New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-04
OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF rrrLTyc

In the course OF his sermon in Old Trinity
Church at the morning service the Rev. Dr. Morgan DIX
preached irem Peter, v, * BE sober; be ,Silant;
because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion.
walkcth about seeking whom he may deNour." Liberty
in our country has given way liccncc. said Dr. DIX
New, on the very OF the celebration Of National
Independence Day when the country smiling with
prosperity and tire reports from Treasury from
every other branch OF Government were giving Us
TO be proud, all forced bow our heads
with shame at the deed of whose heart tie down
had flied win the wicked design Of shooting down The
Chief Executive officer Of the Nation. The laul is ho3
with sorrow; but the example Of that solitary prisoner
III hts cen should teach each lesson. The down il "a
ready To tear everyone OF in pieces as 10 pCrgcrf
the heart of this murderer There is such a thing
as too much liberty, when liberty TO hcence and
there is such Thin; too free institutions when free
dom degcncrat,s into awcssness Il our duty to see
TO il that do not let the law OF righteousness die
for the sake ,hc lcence DO we viii, both good
and evil This pulpit not tie place from which TO
argue upon political concerns, Lut public prosperity and
private morality inseparably linked together ana
the only way to conquer the devil, who would corrupt
both is laid down in the text: BE sober DC isani"
AT Dr. HALLS CHURCH.
The Rev. John IIemphill OF san Francisco, occupied
the Rev. Or. John Halls place at the Fihh Avenue
Presbyterian Church, at Fifhavc. and Fifty hst In
his prayer he referred in feeling terms attempt on
the life of the President, and in his he again
toned it. His discourse the power ana progress
OF Christianity and toward the close it, referring to
the present condition of the Church, he said
when see violence and anarchy abroad in the
word-Nihilsm in Russia, Socialism in German
Communism in France. Land Leagues and agraIian
assassnatons in Ireland and all of them i'm gree
IN our own country when see our beloved President
lying ut the gates of death by the bullet OF rcanGsd
murderer IN these my sad moments almost despair
OF the Church"
IN THE MADISON SQUARE CHURCH.
The Rev. Dr. Alexander Mclean, secretary the
American Bible Society preached in the morning in The
Madison Square Presbyterian Church. His text WAS
from Luke tx, 81: while he thus spake there a
cloud and overshadowed them and they feared they
entered into the cloud"
d" IL is under ordinary circumstances that have
met today" he said when the yesterday
morning it shed its beams "A happy people,
prosperous Nation with prosperity that promised long
continuance. We we were about To celebrate the
hundred andifth anniversary of the National hide
pendcnce Of a free people when a cloud appeared,
which Its gloomy shadow the whole country,
over all the world in fact Ii Was an evil OF which
and with all men. What though other nations OF the
earth in fear and trembling! What though there
which liable to break forth and shay the ruler OF the
people! No despot rules here. The President of the
not lear Like any other citizen, he goes nnate nded
by body-guard but in AN instant ne
Of Our Hearts are ied With tears. 'r''i The
night IL spent IN anxiety and dread, for could tell
has answered the pray OF his people, and II hehooyes
us as congregation TO unite with ali Christians to-day
the favorable reports may not be disappointed"
AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
AT the Fifth Baptist Church the Rev. Dr. John Peddie
made an eloquent prayer for the Presidents recovery
At the conclusion OF his Sermon which was on Death"
there were many illusions TO the President
Little did We think yesterday morning, DR.
Peddie said. Of the fate that hung