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--r 11.77-77--.. .7 7 't THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY'. DECEMBER I 1877. ro THE CHICAGO 'IMMUNE IIONDA1 DECE31BER I(. 1877 0,0 I 1 1 from, gulf to lake and bequeathed to the sharp- est son to be mild with the tightest grasp fre.m tet hoormootil.a RELIGIOUS.

Sermon by Prof. Swing to the Central Church on the Great Delay. upon the intrencbments. The men came up In good order till they reached the naked and mutilated bodies of the men who fell three days before. Then they became unmanageable, and, rushing forward, made a terrible onslaught upon the Turks.

Their officers had the greatest difficulty in reducing them to order, and it was only after a horrible scene that discipline and quiet were restored. I am without precise details. and am compelled to rely upon mixed narrations of the event, but it would not appear, even from the worst accounts, that any extensive reprisals were made by the Russian troops. since the Turks themselves announce that Hakki Pasha surrendered 7,000 men, and that number must approach very nearly to the total strength originally under his command. i 1 Reasons for the Slowness of Growth of the Religion of Christ.

rP, 1 An Appeal for a Free Church by the Rev. Arthur CRIME. 1 Closing Exercises in the Dedication or Grace Methodist Church. Discourse on Christian Chartty by Dishop AltdrOWEL WHISKY DID SpeciaZ Disvaich to 2h Ciurcsoo Tribune. Drnuqus, Dec.

It John Thomson, one of the proprietors of the Thomson Flouring Mill, situated a few miles from the city, wao returning last night well laden down with liquor. On the way he stopped at the French Brewery saloon and took In another supply. While la this place he engaged in game of cards, and, becoming offended at some cause, pulled a revolver, and pointed it carelessly at every person in the saloon, whereupon a young man named J. Beason stepped up to him and attempted to take away the weapon from his hand. Thomson saw him coming, pulled the trigger, and sent the ball into ills abdomen, inflicting a dangerous ii not, fatal wound.

Beason did not fall to the floor immediately, but wrestled with his wouldbe-murt'xrer until be had captured the weapon. Thomson was captured by the Milcers and lodged in A Correspondent Discusses the Wages Question with Frog Ewing. adequate authority. enforced by adequate sanction. The broader meaning VMS that of a whole ordained institution the meaning the Apostle, he deemed, had In view wnen he wrote it.

So the statement became this: The aim of the whole ordained system of Christof the whole Christian institutionis the production In human nature of a life of benevoleuceRightly interpreted. the passage declared that charity originated from a heart of infinite love, and the intent was to reconstruct human nature in this same condition of lift men out of themselves into the atmosphere of genuiee benevolence. Some might say, "Does not love have a place In human nature independent of Christianity! Did it not ante-date Christianityl and does it not exist where Christianity has not been heard of!" Unquestionably. said he, there was Fueh a thing as natural love, but it didn't have its foundation in reasoning; it was a divine endowment, and might exist without moral Ile asked his hearers to note bow exceedingly hinited this natural love was. It was not universal, nut, commonly, a very weak, variable, and, sometimes, a feign ed sentiment, and overslaughed by pastion.

Much of it was altogether destitute of righteousness. and natural love was without godliness. The litve which Christianity added was the love which should have its home in a pure heart, in a nature purged of all antagonistic and Incompatible divinely purged that love should become, as it were, the nature of the soul, springing forth in all forms spontaneously. Some souls on earth became semblames of the divine charity, and this was what Christianity aimed soul with a desire to do good to others, guided by a complete understanding of God's love and a conscience purified and lifted up by the 11(4 Spirit, and a faith unleigned .11 the whole circle of religious truth were to vanish, there would be no foundation for a life of love, but let the facts of Christianity be accepted as facts, and men would rise higher and higher in the divine likenesa. If there was defective charity in the Church.

that ought no to affect one's judgment touddng the aims of the whole system. was its tendency among those who received it! Grant that the Church had misrepresented the Gospel, yet he challenged all to controvert this truth: that the system itself. in every precept whiett it enjoined, in every motive which it displayed, in all its appeals and in all its professions, was a system whieb proposed to lift men out of their sin and their folly into the very heart of divine love, and make the world agaiu the Paradise of God. flowcould any one sneak contemptuourly of a system that was steadily working out this great result! The glory of Christianity was that it not only enforced justi( rose higher, and taught us to to forget self. The only measure of Christian attainment possible for anyone under God's pure light was this: How far we have gotten out of the narrowness and the meanness of our self, seeking into a broad, steady self-forgetting.

and self-sacrificing char- ity. Would we realize this, we must begin by doing little acts of kindness and love to those around us, which will make them happier; and from this beginting we would advance to the fullness of the divine experienee. The choir than sang a voluntary, and the formal dedication of the church, according to the ritual, succeeded, Bishop Merrill conducting this part of the service. The doxology and the benediction concluded the order of exercises. vy ve nt, ce Something from Lob Ingersoll fa the Edification of Dr.

Gregg, of Ireland. happened to be in. Soldiers such as those of whom I have just given you a slight sketch have but little respect for their officers, whom they consider useless seeing that as they do not carry any guns they never fire. some of the casemates where the officers have ventured to give their orders these said officers bave been pitilessly turned away. The sang frold displayed by the soldiers is beyond praise, it is very hard indeed to surprise them, as they are always on the qui ewe, two of them he on sentry while the rest sleep alongside.

This is indeed a soldiers' war. The only person they allow to intervene between them and the Commander-in-Chief is the Imam or priest of each company, who recites prayers for them regularty five times a day. Most of these soldiers come from the Dibra, Herzegovina. Mehemet All Pasha and Suieiman Pasha brought them from Herzegovina and sent them to Plevna. Osman Pasha is indeed well pleased with these stout warriors, and.

indeed, has never had any complaint to make against them. Since the ult. the bombardment of the place has never ceased, and we have become al, ready so used to the noise of guns that it seems to us the most natural sound in the world. Whenever, at rare intervals, the cannonade ceases for a moment we seem to miss something, and the voice of any friend talking to us deafens us, so much has everybody got in the habit of shouting to make his neighbor bear. The damage done by the boudeardmetit in the interior of the town is considerable enotieh, though the Russians do not direct all their tire upon the town.

