The New York herald., 1876-02-06

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have brought thus far Whittier was right alter all
when no predicted that the hour would soon come in
the which the color Of mans skin would not be half
important as the color Of his heart He said: =
Oh, never you fear
! II never you hear
The driver blow his h0rn-
Years ago we saw the blacks in the sugar cane mill
sullen, stupid and lazy, working with the overseers
whipcrack in their ears and they grind their corn
to the lively music of Nj Sankey's hymns. TemPord
mutdntnr
Some OF the Boston mnistry-not OF the evangelical
stamp Of courseare reported present at the Globe
Theatre opening night We are not at all prudsh
in our notions, but this strikes beng just bit
remarkable The ministry ought to be known so
much by It's white necktie by its separation" from
pleasures that purely worldly and not entirely in-
nocuous.
Morality is somewhat labyrinthlne. Many man
who would steal a nickel will sleep the sleep
OF innocence after having taken an umbrella 'by ac-
cident
Babes and suckllngs sometimes preach better than
they know, and the questions Of the enfdRt terrible
are both startling ana suggestive 'Father why don't
you either give up family prayers swearingf' No
minister could have hit the paterna na head iarer
Some people have an instinct for the udicrous Even
the sternes ana most rigid orthodoxy smile at
times, as when one Of the cloth who asked 20 sup
ply an appropriate motto tor an orphan asylum gave
THUS far and no father. y
Henry Bergh, II the following story told OF him is
correct must have been born without nal sin. He
may have acquired his pro rata quantity since coming
into contact with cruel stage drivers but in his inflncy
ne was without guile Ii is said that In his earliest
years he tender hearted that when mosquito
lii on his face he hit himself a powerful blow and
knocked himself away from the mosquito rather than
take the valued life of the insect
1t may seem very curious 70 some, but Ralph Waldo
Emerson, whom men have called inhdel, and who has
had whole pile Of ecclesiastical stores h-own at him.
rs really believer in the higher life doctrine and II he
had fed orthodoxy in his youth, instead OF hcresy
would have preached the absorption OF the soul in God
according TO the evangelical fashion Here what he
says OF inspiration and what suggested the above
crtcism:-'When the spirit chooses you for its scribe
to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to
men, and men odlous to you and you shall accept that
loathsomeness with joy
Spell the word ',spiritn with capital s. and you have
sentiment to which the most conservative orthodoxy
would assent 1t is just Dit suggestive that the dercest
radical, an honest thinker, IN leaning forward, ana
the extreme churchman, honest believer in leaning
/ backward, should touch foreheads II shows plainly
enough that the only danger there is is dishonest
not in honest, thinking.
Rev. C. W. wendte, Unitarian, accepts a call from
Cincinnati church condition that he shall not be
required to administer the Lords Supper Unitarian
ism seems to have arrived very curious position.
In some OF its churches the Lords supper abolished
in others there is no sunday school; still others the
lesson is read from the Koran and in others again the
name Of Jesus Christ is studously avoided There
seems to be nothing left except the eminent respect
ability Of the hearers and the minister's salary.
