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DOOSYABP. lything which makes a ILO forlorn, BO unsightly, so homelikeness as the presence utter'1 in the dooryard and about ground? *10 the city such things are not seen, ==iScauge there are no waste spaces about anybody's door; but, in the country, where land is plenty, and va­ cant lots lie around loose, "clutter" prevails. Farmers, as a rule, are not tidy about their buildings. The old sleds and Weighs are piled up in the spring against the fences, and left there to crack and weather-stain through the summer; and in winter the " hay- rijgging" of last season, and the various carts, and wheels, and plows, and har­ rows are suffered to remain out of doors, for the snow to "drift over, and form into monuments of neglect and thriftlessness. The other day, in a short drive through the country, we counted five sleds, two sleighs, six carts, two sets of wheels, three old plows, a harrow, a broken horse-rake, a wheelbarrow, two grindstones, three cider-barrels, a nail-box, an old basket, six or seven tin pans and battered fruit-cans, and about a bushel of broken crockery, and all about the premises of one farmer* And in plain sight of his parlor win­ dows, too! We heard the sound of a piano in the house and three stout men were .smoking their pipes on the piazza of the house, and we could not help think­ ing that they had all better suspend smoking and playing, and go out en masse, and, taking hold with a will, clear up that cluttered dooryard and feake t hings decent Women are as much to blame for clutter as men. It is no use for them to say that "Tom or Jim will not keep things picked up." Tom or Jim has never been educated into picking things op. They have never been told that dooryards ought to be kept tidy--at least they have not been told in a prac­ tical way. if When the housewife throws potato tarings and cucumber skins out at the door, and allows the girls to sweep old rags and pieces of paper out on the Sass, and to throw tin-cans and broken jhes beside the garden fence, and to strew old shoes and rubbers every which way, how can she expect the .good man to put his "clutter" out of .sight? ^ She must expect to see the yard dis­ figured by piles of stakes, and wood, and bean-poles, and shavings, and rub­ bish generally, and if she says auy- Uking about it, very likely she will be told that she had better pick up " them •oki dish-cloths and floor rags oat at the : .beck uooar." JSeores of pleasant homes are dis­ figured by " clutter" in the yards, for ail present we are not crusading against " clutter" inside the houses. Why should people throw old shoes ost-doors? Haven't they got a stove, and do not they sometimes have a fire fa it? And fire is a wonderful purifier. It will wipe out of existence old boots qpd shoes, to our certain knowledge, fetter and quicker than anything else. Why throw out old rags, when the Yankee tin-peddler still nourishes, and gives you clothes-pins and patent nut­ meg graters in exchange? ' • Old earthenware is more difficult to tjpose of, and so is old tin, and since u business of fruit-canning came in, there is a vast quantity of old tin to be disposed of. But surely about every farm there is ^ifgfme retired spot where this rubbish might lie in peace, and where it would Jt6t be an eye-sore to the whole town­ ship. "Clutter" would ruin the looks of a palace. No matter how fine are the Jktiildings, no matter how many bay- windows and hanging flower-pots there are, two old tin-cans and a broken bot­ tle in the yard spoil the whole estate ; m* our eyes. It is strange that people do not edu­ cate their children to be tidy in this regard. Doting mothers enjoin it upon their little girls not to tear their ruffles, or get blackberry stains on their white aprons. Why not tell them as well not to throw half-eaten apples, and wilted flowers, and bits of paper around on the lawns and along the walks? And why not teach the boys that broken idtes, and fragments of strings, and pine whittlings are not fitting orna­ ments for the front yard or the house door-steps? % These small elements of "clutter" make a place look forlorn, and if we *ere looking for the abode of happi- 4wbss, we should never seek it where the ~|fc©ryard was in a clutter. If we were ^ maa in pursuit of a wife, we should Hot look for her where the dooryard ' abounded in old rags, and the chickens ^Batted on the door-steps. If we were jm old maid in pursuit of a husband, ?We would contemplate the awful fate •pi having "Miss" engraved on our 'ipmbstone, before we would purchase Mrs." at the expense of wedding a 2fban who left his carts and plows rnhis "|3^>oryai^%rough the winter. We do "jfliot think our souls would be congenial. /..