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OILKS.
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having tlic effects el a very glossy lur; ter
coats, $'.. Anether, llgmed, the figures iiiuile
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color?, $i Hi. Sealskin pluh, $.'!.7j te $-S..'iO
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Wide emhre si i Iics coveted with grapc grapc
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a luce effect. Four dark effects, tlnee in
evening colors. $.
JOHN WANAMAKEIt.
Next-outer eircle, Chestnut-street entrance.
WHITE GOODS.
Of tine wliife goods we have a complete
stock wanting nothing. Whatever one may
want, that ladies, children or babies wear, Is
te be found here, with many sorts te cheese
from.
JOHN WANAMAKKR.
Next-outer circle- City-hall square.
DRESS GOODS.
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Anether cheviot et tin; very same small
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Third circle, southeast irem centre.
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Lupin's merinos ami cashmere, a-ccptcd
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Evening cashmeres et about thirty-live
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It is 2 yards wide and $2 a yard. The patterns
are seven, diverse enough, new, and we like
them all. It' you find the Mime, linens else
where in Philadelphia or New Yeik, we think
you'll lind tlicin at $2.50 or thereabouts.
Napkins te inuteh, $J..r0 ler three-quarters,
and $." for five-eighth.
JOHN WANAMAKEIt.
Next-outer circle, City-hall-squarc esitrance.
UNDERWEAR.
Twe extremes el the French hand-made
underwear, lately come te us, attruct notice.
Seme et it Is se plain that it seems scarcely te
belong te the clasi of embroidered work It
reminds one rather of the hand-work we used
te make families here twenty-five years age.
The ether extreme is the richest et embroidery.
It needs te be seen. Nobedy'll believe Irem
description the work that Is in it; the tine.
ncs, tlie richness, the extravagance. Wc
shetv it wltli pleasure.
At the same lime sec what the sewing ma
chine has dune for us, in our American fac
tory made underwear. Each has a perfection
et its own. Factory-work, made as we Set it,
is a new grade et sewing.
JOHN WANAMAKEII.
West from Chestnut-street entrance.
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One of the most beautiful el the draner-
lcsiiuu lurnuurc-cevcrs inai nave come te us
this year is a very quiet Unsel-and-silk fabric,
Just received, $12.50.
JOHN WANAMAKEIt.
Northwest gallery.
C1ARPETS.
J :Vc are etten told that we have uncom
monly choice patterns in carpets. We certainly
have t lie best makes.
JOHN WANAMAKEIt.
Northern gallery.
KW LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS WITH
1 colored borders have come ; but, se Jar sis
we have seen yet, there's nothing notably
new in styles. They are almost all mechanical
figures et the general character that Has pre
vailed ler some months.
Twe new initial handkcichlefs : one em
broidered in colors, 12 cents; one with very
large, white, block or diamond initials formed
by a hemstitch stitcii, 23 cents. The latter is
very neat indeed.
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SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 8, 1881.
THE 'UNITAS FRATRUM
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BY REV J. MAX HARK.
the
MOItAVIAN AND
CHUKCUKS.
EPISCOPAL
1'ulnts of Kencniblauce Between Sister
Hranches of t!ie Christian Deily
Seme Valuable llisterical Data.
The HIerav:an and Episcopal Churches.
Mr. Ilark's Sermon, Sunday, Oct. 2.
