- ‘ C. ' ". . St. Louis, January 9, 1878. b CHANLOT. Cashier. rmorrat. Vw .- EZNDW sniuns. — SHIRTS. Using Linens 15 to 30 per cent heavier than are ordinarily used, our Shirts give corresponding ad- ditional service. Jiitire satisfac- tion always guaranteed._ WILSON BROS. 408 N. Fourth Street, St. Louis. 67 & 69 Washington St., Chicago. (39 &~ 71 Fourth Street,Cinciiixiati. Lac ale-Blrclerfln 31, Fifth, Sixth and Chestnut Sts., ST- LOUIS- It. BIRCHER, 'Prop., The undersigned nas taken the mana emeiit of the above hotel. and will be pleased to see iis friends and the generalti'avelln,f ic, upon wnici is numerous progeny ciie y subsist after converting it into the favorite dish of Oklahoma, viz: Tom Fuller. Being thus out- ~ raged in his property and threatened in his per- son, the patriarcli left his numerous household and proceeded 200 miles to this place to lay his great grievances before the Uiiited States_h-la'r- slial, who represents the sovereign autlioi-it-y of Upcle _S?ll.IIl1l)1%l Etllllolflgollllls hred Cll1l.(2Xl’Cl‘£] and tlileli otier in in ian s 0 ’ a oma. ill. on Wi doubtless obtain the redress and protection sgught and his enemies their just clue; but wliether, after all, he will again enjoy permanent peace and security in his distant native home among his red brethren. remains to be seen. When once a feud .8:::rl?;r.-.r:i:; It s r ‘ . FOUR LONE WOMEN. Deputy U. S. Mai-slial J. C. Wilkinson arrived from the Creek_Nation last Monday, having in custody four Indian women whom be arrested at ‘-Muscogce, C. N.. on the charge of selling spirit- uous liquors without license. The Marshal ar- rested three other Indian women on the same charge. but was necessitated to leave two of the number on the road because of their sickness. The other dusky damsel lulled the suspicious of her guard and iiicoiitinently escaped. THE GRIM KING. Death of Two Old Citizens of Quincy, -Illinois. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat: QUINCY, ILL., January 27.—‘-Mrs. Holmes, widow of the late Hon. Samuel Holmes, of this city, died to-day at Maryville, Mo., where she was visiting a daughter. Mrs. Holmes has been .. a resident‘ of Quincy for more than forty-five years; leaves two sons and five daughters, all grown. No lady in Quincy was more loved and respected, or will be more missed. She was ‘a sister-in-law of the venerable ex-Gov. John Wood. She will be buried here on Tuesday. F. K. Carroll, another of the pioneers of Quincy, having lived here forty-one years, died this morning. He was an honored and respected . citizen. and was sixty-eight years of age. He leaves a wife and four grown children, all living in Quincy. Marine. PORT EADS. January 27.—Arrived--Ship Paul Bovnton. Dublin; barks Washington, Martinque; Elliotts, Rio Janeiro; brig Prime, Marseilles,‘ Sa.iled——Steaniships St. Louis, Liverpool; Dilston Castle, Antwerp; Gen. Whitney, New York; schooner Etta Jose, Boston. PLYMOUTH, January 27.-Arrived-Steamship Hei-der, from New York. , SAN FRANCISCO, January 97.--Arrived-.-Steamer South Carolina, from Panama. QUEENSTOWN. January 2_7.-—Arrived-Steain- THE GREAT co ‘itovnnsr. Both Sides Stil‘ fictive and Earn ‘C. "8 v Bishop Baltes on 1 §Mission of the Catholic ‘lurch. Rev. Dr. Snyder’s we of the Con- troversy as, ;-“Outsider.” Mr. Francis Dillon Eagan On Bishop Ryaii’s Critics. A Variety of Interesting Letters from All Quarters. Bishop Baltes’ Lecture. . Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. ALTON, ILL., January 27.—Bisliop Baltes de- livered another lecture to-night, to a. crowded church. on Catholicism. He demonstrated the continuity of the Church from the time of the apostles, and contended that the doctrines now taught are the same as have always been taught by it as matters of faipli. He, as on last Sunday, extended a cordial and aflectionate invitation to Protestants to examine the truth of the claims of the Catholic Church. ‘ f‘ The Religious Controversy Seen from the Outside.” At the Church of the Messiah, yesterday, the pastor, Rev. Doctor Snyder, preached .on the above—named topic. He spoke as follows: "A city that is set on a hill can not be bid.”- Matt. v, 14.. There is one feature of the present religious controversy which I, as a member of the clerical order, deprecate and regret. Iain amazed and grieved at the sight of the issues and ques- tions over which mature nien--who have reached the years if not the possession of discrcti'on—are able to fight with bitterness and interest. Of course I have areasonable measure of profession- al pride, but that pride has been abundantly hu- miliated in the past month by the substance of this controversy. The great old Church of Reine .sp_eak- ing tlirough one of its honored represe-nta_tivcs, presents, in/answer to the needs of _a_ charitable institution, a popular lecture explaining and en- -forcing some of the doctrines and practices of the Church which are most coniinoiily misunderstood by the Protestant world. Now the claims of the Catholic Church always present the terms and constituenisof an unsettled religious issue. No- body will deny that these claims can always be legitimately brought into dispute, Or even that they form part of those great questions, the agi- tation of which is wholesome for the public mind. That Church and that cause must be weak, iii- deed , which resents as div’.