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VOLUME 2D.
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TI3H3
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tarrov.*!, located In the dly and suburbs of Chicago
ind In the 6to to of IJUnola, exelueirflu negotiated.
6ecui Ity assured to capital Booking Investments of
lil, di..racier by tho adoption of a system peculiar to
Bits IctUtullon.
Ixitci speedily eieonted at the lev*si ratea of inter
irt. Expenses moderate.
HERBERT
& MORSE,
Stock Brokers,
04 l,aSaUost,, CUICAGO.
w. T. HERBERT, 11. J. MORSE.
Member N. Y. Stock Errutcge.
Stock*, XXnnds, and Gold bought and Bold on
ecmraisilon. We Oder special facilities for transac
tion* In securities dealt In at Now Vork Stock
Exobouffe, cither for cash or ou margin*. Refer
to Union Rational Bank. Chicago.
UcrxE, Sntsaix A Co.,
Banker* and Brokers, 18 Now-st., Now York.
E.J.Mowi, R. J. Kimball, A. B, Lomnncnv.
Money to Loan
In largo or small sums, on Chicago
Property, at lowest current rates,
j. X>. HARVEY, Mortgage Loans, 80
Waabington-st.
E 0. WILLIAMS & 00.,
BANKERS,
n WALL-ST., NEW YORK, buy and sell Chicago
C.ty. Milwaukee, St. Paul, and other good municipal
tcodi. Inveatmenl securities constantly on hand.
Wanted—Darlington, Cedar IL. and Minn, first.
Wtnlil—Chicago, Danville A Vincennes first.
Wanted—Northern Pacific 7 3-10 first.
These and other railway securities not regularly
looted made a specialty. Orders for stocks tnd other
securities receive personal attention at the New York
Stock Exchange.
Good deposit account* received.
MMep~M Season, 1875.
$33 to 11,000 Invested, will probably pay during the
ant thirty days, from 100 to 600 per cent profit. Dur
ing the some time lost year, privileges paid from 600 to
lso pet cent profit, and the year before from tl,ooo
to 13,800 was made on SIOO invested. Our weekly ro-
Mri. eent free, gives full particulars and prices of all
Web dealt In at tho
Now York Stock Exchange.
ALEX. FROTOINOHAM h CO.,
Bankers and Brokers, 13 Wall-st., Now York.
HOTELS.
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CHICAGO.
Located corner MICHIQAIT-AV.
and JACKSON-ST., fronting on
Lake Park, with fine view of Lake
HioMgan, opposite tho Great Expo
sition Buildings, near all tho Bail
road Depots, and places of amuse
ment; tho finest location in Chicago.
Prices—s3.oo, $3.60, and $4.00 per
day. C. H. GAXTBERT,
Proprietor.
aiiiusE
OHIOAGO.
hicei Seduced to $3, $3.60 and $l6O per Day.
The moat Elegant Hotel In the city. 900 Superb
magnificently furnished and provided with
““U; enUrely fire-proof. Location ono (Jock from
Headquarter*. BIBBELL fc UULBEIIT.
NEVADA HOTEL,
148 ami 150 Wobnsli-av.,
Uoaroe-at., one block from Exposition Building,
$3-oo pbb
(SfJf** .•We * nd ceremony, but more real com-
places of greater pretensions and
VINEGAR.
, PRESSING'S
JSSf WAR
0l r •*« PDUITY. KTKKNOTII »ml
Warranted to pkmkktb
k UP Mlchlgan-av., Chicago,
MISOELLANEODS.
EXPUIIT HOOK It HEI’IMJ,
. may be made for the duy or evening
jJ?,* O and close sets of books, either by single or
♦nlrj, discover and correct errors In books
defective sod careless bookkeeping, adjust
accounts, mako out bills, writs up books
hewnu c * tbs same. Private lesions in bookketp
s»»a n * tTeo •* th« reiidencea of pupils when do
ofj;, bompensstlou In all cues reasonable, and sat
iwiniif ? guaranteed. Will go out of the city when
Addnf j 81, Tribune office.
firm'ohanqes.
DisaoLUTiois.
kt^l? n ? °f Mustek k Brown Is this day disaolvsd
•/aatual consent. OKO. MUBICK,
JEFFERSON DROWN.
DIBSOL UTION.
k Co. Is this dsy dla
by mutual consent. 11. H. FLEMING,
. J. 11. UAKEU.
COPAXITNERSHIP.
ü ßdtrslgned will continue grain business of
b “K* • Hrowa and it, U. Fleming k Co. under tbo
gizP* Brown k Fleming, Bbipplug and Commission
Office No, 9, IW Wsshlngtoo-sl.
JEFFERSON DROWN,
U, U. FLEMING.
Wat CWrntjo SEfttmnc.
CLOAKS ANU SUITS.
aom*
Field, heifer
$c Co.
Amount
Accumulated.
STATE & WASIUNGTON-STS.,
WILL OFFER TO-DAY A
FULL LINE OP
HISSES’AND CHILDREN’S
PLAID, PLAIN,
BRAIDED
WORSTED ITS,
Suitable for All Ages,
From two to sixteen years.
Also Full Lines of MISSES’
and CHILDREN’S
FALL AND WINTER
Cloaks,
OTJR OWN IMPORTATION.
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS^
Underwear
Tho Largest Stock and the Largest
Number of Linos ever offered in this
city, consisting of Flannels, Meri
nos, Cashmeres, Scotch Wools,
Silks, &0., from medium to finest
qualities the world produces, at
unusually low prices.
WILSON BROS.,
67 and 09 Washington-st., Chicago.
Pike’s Opera Houso, Fourth*
et., Cincinnati.
INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.
LAST WEEK
OP THE
EXPOSffIOH!
MONDAY, OCT. 4,
GRAND SCHOOL DAY
All Adults, 25 els,; CMldrai, 10 cts.
“DON’T FAIL TO SEE IT!”
COAL.
Can supply city or country with old brand
LAOKAWANNACOAL
By ion, car-load, or cargo. any lime wanted. Bloie
burg, Lehigh, Brio, Briar UHL and Cannel Goal on hand.
