The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-05-12


all the curses Of the Apocalypse He went on to say
something about the French Revolution end the bsrba
exchanged their sheep skin Cor rsgimenss always
had their full shsreof the fighting to do" This sp
Paaded indeed there seemed to be strange disposition
in the audience to applaud this morning. unusual
circumstance and which seemed to exhibit unequvoca
signs that the audience tired ofthe Speaker be-
cause the substance OF his speech good but be
cause he spoke in such an indstinct, mumblng monoto
nous manner that not over sentence in be
understood 1T resemblea for all the world the manner
which schooboy rectes piece out Of the "Unversa
Reader"
To add the difficulty of hearing the reverend gentle
man at the reporters table, three four of the country
parsons commenced conversng Immediately adjoining to
it. and kept muttering away with great perseverance, An
face and gold specaces who had seated himself at the
end OF the reporters table was accosed by Of the
clergy men" Do you hear him1' "NO indeed" replied
the old gentleman, but you am reading the Herald
and so my time amt altog ether lost" "What vile pa
per-" exclaimed the clergyman-a man with low fore
head thick lips and an awful shirt collar. "Wel don't
think 90" sad the benevolent old gentleman amt
that funny report about the pepper and salt conven-
toni" The clergy man cast hi. eyes upward towards
heaven, rather the dome OF the Tabernacle like the
Pharisee IN the PARABLE and scrambled up the platform
| with the usual horrid creaking boots.
The Rev. Dr. said that under the grace of God, II
heaven.born day when the Bible Society undertook TO
send abroad th Bblethe whole Bible without note
and child might see read and Judge for them
selves OF the truth Of the Christian religion, unbiased by
and thus enable him draw water from the wells OF sal
vaon by learning and experience the fullness and eca
cy of the blood Of Christ for redeemng sinners and the
salvation which he has wrought out for the world This
Society has put the Bible into the hands of the mission
aries and thus spread the word Of life to the remoest and
darkest Of the earth Who could calculate the
numerous and nestimahe blessings that had resulted
from the efforts OF the good men who had established
The ground Of the Bible Society ground
and there guilt between the others who have adopted
different version and u.s. which we can never hope to
pass. We can have no operation with them-we can
pray for them, do all that to bring them to
see their error but we can have no spiritual communion
Of those men, that body of men the Baptists we be-
lieve who had Withdrawn from the parent Bible socie.
and n published new version Of their ows getting up
engage in controversy than revival they were
preaching sectarianism praccng sectarianism and wr
ting in newspapers their secarian bgot in articles full
of venom sarcasm, and those matters which make even
the christian much worse man than ever.
The Rev Doctor had now held forth for nearly an
hour The unessiness manifested the platform was
ihdescribable The clergy wriygcd terribly on their
seats-they shrugged their shoudersand niercbanged
chances Of most dramatic agonythe creaking of boots
was terrcone Of the clergymen pulled the speaker by
the skirts and said Amt you most done r- III be
wthstarding, with an added vehemence, which did not
give much hope of the ulflment of his benevolent pro-
Chairman have DONE" and sat down. to the evident de-
light of all who had and had not heard him.
The next speaker wa. the Rev " D. JOINS Of Balti.
speakers 1t was with the greatest difficulty that we
caught single word The general tone of his remarks
was in defence Of the principle that the re revealed
word Of God the only depository Of heavenly TRUTH
an ample directory of faith and practice and sure guide
supremacy Of any earthly poentate, and thunlered
away i'll the DID, accustomed STYLE against the Pope and
the Catholic church The Bible he argued its owa
expostor-it needed no supplementary commentaries
Proestansm presented the true Catholic doctrine of CT
vii and religious liberty-that the Bible was the only
berty the word-a the benevolence Of the Christian
world depended What was it that equalizng human
all men what but the free and unrestricted use Of the
| wcrd OF God All was summed up in one sentence
which fell from the lips Of the blessed Savior" Man
proceedeth from the mouth of God" Let famine of the
word of God exist and the darkness of night would
spread the world Look at Irelandat Spainat Mexico
even at this day. Put in with them the condition
Of Great Britain and North America Why that in
South America anarehy and despotism overspread the
land Because instead of the Bible they had the cruel
fxbecause instead the early and the better version of
Gods word they had the eternal nkling Of the matin
and vesper BELLS In Mexico he had heard that every
sixth man was a mendicant or robber. WAY Because
| they had not got the Bible.
