Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-08-28
A BIGOTS VIEW OF THE ADMISSION OF
A JEW TO PARLIAMENT.

The New York Churchman, n leading religious
newspaper, of the High Church Episcopal stamp,
contains in its last number the following article on
the admission Of Baron Rothschild to the British
Parliament.
18th 2Ist of July, 1858, will long be remember,
ed in England and throughout the world; will
DO long remembered to highlands shame and
disgrace One can hardly believe that Christian
England had really invited to a seat in her highest
councils one who, if Jesus Christ were now on
this earth, as he was eighteen hundred years ago,
would cry Cruelty him cruelty him Not
this man, but Barabbas! Think OF it:
Lords and Commons OF the Parliament of Eng
land hobnobbing with a Jew-consulting with q
Jew in making laws for a Christian country! Can
it be sol 1t is, verify; and we record it with
shame and sorrow, because, as Americans and
Churchmen, we canno, forget that England is our
mother
England has given the lie TO her high profession,
and now presents herself before the world as a
mere phi,cd s~epulchre. All her boasted Christiani-
anity has turned out 10 be a mere sham, the ALI
ance thus formed with the enemies of Christianity
with the Jews who crucifed our Lord and So
vior, proves it to be a sham.
In a worldly point of view, we can respect the
Jew far more than England. The former is con-
sistent, the latter is not. Did the Jew, for the
sake Of gaining a seat in parliament, turn traitor
to his ~religicnH Did he deny his profession I
No! lie denounced Christ and Christianity, BY
refusing to take tho prescribed oath. And yet,
England allows The jew to join in her councils
and make laws for a proiessedly Christian people ::
and thus England turns traitor to her religion.
and-shall we write it Plays herself open to the
gravest of all charges-havirg cruci6ed her Lord
afresh
We have neither time nor space to go into mi
mute description of what We regard to be a con
sistent Jew, or q consistent Christina; and indeed
If we had, it were not necessary with such q
striking illustration as the simple facts before us
afford. We may ask, however, are they not sufh-
cient to demonstrate the superiority OF a consist
ent Jew, whose practice conforms to his creed,
that there is only one God, Jehovah, over the in
consistent Christian; who, protesting to believe In
the religion of Christ, yet, in her practice; does
that which, if it could, would overthrow Christi
anity
Was there ever beheld q more humiliating spec.
tacle than that of the ~proudest and most powerful
nation on the face of the earth, and the one which
claims to present an example OF piety worthy. OF
being initiated by all other nations such a nation,
with such claims and with such pretentions,
kneeling at the feet Of a Jeio-of aJew, who, con
sistent with his own creed, denounces England's
creed :! Who would have supposed that any, no
ton, however humble it might be in its preten.
sions, could ever be guilty of such q degrading
piece of Gouble-dealing? Are we not, es a
Church, disgraced by this unjustifable conduct Of
our mother ? Shall we not at least protest agains'
itf
Let the Bishops who were members Of the
House of Lords, be held responsible for this out
rage. Was it not either by their in
action or connivance? Where Is their united pro
test against this actl The Church of EnglanC
must answer for this ~iniquity, until her Bishops
come toward, and, if they can, clear theii
own skirts. If we mistake not; here is an exam
pie of the mos. telling character, of the results Of
the adulterous connection of Church aud State
and even upon the superstition that the Church
through the Bishops in the House of Lords, pro
tested against the act, of which, however, We hay,
no proof, it is by no means the first instance o
the exercise Of power over the Church by .h'
State; and if the unholy alliance Continues, 1t vii
not be the last.
A most outrageous act of national treachery 4
the cause of Christ and His Church has been con
summated, and the wrath of God hangs owe
England and England's Church. Time will re
veal the truth or falsity of our position. We d.
not hesitate to express our conviction that tn
Pope Of Ro ne, in his efforts, q few years ago, +
form a sort Of alliance with the Greek Churc
through the instrumentality Of the Emperor Mich
olas. was more consistent than England's Churcl
has shown herself to be in the case before US
Here she is counting the Jew, and forming an al
lance with his monied Influence. We cannot re
sist this impression, whethe r it be strictly true o
not, and thus the world will Judge till it knows /
the contrary. England's inconsistency is now al
the more glazing, when viewed in connection will
another alliance which has existed for q consideI
able period, between her and France, for the pur
pose Of retaining in their own hands what is call
cd the balance of power. Thus they hope to kee
the despotism of Russia and her Greek churc
in allegiance.
We are not a prophet, but we predict that Eng
lands alliance with the enemies of her Churc
and Of her adorable Lord, will come to a violen
end, and how soon we care not, if it sewers tn
connection between Church and State. Gu
prayer to God is, that lilo may bring the Church c
England out of bondage and events c~ertainl
point to a possibility of its being accomplished b
the outpouring of his wrath on that nation and il
Church too-because the measure Of their iaigu
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