The New York herald., 1876-01-02

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interest that Chinaman can become an orator We
have known the eioquence OF All srn eoquence Of
eeedk words, but In Foochow they have Celestial
who is In great danger of being invited
take charge Of one OF our vacant city pulpts. His
Is sA Sex ong. Which OF these words stands for
| Mr.. Rev., aud which the Smith Jones element
tell but nevertheless the man good Mctho-
dust and fine preacher
The Tdbtet Roman Catholic, says OF Mr. Moody that
no gives 'n the midst OF age OF mockery and un-
beevng kind OF earnest testimony TO Jesus. and
cannot md II in heart TO say IL is not or God
When tho Protestants think say the same thing
the revival will begin to work successfully The dill
Guilty with the movement in our judgment, that the
clergy only make believe in IT. They have chilled il TO
death with cold embraces
Dr. j. ?. Newman has excited the envy of his brother
ministers to remarkable degree. General Grant ap
pointed him inspector of consulates, with liberal
salary, and he has had the pleasure OF looking upon
tho officials OF the United States distant countries.
and OF bunting all over the Syrian Desert and
among the broken pillars OF Palmyra tho sand
heaps OF Ninevch and the half buried colonnades Of
Babylon for Consuls who never appointed.
Why he went to Sineveh TO find Consul
| II might be hard to guess, but TO Nneveh he went,
nevertheless and horseback, too and evidently had
such profitable time that we have come to the con-
cluson that United States Inspector OF Consulates IS
| a who enjoys an ample income whose wife is APP
pointed private secretary salary be despised
and whose chief business is to bestride the blood
Arabian or the humpy camel and follow the Isracites
| from Rameses to Canaan making dcours and then
to other interesting localities What pity it's that
| the White House has only chapain
One days record of crime ought make the unvcr-
sal heart OF the clergy ache Every possible nquiiy is
being enacted under the very shadow of the churches
which the only inhospable buildings in the city,
being shut much that the hinges OF the doors have
grown rusty, and yet, absorbed are religious people
by the OF the tribes OF Central Africa and the
castes OF India that they Indifferent to the
OF paganism that tbrves in midst 1t strikes
that might be we'll TO let the Sandwich ISLANDS, for
instance lie faow a couple of years and spend that
Appropriation in two or three OF the lower wards OF
minister who told his congregation that he proposed TO
become a missionary among the heather. His fearful
people nocked about him TO offer their tender farewcls,
when he sald:-"Brethrcn, your good byes arc nn-
necessary, since, in becoming missionary to tho
heather, do not propose to leave town"
Here is singular fact, certainly In Bruex, Bohe-
mia, several Catholic priests attended the religious
service at the synagogue the eve Of Yom KIppur,
and when mourning services were held for the de-
ceased Emperor Ferdinand the Prior of the Parists
| upon invitation, appeared IN the synagogue in his
| robes with the decoration of the Order OF Francis
Joseph, and attended the worship; and again, DR..
Ksch Rabbi OF Bruex in his quality as military chap
lain. attended high mass for the Emperor 1t is
barely possible that neither priest nor rabbi was in
jured by this interchange OF courtcscs. Our impress
sion is that II our moral and religious leaders could be
| induced to shake hands once week for year the
amount of active Christianity IN tho community would
be exactly doubled in that time. There is more re-
lgon in honest fellowship than ogo ever dreamed Of
Somebody and very bright and polysyllabic some
body has clothed himself in the disguise OF Darwin or
Huxley, aud, in fit Of inspiration, rewritten the first
| chapter OF Genesis Confused may have been by
the text of the Vuigae, cannot fail to have per-
after reading this paraphrase Allah is Allah and Dar
win must be his prophet LET there be light" and
Huxley appeared-Geness, chapter l. =
l. Primarily the Unknowable moved upon cosmos
| and evolved protoplasm-
| 2. And protoplasm was inorganic and uudiGer-
entiated containing all things in potential energy and
| spirit OF evolution moved upon the 1uid mass.
8 And the Unknowabc said, Let atoms attract; and
| their contact begat light, heat and electricity.
4. And the Uncondtioned differentiated the atoms
each after It's kind; and their combinations begat rock,
| s. And earthly atom in vegetable protopasm bcgat
the moecue and thence came all grass and every herb
| in the earth.
| o. And animaicule in the water evolved fms tails
claws and scales and in the air, wings aud bcaks; and
on the land they sprouted such organs as were ncces
| sary played upon by the environment.
L. Out of the ascidian came the amphiban and be-
gat the pcntadactylc; and the pentadacye by inherit
ance and selection produced the hylobatc, from which
are the simadae in all their tribes
Is Aud the patvrhine bcgat the catarrhnc aud tho
caiarrhine monkey begat the anthropoid ape and tho
ape bcgat the ongimanous oang and the orang bcgat
the chmpanzee and the chimpanzee eyouted the what
| isn't
2l And man grew a thumb, for that he had need OF
| it, and developed capacities for prey
| o. For, behold, the swiftest men caught tho most
animals, and the swifest animals got away from the
most men; wherefore the slow animals were eaten and
the slow men starved to death
| 23 And as types were differentiated the weaker
| types continually disappeared.
| "A And the earth was filed with volence for
strove with man. and tribe with tribe, whereby they
killed the weak and foolish and secured survival
Of the httest
Just Imagine the com fort of whole Bible rendered
thus rhythmcay. II would be almost as musical and
fascinating Martin Farquhar Tuppcr's Proverbial
Philosophy Such Bible could be put into our com
schools and read without the most distant fear
that any religious nnoenco whatever was being exer
cised.
|
Its members visit the hospitals and jals and tho
homes OF the poor. leaving at each bedside the fra
GRANGE of flower and kind word. The silent minis
traon Of beautiful things force unreckoned by the
Church. We should checrfully recommend flower
mission among the poor of New York, but If We may
be permitted, we prefer to call It a -four mission.
4 Bread before beauty when the mercury has hold
zero.
certainly very instructive, of lectures by noted
physicians is proposed 1t is for young men exclu-
sively and the subject is Tho Consequences, Moral
Physical and Spiritual OF Fast Lfc.n The names Of
the lecturers among which 1nd that of DR.. Willard
Parker will insure the earnest attention OF the
munty. II the Church had a little more courage and
little less prudcry and dared to talk about painful
facts in PLAN English, many young man might be
vestry chapel, when the minister forges the rules
of rhetoric and simply says what he There is
great deal OF difference between preaching to be pop
ular and preaching to do good
Dr. Talmage says that the why hrs paper has
Increased its subscription list is that the scissors and
paste pot" used sparngy. The Doctors English
| can hardly be called undened," (" though for rough
strength cannot be equalled What the effect would
be on Addison or any other man who has made for
himself n carefully selected vocabulary, amer reading
editorial from the pen nib OF DR. Talmage
do not dare TO trust ourselves imagine. Dynamite
sinks into explosive insign1cance ny the side OF
OF the Doctors sentences Here is one, which
quote the finest illustration tho world OF tho way
in which idea should not be put'Clcrical corre-
spondens apt to take out the liver and lights and
gizzard Of old sermons and send them, with
ttc the editor's room" wo don't know the class
OF men who write for the Chrisidn at Work and II this
Is really their method we should nc sorry make their
| acquaintance. Dr. Talnagc's language does
! ccal his thoughts, certainly; perhaps IL would bo
better. however, IL they were just bit disguised.
All tho world has shaken hands, over the new year.
VIC have crossed the threshold and stand face face
with 1875 Our calls all over, and bills have
begun in. '75 finishes the third quarter of a
very remarkable century, which has given us Amer