The New York herald., 1877-11-04

He Is certainly sne only minister In this section OF
country who hts pulpis Tor stump speech, and
as master OF all the adjectves OF pvsctve his supe
rior cannot be found We say that there 10
NOT another pulpit in the world which could give Ut
terancs 70 such sentence tina. which Mr.. Talmase
uttered as an honest criticism on horrssey II may
DO snought that cxaggerate; We, therefore, repro
duce the sentence Tho reverend gentleman spoke In
these sulogis,c terms Of tho Now YORK politician -
rhA hero OF nsscun this champion OF se-pounders.
this lowest rnsng Of the political sewer this king Of
bruisers this smashsr Of the visags this tou
cxecrabis. unmiSiGassd outrage which the slums OF
New York arc trying 10 spew into ths Senate"
Now, viii somebody buy unabrdged dictionary and
mark tho small number Of adjcctives which do APP
pear In the above sentence and send u TO Nj. Tai
mascf We venture TO say shas nsisher Or. Hall, nor
DR.. Taylor, nor Dr. Tying would dnd Il within.
reach Of his great gcnius TO conssrucs such para
graph. and therefore, give the palm to tho cham
pion OF Brooklyn.
SPIRITUAL FORCES IN CIVILIZATION.
To THE EDrroR or rnE HxRALD:-
The Episcopal Congress- rcoontly assembled In thts
CITY, devoted session the discussion Of srhe
Spiritual Forcos In Civilization" Papers road by
several Of their most eminent dvtncs, and all claimed
Tor the modern Christian Church vastly in CIV
Ing shape to civilization than the OF history
and tho facts Will warrant Civilization Is
human progress, and u has received NJ
most advanced development nom the forces
OF human intellect and genius In referring the whole
subjocl Of civilization AZ has sppcared 10 the world
TO the evidence Of oboosivs truths oclisve IN
nature and man 70 DO found both aad efscs
and that 70 the Intellectual force chiefly should be
credited she history Of civilization Oppossd 70
this the recent usserauoos sf tho Episcopal
Congress- Their nrst speakcr--Dr. Ewcr, OF New
York-assortod that sspiritual iorccs Into she
world with Christianity, and they differ from moral
forces whic existed before Christ" Upon tho further
assumption that spiritual forces Synonymous
with Christianity Or. Ever claims that Christ
opened tne Supernatural founta,ns'' or Church
faith, that ali that u godlike modern ctvilx-
tion nowod In and upon ~ from tho Christian Church
With tho simple reference tnis point she giorss
Of ancient civilization, when the State tho arts ora
tory and learning s exoslsd the Church In hs iustrs
with which thoy flooded civilization, should like 70
ask Dr.. Bwes we must believe that his spiritual
forces" withhold from Moses, whosay hs aiked
with God face to face, friend might speak
other" Let us look little closer ~ this pretcntion
thas pri sual iorces entered not into the world and
It's civilxat ION until tho advent Of Christ.
Moses gave the law and the commandments 10 the
lying ana those iawsf Does tho oivilisa-
tion OF tho EGyptians the Greeks and the Romans
give NO evidence OF spiritual forcess" Ancient
ilizati0n In many respects relates 70 art and the
objective dealizaton OF the truths OF nature
perior TO anything Of modern production Civilization
Of hts nature intellectually and morally has given 70
the civilization or the various epochs the I'M
Ali that tbere was Of spritua ioros In any c,v,iisa
ton was In II quito outside and independents Of any
church organisation, dogma or pretension; and what
thore may havo been, or may now OF abomina-
sons In civilization neither tho Church the state
should be held exclusively accountable These
Ev>lc ntlASv,A Ia A.A ~ls~
gether agree TO tho spiritual force" dogma Dr.