Osman Pasha is blamed to a certain extent for not having made the inhabitants of the town evacuate it while there was yet time, fur they suffer terribly just now, and the continued and repeated outcries of the women and children pierce the heart, and might perhaps In the long run sow discouragement among the troops. Au oh! Jewess, of a very advanced age, Is the only one who amid the general consternation manages to look after her own interests and profit by the occasion. She goes by the name of Sarah and 'is a fortune-teller. The door of her house is open from morning till nieht, and the house its sell is filled with officers and soldiers, many of the former being of high rank, who come to consult her on their future lot. She derives an Immense profit from this source, especially since her predictions of the death of othcers in one or two casts, and promotion in one two other iustances.

have been verified. it Is even said that Osman Pasha himself has not disdained to consult the ancient Sarah, who has predicted for him a most brilliant future, provided he is not made prisoner before the Plih of December. Three Russian fallen into the bends of the Turks in one of the sorties towards Lukovitza before the investment, excite the utmost envy and admiration among our troops here. They are two privates and a Sergeant of infantry only; but what is the cause of envy and admiration is the manner in which they are clothed (their clothing is far superior to that of our own officers) and their extreme cleanliness. Were it the fact Out the irregulars massacred the prisoners and the maimed and the wounded on the battle-field, I confess that I should not.

be at all astonished, for if the Bashi-Bazouks could get a chance of procuring boots, clothing, 4 and great coats similar to those worn by the above-mentioned prisoners, tbey would, I am sure, be quite ready to kill their own comrades of the regular army. By the side of our men these three prisoners look' like Colonels. 1.7p to the 20th of last moan a great number of our siel and wounded. who occupied not only our so-tailed hospitals, but also a large portion of the private houses in Fluting', were sent on to Orkhanie; still, however, a great numeer remain, and it is a matter of daily occurrence for men to die from sheer want of the most simple attendance in the most awful agony. Since the Stafford-House doctors left there is not now to my knowledge one single doctor left in Plevua, and the rounded depart this life without the sliettest Attempt tieing made to save their lives, for you can hardly call the almost childish measures resorted to by the Turkish doctors remedial ones, when they aetuaily, for instanee, in the case of a gunshot wound in the thigh, bandage up tightly a nian'S leg from the foot to the groin, therein' stopping the circulation of the whole limb an causing the unfortunate patient to die of a disease foreign to the one he was under treatment fur.

A BLACK DEMON. Lortsviu.z, Dec. fire was caused by the burning of several cottages and brewery stables. It was started by Henry Croomes, a negro, who threw a oil lamp at.his mistress, Mary Chinn. She was in bed with their child, a little girl.

The lamp set fire to her night-clothes, and the bedding, and the house, and the other property burned. Croomes saved the child and himself. The woman was burned to death. Croonles cursed his dying mistress in horrible terms. The charred remains of Emma Chinn, the negro woman burned to death last night, have been found.

The body presents a sickening spectacle. Croomes, the Paramour, is charged with both arson and murder. THE GREAT DELAY. SERMON BY PROF. SWING.

Prof. Swing preached yesterday morning at the Central Church, taking as his text; Lord deiayeLt IIi coming.Aitalt.;xxiv., 48. The thoughtful are amazed at the patience or slowness of Nature. Millions of years have been demanded by it for cutting a river-bed or throwing up a reef of coral rocks. To cut the Niagara gull from Queenstown back to the present cataract has demanded, according to geologists, 50,000 years.

What ages were consumed in making the climate, and land, and soil, and mineral deposits, and the forests of our West, can only be approached by a mind powerful to imagine and look back. A scientific writer says that the shovelful of dirt which the gardener handles so easily has been a thousand year. in becoming detached, by rain and frost, from the surface of the linty rock. In making the little garden spot, Nature has consumed a million years. hoever bas bestowed an hour of thought upon the work and workings of Nature will not be surprised to find in the living world of man a similar slowness of step in the plains over which mania moving.

He repeats the phenomenon of Niagara. To cut a channel from barbarism to a good government, or a good literature, or a good religion, requires again upon the work and workings of Nature will not be surprised to find in the hying world of man a similar slowness of step in the plains over which mania moving. He repeats the phenomenon of Niagara. To cut a channel from barbarism to a good overnmeut, or a good literature, or a good religion, requires again BROTHERS-IN-LAW. Special Dispatch to The Chicafte Tribitite.

CAIRO, Dec. about 1 o'clock this afternoon two men, one named J. E. Park and the other A. Speller, brothers4u-law, and both citizens of Cairo, got into a difficulty, in which Speller shot Park three or four times.

Nous of the wounds are considered fataL We have heard of no arrests. MURDER AND SUICIDE. S. Loris, Dec. 9.Dispatehes from Grand Tower, some seventy miles down the river, says Charles Iklulrieh shot and killed bis wife at the house of Squire Burns, in Fountain Bluff Township, Randolph County, yesterday, and then blew Lis own brains Family culties were the cause.

1' 1 1 I1 I 1, if 'f P' it A 1,0 i ty 1 1 4, I I I Y'' I I- 11 i t' Li (1'1 1 it '1 1 I 1 1 A 4:4 INGERSOLL VS. GREGG. niz ILLINOIS ORATOR RA A TILT 'Wire At IRISH CLERGYMAN. WASHINGTON, D. Dee.

aEditor Penal Call To-day I-- reeelved a letter front Jame, Rea, D. of ChluaZo, triclosinT the follow trig: NICHOLAS-WITHIN i DUBLIN Jan: Mr Ditalt Dn. The orattlrical faculty clea weloped in the five lecture of Col. It. 4.

ineerseti, winch you sent- me. is very remarkable, and shows that he is just the man damaziegly to send loxes with firebrands among the commonalty of Christ's Church who are inclined to be charmed with brill-tent lanzuage, and to think that what pleases the taste and animated the fancy would answer well as the moral platform of the ekeptical and unbelievWith. blunted perceptions of right and wrong himself, when he had intoxicated the million with the solid realiiies of Communisni" the temple of all the peouleswhen eociety should be rid of man ionaires and mendicantsof gorged indolence aid famished industry, of truth tn rage end eaperstituna robed and crowned. when the useful rhod be the lionoraule "Cast le to Eay, when it thottld be, by Physical force. honorable to 'chant the rage of dissolute lieertiniten into the comfortable raiment and graceful inveetiture ot prudent foresight and painsteking acquisition.

There is no knowing the exteut of the miechief he mieat become the leader in if he were to be eimuly antagonized by the incomplete theology or tea ages of the Church, theolog which for tapas temporal offers of Communism has naught to tens der but promises as to a prospective Heaven, when dietance seems to Leagthen as it la approached. Now I make an offer to the Colonel: 1 sea eon. cede to him. as aids and aesessors. all the infidel that the world can supply, and yet I ehall be will-fug in the strength of the Lord to meet him and them.

tiod to give demonstrutione against him that the Kingdom of God has now come in power, that the priuciples of Christiaultv that I propound will secure true Christians -In the use of Scriptural 'means immunity from sickness, pam, and death.An short, all the items of present advantage in which I through grace and mere) enjoy myself, and have expotnelea in my printed papers and publisaed works, and Which may now be demonstrably laid hold of and secured by all true believers. I undertake th meet him before the American people and to gips detnonetratione aguinet him to their satisfaction of all the particulars of tatter-day Christianity that I Stand for, and with whieii I kaow you are families, to show that his abaft of the Bible is blasp'aemy ethane from itmorance on his part, that all tat Specialties of objection advanced against it by him are frivolous and vain. and will in the light of learned expesition entirely disappear. Thus, Um wars of extermination recorded in the Old Testa ment; the iniprecations in the 1011th realm. to al of which he has attached by implication the emthets malicious, "wicked," and infamous will appear not only feultiess, but perfect, ie short, I shall stand up, as aforesaid, for the whole Bible and its divine character throughout, and make it plain to our bearers that the exceptions he has taken against it are as hatelees tieyare haffe.