Oftlc»—U.MJ East Madleon-et., close to bridge; lad
South Market-si.; 300 Lnmbcr-et.; west end eigh
teen lb>«t. Bridge, and North liar, near Llghtboueo.
ItOBEUT LAW.
TO LEASE.
Dry Dock To Loaso for a Term of Years.
Scaled Proposal* will be received at (ha office of (ho
Clork of tho Board of Education, 63 Flfth-av., till
TTIUIiSDAY, OUT. 7.187 ft, at Vi m., for Leasing for
a term of years the DUY BOOS located in Block 68,
Hchool Section Addition, on the South Branch of the
Chicago River, between Huniaon and Folk-eta.
Any further information can be obtained on applica
tion to JAMES (JOaaiN, Attorney of the Board of
Education, Boom 37 Metropolitan Block.
Addresa Proposals to the “ Committee ou School
Fund Property,'* indorsed “ Proposal* to Lease Dry
pork.”
The Committee reserve* the right to reject any one
or all of the Proposals snlinlttod, as they shall doom
for tho boat Interests of the city.
WILLIAM J. ENGLISH,
PKitlty )f. SMITH.
CHARLES H. HEED,
HOBNEY WELCH,
JOHN V. OLINQER,
Committee on School Fund Property.
DENTISTRY.
TEETH.
WbT pay $» and S3O when you ran get tbe beet full
•et of teelU at DU. McCHESNEY’S for SS. Tbe finest
and moat fashionable roeort in tbo city. Corner Clark
and lUndolph-sts.
TO RENT.
TO RENT.
Three new msrble,froat residences, coat front,' on
Indlsns-sy., Just north of Eigbteeoth-sl. They are in
choice location, with ranges, warmed with steam, and
are In every respect tbe beet finished and moil desir
able residences offered for rent In tbo city.
D. W. THOMAS, 133 LsSsUe-st.
STOVES AriD FURNACES.
ctbhho'b TDBuua stove, Grate, ml mime.
TTTTI i mnn This dlaeovery gives more
Ills fl 111 I ■ I I beat from a given amount
M H II | U 1/ of fuel, lu open grates and
I I Ii H I I. II Franklin stoves, than close
I I 111 I I I 111 stoves. Wo have thirteen
sizes of furnaces. Can warm
the largest church or smallest cottage. We especially
recommend Ihem for soft coal.
Gall and see, or send lor circular.
CUSHING. WARREN k CO.,
No, W Lske-sL
WANTED.
TO WHOLESALE LIOUOU DEALUUH.
A young man speaking English, Qermsu. and
French, who cuiumsmls s good trails throughout the
Elutes of Illinois, Wisconsin, uod Indians, wishes s
situation as traveling agent la • first-cists Wins and
Liquor House. Has usd winy years of experience.
Thu best of references u to ability sud Integrity will
be given. Address W, rare Kaufman k CoUot, city.
IOWA LANDS WANTED,
WsnUd to purchase for cash, lands In lowa and
Northern Missouri. Address with full nortlealan
ALEX. 8. POUTED, 37 hUls-sl., Boston Mass.
Ministerial Views of the
Bible-in-the-Schools
Question.
Dr. Fallows Thinks that
Church and State Should
Be Entirely Sep
arated.
Tbo Her. C. L. Thompson Be
lieves that the Bible
Will Take Care
of Itself.
Dr. H. W. Thomas Bids Fare
well to the First Meth
odist Church.
Discourse on Christian Rational
ism by the Rev. Dr.
Swazey.
Memorial Service and Sermon
by the Bev. Eobort
Collyor.
Iludibras Expresses Himself on Ibe
Rc!iglous>Educa(ion Question.
The London "Times" on the Re-
Establishment of the In
quisition.
Forcible Declaration on the Beecher
Question by the "Satur
day Review.”
Tbo Rov. Samuel Fallows, D. D., preached the
following sermon in Bt. Paul'a Reformed Episco
pal Church lost ovooiog:
And wisdom and knowledge eball be the stability of
thy time#.— hamh, xxxiii.: 0,
The Board of Education of this city hare just
decided that hereafter there shall bone religious
instruction imparted in onr schools, by tho read
ing of tbo Roly Bcnpluroe or by prayer.
There Is a disagreement oo tho part of thoso
who love tho Bible, and believe it to bo tbo cor
ner-stone of Amsrican civilization, as to the
wisdom of tbo act. Some suppose that our
schools will become irreligious by
this removal of tho Word of God.
But let mo lay bare tbo mistake of those friends,
if 1 can. One class asserts that the schools are
''godless" schools, because a specific religious
faith is not taught in them. Another, because
portions of Scnptore ato not read and prayer is
not offered; or because the Bible, an tbo visible
symbol of the faith of Protestants, Is not allowed
to remain os the ultimate ground of religious
appeal.
But do those persons moan to assert that
arithmetic, grammar, and geography are in
tbemsolvce godless? Is there anything jn
their nature that will corrupt the mind? When
wo bold our children rigidly to learning tho mul
tiplication table, or tbo declensions of nonns, or
tbo bounding of a State, are they daring that
time engaged in a •'godless" act? Put
tbo question In this form, and every
body's common sense, whatever may be
bis theological bias, will answer at once, No.
'Well, then, when do they become godless?
Why, when the mind, destitute of religions
truth, or neglectful of it, uses them In a god
less manner. Not m themselves, then, bnt in
tbo use tbo mind makes of thou lies tho godli
ness.
COAL.
Cut U*|i9 asserted (bat tho mind moat be
taught tbo foundation principles of re*
ligion in order to use learning
aright. Very true. But when must
they bo taught ? Shall Instruction in the cate
chism or the Bible be given just after a lesson in
grammar, or before a lesson in writing, or be*
tween arithmetic and spelling? Shall it bo
given before tho studies of tbo day begin or at
their close? Is It a necessity that it should bo
given once a day, or onco in two days, or once a
week? Is it uocossarr that it should bo given
by tho one who (caches these so-called secular
studios ? Is it essential that it must
bo imparled in tho same room whore
tbo maps and blackboards are?
