The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 6

| LOVE The Divines of New York and Brooklyn Preaching Christ. ——+-—_— WHAT CASTETH OUT FEAR. 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 SUPEBIOR TO FEAR—SERMON BY HENBY WARD BEECHER. ‘Anew feature in church rousic was introduced at Plymouth church yesterday, in accordance with a resolution of the Music Committee, It consists in prefacing the hymn to be sung by the congregation with a verse selected {rom the Scriptures, and the same tenor as the hymn which follows. Tuis in- troduction is chanted by (be choir, and then the con- Fregation break in with tho hymn, at the close of which the choir chant another extra verse, vice, weemed to give mach pleasure to all concerned, ‘three hymns being rendered in that way, under direce tion of Mr. 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 fret epistie—“There is no r in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: becau: tear batb torment, He that fearcth not is made pers fect in love.” Cettain preachers, be said, declaim against ax 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 feny the truth of these propositions, but held that they do not hold good universally, The ideal Instruction in religion, the consummation of all teachmg according to John, was love. That apostle said that if a man dwelt in fear he was just so much jess than perfect, for tear had torment. Humun life began very low, and as it de- veloped from a purely anima! stage toward an intellec- tual and moral one the influences brought to bear on It at each stage were necessarily different, Many men teemed 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 No man was a good schoolmaster — who brought a schviar up im sucha way as to have him need a teacher all bis lile; and this was true also in spiritual watterx Human life might be said to be divided into two parts or periods, that of bondage and that of liberty, with a wide margin between of in- termediate mixture, partly bondage and partly liberty. In the one, the ruling motive was tear, and im the other, love. Law, us it was calied, thropgh the Old Testament, the motivo is “Thou shalt not,” for it 1s the binuering of evil that the Ten Commandments mostly embrace, In the New Testament the whoie phraseology was changed to “Thou shalt.” The one was the dissuasion of fear And the other was the persuasion of love. THE KOD AND THE CHILD. ment was adapted to a race struggling hood. The reign of fear always preceded sentiment, A child could not be preveuted from putting his hand into the fire by advice which he was not old enough to understand, but it he thrust it in once the pain would tcach bim not to do it aguin. In hike manner to men must be applied such motives as they are susceptidie to. Mr, Beecher did not, thildren should not be punished physically tor wrong. doing and that they should onty bo taught to act right from motives of duty. If a child, he sard, Was Dot susceptible to the beud, there wus another rt where he could be made to feel. (Laughter.) he administration of law was necessarily rade and course among meu in the lower stages of development. In that coudition the majority of inen could only be | Reached tbrough the iniluence of fear, and in that state it was perfectly normal and was the best thing possible at the Lime, though it would lead to something better. This was true also in theology. the earlier periods of timo what was ne was to produce upon the minds of men the fundamental Distinctions between right und wrong, 10 suade them {rom wrong apd persuade them to ao rizbt, aud that was only possible turough fear in the first instance, A God of thunder was therefore set up belore inen to intensity therr feelings. Nowa- days, however, men reached ten times as high a point of sensibility by one-thousandth part of the vigor, just macy AND WISDOM baving | This ser- | lie. | For this reason all the way through the | jor this reason, agree with those who think | | come Christian at all. are interested in the morality and Christian integrity o! the legal profession, TEMPTATION® AND RESPONSIBILITING. But how ts the attorney to decide by what ples he should couduct himself in regard to hi God alone can direct him, To that tribunal be be appeliapt, and be will getan answer. 1 you (he decision of the Supreme Court of heaven ‘incl. yents ? apy man lack wisdom let bim ask of God, who giveth to all willingly, and i i be given him,” What a busy scene Is an attor oMce! Good and vad alke come there; somo trying to see how they can escupe solemn marital obligations; others how they cau fail advantageously; others, again, to try and make the insurance companies pay for a hou yy have burned down; while Lundreds and hu is come for the simple errand of avoiding paying ther honest debts. Now itis not a very oasy thing to ad- vise the settlement of a suit when you know its con- tinuance Would open to youa minu of wealth, Itis no easy thing to give up the contesting of a will tu tho Surregate’s Court because you know the testator wi sound mind, Under these temptations thero at scores of men who have gone down, frow being the pride of the State have become ¢ to the Tombs court rvom. Every one wants t! staining power of the old-fashioned religion of Jesus Christ, SCEPTICISM. Tho first of a lawyer's great tomptatt cism. Controversy is the Iiletime busin that profession, You wake it perpetual; you get so used to asking the sharp question “Why?"? and max. ing the unaided reason superior i the emotions that religion of Jesas Christ, which is above man’s reason, 18 vot beheved in by some of you. The moat brilliant orator in the lust Presidential campaign 1s a foe to Christianity, and he wrote a book in which, on the first page, be inseribed:--Au honest+God 1s the noblest work of tan.’ Scepticisin Is the mightiest temptation of the legal man. who can resist ali temptations to infidelity, lke Jobn McLane, who pod Irom the Supreme Coart of the United States to superintend @ Sumday schoo! union, deserves pratu- lation and eneominm. Ob! let me call on you to quit asking questions and begin believing, The mightiest men become believers, vot through their heads but through their hearts. it you don’t become Christian Ull you reason this whole Lhing out in regard to Christ and the inmortaiity of the seul you will never be SARNATH BREAKING. Auotner great temptation is to Sabbath breaking, A trial has been going on for ten or fifteen days; the evi- | dence 13 all in Saturday aight; the Judge says, “Crier, adjourn the court to ten o’clock on Monday morn- ing.” On Monday the counsel has to sum up ais case, Thousands of dollars, the reputation, pernaps the life ot the client might depend on the success of his plea, How will he spend the intervening Sunday ? There 1s not one lawyer outol ahundred who would not yield to the temptation to break the Lord’s day under such circumstances, and®yet if ho does he ruins his 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 tat electrical power which will be worth more than all the dry study you can give Ifa man doesn’t take rest one day out of seven ho robs three—God, his own soul and his client. Chiet Justice Hale say: hen { don’t properly keep the Lord’s day all the rest of the week 18 unhappy and unsuc- cessful.” 