New-York daily tribune., 1843-09-04
Return of Rev. DIR. Dewey.

leries and as!cs ard the exercises were OF high-
ly interesting character. after the opening
Prayer preceded by an Anthem, the choir sang
the following Hymn, written for the occasion:
O1nor, within whose hand The ocean hex
Thou. al whose v ord th- STORM ava axes and die'
THOU, at whose smile the thfoe' oi psln ospa9',
And health and gladDess Gil the bounding heart.
We ,i,.nk, we bless the care, that, ever near,
fIas guarded him who leads thy worship here
watched strengthened healed and, DER the stormy NAM
Has brought him these haliowed courts again"
The Discourse itself was most elegantly clo-
quent and was delivered with all the grace and
dignity with which D.. DEwEY's congregation
under his minisrations, have been 20 long famil.
lar 1t had reference chiefly to the interesting
OCCASION to the return Of Their Pastor to his friends
and brethren, after an absence Of two years, and
to the rcditatons which would naturally grow
out OF such position. The text from winch he
spoke was the last verse Of the 26th Psalm:
My foot staDdeh in an even place;
Ia the congregations iSiii bless the Lord.'
The first portion of the verse was applied liter
ally, ard with peculiar felicity, to the exchange
OF the unstable deep for the finn land-a change
only to be properly estimated by those who have
had the fortune to make little latter part was
devoted to the considerations which made it pc
culiarly appropriate to offer Thanksgiving, on this
occasion, in the congregation to the good
ness of God in bringing Pastor and People again
together after so long an absence, IN preserving
so many of them in health and prosperity, and IN
leaving for their encouragement and guidance
the memories and words Of those whose places in
the Church were vacant. In returning from two
years. residence in Europe DR.. DEWEY said he
had no hesitation in declaring his deliberate and
deep conviction that the people OF his native land
were far better of than those Of any nation of the
Old World He said this with reference not to
the few who are born to inalienabc wealth, but
TO the gross millions of both worlds and these in
the United States he said, were Far better housed,
better clothed, better fed, better educated, better
moraled, and he only wished he could say better
hammered than those Of any other nation in the
world The great question Of the age, he said,
in the nations Of Europe, is that concerning the
capacity Of the people for selt.govcrnmcnt and
the progress Of the United States is watched, with
reference to this question, with the closest attcn-
ton and the deepest interest. And he said it was
usual, throughout all the European nations,
much as we might be surprised thcreat to speak
of the experiment of self.govcrnment as having
fudled here and therefore feasible no where This
conviction he thought had been produced by tho
exaggerated accounts of mobs, murders, and out
rageous and unpunished violations Of law and
order which always reach foreign journals, by |
untrue representations of our social habits, by |
false statements concerning the prevalence of a
spirit of Reputation, by the violence of our party
and the numerous instances Of disorder
and unprlncipled conduct which malicious vigil
ance can always detect. He said the occasion
was not a proper one for speaking at length upon
this subject; but he thought that the estimate of
American character abroad, founded upon these
and other matters, demanded more full, car
nest, serious and satisfactory reply to such aspcr
sions than had yet been mado.
In the course of his discourse, Dr. DEWEY
spoke at some length and with great carnestness
and ability of the true character dignity and pur-
pose of the Christian Ministry. In coming back
among his people, he came to enter with zeal and
energy into tho great brotherhood of human en-
poymncts, in some of which they were all cnga-
god. Ho claimed for the ministry the dignity Of
usetul, as well as noble, calling. The utility OF
putting new thoughts or reviving old truths in
the mind, rarousing TO life and conscious energy
the powers Of that inner world where Z" tho kingty
Conscience sits cnthroned,'' Of waking the spirit
to sense of its duties and dcstny-no utility, he
thought, could be greater than this. He protest
ed, therefore, against the feeling which would put
asundcr the Pastor and his People as having no
common intercsts-no common duties of daily
life which they wcrc each in their respective po-
sitons seeking to discharge. lie spoke somewhat
at length and with great feeling of several emil
ncnt ministers of the Unitarian Church who,
since his departure, had been removed by death
from their labors, and said heshould embrace the
opportunity offered by the approaching annivcrsa-
ry of his dccease, to speak fully concerning the
character Of the departed DR.. CLAIMING, of the
peculiar Mission Of his life, and the mannc, in
which il had been fulfilled.
The Sermon was heard with the deepest inter
est by the large congregation which the occasion
adassembled. DR.. DEwEy's health Is decidedly
better, and he expressed the hope that it was per-
manently restored.
u The Wings of ST. LswRENcr county held
a Convention on the 24th alt. and nominated
JouN j. GILBERT for Sheriff. RoswELI. HorEINs
for Clerk, WALTER WILSON and MoSEs BIRpsALL
for Assembly. They also suggested the ronom-
nation of Hon. JAMES G.. HOPKINS for Senator,
and passed series OF able and spirited Wing
resolutions.
u AlRx. RAMSEY has been nominated for
Congress by the Wings of the XIvth District
composed OF Dauphln, Lebanon and Schuylkill