New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-07

lacrosse rapidly. The number Of baptism, falls Of
Tie belief in ecclesiastleal authority il fading. Me1
begin to think that God 70 not 50 ugly and devsh a.
ministers paint him They are applying their CON-
non sense to religion. a. vel to TIER business az
'-r-. Jris ate I tnpge the ministers sex t.
charge. They cannot manufacture ecclesiastical al doc
,ru,s TO su'. the people, for the day when th o.st
,s,ep, aought the pulpit hss passed. Now there are
hundred men in every Ineregation who are su 1eror
in talent end Learning to their pastor and can beat
him in argument or reasoning. So the minister tries
to men INTO Delel " Es doctrine and member
ship of lis Churcf.
Aueup p's at revivsls are no rev thing. Two Win
r. ago II Cntsrans t1ied and got pothi lg-)rly
fev spra,s and minnows. which ran ont through the
ret beiv they could be hauled into thu fishing DO IT.
II was Ut an attempt to make bricks with ut str .w
but with nothing else. As well might we expect to
pror. ffe by fiction of ice-bloeSs as to expect 8 re-
riys suorg the Unitarisns. Nothing came Of their
,t.u,n. and their vanity in the begnnlng the Win
ter tuned into vexsOn Of spirit in the Spring There
was aut th,r last year. but that unsuccessful.
Now the case is different. The great commsrc al
crisis turned men out of business. Men set them.
selves TO look after the poor then to prevent the
pected Increase of crime by the increase Of charity.
otLer men would take the opportunity to make
cLurch members. So they set the revival machinery
in motion That is as well known "a McCormick's
rearer and needs not to b. described II requires only
spsrk in one place to 10 set fire 10 tie whols coun
,ry. II a regiment runs, the whole army will run.
The meetings gathered in the same way cattle
shows ard nusers are. Ii is advertised in the news
a dsy and pac ards posted in the streets. II is
business operation, and reminds of the plscards Of
the clothing dealers IN North street, the Park street
church having become the Oak Hall of revivsls. Men
with full poc kets not to be scared by talk about
he'll. but the panic in State street, which ruined the
vsrebouses fills the meeting houses 1t the chole'a
or yellow fever smallpox, should break out the
yivals would be grester than now.
Last year newspaper disgasted the public with
the obsct De details Of noet unfortunate trs for in
decen nj aud impure conduct. Now the same pewspa-
Ter Isl sre crowded with gossip shout the reNiVal'
THE same motive goyerued them IN both csses Ii they
can turn penny they care not where 1t comes fiodu
whether from revival or sn adultery.
Some good will dc ubtless be done by this movement
Thee ere wicked men who are only roused by fear,
i stronger than fear of the gsllows. Some vii desert
their evil WAYS and their crimes, and that is go d
work But Il is only the WHO do the small vices
vLo are converted. The doers of heavy wickedness
sre never until they too old for anything
excep. hypocrisy. Mr.. Polk and Henry Clay UNDER
stood that trick perfectly.
And. on the contrary, much evil will be done.
Learned AID cultivated men will turn with disgust
from tie hdeous form of Deity resented to them, and
will have no faith in God or immortality. Tie actual
atheist is to-day cunnipger than ever and Will ntrench
himself in the church. There is fortress agsins.
TIE ecclesiastical artillery, like the pew.
There is much in the revival that is enc puregng,
hut in the conduct Of il there is very which is
fpion which il Dculcated if it should convert every
body, including the Administration Cf the ,m cratic
party, the Supreme Court and Congress, would not
add ore ounce of humanity TO the converts but would
weaken and deaeen the piety and morality OF the
npnDle