The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-09


every means to instruct them, we should be untrue
to them, to ourselves, our country, and our God
(Hear, hear.l At the present juncture, who could
estimate the importance TO our country Of dissent
mating such instruction The very foundations of
the constitution had been shaken by the agitation
Of abstract questions OF tho social system Our
glorious constitution, cemented by His hand, had
been threatened and the voice Of disunion had
up from the South. He trusted that the portend-
ing evil had rolled away but we should not forget
that at this very hour authorized delegates from
the people Of aneighboring State, arc assembled in
the iurtherance Of project the fulilment of which
may God avert. Where, at such juncture, should
we look for COUNSEL Will we not from the Bible OBJ
tain it and learn forbearanee, when We read its
pages, and the precepts Of Him who "rendered
unto Caesar. (even unto Cesar the things that
were Caesars! Who will not there learn some
thing Of his duty to his country! The Bible was
the safest, the most potent instructor. Let the
friends Of freedom stand by the Bible, and let tho
friends of the Bible stand by the Union, which is
destined TO be the great propaganda Of Christian
truth QIear, hear.) file who would serve his
country need rot tread the bloody deck or the
by bringing the hearts of her people connection
with that word, Send it forth without note or
comment. Away with the impiQus notion that the
Bible cannot be trusted alone. Its best, its only
interpreter, was Gods holy spirit. Send it forth,
and God would 60 with it. cloud applause.)
MIR. +. BUEI, from California, seconded the reso-
luton. California, he said, had been preserved by
the providence of God for the protection and benc
fit Of this Christian country. Franciscan priests had
long since been esta bshed there, but the gold
not then given. The Hudson Bay Company had
travelled there, but the ground did not reveal its
treasure t. them. Nor was II given to support the
splendor of the British crown. The consequence
had been 1t was reserved, and every maritime nation
Is seLdTg her ships there, from the east, from the
south, ON Europe, and from China There wa
Low republican and Protestant institutions
They had gone round the coast and found several
speaking Spanish, TO whom they had given the BIZ
har ~ had nd, do t.. ata
persons, but not for the ignorant In san Francisco
there is felt the influence OF the American Bible So
ciety The priests understood il, throughout the
length and breadth Of the land One of them had said
he was glad Of it, for the Bibles they scattered
themo.e Catholics they would make; and the truth
make Cathoiics-well But let means be left
neglected of scattering the truth-the word OF
God. He himself had been brought up q Catholic
and in youth the Bible n closed book to him.
They were now, as it were in the centre of the
world California had connected the two hemis-
rhercs together and hundreds and thousands of
hiIese we've constantly arriving there. We had
gone West and they had gone East until both had
met Aud they had from that point given the
Word Of God 10 the heather, and distributed it on
their own shores. Many had been cent into China
among her three hundred and sixty millions OF in
habitants. What they bad done would be felt
thIoug hont the universe The Bibles given, some
would be conveyed to the remote shores Of nina
some SPANISH ones had been taken to that coun-
Try, and by that light all the mists would be dissi-
raied. Iheresolution was then put and carried
Key. L. V. MOORE, from Richmond, Va, moved
the next resolution" That the growing activity
OF the elements hostile to the fundanen tai prin-
clples on which this society is based, demands u
corresponding increase of activity on the part of its
wei wlsheIs aid supporters" II we believed that
the bible was merely \ record of revelations that
were made. then 1t would be wrong to send 1t forth
Without some comment Light would be necessary.
Eut We believed that God himself spoke thcro-that
God and his mightlness heard in it over the
eloquercc Of the poetry. Grant that there is mys-
tey in it deep the ky, but in the sky there is
the light Of the run; and 50 il was here, and il
Tor the light that we cherished and sought IL.
Iopery was o religion he feared not. lie did not
low mean the honest Roman Catholic, but those
who knew the secrets. Some he believed, bewildered
with conjectures, and, ut o loss among opposing
terets, had, in their difficulty, thrust their
heads into Popery rs the ostrich thrust, his
head into the sand, and fancicd he was
1t was Popery, as o political agency. The question
had been, how were the masses TO be kept down
how was the human mind to be governed 1t de-
pended upon the friends Of the Bible whether
Polery did not speak the truth, when she said that
she was to be the mistress and the governor OF the
world. Popery was unchanged and unchangcable.
She was stamped with the immortality Of Gods
curse, ns though he had said, "stay till | come"
She was tolerant. Yes, tolerant the VIPER until
she was warmed into life. The Pppery Of to-day,
the Popcry Of the past against which our brave
ioiciathsrs had fought, and prayed, and blei This
Is the Popish church which had burnt more Bibles
fidelity of the present day more dangerous than in
the past II had been to tho tailors and come in
new garment; it was clothed in language different
from the vulgar, disappearing thing il once was. 1t
came in Gods own churches, from his ministers
IL came with a kiss and smile; but it came with
all the betIaying treachery Of Judas. (Hcar.)
II came up in the fclm Of science. Ii you contend
that the world built in six days, you are told
that you are treadng upon science. lfyou contend
that God formed all the nations Of the earth from
the one clay, you are told you are trcnchng upon
science, If you contend that God sent Hood to
sweep the wicked of the face Of the earth, you are
told that you trenchng upon science. II came
up in different modes Of philosophy. II came up in
the arguments Of those social reformcrs who want
ed TO have more lenient punishments for crime than
those which Jesus Christ himself had sanctioned
Between the two great currents Of rationalism on
the one side and tradtionalism the other let us
stand firm on the Bible. Would we meet them
with cumbrous tones on the proofs Of Christianity
We would approach them not in the spirit Of po-
ltmics bu. We will AK them to receive it. Tho
fcaming, disappearing infdel may have had
pious mother, and the recollection Of her may
happily open his hard heart to conviction.
Rochester had said that the only argument against
III, Bible wos bad heart, and he might now say
that the best argument for it was a holy life. II
vac such transations rs were 10 be found in pious
lives that they wanted. Such were the colporteurs
We required, and they would 60 forth Gideon's
host, and put to fight the army Of the alien
Mr. CAsFiEID addressed the meeting, and adj
dnced the observations Of the despscd apostle, (St
Ihuii) inc aHnut insPIrcu Philosopher, cir lsnac
Newton, and the foremost in literature. taste, and
poetiy-M ilton-in defence and admiration Of the
Bible IL was not the mob, not the populace Of
Paris, that had lately raised the tumult, but the
educated, the literati, who solcmny debated the
question whether there any such thing ~ moral
obligation, and declared that there not. Wo
TO thus and every other country, when the profcs-
sors Of IoIery and in6delty combine and become
the educators Of the people. Pcrscycre- and God
strengthen the work of their hands The resolu-
ton was then put and carried After which hymn
was surg.
The hev. Ar. SroRRs, Of Brooklyn, offered the
hurth resolution t.
That the translation Of the Divine word into the Ian
guag.s ~ mrn b work a such difruty. such liability
L. error, and sueh mmcasuahlc importance properly
TO d'm~nd for those engaged in IL the aectonate ami
earnest consideration 81 thissoesty and tn. sympathy
AID prayers Of all who love Cod
As member Of the Committee on Vorsons. he
had come IN contact with the gentlemen engaged in
the labvrs OF translatng. and he would snggest
some 81 the difhcutie, they had 10 contend with,
aid all wpull that thav wcyo ycrv graat