The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-10


those bricks to this hour The bricks of the
most beautiful kind of pale red and in sound parts
the walls lock fresh and beautiful and the line of
the bricks clearly marked that the traveller finds t
difficult believe that It Is not fresh work OF modern
Merodotus speaks Of the temple Of BsIus and tns sy
dence very strong that 1t is the that to which
have referred There has been great difficulty among
those who have explored thcse ruins in identifying that
building which Herodotus describes the Temple Of
Beius arising from the circumstance that 1t stated to
have been situate upon the eastern side OF the river
which the Interpretation put upon the descr pons
given by the sncnts of the city the building which
IL now identified by Mr.. Rich and Sir Robert Ker Por-
ter the ancient Tower Of Nmrod and which Is still
called by that name Is the western eide OF the river
the ruin of the building which Herodotu describe Is
such to lead to reading Of those passages Shoh
have hitherto placed the site OF this building the
eastern eide of the river On Its western side there Ia
mound two hundred feet high OF the rsusins
Of antiquity and on its summit there are the re
msns Of tower which exhibits the mArkabe appear
ance Of cleft or fssure through the solid brick
which Is difficult to account for At the base Of
in which the lines OF this cement sti remain though
they hard that they ring like glass at tho touch
Babylon in time became the capital OF the Chsdssn en-
pire. The Chsdeans 1t Is supposed were people from
the Northa barbaric people who came down from the
mountains OF Armenia not perhaps unlike the Kurds Of
our time, and overhew the ancient luxury OF Babylon
They took possession Of that metropolis but prsten y
adopted the civilization Of the people they had conquer
ed and made Baby lon the seat OF powerful en- pire
That about six hundred years before Christ You
VIII see in Ninevsh two eras, as you see here IL
have read Layards work giving an account Of his disco
yres you remember he speaks Of the ruins which had
been the accommodations OF and other ruins the
summit above them showing The vast lapse Of time be-
earlier ruins far superior, and of very different
character from those Of the later periods. II Is
only sitter long research that enabled to say
that the PhGneciaDs belonged to the group 1t EVIL
dent that they were colony from the old mother city
Babylon but they exhibited different chara,teristics
people exhibit different characteristics from the
" m That sd tbs popuS. Sc
full Of wants that could not be gfatied ut home
and those who loved enterprises went of and sought
their fortunes those great mountain, and deserts
They built the cities of Tyre and Sidon and many other
cities that run along the coast Of Ph@necis The
ph@necians have played most remarkable part
tai civilization They are the link between
oents! antiquity and the European and were the Yam
prophecies Of Ezekiel and Nahum Mr. Rich. the nri-
ttrs Travels in the East, and LayArd's works which
would much facilitate their studies She then concluded
statement made With reference TO my views upon
this subject but hardly know how to doit. soneper
fon 1t seems bas circulated report thai am not be
lever in the truths OF religion trust this has not
been done any who has attended these LESSONS
think 1t cannot be, for think It must from some
third handed report Of what has been ad here 1t seems
to that what have already said upon this subject
bould be sufficient to contradict any such stasmsnt
quite willing that committee OF divines should at
tend each OF my lessons and II they convict
Of herrsy against our holy religion will abide the con-
sequences But ! utterly protest against being con
emDed the gossip of second third handed reports
OF Lessons believe that Christianity Is the central
fact Of history, and wish could dnd anybody who be
eyes in Christianity fully do believe 1t Is the
great centre the worlds history and that every other
event subordinate to IT. andi the whole object othis
oinstrucon to show Its divinity and also to
show that is the beginning and tie end Of all history
Wbtn csn find clergy who believe as fully u Chris
tisnity as Dc shall have more hope Of the world II
they believe in II fully rs do their teachings will be
more eff ctusl If they believe In II living power,
controlling every event peryading all things and mould
ing the Cestnios Of ibdividues aud the world their
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the tor Of dead abstraction and hammered out, vi
taty il des eyed our Christianity comes to US in the
shape historical fast He who knew Whist in
did not give them plloophy to lift them above
the tendencies OF their loser nature. He gave them
divine truth, incorporated in forms which could
reach the double nature of man-not only but
that nature which links him to the Outward world and
one referred to could not have been msde.
Lecture OF MIR. Shea, Oh the Early Catholic
Missions In America.
Yesterday evening the fifth lecture Of the course
which being gone through At the stuyye Iutituts
Broadway, was delivered by Mr.. j. G. Shea who chose
for his .ubec Early Catholic Missions among the In
dian Tribes in the United States and Canada" lie
menced by observing that Christianity is an historical
fact remarkable for establishing brotherhood Of races by
propsgatipg the doctrine Of the unity of the human
family To make it recorded reality became the early
object of the Roman Catholic Church 1t in fact the
very soul Of the Catholic Church IMPROPERLY well
the fsrbest portions Of the earth to bring souls within
the pale of Christianity In the early days of her hto
ry as well in later times, behold devoted hersds
departing the greatest Of human undertakings the
salvation of human souls Despite Of the many dangers
that he'd overaken previous missions that the
soldiers of Christ stu ready to brave all difficulties
They were lively energetic is faith ITSELF That
faith has animated all hearts from the prince to the
peasant. till they were chilled by uncathoc The
cary missions OF the Church were the bearers Of cyz
tion to all the lands whih they visited Northern Europe
owes all to the holy church. When Iceland be
came chrstianizd the snets of the Church extended
to Greenland, for colsny was quickly formed The
! OF Greenland. Iceland aud Greenland had
churches, converts. bthops and sests Of learning
Missions, to extend the consopg influence OF chris
| tianity in The neighborhood designed
and bishop known have left his in Green.
land and gone south The st. Lawrence river was GER
tany reached and perhaps New England and New York
were likewise touched The colonies in Greenland per
ished ard the missions were temporarily suspended but
after spread OF there being lands beyond
the broad Atlantic; and love 10 think that the fret
tidpgs Of its existence given by emssary Of the
from pean court 10 another lin order to obtain
get and find the suspected land He sought
those countries in order TO succor nations from dark
and error and to shsre in the benefits of redemp
tion These discoveries Of Christopher Colum led to
priests on holy missions and began their work the
ment the armies landed Each soldier too felt patri
otto loyalty and religious zeal in establishing conquess
The Church formed an army in itself The bishops and
the clergy that departed ON the various expedt
tons termed the very centre Of the armies
For the labor which was TO be undergone, the
Fianeiscsns the Augustns, the Jesuts, and the
Cameltes were cuariy fitted for ardor zeal and
.me decorum the characteristic of all. They had
gled with each other and prepared to the
seeds Of religion. Thus the various Catholic missions pre-
sent achievements before which military annals com
paratiyely Insignificant On the general missions which
have been TO this continent many American writer's
have harmoniousiy expatiated and have made most
compime ntary and truthful illusions to the exploits
which those missionaries had accomplished Indeed the
whole subject Of the early missions in this United States
and CANADA possesses great interest painful though be-
many ts particulars for 1t exhibits TO us the ardor
zeal and feareseness which religion inspires Those mis-
one can only when the red extinct In
veyiDg history find that the Spaniards the first
to enter the neld. and the first TO land aud
pore About 1879 Florida became the object Of the zeal
avace Of SPAIN and With all those conquests the de-
missionaries kept pace Meanwhile Cortez took Mex
leo and accounts spread OF the rich field which thus
opened mission abors and the Italian Father Mark
endeavored to push for the promised lani At the
Rio Grspde the the military portion of the