-.•We are afraid these old plows might et>me day be the cause of our appear­ ing before the divorce court, *'to show "%ause," etc. | ' ^J'1* •• « "1 * iv* M /IlinAnM It I /^j^a the proverb, and if it had added, less about dooryards is an evi- of Christianity," it would not, to mind, have been profane. any man or woman can proper- the sphere for which they jrere in the highest sense of the . and have old rags, and tinware, . fcnd twoken bowls, and platters in their In an unexplained problem '%our mind. . ff^ehad rather they would hoard up ^fheir clutter, as a friend of ours does, ffad devote a whole building to it, Btopttiog a perfect museum of old farm* f*lLaii Jmpleipents, boots, shoes, cast-oft' ts, tinware, pans, pottery, etc. < real friends, think about and have a revolution gen- o matter if your grandfathers $9 their carts and sleds in the ia no reason why you Hlfcotilddo so! They traveled in stage- r&wlefces, but that is no reason why you -should forswear railway-cars; ^ A little time Kpe&t iu keeping your oh in the long run. Perhaps your bank account may be just as satisfactory if your dooryard is in a clutter, as it would be if it were clean; but people will not think so well of you, and your children will be more likely to seek pleasure away from home, where the space for swings, and cro­ quet, and rustic seats, is not monopo­ lized by old hay-ricks, rheumatic ma­ nure-carts and disused wheelbarrows and mud-sleds. If you want to sell your place, your best advertisement is a neat dooryard. No customer worth having will look the premises over if things appear shiftless about the windings. He judges the rest of the farm by that cluttered dooryard. He is justified in thinking that the farmer who lets his sleds stay in his yard through the summer, will be likely to suffer the weeds to choke the vegetation in his fields, and bis bushes to kill the grass out in his pas­ tures. And if the housewife wants to sell her cheese and her butter at first-class prices, let her see to it that her door­ yard is free from old shoes, and rub­ bers, and rags, and paper bags, and po­ tato-peelings, and tomato-cans, and broken lamp-chimneys, and " clutter" generally.- Kate Thorn, in N. Y. Weekly. Alfred Ethelridge Hakes a Call. MB. ALFRED ETEELREOGK is bashful; he does not deny it. He wishes he wasn't, sometimes, but wishing doesn't seem to help his case much. Every­ body in Burlington likes him, except the father of a youna: lady out on Pond street. With an instinctive knowledge of this old gentleman's feelings, Alfred had forborne to aggravate them, and kept out of the father's way as much as possible, atoning for this apparent neglect by seeing the daughter twice at often. The other afternoon, Alfred went up the steps and rang the hell. The door opened and-- Papa stood glaring at him, looking a thousand things ana saying nothing. Alfred Ethelridge had never felt ?uite so lost for language in his life, tesently he stood on one foot and re­ marked: " Good afternoon!" " Gooftnooh," grunted papa, which is, by interpretation, also good after­ noon. "Is--ah--is--«r--er--Miss Lollipop --is your daughter at homeP" asked Alfred, standing on the other foot. "Yes, sir;" said papa, rather more shortly than Alfred thought was abso­ lutely necessary. Then nobody said anything for a long time. Presently Alfred Ethelridge stood on both feet, and asked: " Is she inP" „ «< Yes,- sir," said papa, not budging a step from Ms position in the aoor, and looking as though he was dealing with a book agent instead of one of the nicest young men in Burlington. Then Alfred Ethelridge stood on his right foot and said: "Does she--can she receive com­ pany P" " Yes, sir," papa said, savagely, not at all melted by the pleading intona­ tion of Alfred's voice, which everybody else thought was so irresistibly sweet. Then Alfred Ethelridge stood on his left foot and said: " Is she at homeP" " Yes, sir," papa said, kind of coldly. Alfred Ethelridge looked down the street and sighed, then he looked up at papa and shivered. Then he stood on the right