The New York herald., 1871-03-12
Review OF tho Religious Press.

Li6 CWTtSttUW CWtUft, our IcABiOuS cohtcmpV-
raries do not put In an extraordinarily fine ap-
pearance this week. We refer more to the
matter OF their works than the manner in
which they are done up. The principal local
topic discussed by the principal 'dscussive +"
papers is the high and mighty outrage com
mitted by the Baptists in accepting site fer
homo for their poor and helpless, "free,
gratis and for nothing" from the city. The
high old Presbyterian organs as will appear
anon, are particularly severe upon their Bap-
tist friends for thus opening door through
which the horrible Church of Rome, with its
multitudinous demands for public charities,
can enter with smiles 8 80 childlike and bland"
1t is question now whether our Presbyterian
or Methodist brethren would accept as free
offering from the old patriarchs of Jerusalem
If they were alive and in the fiesh--a site on
the hill of Zion upon which to construct
temple of charity for all.
The Golden Age enumerates among the
heavy weights who support women's enfran-
chisement such names as Wendell Phillips,
Henry Ward Beecher, George William Curtis
Wade and other champions Of the rights of
womanhood to manhoodp The Age thinks
Professionalism has been sold for city lot.
In this, it is not improbable, the editor Of the
Age himself has been sold Professionalism
cannot be sold for city building site. Not
by long sight. On this topic the Age
remarks -
In taking this bribe what else have they tine
Baptists) taken with its They have taken with :J
the responsibility Of furnishing the Common Coun-
Gil pretext Tor making thousand greater gifts to
tne Roman Catholic Church, and. In this way, OF
feeding the hungry maw Of the democratic party.
These Baptist trustees have enabled Mr.. Tweed to
say. II have first senced for few thousand dollars
the whole argument which Professionalism can urge
against me, and am now free to open the bags OF
the public Treasury and to spend as much as deem
necessary for the purchase Of an overwhelming
majority OF Roman Catholic votes for Tammany
Hail."
What will the Boss next have the credit of
running? He may be taken for Beelzebub
next, to Judge of the smell of birthstone he
has raised among the Presbyterians.
The Christian Union is Beccherian all
Stewardship" which closes with the follow
ing beautiful exclamation -
Happy Is tnat man who IN going through life,
plness Of others Happy is he who is followed by
grateful prayers and blessings after he mas forgotten
Christ's who does indeed give to Christs service
himself and all that he possesses HIS is the sweet
melody and peace OF life his alone Is true success
The Union is severe on the Baptists tor
their operations in city lots, and says:-
We invoke, in behalf OF a cause in which we are
all common laborers and common sufferers their
indignant rebuke and disclaimer OF deed which
not only reflects eternal iiscredit upon them, but
Detrays all the rest OF us; greving and Gripping
every honest worker In the cause OF political fnteg
rlty ana church independence
In regard to the ST. Domingo business the
Christian Union sides with Senator Sumner,
and says:--'.... ..-..... ..........'...-.
All over the South one large clement OF the voting
class Is very ignorant. and another element Is very
usly-the first giving Us Congressman who sell
up reign OF terror wherever the strong hand Is
taken of. At the same time we have in our large
lead cad Of demagogaes make good local q government
almost hopeless II would be great misfortune to
n nsd in The the Ts de-
St Domingoan good subject for missionary labor;
perhaps he may ultimately become fit Tor American
citizenship. But al present political partnership
with nim would hurt ns good deal more than II
would nelp him.
In the foregoing extract will be found some
remarkable admissions, dropping, as they do,
from the lips Of SO devout u negro worship
per as Henry Ward Beecher.
The Observer regards as ''fatal choice
the acceptance Of lot of land from the city
for charitable purposes and argues that such
donations ''enact that very wrong which
is now resisted in every country where
Church establishment is supported and the
people are awake to their rights" The o.
ofo ofos hat Qau nr .ryr,<, hat
ministers of the Methodist Church are opposed
to such grants.
The independent reads political lecture on
the Sumner-Grant unpleasantness, pitches
into the Baptists for accepting as donation
from the city government site on which to
erect home for the aged poor, infirm
and destitute members of their own denomina-
ton Con the ground that it will furnish an
excuse for similar appropriations for Roman
| Catholic charitics), touches on the Pope's
imprisonment, and has some long and
wordy articles on variety of other topics.
We are happy to notice that the independent
has adopted the advice Of the HERALD and
| expunged from its columns those objection
able advertisements we have before referredt to.
| The E0dngelsst gives its usual extensive
rssume of religious news. and devotes little
| space to the piety of the ex-Emperor Napoleon,
who, it says. being now ''out of business"
will have time to complete his great literary
monument ''The Life of Caesar" 1t thinks,
| however, that Napoleon's fate has robbed what
remains to be written of the work of nearly all
| ita charm The Ey07 ney;sf thivlya thof in
ecclesiastical affairs the ex-Emperor also has
occasion for humiliating reflections. The
Ecangelist regards the real issue in the case
of the Rev. Mr.. Cheney, of Chicago, as simply
this-that there is no place in the Episcopal
Church for one who does not accept the doc
trine of baptismal regeneration
The Jeaoish Messenger gives the Hebrew