Ile has demanded of the Church of Christ "one miracle." "one this year's fact." "We ask," says he, only oneone for chanty-- a new mirecle, era we demand it ame. Let net Church furnish at lemit one, or forever hold her peace." A very soletun challenge coached ecclesiastical paraseology moreover. New I tender to hint not merely one ket" sad "ens miracle," but a whole diepensation of bring before him this Church of this last day as instrumental under God, in changing the whole law of nature, and as bringing beak tor the benefit of the whole race of believers that paradise with its literal immortality that wes forfeited at the fall of Adam, but regained to be enjoyed hi a regenerated world at the time settled in the Councils of the lather before the world If taieee greet glories were to be merely toretaeted by hope and enjoyed through a promise, a they woald be laughed to scorn by the apottles of infidelity, but sustained by a dispensation of miracle that I eland for, atogether with divine authority of the Bible. I know not how he can question my arguments or make light of my great poeitimas. I testify against him that his objections to Christianity sad the Bible are, one and ma eu.d afordi ttiatoirni; drIgte hmime fivhog th4i es field of argument, or else, to appropriate his own quotation, let him henceforth and forever hold his peace.

But there is a happier alternative than his defeat as a skeptical opponent of the croes. O. may he rather, with the convinced Thomas. bow before the now triumphant Savior in His now triumphant church, humbly and penitently crtine. "My Lord and my God." if hapaily thus at the eleventh hour he may find acceptance und he allowed henceforth to dedicate himeelf to His servieeilopine, my dear sir, that you will find come telladt way of employing this letter, I Reward it through you, who nave so often, in nnblic arid in private, heard me expounding my principles.

I remain, most truly yours, Thattiltan D. GEECAt To which I replied as follows: WAEHINGT0S, D. Dec. 3, 1877. Red, D.

Lk DEA 1 Yours of the ltth of November, incloeing. a letter to you from the Rey. Dr. Gregg, of Ireland, dated Jan. 24, 1877, was received today.

I have read the letter, aud ace no reason for any discussion between the renowed Doctor and myself. He offers to demonstrate several thinee that I do not dispute. In order that you maw see how nearly we are together. I most cheerfully admit. 1.

"That a theoloay which has naught to tender but promises as to a prospective heiven, whose distance seems to lengthen as it is a oproarned," of no value, and is all utterly worthless weapon with which to attack toe science of to-day. 2. I most cheerfully admit that a true Chrietian one who really loves and cherishes his enemies will enewvheor gprroowydofldoiIhloa8demwiht othcautraset.rmuealCigh.hristalaz slanaer himis exempt from all he infirmitiesand frailties of humanity. I admit that a true Christat one who, when stricken on one cheek, meekly and lovingly turns the otherwill never die. I admit that for a true Christianone who dyes all his good actions in secret, and all his bad ones in pubilcthe whole law of nature has been changed.

I admit that a true Christianone who regards he wars of extermination and the 109th Psalm as not Only "perfect. but "is totally superior to all the mental and physical laws of this admit that such Christians cannot be hurt, injured. or destroyed; that poison as nutriment to then; that disease will make them healthier still. and that for all eternity to come they will poke death jokingly in the ribs, and laughingly sit on the edge of his scythe. If the hair of a supposed Christian grows gra', It simply proves that his convictions are fading Is well.

If his teeth drop out, it shows that he is toeing his faith. If nis ears and eyes grog and dim. IL merely aatietantiates the tact that he has faded to live in accordance with hie how me a true Christiansuch a one as I hays I will acknowledge that he it ea, empt from all the ills that ordinary man is heir to; that he le incapable of pain, clad, as lie will be, in a robe of immortal fie, h. teen the other hand. I admit that all peed, afflicted with pain.

dieehee, and misfortuile; ali who are growing old and decrepit, and, in fact, II who are bubject to the laws of nature, are ac'S. Christians. You will at once perceive that there is very little left to discuss. In fact, it does not seem to be 4 proaer subject for discussion. If the Bey.

Dr. Gregg has at his command "a whole dispen.atioa of miracles, it is a matter. not of argument and vain debate, but of demonetration. It you will give me the Dane of the aeylum which Dr. Gregg is at pre-want placed.

you wta greatly oblige, yours truly, IL G. biesitsoLe. A Al rit nrr 77. xee et's the I'. ev ong kith of tad i )ttld CASUALTIES.

Heaven to live in sucb a world, Christianity delays along the centuries, waiting for man to rise high enough to see her diadem and understand her whispering lips. She will help lift society upward, but all other hands too, must help or she will wait and wait. Miracles will not come to trample natural law under foot; but as natural law came between Christ and His destiny with buffet, and laughter, and crown of thorns, so always will the unworthiness et HMI-- 'dud retard and the worthiness of mankind urge forward the Gospel of perfect peace. To illustrate this remark, behold Christ by ing' down the doctrine that man must love his neightior as himself. Having pronounced the law, 'He asked no aid from miracle, but He permits man to live on for many generations and find by all the sufferings of battle-fields and of all fraud and dishonor, that love for each other is the only Jaw of a happy nation, or a happy home, or a happy world.

The world must plod along toward the divine truth, and when it comes to it, in the nineteenth or twentieth tentury, it will look up and say, Blessed be the world's Christ who taught a law so divine. Or take the words Blessed are the pure in heart." They powerless stall on these shores. Not one heart in a million reads the deep truth lying therein. We are all utter etrapfters to the import of such language. Christianity must therefore tarry on our shores as the Catholic missions lingered.

and went, and came on the Chinese coast Tnere waved the banner of the Cross, but tin eorvert saw its beauty. So, for us, Chriateeat must wait. Each age will teuderly lead nnee -Jonas through sin.and sorrow, until these pure in shall be seen in all tneie significance. Thus far they lie in propeesv l'oets ineorPorate their beauty in songs tnat we read, and understand not. The old poem used to say: "l'is not in titles, nor in rank, 'Tie not in wealth, like London Bank, To purchase peace and rest.

