New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-09
DIR. CHEEVEIcS FAREWELL SERMON

Eur' pc, IN the seam, hp Adriiic next Saturday lie
ISad as his text q e following:
For ,be yesPsns Of COR warfare are no. canal bat mighty
through God. to the puDins down Of stroDgholds I"
He btgsn by saying that the phrase " not csrnal'
ccnprebended oil that carnsl policy might and would
| r.sorr to- Irrespective Of Co.'s Word Toe strong
holds they to attack Il Of sin add
They 10 be assaulted and carried by the word of
truth, by the poee of q, the Of righteous
ness Oh the right hand and on the If God honors
hi, Word. He would have it employed in tue 'nfct
of the Church againt Slavery. He had put his Church
in trust with it, aud they were bound 10 make fall
proof Of IT. power. Ii they would do this, n)thing
could stand before item. The Word of God would
conquer. All truth pow erful when applied in the
proper manner for The right purpose. Here he re-
fened TO the influence exerted By Burke 8
work on the French Revolutions; Paine's work
TIE Federari and Jefferson draft Of the De lar ,ion
of Independence. In the case of G0is truth they had
sill greater assurance of p1ser. Power, however
never could become Mighty without application. There
shou lie uprising OF the hosts OF God aud an out
pouring of HIS truth, and assertion of ths rights of
humanity III His name The great brnn of the Ifict
was coming. TIE question was soon 10 be- not Of tho
exter 81 Of Slavery where il did not exist but Of its
entire abolition where il did They 10 nest the
alleged selfish OF AZ the North, fsce 70
face with The acquisitions Of the Jsp-l even they
did the natural seshness and cruel oppressors OF
x Eor his conflict churcnes needed training, ministers
needed trainings great and solemn discipline 10 sone
cases would have TO be passed through But whenever
God got his instrumeniaiies ready, then they might
be sure that the world would witness . commotion,
perhaps strife, battle in comparison VIII Wnc1 an
their previous engagements had been Dut DO! pay
He ~ x proceeded to describe The position wen ha9
been assumed by the Church OF the Purtans as u mad
heen dscpned into consistent regard for the teachings
of GODS Word They had taken the position that
slaveholdpg under all circumstances, was sinful ana
that no slayebolder ought TO be admitted the Christian
~ Hold theyQ
all circumstance ought TO be excluded from the church.
no ODE would have regarded that az anatical or ex-
treme Now, the making merchandise OF man, whether
stealing selling or holding, WAS forbidden by dod
under penalty of death. They might az property
admit the drupkaid thief adulterer and murderer INTO
the Christian Church the Shareholder and they might
as consistently speak OF the Christian druhkaro' the
Christian thief the Christian adulterer orhe Christian
murderer, rs the Christian Shareholder why NOT ad,
NIT Christian p0lygamifts, Christian idolatoro
What was there in either these forms OF sin IN IRE eE
pressly forbidden of God or injurious sgalnst man
than in the practice of Slavery And vet for maptain
ing ouch truth and applying Gods Word, they had
been described as ma5men. They had been charged
with ultraism for urging that the " abuses OF slavery
was proper subject to be treated by the IT Soce
tv They had also taken the ground that the admi'-
sion of slaveho]ders to missionary churches under
The American Board WAS wicked sanction OF
the sin of Slavery and therefore betrayal OF tne cause
of Christ by that body an exposa OF Christianity ltsen
10 reproach throwing of their whole vast influence
on the side of Slavery and shielding II from The rep
rotation of God Word, which might Otherwise nave
reached it. For this they had been denounced Dy
churches ministers and religious newspapers, and the
same ministers had defended the Board and taeir pol
icy in admitting Shareholders into the churches ana
their refusal to utter Christian testlnony aganst
slaveholdng as sim maintaining that policy az oelng
the perfection Of a Christian eZpedieney. Ihey haa
been held up TO odum for insisting that the Church
could not any rghteousy admit Shareholders than
adutereTs They had maintained that II was the 1uty OF
the ministers Of Christ in our land apply the Word of
God against the sin of Slavery, with its entire aDoioh
in view. 80
the duty of the church God had given them the pow
err if they would bit exert it, to abolish Slavery from
the land simply by sealing itup under Gods reproba-
on ms sin, and dealing with it as such They ought
10 have applied the Word of God 10 1t on the sabbath
There was no more for deterrng the subject OF
Slavery to q Fast day, or day of Thanksgiving Tor
consideration than the sin of drunkenness, OF adultery
or unbehef or lmpentenee' OF pro1IaneEnesS' miy
should slavtholdng be RENTED for coIoid-
Grafton TO our days Of fasting and thank sgyIng any
more than murder lying oovetousness, SANDER OF any
article in the whole catalogue Of crime Bat II seemed
an INTERPOLATION for subjects that artificial astdlous-
ness or conyentionalis excluded from the Sabbath as
if that day too sacred for the rebuke OF orBahSeu
or governmental sins Fast days had come 10 be recog
pized as ses sons for kind Of religious bullhght or
eadoial exhibition when certain saSage SINS, kept
nm for ttat purpOse were brought out r IN the menag-
erie and then grand display OF courage ana skill I'll
attacking them, AID grand sport az III carnival. Ihsy
were never put TO death, but led back TO recover by
Kind treatment through all the rest Of the year, from
anv wounds that might have been inflicted upon them
Ii was manifest that organized and buttre,ed sn
would ever be abolished by such treatment. Equany
Intellectual WAS the method OF grave and formal resOlu-
tons adouted by ecclesiastical bodies filed away aud
catalogued as testimonies Organized lllquitles re-
quiIed organized and living opposition. There must De
intensity in such oppoEition-the very hottest oil Tue
Lord fires Common specifics ayailed nothing The
Church must take a high position. IL must nave an
entrenclment, battery, overlapping ana commanding
all the positions of the enemy, looking GIT down INTO
their streets their forts houses When Washington
drove the Biitish troops out Of Boston, he did by
taking and foftying Dorchester flights overlooking
tie city. He not strong enough to meet the enemy
on their ground or TO undertake any assault from tner
level Tie whole army must take position Tor an an
Initiating bombardment, otherwiseS would have been
useless for each 10 have played the nero Win ms
own fuse or even for all together to have attempted
an attuck on the same level with their enemies They
must take a higher position. so with the Churcn,
it must assume higher ground, and make all
its assaults therefrOm. Little else would DC
needed than for the churches to let them
selves be seen there on those mountain tops.
That position once assumed, Gods batteries thrown
M. even the women and the children could work be-
hind the lines. The position was everything, earned
everything. Noting could stand against Hguteous
appeal 10 God against an awakened conscience against
the authority of His Word, His Law. In the year
1924 the Hon. James Barbour, Senator from Virginia,
delivered in the United States Senate speech upon
bill aboshDg imprisonment for debts lie used the fol-
lowing language:
this l. il right TO punfh by imprisonment the honest
hut insolyent debtor grant you the power but
deny you the moral right. do not mean to incu@ber
the discussions with any constitutional question. lg
ms the Constitution is, appeal to an authority stu
hieher-to the patent held by directly from his
God, 10y which his liberty and the right 70 It's epoy-
ment was guaranteed. 1t existed before Constitutions
or societies Themselves. The image impressed upon
him at bis birth was the sign Of the covenant. and
should have been the shield against its violation
He concluded by stating that the Church OF the Pgrl-