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5 Beligion and Politics Discussed from Various Standpoints. “THE BUSINESS OF RELIGION.” ——————— . Hepworth on the Three Ideals of Mankind in History. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. PHE THRE IDEALS OF MANKIND IN HISTORY— SERMON BY REV. GEORGE H. HEPWORTH. An unusually large congregation was present atthe ©huren of the Disciples yesterday morning. It was communion Sunday, and at the invitation of the pas- tor, Rev, George H. Hepworth, many remained after the service to partake of the elements, Mi Hep- worth’s sermon was suggested by a passage in tho third chapter of Philippians—‘Roaching forth unto ‘the things which aro before.” History, the preacher remarked, te simply a record of the continuous efforts of mankind to accomplish better things, The race, he said, was unconsciously walking in an upward path, the end of which was hidden from view, Things in every age which wore regarded as great improve: ments were in each succceding age surpassed. Tho progress of the world was slow. Like the hour hand ofa watch its motion could not be perceived by one who gazed steadily, but looked at from time to time it ‘was seen to have travelled onward. There had been entertained in the history of mankind three distinct ideals of a perfect character. In the long, dark periods that preceded the rising of bbe Sun of Righteonsnoss perfect manhood consisted in absolute consecration to one’s country. Patriotism in all the old civilizations was said to in- clade all the virtues necessary to a perfect life. Mr, Hepworth cited many striking illustrations of the es- timation in which patriotism was held by the Spar. Sane and other peoples, Alter a time this ideal fully reached, and one country after another, be- eoming filled with corruption, crumbled into ruin. ‘Then it was that the star was scen in the Kast and the Magi came with costly gilts to yhiehem. The peca- Harity of the Curistiaa doctrine which was toen Sched was the regurrectio! ¢ the preaching of ‘his produced a mest roma ect, = lt almost uttorly avnihilated the virtue of 101 Christ Bnd the aposties proached concerning another coun- try fairer than this, and as with wondrous elo- quence its glories and 118 happiness were preached en began to think less and less of this lower world, #0 filled with treachery and tears, THR BECOND IDKAL. From the contempt of the world thus engendered the second great ideal of manhood ana of per- fection of character, Ho wus considered loitiest and best who showed most contempt for the weulth aud Donors tor which men in general most strived. Thu: the ideal men of many centuries were such perse: as Anthony the Hermit, Simeon Stylites and the asceticn who retired iuto the wountuia fastuesses of Asia Minor, These, Mr. Hepworth held, wero ail ut- terly selfish, From his standpoint theirs was un ex- ecl ideal, Tuey forgot thut ail wuo suffered were Bheir breshren and caring only tor their own walva- Bion mace that sure and then prayed for deuth, CHISTIAN IDEAL, The education of the ages hud given us a higher Jdeal than that one not to be found in human life but fn the Book of Books, which teaches us that this world ig bas the aute-room to the reception hail of Deaven, but also admonishes us that while are bere there are duties to be performed. The poriection of this ideal was iouad in Jesus Christ, So tar ag us men are concerned it is an unrealized ideal as the stars from the earth, And yet, as the eurth fecis the mystorious attraction of the stars, so we feel atiraciion of this far-off ideal, ‘'bis ideal was pe Duliar in some respecta, It enjoined not a lineal wan- hood, but ope that was well rounded in ali Patts, pelt to tl Bad just, and who restrained himself perfectly in thi Plements that are base and mean. Tais ideul include: je otber two, Mr. Hepworth said; Jor i! a man werea bistian he was, thersiore, a patriot; for Christianity s him to perform well all those duwes which bim to the government whicn protects him, d to spend ull he has, even lite itself, ior the perpetuity of those institutions which ure to’ se- ure the wellare of bis cutldren. And so on the lefelds yy we find dead diers with Bivies Glasped to their vreasis. We are taught, also, the preacher said, \o despise the world just as the monas- stem required, Dut to despise it just as ono who ‘walks up a long fight of stairs learus to despise the Bleps oo which he trod a moment vefore—is useful- Ress 18 past. One wus thankful for each foothold ‘When it was the next step to be taken, but when it was taken he “reached torwurd into the toiogs which are beforo and jorgot the things that are bebind.” So we ought to treat the things of this world, as they are ft education and steps of advancement toward ir kiagdem which to be reacued at last. the hig All theso things are included in the ideal which Jesus MASONIC TEMPLE, BEY. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM ON ‘‘IHE BUSINESS OF RELIGION.” ‘The religious services held unuer the auspices of the Independent Society at Masonic Temple, corner of Twen- ty-third street and Sixth avenue, are week alter week becoming more and more the centre of attraction. The late comers were ruther severcly rebuked by the Rev. 0. B. Frethingham, who, before entering upon the regular subject of his discourse, reminded the au- @ience that, though they did not assembie in a conse- rated church, he trasted that all the decorum appro- priate to a place of worship would be obsorved, BUSINESS OF RELIGION. Mr. Frothingbam then announced that the subject of his discourse would be ‘‘The Busiuess of Religion” nd to ascertain what religion was forbidden to do by modern society. 14 might be odd to speak of religion a8 o business; still it was really, he said, the most uni- vornal busin op the face of the earth, owing to the ‘various observances connected with the general trust in a Suprome Power, the respect paid to $he priesthood and the indulyence in sacrifices even. Almost every other business was virtually a child of this one; music Was the creature of religious feeling Bnd thought, and ever material commerce owod 1 existence to religion, Had not religton sent out mis- slonaries, made thom go into We wild Janas and peno- trate forests, that a temple might ve built in ther midst? And still religion was conducted less on busi- ess principles than avy other vocation, although en- dowod by wealth. It succeeded less than any other Occupation because men faiied to gather their cuorgy Upon potnts which might be made successful Rengion niso often endeavored to regulate the social affairs ot men. It bad jaid down the laws of matrimony; who should and who should not warry; what forms suouid De observed ; what sanction was required to solempize marriage, It had even goue further and prescribed how long man und Woman should jive Logether, and Dad extended its final authority even in modern sociey over this most difficult provios Bur tt go happened that social plilosopners had som thing to say on this subject, and that tu youny and the old both haa intercsts at stake in this Mutter which cried sloud to religion to keep ts hunds Off from those questions, which it ouly kuows how to Confuse, not how to regulate, The next question that Feligion Often moeddied in was the education of youtn. ume to dictate what vext books should be used 4m puvlic or private schools, what history should be Btudied, what systems and What schemes should be or pastors ther young men and women have been fairly and he hoped the time would never come the education of young Americans should de- ‘whe pead on the dictam of theologians. CUURCH AND STATE. Again religion olten concerne iseif in wflairs of State, It pad ofsen taken to iseil the tusk to dictate whether b mouarchy of republic was to be the best jorm of amen The Yope of Rome to-day undertook to ther the nineteenth century was building up jogdom ol hoaven or pointing to a kingdom ot sin, ese Very men claimed the right o| statesmanship Without having mastered the meanest problem of modern society. The Church weddies in politics, now Javoring this King or that ewperor, We ucar thatthe | Boman Catholic Uhuren is sproadiag. tis @ marvel, Indeed, that it does pot spread more; for we ure ali fender, we are sentimental. The show oi that Church “NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1877.