The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-04-06

THE INV 1|R caAR IS AND lis
EE ABR TIGN EIN
We ol Intend aIlad 8 s painful
subject bu we have told tint some
81 our rresbyt arian friends a much distressed
about the article we published last week ia ref.
Greece Is the matter we owe il o ourself q
state that we had no personal feeling Il tie
matter a We never saw or desire 70 see the
fortunate anbjec 81 "a article. we gave
The fun benefit 81 the N Q. Crescent'a defence
and pallintion 81 his alteration and we must
say that il view of that article be may ax-
claim ssaye me from NJ ffiendsl''
We know it Is Of no Importance % ny one
what our faith Is, but Il may not now Be entilss
II irrelevant to the matter Ia hand to say We ars
aPresbyter 81 the .Genevan sternest ersed.
and therefor e. anxious that the purity Of the
ministry ia that particular denomination should
be kept intact As any one can Be. There are
al least half dozen clergymen ii M Richards
own Preabytery that we arc.on terms of friend
ship with, that know this and We only state il
70 assure those who think we were severe upon
the sgreat Aberated" for bis unmanly attack
upon bis defenceless wife, that We did not make
our own remarks out Of any opposition to tie
Church he has thrown q reproach upon. but
from sincere conviction that he i unworthy,
utterly unworthy to belong to that body. Let
the Church wash her hands Of the Babylonish
garment and put Achan out Of the camp and
no harm is done to it--but her externally defend
and palliate the offences Of recreant interlopers.
and the sworld' is not fool enough to respect
it. But if it viii persist in keeping corrupt
ministers and those whose garments are spotted
BY contact with the kennels and cutters of Van
ity fair within It's folds, let its members not lay
the attering JUNCTION to their souls that they are
for righteousness sake
we do not wish to return to the discussion
Of the points at issue between the Rev. Aber-
ated and bis domestic troubles ---having dis
posed Of that last week. WewiII only correct
one eorrneous idea which the article in the Cres-
cent was calculated to convey, and that Is that
the Rev. ASerated's family difficulty Is Of recent
occurrence. He has been separated from his
last wife some six or seven years, and be has,
30 the report goes, made it the occasion Of get
ing drunk ever since! Signing and grief has
certainly had The effect with him It had on old
Iohn FalstafE This reminds US mot e s. fe.
iiou As old Deacon down ks
he Temp Socis i was as he
ago, when all good men, both clergy and lay
men, took their bitters when it was absolutely
in accordance with st. PauI's permit
o his son Timothy, .sfor the stomach's sake
This was considered orthodox both in theory and
practice, and there was not a word IN the West
Minister Catechism against ii. BY and by some
If the young men Of Deacon b s village
vent to Yale and came back Temperance
nen and created great stir in the country |
ound about. Then . Temperance Lecturer
;ame along and made stirring address, and the |
whole town joined the new tangled society. The
,rator convinced them all that starvation and
ould come upon the whole commn-
Iity If its members did not DO so, and painted
d glowing colors the misery Of the beautiful
Dung girls before him, when in years away off
onder, when their present sweethearts should
E their husbands and they old women with tat
sred clothes &.waD cheeks should be following
hem to the gallows with nine ragged children,
nd they should turn their lacklustre eyes
pom them and tell them it was Rum that had
rought them to a shameful end! Old Deacon
stood out long time because of his
stomacll's sake. At last the Father Mathew
{ the day called at his residence and impressed
pom him the importance Of man Of his wealth
I'D influence joining the Temperance Society
-that the salvation Of many almost hopeless
uses depended on hiIn---that some Of the
oung men had cited him as an example for not
lining, and that the cause, he feared, would be-
ke Jonah's gourd and wither a. suddenly as il
a sprung up, If the weightof his name vas
81 given 10 its support. But, said the Deacon
10 had sat with troubled and perplexed coun-
nance and now diving into the subject with i
e desperation Of man about to submit to
nputation and wondering how is going to dodge
e pain, what am to do in sheepwashing
ne, have an old twinge Of rheumatism in my
lees and am confident If go into the water :
ID don't take something warm afterwards, it
III be the death Of me- This was difficulty, :
It the jealous Apostle soon obyiated It By
aking what diplomists call sssecret article, ?
at when the Deacon washed sheep he could
ke . glass Of brandy on account Of his soften
See1 -
strength to good cause and il hourished
nazingly, but afterwhile some Of the neigh 8 8
rs began d wonder lyop know there Is 10 3
nal law against neighba wondering1 why e
aaenn II kent m nld sheen forever tied IN &