The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-07

Yet ke was gentle aB SOIL summer aIs,
Had grace for others sins, but none for theirs
The temple and ns holy rites pr,ofa .N.i,.
uprted hands, that at con ven,ent times
Could act extortion, and the worst OF crimes,
Washed with u neatness scrupulousiy nice,
And free from every taini but that Of vice.
Shall we despse the warning and the lesson or lay It TO
hearth When men, through covetOusness, with feigned
words mako merchandise Of YOU and ye permit aud
sanction and perpeuate by law, the making merchandise
Of men, be sure that your Judgment now Of long Tune
lmgereth not and your damnaton slum6ereth not Let
the inspired Christian poet continue his strain Judgment
however tardy, mends her pace
When obstinacy once has conquered grace
But grave dssembisrs cannot understand
That let loose speaks punishment at hand.
Oh, israel! Of ell oatons nndone!
Thy dladem displaced, thy sceptre gomez
Cy aGS S noa h ,as s nrs n sh sn ns
knock al the gates of nations, rouse their Fears
Soy wrath Is coming and the storm appears.
Their glory faded, and their dispersed,
The last Of nations now though once the drst,
Keep WISDOM or ,s meet ~ in your ' turn
y .e escaped not, Y Heaven spared not US,
Il vice received her retribu,on once
When visited what hope for you!
What hope, indeed Let the tulhment of the curses
tha, have been summoned fir the law or God answer
recorded for warning IN the divine history. 1t
terrible array but 1t IL not to be denied that no small
portions both OF the Old and New Test occupied
with these vivid expressions of the divine JUSTICE these
avepgpg lghtnnqs OF Gods violated law 1t Is not 70 be
denied that God forth these maedctons power
against SIM terror to evild oers and they do possess
efficacy when every other method would have fa ed.
God meant them 10 be applied. But a man cannot be
used without the holy spirit in his heart by whose
influence they we're inspired. They are a sharp two
edged sword, and without the spirit Of inspired
love may cut himself with it oftener than he does
Gods cnemies and he will be just likely ~ grasp by
the blade the handle Hence tho great significance
the catalogue OF Christians the sixth chap
ter vi Paus Epste to the Ephesans where the detail be-
gins with the truth ms girdle and righteousness as
breastpate and the feet shod and switched with the
glad tidngs OF peace, and the shield of faith and the
helmet atom all personal graces elements Of
Christian experiences III possession, in wearing and USE
before the mention Of the sword of the spirit as the
OF war and then follows prayer rs always to be
used inscparaoe from the whole The word OF God rs
quick and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword against sr, ana il the church and the ministry
would faithfully trusting III God, sin would be
qucred Its sharpest edge is 10 be used and it is not
be wreathed with flowers nor handled decetfuy nor the
towei of Ezekcls false prophets be substituted for it,
daubng with untempcred mortar Used as God gave it,
it has power against the atheism and inhumanity
Of slavery, that nothing else can have In the work of
the abolition OF slavery by the Society Of Friends
OF the Southern States there at first great difficulty
and opposition In OF their stormy discussions, in
uental Quaker who still held to his slave property
when insisted that they must all relinquish II, and
the most persuasive arguments had been employed in
vain, and declared that they had right TO make
such demand upon him, that his slaves truly
his property his oxen, and that was not obligatory
on him To give up the more than the other Indig
nant at this assertion, another brother to
HIM. and said "Trcnd that speech Of thine Came right
out from the very belly Of hell yea from the very belly
of he'll thou hast brought this speech" On their as
sembliDg the morning, the man thus pun
gently rebuked said to his reproving brother Friend
thou didst hurt my feelings thou didst much distress
me by thine unkind speaking could get no sleep
all night for thy bitterness "Frend - said neghbor
'f thou hast been distressed glad OF it, am glad
thou couldst sleep, and hope to God thou wilt
sleep till thou hast freed thy saves.n And he could
sleep again. and not till he had freed his slaves but
had il not been for the faithful reproO his brother he
might have kept them TO this day Read the 9th chapter
of Deuteronomy, and then say for what purpose were
these given, and to whom they committed
for and application To the church and the ministry
for great WISE ercul and good purpose against
n m mr.
