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VOL. XVIII.—NO. 26.

REV. DUNHAM.

He Delivers his Lt dure on Masonry and Christianity at Masonic Hall.

Points of Semblance Between Masonry and the Christian Dispensation

Thursday night Rev. F. 8. Dunham leelured before tin members of Icire Haute Lodge No. 19 F. and A. and their friends, who were greatly pleased with what he said:

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The following is a short sketch of the lecture: The three degrees of Masonry correspond to Die Patriarchal, the Jewish, and Christian dispensttions. These three eras is a lodge of time. The Bible is a lodge, holding within it's great succession chambers of Genesis, "Law and Prophets," and New T.stament inysterlcg which are shown to him who trends those chambers. Our Blcused Lord s,

around, not only relieving the sick and comforting the atflcted, hot teaching truth by dark sayings. And HO Masonry is not only a practical, but an instructive institution. Masonry is truth taught by symbols. In the firs or Patriarchal ages, reaching from Adam to Moses, it's teachings were general its allusions to the great mysteries of redemption and ihe resurrection general and vague. The Jewish dispensation, was lull of promises, full ot anticipation, masked by dim, dawninga, but nowhere by the clearly displayed light. But when we come to the Christian economy, all arc lulfllled, anticipations realized, shadows vanish into substances. Then the myBtery of the resurrection the mystery of the eternal life, mystery of the tri unity are all displayed the fruiUon of kuowledge has burst upon the world. In the first degree of Masonry, it's Genesis, it's patriarchal dispensation, the light was limited, the knowledge general. Fortitude, prudence, temperance and justice were enjoined, for in the patriarch *1 the worship ot God consisted of a "few simple rites of devotion, and religion was the practice of morality. "Passed" io the second degree of Masonry, the Jewish dispensation, the "Law and the Prophets," all seemed to toreshadow and point forward, and to suggest the glories of that which was to come. Enterwl into the sublime degree of Master Mason, all types and shadows were lulfllled. Now we are in the Christian era, the New Testament time. 1 All is explained, the resurrectiou, the lite eternal, the full llowfir and blossom of perfected humanity, of divine love, of s/ incomparable glory. Death has lost it's ^"terror. The Worshipful Master of the universe stands forth iu the etlulgen.ee of £*£his divine m^jestv, and his unceasing justice. Throughout the three degrees of apprentice, fellow craft, and Master

Mason can be distinctly, plainly, and Pforcibly traced the three1 dispensations, revelations of time, in their order, iutheir marvelous harmony, In their splendid climax.

Thus has been taught Masonry and thus do I believe it be. Christianity aud Masonry go hand in hand. United with Christianity upon which it is built, it will stand, divided it will fall. "That which God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Love to our beloved traternity when sacriligious hands strive to divorce it from God and truth. The result of such unhallowed and impious efforts will only breed au adulterous and hybrid system,'hated of God atul despised ot men.

It is to prostitute the splendid and cnobling principles which unite to make the order of Free Masouy honored and elevating, aud make it. instead of a blessing to mankind, a curse, lurid with the baleful light which glares from the nethermost Hell. I do not dwell upon the purifying and manly principles of our loved institution. These have already been exhibited by those more able aud learned in its teachings than I am. But I do add that if ever, fc this country, as in infidel France, God is striken out of our vocabulary, the Almighty Architect of the Universe, will smite us with the $ fury of his just anger. The shattered ruins of our glorious" labric will excite only the pity and contempt of a justly indigni-nt people. The Tarpeian rock turned into a cabbage garden, and the magnificent fragments of porphcry and alabaster which the degenerate Ko1 mans used to build their pig stys will most fitly illustrate what Masonry will become when the Tri une God is driven from her sacred Temple. It is drivelling idiocy only which prompts such endeavors.

It is fiendish malignity aud ultramontane cunning allied to bitter hatred to our time sanctified and divinely inspired principles. It ts the spirit ot a child who would thrust a sword into the heart of its mother that he might witness iu the lifeless corpse a negative conservatism. Instead of being A message of liberality and freedom it is a proclamation of bigotry and malice. We can imagine the anguish and sorrow of the loyal Masonjof France,echo the woids of St. Mary of Magdaly "They have taken away lie Lord, aud jp we "know not whet* they have laid Him," as he enter* his lodge, and fetes the word of God no longer laying iu sacred state upon the alter.

