The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-11-02
The Ohio Syhod.

11ccicSidsticGl DOuy 6nlcn11d5 Dcen IN
session in the Presbyterian Church of this city
for some days adjourned on Monday evening.
Its deliberations were characterized with much
good feeling and unarimity until the afternoon
in which their session closed. It embraced an
array of talent seldom brought together in one
body, and the influence exertcd for good in the
several Pulpits of the city on Sabbath, and
during the session, will be felt in our commu-
nifty. In their association with and partaking
Of the Inequalities of our citizens generally
who extend to them warm welcome hands,
friendships have been formed which were most
happy, and which will be lasting-But, after
all, a firebrand had to be thrown into the de-
alterations of the Synod at the close of the SEES
sion in the way of a memorial on the question
Of slavery, which stirred up some wal NTH of
feeling, and which is calculated, if pushed for
ward al the General Assembly next spring. to
do immense injury to the unity of feeling
hitherto existing among brethren of the same
church North and South, and Necessarily to
the cause of religion. There is nothing in
the Bible that warrants this stab at brethren
VIII manage their family and domestic matters
different from our own, and yet accord as they
do, to us, the right and privilege to choose
what best salts US in our domestic relations and
institutions. The golden rule of the Bible, if
strictly observed, and which is perfectly appli-
cable to this question, would obyiate all these
'heart-burnings among members of the same
christian fellowship, who south as well as north,
as ardeufly worship the same God. But it is
an outside pressure of partizan politicians, as
well as the inherent partizan predictions of
many who occupy the pulpit, that is thus ar
raging one portion of the Union In. bitter hos
tility to the ether, and assuming to say to their
nesghbors, you must conform to our ~partizan
requirements, or our brotherly love and unity
must cease
Black Republican politicians on the streets
have been greatly clated since the passage of
the memorial, at this helping hand from the
Ohio Synod, and boast loudly that "the Synod
has adopted tbs Republican PlaJorEa," and
even enc OF its clerical supporters in Synod
vas hesrl ! . so characterize it exultingly.-
When suck fathers IN the churcl, as the ven
sTstle DIR. HoGE opposed this fre-brand as
sIlsrlated to do much harm, the Synod should
hays reflected before casting it abroad to bring
about a state of things in the christian body
which must ever DO deplorcd.-Aanyfcld
Shield &c Banner.
E@.We have not seem copy of the memo
rial referred to, but its character may be very
clearly gathered from what is said of it by the
Shield. The result will doubtless be received
with great rejoicing by the abolition infdels of
Boston. and by all the enemies of Christianity
and of the Union of the States generally, as
The Old School Presbyterian Church has here
tofore safely cutFode the sectional tempcsts,
and formed one Of the most powerful of the
sacred ties that aonud together the siste<hoed
Of States. An evil day-and the precursor of
otbor daysand nights of terror such as the world
1as not looked upon-wIll come upon our
country, unless this maddencd spirit of section-
xlfsm is rebuked. All Christians and all pa
triots must deplore the action OF this Synod.