Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1883 — Page 7

PASSENGER RATES WAR. Some Anxiety as to Results of the Chicago Meeting. More North and .South Roads—The Adams Express To Do the Business on the Vandalia. WHAT WILL BE THE OUTCOME? Whether Passenger Kates Can Be Restored July 1, and then Maintained a Problem. S. F. Pierson, vice-pool commissioner of the trunk lines, who spent last week in Chicago attempting to adjust the misunderstanding between the general passenger agents of the Middle and Western States, has returned to New York, doubtless well satisfied that the Journal was correct when it stated that ho had undertaken a big job. He found the obstacles to overcome greater than he had anticipated. Passenger men have become so used tocuttiug a rate from SI to $5 to secure business that it will be difficult to check them in this mode of doing business. The ugliest thing he has to contend with, however, is several hundred tickets, unlimited, which the Wubash issued when li opened for business out of Chicago, 300 of which tickets were purchased by the Ciiioago Sc Alton road, which they hold as a club over the Wabash, every few days selling two or three of them, through some agent, then cutting rates to meet these tickets, giving this as an excuse for so doing. Then there are $75,000 worth of the unlimited tickets which the Lake Erie Sc Western sold, some years ago, that are constantly demoralizing rates, and these tickets are being sold very slowly. As the Lake Erie A Western people are poor and must huve money to meet current expenses, they are issuing new tickets meeting the rates at which the scalpers are selling the old issue. On the latter they have realized all the money they will, aud carrying passengers on them is only like paying an old debt, aud it lb a serious question with railroad men, who are anxious that this war on passenger rates shall be ended, what shall be doue with the old issue of L. E. A W. tickets in the hands of scalpers. To buy them up might lead to greater difficulties in the future, and while they are out competitors of the Lake Erie & Western cannot expect to be iookers-on and allow them to carry all the passeugers. In fact, the management; of the Indiana, Bloomington A- Western, which is the most seriously injured In its business through the sale of said tickets, state flatly that so long as the Lake Erie Sc Western continue to meet tin* rate of this old issue or tickets, or honors them on its trains, they, the 1., B. & W. people, propose to meet such rates. Then the Little Bantam, the TANARUS., C. fc Bt. L., is a disturbing element, and acts very independently as to the maintenance of rates, aud really the outlook for a restoration of rates, on July 1, and the maintaining of them thereafter, is not very flattering. THE OHIO RIVER POOL. Strenuous Efforts to Effect an Agreement Between North and South Lines. Chicago, June IS.—One or two poiuts considered at the meeting of representatives of tbe railroads in the Ohio-river pool, whioh closed at Cincinnati on Saturday, were not made publio till to day. The object of the meeting was to "restore rates on freight from Chicago to Ohio river points, but the meeting failed of its object because of the diversity of interests, and because the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road was not represented. Finally, however, favorable consideration was given to a proposition for three minor pools, embracing the traffic between Louisville aud Cincinnati tfcd Chicago on freight destined for Southern points, and three were commissioners appointed to meet in the cities named on next Thursday to consider aud report on the matter to the meeting of general managers to be held at Cincinnati on June 25. Another proposition is for u general traffic association, covering the Southern business of all roads running from Chicago to Southern points. The whole question will be considered by the managers, and strenuous efforts will be made to reach the agreement, as there is general demoralization, not only in this pool, but iu business to intermediate poiuts In Ohio aud Indiana. This involves a heavy cut in lumber from Chicago to these and Ohio river points, and Is seriously affecting the lumber business of the north aud south roads from interior Michigan points. Uuless rates are restored from Chicago to the South very soon, the Michigan lumbercarrying roads will be compelled to cut in eelfprotecllon, aud this will involve the demoralization of the entire lumber business between Pittsburg and the Mississippi river. THEIR EYES ARE SOT. Several Railroad Coiupauiea Anxious to Make Washington, lud., a Railroad Center. A resident of Washington, lud., reports