I think none bat a bigot would answer, Yen.
The importation of dogmatic, religions truths is
something entirely separate from the imparts*
tion of orthographical truth. A school where
such dogmatic instruction is not given cannot
be called on that account godless, unchristian,
irreligious, auli-rollpioun, or even non-religious.
Further, if tho Bible is not read, and pray
er is not offered, or if no Biblo
should bo found In tho eobool-room,
and tho general truths of religion bo not pre
sented or expressed in a formal way, the school
docs not come within any of the categories Just
enumerated.
A godless man may teach tbe catechism, and
an infidel go through tbe form of reading the
Bible, and tbus an irreligious atmosphere bo
created m spite of tbe religious forms used;
while, on tbe other band, tbe sot forms may be
entirely dispensed with, and a devout religious
spirit be infused by tbe presence, and manner,
ond tones of tbo truly religious teacher.
Now, tbe grand principles of morality can bo
taught, and no man can find fault with the
teaching. Justice, purity, generosity, courage,
magnanimity, integrity, patience, truthfulness,
can bo urged directly and indirectly upon tbo
mmd of tue child, and Jew or Christian, Catho
lic or Protestant, tbelst or infidel, will rejoice in
(be instruction given.
If it is asserted that (hero can bo no substan
tial basis of morality unless religion underlies it.
I most heartily subscribe to it. Hut it is not es
sential, in dwelling upon tbe human side of
morality, always to present the divine side.
But 1 would never suffer the indignity of hav
ing tbo Bible removed from the school-room as
a book of morality. No School Board has tbo
authority to do that. The Bible has the right to
lie on (be teacher’s desk; the right to bo opened,
and road, and referred to by teacher or scholar,
Just as Sbokspearo may lie (bore, or Bacon’s Es
says. or Worcester's or Webster's Dictionary.
But «o do not rest our plea for non-religions
instruction by tbe reading of the Bible upon tbo
unsubstantial basis that this nation is not a
Christian nation, and therefore Christian pre
cepts should not bo taught from the Christian
Bible in tbo common schools. You must cut out
tbo very heart of Amorloau history before you
can make such a claim, lu a dogmatic or secta
rian sense it is not a Christian nation. It ia not
• Congregational, nor a Presbyterian, nor a
Baptist, nor a Methodist, nor an Epis
copalian, nor a Homan Catholic, Chris
tian nation. Qod forbid it ever should bo! and,
Cod helping us, it never shall be. No denomi
nation U to be trusted tilth supreme power.
CHICAGO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1875,
THE CHURCH.
THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS
6EUMON RT THE REV, PR. FALLOWS.
Nothing will more quickly convert lambs Into
scoundrels and mako them—
Build tbrtr faith
Tb" Inly text of pika end guo,
Decide all mntroreralea by
Infallible artillery:
And prove ibelr doctrine nrthodbx.
By Afuelollr, blows and knocks.
It Is idle to say that wo are not a Christian
nation, in contradistinction to a Mohammedan
or a Pagan nation. Wo aro not Pagans, nor Mo
hammedans, nor Mormons. The exiles for
conscience, for freedom to worship God, came
first to plant the truo of liberty on these shores.
Not to worship Jov©, or Thor, or Odin, but tho
God of tho Old Testament and the New. Tho
Declaration of indcpondonco appealed
to tho same God. Hnoor is wo,
‘‘tho spoiled children of liberty,
may, at tho history or tbo influence of Puritan
Connecticut and Massachusetts, wo never shall
outgrow the obligations wo aro under to tbo
God-fearing men of thoso rugged Htatcs, sud
those tnoro rugged days which tried men’s souls.
In fasts and feasts, both Hlato and National,
have wo preserved their supremo recognition of
God. May wo preserve it to tbo end.
Homan Catholic Maryland, and Quaker
Pennsylvania, and Baptist Rhode Island,
bowed before the same God. Christian States
formed tho Union of Htatos. Christian brains
planned, and Christian hands penned and fought
for the Constitution, under whoso broad aud
protecting ipgia wo dwell.
Blackstono says; “ Christianity Is a part of
tbo common law of England." Contrast tbo
Christian England of to-day with tbo England
of tho Angles and the ancient Britons. Tho
common law of England is the common law
of Illinois. Our first common schools wore
Christian schools. Their foundation was laid
oven before America was discovered. The
Parliament of Scotland enacted that all Barons
and substantial freeholder should send their
children to school from tbo ago of C to 0 years,
and then to other seminaries to bo instructed in
tho laws; that tho country might be possessed of
persons properly qualified to discharge tbo
duties of Sheriffs and to fill other offices.
Id 1560 John Knox pnt Forth in (ho •• first Cook
of Discipline," presented to tho nobility. the fol*
lowing language j “By necessity wo Judge that
every several kirk havo ouo scbooltn&ster ap
pointed. ... In every notahio town there
should bo erected a college. Tho children of ibo
poor shall bo eupnorted and sustained at the ex
pense of the kirk." Tho law wbh inoperative
until IG4G, when tho law was passed laying a tax
for tho support of a school-house and
tho payment or tho schoolmaster's salary upon
every parish iu the Kingdom. This law was re
pealed by Charles I. in 1(196.
Tho Pilgrim fathers bad scarcely found time
for putting up a shelter for themselves, ana a
houso for tho worship of God. before they pro
vided a place and a teacher for all tho young.
With secular they also gave religious in
struction. The New Testament was a toxt
l>ook. The Catechism was Indispensable.
The rude alliance between Church and State
necessarily caused this saturation of secular
with religious teaching. But in tbo course of
time Htalo was separated from Church. Tho
functions of a statesman, a magistrate, a
teacher, was gniduallv removed from the
minister. A division of labor look place. Hunday
schools wore established ; to them tho direct re
ligious teaching of the children was confined.
