, 1870-01-23

Of unaided reason by which
man oones to deny that be hAs any spir-
itual nature, Author, -destiny, OF Duties
would, il applied In his o~n heart and
home, rob him Of all that b deaxnst In Life,
convert the hasea Of his .nothst, wife. md
children into senselen muppeziea, tbs
affections which prompt them fnto needls.H
delnnsona, snd strike dorn tspnee N that
glory Of life sud love in whose Light he
tolls with hope, aud, II need be-, suffers
with serenity. Suppose the precoeioos
child to catch the spirit Of tho in6del and
TO sak, "How can know that these are
my father and mother7" who fs to ausHer
his parricidal impndence? To merely put
the question is almost to sevsr the
tic. No ink ean paint tho blsok-
nesa. which =: would oovar universal
aociety with it, pail II IT love waited
upon III know" and II II know" Jagged
for SIT is proven" Mr.: Dickens at oncs
made discovery and founded system Of
morals when be painted The Gradgind
family, whose affections we're petdaed BY
the requirement that thoir action should be
in conformity with reason and founded
only On fac4a. OF oourse, the difference
between flowers and vegetables, beauty
and utility, sympathy md hea1tieasuesa,
graoe and aukwardness, wers ignored, and
the children grow up as rold Of life and
nature a. plants in callAr are Of fibre or
color. Our minds are types Of the physi-
cal world There arc solids, liquids, and
fuids, or, as 10 some1mes call them, gases,
in the physical world, corresponding to our
facts, faiths, and faucies in the ideal. In
the physical world we tread solids under
fool, feed mainly on liquids, and breathe %
fluid which in iu inspiration is life,
and IN its e1panse is heaven In
the ideal, world We have q Hmall
basis OF solid fact underneath, each
mans standing point differing from
that Of every other, whilo We deriva our
chief moral impulaes. from our faiths and
loves, and inhala our highest inspiration
from the illim1table and the invisible,
around and over us. Mere facts without
faiths or fancies, mere knowledge without
affection or imagination, and mere science
without worship or inspiration, are liko the
lunar laucscape without water or sn atmos-
pberc, whe1o all the horrors Of iumaasu1a~
BILE abysses appal], and no green verdures
pu1pled skies, or uaellowed distances invite.
II il our natural tastaa and affections wo
find standards Of love and beauty set up
which unfold kind Of truth that is not
amenable to logic, but deies ita processes
and scouts ia pretensions, it Is not strange
that tho relations of man to his God should
open still new field of truth in WHICH
higher tests than any that reason
| can supply Rhouid be required
For not only do reason
| and science abandon tho held Of religious
! thought as beyond their ken, and belong-
| ing to the realm Of tho "unkuoHable,
and not only dots religion repudiate reason
and science as affording+ no test or Clue to
| her realities, but re find thAt the affections
and tha tastes, neither Of which submit to
The authority Of reason in any way, enter
largely as Ingredients into the more com.
preheusive sphere Of lore. emotion, wor-
ship, andthoueht which religion::comprises.
II ohemioal test has no power over twc
pa1@ OF Habstance, still leas can 1t be ap-
Piled to the whole. And i both the natu'
raj affections and the sense Of fitness and
beauty which va call taste refuse to sub
init to any arbitrament OF reason, certainly
religion, into which these affections aue
tastes SO powerfully enter, must, lik'
them, be judged by it's Owl
standard. Tbis standard il not
aa IN the mathematics, ttIs it demon
strated t"-nor, as in science, Does it &c
cord with The majority Of our experienced ?
|-nor yet, as in the affections, "Ia 1t nat
u.a1 and spontaneous 2"-uor, ss in matter
Of taste, art, and Imagination, S' Does
pleaae? e?"-but simply 't Does it make rs bal
ter and more spiritual7" Whatever doe
this for any human soul Is religion to hin
whatever else it may be to one it does nc
benefit. ..,
That every human soul Is the believe
child Of God that its aims will be puniahsi
, or its feeblensaa for good expanded and gls
, | rihed, and even Its body be redeemed !
cone mysterious way from death, are do
t1inea which SGT an infinite value on eve,
!, man, and attach deathless energy to 9
cry moral action. They make us forg
), that there ,re any points in which man
| merely an animal. On the contrary, Il
lessons Of the dissecting- room, while ths
!, teach phyaioal truths Of certain kind, il
nore all there il Of mtn in which be di
fers from beast. Geology rakss for o.
> ancestry among the oyater-beds, while I
1ieion hynns our 6nship with angel
Astronomy develops the world out Of chao
whilo wo1ship ascribea it to God II
, anatomist cuts up the dead man to find Il
= living spirit, while faith rejoices that
: exile is ended, and that it has begun Il
D.. heavenly life. -....
None can doubt that in this conflict b
tween religion aud science the former Sc
= the higher ralus On the soul, t
- moral nature, ths affections, I
!, true life; whlls tho latter never gets beyol
- the body, but, like the Roman angnr, crop
among eutrails to find the Divine purpos
- As human nature is constituted, men
: 5tinctively feel that, while science and axe
ticism in their place are well, there is son
= thing in the teachiugs and practice of spiz
:, ual religion, In worship, prayer, and prai:
= that does more than make meu wiser.
. . makes them truer, purer, better; and th
~ - as o test of Truth, IL above ali others. VII
- - these various standards conflict, rs, som
:: times, owing to the limitations upon hum
~ thought, they will, the wiser class will
- found obeying the higher standard
~ 4--~&~-@
:. THE 1MPoRT TRADE OF CHICAGO.
:. The objection to the bill making chica
~ port Of entry, whereby goods impor'
= from foreign countries can be broul
he1e without The delaya attend
- upon an inspection at the Ah'
u u tic ports, ia that the trade of Chic
~ ~ in foreign fabrics Is 80 limited as
,f to Justify guch measure. The commit
of Chicago merchants to whom was @
- faded the task> Of preparing statistics shs
ing The proportion Of toreign goods diree
r. imported to those sold in this city havo
j. reported, through their Chairman.
Tyzrsl, Esq, 70 Hon. N. 3. Judd, st Va
- ington. They have been able To obtain
W cuzate information only on the uaderssa
ln ing that the business OF individ
- firms shAu not be made public, and
~ footinga aro all that are furnished. T