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism" Eph.,iv.,5
In the series of discourses which I pro
pose holding, en the relations held by the
Unitas Fratrum, or Moravian church, te
some of the leading ether Christian de
nominations, I would proceed upon the
principle and be animated by the spirit
expressed by that grand man, Count Lewis
v. ZinzcndeiT, before a synod held in Lon Len Lon
den in 1719 where he spoke these charac
teristic words : " Whenever I come in
contact with persons or this or that depart
ment of the Christian church, it docs net
first of all occur te me whether they held
such or such an error which I must combat;
but my first concern is te win their heart
for the Saviour." I say these are character
istic words, net only of Zinzcuderf, but, as
all history testifies, no less of the entire
chuich which in Ged's hand he was the
means of renewing. In every age aud under
all circumstances the Unitas Fratrum has
diligently sought for points of agreement
with the ether denominations, net of dis
agreement ; has ever ivj jiccd when it found
the "ene thing needful," and the oue
Foundation than which none ether can be
'aid ; has ever gladly embraced Christians
of every name with the joyous greeting,
" One is our Master, but we are all breth
ren." And loyal te tiiis liberal spirit,
handed down te us through the centuries,
would I endeavor in these discourses te
feed the llame of fraternal love, the yearn
ing (or mere practical and universal Chris
tian Viliancc, by passing ever for the notice
in silence these things in which we aud
our brethren disagree, and seeking out the
far mere pleasant, much mere numerous,
and alone essential things en which we all
arc one in body, soul and spirit. Tis true,
ignorance, bigotry, hatred, have sadly de
faced aud disfigured manyel the members,
nay every member, of the body of Christ,
se that we must sadly ceufess with one of
our early Moravian conferences that " Ne
church has the trlwlc truth. Our knowl
edge is patchwork ;" net a system." Yet
may we confidently hope, enlightened by
theSpirit.aud looking with the eye of love,
te trace in each ether's lineaments much
that favors our close relationship, our com
mon parentage, our common sinfulness,
our cemmuu salvation through Jesus
Christ. The marks of sin abound in every
feature, but.glery be te Ged, the marks of
graco'de much mere abound iu all ! There
arc diversities of gifts, and differences of
administrations and diversities of opera
tions ; but, glory be te Ged, ever all aud
through all is "OncLeul, one faith, one
baptism !"
Clearly as this appears en comparing the-
Moravian and any et the etuer ciiurcnes,
nowhere does it show itself mere plainly,
mere fully aud satisfactorily than in its
comparison with the Protestant Episcopal
church, te which I shall eonfine myself
this evening.
Ever since the clese of the 14th century,
when the writings of the English Jehn
Wyckliffe impregnated the mind of ihe
Bohemian Jehn IIuss with the seeds of
Evangelical truth, from which sprang iu
1437 the Brethren's church in Bohemia
and Moravia, the first organized evangeli
cal church since the apostolic times, num
bering, when Luther arose, some 200,000
souls since first these two great minds
came in contact, there seems te exist a
peculiar, we might say censauguinal,
affection and esteem between the Mera
vian and the Episcopal churches. Often has
.this mauifetcd itself in a most touching
manner. As for instance in theso dark
days of the Bohemian anti-reformation,
when, hunted down like wild beasts, per
secuted with fire and sword, the Brethren
could exist only in secret, aud were scat
tered far and wide, they yet had se many
friends in England as te have a petition
presented te King James I, in 1G21, ask
ing permission for them te form a religious
settlement in Londen. It is true, this was
refused them, but it was only through
the jealousy of individuals who had undue
influence with the king ; and Bishop
Hackett, referring te this in his " Life of
Archbishop Williams,"" expresses himself
thus : " Their platform comes se near
the old Protestant church of England.abevc
ali the reformed, that for my part, I wish
we had had their company." Moreover,
a few years later, under King Charles,
when the sufferings of the Meravians had
become still greater, the Hely Anglican
church contributed for their relief in 1C3S
the large sum of 5,900, aud again the
year after 3,000, with the condition that
one-third of this latter sum be applied te
the publication of the Bibrc in the Bohe
mian and Polish language. There is no
doubt that the intlucnce of Bishop Jehn
Ames Cemcnius helped much te induce
this brotherly generosity. Standing in the
very front rank as an educational writer,
and indeed prominent in every sphere of
learning .and literature, this wonderful
man had a few years before been invited te
England by an act of Parliament, with the
purpose of making him head of a Bohe
mian and Moravian, college, according te
Bacen's idea of a Universal college of all
nations, which, however, was never car
ried out.
