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GIVING AS AN ELEMENT OF CHRISTIAN
WORSHrf. I
The presentation of offerings needs to be
recognized as an act of the purest, most
elevated Christian worship.
That we are to take the words ot the |
Bible in a literal sense, and “ bring an
offering” when we come into his courts,
we bring a prayer and a psalm, many do
not understand. “ That belonged to Juda
ism. We no longer make sacrifices." Yes;
many no longer make sacrifices when they
oome to worship.
Under the ancient economy, a large part
of Divine service consisted in presenting of
ferings. Of old, men used their tongues
less in serving God, and their hands more.
There were fewer prayers and songs, less
preaching, more oblations and sacrifices)
they uttered their feelings by more em
phatic language. Civilization has affected
the speech of man ohiefly—loosened the
play of his tongue. The ancient notion
was, that deeds speak louder than words,
and that it was a truer way of praising the
Lord, to bring a costly treasure which could
he used in the service, and lay it on the
altar. They thought this was truer hom
age and heartier gratitude than simply lift
ing up the voico and pouring out volumes
of sound.
The first worship of which we have an
account, was not by prayer, nor by singing,
nor by sermon) and no sacraments were
administered: “ Abel brought of the first
lings of hiß flock. And the Lord had res
pect unto Abel and his offering.” And
when, under Divine guidance, the ritual of
the ancient Church was established, when
inspired prophets preached and Aaronitic
priests approached the throne of grace,
while the smoke of sacrifices and odor of
incense ascended, and when king David
wrote the hymn and arranged the music
for the choir, worship was not complete un
less precious gifts were laid as offerings on
the altar.
Is there anything in Christianity that
changes this? The sacrifice is abolished,
the priesthood has given way. Prayer and
praise are as needful as ever. Are offer
ings no parts of Christian worship?
Then what a mistake those wise men made
who came from the East when they heard
Christ was born, 'and brought gifts, gold,
frankincense, and myrrh. Christian wor
ship was inaugurated with thank-offerings,
and it is to be perpetuated with thank
offerings.
Our Saviour made almsgiving of the very
essence of the Gospel. He received the
most costly gifts presented in homage to
himself. He commended the woman who
broke the alabaster box of ointment, a gift
that seemed needless and wasteful. He
approved of the waste and absolved her sins
therefor. And when he went to the tem
ple to observe the sincerity of the worship
ers, what position did he choose ? He did
not sit on the pulpit stairs and observe who
was most melted by the preaching. He did
not listen to hear who prayed toudest, or
who sang most divinely. He sat over
against the treasury, to see how they paid
their devotions. .
The act of the widow so commended was
an act of simple worship. The treasury
was a oommon collection for general pur
poses, for the support of the temple and the
like. She did not give because a moving
appeal had been made for starving people
in some distant frontier. Her two mites
hardly swelled the stream that flowed into
a treasury already rich. Doubtless the
widow" needed the money more than the
treasury. And the mites may have laid
there till some Roman soldier, in the sack
of the temple, got them and spent them for
drink. It was not for charity's sake that
the widow gave all her living; -it was in
worship of God, as an act of homage, ot
love, and thankfulness. Suppose the
money did go into the pocket of a drunken
soldier; she offered it to the Lord, and
the Lord had regard to her and to her of
fering.
An offering expresses feelings with an
emphasis no other mode of worship does.
It is a symbolical act of acknowledging that
God is entitled to all our possessions. It is
a token of homage, a tribute of sovereignty.
It is the most marked proof of love. In
the Gospel church offerings are more appro
priate and are more needed than of old.
God is now more glorified by gifts than
ever. To overlay the temple with gold
leaf, to prepare rich vessels and vestments,
was no such honor to God as to erect
Christian churches, clothe the naked, feed
the hungry, build hospitals, send Bibles
and missionaries through the world.
The Gospel has developed a spirit of be
nevolenoe which makes charitable institu
tions tho characteristic of Christian civili
sation. Large sums are devoted to reli
gious purposes. But there is a fault in the
seoular character which our charities have
assumed. They are given more for the sake
of relieving men than of honoring God.
