The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-09-18

Jones prays Sor dry weather, 50 that he can eui
his wheat Whe is Tight-who is wrong?-
Whose prayer is going 20 be an'weredf Why
my dear sir, they put me very much in mind
Of regiment OF Kilkenny cats' ''going in or
! their MUSCLE" FEsE7F
tell you, one OF the best sermons that wa
ever preached, was nearly two thousand year.
ago on Mount Olvet, and here's PASSAGE
blessed are the pescemakers Tor they shall be
called the children OF God'' Blu. they DOM
believe that now-h isn't good enough, and
some Of them have expunged it from that old
fashioned book, called the Bible; that was good
enough for Luther aid Calvin and John IVES
ley and George Washington, land it IS good @.
nough for you and me yet. t.s.,
! or course they may draw up their clerical
dignity about then, and call US blasDhemers
and scofTers; but it won't do As ] said be ore,
thumb screws are "played OUT" and they are
not going to hang any more harmless old wo-
men for witchcrah, or enact any more blue
laws, or Danish any more men ike Roger vii.
liams, either. The people will not permit it
they know better. A man of common sense
need not listen to fifty or hundred sermons a
year all bis lie, iii the sermons are worth any
thing and not know something about theolgy,
and not feel competent to pass an opinion, now
and then. They are not going TO nail US and
our hopes all up in baggage car. and then let
on steam and drive US where they please. We
won't stand it, and we'll knock out the win
dows, smash down the doors, and throw the
train off the track first. IL.
They got beyond the lids OF the Bible in New
England, hanging on to Ward Beecher's coat
tails or gown Q don't know what be wears)
and preached politics, and tried TO get off as
many ''gliuering generalities" as he did, such
as this: 81 hold it to be an irredeemable sin TO
shoot at man and not hit him." and they try
to get as much earthly glory as Beecher even il
they have to ignore little incident that took
place good while ago. What is that? No
thing, only Peter cut off the ear OF the High
Priests servant and Jesus said: "Put up thy
sword in its place, for all they that take the
sword shall perish by the sword" That's not
in Beecher's Bble,--too old fashioned. f
These things are, all wrong. and you
you know they are all wrong and the people
know il, and the cancer must be cut out. Al
ready, New England, where political preaching
first began 10 this country and where 1t is eleva-
ted to the rank Of a science, they have more in
fidels than in all the rest Of the United States
put toge hers So. in France, the priests took
sides with the government 10 oppress. the peo.
pie, but tell you the people rose up, and hurl
ed the King from his throne and the priests
from their pupits at one and the same blow
And they were so disgusted with the religion
they had, that they concluded not to have
any religion at all. q. And they didn't have any.
1t has not been more than four or five hun
dred years, since the Pope OF Rome, his Arch
bishops his bishops his priests, and his Jesuits.
bothered themselves a great deal too much
about politics, and a great deal too little about
the Bible; and one Martin Luther, seeing the
clergy would not read the Bible for the people.
he translated it 50 that they could read it tor
themselves, aud they did read it for themselves;
and thus Luther projected and carried through
to successful termination a revolution, the Of
tects Of which you know better than do And
the people are still reading the Bible for them
selves; and so another revolution is brewing
that win put this muddy political, modernized.
Beecherzed religion through a fire that will
not only purify its tenets, but destroy its cor
rupt and gangrened advocates And 1t will be
as boodless as il will be complete. asiaa
i thank you for your patience, and remain,
Yonrs trnly, s sasaEs
3. CADIz, September 5, 1861. ONYX.