-WITH sented; {tts misused and abused so thoroughly, its historical parts are ignored, its songs misinterpreted, thatthe le whom it attempts to inspire turn y f hte disgust, To them it is indeod asperating to see 30, ministers of the Gospel abusing tbis grand book, taking the very life ous of the only book needed for their spiritual guidance, Indeed, to reaa the Bibie 1 iesauy nowadays is synonymous with being called an atheist Can we wonder, then, that Protest 8 proved a tal and that the peers of modern inteliect turn away trom it? Only that church can be successful where men apd women are allowed to act and feel as prompted by their better pature. No form of religion can su where the spiritual nature of men is not cultivated, It the followers of Auguste Comte had with their re hgion of humanity that courage of opinion required to educate the imagination of makind they would impress results no others bave pro- ry stand foremost in ti ty in their position io nature, and in ion discard those portions that are im- forming a rel perfect and remember that each human being has some conception of the right, What might not rel jon be made to do with its prestige, with the intel- lect at its command and with universal sentim on ite side? What can it notdoin this century? Now that prophetic voices are no longer listened to, now that men and women are floating about as if in aim- less luxury after something called sentiment, what could not religion do? It deals honestly and faith! ully with things that never pass away. It upholds love, kindness, compassion, tenderness, and should not dread philosophy. It has a one system after an- other rise and reach its zemith, and they have all Joued, Let it discard everything, then, but that alone which tends to purify our human life, FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. SERMON BY REY. DR. ARMITAGE ON CHRIST'S DESIRE FOR THE PASSOVER, The theme of Dr. Armitage yesterday morning was Jesus desiring this passover, taken from Luke xxil., 16, which reads as follows:—‘With desire I have do- sired to eat this passover with you before | suffor.”” One wide distinction, said the Doctor, between Christ and other men {s that they live in the past, He in the fature, While they dream of the bygone He peers into the vista of the forthcoming eternity. They stand dallying over those scars from the crown of thorns which marked the verge of sacrifice, woile He draws aside the veil and littsup the flaming torch to discover the many crowns held in waiting for sacri- fice consummated. ‘For the joy that was before Him He endared the cross,” Not only did His far-seeing eye luok down among the atrifos, the couvulsions and the revolutions of the future, but He read the grand results which would flow from His own mission on earth till His heart throbbed io a flame of ecstacy. All through the wondrous years of His ministry He desired to throw a sweet glimmer upon tho hearts of His followers, that they might cateh one glimpse of His deep inner anticipations, Hence He said, ‘*1 have told you before it comes to pass that when it comes to pass ye may believe.” The words of my text express that He felt a divine earnestness, an ardent and intense desire to “suffer” {or the completion of His work, and hence His wish ‘to eat this passover with you before I suffer.” Let us examine a fow of the reasons why He cherished and expressed this buraing desire, why He longed to eat that particular passover with His disciples, Are they not there? Because “this pass- over’ brought that great typical figare te a close on the eve of finishing the redemption which it fore- tokened. On the night of Ieraci’s deliverance from Egypt the sacrifice of the lamb, which commemorated tne passing over of the angel above the homes of sho Israclitos, had established a typical form of Christ’s redemption, and year by yoar, from that time forward, that emblem had been « standing prophesy of an atone- ment by Christ’s death. The faint outline of that old shadow from the pascbal lamb had cast its form over the threshold of that supper room, and there it faded out forever before the ject of the new and living substance—“the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”? Sothat thegld passover was thea and there to give pluce tothe new, which from that pight should ome a perpetui Ajter the bread and the wine of thi was to extend its sphere uviversully—the be seen under all skioz, the sucritice should all lands, No wonder that there is such a und divine pathos in His words, ‘With de: desired to eat this paseover with you before I suffer.’’ ‘That ardent desire arose above all His anguish in that dark @ight; 1t barned brighter tuan any passover tire upon the altars of the temple, for it was quenchloss love impatient to bequeath to man one univer nd indivisible paschal deliverance and festivit, He earnestly longed tor ths passover, because it fu nisned Him with asad but sweet solace in the con- tempiution of his redeeming work. sun bad set, and, for the Jast time belore He “suffered,” He could conv with those whom He lovedso much, [his eurncst desire shows bow really human He was when He inverts our common way ol speaking just to give us @ view of fis real heart sipkings and tuere to ex- hibit the soul support which He received trom all those refreshing ucts connected with His last supper. Ameny His bosom friends you would bave expected Him vo have spoken of their eating this last passover witb Him instead of His cating it with them. But Ho reverses that order, He desired the privile; t celevration, night the true passover gn should 3 ry @ source at such a moment, THX HUMANITY OF CHRIST. Sach yearnings of humanity, however, are inter- woven with His whole life, ‘iis naturalness brings Him very near to every one of us. He is about to enter the dark cloud o! His agony, and bofore the se Ung moon, whose beams were then shedding them- selves through the lattice window of the supper room ‘oken cries would be drowned in the struggle of wondertul anguish, So, before He is enwrapped in the darkness of that cload, He seems to say to Peter— “Brother, draw a little nearer.’ lo James—*‘Cior To Jo ‘My bosom tri clasp thy hand in the desperate darkn: coming upon me.’? He seems to say to all of tuem— “My soul 18 sorrowiul, even to death; the irighttul solitude is aiready gathering; Liee! the chill of its shadow upon me even now; clasp my hand, and les my fainting spirit lean upou you when 1 am weary and k.”