that the town is considerably torn up over new propositions which will greatly increase their railroad facilities. The Mackey syndicate, which owns the Indianapolis and Evansville Straightline, which is now built to a* point some two miles west of Washington, propose to relocate the line so that it will pass through Washington, thence on to Brazil, providing Washington township will give the right of way aod vote a 2 per cent, tax, which would create a sui.duly of some $50,000. Not a cent of the money voted is to be called for until the road ia completed northward to a connection with rhe Indianapolis & Vincennes road, while the road Is ultimately to be built on to Brazil, to the block coal mines. Asa check upon this movement, General 'Manager Peabody, of tbe Ohio Sc Mississippi toad, bas intimated that should Washing; on township vote a 2 per cent, tax to the O. Sc M. people, they will remove their shops from Vincennes to Washington. Tnis is looked npou, however, as a bluff game. To further complicate matters, a company has been partially organized at Louisville, Kv\, whioh proposes to build a narrow-gauge road to a connection with i lie Indiana & Illinois, formerly the Effingham & Sullivan narrow gauge road, aud build it through Washington, provided they are voted a similar subsidy. Meantime Harry Crawford has friends there who are looking after bis interests, and promise that a 2 per cent, subsidy will insure his building the Chicago A Great Bombers road now approaching Brazil, Ind. and whioh is to be built on to tho Ohio river through Washington,Which is within three miles and the line the Crawford party have mapped out to reach the Ohio river. Oue thing is quite-evi-dent—should the business men of Washington handle the matter prudently they will, within a few months, have a direct line, through a connection with the I. Si V. to Indianapolis, whether they profit through the other schemes or not. A TEST CASE. Liability of Sleeping-Car Companies To Be Determined, The liability of sleeping-car companies where property is stolenlrom passengers who are traveling on their cars, has become one of considerable interest. A few weeks since, H, O. Dei hi, general freight agent of the I„ B AW., recovered full vulue for a watch and cuuin stolen from him •when ou a Woodruff sleeping coach, en route from Indianapolis to Cleveland. The sleeping car fought tlie case stubbornly to the Indiana Supreme Court, which decided in favor of the plaintiff. And last week one of the lower ■eonrt* at Pittsburg. Pa., gave William Gardener a judgement for $3lO against the Puliuiau car -company. Judge Btowe ruled that, as the sleeping car company advertises itself to the public as providing suitable cars iti which to sleep, they impliedly agree that arrangements are made that the passenger may go to sleep, and l.hut a reasonable watch over the safety of his person and property will be maintained l>y it ■wlille tbe passenger is helpless from sleep to guard himself: and, falling to keep such watch, the company was liable for the loss. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $317.80. The Pullman company intends taking an appeal to the Supreme Court, and, ns this is to be made a test case, the result will be of great Interest to the traveling public. With one or two exceptions. the sleeping-car companies have heretofore defeated all attempts to make them liable tor the robbery of pussengers. As iu two or three suits of late the courts huve held the tfdeeping-oar companies liable, the decision of the United States Supreme Court iu the matter will bo awaited with interest. RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS. 'England to Make Them Permanent and Greatly Increase Their Powers. Railway commissions are nearer perfection In England probably than In this country, us /they ore greatly aided by the general clearinghouse system. In Englandosatisfactorily have

commissions been operated that a resolution was recently passed iu the British House of Commons which aims o.i making the English Railway Commission a permanent body aud a court of record. Mr. Chamberlain, a member of Parliament, iu speaking ou the above resolution, said he believed the railway companies of the United Kingdom deserved well of the coirotrj r , and lie did not think it would be desirable, in the interests of the country generally, to render tne investments in those undertakings uncertain. Tho question of the tribunal to which all complaints with respect to railways 'V-ioald go hud been under consideration for many years, and a settlement of the question had only been delayed by the presence of other business; but lie might say he thought it was now witiiin