In view of such fraternal relations be
tween the two churches, we de net won
der that Cemenius, fearing the utter
destruction and yet hoping and praying
for the speedy renewal of the Unitas
Fratrum, should in IGOO, eleven years
before his death, in a work dedicated te
the church of England, solemnly and
formally bequeath the Unitas te the
Anglican church in these words : " Te
you, our friends, wc bequeath our mother,
the church of the Brethren. Take her in
charge. It may be Ged will again awaken
her in our country, or raise her up else
where if she be dead there." And nobly,
my friends, did the Episcopal church
fulfill her trust. Fer it was during the
darkest period of our history, which
always comes just before the dawn, in
1715, when scarce recognized as existing
by the ether dominant Protestant churches,
that the Anglican churcii again came te
our relief. Upen the earnest representa
tion of Dr. Wake, archbishop of Canter
bury, and;Dr. Robinson, bishop of Londen,
te the king, an order of the privy council
was obtained in favor of the Meravians,
" for their relief and for preserving the
remainder of the said episcepal churches
in Great Poland and Polish Prussia." Ah,
yes, noble, grand, old Anglican church,
thou hast been even as a tender mother te
us ! In the days of cur weakness thou
didst nurse and sustain ; iu hours of peril
thou didst guard and preserve us from
fatal ruin ! And- wc thank Ged that te
this day' our relations of closest intimacy
have net been broken. Meravians and
Episcopalians the world ever are te day as
warm friends and as affectionate co
workers as they ever were. I need but
point you in proof of this te the faijf; that
there exist in Great Britain three ergani
zatiens for the express purpose of aiding
our foreign mission work, ihese are
composed almost wholly of members
of the Anglican cuurcu. I no mam
one of these, .the one in Londen,
of which the Earl of Shaftesbury was chair
man a few years past, contributed te our
mission work net long age the sum of
5,930, while the ether two were preper
tienally lieeral. Is net this, my mends,
true brotherly love ? "net love in word,
neither in tongue, but in deed aud in
truth. " It is carrying out in practice the
exhortation with which the Rev. Macken
zie in Londen lately concluded a masterly
sermon en the Unitas Fratrum : " Wc im
plore you, in the hours of secret or domes
tic prayer, when the spirit of grace aud
supplication is upon you, net te forget te
plead for the prosperity of this apostolic
church, that she may still be preservcd.as
a faithful witness te the truth, among the
professing churches of Christendom. "
With such love praying and working for
us, there must indued be a bright future
before us.
Ne doubt the question has ere thi ; oc
curred te you, my brethren, What is the
reason of this cle.se relationship and mu
tual sympathy between the two churches?
The ultimate cause, of course, is the love
of Christ constraining us. But there are
yet ethers, apart from this, what wc
may call natural reasons, which have un
questionably helped te further the mainly
historical relations of which I have spoken.
llicre are no two ether churches mere
like te each ether in their outer and inner
life aud constitution than the Moravian
and Protestant Episcopal. The latter has
all its essential features in common with
the former. Whatever the latter most
prizes is possessed anil equally prized by
us.
I. We arc mid idicatx have been an esscn
tialbi liturgical church. Thc'Ancient Unitas
was perhaps mere strictly se than the Re
newed. Its ritual was most comprehen
sive, aud often times grand aud imposing
And even new I doubt whether there can
be found anywhere forms of worship mere
expressive, beautiful and satisfactory.
Our litanies, composed wholly of the Avoids
of scripture, though brief enough net te
become wearisome and make 'he service
monotonous, arc yet rich aud full enough
te cover almost every experience and con
dition of the heart. Yet while they form
part of our regular titual, there is ample
room left also ler the free execrcise of in
dividual taste and judgment in the mode
of worship. Free prayer, exhortation,
fcc., may be used beside the liturgical in
every service, though they should never
be substituted for the latter.
It is our ritualistic basis which we have
in common with the Episcopal church
that, mere tha"n anything else, has also
made us like her in
II. Oar orderly, dignified character has
helped te give us our stability and
propriety. While we have always shunned
substituting the shadow for the sub
stance, and therefore avoid extreme ritual
ism, wc yet ever recognize the absolute
necessity of some forms, in order te
preserve ourselves from that irregular,
capricious looseness iu our worship, which
only tee often leads te positive impropriety,
net te say indecency and sacrilege instead
of worship. The uncultured, or rather
the prejudiced, may call it stiffness, cold
ness, etc.; but the truly fervent heait will
find iu it a strong aid and grateful guide
iu its devotions. And it is the only char
acter that lasts. The unrestrained famil
iarity and boisteieus effervescence, which
some call worship, has always been and
ever will be found te be a shifting, inse
cure, sandy foundation for any church te
staud upon. Meteors seen burn out, or
arc lest in space ; but the regular, steady
planet pursues forever its 'equal course
around the central sun. It is this charac
ter finally that gives a cqrtaiu social stand
ing iu what may be called ecclesiastical
society. It is what has placed us upon
the same piano with thchptscepal church.