Thank God that the Anglo-Saxon Ma vv- son-will never, can never, allow this sac

4 riligious criuie. Then, fellow-masons, -. in the name and in the might, and in the x:'vi Glory of the Great I Am, go on in eternal principles of divine charity, of sanctified humanity,ofdeyoMesthumiiity for they alone lead to victory, to happiness, to everlasting blessedness. Then, always and forever you will se® in the midst of all which Masonry calls on us to perform ~t? the form of One, hkc the Son of Man, to protect, to guide, to save, as He has been by the siae of Shadrach, Mesbach and

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IMMORTALITY.

An Inquiry Into the Question "Does Death End All."

The Doctrines of Materialists Scientifically Attacked by RevSweeney-

fle Vigorously Assaults the Theory That "Thought is to Brain as Harmony to Harp."

A Crowded House.

Ilev. Mr. Sweeney delivered another of his popular lectures last night at. tho Christian church and the occasion was more of au oration than the fir^t. Every seat and all the aisles were filled and scores were turned away unable to gain admittance. The subject, which has been previously announced, tho "Immortality of Man", lie discussed from a scientific point of view.

The lecture deserves a fuller report than we are able to give it, but it is thought the reporter has given all the leading points:

UFE AND IMMORTALITY.

The mysteries of life and death have over most powerfully appealed to men. One class of materialists tell us that life is an efflux of material organization. The liver sccretes bile, tli® stomach secietes gastric juice and so, they tell us, the brain secretes thought aud life power. Break down the organism of the liver and there is an end of bile secretion. Destroy the stomach and you put an end to the secretion of gastric jui'.e. Break up the organism of brain by death and you end thought, love and life. Now, I squarely deny any such theory.

The microscope has shown that the bioplasts weave nerve, bone and, tendon. All these are co-ordinated and woven into orgauiam.

They weave and work out a plan. A plan they unmistakably executed. The weaver, therefore, had

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It existed, therefore, before organism. It was not a material cause. Matter possesses inertness. But this weaver of material organism is above this property of matter. If Jhia living immaterial forecasting weaver can exist before organism it may exist after, and therefore .'PBATtr BOKS*0y.EfcD ALLr

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MFK IT IS CLAIMED ISKVOLVKIJI It was evolved they say from protoplasm. Involution and evolution form an equation. There is no organization in protoplasm. Life, therefore, existed before organization and may, therefore, exist after, and death, therefore, does hot end all.

There is molecular correspondence to the thought. It is not true of the frontal lobes seen under the .microscope. Aad if it were true, correspondence of molecular action would not necessarily prove itself the cause of thought. If it were the cause, when it varied thought would vary.

Destroy half the brain and the entire thought continues. The minds ot Channing, Schiller and other great men grew stronger as their braiu aud material organism grew weaker. These facts are sutlicient to destroy the theory that THOUGHT 19 TO BRAIN AS .HARMONY TO

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A. finer class «f materialists tell us that mind does not exist independent of mat. ter. "All nature," they say,

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faced unity with physical and mental sides." But this cannot lie. The properties of these sides are directly antagonistic. Weight and no weight extension and no extension. Such a theory contradicts an axiom, "No one thing can be and not be at the samo time and in the same sense." If a unity has properties directly antagonistic we can say of it, at the same time and in the same sense, that it weighs and it does not weigh. It has extension and it has not. Such a theory contradicts an axiom. A theory which contradicts an axiom must be false. This theory of materialism contradicts an axiom, and is, therefore, false, 1 tell you MIND MAY EXIST INDEPENDENT OF

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It is a veritable entity. Sensation verifies matter, and consciousness by the same process #crifles spiritual or mental verities If we can believe in one we are compelled, by the better testimony of consciousness, to believe in the other. We sav certain great axioms and truths are "self-evident," I ask self-evident to what? Is matter self-evident to matter?

The indivisibility of consciousness argues immortality. I "think," "suffer," "love," "Will." Consciousness is a unit. But such a thing cannot be predicated of matter. The indivisibility of mental consciousness argujs indestructibility, and, therefore, its immortal nature.

The instincts of the soul declare the doctrine of immortality. They put man on the anticipative as to a future. As the instinct of the migratory bird teaches a tropic or flowery* South, so the instincts of human nature teach a future state and therefore, an immortality for man. If there is no immortality to complement the instinct THE SOUL OF MAN IS AN ORGANIZED UB.

