IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // ^ >4 K// '-*'-^ # y. hear !)«■« Vhid audk flUUKI 1 «h«ir ^v ,i w«Ic by til natal oated pow« opMi ailni iiffra tlMK PARNELL AND THE PROPHETIC DESTINY OF IRELAND, ■■>■■ SEsn:M:o3iNr, •rm OBUVHUID BT THB Rev. Joseph Wild, iMD., Oh SuMday EvnUng, Ociober 2jrd, iS8i, in the Bpnd Stnet €(mgr9g»tiomai C/ntrch, Ttrmtto. Sk, . Bond Stir«et Chiittsh tnts -d«a«Mtty utowdto Ust 'ISUpipivei^g to HtM tbn Rev. Jiiieph WUfl, D.D., |)i^tt(jb bn *< Bamdl trnttfitf Ph>pb^c BMtfliy of Irdand." Hdleanidd Dodtor "itm iieyer flotste fcN^^ eon- Vhieiiig or eloi^famrt ihan dn thit ooetuion, vcA Iflie ^«t*H|||rtn of 'tiie fliidienee ttsttlft«tod itMlf in f raqoMfc #z«t»f«iiilbl«^ =6^^ idaBtic api>hiuM. lUn Cdllowin^ i« « «yr6a4im mpttrt of tMsllMMNu ^tUnottise Hiddi divided to the wtioav 0. Be Mt the botuide of the Tfexvr-Beiitenmonw xxxii. 8 : *' When the Moi* their mheriteaoe, when He eepiuwted the mam of Adeu^ _ peO]^le'eooordingto the number of the ohildiMnx>f brlMii.'* Th« Bible «MJfM to man a noble ongin aad glonoiis futere. I^Eom it we learn that num ia mere tiian « mere oreaturaof-growtli, m nlink forged by i^ evolutioBary foroee of nature. He ii^ indeedi finely acyoaied to natnr^ and we oaa admit tb«t natiue ia Btroiv, aubtle, ridi and eompU- oaied in her prodootiooa, but yet not oomfietent by aqy bidden or r^VeJed power to inodaoe man. She ean oontinne witliki limbed tinea and oo- opMation to propagate bvmanify. Our «wn intuitiona end fUMMoionimnwi af&rm that we axe aometinng mora than improved moftkeyi^ or the ne phu ulkm of « nomadic devdl^ment. The Darwinian t|^gr may be true in the veahn <^ woraMi«r domain ci inaeota, but the eKt In manVi caae is -:M ■ '*i too sublime for such a cause. Moses, in the chapter of the text, sajrs : ** Ascribe ye greatness unto our Qod. He is the rock ; His work is per- fect." And when chiding the people for their idolatry, he says: "Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotton Qod that formed thee." This was a terrible charge brought by Moses against this people, and might it not in all fairness be brought vgainst us as a people 1 Men agitate and legislate as if there were no God; th^y heed not Heaven's purpose, and yet swinging wide of providential intent, they stand amazed at the failure and impotence of their own work. Men of education and scientific attainments are greedily bending all their energies to prove that nature is self-acting and independent of a Ood. They would have us believe that God is a myth and providence a mistake. The potency and promise of nature is a scientific sufficiency to account for all of the past, present or the future. As Moses said of the Hebrews, so may it be said of many in our day : " They have corrupted themselves ; their spot is not the spot of His children ; they are a perverse and crooked generation. Do you thus requite the Lord, oh, foolish people and unwise 1 lo not He thy father that hath bought theel Hath He not made thee, and established theel" The truth set forth in our text is a wondeif ul one — a truth which, like many other old truths, can be bettet understood to-day than yesterday. We have here a geographical fact stated as to the central idea of God's purpose in dividing the earth to the nations of the world. The truth here set forth at once solves the mysteries of England's growth, Ireland's discontent, and the special unrest of all the world. It is accounted good and wise in men when they study to find out the meaning of nature, to learn her secrets, forces and intent, so that they may experiment wisely and work profitably. It is no use a man setting his face against nature ; wisdom is to conform. The farmer cannot sow and plant at any time of the year ; he cannot gather a harvest when and of whatever he chosas. The mason cannot build a house anjrwhere and any shape. The fact is, in every department of lalxMr, nature's laws and intent must be respected ; if not, trouble and fiulure are the result. This is logic, this is science, this is theology, this is common s^nse. If success and reward attend on human toil, when we conform to the intent of nature, and distress and fiiilure when We depart £rom that intent, m&y we not then reasonably ask if the law of harmonious coopera- tion holds good between man and providence. By the intebt of nature I mdm the qnalities^her laws. It is not intended that we should walk on our heads, but it is nature's intention that we should walk on our two Ibet, ;*^^4^iF!rt^;mn: that the horse walk on four, that hirde should fly and fish swim. To resist the intention of nature would be to invite fiiilure and disoomfiture. Nature's laws are the expression of the Creator's mind, and nature's intent is nothing more nor less than Gknl's intent. Now, I should hold that just as Ood has expressed His will in nature, m> He has expressed His wiU in the Bible. The intent of this Bible-will may be seen in His providence. Like as Ood has His own way in nature, so will He have in providenoe ; and as man must conform to God in nature to insure success, so must he also do in Providence. The all-important question then, is, what is the mind of Ood touching the settlement of the earth 9 Has«He marked out a line of settlement t I answer. He has. Can we know what that line is t I answer, we can. C^ it be known in sufficient clearness to affect and guide us in our legislation t It can. Does this line point out the cause and remedy of Ireland's discontent 1 It does. Now, any man undertaking to plead the Irish cause should first learn to know the mind of God in reference to that country, for even Ireland is not left out of the Divine calculation of my text. It is not said that « when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance," He left out Ireland; but it is said that ** when he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children o^ Israel." Who are the Irish 1 Perhaps they are in the way of these chil- dren of Israel If so, they will have to move. May be the whole secret of the unrest of that country lies in the fact that it is assigned to Israel,' and that a portion of the inhabitants not being Israelites, are consequently in the wrong place. It won't do, my friends, for the Hon. Mr. Pamell, the Home Bulers, the British (Government, the Catholics or Protestants to leave .out this Divine quantity, or set at naught the Divine intention in this matter. Find out first what is the Divine will touching Ireland, then agitate and fight it out on that Una Then will bo granted success, quiet and plenty; otherwise confusion, strife and blooddied. I state a &ct when I say that Ireland was first settled by i3ie Phoenicians, called in history sometimes Philistines and Oanaanitea And i^bout thie seventh oento^, B.O., another people settled in that island called Tuath de Danan ; that ii^ men of the tribe of Dan. They finally settled in the North of Ireland, while ^e Philistines settled in the South. Tradition, history, pro- phecy aikd Providenoe HU agree on tiiis point of Ireland's double settl^^ meni In this dxmbliB setUaaaent is to be found the real sooroe of Ireland'a itttOtaAl^^ tronU& Jlieifi ti» people w«m always different in reUffton, enterpiriie, and tMr fWMia mak»-np. The poor PhilistineB were al^y» ^^ r- ky\^i ^ 6 given to idolatrous pntotioes. And when the Romiih Charoh deputed from the simple ftdth and became idolatrous, she easily captured thatpart of Ireland, and from that day to this she has sucked the life-blood out of that people. Tear in and year out Ireland has fkithfiiUy ooniribated her Feter^a pence to Bome. This token of servitude she has not Ikiled to send &»■ ward in times of peace or strife, of famine or plenty. When the Tartar* conquered China they forced the Chinese to wear a one, as a sign of their subjection. So Irishmen, by the annual collection of Peter's penoe, ao> knowledge that Ireland was, once on a time, sold by an English King to Pope Urban, at the rate of a penny a house. May we not ask in all seriousness who this Peter is that needs so much peuoe-money, and what has he ever done for Ireland that Ireland should do so much for him t . Ah I my friends, this Peter at present is Pope Leo XIII. He lives in a foreign country, even in the ancient city of Rome, in the goigeous and magnificent palace, the Vatican, a palace whose flimisbings are not surpassed by any in the world. The Lord Lieutenant's mansion in Dublin is nowhere in comparison. In St. Peter's, at Rome, there is enough latent and worse than useless capital, in precious stones, gold and silver, to pur- chase the whole of Ireland. Think of it ; golden images with diamond eyes, figures of saints in gold and silver, and shrines, and altars of untold wealth. This is the temple of God, and His Infallible Holiness sits to pre- side and rule as the representative of the meek and holy Jfsus, who had not where to lay His head. A hue and cry is heard that Ireland is again suffering. God lielp the poor. Are they poor who content themselves with such slavery, and refuse the liberty that would give them plenty and oon- tentment ? They are not poor in priestly care, because for each soul there is a four-headed priesthood, namely, the Pope, the cardinal, bishop and commo|i priest, and each faithful subject contributes to the maintenanoe of the four. Poor, and revelling in such priestly abundance ! as well mi^t a man cry poverty who employs four servants to cook his dinner. The Church is like a giddy, vaunting maiden, apparelled in purple and' fine Ishen, and bedecked with jewels rare and many. The people are the fhther, whose weary toils are made to contribute to the pomp and vanity of this pretended maiden saint. < Itiseasyfiftrthe Irkih leaders to see stowed awaf wealtii in other ehuseiiea, and adk: tiiat it be divided, and to see why the Quem of SBglan* AmM be liben^ Hiear tiiem crying out UaUt year ua tie prwisOTi of famine, why don't the English Qoverament divido eome of the Irish- English Clergy Reeerve fund 1 In the disestablishment of the English Choroh in Ireland, it was neoessarj for the Qovemment to set apart a sum of money to purchase this right and provide for the disestablishment. In the course of events a la Alabama^ the fund set apart turned out to be more than was really needed. But as all the ministers then disestablished have not died, matters cannot be closed up. But there is to all appearances money lying idle. Invest it in public works, says one ; another says, distribute it among the poor. Now, why this anxiety to have some of this Episcopalian fUnd 1 Why not askiSt. Peter's to divide some cf its latent and idolatrous wealth 1 Queen Victoria contributes a few thousands to the Irish relief Aind. Then the Communists and Catholic soreheads cry shame on her for only giving so small a sum. Who is this queen t A Protestant mother. Qentlaipen, i-eserve your breath till you find out how much the lion-hearted Leo, the Pope, will giva Remember that Pope Pius died worth more in personal property than the Queen of QftmX Britain and Iielnnd and Empress of Indif possesses. Let this Catholic hy^risy be unveiled. Let the people wHo ace so priest-ridden know it Let us at this timely juncture of the Irish dranuk introduce, a new act that shall expose this hieraxohical decep- tion. Ireland is suffuring. She has suffsred before, and will again unless the people in the South and West change their religion, or make a radiqal change in the one they have. It is a pity, it is a burning shame, that Ire- land should be crushed to the earth in poverty, as she has been, and is, by Borne and Englaad. I am well aware that it is impossiUe f6r England to be as liberal with Ireland as she desires, for while two*tbiids of the people are slaves to Bome, it. would be impolitic to trust them with more liberty.. Iridunen, f^ youiselvea firam Italy, if you want national liberty. Then the one-thixd or Protestant portion do not want self-government imposed upon them. The men of Uhiter prefer to be under England's rule, witii all theiD poUtioal disaUlitiea, than to be under Aome, which of course l^hey would be if Ireland beoame independent. A compact two-thirds CathoUc mi^rity would; leave littie chanae for the political freedom of the one- third, w^tecially so in » raligioas sense.. Besides, there are many good Cathcdios who piaflor their pnsent relation to England ratker than indfr- peadanoe and tile Consequent rale of Rome. Another queer and very interesting feature of this Iririi questicm is that the Pcfye and the I(oman hierarchy in Ireland are not 'in faypr of sepamtuHi fisom Kngland, To this statement a few pariah prieets are a^ exception.. Any movwitnt. lookvogi to exm^ resistance and separation 8 has been frowped on by the bishops ; the Fenian movement, for instance. So far was the wrath of the hierarchy manifested, that the Fenians were threatened with excommunication from the Church, and in some cases denied the rite of Church burial But why do the Boman hierarchy take openly this postion 1 I answer, for several reasons. First, because the leaders (have been above the Church. They have been men who would not be subject bo the Church in political matters. And surely Rome can- not tolerate such leaders. She wants unqualified submission. In the second place, Rome receives large grants of moneys from England. Her priests in Maynuoth College have been, and are now, being educated with English money. But, beyond and above all, the main point is that Rome is afraid that if Ireland becomes independent, she will not be able to control the people. Once they tasted of frmdom politically, it would not be long before they would have freedom religiously. Then the Church, having lost con- trol, would not be able to fleece the people of their money as they now dp. This I believe, that the bulk of the Irish Catholic people, both in Ireland and the United States, are going to break with Rome before long. They are getting too intelligent, too liberal, too noble-hearted to be much longer counted children in matters of religion. The people are going to do away with the middlemen, the numerous go-betweens, and approach Qod in Christ for themselves. They are beginning to learn that prayers can go direct to Heaven from Ireland, instead of having to go by the way of Rome. The doing away with these middlemen will be a great saving in money, time and labor. Oh, I wish these people could learn and believe that Christ is no respecter of persons, and that the poorest jlrish peasanc may approach Him directly. God help them. There is trouble in Ireland, and dilSerent reasons areaasigned for the same. Thinking men are varied in their theory of tiie oanse, as well as the remedy. But what is the cause of Ireland's unrest 1 Many of the Irish blame the English Gkyvemment and English landlords ; this, however, is not a total answer, nor by far the chief answer that can be given. One might reason- ably ask hov it comes to pass that these disturbances and repeated famines occur in the West and South of Ireland, where nature is generous, the soil rich. How is it that in the colder, more rooky and less fertile North, famines do not occur. In nature the advantages are with the South. Aak me what was the difference and the cause between the fields and homes of Goshen and those of Egypt Proper. There is light in Goshen and plenty 9 in the field, but remember the GkMheiiited are Hebrews, they lye God's, chosen freemen. In the Egyptian homes there is darkness, and blight on the fields. The difference in the lands is the expressed difference of the people and their relifl[ion. The Egyptians were idolatrous and priest- ridden. What is the difference between Ulster and Munster 1 Ths people of Ulster are Protestant freemen, and they of Munster are priest-ridden Catholics. The people of Ulster are Israelites, they of Munster are (Gen- tiles. Expressed in dollars and cents — at the time of the Chicago fire the capital cities of Dublin and Belfast sent their contributions to this country. Gentile Dublin sent $2,000, and Israel Belfast $36,000. It is an easy thing to blame landlords and the English Government. And some off these Italian yoke-fellows never seem weary of cursing England. God have mercy upon them, for they axe ungrateful beggars, to say the least. But what is the remedy ) Some say an entire change of the laud tenure system. Others advocate armed resistance and revolution. But prophecy, Providence and common sense say graftation into the stock of Israel. The people miust change their religion or reform the one they have, so that it shall be in harmony with liberty, progress, and the age. Freedom fm Rome is essential. Armed resistance