? Ab, He is binding, His lows by the girdie pated departure of to-morrow is going to shake the very foundations of bouge and home. ‘The grip of the parting hand is intenaed to sooibe, aud yet the very culimness with which it is extended almost breaks its power of soothing. We say, ‘Let the morrow come if it must,” bat we shut our oyes and cannot look into its coming face, Ab! the two great seasons ‘of life which are saturated through and through with perfect sweetness and perfect sadness are the buman jarewells and deathbeas where kindred spirits bw blended in a common devotion—sacn umes draw out all the tenderness and love in man’s wature, as they did 10 the Saviour’s case. No doubt the impenetrable mystery of ‘this passion,” ite bringing Him to tho threshold of death, bad much to do with tue awe- strickea condition into whichHe was plunged at dilleront times, He foresaw the sharpness of death which He bad undertaken to endure, and because it could not be turned aside He had become impatient to meet it, This 18 a feature of human nature at its best ox for tne fear of death 18 an innocent affection, a natural shrinking from pangs which we must suffer trom the death struggle, And bocause the beginning of death was 80 near its end could vot be far of; therefore Jesus eurnestly desired to eat this passover with His die ciples beiore He suffered, That word “suffer” must have sounded strangely on their ears in the lirst sen- tence which feli from His lips in the supper room, They must have trembled when they hearu it, for it filled Ubeir hearte with sorrow and crushed their highest hopes. Nevertholess He longed tor this pass- over, With ail its foreshadowiugs of voreuvement and death, because though “ye now have sorrow 1 will see yoa again, and your heart shall rejoice and your joy bail bo man take away.” SEVENTH STREET M. E, CHURCH. POLITICAL AND BELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE—SER- MON BY THE KEV. J. 8, WILLIS. At the Seventh Street Methodist Church, the pastor, tno Rov. J. 3. Willis, preached from Daniel, vi., “Then said these men, we shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find against him con- cerning the law of his God.’ The reverend gentie- mau dwelt particularly upon that period of Daniel's life that was passed at the court of Darius, where he ‘was the chiet of the three presidents over the people, Daniei’s record as a publie man was pure and sicad- fast, and his political life was successiul vecause be bad implicit iaith im God, and, strong in that faith, was above corruption or deceit The men who hated Daniel because of bis superior intelligence and gooduess, wishing to put him away from the pablic service, could Mud nothing either in the record of bis public or private lite upon which a Charge might be founded. The conspirators them- selves ackoowledged that they could Dud nu “occasion against him except concerning the law of bis God.’ Intolerance of ali kinds has existed, said the preacher, fascinates mudkinu, wod hence no wonder that | Jor years, and even in Daniel's time it was found nec- go many go Ww it from Protestantism; for, | essary to to bim on account of his religion. Indeed, it 16 not only the religion of sor- | EB ‘Christ was born under a state of lutoierance and L iso the religion of hope and | His death was brought avout by intolerance. They ood, if the Roman Catholic Church ‘would only disavow the mad attempt to control Staves Bnd avjuro temporal uilairs und devote itsell exclu: pively bo tbe culture of spirivaal affairs among men it would attain a grandoar and sweotness never yet at. tained by any religion. Thon its grand and imposing pyrtom would maintain its glorious dominion in the foarte of mankind. 1t throws away is opportunity a arshals ugainst it the very powers it needs lor Ste own detence—powers thai, however, wow will ervah it Tun nInLE, Protestantism, again, nus ihe great advantage of ing a book considered sacrud, read by milltone ot people—a most wonderiul book, the most wonderful bouk, which expresses the deepest sentiments of the an beart, aud containing 1D ite hyimus one constant relations tO this world, Bhought of m And yet docs Protestant understand this book! lis voice 3; nell in glorious and beautitul inorai lines, Qhas are so grand and inspiring that i! we want to ry im ideu we go to that vory book. Aud pours a its prose misrepre- could find po fault io LHe life, ae it was pure and Spotlons, and with envy and malice because of this they crocifed Him, Christ was persocated becuuse of religious intoicrance, and ever since His time good and true men, loyal apd God toaring mea, have been persecuted for the same cauee, They have been burned at the stake and starved in gloomy dungeons, In the Middle or Dark Ages the priests Were politicians, ond when good men stood sn the way Of a political movement they were put away, Darius, King oi Persia and Medea, governed 120 provinces, over which he placed 120 princes. Over the princes were three presidents, and of these Daniel was one. PRRSIAN INTOLERANCE, By nis superior integrity, morality and statesmun- ship he became the chiet of these presidents, and, Said tue preacher, us in tho politics of the present time, they became eavious of him and conspired to overthrow hun, Tey could find nothing against bim save that in the Jace of the King's decres he wor- shipped his God, This they charged nim with, It was piece effrontery which {is paral. loled im the bumtory of our own country, Politicians of the present day, trained in this most un- favorable school, the city of New York, would not hesitate to be religiously intolerant, Iu is the spirit of the age, and it is shameful that the politicians should forward their ambitious schemes regardless of the men of henor and worth that stand in the way. honor in them. T i must be allowed to worship any God or vote any tick he wishes to; he must be allowed to do anything nshes in politios or rel jon, provided he violates no eneral laws, Upon the eve of the coming election it well to study politics closely and to look into the characters of the men who are candilates for office. Vou is not always nowadays Vow Dei. People are ruled and misled by scheming politicians. Thousands do not study the ticket they aro to vote, bat go to the polis with eyes shut and elect men to power that should never be e: him, an ip of State was ni into the trough of the sea, If men in aigh office were God-learing men the corruption would cease, it makes no difference whetner ho be Protestant or Catholic. If he is a God-fearing man ali will be right. Ignorant or uncultared men should not be raised to office. Such a man is dangerous under any circumstances. Ther Bo reiation in office. Keep a man in office as jong as be is competent and faithful. Select m principle, intelligence and broad minds. ‘what a man’s politics may be, is it not times better to have a God-learing, hon rule over us? With such men in office the public treasury would not be so often robbed, peace and plenty: would lollow, and the nation would be exalted. the life of Daniel stands out to-day as un evidence of tho triumph of an upright, God-fearing public man. Let us pray that our ciuly may be purified and our country mude prosperous, PLYMOUTH CHURCH. MR, BEECHER ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL—THE OUTWABD AND TRE INWARD MAN DESCKIBED. It was communion*Sunday yosterday at Plymouth Chureb, apd the attendanco was even larger than usual, The subject of Mr. Beecher’s discourse in the morning was “The Outward and the Inward Man,”’ The text selected was the sixteenth verse of the fourth cbapter of the second epistie to the Corinthians—‘For which cause we faint not; but though our outward map perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day,” Mr. Boecher said that this 18a concentric life, a mao within @ map, according to the upostie’s habit of thought, the favorite gure with him, But it avolued some of the aificulties which in the modern aspect ot the case troublo men, Paul held tha: there were two men to make the one man—the outside man and the in- side man, Without going any further than tho figure, the outward man