New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-22


We behold upon the Earth two institutions Of
coeval antiquity and Of universal prevalence the
Church, which represents the spiritual-the State,
which represents the Material, in Man The one
has its revelations It's priesthOods and It's rituals,
its claim OF divine origin, its commands Of super
natural authority the other has its constitutions,
It's tribunals It's executives armed with physical
power and demanding implicit compliance. We
are born and live, and die beneath their mutual in
faence Together they rstiiy each earthly com
pact together they reward obedience with prom
ises Of security and peace, and menace hostility
with suffering and misfortune. So from land TO
land around the globed Earth, the Church rears its
affairs and the state its citsdels. 50 from age 10
age flow down the divine precepts Of Religion,
and the memorable requirements Of Law. The
Church, BY its precepts, seeking TO unite the soul
with God and TO mediate between Earth and
Heaven the State, by its Laws, endesvoring to
reconcile interest with interest, and mediate be
tween man and man.
Bot In our time both Church and State seem
menaced by destruction. Tho Church is Knocked
byskepticism without aud convulsed by sectarlsm
within: the State rocked with inward sntagonism,
and menaced by external difficulties All Religion
seems threatened with subversion, for COnservat-
ism uses it as a convenient tool, and Radicalism
hates It as the enemy Of change. All Government
is rnenaced with destruction, for the MASTERS OF the
Old know not how to build the Now The Church
has ceased to guide the progressive movement OF
Humanity. Measurably, at least she IS outgrown
by Science-divorced from Art and Genius-made
the slave of w ealth-the prize OF Ambltion-the IN
strument Of Tyranny-the free mans persecution
the bad mans tool The Government has ceased
20 harmonic the Peoples 1t is denounced as op
pressive by the Radical. and condemned as inca
pable by the Conservative 1t ceases to afford
protection either to living labor vested capital
1t groves itself insufficient to grapple with and to
settle the Social Problem OF the age. Europe Is
rocked by the earthquake of Revolution, and Amer
lea sumbers the pent volcano-lires OF hostile
interest aud divergent race. Thus Government
and Religion are destined to fiery ordeal thus
the institutions of the authoritative Past seem dis
appearine IN the vortex OF the revolutionary Flu
ture thus alike on the watch towers of Church
and State men stand aghast before the destroying
tendencies of a subyersive Age
Now. polite men ask how 10 preserve Govern
ment and devout men how to save Religion, aud
IL appears To me that these questions may both be
answered in one simple affirmation; The Saliva
ton of the Church will secure the Salvation OF the
World Government can no more exist without
Rolirion than Nature without God. If the divine
life of the Church can be renewed If once more
nm influence can flow from 1t, like that which once
flowed miraculous with moral healing, from the
nersonalitv of Christ: If thus it can present the
spectacle of a moral, spiritual Unity, around 1t,
al ful sh
ize into beautiful order all social interests and ma
terial authorities the Church, living soul shall
mold into its own likeness the plastic body OF the
state The Religious sentiment is inmost in man,
taking the form OF Duty the Social sentiment is
outw ard, taking the form OF Interest. Duty and
Interest, vital Religion and public Order, harmo-
nize when understood. Chrisuanize the Church,
and it will re0rganize the state the Body con
forming to the divine symmetry OF the Soul.
But how shall the Church be recovered from
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, raised from the dead inspired
with divine vitality How, IN other words,
shall that Religious Sentiment aud that Divine
Revelation, which are both abstract and ideal, be
wrought into the concrete bodily fact OF represen
tatiye institution How shall the WORD once
more be made flesh and dwell among as, saving,
regenerative Life The answer to these queries
will now demand our thought.
Seven human classes and interests unfold upon
earth and contend for mastery. These may be IN
dicated by the terms -Art-E!oqnenee-
Philsnthropy-W eath-W ant Ihere
are seven classes of men and seven divergent IN
terests whose prominent features these terms WAL
Indicate These classes and interests, II may 50
speak, make up the body OF the world. All &C
cessible individuals in each Of these classes OF
minds must be, by individual action, quicSened by
the Life of Christ, which is the Spirit OF the
Church. and impressed with the idea OF duty and
the fact OF rev elation Those minds thus christian
lied must not be withdraw from the svocatloAs 70
which they naturally tend, but must carry Iel'
gioas spirit aud purpose into each act OF ne mus
one divine spirit IN time Will now INTO al sous
from them into all actions from them INTO al IN
terests. Thus from the depraved, discordant
wrecks of earth Divine Humanity snail arise al
last The Church must act through the powers OF
the world the spirit acts through the faculties
of its form. Through the world Reason 1t must
ideslize philosophy and prove its revelations
Through its Artistic faculties II must make music
and painting aud sculpture the mediums through
which 10 impress men with the sweetness OF love
and the be auty and majesty OF goodncss.-Ihrough
Poetry and ElOQuence II must animate the world
10 the deeds of heroic yirtuc.-ThrOush Power II
must euabody its ideas in law and government
Through Philanthropy II must mad out and de
.troy each case OF unknown and UNJUST suiierlns.-
Through w cath il must gain those material ener-
one. that shall be needed in its bengnant minis
trstcns-Through Want II must excite the sym,
ps,hies of the race, aud inspire those universal
fabors that shall end in its entire extinction inv
Church. by individual action, must move 'he W',.u
as the spirit moves the body, 10y acting on is
every atom. Gods representative on oa''i' "
must create around it new aud better parSa,'e.
al empire OF hOl ness. fraternity and peace. LEI
us go on more in detail to look into this he'd o.
universal operation, and mark the features Oh 'u's
magnificent design:
l. The World first estate is tbatoi lMeafci-o'
cultured and comprehensive Reason Minds there
subtle IN analysis, vast IN generalization Aeeh
IN discovery, acute IN argument, iamlhM WIN
each fact OF science and induction OF philosophy
They ask OF Religion, as of every other thing It's
evidences and Combinations. For its principles
they must have solid reasons for its facts anthem
tic testimony, else they will not believe.
Now the great Thinkers have for many years
been out OF the Church because within 1t they
have been forbidden to investigate There has
been war between the Pulpit and the University;
,,,ntnal indiynities hbels and prosecutions Reli-