The New York herald., 1868-05-31

welcome In our assemblies as the lew who
does the same Let US extena to Calvin
ley OF Murray and OF Claiming, the same
invitation, and whether they join US or not let us
most encouraging signs Of the times that the ten
dency of all our religious organizations is now very
strongly .wS works ks 0e charity and social re-
same impulse and obey 1t. This Is partly because
the moral evils Of the time are seen to be great and
growing while the remedies which the Church has
been wont to apply have ceased to be eficacious.
In civilized countries enormous changes are taking
the material nat SSnan % S life
cities the one hand and on the other the disper-
sive movement Of colonizing millions who go forth
subvertng the old order OF society," The popu-
laton Is here too crowded and there too
the religious influences of the &c Church ' and md
school and family. The separation OF class from
class in LondOn Paris wand. and New York freatu
are given up to pauperism, while others are as ex-
| clusivey the abode OF luxury. Mr.. Gladstone in
end OF London "are In danger OF one OF the greatest
misfOrtunes that can befall man-that of living i'm
habitat blindness ,n ana ignorance Of the necessities
OF leaving them unacknowledged and unsatisfed;',
while in Eastern London the poor have been starving
same contrast ia seen and If yet 30 appalling it
is on the way to become 80; while on the broad
rural districts of the South the danger Is of reapsing
into primitive barbarism such lies In wait for the
Spanish Americans and In which the life Of man IS
what Hobbies describes 1t among the savaQes:-
SOLITARY, poor, cruel, british, nasty and shortn
Observing this centrifica and centrifugal tendency
towards depravity the quarrelsOme churches and
sects of Christendom have taken the ALARM and
forgetting their fears for time, are making great
considered. Home missions are the order .' Of the
day. The ministry at large, under yariOus names
the Sunday school, the evening school, are all very
modern, but very powerful auxiaries in the good
cause OF the poor; and not only do the Protestant
churches avail themselves Of these instrumentaties
doing the thing does o N hees TO- rea9
Mr.. PartOns panegyrc OF the Catholics to become
aware of thls it Is an obvious fact in all our cities
and not only are the churches doing this eccesasi
cal work. but they are also founding hospitals OPEN
ing dispensares, starting employment societies.
training young deinquents in reformatories caring
for orphans and unfortunate women and in all ways
putting their hands to the work of philanthropy
nay we may go furtatsr and say that it is
est among the churches. Whoever vislts-as
many In the audience doubtless have done
cites-Of Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis-wlll find
that those wonderful institutions are for something
make childish proseytes TSe sng hymns YIN ana
intendents, do not cOnfne themselves to their Sun
day labors nor to the limits Of their parish. They
go about on week days visiting the homes OF the
poor, observing their necessities; they carry among
the swarmlng children Of poverty the means Of ma
some, amusement for Others, sympathy and encour-
agement for all, are the attractions which bring
and he 1Gys Ky ana girls into the
or the Ignorant parents. And these schools do
teach, along with certain theological tenets which
most OF US would find 1t hard to accept the lessons
OF cheerful piety industry, good sense and good WILL
and these outweigh many times over, the doubtful
deceive u.s. this good Work win Continue and
VIII gather strength and show good results
He. He would be very unwise who should either
dread or nope Tor the supremacy throughout America
Of the Catholic Church or any of the Protestant
Churches NO such ecclesiastical unity or control is
possible The religious opinions and the religious OBJ
servances of countrymen tend to greater diver
sty, not to more uniform type. Every church and
to become separate organization. We have seen
within the last thirty years two very powerful sects
u.s. while two others, less numerous but In reality
more important-the Theists and the Positivists-
have also become firmly established. But while this
separation has been going on, constant movement
towards unity In matters OF philanthropy and re-
form is equally manifest There is less and less In
afinities Of their associates. Men and women from
the opposite poles Of the ecclesiastical world meet
sra sr and sce each 9TH
best test OF true regonthat 1t shall manifest itself
without drawing attention to its spinal form, Just
causes no spinalremark. The provincialties Of re.
gous belief are passing away like the other provin-
pate q time when our churchmen Will not be conten
ttOus, when they will not be what Partisan editor
say says the French people have always beenG"Cnris-
when Christian shall not lift up the sword against
Christian, neither shall they learn war any more the
difflculty and more than half their necessity In the
meantime the most active ref0rmers need not fear
that @ ne WI III Hack occasion for sS his Sc The ha
therefore, pray the Lord OF the harvest that he will
send forth abOrers into his field. Every age encounters
mar. naanss The unlaid spirit Of some past age
always torments US. Even II fanatics read the New
their snSey not take srs snS 5D
pages about new field for fanaticism." While
New Yorkexsts God win not suffer the race of fanat
les 10 die out for nothing short OF fanaticsm can
enable man to live honestly In that CITY, Yet New
York Is only the forus OF concentrated civiza.
tion, and what is needed there is partially needed
everywhere else. The labor question the woman
question: the question OF education for the poorest OF
retaining the thief and the prostitute, OF suppress
Ing tntemperance, OF dealing with insanity, of d.
minsling pauper1sm-these and a hundred other
questions derived from these or related thereto press
we have true religious feeling we shall
not try to escape them. We shall en-.
which we can best deal. One person will teach the
freedmen, others will secure them the right to VOTE
Will visit prisons, VIII found hospitals, open new
avocations to women, proclaim q truce between
labor and capital, diminish poverty and Danish
drunkenness and at every step OF every reform re-
liglon win be present to give her sanction she win
not always wear the vestments OF the Church nor
speak the voice OF tradition but sometimes she will
DO both and she Will never fall to attest the truth of
god" In this glorious work, this task which has
been sgnaly and provdentially laid upon our coun-
the present time most needfu, which our associa-
ton can perform, at least In part What
philanthropy now requires more than all
things else-for It s the key to all future
progress-s to be reported and made known
from country to country and throughout the several
regions OF each country. Whatever courage
has achieved, or science has invented or patience
has overcome, or charity has In this never end.
Ing contest with wrong and suffering, is to be pro-
mulgated beyond the narrow limits Of the hamlet
the city the state where 1t took place. The handi
craftsmen OF Rochdale-English spinners and
weavers-who planned and established the frst CO.
operative movement among the English WORKING
men have now thousands OF imltators, because
what they had done and how they succeeded became
known throughout England and the world. The Irish
system OF dealing with c0nvicts Ia slowly coming to
the knowledge OF other communities and nclting
Imitation OF It's excellent results elsewhere The model
lodging houses OF Boston, New York. and London
only need to have their success made known To the
world TO secure their increase q hundred and n
thousand fold where the evils which they guard
against are nagrant. Tbs methods Of teaching the