The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02
PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH.

Protestant Versus Catholic-The Bible
I'm Public Schools-Father Lake An
swered-An Appeal to Protestant Amer
leans.
crowded congregation met yesterday morning
In the Plymouth Baptist church, situated in Fifty
nrst street, near Ninth avenue, to listen to a
mon preached by the pastor, the Rev. D. Henry
Miller. on Father Lake, or the Common School
System Of Education At the conclusion OF the
preliminary services the pastor announced his
text from the fifteenth chapter OF Jeremiah and
the nineteenth and twentieth verses, which are
follows:-
Therefore thus saith the Lord II thou return, then win
bring thee again. and thou shalt stand and
thou take forth the from the vile; thou shalt
De my mouth let them return unto thee but return
And will make thee people fenced brazen
wall and they shall night against thee but they shall
S oa ase saith e o am VII" se 10
The subject OF my discourse to-day, said the
preacher, as the majority Of my hearers are
aware, is "Father Lake, or the Common school
System of Education.n
JOINING ISSUE WITH FATHER LAKE.
On the 18th Of January last Father Lake Ro-
mcn Catholic priest OF this city, preached in st.
Bridget's church on the catholic Church and the
Great Question Of the Day." Mr.. Miller then read
IN extract from the HERALD report.
After reading it he said In every condition
Of human abatement we find that time
rives for men to oppose their fellow men
who treat as null and void the ordinances OF
divine law think that such time has arrived
ut this moment. In the time OF danger lie behoove5
all to be watchful, and, should the protectors or
the public welfare be found careless OF the trust
c0nfded to them, their punishment should be made
speedy and enlcacious. The guardians OF our lives
and property are enjoined not to wait till the thief
the incendiary commences his EVIL DEEDS, but 10
notify us OF the approach OF danger. How sublime
Is the mission OF watchfuness delegated by God 10
His ministers, whose devotion to their nocks
should be ceaselessl do not think that the IDEA
be better defined than IN the words OF the
poet, which are as follows:-
In heavens high arch his head glorious Form
Whose lett hand bore aambeau bright His right scep
Adiadem OF purest gold His brow imperial crowned,
AND from His throne He thus addressed the Waterman
What Of the night what of the night watchman' what
The myriad Toe in close array. to try their
night assault and If thy trump single sound
VII hang upon these battIements the watchman ON ms
With such a view ofresponsibIity do speak this
morning OF the present contest and OF the battle
Whlcn must ere long develop ITSELF for our national
The Bible is the gilt OF God to mankind, and the
experiences vi ages nave proved 1t TO be Gods
word and not mans word. Too long has this peo-
pie suffered at the hands OF Papsts IRON Ireland,
who are DESTROYS OF banishing Holy Writ from our
schools Communists from Paris, German free
thinkers may be tolerated here as we do politIcal
yer; but such men must not be allowed by Ameri
cans to have the governing powers in their hands
Inc false regionlsts have entered into a con-
splracy TO overthrow our liberty Let us anayze
the manner in which this work was commenced.
Our pubic schools an institution or which all true
americans ieel proud were protested against az
being TOO sectarian; text books were clamored
against ana the Bible was pronounced an UNIT
doom lot school instruction. The complaint was
hstened TO- anu taat was our first great error.
UNDUE PREFERENCES TO THE RoMIsH CHURCH.
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