, 1874-03-30
Denominational Loyalty---What It
Really Means.
Sermon by the Rev. Arthur swazey, Of
the Ashland Avenue Church.
A Catholic Wow of the Temper
anco Question.
Sermon by the Rev. Dr.. Riordan.
TIE DECLINE oF VICE.

Ing. ut ALRll DO more tolorRple LOT Lno lAHu VI
ss%o..a. souom .nN ~
1oao"s' .,.,., ,,,o. ,r,,a.o ~,
Tho names OF thoao TWO c'''es, ose' "ilos. ~"
tns tha Dead Sea is supposed to roll iss utter
waves, aro road before you this morning as words
o , aao ~ zics hut @ t,nt areat aims liz back Of
only a8e u s'ee' p"t 1uas ga s'Ae ~ umss ~
our times. announce as my sneno' Inc ~.
cline of Yfcc." Tho DISCOURSE before you lnse
Sunday closed with on appeal to you to grid up
YOUR strength against tho OWLS of tho ago; but,
3nat ,so n,av III 1,orrosa aomo general. truthful
tnat We may u po1noss 'ou' soaaA'; @asa,
yioW OF tho work on nano'-o1 us magn.'uo1 nna
despair or hope,-it seems desirable that M hour
should bo givon to inquiry as to tho present ata-
lonr Yesterday. This inquiry may lead US along
uS S,;ofhs ths one lnaiinr through tho prlofl
onsatson' % %Whnt should be- the result Of tic in
crenso n 1mowlodro? the other leading through
hnon ifa history Of sin7
% The re,ntion 6otweon knowledge and virtue iB,
nd - oencra1 tr,,th. tho rolatiou between q causo
and i a6 affect. Willie no ono can contend that
knoTlcdoe @ viii fully regonerate tho heurt and
mabc nu = saipt to- out Of sinner. vet tic tendency
nf t''u Information ia to raise thc iniiyidunl to
higher plano Of norality. Our ponitontiarins
ara nnr observation teaches us that ignorance ia
the motbor OF yico. Says an old Creek: "Dot-
tor tn lo unborn than ,lnteuht, for Ignorance Is
the root OF mtgfQrtunG.' Iut great NoDGrt hall
said; +" Ignorance gives m eternity to preju-
,ljce n perpetuity to error The majority Of
thn convictB In the dungeon or upon tho scaffoll
cannot write, but uso that fatal emblem called
uhis mark All through the Scriptures, virtue
ia rnnrosented M q lirht. and sin ns darknoss
md. In obedience Of This distinction, Satan is tic
Prince Of darkness, aud Christ tho light OF the
world. Every motion man makes is along tho
line Of bis information, it being the great path-
maker for lin in the Wilderness, Its pillar of
= .2.5 t~..u
find an Indian planting a few Beods in wild
Oregon, or ectting forth with his spear to kill
fish or with his trcncherous arrow to attack his
enemy, he ia moving along the lines OF hts IN
formation, and ho will uHo al bis light about
planting Lis maize, or spcaring the fish, or way
LAYING sho white man. Over Ills dead enemy he
will shed no toars, for he knows nothing of
golden rule, and nothing OF tho rights OF man or
The BacrcdncBa Of life. AL moralists or
cusuistH so feel tue causal relation
Leathcn world to bo responsible for not having
sought such light as might have improved their
,ittuo thus confessng that the order OF nature
is "lIght," and then "rirtue." When mind
like that Of William Pom or Richard Golden
the rights Of life, liberty. and tile pursuit Of
hnnninesa. he becomes incapable OF fho atrocl-
ties which give actual pfsasure to tho untusorod
Moioc Of tile Wost. Penn and Cobden aro rays
of licht upou tho hcart-emblems of that soft
briuEs.
. GSd's norsl world and his physical world being
covered all over With q network OF laws as
nnmarous and delicate as tho tendoroBt threads
inc in tic world is a wide information as to how
fIeae laws Of body and mind aud society aud re-
1irion net. A knowledge Of these is tho sun
which must turn night into day md sloep into
life.
II IN nnw aeon that under tho Increase OF
knowiof]rn in tho medical art the average OF
human fife has risen, aud is now ascending.
trhn relotinn IT air. aud exercise. and food. end
sleep. to health. las boon 10 studied from tho
stnnd-point Of ecionco and experiment that this
,ts yea1s and makes them not only longer, but
hannicr But. Gods world being all founded
nno; tin SAND f1ndau,eutul laws, it's formation
wfii n]ny tho same park in morals that it nor
forms lori IN tho medical art and viii tend to add
n,thoaey NJ i % has extended tic human 1oaso Of ifo.
I9 n a,,ch yast Emuirea as India and China, whcro
murder, and theft, and infanllcido are customs
allied fo those Of relieon In o wonderful, but
senselcea, partnorship, the entraa1a of M light
m far toward ehocliug tie customs as The now
sfc,m.n1ow .,h in turkey has rono towards sup
1;anting tho old crooked stick that was ouoa
5,lr.rra5 fhroucL tho lolds.
i,ls Of msnliud M % come from thcir not bepg 70.
iirious Or consc,eutious aud that all the human
s1Ss fasiniiy needs is sudden conversion to Oh,
Chrintianity. Conversion will only check those
octions it Witch tho mind knows 10 be | wrong, bui
viii only adI fuel to q limo Of conduct which the
sion brings only an increased desire to follow
5hn u r;rht bnt Il does not designate now lighi
tor or fhe 1ninds Henco in lie dsrk ages rein.
;o,a or 'rs raviva among tho Catholics was aways at
tondad tonI hv a nav slaughter Of protestsnts. bo
.oao H. now zcai in tho hoart lid not brine
cnuho nv sG iformntion to tha ntelloct Int onis
gaS,cd 9 nJT tho oristins ideas into tnmo. What i
aamhnpaa @ aagpS Ssai1aet nin 1Towavar rood ~ mar
~ u asi ha nnrfootly inpoasihle for him te
cscnno vice unless no knows it to bo such, ant
nonln luap. - ,nea1;tv or 1nonhood ria nnnm
nns oraoa " tba lowcst cIasses in GLnn I'll,
Jusp.n sand ID, whaky-drnhnrs amonr tit
InS;s~ tr,,as dn 1ot descend from, a.
anonu n',I;1 ~ ei,' onlv Int from m anccstr,
ot'sn ia,oro,co ~ oau Thcir noh1or ifa vii; com,
~ ,,ot a,nnr from n strdy Of rolIe,on. Int elsf
fro,,s at,'av ~ nvs;nlory ond Mi tic laws O
vIt hoaiil, = and yofinament. Mon arc bad ouougl
t,,rn,,ni dir INF tl,ev ara wrotchcd before Til
thro"Sh ionorance. eo Ii Iudla, tho most doyou
fakirs. VIC i've for nothing but God and III,