New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-15
ANNIVERSARIES.
New.York Female Bible Society

Society House. in Nassau.st The attendance quite
large and the services of deeply interesting charac
ter. Rev. Dr. Brigham occupied the Chair, supported
by Rev. DR.. Holdch and Rev DR.. Spring Rev. Dr.
| Holdch commenced the services by reading chapter
from the Bible; after which the annual report of the
Treasurer read by Joseph Hyde, ESD from which
it appears that the total receipts of the Society for the
past year amount to S63sS H. OF this sum, 1856 90
were paid the American Bible Society for Bibles and
tracts and S6,032 % TO the Society AS dona-
ton. The Secretarys annual report then read,
from which appears that the Society is accomplishing
much good in aid of the American Bible Society, of
which it is an auxiliary.
Rev Dr. Spring then proceeded to deliver eloquent
and impressive address He spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
| cannot appear before yOu my respected friends,
without gratefully acknowledging your courtesy, in de-
string address You this so interesting and so
fitting occasion. the Annual Meeting of the New York
Female Bible Society 1t no deviation from the Ordi-
nary course of ministerial Instruction. 10 address the
friends of the Bible behafof the Bible cause. Nor
have any embarrassment in complying with your re-
quest except be fear OF repetition of Old aud lan-
liar thoughts Man is made for truth. He cannot answer
tLe ends ofhis creation without the attainment Of truth.
/ H is fitted for truth There is other alment by
which lis ever-acting, eyerthinkng mind can be
BEAUTIFULLY sustained He has rejoicing exist
/
his native clement and cline, in which he lived
now gazing into It's meridian sunlight, now repoS-
ing in It's peaceful shade drinking freshness IN It's
stiffness. ard becoming respondent with Its SpIcnor
lie is the child of truth Its very twilight cheers him.
Even now in his deepapOSacv he has nothing else upon
which to lean. Ignorance is darkness to him. Error
settles his intellect. Error, in every FORM is tol
blot on the page of his history 1t only by p"rpe
al conflict with himself that he becomes lover OF dark
nes rather than light He is everywhere struggling
Al, and fIp MI
seeking the light of heaven. The minds of men in the
Pagan world were thus like blindodcd children, feel
ing after God if happily they might find Him.; expect
ngthe dawnng of the Son Of Righteousness which has
since risen with healing in His wings Yet it fact
never to be lost sight Of that the highest intellectual
culture Ofthc Pagan lands did not prodncc pety II can
be cultivated Only when religious truth lies at the basis
Ofi Christianity has scverer conflict than that
which IT wages with the pride Of Science of Novelty
and human Learning Little Difference is due to the
unaidcd lights Of reason and nature Where is the
difpIter of this world Hath not God made foolish
ness the wisdom of the wOrldi We pity the blind
men though they have the intellect of Newton and the
wealth of CrGsus who without the Bible. This
Book Of God is most wonderful book Ii has peculi
arities which belong to other book and rghfuly oc
cupies position which other book in the world oc
cupies On every page it asserts It's divine origin In
finite intelligence and love alone could have made it
what il is There is no creduity in him who
ccives it as the Word of God. Human research
and human subtlty may do their worst, and they
can never invadae the facts upon which rests nor
obscure the bright cloud of glory which overshadows it.
It's license its own, and conveyed in its own way.
1t is TO subtle sOphisry and abounds in deadly errors
Human wisdom has part in it, lt shines by It's own
! LIGHT and is halowcd by its own sanctlty 1t tells of
earthly things and Of those which are heavenly Every
sphere of human influence recognizes its power 1t has
given to intellect its greatest expansion and its brightest
radiance to the nations their freedom to legislators
their laws and to society its organization 1t has given
certainty to moral science. Ii is the only invaluable
rule ofaith and practice, and therefore the only book
which produces substantial aid and character. 1t is the
! book whose teachings determine eternal destiny.
II meets the eXgences Of every class of men and of
human affairs in all periods of time. 1t teaches, by
truths the most searching and gives universal appca
ton More is there in these comprehensive pages of
the great God more JOY and hope than in all the phoso
ply you may acquire by study of inerminabe ages 1t
teaches without philosophy, what man cannot teach,
namely: that man is his fellow.
Ii teaches the sublime beauty of love- and Justice and
meeknes II is the only book which is destined to live.
The time is coming when it will be universally
valued than all other books It everywhere recognized
the great healer and antdoe of suffering. There is
nothing feel more deeply than that its treasures
unatbOmable and that You grasp the
| of its truths Far above all other books is it, The
Nesta of the Brahmins the philosophy of Confcus and
the teachings of the Sanscrit all have similar trains of
thought. But the Bible is like no other book in the
world Garry it where you will it is a book. No
enlightened man who had seen before could read
it without establishment Read it to the Tartar or the
Hotento and they will delight in its truths and look
upon it miracle
The question now arises is this Bible TO be given to
/ the world Shall it be given to the wOrldl And with
out is given there any reason to hope for the worlds
renovation have but answer to these questions
namely: d" For the rain cOmeth down. and the snow
from heaven and returneh not thther, but watereth
the earth and maketh bring forth and bud that
give seed to the sOwer and bread to the eater So shall
nv word be- that gOeth forth out of my mouth 1t shall
not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that
which please and shall prosper in the thing where
| unto send it,"
Therefore the Gospel shall be given to the world by
the labor the prayers the faith and the enterprise of
I Christian Societies.
There is one feature in regard to this book of
which would speak there is other book which every
virtuous mind deeply loves and there is no other
book which is hated by wicked and nfdel minds This
is the book Of all which errorss would wish not to be dis
semirated need not say to this audience that the night
OF superstition is not passed away. Nor is the c0ntro-
versy yet decided between the powers OF light aud the
powers of darkness This is an older controversy in
older lands but it has not yet attained its strength in
this land. Sooner later, every friend Of the Bible
must take interest in this matter-must put on the
heavenly panOpy, and make war with the enemy having
in his hand the shield OF truth As Protesants we pro-
esS TO love the Bible The empire of passion aud self
interest ever has been and ever will be opposed To the
empire of Truth. The Bible has no sympathy with
the empire Of Sin. The Bible and Rome are con.
fcting elements; they never come N contact with
out coming in collision. What the Bible spcahs to
one it speaks TO ALL to the priesthood and the Deo-
PIE. It's echo is not bounded by the Seven Hills.
How can the Church OF God ne the depository unless
she let her light shine The true filth rests now
Just where it rested in the DAYS OF primitive
Christianity, on the testimony Christ and his Apostles
There is no other place upon which the true faith can
rest Far distant be the day when this great Protestant
principle shall be loosely held by the mothers and the
daughters of this fair land No matter b. what other
name il NAV be called. may well snspect a religion.