New-York tribune., 1870-05-27

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times happens In anniversary week. Mrs Sargent should
summon us TO an Extra" and Mrs. Sargents extras
are always in every respect worthy of their name AT
present the Radical Club not to have gone out OF
town exactly but rather 10 have sad out Of town. Yes
terday was such tropical day. auent in warmth and
sunshine, that it is no wonder COL l1gginSoh was
tempted to lnger in Newport to hear the surf break
against the shore and watch the crested waves come III,
or Emerson to saunter under his muImurouS pines al
Concord. MIR. Wasson was doubtless planting garocn
seeds at West MedfoTd and Mr. Sanborn, MI POt'er al"
several other out-0ftowners are supposed 70 nav e.
botanizing so the audience assembled TO listen 10 MI
Weiss the essayist Of the occasion, missed many '0u'
TONED faces. Mr.. Weiss chose for his suiJcct'
"FALsE AND TRUE PRAYNG.'4
n 11oator in bIs "IIImaiayan Journals" describes
the praync-ml used by tho inhabitants OF TmDct as
leathern cylinder placed upright in frame; projecting
niece of iron strikes little bell at each one OF the leNo
lutons which are caused by elbowed axle ana shs
The written prayers placed within the cylinder anu
whoever pulls the string repeats his prayers as oen aS
the bell rings Another kind is made to be turned py
water and is operated with still less trouble Mr. weiss
thinks that when we consider how aborOus is the puoc
praying in all countries this contryance OF IDet Is o
greatest labor-saving machine ever lnVehleu' 'ho
Mohammedans believe that If there should come mo-
ment when the of Allah was nowhere on TIE earth
spoken, it would be a chance for chaos.
We smile at those attempts TO get the better OF God OF
70 defend ourselves against him. and perhaps sub
scribe to funds for opening the slant eyes Of Mongus
and Tarars to the absurdtes Of this machnepraying
But what Of the absurdy Of every minister who stands
up and gives to the Almighty fund OF unnecessary In
formation or entreats Him to change events governed
bv laws as absolute as exisence What II one eongre
CATION prays devoutly for rain, and another in some
what better waered section devOuy for fair weather
Such contradictory uttering of the OF Allah would
II each prayer could command its answer introduce
us TO chaos much sooner than leaving the sacred name
unspoken altogether.
Daniel Websters drum-beat Of England which follows
the morning around the world seems paraleed In
continuity and emptiness blythe stereoyped Sunday morn
ing devoons of nnity Of who appeart
meet together just reerate in the Divine ears facts
which Heaven knows much more clearly than they can
state ther or ask for gifts which surely they must
earn before they receive. The whole modern theOfy
of prayer vtated by various suppotons that Heaven
needs to be informed upon domestic and public mat
ters that natural law may be modified or suspended
at entreay that certain graces may be had for
the asking, and not for the practcing The most mis-
chevous of these supposons is the one that the laws OF
nature are not rreversibe but lie open to rruptons Of
ardent longing that the Divine Mind may be innuenceu
to reconsider itself at the importantly of screaures
There are, actually, establishments in Germany for
curing disease by prayer The Protestant Pastor Blum
hard Is at the head Of at Boil Bad, In the Black
Forest where he undertakes TO cure patients by his
prayers 1t cheerful place where those who have no
organic disease pretty to get we'll having the
benefit of good air, suitable food tudcious exercise
little Rhine wine and the pastors praying The good
man attributes the wholly to the praying, but ad-
mits that it does good IN surgical cases. that te
thread Of his address to Heaven cannot tie an artery
How much better it must be for his patients that he
prays for Them and so uses up his idle hours than he
spent his time in drugging them.
When tender souls drawn by holy pity to the side
of and Sickness and their very presence mpars
the their prayers invoke the error Is apt to he
and not divine nature which prayer has efected' a
comrade hastens to the falling soldiers side puts the
canteen his lips the wounded form 70 the smell
ter of friendly tree, and cOnures 10 the fantng heat
the hope that the wound is not too deep But what II II
too deepi Can all the prayers OF all the chapalns
make it shadows 1t is very strange that IN specnatng
npon the efficacy Of we hod not Enae co
be unavoidable II law decides against an oc-
ton. And then the question:, can prayer always
procure this interTentOni Clearly not or why does
he promises to curel If not always, then, uhen How
long, and how hard must one prayi Both generals on
the Of battle may pray but the question turns at
last whose temper is the most resolute ana WHOSE
powder is dTicst-
wOrthlessthat this mghtiest OF instincts when draws
the soul toward the unseen mighty as love ana deep as
without legal permit TO beg, and nothing JUSTLY
its existence If we can rid our religious leehg & o h n
trade so much devotion for such ana suc cams
we begin to understand what true praying Pi & is,
PRAYER asks il we ought not to pray for direct spiritual
gifts and answers Yes, think we ought oIt ~ thhR a
next step should be to ask himself have not Desought
asked God something which He has made provision
Strange dislocation of logic If there he something
man can get himself his first step should be not to
ask for 1t at all but to go to work ana get ~ Mheh IN
but receives and receiving rejoces this mental gesture
has in it the essential quality Of PRAYING 30 n fun
strength not less of the moods that cuninae into re-
gret, and confession Of mamed unfaithful life. They
launching and entreaty floats them into the sautary bit
terness Of being broad awake thoroughly live and
aware. The sight Of himself is TO man preOrdatned
opportunity for amendment These answers to prayer
lie latent in the constitution, where God patiently awaits
II We keep out the notion Of affecting Cod how beau
fu and natural is the whole movement OF man to
establish sincere friendship with the mind who formed
his gifts When is entirely disnterested, and without
any reservation Of expecting TO alter one divine nten
tion because II knows surely beforehand that such
intentions must Of divine necessity always be the best
oT ongn highest ng T0 we send P as aky
the fields and with moro aferthOught OF claim
Creator inhales at the moment the flowers and the
Sadness which they propagate when their pollen strays
pathy with the jubilee discomfort of mans desires
induces Him TO modify His purposes, TO supplement
human petitions advice, turn the relation between
finite and infinite into dickering-sO many entreaties
every mannerism that denies the perfect order of the
physical and moral world the perfect prescience Of that
OrOcf tnat, OF WITHOUT desiring, the
best thing will not always happen.
TIE DISCUSSION.
II, like the illustrated papers, ! described events
several days beforehand should certainly tell You OF
brilliant discussion which did not take place But
my stories like those of the Sunday school nOvess
founded on fact must confess that owing TO the Club
having stad out Of town as Aforesaid very few remarks
followed the essay. OF Mr.. Claiming began with
compliment because II not the laureate he is least
the laurel ver IL seemed to him almost prOfane Ia say
word after this exquisite paper In which he had felt
the atmosphere OF blooming morning. ii had been 10
him like being present at the birth Of poem. He had
had GudOs picture his mind. wherein the hours by
scattering flowers And yet for him, Mr. Weiss had not
gone quite 70 the oenterto what had been his pro-
foundest experienee Ever since he could remember
had sought and sought in vain 10 be filed from the
infinite fountain Of the celestial fullness Mr. Weiss had