The Now Testament was no longer used
as a text-book. Tho Bible found its' place re
stricted to the opening of the school. And now.
with the advent of different populations and
different faiths, tho demand is made that all re
ligions teaching shall cease In these public
schools. And this is (ho logical as well as the
chronological outcome of the first divergence of
tho Cburco from tho State. Wo cannot help it;
wo aught not to help it. It is inevitable in tho
nature of things.
It is owing to tbo progress of events that tbo
complete separation of secular and religious in
struction is required.
Ho cannot against tbolr will lastly force King
James’ version of the Scriptures upon unwilling
Roman Catholics. Should thov over bo in a ma
jority they would have no right to force the
Romanist Douay version upon Protestants. Our
excellent Mends the Baptists, who are generally
immersed in the best of good works, havo put
forth (or at least a part of tbo denomina
tion have done so) a translation specially fa
voring their views of baptism. Should they over
be In tbo majority, tnoy would havo no tight to
impose their version.
Wo mast not bo blinded, however, to thn real
mate of tho case i iom own city. One party de
sirous of having the Bible removed Is aiming a
fatal blow at oar whole common school system.
Tho Wcutem Catholic, published in this city,
in its issue of July G, 1675. contains the follow
ing statement: '• One of tho most striking
signs of the infidelity of tho ogo in which wo
live is tbo ignoring by the Government of relig
ion id education.
Yet, secretly, clamorously, persistently have
they been socking to remove the lost vestige of
religious instruction from our public schools.
First tho cry was that our schools wore sectari
an, because tho Bible was road. Now, when
tho Bible is removed, or all but removed,
comes tbe wall by the same writer, “ Wo ven
ture to assert (hat our common schools are noth
ing but tbo tmrsories and hotbeds of infidelity.
Moreover, they torn out bad citizens.”
From tbo statistics compiled by tbo United
States Commissioner of Education, based on tho
census sod other reports of 1870. fully four
fifths of all the children attending school in our
county were to be found in tbe common
schools. This has been tbo proportion
for over half a century. If we
lake tbo jubilant figures given by Roman Catho
lics themselves, and so eloquently amplified by
Mr. James Paxton, containing tho numerical
progress of that Church in our midst, especially
taking into tho account tho fact that tho mem
bers of that Church have generally their "quiv
er full" and running over with children, those
friends have certainly no fault to Bud with
tbo common schools on tho score
of Infidelity. And as tho Protestant
Churches have been largo gainers
during that period, tbo Motbodiat Church alone
having gamed far more bona fide communicants
and a larger religious constituency than tho Ro
man Catholics, no fault can bo found by them
with tbo commou schools.
As to the statement that tho ichools “turn
out hod citizens.” Wo admit that they do turn
out some bad citizens, as all the churches do
some bad saints. But, as an answer to tbo
swooping allegation made, wo mav refer to tho
fact that of the 50,000 graduates of Amer
ican colleges, during the first ninety years of the
notion's life—graduates embracing over 12,000
ministers, nearly 200 Presidents of colleges, over
4100 Professors in colleges and theological semi
naries,nearly 1.000 Representatives in Congress,
over 200 Senators, nearly 300 Governors and
Lieutenant-Governors, sod nearly 600 Judges of
Hupreme Courts—nine-tenths of the whole num
ber were from tho commou schools. These men
have been among the most distinguished and
influential names in American history. And
what shall I say of tbe soorcs of millions of
children who have received their solo education
in the same schools during those nine decades ?
Tho same paper farther says : •' Tbo denomi
national system of education is tbe only sound
oneand further, “Tbolojuatico of Protestant
ism is singularly exemplified by its permitting
the Catholics to pay for two systems as they
aro compelled to do under tbo present
order of things. They are taxed for tbo com
mon-schools which they cauuot use, and they
bare to support in addition their own educa
tional establishments.”
Thai is the end of tbe whole movement so fsr
a« the Romau Catholics aro concerned—tlio ut
ter destruction of our whole common-school
system. The war begun upon that svstem in
Now York, and carried on In Ohio, will bo upon
us in Chicago before long.
Preceding that war m the State of Now York
for the division of the school fund for sectarian
purposes, the Hot. Thomas Preston, one of the
ablest and most courteous Roman Catholic
clergymen of Sew York, had given utterance to
the almost united voice of the Eastern clergy of
his faith iu reference to tho subject: “We de
mand that we shall receive our proportion in re
gard to the number of children instructed of the
school fund raised.”
Sir. MuMasters* editor of tbo Freeman's
Journo/, said, about the same time, in his paper,
•• Let tho public schools go whsre they cams
from— the devil.”
Mr. T. O. O'flnen wrote to tbe New York Trib
une: “Wo don't want to mix up with Protest
ants, and Jews, and infidels, in school matters,
because wo want our children to grow up in the
holy Roman faith, like their fathers, and hot im
bibe tho tooso irreligious Independence of the
ago.” AH who love our common schools, and
believe in them a* tbe hope of the Republic, will
rally to their rescue.
Lot not our Romanist friends delude them
selves. Id acknowledging tbe rigbteousoeea of
tbe complete severance of religious from secular
teaching in our public schools, we have only laid
bate (be foundation* which cannot be removed. A
division of sentiment will prevail among Protest*
ant' *od non-Homan Catholics as to the right or
expediency of the act of the Board of Education,
a nnitod front will bo presented when tho next
demand is rnado for tho cetabllshment of sec
tarian schools. Through tho proas, the pulpit,
and tho ballot-box thoy will bo mot. We can*
not and wo will not, at the bock of an; religious
sect, abandon our fundamental American idea.
Wo will not split up into miserable frag
menlN our school system. We will not
go hack to the dark egos fur
our lhought*and practice. Tho denomination
al' system haj boon tried for centuries in the Old
World. Wc do not want lt« Dead .Soa fruit to bo
pressed by our teeth. That system has boon
tried In flpain, and out of 15.000,00 U of people
wo aro told that 12,000.000 aro unablo to read.