Ever. who says that civilization controlled only
since. DR. Franois Henry thought il was ..man ma.
ture and God IN unity"
Dr. Abercrombae recognized "intslectual force" and
condemned the ''sbominauous In modern civillza-
tion." The Rev. Mr. Mcconnell declared mat espirit-
ual gifts appertain 20 tho Church Of God and not
nation, wo think DR.. Ewer's dogma rebuks
which Il richly merted. The Rev. A. 8. Doodle main
sanea saa: rests srea' dsa, more on
We think, in view Of tho extreme claims put forth
for spiritua forces, since the advent OF Christ
pocally they relate 10 civilization that the truc
iorces Of God and nature as developed n man oxist
event You may sct back or put forward your clock,
but you cannot con1scntO she Pyramids Neither can
with tho ,n,oectuai forces and nature pretty wo OK
plain civilization Civilization In all ages been an
objective principle From the mino OF man every crea-
tion OF his genius has been evolved
As social unit he mergcs into society. and In THIS
relation deveopes into the organic WHOLE From the
concrete 10 evolved the varying phases OF life,
society, civilization. The dogma witch asserts for
any church that nero 1gment Of time, 1877 years.
has developed force which moulds our civiliza-
ton, strikes Us ~ simply absurd. What part has
the Stato tho press genius, science and men OF let
tors played al, these i,s71 ysarsf Have they boen
they do, both the politicians and statesmen OF our
country. the clerical iorces-a thousand 70 onehave
human pa.ure; with thought aud will on ono SIDE
genius and truth ON tho Other controlled by the unity
OF relations which bind him 10 his Maker-man IL tho
force which, intellectually developed, has made all
When God created man after His own image and
breathed into him tho breath OF life, and he became
''livng SOUL" all thero OF spiritual torces" Of
which Dr. Ever knows anything, developed with his
was sos q a who
with God and kept HIS gospels merely moral iorce
IN tho primitive Churchess And what evidence has
CHRISTI Believing that God Is spirit aud that man
''created 10 HIS image" and with HIS attributes.
saorS c'y,ne. y no aouy 70 a,aons sne paas ,oscss
not the "Christian Church." nor my other.
The fisherman OF Gaeo did not claim 70 have built
Noah's Ark and this new prstension TOR the Church
will not ccrtain annihilae tho gores OF civ.
ization It existed before Christ II were TO
hold tho Christian Church responsible Tor civilization
with oil OF It's modern abominations, should crcdit
It's advocates with atrocities which wo think more
r,ssauy belong 70 tae ~ oa.sr elements men ., Of human
development. It's forces are Nature and Han.
croctod magnificent cathcdrais; tho Egyptians
pyramids and the turks mosques and minarcts CIV
ing quite exalted evidence Of spiritual civilization
as tho most ostentatous meeting house architecture
Of Christian Amcrica In art ancient superiority s
even moro str,kingly manifest Tho Greek marbles
surpass oil modern sculpture; Italy's best painters
did not bclicve In Christianity, Dante worshippcd
Beatrice, and Michael Angelo believer in Moses
and not In modern Christianity. This "forco" which
Is assumed 10 exist In aud for the Christian
Church excusivcly-what - ~ How do
wo learn that any thing 10 'forcen except
by trncng It's action In the production OF phcnomc ma
We see what the pagans developed and wo sec what
modern civilization has developed The Church aid
not invent tho electric telegraph tho application OF
steam az motive power, nor the telescope. II did
not discover the laws oil gravitstoD, and yet pro-
that the jealous OF these .spriiua f0rce''
Christians will admit that those intellectual and
human gcnius productions havo ADVANCED oivili-
zati0n.
wc uly agrcc with tho Row Mr McConncil-tha,
'sprtual gifts belong 10 the Church OF God, ana not
10 the state and therefore. snco civiiyation 10 hu-
man progress, and necessarily relates much moro 10
the 'SIatc" In Its collective character than 10 any
separate society or organization, pelIcd 70
regard the caim put forth by Dr. Ever unfoundcd
and opposed TO the evident forces and hstorcs truths
upon which both ancient and modern civilization