Man't moral longings demand a future state for a balance of the scales of Justice which too often receive the wrong tip in this life.

The language of the heart calls for immortality. The loves of this life and the friendships of our world hare no reason or moral meaning without a sequence

in a hereafter. Without a future they are a mockery to man. The purest love of man in his highest and holiest hours protest against the end ot all in death. Like a stoiy, the loves of life end here, "TO BE CONTINUED!"

Spirit phenomena hint to us stronglyjot immortal mystery. Men in all ages of the world ave testified to an "inner sight"— to visions that could not possibly have come through sensation. A great many .conclusions men hare arrived at from these phenomena and called them ,'Spiritualism," .. WHICH AS A SYSTEM I HAVE NOT* A8 YBT^

ACCEPTED.

I do not believe in the deductions made from the phenomena and am net therefore, properly a spiritualist.

Man has intuitions of time, space and cause. He was made for the eternities, infinities and immensities of the universe. His faculties and intuitions call for a larger world for man and argue, therefore, his continuance in another and there fore, his immortality. fesy

The Divinity of Christ, "which I have established in my course of lectures, endorses the doctrine of the im mortality of man. Christ arose and what he verified in himswlfj he affirmed of all men. .vftiifc'j.niertD IMMORTALITY IS A GRAND FACT IN TIllB

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It will soothe us when death blows his breath on our cheeks and this fact will make the blood of the soul leap with new life. It is a fact that gives rest to the weary, a home to the wanderer and rides the tides of time over Death, Hell and the Gravp!"

THE STAR ROUTES.

Efforts Being Kade to Get at the Bot torn of the Business-

STAR ROUTE HA8CAI.ITY.

WASHINGTON, June 3.—Attorney General McVeagh has been vigorous and untir'ng in hunting down the Star route ring, and he has more evidence than the public is aware of. He has searched all the records of the department connected with the Star route contracts, and confidential special agents have been sent to secretly gather testimony on the line of the expedited routes. Nothing has been left undone that would unearth evidence of fraud. At first the Star route ring talked boldly, under the supposition that so long as no member turned State's evidence they were safe. Boasts were made herein Washington that the investigation would fail it is different now. Men who shared in the ring are anxious and uneasy aiid it is predicted that some of them will leave the country. Attorney General McVcagh and Postmaster General James are determined to prosecute the ring, and the/ have evidence enough to procure indictments against numerous parties. The Postmaster Gentral has copies of

DCRSEY'S CORRESPONDENCE.

w'th his agents who procured petitions for Star routes, and some original letters and documents throwing light on the methods employed in ArKansas and the Southwest have been obtained. The depositions of some persons who helped prepare the way for the expedited routes have been procured also. The Evening Star to-day gives a list of the men who will be presented to the Grand Jury for indictment.

Among tiie list is S. B. Elkins, formerly^ delegate in the House of Representatives from New Mexico, and son-in-law of a United States Senator. Elkins was "intimate with Dorsey when the latter was in the Senate a year or two ago, and gave out that he had made a fortune in mining speculations, and he established himself in grand style in New York. He was a partner of K. C. Kerens, of St. Louis, in the Star route contracts. Elkins, by his influence here, got Star c(ptracts and hud them cxpe dited, while Kc-ens looked after operating the lines. Ex-Congressman McKibben is another man mentioned for indictment also J. Price, of Missouri.

The late sixth auditor, McGrew and his deputy, Lilley, will also be presented to the Grand Jury. McGrew claims that his duty as Sixth Auditor was only to carry out the directions of Second Assistant Postmaster General Brady, and that therefore he cannot be held responsible lor any wrong but the Sixth Auditor is invested with unusual discretionary powers to he used for the protection of the Government, but that he didn't protect the Government is shown by favors granted to Star route contractors in releases from fines and forfeitures properly imposed OH them, and which ought to have bceu collected.

GEN. BRADY

is also on the list announced to be prosecuted, as is Senator Dorsey, French (Brady's chief clerk). R. C. McCormick is also mentioned as one ofthose who may be prosecuted. The trials, when they commence, will necessitate the summoning of a very large number of witnesses from distant points, especially from the West and Southwest.

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Messrs Isbell & Miller will give a special coune iu penmanship which will embrace the first principles of drawing, shading, pen lettering, German text, old English, card writing, stamp writing flourishing, designing and engrossing. Tuition $5.00] old students, free.