will be in vain ; this, the leaders ought to know. England would to-morrow be willing to en- large the privileges of the Irish and give them a local Government, as Mr. Gladstone in a late speech has intimated, if the people and leaders were prepared for such a trust. Ireland can never be wholly cut off from England. It is to be a province in Israel to the end of time. So Pamell, Dillon & Co. are arrested ; a thing that should have been done some time ajB(o, when it could have been done with better effect and more grace. The noble Gladstone for some time past has been sick politi- cally, and now that he becomes strong politically, he is sick bodily. He gave the Irish leaders too much rope then and too litUe now. They have imposed upon his generosity and forbearance. Pamell & Co. durst not play such pranks in the presence of the late Earl Beaconsfield. These Iiish leaders know right well when to make a raid on the pockets of their dupes, and wages of the poor servant girls. The opportunity was too grand to be lost. D'Israeli out of power, a. famine in the land, Fenianism nearly dead— something had to be done tO' replenish the exhausted exchequer of these parasitical reformers. They love to live on the fat of the land, and dwell in palace hotels in France and the 10. United States. Nay, I trow not but that they are glad to go into the gaol for a flhort'time for Uie honor it confers, the sympathy it excites, and money it commands. For a people who are aceustomed to plead for Peter's pmoe for the poor exile in the gorgeous palace of St. Peter, will neither lack eloquence nor boldness to plead the cause of their leaders in Kilmainham gaol. When Pamell and Dillon first visited the States they did so on the wave of famine sympathy. They converted the sorrow and enthusiasm Arising out of the &mine to the vile purpose of a political organization, whose chief aim was their own luxury, but whose effect was to unsettle their own country. Committees formed for famine purposes were after- wards in many cases converted into Land League Societiea Pamell and Dillon knew very well that they could not tap the American till with a political key alone ; hence they invented the famine key. So, more than a year ago, from my pulpit in Brooklyn, N.T., I said on this point to my people: ** Tuu will understand that in this agitation the Aunine is a secondKry consideration. Mr. Pamell and Dillon did not really come to tiiia country to raise money for the famished ones. At the Madison Square meeting in New York, Mr. Pamell acknowledges this point. He said: * Our oljeet in visiting this country as originally formed has been considerably modi* fied by the pressure of circumstances. Originally we proposed only to address you on behalf of eur pditioal organization.' Now, what does this political organization propose 1 Ah, that is a secret, whieh the honoraUt gentleman has invariably refused to answer when asked. My own idea is that it is a sister to the Fenian one. Fenianism is nea v dead; it has bled the people aU it could ; hence it was necessary to oiganize a new. It was soon leumed by this Irish delegation that that object alontf would not tap the American till The people of this countiy are ready with charity for the needy, but not to buy arma for the purpose of fitting Englanil Jesuitism had foreseien this difficulty, and so they have unequally yoked together the Prdtestant Pamell and the Catholic Dillon. What a team i This team, however, can draw on the pubHo doubly. Had the delegation be«>** a Catholic one, it would hav* been a failure. Beat the Jesuits if yon cata. Imagine Protestants contributing to establish Catholicism and over- throw their own faith ! English-Americans aiding armed revolution against the land of their birth ! Believers in the Monroe doctrine stretch- ing their arma across the sea to mix in the quarrels of a friendly nation ! n Wondexfttl ; tjicse aie lively Umm ! Chkkena come home to roost aome- timee. The Hon. Chwles Pamell, a nobleHSouled man, will know more five years from &w." Do yoa ask what business of mine it is. I answer, it is much mine ereiy way. In the first place, the scheme or policy proposed by these agitators is contrary to providential intent with respect to Ireland. Ire- land is to remain a part of Israel — England, and is yet to be Protestantized. Agaist tikeir poUcy is one of disloyalty to my Queen and country, and at present, I am too loyal to stand by and see my country weakened and Queen dishonored. But more, the Oatholie priests in that country and this take pert pro or eon, and why not II If tiie Land League of Montreal can meet and pass resolutions on this subject, why cannot I have my say f The fkct is, it is a question interesting all. This has been too long a one-sided question. Foreigners, and many of the youth in our midst, will begin to think nothing can be said on the other side. It is high time for some one to speak out. If the Bev. Harold Bylett, a Presbyterian minister, and the Rev. Mr. Csntwell, a Oatholie priest, can preach and talk disloyalty in Dublin, I can preach and talk on fidelity and loyalty to the Britidi Queen and the British Empire. .If the Land Leaguers can meet in Toronto and pass resolutions of distrust and disapproval of the English Government, I can voice my confidence and faith in England's Queen, Premier, and Government I received two letters the past week — one from a member of this church, the other was anonymous — charging me not to preach on this sub- ject I now answer, I have done what they forbade me, and tiiey can do what they like. One thing is very certain, no man shall gag me in Bond Street pulpit; yon may put me out, but while I am in I shall be fi«e. Last Tuesday, at the great mass meeting in Dublin, the secretaiy said ** that though the Government had arrested the leaders, the priests were left to guidis the people." I am a priest as much as they, and I idll help to guide the people too. Priests cannot be loyal m times of danger like these, for they swear to obey the Pbpe first. The very man to whom th^ ple^ supreme loyalty chiims temporal authority as well as spuituaL To put the priests, r^t on this point, it i» necessary &t His Hofiness t6 renounce by intention, device and claim, his temporal sovereijlpity. Til then no priest can be fitee. No man can serve Buptemely two mssten, evtti if th^ he priests. ' I IS Leagaes are multiplying; there are 800 in Ireland, and scores on this continent. Look at the reception O'Oonnor is receivinj^in the States. And is no one to open their mouth in defence of Queen and country. By the press and inflammatory orations, the Land Leaguers are leading the public astray. This you will frequently find in papers. A better daily paper t^an the Brooklyn Eagle is not easily found, yet hear it on thi» question : *' Whether the Land Bill is a good or a bad measure is not the ques- tion now. The question is, whether Irishmen are to be deprived of their liberty for discussion of it ; thrown into gaol for doubting its virtues ; made the prey of constabulary and dragoons for proposing, by peaceable methodSr to convince the British Government that a different measure is required to- meet the case of their country." . , In this quotation the writer b^ the whole question. Pamell & Co. have not been thrown into the gaol and deprived of liberty for doubting, the virtues of the Land Bill, or discussing, but for inciting the people to resist it To advise the people to pay no rent, to disregard their hoi^est. debts, was not proposing by peaceful means to change the law. Are the sayings of Rev. Mr. Gantwell, at the Dublin mass meeting, peaceful utter- ances? After advising them to resist the law, he said : " That if it really came to a life and death struggle, as from present appearances likely, Tip> perary, which he representid, would be the first to take the field." I believe there are many grievances in Ireland which ought to be re^ dressed ; but this I as surely believe, that the thing most needed is a new religion, or«a mighty change in the one they now have. Catholicism is a failure. The hundreds of years of wrong endured and poverty inherited, do most . (|9lemnly proclaim this statement a truth. Such vassalage and poverty cdttld |xot exist in the presence of a pure religion. The very his- tory of this Churoh in Ireland or anywhere else, in tUs age or any age, is the wealth of the few at the expense of the many. If Protestantism failed in like manner, I would change it; just- as, after months and yean of sickness, my own and regular physician failed to cure me, I would change to another. The masses in Ireland are religiously paralysed, and it is almost, if not altogether, impossible for them to be successful aggressors. They want a new religion to give them vigor, competence, unity and victory. A religion that will tolerate suoh gross injustice, or that cannot remove it after hundreds of years of trial, should stand out of the way and give place to another. I do affirm, on the testimony of history and facta ci the 13 present day, that the present condition of Ireland is normal to her chief religion — that is, the poverty and vassalage of the masses agrees to and with Catholicism. No other state of things ever existed for the last eleven hundred years wherever this Church had absolute control. Spain is an example to-day, and Italy has been a terrible' witness of the same truth. Italy, the centre and home of this Church for hundreds of years, what, I ask, has been her condition) According to the census of 1864, out of a total population of 21,703,710 there were 16,999,701 who could neither read nor write. Spain was equally bad. A man who wants to do a good thing for Ireland must set to work to change her chief religion. " Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and eUl other things ahatt be added." If the Hon. Charles Pamell would become a convert to Israel's identification, he might do Ireland more good, and the world too. This theory speaks freedom, liberty, progress and sovereignty of conscience, that would soon give to Ireland her needed reforms. We should remember that events are like icebergs, more out of sight than in. I have seen in the North Sea large icebergs going against wind and wave. How were they propelled, you ask ) They were deeply sunk, and thus they were borne along by an under current So events are sunk in Provi- dence. The winds above and opposing waves cannot stay their march. With all the winds of oratory and waves of passion Ireland is movii^ on against them to her Qod-appointed goal, and the prophets have revealed to us the course of some of these hidden providential currents. I have spoken freely again on this irritating subject I count myself a friend of all ; would not hurt a hair of the head of Protestant or Catholic. Let us fight these questions with free tongues, dear heads and loving hearts, and all will come right in Qod's own time. By my freedom I probably shall have offended some. Some will say : "Well, I will never enter that church again." All right, go in peace ; you will hardly be missed out of a crowd like this. If yon go to some weak church, your presence and number both will tell more than here. God bless old Ireland I Qoi help the English Government ; and God bless us all. Aman. HYMN BOOKS U8>D IN ll BOND STREET COEBEGATIONAl CHDBCE. Limp Fooket Edition, Dr. Wild's-The Ten Lost Tribes and 1882, - How and When the Worid will End - $050 -• - 100 - 100 — ^AT- A. R. LORIMER'S MW. STORE, 150 Yonge Street, Toronto. r Calling Cards a Specialty, printed or written to order. ^ PHCENIX HAT STORE ■*»■ HAMMOND <\ jr==:j sSb ^ ■ *« TOaOHTO. 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Bond Street Churoh was again crowded to ezoees last evening to hear l^he Doctor on a subject which has been the cause of great discnmion. lere was not standing room to be had at ten minutes to seven, and hun- Ireds were turned away, unable to gain admittance. It is stnuigelj iioticeable the large migority of men — thinking men — who attend to hear lese sermons. Something will have to be done about enlarging the ohnrch }n, if this thing continues. It is not only a large attendance to hear the [ivening sermon, but to hear the rooming discourse as well. There were renty-five new members admitted to fellowship at the morning service ; id already a large number have sent in their names for next month. Text: Song of Solomon i. 6, "Look not upon me. beuanio I am bltok ; be> lUM the lun oath looked upon me ; my mother's children were angry with me. ; liey mane me the keeper of the ▼ineyardi ; but mine own vineyard hare I not kept. Language could not well be more expressive than the words of our txt as to the origin of color, and the reason of slavery in the negro race, ^he blackness of skin you will here see is attributed to the sun, *' because he sun hath looked upon me." Then the oneness of the origin of those Irbo weye thus blackened bj the sun is stated Jn tlie words, " my mother's lildren ;" that is, originally, we all had the some mother. Those who irere so blackened claimed the same mother as those who were not I III q •lid lli I I :l ill inii if;' .11 We alio learn that this diflTerenoe in color gave rise to honor, dis- tinction, alienation, and infeiiority and auperiority among the children of the aaniH mother. Tboee upon whom the snn ha'l looked lo effectuall/ were deal ated, and nooounted inferior; in fact, blaoknefls became synony- mona with inferiority, and inferiority became synonymous with subjection and with servitude ; or, as gra|iliioally sUted in thn text, " My mother's childi-en were itngry with me ; they made me keeper of the Tineyards." They were deprived of the right and the reward of their own self-labor, as you see—" My own vineyard," they say, " I hive not kept" How con- oise, how precise^ how simple, how scientiBc the delineation in the tuzt touching the oiigin of the negro mop, and the introduction and reason for sUveij. Bible-like, great scientific frtcts, stated in the few modest words of Bible langUMge. We may say, and only say of it in the world, " Multum in inrvo." You cannot say it of anything that any man ever wrote, but you can say it of every sentence uttered in the Bible. You maf tmvel far and read much, to be posted on the negro question, before yoq can get a better and clearer idea on this subject than is given in the woixls d in the Jit'e of anj'one mun in this church, and hits cost more lives, and has cost more bloodshed, than any question you can possibly think of in the world ; viz., the war in the United States. Naturally somewhat projudioed, and anxious to be looked upon as discoverers, scientific men have advanced their theories, agreeable to their pride and agreeable to theii* fancies, tu account for tho Kible facts ; and yet if you come to rend the Bible, you will find that it stands juitt ovor aj^ainst «ny new scientitio revelation. In the sermon that I gavD yon on the pre- Adamite man, you have a fine illustration there. Now, neienoe has reveided to us, in the tiaoes and in the different developments of fosniU or remitina that have been f'ountl, that man, independent of the Adamite man, must have existetl ; and therefore, because they have never read the Bible cor- rectly, they said the Bible says that only AdHmite kind of men h we lived ; whereas the Bible taught that man liveti long before Adam, of another i-ace and of another kind. " For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Loi-d," it is said in the Scripture, " shall be saved." Appropriately on thia point, you may ask what the Bible has to say on this negro question. We see whxt it says in the text, and we know the remarkable saying of Paul when talking to the Athenians : " Out of one fleith, one blood, hath God made all nations of men to dwell upon the fitoe of the earth ;" that i% all nations of men that were living at Paul's time. Some interpret this passage to mean that the several races of men — red, black, and white — were only identical in blood likeness, and not identical in place of origin. But such an interpre- tation cuts the paswife lofwo from itj moorings, and swings wide froui the very aim which Paul has bigiiiiieJ. ,The very idea Paul is endeavoring to instil in the Athenians, is that he, as well as they and all other people, had a right to claim the one trua God as their God, for out of Uim, or from Him, we were all made ; that they were the children of the s ime Father, of equal precio^umens in His sight. The i^assage, I believe, very methodic- ally teaches the unity of the human race ; the whole tenor of the gospe proceeds upon that pri uciple. When he cries, " For whosoi) ver