The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-02-15

were, be soon showed them there was method in
his madness for he ingoniously ly evolved out OF
these sixteen verses discourse that might have
served as an essay OH the Republican legend of
sLiberty, Equality and Fraternity" The reader
has probably anticipated me in the use he made
of lis long text.
"IIcrc (said hey we have genealogical tree,
not traced by the fattery of sycophants, nor the
uncertainty of heralds but by the unerring Evan
gelist, whose inspiration enabled him to mount
from branch to branch-a genealogy beginning
with God, and ending so far as My text goes,
with poor Galilcan carpenter. Here is les
son and rebuke for the pride Of descent. The
poorest carpenter, in the poorest village OF Eng
land, can retrace his lineage through the same
unbroken succession; and the proudestpee can
do no more, unless the latter, in his presumption,
should be disposed to ignore his divine origin
But it would be no use by whatever different
branches, they arrive at the same root; the no
BILE and the peasant if both had the power Of 60
ing back over their ancestry, would both meet at
the 3s,h verse of the Sd chaper Of Luke, which
was the. son of Enos, which was the son Of Seth,
Which was the son of Adam, which was the son
of Goa'
"Hefe Che continued, looking at the rector's
and the squire's pcws) )-here we all meet on
equal terms. Disown them as we like in other
degrees, here We are brought face TO face with,
and can no longer refuse to acknowledge our
poor relations"
Then, looking to some forms on which group
of alms-house people sat, he added:
"Here, too, my poor friends you and your 'su-
periors' meet in the presence of your common
parent, the great God of heaven and earth, in
whose eyes the Fictitious distinctions of the world
are naught. Codshoulder you as they like
through life, they cannot ignore their relation
ships when they come to this: they can no long
er speak of you, spurn you, as though you were
formed of different clay The carpenter and the
king are one; and how little importance ST.
Luke, who was no srcophantic gcnealogist, at
taches even to the regal Office, may be seen from
the manner in which he passes through the Slst
verse, where no pause is made to mark the proud
title of David, which was merely the son of Jes-
Sc, which was the son of Obed, and so ON
In conclusion he urged the poor man to live
up to his great origin, and not disentitle himself
to that great share in the inheritance of which
his heavenly Father had laid up for his children
who truly serve him. They need not care for
the proud mai disowning them now; thetng
to be feared was God disowning them onsthe last
day. The rich he enjoined to feel for the poor as
for brothers, if they would not offend that great
Being who has fathers interest for all.
l thought therefor would never forgive my
co-curate; but the only notice he took ofthe &C.
centric discourse was to cease for ever after
preaching to the "humbler orders" of the differ
encc they, owed their "superios." TWAS before
so bad that neighboring clergyman said to me,
"If your rector had to rut on an eleventh COM
mandment. it would runEtbus: "Thou shalt not
neglect to take off thy hat to myself and the
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