The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-07-01

witness who tcstdes adversely to their clients in.
forests, aul work themselves Into state Of grand
excitement until they fancy themselves second
Patrick Hanries. Preachers preach US to death
We are scrmoa,ad ;hrea or four times week.
Long, dry, and drowsy sermons are poured into
lisllcsS ears twice or three time, every Sabbath,
and then we have the "lecturcs' OF the week
thrown in. From such peSecutions "good Lord
deliver us /" Preaching is necessary | have no
doubt but to be forever listening to long dry
sermons is not lust the thing. Religious worship
should be cheerful, The Episcopal worship or
the Roman Catholic is preferable to any other, rs
now pracliced, in my opinion. The congrega-
ton Join in the prayers and in the responseS-t is
cheerful, sensible, and Tree from these iutcrnina-
BILE sermons. do not wish to give the prefer
ence to any particular denomination of Christians,
but to speak against these loug dry sermons, cspe.
cially during the hot weather. 1t is all well
enough for tie ministers who dress up in thcu
Sunday clothes; stand up TO be lnsIcd ut for an
hour and half, while they are displaying their
powers of rhetoric but to tho aboring man.
who has been toiling hard during the six days OF
the week. is not so pleasant to be housed up in
warm raom he woull be better out in the open
air. Sermons, be they never so good, arc not
what his mind requires he had better so to the
lielis and woods and search for sermons in the
trees, and in the running brooks, and in alt the
beautiful and hcalthrul surroundings OF Nature
as seen in the country. Again let me say that W.
have too much pre0ching--too much outdoor
praying, too much external religion. You, dcal
| Journal ar not responsible for what | say, but
caro- not who knows tho fact that am doion " OF
| long sermons. We have too many ministers who
are forever shaking The devil in our faces. Just u
il our days of rest" or tho days intended foI
rest, quiet and n sensible reposo from the cares o
! the week. should be spent in listening to sucl
s.RscleSS StHf. Churches are necessary, ana every
one should, in my opinion, attend church on the
Sabbath, but to spend the whole Sabbath II
church is folly worse than folly Some of tn,
| pictures OF country churches in England drawn
by Irving, aud Dickens and Warren, and Gold
smith, meet my ideas of what churches should be
by the word church include the pastor ant
! his flock. There is something so simple, so be
coming, so natural in their meeting together OF
Sunday morning, and after an hour of chCcrtu
worship, exchan ring congratulations and words o
friendship, &c, SOc. But how different would b(
the picture ifnstend of this, when they met, they
had to listen to = brimst0ne sermon two hours ii
| length, amid the groaus of the suparsttious ant
the weeping and waiting of weak minded women
do not wish to overdraw the picture, but to say
in all honesty that to my thinking, we have vastly
too much preaching.
When | commenced talking TO you to-day
had not the slightest idea of what should say
and now that have talked to you, fear YOU
will think that ha better have left unsaid what
| have said In my go'siping talk with you shall
feel at liberty to speak my mini fully, for when
oac cannot b, indepanent in all that one says
there is little nducement to talk at all.
Gossip,