The New York herald., 1870-04-11
ANTI-sLAvERY's WAKE.
Wendell Phillips Farewell to the Peculiar
Institution by the Rev Dr.
Claiming and Lucretia Mott
Christianity in It's Relations
10 Reform Considered.

| formally "laid ont decentlyn ana buried
amid the roar OF laundering eloquencc, almost the
same audience 10 notch and even a ''shade"
assembled last night at Apollo Hail. In broadway, to
listen to almost the speakers who had on Sat
urday evening addressed them ''the fall and rse
OF the coored race.
The coiored element was az on the previous occa
sion already alluded to- "tiesed aboye' their white
fellow citizens who ned the body OF the hail.
ALL THINGS 70 BE REFORMED.
Mrs. POWELL opened the ball by saying that this
meeting was under the auspices OF the Reform
League OF this city, which was formed to usher In,
through peaceatie means reform tn Christianity
IN sucn things reform Of prisons, reforms as re.
garded the Chinese aud women, aud, In fact.
relorm In all things 80 az 70 DO away with dls,inc.
t!ons as 70 caste.
REV. WILLIAM II. cHAsSIsa
wa. then in,goauesa and saa-rsja ALI PAIN Sqassy ia
New York. There was where they began with tine
sprlg OF green In their hats How was 1t with Palm
| sunday IN New York and what Palm Sunday should
bes Think OF what Palm Sunday was In Jerusalem.
| Go back to that time. There came riding in the
| symbol OF humility and yet man with the power
OF God within MIN and bringing the light oi Heaven
| with him. How was It with
THE sADpUCRRs
| OF New York today What said the Saddncees OF
ws sire street or the h ~ cy o What Are
| the Essences OF @erusalemi He fancied there
were some I saaaucess in tue audience n;n
| With all his heart lie believed there were many OF
Inc Essenes there who corrcsponded with the
| prophets OF the oiden time. lie happened TO be one
OF the woshippers that daY in Eeechers church. for
| IL was useless to call II anything else for he
''escne'' was THE ALTAR THERE
| and 1t seemed to him, when he heard him pray,
every word was ike q flower sparkling with dew.
| That afternoon he had been
| WANDERING THROUGH NEW YORK
and went along Eilth avenue where he met crowds
VAL aud he said to himself, "Pam sunday
| IN New York Is this 1t ~ Come down with him to
found a large marble pile, with the windows dark
! ened, and why were not there crowds OF people
going there Go straight to judgment !nn , city Ct
I spoke to you Of ,sprluglng out OF another
ou S yasy in s aS
love- loved Son throughout New YORK they tic Would 60 60
what they wanted TO do, was to change all
that. Either one Of two things-that the whole
ance in New York was mockery OF 1t. II they were
TO carry out the Sermon on the Mount they should
hsaltnful homes, and take thousanas out OF the
Necessity thar was now constantly tltrust on them
Of being SS:.."'Lssa Y sIlHe; rz
next spoke sne had gone to carc in the streets
! to-day, and whereas she came on to New York to
| in New York did not know at what a distance New
Workers were from the people OF Massachusetts.
SeW Sess0n yorX M but % the esni dlstanea rae a om
point Of view far as from here across the At
| lantic. Crtlnc abounded in New York ike moths
| dying around candle. She then entered on reli-
| gion,
] She started with New York city as the place OF
places to be formed. reformed and further de-
formed by crime and vice as IL was now. She then
physics and several otaer abstrase theories s doc
| trnes, arguments and high-soonding phrases which
she read from several pages OF
carefully prepared for the occasion, ana all Of
| which, when disconnected ana discntangied from
radical ,evanaeizailon, and that she, Mrs.
Ts the to es out the project @ e s
leave the millionaire aud the mil0nnaires, she said
no asa ~ 9s sS Be- Nes ok % e
nations, but we shall not have 1t den Of thievcs.
THE CHURCH OF ROME
| came here and asked Tor every thing. But the
! Church Of Rome shut up Americans in Rome within
the strlctest limits because she coud not exc ude
| them altogether. But she would not fail In hos
pItaty 10 ine people OF that Church IN America.
| 1t was BY educating the young generation that We
| could achieve triumph. Let not priest urcate
| WORK harder in that direction than taom
WENDELL. PHILLIPS
J was then Introduced, ana SAID he had hardly any
voice TO say what he would say that night. TO his
mind the distinction between the two Kinds of Chris
tani.y Of which his friend Charming spokc--namey,
that OF the Fifth that OF the rcformers-
was that the Filth avenue wished TO relieve an
! evil and they nhe reformers, wished to cure
I
! hold down wOmau for fear # she got freedom she
wonld 90 around IKE roaring lioness dong mis-:
| Christianity as it now existed Three hundred
| years ago the common idea or the intellec.
n p.to s"e mae @e races mass T Was xa saaf
| beast and the idea OF civilization was perpetual
probate court 20 keep tits Wild beast under guar
/ dianship., so that, rs Emerson once said, 'the
care, and prudence, anu temeriy OF the world
took cfurch. and an army, ana unedacafcd class,
and throne aud piled them all on top OF each
! other to keep man down. tAppiauseJ Now
uIs IDEA OF CHRISTIANITY
| was simply the dong away win our piastcrs, our
| crutches and all conventional and artificial re-
| strans. Let them build II on human nature nae
the natural forces which God hai set agoing: get
down to the simple original pans and Ie, them have
! their way. (Appause.) Then They would make
| \ NEW WORLD.
! What was his idea OF Christianity? Their friend
OF the marble palace had bough, some thousands Of
| acres ana lie was sons to bai perfect system OF
AMI lie deserved credit for 1t. ina, was the ortlo
dox type OF Christianity. But the radical type
! without robbery a marpe palace Ike that While
! there Ia Five Points. Appause.) The Only thing
! The Church OF fhniysevcn states had not bred
virtue enough 10 handc railroad capital and the
wealth. o. me rocot county w., rssy mad go. TO have M
could supply the brain and The enterprise to mani
puiae it VAS HE deytf. Radical Christianity said
1 away with your sermons AMI your editorials. We
! wanted the natural things which COD put into our
! hands 10 swcsen America. he believed IN letting
! man ana woman
| STRAY AWAY TOGETHER
| ana net naturally. Wc.'an was not az angel. nor
I was she q biz better than man. This was radical
Christianity. lie speaker ttea went OH 20 ehume-
rate variety OF changes IN the social, CIVIL politi-
cal and religions worlds which it was necessary 10
! make pei0lc tic formation OF the new world of
! which he was speaking, nus remarks IN this lilie
| beng
SIMPLY EEHasH
OF what he had te!ore sai,i scores Uf nee n former
times. IN conclusion, he recommended them 10
| Manufacture their caucas"s out OF ;ihe whole OF
/ fufutnitt. and not out oi part OF it
man. what we wanted was the spirit OF
| society. what was the great disgrace
! of humanity was that there should te one ignorant
starving man on the lace ol tAe earth Capi-
! TAI shOud be equally DIVIDED. 81 moi just that
one man elou,ti ron ~ IN few sars w: millions
OF do!iarF and hoard II 1hat was what radical
| Christianity dld not wait.
irIEEfIA MOTT
! next tocrcd TO the reading desk and gave her
| views Oh practical religion. She wished II under.
stood that rce igoUS ISOLATION had 10 limo. No
/ class had q fgit to assume that they had The
| correct ideas Of religion Other than what