1 quote to-day trom the highest statute book in the univer: Remember the: Sabbath day, to dis- | a8 a Sensitive man suffers more trom some Siight lapso | pt duty than a coarse mau does from baving com- <Mitted a’ terrible crime. Coarse or unclevated men needed the Dantean pictures of the Old Testament to be placed before their minds continually, but if Mr Beecher did it before bis congregation they wouid not forgive him and they should not. WHEN ‘TO TURN ON THUNDER. Men aid old fashioned preaching was dying out, and that the farther one goes Irom centres vf civilization the more bo finds the old doctrines preached. Tne doctrine Was the same, but as men went farther from the centres < of eensibility they needed stronger mora! 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, as it used to be called, the altern It that won”: do try a larger tm ity and harshness, if need be, feur; und then, if you tail, sound the diapason, let out toe harsh thundor of the Jaw, ‘The soul tat sinneth shali die,’ uncloud the future and uncover the pit, aud let the smoke of thoir torment asnd betore their cyes—avy thing rathor than they should perish! But you are not to let this plau run paratiel with vour whols teaching,” Men who acted right trom conscientious motives were under the tondage of tear and could not be : that state cailed the children of light and cause conscience had iear, and pericet fear. Mr. Beecher reviewed the peculiar notions heid by many so-called Christians: tbe manner of life they adopted in order to be saved, Many when they become converted, he sard, n impression that they are somehow to be hfted from the sowness of sin, thal the Holy Spirit is a sort of stationary engine on the top and that there is a rope attacbed to a car and ail they bave todo 18 to hold on and be drawn up, Every Christian life, he said, bas in it an ¢ conscience, it is rising from success stages, aud every man, consciously or unconsciously, goes throug these stages Letween fear, duty and love as understood fu the text. THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, THE LEGAL PROFESSION--SERMON BY T, WITT TALMAGE. “This morning I preach to the legal profession,” said Mr. Talmage yesterday. “Next Sunday I shall speak to the members of the medical protossion, 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 Epistle of Titus, t11., 13, that Poul had a friend who was a berrister, Zeuas by name, whom be invited to come and see him, 1 Man and wished to provi rity, and so he writes Lo lawyer, to me." This which has often b toil porters of Curist and Some ofthe mightiest pleas over made by barristers were made In favor of Chrsstianity, «5 when Daniel Wevster plead in the famous Girard will caso, saying that any attempt to gore an education without Christianity is iow, vulgar tanding all this there bas ene down a adice against (hat protession which is well expressed in the vid epit God work Mere lies « s A prominent clergytnaa ot the last century wrote: — “There isa society of men brought up from their youth sm the art of proving, according as they re poi, that white is biack and biack is white.” This prejedies oxints against lawyers vecause they compel fron to pay debts they don't think of paying, und arraign ervminals who want to escape the consequences of thew crime. Ihave had « lo! equaintance with seen Of that profession, and I have yet to find aciass more genial OF Moro straightforward than re im that occupation, If 1 were on trial tor egriy of my lite and wanted evenbanded jy ter acpmstered to ine, | Would rather have iny case DE 1 a warm attachment for the his comfort and secu snus, the efor Ttus:—" betunged Bring % way an A amoug iis jospel. ceested to a jury of twelve lawyers than tweive te mae Barn proforsion, 1 de- | Members of the lo, nd less violence sacred culling yptations and now bar! and Of prejadies thal pet (here 2 80 man who trvale oF graver responsibilities thi fe who attempts to aische ge Bis iy ade has er; if suCCers. t “arms ore deticate’ fod, great by ao much does io nerd Choatian stimulants and salegnards, Wo ali be. ome cuttia ob be time oF another, and therefore ail By so muen as tis nd fear. | position with only | vent ot | | ton of their cbildren s keep it holy. ‘The legal gentleman who breaks that | statute may seem at first to have the advantage, but he who keeps it wiil have in the Jong run a larger pat- Tonuge and greater success than those who break it, ‘The observance of the Lord’s statute pays not only spiritually, bat it pays in hard dollars and cents. intemperance is avother great temptation of the legal protession. 1 have soen them go down by scores— the flower of the American Bar, ruined in reputation and ruined in everything. ‘THE LAST LAWSUIT, Another powerful temptation jor legal minds is to allow themselves to be absorved with their profession 80 us to shut out the great future. You all know that you who have go often tried others will be all tried 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 is the bighest. There will be no turning State’s evidence, no moving of a nonsuil— the case wili come on inexorably. You, my brethien, 80 often advocates for others, will need an advocate for yourselves. Have you selected one? We have an advocate in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lt is uncertain | when your case will be called on; be ye also ready. Some have departed this life like Coristiavs, others still sceptics. In the latter caso it was the unpar-, doned sinner versus the Lord God «Jmighty, Ah! j what a disastrous litigation! Behold He comes, the Judge, through the clouds of heaven; a great white throne the judicial bench; the archangel’s voico that | shat] wake the dead the crier; the pound of the last | thunderbolt, the fall of the gavel; Come, ye blessed !”” “Depart, ye cursed!"? the acquittal or the condemna- tion, “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand be- foro God and the books were opened,” THE FESTIVAL OF ST. AGNES. St. Agnes! Eve! Ah, bitter chill it was! i ‘The owt for ail bis terthers was a'eold, and yesterday the festival of St. Agnes in the Catno- lic Church was acold aud unpleasant day, although not as cold as Keats has represented in his beautiful poem. The Church of St. Agnes, in East Forty-third Birect, was crowded to its utmost capacity at the solemu high mass yesterday, on the occasion of the celebration of the festival of the patron saint of the Church, An especial musical programme had been ar- ringed by Sig. Marzo, the orgauist and choir director, and the missionary priest, the Rev. Father Langeake, 8. J., preached a sermon on the lessons to ve drawn from the story of St. Agnes, Tho music of the Kyrie Eleison, Gloria in Excelsis and Agnus Dei was from Le Prevost’s Mass in A, and that of the Crodo, Sanctus and the solo 0 Salutar!, from Gionza’s grand Easter Mass, The ordinary choir of the church had been largely augmented; The Christe Eleison, a soprano solo, was charmingly sung by Miss Lottie Simpson, the soprano of the church, ‘Tbe Offertory solo was sung by Sig. Brignoli. Mrs Robinson, Prot. Salmson and Messrs, Riedel and Baldwin also took solo parts | during the service. The services of — this | church are at present held 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 sermon, but, atvor reauiug the gospel for tho day, immediately commenced his dis- | course. St. Agnes lived in the begimuiug of the third | century and was the only daughter of wealthy and noble parents, living in Rome, but these parents, in addition to their worldly weaith and nobility, pos- sessed the far worthier wealth and nobility ol Chris- tianity, and they carly instructed their danzhter in the mysteries of the Christian faith, and she became an earnest and faithtul Christian, When but