Wc are an order loving church. O'er our
portals iu prominent characters is graven
the injunction of St. Paul : " Let all your
things be done decently and in order." It
is the idea that is kept most clearly iu
view in our entire cultus aud constitution.
Our liturgies, both general aud for special
occasions, the dignified character of our
church music, our peculiar-forms of ad
ministering the sacraments, and still
mere the exhaustive classification of our
congregations into separate choirs, et the
married, of single brethren, single sisters,
widowers and widows, male youths, female
youths and children, each with its own
superintendent, and with special services
for each all these features make us un
derstand hew the great German reformer,
Luther, could say of the Meravians, "they
far excel us in rcgular,discipliue by which
they' blessedly govern their churches ;'
and hew the Duke of Argyle could openly
make this confession : " As much as I am
convinced et the purity of our Scottish
church, I am equally convinced that
the constitution of the Brethren in every
respect excels it." Ner need we be sur
prised at this after we read the decided
sentiments of Bishop Daniel Ernst Jab
Ieusky, the last bishop of the Ancient
Unitas, as expressed in 1711 te Archbishop
Sharp, of Yerk. He says : "In my opin
ion I held these two things for certain :
First. That a subordination in the church
government is as necessary a.-5 in all ether
societies and bodies politic. Our Saviour
compares himself te a captain or general,
and his church' te an army ; but new, if
all the officers of an army were equal, and
depended directly upon the director of
military affairs, without any subordina
tion, hew could such an army be managed,
or of what use could it be? Secondly.
That this necessary subordination c.tn no
way better be effected than by a well
regulated episcopacy."
Think net, however, that there is any
thing rigid or burdensome in this detailed
organization. On the contrary, there is
far greater freedom of thought aud action
allowed and indulged in in ear midst,
than is possible in most ether professedly
freer churches. Indeed the wonderful
adaptability of our constitution te the
most vaned.circumstauces has eltcn been
commented upon, and, we may say. per
haps envied by ethers. It combines the
salient features of every ether, while it is
free from most of their objectionable ones.
As Bishop Cemenius says : "It suits a
monarchy, because it has a bishop ; an
aristocracy, because it has a senate ; a de
mocracy, because it has a synod."
A third impDrtaut characteristic I would
mention here as shared by us with the
Protestant Episcopal church, is that
III. We are an educational church, in
the double sense of the word se often em
pltasized by Episcopalians. Formerly,
at least, every congregation had Us paro
chial school, and indeed many have them
still. . Wherever we planted a mission,
there with it we always founded a school ;
while our larger and mere general
scats of learning arc by all respected and
esteemed as among the very best iu exist
ence. Ner is there a single denomination
that, proportionally te its. size, has nearly
as many scats of education as the Mora
vian. In the ether sense of the word, tee, as
distinguished from "revival churches,"
we are as truly an educational church
as is the Episcopalian. We belicve
in bringing up our children in " the nur
ture and admonition of the Lord " ; that
they are called te participate in the bless
ings of the gospel dispensation ; and that
they are saved " by the washing of regen
eration and renewing of the Hely Ghost,"
and become metubers of Christ's body the
church through the sacrament of holy
baptism. But just as truly also are we
a "revival church," as who will deny that
knows anything of the glorious awaken
ings in lleirnhut, immediately after the
revival of the church ; these Pentecostal
baptisms of the spirit experienced iu every
department of the church? Hence wc have
both these features, and held them both as
most proper and precious.
The last peiut of contact between the
Unitas Fratrum aud the Protestant Episco
pal church te which I will refer, aud that
which by many is considered the most im
portant of all, "is -
IV. The unquestionable validity of our
episcopacy.
During the first ten years of its exist
ence, the Brethren's church had been min
istered unto by pious priests of the nation
al Calixtinc church. In 14G7, however,
at the synod of Lhota, it was decided te
consummate the organization of the
Unitas by the creation of a separ
ate ministry of its own. With
apostolic faith the Brethren resorted
te apostolic means. Uuy drew lets,
through which the Lord should niake
known Ills will as te whether they should
have such a ministry, and who of their
number shonld'bcceino their priests. By
this-means three brethren were designated
for the office, and at once ordained, with
prayer and the laying en of hands, by the
priests present at the suyed. They wcie
net satisfied with this, however ; but,
fearing that the legitimacy of mere prcs
byterial ordination would net be recog
nized by their enemies of the Established
aud Remish chinches, aud wishing as
far as might be te conform with the usages
of the primitive church, they decided at
once te obtain the validly transmitted epis
copacy. This, of course, could net be done cither
from the Calixtine or Remish churches.
