New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-05

human savior OF bis country. Mr. beecner eoos, NV
and then, slide down into expectancy; and now AM
then make CONCESSIONS 10 a great wrong. l VII, NO
deny that be does by this belp keep hi'nseh u
SYM atby with the masses-help retain bis bold upol
tbem-and help preserve q wide held ~ wnich y
WELD his rich and exhaustless eloqueDce. Yet Inus
believe that God 10 never honored nor mankind evel
benef ed, BY any Inconsistency, whether In Washing
ton or Beecter or any one else, with the stern law o.
absolute reetitude.
l. is not to get rid of preaching that we would have
the priesthood abolished. Its abolition, which will be
Simultaneous with that Of the book religion, will make
room for multitudes Of preaeherssuch preachers as
TIE world needspeachers Of nature and reason, and
righteousness.
ding progress in religion. Is the look thousand
years old i-tbenis t mighty TO hold back the human
mind 70 period thousand years ago; and II three
thousand then to period three thousand years ago.
The believers in the Koran, ia the Vsdas, and In the
sacred books of China are at he present. time relg-
ously, and therefore intellectually and otherwise,
where they have been for many, many ages The same
il true of the tribes which bound and lmpr oDed by
Evolutionary regiJBsthe effect OF euch relieiops be-
ing In this respect the same as that OF the written re-
gions. How sadly do the condition ard character OF
the Mohammedans, Hindoos, and Chinese, illustrate the
cranping and crushing Influences Of book-tastehed
sereOtyped, stationary relgon Happy for Chfisien-
dom that her sacred book 10 ncomparaby better than
the sacred books Of other parts OF the world For IN
spite of the fale and narrow interpretations put upon
II by the priesthood there has been great progress in
Chtitendop. Yet how little this progress, compared
with what it would have been had tie book been held
TO be but helper and not linahy in relia Jon Az
the way down to tie present time has the priesthood
quitting it's own meaning upon the book arIHyed It,
more or lese in one way another, against nature,
reason, science religion, and progress AT enc time
is made TO Withstand astronomy and az another eeoi-
ogy At the present time II Is made 10 withstand tie
efforts to abolish var, in emperance Slavery, and the
wrongs which Cypress woman. Ar The authority Of
the book has ALWAYS been set by the priesthood above
naturcabove the teachings OF nature both III and ont
of manso il is not strange that the eooK or rather
what has passed for IT, has been involved In this inees
SAINT ipht with IatuIe. All now see the folly OF It's
fight With astronomical and geological nature; and all
will yet see the wickeGne,s Of its light with human ma
ture. The doctrine that man was made to wear the
woke of Slavery will yet be as universally scented as
The doctrine that the great sun was made to reyolve
around the little earth.
Book religion cam OF subdue the mighty evils OF the
world DIR. Cheever interpets the Bible against, and
another DR.. iuteprets il for Slavery. Dr; Nott 10
terprets j, against and another Dr. for, the drink
ing of inro1i aIiug liquors. When Doctors disagree
the people cannot deCiefor requires learning TO
decide 10 such case, and the people are not learned
They are not inguists and cilits. Hence they must
20 this way and that According not only TO the differ.
ept but ao to the changing courses OF their learned
lesdes. -,
By tue way, it il no. clear that DR.. Cbeevers Anti.
Slavery labors will on the whole, be useful. They
certaiIy will be so far the noble man succeeds In
yindicaing the precious Bible from Pfo-Slaveiy us
persions But t6ey will not be If he eha brug large
numbers TO consent 10 let II tnrn finally on the Bible
whether Slavery is right or wrong. DR. Mott speaks
and writes for Temperance with very great ability.
Nevertheless he III do more harm than good if he shall
lead uul udes 10 make book the tnal aroteT on TINS
vital question.
Who battles more effectively for both Freedom and
Temperance than the great American orator, Nendeh
Philiipsl Nevertheless although he now welcomes
the aid Of the Bible BIO would be found bathing 0ssius
it slso were he become convinced that it IL against
Freedom and Temperance. 90 the BIBLE az u night
be would still 60 for human Danre, and therefore ior
the God III Whose image il is made. WOnid you have
Lin turn away from the authority Of t'ods plsinly
written book 10 construct an authority ous Of the con-
troveried Pages Of a man-writen bookl a.
The religion Of Nature is alone the true religion
Nature thea is what we must study in order 70 KNOW
the true religion. Bacon and Shakespeare, and the
Bible far above al other books, help US IN this
Al udy But not even the Bible is the end All books the
Bible itself included but means 10 the end And
the value Of these means, each one the humoiest as
well AZ the highest il Judge for himself No one Of
them and no interpretations nor interpreters OF any
one Of them are 10 be tolerated as an authority by
even the most ignorant.
Because Of our doctrine that reason must sit in
Judgment upon the Bible, are often charged with
placing rea on above God But they guilty OF placing
The Bible above God-the hun an above the Divine
who place II above Nature. Sweeily sDd glonously
a. God shines 10 the inspired pages Of the Bioe II Is
psyerthels 81 Nsture and e-Iet sIiy man. the master
piece of Nature that is emphaticaly and prominently
the Shekinah-,he Divine dwelling place.
The great need OF men 70 return TO the religion OF
nature la eIbsr words, &ey need 10 become natnrH.
In sill other words, they need 70 be born again. The
doctrine Of the birth, " hich sacerdotalism ana
superstition have mysIed has no other significance
and no wider scope than the returning OF men to the
normal action Of the nature Every one VINO has re-
turned TO bis nature from bis foolish and guilty deser-
tons of H. Ia born again. To bring him back 10 his
nature and hold him there that and that only IL for
which he needs to he the subject OF divine Influences
That the public mind is fast escaping from It's hood
age 10 book religious and the priesthood B owing, un-
der God mainly its emily htenment and elevation by
science. The efiect-nsy, the very Office also-of
sciepce IL 70 recall TO nature 10 acquaint them
with herr to regain the recognition oil her claims, Their
love of her treasures and admiration OF her wonders.
The astronomer geoogist chemist, anatoDist, the ex
plorer by land and sea- the inventors and dseoyerers
The mental and moral philosopherssuch are the men
who along with the Divine inspirations both In and
out OF the Bible, are now at work, whether Willingly
or unwtingly 10 build mp the religion Of nature
God only religionon the basis of nature. AT break Of
day. GHOSTS troop home 10 church yards, and owls
and bats disappear. Thus must retreat the salersi-
tons and dcspotisms which almost ever aad almost
everywhere have oceupitd the place belonging to reli
gion The foods Of light which science Is pouring out
UPON the earth, will soon leave no dark for
book religions to live In and csbastc priests TO work
and rule in.
"Th.y NUT for aye eonsort with black bow'd night"
II ia because it has book.region that country
ia now involved in horrible civil war. The South
could never have been melted to her unnatural and
atrocous aggressons the North had not her priest
hood first convinced her that the Bible is for Slavery
Her war is not merely for her Slavery. IL Is for her
religion also. Called for, admit, the war is BY her
despot.m pride, avarice, luxury RIGHTEOUSNESS, and
intense selshness. Nevertheless 1t s also called Tor
by her religious conscience. Thirty or forty years ago
enc would not have made war for Slavery, for then
she believed the Bible to be against Slavery. Then
che excused instead Of justifying 1t. Then she re-
gnided il as evil, and but temporary one. The
Bible ia 80 read rs to suit customers II Is read this
way and that-now for rum and Slavery, now against
them. Bot may be asked II there would not be as
Qrest uncertainty OF internrotaon We're Nature ana