Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1885 — Page 7

THE BASIS OP JUDGMENT. Christ’s Prohibition and His Direction by Which We Are to Consider Others. pßew. 0. GL McCulloch's Address tolonng Men Concerning Their Relations with the Church—Dr. llanter at the Rink. TEDS BASIS OF JUDGMENT. Kt. J. Albert Kondthaler’s Morning Sermon at the Tabernacle Church. Rev. J. Albert Rondthaler, of the Tabernacle Church, yesterday morning preached an able ■Mtd intensely practical sermon on the * relations of roan to roan, from parts of the tint and twentieth verses of the seventh chapter iof Matthew: “Judge not. * * * * * * by their fruits ve shall know them.” (The sermon was as follower. These two sentences are emphatic in their directions concerning that part of our religion -which has to do with other people, and a very imfywrtant department of Christianity it is. Where ■our life touches upon God is always of thegreatrst moment to every soul that realizes an existence above and beyond this present state; but rhow our life touches upon the lives around us is .over a question of prime importance to every ,©ne who has any throb of divinity in him or any {likeness to Him who came to this earth for this world's good. T\- **• --©fnl Bible reader is continually imprest e w.w the large place God’s word gives to defining the true relations that ought to exist between man and man. Os the Ten Commandments, four tell our duties to God and six define our relations with our fellows. When Christ came to prepare these two tables He said they were of equal importance. The first of all the commandments is: Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou ahalt iove the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment And the second commandment is like unto it: Thou shalt love they neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. More than half the Sermon on the Mount is occupied in establishing lust and harmonious relations between men. n the after development of Christianity there is not an epistle of Paul, Peter or John but deals liberally in the same matter. The first part of Romans, to the end of the eleventh chapter, is a magnificent argument on the plan ©f salvation, defining man’s standing before God, and his relation to Jesus Christ The five following chapters are almost entirely taken tip in developing peace and harmony among men. la Corinthians we have the remarkable psalm to love in the twelfth chapter. Ephesians and Colossians give the reciprocal duties between husband and wife, children and parents, masters and servant*. So in Peter’s epistles we have the constant recurrence of the same line of teaching. In James we have the sturdy protest against partiality, and his summary of f are religion and undefiled before God and the athers. rr ’o visit the fatherless and widows in their ns, and to keep unspotted from the world. Jo vfl’s epistle is so interwoven with love to God and love to man that they form one twist of thread through the whole letter. He argues back and forth from one to the other that you can scarcely tell where true Christianity, according to his idea, begins, or what is its principal form of development—whether up toward God or ont towards man. “He that loves God will love men.” “No one that does not love God can love men.” If God loved us we ought to love one another. John makes our relations to man the chief evidence of our Christianity. “We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." And so on, through the epistle. Is it not strange that the great theologians and commentators should have given, compara lively, so little attention to this department, when it occupies so important a place in the Bible? Volumes upon volumes have been written about the doctrines of the “free will,” “predestination/’ “the origin of sin,” “probation and reprobation,” and all that, but the reciprocal relations of humanity, the outgoing of sympathy, helpfulness and love, occupy but little space in general theological literature. The statesmen of the world, the political economists, and the modest philanthropists have done better than that. Taking the incisive declarations of the Bible as great foundation blocks, they have boilt upon them the good structure of our present civilization, which, while it is not perfect, is ▼ery liberal in its recognition of individual rights and gives the largest room for the exercise of all those faculties that compose the social fart of our nature. Meanwhile, ecclesiasticism, will not call it Christianity or the church, has been very busy with matters altogether out of the sphere of the practical. Men have quarreled with each other, and split up into factions and parties on the nature and effects of Adam’s sin; on the question of the real presence in the bread and win© at the communion table. Men have been expelled from the church because they had peculiar views about baptism and the Lord’s supper, but who ever heard of a great church trial because a man was hard, cold, selfish, moan, or grasping? To express a doubt about some abstraction or speculation sets iu motion the whole whir of ecclesiastical machinery, but to be masterful, arrogant, sharp in your Judgment of others, harsh in condemnation, passes- without rebuke or protest. Whenever it comes to these things people say, “Oh, we are all fallible. No one is ’perfect. The church is meant for sinners. It is a school in which we are to be trained into graces." And that's all true. But if we iet these things pass, I cannot gee the consistency in being so outraged and full of quaking fear that the foundations are going, and the whole thing is wrecked, when somebody questions the phraseology of some abstruse doctrine, whose settlement never makes any one better or happier, Controversies about forms and ceremonies bave resulted iD fierce wars and bloodshed; but n© one has ever fought with another because he loved lus fellow man too much, or spent himself too much for others, or was too careful of their rights. Whoever heard of a