But there happened, in the providence of
Ged, at this time te be living en the Mo
ravian frontier a colony of Waldcnses.
These, twenty three years before, had had
two of their priests consecrated bishops at
the council of Basle, which was at the time
at open variance with the Pepe. The rite
was performed by Reman Catholic bishops
and at the instance of the Calixtines,
though mainly for political reasons. Hence
the vali lity of the Waldcnsian episcopate
is beyond shadow of doubt.
Te these Waldenscs the synod of Lhota
sent three priests two of whom had been
ordained in the Reman Catholic church,
and the third himself of Waldcnsiau extrac
tion in order te receive if possible the legit
imate episcepal ordination. With the
warmest Christian cordiality they were
welcomed by the old Waldensian Bishop
Stephen and his colleague, whose name is
unknown ; and having reported their mis
sion from the synod, were solemnly conse
crated, by the laying en of hands, as
bishops in direct and valid succession from
the Apostolic church. Returning at once
te their homes, a second synod was held at
the same place as the first, at which the
tin co previously ordained priests wcie
first reerdaincd by the" new bishops, and
then one of them consecrated a bishop.
The organization of the churcii was new
fully consummated, with the regular
episcepal form of government, presided
ever by four bishops.
It is interesting te knew that a few
years after, the AValdensian colony, scat
tered and hunted down by bloody perse
cution, became totally extinct, old Bishop
Stephen himself scaling his faith- iu the
llames of the martyr pile at Vienna. They
had fulfilled their mission in the Divine
economy, and after committing their
sacred trust te the Brethren, they departed
from the earth. The latter, however,
with jealous care transmitted their epis
copacy in regular succession, never once in
all their dire sufferings and persecution
losing a single link of that golden chain
that connects us with " the glorious com
pany of the Apostles," and constitutes
the Unitas Fratrum of te-day with indis
putable authority the first and most an
cient Protestant Episcopal church en
earth.
It would be most interesting te show
with what difficulty this succession was
sometimes transmitted and what narrow
escapes it several times had from being
broken and lest. Hew, for example, in
the person of old Bishop Augusta, it lan
guished for sixteen years iu the foul dun
geon of the (bstlc of Purglitz, until the
year lliCI when he was" finally liberated te
transmit it te his successors seven years
after. 1 might show with what prophetic
faith Bishop Jehn Ames Cemenius
guarded it and provided for its transmis
sion all through the dark years of the
" Hidden seed " time in the seventeenth
and beginning of the eighteenth centuries ;
and hew, finally, his grandson, Bishop
Daniel Ernst Jablousky, in triumphant
joy transfers the ancient treasure te the
Renewed church by solemnly consecrat
ing, in tlse year 1735. David Nitschmaun
as its iirl bishop. The details of all this"
would be intensely interesting indeed, but
are net necessary te prove the validity and
unbroken succession of our episcopate.
Nene but blind bigots will deny it ; and
they must de se in the face of most over
whelming proof te the contrary. Bishop
DeSchweinitz in his thorough and conclu
sive little work en " The Moravian Epis
copate," cites no lass than fourteen un
questionable authorities, documents of
the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and
nincteeth centuries, all explicitly declaring
its validity. Amongst these, moreover,
arc the statements of an able Reman Cath
olic historian, and of the standard modern
encyclopedia of the Remish churclL.Be
sides this there is the strong negative tes
timony of all the earliest fees and persecu
tors of the Unitas. Nene of these ever
expressed a doubt as te the validity of its
episcopacy, ranch as they denounced its
existence.
