New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-27
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Industrial Association-R Reply TO IT.,

secondly that Christianity suiices for all the wants
Of Mans temporal as well spiritual nature. Now,
20 the Grst the Friends OF Association may well re-
pl, that admitting some men to be so deprayed as
70 disregard character. interest, the laws of God
sd Mdn-in short, every possible blrrierfor the
mere luxury ofinjuring Others and destroying them
syes, it is very certain that not nearly all
nd that il the unregenera,e too wicked to live
~ Association, il does not follow that Christians
lre, or need be. Give Human Depravity lis Ut
most extent, and still the fact remains that the
great mass Of men obey Government love and de-
| iend their Country live peacefully in Society and
are attached to Liberty, Social Order, and the
l Public Good. T.s objection based on Deprayity
! ,cem, quite formidable all trust by man in
/ Man-ceriainly so to Marriage, the mos, intimate
and fcarfuy important OF human relations. Who
shall entrust his her happiness to the keeping of
another, where all are perycrse, corrupt and per
hdiousl Yet here the common sense of mankind
modhes the dogma OF our correspondent.
Admit, then, the fact of Mans innate and intense
Dcprayity-and is IL not yet certain hss this De-
grqcity is less PerHtciousty displayed anil more
astiy 0rcrc0mc under certain circumstances than
nlcr ofhersl Viii the Child brought up in habits
dheatbfu Industry and with every opportunity for
llacation and Mental Cultme-daily mingng with
and listening to the wise and good terms OF in
tmacy aud alecl ion-surrounded by al ths' is need
fol to his comfort, and taught TO look forward to
nlc Of honorable usefulness. generous aspiration and
freedom from pccuniary care--enioyin. siaedly the
min.str1tons OF the Sunday School, the Chapel and
the Lecturc-Rcom under the very roof which She
ter, him-wii he be as liable 10 60 asraya. the un
educated undeyeloped, perverted child Of indigence
in our great Citics-whose earliest sensations are
those of cnsstished Hunger and Want-who sleeps
% dream of the comforts from which ne is dcbarred,
sul wakes bu, 10 envy their pc SCISSOR as unjust
aother or unfeeling lord-who is commanded rot
% steal bat left with no honest means OF satisfying
n, pressing wants, AMI whose perceptions of mora
wong are awakened only by the scourge or the
aaml Does Human Deprayity, be 1t as deploraLe
4, you will contradict the Assertion that where
.hd educated a. we have first depicted will be-
come an enemy and scourgo OF ms fellows, thoie
Will be- hundreds hardened TO cruelty and traines
10 yany under the circumstances of the lslter7
We insist that whether Human Dcpravi,y be
rarded as essential or supcrinduced, the system OF
Association is in neither case proved useless nor
pprncticable.
But our correspondent, bases his last objection on
the fact Chrstianitv--in substance thus Chris
ianityis slsuihcient; therefore Association IS SUI
f.rduous and absurd We cheerfullv accept the
premise, but without perceiving the force Of the
conclusion. 1t is the same TO us q. though he had
said. Christianity is sufficient; therefore there can
be no need of Bread, Steam or Railroads or.
Christianity ID the only medicine for the moral
maadie. OF Man: thea what need OF Tracts or
Sunday Schools 'I.' seems to regard Religion
as something positive, personal, separate. bounded
docmatic; we view 1t rather as an al-pervading
sprit-entering into and transforming Govern
ment. Society, Trade, Labor, IA well as the indi
viiual heart In other words; The substitution
Of the cell for the axe, the Bible for the rack the
Penitentiary for the Basulo, the Congress of Ma
,iens for the Battlefield. &c. appears to us the
Infusion Of Christianity into Government and
lust 40 tho substitution of concord and cooperation
in Industry and Daily Life for the prevailing dis
cord. conflict and psrverson would be the infusion
Of Christianity into our Social State. This is not
rejecting nor dsparasng Religion, but accepting
and applying it.
Our correspondent introduces Us to Mr..
Worthvman.' who lives and does very well as an
Industrious Christian in Society i,now is. That
is all right and we trust there are thousands OF
realities which reflect that portrait. Yet who does
not know that Human Misery is still terrible
reality '-,h,, millions are yearly born, and live
and die, with scarcely chance for intellectual
Development or moral elevation How shall the
thousands in our own City, even, who are now
growing up in utter ignorance and dependence on
the days chance earnings for the days scaniy
iood--mapy of them instigsted by their very
parents to petty .hieying from direct want-how
shall these he expected to lift themselves to the
level OF Mr. Worthyman Grant that the
whole need not physician shall We do notAipG
for the sickl And what good do We by sending
Missionaries to those who have no minds, tracts 10
those who canno, read and Bibles 10 those who
want food Mast they not be fed before they can
.c aseiully taught
But take the case So extremely favorable 10 the
.re.ent order Of things of Mr.. Worthyman IS
not his labor harder, and are not his opportunities
of mental improvement less than they would Toe IN
.A>sociaticnl Have his children q. liberal means
ofiutcec,ual cultarc as they might there have DO
not brooling cares and satisfied aspirations and
w,,he, that the means IS vel as the ends OF Iie
were nobler. someGms. enter that happy home
And Is no, the usual dispersion Of i,s younger in
mate. 10 distant States and chimes As they
have attained matsriiy significant comment on