The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-15
Sermon on the Anniversaries.

On Sunday evening" at s O'Clock, Rev. Mr.. Believes,
ct his church in Broadway, preached from John, vii
chap, 10th verse:-'When his brethren gone up
then went he also up unto the FEAST not openly but
1t in secret" The preacher advertcd to tho re
gious meetings held during the past week, and said
though the Unitarians cut off and isolated as they
were from the res. Of the Christian world could not
actively into those proceedings yet did he sim
cerely and cordially participate in the spirit of these
The audiences on these occasions were
peculiar-ve sixths Of them consisted Of and
Of the remaining sixth large portion consisted OF mi
nisters of the Gospel WITH perhaps, stray vsiter In
the city, other chance auditors. There were no
lawyers. doctors, merchants, scarcely any one
who by his and countenancc sustans the gospel
without almost any direct influence the public mind
and might well be held anywhere else as in New
York Ninety out Of every hundred OF the inhabi-
tants are as inscnsibe to all that going lift
happening distant There two classes Of
meetings, first reform meetings and secondly religious
T. ough in religious In another sense are rre
gous they opposed to the church and to its minis
tiers They consist of great variety Of characters In
GLIDING clcrgymen who have overthrow the restraints
Of ecclesiastical discipline for the performance Of what
they consider q higher duty. There you will see
women overcoming their natural modcsty for principle
and the curly headed negro sitting side by side familiar
ly and in amty with the pale face These people Do
not include the great the mighty, but the sons of
toll all Of them earnest and eoquent-their very souls
and tongues burning with q living name Of eloquencc
men and women whe would abandon the Bible itself
for Their svore doctrines For instance If they found
the scriptures to sustain capital punishment or slavery
they would not hesitate moment in rejecting the
sacred writing, and cnging to their own theories.
Mrs Lucrctia Mott for stance said she thought the
nntislavery tracts as sacred portions Of the Bible
These pceplc were called enthusiastsmen OF one idea
1t Is true they were enthusiasts, but they were not
people Of one idea They evidently in earnest in
what they said and did and would die for their prin
cipes. II by this enthusiasm that they had far
succeeded. The Mormons had been regarded as fana-
ties yet it they who first raised the anti slavery
movement to the abolition point; and the prin-
ciple adopted by thousands, who held nothing else
in common with these people The preacher then pro-
Ift lin
He expressed his warmest sympathy with the cause of
missions and regretted that Upitarians did give
them that support, or take that interest in them
that they ought. lie thought 1t was delightful
to read the reports Of men devotng their lives to
the propagation of the sublime truths of Christianity
There was power in the gospel 10 make wise the sim
pie aud convert the heather. This was its work and
in reference to It, too many Of the Cntarans were at
all events, hcretical in practice. They we're repealed
by the outcres of danger to the salvation OF the hea-
then, for they did not believe in the dogmas that
doomed them to damnatioD. and therefore, they did
not join in these missionary enterprises But THIS was
In the other extreme for the gospel indepeu
dent Of its cvilizng tendency moral remedy for
moral disease, and was the grand specific contrived
by heaven for the reformation of man. He repeated
therefore that however right the Unitarians were in
tbcory they too cold booded In matters of rei
sion and did not exhibit in their lives that zeal and
devotion charac OF tho Christians of the hrs,
age and OF many Of them in the present day He next
sdvertcd to the Bible Society, which had platform
large enough for all Christians however they might
differ in the minor articles VI their faith The simple