Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-19
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DISCOURSE BY TnE REVEREND M. REMINGTON, AT
BRooKLYN.
We extract the following report Of . discourse
preaohed in Brooklyn, on Sabbath last, from the
New York Tribune. Though pronounced by an
avowed anti slavery man, i iss just commentary
upon the doctrines of the Journal in which il sp
pcarsd, and is in striking. we might add. refresh.
ing contrast, with the abominabls and Antl.chris-
tian sentiments Of the Beeohsrs. Chsevers. and
many other occupants Of the Northern pulpit.
who are disgrace to their holy profession. lit
were even desirarablo, MS Mr.. Remington seems
think, that our domestic institutions should be
abolished, tho fulminntions of the Northern pull
pit, though coupled with its stronger argument Of
Sharpe's rifles will never uffect It.
A dscourse was announced for last evening by
the Rev. Francis Remington at the Calvary Free
(Episcopal Church on Pearl street. Brooklyn
The attendance was not large. After the usual
services Of the Episcopal Church. tho minister
appeared i'll the pulpit. lie chose for his text:
Matthew, vi: % and %" If thine eye be sim
gle. thy whole body shall be full of light-but il
thine eye be evil. thy body shall be full OF dark
ness" The eye, the speaker said. referred to tho
conscience; and that the meaning was that if tho
conscience were puro tho soul should be full Of
light. The consciences Of men were blinded by
scfshness. hy sensunlity, and by the reception Of
error. hese points were illustrated by reference
to facts in tho history of nations and men. In tho
light Of this truth, tho speaker said hc came to
consider the most deplorable thing which had hap
rened in thu country since tue formation of our
Government. 1t was blot upon our escutcheOn,
and the net almost the entering welgo of our
dissolution and ruin. lilo had no doubt of the
sincerity ul thc intentions OF the murderers at
ilarpers Forly--but their conscienccs were evil,
and their souls were full Of darkness. because of
A. r 4 Hal g
wers the followers of Mohammed and Peter tho
Hermit. The murlerers u, llarpcr's Ferry did
this prompted by their love OF the slave, and it
was said that their leader led on by the fact
that his own son had been murdered in Kansas
by the partsans Of Slavery. and hence the excuse
which men had Tor him, Against this manner OF
action, the speaker citei tho teachings OF Christ
to love our enemies md to overcome evil with
good. But looking upon it rs n case Of man actu-
u'ed by revenge he asked why should John Brown
revenge himself fr the murder Of his son by MUIR
derug men 900 miles distant who were innocent
or ignorant of the wrongs which he had suffered.
The savage did not thus act, but he revenged him
sclf on those who hnd wronged him. He had
re,pd in the papers that IL man protesting to be
minister of the gospel had lkencd Brown to
Moses, who wcut out and slew the Egyptians.
who were expressing his brethren. But how was
it aiterward, when Moses had been forty years
away, and been instructed by tho burning bush
He did not lit his hand against the oppressors of
! his people. but left them with Goi They had
! been told by Christian minister that this was
the first gun of struggle. Was this the teaching
of tho Gospel preaching Chl ist aud him oruci.
| fed p Ii W. gave colutenanre 20 this idea, DID
! we not know mat there were u million OF South
crnors = strong We were, who could turn their
| guns upon u-. who were Just rs strong and sgn-
! rons in battle ns were; that if civil war should
~ on as iehrand, scattering destruction around
! If the Soutl ~houll w,hd.aw their trade, how
!, Slr nd
soon would the merchant princes aud shopke' pers
| huye to 20 t. Nebraska and build their log cabins
aud live there instead of IN our beautiful city
Bat looking n tins evil in the light Of Chrstiani-
! tv, he considered hos it was to be got rid Of
| Oar revolutionary sires had sown broadcast tho
| whrat OF freedom. but the enemy had shown tares
o! Slavery The proposition was to pluck out the
tie 'ares, but the ser ptures said that we should
| nut pluck out the tnres, lest we pluck out the
wleat also. Slavery WAS an evil tree, and brought
! forth not goal fru. and must therefore be cut
| down. But let those who dwet under that tree
| have warning of their dnnger. How must the
tree he cut dawn BY the AK laid mt the root OF
the treeland the NIX was the Gospel nfc-ofs love
! and kindness anl mercy and not to be stricken
down by the hayonct. liolntry and Slavery III
Rome Of the worst kind. had fallen before tho
! preaching of the Gospel OF Christ, and to extln-
| guish Slavery here. men must preach the Gospel
! OF Christ to master AMI slave. Let them be con
| vcrted throughout the land, and see how soon they
W 'uld learn that they were brethren. 1t wns
sn Thing that these men flying to the pul-
pi, ier countenance and pdotcetlon, by saying
these men are insane. goaded on to mad
ness or that this event is but the firing OF the first
| gun or that it act in imitation OF Moses.
He would write over such pulpits in lettors OF
! gold, "TIou shalt do no murder" The uncon-
vcitcd slaves he looked upon as spiritually blind
| and deaf. The Gospel should open their eyes, and
their ears and loosen their tongues and when
Al. hal tt,n t..rapr nt ~
could remove their chains. But let them who
| locke upon this but the firing of the frat gun
! and who intended to further in the work OF muir
der mt the Sonth. beware of the battle fields and
thoss river banks, tho fields at Monmouth and
| Cowpens where brave men of tho South nnd
North mingled their blood and tears for the lib
erty # this country. They must not perpetrate
their deeds over the graves of Marion, Sumpter
| and Morgan, and above all, the shades VI
Mount Vernon. 1t would paralyse their arms,
and they would he unable to perpetrate their
crimes with the memory Of those noble patriots
before their eyes. The speaker charged home
upon the press and pulpits of our land, the exis-
tence Of the error which had blinded the minds of
| Mr.. Brown aud his coa tutors, and who were led
in their blindness I" perpetrate their crimes. Ii
| he hal any sympathy on this subject, the speaker
saidit, was with the South. Though born at the
! North he was educated Mt the South and hal re-
| ceved nothing but kindness from Shareholders and
slaves. They helped him to pay his college debts,
tn buy home for his widowed mother, who had
acrifced all TO give him an educntion and he did
not want His friends TO be murdered.
/ In Conclusion. the speaker urged that in consid
errg these questions his hearers receive their in
strncton from who had eye single and
whose bodies were luminous with gospel light.
Some thirty-eight miles north Of Pensacola u
bnnd Of desperndoes fortified themselves in
house and deiied the authorities and citizens who
attpmptad IN arrest them Thev were we'll arnfed