The New York herald., 1871-01-22
To Cathelisity Of tho Herald ana 6ecta-
rinslsu 0f tho Trombone.

TAs Cathsli.ity Of tho Hsrald ana secta-
riaslsn Of tho Trombone.
The Holland celebration has passed the way
Of all other ations, and the Christian world
has been taught new lesson of tolerance and
love. Silly Sabine is left to the sanctifying
meditation that out of evil Providence works
good, and that his priestly arrogance has
simply had the effect of bringing gladness and
comfort to a bereaved home. But Sabine is
not the las. of the bigoted Mohicans.
Scarcely has the memory of this Sabine silli-
ness passed away when the poor old from
bone, that spittoon which receives the refuse
Of all decayed and worn out stOmachs,
attempts to throw its weak and wretched spew
against those walls of universal tolerance
which the New YORK HERALD has labored, and
now cements and strengthens by publishing
every Monday such of the sermons as are
worthy of publication and contribute to its great
purpose of the day before. The truth is, the poor
old Trombone has protection on its brain, and
the venerable Philosopher who presdes over
when he comes to the foot of the sanctuary,
but plops his basket of potatoes and cabbages
down, and yells against imported vegeta-
bles. The Universalist faith to which he
theologicaly clings becomes hateful to
him the moment it passes from DR..
Chapin's pulpit and goes abroad to
affect the actual relations of civilized life;
and as Greeley makes privileged few of man
uiacturers the special object of his rural ado
ration, so he strains every nerve 10 invest
certain number of divines with exclusive pre-
rogative and feebly strives to send cracked
squeak out of his wretched Trombone agains!
the New YORK HERALD, because it gives a
fair field to all churches, and without any
invidious distinctions publishes every Monday
the hundred effusions of the pulpit eloquence
aud earnestness of New York.
The 1rom1one's anathemas against our
Monday publication of sermons are forged for
the confined and feeble reason that we do
not predicate them on small, sectarian
as Christianity itself, gather in all denomina-
tons in our humanizing grasp and into one
comprehensive bond of fellowship and love.
According to the partisan doctrines of the
Trombone the defunct theory of State rights
is to be revived in the dominion of the Church.
Each sect is to SET up an ifnperium IN Smperio
and battle agains. all others for its life, as the
Southern States fought for their separate
interests regardless of the national life.
Union, union Of toleration-a union which
means, in the parting words of Lincoln,
''charity to all, malice to none"-is the creed
of which the NEW YORK HERALD is the Cos
pei. According to the Trom6one's theory the
thousand denominations which constitute 80
many sauces to the great Christian dish, are to
set themselves up as SO many South Carolinas,
assume, like the tailors of Tooley street, that
their little sect represents the aggregate
opinion of mankind, and that no other religious
dog is to bark when they speak to the wind
The Methodist Book Concern is the spawn of
this new secret system of religious dissenslon
and fraud which the Trombone so eagerly
protects. Book Concern Methodsts are to
fight against Methodists who are not con-
cerned in the Concern; each sect
is to display its love of religion by
assailing some other sect, and there is to
rage among the Churches of God of love
and charity one perpetual civil war. The
tariff and negro feuds will be transferred to
Gods temple, and when the constant bicker-
ings and jealousies and rivaries have brought
about their natural fruit Of acts of overt hos
tility between the Methodists Of the Methodist
Book Concern and the Methodists unconcerned,
or between the united and non-united Dutch
Reformers, the Trombone will. of course, be
the most eager to shout 'sOn to Richmond"
and, when it sees the spawn of its folly, to cry
out afterwards for an ''at-any price peace"
Not such is the mission Of the NEW YORK
HERALD. Its regular Monday publications of
sermons, without bias or partisanship, are the
most potential power in working harmoni-
Gus blending of all the sectarian differences Of
the respective Churches into one all-pervading
bond of evangelical Christianity The masses Of
mankind, on receiving their Monday HERALD,
are reminded, on reading the sermons deliv-
cred by all the different ministers of different
Churches Roman Catholic, Episcopal,
Presbyterian, Methodist, Dutch Reformed,
Dutch n-reformed, Baptists, Anabaptists,
Universalists, Congregationalists, Unitarians,
Spiritualsts, and, in fact, even Of Free-Love
repettions Qor we are willing to give our friends
of the Trombone chance)- what
they speak is not acceptable because they, ex-
cepting the last, are particular sect, but be-
cause they all endeavor to diffuse among men
the gospel of charity and love.
BY giving space in its columns every Monday
to all the various propounders of religion with
the utmost catholicity and freedom the NRw