They are monuments of pity rather than of
piety. They are not enough regarded as
religious offioes. It is well to give a cup of
cold water to the thirsty, but it is a better
act when the feeling that prompts is love to
the Saviour, recognizing the needy as his
representative, and doing it as unto the
Lord. It is this reference to the Lord
Jesus, making our charities tributary of
worship to him, that needs to be empha
sized. A one-sided notion of the truth that
good works do not avail for salvation, a fear
lest they might come to be regarded as
propitiating God, has made many suspicious
of looking upon offerings in the light which
the Old Testament, our Saviour, and the
apostles speak of them. Things have come
to suoh a pass, that many feel it a distur
bance to devotion to have the subject of
money introduced, and hear the rattle of
money boxes. They complain that their
enjoyment in worship is spoiled by being
called upon to give. Occasional contribu
tions are tolerated as necessary evils; If
what is needful could be procured in some
other way, the contribution-box should be
abolished, and the Sabbath and the Church
be' no more profaned by any allusion to
giving. And yet these persons have no
such horror of the prayers and of Binging
—that is devotioual.
The Sabbath profaned by making offer
ings to the Lord 1 It is the day, and the
ohurch is the place, for this most impera-
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tive, most grateful and hearty, most accept
able and solemn, act of worship. While j
we are not to abstain from charity, as wo j
do not abstain from prayers, on the other i
days of the week, there should be a more !
parked and thankful offering made on the
Sabbath, as a special tribute of praise to the
Redeemer. It is hardly practicable to
change our customs, especially in this di
rection. But there ought to be a place for
giving gifts in every service of public wor
ship. It is not the amount given that is
essential, as it. is not the length of the]
prayer or the loudness of the praise that is
of moment. But enough should' be given
to remind us that we belong to God, and to
be a symbol of the consecration of all we
have and are to him. In many churches
the Scriptural custom is preserved of
making offerings as a regular part of the
service: —Bibliotheca Sacra.
AFTER THE WAR,
There is a thought in connection with
our recent war which we often dwell upon
with pride. The. most sanguine supporters
of the war did not conceal from themselves.
at times, a certain - degree-of anxiety as to
the future of the great armies devastating
the United States. So loDg as they were
held in the stern grasp of military authority,
they were merely instruments of war. Th eir
warlike life was, however, a regeneration.
It taught them new habits and lessons,
familiarized them with new scenes, destroy
ed the shrinking hamanity that always
trembled at a wound, and made the physi
cal tenure of life the burden of a mocking
song. Even Death hinAelf is not so terri
ble when we. come to know him; and we
feared that the lessons in devastation and
bloodshed taught by such inexorable mas
ters as Sherman and Grant, would be re
membered and repeated when the con
querors of Richmond and Savannah were
freed from the control of their leaders.
This was natural. We remember how
nearly every war has been followed by
scenes of internal commotion and rapine,
and particularly a war like ours, where a
rebellion was to be suppressed and a great
people brought under the dominion of laws
they had spurned.
the rank and file of the army !
Where are the hundreds of thousands of
gallant sun-bronzed men who marched up
Pennsylvania Avenue qot' many months
ago? They had passed like a storm-cloud
over a nation—presaging wrath and-des
truction, tempests of blood, and hurricane
more dreadful than any commotion of na
ture. The cloud has broken; and this
aggregation of violence and power has sunk
into the earth like so much sweet and
grateful rain, to freshen and strengthen, to
send forth harvests and manufactories and
wealth, and homes made happy, virtue and
peace and rest. Every village has its hero;
every fireside has its chronicler of the war.
Every*long winter night finds Grant, and
Sherman, and Thomas fighting their bat
tles over again—under the direction of vil
lage Homers, who sing their Iliad and
Odyssey to every listening company. What
magnificent strategy with broom and shovel,
and what tremendous work the poker has
to do in carrying the dreadful heights.
Then look at that vast multitude of rout
ed, beaten, discomfited men, whose valor has
almost atoned for the sins of rebellion.
What dreadful things they were going to
do ! They would-make the South a Mexico.
They would be like the Spaniards when a
Bonaparte was placed over them. They
would become the most desperate bandits
on the' earth. The guerrillas would be
mere haberdashers compared with the\n.
They would burn,' murder, destroy. Woe to
the Yankee trader who came among them!
Woe to the Northern laborer or capitalist
who presumed to take an acre of their most
sacred soil. Better they had never been
born. They would become assassins, and
shoot them at night, on their farms—yes,
in the very church, at the foot of the altar.