council or presbytery trying a man because he had a hating heart, or because he was sour in disposition, or fijarah in his treatment of his fellows? Heresyhunting has run altogether in the line of abstract theology and philosophy. Mind heresy has been dammed again and again; heart heresy receives no attention either from ecumenical Council, general assembly, or general conference. Men and women, if we would escape the vapid11P86 of mere theory, and the impracticability that results from controversies and questions ©bout abstractions and speculations, we must take the broad, large, liberal Bible view of religion, which dearly and emphatically defines ur relations to God, and also earnestly directs that we weave into onr faith and practice careful thought for our fellows—just treatment of them, merciful dealings with them, charitable associations among them. Our attitude towards them must be generous, helpful and sympathetic. Give everybody fair plav; honor the right and true. .I am sure you will get that out of our Bible rending, whatever else comes to you. You will not only get the more genial disposition and the kindly feeling, but also the clear-cut, > ©harp distinction between right and wrong. We are to be ready with the smile of encouragement and the-word in season to him that is weary, the tear of sympathy for the sorrowing, the outatretched hand for the fallen: but as well, also, earnest in warning, emphatic in rebuking what deserves censure, zealous in righting what is wrong, and fearless in that tends toward the reformation of the race or the individual. Morality centers upon seif, and is careful not to invade the rights of others; the religionist is content with the mechanical performance of reciprocal duties towards others, but Christianity throws its centers out into the great humanities, and while with large circumference it embraces many in the circle of love, with straight-lined diameter it defines right 'and wrong, good and evil. This two-fold relation to our fellow-men is ©leariy illustrated in our Master’s words, “Judge rot. Known men by their fruits." At first fight there appears to be a contradiction here, rnd if vre are extreme in our commentary upon ©ither one or the other the result will be directly antagonistic lines of conduct. If we make it the sole rule to know men by their fruits, we -will often come to false ami uncharitable judgments, which will do no good and may do much liarm. Always weighing men, always measuring their deeds and words, ever deciding upon jrtaudiag, merit and desert, will bring uh into the ~inost direct conflict with tae whole spirit of j&hrist, who cam# out to cone ewn the world, but

that the world, through Him, might be saved. But on the other hand, to forbear making any estimates, never to form an opinion of men. and to let everything pass in silence, uncondemned and unapproved, and to suppose that in so doing you are faithful to Christ in his prohibition against judging, is a gross misconception of the Master’s teaching. Such a practice runs into insipidness and weakness of character. It results in distorted views of right and wrong, and opens you up great territory for all kinds of impositions ana deceptions. It is a spurious charity that shuts its eyes to tnen’s actions. It will do much harm to the cause of Christ When Christians cease to commend the good with hearty approbation and reprove the evil with scathing rebuke, then is their cause in a bad plight; indeed, a poor weak thing, it had better be buried. While it is true that we are not to go among men puncturing every action with our little needle of criticism, and weighing every word in our own little balances, it is not designed that we shall always sit at a continuous love-feast with everybody, as though the millennium had come, and there were nothing so wrong any more but what might be covered with the cloak of charity. It is the true place of Christian ethics to strike the golden mean between the prohibition—judge not—aiuAhe direction—by their fruits ye shall know them. And here let this be 6aid, that it is the most natural thing in the world to make estimate of men and things. We are always measuring people by their appearance, manner, words, actions, or the results they produce in their lives. No true gospel forbids this. In the declaration of Christ—“bv their fruits ye shall know men”—He announces the inevitable law of human nature, that the outer life is the revelation of the inner man. W hat a man is determines what be does, and what he does or the way he does things, shows what kind of a man he is. You may reason either way and say that being a good tree it will bear good fruit, or you may test the fruit, and, finding it good, decide that the source whence it comes is good. Whatever flows from your life is governed, as regards its intrinsic worth, by what you are, and what you are will most certainly show itself in your everyday life. Os that men will take knowledge, and they have a right to do it Continually in all our acts we are revealing our true self, not only to God, who looks not on the outward appearance but on the heart, but as well, also, to the world, which has only the outward to judge from. Now Ido not think it a Christian spirit at all which sets down and deliberately dissects people and analyzes character, setting the good equalities over against the bad, and then strik ing the balance, weighing motive and principle, measuring strength with weakness. In the majority of cases the conclusions reached will be false and unjust. You cannot tell motive, nor count the number of impelling conditions, or weigh the force of attendant-circumstances. The analytical process of deciding upon character is exceedingly difficult. Single, detached -vets are no criterion of judgment, because we can never know the whole surroundings of the case. We cannot, with sufficient nicety, give full credit to originating causes, the particular humor at the time, or the real object the individual had in design. I believe in the