shal 1 call u | lon ; the name of the L >r.l," it is not whosoever of th») white race shall seek God ; it is not who waver of the black race, or whosoever of the red race ; but black or white, bond or free, rich or poor, learned or unlearned. ; We ate taught that God is the Saviour of. all men. In the commia- 6 Bion to preach the gospel, the same idea, I think, is emhodied: " Qo ye unto all the world ;" He does not say, " Go anywhere hut Africa." And He says, "Preach the gospel unto every creature." He does not say, "Don't preach the gospel to the Indians and the Africans." The commission is to all the world and to eveiy creature. There is no limitation in time or territory, or in race ; it is all the world, and every creature, to the end of time. Now, it seems to me that if the negro rHce hnd not heen human — bad not been of like origin and of equal privileges in the sight of Qod with us — that there would have been some exception made in this great commission. Look, for instance, at the nephilim and the lephiiim, which God ordered the Adamite race to destroy and not leave one of them on the face of the earth ; and He did destroy all the nephilim at the time of the Flood ; and then came into existence the rephilim, and yet God ordered the Adamite race to destroy them and not leave one of them ; but nowhere do we find exhortation given or privilege allotted to lu to destroy any of the races that are now in existence. I therefore believe that the Scripture teaches the unity of the human race, and history is very faithful to this point. Who are these Christian fathers you read about so frequently, whose doctrines you are so glad to read 1 One of them is a n«gro i And who are you that pride yourself on apostolic descent 1 Do you know that Kiger, one of the Bishops of Antioch, recorded in the Acto of the Apoetles, was the man who put his black hands on the top of Paul's head and ordained him 1 And ministers who are so proud of their apostolic succession get their order of apostolic descent down from tbe negro race. Is there any ground for disputing this t I say that every man who is ordained through Paul is ordaiiied through a negro, for Niger was a negro. Then if you come to the fatliers of learning, you have Euclid; he was a colored person, and yet you love to study hu problems. If you come into history, you have the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal ; he was a colored person ; so that there is nothing in history to deny their equality in any sense. Ton know how the negro became black. In trying to account fbr the diversity of man, men, as usuhI, have gone to extremes. On the theological line the idea is that blackness was the curse of Cain for the sin of murdering his brother, Abel ; for this sin he was marked in this manner ; and from this many trace the beginning of'the colored race. I suppose one half of the ancient fathers themselves attributed the color of the negro race to the curse of Cain. It is ourioua to read some of their jspeoulations vrith relation to this point. Some thpnght it was a sad oonnte- faance, the mark that was set upon Cain ; some thought that it was hlood tipnta which he coul.1 not wi|M out ; some thought that it was a large horn [growuig out of his forehead ; some thought it was Abel's dog following him [wherever hd went ; some thought it was the circle of the rising sun on his head ; some thought it was the letter " Tan " on the forehead, which is the [first letter beginning the Oreuk word which means repentance ; some thought |that it meant that he was indestructible, so that sword could not pierce [him, nor fire bum him, nor water drown him. After the murder of Abel we find Cain expreaning his fears to OcJ. [He was afraid to go away ; and why 1 He says, " for eveiy one that findeth [me will slay me." Now, you have got nobody to slay him in your theory, \ but the moment yon take in the Scripture nephilim, however, you know I that he naturally would be afraid of them, and he went away to the land of [Nod; but prior to his leaving what is called the presence of God, God gave I him the assurance that he would not be harmed, and He gave him the sign I of protection ; " and the Lord set a mark upon him." It is not set a mark [upon him; it is ''and the Lord gave a sign to Cain that no one should kill [him ;" that is the proper reuderlng ; and so since the Lord assured Cain [that no one should kill him, off he started, and nobody did kill him. ^Then you have the sign in the rainbow. The Lord made the rainbow a sign ; not that he set it upon Noah, but he established it, that it [should be a sign that no more should the world be drowned by water. So I He gave a sign unto Cain that no one should destroy him ; it does not say [that He made him black or white. But what reply does science give tn a question like this 1 I say that scientific answers are very generally that Ithe negi-o race is a distinct people, or authochthonal ; that is, coming out of (the soil ; j"M os some would argue that the Indians are authochthonal, not laboriginil ; that means, as you know, people you find there. The only I word you can use to give the meaning is authochthonal. The Indians are tthe people you find in the place when you come there, and you call them laborigines, or first inhabitants. Reduced to sdentifio language, as sjience pntenda it should be, and to have a common-sense meaning, they generally alicve that the negro race is a link in the chain of development lower [down, preceding the Malayan, the copper-oolored race, just ns the Indian [precedes the white man. First, the MalHyan,then the negro, then the gorilla, |then the orang-outang, and then comes somel^y else till yon come to the end. Chis kind of an answer is on the same plan as the following. Suppoain|( 8 ::!l I I'll i 'iJ I? Ml" ':'hm M m m I I a black (t) man should visit me and want to know something about the seas ; I take him down to New fork ; he sees one of the lar^.'e steamers as it is just going out into the bay or into the ocean, and he says to me, " What is that, sir 1 " I My, " That is a steamer." " Where did it come from ?" " It came out of a clipper, sir." *' How did the clipper come 1" " Out of sailing vessels." " Where did the sailing vessels come froml" " Jj'rom schooners." " Where did the schooners come fromf " From a bargo." " Where did the barge come from 1" *' From a lighter." " Where did the lighter come from 1" ** From a canoe." " Where did the canoe come from V " From a punt." " Where did the punt come from 1" " From a log." " Whero did the log come from V " Out of the ground or forest." Now, that is what science Oills the order of development. My poor visitor, if he agreed with all that I had told him, would be very simple-minded. These numerous answers are not really scienti- fic; they are evasive and deceptive, and I challenge any man in Toronto on that develupment question. They are evasive at the very point ; they should be decisive. There is order of development ; there is plan of develop- ment, coming from the simple to the higher; but will any mnn sa}' that the log made the first punt f Will any man say that the punt made the canoe, following this gradual advancement 1 or that the cunoe maile the lighter, or the lighter the barge, or the schooner the sailing vessel, or the sailing vessel the clip|ter, or the clipper made the steamer ? and yet you see there is a gradual advancement up : there is plan ; there is order ; but it implies there is a difference between them, and they are not coming one from the other. There is a bird ; there is a cow ; there is a horse ; there is a monkey ; there is a oolored persoo ; there is a Malayan ; there is a white man ; but I say it implies the design of their existence by God, and hey never came out of one another, no mora than the steamer came out of the punt ; and any man who can believe a soieuoe like that, otin believe mora than I caa. It is because they fird order of development they say, you see, they must have come out of one another. Yes, it was suggested in the mind, and so God has His order of developtt^ent juHt the same ; He has made them all ; they ara His developments. Plan iNised oa principle pervades all ; but the planner should not be lost sight of, becauae the piint will not throw off the scow without the planner, and we should not foi'get that there is uuiformity and unity of piiiiciple ; yet they aro different in time and place, independent creations. Tiiere is uniformity in all things, aiid principle, and muoh that iti analogous; rtiU tbat doas not do away z' 9 ritb the designer. The best answer will be that which is at once agreeable ithscience, and Christianity, and common sense. Such an answer, I believe, possible ; but then we must begin right, and in order to do so, let me ask ^ou what color was the first person t Was he black t No, sir. Was he rhitel No, sir. Begging your iiardon, what color was he? What color the first chariot f Red, sir. You will keep in mind — I speak unto lie wise — in the Adamite race they were void of dress ; and as a healthy arson to-day would be red, beautifully red, as the face exposed to all the >n, so the whole body would have been beautifully red. White and black are the extremes of red, an4 the accidents of climate ; white is the Absence of the sun ; black is the intensity of it ; '* because the sun hath jlooked upon me." And now 1 say a soientifio man begins wrong, because he does not in with the central color ; it is red. And suppose you go further than sat. What was our first parent called 1 Adam. What is the meaning l>f the word t I vow, and no man will dispute it, red. Well now, what ire yon going to do ) You want to make out that the Lord called a white inn red. You had better just take it as it is, my friend, and get over the lifioulty after. Names originally were significant and expressive, and if ie Lord called him red, he was red, and you must find out how he got leached afterwards ; that is the idea of it. Any man can see that the Bcidents on a central color like red would be black and white. Red is the trong color ; it is the color indicative of honor. The sacred writer Paul lys in his writings that we were made from one man, out of one man ; we 9re all of one blood or color once ; tliat is the meauins; of it However ifierent in color the different nations of men may now be, we were origin- Uy of one color. Black and whitj I believe, therefore, to be climatic luences. And how am I to get it) I can get it to-day if I want it. If |rou will please to move south to some of the hotter climates, and live there )r five hundred years, you will not be as white and delicate as you now So it is easily to be discerned that climate must come in as having an ifluence. But climate will not make a white man into a blaok roan — no imate will do that ; but if you can get the red man, and you send the man south, the increased heat will intensify the red ; for black is noth- ig bttt iutensified red tlirongh heat. The sun hath looked upon liira, and becomes black. If yon send that same red man north, it will bleach t»« wkitencsi* If yow take » yasd ^ of unblsaehed calico, and thN)W>> 10 m r one-hnlt* of it away np in the north of Greenland, and the other half of it in Louiaiaaa, the calico thrown in Louisiana will become a dark yellow, and that in the north will turn as white as snow. And what it will do on calico it will do in flesh. If you want to see it in nature, travel. Take, for instance, the buttercup ; 700 miles north it is white, and when you get towards the equator it is dark, almost black, so that you would not know it. If you want to go to the animal, take the bear ; he is white in the north ; he is black in the south. Here is climatic influence. And yet men will say, " Can clime have any impression upon the animal T* We think it certainly has. And so the children of Adam were dispersed. You find the simple fact that Cain went southward ; yon find the simple fact that Abel went nortkwai-d and westward ; yon find the simple fact l^t Seth remained in the central regions ; so that the dispersion is actually agreeable to what the climatic influence that we desire to account for color is. Black, red, and white are the thi-ee imprints of nature. All other colors are the moderation of these colors. Our Heavenly Father, in stocking the earth with a seed for anew world, would take the seed adapted to the parts of the earth. You might as well say that He had only pnt in the ark one kind of seed that would be natunl t > one clime. There are floral circles, and circles where certain seeds and flowers will grow ; if you take them outside of that you cannot grow them. There are circles for animals, whore you have cer- tain kinds of animals living in a certain circle ; if you transport them over that, they die. He has fixed the bounds of the habitation of man. Three times in the Scripture He distinctly declares that He has fixed the bounds before appointed, the bounds of their habitation; hence there was a place before the Flood where the black and white man oonld live the best ; and they are placed in this world to-day where eaoh and all of them would fiouiish best and do best, because you have these simple circles. Taken as seed for the human family, you have Japheth, Shem, and Ham, and Noah called the father, though not really the father of all of them. Shem is his only true son, and is the heir of Noah. How is it the eldest son is despisedl he would naturally have a right to be an heir ; why would he not. Christ comes on a true line ; not on an illegitimate line ; he takea the best stock seed, and he comes down through Abraham. When you hear ** But," it means red ; Edom, red. It always means red, whether at the be- ginning, middle, or end of a word. So you see where Christ oome*. Now, why did not he come from the eldest son, Japheth t because he waa not the 11 direct son, the pure blood of that line, and therefore he is despised, or set aside. What is the meaning of Japheth 1 white. What is the meaning of Shem f red. What is the meaning of Ham 1 black. What is the use of calling these throe persons these three colored names, vrhun you say they are all white. You have got queer ideas, as well as I have. Will any man in his senses say that these three people were thus named indicative of color, and yet they were of one color. They did not give names then falsely as they do to^ay. Names just meant what they meant ; nothing more. The Lord could have named Adam something else ; but he wanted everybody to know that he was red, if they learned to know his name ; and so you have the led, black, and white in the human race ; and if yon ask me why they are there, I attribute it to climatic influence before the Flood, when it was more impressive than now ; so that the climate would be able to make a mac the col'? it wanted for that part of the country. If you will give me a rich good New Englander of about 200 years, I will tell you he is not white ; he will be as yellow as the candles they used to use, and the skin will be as tight on him as the skin on a drum's head. Yes it will, and he will be sallow ; we lose that matter between the two skins ; and it is a great question between scientific men that, when emigration blood will cease to flow in here, we will have the type of the New Englander, because he is the type of this country. It runs in the Indian ; that is the color of this continent ; and if you will find me a pure Nf>w England family, or any family who have lived here without mixture of blood, I will tell you what they look like. So you see the effect of climate would be more impressive then than it could be cow. Now, when they came out of the ark, they intended to live together, and the Lord told them to multiply and scatter over the earth. They said : " Go to, let us build a city that shall reach unto the heavens, in which we can dwell, lest we be scattered abroad." The tirst thing they say is, '* Let us keep together." That is the sin of Babel ; and in order to make them separate He confused their language ; and when they cuuld not understand each other, they might as well live alone ; so they started off. He confused their tongue, and scattered them abroad upon the face of the earth. They were not to live together. There were climates that were suitable to each of them. They might as well take the flower seeds here, and say, " We will grow them all here." You could not grow them all here to advantage ; this is not the circle. There is a place for this red brother ; there is a place for this white brother ; and they 12 If I will flourish and do better there. All the world was made to be inhabited ; and so that was their sin. Why did the Lord act thus when the world was drowned 1 Because they would have died off if he had not, and the flame pi-ocess would have taken place at Babel. If you take black aud white, you cannot have chilJren to the fourth generation ; He has put a bar there which no man can get over. If you went down south, some time ago, you would see in the market a very beautiful creature which you coul ' have bought at a nominal sum ; and why 1 Because they ara At the end ; there can be no more development there. And when the diildren of Israel were on the border of these colored people, they inter- married, did some of them ; and God says, " I will visit the sins of the fathers upon tlie children's children to the third and fourth generation." In South Carolina there never appeared a man of that degroe to ask a vote. Ton talk of science ; you want to see the evidence of a Gtod ; there i» one. These peofile would have died off if allowed to remain at Babel, ao God sent them abroad to fill the earth. Scientists have found some monuments in Egypt, and they say they are 3,.