measurable distance of a solution. When he came to look at the resolution he confessed he did not find anything in its terms to which he could take exception, and he, therefore, as far as the government was concerned, would not offer any objection to it He gave the most unqualified adherence lo the proposal that the railway commission should be made permanent. Speaking generally, he was prepared to accept the recommendation of the committee with regard to an extension of the powers of the commission. Tho question of the rates was a matter of considerable difficulty, but lie was not without hope of its arrangement through a collision. GENERAL NEWS. The American Express Company to Withdraw from the Vumlalia. The programme now is that on July 1 tho American Express Company shall cease to run messengers over the Vandalia line, the Adams Express Company to have full swing. There is a possibility, however, that the American Express Company will continue to do local business between Indianapolis and Terre Haute. This Is a question yet to be settled. This change makes the Indianapolis Sc Hi. Louis road the great through route of the American Express Company. This company now runs two express ears on each through train, and much of the time gives tho messengers helpers. Under the new deal one or two additional express .oars will need be handled to accommodate their immense business and each messenger will need a helper ou every through trip, A Beautiful Railroad Ticket. The ticket issued by the Atchison, Topeka Sc Santa Fe railroad for the Knights Templars' excursion to San Francisco consists of six cards, four by eight inches, bound at one end and opening with a legal fold. Upon tho first card, or cover, appears the name of the road issuing the ticket, the ciass of passage, nod the helmet, shield, swords and cross of tlie knight. ‘’An ocean sounding welcome to tin* knights,” is a beautiful illustration which adorns the sixth card. It represents the golden glory of an ocean sunset gilding the calm waters of the bay. At the left is a modern city with its factories, railroad tiairis, telegraph lines, etc., from which the modern knight lias come forth mounted on a prancing steed and bearing aloft tho banner of the order. At the right is the feudal castle, just outside of whioh is a comnany of mounted knights with trumpets and lances. In the foreground appears the ancient knight, clad In armor and curbing his beautiful charger by the side of a fallen comrade while he receives the salute of tlie modern knight. Argument iu tbe Arkansas Railroad Suit. Keokuk, Juno 18.—Argument commenced today before Hon. Bamuel Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, and lion. H- C. Caldwell, judge of the United States District Court for the eastern distrlot of Arkansas, involving tho liability of tbe Little Rock Sc Fort Smith and other railroads in Arkansas for bonds issued to them by the Btate to aid in their construction, whioh bonds have been declared by the Bnpreme Court of Arkansas to be invalid. The bonds amount to $5,350,000. John R. Dosphassos, of New York, ami ex-Cbief Justice McClure, of Arkansas, iop rose nr. the bondholders, and Hon. John F. Dillon, of New York, and C. W. Huntington, of Bosiou, tne railroad companies. Miscellaneous Notes. The New York, West Shore Sc Buffalo people seem to be on the alert. Last week they concluded a contract by which they lease the Eric Sc North Shore road for a term of years. This agreement obviates the necessity of the West Shore building a line of its own from Buffalo to Niagara Falls. The Railroad Gazette reports that during tbe month of April there were on the railroads of the United States a total of 100 accidents, In which 20 persons were killed and 114 injured; an increase of 25 accidents, of 8 killed an 53 injured, as compared with April of last year Two of the fatal accidents occurred ou Indianapolis roads. Railroad men conversant with the situation are very sanguine that the Ohio Sc Mississippi will be taken out of the hands of a receiver within the next few months. Rightly managed, the road is one of the most valuable in the West, and will be able to earn a fair dividend on the stock as soon as the arrearages of the past are cleared off. Under the new arrangements, through Pullman sleepers will be ruu from the Missouri river points and New Orleans to Man Pranoisco, and also over the Northern Pacific. There will tie rejoicing on the part of travelers everywhere over this fact, more especially on the old route, as there was always more or less trouble in securing a berth at Ogden. The statement, Just made public, of tbe Erie road for tlie month of April shows gross earning* $1,548,474.21, a decrease of $122,268.74 from tlie corresponding month of last year. The operating expenses increased $77,778 01, making a net decrease of $200,046.75 iu earnings. From Oct. 1 the net earnings increased $93,805.07 as ooiupared with the previous year. Two engiues were delivered last week at Memphis for the Tennessee Sc Southern railroad, a continuation of the Chesapeake, Ohio Sc Southwestern from Memphis to New Orleans, and which, when completed, will be known us the Louisville, New Orleans Sc Texan railroad Tho grading between Memphis aud Clarksdsle. Miss., 100 miles to the southwest, has beeu about completed. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Resignation of George W. Bentley—Movements of Railroad Men. H. R. Canfield, of Lafayette, has beeu appointed chief clerk of George Brecount. general agent of the Chicago Sc Indianapolis Air-line, headquarters at Indianapolis. Superintendent Ewan, of the Indianapolis division of the Bee I due. is iu Chioago. During his absence A. O. Ilara, master of transportation, is attending to Superintendent Ewan’s duties. A. D. Perry, passenger agent of the Chicago A Alton road, headquarters at Indianapolis, is at Las Vegas, N. M., and is rapidly recovering from rheumatism, which had assumed a chronic form with him. George W. Beutly has resigned the position or general superintendent of the New London ANorthern railroad. Bentiy has been connected wiili this road since June, 1874, and is one of the most widely-known superintendents iu the country. J. C. Ernst, general ticket and passenger agent of the Chicago, Bt. Louis & Pittsburg road, has moved into his new offices, 100 Randolph street, Chicago, which have been fitted tip in style, and he announces tnai he is now ready for business. Robert M. Smith, who has just been appointed passenger agent of the Chit ago, Burlington & Quincy in this section, yesterday assumed the duties of the position. Mr. Smith has been ou the Chicago Sc Rook Island road for twelve years past, and now comes to tlie C., B. Sc Q. F. 8. Anable, late auditor of the Massachusetts Central, has become assistant treasurer of tbe Toledo, Cincinnati Sc St. Louis. That road is certainly getting top-heavy for a narrow-gauge affair. A general officer to every fifteen or twenty miles of road is more thau most standardgauge road* can carry. Local Notes. The Steel Rail-mill Company have the repairs to the new mill completed, and will, this week, make another effort, to manufacture a rail. The grand excursion from points on the Bee Line to Colorado, on July 17, promises to be a great success. Tbe fare is low and nrraugemeuta have been made to run their rechuingchair cars through without change. The cement manufactories ou tho Jeffersonville, Madison Si Indianapolis road arc as valuable to them in furnishing business as are mines on some of our best coal roads. During the greater portion of the year thirty to forty car loads of commit are shipped from these establishments daily and at paying rates. The little excitement over the shabby manner the Pullman Car Company is treating Indianapolis. lias passed off, the Pullman company, Iu effect, snapping their fingers In the Union Railway Company's fao*-, saying, "Haiti yourselves, if you cun.” The grand monopoly pays $25 per month, or at least professes to do so, f or selling tickets, and expect that Union depot people will

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take the trouble to assertain all about the miming of their cars and impart such information gratuitously to the traveling public. Tne Woodruff and Wuguer companies have taken the matter in hand, are putting on additional sleeping couches and have arranged tuat names may get information through persons who are competent to give it. The first regular passenger train came In over the Chioago & Indianapolis Air-lino yesterday, arriving promptly ou lime. Tne tram consisted of a baggage car and two passeuger coaches, drawn by a first-class new Rogers locomotive. Tho conductor’s report showed that the train on the trip handled fifty-four passengers aud brought twenty-eight into Indianapolis. I lie chastisement which two or three of the Indiana and Illinois roads was subjected to, ou the. allegation that they had broken the trunkline pool, seems to have had uu excellent effect, both on freight men aud shippers. Freight agents understand that it will not do to cut a rate if they wish to retain tneir positions, and shippers have uot tlie cheek to ask for a cut rate. The Lackawanna management have by no means abandoned their idea of getting into Indianapolis, and are now figuring to come iu over the Chicago & Indianapolis Air line. It being a branch of the Louisville, New Albany A Chicago road, over which they reach Louisville, there is a strong probability that the arrangement will be consummated. The Lackawanna line commenced, last week, carrying St. Louis Sc. Kansas City business over the Chicago & Alton road, they sending the business to Chicago over the Nickel-plate. Real Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the Recorder’s office of Marion County, Indiana, for 24 hours ending at 5 o'olook p. M... June 18. 