New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-27

o n,se o,,ently leave their cOmpssy with lasor-
s,sa .ejErsspsct. have not the slightest c9ncep-
sn that they ere themselves conscious OF giving Of
ssrss am sure tha: they do no. intend to wound
snnr pride. have no doubt indeed, that they are
ys,y offen most smisbv disposed 20 placste it:
but somehow the iDsuarity Of their position and
fortunes in the world has left its impress upon their
spirit also, 90 that dispose Of yourself as you will
you never quite attain to recognition By them as
a. q man and brother"
These things being true il is OBJ nous that England
cab 10 hope IL escape revolution than the Con
tbeDt. She may never become the arena of actual
civil strife but 'he can only purchase exemption by
abolshiDg her intolerable class-privlleges. The
newest book that have found lately, entirely the
most modern book TO it's practical scope and its
tbeoIetic ideas is book called the New Testament,
and it is astonishing how plainly the destiny Of
all existing nstOnaltles calling themselves Christian,
is marked out in it That destiny is, either to put
away the manifest eyils Of their administration,
which are all summed 10 in Increasing Tie prosperity
Of the rich, and deepening The mstry Of The poor, and
begin to feed the hungry, cithe the naked en6ghten
the ignorant house the eutcast, redeem the crimina
or else be swept away from the remembrance OF
Nan. No doubt every nation 10 Christendom might
st once defy disastrous change if its priests and
rulers would cease Crying Lord Lord and
begin doing one half the things which that cry
ought to signify. Surely, there is no equal
spot of ground on earth where that cry goes
up 80 generously as in England. You travel
among the people, you see everywhere the most sin
cere recognition Of the Christian religion, and en-.
counter scarcely ally one who will not give you an
uDexceptiOnable profession of faith in the divinity of
Christ: but when you ask for the fruits Of that pro-
fessiOn they point you to hospitals and penitenta
ries and alms-hOuses and benevolent societies of al
Sorts actually if there were no deeper disease in
man than ply steal ones, and no want which was not
perfectly prObed and salved by aims giving But
the obvious disease Of England is spiritual and its
prOf0uDdest want-a want which no mere aims
giving will ever allay, which, in fact, mere aims
giving only insults-is the want OF brotherhood.
This ia the disease under which the whole land
proans, stsgeers, and is ready 20 perish-the want
Of that common nutritive sap which binds all kin
dred things Of the lower creation tOgeher-the want
of that equal sun and air which makes every tree
beautiful with leaves and munlfCent with fruit
Can any one doubt for moment that if the English
Outcast born to social cOgntOn in place OF 80
eial exclusion, he would become useful and orna-
mental citizen Suppose that every denzen OF dingy
St. Giles were sure all his days of fndng-rhat erery
beast fnds-food AID clothing and shelter provided
for him: suppose that Society, like tender mother
said to all her starving children, Yes, let what will
"happeD, you shall Done OF you lack the necessar,es
"of life; you shall all alike have at least decent
subsistence, by virtue simply of your birth as man.
Then what stream of sunshine would instantly IRA
date those beDighied bosoms How each one OF
them would instantly feel-,ehdt no one Of them has
erer Vtt H think Of that THAT he really belonged
to the great brotherhood of man; that the tenderest
human love was watching over him even before he
was born, intent to provide for his mere animal
wants; that So being forever free OF their base
and gnawing bondage, he might henceforth
abandon himself without stint to the full
tide of that benefcent itsPiration which is the her
itsee of every bosom in the Lord What imagina-
tiOn can paint the gush of healthy, genial human
love which would overflow these neglected and de.
graded bosoms at the first beck Of this truly divine
sentiment do not, for my own part, believe in any
existing virtue or manhood which is not animated
BY this sole spirit. All our varied human worth is
due in some shape other it's vigorous quickening
1t helps us to live worthly and to die worthly. /
went yesterday to see an English frieno' VINO Is
slowly wasting away to death, from what her ply
sicaDs term "a Decline" unattended by any active
symptoms of disease and could not help feeling, as
found her shrinking from the prospect OF speedily
leaving her young and lovely family, that it is the
lyi pe rsons who make it hard for the dying to
go. If the Christian profession, whichwe all make,
were reality to the thought of this poor mother;
if TO her imagination it represented the kindly prov
depce and care which society would be sure to ex-
ert over her innocent girls to nOursh them up 10 all
truth and beauty; then how easily could she 90
If she felt that every house in this nOminally
Christian city hsrbOred a tireside at which her
daughters should never lack a place at need
that every manly bosom harbored pure shrine,
where their grace and innocence would never go un'
recognized or unfostered then how the pang OF sep
arati0n would be smOthered in celestial peace, and
the fearful burden of personal responsibility give
place to endless and adoring gratitude. In short
the social sentiment the new sentiment OF human
equality of human fellowship, of human brother
hood, which is now pouring into nous bOsoms Is
theyery breath God in human nature and it will not
cease turning all existing cruelty and established non
sense upside down and inside out, until we at length
ioyfuly submit ourselves to its discipline by organ
izipg it in institutions of the broadcast human friend
illness.
An English friend, glancing over my shoulder,
asks nue. whether / really conceive it possible that
every denizcn Of St. CHESS may eventually prove as
good as the Archbishop of Canterbury My reply
s. Why not? have not doubt that he will prove
a coed deal better. If the Archbishop be the uu-
affected good man believe him to be, no one knows
better than he that his goodness is not peculiar to
himself. that il really belongs to the Lord in hun.
An Cbristendtm bas grown heavy with compassion.
He himself is largely paid for guarding it aud teach
pg others TO guard it. and should be 10th to believe
him capable now Of betrsying The inmOst pith and
secret IF his own creed. II the Lords providence
has redeemed hin1 feom evil and death, why should
it not in like manner redeem any other and every
other man / am way disposed to deny that
the tenant Of st. CHESS will always remain intrnsi-
caly, or IN himself, as corrupt as he is now-that is
to say, precisely corrupt, neither more nor less,
as the Archbishop is IN himstf or the Pope OF Rome
in himself, or President Buchanan in himself. 1t
would Yeammy be too ridiculous at this time Of day,
and after the experience We have nau VI universal
human nature in distinction with the skies, to insist
upon any intrinsic dversities among men, upon any
diyrrsites which do not flow exclusively from the
greater presence or absence Of temptation. AT all
events have no doubt that We are all of ia saint