The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1854-06-15

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n isa comneu boast that ne ninsisenih
csptufy is wiser, bsiiss and ss6rs iibsrsl
Than any whish hs sons before. lss schools.
i,s libmsiss, its nsw wspsps sss sad IL iyosums
ass qaolsd continually as proofs d ils bish
ipieIlectusl snd noral oaiufe. Yet In one
rsspssi thsts has bssn Isss prosrsss mads
than there shsuld have been. sscsarisn an .
imoaty, fhstbans Of good order, that Zee 10
ch rissisRiiy itself, would seem 10 be iacfss.
sing, instead Of diminishing.
We ars nei he enemies Of denomination
al divisions. We believe, on the contrary,
that he Diversity Of sects is the best safe.
guard Of irus religion. Truth cannot exisl
without discussion. A dominant Church al
I pzTs bessnss impufs. Bat ss6iarssd 6iao-
try has nothing 70 do properly with secis.--.
The Msihodist, Baptist, Catholic, Ep,sespa.
lian ..or Quaker may fightiuIly worship God
after the fashion most pleasing to himself ;
but he has no authority 10 denounce the mo-
tlves or assail the faith Of others; In fact, u
he dess either, he violates thai charity, with.
out which, IL has been smphaucally said,
call that man hath pfofleih him nothing
In all sees, sectafiar anirnosihes have
walked the worst passions Of the humsn soul
From tbs slaughter Of the Aibigenses TO the
persecution of the Mormons, they have been
the fruitful anihors of brulalities, cruel;ies
and atrocities, from which our common ma.
nrs revoIts. They lighted The fires Of Smith.
field, they sent Servaius to stake, they buru-
ed Cranmsr, they murdered Anne Askew,
they persecutsd the Covenanters, 'hay caus.
cd the massacre Of s. Bartholomew, they
hung the Quaksrs, they foundsd the Inqui,
-si,ion. There have been few or no scots
free from the tain, Of pefsecntion- Pro,es'
tau,s have hanged ProtestaBts, and Roman
Catholics Slaughtered 50 called hers,ics. The
blood of martyrs SIN okes unders the alters ol
almost every church; for bieotry and ,ntol.
ancs are common to unregulaisd human ma.
,ure. Yet, thank God for il, holy men
have been common to all the Christian Chur.
chss The same faith that produced q Do.
mimic sent forth q Xavier the same Gran
mer that barned an Aanalsptist went him.
self to the stake. Wesley ant Feuelon q,
dorned, by their meek virtues, churches
which had sent forth the most cruel. pesecu-
Tors, Landos and Philips, Stuarts and bloody
Marys. Ought not this TO make us all cult.
vase Christian charity, and avoid seetsrian
aDinaosiiies. ~
Ii may be said that there Is no room, In
This enlighfened aes, for q nsuewel Of ger
secuion. ID Is true that that the stake can
never be re.lighted The rack re-ereoied
the axe of martyrdom re-sha rpened. Bu,
there are other methods in which iutolsrancs
may sh ow itself. Il starts from small begin.
ninss, but soon, as experience has shown,
ranges and roars like wild conaagraiion,
surging ihroughihe streets soaking up human
blood, shauering the yer y foundations of So
cieiy by lie terrible explosions. IL q wild
beast is uucaeed ia crowd, some aproxi-
NATION 10 the injury, at the worst can be
made. But if sectarian animosilies are TO-
mentsd, 0mniscience alone can tell where
The ffightful havoc will stop.
And if to religious differences the aHiipa-
Thy Of the race is added, as an element ia the
internal csuIdrou, which demagogism would
shr mp, and stimulate with its unhollowed
incania,ions, who can say what atrocities
may no. be perpetiased, even in this enlish.
tened age! Atrocities 10 which men will
look back shndderingly few generations
later, as we now regard with horror the per.
secution Of the Quakers in Massachusetts,,
the slaughleriny Of the Covepanters, the
burning Of Latirnsr and Ridgly, Rogers and
Hafper.-EPub. Ledger.