^00 years old. They say on these monuments they have the white and the black. Strange to say, the blacks are the master, and the whites are in chains. Some have said that this U|«et8 the Bible theory ; at any rate, that changed Professor Agassiz' theory on this question. For my part, I believe it thoroughly confirms the Bible theory ; the Jews of Nubia are black, as well as those of China. Give me me a family that moved to Michigan 100 years ago; no matter what they were when they went tbers, now they are thin, lean, and knuckle* jpinted. The ague would shake any man out of symmetry.. When you go into a new country, does it make auy difference with your hands or feett These negroes who were brought from Africa were brought from marshy lands, where you could not get well-formed people, and the people had been distorted by the very methods they had lived by; and you and I would have been no better if we had lived there for hundreds of years as they did. The climate there was not salubrious. Of course, those from the highlands are well-iormed and beautiful. Dr. Livingstone says they are equal to his own native Highlanders. It is the effect of climate and usi^. These ne- groes naturally were despised by their biethren. And what a straage idee this idea of color is — that it should enter so strangely into aoienoe, religion and politics. And I am under the impression, my friends, that it haa been 13 a providential thing for the colored race to be brought to this continent. Africa is a vast continent opening up for England's trade ; and in our avarice we brought i^e colored people to this continent Thev have been better hera upon the whole than if left in their own country; but that is sot to our credit Africa awaits their return ; that is their home ; and the business of Enghind and the United States is to facilitate their removal: That vast continent is to set the mills going in the United States, EngUnd and elsewhere, and it will keep them going for one hundred and fifty years, and you and I can change the National Policy by that tima Every person that has gone from Africa to the United States has cost them two thousand dollars, and they have got to pay interest on that This country has been mora generous with* the Indians than they. They have spent four hundi-ed and eighty millions on the Indian the past forty years, and they have mutilated and badly used him after aU. The United States will have to pay for everything they have stolen Arom the poor Indian, and we too. And serve us right Qod does not forget ; He keeps a strict account; and you cannot run away from Him, if you can from Montreal We see how these things naturally go. I believe Qod intended Africa for the colored race, and he will turn to good account tiieir past slavery, and bring good even to our colored friends out of it. Emancipation was a grand thiug, and just a forerunner of that grand emancipation which is to come. Beqjannn D'Isrneli, in '* Tanored," makes Consul Pasquilago to say, *' The English must have markets; there will be a great opening here."* Forty years ago D' Israeli wrote that; he foresaw that that would be the next opening. Afi-ioa is the country, and Ood'a reserve ; and He will bring the people that have been oppressed, and he will repay the poor working-men of Engl tni every cent they have paid for freeing them, for the working-men had to work and pay taxes for freeing these peopla Ood will give them every cent back when that country is opened up. Now, my friends, I believe that the colored race, as the text states, is the effect of climatic influence on the human race; and I believe that» just as the Indian is the effect of climatic influence, and the colored iiei-son is the effect of intense heat on a red person, white persons are those who go into northern regions and get the bleaching cliiitates. This is how we come from one father and one mother. Afay we treat oni another as brothers, knowing that we have a common destiny and the same great Saviour. God bless us all. Amen. / r -g^^<9><^ ^!:gN^j- ^Tf •THIE TWO PILLARS ! ^ MMM_v BY THE Irev. JOSEPH WILD, D.D., I DEUVERED IN Bond Street Congregational Church, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13th, 1881. PRXCB, "TEN :irvc25=^JS^^K58)^ V. ^ =T=TH |^3l|^ iMt vicroiiA TEA mmu Ifottd fbr Pan Boliftblo Tim tad CofilNi. Every description of good Pure Tea in stock, and specially Strength and Flavor being preferred to Evenness of Leaf. 20 lb. Catties sent C.O.D. Free of Express Charge TO ANY R. R. STATION IN ONTARIO. ATTENTION OALLXD TO OUB CELEBMTED HOinS HIED TEAS Belnff a combination of five distinct Teas selected for their blendinff qualitiea We wish it distinctly understood by all who are particular about the qualltj of Tea they use that we do not five Books or Presents with our goods, and therefore do not keep any impure, colored, trashy Teas in stock. All our COFFEES are roasted on our own premises with a patent roaater» and are guaranteed the best value in Canada. (8m OF THE QUEEN.) EDWARD LAWSON, 98 KINO ST., ToroBto. THE TWO PILLARS. AND ANSWERS TO LETTERS, DKLIVBBSD BT TBI Rev. Joseph Wild, D.D., On Sunday Evening, November ijth, iSSi, in the Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto. Bond Street Church was again filled to its utmost seatinp; and stand- ing capacity lust Sund-«y evening to hear Dr. Wild's discourse on the "Two Pillars." A much needeil improvement was observed in the pres- ence of four policemen, one at each door, with the.view to keep the crowd back, and prevent if p'MBsible the confusion that has hithtrto occurred on opening the doors. The people entered the church and were seated with wondertul order, and, without doubt, the presence of these men did and will do very much towards maintainins the order and resjiect apiiertaining to tho place, which, in its unwise haste, the crowd seems to forget. The morning sermon to young men, in accordance with the arrangement of the Young Men's Christian Assuciatiun, was replete with such advice as young men everywhere would profit by. ANSWERS TO LETTERS. With respect to the letter from " A Working Man," as to the dintinc- tion between houI and spirit. You say that I seem to make a difference. I do make a difference ; but as to what they really are in their essences, I cannot say. I believe that the body has some of the properties that belong to the soul, Ki well as the properties that belong esaeatially to a body. I believe the soul to be maie up of part of the esnenoe of a body and ptrt of a spirit, so that it can hin«e on to a spirit; I beli»-ve tlie spiiit to have some of tlie piopHrtins of a soul, and yot something ii.deppnfl8 into the other world, a soul ; and I Iwlieve tha"-. it iH exactly like this body, but it is adapted to the new sphere in which it moves. In reply to a letter from •' A Hearrr," the rev. gentleman explained that the nephiiim vero a pre.Adiu.iitH creution, who all perished at tho FIoikI, an opposed to the rephuini, who were not read of before the F1o«h1, but appear subsequent to it. Job says, '* Dnofl things are finnod fi-om under the wa^er, with the inhabitants theredf," and the word translatdd '•dead things " is rephuim. The nephilim before the Flood intermarrie»> with the dnu},'ht«*r8 of ram and produced qimts, •' geboriin ;" the reiilmhn a' so intcrmaiTied with the iuh ibttiut^ of the earth, the d iU i;ht*'r8 of men, and produced the same "gebu'iin," cdled giants. Thnre were no rephaim to notice before the Flood ; there wei-e no wplvHm utttT it. From "Inquirer." You say that reli;^ion teiches that Jesus is a me<' ^^^^^ in Nubia black. Those children of Israel who went toward the !«<)uth itradually grew dark ; those who went to the north turnfd white, but still they ai-u the descendants of Shem, and so my theory is not militated a.{Ain4t. In answer to "M. R." With respect ♦ , the serpent, the Doctor a^in ■ •id he would sttike his reputation as a soliolar that the word in the original was " a raph ;" that Muses was told to make a seraph, and he believed Moses was honest enough to make what he was told. With regard to the Word " nachash," it toiu a general term, and stood for all serpeilts, and so alter a time you take the name of one and make it a general name. He Biipi)oseeech, or whether he was given the articulating organs and ability to speak and left to fnim his language for himself, ami find out the methods of utterance, he bcliev«d God endowed hiui with compet«>noy to 8|>eak, just as the finest mathematical quantities w«re put into the bee, that makes its cell acconling to the finest rule. He helievtKl God could put language into man as easily as He put music into Blind Tom, who never had a teacher. Just as easily as the calculating boy could solve the profoundest mathematical problems without having ever bail any teacher, just so easily could God put language, nay, t«n languages, into man's mouth, if He wished and occasion required, as He did in the day of Pentecostal outpouring, when they all spake with tce of black matter. What thent In regard to the letters in general, the Doctor said : I have also had my attention called to the fact that many people are saying that I make np, invent these letters that I answer. N)W, if any of you are a little doubtful, all I can say is call, and I will willingly let you see thnm. Now, I can invent a great many thtnijs, bat I am sure I would never invent a letter like that. [The Doctor here held up to view a letter which was written on sixty |>ages of ordinary foolscap, which reminded the i«|)ntter of the voluminous MSS. flourished by the ordinary member of the Local House, when about to make his maiden speech.] I never would invent a letter like that — sixty |>ages o( fooCs-omp 1 I think that I can give as much in- formation in the way of answering these letters as I can sometimes in a sermon. There is always onou jh and to spare without my inventing. If the ■upply runs short, I may try my talent in that line. TcxT : laauh zzziii. 6, " Wisdom and knowledge shall be the itobility of thy times, and strength of salvation." It is the duty and T>rivi]ege of the Christian student to gipan assur- ance an I confidence from the knowledge that God rules among the armies of heaven and amoni; the inhabitants of the eaiiih. The pitxilamation made by the ansels to the shRpherds upon the plain of Judah foretold a pur(>ose of High Heaven to to be accomplished in the future. They sang: " Behold ! I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people ;" and the time shall come when the honti of e-irth shall chime in, without wail of woe, fear, or want, with the angels of heaven, and sing, ** Glory to God in the highest ; on earth peace, goodwill toward men :" for Chiist shalt yet see of the travail of His soul and bn satisfied. Hail! glorious day ! S*'en by the seers, foretold by the prophets, desired by the angels, taught by the Saviour, believed by the a|K>3tles, looked for and longed for by the Church in all ages ! And now are children being born who will see the light of that day, the morning dawn of the day of peace ; who will go forth in the might, and the majesty, and liberty of Christian freemen ; unyoked from the bondage of error, unfettered from the tradition of ages ; freed from temporal sovereignty and ecclesiastical decrees, restinj; from sectarian strife. Then the peerage of heaven will be bestowed upon men, creating thein in their own name, and by reason of their own virtue, kings and priests unto God. independent of Ghnrch councils or bishops' hands. Then ignorance will yield to learning, vice to virtue, tyranny to freedom, superstition to knowled.;e, theory to practice, hate to love, for ** wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times." All the great in>lustries and efforts that go to build up m^m and society are naturally correlated to wisdom and understanding. Knowledge is food, wisdom is strength ; knowledge is capital, wisdom is investment ; knowledge is science, wisdom is art ; knowledge is faith, wisdom is experi- ence ; knowledge is the present, wiadom is the future ; knowledge is the wild land, wisdom is the cultivated soil ; knowledge is the raw material, wisdom is the manuft\ctrrcd article ; knowledge is bullion, wisdom is coin; Ichowledge is learning, wisdom is application ; knowledge is a John the 8 Baptist, wisdom is Christ ; knowledge is what we know, wisdom is what we do; wisdom is knowledafe applied. In that grand old religion of sublime riinalism, Judaism, much of the Christian religion was lbr*^hadowed by definitely appointed symbolism. You will remember t(iat Solomon sent to Tyre for an artificfr by the name of Hiram. Araoniu; the many things that this man is said to have made were two pillars of brass, or, more properly, bronze, which, independent of the capital which cnjwned them, aie said tn have been 32^ feet in height and 7 feet in diauieter; they are also supposed to hive been hnjlow, and are said to have been used as a scrt of truasure-bouKe for SHcred archives. Now, the^e pillars bore no weight. They stood outHiile of the temple, in front of the main entrance. The sacred writer, in Ist Kin;^^ vii. 21, calls the right hand one " Jachin." This word is snid to stand for " establishment." Wiien referring to m-in it means '* firm and free in God," so that it symboHzes a free man in God. The left hand pillar he called " fioaz," which is said by some to stand for " strength." In Heb ew it means '* alacrity," that is, when applied to man, that he does God service willingly and cheerfully. Hence the two pillars sym'ioliciilly and aptly teach m.m'a free and delightful service of God. You will have notice 1 that the masonic temples often have two pillars in front of them, outside. They have no portico or weight upon them. If you ever go to New York and look at their famous Masonic Temple, at that city, you will find two pillars on the sidewalk, with two globes on the top, that represent Understanding and Wisdom. If you were to interpret them masonically, it would be that tney am firm believers in God, and that they do His service freely and cheerfully ; not of force, nor cf fear ; not of fancy, nor of supeistition ; in other word:), they arH free and accepted servants of thn Most Hi.;h God ; that is what the two pillars mean. That I avow is their meaning, whHther sustained by practice or not, and that is the reas m why no atheist can be a mason, that no true mason can be an utheist, or an atheist ever try to become a mason. My text refers to these two pillars, under the wonls Wisdom and Understand- ing. As a man enters the temple, naturally he has to pass between these two pillars. The symbolism m.isonically is that no man should enter the temple unless he is intelligent, free and wise, and is capable of applying the knoH ledge, and converting it into wisdom as fast as he receives it. A slave, an ignoramus, or small talented iierson cannot go pro|)erly between these two pillars, Uuderstan ling and Wisdom. In Chiistian symbolism it means, that in the coming day men will enter the temple of the living 9 God, His true church in the world, knowingly and wisely ; fwely they will wonhip Him of their own accorrl ; not hs many now enter, by fuico of I'ear or snpenititiun ; the service of God will h'l intelli;{ent Hnd free. There was A form of architecture in use in ancient times which was wout to h» UHed in the constructiim of eertain heathen temples, as, for instHuce, the Temple of Dagon. This temple had its whole gallery so constructed — a kind of architecture we have lost — that it rested on two pillars alone. So when