prohibition against judgment and condemnation of people is especially applicable to that form of criticism which seeks to test men by one siDgle act, or by a certain course pursued under the press of specified circumstauces. I know that proverbial philosophy teaches that men are revealed by little things, that straws show which way the wind blows, and all that, but proverbial philosophy is not all gospel. You will make many a mistake and do many a wrong if you make single acts the index of character. But while such analytical process is forbidden by the phohibition there is no doubt that men unconsciously rate their fellows by the series of things they see them do and hear them say. It is the accumulation of the things we do and the way we do them that creates the atmosphere in which we live, and as men breath that atmosphere they unconsciously test the character. It is here an act and there another, it is this word and that, it is the general habit of life, the manner of doing things, that add up at last a rough aggregate from which, however, a very nice average of the man is taken. It is this aggregation of the whole character which determines the general estimate in which he is held by those who know him. There is a certain rugged, offhand justice in the world that upon tho whole, is usually correct in its measure of people, and Christ has given the rule and principle of that justice in his direction, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” So much for the general estimate of character, which is allowable, as set over aeainst that analytical process which criticises and dissects detached actions.

And now as to another direction in which Christ’s warning against judgment is applicable. I think it unjust to judge all men by one inflexible standard or scale. Os course, when a man runs square up against the Decalogue there is nothing more to be said. When he lies, or steals, or cheats, or swears, you cannot but condemn. But in matters of disposition, propensity, in things that grow out of moods, and humors, and tempers, 1 think there should be the exercise of the broadest charity. When you measure calico you can do it with a yardstick, and when you weigh sugar you can do it with a standard iron weight, but when you measure people you ought to have large consideration for a score of mitigating circumstances. For instance, it is much easier for some men to be good-tempered, genial, self-sacrificing than for others; they are made so and others are not. And we ought not to expect as much from one who is tuned to a low key as we get from one who is higher strung. When one whose music in life is set to a minor chord does break out into a bright ripple-of waltz and schottische. now and then, he ought to get much more credit for it than he whose life is set altogether to that kind of music. Faults and failings of disposition, as well as excellencies, are largely matters of inheritance. Weakness of character as well as strength is frequently dependent upon education and surroundings, and bodily health comes in, too, for its measure of consideration. No man’s going to be much of an angel with the dyspepsia, and if he mufrt go hobbling along with the rheumatism you have no right to expect him to be lithe and active. The man who must peer gloomily into an apothecary’s window for kidney cure, pulmonic syrup and hypophosphates is not going to be a great success as sunshine in the world, and you have no right to expect it. And to all this must be added the thousand and o;ie events that run their cris-cross through life. You may get a short, sharp answer from a friend that you take in high dudgeon, whereas you would bear kindly with it if you knew the history of that friend’s day; with its score of little worries, or perhaps its one great disappointment All these may be little things, but they make up life for man, and life is what we are, and we oucb 1 , to remember them in our association with people. It will lead us to look kindly upon shortcomings and failings, and help us to get the best out of people instead of always being hurt and offended by the worst side of everybody. I know the grace of God can and does accomplish marvels, and we ought to expect it to overcome all obstacles,Jam! dispositions, and characters. If I were preaching this morning on that line I would certainly take the ground that with God's help we are inexcusable for a hundred weaknesses and foibles, faults, failings and sins. But the direction in which thought runs now is not what we ought to be, but how we ought to treat others. Even in grosser errors there must be large consideration for others. You may have a hundred hands to help you on toward goodness that are withheld from another. A godly ancestry running through generations stretches down to you its strongly-wrought fiber, while another comes up from the refuse and the slums. You would not appiy the same rule of measurement to the street waif and strumpet that you would to your own child, with all tho guards of home influences and careful training. He who, with a large wisdom, and a high sense of justice, and a broad liberality, and a wide-spreading charity, will remember these things will soon come to feel the pressure of Christ’s prohibition against judgment. At tho last I come to this, that while it is our right to know men by their fruits, there is a clearly marked line where the right fades out and passes over into an abused license. Whatever stops with the simple condemnation, is met squarely by Christ’s prohibition—judge not; but whatever takes cognizance of weakness, frailty, wrong, sin in another, for the purpose of restoration, the grand object of all true Christian work and effort, is in the highest sense commendable, for this is Christlike. To restore a broken peace, to restore & throbbing and groaning humanity, to restore a fallen brotherhood, waa the grand mission upon which the great Son of Gad came into this world. And every word of Hia ud every actiou tended toward this happy end.