Lee’s capitulation ended the war —only to
begin a strife infinitely more deadly. ,As
for the Union! Gome back to it? Is thy
servant a dog? Better a grave by the
banks of the Suwanee River than a palace
on the Hudson. Better the Stars and Bars
for a shroud than the Stars and Stripes
for a flag. We know how angry men will
talk. But men do not remain angry for
more than a week —and our gallant gray
brothers are even now clamoring around
Washington, and kicking at the doors of
Congress, and beseeching to come in. 0,
how good they will be! Swear!. Yes, all
the oaths that ever were recorded in Hea
ven. Rebel! May their tongues cleave
to the roofs of their mouths —may their
right hands forget . Patience, anxious
brethren in gray! The door will no doubt
be opened in time. You closed it uncere
moniously in 1860. You fought hard for
five years to keep it closed. After five
years of fighting, is it too much to ask for
five years of praying ?
“ Wars beget military ambition —mili-
tary ambition always destroys republics."
Every profound sophomore and freshman
has proved this from numberless platforms,
and to the utmost satisfaction of admiring
audiences of bread-and-butter school-misses.
Did not Caesar cross the Rubicon, and
Napoleon chased a crowd of Deputies into
the street, and so on ? We arrange things
differently in America. One of our leaders
is now in charge of a machine for patent
pumping; another) is building a railway
through the oil country. One of the first
soldiers of the Army of the Potomac is in
the pistol business; another keeps a retail
grocery store; while one of Sherman’s most
trusted lieutenants is a claim-agent. One
major-general prints a weekly journal in
Baltimore. Some of our officers have drifted
into Congress; others are on their way to
distant Courts to represent the honor of a
nation they did so much to sustain. These
starred and belted gentlemen go down from
the command of cohorts to become agents
and partners and dealers, perhaps, with the
orderly who stood before their tents, or the
private who held their stirrup. So with
the generals of the rebellion. The greatest
of them all is now a teacher of mathematics
in a university. Sherman’s great antago
nists are in the express and railroad busi
ness. The once-dreaded Beauregard will
sell you a ticket from New Orleans to Jaok
son; and if yeu want to send a couple of
hams to a friend in Richmond, Joe John
ston once commander of great armies, will
carry them. The man whose works Grant
moved upon at Donelson edits an indifferent
newspaper at New Orleans, while the Com
mander of the rebel cavalry at Corinth is
his local reporter. Marshall practices law
in New Orleans; Forrest is running a saw-;
mill; Dick Taylor is now having a good
time in New York; Roger A. Pryor is a
daily practitioner at our courts; and so
with the rest of this bold, vindictive, ambi
tious race of men. The Government against
which they warred is now their friend and
protector. The people whom they
are their daily friends and
Rebellion is a dream. They only think of
it as of an aspiration that once was possible!
but is now,gone forever. As for our sol-'
j diers, victors and masters, they have lain
down the sword, and saief, now that blood
is no longer shed in anger, it shall not be
shed in revenge. Nothing in all our strug
gle was more glorious than ,its ending. We I
have taught the oldest civilizations of the j
earth that we surpass thery in the art of j
war as well as the art of geace. No Re
publican baptism accompai ies our regene-1
ration. No Sepoy massamfes, no Jamaica'
atrocities, follow our triurnp 1. We do not
.send indiscreet editors to 1 venty years of
prison, life for intemperate editorials. No
block, no garrote, none of the horrors ot
the December days. Our 1 ictory was over 1
a people. Our strength is ;he strength of
a people. Our war was i) make peace.
Our peace is not vengeance/and life-taking,
but reunion, justice, freedom, the healiDg
of old wounds, an oblivion \p all that Is sad
and hateful, a determinatiomthat the future
will give us a Republic as grand and power
ful as Rome, and more lasting in this, that
we have no Rubicon for ambitious Csesars,
no man-exaltation, no offering of kingly.
| crowns. Our Lupereal is Justice. — -.Tri
bune. I /
MR. RUSKIN ON MAMMON WORSHIP.
