The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-03


very respectable audience assembled at TX O'Clock
last evening, at st. Mary's athoc) Church the
ner Of Grand and Ridge streets to listen to the Rev DR.
Manahan, who was announced olecture upon the Holy
Places of Jerusalem and Rome Inasmuch the lecture
was delivered for benevolent purposc-the proceeds
being for the benefit Of st. Marys parochal schools
quite large number Of tickets sold at twenty five
cents each. The lecture preceded by appropriate
religious exercises, and listened to with atten-
ton by the audience. Doctor Manahan spoke mostly
eAtemporaneously having before him only the main
points Of his Subjects to which he occasionally referred
As the religious exercises over the lecturer
forward and addressed the audience taking his
theme, as previously given OUT " Jerusalem and Rome
the Holy places of the Old and the New Law"
He commenced by speaking of the laws, manners,
toms and religion of the ancient jews and Of the pecu
liar position which they occupied among the surround
ing nations They were, he said, the repository of
Divine truths and with them only existed the knowledge
Of the true God While the rest of the world sunk
in a state Of semi total barbarsm, they were under
the immediate supervision and guidance of the AL.
mighty True Greece and Rome boosted Of their liber
ties, of their civilization of the great perfection
which they attained in the and sciences but Of
what avail all these2 While their minds were in
state of darkness there vitality in their civliza
ton strength in their forms of worship and principles
OF religion and when they fell these fell with them never
TO be revived The dspensaon which had however
survived while the Jews themselves were held in
state of object slavery and only gave way before the
doctrines Of the redemptionbefore the great prn
cples OF Christianity In these latter days it had be-
come to indulge in assaults against the great
centre the heart Of the Christian churctha church
which alone taught the true religion. 1t had sent its
missionaries all lands preaching to the savage the
saving truths Of the new relgion and when the i'm
mense sable hordes Of barbarans swept from The north
Gown upon the fertile plains Of the south Of Europe
oyerthrowng the mistress Of the world and threaten
ing the utter annihation of all the FORMS laws and
cttt al,rrr
under its teaching and the holy influence it exercised,
they lost their native wildness and ferocty. While
other religions have arisen, declined and died out,
it has always remained the same, firm and
imnoyeahle the rock upon which IL founded New
forms might be established the continent
of Europe might be rocked to its foundations in the
vusons of civil earths upheavng thawhole social
system but the church, which is the great regenerato
cannot be affected By any changes which take place
in the forms society, in the laws by which nations
arc govend Here the lecturer spoke of the different
theories which had been originated by socalled phoso
rhors and statesmen Of the insane attempts which
had been made by TO destroy religion and to esab
hsh in its stead anarchy and infdelty Whatever of
good these theories contained they were I've contended
indebted to the Catholic Church for it, and although it
had become popular to assa that church the great
supporter Of tyranny and the bulwark Of conservatism
vet without there would be such thing true ber
ty and the world would fall back into its original barba
rism and doatry.
The lecturer, in conclusion dwelt length upon
the various places of Jerusalem and Rome made
rabe and reyored through ages account Of their el
giors associations In that old city Jerusalem,
miserable wreck Of its former greatness there were
which had been haowed by the presence Of the
Saviour and to this day those spots received the homage
of the Christian pilgrim, who approaches with sort Of
pous awe and feels that he stands holy ground The
lessons which there learned deep and lasting for
upon the mind Of the true believer the memories OF by
gone ages crowd thick and fast and he feels
nection than he ever felt before to him who with
mission from high TO teach peace earth and good
will to men In connection with the associations Of sa
cred history which clustered around jerusalem the lee
included those Of Rome, which to the modern
world what jerusalem to the ancienthe centre Of
true religion After dwelling upon this point at consd
erable length he closed his remarks having taken up
little over hour in his discourse.