Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-01-28

the Zlst OF Jhuuhigt iouuNi eu"' " SV"'Niaiub
upon the Methodists, the favor Of your pres
ence at their church, on Sabbath evening, you
involved yourself 10 great amount Of suffering,
during the service, and consequent Affections,
for some time afterwards, and according TO
your own showing the Methodist Brethren must
bear the blame. Now without attempting to
plead innocence or, to transfer the blame to 9TH
ers,. we plead guilty to all truthful charges, re-
gret exceedingly thatthe well intended, but mis-
directed efforts to please, should have given so
great offence. We would have greatly prefer
red TO have been admonished more privately.
But then we remember that Solomon says, that
'open rebuke is better than secret love-" We
will endeavor then as christians, patiently to en-
dure this mode Of chastisement, presuming that
you might not have had much Of the latter ar
ticle to spare for us, consequently you supplied
us beautifully with the former. Blu. since it
has been your pleasure to bring down upon us
from your emnence this avalanche, we must
creep from under IL as best we can. But where
is the heart so hard that it cannot sympathise
with suffering humanity under such distressing
circumstances. Only think Of it ! an Editor in
Methodist Church "in a box. Sitting bolt
upright. Wedged in sideways, and not even
room in the box for his pedestnls' suffocatiug
and melting down, between two stoves in full
blast" and then, Oh, Inquisition 70 think of
thumb screws and racks, and to be surrounded
with the disease and death, aud an atmosphere
offensive and supplying even to drowsiuess.'-
In the midst of such peril and danger, it ap-
pears to US that our friend must have been
man of more than ordinary frmness, to have
endured such extreme suffering, voluntarily,
when the means Of relief we're at hand. We
fear, sir, that under such untoward circumstan-
ces the means provided for your moral improve
ment, must have been lost upon you, circum-
stance very much to be lamented. And still
the case must go on, from bad, to worse, as
when you found relief from this "meLing, swell
tering, suffocating' process, you were thrown in
to circumstances more fearful. The "cold chills"
of a pleasant winter evening penetrated to your
vitals." The wonder is sir, that you did not
die, ius unanimously. But through the interpo-
sition Of gracious Providence, your life has
been spared, only to suffer in common with
many of your fellow citizens at this time, who
have not past through those extreme exposures
that you have, but are suffering from sore
throats. And now to sum up this eveutrul af.
fair i hope that we, on our part, shall profit by
this reproof, ard that our FREUD who admnis-
tered it, may surUiUe, and come up out Of his
Affections, to give us practical comment upon
that essential grace, without which men, al
though in high places are but as sounding
brass and tinkling 'cymbats." J.P.
Well, bro. J. P. your flppancy is only equaed
by the face humor of your pen and both are
admirable. Your, polemics, however, are faulty
for while you use our editorial dignity rather
cavalierly, you fail to touch the evil complained
of. This tacit acknowledgment of the corn, is
very fortunate, as it goes far to reconcile us 10
the personal application.
Though j. P, supposes we may not have much
"secret love" to spare for our Methodist breth-
ren, we can hardly think that he believes in the
full force of the insinuation, or ou ght that
we said was dictated by ungenerous motives.
II be intended this, we shall be forced to take
issue with him. In our selEcompIacency we
were willing to think we had about us many OF
the elements of a pretty good Methodist. We
certninly take pleasure in occasionally sitting to-
gether with our Methodist friendsn holy places
Ont of politics, where no loco focoism comes in
to view, we claim not to be straight-laced We
glory in having, as we think, heart capacious
enough to sympathse with fellow Christian
whatever be his name That capacpusuess, how
ever, is not likely to be aired as often as it might
be desirable, in the way proposed, unless it can
be done with less hazard than on the occasion
alluded to. The fact is, and it might as well be
stated, as that will cover the whole matter in
question, the old Methodist church is wholly
inadequate, and in appropriate both for the
society, and to offer suitable accommodations
to the members of other churches who wish 10
be on terms of christian reciprocity, and until
the society go earnestly 10 work and put up
suitable house, their usefulness and prosperity
will be essentially circumscribed, and if they dc
not meet with the open rebuke, such as we have
endeavored to administer, they will hardly es.
cape admonition from another quarter, quite as
difficult TO be got along with as the village jour.
nal
In conclusion we might say that there is q
spirit manifested by our friend that we did not
intend should be, and very much regret seeing
called into exercise on this subject. We had
no intention of doing the chnrch wrong, our
only object being to call attention to what is
generally admitted by the church, a necessity
for better church accommodation. The feeling
alluded to, we suspect has its origin outside Of
the ostensible cause.
Coon FNANcIERING. Not long ago one OF
our firms having occasion to remit two hundred
dollars to New York, sent that amount to a
neighboring Bank, together with the premium,
for draft. The return mail brought the draft