in his thought was the physical, a man with bone, muscles, sinew, nerve and brain; the mao that acted on matter and was acted upon by matter, and was within the limitations of time and piace, Within this outward man, made up of organs, thero is 8 man of the spirit that thinks, feels, judges, chooses, rejects, accepts and rules—in short, the soul Iati- mately connected with that body, acting for the most part through bodily organs, 1u muny respect subject to them, yet it i 2m passed with som thing so much high at 1t BcomMs as Lhough it wore not on the same piave nor under a common law, Now, tos is a thoug! jubject which, if you think to investigate, altogether soluble or easy. li you are content to accept tho declaration, or rather implications, togethor with the statemonts of Scripture, there ig ho trouble, Tens of thousands have had little trouble about this mat- ter, Tens of thousunds bave none, Thousands, and in an increasing number, irom this time forward will have trouvie, You canuot avoid, in the progress of the research into this question, the chung. come from men’s habits of thinking. You may write it down as an inquisitiveness leading to no proiit, bat the inveatigation is inevitable. Many things tat bave been taken for granted irom the beginning must be investigate’. Many things that have been consiaered settied are like an old field that must be ploughed and planted again, that it may yield au ampler ana better harvest. THE TWO OPINIONS. There are two opinions on the subject of a man’s soul, One that the soul 18 not matter—there the vog- ative ia clearer than the afirmative—that it 1s spii Now we know what matter is a great deal better t! we know what spirit 16, Therefore, when we say that the soul 18 not matier, but is im matter, it lies nearer to our ordinary comprehension than when we say that the soul is a spirit. There 1s no objection toa theory of tue materiality of the soul, but there 18 considera- ble objection to a particular thoory, If the soul be only matter individual responsibility will be no longer possible, it would du away with a future memory, with @, und make this lite a merely brilliant bubble, se Ol immortality if the doctrine riality of the soul prevail It may be held that the soul 18 matter, Dutit is ineffable matter—matter curried ott to a point when itis no longer amenabie to the laws that govern gross matter. We hold to the doctrine that there is a spiritual lite that maintains an organized existence within ail that we call matter, It includes the whole realm of tho ufiectivas, the empire of the heart ana the flow of emotional experience, It ia this inward man that belongs tho imagination, the sweet vagaries of the will, to the ner side of the imagt- Ration, whick is the fundamental element of Jain.’ We learn by this that the character and magnitude of a man is not to be taken by his girth or his power over outward circa: are we measure men we must meas: side, The true man is the man that is largest within, Men aro ranked in this world by their effects, For | the pain of joss; but the soul purposes of society this is allowed; but the only mis- take 1s that m@n don’t measare twice, OUR TWOFOLD LIFE. Life is partly disclosed by our words and actions, ‘We are vot what we appear to be, Ton certain extent we are, but for the most part that which is within 1s the mosi precious. No man who evor knew bow to love could ever express the tull burden of bis teehng. There is no power given to inteliect to express it into thoughts aad forms; it 18a double incarnation which it requires, Mr. Beecher closed by a reference to the perishing of the outward body. Ho said:—''There are certain things which you won’t escape first or last Your eye will betray you; your ear will betray you; your ing band will tell the story; your whitening hair tells itaiready. You rei ber when you were young and sprang like the deer—uow, how heavy your loot is! jow how naturally « man puts these things togeth ‘and says, ‘Iam not as young as I used to be.’ W wonder that God loves meu so bountfully when we look upon them in their infirmities, bat we fail to re- member that He sees through the fogs and the mists of the boay vw the grandeur and the glory of the soul that we do not see.” ST. PATRICK’Ss CATHEDRAL ON THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY AND THE SUFFERINGS OF THE ELECT—SERMON BY KEV, FATHER HOGAN. In St. Patrick’s Cathedral Rev, Father Hogan preached on tho doctrine of purgatory, and said:— Our natural mother nurtures, cares ‘or and watohes over us during Iife, but our mother the Church folds us in her arms at baptism, watches, guides, guards and nourishes us during our earthly pilurimage, an- oints us with tho oil of extreme unciion at death, and after death, when our bodies are returned to mother dust, she throws over our grave the shadow ot the embiom of redemption, In death, even, we are not separated {rom her, for the souls of the faithtul departed aro still members of the Church. Now, God’s law 18 inexorable, and He says that noth. dug detiled can enter heaven, Who, then, is 60 pure at leaving the hie as to be worthy of admittance to heaven finmediately after di And would it ve just im God w vo everlasting torments those souls that rished by sint Certaily not, aud here we ae Indulte justice and mercy of God in providing o die state, where those souls can aione lor past tran gressions oF give sullicient satislaction lor sins par- doued, but tor which suflicient was not done to satisly God’s' justice. The doctrine of purgatory 18 no Dew one, We read in the Oli Teswment, wuere Judas Maccabeus, alter gaining @ victory im battle over his enemies, Oruered Ubat « subscription be taken up in order that it should be sent to Jerusalem to hi sucrifice offered im tho Temple for tue souis of the de- Parted fuithlui, [but saccitice was to be offered in a public place and beture the people, consequently 1+ was known to everybody and could have beeu notning now, We tind in whe seriptures where it is stated that some souis suall be saved, yet so as by fire, and again, that thore are some #ins wiiich will not be forgiven in this world or tn the world to come. It 16, tueretore, evident that they must be atoved for in a middle place. If God be mercitui He 1 also just, and His Justice requires that ain be wtoned for eisner in this lie or the next. THE PAINS OF PURGATORY, Theologians teli us that the suiferings whieh the souls eudure 19 purgatory are similar to taose suf: fered by tue souls im Boil, und, like them, of a two- fold nature. Thoy are the pains of tue senses and in purgatory 18 cou- scrous of the fact thar it will one day enjoy the veatitic viston, Il, then, the suferings bo 80 terribie how unjast, how cruci aad how ill navured are uot Wo bo see a fellow momber suffer such dre 1ul tormonts and not relieve him when we can 80 by our prayers, our alms, our mortifications and penances, aud greatest of uli and more than all by baving the most holy sacritice of the mass, the sacri- fice 01 Calvary itseii, oflered up jor them,’ They aro still membere, the suffering members, of the Church, but aro unable to help themsoives, Shoald wo then be uuminutul of them, We may one day be so situ- ated, theresure we should not forget that we will want others to du for ns What they now want us to do for them. 1t18 possible (0 go ut once into heaven im- mediately after death, but in toat caso our lives should be exemplary indeed, if we committed but one woertal sin in all our Ife, and died without having obsaincd forgiveness, we would be lost jor all eieruity, if the evernal pua- jehinent of sin bas been remitted there is yet Whe Lem poral left, and that must be endured either bere or in purgaiory, We shoulu not be unminatal of the suflerings of tue elect of God, for they are continually crying out to us, “O pity mel Atleast you, my friends, have pity on mo!’ We should do everything in our power to help thom, knowing that when relieved from the! suflerings they will be intercossors belore tho throne of meroy ior us, And if we want that the term of our i ment uld be short we will so order our lee that the justice of God will not require much sat- isfaction. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH. ON THE STORMY SEA OF LIVE—OCHRIST OUB OCAPTAIN—SEBMON BY THE REV. DB. CURRAN, Church, Twenty- eighth street, yesterday morning was celebrated by the Rov, Father Byron and the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr, Curran, The preacher took his text from the gospel of the Sunday, Matthew, viil., 23-28, Our Lord, be sald, is represented by the evae- gelist as leaving the shores of a cortain land, and going into a vessel, followed by His disciplen Tho vossel wont out to sea and a storm arose, which tossed the bark among the waves until the disciples becamo airaid and went to the Master, saying, ‘‘Lord, sav us or wo perish.” The Master was sloepii bat the disciples awakened Him, and to thom He then ad- dressed Himself ;—*O ye of little faith!” fe cried, ro- proacbfully, After rebuking them He commanded the winds to be still and the waves to rest, and there was at once agreat calm, The disciples, secing this, askod each other what manner of man could this be whom even the winds and the sea preacher, not to obeyed, It is impossible, said adiire the simplicity of manuer His truth and doctrines, e know that to reach heaven we must follow the divine Mastor, but tho truth 18 placed before us in a form so simple that our minds canpot vat be convinced that in heaven thor ‘a pure simplicity which forbids doubts, lears or theo- rics, ‘The Gospel teaches us the lesson of our lives; for it we look back we can seo that obildhood Is like the calm, quiet and undisturbed life of the Master and ‘His disciples in the peaceful village from which they burked 1 go forth upon the sea, und, having once ntered upon our responsible curcor, wo fod that we are out upon the sea, with tho winds butuling us uod the waves tossing us bisher and thither, But through ail tho storm we hear the Master’s vuico calling ou us to follow, to keep Him in sight until the snore peyona ig reuched, 1t 18 for us, in t ‘ay wo spond our lives, to determine whether wo shail hearken to the Muster’s voice and follow alter Him to heaven, or to embark on somo other course under the lead of sume Other captain, where there is only an alluring voice assuring us that we shall not be ebipwrecked, but the y of which we shall learn when shipwreck over- us, But jt 18 ordained that we must pass over the stormy sea ol life; we must go through the dan- gers and tribulations with which we are Lo be alllictes; god unless we have the divine assistance helping us the temptations and tho pleasures of the worid will cortainly o' coach us and we shall fall under the sway of the enemy of our souls Tho worl. is full of obstacies to man’s spiritual progress, it 16 @ con- stant turmoil from firat to last, a never ending war-, fare between viriue und vice, between the voice of God calling on uu to Keop with the Muster and tho impulses of our nature urging us to seek the passing Bratifications around us. HUMAN PROPHNSITINS DANGEROUS. Those who go through Iife ignorant of Ged’s revela- Hl us that they see uotbing wrong 1u following that as God bus placed them in our souls they are there tobe obeyed. bus is the mind blinded, the will corrupted aud inaa led by eusy transitions jnto the most feartul orimes. Lt is for- gotten that these natural tendencie the natural Consequences of sin, for they were created by sin. They ure given to us by God that our souls may be sifted and tried and purified. Woe ure all prone to them; the waves of passion beat against us constantly ; we are ever in dauger of sinking into the depths of sip, But when we call ou the Master to calm the turbulence of our hearts, howsoever agitated they may Le, and We have faith ip merciful intervention, we heed have no fear, for peace shall come upon us and our souls Ond rest afier The world shows us vico in all its tinsel bigbest, Spectous attractions P Jess forms, and benee we have to be ever on our guard, We mast, then, never cease to call upon tho Master. Hoe who calmed the stormy sea can bring peace to our disturbed souls, and no matter how great may be the perils with which we find ourselves bi we must bave faith in His power to bring us throagh them to be our leader on the jour: wow the shore beyona, where may enjoy eternal peace and rest, THE JERSEY CITY BOND SCARE, the in ich God teaches THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF FINANOE MAKES AN EXPLANATION. Mr. M. M. Drohan, President of the Board of Fi- nance of Jersey City, laughed heartily last evening at tho sensational report about the theft of bonds of city officers, “The wild rumor,’’ he said, ‘‘must have been based on the scare which Jobn T. Van Cicef, clerk of our Board, and two of his as sistants received on Friday. It occurred in this manner:—Krom the time that’ Hamilton, the default- ing Treasurer, absconded and destroyed his bonds, thereby leaving the city no redress against his bonds- men, I came to the conclusion that there was som thing very loose in the management of the city’ aflairs, As soon asl ontered into office I procured a vond book, in which copies of the bonds of city officials and constables should be kept, so that if the originals were destroyed the copies could be given in evidence. On Friday 1 took some of the bonds of 1873 (wbich really of no value now except as a matter of record) from the safe, the key of which I alone hold, and handed them to two assistant olerks to be copied, nader the supervision of the clerk, Mr. Van Cleef, When the young men went to lunch they closed the door, 1 presume, till they supposed it ‘was fastenod. A gemtioman who entered the office soon after saw the vonds lying loosely on the table and be immediately came and reported the caseto me. I told him to bring me the bonds forthwith and I locked them in the sale at my house. When the clerks returned from lunch they were terribly scared at the disuppearaace of the bonds, s0 scared that they did not re’ the matter to me, On Saturday morning, when 1 thought they had suffered enough from their scare, | handed them the bonds, with a warning not to be 80 careless again. While workof this kind is in progress I unlock the safc and hand the bonds to the clerks 10 the morning aud lock the p: up lely in the evening. The lock on door of the office is a ou will see by this (showing a key), easily opened by any person except the members of the Board of Finance and the clerk. The bonds in question were twenty-seven 10 number, consisting of constables’ bonds, the bonds of the City Collector and City Clerk. The affair will, however, be a lesson to the clerks in future. It we only hud a copy of Hamilton’s bonds after he had destroyed them the city could now recover the fall amount of his defaication from his bondsmen. Suits are now pending to recover from the city the amount of several of the bon tolen by Hamilton, The entire amount we will be called on to pay 18 $67,000, and it is douvtiul if the city recovers a doilar irom Hamilton’s bondsmen in the absence ot the bonds, Atall events, the Board of Finance will see to it that no dishonest official shall find such a loop- hole for escape herealter, The statement that the bonds are now