The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-14
Observation-Disclosures.

the HERALD as the pastor for many years of
the old and once honored Stanton Street Bap-
fist church In this city. He is man past the
middle age Of life, but. according to the old
proverb that "the good never grow old, he is
yet young and vigorous and active in the SER
vice of his Divine Lord and Master. DR..
Hiscox is one of the best and soundest theo-
logians In the Baptist denomination. Three
Or four years ago q retired merchandise.
Mangin-at his own expense, erected the
church on its present site 10 Carleton avenue.
The mission from which this church originally
sprung was located on Vanderbilt avenue until
the present ediice was erected and handed over,
| gift to the trustees for their and the peoples
use in the future. DR.. Hiscox has been labor
| ing in this vineyard ever since, and with
marked success. He is an excellent discip-
linarian, and by his own personal example en-
courages his people to be prompt and strict In
their attendance upon all the means of grace
and active in spreading abroad the knowledge
of the Saviour's name. His discourses are
mainly doctrinal aud practical, and extensive
reading and long experience in the ministry
have made his tongue like the pen of ready
writer, so that the sophistries and casuistries
of the age have very little strength to stand
before his arguments, attacks and appeals. He
is well liked, not only by his own people,
but by the hundreds of strangers who from
time to time listen to his words, and by his
denominational friends and neighbors and
by others outside of his own creed.
He is loving and faithful pastor
and q genial and warm friend. The
sensations" of the day find no place In his
theology, and the unconverted young who
chiefly seek such kind of preaching are not to
be found in his church. His preaching is
designed more to encourage believers, and to
develop the Christian virtues in them, than to
gather multitude of unintelligent converts
into the church. The converts enter by slower
degrees; but they come to stay and to live
and work for Christ and for His cause.
The Rev. George Lansing Taylor, pastor Of
the South Second Street williamsburg Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Is man In thu nr .;;e
of life, though prematurely gray. He is the
poet laureate of Methodism, and is man of
considerable literary attachments. AS q
preacher or theologan he does not stand
remarkably high, though we believe he
receives generally as good appointments from
his Conference as the average of his
brethren in the ministry. Mr.. Taylor's
sermons are more In the style Of literary
essays than of theological dispositions. He
breaches usually from very copious notes, and
sometimes gives the stranger an idea that his
sermons are written and read from manu-
scripts. Mr.. Taylor has some reputation as a
writer among the Methodists of the United
States who read the Church papers, and the
productions of his pen are scholarly and able
as rule. He is an excellent exhorter in
prayer and other social meetings, and is
attractive to the young people. His success
spiritually is fair, bat not remarkable.
Bishop s. S. Snow, the prophet Of Mount
Zion," with half dozen other aliases, is the
leading theorist of the Second Adventists in
this city, and utters his anathemas against his
adversaries every Sunday in the little chapel
of the New York University. He has been
quarter Of century or more advocating his
theories publicly and privately, and by
books and pamphlets, and yet has failed
to gather into his fold permanently
more than half a hundred persons.
The ''Bishop," "Prophet" or Messenger"
rs the reader may desire to consider him, is
standing proof that impracticable theorists
find very little place in this country or in this
city. Religious people, too, like to hear some
thing besides the second coming of Christ
presented to them occasionally. And the pro-
phets of that event have gone so often and so
far astray In regard to the time of its fulfil
ment that no one now takes much heed of their
representations Doctrines, to be accepted
by the mass of mankind, must be such as the
average intelligence of mankind can compre-
bend and their faith lay hold Of But the
Bishops" theories, however he may back
them up with citations from the Word of God,
are too impracticable, and as presented by
him in an abrupt, Insulting manner-can never
run round the globe with such apostles as he.
Mr.. Snow is liberal in blasphemous express
sions, and has little, if any, ideas of the
proprieties Of Christian temple or
Christian minister He has half crazy
idea that God designs to overturn the
world and its religions through him,
and he feels himself especially commissioned
to denounce orthodoxy in general and Roman
Catholicism In particular. He is exceedingly
severe on the "scarlet whore" and consigns
her to the deepest depths; but as he has no
faith whatever in the place known among
orthodox Christians hell, 1t is difficult to de-
termine to what other depth he would send the
old lady. The Immortality Of the soul is also
denied; but this earth, he believes, Is to be
renovated by fire and made fitting abode for
the redeemed, who, by some process of crea-
ton or legerdemain, which the prophet" does
not clearly explain, are to be brought into be-