The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-26
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SATURDAY MORNiNo,,..
The pnlpit,

- ,..iraed for the propagation oil the
- among the heather. and for the ex-
s,s...,on and enforcement of the doctrines OF
-. Ys,bIe among believers, has of late years
,a.c converted in our own country into q
sacu,ar and political engine. We know what
the pulpit is in the hands of the PAKKRRs ana
RxscaRRs OF the present day We also know
,xhat it was in the first and parest ages Of the |
Church and what 1t still is in all the world, |
excep, in the narrow circle where anti-siayery |
sentiments reign supreme. The Founder and |
Yirst preachers of Chris;ianity steadily abstain
ed from all interference with civil government |
The Saviour declared that His kingdom was |
not Of this world, and directed His disciples |
to render unto CESAR the things that are
GEARS Under a despotism as absolute as
any Of modern times, Christians were enjol"eu
to fear God and honor the King. ana surre"h"-
ed by the most oppressive system Oh S'''e's
that the world has ever witnessed, servants
,-ara an;o;ned 10 he obedient 10 their masters. |
and to be only soiicitous about spiritual free
,,,,r .ns one of the chief of the Apostles |
returned a fugitive slave to his master
The mission ef Christ as repeatedly explain |
ed hy himself aud expounded by his Apostles, |
,rns A purely spiritual mission. 1t was the Of
Ace Of the Pnlpit to preach Peace and GOOD
will among men, Faith, Repentance, Purity,
Forgiveness, Honesty. Humility, Content
ment. For eighteen hundred years such was
its recognized mission. For eighteen hun
dred wears no one had imagined that slavery
was sim Read the Gospels and Epstiea,
read the eioa uent sermons of the early CHRIS
tian Fathers, read all the sermons ana com
mentaries that have ever been spoken aud
written for eighteen hundred years after ths
establishment of Christianity, and nos one
word is to be found in them ali condemntnS
directly or indirectly the institution Of Sia-
very
Now. is it not most wonderful, that, after
sCca a lapse of ages, it should be reserved ioL
the nineteenth century TO discover thar slavery
is sin, viz IA violation OF the revealed wiil o.
God Where is the wall re, called that II vio-
lates Where the law that IL breaks Il !
exists, strange that ii has never beeA found
out Till now, and that II cannot be pointed out
by those who have discovered ii. Itexists no.
where except in their own tevered and tanat-
cal brains, a deiusion of their own imagina-
tions, which they seek TO impose upon man
kind as u lava higher law than ali human
legislation the law of God delivered privately
and exclusively TO the discoveries of a new
code of religion and morality.
In keeping with the novelty of this aboli-
ton invention in Christian ethics, is the tone
and temper with which it is enforced by its
preachers. Even in reproying Acknowledged
iniquities, even in denouncing sins and crimes
of the most shocking character, the Founder
of the Christian Religion and His Apostles
used only the influence of reason and persua
sion, only the weapons of charity, forbearance
and love In the midst of their hatred of the
SIM they were ever solicitous to exhibit their
the Apostles, warning the early Christian 5
against those "who despise dominion and
speak evil of dignities." said yet MI
cHAEL, the Archangel, when contending with
the Devil, he disputed about the body of MOSES,
burst not bring against him railing ACCUSE
tion but said, the LORD rebuke thee" Nov.
compare this with the trailing accusations
which those ''who despise dominion and spea K
evil of dignities'' are continually hurting at
the Juth from Northern pulpits. Compare
the love and forgiveness to their bitterest enc
mics, which fell from the Saviour upon the
cross, and the apostles at the stake with the
following scene which occurred in the North
Church, of New Haven, Conn. at a meeting
called in March, 1856, to provide relief for
'bleeding Kansas
After the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher had de-
Louncsd the Constitute on of the United States as
the fountain ana father OF our troubles he
for the Kansas campais n he acting the crieT.
ana asn e tne b nof b Snnrh as the auetop
after Mr.. Beecher's Remuneration OF the Tnitsj
States Constitution, first rose:
Ing ei number Of weapons Of defence for the par
eu dWn ON ont the ana that Mr. LINES
rife The price OF rife was S25
once, Mr.. Russell speaks frst-Pnt me down for
oAc
the descons Of this church Mr. Harvey 'S MIL is
golns out with the companp. and las his pastor,
fe: tGreat applanse.1
F. P. Pie-l will gave one.
Stephen D. Pardee-l will give one fer myself and
one for my wife.
nj B. B;fsher7I like to see that; it is stroke
Charles Iyes-Pnr me down for thyss.
Thomas E T1oTbrldf eaPut me down for four
gentleman said that MISS Mary Dutton would
MI Stephen G. Hubbard-One
Mr.. Beecher here stated that if Is COZ d be raised |
on the spot, he would pedEe % more from Pr |
the whele supply lClappins Of hands ali over is
house;
speak Tor the bid, and sat down to enjoy the occa.
Mr. Kiliam-I give one.
IN CON eonne &c With Sharpe's rite. iLaus liter
Prof. w. o. Norton-One for me-
Mr.. Vining-Another for me-
Mr.. Moses T, er-I will piedte one sbarne,s-rias
from the Junior class OF Yale College. Great APP
Prof Sllliman, rising in his seat and sweeping
the galleries with his eyeThsJe are fur ctossssia
Yale College. lmmense sensation
Henry TIowbrds Gone.
John 6 North-One
MIR; ,B.echer-I think Kansas will now kno y. there
VIM Kingsley-One for me.
Lpoius l.. Oimstead-One.
of Yale College. ava '''e Nei''"' '''9
II was now ascertained that. instead of Is,
IFeasy ssesa ri1es had been subscribed, the cost |
OF winch together with the amount received at |
the goor Tor admSs on fees. made the collection |
Tor Tor Kansas, In the North Church, one thousand |
The meeting then ad journed''
IL was under such pulpit minis rations. and |
possibly with one of these very weapons of
DEATH that JOHN BROWN performed his bloody |
work in Kansas. 1t was under the pulpit
teachings Of such men BHEcHER, DUTToN,
&c, that he was trained to regard 1t his duty
toexcite servile war in Virginia Speak evil
of government, hate your countrymen, STAY
your bre thren who have not discovered with
you that slavery is sin-these are the doe
trines of the new gospel-horse. thieves and
murderers its missionaries, and pixies, bayo-
nets and revoiyers it's arguments One would
think that such exhibitions as this would
srartIe the religious community of the North
that IL would see and shudder at the sight
that its puipits are filled by men who have
.stolen the livery of the Court of Heaven TO |
serve the Devil in" that Christia has been |
subyerted and supplanted by the worship Of !
Satan. Yet, SO far from being aroused 20 req
son and reneciion by this fearful spectacle. |
every religious denomination of the North |
with two or three honorable exceptions, has
given itself up body and soul, TO this manifest