The New York herald., 1870-08-01
CGURCI OF ERE Mgssl,N.
Hell with .John Knox Preferable to Heaven

Hell with John Knox Preferable to Heaven
with the Pope.-sernOn by DIR. Collyer.
Though most or the fashionable world has been
transplanted to the summer resorts which are scat
tered over the country, yet goOdy number OF wor-
shippers assembled yesterday morning at the pretty
Church Of the Messiah, on Murray Hin. The
preacher, Rev. Mr.. Collyer, is man Of fine presence
with open, sturdy countenance that assuredly
tells not OF lasts and vigils He native OF Scot
land, and treated his audience to sermon OF the
Old covenant no surrender type. He took his text
from the seventh chapter OF Matthew, six
teenth verse:--''Ye shall know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of
thisiiesp The new spapers OF this and other coun-
tries, he sald contain every year elaborate reports
OF the state OF the crops and the expectations OF
the harvest. Correspondents sent on TO the great
gram producing districts 10 give the dwellers in
cities the result OF their personal observation. Ex-
changes are copied, and in fact, everything Is done
10 give the people an exact notion Of the quantity OF
LlFE-SUsrAINlNG PRODUCTS
stored up for the coming year. Occasionally false
statement appears, Is, Tor instance, In the Chicago
papers, which yearly represent 4 total failure o. all
crops But this misstatement does not bind sensible
men who know the object iOr which such false asser-
tlons are made. IN Ike manner the death statistics OF
each country are compiled with the greatest care,
and II is ascertained how many die out Of q thou
sand in every city and town. The average period
OF life is also computed and tables record now long
ccr,ain classes OF men live, from the Shetield knife
grnder VINO Is decreplt at thrtyiive To The yeOrnan
OF Westmoreland VINO is hale and hearty at seventy.
The state OF education and the number who nave
mastered its elementary branches Is also found out.
In fact the whole physical and social condllon Of
the uation Is perfectly KNOWN II would be useful
and instructive also 10 study the
MORAL. CONDITION
OF people. This Is done 10 certain extent by
study ING the prison records; but alter ALL this gives
but very faint idea OF the religious feeling or tie
nation. There ale many strange forms of religion,
as, for instance that of the Thugs in India, who De
lieve they perform sacred duty IN staying an un-
wary traveller, and the religious faith OF the cannl
balls in The wlds OF Africa Many great criminals IN
n g A a n
other means must therefore be taken to ascertain the
state OF religion IN the various countries the face
OF the earth. lt IL generally found that education,
prosperity, health and religion so hand IN hand and
AS conse Quence, that reiigion whose mem
Defs are best educated and best supplied with
TB GOODS OF EARTH
must he the best religion. eye shall know them by
their fruits" Glancng over Christendon we ini
that 1t naturally divides itself into ROmanism, OF
which the Greek Church is an adjunct. ana Pro-
testantism, while rtualism stands between The two
IKE the nlank 'eaI between .he Od ana New Iesta,
good men, terrified by the growing corruption of
the Church OF Rome, seeded from It's ranks and
NEW AND PURE CHURCH.
While the old religion wanted subection to Itself
and taught its memDers that they need not think ut
all ON religious matters, that they need not know
much-in fact, the less they knew the Detter-the
new religion preached the great doctrine of personal
responsibility, with the Bioe as the guide OF II G.
Witness the results OF the two religious Those who
retained The Old relg on, with lis inummeries, It's
rites and forms, are still
DEGRADED AND IaNoEANr.
Those who embraced the new rel gOn comprise
the richest, greatest nations on the globe. This II
evident to any unprejudced observer, and thus
result must proclaim PROFESSIONALISM the best
religion Professionalism again was divided with the
conservative, represented by the Episcopal and the
radical, represented by the Presbyterian Chu ch.
In the Puritans OF New England we find person..
fed material prosperity. cultivated Intelligence,
honesty and morality, aud every honest man must
acknowledge the excellence OF their form OF reli-
gioLs belief. But in sober lulh he saiu If Catholics
could prove by documentary evidence that Protest.
doomed 10 perditOn yet he would rather go
TO HE'LL WITH KNOX
and the other great Lights OF CongregatioDalism tnan
go 10 the seventh Heavens with Pho MORO ali those
VINO believe with him. Professionalism Is undergoing
great changes, according TO the iDevtaDle law Of pro-
gess, and AFRAID they were going too fast,
IN fact, that they were going 10 the devil; but
when he looked at the great men who were leading
the movement, such as Parker Martineau and Co
enzo, he believed IL nivney impossible TO be lost in
such company,