thirteca Yours old she Was sought in marriage by several noble Romans, bat she refased them all, saying that she was | betrothed to Jesus. Christ, for which she was put to death, and thas ascended’ to heaven with the two greatest palins, those ot virginity and martyrdom Marriuge isn holy state; the Cathohe Church teaches | that it is a sacrament; but there is a better part, a | more holy stae—that ol virginity. The preacher | here gave numerous examples of this, and quoted | largely from St. Paul and otbers in support of this | position, The Christianity of the present day 18 of the sv style, but Christ bas told us that we ean- jod ant Mammon. It ts our daty not only these heroes and heroines of the Church, itate them, We can do itif we | God 18 ever with us to muke us strong to daro and suffer tor His | sake. Between the world and Christ there 1s | mity, and we must choose one or the other, | we cannot have both, In this story of St. Agnes there | three lessons to be drawn—first, to parents to | admire but endeavor t wili, the grace of watch closely over their children, teach them by ex- | an) © no less than by precept; keep them from evil | ociates, give them Christian education, inspire nwithalove for the Church anda firm faith in | prise, to be given np when there should be any doubt the title decd soe aren geenenty Suey bowen t. ral over the property from end to end und make tory of its resources, God says in tne frst place thatall sons are ours, whetber it be Puul, or Apolios, or Cephas. Tho whole world, brethren, is yours, all tho experience of the past is at your service, and you may protit by it. You kpow we are encouraged by example very greatly. Wheu you read the lives of 1) ave climbed high, the climbing instinet we Lot within us, I look back to the great m: ‘ong and, measuring myself by them as criterion, jer that I have dove so little; I wonder that | can home, when mei nl women two, their lives, their all, for the good of their fellow men. Why ts it that you, who are rich, cau be so forgetiul of the world’s wants; that you hoard a dollar when the Lord wants it? Wo bulid a bigh wall around our own narrow lives and sit atease, not lis- toning to the cry of those who are begging ior that we know pot what to do with, Christ says all persons are yours, and from their lives you can learn how to build your own lives. Look wto their hearts and Gnd the secret of their strength and use it to muke yoursell strony. You have building b's mosaic with his Ganaiag inetremont, oks through the pile of stones beloro him aod apiece of the right Size to fit, and he goes on fitting piece by piece till his picture is brethren, way we not db this spirit pertection, and know that all persons inte one man’s heart and find why it is is 80 happy apd cheertu), and having tound out, [ trapsfer to my own soul the origin of bis joy. i don't rob him, | ony add to myself, The hi perience of all the saints ol the past can be transierred into yours and mine ull our lives are transformed by the influence, Not only are all porsons yours, but all ahings too; you bave a right and title to everything you gee, and we aro not half gratetol enough to God (or tho mere physical evjoyments He givos us day by day, 1 would that your religion made you bappler; 1 would cover tho whole of human life with the ripplo of gladness if i could, Tho tendency of the Seriptures is to lilt us above the poisonous fog on the ground up above, wuere the air is clear and bracing. And Death is yours. Is that not strange? We have looked apon 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 aman who casts no shadow and who speaks gently instead of harsnly, Whatcan Death do tous? Let hun do his best—-what Is his'best? ‘To take me from my troubies to where |’il have no more, He can do that; let him | do it when he will, Whoot usis afradot{him? He carries us simply up to our Father’s home; he can do nothing more, 1s it not a wonderful promise God has given us? Allis yours; and then He gaya, * And you are Christ’s and Christ is God's,” Seo the logic of it God has all things and Christ bas all things, and the promise is that thoy who love Christ tiave all that Ho possesses, So we have all things, and so God and Christ aud we are folded up in the arms of the game omnipo- tence, MASONIC TEMPLE. WISDOM—-SERMON BY REV. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM, “Wisdom is a loving spirit,” quoted Rev. 0.. B. | Frothingham yesterday morning. These words are found in the book of Ecclesiastes, aud were writton somewhere about three hundred years before the com- ing of Christ. The book is characterized by deep earnestness. Its key word, if 1 mnay uso the term, is wisdom. To wisdom are ascribed all the qualities that in the Scriptures are ascribed to religion—a# kind of omnipotence, Wisdom can ao all things. Nothing 1s | secure from the eye of wisdom; wisdom is the mirror of the Almighty’s greatness. It is the inspiration of God. Wisdom is not learning simply, for learned men re often very much overwixe than wise. Lt is not genius, for gemius is apt to becccentric, Ibis not faith, for faith is built on experience, rests on observation, and only runs out long on the firm lessons which knowledge discl ‘The kuowleage of nature’s laws and obgdience to their demands— this is wiscom. It is a practical spirit, It deals purely with the comfort of life. It takes things as they are, It inds some good in the lowest, Wisdom j 1s Kuowledge of the world; but whatis the world? ‘The world 18 a very vague expressiou. The world is what we make it, A narrow mind has a narrow world, abroad miud a large world, andathin minda thin world, The worid to many consists in cating, drink- ing and amusing onesolf, whose pelitics consists im | simply putting & cortaiv person into wcertuin place. What is tho wisdom corresponding to a world of such dimensions. This World that has no wide sympsthy, that demands no heroism, escapes trouble and suffer: ing, and endeavors to keep out of the way of dark ex- periences. The speaker contrasted a conception of ‘the larger world as one grander, higher, more sym- pathouc, bopelul and unselfish, and recited an occur- rence of a poor woman who, While sisting on a curb- stone in the city bogging for alma for her sick child, had the child frozen in berarms, 1t naturally produced an inquiry, Whore were the Christians in this Christian city that could permit such a thing to bappen? Buy protest was conirontea by protest, and one of the world’s largest and beartiest workers—one whose whole life had been devoted to the attempt to help and comiort the poor and the sorrowfal—came out and de- clared that this outcry against the uncoarttableness of the world wasa faise cry. ‘The speaker suid that the beartiessness and indiflerence which tue world decried ‘was occasioned becaure the conditions of lile had not been observed—becauge we had not looked at things as they were, A really kind hearted person might reluse to give alms to beggars on the supposition that they were (frauds and impostors and a heeding to their request produced idleness and Pauperism. The speaker remarked that the neglect to study the social conditions of wealth and poverty bad begotten an apathy, apparently, which was hopeless. ‘Tho old system ot helpiulness was abolished; the new system of wise benctaction had not yet boen fully siudied. The speaker also touched upon tbe female suffrage question and said that the adjustmont of women with our modern society was beeded, There were complaints about it which must