New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. April.

y,- C,,,.is "a devoted TO a defence OF General Nc
Cleans military career. treating the fuoec' WIN ne
plaasible ingenuity and in the partisan spirit VIM"
woud be- suited to the management OF an unpromlSng
case al the bar SIR Francis Hincks treats OF the he
,aon. az Canaia with the United States" concluding
from his statr that the United states mas no JsC
cround TO complain of the Canadian tariff; tha Cahau
has the reciprocity treaty WIN Tue
United States has evlnced readiness 10 cohceus ~"
reasonable demands; that the fishery question must
very soon become again a subject for negotiations tha
there i no probability 0fchange in the political state 81
Canada and that it is most desirable that some eh't
should be made by the United states to establish sats
factory commercial relations between the two countries
In an article 1.-The Failure of the Southern Pulpit he
Rev David Swing takes the ground that the instituuono
slavery benumbed the intellect and sentiment oi the
South Weakening the mental power Of Statement men
o science, poets. nOvelists, and clergymen ahSe i
bore especially hard the condition or the clergy
man by dividing society into three castles ana hah'hE
him the pastor of only one division In sAshVS
modified form caste holds held the South as firmly as
II held India before it subject TO British rule Three
shares OF humanity lay before the parson OF the cotton
sates-the shareholders the poor whites anu me SAVES
Immense merit attached 10 the first class the last cass
lay far over toward the animal world. ana SaVatOh o
lowed this law OF decrease. and offered with some
zeal 10 tee first families. often suggested 10 'he
poor whites 40 being desirable and died away who'N
before II reached the ears of those complexion
W OF a dark mixed character. Prevented mus "y
political interest and preudccS FROM dealing with those
who most needed the te schings and pity OF Heaven
compelled harden MS heart against the cries oil tose
in bonds and in tormenis under the LASH the her
aid Of Jesus Christ slowly became dc aer IN III
telec;ual distractions, or an ap0'ogist ior
shameful Institution and its attendant personal wees
The Southern pulpit moreover failed to grasp the es
sental meaning the Christian religion, 10y regarding
1t merely as provision for the happiness of man IN
future state But as Mr.. Swing afrms Chrieaniy az
tennis also q release from present SuherlnSs ana chs
happiness the human race In the hrst stage Oh us
existence No religion has ever exhausted set IN the
life after DEATH Watcher mans religious IDEAS nave
formulated themselves in Egypt or in Persia or III
India or in Palestine under the Hebrews, they have
made the virtue and the and happiness OF these
threescora Years least the Oaea Of Their message
uni longing In that highest form OF philosophy man
has been a staple unit, and. whether his lie lay OUT
spread here lay reaching beyond these conines' II
has been all Of piece. like the unity of childhood ana
middle life. II we open Persian rengon-the religion
of those mag who came such affection 10 homer the
babe in the marger-we find their doctrines
10 be shapes of duty ard OF success Oh
This side of the grave. The PefSians piaStd
that they might never be carried away by anger
that angry and looks might seem 10 them sln'
that they might reply TO an enemy with gentenesS thal
they might contend constantly against evil morally and
physically; L would praise all good thoughts words
works would curse all evil thoughts words ana
works. husdsclosng their conviction that The paradise
beyond death only 10 be continuation oil paradise
well founded here. OF similar import is the theology Of
the ancient Egyptians 1t did not call man worm
aud jump his earthly being contenEtibe,
but il placed upon tomhs these epaphs He loved his
father hOnOred his mother, he loved ms breihreh
he never went away from in anger he never pre-
ferred the great man to the humble one; He |
gave bread to the hungry, water TO the thirsty, !
clothes 10 the naked, shelter TO the stranger"
The universal voice Of enlightened antiquity assures us
that rc! gion is a combined for God and FOR the
immediate welfare of man. But the Southern pulpit fell
into a state of abiect pOweTessness through failure TO
recognize this vital feature OF the Gospel when mas
presumed to teach: Hence, in ITS long neglect to |
preach the elevation OF man here 10 procla tue worm
and the rights of the African III It's long cowadce
shown toward duellng in its silence over street
encounters between white men, and over the scKehihS
of negroes by day and by night IN
its utter want OF mddle-age chlvalry over the
brutal massacre the Chisom family in its neglect to
urge upon young the unavoidable duties OF indus
Try and mental and moral cuure-n all this whole cat
alogue OF neglect the Southern pulpit has revealed
not only its inability TO preach the renglOh OF
Jesus, but any other system Of morals or piety
which can be found even in pagan annals. When
ever that voice which claims to speak the will
OF God the States has touched all earthly az
fairs II has exhausted its logic and passion upon apollo
ges slavery; and indeed the last printed form OF
piety the world was an argument tending 10
show that the bondage Of the negro to the superior
that 1t must be forever esteemed and preserved Since
the practical defeat it sustained in that direction the
Southern pulpit has let alone all mundane affairs, and
has confined itself with great fidelity to metaphysical
disquistions the nature Of Christ upon the mode OF
baptism, the necessity of faith. the faty OF human
good works. the sovereignty of Cod and the importance
of making some formal and immediate arrangement
touching the next form OF existence Under which de-
yotion distractions the duest has sunk 10 the
lower condition OF an assassin, and what was called
once statesman is content to appear at night only
and in the mask and sepuchra dress OF ku-klux."
Bot in the opinion OF Mr.. Swing, nObler OppOrtu |
nifty presented to the minister Gospelin
the Southern States either TO calm thought OF age
the ambition OF youth The religion o. Jesus being an
Infinite sympathy, being perfect development OF the
moral resources OF this world, il longs to build up
the schOohOuse ana 10 endery for the education
OF all children 1t longs 70 help the African become
an educated and moral and free ctzen stands ready
20 persuad the men OF murder and violence put aside
the weapon and touch the handle OF the plough waits
and longs for lips TO become bold enough to declare
that industry OF the graces Of Gods sane
tuary indeed IL mourns the long absence OF an clio
quence which shall declare that good nation is good
church, and that education and industry are steps
in the path of salvation. If there he any
genius and Intellectual fire that have survived |
the caamtes OF the past and which remain |
to-day in something OF freshness aud hope, there
remains for this residue OF pulpit force great success
II IL shall cast asiue us naZy uscoUrses Oh he nature OF
the atOnement and the exact of Christ; shall
consider dross It's arguments 10 prove that man
saved by faith alone, TO show that human morals
will avail anything in remote Judgment; aud shall MI
a heart thus made empty OF folly with arguments for
the schooihOuse and for equality and righteousness.
and for general imitation OF Jesus Christ half
of such Southern preachers could make the South rise
moro rapidly than the wlldheaded politicians have
dragged her down. Germany had only ore Luther,
England began with ore John Knox. The pulpit stands
near 10 all hearts Youth ana age childhood, wait
upon its words and those words sink deepest which.
spoken by OF kind and pure lives are made holy by
nj God and nv grand or awful relations