1883. as furnished by Elliott Sc Butler, abstracters of titles, room No. 3. /Etna Building; John 1). Condit and wtfe to Mrs. Mary Johnson, part of lot 15, iu Isaac Binckford’s subdivision of outlots 152, 153 and 154, in Indianapolis.. SI.OO Charles W. Smith aud wife to Frank O. Wadsworth, part of lote 49 and 50, in Issue Blackford’s subdivision of outlots 152, 153 aud 154, in ludiuuapolis 1.00 Willi am Wiindrumand wife to Sophia Schaffer, lot 1, iu Dumont's heirs’ subdivision of part of the southeast quarter of section 14, township 15, range 3 east: also part of the northeast quarter of section 23, township 15. range 3 east 3,500.00 Charles H. Briggs and wife to Philip M. Hildebrand, part of the west half of the northeast quarter of section 16, township 14, range 2 east, containing 20 acres 1,200.00 James T. W right to JohnW. D. Ducheineirer. lot 105, in Yeiser’s, guardian's, subdivision of 20 acres in tho east half or the northwest quarter of section 13, township 15, north of range 3 east 290.00 F. M. Churchman et al. to Henry F. Rescuer ami wife, lot 156, in E. TANARUS., S K. Sc A. E. Fletcher’s subdivision of part of the south half of the southwest quarter of section 7, township 15, range 4 east 1,025.00 F. M. Churchman ot al. to Christian Koch, lot 20, In the county surveyor’s suhdi vision 208.00 David F. Swain, administrator, to John A Davis and wife, lore 10, 20, 21 and 22. in block 40, and 17 and 18 in block 30, in John C. Burton’s North Indianapolis addition 161.50 Stephen Bolauder and wife to Elizabeth P. Hamilton, part of the northeast quarter of the west half of section 16, township 16, north of range 5 east 2,000.00 John Patterson to George J. 8c luck otauz et al., part of lot 3. m block 4, in Hubbard, Martindale Sc McCarty’* southeast addition to Indianapolis 500.00 Isaac N. Pattison and wife to .Tames Cunningham, lot 113, in Davidson’s second uddmon to Indianapolis 400.00 Conveyances.il; consideration— $9,386.50 “Tbe Education of Preachers.” [A press of other matter has delayed the publication of the subjoined article.—Ed, Journal. J To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal; Having read tlie Journal for two years, and, on the whole, having enjoyed its defense of sound morality, I was surprised by an editorial in last Saturday's issue on “The Educntion of Preachers.” Please grant me space fora few thoughts. You can afford to take the scourge as well as the reins of opinion. You misrepresented President Eliot. In trying to make one broad. Hat-tlooted sentence cover the whole ground you made him tell an untruth. A hundred years ago few except students for the ministry entered college, but to-day every class of m£n have their college men. If the same percentage of the graduates of to-day entered the ministry, the profession would be overcrowded. Figures taken from one-half of the facts in the case are always diluted with sophistry. ‘‘lnferiority of beneficiaries.” Is not every college student and graduate of State institutions a beneficiary? Are not nearly all college professors teaching in chairs endowed by tlie State or benevolent men? Did not Dr. Eliot himself get the benefit of these? Inferior? Some of these beneficiaries are holding the highest positions in Boston, New Ycrk, Brooklyn and elsewhere. “Lost its influence and degenerated in character.” Are not clergymen hard workers? Are they not benevolent as a rule, giving all they have for charity? Are tliey not virtuous, truthful and sincerely laboring for tbe good of their fellow-men? If such men lose their influence it is because tlie age is evil, not because it is educated. Is it not true that the better the people are educated the more they respect the clergy, not in a servile spirit, but nobly, as peers? You seem to think that it is necessary that a man should be inferior before he rocognizes goodness and wisdom. Cannot wisdom on the level with wisdom see each other? In many families, in case of sickness, in the very province of the physician, the pastor’s word would be taken against the best of physicians, if he should presume to dictate. As to be “degnerated in character,” let their bearing ou society, their attitude in all reforms and the fruit of their labors witness. “The