New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-07
THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN
I'NlUN.
SERMON BY THE REV. DIR. HAGUE.

SERMON BY THE REV. DIR. HAGUE.
Last evening the annual sermon before the Ameri-
can and Foreign Christian Union preached in the
Broadway Tabernacle by the Rev. DIR. HAGUE of the
LeNiugton-avenue Baptist Church, who announced as
his suLIect "God covenant against Pagasnism.' He
read as his text "The secret of the Lord is with them
that fear him; and he will show them his covenant"
Palm XIV, IL. The word secret means something
which was withheld from common view When we
saw great preparations for mighty enterprise the
sous for which were not understood was natural to
inquire wherein was the secret of the matter. The
Kingdom of Christ as il hid been established upon the
earth, appeared TO be inadequate to the great mission
for which it was intended.
Christianity sought not to confne itself to the hea-
then nations where original paganism the rule but
il Lad mission to the old aud the new worlds, where
Il transformed paganism had been governing mutudes
in the name OF Christ. Underlying the words of the
text the development that great cloud OF gloomy
mystery hung the secret of those forces necessary
to be cxercised with view TO the victory of truth
over There gloomy mystery enveloping
the plans of Gods government i'll regard 10 the great
agencies which were at work to eradicate error. AZ
ter we had surveyed the physical government of God,
and taken cognZance OF ls moral government, viewed
them III their yserous aspect, in their bearings
the established errors which exist in every FORM then
discovered the lifting OF the vail and for the first
time the grandeur OF Gods workings and his power.
The preacher rapidly glanced al the rise and progress
of pagan superstition up the time of Christ sadvent
Since then arrogatng prieshoods had get themselves
up a. christ aud IN the concentrated shape of the
Papal Hierarchy had assumed the prerogatiycs of
God and by their assumption had robbed half of Eu-
rope OF the simple religion OF the humble and owly
Savior Although the retrospect of tho history OF the
world was overcast with heavy gloom yet We had
in the Bible standpoint which beamed out light
that revealed the fact that was there reason TO
be ess hopeful than at the time when the Pssilmst
penned the words of the text. The covenant which
God had made with Abraham, % In thee shall all the
. families of the earth be blessed" had been remem-
bered, and in times OF trial his children had taken
comfort and courage, and stood boldly and energoti-
cally against the aggressions OF Satan.
Al Rome was thesame old pagnnism in a new garo
and 4 new name. Middleton, while travelling there
lad properly said, "bcter worship the founders oil
Empires, than heounders of converts nnnnerles
Japan had elevated herself in the scale OF CIVILIZATION
when shc btnished her PRIESTS never did she stand
higher in her history than when that great step opened
up "a highway for the Truth in is simplicity and Its
power.
In reference to the Christian Union the great law
Of compensa,ions had been well illustrated in is his-
tory and in lis results. The door was now open for
Clrleriaos to lavish fortunes in scattering Bibles,