New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-17

IL. arc suck A.scrmirsd Oriert.ksts th.t they
ND ipsi.t upon coipc back to Braama, Vl.hnu-
AID the rice and curry gospel Only, he Nho!e
suggested some zee u thoughts, which are lees cur
rent among US than they should be.
One Of these is. that tie philosophy OF iaiIn Is
spt 10 sosr very high above rs practice, and thal
With the lspse of time they naturally draw tdrthef
and further apart. Then, when one poiats 70
abuses advocates take refuge IN the lofty points OIL
doctrine which are known 10 The ie", odt are a
dead letter TO the many. Catholicism, for
instance, is not the sanity doctrine OF Tie early
fathers nor the ecstatic dreaming OF the deeP-s.
mys.ics Catholi cism in its reality ia representa-
BY tie every.6 Gay practice OF ia professors Inc
astute priest the credIlous believer, the wooden
infant tbs. work. miracles in Rome, the pictured
Virgins that weep, an bless, and speak, on deslrs
bic occasions: the luxurious convent hiding soth
and sin in It's supposed casset OF sanctty: the mae
sacre Of Perugia the he'll OF Roman prisons, the
peryersion of the confessional the doctrine OF pous
frauds ard deyout dey.ries-,ll these repTesea
Catholicism in the present day far more Justly than
the inspirations Of Thomss-a kempls Pascal, or
Feueon. the pictures of Rafael, or the masses oil
Palsstrina and Allegri. Things are Whist they are
not what they Nigh. pave been, or should De.
Catholicism is what the Church of to-day enJolns
and practices. Brahmnism is not Thelsm, pu.
ldolaty!.
Another thought was that there are various sys-
TENS of belief which may be very inviting to the
Iaind az grounds OF excursion, or asa momentiry
reliefjrom the limits of our present MODES oil con-
sderation; but a. the abodes of our faith and lie,
woe were 10 Us il compelled thus 10 accept them
thus a week Of misereres M Et De great relief
after long run Of conyentcles, or political meet
ings Thus. On the battle ground Of Concord, and
with all its immunltles gathered around MN,
modern cage may find Il most aesthetic to 90 back
10 the old Eastern religions, and TO lose the angu-
larities Of modern duty in their vague aud passive
belief But how if one had to accept modern Eu-
rope or modern India, and take the consequence
with the cause Would one not howl, and have
Cause to howl, in that case
Sill another thought had to this effect, that we
are Oiienest tbankless for what We have, while
those whom We admit to share il are amazed at
our wealth and grateful for the smallest portion cf
il. I his poor Hrdoo finds Us gifted ike gods,
with freedom of speech and action and with that
dearer freedom 70 follow the lneytabllltes OF our
reason and conscience, the absence OF which made
bis escape from bis own country matter OF life
and death. AIN come, he says, where no
eilete superstition keeps one hand oser the
ewes OF the people, ana the other upon their
purses, where knowledge is free, and etucs-
ton universal. where there are no Parlss, where
the rich mau does not fear the contact OF the
poor: nor does the poor cover and shrink
before the contempt and adherence of the rich,
where difference Of faith cannot dissolve the dear
ties and Obligations of nature where--l am afraid
that have said all ought TO say upon our actual
advantages. however our hopes and pretenslons
may 90 beyond them. The Rev. Mr.. Bellowss
dis course teaches NE to think modestly of these,
but il never can turn me back to desire the old
why's, and the outworD, Outgrown regulations OF
other times If We are less deyout duttul rever-
entail or social II an the Protestant world there
are many causes out of Protes'antism that may ex-
plain it, And while ! cannot share the dangerous
Optimism which resolves all our moral ills into
gro,cing pains, and our worst practices into the
harmless frclics of young people, must seek their
cure in the capitalization and intensifcation of
the faith that is in us, rather than in miracles
or ancient baTbsTisms.