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Christians are to be like Christ. We are builders, together with God, and if co-workers we must be busy with that which engages Him. His greatest work is the work of salvation, restoration, and that is ours, too. For the Christian that judgment aid is permissible which has this end in view. You have a right to know just how bad another is. You have a right to call his badness by the proper name, without gloss or sophistry. Call a lie a lie, a crooked business transaction a cheat, a fiery word and an irritable remark a bad temper. You are not making a good use of the cloak of charity if you throw it over the man who must go to’Canada nowadays because “meeting with so many acquaintances wears on him.” It is not charity for me to say of the young scapegrace who jumps my fence and steals my grapes that he is only borrowing. It is not charity to say of him of him who comes home and makes everybody uncomfortable with his selfish irritability that he is so worn out by business and does not mean it. Call everything by its right name, but, as a Christian, your work is by every means in your power to restore the fallen, to strengthen the weak, to build up ruins. The Bible is plain and emphatic on this point. Brother, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye’Vhich are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. The example of Christ is very clear in this department of Christian practice. Be never glossed over wrong-doing. Quick as an arrow to its mark ho struck at the root of evil at once. So did John the Baptist But the difference between John the Baptist and Christ is this, that the great forerunner laid the ax at the root of the tree and hacked it down and left it as it fell in ruins. Christ, the great husbandman, came with sharp pruning-knife, and having, without mercy, cut away the evil, he healed the wound by the tender graft of grace which he implanted. Many a one coming up out of Jordan, with the water of John’s baptism still wet upon him, knew that though the ax had cut true and quick, yet it left a gaping wound that needed the tender balm and the soothing touch of a Christly hand. Ah, friends, to hold this attitude to the world is, indeed, to be the true disciple of Christ. This is Christly work indeed—to’ seek such relations with men wherein you may help them, brighten theit lives, and bring the kingdom of God nigh unto them. There are a hundred ways in which you can do it Scarcely two people were approached in the same way by Christ. He knew how to do it because he knew what was in man—he understood inner feeling, disposition, previous history and surrounding circumstances. You, too, ought to know much about people, for by their fruits ye shall know them. And the highest, best use of your acquaintance ought to be thatyou may be a blessing to them, a channel to them of God’s grace, a helping hand to bring them to Christ. You cannot do this thing by rote and rule. Every man demands a separate and special course of treatment. Study Christ’s methods. Ye are fishers of men, and a fisherman ought to know that some fish are only scared by splashing the net heedlessly. You need skill, adroitness, a large knowledge of human nature, a larger portion of Christly wisdom. Above all, you need an overflowing abundance of Christly love, that never gives up because love is so tenacious, that never is discouraged because love is so heartening, that never rests because love is so indefatigable, that never yields because love is so unconquerable, that in the end always succeeds because love is so triumphant.