clerical profession has not kept up” with laymen, who are “educated” by means of books and the daily press. Agassiz, speaking of fish as food for tlie brain, told a boy that lie (the boy) ought to eat about two whales before he would get any benefit from it. Now, Mr. Editor, can you figure how many tons of the Journal a ought to read before he can gather sufficient mental tissue to formulate a dec lit conception of ordinary things? Can you tell me, what class of men read the daily papers more than the clergy? Is it not a fact that clergymen, as a class, buy three times as many books, outside of their profession, ns any other class? New York booksellers will tell you that tlie works of Darwin, Spencer, lluxley and books of that character, would have a very meager sale if it had not been for clergymen. Your statements would blush if yon should turn their faces toward facts. “Inquiry” and “doubt.” You sav tlie people have the spirit of inquiry and doubt. Every theological student, while in the seminary. heard ten objections to his teachings for every one that he will ever hear after coining out. The twaddle, the sophistry, false deductions, and the imaginary facts of spurious science have all been brought before him. The clergy have gone ahead of the multitude and return and report that what the skeptics see before them is nothing but intellectual mirage. Asa rule, the clergyman ba. more confidence the more intelligent his congregation. He does not wish to select twelve of the most ignorant in the community and try to work upon their passions by phonotechnics. His choice is the intellect that cun weigh reason and balance authorities. Tlie “higher standard of intellectual sincerity” among scientists. If you can say that Jbeckel, Tyndall, Moleschott, Spencer, and even such men as Draper, have “ignored" the “personal factor” and “desire.” then you have not read them. Or your own desire is father to your judgment. There is a vast distinction between accumulated knowledge and the development of individual character. A school boy of to-day may know more about the solar system than Copernicus did, but that does uot prove the

boy to be as highly developed as Copernicus. We travel somewhat faster in our palace cars than our forefathers did with their ox teams, but I doubt whether we are more intellectually sincere. You say. “Woe to tbe theologian who attempts to follow the current of the world's thoughts as expressed and typified in scientific research.” Yes, exactly, “woe.” The scientist, in a sense, is responsible to no one but himself. The preacher is. The scientist is dealing with inanimate things whose nature, by his character, he cannot change. The preacher is dealing with immortal souls whose destiny his conduct will 1 modify. The result of tiie scientist will not change the order of nature. But no moral Teacher of the people ought to bring forward untried thought instead of tlie old welltested truth. He can not be fickle in his opinions, for so he would make skeptics and unsettle the firmest belief of his hearers. If you were in the preacher’s place and had a sermon on cosmology, which of the six inodes of evolution would you adopt and substantiate for your people as the truth? To account for the origin of life would you take tlie energy of “star dust,” or “bathybiuis,” or “protoplasm” or molecular forces, or “tbe creation of a few germs,” or absolute creation? To account for the origin of species, would you have internal or external influence, or the innate tendency of Parsons & Owen, or exceptional births and further genesis of Mivart Al Ferris, or acceleration and retardation of Hvatt Al Cope, or Buckle’s climate influence, or Lamark’s chance, or Walace’s selection, or Darwin’s fittest member? If you desire as a preacher to be among the advance thinkers, would you teach that religion was an instinct, or a germinal development, as Max Muller, or caused by dreams and fears as taught by Feuerbach; or something rising out of mere gratitude, as asserted by Strauss; or faith in the moral order of the universe, as believed by Fichte; or God coming to selfconsciousness, as declared by Schilling? If you had occasion to preach on tlie life of Christ, would you take the accommodation theory, or that of imposture, or that of the mythical, or—as Rohr says—that Christ was a great rationalist, or the theory of Baur or Paulus or Bahrdt, or. as Ciarkc says, that he was a spiritual meditim? Which of these great (?), non-dogmatic (?), advanced (?) evoluted theories would you present to your congregation whew they ask of you for the bread of life? When they ask, how can we be saved? How live virtuous? How to be consoled in trouble? Have you n