The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-02
New gsAareA.

A new church.
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,direse delivered ~ Rev. DR.. nn1iowss AZ n.
Wy hefore IL Alumni d the Dtv1eeW /
sehooI 81 Harvard fMass.) Univsr1ity. ON w t
nth inst. which scems TO hase caused con-
.,.,ernb,e sensation In thsolog1esl ciscass' Ans
...a,t.r anuounceti a. his subject m examina-
Ia, ~ the Characteristic ideas. positive g
.e,atixe. OF our epoch, with special reisrenes
:, s,,s good or evil they haro exerted upon the
s.,s,, a yynttnrtans {ths creed Of the speesss
and Of his audicnce) and its embodiment
~ nrrIows smoke Of Unitarians IS Pro- |
,.s,.,,s a. the protestants p but did not Seem
= ,hink that their creed had effected much. he
.naaavored TO show, says the Courier, mat
,,,nr,nd In their relations to God, might ale
WAYS ne said to BE- governed BY tws-foid
s.,,. that there are two motions Of the spirit
= sential to the very cxistence OF generic or
.d,,idual man i'm relation to Coda centric
,,,,o, mot,on and a centripetai-the motion
,bat send. man away from God to learn his
sraedom. TO develop his personal powers and
sae,t,i.s and the motica that draws him back
:, god to receive the inspiration, nurture and
,,aa,xment. which he has become strong
arough TO hold. Tracing these two motions
historically. he arrived at the statement that
IN christianity Romanism represents the CEN
,r,petal force and Professionalism the centrifu-
raj Ro,nauism standing for external or Di-
vine authority, Professionalism for internal
nberty and individual freedom; Romanism
leading TO worship, Professionalism TO work
There is no doubt, he said, that Romanism,
merely as religion, fulfilled its functions
fhor INF
services ofProtestantisn having been rendered
directly TO humanity and only indirectly to
religion And here therefore, he asked whether,
IS Protestants of the Protestants, the Unita-
rians were not at the apogee of their orbit
lie thought that in one cycle the whole budy
IT Protestant Christians to which he belonged
had come to the end of self-directing, self
asserting, self-culturing; having enlarged our
faculties, we want use for them. And this,
he said, was the painful pause, the suspended
animation, now felt and seen through Christen-
dom.
BELLOWS address:
the life of the time, which no had pronounced not
rrelis ious, but emnenty unrei alous he closed Dy
ally felt was to be Supplied. This was by the re-
o,nitlon of the church as the Legitimate anu oniy
hearts. still he claims that the ord OF 200, Inc
holy Sn eonid 81 p the
he separate individual men it was impossible that
he whole Of Gods will for men could DC nn ar
vctory for the old Catholic church. hu, ior b ns
eopnent Of the new tathoilc chafen with nji its
.ious life The work OF the church he sad, rs
speak to the world in the orotlnd OF the sr ta
historic Incidents so to preach by emphasls'ng tte
commemorative days and illuminating the nots
symos and psusns on the saGeess,' as sradu
ally to thunder into the deaf ear OF huIiahLs .n
saving lesson of the Gospel No lecture roo' th;n
rb's,iS inaydualisn or con- reg tionaiisn can do
tbs II calls for the organic lnstituteu, hS
| Nth takinr infancy into its arms, shall haplze
it, not family CUSTOM but cnhiG 49, br iina
mst've symbols and holy festivals: and not merely
| by sunday school lessons and strawberry leasts
| which shall confirm them and take them INTO the
more Immediate bosoms of the church, as they A.
tain sdult years and are about to step Des pia an
~afe md burial both rites of the immediate altar,
md give back to the communion service the mystic
'niiy STRIVING to dspc without gaining by itssfa-
| tinnaty anything except tho prospect Oh It's eA-
| ~ new Catholic churcb-a church in which the
| needed but painful experience OF froteStanIism
shall have taus Us how TO na,niaa wnut
he aid of the State the authority OF me rope
heir support being now supplied ey .ne
isvonsi instincts: this is the demand of the
weary unchurched humanity OF our era How to
re,rn,te ina various obstacies-how to Inausura.e
he yarinus steps to it's probably more than .ny
mans wisdom is adequate to direct, Just no%. btf
artculate, or even Try TO artcuiate, the QUINN
to it. II IS cry for help which God will hear; and
will answer By some new word from tho Holy
host " hen humanity is able and willing to hear
it,"
1t is stated that a number of leading Unita-
rian clergy concur with the views of DR.. BEL
Lows, and are prepared to cooperate with
aim in his project of establishing what some
call the New Catholic Church, and others
he BROAD Church" 1t is not difficult to
perceive that this latest New England eccie-
siastcal invention will prove pre-eminent
failure. The old adasc about sitting on two
stools and coming to the ground, will have
another illustration. From the Protestant
world, DR. BELLOWS has communicated
himself, and the Roman Catholic world will
not unders land what he means by netc
Catholic Church. Overlapping the doctrinal
leanness of the divinity of Harvard with the
gorgeous ritual of the Catholic Church, is
specimen of ecclesiastical ycncering which
could only have been produced by the inven-
tive genius and romanesque fancy Of Cam
bridge theologian. II the Hon. Mr.. WILSON,
United States Senator from Massachusetts,,
should make his appearance in that body, ar
rayed in the flowing robes and full wig of the
Lord Chancellor of England, he would not
nreseut a more grotesquc apparition than the
e;une and scrawny creed of Harvard, rugged
ont in the symbolic and mystic ceremonials of
Rome.
improvements in Virginia.