been looked upon as bad char- acters, Joho, tne eldest, was married a year ago wa irl pained Sarab Carley. Tho latter died three mopths ayo and Jobn began at once to pay attention toa sister of his late wife, named Eliza, Ghe, at tho time of the death of her sister, was engaged to be marricd to William Liston, After her sister died and John Liston began his attentions Eliza forsook her betrothed and favored the brother’s suit. The Carley family 18 also atamily of Jumbermen, and of about the same stand- ing as tho Listous, FIGHT BETWEEN THE pRoTuEKB, ©.) In consequence of the jiiting he receivedat the hands of Kliza Carley, William Liston, lookivg upon his brother us the direct cause, harbored a Jeoling .of bicter enmity against bim, This tooling broke out ‘in a Gerce personal encounter between the brothers on Christmas Day, and Willian inflicted severo injury upon Joun with a knile. itis alleged that the latter subsequently swore that he would **beeven with Bill if took him all bis life,” But notwithstanding the two coutinued to live at home und saw cach other every day, bo revewal of hostilities took place, and the friends of each believed that there would be no further trouble. Since the lst of January bot the men had been working in the mountain, some two toes trom home, getting out logs, Ono day, week beoforo Inst, it was reported i the camp that a large bear had been seen prowling about further back in the moun- tain, and 9 party ol men was organized to go in search othim., Among the party was William Liston, After they had gone off into the woods John Liston said hi believed he would go too, and, borrowimg a gun of a fellow workman, foliowed the hunters, FOUL MURDER. .In getting inthe neighborhood of where the bear bad been seen the meno separated, The snow was deep, but covered with a thick crust that bore the weight of the men William Liston took a course down the mountain, The men hunted nearly all day, but without success, And toward evening returned to the clearing, but without William Listoo, Aft he lett the party in the morning noth haa been seen of him, About an hot after he disappeared tne report of gan was beard off in the direction he took. John Lis- ton hud not been with the bunters at all, and returned to his work twu or three hours after be followed the party out, remarking that ‘*be’d had all the damped bear buntin’ he wanted.” It was thought by all the men that William had probably got a sight and a shot at the bear, and had followed 14 so far that ne had been unable to get back as soon as the rest. But when next morning came und he was still inissing the party be- came alarmed, and the whole logging caup, cqnsisting of ten men, aturted oat to look fur him. SEARCH FOR THR BODY. John Liston entered iuto the search, but it was noticed by several that be acted ina and before an hour the suspicion became the men that John bad killed bis brotuer away with the body, This suspicion was turned into a cortainty wheu Jobn separated himeelf trom his com- panions and finally disappeared entirely, and bas not ‘eeo seen or heard [roi since, ‘he search for the missing man was kept up for two days, but no sign of nim or bis body could be found, and it was beloved that either his: murderer had se-~ creted the body 1u someone of the deep and inaccessible ravines that avuund in the locult.y, or it had been a voured by wildanimala, So the bunt for it was dis- continued. THE DISCOVER’ On Thursday last Jonah Clay, a woodman, was out of the mountain a milo beyond the farthest point the hunters had reacbed in their search, testing shingle trees, While chipping a pine tree th.t stood near the edge of a steep-bunked guiley he looked down me- chanically to the bottom of the ravine and saw the bouy of a man lying there on the crust. Clay knew at once that it must be the body of William Liston, He clumbered down the bank to the bottom, a dt of about twenty feet. The body was lying face down: ward, and Clay tarned it Over. Ho could never nave recognized in the mutilated face that met bis gaze that of William Liston. One sido of the face and head was torn entirely off, exposing the ri id edge of the tho interior of the mouth and throat. evident that the terrible wound had been inflicted with a load ot buckshot, and the fact that the flosh surrounding it was burned with powder showed that the gun had been beld close to the wounded one's head when discharged—probably trom bebind. There were otner wounds on the boay, but they had, no doubt, been inflicted when it was thrown iuto