If happiness Isiah not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great. lfut never can be blest. But the world ties from these recitations, and, brushing away its tears it tails back again upon the titles and the rank," and on the wealth like London Bank." Ile Christian sings: The dearest idol I have known, Whateser that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne, And worship only Thee. But the song dies and leaves the singer still at the altar of sin, and with many an idol pressed against his heart. It is thus Christ passes along above the reach of the human soul.

But it is almost certain that the centuries will roll Siene and build up a manhood which will say. "Blessed are the pure in heart," with a gratitude of which we children of dust little dream. Thus the coming of the "chariot has been long delayed. It has been compelled to drag along through ages wicked, ages dead, ages dark. It waits now for many new hands to touch the wheels; to grasp the cords by which it is drawn.

The world is, aa yet, unable to love a perfect Christ. It prefers imperfection. As the Greek citizens voted to banish Aristides because they had become weary of bearing him. called the being able to appreciate only a feeble Our modern era stands away from not being charmed by such a fullness of moral excellence. The Master delays, not because of any decay of cardinal truth, not because religion has been tried and has failed, not because anything better than Chescianity can come, but chiefly because society has not yet come to that mental stature which can measure and love such a perfect Son of God and Son of Man.

The'world soon wearies of one who the blemish of spotlessness. But it is only a delay. Doubtless the chariot wheels are turuiuses slowly forward. Some future age, coming long after we all shall have passed, in mental and moral humility, from life, shall look up and shall see the heavens grow roseate with the coming of him whom our era was unable to reeeive. In the gradual progress of our world what a splendor will at last surround tie name of that One who taught humanity its highest truth, who awakened its purest feelings and who made for it the most il touching saerfee.

CHRIST'S CHARACTER. THE REV. ARTHUR strrenaLL, of the First Presbyterian Church, delivered an interestiug diecourse to his bearers yesterday morning on that phase of the eharaettr of Christ which reflects His love for and sympathy with the poor, among wbom He daily walked and to whom the Gospel was preached while the rich men of His day turned away front and despised His teachings. Christ Himself, said the reverend gentleman, was a poor man. While the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air nests, He hail not where to lay His head, and His disciples, themselves poor, ministered unto Ills wants.

liad not Christ come into this world in the character of one meek and lowly, He might have been our patron, but never could have been our companion, comforter, d. and frien lie taught the poor to be trustful and hopeful, and not complaining and fretful. Ile also taught them to be charitable, and not censorious or jealous of the rich. With the poor, He laid the foundations of His earthly kingdom and fulfilled the prophecy that to the poor the Gospel should be preached. At last it was beginning to dawn upon the world that in so doiniChrist was right.

It bad been well and truly said that the blessing and upraising of the masses was the fundamental condition of society, and the transformation of the lower classes through the instrumentality of Christ's preaching of the Gospel had been the means of awakening the inquiries of the rich into the secret of His power over the bnman beast. The history of the world and the Church had demonstrated the fact that the spiritual as well as the material interests of society suffered wnere the Gospel was not preached to the poor as well as to the rib. In cone' ubion, the reverend gentleman said that his hearers could not fail to see that the object of his discourse was to enforce the plea he was about to make to them to give of their substance to the relief of the Church, that it might be indeed a place where the Gospel should be preached to the masses. It was In this behalf that he pleaded with them to lift from the church the debt which rested upon It, and to make the presence of the poor in their midst welcome. To that end the church should be made free, and in so doing they would forever destroy that impression, which was now inevitable.

that this sanctnary was not the plaee for Christ's poor, and that there was no welcome for them within its pale. What better use could bu made, not of a few hundred merely but of many thousands of dollars, than to aid the Siosior in His plan of preaching the Gospel to the poort Would it not give sweet eon-solution to his hearers' hearts on their dying pillows to know that through their large liberality the purposes of their Lord had been fulfilled, and that in this church at least God's Gospel had been freely preached.tosall who came, rich and poor alike! The duty was urged upon them by the very tfoSpel of 'Christ, and its performance would not only bless their own souls, but be a blessing to multitudes unknown. This stirring appeal for financial aid, it is hoped, will produce gratifying results at the church meeting which will be held Tuesday evening to devise ways and means to lift the church debt, and place it among the list of free churches. 1 A A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. Specia: Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9.There was an accidental shooting case under unusual circumstances at 418 MeIlvain street this afternoon. Lewis Myers, a barber, had been paying attention to Pauline Streicher, living with her aunt there, but she had forbidden him the house because he always came with a loaded revolver. This afternoon he came again, drunk, with Henry Russell, a glass-blower. but she was out.

They sent for tier, and, on her arrival, Myers took out the revolver again, but Russell, who was a stranger at the house, seized it and took it away. Ile was seated at the table by the side of the girl, trying to remove the cartridges, when it went off, the ball passing through the girl's heart. She was the oldest of eleven children, and the father lived in Pittsburg. Both of the men were held to await the result of an inquest. HORSES BURNED.

-HACKENSACK, N. Dec. barn near here, owned by Peter R. Ackerman, was destroyed by fire last night. The stallion Hyperion, with a record of 2:2 7 valued at $20,000, And eight other valuable horses were burned.

i whee the erupire was falling to pieces of its own weight, Too large to be defended, the State lay open to the Northern tribes, and in the fifth century they began to move southward, with the lowest form of pagauism, and with wonderful rapidity they esuehed that boasted medium for the spread Of the new religion. Theee hordes not only destroyed the temples and the worshipers of Christ, but they terminated the prosperity and peace were the emulations Of moral Progress. Those invaders brought even worse forms of ruin, for they brought their own leets and thus destroyed the language of thw hundred millions of the People of the Cresars. In a generation or two the Latin languages gave way, and the doctrines ot Christ lay away in rolls of parchment which the public could not read. The foundations of a score of new languages were here laid.

Out of the ruins of the Latin were springing the rude outlines of Span- Leh, French, Italian, and German; but for bun-, dreds of years there were no writings in these new languages, and the tongue In which lay all the Christian learning was unknown. Instead, then, of having a mignty enuiire and a unie venial literature to aid it, Christianity was early compelled to move through my-j riads of Northmen who laved in war much of the timeall the time in anarchy and ignorance. This destraction of a common language, and this building up of dialects which' none could read or write, was the chief cause of those "Dark Ages" which threw their deep shadow from the fifth century to the eleventh. In their new forms of speeen the children grew to maturity with only a vocabulary which comprehended the commonest things of clothing, war, and toil, and stood Perfect etrangers to the intellectual power and to the learning which had been stored away in the classic tongues. In such an era the Chrisrianity of Paul and his Master became only the tuperstition of little children.

