The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-11

church; the Howard Mission and Home for
the singing of the little wanderers will be
alternated by music from Grafulla's Seventh
regiment band; the American Missionary AS
ISOLATION, at Steinway Hall; the Conference for
Tax Reform, very practically religious re-
form, at the hall of the New York Historical
Society; the American Tract Society, at DR..
Halls church ON Fifth avenue; the American
Anti-Slavery Society (whose occupation, like
! Othello's, we had imagined, with Mr.. Garrison,
was gone with the abolition of slavery, at
Steinway Hail. the American Home Mission
airy Society, also at Steinway Hall the National
Temperance Society, at Cooper Institute; the
Institution for Deaf and Dumb and the New
York Institution for the Blind, both at
| Steinway Hall; the American and Foreign
Christian Union, also at Steinway Hall; the
American Congregational Union, at the Acad-
envy of Music in Brooklyn; the American Equal
Rights Association (the vague mystery of its
name may stimulate public curiosity, at Cooper
Institute; and last, but by no means least,
the Universal Peace Society, which will meet
at a most inauspicious moment, when Ku Klux
Klans and Union Leaguers seem to be awaiting
either the conviction or the acquittal Of the
President of the United States as a signal to
plunge the country again into civil war; when
our Western Indians have just started afresh
on the warpath; when Mr.. Pike wants to send
naval squadron to the northeastern coast of
British America; when Mexico is rent with
revolutionary commissions; when France is
hesitating whether it is yet too late to insist on
the dsmantling of the formidable fortresses of
the Prussian quadrilateral when the Eastern
question is as far as ever from its ultimate
solution when, in fine, the whole world is full
of wars or rumors of war. Perhaps, how
ever, the Universal Peace Society may miracu-
lousy usher in the long expected millennium.
At all events the anniversaries will, as usual
attract vast number of visitors to the city.
Our theatres, including particularly Niblo's
Garden, will doubtless be thronged as well as
our churches. Business will be transacted in
volving immense aggregate sums of money in
connection with religious and benevolent en-
terprises, which have already extended their
carry the influences of civilization. Anniver-
sary week is of no inconsiderable secular as
well as ecclesiastical Importance
We hold these religious anniversaries to be
eminently right and proper and New York the
most suitable city on the continent in which to
hold them. Here is fitting place to study
the works of the devil. Here Satan reigns
supreme at all seasons, with intervals of high
carnivals when he is in especial good or evil
temper. Here is q more precious field for
missionary labor than among the Hindoos, for
here we have religious mockeries, official cor
ruption, widespread inebriety, alarming social
iniquity and general tendency to demoraliza-
ton, accelerated by an impure infdel maya
zinc literature, a debauched stage and utter
corruption and faithlessness in the administra-
ton Of the affairs of the municipal govern
ment. The devil has had lease of the City
Hall for many years. He warmly sustains his
many children in their official misdeeds, and
the bigger the crime the more unctuously he
smacks his lips in expectation of fine fat
roast sometime hereafter. Our lawyers dens
are Satan's abiding places. Here crimes are
condoned and criminals mock at justice.
Your prime lawyer is one of Belize
bulbs favorite auxiliaries. He is, per-
haps, more valuable than hypocritcal
or lcentious parson, for while the parson preys
mainly upon his own flock the lawyer has
entire man and woman kind to prey upon.
Satan supplies every lawyer with six-pronged
;fob cn,yr 20 oiir ;of
breed scandal and produce the Old Harry gem
orally. But few Of our churches are free
from the Vaccinations Of the devil. For ex-
ample, the work of Presbyterian reunion
was going on prosperously, when Satan
tempted Brooklyn divine to interpose objec-
tons; he was supported by others, and now
the famous old birthstone church is again in
trouble and the congregations at loggerheads.
The devil has also put Il into the head of a dis
tinguished New Jersey divine to inject the
spirit of the Gospel into the constitution of the
United States, Us If that poor old battered in
strument had not been banged away at suf.i-
GENTLY without infusing into it notorious ele-
ment of controversy. Satan has likewise put
1t into the heads of some of our superhuman
Christian philanthropists to organize society
for the conversion of the Hebrews That
work has prospered amazingly under
the patronage of Beelzebub, for we find
that in one instance the society expended thirty
thousand dollars for the conversion of one
Hebrew and sixty thousand for the CONVEX
sion of two others, thus showing that the
devils market price for a Jews soul is exactly
thirty thousand dollars. Satan has succ eeded
in establishing the sacred opera upon sub
stantal basis and our churches are now,
especially in the Easter season, the favorite
and fashionable resort Of all lovers of the
divine art of music. Satan made an effort 10