The New York herald., 1872-10-06

wuO hIo IespOnSiDlo IoL Wuht, Ouiy W AA0'A-
dental deliverance, failed to be wholesale
slaughter.
scintillations of tho Religious Press.
Our religious contemporaries, usually care
ful, but little slow in observing passing
events, have, with few exceptions this week
studiously avoided discussion of the promi-
nent topics of the day and hour. For ex-
ample-and this is one of the exceptions-the
Golden Age asks, ssWho shall be Mayor of
New York." and responds to its own ques-
tion-"A. L. Stewart" In support of this
nomination the Golden Age affirms that Mr..
Stewart is more than merchant. He is a
graduate of Dublin University. That fact
ought~to insure the serious consideration of
those who think O foreign-bred education
better than home-bred or a Graham-bred
one. And perhaps some of the hundred chill
dren from Grammar school in Brooklyn who
laughed themselves almost to death at the ex-
hibition of "King Carrot" yesterday after
noon, might, after their prayers and when they
winked themselves to Sleep have murmured-
''These politicians are all beats, anyhow"
The Age continues: eve have no arithme-
tic man." 1t makes mistake. There are
plenty Of arithmetic men, theologically as
well as financially and politically. There is
an ''arithmetic man. writing to us who will
show you an Irrational quantity an Elm
agnary root of an irrational quantity" and
the 'eternal difference between square and
an irrational quantity" Taking all these
quantities together, cannot Brother Tilton,
abandoning religion for the time, find his way,
by arithmetical calculation, out of the laby-
rnth of politics in which he finds himself so
unfortunately involved? The way is as clear as
the track that sent Monarchist over Jerome
Park course yesterday afternoon in the race
with Harry Bassett
But it is not the race on Jerome Park or any
other mundane park that we have at this mo-
ment under consideration. 1t is the course of
religion throughout the country we have to
trace, and show by the religious sentinels on
the route what is being done in that direction.
The Evangelist (Presbyterian), discusses
clay Cooperation, "Our Church and Our
Work." and, more potent than all, "a
Great Subject On the former topic the
EVANGELIST observes, 'that the task of Christian
aggression which is assigned us in the prov
idence of God in connection with evangelical,
ton of the land is to be found in our cities"
Hence the necessity Of cooperation. Upon
the second topic the Evangelist announces that
the number of churches under the care of the
Presbyterian Assembly is four thousand seven
hundred and thirty, with membership Of
nearly half q million, and adds, "We do not
and cannot commend a measuring and COM
pairing ourselves with Others" Why not?
With half million adherents. and birthstone
coming in every day by the cargo from the
Mediterranean, why should the Presbyterians
falter in the good work for mans redemption?
The "Great Subject of the Euangelist is
always live and an earnest one in every
civilized community. 1t is the subject of
education, and in concluding an article per-
tinent to the occasion, reflective upon action
in Connecticut in the same connection, the
Evangelist thinks that 'many of the older as
well as newer States take measures to protect
themselves against those evils of defective edu-
cation which have been introduced not only
by foreign immigration, but by the new forms
of industrial effort which are congregating
tens of thousands in all our large cities
The Observer, with its sextile staff, does not
enunciate new idea. Has its observing
faculties been clouded, or has its corps of
writers not yet returned from their Summer
tourings?
The Independent, for marvel, does not die
tate who shall be President of the United
States the Governor of the State nor the
Mayor of New York. In lieu Of this, how
ever, we have a lesson upon the 'Interna-
tional Congress at The Hague" in which its
readers may learn what they have learned
before-to wit, that it did not do much toward
the accomplishment of its ends, and that its
conductor is opposed to Greeley.
The Examiner and Chronicle (Baptist) ex-
presses its views upon the Theology of Libe-
raj Education" and takes the proceedings of
the late National Baptist Educational Conven-
ton as the text for its observations. sLet
Jupiter and Olympus retire." it says, soon
dense literature, abridge history" aud then, it
continues, ''there will cease to be ignorance of
the nature of theological science, which at
the present time is the dishonor OF our edu-
Gated classes" Educated orators will read
and make note.
The Liberal Christian (Rev. DR. Bellows)
portrays burlesque, entitled "Feed my
Sheep" The principal actors are the Rev.
Mr.. Scratchaway, the Rev. Mr. Persistent
Dullard, young Mr.. Earnest Faithful, the
Rev. Mr.. Ko-nack, the Rev. Mr.. Take-it-
easy, and the Rev. Mr. Liveman. 1t is a
satire, and certainly very amusing one to
those who know what it is oil about. On the
stage it would be a failure, but in the pulpit
or in the lecture room one can hardly say
what would come of it-unless it should be