The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-17
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ICorrespondence of the Herald.l

correspondence OF the Heralu.l
Troy, n. Y. December lith 1913.
The Progress Of Picty, and Downfall Of Sa tan's
Empire.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ, L. L. d., &c.:-
DEAR SIR
Troans are altogether extraordinary in every
thing that can give glory to the people. Their
financial position and history, individually and col
lectively would impart wisdom to any in Gotham.
In morals, let other people aspire TO compare
son And henceforth, dstrust new codes issuing
from any other quarter. No new-fanged lnterprc-
tations of scripture-no new question, however
serious, arises, but what is seized upon here, dis
cussed in the newspapers, and orally, till defined,
settled, and sot down--law, of course
They have some fourteen churchesh here, OF more
denominations that are known in the cate cory Of
sectariansm, and more than can enumerate, or
the incredulous would bclieve-half of which are
the offspring of division, and their rapid growth In
pety. No modern structure will contain seven
| years growth of the mushroom piey and holiness,
of this extraordinary people
| The Abolitionists are not great party, but IN
phianthropic zeal and mad-dog charity, they wax
a candle to them" Almost nightly they ''cry
| aloud and spare not,' in some public place: Ad-
ventism is in good request, though i is carried on
| by Corners and goers. If father Miller or brother
|
they could get up magnificent and glorious affair
| Puseyism has been agltating the world tor months
| past, but it has brought up with tremendous
crash at last Yes sir. Puseyism has given ITS last
"mIeu" Let no man peril his name and reputa,,
| ton to write her epltaph! For II has been declared
| by the god of earnlng-the great soul and centre
| of Presbytcranism, DR.. Buman--spurous, ergo,
| Popery; and who is greater than he Nor has
| that church against which Pussy divided escaped
| unscathed One of her most lordly and very
reverend men lately openly assumed Il degree OF
power and authority, which well might make men
of as much pretension and ecclesiastical Importance
! as Doctor Buman and Snodgrass, tremble for their
| laurels. They were told to stand one side, 1--WE
| are more holy than thou"-we are duly authorized
and appointed to preach the gospel You are not,
and are inpostors and malotacors-we bear with
| us, in our hat, the commission OF HIM who COM
missioned apos,es,-ln Il word, are really and
| truly apostles, in law, and IN Fact making allow
| ance for the degeneracy and corruPtion OF The
| times through which we have had to pass IN our
ine of succession down TO the present, which Is IN
| cident to human nature. Whereupon, Doctors
| Buman and Snodgrass waxing wrothy, assembled
| together the ends OF the earth, great and small,
saint and sinner, rag-tag- and-bob-tal In solemn
| conclave and proclaimed to some the unwelcome-
but to more the welcome-tuth, that Epscopacy,
with its flourish of dignitarles, is all IN our eye
that the apostles never had but successor, and
that Judas lscarot and that the idea oil apos-
tolica succession and apostles, at the present day,
| is gratuitous and absurd, rldiculousy absurd I'M
sustained by particle Of evidence, and traughi
with damnabe consequences-theretore, resolved
that we make war on this church, hip and thigh
| till we extermnate her prayer books and all such
| trash, reduce 10 one common level with ourselves
her inferior officers while the office of that high
dignitary, the prelatlca bishop, is utterly abo,
lished Stand from under Give whirlwind
room or we will blow you up like dust