YOUNG .MEN AND THE CHURCH. Rev. O. C. McCulloch Talks to Young Men of Their Relations to the Church. The auditorium of Plymouth Church was crowded last night on the occasion of the Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch’s address to young men. Following the second hymn the reverend gentleman read a letter of Theodore Parker, dated in 1853, to a young man who was about leaving home. He prefaced the reading by stating that, in the near future, he hoped to [deliver an address on Parker, whom he regarded as the model preacher, and one who alwaj’s manifested the warmest interest in young men. The letter, among other things, said that the possessions giving the greatest enjoyment were those fairlj- and really earned. The best thing is not money or what it will bring, nor a great estate, but that which makes a good man, a wise man, a religious man. Mouey makes one acceptable to man; a religious life makes one acceptable to God. There are three things young men should be set against—intemperance, gambling aDd licentiousness. In their place should be pursued the cultivation of the mind in reading history, biography and the best literature. This can be accomplished before the age of thirty. A young man should be endowed with love of truth, love of justice, love of God, love of man. Mr. McCulloch selected for his text the fourteenth verse of the second chapter of the first epistle of St. John: “I have written unto you, fathers, because ye bave known Him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.” A noticeable, fact, ho said, was that Western audiences were made up of young men. Horace Greeley’s advice had. nearly depopulated the East of young men. Until within the past few years business men in the West were mostly young, and came from the East, but their places' are being taken by Western youne men. Just before coming to Indianapolis, eight years ago, he had received a call to a church in an Eastern town. He preached there to an audience of white haired, bald-headed men. The youDg men had gone West, and he preferred to go there, too. History shows that young men are always in the front of great movements. The disciples were young men, and the appeals of Christ drew them out of themselves. It was young Luther who nailed his thirty-nine theses to the church door. John Kdox was not an old man when he led Scotland out of superstition into strong and sturdy Presbyterianism. It was young Mazzini who began the creation of young Italy. It was young Kossuth who gave Hungary a place among the nations. It was young Duffy, who, in 1832, laid the foundation of the Irish movement of to-day. It is young Russia that is stirring against despotism. ’ln 1848 young Germany sought to give that country a’repubiican constitution and it was the failure of the cause that gave to this country Schurz, Hassaurek, just dead, and others. He remembered when the Sabbath was different from the Sabbath of to-day. and wheu church attendance was different There has, indeed, been a change, but whether for better or worse, remains to be told. He was not one of those, though, who believed young life had changed for the worse. On the other hand, he believed the change had been for good. There is less peculation in pufcfcc life, greater faithfulness to trust, less vituperation in politics than when the government was founded. The questions then arose, why are young men found outside of the church, and why they should not be in. His friend, the Rev. Washington Gladden, of Columbus, 0., had investigated this matter, and of the result of his researches the speaker made use. Mr. Gladden sent out letters of inquiry as to the reasons young men gave for holding aloof from the church. A considerable number of those who responded treated the inquiry jocosely. They did not appreciate the gravity of the question. One wrote that he did not attend church because his sweetheart would not go. This was chaff, but others said they were embarrassed among old people, others did not like to hear politics discussed from the pulpit, while others objected to theological disquisitions. Some gave the contribution box as a reason. They were not able to stand its demands. Several said they remained away on account of costs. They did not feel at home among aristocrats. There were some churches, doubtless, of that class, but any enterprising young man can find a church somewhere in any city that will welcome him. Among other reasons were long sermons and that Sunday was the only day for recreation. He knew that sitting still in a church tor an hour and a half was not recreation, but in the prayers, music, songs and sermons there was recreation —recreation of new thought Others claim they do uot go to church because they are not invited. The newspaper announcements and ringing of bells proclaim a general invitation, and the politest young men are stationed at the doors to give every one a welcome. The reverend speaker then spoke of the danger in criticising a faith that was held by fathers and mothers. The influence of ehvrchea was the spirit of progress. Fifty years ago Indianapolis was founded by church members, on truth, or - 1