Tne Crusaders seveal the degradation to which the people had deseendetba humility of vice, of ignorance, and of mental power. A million persons set forth to march to Palestine to rescue the tomb of the Savior from the in- fidel: but marched, having no conception of the distance, but feeling that they would reach the Holy Land in a few days. Some fanatics came bringing their packs of hounds and i'alcons as though going to a hunt. In these marches, conducted for generations, it is supposed six millions perished. leo feeble and inconsistent was their religion that the throeg marked their journey by every known crime and vice.

The multitude was led onward by every form of delusion and fraud. Whoever will read with care about the ruins of the Roman Empire will marvel that the religion of our Master did not utterly perish in suet' a dark night and upon such a stormy sea. The causes which the English historian brings forward as explaining the spread of the Gospel seem not larger than the obstacles which for 1,200 years opposed its advance. An order of cloistered twines sprang up, and, by the studies of these In Latin and by their occasional lectures and writings, and by the heavy and sacred walls ot their monasteries, the Christian truth was saved for better ages to come. No sooner had Christianity passed through its struggle with Roman idolatry and gained some foothold than there came pouriug upon It the millions who worshiped Thor, a deity greatly inferior to Mars or Jupiter.

This new enemy Christianity bad to oppose without the help of a nation, or a people, or a literature, or a language. Unless one demands that Christianity rests its claim upon miraculous force, and should thus surmount all obstacles or else confess to falseness, one cannot see anything in the past to undermine its claims to a God-sent salvation. The repeated failure of the old classic patriots to estabilsh liberty did not argue against the intrinsic merit of that human condition, but showed only that liberty must abide Its time and work its way forward, not by miracle, but by law. Had our forefathers attempted to plant their Institutions on the coast of China where of hostile Chinese could have swooped down as the Goths poured down upon mediaTal Rome. the name of Plymouth Rock would not exist only in incredible legend; but they sailed to a shore peopled by only timid, wild men, few in number, and easily driven back into the wilderness.

If liberty was compelled thus to bide its chance and go forward by law of human nature, so, too, will Christianity run, or linger, or halt according to the help or I hindrance of the age through which it moves. Its great Founder declined the miraculous as a general means of progress. He confessed that lie could have summoned legions of angels to Ills aid, but He had Himself been born under the law, had come not to destroy law, but to fultil, and lie left His religion to pursue the same career. As man could scourge the Master, or spit upon Him, or braid for Him a crown of thores, so the truth of the Master was to go forth, liable in any era to be scourged, or smitten, or crowned with thorns. In the thirteenth ceutary, Catnohe Christians began the coneersiou of China, but the low mental and moral status of that old empire was more than a match for these teachers for five hundred years.

The holiest men the Catholics possessed went. and toiled, and died, leaving the Cross standing on the coast, while the hundreds of millions came and lived and passed away without having ever heard of the divine One of Bethlehem. Thus, as Christ and His Apostles lay subject to violence, subject to all the forms of earthly ill-treatment, so the religion they planted lives exposed to all buffet-jugs, and is dependent upon the same human aids which push forward a literature or a There are heavy roads and swollen rivers before the chariot of even a Christ. having found some of the obstacles which detained this chariot hi the far past, we may well mark what is the greatest cause of delay in the The causes are not perfectly identical with those of former times, but one cause which retarded religion in the olden times retards it vet, a cause constant, but always, as it seems, diminishing. There is an agency perpetually at work against the universal reign of Christ, and that obstacle is the vast distance between the mind and heart of man and the idealism of Christianity.

Christ is too tar above the human world. He is gradually drawing all men unto him, but the multitude is large and the distance to be passed over very great. The secular writers, indeed, ridicule the position that Christianity will convert men as soon as men shall have become better; that it will save the world as soon as the world shall have been otherwise saved; but let us not be frightened by this ridicule. for there is a great truth beneath the position just assumed. There are men who teach that Christianity will transform a Sioux Indian into a polished civilian; that it will transform a drunkard In a half hour and destroy his love of drink; will purity his blood as well as his juegment.

These deny the value of hterature, and learning, and art. and love to scorn science. as though, by so doing, they were exalting Christ. It will not do for these to say that the world will be more Christian when it shall have pecome more enlightened and purer; for in their theory the more degraded a race is the more active there will be the Holy Spirit. But these err, for all these forms of education and progress are partners, active with the religion of Jesus, and only as all these powers work will the delay of the Master be brought to a termination.

Government and education, and all science and literature, and all public and private life, in a word, all mental and spiritual development, are twin sisters with religion. and if they are pulling, backward religion will halt by the way. As Faith, Hope, and Charity move not separately but in a band. there being no power in Charity unless Faith and Hope be along with her, and none in Faith unless Love be by her side, so Christ moves a central limure of a group and is powerful only when all the forms of thought and sentiment are awake and full of enthusiasm around Ms chariot. The Dark Ages and other ages tried' to carry Christianity forward all alone.

But it would not move thus. It waited for its grand companions to come, and when they began to emerge. from the shadows of- the fifteenth century In the awakened intellect of song as sung by Dante, and in the awakened soul of art as seen in the same period, and in the awakened love of liberty as revealed by the struggling Barons, then it was easier for Christianity to announte in the Sixteenth century the glory of a Reformation. Deeply do those injure religion Who preach that it comes only in its sole name and right. They weaken their own King by cutting oil His allies on the eve of battle.

Better than all such narrow philosophy is the fresco of that old master who, in his long procession called the illumph of Christ. has painted the Sibvis of Greece and Rome as marching joyfully in the pageant. Rightly did that pencil work, tor the 6ihyl8 laid wine of the foundations of prayer and helped men while they were savages to look upward toward another world and a greater Mug. Looking out upon the human landscape with such eyes, we may all safely declare that Christianity halts because those companions of her progress are not properly supporting her sublime movement. The distance between man and Christ is still too great.

Man must be led higher up the mount of CiViltration. In the jellied hands of science and government and all the forms of thoutshis by combined power of school-house raid church, by a meditation which is becoming truer and deeper each age, bv attempts and failures of life without religion, by all these powers, and by others which one heart cannot recall, man must be borne forward until he has come to a height from which lie can see the beauty of the truthas it is inJesus. Religion alone will not make the translation. Lie wholuakes a flaming tire to be His ministers, and the winds His angels, who maketh clouds to be His chariot, and who advanceth upon the wings of the wind, has placed His religion in a world where each school-house, and language, and art shall be its companion in every toil and triumph. Cast down from 1 I I I i 4 k' 1 1 TELIS TUE RUSSIAN REPULSE AND THE RUSSIAN VICTORYTURKISH ed-rfspoLiehel.

t)rtilOn Times. TARTAR BAZARD3IK, NOV. my last letterl indLated briefly the nature of the Lou occupied by the Turks at Tells, and the character of the wIrct) irrt.ieannAboN by the enemy along the whole line of defense established by Shelket Pasha and Klasim Pasha return from Plevna. That reconnoissance resulted, as seemed probable at the time; in a determined attack on the height at Tells. A slight attack, easily repulsed, was made on the 23 of 0.duber; but the first attempt in forea was made on the following day, when, according to the Turkish estimate, a force of 10,000 men was thrown against tL intrenchment, and bloodlly repulsed.

