The New York herald., 1870-12-12
AMERICAN FREE CaURCH.

COnsummntiOn DevOutIy 10 Bo Wishe6~-
Tie Zenl Of Christ-LessOns TO tho Clergy
Sermon by Rev. Charles b. smyth.
An interesting sermon was preached yesterday At
the American Free church, Masonic Hall, Thirteenth
street After the usual preliminary dsvotions and
rendition Of psalms Mr. Smyth selected his text from
John H.. 17s.The zeal OF thine house hath eaten me
up.u The reverend gentleman, having explained
the text dwet at some length upon the duty Of all
private Christians and public functl0narIes 10 be
jealous after the example OF Christ. He paid high
compliment to General Grant and John T. Hoffman,
and to certain honest officials OF our city whom he
did not name and then passed to an application or
the text TO the clergy In the following words:-We
should look with cosmopolitan and
-tf,s.g UNsECTARiAH EYE
upon all subjects, and endeavor to promote the good
Of all mankind without parrality and without
hypocrisy; for, a. the Sun rises In the east, and
travelling thence dlspenses light and heat all around
the world and ss the nellorope first turns Its face
upwards then bends over the earth and drops Its
seed, 80 should sll followers OF God. as travellers
and light-Dearers carry the principles OF universal
brotherhood TO the ends OF the earth and seek Tor
al M ss ess s O py e Z
nuence OF the Church When the clergy
should In the rst place reform themselves aud their
ceadJutors from every obstacle taas lies IN the way
THE WORLDS REFORMATION.
BY the course they have been pursuing they have
been gradually surrendering their infuence to the
Independent press. or rather, the Independent press
has last been taxing the place OF the pulpit, and
making itself far more influential than IL over the
DEsTINIlsS OF MANKIND
by the fresh and lively Interest which 1t constantly
taxes the durna concerns offbuslrless, and OF
cia national ana cosmopolitan iife ana not Ia old
state theories and regulations, which not only are OBJ
Soiete but, like the Aus roPapal ConcoTdar dead ana
buried and rotted away from modern lie, so that
tt.. EIFfr 81 stu
AN ITALIAN BULL"
only ILLS the atmosphere in which thoughtful and
incense OF heaven, but with an odor offensive to all
scmblant sense OF right aud wrong and converts
the Church ifon garaen OF sweets into
@ M AN ABoNINABLE GRAVEYARD,
and by vigorous, . manly, al outspoxen and un.
trammeed advocacy OF principles as universal and
original priacipies OF That religion, boIn natural
and revealed, which is dlvtle, instead Of the mere
dcgnlata and traditional rawlings Of antlquated
Jackintne-Doxe5, wac create 10 interest outside OF
the limits OF the sects TO which they respectively be-
long. On, FOR return. he exclaimed, OF days like
those when Chri5t prJclaiMed a free salvation TO
all whoMsoever that would or when Paul de-
cared, sGod hath made OF enc blood all nations OF
men everywhere to repent;n when FenIlen thrilled
CATHOLIC KLooUENCE
the heart 0frOyay ana mace Its princes tremble with
fear OF Judgment ior tneir vices; when the coSmo-
politan principles OF the Lutheran Reformation shot
their lightning nashes threugn every land, and rolling
ing their nlighly thundsrings everywhere shook ali
Europe as with an earthquake; when Knox bended
his knees, standing erect with hands upilited
to heaven, filled the soul OF
HIS TYRANT QUEEN &
with terror more than could egions OF armed men;
or when Wesley, Whitfield, Fletcher. by
thorough appreciation and realization himself OF
heart renewed by grace and filled with the molly
ardor and nlessedness OF spirit which knows ita
sins forgiven, generously longed ana labored that
all the world besides might md aud taste the same
sweet Saviour which he had found. Oh when VIII
the day come when men, who stand up as arubassa-
dOrs Tor Christ, will strip themselves oil the polluted
and mud-besmeared rags OF mere sectarianism, and
clad only In the spotlcss righteousness Of Christ,
proclaim God IN Christ, reconcthng the world unto
Himself and beseecA all IN Chrsts Stead to be recon-
ciied to God.