New-York tribune., 1879-06-07
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
A NEW PENTECOST.

a NEW
| ELDER EVANS TELLS WHAT HE SHOULD Exp.cg To
SEE IN THE TEIBUNE's IDEAS WERE CARRIED
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| To ne Edftor Of The Tribune.
SIR: Saturdays editorial - PentecOst in.
deei!l " Incredible events ~ What were they The
iconoelasc TRIBUNE tells to our face aud Is 1t not to
onr shsnel Was not the editor inspired 20 preach
the preachers God will speak, and will be heard.
If these stones" have TO be the moutbpiece. and
universe the auditor n, Professor Mapcs claimed it
Is by evolutionary processes that God moves the
teria world from primates to ultmstes the mental
and spiritual world IN humanity alone fixed sta
tonary. until 1t Il not the head, but the tall human
motive forest Until the gious-aement,
of the life OF God IN human souls becomes
myth superstition, bundle and jumble OF effete
pricstly othingarianism, Ia Beacher and Talmage
trials, Worfs Protestant Evangelical alliance pro-
phetc conference about the second coming. logically
eudiDg in Pocasset tragedy. by simple sincere be-
heving Second Adyentsts Freeman was just what
The TRIBUNE the preachers TO beeOme-like Cath
oic Inqulsitors Protestant. Quaker and Wltchcraft
prosecutors religious OF all false systems
doors of their theology.
Grant said: "Pdt bad law into practical operation
enforce repeal it" This is what THE TRIBUNE IL
at with the heologies-do them change them. Let
the old Pentecost alone, or let us have modern Pente
cost the faithful TRIBUNE will record the results.
That is rght-he editor Is right Let God speak
through the secular press through Infdel Communists
through the Shakers, test what is and establish
what should be. Anything is better than this body Of
death. Let us all, as you suggest. look into the
matter a httle" If daretodoit. An upper room. filed
with ordinary peOpe-taX gatherers, fishermen, inn
awho to act out what they
fully believed-hence how important that they believe
right. The little house "a la Kiddel suddenly shaken
by n mighty rushing wind, and these men, with cu-
tiyatioD, genius. special gift OF mind body In
stanty filed with the Divine 5Dirit-whatever that may
be-but 1t Ia somsthing that caused these common
people to become, In degree. As Gods inspired
TO speak to every in his language.
tongue. Is it faDaticism, enthusiasm. inspiration
that asks the question. "Why Is not this thing done
nowP The world surely needs the truth just as much
then Drunkenness, fraud aud uuchastity, IN the
and OF Broadway, rife as I'm those
TO before clergy tho wall-s brokers'
Ftfth Avenue dwellers, and common people . Their
ing wind come TO US, and the tongues Of hreP These
questions put by the secular cognzant OF the
fact beneath the shell OF modern hollow cyzi
ton there do hOw forever irressby. the great cur
rents of right and wrong up to true civilization that
will secure the greatest number The greatest pOssi-
be gOod-Or DOWN to (RussIan) brutality.
Now my dear TRIBUNE, ask, IN the name Of my old
friend Horace, who stands Mt your elbow. what
would happen IN New-York If all your readers should
common way II these internal ireS-eternal
abstract trutbs-wbIeh do exist you declare. m the
very souls Of the population OF the great city andts
suburban villages, being merely custed WITH the
cOnyeut0nasm OF society IL now exists should burst
up asiNt Ktna Is doing ana 0VerhOw would II Dot slnk
the whole system IN moment, ike great milestone
dropped By angel into the seat IT, in the next morn
ng's ISSUE The tribune should announce, witn Divine
authority" IencefOrtb, all things are common and
let OF aught they have possessed,
it ia nine. but ours" wOdld not rhe priests, H great
company OF them were willingly obedent TO the now
faith body, as the heart Of one man, and
declare, in these words; "It is Spiritual force and
has come like mighty rusning wind blowing through
great OF people, or the mind perhaps. o. our
common place neghbOrs changing instantly and with
apparent rational cause, their motives liung them
suddenly planes OF thought and action y Are
many hungering so<ls ready for food or las lHB
TRIBUNE ceased to plead the cause ana give voice 10
the wants and desires of It's cOnsttuenS-the People
NJ Lebanon, June 2, 1879. /. W. EYANS.