Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-02

an octave OF l7b pages, unusuaily neat IN
its appearance, is edited BY an Association
Of Ministers, and delivered 20 subscribers,a al
90 a year, payable in advance. The present
number contains six articles upon sectarian
and Theological, one upon political and one
upon pathological subjects, besides critical
notices The articles are evidently the pro-
duction of gentlemen ofthe clerical profession,
are written with considerable vigor, and
spiced with q fair proportion of the odiam
t~heologievA fa 8wHE TsdTEh
The RevieO is devoted to the interests Of
the Old School division of the Presbyterian
Church, and is intended TO serve as the organ
Of that body Of Christians in the West and
South. west. The logical conclusion from
the fact Of its northumberland which is
fully borne out by its contents-is that the
Old School Presbyterian is the only true
Church; and that if there is any saliva
ton outside its pale, il is only in cases purely
exceptional; taken out of the rule by espe-
cial dispensations, and in consideration of
extraordinary circumstances
Thrown by the accident of birth into a
different church establishment and nurtured
according to its precepts in a land where the
Old School Presbyterian Church did net
flourish, we are startled to discover IN this
publication TO what imminent spiritual peril
we have thereby been exposed; nor can we,
in the light of its pages, reflect without a
shudder upon the fate of a long series of
ancestors, and an equally lengthy catalogue
of relatives and friends, who, protesting the
faith Of the Congregational Church, have
parted from this life in full confidence of a
heavenly destination, not perhaps to discover
their mistake until they found themselves
consigned to a very different and much more
torrid fnality. We have been resting in
the assurance that they were in Heaven, and
have had our share of enjoyment in the hap
piness we supposed them to have inherited;
but alas they were Oongregationalists, and
when we glance at the portrait of Congrega-
tionalism, drawn by its nearest, and, we al
ways supposed, its dearest neighbor, our
hearts are filled with doubling and dismay.
The tendency of Congregationslism, as we
learn from the Repieue, while it robs the
church "of all its power to execute some of
the chief ends of its existence, is to cast it
headloHg into the vortex of all temporal ex-
elements, making the pulpit a rostrum from
which human passion is to display itself,
touching every human interest strong enough
to command a party !" 'to pervert all e1-
istiDg instrumentalities of doing good, into
engines for the promotion of objects utterly
foreign to their nature; y to beget an entire
want of all apparent conception that either
constancy in any particular principle, or con-
sistency in successive principles is a thing to
be desired, much less to be sought - to pro-
duce 'immense doctrinal deterioration of the
very fountains of light and knowledge" at
is seen in the frightful state of things pro-
duced by tampering with words and phrases
concerning the hottest things and the most
momentous concerns, until the uninitiated
can never be certain they understand the
intended sense-not uttered-but hidden
rather by what they read or hear" ''the
faith of Gods elect and the intimate convic.
lions of the human soul are alike paltered in
a double sense" Have we not reason to en-.
terrain fears for the safety of those who have,
all unconsciously-and even by the leading
of their spiritual guides-been exposed to
such awful peril2 We thought we kneu
where they were; now the question comes
home to us: Are they in Heaven, Or VIZ
can not find the heart to pen the gristly al.
tentative.
Holding such opinions of that sect "whose
professed faith is nearly identical with its
own" it will hardly be expected to find the
RtrisV distinguishing itself for forbearance
toward Christian bodies with whom its rela.
tons are less intimate; and accordingly we
find, in an article headed The Mystery o.
Iniquity," a declaration Of ceaseless and ex.
terminating war against the Roman see, ant
all that owe allegiance to his spiritual do
minion:
"In the controversy between Rome anC
us, there can be no compromise, no peace
one or the other must be aunihilated 1
PApists hold and teach a system of truth
then we hold and teach a system of false,
hood if Rome be a true Church of Jesu:
Christ then we are the Synagogue of Satan
and if we are the true Church of Jesus
Christ, then Rome is the Synagogue of So
tan. = = . The differences between
Rome and us are too great to ALLOW for one
moment, the idea that both systems came
from God: one or the other are from Satan. /"
P. "a.
This is putting the case strongly, but per-
baps fairly and as the proof upon both
sides of the issue in case it should be Joined
would probably consist of competing inter-
pretations of the same text, the controversy
promises, to say the least, to come to no
hasty and premature conclusion. The ar
ticle makes a good showing, and displays
the Apocalyptic ~menageries of the Old and
New Testaments with the readiness aud
skill of a practiced manipulation. The fe-
male in scarlet drapery mounted upon q
heteroclite beast of the same startling hue
meretricious herself, and with a troop Of
daughters pursuing the same naughty
trade-Gwe prefer not to employ the more
directand Saxon phraseology of the Review,
as it might prove shocking to the delicate
nerves of some of our readersl, is very prop
erly made the central figure of the tableau.
and her practices and those of her family
are dwelt upon with considerable power
and variety of language. The beast
we are informed, is the Roman EN-
pire; the woman is the Roman Catholic
Church but who the young women are
the daughters who followed the trade o
their mother-and where they are to be found
we do not learn from the Review, and arr
almost afraid to ask. Being younger than tn,
parent-who still survives in rather a halt
and robustuous old age-it is safe TO infet
that they are in existence; nor would it b
an unworthy task for some active, moral re
former, whose reputation is 80 well estab