“A nation cannot last as a mojey-njaking
mob; it cannot with impunity A-it cannot
with existence—go on despisingljiteratiure,
despising science, despising avtldespising
compassion, and concentrating ifi s ( dul on
pence.” And again, extending tle/idea to
embrace all preference of matemf wealth
and advancement to the true, the spiritual
wealth and life of the soul, “Eighty of
heart,” he says, “mighty of mini—‘mag
nanimous’—to be this is indeed tabe great
in life; to become this inoreasiifcly is in
deed to ‘ advance in life’—in lifl itself —
| not in the trappings of it. My fijinds, do
j you remember .that old Scythiaft custom
when the head of a house died ? vJpw he
was dresSed in his finest dress, ana I
his chariot, and carried about to his fij
houses; and each of them placed h
his table’s head, and all feasted in b:
sence ? Suppose it were offered to j
plain words, as' it is offered to you
facts, that you should gain this St
honor, gradually, while you yet t
yourself alive.' Suppose the olfe.
this: you shall die slowly: youi
shall daily grow cold, your flesh sh
rify, your heart beat at last only as ;
group of ircjn valves ; your life sh
from you, atid sink through the ea th into |
the ice of tiaina; hut day by day ymr body !
shall be dressed more gaily, an/ set in
higher chariots, and have more Orders on
its breast, crowns on his hevjd, if/you will.
Men shall bow low before it, afare/and shout
round it, crowd after it up ind.; down the
streets, build palaces for it, foast)with it at
their tables’ heads all the nighilong; your
soul shall stay enough withiiiit to know
what they do, and feel the wight of the
golden dress on its shoulders, ad the fur
row of the crown-edge on tba skull —no
more. Would you take the oft, verbally
made by the death-angel? would the
meanest among you take it, tick you ?
Yet practically and verily we aasp at it,
every one of us, in a measure; mnj of us
grasp at it in its fulness of horror Every
man accepts it who desires to a chance in
life without knowing what life 3 ; who
means only that he is to get mor horses,
and more footmen, and more fort me, and
more public honor, and —not move jersonal
soul. He only is advancing in fi e whose
heart is getting softer, whose blooi warmer,
whose brain quicker, whose spirt is enter
ing into living peace. And thamen who
have this life in them are the trm lords or
kings of the earth —they, and theybnly.” —
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10,000 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
bonds,
10,000 Pittsburg, Port "Wayne & Chi
cago bonds,
9,000 Beading Railroad Ist mortgage
bonds,
6,500 City of Pittsburg and other
bonds,
1,000 shares Pennsylvania Railroad
stocks;'
' 450 shares Corn Exchange National
Bank,
22 shares Consolidation National
Bank,
107 shares Farmers 1 National Bank
of Reading,
142 shares Williamsport Water Co
mpany,
192 shares American Life Insurance
and Trust Company,
Mortgages, Real Estate, Ground Rent
&C •: '•
Loans on collateral amply secured
Premium notes secured by Policies
Cash in hands of agents secured by bond..
Cash on deposit with TJ. S. Treasurer, at 6
per cent.. 50,000 00
Cash on hand and in banks... 50,331 67
Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. J. . 10,454 71
THE AMERICAN IS A HOME COMPANY.
Its TRUSTEES are well known citizens in our
midst, entitling it to more consideration than those
whose managers reside in distant cities.
• Alexander Whilldin, William J. Howard,
J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine,
George Nugent. John Aikman,
Hon. James Pollock, Henry K. Bennett,
Albert "0. Roberts, Hon. Joseph Allison,
P. B. Mingle, Isaac Haalehurßt,
Samuel Work.
ALES. WHIIiLDrN, President.
SAMUEt WORK, Vice-President.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
EEMOYAIi.
I beg leave to inform the Public that I have
CHANGED my business location from
N. E. Corner Fourth and Cbestnut Streets,
Commodious Rooms in
SANSOM STREET HALL,
' Having re-furnished my Office with
IMPROVED STEAM PRESSES
AMD
new type,
I am enabled, with the aid of SKILLFUL WORK
MEN, to execute orders lor
PRINTING in the best style,
Expeditiously and at Moderate Prices.
Trusting in a continuanca of your patronage, I am,
respeotfuily. Yours, &o.
SIHGEL 10A6.
1025-ly
49- Office on First Floor.
Haute*
SAMUEL WORK,
KRAMER A RAHM, Pittsburg.
BANKING HOUSE OF
WORK, McCOUCH & CO.,
No. 36 SOUTH. THIRD Street, Philadelphia#
DEALERS in GOVERNMENT DOANS AND COIN,
Bills of Exchange on New York, Boston, Pittsburg
Baltimore, Cincinnati, etc., constantly for sale.