foot again and said: "Isshe in?" " Yes, sir," papa said, grimly, and never taking his eyes ' Off the young man's uneasy face. Alfred Ethelridge sighed and looked up the street, then he stood on his left foot and looked at papa's knees and said, timidly, and in tremulous tones: " Can she see me?" " Yes, sir," papa said, but he never moved, and he never looked pleasant. He only stood still and repeated a sec­ ond time, " Yes sir." Alfred Ethelridge began to feel ill. He looked up ana down the street, and finally dinned his wandering gaze on the bala spot on papa's head, then he said: " Will you please tell her that Mr. Alfred Ethelridge called P" " Yes, sir," said papa, and he didn't say anything more. And somehow or other Alfred Ethelridge kind of sort of got down off the porch and went kind of out of the gate. like. He discon­ tinued his visits there, and explained to a friend that the old man didn't say anything that wasn't all right and cor­ dial enough, but the manner of him was rather formal."^-Burlington Hawk- Bye. premise* tidy will pay yoi SlvV ^ What Law Can Do. FoUli men in India, partners in busi­ ness, bought several bales of Indian rugs and also some cotton bales. That the rats might not destroy the cotton, they purchased a cat. They agreed that each of the four should own a par­ ticular leg of the cat; and each adorned with beads and other ornaments the leg thus apportioned to him. The cat, by an accident, injured one of its legs. The owner of that member wound around it a rag soaked in oil. The cat, going too near the hearth, set this rag on fire, and, being in great pain, rushed in among the cotton bales where she Was aCCuaiaw6u tO hunt raitt. The cot- ton and rugs thereby took fire and they were burned up--a total loss. The three other parties brought a suit to re­ cover the value of the goods destroyed against the fourth partner, who owned this particular leg of the cat. The Judge examined the case, and decidod thus: "The leg that had the oiled rag on it was hurt; the oat could not use that leg; in fact, it held up that leg and ran with the other three legs. The three unhurt legs, therefore, carried the fire to the cotton, and are alone culpable. The injured leg is not to be blamed. The three partners who owned the three legs with which the cat ran to the cotton will pay the whole value of the bales to the partner who was the pro­ prietor of the injured leg,--Carpet Trader 7 • »• ' • . --EVery life is like a block dmarble with a possible angel hidden in it The difficulty is to cut the angel out and leave but chips bekind.-*--Jif. J, FACTS A>D FIGURES. DURING the year just olosed, 80,610 Canadians emigrated to the United States. , ,r THE net earnings of the Bank of Cai* ifornia for the post year amounted to $527,000. THE silver product of this country is estimated at 600,000 to 700,000 ounces per week.. , THE Chinese population of San Fran­ cisco has been lately reported as 32,000, including 7,000 servants. TEN AND A HALF tons--or about 7,- 500,000--of locusts were destroyed at Aj mere, India, in one day, not long ago. ONE THOUSAND teams are engaged in freighting from the end of the Utah & Northern Railroad into Idaho and Montana." • A PROMINENT and well-informed farmer estimates that the farmers of the Northwest will lose $50,000,000 by the hog cholera. DURING the year ending with June last the exports of the United States to Brazil reached $8,686,204; the imports were $42,972,036. IN some English coal-pits it is found necessary to force down 350,000 cubic feet of fresh air every minnte to supply the needs of workmen. IN Germany 50,000 acres of land are devoted to raising tobacco. The Gov­ ernment derives about $350,000 revenue a year from the product, the tax being about fifty oents per hundred-weight. MAY-DAY in Paris comes on the 8th of October; that is the day selected by small tenants for moving. Within the limits this year there were on that day 7,147 removals and 5,782 movings in. CAST-IRON PIPES, 15 inches in diame­ ter and $ inch thick, will sustain a head of water of 600 feet. One of oak, 2 inches thick and of the same diame­ ter, will only sustain a head of 180 feet. --American Builder. ACCORDING to recently published statistics, there are more deaf mutes, idiots and lunatics in Switzerland, in proportion to the population, and fewer people afflicted with blindness, than in any other European country. THE