the sightless and captive Samson was brought out to amuHe the Philistines, knowing what kind of building it was, that the whole buihling rested u|ion two pillars, he asked his attendant to allow him to feel the pillars, and as he put his weakened arms around them, and looked upun the multitude with I. J 01 bless eye-sockets, as he grasped the two pillars, he mido that , - " Oh, Lord Gud ; help me at this time, that I may be avenged of the J: iistines;" and he bowed his head, and lifted — crash, down came the builjding, and he slew more at his death than in htM lit'etime. Two pillars : they had left the building to rest upon two pillars. It is from this idea thiit the prophet says that the church of God, as these h«'athen temples, will rest uf^n two pillars, the xymliols of freedom and strength. So the prophet cries along the ages. He says : "Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.and strength of salvation." Knowledge is now grow- ing rapidly and vigorously. There is a great disparity, however, between knowledge and wisdom ; we have a great many knowing ones, but few wige ones in the world. By and by, as the profthet sax s, the ploughmau shall overtake the rea))er, and man shall be as wise as he is knowing, and as good as he can be. The seeds of life have been cast into a dead past, and they will ripen to a wondrous fulness in a few short years. When yon look back to Wiokliffe, and Tyndale, and Luther, giving the gos|iel, the word, tp those who loved God, in their own tongue ; when you see the struggle of thei Church to suppress it, and encase it, and imprison it — this hierarchy knew what some of you do not believe, that it was the Word of God ; the priests, who did not act up to it^ knew that it was the Word of God, and were afraid of its being i-ead of the people. They believed what some of you say you do not, that it was the living Word of Gi»d. They knew it was true what was said of it, " Thy woi-d w truth " Very well^ •* and truth maketh //w." Ah ! and so they said, " Strangle it in its very binh ; keep the secrets of that word from the multitude." But, God be praised 1 the seed took root, and it is growing as a grand cedar ti-ee by a stream. This word is true, and its truth mast finally make us free ; and I •■I ! i i It ;: 10 from this freedom naturally will come— what 1 A free religion ; yes, a frett religion which at ooce will stiip kings and priests of their unholy claims and unau:hoiizod nuthonty over church and state, and reduce kings and priests to a common level, and tCMcH them that they are as amenable to God as the lowest subject in the empire. A free religion will come, is we hHve suid, and once you get a free religion, what is the next child born ; a free state, always. You never had a free state in this world unless you preceded it with a free religion. You politicians of Toronto, and you men who tbiak you could live without Bond Street and every other church — why, you would gh to anarchy, desolation and death. You could not keep the country alive, except the godly helped you with tht*ir pi-ayers and piety. Your curses would bury it under a wave of ruin, as the old world was buried under the Flood. You have it not in history, it is not u])on record — the permnncnce of national credit and prosperity— unless it rested upon this Wisdom and Understanding. These two pillars cannot be disxssocitited from this great economy of national credit and pei^ manence. You must accept the wisdom of Scripture, and its understandino;. You had to make religion free in England before man could be free ; and you had to make religion and man free in the United States before that country could be free ; for religion reveals to men their true origin, end and work, and teaches them their citizenship and equ ility in the brotherhood of Christ and fathHrhood of G.>d ; and that no man is lord over another, except that lonlship which so few seek to obtain, which is found in being servant unto hIL fiut what will be the next birth t A free state will always produce free schools, and you never had a free school system born, except it was born of a free state ; nor a free state, except it was born of. a free religion. A free school means that every man shall have as a birthright on endowed oppoi tunity of education, whether he have the means or not ; his title is, that he has been bom in the world, and that is enough for any man ; and now the order of presei'vation is the oppiisite. If you want to keep a free if ligion, keep your state free, and if you want to keep your state free, keep your schools free ; the last bom is the father of all. And any one that watats to break up the stite and destroy religion will begin and haggle at the school system first. There are lotfi of people in Canada, and lots of people in the world, who know exactly where the tree can be cut down ; they know where best to apply the axe. They know, if they can bretik up the system of common education, that the rising generation will grow up in ignorance, and then they will the more easily bring thett 11 under their yoke of fear and saperstition ; bnt give them edaoation, and T guarantee they will be free, nationally and rfligiously. The times now contrast sadly with the times that are to come : •« Wisdom and under- standing shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation." Let ns consider for a moment what the times now rest upon. "What do the times rest upon commercially 1 Very largely upon might What do the English do in Chinal Force opium into the country, at the can- non's mouth I Go home and pray for your country 1 Commerce goes very largely on might Wh«»re there are two men tog ther, the weakc«t fellow has to draw the waggon ; it is not then on wiudom and undtr^tand- ing. They are not free in England, nor will they be, until God gives them a larger heart, and greater wisdom and knowledge. Then there is fear : some are made to trade for fear and some from monopolies. These are gruwiug. The foreshadowed time of autichrist is clearly indicated aci'oss the line as truly as in 1778, when a few French noblemen had gobbled up the whole land, and the masses were enslaved and poor. By and by, as a spring bent down that could no longer be retained, the people sprang up, and with a revolution of blood wiped out the families and distributed the assets; and that is what we shall have to keep an eye on, in this country, fur our people. Let the pulpits ring it oat that nu Government, neither Liberal nor Conservative, shall have power to enslave the people by monopolies of fnar. That is what God teaches us as freemen. You take China, Africa, Persia, Turkey ; they are not able to do as they like ; you see how foot brings them under rule, how many are governed by dread. I talk of my own land. From 1816 to 1881, England has had 76 wars, which have cost her $7,000,000,000 ! God help us ! We might have purchased every man's freedom, built every man a house, given every man a farm, and kept him nicely, for what we paid to kill him. Society does not yet rest on these two pillars, but it will be, it will be t The last Afghanistan war cost $100,000,000, and yet people think they give a great deal to the mission- aries ; why, we are paying a farthing to get men to heaven, where we are paying $100 to send them — where they happen to go. So you see, my friends, that the world is not yet resting upon Wisdom and Understanding. Religiously the wprld rests upon Superstitiun aad Fear ; th)Bse are the two pillars. I say, these are the two pillars in China. You say, " Oh, yes, I. believe it " These are the two pillars in Africa. ** Oh, yes ; that is all right" These are the two pillars in Russia. ** Oh, yes ; yon ate right" These are the two pillara in Europe. " W-^— 1— 1, V'' 12 ti<-i m i ^r ^ y_e 8." These are the two pillars for some portion of the popula- tion in the British Empire. You are silent ! I say, " Yes, sir," for niauy. I say there are lots of people worship from fear or superatiiion ; and if th^se two pillnrs were knocked from under them they would not know what to believe nor when to go to church, for they have neither undHNtxndinj; as to what they are taught, nor wisdom to apply what they are accepting. No, my friends, if we come to look at the religious institutions of this day we find saints' d>iys, holy days, fast duys, and the mummery of ritualism. Let us leave all saint glorifying until the judgment day, and then we will find out who they are, and make them into saints. You will never know who to make a saint until then. Many a man is a good man until he is buHed, but when you come to examine his books—" Why," you say, " the fellow was a swindler." But the preacher who preached his funeral ser- mon got him into heaven before they found that out. That occurred down in Brooklyn. One very honest man — supposed to be — died, and wei all praised him, and sent him where I hope you all may go ; but it came out that he was one of the greatest scoundrels that ever lived. Make no man a saint until it is revealed at tho judgment day that he has been true to God and humanity ; that is time enough. Let every day be a holy day, I would teach you ; let every day be a fast day. See that passion does^ofe run away with reason in eating, drinking, clothing, furniHhing your homes. My friends, I urge upon the church in Bond Street to make every day a fast day, a holy day, that you may not take even Friday to be dishonest in your business; that is the kind ot fast the J ord loves, the kind of holy day the Lord loves. If ever you go to New York, my friends, I would advise you to go into the Stock Exchange if you wish t3 see one of the sights ; go and hear the noise ; yoa cannot tell what they are saying, though they under- stand it It is just the grandest sight Go when they are selling railway stocks, and see and hear the confusio^ . Why, you will say, it is Strang that they put up so flippantly and lig' / the railway stocks, that make such a ditference to the working-man. i uM you we will sell you indul- gences in this diy. We will fi-ee yoi from' Heaven's curse, and itive you liberty, if you will pay us a certain mount of money. We will sell you churches over in England, with the .ight to domineer over them and draw the tiihes from them, and then go away huntint; ! God help us I And is this church built upon Wisdom and Undentt mding 1 God forbid. If I had a hammer that would knock the old things down, I would, and set thc^ people free from such child's plr'y. It is an honorable work to sell stooks, 13 but to nell indnlsenceR, to sell liberty, to sell iniquity, is what no man should undortHlcH, eiiher in a PrateHUnt or Catholic church. For Qod has authorized no one to do business in that line. Hut '■ ' Jlltarn to wor« ship Ghid by and by in simplicity. Wp all have the right* and piivilcge to worship Him according to the dictates of our own conscience, every man under his own vihi and A^ tree, au«l none dariiii; to make ua afraid ; the Samson of t'ree-thounH of His coming, and of His glory-day, the world's millennium, the end of time, the diwn of eternity. In the year 1935 — bloiised is he who waits for that time. As one of the |K)ets sings : " Thei'e's a good time coming, A good time comiuff, Wait a little longer ; Lot tts help it all we can, Every woman, every roan, Thts good time comi»g ' ' Smallest helps, it rightly given, Wil make the impulse tttrouger; It will be strong enough someday, Wait a little longer." *' And the stability of thy times sh ill be understanding and wisdom.** Come into this temple. Can I initiate you to-night; male and female can pass between the pillars. As free citizens of a loving God, come and firmly plant yourself n|ion the rock oi revealed truth, and worship Him as your own intellect and Ood-guided spirit shall direct you. I ask you to be initiated as servants of the Most High God. Gud bless you. THE PHOTOGRAPHER, Fas improved on the Wonderful new process Pe first got instruriiona in New York ; ca lie home, and oommenoed working it. Has lately discovered some new- developing dodges. THIS IS NO BLOW OR FALSE ALARM. He can show Negatives made lately that have been pronounced by the leadii Photographers here to be superior to any made with the old process. 5fow, remem- ber no Head Kests are necessary, nu sitting until tears come, ito change of expression, as tlie time of exposure is reduced to One Secontl, Some of the finest Negatives are made on dark days. In a few days his Cases will be full of samples of the new work of a quality that will compete with any in the City at the present time. This is • fact. Dixon is the only oue uain^ it at the present time with success. Every sitting ip made with it. For Children, Old Persons, and Large O'oups, it is what has been wanted ever since Photography has been in use. Ueductions made in prices to Sunday School, Callegs, S>2tet;ie3, aid othar goups. very sitter is guarinteed satisfaction or no charge: DlXi )N has 1 itely ordered from New York some of the latest designs in Winter Sjeiiery. &3 His bajiaess has increased so much lately that he is now required to employ the services of five hands at the present time, whereas at the same tima last y^ar he hai only one. Parties wanting aiything in the Photo Line would do well to call at th) Studio and eximi-ie work and prices. Don't forget the place : Gallery, corner Kiug and Yonge Streets. Entrance, King Street West. ■ S. J. PIXOW. IMrilsIsIAM FAHZSV, GENERAL AGENT FOR THE Sovereip Fire losnrance Comjany OIF o A^nsr j^iD.^, ALSO AGENT FOR METROPOLITAN PLATE GLASS INSDEANCE COT This is the only Plate Glass Insurance Comoany having Deposits with the Canadian and American Governments. OFFICE! 16 WELLINGTON STREET EAST. OB in New .some new t" — TEEE Antediluvian Civilization im \ BY THE Rev. 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Dixon is your Pliotograplier For the fact he gives you tetter satisfaction in Photographs than any other house in the City. He makes Photos in all styles and scenes. He ha^ sent to Jfew York for his Winter Scenes, Snow Scenes, Skating Scenes, Driving Scenes, ^o. He works the new rapid process, the time of exposure is m uch shorter than the old process. For family groups and groups of Sunday-school classes, ^c, you should try J. Dixon. NOTE HIS PRIOCt: Gabinets --..... $2.50 Small Cards, 1.00 . Panels, ....... 