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Cur Boston Letter.
BosToN, April Is
4 TILT AT The BOSTON THEoLoGIAXs.

CuT Boston Letter.
BosToN, April 2s
A TILT AT The BOSTON THEoLoGIAXs.
Rev. Dr. McCosh of Princeton (NJ.) College
caused serious commotion among the theo
/ logians of the Hub last weel;. He came up here
to deliver course of four lectures to the stu
dents Of Boston (Nlethoiist) Theological Seniin
ary The reputation Of the man. and the expec-
tation that he would paw his respects to the BJs
ton heretics, created considerable interes, in
the Lectures, which found expression in an IN
usually full attendance at the church where
they we're delivered The two first discOurses
were somewhat general in character, and aimed
to reclpitulate and popularize the arguments
which the speakers in the evangelical course
hurled at the head of our offending citizens. In
the third lecture the sturdy polemc took up the
Boston theology" Beginning with Chan
ming he dsseced him and Parker and the subor-
dinate followers of each, then passed to pos
itiyism and showed how II was connected with
the rationalism Of Claiming and the intuition
alsn Of Parker; then he pointed out the alb
sur titles and iniquiues OF the free religi0nists
an free thinkers Of this ungodly city, and
wo. i up with forcible statement Of the con-
clusion to which the prevalent materialsm is
leading This Is a mere outline Of the discourse,
hut its best feature was the frankne-s with which
the bold Scotchman administered his eXcoraton.
No one has ever bearded the theological lion OF
Boston in his den with such courage, skill and
success AS this New jersey ue'aphy-'ci1n-
WENDELL PHILLIPS oN CHRISTIANITY
Mr.. Phillips delivered tas e.u-.lg lecture ia
the Horticultural Hal course Sunday the 'h
instant The hall which had not before teen
filed was crowiel to It's utmost capacity 1ut
Of respect 10 his patrons, suppose. the orator,
who Is known {, be "a ri-d taivinisj iid not
rub very hard against their prejuiices, bat cln-
tented himself with discussing the social bearings
Of Christianity. There il point, says he, 1t
which social science fails. After We have adopt
ed every expeiieIt, which it p-sscrihes, for ele-
waiting society, after we haye lifted up the work
man by an eight-hour law, after We have checked
prostitution by woman suffrage, there much
90 he done and mighty force Co De employed.
This force is Christianity We have NOT vet be-
gun 10 use IT, We start church. - prayer
meeting, and Young Men's Christian associa-
ton. hut this is not Christianity. The true wy
!, 60 meet thelevil ou his own ground aud IN HIS
own wav Don't let him m.uap1,'ze all the good
things u le sets up lance house ca one c1r-
uer, set up ou tine opposite c1rugr-uot prayer
meeting but-A lance house. moral dance
house, one that shall be ten times 1s attractive.
II be starts corrupt newspaper like the Her
adj don't meet him with theological organ
but with q newspaper, one th4t ,a-.. oe ~ u4.l
better than the Hergti thar every business man
viii have TO take it. uont l-- ms have general
laws So long as every street .- h-el with inl.-
,lu.l slses Of suffering under them. be
would rather have" SAID Dr.. &c ore great act of
social justice, than 9 thousand churches Tressh-
ing the Sermon on the Mount DE continued
fs.r +E q D.