Philadelphia & Reading Rail­ road Company has a fleet comprising 14 iron steamers, which this year have made 546 voyages, running 483,236 miles and carrying 602,496 tons of coal. Since 1869 the fleet has run 2,000,000 miles and delivered 2,099,036 tons of coal. IN France, the accidents from steam machines, from 1873 to 1876 inclusive, were 123 (30 in 1873, 32 in 1874, 24 in 1875 and 35 in 1876), resulting in the death of 145 persons, 193 others being more or less severely injured. Most of the severe accidents were due to the use of boilers which had no inner grate. Only three accidents were caused by the explosion of the boilers of railway engines, and in neither of these cases was there any loss of life. It is worthy of note that there are fewer accidents in the very large fact­ ories than in the second and third-rate establishments, though when they do happen they have more disastrous re­ sults than any of the others, because of the number of people employed. At least I one-fifth of the accidents have been 'due to the want of water in the boiler; but in many cases it has been impossible to speak positively as to the cause. Of the" 145 fatal oases, 14 are set down to defects of construction, 3 to the bad quality of the metal, 27 to excessive wear, 23 to corrosion of the sides of the boiler, 8 to over-pressure, 23 to the want of water, 14 to the carelessness of the stoker and 6 to in­ sufficient cleaning. The number of these accidents might, by increased cafe and watchfulness, be reduced; but the returns vary little from one year to another, and, as upward of 40,000 steam machines are at work, the bill of mor­ tality is not so heavy as it is in some other countries.--Scientific American Supplement. William Janns. JANUS was a doublc-faced god, and when he went to church he could keep his eyes fixed steadily upon the minister and at the same time wink at the pret­ ty girls in the back pews. He could also sit away up in front, and see every person who entered the door without twisting his neck or taking his two eyes off the hymn book. If Mrs. Lot had been built on the Janus plan she would have escaped being turned into a pillar of salt. Scores of youn, ladies, who wanted to look around an gaze after those hated Ferguson girls to see whether their silk dresses were new, or merely their old ones dyed and turned, and who were too well-bred to do so, vigorously envied the double- faced Janus. There are plenty of dou ble-faced girls living in our day--we are told. At school Janus enjoyed huge advantages over the other pupils. He could keep his eye on the master all the time he was "playing " fox and goose" or " tit-tat-to*' with the boy on the seat behind him. When a person smote Janus on one cheek, he obeyed the Scriptual injunction and turned to him the other three also. Janus invented the first of January, the day on which the yo<mg men " swear off"' and begin to keep a diary. Despite the theory of Brother Jasper, the world moved on its hinges at the command of Janus. He controlled the seasons, and if he is still in the busi­ ness we hope he Will give us six weeks of Indian summer during November. Janus, we are further informed, " opened and closed all things"--but it is difficult to believe that he ever opened oysters or closed a woman's mouth. fi£e always carried a key. Many men in modern times always carry a key, too, but|there is a "whis" before it. The Romans worshiped Janus and always invoked the god when war was declared. They didn't invoke him oft­ en on this account. When war was once declared Peaco packed her Sara­ toga trunk and left Rome, and pro­ longed her visit 100 years in one lnr- ing. When the Sabines made an as­ sault on the newly-built Town of Rome, they literally found themselves in hot water. Janus caused a spring of bor­ ing aqueous fluid to appear, which de­ stroyed the Sabine forces. The oldest inhabitant acknowledged that he couldn't remember such a hot spring and he was summers near 98, too. This mode of overwhelming an army was much cheaper than calling out the troops, and giving each man a bounty of $300. On the spot where the spring sprang up a temple was erected in honor of Janus, the gates of which stood open so long as Rome was at war. For the first 700 years after the foundation these gates were closed only three times. Volunteers who "enlisted for the war," began to get discouraged after lighting eighty-seven