Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-22
1|fliluutsota Vln(fs,
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1856.
Polite. ana Pulp,...'>

i, famed for its violent denunciation OF politlcal
ministers. So corrupt and so sensitive has the
Democratic party bee ONE. that clergyman can
not proclaim the plainest principles OF moral du-
tv cannot assert that all men have an equal right
to lief and liberty, without being charged with
meddling in politics. 1t is q wonder how the late
James Buchanan, the Mr.. President Platform OF
to-day, was ever elected, when the tender-souled
Invincbles must have snufed it in the WIND that
their candidate wore a white cravat, and has ior
wears been Minister -- to England.
1t seems plain to our mind, and in the face OF
all this Billingsgate, and in the midst OF tins
clu sering volley of sneers hurled at these men OF
God, we shall express it, that every minister
should be first Man. then CITIZEN, then II duty
points in that direction, minister OF the Gos-
pei. The Sunday world is satcd, tired to death,
with the everlasting monotony of modern pulpits
the rotary tread mill sameness of speech, the
stereotyped facial expression, the mesmeric sys-
TEN of manner. Everything may be true enough,
that's not the point it needs occasional enun-
citation of neU truth, to keep eyes open, and
hearts throbbing. Religion must be made prac-
teal. Pulpits must be stripped of some of their
pelret. We need more Cheevers, and Tyngs, and
Bacons, and BeecherS, and Trails in our broad
land, to preach particular SINS, to enunciate with
unblanched check, and untremblins lip, the Thou
art -the-man theology; to reach into the huge
structure of gigantic social wrongs, and shake its
rotten timbers till they drop pece-meal; to gath
er the crimes, and errors, and follies of an age
of debauchery, into one clenched fist of repro
wing logic, and hurl the yolleys, hot and many,
in the teeth of Christendom
Nothing in this Democratic Government is so
falsely comprehended, as the duty of man to his
brother, and this it is that ministers ought more
to preach. When the Pioneer and its amalgam kin
grumble about :: Sharpe's rifles preachers" we
cannot help thinking, that they would like
Sharpe's rifle, as well as anybody, if there were
Border Rufhan at the breech, and a minister at
the muzzle and that those who whine and grum-
bic about g dragging politics into religion" are
some how just the ones VINO never, on any occa-
sion, take the least morsel of religion into poll
ties
No! We have not too many clergymen in socie-
ty who take their moral stand point on the sum-
init of truth and strive to enlighten their genera
tiOn, who put their ear to the ground and listen
to the footsteps of the wayward, wandering in the
marshes Of Error, who shape their political course
by the political heavens, by pledges broken, by
national faith violated, by free territory invaded
and overcome, by farms desolated, by villages
burned, by citizens slaughtered, by nation dis
graced, by the murder of the innocent Heating,
by the blood of our most eloquent scholar, spat-
tered upon the Senate floor we have not too
many who publicly rebuke these iniquitics in the
pulpit, and dare in behalf of an insulted people
to protest in the name of God against Americas
last and blacklist sin. Those clergymen are pass
ing into the obscurity of a gone age, who talk
right on to fill the hour, and earn the money,
without daring to look to the right or left for fear
some sinner in the audience may take offence,
who raise ones soul softly upon the wings of
their rhetoric, and lay it out beds of ease, and
scatter roses and incense around its couch, and
fan it with the gentle breezes of literature and
esthetic lore till it sleeps under the soothing of
ethcrial philosophy. This age needs and demands
more clergymen like those sainted veterans of the
Revolution who prayed and fought in concert for
the success of the American arms, like those lv-
ing evangelists-the Chapins, and Beechers, and
Braces - 1--WE have some such in our city, who
look the iron world in the face and dare to do
Joshua of old when he hurled Gods armies across
the earth to punish the wicked, to assist the weak
and true, and to hasten the day when the ben
ignant sunbeams of justice should fill the earth,
leaving in place of ashes and tears, Plenty, Hap
piness and Fertility of pyrrenial growth.
SERIOUS AccIDENr.-Yesterday afternoon, a
pair of horses owned by Mr.. Willoughby, attach
ed a1 hoov ;lr
fright near the P. O., and ran down Third-st., at
full speed. They came in collision with another
load, upsetting it, at the intersection of Robert
ST., and injuring man by throwing him off, then
passing on, turned into small alley before reach
ing Jackson-st. A young man, named E. E. Fisk,
who had just lodged in to escape them, was caught
between them and the house, and injured yory
severely. He also knocked down and the
horses passed over his body. The pole of the
wagon penetrated the side of the store, knocked
the counter entirely across the room, and ignited
aquantlty OF matches, which communicated fire
TO the storo This was, however, soon extinguish-
ed. The injured man was taken up in an uncon-
scious state, and conveyed to the Temperance
House, where his wounds were properly dressed
by DR.. L. K. Potts. The most dangerous was a
>S'AAoAS "ouhu uPou Ills tcmple, DuC the LIT. does
not consider it mortal. As an appendix to this
accident, we would repeat the precaution, that
drivers cannot be too careful about keeping their
horses properly secured.
ATTEMPTED ARSON About O'Clock on Mon
day evening, some devil-possessed scoundrel fred
heap of loose shavings and rubbish under
building near our Office, opposite the Empire
block, just 'to see it burn or perhaps as afford
ing chance of ''saving some plunder," in the
confusion of large fire. 1t is not vet ascertain
ed who committed the deed-we heartily wish
they might be brought to justice. 1t was happily
discovered just in time to extingush it /; had it
occurred an hour later, the result would have been,
perhaps loss of life certainly loss of thou
sands of dollars worth of property. The evil
doors are prowing around-look out for them |!
One GREEN SPoT.-A Fillmore man has been
elected to the Legislature from Dalton, in Berk-
shire Co. Mass.-N. Y. Express.
Yes-decidedly the greenest "spot" VIC have
heard of yet.
CT 1t is calculated that at the rate Macauiey
proceeds with his history he must live century
and half to finish it
CT Miss Margaret II. Twiggs, eldest daugh-
ter of Gen. Twiggs, U. S. Army, died at New