The New York herald., 1871-01-08

street entrance and also library and Bible class
room. On the second noor ID the large chapel
Of the Collegiate Parochial school, IN which the
infant school, numbering 800 little children, assem-
bies twice on the Sabbath. A corresponding number
OF the larger children meet in the chapel on the first
| neor. Both departments are under the direction
| OF MIR. Richard Amerman. and have competent
corps OF teacners-forty In number These children
| are also gathered into prayer meeting on every
Friday OF each week. Regular preaching services
weekly lecture on wednesday evening. daily
union prayer meeting is neio from twelve to one.
| In connection with the Mission an agency has
| been established for procuring employment Tor
| males and females out OF work. Tnls has been In
operation since April last, and up 10 October had
thus provided for 1877 PERSONS without cost to the
! applicants An employment society prepares work
for forty 10 nry INDECENT females weekly, at fair
compensation An industrial school tor girls Is also
dong good service The Mission Is under the Of
committee OF gentlemen annually appointed for
upon u the REV. j. Henry Bertholf, . young man wei
qualified for the work.
Henry Ward Beecher rs an EVANGELIST.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE HERALD:-
Congregatlonalism in the days when Baxter was
Its theologan and Cromwell Its political propagan-
dist was cold, dreary pharisacal system, full Of
vulgar pietism and ignorant self-suficiency; but
Congregationalism, after the lapse OF two
hundred years or more, and as It is now
reproduced IN this country by Henry Ward
Beecher and the Independent newspaper is q
far worse system. During the last twenty years
there has been no man In this country better known
than the pastor OF Plymouth church, Brooklyn In
picking up any OF the newspapers OF the day-espe-
claly those that have Puritan tendepcy-you viii
generally ind in their pages "Henry Ward Beecher
on boys,n or 'girls" or on the '.Msslsquoi spring
water" on "young men, y "Young America" )" "heln
"heavenn and various other subjects whicn he uses
as illustrations in Gospel peaching You therefore,
come To the concluslon in view OF popular admira-
ton, that he Is q modern Moses, and that he has
been raised up by Providence, like Moses, to lead
the forty millions Of people IN this country through
the Red Sea OF their trbuatons up step BY step, to
the summit OF the Deectable Mountains, where, with
painting hearts, they can view with JOY and compo-
sure the gates OF the celestial city. That Henry
Ward Beecher possesses as strong natural intellect
as any man that has ever appeared on this side OF
the Atlantic will admit; and possessing, he does,
poetic temperament, II he had turned his mind to
poetry he would. doubt, ere this Lave produced
verses riyalling in elaboration OF view aad po.
etic insight but with all the inconsistencies OF form
and Outlandishment Of metre of Walt Whitman,
America widest bur deepest poet And that he is
plaln democ ratic uneccleslastlca sort OF man and
IN his private and social capacity good fellow and
a characteristic American, though have never seen
him in the nesh have not the least doubt; but Of
him as public preacher and teacher must CON-
PLAN. In the first place he starts Off with the
avowed intention and assuming the awful RESPONSE
biity Of preaching the Gospel Of Jesus Christ, that
simple Evangel that originated nearly two tn ousand
years ago ia lonely Judea. And how does he 10 lts
lie leaves out the mediation OF Christ leaves out all
the apostolic and sacramental life OF prmative
Christianity leaves out all tine ecclesiastical and
visible forms OF Churcn life necessary keep Chris
tianty together as body and substitutes natural
ism. ratIoDallsm- breaches natural morality and
vmtue-ald he practically teaches tnat mans Whole
am ana destiny Is bound up in that lie
which closes III the grave. Three thousand men ana
women III the morning and evening, we are told,
assemble to hear Henry Ward Beecher treat religion
as a whim, a fashion. as an uncertainty, as some.
thing yet to be found out as OF Tomorrow, and go
through sort OF operate and theatrical per.
forrnanee which hovers between the borders OF
secuarism and religion. l ask any candid man
who may have heard or read his sermons where, in
any or his eXtemporary prayers, prayer meeting
talks or sermon5 has he clearly enumerated Chris
tan principle, showing man now to live or now to
dleY Such preaching Will surely make indifferent
sts nondescrpt Christians, sentimental petsts and
butermllk SAINTS externally clean, but internally
gious men and women who believe with tile heart
what they say with the mouth and, like their
saviour, be. living evidences of the faith that
Is IN them. Mr. Beecher also assumes TO be liberal,
prasing all forms OF Christianity, not even except
ing Catholicism; but this only proves his lndiifer
ence or nfdelity. Rather give me old Lyman
Beecher, his ranatlcal, Presbyterian father, who
with Alexander Campbell, thirty years ago, In Ohlo
tried to hunt down Popery and Archbishop Purcell
}, than MS son Henry talking soft and sweet of the
| old Church before q Puritan audience. Protestant
| ism IS bad enough but modern Purtanism Is only
1 heaiheDism pure and simple. Boston, with bu
| few exceptions, Is as much heather city as was
Athens when Socrates was put to deaIh for asserting
the existence OF another world and luture rewards
| and punlshments. But the lnhdel rabble in New
1 England ana elsewhere SWING incense before Mr..
| Beecher-go down on their knees and worship this
1 modern golden cali. IL Is said, however, that he
uses theatrical power in delivery and appears for
1 the moment eloquent; out If his olatory is TO be
| judged from his published sermons, then as an
orator and preacher he Is not TO be spoken oi the
same day with William Ellery Claiming, nor does
he possess the spontaneous and elictous eloguence
OF Chaplin, the ornate grandeur OF Robert Hall,
| nor the moral submlty OF Chalmers. nor that i'm
passioned fire ana JUNCTION OF Whitfield any OF
1 tue mel1uous rhetoric OF Thomas Starr King, but
he bursts now and Then in powerful but forced
| effuson. succeeded by rhapsodical and abrupt
monologne running at length into giib-gab gar
rullty and only relieved here and there by
rric illustration and small-poato witticlsm drawn
IRON Yankee and Puritan LIE. hope, IN conclusion,
that Mr.. Beecher Will change his course ana become
a Christian brother. WESTERN CATHOLIC.