New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-07
PUBLIC MEETINGS
NM rnrEyER.S SERMON.

Dn. (NsxsyNH, in making the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, SA'u
,A.s Tuesday being the election day, and the duty OF
yessas being daty sacred as that Of attending
xv.ycr wsstins, the usual evening meeting would oe
sn,,ssa. lie preached from Matthew vi. Is, "a.
s,Sss eve s evil sAy hole body shall be a Of darkness
M CsrrvKx insisted on the Necessity of carrying
d. rrinsiplc OF religion into all the sections OF me,
,sksns ne eve single - that the whole body should
49, an AZ Rth,. els, il must be filed with darkness
n. MIA Was thus fun Of light must De happy, even IN
srr,son. For this much prayer ana much study OF
t.xss word was necessary. Win 1ods truth
sor hss shiela and Gods spirit Ior ms cotnnoISeri
a wan need fear nothing. The law oil uou
was a sysfem Of principles always the same
everywhere, the same on eath rs IN nea' wen;
WHIST magnificent declaration was that OF va
49, R-ewn that aged man; am yet TOO
,rn, IN understand thai God is respecer oil persons
the hasness OF every servant OF Jesus 70 under
sfspd and carry our these principles INTO All me- NO
matter they cut up by the roofs wnole ha, -
AnEusn. oreaIious 50 much the better that wmcn
...ala not be shaken would remain unmoved, ana
woald be the more readily recognized now hnpor-
ant wSs the reading of the Bible IN our common
holS 10 traiu the conscience of the nation, the best
rs,hle safeguard Of the continuance OF liberty Here
sna now the fouest doctrines are announced doctrines
which denied the supremacy OF the supreme, ana
raised mp rs law higher law than Ills, doctrines
which denied any inherents except those granted Oy
.ovur written constitution, and denying all rights
20 our fellow-Inen if they We're OF SADIE nue.;
Nv these doctrines despotism be rendered eternal
- frrxr1
go, Of prsees atheism hell would need no bet
- funadsiion on which TO stand against heaven.
We wee hidden by these doctrines to obey one oil the
uosf savage snd internal statutes Which ever us
raced spv tyranny. Ii Taught by these doctrines
LAT ths Constitution was the political Bible OF the
roue and As supreme in earthly affairs az the Scrip
tures were in heavenly. There were even those who
sid We bad no night 20 go against what our Judges
'benyen-Ssfying doctrine we were cut of from
working towards delveraDoe from n, ms
Ssps under a Constitution made . 10 establish JUS
ice ard 10 seeuTe 70 ourselves and our Postery the
Nas-iuvs o6 liberty" If people had power TO change
ar abolish their Constitution when perverted much
more lad they the right TO resist such peryeron One
ycald think Christian man were out OF his senses
were be 10 held that he had no right to go against
wrong any further than allowedbya Constitution. 1t
was the duty of the Government and ali ts officers 70
execute no law that eonnieted with Gods law, and II
had Gods Word been proclaimed, as it should
have been by his ministers, this could never happen
otonly was the practice OF the sin crime against
God. but the teaching Of II, me enforcing OF II, as
ersme for which men SHOULD be utterly cast out"
DR. Cheever applied the text, Cursed be he that re-
raovcth bis neighbors landmark to the repeal oil the
Missouri Compromise with great elect When so
many nations had been swept away from history for
eastirg away the law Of the Lord, and setting up
false law in is stead how could we escape Phrases
more directly descriptive OF our own quit imam tnose
which We found IN the Bible could not De lmagineo
Herr In this Christian nation men dared to say: tins
= The white mans party and as Tor the negro, we are
NOT our brothers keeper" But tins covenant WIN
sstsation OF cruelty and injustice. The pretense
Of Law for such boundless rascaty was only an eAss,
perauon Of crime. This was rehgious question ana
The most solemn that could come before except that
nj The salvation Of our souls. Were we 80
arvnker with our prosperity as TO Imagine that
we could take the same sins Tor winch the Jews
were swept away, and not only practice out teacn
them, and escape the punishment OF inc jews
e fiodfs xpa fhlckeninQ X.
Already the big drops began to fall. Inc olood OF
Hsrpers Ferry only the precursor OF the blood OF
the hrsi born Of the American Pharoah with james
and Jambres in the churches resisting God refusing 70
ret bis people free Daniel and Shadrach Mesbach
and Abednego broke up the tyranny by breaking the
law So recrean had the church been to Its duty that
many men, wrongly trying Christianity by the action OF
the church. had naturally condemned It, and ned INTO
The deseu of skeptcism. If the church and
the ministry wonld use the word OF God faithfully
would abolish Slavery from the lace OF the earth
There at first great difficulty IN the abolition OIL
slavery among the Quakers IN the South. One mem-
Der nssted that il not right to ask hum to give up
his negroes for they Just as much his property as
his oxen. "Fnend," said another member TO hun,
"that speech Of thine came night out from tne very
% belly of hell yea, from the very belly OF hell came
a. that speechp On meeting next morning, the slave
holder who had been thus rebuked sad " Friend,
"thou didst hurt my feeiDgsi thou dds much distress
"me by thy unkind speech; could get no sleep De-
cause of thy bitterness" The reply was: " Ii tnou
hast been thus distressed, glad of it, hope to
"God thou never wilt sleep until thou hast freed tiny
"slayes." And he could not sleep, and he old not unt
he had freed bis slaves. Had not been for the ianiu
pungent terrible reproof of his brother, he might have
kept them until this day. The unfathfuiness OF the
Church and Ministry TO Slavery, acted to make many
men infdels. Ii had thrown John Brown from ms
balance. DIR. Cheever had had deeply interesting
conversation with his sister. She SAID that Browns
shef characteristics beside his faithful consistency as
man of PRAYER was his remarkable and keen sens-
fiyeness 20 wrong and injustice. AS boy and young
.l..1fx o kaea laaV-aa sa rasfn
man, and man, no was marked ior inat 1
above all men. If the Church and Ministry had done
their duty in relation TO Slavery, John Brown would
have done no more than his. Let not professed
Christians utter one word against him, dumb dogs
who dare not even yelp against Slavery. lie
had committed no treason; for he owed no ALE
glance 10 Virginia. And how could he commit treason
when his sole object TO free the slave They who
had sanctioned this infinite sin and received II INTO the
bosom Of the Church they were the traitors The In
activity and treachery of the Church IN regard 10
Slavery drove some men into inhdelity but not such
man as Brown-not q true CHRISTIAN, such rs Joen
Brown was said 10 be. The mischief with HIM seems
10 have been the treachery of Others Their unialth-
fulness 10 God and the slave filed him with more are
than he could hold. Oppression maketh a wise
man mad" And, depend upon il, God had
rather see such men made mad in such way
than 20 zee the cowardice of the Church generally.
III John Brown comes under that category OF the
wise men made mad by oppression, John Brown was
safe in the loving protection Of his Father; John
Brown was received OF his Soo, ana hanged upon
fhtherto God. The great lesson Of the tragedy was
that If the men Of peace would not apply Gods law
aeanst the sin of saveholdng, in the shape of srga-
ment and pungent TRUTH and the maledetoas Of God,
the men Of war would put it in the shape of bullets
and eight il ont and God would let them Most OF the
wars of this world had arisen from the scarcity and
unfaithfulness of Christian WARRIORS for II they
would but fight Gods battles with the
Sword of the Spirit, God himself promised
eaat even men Of violence should turn their
sNords INTO plowshares, and their spears into pruning
heks, and the nations should learn no more. God
h,a afi.,t mia