The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-05
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY JANUARY 1sel-rRpLE SHEET

presses made also to teem with profanity Hsw fearful
II rs TO ADMIT many OF our greatest daily aPss into our
dare that children shall become accustomed there
10 read infdety atheism and sneorng Al this meeting
o. our public PRAYER unlsss y su ~ ,se party
lous men as hoping by their clamors TO Heaven TO
avert calamitios. We know that such blasphemy.
presses and that they groan the weight Of them
and that thousands thousands Of these fearful sheets
Of life arg hoss eaves Like leaves Of the Of
death they scatterng death wherever they 60 And
then Gods holy day-how has this been ishonoredf How
has the nation broken the Sabbath dayY Why Is II that
the land is Quief Why 1t that toll can never
ceases Why it that the hand Of government is lifting
days ' Of shs Week. Why 4 it that the govefnment
makes itself tho great servant of sim deyng the Lord
God OF Heaven desecrang His sabbaths every Sabbath
throughout the Year, Oh brethren may demand our
mails, may be eager for the news; but have by
our own influence, whether that be positive negative
whether direct or indIrec-f have encouraged that
state Of things that Union to be daring Sab
bath breaker against God saying will not remember
.nsss na0Daihs 70 keep them holy tins time our
our treasury; we will do our own work therein and
defy the Thundercr who stood upon Mount Sinai and ut
have been thus guilty, then does it become TO bow
down before God and confess that His judgments
Just If His wrath strike away from the Sabbaths and
turn every day into OF darkness mourning woe
and would be but visitation OF His justice upon national
guilt And thus have we dishonored God HIMSELF His
IMAGE His name and carry our wickedness still fur
Their when We dishonor Gods representatives. mean by
Gods representatives the powers that be which are or
daned Of God whether they be national State or only
family The parent stands to his child for the tmo in
the place Of God and he is the representative Of God
and therefore, he placed this nth commandment
the government us stands to the nation in tho place Of
God in sense the representative Of Divine authority
and yet, what Is the state of country In regard to
of-how they are ssorned and how our young men and
children are taught sometimes by ministers Of
haired nor bow down te The authority Of the parent
They taught before they old enough to exercise
sound reason to be masters shapers OF their own dest
Mes And then how fearful is the dishonor that is con-
tnuay cast upon the great representatives OF the 60
vernment-the heads Of cur government know that
in free country like this where free principles and free
speech part of glory that the acts OF the highest
men in Office may be and must be fairly criticised They
are all open TO the Judgment Of the people, But hayewe
not INDUCED in prurient spirit Of mpudence, which
turns almost into blasphemy against God when We
cause our press again and again to TEEN
great powers that be- We lack need this
lesson than almost any other, and 1t is that we
learn to what high, what is sacred what God
has established These thoughts running thus through
the first five commandments havg all afation with each
other. When filed with pride against God
guilty OF all these transgresscns shall not go
the second table of the Lord 1t svcry that no that
hath broken the first cannot respect the second. And
here, friends are fruitful causesf the whole judg
ment that hath come down upon We may read 1t In
oil history. We may read it especially in these Divine
histories in which not left to human influences
to the of national decay and distraction We be-
hold it everywhere. Men are filled with pride-they
make gods TO this; they cast off tn, authority of the
great God Of heaven they deny him IN ten thousand
and blood He that hates God has lost We great central
spring Of e Love to God is the only pnncple that
bind men together. There is union Mat is sure but
the union that is in Christ There no Constitution that
can be everlasting foundation but the mh of Gods
Word and the obedience TO his command. There is no
government that stand that does not Aeeome 60
vernment owning the love of God and rendeng homage
to him. There is no glory that shall aos utterly
wher and fall away as the a s,as Of 1.-THE the
TO- the Word of God and to his Infinite, I'M
exhausted love. This only shall live and abide
plight Of responsible duty We stand here assembling
Christian people under the proclamation Of res
dent there ten thousand atheists and scors in
the land who will look TO the fruit of such day this
have no hope in our fasting-no hope in praying
no hope in all this great and goody assembly Of thepeo
pie unless lose all other desires in the desire for
Gods glory Patriotism is good, peace is good, the Pros
perty OF free institutions is good and the desire for all
these good but there one desire that must rise higher
and to which these must become subordnate-a desse
for Gods glory
The Rev. DR.. PIuxFR, Of Allegany College then al
dressed the audience He said that the subject of national
of the prooundest and the interesting
topics in divinity National sins Of two kinds They
were, hrstSuch the nation by s laws by its govern
ment established patroniZed Second-They were such
by the general crimnay and personal behavior tho
nation committed against God This nation had both classes
of these sins They had egsated the law of God out of
its proper place One had already been alluded to-
legislation against the Lords day They were nation
of covetous people But after all their insults to the Son
of God their greatest sin. The punishment of ind
vduals may be reserved TO very great extent If they
die their SINS for the eternal world But nations do
not appear before God in eternity Tho account with
lions settled in time lie had hope that God could say
that the niquity OF the Americans not yet full He
had hope that he would show mercy; but his hopes
almost goneher sins had been so provoking and their
treatment OF the Lord Jesus Christ had been insulting
he knew not what preparing. He hoped II they
knew any poor that they would remember them this fast
day If they had nothing else TO offer God would accept
the offering OF broken and contre spirit.
The exercises were then closed with singing, prayer by
Rev. Dr.. Wilson and benedction By Rev. Dr. Spring.