against oppressors and those who sanction their vanes
1t is the business Of the church and ministry to apply
these whitening denunciaons, just God gave them to
the precise sins which he has caalogucd and classified
there and elsewhere for their Reproduction They ire
mendeus weapons, which those only can use Alright who
themselves Inspired with Gods love- and therefore
know how hate what God abhors and has forbidden
But such who profess to have been the recipients of his
grace refuse this mission then let them refrain from
nouncng their turn those who perhaps without the
spirit OF love- but to supply their reachery, take up the
burden Of those curses and seem to occupy themselves
wholly with them. II the church do not ut Gods
command in sympathy with him out of love- and in the
spirit Of righteous Indignation in behalf Of the oppressed
and against the oppressor then the world will curse the
heart Of agonzed humanity will curse Of nothing
wrath and hatred If the church and ministry refuse
apply these denuncations Of God against SIM then the
world will take them up and scatter them as drebrands,
and death. II the church do not them as
God intended Of the church, driven into nhdel
ty by the church sanctoning SIM will brandsh them with
natural revengefu passion and heat this fire be
not kinded Gods altar in Gods fireplace the devil
will scatter 1t all about the house. Or If conservative
and prevent the noise, then wonder If expodes to
mems destruction 1t is thus that such man John
Brown, Of Ossawaome, was thrown from his ba-
lance and driven to course of desperation The
church and the ministry would not give vent to that
fire which God has committed to them for applica-
ton against SIM and the consequence that double
portion of 1t in his soul exploded SILENT conservative
reacherous church and ministry compel such soul to do
more TO feel more 10 hate more than It's sensitive ogan
Zaton can bear and it very naturally may give way un-
der the pressure If the church and ministry had done
their duty, John Brown would have done no more than
directing the great guns Of Gods word against the sin of
slaveholding, and not at Harpers Ferry with carna
weapons. Let not those protested Christians who have
neglected their duty presume utter word against
that martial hero tor having overdone his. The dumb
dogs that yelped against slavery deep
mou,hed in their denuncations of him, The man has
committed treason but the silent church and ministry
have. II the should be hanged it is their treason
not his own for which he suffers They who have sane
toned the nquiy and cruelty against which he has been
fighting are the traitors and the anguish of such rcachery
II such man brooded long II, might have driven
him almost mad even If the murder of bis children
had not been added to it, The inactivity and treaccry of
the church, amidst the prevalence of such enormites
drive some men into infdely, but not whose COM
munion is with God not true Christian such as John
Brown is said 70 be; the mischief with him have
been that the failure and reachery Of others, their un
faithuness to God aud the enslaved filled him with
fire than he could keep within the bounds OF wisdom and
prudence 1t is the declaration Of divine inspiration itself
that oppression maketh wise mad. Let those that
are without sin cast the first stone The great lesson of
the tragedy is this: II the Of peace will not apply
Gods law against the sin Of slaveholdng in the shape Of
argument and earnest TRUTH the Of will put in
he shape OF bullets and fight out Most Of the in
this world have risen from the scarcity and unfahfulness
Of Christian warriors; for il they will but fight Gods
battles with the sword of the SPIRIT which is the Word of
God, God himself promises that even men of violence
shall turn their swords into ploughshares and their spears
into pruning hooks, and the nations shah learn
more.
DISCOURSE OF REV. HUGH HENRY BLAIR
AT THE ASSOCIATE PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.
A numerous and fashionable congregation was in at
tendance last evening the Associate Presbyterian church
in Charles street, to listen TO discourse the Harpcrs
Ferry outbreak by the Rev Hugh Henry Blair the pastor
After the chanting Of psalms and the performance
Of other Of the usual services the orator of the evening
read from the Bible the second chapter Of Exodus wherein
is related the birth Of Moses, his exposure when only
three months old in ark Of bulrushes among the flags
his by the daughter Of Pharaoh and the Staying of
the Egyptian for wrongng Hebrew. The Rev. Mr..
Blair then offered up long prayer, after which the
twelfth psalm, commencing
Helm lord because the pOodIv doth daily fade awav