be listened to with commiseration. The question was bow tw bring about a new adjustment; hew to accommodate the old system with the . He recommended that women should accept what privileges wero granted them, walk through every door that was opened for them into aiarger plane, Little by litle they would gain a new footing. It would not be acquired by any uct of the Legislature or by change ot jaws, for laws were not changed, They wore obsolete by disuse. Women must demand their place, and by earnestness and per- severance work their way into society and assumo a Dew position. ‘The speaker closed his sermon by urging upon all the study ot true wisdom, which would lift them upon a higher plane of Ite, and acting upon nobier princi- ples would be a blessing to the needy and unfortunate and finally convey them to « brighter world whose gates would be wide open to receive thom. TABERNACLE BAPIIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REY. FE. P. FARNHAM ON THE CLAIMS OF TRUTH, ‘The young minister trom Rochester, N. ¥., who oc- cupied the pulpit yesterday morning chose for his text 8 | aportion of the Gospel of St. Jobn, chaptor viin, verse 837—*'To this end was I born, and for this cause | camo I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.” “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 are the words showing the in- tention of no mere experiment, of no ambitious enter- of its fulliment or when its accomplishment of the ends proposed should begin to look untavorable, The result. of Chriss own life, commg as a litle child and as the Son of God, is the result of a delinite purpose. Christ’s mission wus to make known to God’s people the wisdom ot | God; to bear witness to the truth of God’s Word and | Christianity, always remembering that they are only lent to us and that parents arc reponsible for the salv: Secoud, to the y member that purity of life 1s onty to be had by covstant sell-restraint, that an umnterrupted fa lowing of, worldly pleasures avill wean them away from | Christ and jeopardize their chences for heaven, and, finally, to both young and old to cultivate iruc mani: | ness of spirit and courage to do what is right and say | “No? to what is wrong. St. Agnes, although buta lit. | tle girl of thirteen years, bad all this, and was awarded | the crown of martyrdom. CHURCH Of THE DISCIPLES. THE CHNISTIAN’S PORTION--SERMON BY REY. | DR. HEPWORTH, “I want to take you from the land of Goshen to the | top of Sinai,” was the rather sturtling announcement | 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 storeopticoa views This 18 to be the | first ofa seriesof lectures Mr, Hepworth proposes giving ou the Holy Laud. The preacher began his discourse :In the first epistie to Corinthians, tii, 21, you will find these remarkable and suggestive “therefore, let no man glory in men. For all re yours; whether Paul or Apollos, or Cepb things or the world, of ite or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ’s and Christ 18 God's.” ‘There are two classes of persons 10 the community equally offensive; drst, those who Profess to bo more than they are; who belong with: the narrow circle of poverty, but claim to possess great wealth; who are uncultured, but profess refino- ment of taste; who are immoral in their lives, but who try to impress tho community with their sensitive- ness concerning religious things. Such people always find their way at last into the balances, and are weighed and found wanting. The world has away of uncovering ail deceit in the jong ran—ot stripping every onw of bis disguise and getting atthe truth of | things, One may deceive for a litle and prosper, One | does not dvceive for long, and in the end ne sits in sackcloth and ashes of remorse and regret. The words which I have chonen for my text naturally open up this subject foe consideration, THE CHRISTIANS GREAT PORSKSSIONR, ‘They are the golden promise from the lips of om. nipotence that all things are ours if we will but bo. come the loyal sunjects of ont rightful Sovereign, or, God’s promises: The testimony of the entire Gospel of St. John is to prove that Christ was in reality the of God, and we have the uncoutradict- able words of Christ himself to prove the assertions After cighteen centuries of __eriti- cam and faithful study {it stands cloarly proven that Christ’s nativity is that of the Son ot God, and Unat His mission on earth was the embodiment of transparent purity and the trath itself, We may then | take it for grapted, und it 1s not the duty ot every Christian mniuister to yo back into the records and researches of these ehteen centuries to prove tho truth of Christ's words or of St, Jobn's Gospel ‘There was no inudie ground tor Christ aod whore 18 none for us. ther Christ must be accepted ax tho embodiment of truth and purity or He must be considered as the embodiment of falsehood. He | is clearly left w us as the Christ of tue Bible, and it would be profane to look further for proof of tis identity, He came to make known the eternal truth, | and His mission has been recognized overywhore and by all Christian peopic, The points worthy of tmme- diate consideration, contended Mr, Farnham, aro two—the one arjsing from tue nature of truth itsell, that it is realty and therefore is unalterable and should be b ; and the second arixes from the | conditions of our owu iminds, There 46 no possible | chance of deception in truth. We have the inherent rewlity apd cannot yo beyond ft. Truth cannot be warped out ot shape by any force of circumstances He who will not believe tn realities caanos be consid: ered asa Bane man; No child, even, would intrust its | precious things to one who did { truth cat bo tampered with worthy of no considerat but it is no cloud of morn- ing mist to be blown away, no cloud of summer dust, to settle down and be brushed aside. Even the most confirmed sceptics canno’ combat the realities otf lile. SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCH. NEW TRUTH ESSENTIAL TO NUMAN PROGREBB— SERMON BY NEV. CHAUNCRY GILES, Rev, Chaunecy Giles pi hed yesterday at the t believe in realities. it 18 no reality und Swedenborgian church, Thifty-filth street, between | Fourth and Lexington avenucs, The subject of bis discourse was that new truth is essential to all human progross in nations and in morals, Such progress, he said, was always effected tn-cycles, and tho difleulty which stood fn its way Was not fn obtaining now truth, but in getting rid of old errors. The mind was, in fact, afraid to trust the illimitable power and goodness of the Lord. Every religion was regarded by its ad- herents as final, but history and enlightened reason taught that none could be final that was based on tho mero appearance of truth, It was trath that gave to to change the figure, If wo will become the obcdient chidren of @ loving Father. Since we have receivod ij us power over naturo, over man abd over ourselves, It was the staff upon which man should lean, the basis ; THE TEST OF BELIEF-—-SERMON BY REV. } Calvary wnd thero find the exceeding goodness and | OPENING OF THE JESUITS’ MISSION FOR MEN— YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1877. - ay 4 be heme vet Foy: ro by: over” mi jd and naturo. Histo doubt that man’s thp material usiverse means of truth. Without it to do the sumo work in the same way; ing generation would bea stereotyped copy of the preceding, But new truth was tbe most potent ent to break up old prejudices. For inetance, tho the form of all — discovery of steam pad modifi into operation and de- in the intercommunica- said the preachor, in reaching us than cme were not, therefore, the less beneficent, The higher ‘the truth, the slower was its progress, Every mon «ud 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 progross, The specd of the engine gave out alter reaching & certain limit, und then came the necessity for a new principle or truth to arrive at furtner attaininents. In the samo way with moral progress, one principle could carry us to a cer- tain attainment, but no further. Grecco and Rome ere, for instance, the consummate flower and truituge of certain principles, but there was nothing to carry them beyond tho position they bad gained, and, consequentiy, they began declit aud pass away. Jt “was the same thing im the case of religion, Certain priuciplos would carry them a little way what to so! 