New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-07

he Church psoer< profession Of religious faith and no
observance Of rsIgons oeremobes when the demand "
or religious We for institutions which reflect the whole
IF human NED, which recognise Tie whole 81 han,n
light. And because the Church has not Instituted the
-crne sss ateral anes limiting her efforts simply
% Anal guidance leaving each one Of her msnbeEs n
rare for hi- material Interests 70 prosper OF fal a.
sy be- leaving such fs 70 Tie casaa hOP5 Oh charity
hsr.s he Church hsp not thai her work 10
def,o he Whole lie Of man, bat The contrary has al
low ed the increase Of iuxry and starr a - keep equal
pae because while holding the place e common parent
and eairipg common household, fbo has not ssid she
dces not today say to her children Here facilities
Of labor abroad IN these fields, common heritage
"sep forth ard produce here are the means and
opportunity Of cultures enjoy kese g. your bthngh the
household Of faith confirms you in possession, eRi guar
snees your material well spiritual welfare, she Is
fast losing her hold on the minds Of men;
Yee, Dew revelation is plainly needed, ne" work =
plainly demanded and, today, because the Churen mas
few bodiBss but those devoted 10 the Observance OF forms
the vitality Of which is conferred by departed ana he
possession Of lands mainly limited BY the boundaries Of
her grave yards indicating her deathke stnpor 70 te
wants OF the living; because she does not make real m
the life of her members her projections o. Chrsan fra
teyuity She il fast coming TO be held Infdel For the
argument runs IF the faith she processes we're sincere
RE would no longer keep her life separate from the life
Of her members and live sumptnOusly The fruit OF la
bors she had agency inttutng but would instantly
" set 10 work and make her life integral
Why Christian Professor should ihese things
be Why content yourselves with professions observ
anoes and aims eiyDyi Why should one Of yOur elo-
queu champions Who believe wOul gladly aid ID higher
work and there may be many such.why should ne be
forced 10 confess that among all the earnest minded
Young men, who ore al this moment leading in thought
and action in America, we venture to say iourhhs
ARE skeItea Of the great historical fsets o. Snrs
"Clurches not considered by them And furthermore
there among them general III concealed ds'rust OF the
"clercsl body as ciass and an utter disgust WIN me
ship" Why shOnld the Church be foble why
should not her growth keep pace with the development, OF
her people arise put on thy strength u Zion Pat
con Thy beautiful garments, solyma!
And The Phanthropst what word has he to say Of the
largely prevailing Acknowledgement His words are fifty
s1e,d by bis deeds ne ogahds.d 10 ala tbs y
er carry instruction where our common schools do not
reach. lii. -,
In potuous places are aso organizing beneficiary s0ce
tics 10 which the fraternal bond partially recognized
so Lat when the members personal PoweL ls' nun Tue
and IL lie die it educaes his children and perhaps settles
an annuity upon the widow. This is wide spread move
ment and from the orders Of Freemasonry and Odd Eel
IowsIip which have taken the lead in these enterprises
through legion Of to Military Companies and the
Sons of Temperance, immense beneiaetions are quietly
and p,atiously dispensed In the last report that
saw Of The Independent Order Of Odd Fellows published
few wears since their benefactons in this country for
that year amounted to over half million dollars.
Trustworthy and credtable to Humanity as are all these
benevolent efforts, they but very partially meet the com
mon demand. The phlanhropst waits until the evil il
sccompisbe ed before he acts His work is mainly pala
five Of organic evil not radical and directed toward
causes 1t is also Ssyphus like having to be repeated
perpetuay, without making progress, but rather losing
",
stanty throwing social failures in ratio increasing
over the increase of wealth and population
The beneficiary societies are doing their work with the
stesdness and quiet of large organizations and their ben
factions ach their objects with the force OF law and with
out the offensive character of personal ensgvng attach
ing TO hem but they too only provide for seasons or OBJ
ects Of failure they cannot as yet guaranty even Em
lOyment their members who need employment ana are
able and willing to work 49, .
And the Socalsts.what say they Of the PREVAILING as
What new reading of the Divine method have they
Plainly thisThat society should be organized upon the
basis OF UNITY INTERESTS that legisate an abstract
edualy before the law much as we viii, produce az
much as we WILL teach much as we will, go long ns an
ag onistc interests remain the great fact In distributing
production long class interests must have an increas
ing sharpness Of development and ind 0dua interest be-
come more and hostile 10 other interests in proper
ton to the development of personal and
became increasingly difficult and limited TO fewer aud
fewer and failure be the lot of larger and increasing
proportion oil the race. 81,
Apappealto facts will sufficiently show this sufficiently
show that so material interests concerned men
are arrayod against each other in great hostile camps or
classes ard have hostility also Of private interests IL the
Genius of Evil had been specially inspired to SOW dscord
broadcast among men, he could not have devised more
subtle agency Of evil more pervasiye and universal eie
me of strife than the present antagonlstc relations
Of men to each other in the production and distribution OF
the means of life This anagonismi is integral Glass in
teres is hostile to class interest and private interests are
hostile to each other and to public interests class preys
upon and plumbers clas by ingenious devices that obtain
public sanction and the individual lives and ourhes by
grindng up the prosperity Of his neighbour and the cur
rent maxim is-That all is fair in war and the current
belief is that the professions OF law, medicine divinity
potcs and commerce learned professions to avoid
honest work and the time 10 secure fair share OF
the spos which avowedy belong to the victor But Tor
the facts In spite then of universal suffrage men are
not enfranchsed with the rights Of labor of home. OF 60
ceiy Of culture and nonehave guarantee beyond that
of their personal power excepting the aims OF their fe
lows the poor house and the prison Notwithstanding
economic the absence Of SUCH in the face OF
production through division of labor through in
ventions through the application OF science In production
fha rsfio If ID
Notwithstanding the large endowments of the professional
church. and her long ages of teaching moral obligation
and Christian affection In spite Of the utmost horrors OF
he'll and the nconcGvable Establishments Of heaven urged
with dramatic effect to give the potent sanctions to
her teaching Notwithstanding the increasing lenency OF
criminal law the Church has the OF witnessing
the increase beyond her remedy of crime and Of the
hopeless degradation Of increangper eentage oe cry
fresh generation Of her children.
Thus Notwithstanding every agency hitherto employed
human interests to promote human welfare and
TO exalt human life have the modification of know
ing that without Social Providence unity prevails
and causes are constantly operative which with the GER
tainy Of law land large majority of our population up
the lower planes of life at the end of every third
fourth generation and prison and gooe poor house ana
PalssDhrOp pave business accommodating upon their
Startling may those Of who boast Of the
Of s :: S be ss : Rd 5 sa .
Rich are growing rehsI and the RSSs re.s y every
over their petty ambition while preacher, drOuns
, Sys PSF e $c s ssS Hss
destiny rolling the millions deeper psuPersm
Is s,s, wp,s ses Million. and Will. h. Ia. Doe.
mains thousand have Psrshsa nf,y escape
We simply ask why is that the Poor Rstes Of Crest
than population The following from table in Tive
Encyclopedia BTitaEnica:
E,ge9dsd E.hc Posu.S9 q A,sSss Price Esoto5. as
Hsi. . h,'sIs: t''' IS s. i: "a
omSS intermediate years. in thirty Yeas the
population has grown only from nine to fourteen millions