Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-24


served for the nineteenth century to behold men
calling themselves Chrstiaus teaching Pantheism,
or casing themselves in of Biblical criticism,
and deiying the armies of the living God TO pro
that be is able or willing to punish his foes. On
the very verge of the deser. We behold, our own
soil, the scum and dregs Of al nations deliberately
choosing an American Mohammed their Proph-
ct, cooily throwing aside The hooks OF civilization
and demanding the aid of the Federal Constitution
Tor the consolidation Of their abominatioEs. More
shamrI less aud more dangerous because IN the very
heart OF our own communities, the novel End the
newspaper wage war against marriage, the Sabbath
ana the Bible, and mHlttudes OF tie young fall
victims TO ising spirits whether OF the dead the
liV g, who teach that is no resurrection, 10
Iudl ment, no he'll; that religion is fable, worship
farce and the spirit Of man the highest intelli-
gene In the universe 1t would he hard TO niue
family III which some inmate has has not been
more or less II huepced by this spirit Of the age.
Do our eastern shores the tide of emigration
lands thousand POpish militia every day, IT Iin-
ed up 20 cherish the most determined hatred t.
the word Of God and to the church of Christ, and
instructed by the Romish agents ere they have
landed from their ships 90 beware OF the Bible,
and the htrrtics. Into very families do these
agents OF foreign prince carry thtir opposition to
tue Gospel, prohibiting their slaves from listening
10 the reading of the Scriptures, or from uniting
with their employers in the worship of God. The
CHOSEN victims OF poverty and fifth, vice and crime
IN the cellars and garrets OF our cities, they will
nave them remain rather than allow them 70 at
tend schools where their minds may be eulighten-
ed, o. emgrase to the fertile Ids, where the r.
wards OF industry would elevate above the condi-
{ on OF slave-
| Let us remember too, that all these adversaries
OF tn church regularly organized, and enrolled,
and Paradrd in rank and file. There Is no longer
| loose. floating neutral party. Every person be-
/ longs somewhere the SAYING is. He claims to
| belong to some church. order, or club, of one
| kind or another. The ROmish missionary boards
| the emigrant lip takes his passage on the river
steamboat, or travels IN the secoDd-cIass with
the new'y-arrived emi.rants, and / ayes them not
! III be has handed them over TO the care of some
brother Jesuit, and pl ced them within the pale OI
the holy church. Even those who have belief
| in any God find some advantage in the society of
their fellow men, and associate keep each other
| IN countenance
Let Us not deceive ourselves with the delusion
that materials so heterogeneous nsver unite in
any common ente rprise. They eau CO. Iperate.-
The very explosion of discordant substances may
oVerturn the battl ment which has resisted the ,p
| and battery. Let tn. exp 'rienee of England warn
US IN time. Last year (lS55lb hello strange COM
| oinaJion there powerful enough 70 intimidate the
| GoVrrnm Mt, control the Parliament, aud almost
TevolutiOnze the religion of the land. High church
| aud Broad church. aud no church, Romish cardinal
and Chartst lecturer, Wing, Tory Radical ana
| Repeater, the peer of Parment and the publican
of PamicO, eng Sc in common league to de-
| throne the Sabbath, and worship and substitute
| Sunday and revelry. Were it wise think you, to
wait till sad experience teaches US how eH-ctually
the Vest 70 Mormon and the Eastern UniVersalst,
the Priest, the German Iutifel and the American
SpTitualist, unite with the vast and yearly in
creasIng mass Of heathenisn in all our cities, to
trample under foot that Gospel which they all cor.
daily hate, and a divided church, whose weakness
they have learned to despis With population
increasing by hundred, it becomes mere matter
Of arithmetic TO calculate in how few years, our
present Fate OF progress, the churches of Christ
shall have dwinal-d into relative nsign6cance, and
the overwhelming mass of uagOdlu, S. shall uudeT-
take 20 decide their de tiny at the nalOt-,Ox. Am
ercan Chiistidusi the forces of w, stern licen-
tiousness, Eastern infdelity and Northern Popery,
the hrathenism of your prairies, and the row
ism Of your streets, are steadily and rapidly con-
centratiug their movements upon you. Already
they have made Judgments in your chure hes, aud
nroais in your famIe-, and but wait their oppOr-
tuuty for the last onset.
Under such circumstances il does almost seem
unnecessary to inquire what course of conduct The
church should pursue. Few aud weak in the og-
gregate gut they still further weaken thyir for
ces by distraction and division of councils, in the
presence of such numerous and powerful cOmbi-
nations of their foes? With the consciousness that
every day augments the number of their opponents
aud every week opens some new engine OF war
fare against the truth, and every year unfolds
some new and boiler plan of assault, should the
people of God bescontent with tie old quiet plar
| Of defensive operations and, folding their aTms
await the combined onset? Were the Bible silent
on the SUBJECT, common sense would reply, thai
harmony of te, ling, concert OF plan, and energy o
action we're indispensable in this crisis The scrip
ture is quite clear the subject Il prescribe:
the duty of the Church in this crisis, AMI ortrlis
its performan and tue success which shall crown
it. Harmonious, concerted, systematic, energetic
aggression the enemies OF the church, is to be
the characteristic oil our age. 1.-The enemy o
Ephraim shall depart and the adversaries OF Ju
dan shall be cut off Ephraim shall not envy Ju
DAN, and Judah shall not Ephraim" There ii
harmony OF life flowing from unity of heart
Trey shall fly upon the shoulders OF the Philis
tines toward the west, they shall spot them 0
the east together" There is concert of plan
"They shall fly upon the shoulders OF the Phlls
tines TOWARDS the west; thy shall spoil them O
the east together, they shall lay their hand upoI
| Econ and Moab, and the Children of Ammon shal
| obey them" What energetic actiouI How wide
the field of labor l-Predcher and Presbs terrain.