-.courtesy any proper at- tempt to look into the nature of its credentials. I do not disbelieve in or disapprove of religious controversy. It ‘in the philosophical and scien- tific world opinions, discoveries and theories are contrasted and compared, judgments disproved and abandoned,1 can see no reason why the same healthful process may not prevail in the analysis of religious beliefs. A witty, orthodox minister has recently said that every Church ought to have a salaried infidel in its congre- gallon, whose business it should be to keep awake during the sermon, and on Monday inorning “labor” with the preaching, and show him the unprovcd statements, the lzroundless assertions, and the illogical assumptions which are the besettlng sins of ministerial work! This might not be practicable, however profitable, but in place of it might. it not be desirable to periodi- cally expose every system of theology to the ventilating and uie‘d‘ic-ating. influence of the nine- teenth century atmosphere? Besides, there is nothing more healthful for a Church than to be compelled to defend its doctrinal position, and make good its claims. All the strongest and most influential minds of the Church were developed during its periods of controversy. It is not till a. Churcli possesses all knowledge, and all power, and all faith, and all truth, that it becomes the refuge for those little minds who learn their in- fallible lessons by rote! Tiierefore, I think itis a good sign if men are willing to compare their 8 il'l§o - ll." ' pBut, as soon as Bishop Ryan had spoken, the columns of the "Great Religious Daily" were instantly craniined with ciamorous communica- tions—-and they have been kept up till the pres- ent day—whicli more closely resembled the contest. of rival cab-drivers surrounding a be- wildered rural traveler, than anything else that comes to my miiid—Baptists, Methodists, Catli- olics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Swedenborg- Ians, Universalists, miugliiig their voices and distributing their blows with tliat-limitless free- dom and generous impartiality cliaractcristic of an Irish fulr! But while I deprecate all the un- cliaritableness and uiigeiiei-osity which charac- terize such a COl’ll«l'OV9I'l.'l_V'-'-'VVhll0 I think it is poor logic and poor sense and poor Christianit ' for men to call each other “infidels” an ‘ ‘fools’ ’ and ‘ ‘ignorain uses’ ’—yet I realize that this may be nothing but the froth of debate, and that the very spirit and excitement which pro- duce such superficial results may have as their deeper consequences a valuable intellectual stimulation, the good effects of which may rcliiain after the memory of invective and discourtesy has passed away, and which may not perina- nenlly affect. the spirit of Christian charity. But. what has grieved and discouraged me in this controversy more than anything else is the fact that men of the clerical order, of all denom- inations, have been willing to drag into the public eye, V and treat as matters of supreme and absorbing importance. questions which are in such glaring contrast with the great interests which influence the thought and study and action of laymen and women in all depart.- ments of human life! This is the cause of the profoundest huiniliation. In an age when men of large thought and phil- anthropic purpose are striving, with a. great hope in their hearts, to find some method by which men of all races and clinics and conditions shall‘ be taught that their greatest interests are identical, that war 18 but the chess game of despots, and that she true ground of national and international brotherhood 18 not similarity of creed. or color, or caste, but the presence of the grand material and moral and intellectual interests which they hold in common. In such a sublime hour as this. what must the larger com- mon sense of the world think of a_ priestly caste that dares to declare that men of a common stock and a common faith, men of equal virtue, educa- tion. brains and morality, arc enemies or friends of God and man by virtue of their acceptance or rejection of some speculative dogma of ecclesias- ticisin which never was and never will be sus- ceptible of demonstration in this world. At a time when the world has outgrown its reverence for. and deference to, a1». bitary autlioriiy in evgyy depurtuieut of thought and education-wlien every science and philoso- phy must carry tbelrowii sufficient denioiistra- tion or be rejected--when men have respect for great ,trutlis, not for _xrea.t- names—-wlieii in the h1,9.‘llBl.