And I rejoice te be able here te say that
from the earliest times our brethren of the
Anglican church have ever been frank and
open in their acknowledgment of our co
existence with, and even priority te, them
as a legitimate Episcopal church. Thus
Bishop Fleetwood, of Ely, already in 1710,
officially designated us as "our Christian
Brethren of the same household of faith
with tis." Somewhat later Archbishop
Petter, en beiug applied te, expressed his
opinion thus : "He.had long been acquaint
ed, by books, with the Moravian brethren,
and that they were apotelical and Episco
pal, net sustaining any doctrines repugnant
te the XXXIX articles of the church of
England." Dr.Bray declared himself te the
same effect in 1730 ; as also Dr. Isaac
Watts in 1738. Dr. Petter, moreover,
went further te assert that " no English
man who had any notion of ecclesiastical
history could doubt the validity of their
succession." And it is, furthermeic, a
fact'ef public notoriety that many of our
piiests have in times past been ordained
by English bishops, while en the ether
hand English churchmen have received
holy orders from us.
But even of greater official weight and
legal conclusiveness though net mere
satisfactory te us as Christian brethren
than all these frank and cordial testime
nials from individuals, is the expressly
enacted testimony of the British Parlia
ment itself. I have in my possession a
copy, printed in Londen in 1710, of an
act passed " at the Parliament begun and
held at Westminster, the tenth day of
.November, Anne Domini, 174., m the
twenty-first year of the reign of our sov
ereign lord Geerge the Second, by the
grace of Ged. of Great Britain, France
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
&c, " wherein the Unitas Fratrum is offi
cially recognized and designated as " an
ancient Protestant Episcopal church. "
New it is preveibial that ue English Par
liament ever does anything rashly, and se
their act was the fruit of long deliberation
and fulsome debate ; was in tact the re re
sult'efa thorough investigation of the
history, doctrines and constitution of our
church by a parliamentary committee of
forty lords and pi elates, en occasion of
the presentation of a petition through
Lieut. Gen. Oglethorpe from the Brethren
of the American colonies, asking te be
excused from taking the usual form of
judicial oath and from serving in the royal
army. It would, indeed, be most gratify
ing te gather front the animated discus
sion which followed the presentation of
this bill; the opinions aud scutiments held
towards our church by these great men
who then composed the British Parlia
ment. But I t'esist. I have already pre
sumed upon your patience leuger then I
had intended. Enough has, I trifst, been
said, taking it together with the fact that
wc accept the Augsburg Confession aud
held " no doctrine repugnant te the
XXXIX articles," te show that there is
every reason why the Protestant Episcopal
and the .Moravian churches should be clese
as two. sisters in Christ, and even closer
and tnore intimate than any ethers. Ner
will we be misunderstood, en the ether
hand, as being en this account less fra
ternal or less capable of true Christian
union with all ether sister denominations.
Fer we by ue means believc that episco episce
pal ordination alone is valid ; nor has the
Unitas Fratrum new any mere than it ever
had, the least sympathy with cxclusivism
of any kind. On the contrary, in the
language of the most able and zealous
modern exponent of her history and spirit,
" she glories in the cithelic standpoint
of her fathers. Instead of presuming te un
church ether bodies of believers who have
no episcopacy, siic upholds a clese fellow
ship with them ; and this day especially,
when evangelical Christians throughout
the world are longing for a mere intimate
union, strives te de her part in bringing it
about,. " Te this end alone, I may say,
has tiii.s series of discourses been under
taken. Te this cud must every Christian,
aud especially eveiy true Moravian, ever
labor and pray. And as directly tending
te this blessed end, let us, brethren of the
Episcopal and of the Moravian churches,
hereafter be even mere cordial and fraternal
even mere courageous and active, in work
ing together for the coming of Christ's
kingdom, than -we have ever yet been in
the past, rejoicing and praising Ged that
he has se especially wedded our two
churches together, and by " one Lord, one
faith, one baptism " hath given us se ex
traordinary a sense of being " built upon
the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief corner stone; iu whom ali the build
ing, fitly framed together, greweth into
an holy temple in the Lord ; iu whom ye
also are buildcd together for an habitation
of Ged through the Spirit. '' Amou
and amen !
The popular prejudice against pieprictury
remedies has long since been conquered by
the marvelous success of stteli a remedy as Dr.
Hull's Cough Syrup. Um-iI evryivliere !y
everybody. Price 25 cents.
Kidney Diseases.
Kidney diseases alllict tlie great er pat t of the
human race, and they are constantly en the
Increase, but where the virtues el Kidney -Wert
have become known, they are held in
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had te constantly close sniritsef iiitt-eain.l such
stun", give this, great remedy a trial and he
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pliia J'rc.i.i. id-livdiw
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ir.
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ARTIST TAILOR.