New-York tribune., 1877-08-09
THE sryD1Y-ScHo0L IN THE FOODS

OPENING OF TIE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT cTAUTAU-
oUA-ADDREssEs BY MEN FROM AMERICA AND
rrRopE THE REV. JOSEPH COOK on CON-
SCIENCE.
FAIR POINT. \. Y. Aug S.-The National
sunday-school Assembly opened last night at seven
o'clock with the ringing Of the Chauauqua bells. Ihe
vespr service Of 1877 followed after which was hed te
Chautauqua Reunion at which number OF addresses
were delivered by gentlemen from various portions OF tue
globe Tho Throne of Grace was addressed 10y thc he'
j. A. Wordcn OF Ohio. with whom the immense auuo"oo
TONED in repeating the Lords Prayer Tne Rev D. H.
Vincent d. conducted the services and on behalf oi tue
manalers Of the Assembly words Of welcome 10 te
thousands of people present. The audience was muc
larger than any that had been present on ake occ
SION touching and just tribute was ad 20 the l'te
Bliss who year ago stood upon the Chautaugn Assem-
bv platform. Lewis Miller OF Akron, ONO, President oi
ne Assembly was the first speaker. He welcomed alike
old and Chautauquans. without distinction ~ "
sect or race. The Rev Dr. Wythe added his greetings
The Rev j. 4. Worden manager OF the Lakeside Assem-
by near saudu,ky Ohio followed aud thanked "od ior
Cnautauqua. which one prolonged JOY. Amos shln
kles of Kentucky President Of the Loyeland Ehcahp
uent AT Cincinnati, OHIO, responded TO can bfehS
A. Jared TAYLOR of Ncw-Y0lk President of the
Ronnd Lake Encampment, spoke next Addresses
moro made nv the Rev W. L. Crafts, President
80 tine Thousand Islands sunday-School Parliament;
tbe Rry Jesse Hurhut, President OF the Ia
tosi Assembly AZ PatOsk Mich. the Rev. Ihonas
Bowman Stephenson ol Lonu2l, nnIlai, VIZ va IN l
eruird the Congratulations of the MeSeyans oI 'tcd
i;rita,n. and cOnvulscd the audience win DIS tenai
humor ana who was followed %itn lnt'e Nv
cir. G. r. stout President of the Pman Grove sunday
s'I ~ l. tcn,niy Of New Jersey Prot. W j. shcrwn
of Ne Icr,ev: ir Rev j. =. Ostranlcr, oi Ne|1 OK
the Rev. Dr. Warren Of Pniladephh rank b.iII ui
% }e1Iar normal and drill exercises began this morn
inc Frank RrgId instructed the children az O'Clock:
I ros,, Inc L. l.iI
ON tie struggle of the Child" The afternoon session
o~eucd with music by the Chatauqu1 Choir led y Iroi
NJ r Sbrrvsin of Ncw-Jersey. Tie Young Apollo Club
of NeW-York then gave us initial performance, aitef
which he Rev Joseph Cook Of Boston delivered his lee
inrc ON =, Conscience " to an immense audience
Ancr beng introduced by the Rev. Dr. J. J. Newman
of Washington 1ving, thinking, taxing Buffers
Analogy, Mr. Cook said ,..,...,
WIlsn snakt larc says that conscience is thousand
swords and John Wesley used 10 say tat Coo thoh
saud conscenccs We are seated on scarcely duenched
volcano within Che past few DAYS we nave suffered
from three thues-A great ana genera lau"r Sulhr
riot OF the rOu 1ns aud grand mothtly ueIcuce' We
need not only diffusion Of liberty, but diffusion oi
intelligence OF property ana coi,,eIii - We
can dusc the latter quality We can dlhuse the oiheis
We ought then To commence WIN ths. II We suIulu m
divide all property equally Monday morning. IL Woud pc
uucuuaIV divided by saturday night We must reach
a population. largely unemployed, Is lea by quaeks.
Liberty intelligence and property Win conScienioIs-
the church is the safety of the Republic on the edge Of
tnis volcano. We ought not to call TINS trlte
WHAT is conscience Lc W answer this outside of the
Rhe Nature viii toUs this question. D0rner,
i'm Berlin, said II is not so much true That man has
CDi
tm,rric1 hut cannot lca,. my conscience Distinction
LeI y,een right and wrong put into us before
oi.tInguisn between right and stuart MIL said
tbero might a world in which two and two would not
right might wrong. hold thdt the whole is greater
and better than part. straight line Is the shortest
stance between two points. This does not come 10 us
from our ancestors II experience accounts for all our
convictions then when experience j. always tie same,
We cannot escape its teachings. Now, when We act
MlonS Ey t There are axions in religions tnoneht e
itislg le Mp lIt
Vi W. siaW begin with tls-God speak. through con
science 1t his temple Who're ls jesus of Nazareth
uoWl He is not Calvary lie j. the light which lights
the world and the human heart is Ills temple. That
light was III the beginning; at the creation Of The world.
nn i sam, SAY cou,rence Is infaIible: others tha
il is fable. Kant sand that erin. conscience
chimela. Cadervood said. There is no such thing
an rrling conscience" Jona Foster s,ud There Is
more absurd thing than Conscience" scientific deini
lion says, "Consccnce Is the souls sense OI right and
%po"g % aet IN TO- do We must define clearly We make
distinction between the external act and the inner
i've. 81 rcpeat-Conscence means The souls Of right and
Let MS Vein he word "ouzht" There are here men
with empty sleeves The soldier had IN one scale the
word "ought" In the other were father, mother and
wife The larger words 10 down, aud the little word
"Ought' ought TO outweigh everything else.
We put everything into the opposite scale but
God, Shlch we cannot do because God i, IN ought"
Richard Ill aud Macbeth were the greatest tfeascs
conscience ever written DaNld hume ana Nero heard
weight on the heart OF Richard Ill Man may place
himself beyond llS Uy an ACT o-"tu. whoever loves
darkness better than light feels uld God make
us with such instinct and then mock usi He
never does such thing. God builds no hal.Oiuts.
Where there is 4 migrating instinct there will be "A
South 10 match It. God is 40 b1ngler. That
instinct which God teaches the to fy
SOUTH and ish To- swim from the IN dry
10 the sea; which the heart OF impulse
and principle that will enable you and in day.
and III night call death, to launch on the wings of
conscience and lind ourselves in the South which God
has made 10 match our migrating instinct
The entire lecture was listened to with the most in
tense interest and elected repeated and vigorous demon
strations OF applause.