The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-12
SERVICES AT HOPE CHAPEL.
sHRAloN ON THE present CRIsI g." By FEW Gnp r


Society were held at Hope chape yesterday forenoon
Tho religious exercises iced at half past ten
O'Clock There but very thin attendance only scrty
or fffy persons being present he preach
ed by the Rev. Geo. F. Noyes according 70 annoupce
ment. His subject was the "Pre cent Crssr,
He referred to the estsbishr aent of slavery in e,v
Mexico and stgmatized the inim Hce Of the State INV
Any negro found there was decs red ruueway and un
LEES reclaimed within six Opths wRs sold in To
slavery TO pay the penses of his sr,-e
and imprisonment He dcnoun, Jed the permission vs III
was granted to Southern po stmasters to open ard
destroy all newspapers which might be supposed to
proclaim any nsurrecoEary doctrines in regard to he
South He related his cyperie the Custom q M Sc
officers OF France, when he ha been for rt
dicted documents and she egreted find sim, ar
State Of things existing IN his country During the
past week in the donge Of the slave power
begun 10 operate, and had air eady shown its hand lie
spoke of these things in The South after all was
the sufferer from the INST ntion of slavery becu as
duty lay i'll three directions first the North sbnud
feel right second, it should think right and third il
sSosh h, have ga hand strong and ready to exeoe
Our Northern cities dead to all sounds
but the ring of the almighty dollar. He lameated
that American freedom Ehooad be srapgled by African
slavery He dsrusted the power of any political norty
to obtain freedom for the ves because people were
not AXE to the enormity of slavery The horrors
OF slavery awful forty thousand pupis preach
ed OF human brotherhood while such state of affairs ex.
ised Such Wendell Phillips whose eoouence
he contended surpassed that of even the srous I've
re had given the hope OF accomplishing ythpg at
present. Still they were ''to labor and to wait - He
compared the nation 10 farm in which all we're interest
ed and be would not put fence between the North
ern ard Southern portions to separate the of
the latter from the wheat OF the former II was trne
that tie South claimed that their tare5 were better
than the Northern wheat but still he would urge bis breth
to hilanthropicay aid in extermnatug those tares
The bes mesns of doing in legislation and he ad
vised them to send representatives who would be rm as
oonfctlvas true oDe II taught byIreferson him
seh, when he said that nothing more certainly writ
IN the book of fate than delivery of the slaves
fz bondage, and hat.wo such incompatible systems as
slavery and freedom GOULD together Unless
the NORTH wled the Union could never be dissolved
Such An attempt would be regarded as treason In the
present Crisis they were responsible God and their
country to perform their duty Some men had found re
gon they began to sve God they began 10 love
their fellow men, No good idea had been ncarnated
without a-sIuggie slavery, he contended, would die
slowy--would die hard; but die it surely would How
the slave to of his bondage he knew
not, but come out of II he eventually would But short
time since martyr had won immortal fame on Virginia
eaows John Brown bad followed his honest convictions
the end, and he hOnored him therefor Peopo might
exc!am against what he had done, but one man ia ma.
ority when God on his side John Brown had only mis-
taken bis duty. He had boldly executed what he con
sdered his duty. Such heroes men would take to their
hearts and cherish admirng them for their truth and
honest obedieRce to the calls OF duty. He concluded
by urging his hearers Derved by the example OF John
Brown to do their duty in this exisency and God would
assist them. Aspr had been already aw akened in tho
South, as well as in the North, which would do more for
the present purpose than all the preaching the North
The people Of The South ave their own interests
The gear OF nvasaoa was strong and people would natural
y seek TO destroy se tear and hence slave
ry would be abolished by its preeent supporters
Ae- the sermonc collection taken up for the bene
&c Of 5ghn Browns Eafaiiy.