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 effervescence of .uew wine, old gar- ments that could not be made serviceable because Shey were worn threadvare and their texture was too weal to bear the straip. The preacher proceeded to apply these principles to tho Christian religion as repre- sented by the Greek, the Roman Catholic and the Vrotestant churches, No one, ho said, was more roady than he to admit the good which the Episco- patian Church tad accomplished, but it showed no pew fruih, had no reserve or source to draw trom extend- ing the limits of spiritual life, while in its preaching and polity there was no clement of spiritual progress beyond which tt hud already attained, In conclusion the preacher argued that God did not inteud to put these Himits to mun’s attainments, but rather had or- aang that we should see and know Him in a cloarer ight, WASHINGLON SQUARE M. E. CHURCH. DR. HAZLETON, Rey. Dr. Hazloton, of the Irish Wesleyan Church, preached yestorduy morning in the Washington square Methodist Spiscopal church, taking for his text I, Corinthians, xxii., 4. He said;—The Jews require a sign, 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, familar with philosophy, sought after wisdom or knowledge, and it was with them no crime to look for evidence. Though one of the twelve aposties suid, “Uniess 1 shall see in his hands the print of the natis, and thrust. my hand into his side 1 will not believe;” but he merely sought evidence, and 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 is seen in the creation of the world when Jehovah spoke and all things sprang into exist ence, wisdom in the order and harmony into which matter was arranged. But the power of Christ is morul powor—the power which feeling aud good can influence on man. Should | then ask you for # spect men of divine wisdom lead me not to the heights above or to the depths beneath, but let me ascend the hill of greutuess of God. ho reverend gentleman coticluded by making an appeal on beball uf a school in Dublin for whe educa- tion of clergymen’s sons, Hoe said:—I appeal to youon behall of old Lreland, who, for centuries past, has been under foreign power, and as a consequence we havo been beggars 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 children, Just now the lease of a school for tho education of ministers’ sons has expired, about £10,000 being due. Half of this sum hus been sub- ferived in Kuglaud, and it is expected that the remain- der can be made up to this country and Canada. There is. pothing to which you could give that so much good would come trom asa little assistance to old Ireland. We never regret anything ‘we give to God. You, ai the first church 1n this city that has shown your liber- ality in allowing me to address you, will also give me the pleasure of saying when I. return to Ireland how much you sympathize with them, FOURTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. REV. DR. CROSBY ON THE MESSIAW’S KINGDOM. At tho gothic church corner of Fourth avenue and Twonty-second street yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Crosby, one of the expouentsot old-tashioned Pres- byterianism, taking nis text trom the prophet Isaiah, preacbed to a full congregation upon the nature of the Messiah’s kingdom. Dr, Crosby defined it as all tncluded in the word *tholiess,” and proceeded to the practical application of the text, This he considered under two heads—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 weather to ascertgin tho ship’s position with the certainty with which the same point may be cal- culated from the sunandstars, He regarded thestudy | of nature and tho speculations of science aa to the future, asa species of dead reckoning; while, ov the other hand, the statements of revelation are exact, definite and authoritative, He would be a very stupid naviga- tor who snould resort to the dead reckoning while the sun was uuciouded, the skics clear and the data were available for an exact calculation, As to the future of the soul, there were three classes of options 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 things came up out of the earth and all things went down into the carth again, There was a second class who held a more benevo- lent view of future destiny, and would dwell lovingly upun the absorption of man’s soul into the great soul of Lbeit instincts revolted against the bi Ten materialism propagated by their brother sceptics, and they resorted to a kind of poetic pantheism to avoid 11. 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 couid have & well grounded opinion either as to the nature or as to the existence of @ futuro lile, All these theories, and the many alued to them, Dr, Crosby re- garded as only so many ways of taking the dead reck- oping while tho sun shines, and 1 contrast with their inty be pointed to thé detinite- as concerns human destiny. He neat explained the relation between holiness und good . A man could not, he said, be saved by philan- thropy. ‘That was not holiness, but simply doing good to mankind according toone’s own theory ; whereas (he requirement of true holiness was the alliance of the soul to God. Holiness produced good works, kindly deeds, loving tenderness to mankind; but these were but evi- dences ol bolin Tho thing itself was a partaking ol the soul in the life of God—a rescue of the soul trom the premonition of eternal doom incident to the nat- ural state of man, ’ursuing the contrast he had insu. tuted Into its practical bearings on mcrals, he inquired what motives to purity, beauty and holiness ot life, were offered by vagueness and uncertainty as to the future life? “Tl when @ man died it was the end of him, 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, Si, TERESA’S CHUKCH. DISCOURSE BY REV, FATHER DAMEN ON ‘‘THE PRODIGAL 6ON.” Haudreds wore turned away yesterday morning from the half-past ten o'clock services at St, Teresa’s | Roman Catholic chureb, corner of Ratgers and Henry streets, A mission, under supervision of tne Jesuit Fathers, bas been going on during the past woek. The first soven days were specially devoted to women, and this week the mon will havo an opportunity of | availing themselves of the solomn’ blessings promised | them by the holy men who conduct this mission. Rev, ‘Mr. C, O'Farrell is pastor of St, Teresa's, und to his zealous exertions the congregation are principally in- debted for thig religious awakening. Rev, Father Damen prevched the sermon yesterday at hall-past ten o'clock. High maxs was sung by Rev, Father Ward, The reverend prevcher read the gospel of theday, st. Luke, xv., Irom which he too< te textot his discourse;—<! will arise qnd