The New York herald., 1871-02-06

yet revive the special favor for a long time
enjoyed by the project of transit from ocean
to ocean on line following the river San Juan
del Norte, either in its bed or on its banks.
crossing Lake Nicaragua and thence to the
Pacific.
The Lnuguor and Senility Of the ReII-
giOus Frexs.
The record Of the past week, we are sorry
to say, furnishes no new evidences of the
infusion of the true spirit Of grace and enthu-
siasm among our religious contemporaries.
The Observer fails to put in the usual amount
of birthstone Presbyterianism the Eodn gelist
has suspended its fight Of javelins upon the
poor, good old Pope; the Independent is
remarkable only for the pressure upon the
publishers department in the shape of
| advertisements, conspcuously displayed, Of
financial ventures of doubtful integrity and
| medical manifestoes Of peculiar morality.
| Henry Ward Beecher's Christian Union is
prolific in 'Letters of Marque," which have
No letters of mark at all except those Of
'Your Uncle Dudley" together with lengthy
and labored editorial advertisement written
by Sam Wilkeson, in favor of Jay Cookies
| new Northern Pacific Railroad, from Lake
Superior to Puget Sound, and a number
of sentimental sketches from the wives,
sons, daughters and brothers Of the Beecher-
Stowe and the Stowe-Beecher happy
families. The stanch old Methodist, the
devoted advocate of lay representation, has
hardly word that might be likened to
divine inspiration, unless it be the inspiration
of the almighty dollar" The Tablet (Roman
Catholic organ) exhibits the most spirit. II
is lively in defence of what it calls, with no
little truth, the "mighty demonstrations of
Catholic sympathy for the Pope !" but it for
gets its gravity and descends to the scurrity
of some of the lower grade of the secular
press when it refers to the whipped Christian
Iatelligencer." The Freeman's Journal (Cath-
olic organ) consoles itself with the fact that
Pope Plus TX. has already reigned longer
than any other Pope except st. Peter. The
Jeaoish Messenger would be nothing were it
not essentially Jewish, and it is, therefore,
Hebrew and nothing else, all over 1t talks
of ''real Improvement" and it is to be Inferred
LudI IL uttHS Tcdl cotdJc lllpTOFcHlcuJ, lOT III
begins at once to talk about the ''camp of
Israel" just as A. T. Stewart would Of his
fine plantation at Hampstead Plains. The
Messenger is also Grabbed because some OF
its Christian brcthren-the Protestant Church.
man, the Christian Register, and so on
originally published in and copyrighted fer
| the Messenger The Jeuish Times is stirred
| in regard to Hebrew literature and ad-
vocates the establishment of Hebrew
| library, which is just as important and far
1 more useful matter than tho getting up of the
famous annual Purim balls by our Hebrew
fellow citizens. But, between the orthodox
Jews and the reform and progressive Jews,
| our Israelites are getting into serious
muddle. Still. the support of a movement to
restore and cultivate Hebrew literature is wise
and beneficent, and we hope there will be no
division among the Jews on that question.
| The most tender recollections and the most
exalted aspirations Of the Christian world are
associated with ancient Hebrew literature
| Without it the world probably would never
have enjoyed that pyramid of wisdom, divine
and human, the Holy Bible. The Hebrew
Leader urges that energetic protests be en-
tered against the immigration bill now before
| Congress.
Our distant religious contemporaries, in
cluding the Baltimore Episcopal Messenger,
the ST. Louis Christian Adu0cate, the Chicago
Standard which is the consolidation of the
Christian Times, Of Chicago, the Witness, OF
Indiana, and the Christian Herald, of Wiscon-
cellence-the National Baptist, of Phila-
delphia (Which publishes an appeal to
the Baptists America from the missionaries
of the American Baptist Missionary Union in
Bnrmah for material aid), the Christian Stand-
ard, Of Cincinnati, Campbellte Baptist organ,
regales US with few pleasant ssWalks
About Jerusalem J" but, as if it were also de.
termined to divide with its secular contem-
poraries the honors of ''undignifed journal
ism," breaches to the Examiner and
Chronicle homily from the text :-"Deliver
my soul, o Lord, from lying lips and from a
deceitlul tongue" These of our distant re-
ligious contemporaries we have only
included those just at hand-show that there
is lack of warmth, enthusiasm, of will and
determination to carry out the natural mis-
sion of the religious press. Instead of preach
ing peace and good will they defle their
brethren of the press by bandying opprebrious
epithets; instead of advocating morality
they publish advertisements of questionable
purity instead Of being the Mentors
of positively correct and healthy
religious sentiment they are too apt to
squabsle about paltry temporal affairs and