New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-09
The Anniversaries.

Last evening the exercises Of anniversary
week were fairly naugurated. Sermons were preached
before several Of the leading organizations. We are
enabled to give only brief resume Of the discourses
TIE CHURCH ANTI-sLAvERY SoCIBrY-SERhoN
BY THE REV. DR. CHEBvBR IN THE CHURCH ov
THE PURITANs.
TExrBu, thou hast fulfilled the judgment OF the viehed.
udgneut and Justice take bold thee Take heet regard
niquity for Tins hast thou chosen rather than sc
Job IIxv., II and 81.
The dis urse was commenced by an appro-
pirate aluson 10 the intensity OF the suspense f by
the people Of this nation during the latter part OF las
week. Is was no wonder there should be 50 much
anxiety for the people had been guilty Of The ytss
ever committed. God had put INTO the hxncs a
aly people nobler than that for which our Gcs
soldiers perhaps at that very hour holly engaged
The prohigte character " the present CopfrsS N
referred to in bitter terms. No Rump lfaInegt had
OF the people Of this country. They hsd resssd 20 IN
brace the grand opportunity which crod bad prvTh1
for the nation TO redeem itself from the disgrace d
Human Slavery. They had deiraolcd the peeIse
OF the opportunity. To regard inquity was 10 cdeps
a. policy permission for the existence OF wrong -
avoid the responsibility and the trouble II opposing H.
and making enemies BY the oPposcni II vas 70 Guar
antee that the wrong would not be interfered with
was confess that in assuming tie position q ruer.
the oath taken by the ruler prevented hin rurn d"ins
the very duty required by the oath The PTssiSsnrs
letter % Mr.. Hodges Of Kentrcky WIS ably handles.
the reverend Doctor showing very eoncnsyey that The
author Of shat letter had chosen the wrong because
doer ever did right by any other rule No murderer or
robber known to DO right on any Other basis
We must turn and elect rulers who viii act upon better
principles than performing their duties by TIE rule Of
necessity. Slavery had been wrong 30 long that 10
was not wrong, nothing was wrong. Bu Tho
President says he took an oath TO preserve ttat
with the Institution. lie had held out brls
to the Rebels by offering 10 protect their slavery
If they would return to their allegiance 70 the Union
her than incur the efforts N maintain the Contito-
ton which he had soleny sworn 10 support and obey
and which set forth that person should BE- deprived
Of liberty except BY due process OF law" This ysry
fact iners that had the power 70 crush the heoF
lion by crushing Slavery and that refused tn mako
peace by refusing 10 do 1t matter OF choice, but
waiting TIL compelled by necessity. The man who 81
sumed this power was, beyond all doubt not only ~
sp0nsbe for Slavery but also for the continuance OF
the war. Thus We have the phenomenon OF man ssr
crifcing hundreds of thousands OF white mems lives
rather than crush out the Rebellion by doing an act Of
Justice and humanity in freeing the slaves This was
phenomenon in the Christian dspensatlon and thai, be-
cause oath bound him not to save the country on
moral grounds until the time should come whcn 10
would be an indispensable necessity So IT seems that
he had been suffering the country 20 go 10 ruin M he
should deem the time had come for him 10 break bis
oath and the Constitution ADOPT the necessity and
then not because he believed IL 10 be necessity fo-
only experiment in which he had no more faith
than in Popes bull against comet. The PresiGens
had made more slaves by his proclamation than the
number ii had freed, and this too BY yolns tie lava
passed by Congress.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION.
The anniversary sermon before The Alnc1lcAn
and Foreign Christian Union delivered last even
ing at tho Broadway Tabernacle in the presence Of
large congregation by the Rev. Mr.. Ees of Brooklyn.
who took his text from ri Timothy, I'd elmpter. Ta
verse " But the word OF God is not bound" Ing
theme of his discourse was the attempts that hsa
been made BY the Pagan world 70 destroy the Blte.
and of its ultimate triumph In every instance. ine
very house Che said) in which Noltare had m ide MS
prediction in regard to the sacred volume, Wa, a.s
lapse OF rs years used rs store Tor the sale OF Mse
He spoke Of the missionary work thar had been ac
complished in Japan and Italy and the influence OF mo
Bible over the minds of the people c those couhtHes
The thundeTs Of the Vatican had fallen to ihe to.e
an old man which had little weight IN prefsi,lg sas
people from reading tie Word 81 God cailu,I-' hsa
said that the Bible would be the hheraor oi it19.
concluding he spoke Of the claims OF the SOeiety eo
the missionaries, and appealed for aid III Incli uc
THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSociAlioS'
! The Rev. DIR. X. s. St0rrs, IT,, "a DroOhiyn'
nreochoJ before the Young Mems Christian Assocw
tion In the South Reformed Dutch hnTon -,
| Tsrr-And the disciples wese called Nhrs'sl' "''
Antioch.-Acts Il. b -. -, ~. ,,..,,r,a ne
| Tho reverend gentleman commenced his discourse ~
Giving href bnt exceedingly ornate description oihs
tonogranbicaI position OF Antioch. the manners hh%
customs of its citizens. aEd the prejudice when exs.ea
among them against any doctrine or philosophy WINS
confctsd with their own settled religious ptapS -,
Hence Il was courageous act the part Of Panslo
ventura unon offering opposition to such strongly SCI
lied preudice The preacher spoke OF tne imp1rshee
OF nreochng in Cities and OF wths.anding me laoa'
sand errors OF the city 10 the faco The sermon "s
6n;sbed performance TO which brief repo< oanno
instjce IL is understood that 1t viii he prbisadia
pamphlet form by the Association UNDER whose aua'
It was delivered.