The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-18


II the dsspotisms Of Europe coatiaus shall tails nation
DO still the same place Of refuge to the oppresSai2 IL
Remember that the great law o! risuon i. a,pi4 to
nations as well to ipdvidus Asthsy shah hey
reap and tbs consequences Of WAT ara leg totay
shall be fell In sgea To come II 70 Sorlt app ropria.sg
undsrsand tue true elements OF plpular scu,ton, let
1t be based upon the Christian morality watch guides "a
In private life.
English Sacred Literature and Tragic Poetry.
The tecond lecture of TIE bseg given for thu
benefit Of the Contingent Charity Fund OF the Protestant
Episcopal Mutual Bens Society delivered oa Tuesday
evening" In the a'se chapel OF the University Wishing
ton squire by Professor Henry Reed Of Philsdslphs
very large ard influential audi moe upon Lhe above
subject.
After ew prefa.ory remarks upon thu necessity
Of 8 cultivation of sacred literature both prose "A:
poetry the professor proceeded sy in
Of this evening" lecture in speaking of the sasre3 Hsr
.ure CT our language he ussa term which be well
theYe would be- difficulty IN defany 1t
not easy to do without the one hand MARIO sny
it SO as to exclude What it desirable 10 oomprshs
and the oler hand tie danger OF passing beyond the
region of literature into that of theology That alone Is
properly literature whether sacred secaar which va
Addressed to in his humanity and not in pros3
sional seclurion 1t utersnce to rlsnkiao sad
rot to any ca Of peoples feelings hsy paco4lei
n into varioe avocstions of socsJy There thuI
AsofaiM0 AEin 10 leeOlBy, Out 0lhDnft lrDM IT.
Theirs Aere books for the gessral reaief which
had affinity TO the studies OF The divine, but whi,h
need not b. confounded win tn thai were The SPECIAL
subject OF his thoughts snd which L would b. bo!h
and Eapp site for him 10 venture 70 discuss
The more conlmoa error ofthe eral reader was not
in ing far but the VII hdeawing from
ana one OF his chief neuceinen 10 taking the sub
ject Of sacrt literature, hs hope " btiug s TO
show how itch English literature in its poetry
and prose. II meditatise Saxon )rit such IL was
Thousand years ego, did not conteat itself sth mare
sLcy tie cAlcuis sirg FAC lilies Of the mind but r-l-r
de.ls with WAGON imag ton, add thus Tho lore
whiS it not delighted in, that walsh al mi tered
To The immori al part u maa's psing hsace rot ONLY
was that hch may &c peculiarly sye' sacred liter ure
arl ell expanded bat may its character be sri OBJ
served throughout sill the best of Eagish bp1Ea
He tho ught that the Influence Of the Chusca tie
mind was always felt in tbs tetnfure OF Easlani sni
tended to pur, and elevate il, Witnessed in tas
Ggs Of Chsucsr Ben Jopson Shakspsars and oltaoush
he was loath to msntion his in conaectioa With
tssmTom Moo who arst wroe his SACRED posns and
III IN his Hebrew melodies. In like manner the Hebrew
Pssls eavened the poetry ef the world and have ser
reacted In their eff ct upon the minis Of the psops
Where the mind OF became darke1ed and de- ,sse5,
it than likely that poetry OF his couetry
wss 9 low asd n .as sxSss ~ c.nu
but in The middle Of the next, when mind bso con
racted by Puritan conteaoD snder hs reign Of the last
OF the feeble Stuarts her poetry psrto Of thu CLEO
character OF tae times Ia the eighteenth century
eley to STEM unbeef Butler TO slime and convert
ard Blair to be reya dec in his sermons az aode II pull
pit eoqucnce. Then Cha Ian. rs ana Burke taught tse
philosophy Of the mind: and although he did not intent
to trace the connection cewesn great events cause
by Bishop Butler showed thai the literature had
beco0e pr minenty sacred IN she reading OF tonne
specimens of the literature Of those times however, the
ecciaatical udent should learn that the intellectual
gra,iic&tiln winch they afford would not bsgs; fatal
scepei of revealed truths Tn sacred poetry Of the
ssventeeIth century should be read by al; AID tue
works OF Izsac Walton the finest
OF it ss yell as those OF andrew D,wd Taylor, Barrow
Vaughan, and others. The Proe then discussed
merits Of the lyrical, tragic and ehgsi: syes of -.
sry The saeic, he said was .hex OF the mind Of
man which joy shone, bu ray Of grief
parallel to It, Heace it's popularity In Egyptian pot
try nothing Is musicay trsgcal than the al
Gle of ths hand writing upon thew. warning RsshazZar
of his fall 10 the classic excited with the noble
struggle at Thermopye la the English read with
avdty OF the 70 tunes of King Charles from his stand
ard oated at Nottingham his death upon the scaold
In French story, what part so popular rs that which
tells of the fall of the desc nst of sxty kings under
the gitterins aud in eouutry her history
Is truly grR1d when read how nations birth
baptized
Professor Reed concluded amid marked appreciation
after literary analysis of ire Ly oidss" of Milton, th
"Adorais' OF Shelly, and the In Memorian.'' Of
Tam