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PANAMA CANAL.

De Lesseps' Company Succeeds in Gob blli»o the Panama Railroad.

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial, NEW YORX, Jnne 8.—The Tribune will say: The long-pending negotiations for the purchase of the Par De Lesseps Panama Canal Company were

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brought to a successful close. The agreement, which will be signed to-morrow by the American Committee and officers of the railroad company will have to receive the formal ratification of the canal company, but there is believed to be little doubt that the contract made by the American Committee will be approved. conference between the members of this committee and Trenor W. Park, of the Panama Railroad Company, was held this afternoon at the officc of Drexel, Morgan & Co. The chairman of th« committee, ex-Secretary Thompson, wai present Winslow, Lanier & Co. were represented by J. W. Ellis and J. W. Seligman & Go. by Jesse Seligman. The members of the American Committee were unwilling to make public the terms of the agreement because, they said, the committee had no absolute authority from the company to which the agreement would have to be submitted. It is understood, however, that under the condition of the agreement the stock of the Panama Railroad Company is to be bought at 250, and that the railroad company is to retain the cash assets now in the treasury, which it is estimated, amount to an additional 45 per cent., so that the stockho'der will receive about 295 percent, for their stock. TTie canal company is to pay $5,000,000 July 1, and after that one fifth of the balance of the purchase money each year, with interest at six per cent The company is given the privilege, however, of paying the whole amount at any time within eighteen months, by giving three months' noticc of its intention to do so. The Panama Railroad Company is to retain the possession and management of the property until the whole amount shall have been paid, and a majority ot the seats in the Panama Railroad Company is $7,000,000 and at 980 the purchahe money would axiount therefore to $17,000,000. The cash assets to be retained by the company, which amount to something 'ver $8,000,000, make the total value of the property, according to the agreement between $20,000,000 and $21,000,000.

AN INFORMAL IN ^PEOUON.

President Garfield and Fortress Monroe.

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CINCINNATI, June 0.—News comes from Berlin, Ky., a small town 16 miles from Augusta, of the murder of Wm. Sims by his brother-in-law McLow. Sims, and McLow were last seen together on Friday evening, when McLow, who was drunk, was accusing Sims of having stolen his money. On Sunday Sims body was found in the woods bearing 11 stabs which caused his death. McLow when sober found the money on his own person. He has confessed the murder and is in jail at Brookville.

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'ORTRESB MONROE, June 4—The ^Jkmer Dispatch, with President Garfield, Secretary Hunt, Admiral Porter and others arrived here this morning. Salutes were fired from the port, the school ships Constitution. Saratoga and PortsinoathaiuUfibrman pteamer jjymn phe, and the yards were manned. Tne officers of the ships cilled on the Prudent and party. They came ashore to the hotel, where they dined. Here they were met by General Getty and staff with a band of the artillery school, when a reception was held.

NORFOLK, June 4.—The United States steamer Dispatch, with President Gar. field, Secretary of the Navy-yard arrived this afternoon and were received with a salute of twenty-one guns. Owing to the inclemency ot the weather they did not go ashore, as intended, but were visited by officers of the yard, Congressman Dezendorf, and many citizens. They leave for Washington tl)is afternoon.

FORTRESS MONROE, June 5.—This morning the President and party cauie ashore and passed into the fort, where they witnessed guard mount and inspected the troops of the garrison. At 2 o'clock, accompanied by General Getty, they drove to the Soldiers' Home, near Hampton, and inspected that institution. A salute was fired by Governor Woodfin in honor ot the visit. TLe party then proceeded to Hampton Normal School, and were shown through the buildings and grounds by General Armstrong. The National Cemetery was next visited while services were being held in Betasaba Chapel. The party entered and remained through the service, and at its conclusion the President made a short address to the students. At 5 P. M. the Dispatch got under way, and after sailing arountt the fleet, proceeded to Washington. The yards of each vessel, in eluding the Gt-rman school ship Nymphe, were manned, and three cheers were given as the Dispatch passed.

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•RAIT.ROAD ELECTION

LOUILVILI.E, June 7.—The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Owensboro & Nashville Railroad Company was held at the L. & N. ofllces and the followdir?ctor8 elected: Gen. E. O. Alexander, A M. Quarrier, Col. F. Defunlak, H. W. Bruce and Henry C. Murrell, of Louisville Col. J. W. Thomas, Nashville Col. R. S. Bevier, Russellville, Ky. The total stock of the couiDany is 46,048 shares, of which 88,109 shaYes were represented at the meeting. The organization of the board was jiostponetl until a future day.