in my house is pare fiction, They aro in the safe at the City Hall,” THE OCIGARMAKEKS, ‘The committees of the Central Organization of the cigarmakers om strike wore in consultation yester- day forenoon, trom eight to twelve o’clock, at bead- quurters, avenue A, perfecting arrangements to carry out thor plans. The ejectment cases now om the docket are the most interesting points to be at- tended to immediately, and a largo furce of the legal fraternity will have to bo engaged to jook after them, The summary dismissal of a case before Judge Campbell on Saturday last by the withdrawal of the couusel for the prosecution cannot be regarded as a legal prece- dent, and bence the decisivos in other cases which are to 1ollow—some of them to-day—will bave au im- portant Leuring upon the stavute reguiuting the rights of Isndlorus and tenants In th Some important developments respecting tn rike aro expecied either to-day or to-morrow, The receat reports about the illegality of transterring cigars from ono point to abother without the required revenue stamps among other matters, to be thorougbly investi- 4, BELEASED ONLY TO BR ARRESTED. OMieer Brown, of the Tnirtecnth precinct, was called upon yesterday morning by a man named Loew. enthal to arrest two Bohemian cigarmakers, Frank Posptel and his son Joseph Pospicl, of No, 405 Grand street Loewenthal had told the officer that these two persons had a boy named Samuel Freund locked up in a room tn Clinton street, near Grand, and wey were endeavoring to force bim to Join the strike, The officer went to the house tn Clinton street and found the boy u@ stated, locked up there. A number of Cigermakers, men ‘and women, crowded around tho officer and endeavored to explain to him the reason uf their action, but a8 be could not wodersiand them, nor they him,'he brought the boy Freund to the Deiuncey ' street stavion house und thence to Essex Market Court, belore Judge Uttervourg. Judge Otterbourg considered the action of the Pos- Nols altogether unjustifiable and id the father in 500 bull to keep the p nd fined the ron $5. At this potot Internal Revenue Inspector Swantor ne wanted to arrest the boy Freund, but the magistrate told bim he could not arrest him io the court, but might do iton bis own responsibility outsiae, The Inspector waited ill the exit of young Freund from the court rooin and then took him iio custody on a charge of having 10 his possession unstamped cigars. BURIED ALIVE, Coroner Sims was notified yesterday to hold an in- quest on the body of William Kelly, a laborer, wuo was buried alive on Saturday afternoon by the caving in of an embankment of sana, in which he was work- ing, at the corner of Hancock street und Ralph ave- nue, Brookiyo, [fhe deceased was missea from his home, corner of Classon avenue and Baltio street, and, sourch having been mado for him, a box of tools be- longing to the anfortanate man was found near the party of spot where be had beon | seen alive, A en set to work with shovels, and aiter the carth beneath the nkment they the dead body of Kelly, who had cyHently been buried alive, SUPPLEMENT, THE PATENT OFFICE Sketch of the Bureau from Its Organization. THOMAS JEFFERSON'S PET SCHEME The Expansion of American Industry Indicated. | EFFECT OF THE RECENT FIRE Wasmatos, Nov. 2, 1877, Tho recent Patent Office fire bas been made the sub- ject of an elaborate and carefully prepared article upon the history of the office from its earliest days to the present time, which will appear in the next number of the Patent Ofice Gazette, It was prepared by Mr. Frank A. Burr, the chiel of the Gazette division of tho office, and fourteen neat pboto-lithographic Mlastrations bave been furnished by Mr. Gardner, the head of tho draughtsman’s division. Some months since the Hsravp printed in connection with a lengthy lottor from General Kis Spear, the Commissioner of Patents, to Secretary Schprz, a synopsis showing the business done by the office up to the date of the pub- Neation and some other matters of a general character pertaining to the office. Tne forthcoming official re- port covors the samo ground in detail, and gives in addition some facts that possess particuyar interest to the general reader, connected as thoy are with this the most cbaractoristic of American inatitutions, which 10 {ts infancy was tho pride ot Thomas Jeffor- son, aud was ultimately the causo of a vigorous dis- agreement between the statesman of Monticello and some of tho gentiomen composing tho legislative branch of the government. ORGANIZATION O¥ THR BUREAU. The report gtves tho following insight into the or ganization of the Patent Bureau:—By act of April 10, 1790, the first American patent system was founded, ‘Thomas Jefferson inspired 11 and may be said to have beon the father of the American Patent Ofiice, It is matter of tradition, hauded down to us irom genera- tion to generation by those who love to speak of Mr. Jefferson aud his virtuos and ecceutricities, that when an upplication for a patent was made under the frat act he would summon Mr, Henry Knox, of Massachu- setts, who was Secretary of War, and Mr, Edmund Randolph, of Virginia, who was Atiornev General, these officials being designated by the act, with the Secre- tary of State, @ tribunal to examine and grant patents, and that these three distinguished officials would ex- amine the application critically, scrutinizing each point ot the specitication and claims curelully and rigorously, The result of this examination was that during the first year a mejority of the applications tailed to pass the ordeal, and only three patents wore granted, Tho trouble between Mr. Jefferson and his co-workers of tho Board of Commissioners and the patent interest as reprosented in Congress culminated in this way:—There was no provision for an appeal from the decision of the tribunal above named by the act of 1790, and the strictness with which it exercised its powers was the cause of serious complaint. In- Ventors contended that these officers oxercised arbi- they were, by education and to the Classes whe sought the benetiis of the Patent Jaw, ‘be impetus given to invenit: 4 of 1790 created inioresis hostue to tho vision and rejection which it author- ized, and go rapidly did they develop thas in 1793, by tne act of February 24, this power was destroyed, much to the detriment of the material interests of the country. WORK OF THE OFFICE. The original cost of a pateus to the inventor was about $4; it 18 now $35, Waring the years trom 1790 to 1802 uw single clerk in the Siate Department per- formed the work of the Patent Office, aud a dozen Pigeonboles cuntained tho entire records, In tuat your quite a noted scientific gentleman, by the nu: of Dr. Toornton, was appointed vy Mr. Jeflerson to t office, and he was thercaiter utyied 148 superustendcat. For twenty-six years he was the autocrat of toe Patent Office, aud oie queer stories are related us to his man- agement Of ils affairs, An oificial of the depurtmeut Telates that during his superintendence he conceived himself to be vested with much discretivnary power, he Patent law was refore exercise ot fees, thi ‘was quite a deficit between the amount that was and thas which snould have been to the credit of the pateut iund in tbe Ireasury. A story is told of him that daring the war of 1812, when the British captured the city of Wasbiogton and destreyed the Capitol batiding, a loaded caunon was trained upon the Patent Olfice for the purpose ol destroying it, aud he 1s said to have put bimself before the gu a frenzy of excitement exciaimed, * men, or only Goths and V Ly Ofioe, a depository of the ingenuity and inventions of the American