New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-09
THEODORE PARKER.


ZION Tie R,cis end n .. Can't ~ dtrot1ie
From he Institution for the Blird, with miai ~
Of th00gfts arising from q few moment. 10 the pre-
Of Laura Bnd.uon. we took al Omnibus, snd in
III thnn ole bOur were the top of the Baker
H MOnumeBt. What prospect Il cInuc be de-
scfiltd. Let pass al tie SaObafh mcfniuE.
first, We dropped in at the Hsno gef-st Ne hii;
Episcopal Church 70 Boston sabbath = aSo
lhcn We spent o fev moments with 80 Father Taylor.
Then we went. little before 10 O'Clock 10 the Mussc
Ball 10 hear Theodore Parker TIE hah will seat
100 IeTsons- By TO-, We suppose there we're from
7CO "a 1000 p-Tsons present. lacy came IN, per-
sots ordinarily with Us, would 20 into concert
room.
Not few hsd secular newspapers which they Eat AL
READ ti The stTvlces commenced. here Wcr bows OF
recognition across The Hall aud every body seemed quite
at ease. Tie sexton set Of beautiful fresh wers
tie speakers desk. Tie org mist came il and thI5w
open the doors Of an instrument Of tremendous poser
lresently q grave, serious look NJ nau of modn
sac, slightly bald, and sBnns led with grey hairs,
cane in, assembled the platform, laid his manuscript
y e dest, ana took the Hymn Book, % Psalm Book.
OF book Of some sOrt. Il was Theodore Parker. tie
II ad a Psalm Of Thanksgiving. Ii was sung by
choir with the organ in appropriate tune. The
deep base notes Of tho organ shook the great Han Ike
mighty thunder
After the psalm wss ended Mr.. Parker offered
Dc. ply impressive and eloquent prayer TO the Great
Goo, in which there not the slightest reference
70 Mediator. He called God " our father and our
mother and the strain Of thanksgiving for mercles
ten poral unsurpassed by anything we have ever
heard.
course. lie announced text His theme was
" America ana her Opportunities Il was marked
By great originality; aud many passages IA that
discourse would compare most IA Oraby with the huest
thi q H. the annals Of oratory. There was nothing
f.rpant-no attempt at display but Bis whole manner
Wa marked by the greatest solemnity gravity aud
eau,s'ness. His feelings were frequently excited
teas cane to hs eJts, aud his voice trembled with
deep MI fft cted emotion. But who ever heard such
ideas He thanked God that IN Boston all religions
and cToeC and scots tolerated He thanked Go
that club OF Atheists could Assem- Die, ami eni " tn
"Ii. hts Of conscience, aud none dare modest them
" lie thanked God that there was Mormon temple IN
Boston,.
But n Grey on Us, how be did show mp peculiar in
"sti,uiion :" "This great country OF ours said he
presents magnificent and beautiful landscape
wi en- seen in the distance. We have vast fore
" ground of ocean. Almost every indentatlOn on our
".xtend.d coast is mar Sed By growing commercial
city with lis halls of learning, temples of Justice and
churches Of religious worship, with then lofty spires
"u6 finger OF mans devotOn-poutink to heaven
A" In tho back ground there are villages, and hamets
"enbosomed in trees, and fruitful fields. and broad
streams that gush cut from our mountains, aud
"iraverse the whole land, bearing the agricultural
''moducis of the thriving country 70 the sounding
seas; there boundless forests, widespread pral
rios and roaring catarac's-a beautiful landscape
seen the distance but plant your foot on the soil
"a and every eighth person IL slave Ihis was a
foul bloi-a stain disgrace
" 18th tears he said " ! have been preaching 10 you
in this city for ten years aud beside the multtuics
addressed here, have addressed hundred thou
SAND annually in excursions through the country;
and in that time the of Slavery has increased
hundred folOn Theodore Parker is q polished Pan
theist He sees God in everything; in the fogers
blushing al their own images reflected from flowing
streams in the trees and in the star, the geometry
&" of the divine mind"
Theodore Parkeris doing immense mischief. But
we have VERY different view of the man since
saw and heard him from that which we had formed
from neWsI aper reports of him.