New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-14
FAREV,ELL MEETING or DIR. CHEEVER
AND HIS CHURCH,.


About two hundred ladies' and gentlemen present.
Mr.. BERRY presided over the first part Of the even
np's exercises. lie made some impressive remarks,
urging upon DIR. Cheever the Importance OF stand
ing fast in the position he had assumed, an NOV
ing only to 90 higher and become stronger. He then
called upon EDWARD w. GILBERT, who read the fol-
lowing address:
Rev. GEORGE b. CHEEyER-Dear Sir: In the last
two of your Sabbath evening discourses you admon-
shed us of the duties OF ministers and Churches IN the
present crisis and of of your purposes III gong
abroad. You also recalled the history OF the connie,
in our own Church, and for encouragement declared
your firm belief that God would sustain us through the
struggle and give us the victory. You also gave us
words of parting advice and warning, and closed win
the adoption ard application OF the confidence OF raui
toward the Philippians trusting in God that our re-
"joicng may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for
"you, by Your coming TO us again.. . Only let your
conversation he as it becomeh the Gospel OF Christ
that whether come and see yOu or else be absent,
NAV hear of your affairs that we stand fast In one
" spirit with mind, striving together for the faith
" of the Gospel and in nothing terrified by your adver
sares which is to them an evident token OF perd-
" ton; but to You OF salvation and that OF God. FOR
unto you il is given in the behalf OF Christ not only
" to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake
In view of this we, as your church, feel that word
from u.s. in response, may not be inappropriate, for
having stood by you, and, according to our best en-
deavors sustained you in this memorable conflict
which has been much struggle for existence as an
agoniz resistance against sin, we cannot oe indier
to the associations Of this ne nor to the step you
propose. .
year as an index less than elevenweths of your
pulpit dscourses have been upon the common spiritual
topic dealing with doctrine, reproo exhortation &c
and attended with the corresponding results OF edica
ton conversions and access0ns to the church, vet we
must declare that your attention TO the veXed ques
ton" as il has created this OCCASION supplies the main
hints of what have TO say here To Us, as to your
self the word Of God, and ali its precious fundamental
doctrines of the AtOnement, the Divine Regereratlug
Spirit Faith in Divine Redeemer, Repentance to-
ward Gcd the whole blessed circle of truths as the
truth is in Jesus dear above all things constituting
tie only ground of our hope for eternity and the only
possibility and means of our life and usefulness as a
church and as individuals. In that word, 10 those
truths in The law and the Gospel in the Old and New
Tes,amens and especially in the light OF the cross, IN
the dying love Of Christ we lind at once the obligation
and the OF laboring for the freedom ana saliva
ton of the ensaved and their children. We have
been'aUghtto feel that great and solemn responsibility
rests upon the churches and ministry Of country IN
this particular work Ii is commission from Him, the
sien and result of whose coming and kingdom this,
that He shall the children OF the needy, and shall
break in pieces the Oppressor We rejoice with you
acknowledge that, in the presence aud under the
prevalence of the niquity Of Slavery, the ear
nest, continued, and persistent denuncatiOn Of
this is the especial duty OF the churches OF Christ
in America; and we, as a church, have accepted
and do accept this part of our Christian warfare and
are glau again 10 declare purpose DuSuebs Ill
reference the sin Of Slavery 10 be nothing less than
its entire abolition the freedom of those now held in
bondage and Just where they are thus held, aud the
giving of them there, according TO Gods command,
that which is Just and equal We not permitted to
have any lower end than this, 10 labor with any
other object in view than the deGgerance of the OPP
pressed. Our power and sole dependence in this pur-
pose and work is the word and spirit of God. We
have contended for the planest and most obvious in
depreciation of that word; and with what cannot
but call a conscientious adherence to the word thus in
terpFeted, have pronounced slave-hOding as prac
tictdin country, upheld by our laws and courts,
and sanctioned by our churches TO be the sin of man.
stealing, crime equal 10 murder, which should be re-
probated as an immortality by our churches and pun
ished as felony by our laws.
For the faithful proclamation of these principles you
and we have been denounced rs urasts fanatics and
madmen. For this raid has been instituted to over
throw your pulpit, and plan laid by those who stood
in church covenant relations with YOU and us, and who
in former wears solemnly dedicated church edice
to the service of the living God to take possession OF
that edce and appropriate it Ia more popular use.
For this in,hulness TO Gods Word you We're, on the
evening of the great Union meeting held III December
hst at tbe Academy of Music publicly burned in eff
fgy on Union square by misguided mob mpelled by
merchants OF responsibility and standing in this city.
And for this YOU have been made the object of nces
SAINT abuse tn. part not only of the secular but the
religious newspapers OF the country
Thus il has not been election declaration, but
the proydenal discipline of God and the pressure and
manifes alton OF his truth in which we have endeay-
ored 10 commend ourselves as Church and Pastor to
the conscences Of all men in the sight of God in this
thing that has Occasioned you to be marked and as
sailed as leader in the cause of Christian Abolition
lem The opponents Of that cause themselves demon
strate their own Judgment OF your position aud lniu-
enoe, by the violence of their reproaches and by
making you the object Of their bttercs donuncatioDs;
at the time accusing yon OF assuming for yourself
Il monopoly OF effort and ZEAL and for your Church,
and its struggles i'll sustaining you an Importance to
the cause and merit in its prosecution OF Which they
affirm we are entirely unworthy. The .Ner York. Oh
SerUer in leading article the speeches ia your be-
half by Drs Candish, Guthrie, Buchanan, and ohers
in Great Britain undertakes TO assure those gentlemen
that the people here have confidence in You an
Abolonist and that they themselves will discover, to
their own confusion, that you no true friend 10 the
slave. The editors of that paper have interviewer in
this article two distinct and absolute fsehoods in
gard te this Church and yourself having fellowship
with shareholders, and excluding the colored race
among Us from the privileges of religious worship in
the house of God.
The .,ee. York Ide,~ndem of this very week, in
an article full OF misstate nent and perveTson, in fe
ference your proposed mission repeats this SANDER
OF yoor icllowshippng STAKEHOLDER in your church,
ard utters the bare faced tsehooi that the resolution
that the holding OF human beings as property is an
in morality, the remuneration of which, ought t. be
made a condition OF membership ia the Christian
church and that this sin ia against which the
law az God aud the GOSPEL Of Christ ought b. be pro.
claimed in preaching perSisently untl the nq atty
" bC oyctluown, passed by tue General COBgregl-
tonnl Association % New York, in September last,
was pYesentod by the pastor OF the Tabernacle church.
Ire we'll knows fact that tins res Juon, with Slight
verbal alteration to sui. the conservative protyitios
of the Comm,,ee on Resolutions, was your own, and
that /, was 40 the tine you offered il opposed by the
na, .or .. tbs ia5eEraee o. Joh, hla NJ wiN grlv.