Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1800-10-21

oo'Fu T;th tbSfr Own hands the edthSe, Hhlci
oace by better means was erected.
Robert, replied hia reverence, thinl
you had better quiz intending old fhoes, sns
urn nethodi.s, or you may keep both trade
sgoinE. yoa wiil t9ise equally in both
! hope Sir, fad J, I'll alxays follow ioms
6gfaslS by which can gain iivsE6ssd witch
: fafs eesisisst.--but am fure were a
Methodia, Presbyterian, or an Epifcops
han, wood not from the pulpit preach
F, politics Give me your reafon, Robert
| 'vili, adfwcred ], if you anfwer me one
plain queaion---Do you think fnid /, il
would be right FOR US TO chufe Clergyman
for our Prehdeut 49, no Robert, It would be
contrary to our confefiion os faitb--and
why Becaufe commended he. it would be
binding church and aare, politics and religi.
on, chriaianity and civil government in one
heterogeneous msfs--whzt senrovs uais
would it form, faid I, | know not, bu, ooc
hing can fee aliho' am an iIIiteratc man,
that the Prsiident has as good right to
preaeb r1hgfOa from the Spraker's ebair, ne
YOU have TO preach poG.ie5 from the Jarre2
d&.-If you fay, that it is uieful for focie
~, hat you fhould pr ach pekfics, u,sy NOT
magiitra,es fay, on as good ground, that
it lie as a(eful for them to preach reliSi-
ou--Jscky 9faafrads, faid l, never liked.
ieave the pulpit aud talk politics, but within
the pulpit talk about religion aud If you
do not, faid l.. mark The conicqnence--you
will drive the people from church altogether.
and intiead ofa religious afFenbly the church
| viii become political thestre--wheye ike
. o,har great theatres we may ice poker and
f7agI decide the contcf.
Robers, fsid his reverence fome what sei-
Ia ed, can lifen to your noufence no lou
ger IL beg your pardon, Iaid 1, if I have
iPoken any thing amifs, ignorant people like
me cansot have all orr words rank and 6te
IS they fand in one of your irrmoas, becaufe
our poor heads will not allow of thefe ar
Flngements-- But 6nce you have borne with
me 20 long, done you think that il was for
| iuch Ruff that the prophet from the Lord
iays, - Ye have given my people trodden on
grais to cat, aud muddy water 20 drink"
Ezekiel ella US, that in his day, it did no,
content the preacher TO drink of the Geeb s.,a
fers 'hemielves, but they nuddied the ref
due of,he watets with their feet, 20 that the
focEs could not ink of the zuafrrs - win.
tsid !, your reverence or Abercrombie would
preach on this text.--I, for my owu psrt
;h'nk, II the clergy viii thus go on 10 mud.
dy the pure tresm of Chritianity with the
dry TUafr- Of poGiict the ihepherds viii be
removed, and the whole prophecy of Ezekiel
IN chat chapter which your reverence knows
Is The 34th, will be literal y accomplished.
with from my heart, faid |, that all YOU
clergy would Call TO mind when ye Rand II
The pulpit, what a puniihment the men o.
bIthfhemiih iuffered, for 0Eiy booking in,,
the ark---fity tboajaad, think, we are told
iome where IN Samuel. were killed AT once
and IN another place We are Informed OF boo
USsab, who loR his life only for touchin,
the ark, even with praile, worthy inten .ion
IL, laid /, every wrong touch our religion
ark receives was puniihed IN ihis manner,
am apt TO think we lhould have fewer pyeae5
ers than we have; but their gn0sr,y wouI,
make US iuaicient amends for their 1aanfify
hoberr, laid his reverence, find You dai
ly go wrong it ferves no purpofr TO tall
with you II pronounce you incorrigible--
the noniente you have been talking is no.
thing to the purPoie; you arc ignorant O
The 'ct'ptures, aud TO argee with man {
void OF learning ss you are, would be onl
demeauiHg myielf. I therefore give you up
and leaving you TO yourfclf, will 90 NOR
ooncern myfelf sbou, you-T5aviog thu
ipoken, he took his leave, and in i,ort in,
l followed bis example, blcfing myfelf a
The way, beesuie when ne began, tremhIe
Ia every joint, expecting every moment Ii
was going to deliver me over unto Sotaa-
but he was good--he left me 10 myfelf
ROBERT SLENDER.