‘ regions Of thought. all regard for more hci'cdita.ry authority in the State, for titles of no- bility, etc., are treated as obsolete notions, hav- ing no place in the enlightened conduct of life- wlien more and more men and things and systems are being taken ior their wort_h, and not for their aiitiquh-ies—at such a time as this, what must wise and thoughtful men in the secular walks of life think of a body of full-grown men , who. in dead earliest and with every appearance of sin- cerity, stake the whole destiny of that religious faith, which should be dearer than life itself, up- on the doubtful reading of an-ancient father 1,400 years dead? Not asking their faith to give voice to its present divineness. but to prove its sacred ch:-iracter by its conformity to a Cliurch instituted 2,000 years, ago, as if God had been dumb or deaf for eighteen centuries, ‘leaving no wltiiess of Ills truth in the world, except to the guardians‘nip of the men who have fought from the begiiiiiiiig over its true significance. And then again. there is profound humiliation in the thought, that judging from this controversy the men who control the i'elig'ious interests and sentiments of this community have no realizing sense of the character and the niagnitudc of the dangers that really beset Christianity as an bis- toric and lllSl3ILl1lil(.ll'l‘rll religion. Buckle gives an amusing and sad picture of the Courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France. The country is in begfiaryaiid ruin. The rich are prcylng upon and desplsing the poor; commerce sleeps in the sluggish arms of its waters, and sloth sits in its ‘market. places; while down the corridors of the century may even then be heard the rumbling volcano that covered 'Fl'l1ll(}C with the fiery gur- ment of the revolution. And yet the nobility and gentry of the land are convulslng their COl.lll'z_'y with the clamor of their disputes about ribbons and decorations,-arid the tremendous questions of who should sit or stand in‘ the presence of the King,or who should enjoy the honor of putting on the Queen's clothes! llistory institutes some sad and ludicrous comparisons. Here in this splendid civilization of the miieteentli century is a company of gentlemen-—the appointed stewards of religious faltli—-wlio are quarreling and calling each other opprobrious names and feebly ex- comniunicating each other from the folds of their common Master, and all about questions of vest- ments and caiidles—holy orders, sacraments and patristic definitions. as if the very essentials of Christianity were involved in the issue;eacli fear- ful that the other. by a false interpretation or the faith, of and , snip Moravian, from Baltimore. 1 both seemingly ia- religious differences in a reasonable and dignified - {Sm 3--NO. 250. A 1 noi-ant of that power of critical and historic and materialistic Infidelity which has assailed the vet‘! citadel of institutional faith! The claiilI0I' Ql their intestine warfare has drowned, for thflli ears. the battle cry of the commbn foe! While they are settling their disputes coiiceriiin the riglit method of administering baptism an O the Lord's supper; while they are determining - whether or not a Church can exist without bish- ops, the living minds of the age are listeiiingto the voice of this gigantic skepticism which is _discrediting- the whole structure .0‘. their religion-wliicli is qihstionlng or denying the very credibility of these gospels-< Which. discarding ecclesiastical notions and? legends, is studying in impartial, secular history,’ the very genesis and root of all these differing churches and crecds, and discovering that the Churches of Rome. and England, and Germany and Geneva alike partake of the weakness. the igiioi-ance, the falllbllity common to all human institutions. And yet what evidence have these gentlemen given that they discern or appreciate the tre-- mendous signs of the times? A few 1'6li2.‘lOll8 thinkers have realized the actual dangers. .Men like. Colenso, and Arnold, and Jowett, and Ilrooke, and Farrar, have made, and are making, brave efforts to put the people's faith upon secure! foundations-—to recast the evidences of Christian- ity—to gracefully yield untenable theological , positions, and surrender doctrines Wl]1Cll- can no longer be rationally defended. But the great mass of tlicologians are carefully preserving the dried and slirunkeii skin of a system which the livine: religious thought of the times slouglied off a century ago. Tlierefore. while I think the result of_ this con- troversy might have been the subjecting of Catholic claims to a dignified an impartial examination, and necessitated a restateinenl'._o1 those claims, always healthful in the life of any Church; while I think much good might have been done by calmly, but fearlessly con- trasting those claims with theaims and purpose: of modern civilization, and slfowing their utter incongruity, I am seriously afraid that the child- isli and incoiisequential manner in..._which this controversy has been conducted will_ tend to the increase either of Infidels or _Cal.holics—-per- liaps of both. For when the ordinarily iiistrucl:- ell people see that the guardians of religion-so called-——are disputing among tliemselves about what they call the very essentials of the faith, unable to agree upon doctrines whic_li they agree in regarding as necessary to salvation, will not these people fall into doubt, distrust and dis.