TURF TAI.K.

The Courier-.Journal? a Nashville special says: Considerable excitement was occasioned here hy the reception of a telegram announcing the sale of Aranza to Lorillard for 12,000. Aranza was owned by C. H. Gellock and Col. Geo. Darden,

Scotland. Gen. Harding has purchased Bramble from Dwyer Bros, for a stallion. Long Taw has been turned and Fellowpiay is off. Charlie Howard has been sent to the farm of B. F. Oockrill.

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predicted a frost on the fifth

and there was one in New York State.

THE TURNERS.

Immense Snooees of the Great Tournament in

Loaia.

The Award* of Prue»—Terre Hante Don't Oat Any.

ST. LOUIS, MO., June .5.—The Turners festival formally opened to day at the Fair Grounds with an elaborate programme, consisting of people turning fbr premiums. These exercises embraced stone throwing, broad leaping, high leaping, evolutions, staff leaping and declamations and several other exercises were on the programme, but they were not performed for want of time and went over until to-morrow. The notable features of the day were the high leaping ot Herman Keehler, of Milwaukee, who beat the best previous record by leaping five feet, seven inches. The running broad leaping ofE. Wolf and E. Boyers, of New York, who jumped nineteen feet, four inches and nineteen feet two inches, respectively. The climbing of a dangling rope, usinjr the hands only, of Wm. Zoeller, of Chicago, who scored forty-two feet, and L. Brock, of Bridgeport, Conn., and Fred Ruhl, of New York, who scored forty feet each, and the stone throwing of Alfred MeUr, of Atchison, Kas„ twenty-one feet ten inches Fred Holtz, Milwaukee, twentyone feet two inches. The stone thrown weighed thirty-seven and one holf pounds. Carl Richslein, of Chicago, also climbed to the top of dangling rope, but in consequence of committing errors, under the rule was set back several f«et. In declamation, Major Albert Walber, of Milwaukee, took the first prize, and Julius Mathewson, of Chicago, second prize. The prizes will not be awarded until the grand picnio at Forrest Park on Tuesday. The crowd present was simply immense, reminding one of the big days during the four week. There were probably 30,000 people on the grounds during the day, and, notwithstanding the weather was intensely warm, nothing occurred to mar the

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leasure enjoyment of the occasion. there has been social gatherings at all the Turnvcrein Halls in the city, and great numbersof the visiting Turners and their friends accepted the hospitalities of the Club. The turning programme will continue at the Fair Grounds tomorrow. About 100 Turnvereins are represented from different parts of the country by about 2,000 Turners, but the friends of these and the excursionists, who have come to the city to witness the festival, will swell the numbers of strangers to 15,000 or 20,000. .TTT

Affirmed.

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decision affirming the order of the special teims which vacated the previous order allowing tho plaintiff the rigt to examine the defendants books in order to amend complaint.

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Otter Creek township was visited at any early hour yesterday morning by several disastrous flashes of lightning. At about 5 o'clock lightning struck J. II. Evans's barn, seven miles north of this city. Two horses and one mule were instantly killed, one horse had an eye knocked out and four other horses were considerably stunned. John Frey, a laborer on the farm escapcd with his life in a miraculous manner. He was sitting right behind the horses and was only partially stunned. The loft was filled with hay, but not a straw was burned. The only visible burning was where the lightning ran into a liniment bottle in the stable. Mr. Evans is, a brother-in-law to County Recorder Phillips.

A mile and a half this side of Mr. Evans's place lightning struck a tree in front of Abraham Markle's yard. It was torn into splinters, throwing them about in all directions. Several window lights were broken and the whole household more or less stunned.

Otter Creek schoolhouse, five miles north of town, was struck about the same time. One end of the building was tofn off. The loss will be $100.

Five sheep lelonging to George Farmer, four miles north of town, were also killed by lightning.

The early publication of a complete biography of the late Senator Oliver P. Morton is contemplated by his family, and its preparation will be under their immediate supervision.

THE Kokomo Woman Suffrage ciub are making arrangements to entertain all delegates and visitors to the annual convention of the Indiana Woman suffrage Association on the 15th and 16th iiuLa large delegation is expected from all rt of the State.

