The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-18
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tHluhetn III ulB uetrL VI pelle'etu 30 ID 70
What his soul is that the man is. Thoughts
are things now as always
Rev. Mr.. Evans presented the crucifxion Of
Christ as the pivot truth Of the gospel 1t was
what Paul loved to preach, and it is what we
should preach now; for society was then about
what it is now, and the systems of philosophy
and the NEUROLOGICAL superstitions Of those
days could no more save the people from their
sins than the like things can save them now.
Hence Paul did not preach salvation as attain
able by ones own executive ability, but alone
by faith in the Cruciied One; for, He died
the just for the unjust, that He might bring
us to God.
At the dedication of the Catholic church in
Harlem, yesterday, DR.. Spalding preached
sermon on the Church as the civilizer Of the
world. If he meant by the Church the whole
body of believers in Christ, then we accept
the proposition in its fulness of truth. But
if he meant only his own branch of the Church,
albeit it may be the largest and most wide
spread, the truth Of the proposition is limited
in its extent. It is true that in the Church the
highest liberty is proclaimed-the liberty of
the soul to act in obedience to Gods laws
But is it not equally true that the Church has
sometimes bound the body so that this liberty
of the soul was mockery? And while the
Church has been the light of the world and the
salt of the earth, and in measure the civilizer
of mankind, it has not been as earnest nor as
faithful in these things as its Lord designed it
to be nor as the importance of the interests
committed to its keeping demand that it
should be.
Bishop Snow must have an exceedingly
keen, prophetic perception of the things
to come He lives altogether in the
future and his delight is not with
the sons of men but with the
beasts and false prophets and like characters
Of the ante-millennium period. He sees the
end of anti-Christ and time of trouble i'm
pending, but he is apparently too selfish to
tell us how we may escape that time. If the
Immortality of the soul be false and pagan
dogma, as the Bishop asserts it is,
we ought to know what effect his time
of trouble will have upon us here,
for if ''the time is prolonged some Of us,
according to his theory, will be 80 sound
asleep in the dust that we shall know nothing
and care less for all his prophecies. But if he is
to escape, and he intimates so much, be ought
to let us know by what means, that we may
escape ALSO We do not like the Bishops glory
ing in the CORY life blood of his enemies as he
does. It is not much like Him whose ''mes-
ssnger' he pretends to be. It smacks too
much altogether Of another and different
spirit.
At Long Branch, yesterday, DR.. Ormiston
of this city preached in the Reformed church
there on the wondrous prayer of Moses, ''Show
me thy glory and set forth the mighty
effects of the answer to that prayer upon all
his after life.
At the dedication of the Catholic church in
Astoria Bishop Loughlin, Of Brooklyn, gave
the people discourse on preaching Christ
crucifed," which, for breadth of view and
simplicity of style, we commend to readers
and preachers The Church, he declared, was
not made for any special class or particular
people; it was designed to be immortal and
universal Nor is the work Of preaching to be
confined alone to the priest or the minister;
the people must aid in this work also. And
then we have Christ's promise to be with us
always even unto the end
The Merrick folk continued their camp
meeting yesterday, and had preaching by
Revs. Mallory and Worth. They intend To
close their meeting this evening, 80 that per-
SONS who may not have visited the place will
have the opportunity to-day to do So