The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-08-22
Political Preaching.

ins able and sound reasoning upon a sub
Ieci which has ELECTED nm immense amour,
Of weak ,waddle, within two or three years
1t is from the Philadelphia North American
and u. S. Gazette:
Political preaching is WHAT Is it de-
houncing war, when the dominan, party, or
the president, on his own responsibility,
without waiting FOR any party, has waged j,
with some other poweri Then my neigh
Dor, who is Of the war patty, was nigh, in
walking gu, ofIhe church in sermon time.
and sIammins the pew door AFTER him. I.
II preaching in favor If the Maine law that
the hearers may support !, at the polls q
Then was my other friend RICH, who gave
up his pew Immediately afer the sermon.
The idea seems 10 be, that no question
which has been taken hold Of and made an
i.sue by any party, or has become the poll
CIV OF The government, is to be touched in
). The pulpi,-no matter what hideous mass of
evil the Maine law may strive 10 put an end
TO; no matter whether the war is just one
for selt.deience, or an iniquitoas one for
purposes Of conquest. They have become
party questions, and belong only 10 poll.
lici1ns and sinners II this is sound doc
,rinc, then every clergyman who shall de-
monaco tho lesalizins of polysamy from the
pulpit, - a political preacher; for the Nor
mems are powerful party whose vote will
tell, and lhey are clamori1g Tor adnission
iGto tic Union, under their own abomina
Die laws. Thea is every missionary who
gOes to preach the gospel Of the Son Of Col
in any MOhammedan or Pagan county, or
in China, or Loo Choo, or Japan, among
the irzidis, or The disciples Of zoroaster,
or in the Islands Of the sea, political
preacher, FOR he is interfering with govern
mental institutions.
1t is constantly urged, more especially
with regard 10 that most unmanaseable
question Of slavery, thai our Saviour and
his apostles never nodded with The estab-
iished order Of things in their time. They
did more, they overIhrew them. Political
discussions ,hey took no part in, for uue
sufficient reason, II there had existed no
other. Judea was Roman province, un
Ter Roman Governor and the ~ islress
of The world having no faith in argument,
ended all discussion sumna'ily, BY the
.course the dungeon, and the lions jaws
and, II denonneing unsparincly the corup-
lion AID wickejnsss Of IuleIs. aud those in
high places, he Scrbes and Phai.ees, The
Sanhedrin. all who bad rank or power and
misusrd them, be no, as much political us
deuouucins public Wrongs is at this day,
we confess our inability On ses The reason
The principles they preached, were, ia their
tendency, q, tho time aud amid the circum-
stances under which they were promulgal.
ed. revolutionary. We do not say this in
irreyeTence, but Use the word as describ-
uug The effect Of the doctrines, for they
went on, UvenuTnins and overlurning, un.
I'll the Roman Empire, and is Pauth.ism,
Went down before them. Grea, Pan is
dead, aud OF all the Gods who made the
glory Of Olympus, nothing is left save the
names, shining in the stars Of heaven.
SAINT Paul travelled far aud wide, in
weariuess, anil pain and sorrow through
prisons aud scourgings, tempes, tossed aud
waylaiJ; preaching, arguing, eShorlins,
laying down docilines which struck at the !
foundations Of all the old clcrds, and
through them, al the system Of government,
with which they were inseparably inter
woven, and drew upon him constantly the
the wrath Of the turbulent Jews, and stir. !
red up rio, among the savage rable Of the
cities, tho Dsmetriuses' AMI Alexanders,'
whose trade IN shrines was being injured
by the new disorganizinG doctrine, with the
lewd fellows Of the haser Sort who are
always ready 10 hunt down anything on
which they are bounded. The other apps.
ties, working among the Jews, preached the
same anli-adminiStration d, ctrines, withou,
inquirirg in,o their political tendency, bui
following wherever they saw their duty be-
fore them though tho cross stood ia their
path.
1.-THE a'cumeni. that ihc adoption by
parry Of line o'p1licy which Involves
moral wrong, land We desire to confiue the
question to things that are mala in Sc shuts
it out from the pulpit, is sound one, then,
/ IL party should be raised land i, would no,
take long TO 10 il in sullicien, numbers to
make il worth putting DOWN TO lesalize
prostitution by licensing houses Of ill.hmc,
|, would be improper for clergymen To
preach il down. I, would be political. II
the argument proves anything, |, surely
prove. this. Away with this FOLLY. The
preachers who made their fiery and soul
.lbrins appeals to the coloni.ts in &c. to
riso Of against oppression, and, trusting in
God 10 balance all odds OF numbers AMI
arms, beat !, down with their own right
hands, are lauded as patriots, and almost
revrreneed as inspired mea. Blu, il !, wa
within the preachers sphere then, ], it,
within IL now ifil was right then TO resist
illegal enac,menis affecting the price Of
paper AMI tea. Il Is right now to resis, those
which alice, no, only mems right TO liberty
OF motion and Of speech, bu, their lves.
Blu, If this DO not political preaching.
then what isi We think !, easily defined.
A clergyman may no, dIscussi in the pulpit
any pnblic measure unconnscied with NOR
al good or evil, which involves no question
o. obe,lience to Ged's law. even though he
may be persuaded 'ha, il Is Of vital impOr
lance TO The temporal welfare Of the country
lie may not discuss the National Bank, or