New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-01
RELIGIOUS.
ROME AND BOSTON.

yrsscrday iooluiug tue above SUBJECT 10
attentive auditory the Church of the Messiah, corner
FaTkave. and Thirty hist. lie selected his text
from Matthew, chap. ', xvi" Do mon gather
grapes OF thOrns." He said:
We all notice and then in the papers reports from
ell quarters about the promise first and then the crops OF
fruit and and the products Of the earth that confirm
ute To good living. 1t is important TO get at the truths
about this that most of public Journals send men "
make observations, and engage correspondents IN pii"
uar localities and copy from their exchanges, ana Sp
neither labor money TO make their reports oolpo'o
The department AZ the capital ana inc io'''
ties a year get together ana Consul 80
what the year has done and Wha' us i
euco viii he in the year come. Something
of the sort is done carelessy IN TINS country oou
the general health OF nations and communities Caielu
estimate is made a. TO many in thousand die every
year of what diseases and OF what towns anu VIZ
Iases rest i'm The light OF life the shadow OF death
Every nation of any standing tries to obtain what's done
to insure education IL is very important inquiry In
THU and countries how many children are IN the
ubc school in proportion to the population 1t is also
becoming year deeper TO form some IDEA IN
each nation of ats moral state This can be done
perhaps by summing up the number Of those put IN
prison but I'm this country as in many Others there are
great many criminals moving in the best OF society VINO
in the sight Of heaven as utterly depraVed as os
who wear the prison uniform. Bread and education
health and like earth and air. fire ana water
sOequay they blended, and each says without INC
ye do nothing"
Where there is the dcnses ignorance there we find the
worst farming and Il is known that simple good hVlhg
and intelligence go far TO mold our moral condluoh
But there is report nations seldom think OF makn9
and that the real religious faith Of the naton-the
whole eous idea Of the and the thing that answers
most nearly what the Hebrew nation felt In Davids
time or English in the centuries when most OF those
Grand cathedas were reared and in the days of the
great des This is the handspring of all social ma.
rhinery. and touches the eternal welfare III you want
10 know where the life Of a will reach its best estate
must uuu out Whcle Is the most huOle
faith and you want TO know what the people are com
TO- you must take note OF the way tins fa is
We shall observe what results come out OF each talth
when they are fully tried in this life.
ChrstendOm divides naturally into Romanism and
Professionalism, the Greek Church ranging with the 10
man and the tHas IKE inc plank esI between We Ie
division occurred the lands were divided by sea,
faith the other wild and rugged land, embracing the
In the ch land that held TO the old idea there has
tonn the barren land enough to eat such as they Ke
who live there they ENJOY ntehgenGe seIesReet ana
calendar the other side. Nineteen out OF every
twenty that beg at door belong to the old falth ana
not one IN a thousand is scotchman.
Everywhere noticed great difference and the same
superiority of the other Where Professionalism
exists, the people and the homes and farms look
better. 90 in Canada and there the same thing I'M
presses me. To-day look at England and scotland as
compared with France and Ireland There are extremes
of that touch ON either side but that is the or
aic division The champions of these great ideas come
forward and state their claims but remember that half
does exactly what either try to make II mean
can come to one concuson-the iaith that results III
theter farm, the brighter intelligence and the gen.
let Us see trace this radical difference to its
roots The new faith sets every man out in clear space
really responsible only for the way he shall order his
soul II he goes wrong Heaven is his judge II puts IA
ever revealed 10 the race That the faith declares
% he the word of God and that il must he read and
treasured M The Old-the ROmish rcligiOn-says am
10 YOU instead Cod take your soul into my hands,
you need take more care; you sin. YOU must come
tome for dissolution am supreme You sas not nave nave
you shall be able 10 read that. You can count Your
beads and the less You know and say the better That
picture Personal responsibility to God on the
side, personal responsibility to the Church ON the
other Here a set Of principles and doctrines there al
order Of rites and ceremonies. Here Bible there hre
wary. Here IA world OF objects appealing to me nnel
and from the pairing of the nails OF 81 Pau
TO the baby and beautiful Madonna there great Thoughts
OF the hf4 70 a s C cbe new Paradise with IA,
What Professionalism did to set al human beings
that under its influence SO that they could grow
of their personal relation to the law ana orde
tant faith says that you must learn 70 go acne a.
minority though he had come Of age-tosay yol
not able IL manage for yourself aud be nee linus
manage for you keep truthfuiy 10 my drec'ion' ah'
Then in Professionalism there was another division
"A radical and conservative element. The conservative
held TO as much as possible OF the Cd the other go
the Episcopa Church OF England aud the radical the
PRESBYTERIAN Church OF Scotland. 1t the sranges
II mt toreher Then in the Episcopal Church there
again division out Of which came more extreInt
still than PRESBYTERIAN. EpiscOpacy
Virginia where thanked the Lord that there was moi
III,
England where il would have fair held This Puritan
10 teaching school and holding meetings ia The
building, and was in great straits for some time
but il always their religious principle 10 give Their
children as good education possible The schOo
Presbyterian Scotland and Catholic Ireland and seC
which is the most blessed l will back New England
meaning Massachusetts,, against them all. she Is intelh
gent we-to-do, virtnous and loyal: -, -. ,..
with any other says 10 man you must be free, self
raised, educated Intelligent aud must worship God free
from ecc esastical mummeres is the right Give
Scotland against Ireland SPAIN give England
In preference TO France and Austria That our faith I
divine proven by is noble results In view of this
impossible for Rome 10 prove that Protesants must g
TO Perdon Whatever peIdition theye Is Tor TINS falth
Ter the Hell to which Claiming Parker and King may
But il is altering. We hear no longer anywhere Of pre-
destination TO the pit Eternal torment once declared sc
often, is made matter of apology and eXpan aOn
Christ Is the physician of souls the heahtui mediator
between the divine justice and mercy and the Bible toe
often object of superstition is changing with all The
rest and the most determined defenders OF the old doc
that all glad TO agree about 1t is departing from
The dreadful Sinai OF Cayinism With It's harsh thunder,
and dreadful fires and now Il is nearing the ORGANIZED
completeness, the green gades and snt uplands, anG
The upper and neither springs OF the new possession
Can il be said that sailing into the backness Of
Darkness Who are these men who lead US on We see
Robertson Maurice. Stanley, Coenso Kingsley, Mac
ieod Guthrie, starr King Parker and Claiming surely
This honest t level light that has come 10 US shows The
out the results is prosper. OF all tbs
forms of Professionalism the one that has shown Itself
moet certain 10 result in order virtue Intelligence
health and wealth Is COngrcgatiOnalism with it, Tree
churches aud simple worship Unitaranism j. simply
aud truly this ON Radical Cong lcgatiOna Protestant
ism made reasonable, stripped OF what is impossible
fncred bl and cruel and made whole and filled with tn
fight Of Heaven. We must hold on 10 that which la
proved Itself formidable and - putent. Unitari
ansn being the old faith cured OF it, hurts will return
GOu and yi compel all to say, nave not seen sucl
faith no. not IN Israel" Let ne maintain, our grea
fOrecldeIs did, absolute congregational freedom, th
supremacy OF the minister rs a minister in the chuTci
where be stands, simplicity of worship and faith an'
The instant reliance OF the God and Of God on
the man. and plant this faith and order al over GU
common country aud plant with IL the conditions
ASSURANCES Of immortal life.