The New York herald., 1870-05-30
cGUaCH OF MOUNT Z.0E.

The Destiny OF s!se Earth and Mau--Poor
Comfort for saint and s,inner--vvlint Bishop
s,noyv Thinks Of Hell nod Heaven, the Good
ard the Bad.
The earth and man are postuiates, SCI l-evldent
facts with which all more or less conversant
ana in which we are also Interested. II becomes,
then, OF course, doUby Interesting to us to know
what thu future destiny Of the earth and
OF man may be. And upon this subject
"Blshop s. y. SNOW the pastor Of Mount
zionn the Iorerdnner OF the Saviour &c, undertook
to enlighen small; congregation yesterday in the
little chapel of the University, on Washington
square. The children Of Mount Zion, male and fe
male, are among the plalnest people that can be
found In the city. The absence OF everything fash
ionaple or that would denote permanent stay here
WAS remarkable, and although the congregation
were assured by wnat must have appeared TO some
the most mdabltabe evidence that this earth Is to
be tier eternal dwelling place, they looked much
more like strangers and pilgrims seeking CITY TINT
Is out Of sight, and 30 they evidently consider them
selves.
rhe services commenced at three p. M but for
fifteen or twenty minutes preceding the little Dand
OF faithful gathered and sung some OF the songs
OF Zion to their hearts Tor that which WAS
follow. Tie pastor is plain man, about Sixty
years uf age, lye iect nine inches, ana for an Old
man very erect. He opened the seryiye by reading
the hyma commencing
In paradise, within the gates
y glorious entertainment watts;
Where we shall feast and want more,
which was sung with spiilt The thirty seventh
Psalm was then read, upon which Pastor Snow
made some running comments. When he came to
the thirty-second verse, which says 'the wicked
watcneth the righteous and seeketh to STAY him. he
remarked that mat described the spirit OF POpery
which stll had the old DESIRE but lacked the power
aud the opportunity, TO perseoute the righteous.
After the reading another hymn was sung express
slve OF the power OF religion TO boar the spirit up
the desire OF the heart or the pleasure grounds OF
the New Jerusalem, and the ioy which sucn glori-
ms hnn n
pcaIion, Thanksgiving nor prayer offered and
the stranger waited for such an act Of worship
In vain, for there was none. The sermon followed
the singing OF the second hymn and The basis Of
Bishop SHOWS remarks was Matthew ", s.
blessed are the meek Tor they shall inherit the
NO HEAVEN FOR THE GooD--No HE'LL FOR TIE BAD
The two ideas involved in this text are that the
earth s 10 be an Inheritance and that the meek are tQ
be its inhabitants. These blessings were considered
by many TO be too great for fultment IN this liic
and 1t Is too true that here very few signs OF
their accomplishment yet, and multtudes OF those
who profess TO be Christians are far from being
meek He believed, however, that these beatitude5
arc 10 be fulfilled hereafter the earth. He knew
that he was running counter to the conceived
notions of so-caIled orthodox evangelical Chris.
passage in the Word OF God which says
mat the, righteous shall dwell In neayen
hereafter" He then secuted the scientific
theories concerning the genesis or the earth ana OF
man and the various specuiatons as to their destiny,
and read number Of passages colated rom differ
cut lars OF the scripture to show that this earth Is
10 be the eternal dwelling place OF men, and that
God ana Christ viii resrde mere with nem. But the
IDEA OF material hell he considered too absurd for
belief. He'll and heaven he described as states or
conditions Of existence after death, but While
acknowledging the personality OF the soul he failed
to point out or Indicate the place Of It's soourn be-
tween death ana the judgmentwhch some minds,
rom the mode OF argument adopted, must have been
inquring after.
THE WICKED SHALL NOT BEL
Daniels vision OF the stone cut out Of the noun.
tain without hands, breaking in pieces the king
dorns and expanding into great mountain which Is
ultimately 10 li the whole earth agrees, according
TO the pastor Of Mount Zion, with the Apocalyptic