der and moral sentiment Everything that is pure, high and good is taught by the church. The church needs young men for its work. Never at any time was it doing more to educate young men intellectually and spiritually than row. Never were its philanthropic movements greater or its interest in the poor more widespread than now. The church gives the idea of perfect society. It has founded all the great institutions of learning, has given to the world the beauties of music and art. It has accomplished great reforms and leads in everything that is for the welfare of mankind. It is doing its work and says, “Come and see.” It makes good men. good neighbors, good children of the everlasting God. With an earnest appeal to young men to come within the church, the sermon closed. 1 A TALK TO RAILROAD MEN. Dr. Hunter’s Special Sunday Evening Service at Virginia-Avenue Riuk. There was another vast audiencee at the Vir-ginia-avenue Rink last night to hear the sermon of Rev. R. V. Hunter, of the Seventh Presbyterian Church. There were not sufficient seats to supply the immense throng, and numbers were turned away. The room was cool and chilly, but the crowd sat through the entire discourse with the closest attention. Dr. Hunter’s remarks were directed more especially to railroad men, and there were quite a number present His text was in regard to Paul before Agrippa—“ Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” In the course of his remarks he portrayed the danger of the railroad men, more especially the trainmen and engineers, and called upon them to put their trust in God, the all-wise Being. They were subjected to perilous positions, and were liable to be east into destruction without the slightest warning. There are 120,000 railroad men in the United States; if they would only be as true to their God as they are to the companies they represent, whatPa glorious thing for this country and for Christianity. Persons traveling feel safer if they know that the engineers and firemen are sober and Christian men. Railroad men, as a rule, avoid preachers,but Dr. Hunter asked them to feel free to approach him at any time and that he would not approach the subject of Christianity. He was assisted in his remarks by John G. Blake, who spoke of God’s greatness. Mr. Blake also sang several songs. There will be services again next Sunday night, when there will be ample seating accommodations, and the room will also be warmed. THE RECORD OF THE COURTS. United States District Court. Hon. VV. A. Woods, Judge. To-day—no special call. Superior Court. Room 2—Hon. D. W. Howe, Judge. 34130—Florence Emerson vs. Joseph Emerson; divorce for abandonment Granted. NEW SUITS. Room 1—34522. Amelia B. Mansur et al. vs. William Gullivar; appeal. 34519. Edward Richardson vs. John Cadwailader; appeal. Room 2—34520. Jacob Drux vs. Felix A. Walker; appeal. Room 3—34521. Travelers’ Insurance Company vs. James W. Hensley etal.; foreclosure of lien. 34518. George W. Campbell vs. Arhuacia Campbell; divorce. Criminal Court. Hon. Pierce Norton, Judge. Saturday—The State vs. Royse. On trial. To-day’s Call—The State vs. Henry K. Wyman; grand larceny.

A Scheme for Sheriff' Carter's Benefit. A Democrat, intensely in favor of reform, the other day said to a Journal reporter: “Next December the Board of County Commissioners will be Democratic.” “Well, what of it?” "Tho present Republican Commissioners are going tp select officers for the new work-house, which : a to be ready for occupancy in about two weeks. ” “That is all right.” “No, it is not You will see that every one of those officers is replaced by Democrats before Jan. I. If the present Commissioners would consent to put off using the work-house or appointing its officers until the Democratic members came in there would be nothing done that way until next spring. Now, the officers selected by the existing board, at the furthest, will not serve more than two months, for they will be removed as soon as possible." “In whose interest is the movement of reform exerted?" “The Democratic sheriff’s. As the work-house will very materially reduce bis fees the Democrats propose to make things even by appointing him superintendent." “That officer will be lucky. He will have two offices of emolument at the same time. Have you considered the legal aspect of the matter?” “No. Wedon’tintendtoconsider it. Markmy word, that within a month after the Democratic County Commissioners come in Sheriff George Carter will, with his jail force, have possession of the work house.” The reform Democrat hurriedly left to talk with Sim Coy about features of municipal ref orm. • Amusements This Week. Mr. John T. Raymond, the popular comedian, will be