3.50 Axnbiotypes, Four for - - x - - .50 ■ >■■ J. DZZOU, Pliotograplier, OPPOSITE ALBERT ST. THE ANTEDILUVIAN CIVILIZATION. .A. SEHD^On^, AND ANSWERS TO LETTERS, DBUVBRBD BT THB Rev. Joseph Wild, D.D., On Sunday Evening, November 20th, 1881, in the Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto. The ohiirch wm crowded again last evening, but it was noticeable that they came in more orderly, which was attributed to the prenence of four policemen, one at either door. The Doctor was suffering from a very severe cold, but this did not in any way impair the eloquence of the sermon. He made n few remarks as to the strain upon the galleries; but there need be no fear on that point, as tbey have been thoroughly tested, and are perfectly secure for all that can be put in them. ANSWERS TO LETTERS. From " One Struok." Tou seem to think that this negro is afructW' ally different from the white man. That is not so. Physically, intellec' tuallj and possibly, they are equal -to ourselves. The accident that comes in is the same acoident that would come in with our grapes if grown in a southern country — they have a thicker hide. Grapes that come from a hot country, you know, are thick-skinned. That is in order, as it were, to keep the juice from evaporating. It is a resistant that nature provides against the heat. And so the skull may be, as you say (and very naturally, as yours would be in generations in a hot country), thick. It would grow thick, or you would be sun-struck, don't you see. It is just the same provi- dential provision as that which gives the working-man hoofs on his hands — and yet the working-man's hands are structurally the same. With respect to intermarrying of the races, I don't think there is cay sin in it. There may be in some places, and in some places there may not ; as it is lawful and legal in some places, and unlawful in others. from "A Lady." " Who was the first mason 1" Now, you will be snrpriaed when I 'tell you, won't yout Shem. Shem was the first lit master, and the first to initiate. The building of the Tower of Babel waa started before the people were scattered, so that the knowledge might be impart*^ that had been brought over from the other side of the Flood, so that thej' miglit take the heritage with them. You ask if Solomon was the first who put two pillars in front of a temple. By no means ; they had done that long before. The two pillars or obelisks, one in London and the other in New York, are the two pillars that originally stood before the gate of the Temple of " On," in Egypt, and when Joseph went to see his mother-in-law— as I suppose he did, like every good person — he would have to pass right between them when he went to the temple. The letter from " A Sidk Person." Your suggestions are very good. Every precaution is taken in this church. As I have said, there has not been a yield at any point; it has been examined fi-equently. It was designed to hold four times the number that can get in it ; so that unless they get all the fat men in the gallery, there will be no danger. We are going to take all the necessary steps to make it comfortable ; there is going, to be a register put in the hall, and we are going to have lamps outside over each door, and we are going to have four {lolicemen here ; and if you cannot get along with that — why, God bless you. From " Occidental." You cannot see the reason why Ham is not red because Shem is. There is a great difference in the words, my dear sir. It is wonderful what a lack of knowledge we have of words— of the changes that they undergo. Now, you take that word which some of you may have heard of—" Smith " — as a name. Why, five hundred years ai{o the word " smith " was just equal to our word " science," and meant the same thing, and they never used the won! "science." Was a man in- structed in any {tarticular branch of knowledge, he was a smith — a gold- smith, a silversmith, &c. Of course, although words change abi^ut, we can tell them where they have been ; we can tell a word when it has gone from this country to France and back again ; we can tell a word where it has been. I do not think that there is an English word but that I could tell you what country it had travelled through; every country sets its mark upon it. Take, for example, the word " granary." If it comes directly from England, it will be "granary;" but if it comes through France, it will be " gamer." Then wd have the tin can that soldiers drink out of; it goes there and comes back to us *' canteen." Still, it is only a tin can been to France, and come back with its French polis i. Now, with respect to the letter from " Old Way." " Why don't we preach Christ and follow him 1 Do you know what Christ taught V I supjiose you mean, " Why don't we preach the GoHpel 1" Do you know the definition of the (Gospel, what it is ? I will give it you in the words of Paul : it is edification, it is exhortation, it is comfort Hence one-third of the Gospel should be edifying, i. e. instructive ; then another third should be exhortation, *. e. to practise what they learn ; and the other third should be comforting, to make them enjoy what they have learned. Take it financially ; you should first teach a young man to earn his money honestly, then to use it wisely, and histly to enjoy it wisely, t. 0. not to ance become a miser. But you do not kno«ir what Christ taui^ht. Have yon ever read what John says in his last chapter : '* And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the h oks that should be written. Amen." You do n6t know what He taught nor what He mid; that is, entirely. All that you can say is that we are not following ynur idea of Christ's teachings. That is the best that you can say. I wi ader when people will have common sense about relijre does it remain until the Day ot Judginent 1 " It goes to Heaven ; to Mount Zion ; to the church of the first-born, the general. assembly above — the "spirits of just men made perfect;" that is where it goes — to Heaven ; Paradise is there used as another name for it. 2. " Is it right for a minister to allow a member of his church, who is a theatre-goer, to partake of his communion 1" The ministers of Congre- gational churches are not nuuterg. You will have to ask that question of the minister of some church where they are boss ; I am not. 3. " Is it right for a minister to leave his church, and take a situation out- side of the ministry for higher pay 1" I do no '!:ink, as a general thing, that it is. It is sometimes, but very g^r. <.UIy it is not, and they are very seldom a success. But it also is a rulie that man has to look after his own household, or become v/orse than an infidel. I left Canada for that very reason. My family was coming on my hands, and I could not get any more salary. I cou'd not get enough to keep me, and with other obligations that fell upon me, I found that I had to go among my brethren of Manasseh, where I could get a larger salary ; but I said I will only stay until I am ublf to come back, and then I will come back. I do not labor for money ; I think you would soon leave your master if some one oifereid you double. It is wonderful what you think ministers ought to do. 4. " Where will the souls of the agnostics go 1 " They will go to their own place, like Judas. 5. " Why was Lot's wife turned iiito a pillar of salt any more than any other object of divine justice)!' Because there were lots of salt rocks all around there, and it was handiest to cover her up with that. C. " What makes men marry women that are fashionable, useless, and with no morals to s|)eak of, who can spend 170 upon millinery in a few months, and make their husbands binkrupt 1 " Well, my dear lady hearer, Ijove, you know, in the ancient pictures is blind. Cupid is blind. If a man kept both his eyes open, and a woman too, they would never marry. I tell you, a little of that ignor- ance has to be taken in by both sides if you are going to get along. There are several other letters, but I will postpone them to next Sunday night ..jJM^ftWIK J)n-(pWIW*»-f' »fi#Wl^^ e SERDSdZOlSr. Tkxt : Job xxii. 15, 16 : " Haat thou marked the old way which wicked men' have trodden ? Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation waa overflown with a flood?" The laws and conditions, as well as the influences that so significantly characterize time present, are mainly the result of the accumulated forces of the centuries. Along the great highway of nations millions have passed before us, each one leaving a legacy which succeeding individuals and nations have had to accept for good or for evil. I suppose Adam alone can be adjudged to have been a real free man ; for, born as we now are born, every man impinges somewhat upon his neighbor, and his neighbor in return upon him. Isolation is as impossible as annihilation. Life is inde- structible. The past lives now in the present The free lines of choice are in a very large measure lost in the outlines of necessity, by the potency of bygone usage. The contingencies of yesterday are the mathematical certain- ties of to-morrow. Tt seems a strange idea that a man called the Minister of the Exchequer can stand up in the British Parliament and run over the various estimates and figures, and calculate how much money men will spend on drink, how much they will smoke, how much they will oat, how much they will wear, and that within a very narrow mararin. It seems quite a strange idea that you can go into the Dead Letter Office in London, and they can tell you how many people next year will forget to sign their letters ; and yet, if I were stating this to some people, they would say, " Is man freel" Certainly, sir, he is free, and that is the very reason why he does not address his letters. And yet, here you have the particulars of a nation entertained beforehand by men, covering the period of a year and thirty-six millions of people, telling you beforehand the expenses and the accidents of a peculiar idiosyncrasy, within a few items. But if you talk to some people, and say that God can foresee and understand what will occur in this world for twenty years ahead, why, they cannot belicTve it, or they, question how maa can be free. He is free, just as the British sub- ject is free. Foreknowledge makes no difference. Because Qladstone can fore- tell how much a roan will drink, it does not make him take one glass more nor 1( 88 ; because he can tell how much income there will be from smoking, it does not make a man buy a cigar or smoke it ; and because in the De«^ Letter Office they can tell you how many people will neglect to sign their letters or address them, it does not make a single man forget to sign his letter, even though there is money in it. And because Ood can look along the line of time and foretell what will happen one hundred years from to-night, some men will doubt and ask how 1 He is Oud. And if man can do it for thirty-six millions of people and cover a period of a year, a year, God can do it for ten thousand years and cover ten billions of people, if He wants, on the same rule that you understand a man doing it. So historians trace from one point to another, and confirm by their tracing ideas that they may have entertained. A historian, writing of the United States, can easily go over to England. He finds still, less civilizar tion back a few hundred years ago ;• he finds it being settled by different tribes. He traces these tribes idong the Baltic coast in Grermany. He runs on over to Central Asia ; he runs on from Asia, and finds them to be the Ten Tribes of Israel. He runs them down for fifteen hundred yean of the history of that people, and comes to the call of Abraham. From Abraham ho goes to Noah, from Noah to Enoch, from Enoch to Adam, and from Adam to God. Is there any trouble in it ? Only with men that want trouble, and they can get it at almost any time if they want it. Just 80 we can trace church organizations ; so the linguist can trace the origin and growth of languages. The English, we say, comes from the Latin, the Latin from the Greek, the Greek from the Hebrew, the Hebrew from the Samaritan, the Samaritan from the ancient Chaldaic. Where does that come from 1 Likely, from God. You will get to the end if you start 6uC on your inquiries right If you go into science — goology, say — ^you can begin at the top soil, and you can go step by step gradually down, and each step will reveal a new formation, new designs, new methods of existence, new varieties both in the animal and vegetable worlds. From the alluvium to the diluvian, from the diluvian to the carboniferous, from the carboniferous to the oHurian, and so from the silurian to the granite basis, and from the granite basis to the basaltic rook or burning lava rocks. Where nextl You must come to the place where you cannot say, " Where next," or there is no setise in it. What was before t In the words of Eliphaz the Temanite, in the text : " Hast thou marked the old way in which wicked men have trodden ? Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood 1" Has it been in your mind to' trace up the threads and evidences of this civilization, of those that went, as it is recorded, in this wicked way. And in your tracing, have you found that the signs square wi^ mgfiimv '"^mm*"^ 9 I say that a man who can believe that you and I and all of us are fortuitous accidents out of a piece of mud— as that German, Haeckel, teaches— can be- lieve more than any common-sentie m«^night to be asked to believd. Then there are some that allow the Divine Being as man's creator, but they diffet as to the method, and follow up different methods. Even theologists dis- pute about that. I myself believe that Adam was made a fair, square, full, complete man. I believe God could make a man any time. I have no Buch shrivelled up ideas about God. I believe that God, who made the sky, and the cherubim and seraphim and angels, could make a man could endow him with speech ; and I believe that God started Adam com- plete. So you arrive at the conclusion that history and science correspond generally as to the Flood ; and not in any strata that geology has ever revealed have been found the remains of an Adamic person older than six thousand years. Have you ever seen one in the Eocene, or first form ; in the Miocene, the second ; in the Pleiocene, the remainder of them 1 Not one of the Adamio kind. Now, if a man wants to take evidence from the socks, there it is ! He can find animals and vegetables that are not in existence now, and some that are in existence. He can find them petrified in the rock, wrapped up in ice, kept unto this day, and embedded in the sand ; and yet he never finds a man beyond the age the Scripture asserts. Now, I avow . that if man had lived as long as some of you want to have had him live, there would have been some remains found of him or his works ; or did some great beast come around, and as fast as men died, eat them up 1 If I had that theory to defend, I would invent such an animal as that, and I would say: "Oh, you can't find him; he has been all eaten up f' I believe in science up to these points ; but when science cannot find any evidence beyond itself and Scripture, it is unwise to look for more. The antediluvian civilization I believe to have been very perfect, as perfect as it is this day in the world, and I believe the people's longevity, stature and person were all superior to ours. I believe they had their railways and telegraphs, and telephones and factories, everything the same— for the Scripture tells liere, which said unto God, " Depart' from us." And what can the Almighty do for them ) Yet He filled their houses with good things, but the *' counsel of the wicked is far from me." He filled their houses with grand tapestry and grand furniture, fiut you say their houses were empty. The Lord says they were full. The man that wrote this book lived there — Shem. He lived one hundred years in that ISld world, and I suppose he ought to know what he was writing about. But suppose, you say, they did not know how to make a chair then ; what were their houses filled with 1 what did these good things consist of 1 Just what your good things consist of. They had nice chairs, no doubt, then, and no doubt had their houses well furnished and tastefully arranged. You have not got the slightest ideae> of that, because you do not read on these points. If you go to them as a people : Cain was an agriculturalist, Abel was a shepherd, Enoch was a buUder, Jubal was a musician, Tubal- oain was an artificer, Enoch a preacher, Noah a carpenter. Do you 10 I h want any other trades 1 Why, you say, he was not a good carpenter. He built a better ship than has been built since that. He built a ship just the size of the . GraeU EaaUm, juat exactly the size and tonnage of* the OratU Eaatem, corresponding to the Ark of the Covenant in a relative proportion, and also coiTesponding to the stone porphyry coffer found in the king's chamber in the Great Pyramid, in a relative pro|K>rtion; and I dare say they had as guod an organ as this. You say, could Juhal make an organ like that ? I dai-e say he could make a good one, and if you don't believe me, why of course you must prove they were not good ones. I take it for granted that as Jubal was a musician, and ^he father of all th^tt play on the harp and organ, he would not play on a bad one ; besides, God could put the power into them. "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uii, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the snirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, add in knowledjuce, and in all manner of workman- ship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silvet. and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carvihi; of timber, to work in all manner of workmanshii)." And He could teach others. .When these Hebrews had been made slaves and oppressed, they had naturally forgotten the arts and sciences, and now, wh«;n they wanted them again, he endowed Bezaleel with intellect to take hold of the diamond and facet it in a moment, to take hold of the metals and mould them ; and so the Lord did for these men ; he taii<(ht Adam, Cain, Abel, Seth, and the whole of them. Then, in addition to that, there is the experience they must have gathered in six or seven hundred years of human life. Why, I guess that they might have been and'probably were superior in their attainments to wen us. We all have to learn a good deal by ex|teriencH, and surely a man like Methusaleh, who lived for nearly a thousand years, ought to know something, if there was anything to know. I do not see why he should not. They were vigorous and healthy. The climate at that time must have been superior to cirs. There were two oceans then, one below and one above to absorb all foul gases, so that they could live in a pure atmos- phere. I guess it was a poor place for doctors, although preachers began to be noticeable towards the end, before (he Flood came. God had ori'^nally arranged the world so that disease could hardly be in it. He had arranged an ocean above that would take and lick up every foul gas that ascended, and an ocean below that wott'ld purify everything that ran into it. " And God said. Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. /. nd God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament fi-om the WHtei-s which were above the firmament ; and it was so." And when the Flood came, He broke up the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of heaven were opened ; and yet men say, " Where did he get the watt r 1 where did He get the water to drown the world with f Why, He had two oceans to start with ; and yet that is what some people say. There is no getting over it or out of it God divided the ocean from the ocean,, and I say that that partly accounts for the longevity of these people. Then own. with long SBRB9 11 again, they were yegetarians prior to the Flood. " And God aaid, Behold, I have given ynu every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth," &o. They did not want tc kill anything to eat before the Flood. They were healthy enough, and the climate was pure and good, but you will mark that after the Flood, Gkxl says : *' Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things." We have altogether a different climate this side of the Flood. You can see it by the food Hh permits. Prior to the Flood they ate only fr.aits and vegetables. The change in the times is shown in the difference that soon manitested itself in the bievity of the duration of life, compared with what it had been. Diseases are a thing of growth, just as the different varieties of potatoes. How many different kinds of potatoes are there t At first there was only one kind ; now I suppose there are fifty, and all made out of one kind. I presume the antediluvians knew but little of the diseases that we have. Every new sin, as well as every new thing we eat, has a tendency to produce its own disease, and so, they being herbalists simply, their health would be vi<;oi*ous ; but the climate stood over against it. Remem* ber, they had the climate, and just as they multiplied and began to commit sin, each new sin brought its new disease ; it is so in our day. Cities, by their very compact form, have introduced scores of new diseases. I said that I believed in those days civilization was as complete as our own. In religion the Cainitet were theists, the Abelitea were dualariaru. They believed in God and the Bon. The Holy Spirit had not then been revealed. The Garden of Eden was visible to them, and the flaming sword was there, until tM Flood came and broke down the fence, and wiped it out of existence. Any man living in Ihose days could for himself see the garden, and needed not a preacher. You ask why they did not progress faster after the Flood. Because they did not want to. Supposing that we were cut off now, and only eight persons left — four ladies and four gentle- men — I think it would be a long time before we would pave our streets with cedar blocks, although we might have had ample opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of how it should be done. It would be a long time before we would have gold watches ; it would {>e a long time before we would wear gold rings. It lyould be a long time before you ladies would have on the same style of hats that you have on to-night ; a long time before I would have the same kind of shoes as I wear. Why, would you not go at it and do it t What Would a man want to do, any more than he was compelled to do 1 Certainly nothing. And so we see that civilizHtion goes back and cea8<>s at some point nut very far from the time assigned by Scripture for the Flood. And yet we find that in Egypt it starts so suddenly into life that it 'must have been revived by pome one who had a former knowledge of it. You cannot find the foundation of the civilitation of Egypt. How will you account for the finished civiluation in that country, so near the Flood ;' how had it grown 1 There is a civilization decaying in Kgypt, dying of old age, before we have any historic record The oldest historian in the world can only write about its decaying. There 18 is not a man that ever lived in it that wrote alwut it. Who built these temples, these great pyramids that are the indication of vigor, of intellect, and architectural skill 1 Why, there are paintings there superior to any- thing that we can do to-day ! You say, " Why, is that so 1 " Yes, sir, it is so. " The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the know- ledge of the holy is understanding. For by me thy days shall be multi- plied, and the years of thy life increased." As men become good Qod can lencthen out life, and we can get back ere the world closes, probably in the millennial time, to longevity. " There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days ; for the child shall die an hundred years old," &c. Evidences, my dear friends, are sometimes very small, but sometimes very important. When Viscount Milton was travelling across this continent and got lost, he came across a piece of stick, whittled. He said, " There has been a white man here ; let us hunt for these chips ; we will find some settlement." And upon their knees tliey hunted and followed the trail, and found a camp. There was the skeleton of a •man with his head between his hands and his elbows resting upon his knees; and a kettle hung upon a wooden bar, in which he had his shoes cooking for the last time; and there he sat, some lonely traveller that hal been lost, and he was found just by a piece of stick. You say, could that be done ? I say evidences may appear very tiny and yet be very conclu- sive. Just so, when Livingstone came into the centre of Africa — now, an African never knew how to build a square hut; he always builds every- thing round — he came across a hut built square, and he said '* There have been some traders here ; we are on the track of the Arabs." And when Columbus came across the ocean, and when his crew were about to mutiny, did not he see the little chips and leaves that were a sign of America ? I say these little signs are sometimes positive proofs. A little thing can give a date to an age. ■ So, wherever you find a pipe, it indi- cates a civilization that is not over a thousand years of age, and links you to this continent. No matter where you turn one up, in what cave you find it, what pictures you handle, if you find a pipe and an evi- dence of smoking, it confines you to America. They never knew it in any other part of the world. The word^ pipe is not in the Bible. One would like to have old Abraham sitting in the door of his tent with a long pipe; poor fellow, he never knew of it It comes out of Mexico; it is fiist found there. I say it cannot go back one thousand years, and yet see how it has spread. There is no part in the world that I am ac- quainted with now but where they are smoking, and if you went into the east, and saw the old Arab in the door of his tent enjoying his pipe, you would think he had been smoking from \dam down, wouldn't you ? No, sir, he has it from America. I say it points out the age, points out the country, points out the civilization. Now, these little things come in, and they are sometimes strong points ; and again, they somotimei serve to upset established theories. When Buosen and those other explorers came into Egypt and began to dig down into the Delta, that is, where ihe ailt these intellect, r to any- es, sir, it be know- be multi- good God probably an infant tail die an mes very travelling whittled, ise chips ; nted and )ton of a upon his his shoes that ha. I ould that y conclu- ica — now, ds every- l "There 9." And about to b sign of A little , it indi- fcnd links rhat cave an evi- ew it in )le. One it with a Mexico; ears, and I am ao- rent into his pipe, n't you ? oints out oome in, les serve explorers rhere the 18 sand has been washed up by the river, they struck upon a piece of pottery. Bring it up; let us calculate now. This soil is increasing at about the eighth of an inch a year. Down over 300 feet^-300 feet, and an eighth of an inch a yefetr. " How many eighths of an inch iu 300 feet 1" you say. He says, *•■ Egypt has been civilized 20,000 years !" Oh, indeed ! if they had only known that iu Toronto. I suppose some would say, the Bible is not right. But then they came upon a piece of pottery that had a character upon it only about three hundred years old, df>eper than the other ! Now, if one could get down in 300 years, it was evidence the other could. Tht y afterwards found that il you put a piece of pottery upon that aand, it would gradually sink of itself ; there is a kind of suction which draws it- down- wards. And so I believe, in every instance where men are bringing evi- dence against the Bible, it ik only because they do not know any better ; they have not got at the bottom of the matter. It ruled the scientific world for fifteen years, did that piece of pottery. Whatever you find in true science, I believe you will find to harmonize with Scripture. No remains of Adamic man have been found, I say, of greater antiquity . than has been stated by the Scripture. The Flood, I believe, was general all around the world, and this is indicated by the simple fact, that vou find the human race at a certain point, and then in the north you find the evidences of vegetation from the equator. How did it get there 1 If you have been over in Rochester, there is a big creutUre there, four times larger than an elephant. There have been only two of them found ; one is at St. Petersburg and the other at Rochester. They were both packed iu ice. Just imagine ! They used to live at the equator, and when they came to examine their stomachs, the vegetable^ in them were those of a southern clidoe. They were fed in a southern clime ; they were carried north when the Flood came. Now, my dear friends, the civilization of this ancient world was complete. I believe what Solomon says in the first /chapter of Ecclesiastes : " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done (s that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said. See, this is newl it hath been already of old time, which was before us." I believe that to be literally true while I stand here to-night, that we have not passed the point which the antediluvians reached. I will give you a little more on this next Sunday evening, and the subject will be " The Lo$t Secret.** Perhaps you have been reading it. It is the title of a new novel. 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The Publishers are oflfering special prizes in money for short essays b)' the people, and the first of these is to be on "A Workman's view of Free Public Libraries." For full particulars 8«7 &«xt SfttorditT'i Oitiion, rrlo* Two Ofnti, of all ik)okBellen and News Dealers. Sabaoriptions of |1.00 will pay for The Citizen from now to the end of the year 1882. Published by WM. BURGESS, Toronto, Nov. 21st, 1881. CITIZEN OFFICE, GUD Bllllllillg. 67 AdelUllle 81 THE PHOTOGRAPHER, Has improved on the Wonderful new proceaa. York ; came home, and commenced working it. developing dodges. THIS 18 NO BLOW OR He first got instructions in New Has lately discovered some new FAL8K ALARM. He can show Negatives made lately that have been pronounced by the leading Photographers here to be superior to any made with the old process. Now, remem* ber no Head Kests are necessary, no sitting until tears come, no change of expression, as the time of exposure is reduced to One second. Some of the finest Negatives are made on dark days. In a few days his Cases will be full of samples of the new work of a quality that will compete with any in the City at the present time, lliis is a fact. Dixon is the only one using it at the present time with success. Every sitting ip made with it. For Children, Old Persons, and Larfte Groups, it is what has been wanted ever since Photography has been in use. Reductions made in prices to Sunday School, College, Societies, and other groups. i<.very sitter is guaranteed satisfaction or no chargfl. DIXON has lately ordered from New York some of the latest designs in , Winter Scenery, &c. His business has increased so much lately that he is now required to employ the services of five hands at the present time, whereas at the same time last year he had only OQ^. Parties wanting anything in th« Photo Line would do well to call at the Studio and examine work and prices. Don't forget the place : Gallery, comer King and Yonge Streets. Entrance, King Street West. S. J. DIXON. IRE SU] REPORTS r ii«=:i^^5^^:Ns2: "M THE LOST SECRET. U. UM®M \ BY THB I Rev. JOSEPH WILD, D. D., I DELIVERED IN Bond Street Gongre^tional Church, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27th, 4881 PRZCI&, TSN C»]fT8. REPORTED FOR THB PUBLISHER BY F. L. H. SIMS :6rN<2^^3j^i^S)^'^- I J. Dixon is your Pliotograplier For the foot he gives you better satisfaction in Photographs than any other house in the City. He makes Photos in all styles and scenes. He Juts sent to Jfew York for his Winter Scenes. Snow Scenes, Skating Scenes, Driving Scenes, ^-o. He works the new rapid process, the time of exposure is much shorter than the old process. For family groups and groups of Sunday-school classes, 8fC., you should try J. Dixon. NOT! HIS PRIOISl Cabinets $2.60 SmaUOards, 1.00 Panels, ------- 3.50 Ambrotypes, Four for - - - - .50 J. DZZON. Pbotographer, 201 -A.N"ID 203 "SrOITGhm STHB3B3T, OPPOSITE ALBERT ST. THE PHOTOGRAPHER, He first ffot instruotions in New Hm latenr diuoveted some new FALSE ALARM. Has improved on the Wonderful new process. York ; came home, and commenced working it. developing dodges. THIS IS NO BLOW OR He can show Negatives made lately that have been pronounced by the leading Photographers here to be superior to an^ made with tiie old process. Now, remem- ber no Head Rests are necessary, no sittms until tears oome^ no change of expression, as the time of exposure is reduced to One Second. Some of the finest Negatives are made on dark days. In a few days his Cases wiU be full of samples of the new work of a quality that will compete with any in the City at the present time. This is a fact. Dixon is the only one using it at the present time with success. Every sitting it made with it. . For Children, Old Persons, and Laroe Groups, it is what has been wanted ever since Photography has been in use. Keductions made in prices to Sunday School, College, Societies, and other groups. i:.very sitter is guaranteed satisfaction or no charge. DIXON has lately, ordered from New York some of the latest designs in Winter Scenery, &c. His business has increased so much lately .that he is now required to employ the services of five hands at the present time, whereas at the same time last year he had only one. Parties wanting anything in the Photo Line would do well to call at the Studio and examine work and prices. Don't forget the place : Qallery, comer King and Yonge Streets. Entvanco, King Street West. a J. DIZON. Oh THE LOST SECRET. ►♦^ AND ANSWERS TO LETTERS, DBLIVIBBD BT THB On Rev. Joseph Wild, D.D., Sunday Evenings November 27th, 1881, in the Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto. The same old story of a crowded church has again to be told, and it is to us very gratifying to see the enthusiasm kept up so well ; and to the Doctor it must be more than gratifying. The audience is nob that class of people who go to hear a sensational preacher ; but men of intellect, men who go to learn, men who can judge of what they hear, and thoea who- once come— some out of curiosity the first time — always'come again and again. The sermon was one of the finest we have had the pleasure to listen to. The Doctor's argument should be sufficient to convince the most sceptical of the truthfulness of the Bible, and must awaken a general desire for a more extended knowledge of its contents. ANSWERS TO LETTERS. Before answering the letters, the Doctor said that he wished to thank those who kindly supplied him with excerpts from the papers, magazines,, d^., on various points. He said he took about forty-five papers and periodicals weekly, and consequently had not time to look over all care- fully. Letter from " logo." '.' Do your teachings tend to the view of a future existence where the departed spirits are privileged with offers of salvation p for instance, Christ in * Hades' offering salvntion to the spirits!" No^ Sir, not nhw. I believe Christ offered Lis salvation after he rose fromr the dead to all the spirits of mankind in the invisible world, and all who accepted him ascended with him ; and those ^rho did not were assigned