The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-01
RELIC IOuS.
Piety and Precipitation POlemlcS
PropOunded by Popular Preachers.
Professor Everett and the
Old Religion.
Tho Free Religions Conference and the Cues
ton Of Capital and Labor.
FROTHINGHAM'S FAREWELL
A Boston Divine at All Souls Church
Talks to Ambitious Amazons.
Henry Hard .Beecher on "Let Us
Have Peace"
The REV. JOHN WALL IN THE B0WERY.
DR.. Partridge on Christianity as
Source Of Joy.
DIR. WHD'S FIRST SERMON.
Ordination OF DeacOnS at the Church Of the
transformation
DR.. Partridge ON Christianity as a
Source of Joy.
DIR. wuD's FIRST SERMON.
Ordination OF DeaconS at the Church Of the
TRANSPORTATION.
Short Services at the Catholic
Churches.
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH.

OhOAsOA Va AAo aAA1SoAoAA
All Religion the same-An Theology
DiRerent-True Worshippers Soaring
On High-TheolOgians In tho Mud
Sermon by Professor Everett, Of CAM
bridge.
The services at the Church OF the Messiah corner
Of Park avenue and Thirty. fourth street. were yes
terday morning unusually Interesting, although the !
excessively warm weather prevented very large !
attendance. Professor Charles Carroll Everett, or
Cambridge, preached on the subject OF 1.-THE Old
Religion" his discourse being based upon Ephe
SLAMS w., 13-"Til all come in the unity OF the
faith" How many religions, he began, are there
IN the words In other words how many re-
ngious faiths are theres At this question
We should perhaps, begin to reckon up one religion
after another There is the Mohammedan religion;
the religion OF the Brahmins; OF the Chinese that
worship idols Of wood stone; and above all there
Ia the Christian religion OF all the nOblest and the
best. Perhaps, We might even give the different
forms Of the Christian religion the faith of the
Catholic and the Protestant, and all the innumer-
able sects that
DIVIDE AND BREAK UP CHRIsTENDOM.
II it should be stated that there ia but one reli
gion. each would respond, "Yes, there
h but religion, and that Is ours: there
Ia but one faith, and that we hold" 1t
IL this confidence that there is but one religion and
that this Is the religion OF the God to which the In
dividual who IL making the claim chances to belong
that has introduced so much bitterness and
narrowness into life. The separation between
religious faith and another has seemed to cut
down deep and make complete revolution be-
tween life and life. As the Chinese build o wall
about themselves and look upon their country as
the central, nowery and celestial nation, and all
others "a outside barbarans, so do different bodies
OF religious believers wall themselves the nowery.
ralestial Kingdom The MalOmmodAQ calls the
Christian dog; the Christian calls the Mahommedan
IN inhdei. Christian sects handy among them
selves the words hereto and inndel The words
mark o chasm as broad as heaven and earth-as
heaven from he'll No wonder that many seeing
this bitterness, this selfassertion, this contempt
this hate, should doubt whether there Is any re-
ne1pp-whether all are not alike deiuded or de-
indlng-should maintain that at last all religions
Nre alike, and that II ia no matter which OF them
man accepts One IL as good as another. For the
present
In this Babel OF voices we cannot tell who is
speaker said he believed in sense different nom
orla, and only one-one iaith and only one but
20 reach this thought we must first separate In
HSs % Ssr There Is but
Religion is everywhere the same; theology is
comparing the relations OF religion to theology by
that OF the air to the atmosphere In common
speech we use the words air and atmosphere as II
seldom use the word atmosphere at alf, but in its
plead the word air. Thus we say that the air Is
@ountain AR, OF the country. air. The air
r. aen.er the or 9ssi More @
pure; but the air, as snch Is absolutely inyariable
has IT, fixed chemical On the other her
night 1t is different rom the day; dincrent from
Day to day, different In one region from another II
N no ~ nd In fhn on ha ann
hhore and among the swamps; for the atmosphere
ts the DIR, together with whatever exhaations from
takes up eyerythng-yapor from the sea, malaria
from the swamps, sweetness from flowers and cor
bustion and nom The breath Of ali animals. The air
may only form part OF the atmosphere. Sometimes
Re psee MUw
Of the ar to the atmosphere Is the
RELATION OF RELIGION TO THEOLOGY
Like che DIR, religion Ia everywhere the same; II
has always been the same from the beginning.
There 70 but one religion and one faith: On the
dinerent In one region from what It s IN ahotherj
4 Is different In one time from what It
nums dneren nnse crcumsanc Ssn' rSe0
Ogy is also full OF exhaiati0ns nom the
ts
human passion. M takes e,, up into Itself the maa,
Of ola ef tint
That brought them have passed away and they re-
pat. stsgnant, and corrupt. Thus, anaiyzss
that prevail there mingled moro or less
with religion But aDayze religion and II Is every
where the same. Theology, like the atmosphere,
may breed even death; religion, like the air. can
bring only life. When ] say, the speaker said
shat there Is but one religion mean that there Is
put one central religious truth and this finds itself
Expressed with more or less cearness, with more
less purity with more or less contradiction In ell
religions that are worthy the name. For religion 70
the natural and simple trust OF the soul In bower
BIZ good over " and about IT, and theology Ia the
reasoning the theories, the systems, the conjec-
kures that have gathered about and often obscured
IL. This
ONE RELIGIOUS TRUTH
n the goodness OF God and the confidence man
may place In this for life and for death There IL
theology worthy Of the name that does not express
this with more or less consistency or contradiction
fhis truth Is the utterance Of religious faith II is
the one faith common 70 ell religious souls. After
. some what lengthy discussion on the word faith,
rs used above, and which he proved meant conf
dsnce, the speaker said that when men talk theol
oHy they differ; when they talk religion they agree
II "a beautiful 10 notice that In moments OF exata
ton, In tho grand crises which brings out the real
emotions OF the heart, In moments OF common sor
row Or peril, the language Of theology 10 forgotten
in
Dfsc0RD
oeAes. Tho common language OF religion expresses
~ c1lSaon emotions Of Au hearts Men may pray.