New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-30
PUBIC MEETINGS.
LuCRETA MOTIFS DBCOURSE.

AZ the quarterly meeting OF lhe iiStei eIiOos N's
iDe Of Friends yesterday, which Fas very largely
attended, the Westinghouse being cute hled-h'er
several Ss,ourses from several female Friends, lu'
crets Mot, who has been producing sensation lately
in the Society by her advocacy OF ia original prncl-
pies, spoke as follows;
No not in four months and then comeh the harvest
but lift Up your eyes and behold the he's are ripe. IL
is ,table fact that most of the illustrations oil Jesus
both by precept and parable, as well as Nemphned oy
bis practice are of the importance OF lbor, OF WORK,
of doing something's and the sssurancesto all classes
that they would ind their abundant reTah Thai the
work would have its wages even TO thos' who nave
remained till the eleventh hour, with hIded hands,
saving that no man hath hired ps- Uno those ne
preached TO enter in at that late hour, oy
parable that unto them also was gwen ther que re-
ward The fg-tree wss the symbol OF LABOR ana tue
curse was pronounced upon il because port no if''
Herein is my Heavenly Father g!orhed; tie tree
b, areth much fiuit, and if We be living branches
We will bear fruit, and your Heavenly Father
will prure the tree that It may produce more.
This constant advance in the truth and the right we
have IN Iken TO things in the outward. IL was Pedu
that we should have parallels to Illustrate the prh-
ciple; because we have no language exclusively
spiritual We must therefore Use q language al'hg
reference 10 material things, 10 convey the sptiut
idea But what we want in society, especIall! IN
Christendom, where have the assumption uat
while all the gods of heathendom are ideals, pur
God made the world, and whereas Others have gods
many we have but one. With all these high profess
sions becomes to see to 1t that we are not bow
ing ourselves before revered authorities-that We
should really know that our God made the Heavens
that our God is present God and nigh unto every
of us. And | believe, the more this doctrine is
preached the people, free from the goominess with
which ii has been sometimes couded over, from the
superstition and the traditions of men, the more will
L., igs1 cd tanR hia
himself II long propbesied, even IN the day
when the people said Let not God speak TO US but let
Moses speak TO U.S. lest we die and when they had
laws which were from God, and commandments by
which they might not i've asspoke their prophets they
claimed that their God was God of war yet the more
enlightened of the prophets say that was not so they
prophesed Of the day when the sword should be beat
en- INTO the pOwshare and the spear INTO the pruning
hook and nations should not learn war any more.
And in this prophecy they seemed TO look forward to
notable Messiah coming among them proclaim;
ing this glorious era. Shout daughter of Zion, and
Jerusalem, thy King cometh unto thee; just and
having salvation lowly and his dominion shall be from
sea even to sea and from the river to the ends OF the
earth; his mission shall be TO preach peace to the
heather. and to drive out everything OF warllke ma
ture. But would ask whether the professors OF the
Christian Dame-a name which they delight to honor
by clothing him in mystery, name which they delight
to honor the second person OF the Trinity, name
which they clothe with divinity which robs him of
his beautiful example To men, and lifts him 80 high
above humanity that that which he declared himself
that he should call them, not servants, but friends
famiars equals; that he recognized his God TO be
their God, his father to be their iather--that kind
OF faith seems to be passing away from protesting
Christendom indeed, il il has ever reached il,
and nttead of it, there still lords many and gods
many, and ovinities many AS one has said, the
- heathcn made craven images, but we make verbal
A" oDes' and they do not worship more ardently the
work Of their hands than We the work OF our pens.
Certainly it would 20, if We look at the verbal
creed which is believed unto this day, shortened a.
fl 49, III
gence Of the age, the standard, the test, and the
touchstone of the Christian believer We do not mis-
Judge. II we so see it, and record it, how can we
hel it when we pronounce great deal Of this wor-
ship idOlatrous profession. Because if were the
true Gospel of faith would obey the first acclama-
ton added TO GLORY to God in the highest but
added to this was Peace earth and good will TO
men,. This destroyed the tbeOcracy, the doctrine of
God being God of war. But how far has it pre-
vailed! Look at the churches, 80 called, OF Europe.
What do We see The trophies Of war suspended
from the ceiling, the monuments of the warrior in
their yestbules, Church and State united chapains
en- ployed in armies and nayies And need we go 40
far May we not look in our country How
happens it in this land where nrghteously
wsged in such unchrstian manner eminently so
in that il was a war of aggression against a feeble
nation The warrior and the soldier 90 into some of
the popular churches, seated, presume, in some
of their seats aud were furnished with the Bible in
one hand and the destroying sword in the other.
would ask my friends, my brethren, my sisters,
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tue Christian priBcplesl But, my friends, believe
that there s ID the innost heart Of ALL love Of right
love of truth, love of peace higher than that of
war; love fjustce Of mercy far above the love of
human slavery and oppression and wrong; that God is
indeed teaching his people himself and that when the
voice Of truth is spread before the people there is
response TO it everywhere. All mankind are one
IN splrii, as said the poet, IN Il would say
inspired language if l dare, but there il such
kind OF reverence for ancient inspiration that it has
become rather dangerous 10 recognize the inspiration
of the present day but the good old Quaker doctrine
ls that there is inspiration How often have we
heard the inspired language of the poet Cowper
acknowledged and quoted in our meeting. | am al.
ways glad TO acknowledge the inspiration of every
age Of the world. And this universal doctrine "Ail
mankind are one in spirit, whether il be presented
in the plain prose of scripture or the poetry Of
other scripture, is nevertheless proof that there il in
the heart Of man persuasion Of this inspiration; and
II needed 10 notable miracle for the ancient Apostles
TO speak so that every man heard in his own tongue
IN which he Was born. We may 80 speak if we will
REJECT t1e mystery OF trinties the old vcariOus atone
ment doctrine, and everything that contradics the
noble of We shall then find that there il
a glorious harmOny-a trinity, If ! NAV so speak
between the natural the intellectual and the spiritual
But the spiritual is ALL AID believe IL will he
enjoyed more and more, especially by those who win
rot overlook 1t. Children are taught that they must
experience some great marvellous something; tiey are
looking Tor something more than the feehng which
prompts them TO 90 night, and which reproyes them if
lhey 90 wrorg. We are all looking for something
more than we see in Jesus; religion and reverence we
imagine 10 De something more than q reverence for
truth Of God as revealed by Jesus I think then
that the field is white for the harvest and |
would that We were 10 true TO principle as 10 be in.
deed fruit bearing branches 10 be indeed aborers
IN the great vineyard Of life And believe that the
more We peak Of the beauty of truth and the cheer.
ulDess which We derive from following il, the more
eaony thaH We come 10 the acknowledgment Of il.
Tie teId IS white unto barvest pray ye that aborers
be sent into this harvest. Now ip order p, do this