1870-03-28-New York Herald-Religious

Religious

New York Herald, 28 March 1870, p. 3.

Religious

The Metropolitan Churches and the Equinoctial Storm — Disastrous Effect of the Elements on the Aristocratically Religious

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CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH

Catholicism as Opposed to Protestantism—Sermon by Rev. George H. Hepworth

Undaunted by severly pelting rain and driving hurricane tempest of last evening, a large number, but with very few ladies among them, assembled at the Church of the Messia, corner of Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, to hear Rev. Dr. George H. Hepworth, the popular pastor of this church and eloquent preacher, who, for prillian pulpit oratory, has, in this city of many churches and many eloquent preachers, few peers. To hear him upon the theme announced for his evening discourse,

"CATHOLOCISM AS OPPOSED TO PROTESTANTISM,"

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… It was time Americans were around. The American people were procrastinating. They could have extinguished the Mormons twenty-five years ago by a single decisive action. It would cost perhaps millions now and much sorrow and regret. Thirty-five years ago they could have suppressed slavery. If the Americans had not been absorb ed in money making they might have had no war and no millions of graves. They simply procrastinated. …

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SECOND AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH.

Exclusion of the Bible from Public Schools—Sermon by Rev. W. C. Steel.

At the Second avenue Methodist Episcopal church, corner of 119th street and Second avenue, the foremost Methodist church in Harlem, and attached to whose congregation are some of the leading men of wealth and high social position residing in this portion of the city, Rev. W. C. Steel, the pastor, preached a sermon last evening on the "Exclusion of the Bible from Public Schools." …

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… Again, it was asserted in the Tablet of March 12 that "the State cannot legislate against either the Catholic or Protestant conscience. Did not the State legislate against

THE MORMON CONSCIENCE;

agains the Quaker conscience? And did it not battle against the consciences of 13,000,000 in the South, notwithstanding their cry of "Let us alone?" It would not satisfy their opponents if they yielded to their solicitations, for the cry agains the Bible was, he insisted, a mere pretext. …