The New York herald., 1873-09-15
The Ministers, Messages.

Two Sabbaths would seem to be too many
on stretch for the ministers to hold up Jesus
and his salvation and nothing else to dying
men and women. Last Sunday our sermon
budget contained specimens Of the doctrinal,
heartily endorse the doctrines or sentiments Of
those which we lay before our readers
to-day. It is not the best way in
the world, even for Frenchman, to
stand up before Huguenot congregation and
abuse the Pope and the Catholic Church, and
predict repetition of the scenes of anarchy
and disorder in this country that have made
France Kissing and byword among the peo-
pie. Converts are never gained nor are they
retained in that way. We have no more fear
that American Catholics will massacre their
Protestant fellow men than we have that Prot
estants will slaughter Catholics Nor have
we any fear that our institutions are to be
overthrown or injured by the arrival Of
sixty nuns and as many Sisters of Charity
and twice or thrice as many Jesuits in one
week. If Professionalism is not as inherently
strong as Catholicism, if it has not as much
vital truth in it as komanism, let it go under.
The truth will live and grow, no matter under
what name or form, and we are much more
contentious for the truth, wherever it is found
to exist, than we are for the forms and con-
ditions under which it may exist. If our
French brother and all others OF like tastes
will therefore preach the truth in love, they
will be more likely to accomplish something
for God and religion than they will by abusing
men and women who are at least as sincere
and earnest in their belief as those who do
abuse them.
These remarks will appear the moro peril
nent if the reader will turn from the sermon
or conversation, as it may be called, of the
Rev. DR.. Verren in rE 3lise du st. Esprit to
that of Rev. Father McCready in st. Stephens
church. Here is sermon full of practical
thought, of scriptural doctrine, of exalted
sentiment-sin as opposed to holiness, man,
the sinner, arrayed against God, tee beggar
raising his hand in rebellion against the
Benefactor who supplies that hand with oil
the blessings of life and health. Can any
thing be more ungrateful, insulting, malig-
nant? We should, as Father McCready sug-
gested, shrink from the very idea with fear
and horror. And who shall recount the terrible
effects of sin, not only in the life to come, but
here and now? These were the thoughts pre-
sented by Father McCready. and which his
hearers should ponder well in their hearts, and
give over their resistance to the Divine will
and commands henceforth and forever.
If our own sense Of honor would not lead
us to render gratitude to God, to be obedient
to tie heavenly calling, Christs love for us as
manifested in His holy life and in His vicarious
death should draw out our sincerest gratitude,
our intensest love. Mr.. Hepworth therefore
sought yesterday, by contrasting the Saviour's
unselfsh love with the highest manifestations
Of that passion among men, to win Tor Jesus
the love Of some who heard the Word.
Mr.. Talmage delights in pictorial representa-
tions. They are probably natural to him;
but men of strong and fervid imaginations
are apt sometimes to be q little extravagant
Mr.. Talmage is, Of course, no exception.
And when, in his picturing Of the bliss and
glory of heaven, he makes the angels rejoice
when Christian is by some fatal accident
brought into their midst, he Is illogical as well
as extravagant We don't sympathizs much
with any minister of religion who thinks that he
cannot exalt heaven enough unless he beittles
earth. There is no need of it. This world is
| good enough. 1t serves the purposes of God
for most of us, but not one man in o million
would desire or wish to stay here forever.
We are all longing and looking for something
better, however we'll satisfied We may be with
this world. But until men can be led to see
that there is better it is not natural for them
to give up the good they enjoy Of oil their
labors in this life. Nor should they be ex-
pected to do it.
Very pertinent, indeed, was the remark
made by DR.. Cuyler yesterday, that we find
more things burst than cotton balloons.
Christian professions are exploding. How
many Of them have exploded within the last
year or eighteen months all over our land? !?
How many outwardly godly men have been
found wanting in integrity when the tempta-
tion took them at their weakest pointP There
| is only one remedy, Dr. Cuyler thinks for in
sincerity, and that is, to seek from God
reaLty luis naIuer 10 De q genuine nypOcrlte
than to be a Christian. Of course it is; and
those who try it know it is SO.
The claims of African evangelization were
presented in Plymouth church yesterday by
Rev. Mr. Streebie, who declared that the COL
| ored race in America has increased more than
half million since the war closed This, if
true is bad for the old pro-slavery argument
that freedom would prove the destruction of
the negro; but it is good for the negro, and,
if Mr.. Streebic's conjectures ore good, for
Africa also.
DR.. McGlynn, of this city, preached at the
dedication of st. Joseph's church, Jersey City,
a sermon on the nature of the Church, her
stability and the ever-abiding presence of the