New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-30
THE BROAD CHURCH.
UNITARIAN ANNIVERSARY SERMON

UNITARIAN ANNIVERSARY SERMON.
Last evening the Rev. DR.. hedge, Of Harvard Uni-
yenity preached tue Anniversary Sermon before INC
Unitarian Churches OF this city, at the Cnsfen OIL inc
Mtsiah. n,
In the nsual preliminary exercises the Rev. Dr. BEL
lows assisted An exquisite solo was rendered by
mt mher e the choir aiCer which Dr Hedge roceeSed
IN deliver the sermon from tue following text:
LrxE a 20 And they shall c)ms from the c't snd rem
the 3ss aud from NORTH aud irO the South and shall All
down In tbs k.rsdom Of God.
W. al h sw said tue preacher, how astonishly this
nroptscy was verified. At the feast OF Pentecos.,
tbree thousand sons eat down at the reqaet OF Pee
while tongues OF lire and rushing, mighty no m
auQurated the new era in the Christian religion
Strap gers were there coming from every nat on OF
the world apd returning W Their homes 10 plant zoe
wo7d Of God in every ine; aud the Apostles carried
the seed TO Britain the north, aud 10 Spain, tar
away in The wet. And 30 rspldy were the good
oi1ps spread abroad that, as early as tue days oil
Jnst man. Christian missionaries brought back from
China the secret of the siikworm. There were Cha<
fans in Abyssluia D 0rmus and lnd He thus rapidly
Al etched The progress and spread Of the religion OF
Christ su wing how eonn, east auo wet, so itn 400
moth, Fat down in the Kingdom OF God And in oar
day. though other Ielis ions numbered more votare,
hof,e was go widely dnfdsed But there we're other
han reoQrsphfcal extensions ~ Onr belief. The
n ts OF the compass might be considered as typical OF
tie spiritual divisions OF the church Thd- tae east
wss repre- sentative OF stability conservatism, cling
/, Y to cardinal faith; the west on the oIner hand
AVE tie elements OF mobilit progress reform; tia
north ADDED intellectual activity, philosophy mts
ussrm; the south preserved the chorch forms, tho
ffaal, the oTgaDza ion. Modern Prot stsnstsn mos
ret1eeeDted the cosmopolitan Church L. was bolnted
On the east by the Rocky Mountains of Puritan
conservati.m; on the west by the River of Re
foIn; on the north by the White Sea Of
DUAL eri,m and SpiIituasm on the south by the Gau
OF Prelacv whe6 separates it from Catholicism. Fps
coDscy pie served 10 il the sacred Church forms. Bat
WI lie the modern Church was, extsraty, thus com
plee and collective internally it was chloac UNION
Of discordsnt sovereign secls The remecy for tais
consisted in Avoiding creeds, aad reodsriog every
Cbnrch wel.bebaved whole In itself, en- ,rsons in
proper harmony the four ele nents sjmbonsd in tbs
tent. Folio 9ing out thu idea, the preacher portrayed
in fectous laDsn4ge Whist the Clurch 81 u'd be and
in what he hoped aud believed IL would ultimate. 10
speakina Of the necessity for organZst on add symso
ism be used these Words Church without ritual
is an mpossibty. There il absolute relis 'on foe
men; there are only given and particular religians.
these are articu at.d sud represented ~ oGsw.rd
forms and if tie Christian religion does not have its
symbols to preserve it, next year may be heetheu-
ISM" Finally, the Church which united all theee ee-
neris was BROAD CHURCH, Though. psrhsff not
numbering its believers by millions he hele0sd ia
the Cbutch-tbe Holy Catholic Church of the tsbers
Which ultimately should rise above aad wipeeas All
laltial, dsuniteo sectarianism.