years. Many of them died of old age before the war" was half over. * If Janus ever owned such an ap­ pendage as a first name, we are not cognizant of the fact. A man with two faces should have two names, and if his first cognomen was not William Janus, we cannot pretend to say what it was. Willi am Janus sounds well, and we'll let it go at that --Norriatoum Herald, Religions. THANKSQIVltfQ H YMN; oodness Thou deat mown, >lessings on our head* be- ANOTKKB year with And showers of stow; With tendereBt pity all our sorrows drown; Give thanks to God, all ye that dwell below. \ To Thee our hearts ah«I voices now we raise; • W« lanri.a.Ti'1 magnify Thy holy name. Oh!_should not nil on earth unite to ]?raiae Him who. t.honirh all <>1KP ohnnqre. in tltill tt><* •-••iamef if W0-* M * Heat is Life--Cold Is Death." THERE is no greater fallacy than thfc opinion of many, particularly the young and strong and vigorous, that winter-- especially a sharp, frosty one, with' plenty of snow--is the most healthy! season of the year. Very few persons seem to realize the fact that cold is the condition of death, and that in both warm and cold climates it is our uncon­ scious effort to maintain our bodily heat at a temperature of 98 deg. that wears us out. To this temperature, called " blood-heat," every cubic inch of oxygen that serves to vitalize our blood must be raised by our own bodily heat, or life ceases. Since in cold weath er the maintenance of a sufficiently-el­ evated bodily temperature becomes very often too great for our strength, the ac« vent of a severe winter is really more to be dreaded than the visitation of a pestilence. The saying, " Heat is life --cold is death," has a striking illustra­ tion and confirmation in the reports now regularly submitted by Dr. Rus­ sell to the Glasgow Sanitary Commit­ tee. The death-rate rises and falls with the regularity of the thermometer. So m'any degrees less heat, so many more deaths, and vice versa. In one of his fortnightly reports, Dr. Russell says: " The death-rate in the first week of the fortnight was twenty-one, and in the second week twenty-five. The mean temperature in the former week was 40.8 deg. Fahrenheit, in the latter 39.5 deg." He attributes the low rate of the first week to the high mean tempera­ ture of the preceding fortnight, which was 47.03 deg.. and adds: "This is a good illustration of a law which we frequently observe in these reports of temperature and death-rates--that a week of low temparature produces a rise in mortality the week following." In our olimate it would probably be difficult to find a more frequent cause of serious ailments than taking cold. Whatever weak place we have, whatev­ er constitutional disorder we be sub­ ject to, cold will surely discover. We take colds because our vitality is too low to ward off the effects of the re­ duced temperature around us. As a matter of first importance, then, to re­ sist cold and the various derangements of the system consequent, it is necessa­ ry by proper nutrition to maintain our natural animal heat; second, to retain this heat by a sufficient quantity of clothing; third, to regulate with care the temperature of the air we breathe. Contrary to the opinion current among lovers of cold weather, a fire in a bed­ room in the winter is cheaper and bet­ ter than a doctor's bill; for, owing to our inactive condition during sleep, the circulation of the vitalizing blood is both slow and imperfect, and hence the danger of taking cold by breathing cold air is greatly increased. A cold is the beginning of every thing that is bad. If any one conscious of having caught one feels cold chills creeping up the back, let him apply a mustard-plaster to the bottom of the spine and lower part of the back at once; and by so doing he may avert a dangerous illness before it is too late and medical advice can be procured. It should never be forgotten that "heat is life--cold is death."