Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-06-25
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
For the Standard.
EpiSCOpOS.


If Episcopos has been betrayed into the blum
der of installing celebrated hereto whose name
is familiar to all men, the ignorant and pagan, as
well as the learned and christian, for another her
etic whose name is known only to those who read
he may find consolation in the fact that he is not
the first ''Episcopos" who has been led by the
same Powell into the like predicament. If he
will read carefully that admirable production THE
Episcopal Church defended, with an examination
into the claims of Methodist Episcopacy'' by the
pen of the Rev. James A. BowleS, he will find
brother in very similar elk" Powell wrote for
the benefit of his party that 'the only supreme
and essential rule of succession is the preaching of
the truth. of the faith, of the doctrine taught by
the Apostles" His successors to the same gra-
ces of truth, faith and doctrine, regard Powell as
the early christians did their goods and chattles
as property in common, and do not hesitate to ap-
propriate Tin the face of the commonly received
doctrine of ''meum ct tuu,n, such parts and par
GELS of his lore as may be deemed necessary to
the succession in general. or adapted to set off to
advantage the literary Importance of the appro-
priater, in particular. The successor who de-
rives his title from the Apostles by the doubtful
token of invisible faith, may feel himself exempt
from the observance Of the human laws of com
mon honesty; and may, by virtue of the right of
private judgment, escape the 9th commandment on
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a succession through the Episcopate must needs
be broken by the moral obliquity of bishops, when
succession by faith flows purely through such a
conduit as Episcopos, is problem to be solved
The malice and the SANDER on pages IA and Is;
the brutal cruelty on page II of narratng for the
purpose of rdicule the anxious efforts of wife to
reclaim dying husband from sceptcism; the hus-
bands reply to the entreaties of the wife, that he
would be baptized eff it would not be sacrilege;
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demon can scof, of the sincerity of which, none
but hypocrite car doubt; the initials of the dy-
ing Judge and the Tins and the place pointing to
the individual designated, with nhuman precision
and qualification; the objectionable vulgarity of
the same page relative to women and widows on
the sunny side of the meridian; the wretched cow
story on page 90; the disgusting story of a young
woman { q friend of Episcopos on page 81; upon
her knees at the alter for confirmation; the Young
man by her side, and the mole on her neck; and
other indecencies throughout his pages at which
the heart sckens; all, all designating nature the
most revolving; common sewer for all that is
most nauseating; and yet this is the successor of
the apostles by virtue of the graces of truth faith
and doctrine. Episcopos is an extreme EXAMPLE
of the fearful emo TO which all schism tends. In
his zeal to pull down bishops. he prostrates the
whole fabric of christianity. On page 8 he char.
acterizes succession by the Episcopate as s.doo-
ma" which is seen running back for ages. throw
ing the gloom Of its shadow over the christian
world, poisoning with its sirocco breath almost all
the fountains Of piety-drying up every green
thing and turning the vineyard Of the Lord TO a
DESERT He then proceeds to give an account Of
the origin. Nf this dreadful monster. He proceeds
in the early ages of christianity the body of the
presbyters constituted 9 deliberative assembly,
both legislative and administrative, in whose hands
were lodged The goYernmentsof the church. As
was natural 70 expect from the character and