We sometimes wonder whether the conventional
"loDg prayer in churches is the channel through
which religious information is to be given to the Al
mighty. one would think most ministers very far
from being in earnest If he judged by the length OF their
prayers; for IL of the pecuartes OF human
ture that what you want ieel that you have
clothes itself in very few words, while what you in
4 different about rounds itself into fine phrases and
lengthens itself out into discourse beggar who
asking dime begins by delivering essay capital
and labor VIII probably go supperless bed Father
! are there newspapers in heavenYn SNo my boy y
"Well, thought there couldn't be, because the MN
ister told the Lord so many things this morning
Some of the most eloquent prayers never get higher
than the church steeple. Prayers like air, must be
heated before they acquire any lifting power
The Baltimore Nelcs has logic all its and IL 1t
is somewhat unique 1t has charm which carries
yicon with it, 1t declares that it has found incon
rovertible reason for giving up the Bible in public
schools-namey, that Mr. Talmage says it read in
the school which he attended in his early days The
Necs to stand in dread lest defence of the Book
should result In the production of another preacher as
erratic as the Brooklyn pastor
The question whether Indian corn cultivated by
the people of Palestine at the time Of the Hebrew
sion is at last settled Mr Tamage who described the
lsraecs as ''huskng the corn, was severely laughed
at; but in this weeks editorial he retorts with degree
of asperity, not to say acerbty which suggests tenn
4 porary alteration He quotes from encyclopedia
which, he says, cost 81 or SILT Is well to be
in these detailsand which declares II to be possible
that the lsraees sang their and danced their
dances a veritable ''shucking of the corn
lie cinches the nail by saying ''Yea we can show
these ignorant editors Of grown from seed
found IN Palestine as old as Bible timesn Ii is be
hoped that the date found that original
] ''seed," because the phrase, bible times is some
what indefinite Does Mr.. Talmage mean thatat
picked up in the track of the Hebrews and with be-
coming prescienoe safely done up in a bundle and
marked 1T D. Tamage, BROOKLYN; to be kept till
called for" Who found that seed I'm Bible times y''
that is what still tcases US, and who planted it and
watered 1t and then sent al ear to the popular
preacherr However, the Doctor tells that ought
not to critcse his facts because the sermon in ques
saved a soul in Scoiland and gave peace TO "a
dying man in Switzerland" Preach on, Doctor, for IT'S
sort of matcr what kind 1t was f the rest of
the sermon 1rl so much good
The unecclesastical reader failed to the sharp
point In the burlesque resolutions offered by Dr.
Thomas before the Baptist Pastors Association a week
ago That august and sober body OF the clergy dis
cussing motion 10 welcome the unimmcrscd swith
/ open arms to hosptable graves, when the Doctor
interJected an amendment to the effect that
every man who observes the saints days
Tnl ~
every one who causes 20 be printed read of
Mr.. Spurgcon's scrmous he beng avowed open
communionis be, and hereby Is, andtaemd mdrdnatad
His amendment defines right OF private judg
ment' to be the right decide whether brother is
hereto or not and the liberty to diner as liberty to
differ from other denominations but not from the Bap-
tist body. When the time comes IN which thrce-quar
ters OF the world shall be rich and the other quarter
/ virtuous IN which there VIII be no need OF home or
/ foreign MISSIONS then Christians may possibly have
leisure TO discuss these tine points OF polity and split
ting theological hairs may become part OF every days
rccreation but when New Ork far gone in wick
edness that we compelled import evangeliss to
lend us hand, II quite The time 70 quarrel the
size OF the tank IN which the converts shall be bap
\ tzed
There seems TO be a large variety Of opinons on the
proper length Of sermons Short and red hot is our
motto. Some ministers never aim blow at the devil
without apologizng tor IT, and preach In such
tain way that the congregation seems to say,
Now we'll go TO sleep until you catch him, and then
wen wake up and see the hght' and they sumber
on until the benedction. The pcws dislike to have
their sins apoogzcd for by the pulpit ~ lrm expecta
tion Of the victory. determ nation 10 fight it
that line II II takes all summer, and the inclusion
I OF rich and poor alike In the catalogue Of evidocrs-
these the three prncpa elements of successful
ministry. That least, is the lay view Of the sub.
ject This namby pamby rhetoric which can't bear to
tell that they are miserable sinners, always ends
! its career arfd the rGsng Of small silk and satin
congregation nut the people large respect aud follow
the preacher who puts the millionaire and beggar into
the same hopper and grinds them both ine that the
money Of the and the poverty OF the other
both consccrated
The title reverend In connection with the name
OF s. d. Wipslow the forger seems to be entirely
superhuous That he a clergyman, except
far as his ecclesiastical robes made him SUCH Is plain
al last II was not his methodism that hurt HIM, but
the want Of IT, Religion Is not injured by such cases
any more than the currency OF the country Is by
a counterfeit ten dollar bill The weak minded
Will snocr and tell us that this what religious people
do but microscopic OF real brain matter viii IN
form US that religion the one thing that Wnslow
didn't have, and hence his sojourn IN Rotterdam.
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