The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-02

duty bound to stand like so many terms against
creed in order to make il serve ali their future
generations. this question stili remains :-How can
| allowing discussion. and without meeting the
strongest oppositionf Let us suppose that they
what the association as body ought 70 accept and
what they ought to reject In matter OF faith and
one member Of the Committee
Quaker, admitting no baptism whatever; a
everlasting destruction of the wicked-now.
eral agreement on SO many different Questions and
with so many different opinions How can they
satisfy all the members OF the committee, aud CO.
pecially oil the ASSOCIATION Would not the sap
tist protest against infant baptism. some De
frightened by eternal destruction, and others
Mortified by everlasting torments In the un.
quenchable fires OF hell And would not al inns
create bad feeling among the meulberS causing
perpetual discussions and secessi0nsP what
then, would become OF the association, or where
would IL gOS IL would become Babel, and would
60 with so many things that were, but when nave
been brought to AL untlmely emo by the over-zeal
petuate their existence and foster their prosperity
oh, young men or the Christian Association. take
profit by the experience Of those otherwise good
and jealous Christians who are daily wrecked or
Be V Wise 1no % but ee sa
not become TOO wise and too pure In orthodoxy. II
you wish by all means to have creed let 1t be SO
broad and so deep that all the members OF your
ASSOCIATION may endorse 1t. Ii you wish to discuss
the tenets OF those who do not think as you do
allow an open and free discussion or else you will
draw upon you the odium and contempt of all that
Is intelligent and free in this country. II you see
freely and loudly II need be- else II you try to stop
1t, like the angry storm Of Eolus in his caves 1t
be the ruin. J. r. LAMOUREUX.
An "Open Address" to Members OF tho
Late Christian Convention.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
To the delegates OF the Convention for putting
God. Christ and the Bible in the constitution,
amen To Mr. Tying and all others who favor
shutting up grogshOps, libraries and other nui-
sances on Sunday amenl For these things effect
the pecuniary interest Of the Church and clergy.
Amen to all VINO would purify our government by
| ejecting all officers who are not members Of
| Christian Churches. Our country Is rotten with
infdelity; rotten with Spiritualism; rotten with
| Romansm; rotten with Judaism 10 those who
| would wipe out these stains on our free land,
| ameni We know that curses are upon our coun-
| try. The inndelity Of Tom Paine and Jefferson in
| the constitution Is coming home to roost
| upon US. To all men who would raise
their honest voices against such things,
amenl The curse Of the Qutcroppings Of
inhdelity eliminated when an inhdel President
| freed our slaves. 10 Mr.. Hopkins and all other
| Christians who fought the hydra-headed monster,
| abOlitonism In the days Of Buchanan amen. To
the Church OF the South, for pr0claiming slavery
the doctrine OF the Bible and gift of Cod amenl
Amen to all who favor the Bible in the public
schools Thrice amen 10 those Christian young
men who put Mr.. Train in prison for printing Bible
| quotations in his fool newspaper The Bible Is q
pure book. ameni Whoever reads his Bible well
and holds family worship daily, shall alone be ELI
/ vitN IN tn cir nm rtac toe oHo
to print newspaper Amen to all who fight the
good fight for religion, pure and indebted. But no
and the Pope Let them hence-amen! They wor-
ship the Catholic Church and the Mother Mary.
Mary be The Her Jews w9FsRp sa
mss Of d tney Se w tine n naara
| amenl We shall have our pound OF flesh. We are
not mealy-mouthed about this matter. Unitarians
and Universaists are not Christians; we want
them not-amenl They shall be made ineligible to
office, to places Of trust and to testify in the
Courts: Presbyterians and Methodists are the
Christians but they shall be under the jurisdiction
Of the Methodists. All other sects are not Chris
rae the e
cal fabric. Christianity is not thing to be trlned
with. We have able commentators on the Bible.
We need no new religions and, what Is more, we
win not have them. Beecher's church is Chris
tian. In all OF Adam Clarke's works it is not men
fashions whoever goes outside Of the rules
Of the Presbyterian or Methodist Churches
all know well enough who the true Chris.
tians are, and we should have the neral
is no Christian. Christ never played croquet. A
| woman who speaks In public is no Christian. The
we'll enoaS CHRISTIAN TeSon woS
| have amounted to much had not Constantine is
sued an edict commanding all persons to believe it
or be put to death. Amen to COnstantinel And
| snail we not have the moral courage to maintain
the religion he gave ls9 Yea, verify. Half the
people IN the United States are Christians, and
| shall we spare the rod and spoil the child9 Nay,
| verify. 1t is our turn now. Let us be up and do
the edea time the
is more than six thousand years old IS an inadel,
G sn% s the s.n does s s ds
the world Is an i1d de-. and .o should
Geneva college We must have moral education, and
everybody knows what that is. 1t is the teachings
teaching Of the inquisition OF Venice, it is the
teaching Of the inquisiton Of Spain and the teach
tho 81 Pic peus they had and
| Christ and the Bible in everything But they were
ns nsS er
kept him under-amen. There are now over
three thousand witches tmediums) in these United
States. They should be pulled in quarters or
burned at the stake. This may cruel. but it is
justice. We do net mean to have our free country
to Join our Church or to migrate or to hang. The
Puritans founded this country and 1t is theirs We
the Christian people, in the name OF Cod Christ
and the Bible, slaughtered the Indians, and shall
we not enjoy the traits Of our blessed laDorY How
my heart burns to get this wedge into the consttu
| ton N.
The Future Statehood ss . Witness.
To rHB EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
The above was the subject of discourse at the
| Plymouth Church in Brooklyn on last Sabbath by
Rev. Edward Beecher. IS reported in the HERALD
on Monday. The discourse, on the whole, was an
eloquent one, evincng much talent in the speaker,
and, to my mind, far superior in point of ability
to the average sermons reported from the pulpit of
that church. The arguments Of the speaker, al
though undoubtedly intended as q novelty, are not
new at ALL but the same that all are obliged to
resort to-that is the Bible. 1t seems to me hardly
fair for the speaker to assume that he has really
God for q witness, until he shall first prove that