- belief, and come to feel that the whole mass of historic Clll'lSl.lzl.Il.llS§’ is incapable of verification? I am convinced, therefore, friends, that in all future religious discussions, if the results are to be valuable. and to tend to the greater unifica- tion , there must be present several necessary ele- ments which are conspicuous in this contro.vcrsy by their absence. In the first place, I think it will be_ Obvious upon refiection that men will be influenced in religious matters by the same principles of thought and testimony, and the same laws of logic that prevail in other depart- ments of thought and study. There must be a simple appeal to reason and evidence; the needle otjudgment must not be swayed from the polar star of truth by the concealed power of passion or selfishness! What would we think of a lawyer who told a judge or a juror that his fame, fortune, reputation and life depended upon a_ legal decision? What would we think of a scientist who attempted to recommend his theory _of light or heat by telling men that their everlasting sal- vation depended upon its acceptance? We would say that. such men, or any man, who selfishly looked to the personal consequences of the pur- , suit of truth, were not worthy of the truth they sought. And yet, here are men representing the several leading Christian denominations, who do not blush to tell ignorant people——wiiose intel- lectual integrity needs to be carefully guarded- that while they must use their reason to deter- mine their faith, yet the hope of heaven or the fear of hell must be tlirown either into the Protestant or Catholic scale of the balance! Such an appeal to passion and selfishness is unworthy the eiiliglitenment and culture of the present time. It is a fragment of ‘the dark ages. It ren- ders the impartial pursuit of truth impossible. and disposes men to accept the faith that looks the safestratber than the one that looks the -most reasonable. It must become an axiom,‘ that when men are honestly and earnestly seeking for the truth, no matter what the conclusion they reach, it can in no wise affect tlieirspiritual destiny. We must feel that it is better to be an honest and con- scientious infidel than a selfish, timid. tiine-serv- ing Cliristian. who lives in the cliildisli terror of l 0 some hobgoblin skeqptlcism that may leap out of a dark closet and steal away his faith . And these men must recognize that religious truth, like all other truth, must bear with it the power of present self deinonstration. Even if the fathers and Councils of the Church presented an uuequ'ivocal.. unbroken. 'ui1i:n'istak:ible line of testimony concerning the faith and practice of the early apostles. still that would not modify this necessity. It is not what Newton taiiglit. and believed about astronomy, but what Proctor is able to demonstrate now by the use of his sub- lime mctliods and truths that concern the world. at present. It is not what the apostles taught or did, but what. the modern Church is able to'do by the same gospel, in OOllV’Cl'llllg, redeeniiiig and purifying the world. If my bread is good don’t care whether the wheat came from the hands of an Eggyplian mummy or can oiilybe traced back to an Illinois prairie. It is time the living Church came to a solid gold . basis, that its coin of trutli and reusoiiiibleucss should pass current in all nations and unioiig all peoples, not on accountof its antique supoi'scrip- tioii, but because of its in triiisic preciousiicss. A paper money creed, drawn upon the bank of the apostles or fatlier.-, may be genuine and may be ‘ ‘wild cat,” but its circulation must be confined to those who are able to tell the false from the genuine by reference to the apostolic or p.~itrisi:‘c detectors. I am afraid there is a great deal of counterfeit money of this bankiii ilicliaiids oi the i'eligious world. ’I‘lierc will ‘never be any difliculty in determining the ‘ ‘true Clilii-ch of God.” A city set on a hill cziii not be hid. It. is only by rubbing the l.l'llC luinp (iii the Arabian tale) that the genil are made to obey the wrong construction, will destroy the foundations 1 summons. You may scour all the other old lziiiips in the city and raise no spirit. It is only the true Church of Christ that does the work of -Clii-is-l;. Cl‘liat is true, sl;i'on,9:, pure, cliaritzible, honest and just; tliat helps the fzilleii, 5l,i'l‘}llg'Lll8llS the weak, bears its lnstaiit testimoiiy £l_.‘_l_‘2llllSl. op- pression and injustice. The fruits of the spirit do not ripen in the dark, nor can tliey be mis- taken for the Dead Sea apples of SClIl:lllllCSS and sin. As well ask the glorious S})l‘lllg‘ to bring‘ credentials when its hands are full of .