New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-05

Tie Boston TTaueier in an article on the sub
iect of the late religious anniversaries in that
city, undertakes to give some good advice from
a business and worldly point of view, To- the
managers of our religious and philanthrOpic as
sociations. The Trareier is highly dissatisfied al
the want of business, worldly talent displayed
in the conduct Of these matters. 1t proposes
TO take the expenditure and control OF the
thousands and millions of dollars that the
churches pour out for the spread of the Gospel,
out of the bands of ga decayed ministry" ''dys-
"peptic preachers with weak lungs and weaker
brains" and in the place of feeble and contempt
ibe instruments of this sort-whose personal pres
ence and money making capacity are Us little impos
ing as those of ST. Pau-to put the whole thing
through with mercantile system, regularity, energy
prOmptitude and dispatch by calling In tAe aid OF
- the toiling brains and the busy hands that IN
- counting. houses and on Change and IN the far
sighted (1) operations of successful commerce
.. achieve such large results" The Gospel is to be
spread and mems souls are to be saved on pure
business principles, il being proposed to bring to
bear upon this operation 1.-THE mental power, the
" shrewdness the activity. which whiten the waters
:. of hundred seas with swelling sails; which
open new realms to the reception OF The products
of civilized industry and transmit the fabrics OF
New. England looms and FORCES and machines TO
the most distant countries which level mountains
and build railroads. erect mills and make steam
4" engines, and cut down forests"
As first.rate business men do not commonly an
dertabe enterprises Of any sOrt-whether TO build
railroads or save sOuls-excePt with the prospect
before them of large commissions, high salaries
and coed round profits, in order TO induce them to
enter this new line Of operations, higher salaries
The Trareler thinks must be paid. Cpoa this
point it expresses itself as follows:
! "The complaint is general; 1t comes up from the
semnaries of every sect that no young men VIII enter
the minstry-that the benches OF me theyEse14
legas of medicine are crowded TO Overlooking. But
in return the Young men ask: why should we enter
profession where the average pays less tnah lh'l VI
good day laborer We will 90 good where we eau
lewhere-bu, how can we live on SOU or sou year
| how can We marry-how supporIa taHuyIhow pay
! fl the debt of theological educauoh win such a
miserable stipend @ True minister OF the N"ru OF
"a horId te cont.n, 10 suffer and bear all things
confident Of the AhG Hereafter; but why to the ne
essary trials and the inevitable sorTows ana to- too
| II
why 10 all this should be added the harassngs OF pow
erly The pinehiDg of debt, and the continual anxiety
| rdaly bread 1t is an insane ana SUICIDAL poHcy
! which brings about this state OF tn'ngs, anu the
Church OF America should profit by the lessons OF the
! past.
1t seems TO be law Of human nature, no less
than of physical nature, that every current shall
have its eddy or counter current mus IN all
times and nations, side BY side with the wsrme't
Enthusiasm, the most active imagination and the
most expansive characterization, is always to be
found as if TO preserve the balance of nature, an
adherng stratum of the coolest, narrowest, most
| intense materialism-a materiaSm always ready
70 convert even the Temple of God into market
place. Among the Jews, side by side with the
Pharsees appeared the Saducee'; and so, IN our
| New.Enslsh Canaan Since two hundred years ago
il was taken possession of BY the chosen people,
even in the very bosom Of the church ITSELF has
sprung up Sadducean party, processing for the
letter Of the Bible and the ceremonies Of worship
the same reverence which the old Sadducees pro-
essed for the letter of the Pentaeuch and the Tenn