In Tuscany, out of every I.OiO males only 352
could read, and of every 1.000 females only 2W
could road. In Naples and SJelly, out i-f ovoir
1.000 males but 100 could rear], and but 02
females out of I.OOU. <)t the males
between tbo ages of 5 and IS years but 134 could
read. Out of ©very 1,000 of the entire popula
tion 870 did not know their letters. And this
near tbo fountain-bead of priestly power—this
oa the direct result of denominational teaching.
Protestant England, and my cheeks reddened
with shame as I read it, told us less than twenty
years ago. through her Parliamentary statistic*,
that out of a population of 22,000,000 over
7.000,000 could not read or write. To her
glory be it said that whou tbeso facte took hold
of British statesmen—Cobdcn first. Bright next
—she abandoned tho denominational system,
which had produced such terrible results, and
adopted a national system closely akin to our
own public-school system. The census of 1870
lolls us that, in our own country, cut of tho
2.413.000 adult males, who, as a rule, aro voters.
1,010.147, or more than seventeen in a
hundred, cannot write, and in effect
cannot road their ballots; and of tbo 0,092, IKJ9
femalo odults, 2.090,049, or over 23 in every P*o,
aro Illiterate, Leaving ont tho colored popula
tion. tho vast majority of these illiterates are
those who have lived in other lands, where the
denominational system prevailed.
An opposor of tho public schools, an editor of
a nroroim-nt Protestant Episcopal paper, says
“Our common-school system is no growth uf
our republicanism." No. it is not, and for tho
verv bef>t of reasons, viz. : a consequent cannot
belts own au'cccdent. Tbo common schools of
Now England w«ro among tbo most active agen
cies in securing and establishing the republican
institutions of our country.
hfberty of conscience is no outgrowth of re
publicanism for tho same reason. Tbo mainten
ance of this liberty and of our glorious common
school system belong to tho very life of the
Republic. Wo can make no sacrifices 100 great
to secure them in perpetuity to our children and
our children's children.
The gi and' st school of Democracy Is tho pub
lic school. It is tbo groat Joveler, hut it levels
up, not dona. The Principles ol equality and
fraternity are practically taught and exemplified.
Sharp angles are knocked off. differences are
rubbed down, class distinctions are prevented,
caste is abolished. Tho rich man's son aud the
poor man's son meet together. Brains, not
money, weigh in thoscaleof scholarship. Merit,
and not tho father's social position, sends the
boy to tho head of his class. Religious
animosity finds no fuel to feed it. Nationality
finds no barrier raised against it. Tho young
“know-nothings” speedily become know-some
things. and are not apt to forget tbo fact in fu
ture political life.
Self-reliance is taught, and yet profound obe
dience to law. Eight millions of children gatuer
yearly in our public schools. On tho play
ground they are like a herd of colts lot loose.
Tbo tap of a boll brines them to order, and.
like Napoleon's veteran troops at (bo roll of
tho drum, they fall at once Into their place.
A aublimer sight tbo continent docs not wit
ness.
The common school requires a reason for tho
bopo that is within tho scholar, arithmetical,
geographical, or grammatical. His whole life
afterwards is a series of Interrogation points.
He carries tbo habit of asking o reason, in his
dealings with all subjects, all measuron, ana all
men. The would-be keeper of his conscience
finds It a very inconvenient habit. Profane and
old wives' fables fall from such a questioner.
Leading-strings are snapped asunder os tow in
tbo llamcs.
Reason takes tbs place of blind tradition,
religion tbo place of supersluoin, a cosmopoli
tan catholicity tho place of an intensely bigoted
narrowness.
EDUCATION AND CHRISTIANITY.
SERMON nr THE KEV. C. L. THOMPSON.
Tho Rev. C. L. Thompson, of tbo Fifth Pres
byterian Church, yesterday {.reached upon the
subject of the recent action of tbo Board of
Education in abolishing the reading of tho Bible
in tho public schools. Following is a synopsis
of his sermon:
But the Word of Ood is not bound.—//. Timothy,
11., 9.1
This was tho comfort of tbo imprisoned Apos
tle and defender of tho truth. Though be was
bound, tho Word of God was free. No shackles
could be thrown over it, no prison-bars could
confine it, no tyrant could bush its
voice. Very sublime is tho picture tho
Apostle presents in this passage. Tbe persecu
tions of tho Church wore casting their shadows
before. Perhaps In prophetic vision ho saw tbe
bloody days that were coming,—Christians bunt
ed like beasts, their books thrown to tho flames,
and tbolr souls by slow torture liberated from
their bodies. But armd all the darkness one path
of light broke through tbe ages. "The Word of
Ood is not bound.**
Bind, silence, slay the living preacher,—this,
oh men! is la your power; but to arrest the
flight, to shackle tbo embodied movement of his
eternal (bought, whose impulse ta gath
ered from all post ages, and which with
that impulse is spinning down tbe ring
ing grooves of human history—for this,
tyrant, you have no bonds. No Vulcan of des
potism can forge chains (hat aro strong enough
to chain this word, or prevent its triumph.
How signally heathenism failed in its efforts
to bind the Bible ; how every attempt only scat
tered further tbo flaming tongues that spoke its
message; bow the blood of the martyrs wua the
seed of tho Church, this vou already know. The
awakening is also a familiar chapter, when tho
chain that bound tie attar to tno Bible molted
its links as if the lightning of Ood had fallen
upon them. Martin Luther bad found a Latin
Bible. With it came gradually the right of pri
vate Judgment, and with those tho Reformation.
There is, id my opinion, no cause for alarm m
view of tbo rocout action of tbe Board of Edu
cation In striking out from tho public school
rules tho clause that makes the reading of tho
Bible and tho repeating of the Lord's Prayer a
part of tho opening exercises of the school.
The Bible and Christianity have always bod to
make progress against the Governments of
earth. Their progress has boon freest and most
rapid when wholly separated from the State.