go to my fatner, and say to him: Favhér, 1 havo sinned against Heaven and before thee,’ This gospel contains the parable of the lost sheep and of the prod gal son, and irow 1s iessons the Rey, tuner Damen delivered an eloquent and touching sermon. Ho di- Jated upon the mnuin points of the prodigal’s slight from | and return to his father’s home; how temptation lured him: to a lite of iniquity 1m a foreign land; how he sel @ Victim to the worst of an passions, and how he at length came back in penitence to the embraces of arojoicing parent. ‘The speaker compared this parable to the picture of « sinner tarniny 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 future rewards of punishments im the world tocome. The | terrible consequences of such a career were also painted | an glowinog language, All wero then exhorted to attend the mission and make their peace with God; the ladios wore requested to induce their husbands, fathers und brothers to avail themselves of this op portunity, aud the males reminded to speak to their acquatntances of all denominations im relation to th subject of the mission, The true philosopher was t maa who attended to his religious duties, regurdiess of the vanitics and passious of this ile, Weaith, honors and emoluments were nothing when compared with the lasting happiness of eternity, What would it profita man ifhe gained the whole worid and lost his own soul? Tho reverend preacher, iu concluding, called attention to the fact that services would be held | datly in the charch at five and hall-prat eight o'clock inthe morning and half-past seven o'clock in the ning Hoe prayed that all tho men might come a | one will deny that the drama has # foothold and pat- said the Rey Fred Bell in bis sermon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music yesterday morning, to te noble, honorable, studious, bigh toned, benevolent, and ex. about the drama knows (that the profession requires @ pootic nature which is far removed from coarseness and the animal nature which is essential to sensuality. but death to high art, The ass may put on the lion's skin, but hia bray betrays him whether it is ou the stage or in the pulpit. Ifthwis true, and it is, the wholesale denunciation of the stage is unjust, Tho stage is under disadvantage, 1t 1s {riendless, especially when we consider that the dramatic forms an element of success in both stage and pulpit, ! go furthor, und say that one might loarn of the other. The pulpit would be more effective if it underwent tho discipline of the stage, while the stage would be advantaged by the purity and influence of the pulpit, I do really hope that nn | not considerod altogether a profession, though I know a greut many preachors Dave veeu made to order, We can fix up preachers any timo, any where, po matter what the qualily ay be. It you will show me a man who has Jailed a lawyer, « mechanic, a tradesman, # merchant, laborer or a farmer, or at selling tea even, T will show you a man, as a rule, who wail Jail as a preacher, Show mo a successful preacher and 1 will show you # man who would excol at anything, Preaching would not go olten be powerless if it were more seriously studied from tbe actors’ point of view. Nay, it would bo far more effective and grand in its accomplishments, more souls would be saved, people would listen more attentively, ‘There would be no complaining about their audiences and no going to sleep, and sinners would be saved by hundreds if wo had live men in the puipit. You remember the reply of Garrick to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who usked the great actor “How is i that you gentlemen of the stage can affoct your audience 0 much 2”? Yh, well,” suid Garrick, ‘we actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while too many in tne pulpit speak of things real asif they were imaginary.’ TUE DRAMATIC INSTINCT. This is tho great troubie. 1 think it is a fact that no ronage next to the pylpit andthe press, You may as well tell the sun nut to shine as to hope tu stop the drama by denunciation, It wil never stop its career, and why? Because there is too strongly developed in’ man the dramatic elements of both tragedy and comedy. Men will have the drama—rest assured of that, [vis one of the powers of thie present world. It has fought its way to buinan recognition as art. It has gained the deid in human esieem as an agrceablo pastime, and 1 hold it to ve per- sucution to oppose it turtoer. (Applause.) Since this is a fact, and I hold it 18, lev the pulpit tace it. Letitdoit mautully, not with unfriendly oriti- cisms, but with itelligence apd rational piety. Who is going to deny that the American theatre needs re- forming? It dovs. 1 needs retorming by the standard of ail true lovers of the drama, I know some actors arc unfortunate and dissipated and u disgrace to the profession, These are durk spots which are regretted by the majority of actors, I stand hore this morning to say that tho atrical profession wili cowpare favorably with any other in tho world. Further, I emphatically deny tbo statement that thi is more drunkenness and sen- Buality tm the theatrical profession than in any otber. deny it, (Applause) Stop! Do you wish to hayo proof? Iam making no mistakes. © If vou will take the trouble to examino the police records you will tind the names of as few uctors us of any other protcssion, not even excepting the preachers ot the Gospel. HOW To MELY THE STAGE. Then, what should be done to retorm the theatre? 1 reply, ‘Reach down the band of charity and take it up. Throw around it the safeguards of moraitty. Tuke it out of its bad surroundings and Christiauize tt, Bring ut up to the level of itself. make it au auxiliary in the great work of making better. Make it safe, hovorable and thoroughly clean. Let us instruct | men in the proper use of it. Let us defend youth against dissipation in the use of either time, morals or money.’’ | And so | ask this morning, does 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 1s without sin among you, les him tirst cast a stone, *? There 18 more harm dono to the cause of Christ and religion by the inconsistency of its prolessors tl the theatres put together, and inthe name of warn tho bypocrite, I speak to you who won't goto the theatre on any account, Oh, no! you would not be seen im such a piace. You would not ride on a car or show yourself on the Sabbath day. Of course not But 1 will tell you what you would do. You would damp the reputation of your neighbor by slender or get the better of him to-morrow 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 sepulchre shall be tuken away. Your corrupt and filtby heart shall bo laid bare, aad at the judgment day betore the men and angels and tho all-seemg oye ot Almighty God then shull you under- stand what the Saviour said when be addressed the hypocrites in His time, **How shall ye escape the con- | dempation of hell?” If, instead of denouncing the | drama, we can heip to parify it, by Gou’s help we might succeed then in exteuding God’s kingdom and promoting His glory. LECTURES LAST EVENING. TO THE INTEMPERATE, In the Church of the Ascension last evening the pastor, Rev. John Cotton Smith, 9. D., 10 the last of a course of lectures, discussed the evils of intemperance. Dealing with what he considered the indescribable | miseries occasioned to the fumilies of thoso who had become addicted to the excessive use 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 Ve.nys in the different climates of the earth, In the colder climates it had been 1ound that the uso of intox- feating drink: most common, und that in them the ellects were most injurious, Aud yet the ques- tious seemed to remain nut wholly decided. Was not a certain quantity of spirituous liquor good for a mao? and, Ought spirituous liquors to be uged otherwise than u8 @ medicine? 