The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-12

allowing him share In his own salvation, though
h be through Gods c0ndescension. does not the
Catholic Church defend mans nobest iacultiesf
But what about Father Gavazzi's experience I'm
the confessional He there found, az nc would
have IA believe, that the belief OF ca,hocs on ths
propriety on the part Of Mr. Gayazzi to allude TO
his experience In the most sacred and divine
tribunal on earth. There the pentent sinner en-
trusts It's most hidden secrets, with chidlike con-
hdence to diyinely appointed minister, bound In
the most solemn manner never 70 reveal an thlng'
therefore, not dwell on the proprety OF his conduct
in this regard. We all abhor, as the vlest and
meanest OF men, one who VIII abuse the great
confidence placed in him. | will only
say that his allusion to the confessional may have
served his purpose as a bait to the audience he
addressed. but was entirely unnecessary to prove
his assertion Catholics all believe that good
works are necessary as disposition for justfca-
tice what they believe. That IL, ! suppose, what
Father Gavazzl meant to say. Now, one word OF
italy, and from facts are inclined to think that his
pretended mission and conversions are on paper
rather than In reality In Genoa there Is q Protes-
tant church-a fine building, seats free, &c.-but
scarcely anybody frequented 1t. The fruit or the
North does not grow in the sunny land Of Italy
The Society for the Conversion OF Jews.
To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
In your issue OF May 10 an article met my eye,
headed "Soclety for the Conversion OF the Jews"
and knowing that anything pertaining towards en-
llghtenment would find space in your enterprisng
sheet have taken the liberty to PROFOUND the fol-
lowing query to the American public:-Why In the
name OF that religious liberty which Americans so
much boast Of are not the Jews who although
supposed to grovel In darkness, yet farthW ad-
vanced In the true religion, from the fact that they
need no medium between God and themselves, ms
these boosters OF conversion do-why, ask again,
are not they allowed to worship in this
land or freedom as they deem best with
out these philanthropc meddlers causing so much
misery, by In an age procuring some imbecile, who,
listening to their willy talk, forsakcs home and
friends only to receive the scolls OF his former co
religionists and no friendship OF his newround
faith The Jews are not heathens; they worship
the same God that the Catholics and l'rotestants do;
only they don't believe In Christ. Now, what under
the does this society wish TO convert them to
Does IL wish to make them believe that Christ IL the
Son or Cod hope that Is not their aim, for thou
sands OF Christians whose duty 10 II to believe this
doctrine have wandered from the true faith, and !
would tell them, once for all that no matter how
many Jews they get to profess christianity not one
In u hundred but win profess what he does not be-
leve. No Jew can believe that Christ was the Mes
siah What will any enlightened man think OF re-
lgon that seeks converts from faith that claims
To be the most enlightened OF the age Did this
society ever hear Of Jews attempting to make con-
vertsS No, for the Jewish faith emphatically for
bids any converts to be received unless they come
of their own free will. BY inserting the above you
will greatly obige an ardent, though very young,
Views OF Another Correspondent on the
Same Subject.
To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD
noticed an article in your paper which gives the
report of the Society for the Conversion OF Jews.
1t shows that 1t expended the sum Of nearly two
thousand dollars and converted seven persons in
a year. Would 1t not be more Christian on their part
to distribute that sum upon the several Christian
institutions which cry daily for help than to waste
the above sum upon useless missiony ] do not be-
leve they can convert any one who really Is
"Jew." They might for time. But that remem-
brancc OF his creed win return later, and all the
time and money spent by this mission is thrown
away. NJ. H., Jr.
Is Man u Miserable Failurcs
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
What are the purposes OF my beng9 Forced
into the world forced through the world and forced
out Of the world independent OF my own votion,
with inherited propensties leading to unavoidable
instructions, resulting in life OF disappointment
here and an existence OF misery hereafter--oh,
why should have been borns Indeed, under the
theological teachings OF the day. existence is so es
sentiay disappointment that the conclusion Is
unavoidable on the part of the phlosophic mind of
the age that il the incucations Of ecclesiastcism
be true, death fixes the fate of the race forever
either in a monotonous heaven or II burning hell.
Then, indeed, is man miserable failure But, thank
God by the agency Of the brighter light now dawn
ing above the niltops OF superstition and fanati-
cism through the instrumentality OF the phenomena
and the philosophy Of spirualism the hopes Of man
, are Frightening and his Joys enhancing. Man
now see the purposes OF physical existence, with
all Its experiences, whether characterized by JOY or
sadness. He can realize the organic necessity fOra
material mould for the shaping OF the material
In which the Intelligent principle gathers the ex-
pertences OF time preparatory for the duties and the
beatitndes OF the future-how an earthly imperson-
allzation Is necessary to the elimination of cees
tial individuality. And as a sequence the appre-
ciative Spirtuast is no murmurer at the events OF
life Let the hand OF misfortune fall ever so
II ~ III nd
social ostracsm do their worst let envy and malice
and hate assail; let sorrow, disease ana death pre-
vail he knows from this beautiful philosophy of u
nobler manhood ana womanhood that these are all
but the incidental conditions OF the universally
Ing up an ethereal cncasement In which that
divine emanation from the Almighty ccntrestanceo Of
the universe the individual SOUL is destined to out
work the unimaginable destinies Of a bssful i'm
mortality. Upon entering the studio Of an earthly
artist you behold before you a clay statue. You
gaze upon II with interest, thinking perhaps YOU
recognize the features OF some personal friend or
some distinguished citizen whom your country has
chosen TO honor. While you are thus contemplating
hand, and strikes 1t n violent blow. You are
startled and ready to demonstrate with him for the
act, when you are arrested In your exclamation by
the falling clay disclosing a beautiful figure OF
gold. Then the artist explains that the clay statue
was only used as a mould for the production
OF the beautiful image before YOU And 80
In the workshop OF Time. The outer COW
ering of clay, the body, Is but the mould serving
the purposes OF divine win In time in the production
OF a more beautiful and ethereal organism adapted
TO higher relations when time shall be mmerged
Unto eternity. At length, through organic law the
hammer OF death descends this outer covering fills
away and minglcs again with Its kindred elements
while the celestial encasemcnt Of interior thought
and feeling IL borne into the realm OF more enlarged
activities and dlviner possibilities. Ay 1t IL at once
removed nom the earthly studio to the rescocd gal
leries OF the Divine Artincer; when renewed In the
very essence OF Its being its Hottest hopes and
brightest anticipations viii be more than realized
In the glorious realities OF the beautiful hereafter
INVESTIGATOR.
In ChristcndOm Becoming Grccianixcd!
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
1t Is a lamentabe fact that sectaran Christians,
to support their favorite dogmas do torture the
plain and simple truths OF the Bible into shapes both
monstrous and absurd. Such course, venture to
say has In all ages OF the Church been fruit.
full source OF injury to Christianity than the combined