Thor ask no patronage from cml powers. Tbo
Bible is quite ablo to win its triumphs
wholly independent of tbo attitude which
this world may assume toward it. It is
able (o walk erect ami alone, and cares for no
supporting crutch or State authority. It Ison
this idea oar fathers crossed the sea. it is to
this idea wo aro steadily advancing. indorse
from tho heart tbo words of President Grant,
uttered a few days ago at the Army Reunion at
Pea Moluos:
Let us labor to add all needful guarantee* for the
greater security of free thought, free vpeecb, a free
press, pure morale, unfettered religious eomlmenW,
amt ecjual rights and privilege* to all man, irrespective
of naUoukdUy, color, or religion. Encourage free
schools, sud resolve Ihst uot uoo dollar of tuuuey ap
propriated to their support shall bo appropriated to the
support of ouy sectarian school; resolve that neither
the State, nor the Natluu, nor both combined, shall
support Institutions of learning other than those
sulnclent to afford every child growing up In the laud
tbe opportunity of a rood common school education,
unmned with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical Instruc
tion. Leave tho matter of religion to the family altar,
the church, and the private school, supported entirety
by private contributions, and keep the Cburcb and
toe Stale forever separate.
Those, I venture to say, are wise and timely
words, and they thoroughly accord at once with
(he highest liberty of tbe btato and with tbe
genius and history of Protestant Christianity.
1 propose to examine now tbo action of tbo
Board of Education to tbe light of the»o funda
mental principles. In tho first place, let us ex
amine tbo ground or grounds on which tho
summary action of tha lloard may bo
supposed to rest. At this point the
action in question is open to moat serious criti
cism. A step so important and so revolutionary
of our national custom called for different treat
ment at the bands of tbo people's servants. Tbe
passage of the order of last Tuesday night was
an action ao oloeely wound In with tbe religious
eoartatloos of a very luge majority of oar popu*
lation that a proper respect for those convictions
would bate ;, .d a very different coarse on
the part of tl * d. In iny Judgment one of
two com was open to tbs
Board. 1 » first place thev might
Tory prop bavo taken this position t
“The 111 .*? i long been associated with our
system of *ion. It is tbo book winch, i
whether r “or wrongly, ban largely moWMI
all our in £ ons. It is held by a vaat majori
ty of
portant »; c - dor in all right education. Wo
do not ; «bould bo rood a-t a part of Um
opening i: rises of the sceools, but before wo
take »c y upon a question which involves mo
ruauy *• > its of conscience and religion, wo
will a tbo question to those whose servants
we are.”
Or, If the Board was anxious to assume the
entire responsibility in tbo matter, and sum
marily to eject tbo Uiblo without giving any op
portunity for tbo expression of public opinion,
thou at tho very least a decent regard fur the
opinions of their constituents should bavo com
pelled them to give a reason for their action.
Wi* are not now Having their action was inde
fensible. But br a bold voto to rescind tho rule
requiring tbo Bible to bo read—to touch
thua a question which, if that Board has
a grain of common intelligence, it
must know, enters profoundly into vital politico*
religious problems of tho day—without so much
as pretending to give the grounds on which
they make tho change, is either an insult to the
intelligence of the community or a very severe
reflection on their o .vn.
In the absence of any reasons wo are at liberty
for ourselves to «oek the reasons which it may
bo presumed determined their course. Thus it
may have been hostility to the Bible and to tbo
apirit of Christianity. It may bare been
designed as the tutoring wedge to now
and more exactions which
would secularize our cuirso of education
by taking all acknowledgement of God
from our lext-V>ooks, together with
all confessions of the influence of Christian
literature and the power of Chrl-uan mma!*. U
may bo construed as the beginning of an at
tempt to make our public schools atheistic, not
only negatively, hut positively, substituting by
the thorough revision of all text-books the re*
hgiou of Comte fur the religion of God. If this
was its iiiinia*, the Board of Education havo
counted wrongly if they di cam of popular a im
port for their action.
If infidelity is the spirit of the action
we criticise, it will ho sternly and
swiftly repudiated still further. Their
action may bo designed a-i the
beginning of a set purpose on tho part of
thuso who bollovo nothing to cut all our
national tuntoiy loose from in glorious
post. In which it acknowledged as a
prime patriotic duty tbo Instruction in religion
and morality, and to consign us to a thoroughly
godless future. To do thin by first taking the
Biblo from the schools, (hen God from the
course of education, and all mention in the text
books, and then the name of God from all
public documents, the oath in IBs catno
from our Btatuto-bookfl. tho Habbath from
our civil code, and generally to inaugurate on
American eoil tbo wrecking experiment of
French encyclopedists,—this is a possible ex
planation of tho animus of tho Board of Educa
tion in throning tho Bible from tho achoola
witnout notice and without reason. Church sod
Htato should indeed bo forever kept apart in
this country. MoctanaiUftm should receive no
favor from Government. No form of worship
should be prescribed or supported by tho State.
Freedom of conscience should forever be guar
anteed. But the history of tnie land as it stands
related to religion can never be disowned. The
principles of religion havo permeated all our insti
tutions, and they can never bo taken away. Their
light is scattered through all our systems of
education, and they can never be obscured.
It is said that tho Catholics object to reading
of the Biblo in the schools, and that this action
is to conciliate their suoport. Let us examine
this reason. Is this sincere and honest ground ?
Is tho llomlsb objection to tbo public schools
the fact that the Bible ia read, and will tbo
abandoning of tbo opening exercises conciliate
their hearty support? A few years ago a very
severe battle was fonght over this question in
the City of Cincinnati; fonght first m tho Board
of Education and tu tbo press aud tho com
munity, and after waa in tho courts.
A brief sbrtract was then given of the prog*
reBBOf tho movement in Cincinnati, the publi
cation. on the subject m Catholic journals and
by Catholic'writers, and of the more recent de
mands of the Papal Nnocio upon the Spanish
Government. The sneaker continued ;
Now, putting those statements all together, will
anybody say that the reading of the Bible in the
schools is really the Catholic ob)ection to those
schools? Or tlmt the attiick on tbo Bible in the
schools Is tboir ultimate objpet ? On the con
trary, bo far as Romuuists object, this objection
only covers a movement on an ulterior point. It
is onlv masking the battery which is aimed at
tbo life of the public school system.