jon, in which the whole civilized ‘world is intereste Would you destroy u? Lt fre away, ana let the charge pass through my body.” ‘the effect is said to have been magical upoa the sul- diers aud to nave saved the Patent Office from ao- struction. Nomi The pumber o! OF PATENTS GRABTED. atents granted euch year from 1790 to Juiy 4, 1836, 18 us follow: 1a 1790, 8; iu 1791, 38; 1m 1792, 11; In 1793, 20; In 1iv4, 22; sm'1796, 12;'in 1798, 44; 1m 1497, 61; 10 1498, 28; {a 1799, 44; 10 1800, 41; 10 1901, 44; 10 1902, 65; 10 1803, 97; iu 1304, 04; 1m 180, 67; in 1806, 63: 99; in 1508, 168; '1m 1809, 203; iu 1810, 22s. 210; 1m 1612, io 1813, 181; in 1814, 2i0; 1 173; im 1816, 206} 10 1817, 174; 1m 1818, 222 166; in 1820, 169} im 1821, 165; im 1822, 200 173} in 1824, 228; 10 1825, 204; im 1826, 823 331; in 1828, 363; im 1829, 447; im 1830, 544} 673; im 1882, 474} in 1833, 586; 1m 1834, 630; 757; mm 1886, 723. ‘Tho tecs which were the results of this business had accumulated a surpius om Junuary 1, 1837, im the Treasury to the creuit of the patent iund over anu above all expenses incarred of $156,907 73. ‘The propeusity vf the American to got up new-fan- sled ideas is ilustrated by a comparison of this table witha of patents granted in Eugland dur- jog tho tea years vetween 1620 aud 1880. by which it is shown that she average yearly Englsn t was 145. Tho jaw of 1836 created the present caveat sys tem, by which an inventor cap, by paying $20, fi the Patent Ollice a caveat setting jurth the design and purpose of bis invention, its principal and distinguish. ing cbaractoristics, aod praying {or protection ot his Fight until be can mature bis invention, This paper is Qied in the coulidential archives of the office and when the patent was takeu out the sum of $20 deposited as a feo for filing the caveat is applied upon the regular fees for 1asuing the patent. THK FIRB OF 1836, Up the morving of the 1léth of Docember, 1836, the Post Office building Was discovered to be on tire and altuough many of the archives of the General Post Office Department were saved not a thing was pre- served in the Patent Office save one volume from the library, of litle vatue to aay oue, There is no graphic description and very little om record of interest about this imteresting event, ‘The reorganization of the Patent Oflice, alter the fire, upon a basis 01 cight employés was regarded by many persons as grossly extravagant and in violation of civil rvice interests, RULKS AND PRACTICR, As & matter of interest to many who are not familiar wita tne actual work of ao examiner under the law and (he existing rules and practice of the ofice we proceed briefly (o describe 16:—Alter an application for & patent ie completed by Ailing specitication, pett- tion, outh, drawing, the case i# sent to the examiner Of the ciass to which it belongs. His duty is to grant OF rotuse a patent, as may appear right, alter due amination. He is required, first, to diligently seru- tinize the specification, to devermine if 118 ia proper form and suitable language, himsell correcting slight inaccuracies in grammar OF orthography; and seeond, to compare the description of the device in the speci- fication with the drawing and model, as well as wit tbe applicant’s statement of the nature of bis inven- stance, or if any of the parts named conflict with each other, the attention of the sapplicant js called to the deficiencies in the first oMce letter, and ho has an opportunity to correct them by amendment This examination re- lates to both the noveity and utility of the ulieged in- vention, The latter question is easily disposed of, since, under the rulivgs of the office and the courte, every invention 1s considerod ‘‘usefal’’ 1 not actually found pernicious or dangerous, Jt sometimes occurs that @ mechanical device is pronounced smoperative and @ patent reiused, bus in such a caso the applicant is allowed to file wfMidavits to the contrary. in tact, It the applicant's faith in the asility of bis invention 1s strouy enough to lead him to pay the office fees, he 1s thought to be the best Jauge of this question. The question of novelty 1s hard to decide, This is determined by a reterence to American and foreign patents, printed acientilic Works tn ali languages, and all the Information tbe examiner ts ablo to collect from all sources relating to the art upon which he ts especi- ally employed. INCREASR OF BUSINESS. The 7,000 models of 1836 had expanded to nearly two hawdred thousand in 1877, They wero arranged before the fire In classes, euch class in chrouological order, This vast collection iilusirated to the eye of the Visitor almost at a glance the growth of each art. Some of thom, suchas sewing machines, harvesters and tho tke were purely original American inventions, ‘Thig col mn was the one ning of all others which foreign visitors wero ir to ad it was aniver- Bally admired aad commended by them, was nothing equal to it in tho world Besides being a 3, preierenerpeattians grand example of the of American industry ¢ ‘Was a useful school jor those who take an interest to mechanics, whether for profit or re itisin daily use by ple of every class who are interested in indi arts as @ record in whic! a of sare frecvens ia tobe found and opportunities provements indicated. . VALUE OF PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHY, Perbaps one of the most valuable auxiliaries to the Dusiness of the office, and one of the most im: — sa Snvenaens the ag faae See pao ithography whi 4 now employs in the reprodac- tion of its records, For years the increasing bust ness of the office and growing demand for copies of | drawings and illustratious seriously taxed the Ln and ingenuity of its officials, Patentees and ¢! ia, terested in certain classes of patents wore obliged te : have tracings or drawings made at large 00 4 mouut ot hard and a vast work, 1o 1861, duri administrat ot Mr, D. P. Holloway, an effort was made to reproduce drawi: by the common silver print Piatoemen. Before . periment was fully tried, howover, the war so dis . turbed 4] 1s business that it was discontinued, pat But trom the first issue of July 1, 1869, the office 4 sumed reprodaction by this twelve co; each patent being le; som them are istence, and as compared with the and economical system are great curt BYVCT OF THE RECKNT FIRE, ‘The result of tho lato fire was by ne means as disas. tro as that of 1836, although twenty times the amount of property was destroyed. In 1836 the written und illustrated records of the office were consumed, fire of 3 the « ing” and the rejected mod: orus will indi cate their value respectively, possible rosulte of the loss, When ap application is sent to the examiner, the model goes with \t, and is placed dering the pendency of tho application, on ite suelt in his model cases, So great ver of applications, however, ia that for lew years cases were overcrowded, and 1 sar, hort intervals, to remove all but the newest models tv small rooms in tho West Hall of the Model Room, where they were kept as part of the secret archives of the office, There they remained until the application was fnally disposed of, eitner by allowance or abandonment, These constitute the class of pend- ing models, of which several thousand were ‘Their value 1s uificult to ascersain. Macy of the cases will undoubtedly be rejected, when the models wilt cease to have value except as curiosities, Im case of ale Jowance of any, the inventor will bo invited to furmish & new model, which, alter careful con pareen Ue the examiner with the specification and drawing, will, if found satisiactory, be placed im its proper case pre cisely as if 1b were the original, ‘The