--Scientific American. t . x*r« mafcn lnwaftt. Bins, nne the^bella! Sing »nthems glad and All who will turn from sin Thy lore may share- May sing Thy praise through all eternity. And in this nfe he creatures of Thy cam. . --Theodore A. Funk, in N. Y. WUnmt. A Baby's E^rly Adventure. ON Sunday morning last, Mrs. Charles Rau, a young married woman, living at No. Ill Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, gave birth to a tine, healthy infant. Mrs. Rau's mother, Mrs. Ma- lone, went to help take care of her daughter and grandchild. Of the lat­ ter she was very proud, and Sunday evening she wrapped it up and called on several neighbors, to exhibit it. The health of the baby was drank several times, Mrs. Malone doing her part with vigor, and finally, when Mrs. Malone got through making calls and started for home, she found that the baby's health had been a little too much for her. sat down on a door-step and soon she was asleep. When she awoke she left the baby lying on the stoop and went home alone. Just as she was en­ tering the house she missed the child and went back and called at all the places she had previously visited, but could get no clue to its whereabouts at that time. Afraid to return home with­ out the precious property, she kept up 1 the search till Tuesday morning, when, completely tired out, sho went »uu con­ fessed to her daughter and son-in-law. The search for the child was resumed, but without success, and finally Mr. Rau appealed to the police for help. He then found that his baby had been picked up by the police and handed over to the Charity Commissioners, and they, in turn, had given the child up to Mrs. Catherine Heidsman, of 118 Hop­ kins street, for adoption. Thither Mr. Rau went, but he was not permitted to take po-session. Yesterday morninc he called on Mrs. Heidsman again, ac° companied by three friends and carry­ ing a letter from a lawyer, in which a formal demand for the relinquishment of the child was made. Mrs. Heidsman only snapped her finger at the written demand, and said she should not give up the baby unless compelled to do so by an order from the Judge of some court. Mr. Rau, not wishing to go to court, left the whole matter in the hands of one of the Charity Commissioners, who will get the child back and restore it to the afflicted parents.--N. Y. World. i ,Snaday-Sciiool Lessons* *OTBRAQOAKT*B. ,.'V Nc*v. W--S&Mjeheua, the pnblican- t»!0 Nov. !41--«fudaiam Overthrown... • Luke 21: 8-21 Dec. 1 -The Lord's Supper .Luke 38:10-20 Dec. 8--The Gross Luko 23:98-46 Dec. 16--The Walk to Enamant. ..Luke 24:13-32 Dec. 22--The Savior's Last Words.Luke 24:44-68 Deo. 25*--Review, Temperance <w Missionary Goo- cert. _ . THE TRUTH. [Extract from a Recent Sermon hy Prof. Swing, of Chicago.! Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.-->/oAn, viii: 32. * * * * * * * IT being true that the human soul ascends according to the quantity and quality of its truth, and sinks according to the quality and quanti­ ty of its falsehoods, it must also be true that man, when unable to find the absolute truth, must attach himself to the nearest possible approach to a verity. If to know the whole truth were a perfect bliss, then to know in part ana see in part were a second con­ dition of happiness. And this is the best rational defense of him who es­ pouses the tenets of religion. Unable to learn the absolute facts from either the priest at the altar or from the atheist with his denial, man is justified, indeed made rational and happy, by asking the generations to tell him how near they ever came to finding thfe presence of a God and the confines of a second life. In this comparison of ideas atheism falls below its counter thought and competitive companion, for if Nature, not to say God, loves and blesses a truth, and opposes a false­ hood, then it would seem that religion, as held by man, must come very near being a verity, for Nature has blessed it in all the long history of man. It is not alleged that the highest doctrines of natural religion took any part in the overthrow of Babylon, or Athens, or Palmyra; it is not avowed by any that Caesar and Pompey were ruined by their faith in God and by their conformity of life to such an ideal; it will not be affirmed that a studious following of Christ has ever brought sorrow to a Nation or to an age; and hence we feel justified in affirming that, if error be destructive, then religion has not, in the long experience of man, brought sorrow enough to secure for it a place among falsehoods, but on the opposite it has so blessed man that it well merits the diadem of a truth. When Nations have expressed a false principle in politics the error has hastened to reveal itself. In one or two generations the false idea has been found by the havoc it has wrought. The leaf has turned yellow to disclose the worm at its root; but over