The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-05-15
TuE PULpIT ON DlsUNEON.


THE PULPIT ON DlSUNEON.
The following eloquent and patriotic senl,
menrs were delivered before the Arch street
Presbyterian congregation, Philadelphia, few
days since by The Rev CHARLES WADswuRTH,
in his regular sermon:
Paul's principle, as set forth in the text np.
plies as well to the Civil as to the Social,
mid Ihe PARTIzANsnIP OF A CoMMuNITY's POI.
ITIcs, is 10 "know nothing save Christ Jesus
and him cruciRed." His duties as preach.
er are supernduced duties. As Gods Am
b1ssudor he Games to man divested altogeth
er of fractious differences. 70 the sover-
egn and the sIave-to the-mighty man and
the menuI-to The creature fawning on the
foot cloth of throne, and The freeman stan,
ding proudly before kings in the glory of In
mortal manhood TO all alike ne comes bear
ing the same f,ming credentials Of Coos an
ger and Gods love; - standing in his high
place, he is not 10 look that the Holy Ghost
will descend from Heaven to give point to a
lesson Of statestnanshp, or power TO an ak.
iom Of political economy, lie is 10 look on
man as a spirit, whose nationality is but n
decaying garment, spirit winged for soaring
10 that high world, where men OF all king
doms and people are one in Christ lie is to
f)rget all minor interests. lie is TO forget all
human distinctions. He is toilet the dead
bury the dead He is to "know nothing
save Christ Jesus and him crucifed"
Meanwhile we would not be misunderstood
here. Far be it from us 10 bow before that
most foul, yet favorte infdel clamor, whereby
a Christian minister, by the imposition Of
Ecclesiastical hands, is held thereafter di-
vested Of all rights as n man and a citizen
even under the shadow OF tho Cross, he will
not-he may no,--he cannot forget his coun
try Paul, amid the surprising gIores Of
commonwealth like ours, would have cried
with even more than his Roman exuIteton,
81 an an AMERICAN citizen" Our beloved
land, Nlth its bounta'les the Lroadest-its
government The ireest-institution the no.
blest The world ever s,w. is Gods great
gilt to every man who brealhes its Dest air,
and exults in its sunshine And woe be to
hat man whether Civilian or Ecclesiasic.
who dare lay down at foo, j bidding his
great blrIhrighi, or prove recteant 10 one of
It's enrolling rerogatves--who dare leave
Arne lean liberty, as an unprized thing, to be
marred by the hand Of unskInI legislation
or wrencIed amid the conflicts of self-seek.
ing ambition-who dare fail in one title Of
all he can do to give steadfast strength to A.
merican name and American nationality.
Gods pity on the cREEpNIG THING that can
listen unmoved TO the whisper of Disnunion
that rises even now upon the ear! Perish
the heart that lhrobs not in ngonizing desire
hat This glorious sisterhood be never broken!
Pa!s,ed be the right arm that ieels not its
s naWc tighten like steel to speed our soqr-
ing eagle in lis flight TO the SUM- Stricken
be the bosom that bares not itself in full
strength to roll back This desoIaiing surge l
hat would sweep all the glad aud goodfuI
and G ,orious things away as wrecks upon the
bllows. Not know my coulry y!-not honor
my cotnIry!--not sirggle for my country!--
Why then would be a creature without soul.
UNIV orhy my ministry = anwovlhy my man
hood.
Nay, nay, such political wisdom | will
know must know because absolutely in
it | am to know Christ clucifed. For, nv
audience, dear as to every American Christian
must be his country dear, because o. The
prayers of lis consecration, and the blood
Of lis bapism-dear, because of its great
breadth anG mighty power and glorious fame
The home Of the free -Ihe hope Of the op-
ptessed--lhe beacon TO the nalions-the cfa-
die Of infant liberty which yet, when is
limbs shall have waxed strong will leap from
Itsswaddling bonds in great manhood, and 90
forth in a Giants path, &c shuke down The des
potisnis Of world in rushing omaipotence |!
Yet to his loving heart is il dearest of all,
as the great instrument under God to bear on
to its consnmmaiion his ajmi liable Gospel!!
He sEEs CHRIST IN AMERICAN NATIONALITY
Christ, The God Of all Providence, presidence
and preserving ii-as the great spring, in the
mechanism ofa lrlumphing Evangel.-- And
10 him il seems that TO sever this blessed
Union, were toloose the silveI cords of ma n s
hope, and to brosk The great wheel at The els.
tern. And every Christian minister will 81 and
by tho Union--and slrDegle for the Cnion---
and preach Christ and him chrucfied as the
cement of the Union, iil bis right arm is with
cred, and his tongue dumb in death!
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