The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-07
Miss Bac0n OH the Hebrews.

The continuation Of this lecture, by Miss Bacon,
WAS delivered yesterday morning, at the Stuyvesant
Institute, to o crowded audience She began by
saying that she would direct their attention 10
wards the influence of one Of the shepherd races
which inhabited Egypt chey ought to dis:in-
suish carefully the influence between those Of the
first ages and the later periods While the nations
we're yet in their primitive state of isolation, deve-
Opponents appeared which have been inherited by
the present civilization, aud which are very dis
ferent from the period when Christianity was
ushered into the world No such thing as hum aty
existed in those ages All humanity which exists
at the present day is the production Of succeeding
ages. for humanity had not yet dawAed on,
world. The idea of humanity ha2 not yet,t
banded The great products Of tho esrIier hst
rical periods, show as that at dat time some p,l
ciple of unity existed am eng she masses, WIN
mazda III --HsI.s- rviigluas ans preJuais
which existed 1t that time we're exten.sd
towards foreigners The Hebrews, notwithstand-
ing their peculiar cbara ,sristios, had their true
God, and their central idea OF such nationality Was
religious. There is no nationality now which EN-
bodies much Of hum aAity the national institu
lions Of those ages die The feeling in those ages,
which linked man to the world, and their reverence
to God. distinguished them from those nations
around them In the earlier ages. have already
. religious point Of view, produced by symbols.
But the Hebrews kept their religion pure, aad read
sxultingly the word Of their God The gods of the
surrounding nations permitted the natural deWp.
ward tendency they had made man worse than
their ma tgre they brought man down into Yeli-
zion lower chan humanity. rhe Hebrews know
that their relisI.,a would triumph ultimately 1hey
looked with eonteh, - upon tbe goes OF the Bar'
Ttey know that their reh. Wa Sou,I ultimately
triumph, beesuse il oennec, ~ WIN .he etSfna-
law, When all Other nations were vryeliooAeu'
hey should read the books Of the Old sos'amenes
winch fully explain tho euhjeet to them, y. ussng
the Bible for thos purpose would not decrease <as
reverence for II The period when Moses wro..'
wac The century IN which tie cid natisnalities ex-
sted constituting the nnfdet barriers against hui
hottest places. songs that composed by shet
herds u the shepherd We struggle 70 e6n
tire spirit Of those soLgs Ia my opinion, thai
was not such great difference in the wisdom &
the psopls Of that time and of thoso Of the preses
date. Miss Bacon thee alluded to the great intS
lect Of the meu Of hose days, aud contrasted tt
difference between the means or receiving aid a
tLose ancient days and the manner Ia which mar
OF the modern age received il The man Of that
period when he wanted help, would not send wor
ior 1t by teegtsbh bat would xipg one of the song
OF those days, that would soften his enemys heart
Religion came from the East. the land Of abstrac-
tion and philosophy Tho rel gions of Europe have
been from time imldemorial We have no religion
OF our OWE which Is worth saving We sppropri-
ave and retain religion now as il it we're our own.
She believed that tts Anglo Ssxons thought them
selves the fouuders Of the Christian religion They
should remember hsw many ages that religion was
ste tlished a the East, while We were content
with the Edda. She then proceeded with the his
t5fy Of the Israalites aho, fsc said, we're o wan
osrng nation They wett into Egypt for hefp and
the Egyptians kept hem there against their will.
The israeltes knew that Egypt not their native
place; they remembered. too. that IL had been
nourced by prophetic voice that there was land
where they could worship their God unmolested.
They X az where Abrahsm had planted his tents
in bis waudaringe and every piece where no had
arid cline they remembered the fertile and
beautiful la. 3s which had been promised
TO then ana thy lcpeco to be there. they looked
70 hope for that premise that she l9ud Of their "a
Their Abraham wopis be restored tnem Tnav
wer. d.ermnsd to have those lands, spi'e Of
those who occupied tbem though they we're supe-
ricr to them both N stature ord physical strength;
hnt when they ieand out Hhet odds they would
beve contend against, they ALTERED themselves TO
10 lt.' back 70 TIE desert. there g avail the death
Of thoel who occupied he laud Of their fathers.
The time came when tney were led on by Moses
then they wee fred vito religious feeling which
could not snd opposition, ana their ginews were
strong ger than a. any other time Moses knew their
feelings and encouraged them Their religious
feeling was grooebs 70 srch pitch that the Exodus
wss the conclusion, spd taey left Egy OF for the land
ofthe.c ancestors IL Egypt the isrsthtes also
remtcIed that they had kindred in Asia. The
we're people IN the rortheru psrt Of the land WI
had the same fai N az themselves; in Arabia, and
the esss OF Jordan there were people Sbo VET
closely allied to them. The Inhabitants Of ~
motnt ains which lie TO the east OF the Dead SCI
and the Amnonites on tie cas- Of Jordan, We
slso Of their KINDRED. For these facts she Won
refer tnnN to the book Of Numbers. whore they
would End that the lsrseites we're not the only
people that inspiration conveyed To- One Of
the eIaudest hif.orcal pictures that could be peint
ed. ( hat representing the lsraelites approaching
The rtomised lant. They ertcsed on the east and
n d
Amnonires, who wore setted people, and did not