New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-27
SERMON BY THE REV. DR.. CHEEvER.
CHURCH OF THE PURITANS.


Dr. Cheevers Thanksgiving Discourse was on the
text in Proverbs XIX, Ia: The king that faithfully
"udgeth the poor his throne shall be established 10
"Iiphteousness" II was the same sermon delivered
in November, 1855, when some of the members of the
cor gregston Mr. s. ID. Phelps among them bolted
from under its scpua illustrations of the oppression
end poverty of Slavery; and as the discourse has been
the subjec. of remark and misrepresentation, DR..
Cheever was requested to repeat it.
After an appropriate introduction the subject OF the
text was described as being the prosperity of nation
BY its care of the poor or in another shape the evils
Of PaupeIem and the only mode of their prevention,
management or cure. The text was first illustrated
from the word of God and from hs.ory; second, it
was shown what pr0vsioH was appointed in thai words
third some of the causes Of Paupersm, as developed
there and elsewhere; and fourth in what way at what
tin and with what concomitans, the Gospel is to be
applied as the only remedy. The state OF nation
where the poor are justly Judged and provided Tor 10
a state of freedom. Liberty is dear TO that nation,
and all the people enjoy it their brthrigh aud it is
the care of their government to secure them In H. In
the WORD of God the oppressed and the poor are cassed
together, ard all the world over oppression Is one
greet cause of poverty. Slavery ITSELF the ntense.t
iorm Of oppression, is the poverty Of many for the
riches of few; but thst kingdom Is best governed
ara happiest when the many and not the few merely,
enjoy the freedom and the privileges OF society, and
ENJOY them in perfect an equality as the different
degrees Of virtue and ability will permit. Although
for reason there may be great apparent power, lux
ury ara riches even by oppression, yet God demon
strates that the end thereof is DEATH and tina! such
nation is on the high road to perditon.
And the first aud most striking example 10 all the
wore IL given us in the history of his own people.
"Because ye trust in oppression and psrgersensss,
Therefore this in9uity shall be your rum" And so
Il WAS " Woe unto them that decree unrghteous de-
crees aud that write grievousness whichthey have
prescribed 30 turn aside the needy from Judgment,
and 10 take d,cas the night from tie poor Of my peo-
"ple." But on the other baud, d" If ye let the OPP
pressed 60 free, and break every yoke, fye deal
"your bread TO the hungry, bring the poor that are
cast out 10 thy house. the naked draw out thy
soul 10 the hungry and satisfy the atfii, ted SOUL
" then the Lord shall guide thee continually II ye
thoroughly execute Judgment, fye Cypress not the
stranger the fstherless and the wdow, viii csuse
You TO dwell in this place. but IL not will cast you
out OF ny sight, and your land shsll be desolste:
NOW for an Illustration of these passages ana oil the
text the most pointed and tremendous that can well be
conceived, take the sd and 34th chapters OF Jsre-
unsh, snc compare them with the event, in the out
pouring Of the wrath Of God upon the land and the
people in consequence Of that very Gin Of oppression,
which Il was foret0ld should bring down such over
vhslmipe ruin. We have the divine historical detail
of the almost instantaneous descent Of the thunderbo
of Gods wrath account of it. The people desiring
10 tuIn their men servants and maid servants into
slaves and articles of property that they hod
them ct their pleasure, and exact their services with