The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-03-06
Rev. j. R. w. Sloane, Pastor.


also, By special request, an tie Chttrch
of the Pwitdns (Reu. DR.. Cheecer's)
On sabbath Evening, January 6, 1861.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause Of all
such as are appointed for destruction.
XXI, 8.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound
with then. Hehrews, xiii, 8.
Masters give unto your servants that which is
just and equal.--Collossians, iv, l.
The passages which l have read, and
many others scattered throughout the
pages of Scripture, thick as stars in the
galaxy, furnish sufficient warrant for
calling your attention to remarkable
discourse which propose to pass un-
der review tonight. "When the enc
my shall come in like food, the spirit
of the Lord shall lit up standard
against him. Isaiah, lix., 10. 81 have
set my watchmen upon thy walls, o Je-
rusalem, which shall never hold their
peace day nor night. Ye that make
mention of the Lord, keep not silence"
Isaiah, xii, 6.
Were the author of the discourse
some obscure or eccentric individual,
without position and without character,
we might pass it by in silence, leaving
it to the scorn of the Christian world,
and the oblivion to which it must ulti-
mately be consigned. When we con-
slider, however, that he is minister,
said to be man of intellect and cul-
ture, pastor of large and respectable
congregation in neighboring city, oc-
cupying an important and responsible
position in religious denomination
which is one of the most powerful and
influential in the country, the canse of
truth and righteousness demands diff
ferent mode of treatment. We are to
remember, also, that his principles are
those of the Old School Presbyte-
rian Church, with which he is connect
ed; that his sentiments, however abhor-
rent to all right Christian feeling, are
thundered from hundreds of pupits
Sabbath after Sabbath by men who are
the chosen moral and religious teachers
of the people-men, too, by no means
contemplate or to be dispised.
1t may he said that | do injustice,
when | charge upon an ecclesiastical
body the sentiments of solitary indi-
vilual connected with it. To this, Ire
ply that the Rev. Mr.. Van Dyke claims
that these are the principles of his
Church, and no one has ventured to de.
nythe claim. hold in my hand vol-
ume compiled of articles selected from
The Princeton Rerieao, the acknowledged
organ of the Old School Church. There
are in this book two articles, one en-
titled "Abolitionism," being review of
certain speeches and discourses of Old
School ministers in favor of slavery;the
other entitled Slavery" being re-
view of the work of DR.. Claiming up
on that subject. These articles, from
the pen of the justly distinguished Dr.
Hodge, state the principles of the Old
School Presbyterian Church on this
question, and have never been repudi-
eted. Ofthese articles, Mr.. Van Dykes
sermon is virtually reproduction, q
kind OF echo, rather faint and feeble
one too, as compared with the mascu-
line vigor OF the original. | do not as
sert that it is a plagiarism, or a copy;but
/ do assert that it is all herein this book!
even to the quotations from DR.. Chan
ming and the attacks upon DR.. Way
land; that all the principal points, def
nitions, and arguments are taken from
these articles; that Mr.. Van Dyke has
put on another mans coat, after brush
ing it up and slightly altering it to suit
the times. This substantiates his own
claim, and my charge, that he speaks
the received sentiments of his Church.
Tt may be replied that the opinions of
the Church have greatly changed since
the articles appeared. | have no doubt
change has commenced and is pro-
crossing in that body; l have seen not
q few signs which indicate such change
in it; although | have sometimes feared
for it, as some one said Of The Neao
York Obseryer,* that it would be the
last thing converted previous to the
Millennium. Doubtless there are many
in its membership and ministry who
heartily repudiate such views, but it so
happens that these persons are never
heard, while those who speak are all up
on the other side. But again ask, will
any prominent minister of this city re.
buke or oppose Mr.. Van Dyke? Will
The Princeton ReDieao acknowledge its
sins of twenty-four and sixteen years
ago. and condemn such sentiments P.
Will The Presbyterian? Will any min
lister, Magazine, Journal, or Review,
having any acknowledged right to speak
the mind of the Church, give such
deliverence? pause for roply.
When Prof. Hitchcock, some two or
three years since, was reported as en-
tertaining views of Interpretation at va
rance with the received doctrine of the
orthodox upon that subject, the Rev.
Mr.. Van Dyke was the first to sound
the alarn,,to warn parents who had COM
nfitted their daughters to the educa-
tional influences Of Packer Institute"t
of the dangerous heresies being instil-
ed into their unsuspecting minds by the
attractive lectures of the distinguished
Professor OF Union Theological Semina-
ry.
The man whose soul was disquieted
by rumor that orthodox views concern
ing the Book of Genesis were present.
cd to q score of young ladies, in the
class room of Female College, preach
es to a full house on Sabbath evening,
and permits to be published in a widely
circulated journal on Monday morning,
and afterwards revises to be printed in
form and scattered by thousands over
the country, sermon in which he de-
clares American slavery to be divine
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%This journal Is generally regarded as the organ
ofthe Old School Presbyterian Church.
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