Sermon on the Work in Brocklym Tabarnaele-

Since it was claimed that the mistakes corrected were not important onej, he could not see the necessity for correcting them. "Hands off the word of God* Remember the fate of Uzziab," Mr. Talmage shouted. He said if tho revision should be received there would roon be a Baptist revision, a Methodist Revision, and so on, "until possibly," he said, "I snail issue a revision."

TIIK storm Sunday morning blew dowa a large and beautifull tree on the cornec of Sixth and Deming streets.

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Desperate Efforts to Find a Text That Has Not Been "Abolished.

•peolal to the Cincinnati Commercial. NEW YORK, June 5.—One of the larff-» est congregations ever assembled in the Brooklyn Tabernacle was present to heat Talmage preach on the revision of tho Testament this morning. In his introductory prayer he repeated the words of the Lord's Prayer, and started to say "For thine is the kingdom," &c., when ho end* ei abruptly, remarking, "Here we are commanded to stop." He chose as his lesson of the day John v., but he ha read only a few verses when lie remarked, "I don't think I'll tead any more of it that has been abolished or mado doubtful." Then he turned to John viii, and begaa reading concerning the woman taken in adultery, and breaking off in the middle of the story, he said, "But that also hat been abolished, and I'll pass that." Turning toJJohn v. lie heard a little and then stopped, saying, "I go no further with that reading, as that also has been abolished. I think|I will have to turn to the Old Testament, for the Old Testament Commissioners have not reported yet and will not for three years." He then read Psalm xix.

In course of the sermon he said: "Nine hundred and nincty-niao out of every thousand regret in the depths of their souls that the revision has been attempted and look upon it as a desecration and a profanation and a mutilation and a religious outrage. I am willing to tako it as a commentary, and to stand it rcspect* fully on my book-shelf behind other human opinions of the word of God, but to put it upon my private stand, or in my'family room, or on my pulpit as a substitute for King James' translation, I never will and I put my hand on the old book and take the oatti of allegiance, so help mo God. [Loud applause.] I am glad to know Lord Shatisbury and tho Archbishop of York and many other strong mcu on the other side of the sea are anti-revisionists. But supported by high authority or no authority, I hero and now take my stand. [Applause.] These fifty men after llveycars' tinkering with the word of God, announce that they have net found a new doctrine. If it had been found that the translation was teaching any false idea* of God, or of the soul, or of the future, I would say by all means give us a new version and put forth the immediate and mifrhtieet etlort for the organized obliteration of 'the old translation. The world cannot afford to have wrong notions of God and the soul and eternity. This revision of 1881 is a deprecation of the 800,000,000 copies of the Bible out in the world and doing their work. It assails the magnificent liturgy of the Episcopal Church and makes all her prayer looks vast inaccuracics. It makes the inscriptions on the graves of your dead untrue. It reflects upon the old family Bible, and leaves nothing certain save the record of marriages, births and deaths. If this new version succeed, for the next few years you will have to watch your children's offering of the Lord'B Pmyer, and jerk them up short before they run over the evil one into an uninspired dcxology.—[Laughter] "It is an out-and-out war aga'ns* all the religious literature of the ages. Who undertook this impertinence on the other side of the seat? I know not the qualifications of tho men who have done the work. I understand that many of them are far from being the lc*t scholars of Great Britain, I only judge them by this reason: It is pedantic, capricious and false to the principle which they disclosed at the outset would guide them, namely, that they would make no unnecessary changes. The work is a literary botch which will never be adopted if all the people, fearless of criticism and rebuff, speak out the sentiments." "You remember Christ's sermon where he speaks of putting new wine into old bottles. The new version substitutes the word 'skins,' as if they could not explain bottles as well as skins. [Laughter-] 'Show mc a penny,' said Christ. The revisers sav, "Show me a denarius [Laughter.) The old translation was too much for the delicacy of our American part of the new testament company, where it says, 'For he was naked.' The American Committee chose that it should read 'Had on iiis undergarment only.' [Laughter.] The new version shook the faith of tne great multitude on the Bible, and gave color to the attacks of infidelity." He deplored the circulation of statements that there are forty errors in the King James version of the Sermon on the Mount, and 150,000 errors the New Testament. He believed the revision would make more infidels than the thirty-eight revisers could reclaim in the 969 years of Methuselah and & halfdozen other biblical patriarchs of tho great age combined.