at the Grand the first part of this week, opening his engagement to-night with the political satire “For Coagress,” which will be repeated at the Wednesday matinee, with “In Paradise” to-morrow night, and “Colonel Sellers” on Wednesday evening. He will be followed for the remainder of the week by the veteran character actor, C. W. Couldock, in the standard old drama, “The Willow Copse.” English’s Operahouse will be closed the first part of the week, and the last part Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hart will appear in their new comedy, “Buttons,” which is said to be very entertaining. The Museum will have the usual curiosities and specialty company nil week, in addition to the drama, “The Gold King.” Whittonv’s “Satan’s Judgment” company will be the attraction at the Zoo all week. Mr. Stuckey’s House Again Raided. Another arrest of poker-players was made at Stuckey's Club-house at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Superintendent Lang was passing west on Washington street when he noticed a man supposed to boa capper, in front of the place. When he saw Lang the chap hastily moved inside and shut the door in the superintendent’s face. Lang forced his way in, ran up stairs, and caught the players iu the act of making a run on the bank. The prisoners, and the outfit replacing that seized the night before, were taken to the station-house. Sim Coy says that, although it is generally supposed that he is the proprietor of the Stuckey place, he has no interest in it, and has not had for several months. Free Lecture on Africa. Dr. Levi D. Johnson, of lowa, who sailed from New York, in February last, with Bishop Taylor’s company, for missionary labor in Africa, will give a free lecture upon that country, the natives, their customs and relidfcns, and social habits, etc., as seen by him, and his missionary prospects among .them, on Monday evening, Oct 5, at Friends’ Church, corner Delaware and St Clair street 7:30 p. m. Missionary Tea Party. A missionary tea party will be given by a committee of Roberts Park Church ladies, next Friday evening, at the residence of Mr. E. G. Cornelius, No. 348 North Meridian street A short programme of music and recitations will be one of the features of the evening. Supper will be served at 7 o'oiock.

PERSONAL MENTION. J. E. Burson, of Muucie, is at the Denison House. Hon. George W. Carr, of Medora, Ind., ia at Hotel Eoglish. William B. Roe, of London, Eng., ia at the Denison House. Mark Tilson, of Washington, D. C., ia at the Denison House. Hon. R. B. F. Peirce, of Crawfordaville, ia at the Denison House. Frank Wilson, a Chicago banker, is in the oity visiting his brother, Mr. Henry C. Wilson. Mr. aud Mrs. Ben Wolcott, and Mrs. F. S. Newcomer leave to-day for a trip through tae South. Gen. William McKee Dunn, ex-Judge Advo-cate-general, of Washington, D. C. f ia at the Denison. Governor and Mrs. Gray, accompanied by Private Secretary Pierre Gray and wife, left yesterday for St. Louis to witness the Veiled Prophets’ display. They will return on Wedneaday. A1 E. Schonacker, a well known young business man, died at the residence of his mother, No. 220 North New Jersey street, yesterday morning, of quick consumption. He had been in bad health for some time, but was only confined to bis room about a week. Hotel Arrivals. Occidental Hotel: W. B. Preston, Fort Wayne; J. L. Hememan, Connersville; G. Hacker, Rushville; A. B. Chaffee, Franklin; M. V. Smith, Cincinnati; J. White, Terre Haute; S. W. Abbey, New York. Hotel English: A. T. LaDuque, Connersville; J. H. Holland, Kansas City; G. C. Marsh, Michigan City; E. E. Schwinn, Mary Schwinn, Cora Schwinn, E. A. P. Haynes, Kirklin, Ind.; W. A. Pickens. Spencer, Ind.; H. W. Christman and wife, Crawfordaville. Bates House: C. L, True, Evansville; G. A. Smith, Glenville: C. E. Frey, John E. Frey, Anderson; S. Rosecran, Columbus; James B. Foley, Greensburg; Eugene Grant and wife, Kansas City; John R. East, Bloomington; Mrs. A. H. Shaffer, Huntington. Occidental Hotel: W. J. Briggs, Terre Haute; W. B. Preston, Fort Wayne; E. Jackson, Shelbyville; Wm. Meichel, Franklin, O.: T. A. Brock, Toledo, O.; A. W. Nelson, Covington; A. C. Harker, Vincennes; A. L. Bowman, New Castle; C. H. Wright, Madison; R. H. Tarleton, Martinsville. CITY IN BRIEF. William Neff, a young man from Peru, reports to the police that, while viewing the dark side of city life last week, his pocket was picked of S2O. A law and order meeting will be held in the rooms of the Morton Club on next Saturday evening. Addresses will be delivered by exGovernor Porter, Major W: H. Calkins, N. S. Byram, William Bossen and others. L.jt evening, at .the Sixth Presbyterian Church, the services were enlivened by a variety of pieces of music. Miss Ida Binsack gave a solo, Misses M. Strahan and Cora Sutherland gave a duet, two ladies and gentlemen joined in a quartet. There was a large aud appreciative audience.

