Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-22
From the n. 7. Sunday Tlme..l

LETTER IRON OISBANDED NoLGSTEER-Iho
veteran this week pokes 1t into those members
of the clergy that busy themselves, officially,
with matters and things that don't come legit-
iInately within their sphere of action. He is
decidedly opposed to ministers of the gospel
dealing IN Sharp rifles and beating the drum
eecleslastic' TO summon volunteers for intestine
war. Neither does it comport Witli,tie peculiar
pietY of the Old Brave that star divines should
seek to increase their popularity by undertaking
the championship of secular interests Although
We do not fully coincide with his views we sin
believe his heart aud his conscience are in the
rightplace.
SAINT NICKALAs HoTTEL, May 10. 1857. u.
EtEdytars cI the .Sttltlay 7fmeG;
Do yoI hold to the noshin that ministers of
the gospil hes emmy call TO dip thar spiritual
spuns in cvry temperil dish that Gums along.
and to stirit around, like the witches kittle in
the tra4egy OF Macbeth, ontiI they perdoocc
n stew in the church and briles and had f,Ioo,l
eyrywhar! ] don't When | heerd in Cali.
forny, menny years sense, that sartin Catholic
bishop he'd CIV five hundred dollars for the en-.
cnrridgement of civil war in Ireland. couldent
help thinkin that he disremembered the rebuks
as Peter received from the Prince of Peace,
when he drord his sorCl on one of ,Judas 1IScer
lots acconplishes in the gratest crime ever
committed on airth. Likewise, when a reverand
MESSENGER of salyashin in Brooklyn turnt his
meeunthouse inter arectutin Stashin, and OPEN
ed subskrlpshin for rcpeatin shootin-irons
from the poolptt, it seemed to me as he was
more ankshis to hurry up the orfnl time spokin
Of IN tho skripters, when eYry mans hand is to
be agln his bruther, and evry house divided
agin ITSELF than to preech ''pe6ce on airth, good
Will 10 men,. Idont pertend to say as the hui.
man fammaly, with its present Seyagcrous pur.
penslties, Ken get along without an ockRshanil
nock-down and drag-out. Nashins would sDile
ct they dident pitch inter wun anuther wlinst
in while. But should say from all hev
seen in my mientery cayreer, as the human
speeshis is kwite reddy enulf to turn cut-throtcs
without any relidJus perswashin, or bein furni-
SHIT with dedly weepins for that purpusby plIr.
fessin christians; and its my sincere opinyun
tho may be rong, that when. American preestS
and deakins put siX-shooteys inter the hands of
American citysins in the north, to be used again
thar kuntIymen in the west, they are Steppin
considabully out of tho narrer path that ledes
to manshins in the skies.
Inc RELY afeerd that the minds of menny o..
the reverend clergy is too expansiY for thar
biZness. The vinyard Of the Lord Is entirely
too small a field to Civ full employment to thar
Ijenius, and they gointer politicks, and tabul-
turnin, and all Sorter pTofane amusement and
III tack, turn Jacks Of all trades in order to show
an admirin world wat they ken do when tLnv
spred tharselves. Nun elikwent divine hes or
dertakin the championship of the stage and is
seekin the salvashin of solcs with Tragedy on
wun arm and Komidy on tile other, and Farce n
hanging on to the skearts of his surplus. Now.
line raYthlr fond of the theaytur. | go to
Laury Keen's, and Burton's, and the Broadway,
andef line emmy thew urse for it, its onbeknown
tome But they are all well patternized. ami
don't appear to need no putfs from the poolpit,
Ef the drayma was agoin down, and needed this
new method of advertisin, it would be different:
but, as far as ken judge, people is reldy enuff'
to go to the theaytur without emmy encurridge-
mcnt from thar spiritual tcechers Every w1n
to his calm is my motto. shouldn't keer
about bein reckimended to go to church by the
manager of n theaytur, and don't relish bein
advised to go to the theaytur by the manager of
q church. Both may be excellent critters in
thar different lines, but they aint exackly natu-
raj allies AFTER wunst seein minister of the
gospel had and gluv with half duzzeu leedin
actors, should never look at him in sarmint-
time without recallin thar crack harrickters,
tancyin that the pews was boxes, the organ.loft
an orkestry, the alter space a stage, and the
clergyman in the poolpit the prompter in his
box, reddy to blow his whissil for the kon-
mencement of the performances As to the
clergy turnin the theaytur inter skool of NOR
ril reform, or preyentin sinners from goin thar,
both is ckwiily onpossa5ul; SO the best thin,;
minister's Of the gospil ken do is, not to make
Judys of tharSeiycsb by attemptn either. Yours
allus, Il DsBANDED VoLUSrEEm
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