1t was clear to bin that the quéstions had not yet been decided by the Tecognized authorities im such mutters to the entire gatisiaction of those who needed a well defined judg- ment; but ne felt sure, with the progress which had been made toward arriving at a kuowiedge of what was tor the best in human hile, that the early future would afford a satisfactory rule. If that well founded decision should be that there was, 1m many cases, a nod for a moderate use of intoxicating drinks, then there would remain the necessity ior a struggle against their excessive use. But, if the decision should be that alcoholic drinks should only be used us a medi- cme and potas a drink, then there would be equal necessity for 4 straggie to set aside their use except when ordered by physicians, It was high time thut some aecision bad been arrived at. Among the higher Classes degradation of mind and body followed, with its accompanying misery to the family. Diftermg from the nhigner class of victims were those who labored for bread tor thomselves and families, and they were often placed in the position of feeling that they must have some ex- hilarant to enable them to perform the labor required for the sustenance of their iamilies, These men and their families often resided in inferior tenement houses, where the existing conditions were not such as tended W & Continuance of the needed vitality, In that connection he felt that there was great need lor an improvement in the peculiar character of the homes of a very large number of our laboring class, to have them better ventilated and mado moro pieas- ant in other regards, 80 that ihey could ve looked upon by those who uso them as asabstitute for the ale. house. Concerning the condition of the comparatively wealthy who used alconolic drinks be felt that thore wag great hope for improvement ip the almost imm diate future; but ior the poor he wus conscious that an effort was needed for tho improvement of their homes and general surroundings. « THE NEW IDEA-ITS MEANING INTERPRETED BY PROFESSOR ADLER: ‘+A great confusion of beliefs 1s being made,” said Pro, fessor Felix Adier yesterday morning in Standard Hall, ‘‘Scrence is subverting the most ancient creeds of mon, now showing how they conflict with nature’s laws, now proving bow antagonistic they are to his- tory, It behooves us, thersiore, to inquire into the moral bearings of this revolution, How shall we eviato those timid Learts who are seeing so much ad believed tu be among the varieties of lite now inking into the black gull of uncertainty? These now conceptions are called ‘The New Ideal.’ Does the new reign leave us feeble and forlorn, or docs it make us stronger in the battle fur’ the good, aud witbal braver and greater meu? The medimval idea, which the new ideal is destined to supplant, was of a supposititious and tranrcendentul character, By its decrees the word was despised, the concerns ol this lite dwindled {into insignificance, white the ¢; looked wistfully upon the dim, uucortain promises the hereultor, Tho ascetic ideas of the Middle Ages have leit their imprint upon the Jife and literature of ali the Kuropean pauions. Tho ideal is directly opposed to the superstitious. It teaches thut there is nothing contaminating in itself; 16 ts in our thoughts the evil lies, The new idyal seeks to ro turn to nature, not to flee irom it, ln ree ality, ature is the most fleeting and ethereal of all things, of which we here and the catch @ passing glimmer through the facts and emo- Vong of this world, Io action und fruition navure ap- bs oled So does it in the outward world, and so tn mi hon we speak of areturn to naturo we mean that higher wer whose origin we know not, whose essencéis mysterious, whose workings we teel.’? Protessor Adier instanced many forms ot prayer in both pus and presence un “Among the Hindoos,” he said, ‘such efficacy was ascribed 10 prayer that ‘it was believed (he gods could uot resist its appeals, The priests could command them, andthe influ. ence of the priests became & superior power to the will of tho gods, Against all these the modern view of lif ‘The world is au order, weil , for when forms of supplication 8 its emphatic protest, japted, I to pray for its destruc it it Must como, . Phe ran com: Tf all that is His work then the drought and the fa wre also Hi! The gods help those e ll the editice upon those occasions, sh ke ai 4 @ THE STAGE DEFENDED. _| fren progres, laucrly wo'bave learned to mek at difteutties, Why then call Tt REY. FRED BELL ON THE DRAMA AND ITB) i CANTING CRITICS. t Thave found actors rule, both male and femaie, re basi gaplessyces nc vassal A MODERN CAIN. ceedingly sensitive, and any one who knows anything ENMITY BETWEEN BROTHERS CAUSED BY A FICKLE WOMsN—THE YOUNGER WAYLAID AND SHOT—THS SEARCH FOR THE BODY AND THE DISCOVERY—DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MURDERER. Moontvitiy, Pa,, Jan. 20, 1827, Up in the Welch Mountains, three miles trom this lumbering village, lives a family by the name of Lis- ton, consisting of an old maa, bis wile, and, until tea days ago, two sons, named John and William. Tho men wero all woodchoppers, and, while being ignorant and coarse, bad never been looked upon as bad char- acters, Joho, the eldest, was married a year ago to a girl nained Surah Carley, Tho latter died three mopths ayo and Jobn began at once to pay attention to a sister of his late wife, named lize, She, at the 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 1s also a family of Jumbermen, and of about the same stand- ing as tho Listous, FIGHT BETWEEN THe pnoTumus, =. \ In consequence of the jilting ho receivedat tho hands of liza Carley, William Liston, looking upon his brother us the direct cause, harbored a Jeoling of bitter enmity against him, This tecling broke out in a fierce personul encounter between the brothers on Christmas Day, and Willian iwflicted severo injury upon Jouu with a koile, Jt is alleged that the latter subsequently swore that he would **be even with Bil if it took hin all bis life,” But notwithstanding the two continued to hve at home und saw oach other every day, no renewal of hostilities took place, and the friends of each believed that there would be no further trouble, Since the 1st of January both the mon had been working in the mountain, some two toes tram home, getting out logs. Ono day, week boforo Inst, it was reported in toe camp that a large bear had been seen prowling about jurther back in the moun- tain, and 4 party of men was organized to go in search othim, Among the party was William Liston, Altor they had gone off into the woods John Liston said ho believed he would go too, and, borrowmg a gun of a fellow workwan, loliowed the hunters, FOUL MURDER, In getting in the neighbornvod of where the bear bad been seen the men separated, The snow was deep, but covered with a thick crust that bore the weight of the men. William Listum wok a course down the mountain, The men hunted nearly all day, but without success, and toward evening returned to the clearing, but without William Liston, After he left the party in the morning nothing had been seen of him, Abvout an hour after he disappeared the report of ‘ gan was beard off 1n