The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-10

Iuded ana disappointed There must necessarily have
been al this period Jerusalem three considerable
partesyiz, the mass oil the common people, the dig
nitarcs and priests OF the old Jewish Church and the
representatives OF the Roman power and all their SYM
pathzers No doubt each OF these classes had us own
claim 10 respect aud It's ground Of reasonableness
Tor It's opinions IL Is true they were all mistaken but
IN another way they were all IN some sense ana 10
some degree right In their feelings. Dr. Bellows then
described the feelings and the condition OF the three
classes above mentioned al the time when the sayiour
was on earth.
CHRISTIANITY REFINED JUDAISM
Further on IN the discourse the preacher said:-As
Christianity was Judaism refined corrected elevated
and pointed with new hopes and led by captain
greater than all The prophets must confess that
every age has proceeded TO correct amend, raonaze
always the same How long would il have taken the
apostles 10 recognize the religion they left IN Jerusalem
and Asa Minor or planted at Athens aud Rome IN the
dress assumed five centuries later IN the capital OF
the world the Eternal CITY, II clothed itself In the
pomp oil the world, its purple and jewels Its archec
ture and political power and became the instrument OF
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AMBITION
that ever took possession OF the human bosomy what
was Alcxandcrs what was Caesars kingdom compared
with that OF the popcs in their highest power when
great kings trembled at Their crozlcrs and humbcd
themselves at their rcproofy Had Christianity been
that liked, changclcss thing, without growth or In
terror development It would not have been here to-day
II was the capacity OF being separated from the super
sons OF its successive holders It's hospitality TO new
light and truth its accommodation 10 the powers OF tho
human mind. that has gwen power 70 outiivc rclig
ions that did not ana could not grow, I'M
told, shed their old bark and put on new
beauty with the ever returning spring OF humanity
We respect those old conservatives tho high
priests OF the Sanhedrim and the Pharsees, whose
Jewish orthodoxy would not allow them 10 credit such
innovation II was contrary To the tencts Of re-
ligon OF thousand years, and they were only acting
bodies OF people ever act, with certain fatal
necessity, and us people act in present day.
WHAT Is ORTHODOXY
at time In the world IN matters OF religion but the
opinions that have got themselves enlrenched and
surrounded by the greatest numbers? Who so orlho-
dox those very Jews who crucided tho saviour? IL
was their venerable profound attachment 10 The truth
that led them To dare anything 10 qucnch this IRE
brand. They did what tho orthodoxy Of the law did
with the Quakers OF England the witches OF salem,
with the early abohtionsIs with the Anabaptsts and
Socnans, and which burned at Smithfed some of the
first Untarans. But we know that Christianity Is
still young and growing, still shedding the errors
which men have confoundcd with H. and We know, too,
what tho junction OF orthodoxy is and what
1t can yet accomplish DR.. Bellows then delivered
glowing euogy the personal character OF Christ,
andn conclusion said, THE palms that waved Tor
Thee broken IRON their stock, did not perish that
fcrvd April sun-thcy passed on ali 20 from generation
TO generation. We fling them in Thy glorious way us
Thou gocst to-day from Olives to Calvary, Tor we know
that though they Thee tho cross, tho will
hit Thee TO the throne Of human hearts and make
Thee thousand years hence dearer aud sacred
TO our race than Thou art to day.n