The ground of the Catholic opposition to tbo
public schools m deeper, and will remain after
the Bible is taken or.t. The hope that the action
of the Board will heartily unite Catholics with
Prole-tauts in tbo import of tbo schools is
therefore utterly baseless, and, if for such a
reason tbo action was taken, tho Board has walk
ed into a snare.
1 come now to consider the action of tbo
Board in tbo only light in which, to ujy mind, it
baa a shadow of validity.
It la claimed by tUor.o opposed to tbo reading
of tbo Bible in the schools (bat It interferes
with (ha right of conscience in two wavs.
■First—lt compels tbo children of Iloraanlsts
to boar the reading of King James' version, and
tbo Jews to hoar the reading of tbo New Testa
ment, which they do not holinvo to bo the Word
of Qod. That is. it compels the children of
liomamstfl and Jews to engacn In a form of
worship in which tbov do not believe.
.Second—They are taxed for the support of a
form of worship in which they do not believe,
and to which they aro conscientiously opposed.
These are grave matters. It Is the giorv of this
land that it respects the rights of conscience. It
is the glory of rrotosiautism that tho conscience
of (he meanest is as sacred as tho conscience of
the highest.
The speaker referred briefly to the different
light in which Biblo-roadiug was considered by
Catholics and Protestants, (ho ouo thinking it a
sectarian book, ana the other claiming it ns the
foundation of all moral law. Ho then proceeded
to ask :
It will bo raid: “ But we Protestants are
conscientious too. and wo are as nix to one in
the majority. Which conscience are vim going
to respect, the majority or tbo minority ?”
Must tho rights of minorities alone bo con
sulted ? We reply in the drat place, not to road
(bo Bible to tho children of (hose who love tho
Biolo is not a violation of eon*cii>nce in the
sense that taxation for (he support of a form of
worship that is not believed is a violation
of conscience. Protectants have a right
to read and study the Bible as tbov please. To
deny that would bo to violate conscience. But
it cannot be justly claimed a wrong to conscience
that the State does not give i'rotestauts any
privileges or preferences in that regard.
In tbo second place, this cannot bo made a
question of majorities or minorities. That kind
of argument would Justify tho Spanish Inquisi
tion. The rights of conscience, If they
mean anything, are made to protect
the minority, however Insignificant amt
fcoble. Indeed. to insist on tbo
logic of this dangerous argument would bo abso
lutely fatal to tho public-school system. If
Brolescauts can protect their demand for a
reading of the Bible m schools behind con
science bv saying their consciences demand it.
then oo the same ground Catholics cau demand
tho Duuay Bible, Jews the lessons of tho Syua
goguo, and so on through all possible divisions
of creed or no creed. Thou bow cau (heso con
scientious demands be met ? Tboro is Just ono
way. Divide tho school fund, aod so break up
the schools. Tboonso of Australia was men
tioned, whore this plan was tried and proved
a failure. Tho speaker thou proceeded:
Tho argument from conscience poems to bo
strengthened by tho attitude of our laws. Judge
Cooley, of the Michigan Supreme Bench, in a
work on Constitutional Limitations, quoted by
Jucgo Mathews before thebuporior Court of Cin
cinnati, sara: "lie who will examine with care
(ho American constitutions, will find nothing
more fully or plainly expressed than the desire
of their framers to preserve and perpetuate re
ligious liberty, and to guard against th« slight
est approach towards inequality of civil or po
litical rights posed upon (iiifcieuce of religious
belief.”
There Is one ground on which tbo reading of
tho Bible In the face of conscientious objections
of a minority may be logically insisted upon. It
is this t This U a Protestant nation. Distinct
ively by laws and history tjits is its character.
This character we mean to maintain. If you do
uot like to be (axed for tho civil maintenance of
Broteetaut Christianity, then go where you came
from. Frankly, this ia a position lam unwilling
to take. This Government was founded
NUMBER 41.
thtt a throne might be built for lha right
of conscience, which no majority, however
great, should aver touch. Hue is a Protestant
land. As to the influence of Government and
the genlns of our laws, it u a Protestant. Chris
tian nation. It Is a Protestant nation because
U will absolutely refuse to laj a straw in the way
of another man a religion.
Hut bettor a thousand fold that we should
waive our caatom of reading the Bible in the
schools, even to a dishonest demand, tnan that
no should in the least trample the fuodameatal
principle of Proteeiant faith.
An<i now suppose this conceaeton to the do.
ntands of Uomsnlets If coucesaionli be deemed,
bo granted. What interests will it affect ? There
are three,—thn publlc-echool system. the Itiflo
once of llotn-. the Bible Iteelf. Lot us consider
the«o separately and bi ielly.
. H ’rid it will injure the school eye.
tetu. oy taking wholesome moral Instruction
•way from t.iom. Wo venture to osy that the
moral influence of the echoota Js to
bo found not In the reading
of a tew vorsos at the opening of school, bat la
tho course of study which Is pervaded by the
principles of Chnsttawtv, and which always wIU
be. Ju this land you cannot secularize educa
tion. The Influence of the religion of • Christ
runs through all our textbooks. and. like an at
mosphere, Rows around every school
So far Irom injuring the schools wo think Ik
may save them. Thin brings us to the aedond
Interest lha* will bo afTocl-'d.
iSccowi-.lt may bo urged that scquleaeonoo la
tho withdrawal of the Biblo will embolden
Catholics to mike further exactions. If the
course bo right In itself we can afford to rlak
that peril. But. in fact, there ia no peril in it.
T/nni—Once more, it Is thought by maov that
not to road tho Bible in the public schools lowers
It in tho minde of the people. On tho eootrary,
doee it not rather exalt it ? The Bib la
will suffer far moro in being brought into the
arena of party politics and bandied about in
courts and caucuses than It can possibly aufftt
by boms withdrawn from the achoola.
