Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-15
POLITICS IN THE PULPIT.

| 1.-THE following is an extract from a sermon
preached by j. Sloane. Of New York, at the
opening OF the Reformed Presbyterian Synod in
Allegheny City, in May last
Poitics--pvlitics and the pulpit is there any
connection alliance between thesef To this we
must give decided affirmative. The Bible is a
great political work is given to man as per-
feet rule of faith anf manners. II deals largely
with nations as such, and abounds in precepts for
the regulation OF national life and conduct. The
function that deals with the Bible can't be divorced
from politics. If this blatant outcry against pUlt-
ical preaching meant nothing more than that
the discussion upon the bank, tariff, internal
I'm provements, &C., we're unsuitable for the pulpit,
and PROCLAMATION of the sacred Sabbath time few,
we presume would undertake to debate the point,
altough we might ask, where the necessity? By
whum when, and where, has the sacred desk been
thus profaned? Only one such discourse, labelled
a sermon. do we remember ever to have met--that
delivered by Unitarian upon New Years day.
From whom do these fierce denunciations of pu-
litical preaching issue? From the Buchanans.
Tonmbses ChOates-men stepped to the lips in all
the moral corruptions and prcfiguces Of old
Hunker' politics who wish to remain undistul bed
in their iniquity, and cry out to faithful ministry
us men possessed with the devils to Christ, What
have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son Of God !?
art thou come hther torment before the time 2
From corrupt and time serving ministers, men
are clear upon dancing, sitting in prayer the use
of to, acco and other kindred evils who pass acts
Of Assembly, write, print and circulate tracts by
the thousand upon them but the great and prolif-
ic parent Of all SINS the sum of ali villanes,
the most atrocous system to use the language Of
R. j. Breckenridge upon which the sun ever
shone.' must be passed in silence, unrebuked and
uncondemnsG, and it's open apoogisls and propa-
gators welcomed to platform, pulpit and commun-
ion table as the most precious Of Gods saints and
;he very salt of the EARTH
From the South-side Aiamses, who esteem the
interchange of slaves between the United States
and Airica-that is, their introduction through all
the horrors of the middle Passage by thousands,
to the Christian influences Of the ric, and sugar
plantations OF the South and their return, by that
amaJle and eminently pious institation, the Colo
nization Society, by tens, or perhaps hundreds, OF
the more aged and in6rm Of those held to service
and labor, or the more troublesome and danger
Gus Of those who are SO unfortunate as to own
themselves-oue Of the grandest and nu5lest mis-
sionary ideas conceivable From your DR.. Rices
and Plummers-meu who, taking their position
upon the narrow pou sto Of that arrant falsehood.
that slavery is not u palum IN sc, are attempting
70 uphold system destined sooner or later, to fall
beneath the judgments Of an avenging God, and
bury them, like the worshippers in Dagon's Tenn
ple, below the remembrance, aye, beneath the con-
tempt of men! Do not say that We single out
these men for the purposes Of abuse; We mention
them because they are representative men. and in
many respects the best of their class. DO you see
that leader = said the driver of a stage-coach in
England to gentleman who sat ON the box at his
side. Yes, sir what of him 2 was the reply
WELL when he comes to that gate he always SHES
must give him something to think Of and COM