The New York herald., 1871-04-02
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Kew. DdVlu Mitcueil Will preuCu HioIuinB III
the Canal Presbyterian church, Greene street.
Subject-"Aid for the Suffering Poor in France"
Rev. DIR. Mcvckar will preach In the Church OF
the Holy Light this morning anu Rev. Dr. Weston
In the evening.
Rev. DR.. Krote breaches morning and evening IN
the Evangelical Lutheran Church OF the Holy
Trinity.
Rev. Dr. Alexander s. Leonard will preach this
morning in the Memorial churcn OF Bishop VAIN
wright
"Predestinatonn win be the subject OF q lecture
by Rev. Chauncey Giles, this evening, III the New
Jerusalem (SwedenborgIanl church. Morning wor-
ship at eleven O'Clock
Rev. DR.. Cheever will preach to the Church OF the
Puritans in the church on Lexington avenue and
Forty-sixth street this evening. DR.. Sanderson
will preach In the morning.
Rev. E. G. SweeIser VIII preach this morning and
evening In the Beecker street UDiversaist church,
corner Downing street.
Rev. Hasey w. Knapp will preach in the new
Baptist church ediace at Hunters Point, Long ISL
and City, this morning, ana Rev. william B. Smith
In the evening.
Rev. DR.. Rylance, rector OF St. Marks church, will
preach in st. Peters church. West Twentieth street,
this evening.
Rev. DR.. Wesc0tt will preach in Plymouth Baptist
church, Fiftyfrst street. this morning and evening.
Rev. J. NJ Pullman will preach at the Church OF
Our Saviour tSIxth Unlversast,, Thlrty-1nh street.
this morning and evening.
Rev. Charles +. Lee Fifth Universaliss church),
Plimptons Building, Ninth street, will preach this
morning on "The Sunday OF Palms.n
The bishop Of the diocese will administer the rite
OF confirmation in st. Thomas church. Filth ave-
nue., this morning. Afternoon services at four
O'Clock.
Rev. @. S. Narrower Will preach this morning and
evening at st. Lukes Methodist Episcopal church.
Forty-nrs street. The annual meeting or the Sun
day School Missionary Society will be held at half
past two o'clock
Rev. Mr.. Hepworth will deliver this morning in
the Church OF the Messiah the fourth lecture in his
course to young men. The subject win be "Money
Making and Money Spending"
Rev. DR.. vinton Will preach in Zion church. Thirty
eighth street, this evening, on behalf OF the Chill
drens Fold.
Rev. DR.. Ever breaches morning and evening in
Christ church, Fifth avenue.
'Josephn Will be the subject OF Rev. Thomas
Streets discourse this evening in the North Presby-
terian church. OF Thirty first street and Ninth
avenue.
Dr. II. P. Fairfield will speak before the Society OF
Spirituallsts, in Apollo Hail, this morning and even-
ing.
Rev. DIR. Cuyler's Sermon ON Temperance.
1t has been we'll said that man, be he ever so
great or good who Is welded to theory, can never
be trusted either with facts or arguments defend
ing 1t. He Is In q condition OF monomania. Both
his perceptive and reflective faculties on that one
subject which runs riot in his mind are out OF gear
ana the intellectual machinery put in operation soon
becomes wreck. The directors Of the National
Temperance Society, a. whose request this unhappy
discourse, 1t seems was delivered, did an unkind
thing for their brother Cuyer, and, we think, also
an unwlse thing for themselves, In putting him to
this tosk. He was no match for DR.. Duyrea. He Is
popular preacher (deservedy SOY and an estmable
man; but he has neither the poemlc furniture nor
power to cope with his opponent-a sound theolo-
gian and ripe biblical scholar and keen dia-
lectican. We remember reading review by DR..
Cuyler OF o certain book, which the reviewer pro-
nounced an important production, but which con-
tanned a commendatory preface from the pen OF
Chancellor Crosby, The reverend critic, INDUCING
his wit at the expense of his reverence for Holy Writ
reminded the writer of the preface in question that
the Bible forbade ploughng with the OK and the ass
yoKcd together. II the law OF mercy prohibits the
working or these uneauay yoked animals how
much more unmerci!ul is 1t to engage them in con-
nict-long ears against long hurnsa
DR.. Cuyler's temperament, zoo, unnts him as a
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be firm and reliable. The public do not forget how,
just before the OF the rebellion, he stood the
steps of Independence Hall, In Philadelphia, and ad-
dressed mass meeting urging the people to pledge
themselves the South to send back to their mas
ters absconding slaves and to denOunce the aboli-
tonsts fanatics: and how, after the war over
in q letter to the New York Independent, giving an
account Of what he called his "rald into Canada, -
he said, "GOd bless Canada for giving an asylum to
our fugitive slaves" man so unnxed IN faith
himself Is not the man TO Tx the faith Of others.
But what could the temperance society dor They
had for some time seen that the faith OF many Of
their members was shaken, not IN the eXpediency OF
total abstinence from alcoholic beverages but in the
divinity OF the doctrine. And now a clergyman OF
high character and commanding influence had come
out and openly assalled MS position: on the ram
parts of which the proudest nag In the world
had for thirty years denantly noated. Who
reputation for biblical scholarship TO lose could be
found to do 1t. DR.. Cuyler therefore, whose zeal out
stripped his prudence was permitted to rush to the
defence. With what success his sermon last SUM-
day, as reported In the HERALD, shows. Let us fol-
low the redoubtablc champion. he lays the founda :
statemcnt:-"GOd has written upon every human
body the law OF abstinence from intoxicants by de-
creelng that alcohol shall lessen the muscular power
diminish the animal heat and derange the digestive
organs of the human body 4"
We have lately seen 100000 men gathered to repel
an invasion and to chastise the invaders-mcn who,
both in their physique and morale, have been the
admiration OF the world. On the bodies Of these
men-iron- framed, enclosing heroic souls-each one
Of whom from his boyhood has been in the daily
OF alcoholic drinks this pr0fessed messenger OF d
cs % od oas tins wen eS The q law the % ss de-
from intoxicants. "Alcoholic stmulanrsn he says
"poison body and mind.n We need not 90 to
Germany to her princes her generals her statesmen
her scholars, her divines, her mechanics and her
peasantry, to refute the rash assertion. We can do
IL at home, amid the class OF the community to
which our temperance champion himself belongs
the American clergy. 1t may be assumed that nine.
tenths OF this honored class OF men OF the present
generation are teetotalers For generation they
have stood In the cold water army Let some father
among them attend o clerical conventiOn let him
be phrcnol0gist and from some commanding posi-
ton take In the coup d'Run and study the physical
intellectual and moral character or the assembly IN
dividualy. Then let him call up In his memory the
appearance Of similar assembly forty years ago,
when alcoholic stimuants were generally used. Ac.
cordlng to Dr. Cuyler's er-cathedrd declaration,
what contrast must these two ecclesiastical bodies
present to the mind OF the venerable observer The
generation passed away were men presenting all the
symptoms, physical and intellectual OF having been
poisoned, muscular power lessened, animal
heat diminished, digestive organs deranred
Their minds-well, our temperance apostle has not