The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-27
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RELIGIOUS Mory MMk 10 raAxor.-A
French Presbyterian clergyman has been in this
country for some time past, endeavoring to pro-
mote the collection of moneys to be expended in
the advancement Of the cause of Protestansm in
France, now that that country is republic and all
religious creeds are placed on an equality. After
good deal of agitation and lachymose entrcaty that
gentleman prevailed upon seeral clergymen In
this city TO issue the following pious and poetical
pronunciamcnts on the subject; -
To the american Churches
The undersigned feel constrained to address their
fellow Christians every name, subject Of great
interest and pressing urgency: The seeming arro-
ganes OF so doing they hope WIN not DO overlooked
has placed them.
The signs of the times cannot well be misunder-
stood. Recent events which have occurred In agita-
Europe present crisis in the history of the world
which indicates that He who Is the Governor among
ribly the earth 1t is He who governs the world and
not another dominion is with him ~ While in
the Accomplishment mt Of His purposes, He honors hui
man iustrume ntaty yet does He pour contempt upon
the pride of man lie speaks and is done Sceptres
wither and thrones pass away We look for them, and
they are gone we see only the deserted habtaton Of
their and the empty place where their pride
has been.
We hope it is not with unhal,owed emotions that in
such day as this. regard the perma nence which
the God Of Heaven and King of the Universe has
signed to our own favored land 1t is remarkable
hope to the American people. The people whom they
have watched with solcude and nsion they
and with asectionate soIictude for their help They
address us as men, citizens and especially
Christian men and brethren Of the common faith and
the common charity.
The appeal comes more emphatically from France,
and especially Parisths land of the Huguenots where
the oppressor has fallen. Long have they sought in
vain what the God of their fathers gives them 1.-The
liberty wherewth Christ makes freen Not for ages
has the gospel had free course in France; now. the
'word Of God is not bound,n in the land which
has been drunk with the blood Of the saints Won
derfu interpostion Of Gods Almighty Providence :!
The people af that entire land accessible to
the pure gospel in every form, mo forbidding it,
and no civil enactment embarrassing its progress Pro-
enemy her affecting cry Is Come over and help us
God sets before the American churches IAN open
door # the call be promptly answered it win remain
open. until France shall have become beautifed with
His salvation.
Through her highly esteemed messenger, now in this
city she solsits the Word of God and at period
when little l-aven may duse itself through the mass
OF her fermenting population She solics the means
OF Increasing her nshed and sustaining her i'm
that gospel without which well know she cannot be
free. With Christian salutation,
(SignedJ GARDINER SPRING,
STEPHEN II. TYING,
WILLIAM ADAMS,
VIM r. WILL ANS,
THOMAS DE WITT,
NATHAN BANGS
NEW YORK. May Is. 1S4S.
Moneys collected for this object may be transmitted
to the Mechanics Bank payable to the order of the
Rev Louis Bridel and is hoped they will be
mitted without delay.
French people, such movement as this, provided
1t were general, would be the best method of ef-
fecting it. The French people have in their midst
as many men of the highest enlightenment, the
most gifted eloquencc, and of the soundest learn
ing, in proportion to their population, if not more
than any other civilized country; and If such men
choose to remain Catholics it is their business, and
theirs alone. ANY interference with their religious
principles would be impairment. The French
people do not want our charity for any purpose,
whatever, political or religious They may not
despise aims, but they are as able to contribute
as much, and as competent to Judge of the correct
ness of the views of the several Christian sects as
the people in this any other country are, not ex-
cepting the gifted gentlemen who have signed this
religious pronunciamento. AS we'll might the peo-
pie of France solicit subscriptions for the militia of
the United States, to enable them to defend the Sc
veral States in which they live-a degradation
certainly that we would not submit to.
Another word this subject. There is about
as much vice, immortality and snfuness of every
description, in this city of New Yoh, as in any
other Christian city in the whole world, in proper
ton to Its size and the number of its churches.
Such immortality is not confined to the poor, but it
pervades to some extent other classes of society
Protestants and Catholics, church goers and nom
church goers. If these gentlemen with their over
flowing solicitude for the French people, would
look nearer home, at the city of New York,
aye, and into their own congreg .tions, who
loll and roll their velvet cushions on
Sundays, and cheat the widow and the orphan
the other six days of the week-tiIey wouli fad
abundance of room for the exercise # their phiin-
thropy Let them first ChristIani,e and purify their
own tiocks; and when that shall have been done,
II will be time enough to think of extending their
Christian charity to foreign lands, and making
pseudo converts at the rate of five thousand dollars
each
IHE FRENCH REPUBLIc-ONE LEGISLATURE AND
THREE CoNsuI4s-The newspapers are specializing
on the form of government which the National
Convention of France will give to that country.
single assembly and numerous executive seem
TO be execrated by contemporaries very gene
rally
We differ in opinion on this matter.
| The practical advantage of a single executive
and two legislative assemblies does not appear SO
positive in an enlightened age. 1t is mere matter
of paper complication. Nominally, the executive
power IN this country, and also among the mo-
marches OF Europe, is exercised by a single in
divldual, but really and truly it is welded by
numerous executive, in the shape of ministers and
cabinets. The President in this country, unless
in met nj, Ill