the direction he (ook. Jobn Lis- ton hud not been with the bunters at all, and returned to his work two or three hours after he followed the party out, remarking that ‘he’d had all the damped beur buntin’ be wanted.” It was ght by all the men that William had probably got xutand « shot at the bear, and had followed 1 so fur that ne had been unable to get back as soon as tho rest. But when next morning came und he was still inissing the party be- caine ularmed, and the whole logging cap, consisting of ten men, sturted out to look fur him. SEARCH FOR THX BODY. John Liston entered iuto the search, but it was noticed by several that he acted in a strange manner, and belore an hour the suspicion became general among the men that John bad killed bis brot! and mad¢ away with the body, This suspicion was turned into a cortainty wheu Jobn separated himself trom his com- panions and finally disappeared entirely, and bas not been n or heard from since, ‘The search for the missing man was kept up for two days, but no sign of nim or bie body could be found, and it was beloved that either his murderer had se- creted the body 1u some one of the deep and inaccessible Tavines that avound in the localiy, or it had been do- vourod by wild animals, So the bunt for it was dis- continued, THE DISCOVERY, On Thursday last Jonah Clay, a woodmat on the mountain a milo beyond the farthest point the hunters had reacned in (heir search, testing shingle trees, While chipping a pine tree th.t stood near the edge of a steep-bunked gulley Jooked down me- chanically to the bowom 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 distance of about twenty feet. The body was lying face down- ward, and Clay tarned it Over, Ho could never nave recognized inthe mutilated face that met his gaze that of William Liston. One side of the face and head was torn entirely off, exposing the ragged edge of the skull and the interior of the mouth und throat. It ‘was evident thut the terrible wound had been inflicted with a load of buckshot, and the fact that the flesh surrounding it was burned with powder showed tit the gun liad been held cloge tothe Wounded man’s nead when discharged—probvably from bebind There wore other wounds onthe bouy, but they bad, nodoubt, been inflicted when it was thrown into the gulch, The murdored man’s gun lay on the snow near him. Clay threw tho corpse over bis shoul and, climbing out ol the ravine, carried it to Liston’s father, The excite. ment was, ol course, intense among the lumbermen, A JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION was made into the case, which rovealed stated above. The Coron to the effect that William th bands of Joho Liston, The murdered man will be buried to-morrow. The whereabouts of the murderer are not and probably wili 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 HER SISTER, WHO HAB POISONED HIf CHILD--THE NEIGHBORS RISE IN A BOD! AND LYNCH AND BURN THEM, The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald, ot the 18th inst,, giver an account of a terrivlo tragedy near Albany, Mo., enacied 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, bringiwg with him a wile, u little child and bis sister-in-law. ie secured @ sinall piece of land aud erected upon it a neat two story dweiling. Fora time all toings appeared to go on hicely inside the {amily mansion, but it suon be- evident to those who grew intimate with the 3 tbat there was a skeleton in the house, and 11 was not as lovely aw it should be, 1 words, the love of the household was scat- too many women. There was out other tered around among ‘was a coldness growing up vetween busband and wile, only equalied by an apparent warmth e: the husband and the sister-in law, ‘Th women noticed that the wile appeared often iu tears, was neglected and left unprovidea for, while her sister received the smiles and caresses of the husvard. Whole days the wife passed alone, having no company suve the child, a bright, golden haired giriol tive summers, who clung to her, and in whose existence she appeared to live aod have her being. At length, on the 10th of November, the little child sickened aud suddenly died, 1t was buried the next day. country burial, a bitter cold north wind, leafless irees aud a cheerivsé grave crushed the mother’s spirit acd broke her heart, Then it was that the spirit of tne first born Cain appeared to take possession of the bus- band, He frequently beat his wile, drove bi ‘ved and forced her to occupy a miserable straw and husk pauct on the kitchen floor while the sister occupied the place which belonged wo ber. At length the wile, driven to despair, told the story of ner wrougs to Mrs, Rosa McGuire, and she laid the situation in the Ames hougehold before her husband, and he soon ural husband. ‘Tuey visited the house, und would have hung the monster but for the pleadin, wile, who went down on her Koees belore the angry crowd and vegged the jife of the man who bi wronged ber, while her sister, at the firs danger, had sought safety in tight The neighbors |is- tened to the poor woman’s appeal, removed the rope irom the man’s neck and set nim tree, To any but a man possessed vy a devil this would bave proved s warning that would have turned him into better ways. But not so with Ames. Searcely had the crowd dis- persed when he went to the barn, saddfed his horse and returned to the house’ with @ heavy curb bridle Up stairs, kueeling id at prayer, with, a photograph of child io her band, be jound his wile, struck ber to his feet with the curb bit igged ber to the head of the stairs, and Ubrown her to the floor below, where be continued to beat ber with the bridie until ile bad departed, In the meantime the sister bad returued frou her hiding place, Auother horse was saddied, the body of the dead woman was throwa across the saddle, and, the sister riding one horse and leading the other, Ames walked alongside and held the body 1 position until they arrived at the river, wher a bole was cut in the ice the body thrust out pf ght, young man returning home saw the parties journeying to the river, and when he reached the set- tiement told what he had seen, A number of armed men pturtod in pursuit, and arrived at the river bank juat as the murderer and bis Resreese wi mounting their horses, They were called upon to halt, when Aines drew a rovolver and fired into the crowd. The fire was returned by a volley, and the guilty woman fell dead trom her horse, shot through the neck. The man put spurs to his horse and attempt to escape in the dark, but a fortunate shot brought hi animal down and tho murderer was captured. Ar pe was provided aud all the necessary arrangements m for a tron’ funeral, when the wretched man mad the chief points of which are invorporated wement, and he ‘Mo had administered powon to her li hiece in order to get her out of tho wi were planning the murder of the ‘wife staney cong live wnmolested together, in this’ they wore pre Vented vy tho mob of a tow hours before, and tat he then Killed tue wile 8 above stated, ‘The rope was thrown over a limb, strong mi pulled at the end of ‘t and the next instant a quivering body was sus- pended in air, A nuinber of jogs were then rolled to- gether, brush Was piled upon them aud tue bodies of the two inhuman beings placed ia their midst. A match Was applied to tue pile, and all that now re- mains to mark the tans (Upiatk the Shot and the tragedy is a bed of im who help themselves,’ We are placed in a world with the murder 4 phe Saturday and varied by the wae of her “dead