The New York herald., 1874-11-01
HERALD SUNDAY 1874-QUINTUPLE SHEET

HERALD, SUNDAY, NOV
made. sne alone rs the great mother whose ideal
has nlled their souls from the baptsmal hour. In
the blood OF ner spouse they were born anew, ana
or the expression OF Hregeneratlonr to disappear
fr their ritual from their belief In her tab
Lamb doth He really dwell eyermore. why do
they not seek Him present In that great mothers
house Z It IS subject Of infinite Compassion 70
eucharistlc presence and the tokens OF alteration
which that presence demands OF the believer so
many noble hearts capable OF all heroic deeds OF
virtue, ycarn within the Protestant Episcopal
Church for that near presence OF the Lord-ior
opened side ana pierced heart OF Him who Is the
rock OF refuge OF us ALL
they want all that can satisfy the loftest asplra-
tions OF their nature and the cravings OF their
hearts, we are saddened or indignant that they
should be led away from the nome OF their mother
and the heart OF their father, Christ.
1t Is not her lault tnat Italy and Spain and even
France should be now threatened with the late Of
Christian Constantinople and Carthage and Alex
andrta and Jerusalem. Gods truth and Gods
grace are twin pearls which man may Keep or
lose, because man is q free agent. Tne Oppression
Ol Judea by Philistine or Babyl0nian and the rum
OF Gods temple in Jerusalem by the hand OF an
idoatr0us Zoe, did not prove that their alth was
false. IL was punishnent for eraces unapprec
ated and despsed SO with Italy. 80 with spain,
dieth not. When look up to the mountain oak
In these last days OF the lovely October weather,
tumn wind, shall deem the tree dead and all its
promise OF vitality gomez No, mol 1t s the same
irosts OF centuries. The winter may be a long
one. during which 1t must sit there uncrowned
an stripped OF all lts glory; but because know
that oak Hveth / am sure that with the first
breath Of spring 1t Will put forth its buds again
and again De clothed In all IFS glory. WHAT think
you OF Hose insects Of day, which believe as
night comes down on the branches OF the old
mountain III onarch, beneath winch they are nest
ling, tnat because that night is their last day
snail never again rise the lOrtlV tree ktdlY.
know, must suffer, and so must ner sister, Spain;
but no other form OF Christianity can ever flourish
on their soil than that OF Dante ana PeayO.
PRUDENTIUS
The Inquisition and It's victim--Another
Defence of DIR. Seymour.
Your correspondent "Looker un'' has ventured
to say word In Dr. Seymour's defence, and it IL
really comfort to find that, In spite OF the ter
rorism OF our newly revived inquisition, one man
is brave enough to uphold faithful clergyman
who has been made q martyr by the bitterest
ebullition OF party spirit which our Church has
witnessed through many happy years and which,
pray God, may never stain her annals again.
have mewhere read an old saying which gives
reason for men being afraid to come to the light,
but happily 1t does not apply to Dr.. Seymour's
friends or himself II were wisest, how
ever, not to allow too close scrutiny
OF an opposition supported by one rival
candidate and engineered throughout by another,
that other having just previously-as one or the
appointed commlttee-announced to DR.. Seymour
his election AMI pledged him his own cordial sup.
port.
When Paul was accused OF heresy the heather
Felix thought 1t unreasonable to send a pris-
Oner and not withal to signify the crimes laid
against him,n but now Christian casuIstry decides
that priest Of God may be condemned by Sc
cret tribunal, which, unlike the inqulsltion, not
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even to know that whereof he Is accused.
Hitherto our Church has openly and honestly
tried men tor heresy and acquitted or con-
demned them according to the evidence; it
was reserved for the present Convention
to inaugurate q cheap and expeditions
method OF running clergyman's reputation with
out the trouble or responsibility ofa trial-a pleas
ant outlook for those priests who may chance
hereafter to be obnoxious to the party in power,
and great incentive to the conscientious ulflment
Of unpopular duties
One OF the crucial accusations against DR.. Sey-
mour seems to be that he did not interfere to pre-
vent young gentlemen under his professional
charge from contessing their sins. But considering
that the English Church invites every one about
to receive the holy communion to confession III
he cannot quiet his own eonscence); thai in her
absoution as any used by Romanists, ana that tie
American Protestant Episcopal church retains
that form OF ordination wherein the priest
1t would be hard to conceive now any
honest clergyman, faithful to his ord nation VOWS.
ing what the English Prayer Book styles the
''beneflt OF absOlutlOn.r
Let the Prayer Book be changed or else forgive
those priests who believe Their ordination to be
no solemn travesty, but hold that when they re-
celved the power OF the Holy Ghost to remit sins
they received gift OF God, to be prayeriuIly cx-
ercsed, but never scofled at.
Again, DR.. Seymour Is to be condemned because
true that st. Ambrose. 81. Augustine, st.
Chrysostom, st. Gregory Nazanzen, st. Jerome,
whose authority the @ English prayer BOOK IsiI tine
basis OF our own and from whose doctrines
we declare that we have no intention to depart)
constantly delers, have asserted their belief In
this divine mystery far more strongly than he. 1t
Is also true tnat in our own communion such men
Bishops Forbes, Bishop hamilton, Bishop Moberiy,
Thorndike George Herbert, Dr.. Neale and John
KeDle held the same doctrine; but what authority
have names like these over the bitterness OF party
The opponents OF Dr. Seymour have done their
best TO sign and seal his deGradai ion. THAT they
could DO no more was not their iault hnt that OF
circumstances, which, though giving them Inqus-
nstor,a sYe sc ap 20 nGemr IN
unheard faii hul priest because he served God
according to the light God had given HIM be a
kindly or Christian act-one fitted TO draw down
the blessing OF, Heaven upon It's prOmOters-is be-
tween their own consciences and their Cod
EPlSCOPALIAN.
The Truth Triumphant-Dr. Eult0n's
Defence OF the Long Island Baptist
Association.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
My attention has been called to an article In
your valuable and widely circulated journal, en-.
Titled s'Sectarianism Rampant" In which you ar.
raign the Baptists of Long Island for the stand
they took in maintaining before all the world and
might almost say, against all the world, the
principles which have been committed as q sacred
trust to their keeping.
As Baptistsit Is our belief that .aith is pre-
requisite to immersion, and that faith and INNER
sion are prerequisites to the privileges OF the Lords
supper. For this declaration OF faith no one in
the denomination has contended more stoutly
than have J. Hyatt Smith and Reuben Jeirrey
Both or them have sermons in print which avOw
In plain. strong and earnest lannuara the nrin.