the gulch. The murdered man’s gun lay on the snow near him. Clay threw tho corpse over bis shoulder, and, climbing out of the ruvine, carried it to n’s father, The excite. meut was, Ol course, intense among the lumbermen, ‘A JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION was made into the case, which rovealed the facts as stated above, The Coroner’s jury ri d @ verdict to the effect that William Liston met his death at’ the | bands of Joho Liston, The murdered man will be | buried to-morrow. The whereabouts of the murderer are not and probably will row never be known, Will- jam Liston was twenty-four years old; Jobn is about twenty-eight. AN IOWA HORROR, A MONSTER MURDERS HIS WIFE AND ELOPE! WITH BEB SISTER, WHO HAB POISONED HIt CHILD--THE NEIGHBORS RISE IN A BOD! AND LYNCH AND BURN THEM, The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald, ot the 18th inst,, gives @n account of @ terrivie tragedy near Albany, Mo. enacted just across the line in lowa, The paper says: About one year ago a man by the name of Phil. Ames moved in that neiguborhood, bringing with him a wile, u little child and bis iu-law. He secured @ sinall piece’ of land aud 1d upon it tory dwelling. Fora time all toings appeat a nicely inside the family wansion, but it svon be- came evident to those who grew intimate with Am : that there wasn skeleton in the house, that all was not as lovely as it should be, or, in other words, the love of tho household was scout. tered around among too many women. There ‘was a coldness growing up vetween husband and wile, only equalied by an apparent warmth existing between tho husband and the sister-in law. ‘The neighvoriog ‘women duticed that the wile uppoared often iu tears, was neglected and left unpruvided jor, while her sister received the smiles and caresses of the husvard. having nv company haired girlol tive r, she appeared to live and have her bein, ‘At longth ‘on tho 10th of November,’the little chila sickened aud suddenly died. It was buried the next day—arude country burial, a bitter cold north wind, leafless trees aud a cheericss grave crushed the mother’s spirit and bing ede heart. Then it was that the spirit of tne first born Cuin appeared to take possession of the bus- band. He trequently beat his wile, drove her from bis bed and forced her to occupy a miserable straw and husk pect on the kitchen floor while the sister occupied the which belonged vw her. At length the wile, driven to despair, told tue story of ner wrongs to Mra, Rosa McGuire, 8 id the situation in the Ames house! her husband, and he soon had the men of the ne borhood worked up to # point of lynching the wi ural husband, Tuey visited toe house, and would have hung the monster but lor the eras a bie wile, who went down on her Kees beiore ti crowd und vegged the Ifo ol the man who had wronged ber, while her sister, at the first sound of danger, had sought safety in fight, The neighbors |is- tened to the poor woman's a joved the rope irom the man’s neck and set To But not so with Ames. Scarcely had the crowd dis- persed whon he went to the barn, saddfed his horse and returned to the house with & heavy curb bridia Up stairs, kueeling and at ber dead child io with, pbetourave ot her band, be found his wile. struck ber to his feet wi it, drags ber to the head of tbe stairs, and thrown her to floor below, where be coutinued to beat her with the bridie until ile bad departed, In the meantime the sister had revurued from ber hiding place, Auotber horse ‘Was saddied, the body of the dead woman was thrown across the saddle, and, the sister riding one horse and Jeading the other, Ames walked ideand held vody 10 position until a bole was cut in the ice sight, A youn Journeying to the rit tiement told what orses, wore called upon to Reon tee 2 ey ‘yaa! fired inte the “Tee ire rned a volley, woman {ell dead trom her horse, shot yd neck, The man put spurs to his borse and pied to escape in the dark, but ‘4 fortunate shot oroustt be animal down und the murde lorer was captured. HHH ttl that tne} In this they wad th ning the murder ol the wife, live unmolested together, ‘vented by the mob ol a tow hours before, then killed tue wile a8 above stated, The rope gs iz tbrown over a limb, strong men pulled at it and the next inetant boay pended in air, i bee. hrs ihe th ud gether, brush was pil ry = Placed ta their Lewd g bet ed to pile, and all thai the and the tragedy Ix a bow murdered woman reoov- of ber dead ‘the end ES i F a3 gFgs 23> < 08 ashes, The body ot 1 cred ae and buried by tho side