pecuniary loss in these cases falls om the in ventor alone. Hard as this may appear, where aa pensive model has been destroyed bey se no faa ot bis own, there is no law under which can find relief, zave by dechuing to furnish the model, This, of course, ts ut bis option, In allowed applications the models, while awaiting ayment of the tinal fee and issue of the patent, are ptin cluse cases also 1n the West Hall These be Jong to the class of “pending” models, but are techni cally known as ‘*issue’’ models, aud also aumbered several thousand, A circular hus been sent to each of the inventors, inviting him to furnish a duplicate, on the receipt of which the cage will be remanded to the examiner, If he finds the model acceptable, it wil be. Tepareee as if original, it will be seen that while the aggregate money value , of these models is very great, the loss is, neverthe- | ess, widely distributed, and by po means irreparable, ~ AFRICAN EXPLORATION. examiner's ‘Deces- VALUE OF THE LETTERS OF STANLEY LAST PUB= LISHED, [From the New York Graphic, October 9.] Henry M. Stanley’s first two letters are at hand. It is a rare thing for any newspaper to be able to present so valuable a page. . It is already obvious that the nigh reputation of Stanley is to bo still further considerably enoanced by bis narrative of his great journey, Tne spirit of bis letters 1s that of calm confidence in him. welt und genorous appreciation of others, The tone in which he speaks 0. Cameron and other explorers, predecessors and contemporaries, is quite chivalric, and shews the daring traveller to be as magnani- mous ag brave. ‘ihe awkward and ‘infamously inac- cures’ mups of the Portuguese of the wer Tesponsibie for tis most serious dange! aud he conciudes that ‘hypotheses are uries in Central Africa,’’ The most interesting of the letters is that written by the traveller im the hoart of the continent and sent out by an Arab merchant Is chronicies the besetting obstacles, but 18 tuil of hope and pluck. All hovor to Henry M. Stanley and to the Bewspapers that gave him a chance, a AN APPRECIATIVE VIEW OF THE GBEAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED. [From the New Haven (Coan.) Journal and Courier.) The arrival of the Huaup-Telegraph expedition at the mouth of the Cougo from Zanzibar marked an era in Alrican discovery, In 1ts organization, its objects nd results it dillered from those that preceded it. 1t Was nota government cnterprise nor was it und taken by one or more geozrapnical societies, nor, again, was it strictly a private movement, Asa journalistic undertaking it combined a variety of advantagos— adequate fauds, careful preparation tv insure success, @ Jevling of strict responsibility on the part of its leader, and @ consequent conceutration of every energy and power to reuch @ given goal, and that irom tue first almost commanded victory. Agatn, its object was clearly defined before starting, and promising expeditions thitheg ted—buth moans and lives—as thé mist, frum not having a distinct end in view, and bending with an iron dcterminatien to that, whatever elee was omitted. Whep Stanley lett Bugamoyo, we Kuow, a8 well as be, his errand; it was tue survey ot the great lakes, and tracing tue Lualuba to a point aireudy known, His whole vuttl, designed on a liberal scale, Was planned lor the tuorougo prosecation of thi work. He was not to ream over the whole Contine: at will, Lut was to settle certain disputed points, if lay within the boauas of possivility. Hence, aluuough bis flela was wide, there were defluite liaes that per- empterily demauded ation, Io these chief objects Stanley, as commander, gave his best and utmost powers; determined to die, if dio he must, 18, aud not out of, the path of duty; bat determined, if we judge his character aright, DOs to dis, If he could avoid it, till bis work was dune, Tho reeult is precisely what ‘We anticipated, on condition that life was given nim Tne main objects oi the ex- gives a summary ot great journey ai ys it this is far (rem jum total of his work, 1'nis last enterprise may, at the very least, be classed us the filth distinct ‘and special discovery of uis journey, the others being the now route tarough the great valley of the Shimeyu, the circumuavigation of tbe Victoria Lake, the in Vestigation of the very interesting lands between the two great Jakes, togetuer with tho vast rescrvoirs of water now tobe known as the Alexaadra Lake and Nile, and, finally, the full survey of the fanganyike— any one of them aa expieit sufficient to insure the fame ot an ordinary explorer, As Americans We may weil be proud of American enterprise, pluck aud success in this matter. For though the Loudon Daily felegraph has nobly shared in the expense of the present vadertaking and may well share also in the great glory of it, it cannot be forgotten that the New York Heraup ort ted thie In 4 word, can we say loss of this exploit than Dr. Livingstone says in his journals of the previous one, “sir, Stanley bas done his purt with untiring energy, and good judgment, in the teeth of very serious ob- stacies?’’ As an act of simpic justice—a slight reward of the soils of these two iutrepid explorers—we hope that Livingsione’s name may ve hencelortn given to tho Cougo and Stanley's to the Shimeya River, IMPATIENCE FOR STANLEY'S EXTENDED WARS RATIVE. [From the san Francisco Mail, Oct 22,) The meagre accounts which Stanley bas up to this time given to the public of nis explorations in Africa are so full of interest as to whet the appetite for the full story, which will come as soon as Mr, Staaley has suiliciently recovered bis shattered health, caused by fatiguing marches and exposure to the dangers of a tropical and malarial climate, incident to the great task which be bas so nobly, maofuily, heroteally ac- complished, The proportions of his achievements, though very great, can hardly be guessed at now, bat it is evident that ne has a a practical good lorativos, having m a trip Clear across the mt of Alrica ‘torough vast solisudes here. totore unknown except to the most an tamed savages and the most ferocious wild beasts, Setting aside the contributions whieh his ex- pedition will make to geography he has much infor- Mation to impart concerning the great fields of trade which bis discoveries will open up to the ctvilized ne Mons of the world, bat more particularly, of course, to the United States wad Great Britain. The area thas exposed embraces, in round number xX haodred toournad square miles of a country well stocked with minerals «ad populated by tribes which only necd to know of our merchandise and learn its uses to want it ‘The importance and full significance of these things cannot be fully realiaed tor years, but even now tnose who know aught of the subject will render tribute to the pluck of Stanley and tne onterprise and manifi- cence of the Hunaup and Zelegraph in no measured terms, * 7 WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. [From the Edinburgh scoteman,) Now that Mr. Stanley has emerged again into the view of the world, after his long sojourn in the heart of Africa, no one will gruage him the breathing space for which he asks before boginning tho relation of his late exploits, For threo years ho has beer strug gling on from point to point intho Dark Continert clearing up geographical riddies and starting newenca, making bis way through every impediment by’ pluck and hard work, and keeping up a bold a fidemt front ander discouragement and hardship. Journoy trom first to Just is one of the most’ or an” foats in theannals of travel The work whicu und [CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGRIJ @