New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-10
THE ANNIVERSARIES.
Anniversary Sermon before the New-YOrk
Bible Society.

in the Broadway Tabernacle by Rev. JOEL PARKER be-
fore large and attentive congregation The Rev. gen.
IL man took as his text the 2)d chapter Doth verse OF
Jeremish. He commenced by speaking OF the power
of the Scriptures the human mind, as exemplhed
in its remarkable effects the character of man. and
the great changes it has produced in the world Every
wellinformed mind viii admit that the Scripture has
exercised very powerful and extended influence. 1t
erec,s temples OF justice and sanctuaries of and
gives development to the arts of peace This It does by
acting on the human mind and while 1t exercises this
power it is limited only In two important respecs-t
eevates every order Of mind ard rectifes the human
conscience It soics the affections by presenting OBJ
iects of moral purity In short it absolute
supremacy over every faculty of the human intellect
and all the power of the mind. philosophical treatise
that might exercise an influence over the educatedand
refined would be Intellectual the masses but the
Bible suited every capacity and all classes and
leaves its impression deep In the human heart 1t 10
written by statesman brought up in the court OF
monarch, by ecelesiascs and prophets by shepherds
and humble fishermen therefore il. has adaptation
to all orders and classes OF minds and hence there il
no book popular in its character. Ia its limpd
waters a lamb may seek refreshment-n is depths
elel liant may swim Divine Revelation has cXerted an
! influence the common mass of minds u effect
object IdOairy, supported by every class 10
the qualification OF whose Passions and desires t was
made favorable had attained power over the people
which almost supreme ana against tails power the
divine influence OF the Scriptures was to be brought to
| bear.
| When the Jews, who were always determined on
their OPPOSITION to idosiry, became subject 10 the
Romans, the truths Of the Scriptures hrst an
to their conquerors. The Word OF God them fire
and hammer, broke in pieces the iron power of their
empire The peaceful manner IN whica this was &C.
conp-hcd II a sufficient proof that 10 tie Word OF
God and not the creation Of earth What it has
achieved Il has perpeuated IL is true there mas been
Ttaotye fOIce toward idOtry in the remains Oh the
old Roman empire, IN he revival OF image worship and
the alteration OF tie Virgin But this coald only be et
iected when the truths of the Bible shut up in
coisics and denied 10 tbe people, and II was only
when the power of the church broken up by
Calvin, Luther, Zwingus aud others that the truths OF
the Scriptures dise minated among the mass OF
the people. These Effected grand reformation,
and such has been the effect Of their reaching, that the
image worship has received a defeat from which IL
never can recover The Word of God has Also in ad
diti,n to the destruction of dolatry, sanctied the
state Of natrnony, which, in the days OF heather
Rome was regarded sacred Wherever the Bible
ha. gone II has established the truth that marriage ia
divintly ordained, and that all other forms OF
nection between the sexes unlawful and unholy.
So great has been s influence In this respect tna It
has leagued the whole of ChristendOn in its de
Among the Je ~ it created equality which con-
trasted with tie despotic, heather nations by which
they surrounded and gave to Ina people great
superiority in the tvrm OF their institutions. The
liberty Of which the Greeks bOasted is found to be-
ON close fnspt ctiOn, desposm.
The Rev. gentleman then proceeded to speak OF the
despotism Of the Rsmsh Church in comparison vita that
of England which he said gave true EXPIRE s IN to the
meaning and spirit Of the Bible. Instead of finding its
way into the Chinese and Hindoo mind, it had made
inde6e impression upon the vigorous and Intellectual
mind OF the English, the German and Scotch nations.
The ROmish Church, although it was despotsm how.
ever was superior to the tyrannc barons OF the Middle
Ages whose iron power it bent to its sway In nothing
however, is the Word OF God more remarkable than in
the power which ntuses into the Christian TO endure
suferngs for the sake OF truth aud principle The Bble
has made Bible societies and Bible distributions has
unclasped the hands of avace and forced them give
up their wealth for the distribution OF the holy Word of
God among all the nations of the earth It's progress
some respects is slow, but its triumphs great and
lasting Observation-Disclosures will say is good book
but that has done its work and has had its day and
must give way to another system but these assaults
against il must be by its circulation throughout the
world Ii will thus break up the power that attempts
It's destruction. Without il, what would poor human
ture be 1t eniiehtens benighed minds and inspires
them with hopes of glory, and it will go conquerng
and TO conquer. Every man will receive s truths
for himself alone but that others may receive its sanct
tying power and influence forever.
At the conclusion of the Rev. gentleman's sermon of
which the foregoing avery brief abstract collection
was taken up, after which the congregation dispersed
American Society for the Amcliorntion Of the
Condition of the Jews.
The Anniversary Sermon before this So
cety delivered last evening in the Dutch Reformed
Church, Lafayettepace, by the Rev. w. Ramsay, Of
Philadelphia. large congregation was present The
proceedings were opened With prayer by Rev. Mr.
Knox; after which the Report of the Secretary was |
read stating that during the past year the receipts ill.,
GLIDING the balance from the previous one amounted to
Sl2 1876; that Regular Missionaries Colporteurs
Students and or Agents had been employed more |
than 900 lsraetes had been visited upward of 100 of
whom were induced to attend the preachngs of the |
ministers, and to become converts of Christianity about
100 Bibles, the same number OF Testaments and large
quantity OF Tracts had been distributed Also that those
sraeltes that bad been converted during the last two
years. all OF whom are OF respectable standing in soci
ety. have adhered with rmness to their faith and
that the Society its new year with regular
missionaries 3students, 3Colporeurs regular Agents
and Il Laborers, l6 of whom Christian Israeites
Rev Mr.. Ramsay took his tex. from Acts l5 chan |
l4th and 10th verses Simeon had declared how God
the first did visit the GentiIes to take ont of thor.
people for his name" and after this will return, and
will build again the Tabernacle of David which ia fallen
down, aud will build again the ruins thereof and
will et up" From the above he proceeded TO his sub
jet, entitled The literal resurrection of the Jews
and no uumphs Of the Church until they are converted
10 christianity The text he said embraces thres
topics let The nature and design of the gospel dspen
saions %, The restoration Of the sraeltes 10 their
own land and 80, The salvation Of the world when all
VIII De brought into the one fold The first dispensaton
was the settlement OF our first parents in Paradise the
second the condition OF their descendants when Para
disc was lest and The third the dspeus.tion which
yet remains when Paradise will be repsined Pas.
isg over the history of Gods people in ths early
ages, ne came DOWN to the period of Chris.
tlanity, and reviewed the results that accrued
from the planting Of the Gospel in Asia and Africs.
and It's o6iteration therefrom by persecution to the
time 10 WHICH, II was again sown, as evidences that |
after the preachngs of 1890 year, the great end bas
not yet been accomplished He quoted several texts
support OF this concluson and proof hst the next
- oroer OF events would be the gathering Ia of the
knsmen OF the Messiah In blood and their restoration
to their promised land He knew that in ali the dispeo
atons tina; had paced the Church had os the porv
possessed N It's commencement The first consstino |
OF the placing OF Adam and Eve in the Garden Of psr
dise was terminated by the expulsion The next 40,
under the destruction Of the Deluge and the th;rJ
with the Crucihxon Of the Savior on the Cross and r.