Would U not be a grand altitude for the Prot
estant Church of tnle country to aay: “Wo
will seo to it that Ood'e word is brought into
contact with every heart in this land, not by
civil preference, but by tho forco of Christian
tnisHiotiH. We will foster schools whore it shall
bo taught. Wo will open Sabbath-schools In
every district and atroot where ita light may bo
a centre of attraction.
lucri'foro. Humming np Into a sentence the
wordi into which I bavo thrown the deepest
convictions of my rand. It does not baboore ns
to mnlnt in ibis religions matter on a majority
mbt which, if in any place the majority should
bo reversed, would giro a precedent that might
enchain our consciences and wreck our liberties,
it doon not behoove ns to Hacnfloo on any
altar of supposed advantago the princi*
pies for which our fatuern counted life cheap.
It docs not behoove um to throw tho Biblo lute
the tm.ro between contending political factions,
but rather reposing in it a trust which will honor
It and Km Author, and, girding up our loins in
the spirit of missionaries. lot os carry It with
tho persuasive power of beating hearts, and tbs
supporting argument of Godly hve§, to every
homlot, to every soul, to tho end that, by Ua
lifting power, glorv may dwell In our land, bor
gotea bo fair with praise, and her walls strong
with salvation. *
THE WORK OF BUIUBINC UP.
Fans well sEUiioj* nr tub rev. do. mortal.
Tbo iter. H. \Y. Thomas, for three years pas
tor of the First Methodist Church, preached hit
farewell sermon last evening, taking for his textt
And now, brethren, I commend you to Qod and to
the Word of Ula grace, winch la able to build you op,
tad to give you au inheritance among them which are
sanctified.— xx., ax
Bo spoke as follows :
My labors in Chicago have now extended
over a period of six years,—three at Park Are
nue and throe in this church. These years bare
been full of hard work, and nob free from care
and responsibility. But In all this I have found
support aud a nch compensation m the concloua
ncaa of tiyingtohelp forward tho cause of
Christ and humanity, aud in tbo more than
cordial sympathy aud 00-oporstion of tho ood
grogatioaa of these churches, and tho favor and
encouragement of a generous public sentiment.
Six years ago I loft tho gathered friendships of
earlier days and came among a vast city fall of
strangers. I know but two families. Now I re-
Joice in tho valued acquaintance and friendship
of thousands, I have seen our city burned down
and rebuilt again, have tested in some measure
its sorrow and its Joy, and bavo beou permitted
to take what part I could in Its moral and relig
ious struggles and controversies, and hate come
to feci that it is my homo. 1 could cot hope to
have wholly escaped criticism or oveacouanre,
for we have passed through periods of intense
public excitement, and there have arisen ques
tions on which the wisest have not been
ablo to agroo. The temperance crusade,
tbo Swing trial, and tho Philosophical Society,
all attracted wide public attention, aod their dis
cussions raged fiercely about us hero. I can
ouly ear now that in all those things I took such
part as, under the circumstances. I thought
proper, and conscientiously stood for what I be
hoved then, aud behove now, to have been true
aud right, aud with a consciousness of weakness
and liability to err, more present to myself than
they can be to others, I leave tho results with
the public aud with God.
Aside from these more public matters, we have
bad our own main but more quiet work
of trying to build up end carry forward our
special religious and church interests m this
pact of the city. Three years ago we began our
services in a little wooden chapel on Harrison
street, with an an audience of less than a
hundred. Then after a time wo got into the
lecture-room of this building, and finally Into the
present aud.once-room. There are a number of
things that 1 take pleasure in mentioning, and
for which I trust wo are all devoutly grateful to
God.
The first ia that we have been blessed with on*
broken peace and good will among ourselves.
There has not in the throe years been one jar or
dwcordaut feeling between pastor and people, or
between any of tho members of the church Wo
have dwelt together in love. Whoa we remem
ber how many churches about ns have been tom
asunder with attires and dissensions and have
known only bitterness and wrangling, we cannot
bo too grateful that wo have escaped such calam
ity, and been permitted to spend our days ia
doing good. In building up instead of tearing
town.
Another thing that has afforded me groak
pleasure baa been tbo stead? sod rapid
growth of o.ur young people in intelligence,
and piety, and .general well-doing. Ido not re
call a sohtaiy exception to this statement; all
aro moving in the right direction, and not a few
will iu time roach places of exalted usefulness.
By tho side of these, I have witnessed with
pleasure and profit the quiet, steady march of
the few aged 0110.4 who have long walked in (his
bettor way. and whoso peaceful presence stiii
Ungers to counsel and bless the church.
Another matter ot mutual rejoicing baa been
the steady growth and increasing interest In our
public services. Tbo actual membership of thle
ciimch ia small, not over 150. and tnese are
scattered from Evanston to Englewood, and
there is not, since tho (ho, a dwelling-house in
this part of the city. But with all (bis, tbo con
gregation ban crown to bo ono of (he best in tbs
city, and possinlvuo ono of our churches hot
bad iu its services moto strangers than have been
here, it is probably a low estimate tosaythai
2(JO strangers attend worship hero each Sabbath.
That would make 10.000 In tbo past year. Uia
certainly no small work to ba able to reach eo
many persons from every city and part of oar
country, aside from regular worshipers.
Wherever I have gone out of (be city,
east or west, it has seemed
hl.oa pastoral visitation, for at almost every
station and town 1 have mot those who have at
tended this ministry. Under our peculiar aod
changing conditions we have uot at any titao
been able to have any extended revival, but there
has been a good spiritual work going on in the
regular services, and iu the class and prayer
meetings ; many have found the now life, »ud
we shall look in (be last day to see ripened
abeavee gathered homo from all this scattered
seed. God grant that it may bo so.
Under the action of a church law, limiting (he
pastorate to tnreo years, my labors bare draw to
a close. Tho occasion cannot pass without many
questioning tbo wisdom of such a positive limi
tation. Tboro are arguments on both aides of
the question. Often tho rule seems to work a
hardship, to remove a man in tbo midst of bit
greatest usefulness 5 ami often, as experience
shows, such removals are attended by a loss to
the churches. Then c£aln the rale sometimes
works a relief to both pastor and people ia get*