right to bring forward your doubts, your guesses, and call it advanced thought, and ask the people to accept it as the truth, when not a proposition has been proved? Yes, sir, “Woe to the theologian who attempts to follow the current of the world’s thought.” He would breed skeptics, gloom, libertinism, irresponsibility and murder, the fruit of all such teachings everywhere. You say that there is evidence of progress everywhere except in theology. Who told you that? In that narrow (?). bigoted (?) and conservative seminary at Princeton I was taught differently. I was taught to believe that there was wonderful progress made in archaeology bearing on biblical interpretation and confirming the old truths; that there was anew realm of thought in comparative philology, in comparative religion, in tbe study of the rise and growth of religion, in the sociology of primitive races, in tlie study of early philosophies, customs, habits and lands; progress in better knowledge of Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and kindred languages, all bearing on the progress of religious thought; and what there was confirmed in geology, astronomy and the experimental sciences enhanced the thoughts of theology. I was taught that all through the ages there were wonderfully increased disclosures of the perfections of Ood, all the way from Genesis until we meet the development of the missionary spirit of the present age. You speak of evolution and Lyell. . The facts are that Lyell’s First Principles were scarcely out in print when such men us Dawson demonstrated their false deductions. You carry the idea that evolution is something new. Narrow theology lias studied it for 2,000 years, as it came from the brain of Aristotle and Democritus. Aristotle said that first appeared nutrition and reproduction, then sensation by touch, followed by that of the other senses, then desire and aversion, then power of cocal motion, then power of faint memory and conception, then intellect recipient, then intellect active. Add to this the theory of Democritus concerning atoms, and you have the principle and thoughts of evolution. It would be ridiculous if 2,000 years add nothing to demonstration, or facts or experiments or research. You say that there is progress in “general ethics.” Outside of the church, la.sk >cu, where? All systems of ethics can come under the Socratic, the Aristotelian, tlie modern utilitarian, and the Christian. Do you think that the utilitarian is an advance on the Socratic? Is expediency a better guide to virtue than fixed principles? Since the days of Hobbs there have been about thirteen things assumed by different authors as the ground of moral obligation; yet all that have any show' of acceptance have come back to revelation for their confirmation. What progress has there been made since Shakspeare’B time in revelation of human character? WiU you tell me what method of saving the soul has there been made since the revelation made by Jesus Christ? If you have anything better 1 am anxious to know it; for I am seeking the salvation of men. You say that there is a tenth commandment before the eleventh. Yes, which is the eleventh? We are told in Leviticus to love our enemies, and in the ears of men nothing higher has ever been uttered. Where is your developement? You ask, “Why have not Mr. Beecher, Mr. Swing, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Heber Newton ami George Morebeck the same right of progression in theology that marks the leaders in other sciences?” You call these great and eminent men. I admire many things these men say. But about a year ago you said that Mr. Thomas was “not a profound thinker, or scholar.” Have you passed through so many phases of thought during a year that you do not recognize yourself? If my memory is correct, in less time than a year you have accused Beecher of perjury, of being whimsical and a poor leader of public opinion. The Christian Union accuses Newton of being “rude in criticism,” and in thoughts. Beecher's paper. You seem to think these men are advanced thinkers in theology. I challenge you to point out one thought in the principles of theology taught by these men that is not a thousand years old. Why sir, Mr. Beecher in his life of Christ, it may be, wrote Apollinurian views of the life of Christ as advanced thought. Noble (?) men are they who can stand in their own pulpits and ridicule their own fathers. I say that if my brethren in the ministry lashed, hurling vile epithets and ridicule other preachers as Mr. Beecher and Mr. Swing have done, 1 would have them hooted from the pulpit. Yet Beecher and Swing are noble men. You try to prove progress in revelation by showing