Programme for the Reunion. The programme of the great reunion meeting at English’s Opera-house, commencing at 2 o’clock this afternoon, will be as follows: The organization and opening address by Geo. W. Carr, president of the constitutional convention of 1850. Calling of the roll of members to ascertain who are alive and who present. Prayer by the Rev. Oliver P. Badger, a dele gate to the convention from Putnam county. Letters from General Milroy and other absent members, and other interesting papers. At night, commencing at 7:30, addresses by Vice-president Hendricks on “The Constitution and Its Amendments:” By Hon. Win. H. English “On the Indiana constitutional convention of 1850, and the personnel of its members;” By Gen. Wm. McKee Dunn, “Review of some of the proceedings of the convention;” By General Hovey and others, on subjects that will not be known until the gentlemen arrive this morning. There will be an abundance of good music, songs and an interesting time generally. Everybody invited. No tickets needed. The programme of Tuesday’s meeting will be announced later. The Eclectic Medical College. The Indiana Eclectic Medical College opened its regular course of lectures on the Ist instant, with a full corps of able teachers and a fair prospect of a good class of students. Prof. N. G. Smith will deliver his opening lecture to morrow, at 2 o’clock p. m., in the lecture-room, No. 40 Hubbard Block. All frieuds of the college are invited to be present A Notice of Credit The capture of Reynolds and Edward Carskegon, together with their tools for counterfeiting coin, Saturday night, was due primarily to Turnkey Taffe. To him the clews were first given some days ago. When everything for the capture had been perfected by him the case was given to the arresting officers. Fanatical Opposition to High License. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Prohibitionists actually fought shoulder to shoulder with the friends of the liquor traffic to perpetuate the present liquor laws of the State, w hich allow no real restrictions to be placed upon the sale of rum, and which fill our streets with taverns and brothels, our almshouses with paupers and our prisons with crimi nals. They would not have exacted a license fee high enough to drive three-fourths of the lowest and worst dives out of existence and leave to survive a small number of only the most respectable or least objectionable saloons. If prohibition were not impossible its friends might have sense enough to attain it by decrees, and they would reach a long way toward it if they reached a restrictive high, license law. At present there are nearly 10,000 places in Philadelphia in which liquor is sold: under a high-license system there would not be 3,000. Stranger than Fiction Are the records of some of the cures of consumption effected by that most wonderful remedy— Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” Thousands of grateful men and women, who have been snatched almost from the very jaws of death, can testify that consumption, in its early stages, is no longer incurabie. The Discovery has no eqaal as a pectoral and alterative, and the most obstinate affections of the throat and lungs yield to its power. All druegists. . IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF STOCK. TRADEMARK Giles’Liniment lodide Ammonia Removes all Unsightly Bunches, Cure* Lameness in Cattle, Spinal Meningitis, Founder, Weak Limbs, Sprung Knees, Spavin, Ringbone, Quitter, Windgalls. No stable shoukl be without it. Railroad, mining and express companies all use Giles’ Liniment, and in the great racing stables of Belmont and Lorillard it has achieved wonders. One trial will convince. Write DR. GILES. Box 3483, New York P. 0.,wh0 will, without charge, give advice on all disease# and also on the management of cattle. Sold by all druggists at 500 and $1 a bottle, and In quarts at $2.50, in which there is great saving. The Liniment In white wrappers 1* for family use; that in yellow for cattle.

PiLLS CURE All Bilious ComplaHa They are perfectly safe to take, being purely vegetable and prepared with the greatest care from the best drugs. They relieve tne sufferer at once by carrying off all impurities through tha bowels. All druggists. 25c. a Box. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. GERMAN JpeM delate. Th most popular sweet ii iL fm Chocolate in the market. It fit* l I s nutritious and palatable; IsJ H&L v'| a Particular favorite with ISM I | VSls children, and a most excelft ® jn| lent article for family use. fire |1 n8 li The genuine is stamped 8, §§§ II n]| IL German, Dorchester, Mass, Kn If /i If f B of imitations. gold by Grocers everywhere. W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLES. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, NO. 3 .ETNA BUILDING.

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