religion, over Christianity, cen­ tury after century has passed, and all Nations will declare that the mo'e they held of its principles the happier they were, and that upon its branches no yellow leaf has appeared. If false ideas bring injury, it would seem that Christianity must be true. There are some words whose sweet­ ness or bitterness we can learn only in the experience of mankind. If you ask me whether twice two make four, I shall answer you without consulting the human race, but if you ask me the worth of "liberty," or "education," or "music," or "home," then you must permit me to go outside of intui­ tion and summon witnesses. It will be necessary for me to wander about for a few thousands of years, and in many lands. I must call upon Kings and patriots, and peasants, and slaves. I must sit down amid the thinkers and hear them; the home-circle and see their life; and at last I shall return to you and declare liberty, and education, and art, and home to be sublime suns in the outspread Heaven of man. Hav­ ing seen these ideas, I declare them to have none of the qualities of a falsehood. So with the word Christianity. It can­ not be weighed in the positive scales. One cannot say over it twice two are four, and apply that demonstrative or intuitive method, but we can go out in the wide world and examine it in ac­ tion, and so doing we can return con­ fessing that religion acts very much as though it were one of the holy princi- f>ies of Nature--a law of man and God. t contains the features of that kind of truth which sets men free and makes them free, indeed. The deeds of a lie are utterly absent from its history. You who are groping along in this world in great religious perplexity, wondering what is true and what false, remember this, that all moral ideas are .easily veiled in doubt. A few years ago Herry D. Thoreau and Mr. Alcott and a group of lofty minds became in doubt as to the merit of civilization, and became enamored of the thickets and hills and solitude. Over the mind of Rousseau and Chateaubriand a sim­ ilar cloud was p assing at the same time in France. Thus came doubt and hid for an hour so mighty a good as all the civilization of all time. It destroyed all the arts, it silenced music, itlaugned at industry, it resolved life into a camp ot bushes, and a diet of roots and ber­ ries. Thus moral notions lie open to grave doubt, and among them every affirmation of religion. A retreat into atheism, into the wild bushes and wild berries, is always possible; but against this temptation place the whole cars# | of mankind, and you will easily coijfc* elude that the religion of humanity containsjhe outlines of a truth. At the TOitjfeaus, aiid the Alcotts, and tEf Emersons were called back from their tents and vales by the migrhty voice of the world they had abandoned, as the roar of all the combined thoughts and achievements of the past and the pre!* ent came to them all day and all night telling them that civilization waa a blunder, but a truth, so the heart be­ wildered in religion may become rtn assured if it will turn from the small to the great, and will ask the human sofll everywhere to sum up for it the vir­ tues of a faith in Goa. To you thus gazing, religion will come in the simil­ itude of a fact, not a truth of which you cannot doubt, but as an idea stand* ing near bv the most absolute verity. It is indeed possible to question the au­ thority of Christ, but to question the authority of atheism, that god of night and oblivion, is more possible and easy still; for it has never acted like m truth, carrying men to grandeur oil proud wings. And hence the soul, filled with the solemn mystery of life and death, would better say, " I should prefer to fasten the sandal of a Jesus rather than receive from atheism < a crown; would rather touch the hem of the garments of Cbrist than be myself arrayed in the richest drapery of un­ belief." Religious Toleration. THE remarkably catholic hospitality which has been extended to Dean Staff- ley, received its culminating illustra­ tion yesterday. A man so eminent in the world of letters and cultivation and secular activity would be sure of gen­ erous entertainment in a secular sense; but we use the word " catholic" as de­ scriptive of the hearty feeling which has been shown toward him by repre­ sentatives of various religious denomi­ nations. A clergyman of the Church of England, he has