The estimate of the numbers engaged appears to te exaggerated, but there can be no doubt of the desperate nature of the engagement, or of the INDIANAPOLIS ITEMS. Dispatch to The! Cliicaao Tri 71 et. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. car-loads of silks and teas from San Francisco to New York passed through this city Saturday. The cargo is valued at over 5,000,000.

It is believed to be the largest trans-cominental ship-pent ever made, The Board of County Commissioners have ordered an investigation of the books of the County Treasurer, Auditor, and Clerks, and the proceedings of tne Board for the'past ten years. The order was made because of rumors of a deficiency lu the settlement of the retiring Treasurer, Jackson Landers, and on account of the great expenditures on the new Court-House. It is reported that important vouchers, pay-mils, and otner documents in connection with the erection of the Court-House cannot be found. The order has created a commotion among the officers interested and their friends. The examiners have not yet been appointed.

The state-House Commission will open the plans for the State-House Tuesday. About seventy-live are expected to be offered. Yesterday John D. Howland, late Clerk of the United States Court, was buried, in the presence of a large concourse of friends and relatives. The Bar, State and city, was larovly represented.

Judges Drummond and Blodgett were in attendance, as well as lawyers from Chicago, Cincinnati, and Louisville. It is believed Noble C. Butler, the New Albany Register in Bankruptcy and Master in Chancery, will be appointed to succeed Hill. 4- 1 4 tl -I 1 I 1 1 4 1 i 1 4 1 1 1 it 1. 1 4 .4 1 4 the lame thousand-year days so popular among the rains, and winds, and frosts.

It may be very painful that Intellectual and moral good has come to man so slowly; bat the slowness is natural if not cheering That Christ delayed His coining for many generations, that literature, and art, and honor, and purity have followed the law of the coal formation, or of changing climate, or changing fauna. or of coral rock, arc facts which may amaze and sadden man. But there is no help for our hearts; we can do nothing else than take our stand by the deep ravine of this moral Niagara, and, in silence, look back and bow to the law of God. A century ia only a minute in the hour of God. From these particulars In Nature and morals one may oass to the inquiry as to the progress of Christianity.

The scene repeats itself here, and we may accommodate to the present the words of that anxious one of Bible record, who, looking out of tier wiudow, said, in lauguage that has become classic, Why is his chariot so long in coming. Why tarry the wheels of his chariot" Devout minds, looking out from this far-away time, wonder that the chariot of Christ is so long in eomint. Nothing comes cluseless, and iienoe, for this slow coming of the world's Lord there must be potent reasons. To fital the causes, in the final sense of the terms, and to justify the ways of God to men, Is beyond human power; but it may come within the scope of man to find the natural agencies which delay the chariot of the Christ. Why this great delay What natural detentions do we perceive There has all along, since the birth of Christ, bccu a forward motion of His ideas.

At no time in the eighteen centuries have the wheels gone backward or stopped; but they have rolled slowly toward the better future. The philoso- Phv a the Nazarene was sown upon earthly soil. and the budding and biossoming must come by the common law of the land. It was a ten centuries after the faithful Abraham before Hebrew religion reached its best estate. It eon, sumecl almost 500 years for Greece to pass from simple song to the deeper culture of logic and philosephv.

Rome was as long in passing from a tribe to a nation, and was as long in changing confusion into the law which still delights the civilized world. The moment the mind begins to look at a language, or a literature, or a science, or a religion, it must put aside all impatience, and think not of hours, but of centuries. NValking forth amid the beauties of language, how old the words are! The decaying castle, the ivy-covered wall, the moat and ditch, with great trees on or In them, are not more ancient than the language with which the heart meditates over them. The rock Gibraltar is, indeed. old, but its name recalla the Saracen leader who seized Spain eleven hundred years ago.

The Turkish Capital, in its name leads us back to when Constantine desired to have a city nearer than Rome to the Holy Land. Thus, all that surrounds us have come to us by slow wheels dragging over a long road. Christ, in giving his religion to the laws of earth, gave it over to the keeping of bands that worked slowly and of hearts which contained wonderful power of waiting. Nature acts as though eternity were its period. It argues nothing against the intrinsic worth of Christianity that in its long period it has not mastered the world, for many of the best thines the human fatally possesses, many of its highcia and most useful truths have struggled for thousands of years to secure a hearing.

Bacon repeats the method of Aristotle, and with success; because society had enjoyed 2,000 more years in which to get ready to hear anything about inductive methods of truth-seeidnt. It is not known that the Romans had glasswareelegantly made, and colored glass cups; but it required ten centuries to turn a local article into a worldwide beauty. He who speaks on the Lost Arts says there were magnifying glasses in the old Roman period; but we perceive that they reached no significance but were to lie quite in obscurity and wait for Galileo to come along the thousand-year road and transform the Roman toy into a telescope. That which was only a luxury of fashion grew up into an instrument which transforms a nebula into a cluster of suns. Unless Christianity were to be pushed along daily by miracle, its career must needs have been what we behold in the records.

However great its divineness, it was compelled by the laws that surrounded it to flow forward slowly, as flowed the sister rivers of philosophy, and science, and art. Truthfulness does not insure rapid Indeed a falsehood will often spread more rapidly than truth. The divineness of Christianity need not have insured instantaneous success, for liberty and self-government: have always been the truest and best of all Ideas, but they have been outrun by despotism and bondage. Love is a more divine motive than anger or avarice, but it has always been behind in the race for empire. Hence, unless it had been the will of God to urge Christianity forward by interrupting the common law and substituting that kind of fiat which made all law, then the spotless perfection of Christ would not have secured a rapid conquest of the world.

Indeed. the more perfection the less speed. Passing by these general remarks let us no- tice the obstacles which have stood in the way of this sublime religion. A famous historian erplained upon natural grounds the spread of the doctrines of Christ. but this leaves the task undone of explaining why those doctrines have not spread more widely and perfectiv.

The that Christ came when the Roman Empire was holding sway over all the known world, and was teaching the use of one language, and was holding precious the life and liberty of each citizen, has been allowed treat intluence In making the Gospels crowd back the writings of the pagans, and Christ displace an army of gods and semi-deities. And certainly not too much power can well be ascribed to the breadth and oneness of the Roman State. It became a medium to convey thoughts and sentiments. It was a great web in which the higher races to the number of a hundred millions lived and moved, and to the great mbtions of the centre all the web soon vibrated. But by as much as such a vast empire favored the spread of Christianity by so much would the utter ruin of such a nation delay tte chariot wheels of the Lord.

