New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-11

literature OF ell bs;ious watch indicates tie inward
yeapins. Of or iLs:aL, humanity, car fail - acknow
edge the omrip'ss.nce Of dissatisfied, eXpectan aai
thoroughly b-vifeTed -pirt. The cuty ,;ed nind OF
n. rang generst.Op Whittier in EoglaIi or America
that # young men and women VITO Will help largely
20 form The next AGES not 30 much aggressive or
progressive G n painful equipcise winch forod'
hesihfal mot, I'm. lar ch0lc, sac. asray OF anoa'
What LsmatiLe says vel OF one Of lis characters,
" Il futIe isiigue, nsy DE- said OF ne mos, n'eec-
usl a.d spiritual portion OF our j0u'h o. ooth sees
The inherited though, Of P7oes,art epoch OF three
c-uturiss duration j. corn tied. u The medl,ative
pind Of ouI eereIaiior. A. necessity Of TINS state
OF hpg-, The Protestant Church has lost is bold of
the tNO ends Of suc.eiy:0e cgiv4ted srd the uncut
twisted ent-of The head, because Is under The do
uiniOn Of psraly ling ites'. which -ave tah notion
erd worship mockery ~ the fO-t, becanse i Is no
longer ccIi!oisd by that sulhcrity which living and
satisfied a'n csn alone pm; into he vile .nd Into The
actions Of the governing c.s-ses. Tie lBr1ely OF our
a. j. not c, nTonly insolent setsststed, hppant
criticism Of evidences or AMI bitter assn!; upon
Christianity, shhoagh still have that. II Is, IN the
cultivated clsssssand sith frghfu frequency there
a silent tho htiul >ad con-ciOu-n.ss that the soul
hes faih All pO-s.s-es religion except the rei-
| gious s.Itiment, ard knows God and no Savior
with tender reseIy- toward others, gentle unwli-
| IgIsss 20 bring into her own CONDITION those N
wi ON fsi'h still Les sny existence. All in the uncu
twisted clssses e loss for the time being, IN the
sbsorbng iu.ret Of lie Itself, enriched viii The eman-
cipsteJ rshts and opportunities which this sei-5sseTt-
In epoch bss given 10 the mgsses-ot any sense OF
ueed religion, With decsy OF the affections. instincts,
and usaees connected with iG state frshtfu 70 con-
sder-bot il its immediate bat Only in It's coming So
| cisl consequences
N.sn. hlle, in the empty cryps ard chapes of the
human mind have ru-heI by the attraction OF va
Guam the snccedsneuros and ieuteDsnces of Worship
| and Faith The instructed and thoughtful have at
.ropted 20 revive the worship OF Ma ure; while de-
nonology and wi,chcref. have amused the supernatu
raIstI c. Of the people al large. The microscope ana
tie rerscting mirror bave become tae chief windows
OF The soul for the educated, whose only spiritual world
| n. l..a, -. tha Af rhn
phy.icslaws OF the universe; while the people have
| been bowiIg down 10 patent reapers and sewing
machines the tsguerreotype and the s,ereoscope,
trance N. diums and homUpst &c miraces-and both
classes ave made -wo7shp-wbether of horse
tanner or cbess-copquereI-t unconscious iDdn-
g,nce Of Their dsused ana suffering organs OF venera
ton and faitb.
IT Is lot strsrge in state Of things 80 humiliatug,
50 upsaii>iact ry wesTsOme for thoughtful spirits as
ths-so alarming, TOO, Il alarm we're not impous as
col cluson for lovers Of Their snd their country
TIA. uuss tful inquiries should be made Of the past, OF
philosophy OF experience, Of the soul itself, to the
probable issue Of this epoch. Nor IS il to be al all
wondered a. that SO many by either positive or ne "a
tive consent, should be now achpoY.oging longing
for revival OF the ages Of Faith. Many already OF
the aest heads and strongest hearts Of the time, not
charged able certainly, with ignorance OF science, his
tory or philosophy, like NesmaD abroad, ami Brown
al home, have gore boldly and bravely back into
the Catholic Church, and With them hundred. OF the
worshipul tender and thoughtful young me AM Wo
men Of Protestant Chrster,om. Without understand
ps their necessity their solace cooess for one,
| value the costly testimony which such course mas
given 70 the worth OF the fundamental idea OF Catholl-
cj-m in time when puraIicel preutices and terres-
tria IN &C mbne 10 coniOund the superstlt0us and &C.
