New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-13

following resofunOn' L. .r,-
cited By living In s .nd ,ss =.
in sv.rsn Of he , ess loudly On the xms
,D cbreS @ nnsh this nsunsutaty until the West
saved. .~..,, and ;,rn,r.
,.,c. of the western section OF our country Inc "e
!. made ON Natures grandest scale abe has forests yes
,,,asurbed which larger than nearly any modern
,,nado rivers that dwinde the Rhine and the Seine
and the Thames into mere dvuets The political pro-
gress Of the West on the same grand and rapid
scale The man yet lives who the first white child
born in Ohio. Sixty years ago the mails we're month
in reaching the site of Cincinnati but 90 hours.
He traced briefly the rapid settlement and improve nent
of the New States. The political and religious fate Of
this country In the hands OF the Weon that ground
must stand or fall Two dangers thr eaten the West
the increase of Uuitaranism and German Skeptcisn,
and the doctrines of the Roman Church If any is
skeptca this last danger let him look at the vast
food of Catholic imm grafton now rushing upon US
But the progress of true Religion NJ the West Is Of
itself a prodigy In l7ss the first sermon to
white people west of the Ohio preached in
the bockhouse at Marietta Now there are 600 minis
tiers and 700 Evangelical Churches 80 in proportion of
all the other Western States The world shows other
such increase Tnc efforts OF Home Missions have been
the grand Of this rapid increases these Missions
have fostered into active life 5000 churches with nearly
300 COO commandments We desire the living. active
Ministry Of the Gospel to keep up the work You may
send Baxter and Banysn nay even the Bible ITSELF into
the West by the boatload and stl the product Of the
fruit will be small without the living voice TO urge the
truth upon the people. The speaker referred 10 the
moral and religious wants of California the most
attractive field of the Wes-a land to which Pc
cuhaly bound by family ties. Now Is the time TO SOW
the good seed of the Gospel in that golden soil lie
went on TO depict the vast consequences, IN a
worldly view, of widespread evangelical relig.
ion The sublime errand OF this Society % spread
the true Gospel over every mountain and valley and
river and Of happy land al the conclusion OF
,ayka n resolution a6OUtPQ.l
Rev. Mr.. CULVER Of Connecticut offered
the next resolution which read as follows:
Resoiesd That the of civil and religious liberty
throughout the world be most eectaay promoted by
the thorough evangehzation of our own country.
In support of this resolution he said this Society was
fortunate in growing up and extending par passs with
the country itself Every addition To our national great
ness adds new field and new duties TO Association.
He skeched the progress Of the Society at first only In
tended to support few feeble young churches In New
England now reaching from Maine TO California tie de.
pcted the mighty power Of our example on the late OF
the world He referred to the European revolutions and
the noble Hungarian exile now on our shores All the
world is now asking what influence will America exert
to make the whole earth free The speaker thought
that Christianity the means by which we should sx-
ercse at last the most powerful influence, an influence
which would emancpste the nations He ridiculed the
idea Of transferring the political institutions OF one ma
don the soil of another since all political institutions
the result Of the manners, customs and religion Of
q
foundation of the venerable Government Of China
what Christianity do In that nation which adopts
1t with its form OF Government Hesrgued thar our
own Government was such one as would most natur-
ally adapt itself TO Christianity and from such an ALI
ance-wthout any partially for men or doctrinesgtin
new and invncibe strength. Christianity cannot exist
in any but free Government; in despotisms conflict
must ensure if there be true religion at all and either
Government or Religion must fall. Only teach a
people to love their neighbors themselves, and the
doom of desponsm is sealed. The men of prayer are
dangerous to the wicked kings Of this world But
how is Christianity to be brought into contact win the
minds OF men TO work out the salvation and EN- in-
cipaon of the word The world look to us to do this
great work They hope much from our tree institutions
enterprise, great physical power, our central
position. But they need an exampc-the example OF q
purely Christian Government-Christian in all its
branches In all its thoughts and efforts Such Govern
men could not be crushed by all the Cars and Enper
that ever lived Our own country Is proof of this;
notwithstanding the unfortunate existence OF many tea
lures In system which call down the execratOn OF all
good men, He went say that was not arms not
mighty power that the despots feartis our example
before which they trembe. The speaker referred TO
the which despots exercise to keep their people
ignorant OF the good qualities OF our Constitution and
laws and the eager haste with which they seize upon
and circulate anything h,t Is bad. Last summer he
(the Speaker was in Central Russia where would
hardly expect to hear anything OF American laws, but
there he found the people singulary well acquainted
with Fugitive Slave Law, which had been held
up them fair specimen of the laws of the boased
Republic OF the West In instance Russian noble
spoke of the law and complacentIy remarked that
there nothing bad as that in the Russian
Empire. | wish (said the Speaker) you could
see how familiar the common people of Eu.
rope with this Slave Law, with our treat
ment of the Indians, with the theft Of Texas, the
Invasion Of Mexico and all those dark stains upon our
national escutcheon which stand In such gfsring
rast with boasted profession of the rights of
Would to God these despots received no aid from our
selves II we could deny these strocous truths the
example of our country would Immediately kndle such
in doa thAl.
of tyranny. The union, them OF Christiany with
Government Ia the grand means by which the world is
to be emancipated from religious and civil despctsms
The speaker elowingly depicted the condition of glory
and power TO which might aspire and arrive If we
should once establish thoroughly righteous Govern
ment Never had nation offered to it destiny sub
lime as that clearly before us at the present hour The
speaker then referred more directly to the business and
objects of the Society At the close of hsremarks the
resolution was adopted.
Rev. DIR. Smith, of this City, moved'the
third and last resolution:
Reoired That by many voices Of prayer and many
vegng lines Of Providence urged and encouraged
cordial and earnest cooperation in the work of home evan
eelizstion.
DR.. s. passed an eloquent sulogy upon ancestral
prayer and prayer affecting the birth and growth OF
nation. The prayers from the Mayaower, from
Plymouth and Jamestown and from the great wilder
ness were the richest inheritance of our people. 1t
was once nOuOn, Indt worn C0Cc epOkcu was ucfOt
Lost from the atmosphere. Might we hope that the
prayers of fathers still lowering around usi If
many dreaded the prayers Of John Knox more than
beseiging army well may rejoice in the prayers OF
the Purtans and the Huguenots He went on to speak
OF the doings of Gods Providence and the concentra
ton OF important events now upon our own SOIL ev
IDENTIFY paving the way for wonderful and import
ant movement In human progress. After speaking
some twenty minutes in eloquent strain, the Dr. SAT-
down, the resolution adopted and, after the usual
closing ceremonies, the audience was dismissed.
After the audience had left, meeting of
the Society was held for the election of officers for the
year
Female Guardian Society and Home for the
Friendless.
The Eighteenth Anniversary of this be-
nevoent institution celebrated at the Church of the
Puritans Unonsqusre, last evening Rev Dr. Tying pre-
siding and opening the proceedings with prayer.
he Trsa "a and oh.sra >fe