appeared in the liberal Holy Trinity of Boston, the more conservative Trinity of New York, the Presbyterian Theological Seminary and St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in this city. His visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson will be regarded as something more than personally significant, and about his breakfast-table at the Century Club, this morning, gather clergymen who are usually supposed to be at op­ posite poles of Protestant opinion. Of course this widely-representative sympathy is largely to.be explained by the catholic nature of the guest him­ self. Among the many liberal men to whom the comprehensive English Es­ tablishment gives accommodation, he is recognized as one of the most lib­ eral. It was not necessary for him to prove this during his visittothe United States; but he has proved it, especially by the sermon and the address which he delivered yesterday. Preaching in the morning in Trinity Church--the mother-church here of the Protestant Episcopal branch, the church which stands for ecclesiastical authority in that branch, and therefore the church where the lines of separation perhaps might be supposed to be strictly drawn --he gave a broad meaning to the cal­ endar day--All Saints' Day. A clear inference from his discourse is that all the saints are not in one Christian denomination; that saints may be found in all denominations; and that wherever they are found they are worthy of honor for their character and their works. This is the spirit in which he spoke of the several divisions of the Christian family--the Greek Church, the oldest of them all, the con­ servator of valuabl3 creeds and cus­ toms; the Latin .or Roman Church, which has pressed art and beauty into the service of religion while it has il­ lustrated the virtues of self-denial and beneficence in deeds of charity and mercy; the German or Lutheran Church which may be regarded as the parent of Protestantism; the Calvinistic or Reformed Churoh, which he de­ scribed as the "inquiring younger brother,' the "stubborn, conscientious youth" of the household--who, by the way, has stimulated independent think­ ing with results the reverse of Calvin­ istic. In this venerable Episcopal edi­ fice, Dean Stanley named Wesley, Cal­ vin, Edwards and Channing, as saints who dqprve niches in the English- speaking church. ^ ^ Vf? The scene in the evening in St, Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church was more remarkable. Surrounded by the Bishops and clergymen of the denomi­ nation, and before a great multitude of its lay members, Dean Stanley offered to the founder of Methodism a tribute which for emphasis and sincerity could not easily be surpaaped. v'tfae of Wet- leys own followers. 1*1# Methodist Epis­ copal Church is the denomination whioh directly cut itsplf loose from the Pro­ testant Episcopal Churah. If the rule concerning family quarrels holds good in respect to sectarian differences, we might expect the sharpest "hostility to show itself between these nearly relat­ ed societies ol Christians, The frater­ nal influenced which prevaiipt wfflte therefare all the more impreesive. We say that the well-know* liberal* ity of Dean Stanley goes far to explain this catholic hospitalltr; hot, perhaps, it has a bruader and deeper signifi­ cance. It may suggest the growth 64 religious toleration in recent year*. We need not be surprised that there was room for this growth, even hi countries where religious toleration by law is maintained as of course, when we remember that burning at the stake, suppression of conventicles, test oaths and other legalized methods of oppres­ sion are not the only forms of intol­ erance. Religious freedom by statute and constitution has not always pre* vented ecclesiastical inhospitality, un­ charitable misrepresentation, unworthy suspicion of motives and other varie­ ties of persecution for opinion's sake. Of religious toleration of the more rad­ ical sort Dean Stanley is an energetic apostle, and he has many disciples 1n all-churches. Perhaps this tolerance is the substance of the Christian unity of whiclj^we hear so much. Perhaps more than this is unattainable. We doubt that Dean Stanley himself looks for a nominal union in one ecclesiasti­ cal organism. With all his liberality he holds fast to his own communion and does not expect all other Chris­ tians to go into it.--N. Y. Evening Post.