their place. If a man rejects Christ now, I have no theory — ^nor do I see any way out of the difficulty — but that he is lost, in the sense of being . vrithout Ohriet, either in thU world or in the world that w to watt ; thaii vk, so far a* I ««« ; but then I do not know everything. fV " What section of the British Empire is peopled by the Ephraimites, and can they now he discerned t" No special section. The Ephraimites are mixed up among the rest of the tribes in the British I^les and in the various colonies ; they are defined yet by that " shibboleth." They cannot pronounce the " H," and they never could ; their defect as to this has never been rectified, and never will be. I imagine, just as that little thing separated this tribe, by some such method, wh"a Gk)d wonts to separate the whole of the tribes, He will touch a string that will enable them all to be discerned. What the exact means will be I cannot say ; I can forecast only in part ; but men easily detected the Ephraimites by that little thing. "Are there any other promises made in the Scripture with respect to any other people than the children of Israel being restored to the land of their fathers 1" There are. All who shall accept the covenant, as Isaiah says. Tou say that the soul, as mentioned in Matthew xvi. 26, seems to be the most important part of man. The word " soul " here is generic for the whole man. I do not know that man can exist independent of sold. He can exist independent of a body, but I am under the impres- sion that he cannot exist as a pure spirit, and hence the soul is an emblem of the whole man. " How would the nephiUm be judged ; what law were they amen- able to t " They were amenable to a law of their own endowment, what- ever that might be. God will deal justly. As Paul says, « Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?" He will do right with everything chat exists, and therefore we must trust Him on that point. From " Truth Seeker." You say the works of Moses are thought to be perfect, and ask how it comes th-it the Book of Deuteronomy gives a detailed account of Moses' death and burial. Because some one was appointed to fill it out, just as Moses was appointed to write the rest of it. If you will all3w that God could inspire Moses to write the prior part, you must'admit that God could as easily inspire some other man to finish it. In Gentibis ii. 2, it is said that " on the seventh day God ended His work," and the commandment says. He " rested." You find a difficulty in that The days and seasons that we talk about had not definite relation to God, but there is no doubt one touched the other ; and when the work was finished. He simply rested, and that constituted or erected it into the Day of Kest *' In your answer to ' Student ' last Sunday evening, you stated that the curly hair of the negro was due to the heat of tropical climes. How is it that it does not grow straight in northern lands T' It does grow straijjhter a great deal, and when they have been here long enough, it will be no doubt as straight as your own. They have only been here 150 yeai^ as yet, while five hundred years is the time allowed to effect a change in man. " A man who is a sinner is shot by a low desperado, a villain of the deepest dye, without any time for repentance, and it is supposed he goes to heU. His assassin has time to repent before he is executed, and therefore has his sins forgiven and is uaved. Is that justice 1 " That is one of those .nice questions about which I am not able to say exactly as to what is or is not justice. But I say again, " Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right V' There is one thing — ^a man should put himself in a position always to be safe ; and if a man neglects to do that, and is cut off in his iniquity, I do not see how it excuses him. A man has no right to be walking around on this earth unsaved. He ought to be saved ; and then, whether he is shot or lives, he is all right. He ought not to be walking about this earth a sinner, and unprepared for Heaven. He ought to be a Christian and not a sinner; and if in the latter case an accident overtake him, I do not see thai it relieves him of his neglect. From " K. C. B." You want me to explain the passage, " I say unto- thee that thou art ' Peter,' and upon this rock will I build my church," &c> That is an important passage, no doubt, and has given rise to a good deal of discussion. I think you will find the reason for it in the chapter yoa quote. Christ asked His disciples who they thought He was. "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou aii) the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him. Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it." Whati Keep that in mind — hath not revealed it, the confession of " my father which is in heaven. And I say unto thee that thou art Peter [^Petros' meaning rock], and upon this rock [this ' it,' not upon this rock, this thou. You see you would require to change the whole syntax, the whole grammar, the whole meaning, to make it read this thou or thee — it is upon this it] will I build my church," &e. Now, any one who underatands the first principles of grammar would never make that fatal mistake, unless he had some purpose to make it for. It means " Upon this confession " — not " upon thee," not upon Peter, not upon " I ;" it has no peraonal reference, as you will sts at once. And He gives the same power to the other disciples, as you will see if you will turn to John XX. 22 : "And when He had said this. He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ohost Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are re- tained." That had all equal power, and theiefore no man can be selected for pre-eminence in that respect 6 SEI2/3S^01Sr. Text : Isaiah i. 18 : "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." The text is an invitation from Jehovah, through the prophet, for us to reason with Him. He has endowed us with intellectual capacity to do the thing He invites us to do, and hence this invitation. Tiie land of Israel and the people were smitten and stricken with the consequences of their own sin. The government was wicked and corrupt, the church was worldly and idolatrous, and the people were ignoran*) and intensely carnal in thought and deed ; the land was desolate and uncultivated. The whole is inimitably set forth by the prophet from the 4th to the 8th verse of the chapter of the text. " Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters, they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward ; " and so on. " And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." Now, in this low and debased condition the people must have felt a sense of unworthiness, a strange sense of their inability to approach God. They would naturally conclude themselves beyond remedy or hope of refor- mation ; they would look upon that as impossible. But God rafers to the impossible facts in the art contained in our text, which were at last over- come by science, so that, though their case- seemed impossible, yet God invites them to come to Him, and to reason; and as the almost impos- sible facts in art had been overcome, so might their sins also be overcome. The whole situation reminds one very much of the prodigal. They had been re'luced to poverty by their own weakness and their own sin j and it seems, when w;e look at the prodigal, as if he could not be restored ; yet there is no impossibility that limits the bounds of grace. You take the case of John B. Gough, when lying in the gutter, with his face to the scorching sun, all bloated and bruised, and on the bloated blood spots flies sucking the life out ! What a character he is ! He seems to just be on a par with the whole house of Israel ect this time, and one would hardly have thought that any power under the heavens could raise that man up i^in, and constitute him a sober man^ an intelligent man, a Christian citizen ; but he was led to reason, and by raasoning was led to feel the power within himself, and we know what the consequence has been. Now, the art mystery referred to in the text is one of dyeing. This art was well known to the ancients. God declares : '* Come now, and let us reason Jtogether, saith the Lord : though your sins he as scarlet, they shall be as save white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" Scarlet is a mixture of certain colors, whose prevalence, I suppose, is red. The Hebrew word is Shanah, and it simply means " double-dyed," so that the simple meaning is, if you are a double-dyed sinner, a man that is according to all human reasoning beyond hope of reclamation — a man whose own self-consciousness informs him that he has no power in himself to do himself good — ^to you He says, Come, and ye shall be made white as snow. Crimson is also a deeply dyed color, and the prevailing hue is blue. The color was obtained from a certain grub or worm, about the size of a cherry pip, found on the leaves of the Ilex, an Arabian tree, and henqe we get from the Arabian the word crimson — kermez. The other color was taken from a shell-fish found in the Persian Gulf and also in the Mediterranean Sea. And so we too have our colors. We have vermilion, which comes from vermicu lous, a small insect ; then we have the cochineal, which gives us another brilliant and useful color in dyeing. The scarlet or double- dye could be removed by what was called the dragon's blood. Now, you will read occasionally in ancient historians of this dragon's blood. Pliny, Strabo, and other writers tell us the way it was got. There was a certain kind of shell-fish that looked very much like our lob- ster, and so they named it, of course, the dragon shell. If you would wound it on the back of the shell it would exude a clear liquid gum to heal over its own wound, and if you took that gum and e.tpi > .ed it to heat and let it drop on the scarlet cloth, it would remove the r yrlet color, it would make it white as snow. It is the only thin^ ihat };;'s evjt been found that could i^move the scarlet stain from cloth. Tliei ? h. no cht^mis- try of this day that can take that scarlet dye out of clot b ; only tH's me thing. When the dragon's blood, which, as I have saia, exuded from the wounded shell-fish to heal its wound, was dropped v\i a piece of scdvlet cloth, it would make it white as snow; and it was the onh tiang. There is only one thing that can make a man white as snow from his sins. You may search from North to South, from E^ist to West, you may enter all the de[)artments of science, there is nothing but the blood of Christ that will cleanse from all sin. And so, as this dragon's blood was the only thing that would take out the scarlet stain, so God rer^ons, " Though your sins be B» scarlet, I will make you white as snow." And so we say to-aight, though a man's sins be as scarlet, the blood of Christ can cleanse I Im from all sin ; and it is tho only thing that can. You cannot do it without that blood ; you cannot do it by self-righteousness, you cannot do it. /is this dragon's blood was the only thing that would take out the scaiiet stain or crimson stain, so the blood of Christ is the only thing that can save us frem ou" sins. Ot <;ourse, this art of dyeing is a lost secret ; that is, we are not able «t the present day, I believe, to put ^ast colors in any piece of cloth. To understand this, you have to go back to ancient history, you see — and that is where the deficiency of so many in the present day comes in ; they are not able to interpret the Scripture. What would a man do with a verse like this, unless he knew about that peculiar dragon's blood 1 What would 8 a man do with a verse like this, who did not know that in ancient days they could put scarlet and crimson into a piece of f.ioth so %8t that nothing^ would take it out but this one thinj^ 1 Now, you may look up men that dye, and we have dyers here, but there is not one of them that can put color into a cloth but wliat we can, by the application of an acid or a com- bination of several acids, take the color out of it. I believe it is allowed that there is not a man, either in the British Empire or in tne United States, that can dye a fast color, that is, dye it against the chemical know- ledge of the day. But the ancients had these two fast colors, and they put them into cloth, and they were worn by royalty ; and hence, when the- royal personage threw off his scarlet robe — he would not wear it until it was worn out — it was still good cloth. But it had the scarlet color, and while it had that color, none of the commoner people were allowed to wear it ; hence they wanted something that would take out that color, so that they could redye it, and a common man could wear it. That is the idea ;, that is the lost secret — the lost secret of dyeing. The Turks, I believe, have some idea of the secret. They are at the present day, I believe, the only people who can put in a scarlet that we cannot take out by any chemical process. It is from this very ground that we get our common red blotting paper. A certain man started a shoddy factory near Halifax, in Yorkshire, England. He imported rags, naturally from Turkey as well as other places, Turkey being, I presume, a good place for rags ; and in many of the bales from Turkey he found a great many scarlet rags, and he could not take the color out so that it might be made into cloth, and hence he hud to keep throwing them away. One day, being somewhat vexed at the loss he had sustained on a bale of Turkish rags just received, h^ leturned to his house very much put out, and his wife asked him what was the matter. " Why," said he, '• look at that last bale of rags from Turkey ; nearly half of it a loss, because the rags are scarlet." "Oh," said the wife, "make them into paper I " And like a good man, he did as his wife told him, he made them into paper, and it turned out to be a soft absorbing paper ; so you see where we get our red blotting paper, and why we get it with that color. The Turks, I say, can put in the color fast enough. The ancients understood this secret, but it has been lost ; and there are a hundred other secrets that are lost ; and unless a man understands what these secrets are, he cannot come to the point of many of the finest passages in the Scriptures. Thus we have the reference of Isaiah, " though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow ;" not the " dragon's blood," but the blood of Christ cleanses from all sin. Now you see t^e comparison ; taking into considera- tion the lost secret, and the one remedy they found out, just the remedy God provided in Christ. There is t. beautiful meaning in the verse when we look at it in this light. I might call your attention, I suppose, to a number of secrets that would be famii'ar to you as having been lost, or at least have been con- fined to certain nations. You take the manufacture of Rtuaian leather ; they have a secret mode of mr.king that. We have not got it iu thi& 9 courtry, though they have it now, I believe, in the United States. Mr. Jewell, who was Minister to Russia for the United States, was admitted into one of their tanneries ; and I believe it is acknowledged he stole the secret, and brought it over to the United States, or part of it. He stole it so far that they can really now make what we call Russian leather, and give it that peculiar scent, but it is a secret that belongs to the Government of Russia. Now you see, if these men in charge of it should chance to die or be slain in large numbers, the secret might pass out of existence. Then you have the dipping of tin ; tin is dipped in a liquid, just as our fathers and mothers used to dip candles. There is no country in the world knows how to dip tin ; it is a secret possessed by the English Government, and is so divided up by a peculiar method, that no one man in the country knows the whole of it, so that no one can disclose the secret, and that gives a monopoly of dipping tin. But supposing these several persons should die, the art of dipping tin would go out of existence. With these ideas, I think the text will appear plain to you, and you will understand now how a secret of this kind can be lost. Being profitable, it would naturally be narrowed down to a very small centre, and only one or a very few persons would be allowed to know of it. So I believe, my dear friends, that every mysterious passage in this book, if a man could only understand what has been, what is, and what is to be, would be as patent and plain as the sun in mid-heaven, when tliere is not a cloud in all the sky. And men who object to the Bible, olyect to it on the basis of their own ignorance ; art