That utter ruin came in 150 years after Christianity began to enjoy national aid and popularity. Hen, out of iiiteen centuries Christianity was granted only one and a hall in which to reap the full benefits of the Roman world, and the last of those years were years A TALK WITH PROP. SWING. SOME FL'ItTlIEft VIEWS ON WAGES. FRIEND SWING: Your sermon on Christianity and wages, wherein you speak of sympathy as WI ameliorating agency, and "P.78" claim that the law of demand and supply, with free competition in production and trade for the supply of demand, is essential to public prosperity, all seems to me to be right.

I hope you will succeed as a Christian minister therefor in leavening enough of your people with sympathy to leaven the rest. And I hope that will succeed in convincing enough persons of the Imperativeness of free eompetition in production and trade to break up those railway ring monopolies which so defeat competition in production and trade as almost to suppress competitive demand for labor. By railway ring monoplies I do not mean railway companies; I mean those conspiracies between railway officials and ring cronies to monopolize business for their own interests by means of unfair discriminations in railway freights and fares; like that of the coal reonopoty on the Union Pacific Road for instance, which the Hon. James F. Wilson, as Government Director, admitted in his testimony before the Creolt-Mobilier Investigating Committee to exist.

He testified that a discrimination of 25 percent was allowed in favor of the monopoly. I don't think that he said that the railway officials were interested in the monopoly. I do not think that question was asked him. I think that, and that and kindred questions truthfully answered, might let in more light upon the close relations between Republican and Democratic leaders with these railway-official ring monopolies than was desired. It is well understood that railway officials, as a rule.

do not discriminate in rates against competitive industries without a direct or indirect personal interest in the monopoly prodts. If a part of this consideration be not placed where it will "do the most good to influence legislation, Senator Booth, of California, could not have been justified in saying that both of our great political parties are organized in the interest of these monopolies. If railway corporations got the profits from these monopolies, why do corporations grow poor, while their officials grow rich An old freight agent of many years' experience tells me that these corrupt combinations, whereby the public is defrauded of honest railway service, and whereby stock-owners are swindled out of corporate profit, have increased more within the last ten than during the preVious twenty years. And the ratio of increase will become greater every year while railway officials are allowed to wield the power to discriminate against he many in favor of a chosen few. Your statement that P.

is one of our railway kings indicates that the common idea that they are all in these rings, which build monopolies for themselves by discriminating In freights against competitors, is erroneous. For if were guilty of such practice, how could he consistently argue for fair competition, for the supply of all demand, for all commodities And if he, by defeating competitive production and trade, was defeating competitive demand for labor, bow could he plead so well in favor of wages being regulated by a demand for labor which he bad deleatedi We must, therefore, inter that at least for one, is innocent of this misuse of the railway which defeats the public and corporate purpose for which rriiways are built. I cannot consistently task therefore to answer the following questions. But of those railway officials who advocate the utility of discriminating rates of fare and freights subject to the vacillating will, whim, or interest of changing officials, I do ask the following questions, that all may get all possible light for the better organization of our deranged Industries, to supply want and pay our debts: 1. Will or will not the suppression of competitive demand for labor tend to lower wages! 2.

Does not that discrimination in railway rates which chokes competition destroy competitive demand for labor? 3. Where this discrimination is vacillating as the whims or Interest of changing officials, is it any wonder teat general enterprise languishes, that natural resources lie dormant, or that labor and money become idle 4. hen general means are made unproductive through enforced idleness thereof, is it any wonder that a small amount of monopoly production gluts the paying demand therefor, so that menopoliats cry out overproduction, even while willing, but Idle, workers are unsupplied with the necessaries of Wet Industry re-de- 5. Would not the substitution of competitive monopoly system oir of Velop resources for a larger production and borne consumption of every product 6. Would not such increase of production and consumption increase paying transportation for exchange of products by the railways 7.

Viil effective legislation to protect public and corporate interests against the misuse of tailwars by railway officials scare capitalists from future Investments in any honest railway or other enterprise! S. Is there any fairer or better way to regulate commerce and production among the several States thau for Congress to require by law that each him of railway shall exteuti impartial facilities to all, and shall make impartial charges for loaoing, unloading, and saitching-freight, with mileage rates for hauling, anti with prohibition against pooling or other combining to defeat competitive carriage V. Would such requiremeat by Congress be anything more than a fulfillment of its constitutional obilzations to see that no State is robbed by unfair railway disetimination of its fair share of coalmen, or have its natural facilities for production suppressed, to give a monopoly of manufacture mining, or trade to other sectional And would the enforcement of such a law be anything more than the reasonable fultiihnent of the charter purpose of corporate profit from nubile service! 10. It railway ()Metals, who, as a class, are no better than oti'ier men. are allowed coutinued immunity in antropriating other people's property at will, how long will it be ere they, as railway kings, will make white and black their slaves.

to be enrolled from ocean to oceau 1 i i I 6...1 I 1,1 tf, 1 1 tr, 1 1 lc', -4, THE WEATHER. WILMINGTON, D. C. Dec. a.

Tennessee and the Ohio Valley and the Lake Region, falling followed by rising barometer, southerly to westerly winds, warmer and ruler-ally clear weather, except, In the last district, partly cloudy weather and possibly occasions' rain or snow. LOOAZ OBIS ILVATION etileAge, 1 ee. 9. ALLEGED SHARP PRACTICE. SALT LAKE, Ctah, Dec.

9.Eleven cases were brought in the United States District Court here Saturday against Liberty E. Holden, formerly of Cleveland, and four corporation defendants, by stockholders residing in Cleveland and Toledo, in Ohio, and Detroit and Kalamazoo, in Michigan, involving the title and produce of a group of mines in Bingham, in this Territory, known as the Old Telegraph Mines. It is stated that Holden realized from the workings of these mines during the last eighteen months over 1,000,000. The actions were brought to rescind pretended purchases of stock of East-ern stockholders by Holden, while he was acting as tieueral Manager of the Companies, based on the alleged suppression of a knowledge of the laet that the mines were largely productive, and the further fact of his misapt.ropriation of large sums of money. It is charged that the nominal sums of money paid to stocklioldtre on alleged purchases of their stock belonged to them as dividends.

The cases attract general attention. Judge Schaeffer granted, last evening, a temporary injunction. The hearing for the appointinz of a Receiver is set down for Dec. 27. fiery and stubborn valor displayed by the troops on either side.