that there are nations yet on “the threshold of Christian life.” Distinctness in thinking would improve your conceptions. Theologians would call that not progress in revelation, but progress in the teaching of tlie revelation already given. You say “that the majority of theological seminary graduates stretch the various vague and elastic creeds to fit their ripening thoughts.” Ah, and the majority of them have “ripening thoughts,” have they? I thought that you began your article with the intention to prove that these theological striplings were inferior, non-progressive and were cramped by an intellectual thumb screw. You have lately accused the clergy, especially the I'resbyterlan, of dishonesty, of preaching for a “livelihood,” and of not preaching what they believe. And I tell you that that is a slanderous untruth. You have said that they have not the courage of their

convictions. Every assembly aud conference is a witness to the contrary. It is told me by men in high positions in the army that, as a class, the bravest of all the army in the late war were theological students. Theology does not make cowards. So much for your article. But I have still a few questions to ask you. Who has helped the scientist to search out the distant nations of the earth, their habits, customs and languages, that Lubbock, Wilkinson, Mar Muller and that class of writers may treat so learnedly about the origin of nations 0 Who, in the last thirty years, have translated a hundred languages, furnishing for them alphabets and grammars ami dictionaries? Who have brought in contact with commerce Central Africa and the isles of the seas? They are the missionaries. You accuse the clergy of being behind tlie age. I tiling the fault is on the other side, that they arc educated above the people. Look at the Salvation Army, with all that is repulsive to an educated man,‘yet they have a wonderful following. Barnes and Harrison, with jargon and slang, brought the gospel down to the level of the people, turned Indianapolis up-side-down and God blessed them in the conversion of many souls. It is a fact, a discourse of solid thought is not acceptable. It only a few young men enter the ministry, it is because they have no patience to study. For example, if a graduate of our normal schools (and a braver class is hard to be found) would regularly enter the ministry, they would be compelled to go seven or eight years more to school. You make comparison between the clergy and other professions. Very well. Whose thoughts are cabled at great expense across the Atlantic? That, of a simple Calvanistic preaciier. Compare them on public occasions. Did you, in Indianapolis, ever know the clergy to come second best in their speeches and knowledge of affairs, when they stood on a common level? You have in your literary clubs, as I hear, men of all professions. Are the clergy inferior? You have in your prayer-meetings lawyers, physicians, judges and professors of schools. Are they fluent in interpreting human nature and tlie common affairs of life, and wonderfully prodigious in intellectual fertility? Compare a Methodist conference, or Presbyterian general assembly, or a New England Congregational convention, or of Baptist, with any like body from other professions. Compare them in dignity, in intellectual appearance and the mode of transacting business. We love these professions too well to make the comparisons, if you had not thrown out the challenge. A brave class of follows you are. You build State coiieges and make Christians pay for them; then you man the colleges with the great lights of modern skepticism. Then you set them to work upon the Christian faith of unsophisticated boys of fifteen and eighteen. For four years they pour into their ears adulterated science, are not slow, often, to declare as established what is merely hypothetical, and often, by a sneer or contemptuous indifference, they succeed in undermining the Christian belief of the boys. Then they turn around with derision toward Christians, saying: “See, your boys are educated above the superstitions of Christianity. They will not enter the ministry.” Bravo! bravo! What a victory, that these young boys have beeu conquered by the giants of skepticism! If the young ministers are “degenerated in character,” as you saj r they are, how is it that this age is noted for advancement in missionary work, in church organization, in accession to the church, and in church benevolent work above all ageß preceeding? Now, Mr. Editor, give the minister a fair play; give him a hearing. If he has spoken plainly, remember that he learned the art by reading the Journal. 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