The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-26

Fl ,Si,osophy and Westencralts In tn nosssa %
oasc q hI% driven Under this cry ok which modern
~ Essnch sans culots noder Of strict dviduahty
md ,hs S sS; aSv rS al
Sst, to ovorturn law ana public smuscmen's :, WIN so
dissolve order Sn wS nS,. ssrS from ISAIAH
'dsnt 81 Harvard lice Of Massachusetts,, or The Pre-
hopped logic r -ollege into the piory with hitie
ein,0 a,s,, NV fleet, was little better nen baspemy
hcv All rest ted all the ultraisms OF The day There
ID, frcst could be associated with their names.
'ao having lasted about hour, the preacher
lit abruptly to close saying he would conclude
~ the evening The attendance in the evening was
" large, but not full in the morning The pro
.ininary services occupied the time I'LL past eight
O'clock when Dr. Bellows resumed his DISCOURSE
He up the subject he said where he left in the
morning. having spoken Of his obligations 70 this church
dom decided that the Bible the Word Of God and the
church infallble she declared what she would
take back. Men might show contrsacuons and neon
ssencies in the oe but the great fact OF ts inspiration
remained They must only modify their ideas OF inspa
ton Men might dsproyc tho Godhead OF Christ but the
fact Of dying Saviour was still unchanged 80 they
might criticise varions Scrptara dogmas but would
only show the changes in the use and Specification of
words, without affecting great central truths Tie truth
was humanity must have religiou-not opinions, but
truth-not things about God and Christ, but God and
Christ themselves: Philosophy was OF no avail 70 tho
world without church us reservoir OF spiritual iisc
The teachings Of the Catholic and Protestant churches dit
fered maoh in results in mesns-the teach
trinss doduoea from those symbols and incidents
Whnt need nrst faith and THEOLOGY,
and then the proper ritual nnd worship woad follow
OF cvangeh1cd humanity-must Aave been providcnaly
originated in age when the imagination end heart Of
humanity had not been subjected W the cold dis
secons intellect Thus the rune doctrines OF the Scrip
lures afterwards formuiarixes into the doctrine OF the
Trinity was originally intended embody and protect
the doctrine OF ntarianisn strange OF false
Untarianism was ROW the popular peril in the orthodox
communion It was dropping the Father and the Hs'y
and ,r& ,lsyt1
the significant title Of pubcation-a for
the only suggestion Of the Infinite One. He spoke of
the duty of Untarans to hold orthodoxy nexiby her
original creed, and TO hold as firmly their own faith
in triune beisy. He next addressed the audience
representatives Of the Protestant world. He
was himself Protestant Of the Pedestrians, repu-
dating utterly all faith in Apostolic succession
tradition, socicty-an hereditary thing 1t
down the blood Of successive believers Its Of
fees real authorities its officers were merely
subtraction like those Of the Quakers could OFF any
of Chrsts disciples There usages and customs which
ought to be observed but he made distinction between
these and such as were absolutely essential Baptism
and the Lords Supper were essential; but the
elect OF these should not exclude sincere Christian heart
from the Church of Christ dc could deny Chris
tan and character to any who claipaed il upon
plausible grounds There were truths in al departments
bated, nevertheless by minds out OF pitch with the age
and its progress Some vices like polygamy spritualsm
socialism &c, were entitled to no terms, as, if man
claimed the liberty Of scutng the ship he and his family
sailed in, he would stop with him. 1t was
bated--.o concede that nothing is settled The
true maxim should be, not liberty for freedoms
entire rrcsponsbleness TO the opinions of all Chrstsn
domthat any man base perfect right To protest against
anything and every thingthen he was Protestant;
but he was Protestant, and he protested against such
doctrine. Professionalism meant liberty observe the
TRUTH reverenta of the past and tender and hopeful of
the future Lastly he addressed them representatives
of the Nineteenth century and Of this our own age and
country. He confessed himself child of this age and
amenabe to it. The age had made him all he was, and
he its grateful servant He had criticised the age
but only trying to tell his brethren the secrets
which he deemed the age had itself whispered to of
its most docle children. BE sought to bring forward
what had been left behind, and to recognize our true
allies in the progress Of humanity The age not the
child of the devil but the son Of God. Nature was a
symbol Of Gods perfection and society school OF ws-
dow and not the anti-chamber hell. The work was
70 ada the OF our own age TO tho Victories of
Our peril was in cur continental breadth and
No nation was 80 broken from the past by habit,
ton and pre- occupation and yet there nation
which the past destined, sooner later to
great and precious an influence Well had Professor Guy
had provided for her husband the Eastern hemisphere
rich with the memories Of the past the science Of
and innocence Of youth-the staid bridegroom has the
realms OF science, tradition, cultivated veneration wis
pleted manhood The nuptia1 hour IL al hand Already
America receiving her bridal gifts. Europe already
here by its representatives in millions Already America
is prepared to welcome the brdegrooms coming. An
American literature an American art, an American
church could only be the product Of the past i'm
ORIGINATING the presentthe fruits Of Europes ons and
Americas womb. The Nineteenth century memo
rabe for two symbolic events-the discovery Of
ton and the Of the hemisphcres by the Allan
tic cable These were the two things that would be long
est remembered in the history Of this age. Both were
symbols of the same powers OF transmissive influence
Vaccination saved America from defamation by loath
some and deformng disease the Atlantic telegraph
from the moral and spiritual barrenness Of dsconnec
nation discovered in the eighteenth century, The
thrill Of sacred joy which the first syllable that
wire sent 10 the heart Of America o immortal sgni
canoe. declared the union Of the two hemspheres-of
the past and the presenand then SILENT il mi
nor Word ought ever to pass its parted lips. He
blessed God that he lived in that great hour-he first day
since Paradise was lost that this world moral glow,
and the unit The ntoxcaton of this hemisphere
as with new wine was threatening with animal
madness We drunken with hope and animal
spirits, and ready TO disown father mother; were
peril, not from too little, but much life Humanity
had broken loose in its rampant blood Il despsed the
past and asked only TO be let alone. But the peril has
passed The swift ships bear our people to and fro over
way between the worlds great divisions, and well
come the mighty ship, soon to bear its thousands
shores still further and wondrous type of this
eternal unity. Blessed the art the literature the immi-
grants the the commerce, the teachers that come
TO u.s. Travel cannot ALLEVIATE the American heart
Love for Americas soil, Americas freedom and Anne
rcas proud institutions the lessons Of abroad
If it be reactionary and reasonable to liberty ami
the age TO lentertain these sentimens-to believe
that Christianity is history, that the influence
Of religion and the Christian church has been
deepened and enriched in every age, that the con
tinuy Of the history Christianity to be insisted on
and maintained, that Christianity and civilization ever
one and the same flower sprngng from one root aed
with one hope moving along one unbrOken line, with
mainly as the integral being with common des,Ay and
consciousness and that the interest of each every
most universal acquaintance with the whole that Amer
lis the favored child of the bright ages and the nine
blood flowing from the past needs to be Incorporated 70
cool her passionate heart and restless brain till she knows
and acknowledges her origin generation and destiny and
owns that her spirit is not her own but spirit Of hu
many that her religion is not her but the religion