New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-08
LNFIDRLITY FOR 1850.

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The cause Of bfdey does pros per in this con-
| try in degree that might prove its foundation "
truth If Christianity has 70 contend with stubborn
innate depravity, in6delty presses against rocky
barrier Of Indifference. Year after year its advocates
throw THEMSELVES tohe ia Of society rehsarss their
old system of kepcsl philosophy utter sentiments a.
Iectly hostile TO Fixed law resolve that the Bible Is
curse instead of blessing 10 man. resolve that fss IN
am other than human grace Is a superstition Prooihn
thev own isolation the result Of pesty tyranny, aud
soup forth the summons to the world burst the fe-
tiers tl,at bind lie thought ard moral action Yes go
eety W ,uld seem TO be hsrdeped 10 ts fate IL quits
deaf 10 these loud battle cries. 1t loves s chains IL
refuses ith quiet simplicity to be frightened out OF RI
faith in the existence of Being beyond the compre-
be nson of the philosopher bat level with the dsspse
neoetsies Of the psinest creature IL erec"
it's temples 20 the worship Of this Power ire
ouents them with or less regularly
and sincerity, reads s Bible and hnds goo4
reasons IN it for living well, solves many OF its stran-
sest expsriences in the crucible of what something
assures it IL not ortal revelation, and travels along
wi comfortable ope that will not be too severely
punshed foy follow, pg universal human instinct ID
pot only this dread ul calousness which must dsoeur-
rage the little army free thinkers but the actual and
hearty ENJOYMENT OF heir fate exhibited BY the Chris
ans and the, sasy an dgoodnatured federation tows
boee whom they over, yhelm in poirt Of numbers eau
not but add rey TO Il dissatisfaction OF their spirit
1t far from our provin to attempt to adjust the BAL
co Of tru between Il 10 two great thinking c&sses-
tie religious believers an the ungodly skepcs, bat
is strictly within the scop of the reporter to call alton
tic TO their relative sttin sde.
The sentiment of the Al nual Convention Of the Ian
del Association, which met yesterday and VIII Do Con-
tnued to-day at the City ssemoly Rooms, BrosewsyS
is darkly tnged with disapE ointment and doubt Thers
should be- it would seem, some papable progreS-
The roc N should be better Jed than was last year.
Here is fire. bright Sum- lay for sccffDgi the sus
shines with particular taity upon the Just ant
the unjust If the argumer ts against the religion Of
revelation and for the religion of humanity were eyer
valid they should certainly by this time have hs<
come vital force If not for Ovely, at least foe their
SINGULAR y they should prove INCREASINGLY attractive.
When the two or three hun'ted faithful believers in
uobelief get together for their regular yearly demon.
stra,ion-when those venerable rms that with Hevins
boards and large and restless eyes recall the pa, racha
periods nike their customary pilgrimage to tt siss
which they love all the more because It is 60 losey
and 80 desolate-wten that conventional typo Of rsd
cal meeting is cast it would be reasonable to- supposs
that the occasion might be Of
cheerful accents of thanksgiFin might resssnd,
trophies Of the hard fight Of the Last yea, be displayed
with deet compacezey, and that the bsule-0ry fog
another campaign might be sounded with nev sad
Joy Gus significance.
But there was no srsh scene of conf ients yesterday
at the City mbly Rooms. Favorable ss tho
weather was. Of The thousand ckurch-goers wns
thronged tie streets directed even by cuosyts
tie Iufdel Convention nor did numerous sdvertiss--
n enis divert tie tboughtless public from their usual
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earnest hopefuness which is such prominent feature
of the common religious observsnOes Of the Lord g.
Day, amorg the email company Of the irreligious..
neither was there that live sympathy which Is the sig
net Of success Reans of resolutions read. IL
was resolved at INN length and with stern a1a
awful solemny that the times are relgiorsly speak
| ing the worst upon which foolish world has eve
fallen; that men generally in a state Of profous
| unhappiness and despair; that they can't B 4
happy until they throw overheard their fd 4
in God and hereafter. Long speed %.
were made to thsse resolutions. The speakers do
plored the backwaTdness of things. Ons made 1.
burning shame that New.York could not keeps hal
for in6delity snd spent email a sum of monsys anu
ally in the cause. To this was offered, from lew
| York lady, the sad confession that New-fork cam
afford it, but must have assistance from other GUS tsrs
This led mutual recrmnaons on the score Oh iusia
cerity snd coidless. Then resoluuon sna' lobodj
could clearly understand was sharply dscusse l. Ia,
word bypcc,eal, as applied to politicians, also do
marded and received careful attention. A fs " word
Of consolation came by mail from the Germ lss Fro.
Thinkers and from German doctor in Bio lninston
Illinois and collection taken up at ID door q
adjournment.
But the grand staple Of business before he Convea
ton yesterday morning at least was .larpheny o,
gross, and assertion so stare ana tak 80 trivial tia
Ierbaps the only literal report Of indet yfor 1860 IA
can be made lie the following hst Of ofiS ,rs:
| Pycsileli- Horace Sesver
Rose Na' YoIk; Otis Cissv
| Mas R. Nalen. Ps.s Jss L,wtont L. O 4 auTyN,
| Ohio; A Duyol y. C., ThOs Denrins. N.
| Sscretsri,s-J. NJ. Beckett Tbos CuTtA
| BgsiHsss Connitfee-r. Z. Savage p M.ndpr,. Ma.
| z L Rose, joseph Treat, Ohio; John Indt NJ v -
| Fiagacs COMmistoe-a. y. Rose, 1 M.,s.~
Mass
We may Judge unfairly, and W thout full sno WED
Of the various operations Of tn spirit Of anbesf u
this country, but not be dse.ived IN IN.
perception that until tsers more unanimItv. NOR,
discipline, and more money in the Iuajel Association,
ii cannot become an efhcie' t agent. Each rdividuL
must decide wb ether the cause openly ad
vOcates ssservss success it is cssr snsgt tia. it i.
lot suecss sful.
| --Tla RraekinF idOt Of the Sixth e. An