The Russians were all picked and the courage and steadiness of their advanee justified to the full the reputation the Imperial Guard, enjoys in the Museovite army. The Turkish regular line fought, as they always light, behind intrenehments with the most admirable coolness and self-control. The Russians advaneed to within forty or fifty paces of the breastworks, pouring, in a steady fire all the way; but the Turkish response was so witlering that at last they broke and fled. At this critical moment some scores of the Turkish regulars dashed over the breastwork and ergaged tiereely in a band-to-hand fight with the enemy: but this was over in a few seconds, and the Russians tore down the bill in something very, like pante leaving nearly 1.000 dead and wounded behind them, a witness to the determined character of the attack and the resistanee. Co to) this time it was all fair fighting, but now those execrable savages whose deeds have thrown so daak a slur tin Turkish armsthe Cireassians and the Bashi-bazoukswere let loose On the field, and acted there alter their own instincts.

have had a description of the scene from an eye-witness whose statementa are admitted by the Turks themselves to be perfeetly accurate. Nobody, even among the regulars, seems to think it worth while to denv the facts. Every wounded Russian lying on the tient was butchered after the close of the battle by the Turkish irregulars. 'Every (lead body was stripped stark-naked and left on the field unburied, and a great majority of the bodies were mutilated. Many were ab- solutely beheaded; others lay with their throats cut clean to the vertebra; others had been made targets of, and were literally riddled with bullets.

That they were fired upon atter the action, was easily proved by the nature and aspect of their wounds. The revolvers or steal-bore rifles from which the bullets bad been discharged had been placed so close to the bodies as to scorch them, and, trout the close ness of the discharge. certain plaees were evidently chosen to be aimed these the left breast being the most common. The wounds which had disabled these wounded rneu were distinguishable from those which had been inflicted after the battle. informant is a well-known anti able English surgeon, and I learn him that cowparativelv few of the 400 or 500 dead whose borbes he examined bore traces of wound's received in battle which could possibly have resulted in immediate death.

A tralietred thigh would effectually dtsable a man from escaping from the butchers who the wounded, but it would not be linrneciately fatal. 'Men suffering from such WOtilltiS lay stripped and dead upon the field with their skulls clubbed in, with their faceS disfigured by a dozen sword-euts, with their throats tut, or with halt-a-dozen charred bullet-holes about their twalies. The commonest form of mutilation be to he to cut olf the nose or to slit the ears; oezitsionally hands and fingerl had been chopped off, probabiy for the sake of nnrs, nd nopody on this side appears at all tLsposed to dispute these facts, or even to take the trouble to explain them Way- A French-speaking Circassian offieer, with whom I talked at 'fells a tew days avo, told me how tie had shot a wounded Russian through the bead, arid was evidently of opinion tiit the deed was meritorious. De stated that live ef his family had been killed in battle by the Museov, and that it was his business to avenge them by killing a Russian apiece for them. Be was one to the good now, and anything he could continue to do went down to his own account in the ledger.

lie, however, thought any mutilation ot the dead savage atid cowardly. On the 2.Sth ult. the Russians were up at Tells in force. They occupied cornfields on the east with twenty guns. The village to the south with twenty guns swelled the storm of fre which fell from those points of vaut age upon the Turkish intrenehed positions.

The Coustantinople journals state that ilakki Pasha surrendered his men and his position without tiring a shot, but that assertion is certainly a libel. The ex-railway Director fought gallantly, but he found himself at last so overweighted that he sent out a fag of truce. The tiring etuleiti. but the lia.salau Lalautrv was Time. Mr Ms.

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BERMON BY BISILOP aNDREWS. The dedicatory 6erviees at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of White and LaSalle streets, which commenced a week ago, were completed last evening, though the dedication proper took place in the morning. There was a large congregation present. On the platform were Bishops Merrill, Harris, and Andrews, the Rey. John Atkinson, the pastor, and the Rev.

Arthur Edwards and Presiding-Elder A profusion of beautiful flowers, in emblematic forms, ornamented the altar. After an organ voluntary by Mrs. Nellie E. Whipple, thi; hymn commencing And will the great eternal God On earth estaulisa his anode? was sung. Bishop Merrill then offered prayer.

This was followed by the reading of the Scripture lessons, the first by Bishop Harris, and tbe second by Elder Willing. The Rey. Mr. Atkinson stated that no debt. was unprovided for as far as the building waS concerned, but a large expense had beea incurred for the traveling expenses of ministers from abroad to take part in the services, and he asked for contributions to pay this rlhe amount collected was probably sufficient, though it was not stated.

Another Hymn was sung, and Bishop Andrews then preached. His text was: Now the end of the commandment is charity ont of a pure neart, and of a good conscience, and of a faith unfeigned. 5. A very careful student of the Bible, be said, took note of the fait that the English langutwe, like every other living language, was in process of change. To-day charity meant either giving or kindly of others, but when King version was made it had the broader signideation ot benevolencelove, and that was the Apostle's meaning of charity.

The commandment, too, mint have had a narrower or broader SiErnitiMIACM. Its own was that ti somatic precept proceeding through SUICIDE. Special toievateli to The tlicago Tribune. Prrrsavuo, man who registered his name as J. It Abbey was found dead in his room at the National Rote, on Water street, this morning.

A bottle of laudanum was found on the mantel, a revolver on the bed, and on the floor a bottle of whisky. Whether death was caused by laudanum or whizky is not yet known. On the floor was found a piece of brown Daper, on which was written the words Good by. Tile Coroner will investizate the ease tomorrow. Abbey was a young man not over 25 or 26 years of age.

some say he came here from New Jersey. Others think be beionged to the West. He was a hot-dealer, and a few days aa-o shipped a boat-load to Elizabeth, Pa. The affair is mixed up with cousid. erable mystery.

It is not positively known that Abbey was his real name. It is certain that he was a hard drinker. s0t f't 1 'S ritE LOUISVILLE FIRE. Lonsvitut. Dec.

9.The losses and Insurance on last night's fire cannot be ascertained until Monday. The datunge to all extept Cochrane Fulton is light. Their loss will be heavy. The prevoltion of the spread of tba fire was very remarkable, and was accomplished by cutting through a heavy wall with axes, and so flooding the buildin g. with water as to stoP even whisky from burning.

Its origin CAU13I be aceouuted fur. TEMPERANCE. 8petiat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. SPRINGIMIELD, IlL, Dec. interest Is being manifested in the Blue Ribbon temperance movement.

The meeting this afternoon was very largely attended, and very many signed the pledge. Meetings will be held daily and every evening during the week. Col. Rowell, of Rockford, and Jake Iloffatitter are iu ukarge of the movement. -i, I 'a i I happy Lidinzs for nervous sufferera, and thon who halve been domed, druzized.

and quack14- Pulvermacher'm Electric Delta effertualiy cum premature debilny, weaknoaa, and decay. Bout and Joaroat. with in forniation worth thousandk mailed free. 44.kixesid ritivezulat ualvaaig Qat CinCiliLlia. Q.

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