usual with his manuscrptin his pocket This the gen.
whose intolerance and bgotry have rendered him
ofhe forms and Of the Church Of Rome
Bible Society then went to say soughtto make
to Mother Church-but back to the word ofGod The
history Of the decline and corruption Of the early
nso solemn to Goa that n
heard in the world but the granting of swine in the 70
rests Of Popery eating the acons There were Aristotle
AND Plato and Cornelius Agrppa they were the feeders
of the swine But there nothing Of Peters sincere
milk Of the word" The ordinances and truths Of reli
gon were turned into the of administering the
deadly anodyne Of ignorance and Truth dead
and buried and painted corpse put in its place. The
absence Of the word Of God and perverson into the
depotsm OF the priesthood the causes OF that hor
ribe night of death and darkness Then came the bles
sed Reformation He had travelled over the orienta
churcheshe had been in Portugal and Spain, and Italy
and Athens and Asia Minor and the Greek Islands
Corfu and great many other places but the time did
commend to all that wonderful book" Barrows Bible in
Spain" He had been himself in Spain during some Of
ts years when Mr. Barrow was there and had some con
ofthe Bible in that land He and those who circulated
the scriptures there were called by the priests Satan
ista"-emssaies Of Satan. 1t was only in Protestant
countries that the Papss pretended to put the Bible into
the peoples hand and then they poison along with
the true medicine When he was boy and would eat
fruit he told that if he swallowed the stone with the
cherry it wouldn't hurt him. That was what Rome did.
She gave her people stones with the fruit of divine truth
twas done systematically. He pointed out Of the
scorpions OF that idolaous system, which lay coed up
in the egg in the shape of exhe 2lst 18th
vers highly original poetca and elegant fgures) He
might on to speak the alteration of time did
b S'be ana .ne Were ;ne gea
The grand conflict is to be between faith ami form between
Justification by faith and justification by works He then
went on to speak Of the Croon river and the Park Foun
tain SO was with religionthe Bible must be crcu-
lated before the fountain Of divine truth could spring up
| in power and beauty.
| The next speaker the Rev. Professor GREEN, Of
Philadelphia He apologized on account of his
exhaustion, but certainly gave no evidence Of it in the
His remarks were chiefly directed against Popery He
stated that this country to be the great battlefield
the worldthe valley of the Mississippi was destined to
be the most wealthy and powerful country in the world
hence the old mother Of Babylon had chosen it as the
great field of operations. There far more expended
for the establishment OF 6mansm in this country than in
China The speaker here referred to Lafayette and the al
fusion ELECTED burst Of applausebut there Others
who came from Europe with far other views and inten
tons. They were busy in building up the dominion
Rome, and they must be met with the weapons Of faith
The speaker went on speak Of Talleyrsnd Mrabeau
Gregory the sevesh the massacre of 81. Bartholomew
ands variety OF other historical matters but like two
thirds OF the audience could not catch the
He then said that for his part he offered open and
hearty welcome 10 ell from foreign lsndslet them come
on IN 'vms-lei Europe hesve her hundreds Of thou
sands tWhy, God 10 only thus bringing the heather Of
Christian lands to their doors and the of
sion On the great platform OF the Bible let them stand
and ralyhe felt he stood there that he surround
ed by the sacramental host Of Gods elect He exhorted
them 10 grid themselves for the conflict and devote all
their energies the the victims OF Rome the