Collections promptly made on nil accessible points im
the United States and Canadas.
Deposits received, payable on demand, and interest
allowed a 9 per agreement
Storks and Loans bought and sold on commission
at the Board of Brokers.
Business Paper negotiated.
Refer to Philadelphia and Commercial Banks, Phil*'
delphia; Winslow, Lanier A Co, New York; and Citi
zens’ and Exchange Bank, Pittf burg.
BANKING HOUSE.
GEORGE J. BOYD,
No. IS S. THIRD ST, PHILADELPHIA,
(Two doors below Mechanics’ Bank.)
DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES,
5-20 S, 10-40*, 7.305, 6s of >Bl.
PETROLEUM,
AND ALL OTHER
STOCKS, BONDS, AC.
BOUGHT AND SOLD AT THE BOARD OF
BROKERS.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS.
PETROLEUM
R. GLENDINNING, Jr.,
STOCK BROKER,
NO. 23 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
Oil and Mining shares, Railroad Stocks and Bonds*
and Government Securities bought and sold on Com
mission, at the
Philadelphia, New Tort, and Boston
Jtelpit faito.
CHARLES STOKES & CO.’S
FIRST-CLASS "ONE PRICE” READY-MADB
CLOTHING STORE.
No. 824 CHESTNUT STREET,
(Under the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia.)
DIAGRAM FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT
Offluma^TJaUliigmfl. ftlwaTii on hand* OT
made to order in the best manner,
reasonable terms. Having finished many hundred
uniforms the past year, for Staff, Field and Line Offi
cers, as well as for the Navy, we are prepared to exe
cute orders in this line with correctness and despatch.
The largest and most desirable stock of Ready-made
Clothing In Philadelphia always on hand. (The prioe
marked in plain figiireß on all of the goods.)
A department for Boys’ Clothing is also maintained
at this establishment, and superintended by experi
enced hands. Parents and others will find here a
most desirable assortment oi Boys’Clothing at low
prices.
Sole Agent fot the " Famous Bullet-Proof Vest.”
CHARLES STOKES A CO.
READY-MADE CLOTHING.
WANAMAKER & BROWN,
PINE' CEOTH»NG,|
8. E. cor. Sixth and Market.
$394,136 50
CUSTOM DEPARTMENT,
No. 1 South Sixth Street.
3,
. 207,278 86
.. 112,755 73
.. 114,899 62
!. 26,604 70
THOMAS RAWLINGS, Jr„
HOUSE AND SIGN
$966,461 79
Broad and Spring Garden Streets.
WILLIAM MORRIS,
VENETIAN BUND AND SHADE MAN®-
FACTIJKEB,
No. 110 N. EIGHTH Street, Philadelphia.
Blinds and Shades always on hand, of the most
Fashionable Patterns,
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Store Shades Hade and lettered to
1011-3 m Order.
SPECTACLES.
W11.1.1A51 BARBER, .
Manufacturer of Gold. Silver. Nickel, and Steel Spec
tacles, Eye Glasses, Ac., has neatly furnished a room
in connection with the factory, fir KnlAlij FUR"’
POSES, wherespectacles • f every description may be
obtained, accurately adjusted to the requirements of
vision on STRICTLY OPTICAL SCIENCE.
Sales room and factory,
No. 248 NORTH EIGHTH Street, Second
Floor. 991-ly
A. .1. TAFEL,
HOMtEOPATHIC PHARMACY,
No. 48 N. NINTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Importer of German Homoeopathic Tinctures,
Lehrmann & Jenichen’fl High Potencies, Sugar of
Milk, and Corks. Sole Agent for Dr. B. Finkea
High Potencies. 977-lJ
| WILLIAM McCOtJOHi I
BOARD OF BROKERS.
sot Coat.—
mgthofback
nnlto2,and
>m 2 to 3.
Length of
jeve (with
•m crooked)
)m4to 5, and
ound the
ost promi
mt part of
i chest and
Ist. State
lether erect
/ stooping.
For Vest. —
ame as coat.
For Pants.—
iside seam,
id outside
im hip bone,
-ound the
list and hip.
a. good fitgua
ranteed.
CHARLES STOKES.
E. T, TAYLOR.
W. J. STOKES.
OAK HALL,
PAINTER;
932-tf I