The Portland daily press., 1869-07-31

GOLD CLOSED in New York last night at
136 3-S.
THE New York Tribune crticises President
Harris Baccalaureate sermon thus:
The Rev. DR.. Harris, President cf Bowdoin
College, in his baccalarreate sermon smoke
with good deal OF severity of the late Mr..
Buckle Philosophy, and by way of illustra
ton said: "The Bible foretells a millennium
when the earth shall be full of the knowledge
Of GOD. The new Gospel of Naturalsm fore
tells millennium when the earth shall BE- full
0I bacon. With all proper respect for Dr.
narris, we must declare that nothing is gain
Cd ny this extravagant caricature of opinions
which Mr.. Buckle did not firm carelessly,
ana Which were the result of scholarship
qnite as profound as that OF Bowdoin College.
MT Buckle did not say, and no intelllg Mt ad-
mirer of Mr.. Buckle says, that the care of the
body should be the G ief end of man; and his
life, devoted to the seyerest study, was proof
that, no more than others did he discard the
intellectual advancement of society. What
Mr. Buckle did say Ito use his own language)
was that society cannot prosper, if the affairs
of life are watched over and protected at near
ly every turn by the Church and the State.
the State teaching men what they are 10 do,
and the Church teaching them what they are
70 believe which is a very different thing
from saying that society must be based upon
bacon. De said also that climate, food, and
SOIL, originate the most important conse-
quences in regard to the general organization
of society he also said that the happiness OF
society depended con the extent TO which
knowledge was difused, and the Freedom with
Which it pervades all classes of society,"" Pos
siby,his fault was in not believing that a gtarv-
ing people must necessarily be nearest the
millennium. We have known good many
excellent Christians who shared in bis doubts.
Perhaps the Tribune wished 10 insinuaie
that the learned Presidents theological stud
les had given him Jewish autipatby to the
Wand OF which be speaks thus contemptuous-
ly, and that he would have expressed more re-
s2ect for Cobbetts idea fthe millennium, which
he thought would be realized when every la
borer IN England should have fowl boiling in
bis pot. Whether with fowl or pork how to
Keep TIE pot boiling is an interest not to be
oesplsed, even from the stand point of pro-
foundest Intellect and spiritual culture There
are doubtless better aims to which a man with
requisite genius might devote himself, but
really to be at all successful in ''Hlhug the
earth with bacon,' or even in cheapening the
quantity already provided, so that it could be
used assnstenance for alarger number of Cd ;
children, seems 10 us an achieveme mt not to he
lightly spoken OF. Endowing professorships
for the culture and saving ofthe soul is doubt
less the highest consideration, but the wants
OF the body are not entirely beneath the care
Of a wise benefcence. as - gy 49,
The great mass of mankind cannot be arous-
ed to the prime necessity of saving their souls,
they are SO preoccupied with the more pressing
care of saUing their bacon. Christianity, the
author of which SO devoted himself to the re-
lief ofthe material necessities of man, and who
is said on two different occasions to have Great
ed substantial food for the Refreshments of hum
CRY muititudes,d does not quite sanction this re-
fined philosophy. We might say too that this
contempt bacon was not consonant with the
form the philapthropic spirit of Christianity
has assumed in this country where the white
Japhet, IN tardy recognition of his colored
brother, has ately been doing 50 much for
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