Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-01-31

Rights Convention was also in session.
The members of this body got up tenn
perance organization, for the place, and
appointed themselves its delegates to the
Worlds Convention. BY this means
they sought to force an endorsement Of
their isIns or to break up the body. One
Of their lady friends came upon the plat.
form, and in the face Of an indignant as
sembly, and in utter disregard Of a reso-
luton passed the preceding day. demand
ed hearing. A sympathizing mob had
followed on the heels Of these freedom
lovers and man-woman-eq -equalityists, and
outvoted lie Convention in their owa hoW
On a motion made by myself, that "the
house should be cleared" it was sneer
ingly asked, "who was able to do it?''-
The answer was, The police IF -New York;
And a member of that same useful body,
which has been helpful to the Rev. DR..
Cheever's Church in the more esotertc de-
velopments Of their ism, took by the nape
Of the neck lingering, recusant gentle
man, who is now, believe, in prison in
Wisconsin, for resisting the execution Of
our National Constitution.
Thus was the Convention saved from
the tender mercies of these liberty lovers,
whose meat and drink are discord and
| disunion.
! Your attention is now asked to facts
kindred to those already related, bat not
Of direct personal knowledge. | refer to
the disruption Of great National Church
organigations. Within the last twenty
five years, the Baptist Church, the Meth
odist, and the New School Presbyterian
! Church, have lost their nationality. This
Church disunioniom was consumated me-
diately, not Immediately, by Abolition
ism. That is to say, distinctive Aboli-
tionism is in its principles, its measures
and its aims, so gross, so false, SO ruin
Gus to man, so bias sphemous against God,
as utterly to preclude its reception by any
Church while claiming to be Church Of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, fearful er-
rorsm, which blasphemously says that,
if the Bible does not teach their sen:i-
ments, they will repudiate it, that if the
great God will not endorse their notions,
they will dethrone Him; that the poor
deluded man who hung upon the gallows
on Firginia's borders was "the Jesu,
Christ of the nineteenth century" Thi:
Erorism has mingled a cup Of Sophistric,
in humanity, human rights, morals and
religion, which she has held to the lip,
OF profesSed Christians, who, while shud
dering to drink to tie dregs, have yet helC
theii lips so long to the brim, that its
fumes have made them drunk, and, reel
ing against their fellows, they have burs
in sunder the holiest ties of Church iel
lowship Thus, if to these facts OF his
tory we apply the Scripture principle
"By their fruits ye shall know them, w,
can determine the character of the prin
ciples which originated them. Disunior
between individuals; Disunion in sing!e
Churches; Disunion in religious associa
tions; Dsunion in National Church or
ganizations; Disunion at the North
among Northern men; Disunion in every.
thing, everywhere. This has been the
1SemPer, uJique. aJomniJus fruit of Abol-
itionism!
But the history Of our own Church
claims attention. To the praise of Gods
grace. disunionism has not yet triumph.
ed within our pale. We coLtinue to be
a National Church. Why? Because we
are "pro Slavery" The man who says,
ignorantly, that the Presbyterian Churcl
is "proslavery," "bears false witness
against his neighbor." The man who
really knows the views of the Pres byter-
ian Church, and says that she is "pro-
slavery" sis of his father the Devil, who
was liar from the beginning" The
Presbyterian Church is the friend of free.
dom; but she abhors the doctrines Of
modern Abolitionism. She is the friend
of freedom; but she rejects the teachings
of modern anti-slaveryism as grievous to
the Holy Spirit, divisive Of the Church
and ruinous to civil peace.
In 1918, the Presbyterian Church put
on record her views on slavery, by unan
imous vote of the General Assembly
North and South agreeing,) and thai
record stands, to this day, file so steel
ed by truth, and so entrenched by the
pure spirit of the gospel, that every ser
pent tooth of Abo:tionism would wea,
away in it's cravings before they coulc
abrade its surface. That testimony is Sc
stepped to truth. so rich in wisdom, re-
dolent of the gospel spirit, that we dare
with it to confront not merely modern
errors. but humbly bear it to the only
True, the only Wise, the only Holy. ant
ask whether it be not with His image
and superscription stamped" From
that testimony the Presbyterian Churcl
has never receded by word or deed
And if at any time, in these latter days
the South has made objection to that tes
timony, it is another of those legioI
evils for which an inidel, missnthropi
and distrust engendcring Abolitionism il
responsible.
But has the Presbyterian Church main
tanned her union and her nationality with
ont conflict? By no means. From
various quarters and in various ways hel
peace and her unity have been assailed,-
Old England and New England, Scot
land and Ireland, have severally attempt
ed TO thrust our bark out on the vexe(
bosom of this angry ism. But we ha'
5 no assurance that Jesus apould 90 Nth us
or would hear us when, self-deStroyed
our anguished cry should he-"MaSter
we perish" We preferred the fellowship
of the Prince of Peace. From these for
cign countries the Presbyterian Churcl
8 receives epistles, claiming to exhort AM