cideuta usage, aud customs OF the Catholic Church
With its essential idea ana go to blind the Protestant
world to its own interest in the other aud larger hall "
| its integral history.
| pro,es.artisn-for | will not say, the Protestant
Churcb-stands and noby stands for human rights
| for man az against Tuers, kings, Institutions, lgno'
rance want, vice sloih stands for m"faty-which IS
good usage ard wise custom, for citizenship, icdlvld-
uality faculty, will Ind knowledge The Cathor
Church stood for revelation for God condescening,
for super natural.m, for bread from heaven, tor the
aurhoIi.y the support, and the benedicton OF living
and divine pers ons outside of humanity and above It,
Az such udeI evidently Of its historical identification
| with Christianity, Romanism had sacred and hide
feasible right in the history OF humanity. Hrepre-
sentrd God coming to man-as IrotestahtLsm repre-
| seuts man coming TO hmself-and then, perchance,
and perchance not going to the Father who comes To
| meet him. The Church, in every heather age, mas
been some rude but potent anizaon OF the aea Oh
God broodng over and descending upon his children
tue natural priesthood Of the world hsvinS been the
spirits in whom, however crudeiy, the sense OF Hod
overpowered the sense ct themselves. what tue nat,
ura relk ions Of the world thus preluded and yphed,
the positive religions of history have distinctly articu
lated and u Fl led. The Christian Church, in ITS ear
her ages old not embody, nor did 1t need to embody,
the moraty Of Christ for at our time Of day moralty
the uecessary product Of knowledge whc in eman-
| cpsting the individual and all individuals, gradually
! II. ke- order, decency-ln short morality, the only
possible condition under winch human beings can I'VE
top.ther-which il sufficient account of the tang OF
| worldhness and ipadequacy which dsrsvors the
phrase Morality. Morality, though slow growth, IL
| sure one and follows in TIE wake OF education aud
| freedom-matchng precisely the political and cvi
| condition Cf every community
| But the Christian Church embodied aod represented
what DO growth Of civilization, and what Is ndepen.
| dent cf ages and grades Of cuure-the doctrine and
presence of the Holy Ghost-the descent of God into
The world the gift of himself 10 his children as the
plroma-the only ullness for the infinite emptiness OF
the human soul. II represented, IN short, what alone
il entitled to be called religon-the bond and contract
| between God and msn-in which the superior party IL
God fulfilling bis promise, not man observing hs obi
| CATION In natures, whose constitutional individuality
bad been sufficiently secured by high organization,
| or by pIopious circumstances, the Cathobc Chuich,
hy the supply Of the Holy Spirit which 1t furnished,
! and the lively faith il communicated, worked those
miracles of sapy character artistic beauty, and d.
VIE poetry which Ircude, az their after 0rtl even
the great orr amens Of the age immediately succeed ling
| the Reformation. But il Is equally true, that the
masses though immensely aud benlgnantly supported,
enancipsted and elt waited by the earlier ages OF the
Church were in the deepest heed OF the centrifugal
| movement which call Protestantism, when Il came
or rather when their want OF it produced the reac.
| ton which Was lis fual cause. For the Church had
| absorbed the world; the divine had overlooked the
4 allow channel Of humanity and II needed 70 be deep
| ened even al the expense ot becoming temporarily
dry that il might hold larger measures from the n'er
| of God
The particular, the general the universal reason for
the suspense OF faith have now successfully sci
forth. II remains only in conclusion, to look al the
form in which may hope that faith wil rally and 90
on Ard this bin e face to face al lest, with VIVA.
we Rave been secretly envisagng all the time, the
Church question which is the real question OF the
earnest religions thought Of the time, and sa'es II
self ard u.s. under -orts of DISCUSSES. Many, indeed,
are striving with AL their might TO prove that there
| 10 such question: that have got by IT. that II IS
treason 70 the nineteenth century, 10 humanity aud TO
the future TO ALLOW any reality in it; that Only priest