The New York herald., 1873-10-12


OF the New YORK Protestant Ecumencal Council
know that the jncarnatlQns OF which IL is spoken IN
the RamaYana Is 50 ample as to carry up 10 neaven
even the great monkey OF Japan ana al tne prute
animals OF the universe2
Now, Mr. Editor, il Is evident TO everybody that
the great doctors Of the Evangelical Alliance had
notnine stronger to say in defence OF their faith
than what they have said, otherwise they would
have enunclated it, and would have not engaged
Professor Christlieb TO read his discourse twice.
am, therefore, entitled to conclude. trumphantlv,
tnet was right in asserting In my paper, published
ia the HERALD OF last SUNDAY, October o. that the
Evangelical Alliance would have been G failure.
Has II not proved soS And think. also, that now,
more than at anv other tlme l can boldly state
that rationaism, freethinking and inddelity are
still. and, beyond all doubt, will always be, the
adamant rocks upon which the cobweb reasonings
Of Christians even greater than the reverend
fathers OF the Evangelical Alliance i VIII Ioreyer
split LAMA FONVECCL
Roman Catholic on the Protestant Al
liancc.
To THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
There are In this city now number OF gentle
men, calling themselves the Evangelical Alliance.
They are combination Of all kinds OF Protestant
sects, banded together to work against and de-
stroy Popery and this subject the only one upon
which they agree.
While they paste upon the walls OF their meeting
house the motto "In Essentials Unity,n there
probably could not be found in the whole assembly
dissenters, who could agree upon what is essential
to salvation.
Unroll the history OF all the Protestant Pan
Anglican Synods. Conventions, Evangelical ALI
ances Councils. and what not, that have been held
in the last twenty years, and what have they accom-
plished Nothing What is the result OF all these
meetings, all this waste OF time and money Ger
tany no lasting result excepting the production OF
q little book called ''The Comedy OF Convocation.n
Would TO God that all the members and delegates
OF this ant-Cathoc society had read this book
six months ago. they then would probably have
concluded to stay home and keep their money.
Suppose you ask each member OF this society how
many sacraments are there do you think there
would be any unanimity. One would tell you two,
another seven, another none. suppose you ask
them is any sacrament essential to salvation
are there any sacfaments at all You would find
them as entirely divided on these subjects as they
are on all others. How about Methodist Church
South and Methodist Church North Baptist Church
South and Baptist Church North and SO on all
through. You will find that they were all divided
on the slavery question, excepting as Lord
Rome. ANY one who was in England twenty
years ago must have heard the outcry from one
nd Of IN s other against
commenced and they got short OF cotton TO keep
their factories IN Lancashire going; all the world
knows that the sympathies OF these same Evan
geist representatives OF innumerable schools Of
"Emasculated Theology" were with the slave
owner. To man they stood by the South; to q
man they preached aye and prayed too against
the arrogance and assumption Of the Americans
and did all they knew how to perpetuate slavery.
WhyY because hundred thousand men in Lanca-
shire alone were out OF work for want OF what ten
years before these Evangelists. as they call them
selves, had named '.blood-stained cotton" Con-
sistency, thou art a jewel Among business men
it is maxim, whatever you do do well, and the
lame ducks Of the Alliance would do well to write
this maxim on the tables OF their memory.
II they would do only one thing at time, and do it
well and thoroughly, Professionalism might inger in
the world lew years longer than it other wise
will DO. 1t Is on its last legs for want OF def
milton of what is essential to salvation, and il this
Alliance would lay their heads together and pro-
claim to the world their opinion OF baptism as
sentlal or not to salvation they would accomplish
The Church OF Rome speaks clearly on this as on
all other subJecs so clear. IN tact, that fool can
not mistake his way. The Church says without
Except ye be baptized OF water and of the Holy
Ghost We shall not enter into the kingdom OF
female, priest or laity. Christian, atheist Jew
or Mahometan may administer valdiy the
sacrament % o. baptism rs but the following
another must, while pouring water on the head OF
the one being baptized, say these words, 81 bap-
ana OF the Holy Ghost, Amen" SO far that is
clear. The water must be poured on the head
while the above words are beng said. Now, as
to the kind OF water; some people think it must be
holy water. Not SO. 1t may be well water, rain
water, river water, spring water, Croton water or
or course the "Alliancen win refer every one to the
James Bible or to the version about being issued
by the Soft Shell Eaptsts; but IN either case the
reader is commanded to hear the Church. But
enSaa enoush a' aa'f Sea1 them me- all ,hss S ng
20 hear the only one that claims to have a
thority rom Almighty God TO teach with certainty
, mankind the way to heaven: It Is forsgone con-
any other body Of Protestants can speak clearly,
definitely on any essential to salvation; but they,
to answer this question: How is 1t that in the
whole universe there is not to be found such an
0ineI nnv w rs an heado 1S
certainty not the work OF GodY How is 1t that the
foundation OF Professionalism, the right OF private
judgment, was never proclaimed to the world till
the sixteenth century Permit me to subscribe
myself A CONVERT TO POPERY.
Christian md Pagan Charity Compared.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
have read with interest the communication in
your last Sundays ISSUE written by gentle
man who, from his signature, judge to be
foreigner, and, probably. an Italian. This article
shows Us how it is that religlon-an religion In
general and Christianity in particular-is CON-
plete failure that it is rapidly dying out and will
soon be thing OF the past. The writer Is perfectly
harmonious and consistent throughout until he
comes to the end Of his communication, where
ind some remarks which prove to me that the
enervating influences OF Christianity have even had
some effect upon the mind OF this thorough re-
former himself After speaking Of the absurd waste
Of money in entertaining delegates to the Evan
gelica Alliance he suggests that this oney might
better have been employed In relieving the neces-
stiles OF the poor or In difustng instruction among
the ignorant throughout the EARTH Now, sir, after
ali that has gone before, I can consider tins latter
suggestion merely as bit OF pure and simple cant
q striking instance OF now infectious Christian modes
OF thought and speech have become, even among
those who do not Imagine themselves to. be liaole
to the contagion. Remember that thefe Is really
no such thing as religion seeing that 1t is delu-
sion and q myth and an expiring one at that. Let
us cast aside oil moral cowardice and chicken
hearted shrinking from natural and logical
quences and plant ourselves squarely upon the
great primal platform OF Nature and reason. A
man who has really attained this standpoint must
see that he has no more right to call upon other
men to expend their money IN feeding beggars or
instructinR ignOrdnsa than In ent raining dele
gates to the Evangelical Alliance. Reasons tells US
That every man has right to spend his money as