The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-07-04
Hear ! Hear !!

The following is n most important
step, and will confer everlasting honor
upon the Lutheran Church. We are
glad to record this act of true Chris
tian sentiment, the oRly course any
church can pursue to save itself from
the wreck of the times. That church
that sufe. 8 itself to be drawn into the
whirlpool of the worst elements of big
otry and fanatical madness, will be
compelled to date its downward course
from the hour that it snbscribes to the
Know Nothing creed, or stands idly
witnessing its Preachers sinking under
the odium of those secret cabals aud
taking oaths abhorant to human reason
and compelling them to lie before
God and man. This is reaHy the most
important paper we have yet witnessed,
and great will be the JOY that there is
one righteous church left to save the
country and religion from odium -
Statesman.
Lutheran Synod--A Presbyteri-
an Synod Down on Know
Nothingism.
PirrsBuno. Pa, June 9;h, 1855.
70 she E1iter of tie Stark County
Democrat-Sir : Not having the pleas,
urc of personal acquaintance, but having
ac~cidently perused your paper of the 9TH
instant, which was handed to me by one
of your typographical brethren of this
city, aud having noticed therein a COM
munication, addressed to the "Presi-
dent aud members of the Pittsburg Sy-
nod Of the Lutheran Church." signed
MANY Lutherans of Stark county"
and being an active member of that
church, l therefore hope and expect
your columns may be- open for a few
lines from a friend, though a stranger to
you.
Yesterday I real tie communication
above referred to, to a number of promi-
nent members Of our church here, and
some from the country, all of whom
heartily approved of the course adopted
by "Many Lutherans Of Stark county,
and we even go further than to solicit
cir Synod to answer the questions pro-
DOulOSd III INT COIu LA0hiCdtlOu tO-"lI q.
"Whether it in constant with the doc
tripes Of our church, for a Minister or
lay member, to connect himself By an
oath with a secret, midnight, political
order, proscriptve and intolerant in is
character, and opposed to the principles
of persons ''worshiping God according to
the dictates OF their own conscience?" g.
We shall demand of each and every
one of our Ministers, respectively, to an
sver from the Pulpit aquestion similar
to the above, and We hope, that through
out our country, the members of our
church will do the same, the reasons
which im; ell US to adopt such a course
are obvious, for how can VT with any
Christian feeling assemble with men
around the Sacramento Altar, and par
take of the body aud blood Of our Saw
Tor, when we know at the same time,
there are men participating with, or
perhaps, administering the same to US,
who are sworn to lie.
If Dr.. Martin Luther were now alive,
and in our midst, his eloquent and Goa
~vincirg voice could be heard, and if any
of his followers, as ministers, would re-
IuSe 10 di!ShcE snSh 4uCSIiOIs, hc NpulN
again, as he did often before, denounce
them us "sncaking and c!andestine
preachers" We assurdly look for a
bold, fearless, and Martin Luther-like
raspons on that subject from the Sy-
nod in your paper of next week.
The Presbyterians at New Whining
ton ia this State, assembled in Synod Oh
the t7ih of May last, adopted the fol
| wing resolution:
"RcsoIrad, That in the Judgment OF
this Presbytery, the principles Of our
church exclude from communion, the
members of tbs a.crtt society, called
Know-Nothings, aud the member of all
such societies, aud that the P~resbytery
direct sessions to enforce this opinion"
I'VE, as Lutherans, contemplate pur-
suing tho coursc-that of ministers de-
cline to purge our church of Christless
members, We design tic purge it o fChrist-
less preachers.
Yours, very truly,
A LUTHERAN OF PIrrsDUaG.