The New York herald., 1865-03-13

several tenements which he visited. and showed that
there Is work for the benevolent also In these. Tho
remedy for all the evils Is place rioters convicts
In the Offices Of conncIlmon heads OF departments.
expenditure SIS go ooowor mcre than the whole ex
penses OF tho government when John Quincy Adams
was President and people crying out against his
they have tho remedy for all this waste and dan
ger In thcir own power, and that God will hold them
accountable II they do not use it.
The Chelsea Presbyterian Church.
At the Chelsea Presbyterian church, in Twenty second
street Ninth avenue Rev. +. ID. Smith delivered
discourse yesterday morning, in which no made somo
auson to the present sanitary condition OF city.
He took his text from Corinthians I'd chapter and 4th
vcrse-"Look not every on his own things, but
every also tho things Of others" The reverend
gentleman called attention to the prevailing sin Of sell
shncss Christ the great exempacation Of benevo
ence but few there were whs strictly followed his exam
Pile. In city we had good and benevolent institutions,
such Sunday schools missionary and tract societies.
where religion philanthropy and love of the Gospel were
clearly exempliled But there many other things
that lacked In very midst annually thousands
were sacrificed, who had been abandoned to be-
come the prey Of disease and death This
sensational Thousands had
been destroyed in the city Of New York from the want Of
the adoption Of proper sanitary measures Sanitary
science had been entirely ignored by democratic Amo
RIGA We were far behind the monarchcal and despotic
Powers OF Europe in this particular. According to the
City Inspectors report for 1861 chief mortality
was owing to wrctched habtations More than twenty
thousand OF our citizens were living under ground in
cellars nhang the miasma and noxious odors Of those
places. The annual death rate In London some years
ago In twenty bat after vigorous efforts the
part Of the authorities this reduced TO in forty
FIVE II reduced the death rate In New York in com
parison with that Of London should annually
nine thousand lives For nine years our Academy Of
Medicine had made efforts TO do away with those evils
but they had been unsuccessfu the Legislature had
fused to act We should all think Of this matter, unite
In petitioning the Legislature and II necessary demand
After some further remarks Of similar nature the
reverend gentleman concluded.
Rev. John MeClintocl's Address.
In the Methodist Episcopal church corner Of twenty
second street and Fourth avenue, after the ordinary
services the pastor Rev Dr. McCntock, addressed his
hearers tho vital subject of the day-one
most properly and appropriately taken up by many cler
gymen in the city and made the subject Of eloquent dis
in the pupi-an appeal for sanitary reform in
tho poorer quarters Of the city.
The reverend gentleman took for his text portion Of
the twentieth Of the sixth chapter Of st. Pauls
Epistle to tho Cornhians'Glorfy God in your body"
In his opening he reviewed the gradual decay in
the patriotism Of the whom has been entrusted
from time to time the administration OF tho municipal
government Of the city, men, who, bent only on their
own sggsanosement pocunary ana potieally had per.
In the world TO become the most pestentia and desruc
tive Of human life to be found anywhere New York
only on account Of Its natural advantages but ns the
centre Of great Christian civilization, ought
TO be the home Of long-lived and yigor-
agent in impartng and establishing heathul tone to
the physical system Of men. London-the great centre
Of moral power, the centre Of wealth and population
was proof Of this London-a very much larger city,
and whose site and position and environs could not
compare with the site and environs Of New York in point
o. a .ne elements .uh ina, 60 70 2 maze saI
And with all her advantages New York had popula
ton large London at the present rate OF deaths be-
tween the two ces New York statistics would present
ten thousand deaths annually above those In London
The question arose. What had individuals TO do with III
and were my N sn
and these ought To be so laid out and constructed with
view TO procuring pure air and dspeng the Of
miasma Have the laws Of God In this respect been
obeyedS II not the question s how far individuals
responsible for the violation and what have T. or
thingsf II we had Louis Napoleon among us who
having regard for the health and welfare of his people
would say, "Let street be run here: let this long
lin Of wretched houses their streets be thrown
down and the street wdened would order improve
lnents In every needed direction and perfect system OF
drainage 70 be cstabshed-a this good work would be
done quickly and efficiently the public health pre-.
served But yet II be asked, for the sake OF such
good, would prefer to be ruled by Louis Napoleon
10 80 enduring the present state OF things would
answer prefer the present state Of things with freedom
TO the despotsm OF any one man; for the people, in
their freedom and In their Intelligence, remedy these
temporary though very destructive evils IL they will
Let there be thought Of despotsm to.aer abuses
here. The people here are their own rulers but they
have temporarily abdicated their rights, and have
elected 70 look after their interests and their
welfare they have neglected to vote cared little about
the result and their exertons for the public good have
been only spasmodic, and only put forth when some
pressing danger threatened them The upshot Of all this
was that more active men-men more cunning and in.
teresedhave seized the prize, while the great bulk Of
the people looked lstlessly and idly But the remedy
was stil in their hands. They still the
rulers Of the city; they still controlled the Street
Inspector the Common Council the Aldermen and
the Supcrvsors they still had the admin straton OF the
Affairs Of the city in Their own hands and their behess
imperavely put forth ~ the rulers that they were all
the evils now so agrant and oppressive would at once
disappear II the people did not do this they had none
but themselves TO blame they alone responsible for
all the evils that may beall the city One half OF the peo
pie Of the city lived in tcnemens twenty thousand lived
In cellars-a fearful thing 70 contemplate The work Of
reform must be taken up by all II was enough for
clergymen 10 take OF the souls OF the bodies
must also be taken care Of Half the record Of our
the bodies OF He went 10 the bedside of the fever
stricken boy and bade him arise He gave strength TO the
the blind he unstopped the ears Of the dcafthus half
his life was taken up with curing the bodies Of
Initiate your Master and for these teeming millions
huryng 70 the grave year by year. faster and faster
because Of their ignorance and your neglect
The fratncidh cry will not excuse you tam
OF humanity comes up from East and West North and
South The wall Of innocent childhood up day by
day and hour BY hour and meets no but the
echo Of three thousand years ago-Cain'e motto-.Am
my hrothers keeperfv You are and n you longer dc.
spise him, IL you leave him longer 70 perish, your
br0her's sn and your brothers. will drag you
down his disease viii infect you, and his crimes will
come reributions upon your head. The day shall
come when the grand march OF the human race shall be
ended when the last tramp Of the innumeYable hosts
shall have reached the throne Of God and he shall say
is enough'Tme shall be no longer After the close
Of that march comes the nna muster, when the roca
Of oil the generations shall be sounded before tho udg
ment seat Of Christ And what shall the King his
throne sayf That ye his ministers, am.
bassadors and agents, and that ye honored Him
by surrounding yourselves with wealth and the things
that make up the grandeur Of the world. No. But 20
those who have served Him here In comforting the poor
and needy-to those who have cared for the bodies OF
their fellow beingsthose who have glorined the body
He will say ~ was hungered and you gave me 20 eat
was thirsty and you gave me to drink was A stranger