Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-19

The ssa,s Convention " b. holden at Desmoinea
he sssh day Of Angust inst.
RATIO:
One DELEGATE for each Township and addi-
ossaa sss Tor each twenty votes east AT the last
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
why donV Ministers dsnouues Wa
We wonder that everv minister Of the
gospel In the land. every p,oclaimer Of
the divine mlssion of the prince Of peace
10 our widespread country, does not lit
bic voice IN condemnation Of war and
u s1pplioatioo to God that the elements
Of destruction let loose upon our unhap-
pv people be stayed now and forever
HeseltC.
We adopt the peroration Of the dis
course which Bro. Sanders provided for
his hearers last Sunday morning, az
text for what may follow. We do not
present the sutject at this tune and 10
this manner, because we wish to criti-
oiss its contents in IN unfriendly man.
ner but because it strikes US 40 being
a'matter very proper to consider At the
present time. Our contemporary had
been enumerating the deathIy scenes Of .
famous battlefield had been unfolding
. chart of past military exploits all
covered over with blood, all suggestive
Of excrnciating pains, deepest agony
"The ghsstly slain, tho severed head,
The raven STOPPING DER the Dead"
and after portraying the revolving spec
tscles incident upon ''mans inhumanity
to man." arrives At the conclusion as re-
produced in our text.
With our venerable contemporary, we
too, "wonder that every minister of the
gospel IN the land" does not condemn
war. 1t has long been matter Of deep
surprise to US that the sacred desk has
been polluted by the sales Of the fat Of
others who we're ordered forth upon q
mission Of peace-peace on earth and
good will towards men, but who have
turned it into politicians stump; who
standing there With their Divine Masters
express orders unsealed and wide open be
fore them, have dared to exhort cir hear
ere upon the political topics Of the day
to denounce the very Government which
affords them protection and spit upon
that constitution which is the basis OF
their religious liberty yea, even boast
before taeiT God that they-the chosen
emissaries Of Christ, have been the
means Of bringing about this present
war. Well may we wonder at it; we'll
may our neighbor wonder that they do
not cast of their present war-like atti-
tnde and stand up before God and man
as the "procIaimers of the Divine mis-.
sion Of the Prince Of Peace"
But their applications have been Of
different character. In their v eekIy
communication with the laub b. of their
flock the mission Of saving souls has
been, to an alarming extent discarded as
thing out Of date; and instead OF point
ing the finger Of faith towards the
straight and nsrrow path which leads to
the narrow gate on the confines Of the
kingdom Of lite eternal-instead of Iii.
rectlag candidates for that lite, how they
may run so as to come of victors, they
exPat'ate learnedly upon the tortuous
paths IN which uugodIy politicians
tread, and critically treat upon the mot
approved methods Of securing maiori-
y Of the votes cast at the annual bust
ings-the reward Of which is a remune.
rative salary-pickings and stcalings in.
1t the COAT does not suit any Of our di
vine readers, neither we, nor will our
contemporary insist upon their putting il
on.
But our neighbor is astonished. The
source OF his astoDishment is that the
ministry does not enter upon a whole.
sale denunciat,on Of war. Would be
nave them denouncc the present war |!
would he have them indicate to Presi.
dent Lincoln that he is engaging the
people OF this once happy country 10 a
WORK aohorrent in the sight of God, and
replete with Wholesale damn alton to
thousands Of peoples So We conclude
from the language Of our text. lit j.
meet that Minister should do thus. vbv
does our Le'gbbor not 60 and do like.
Vial Would be recon- mend to the
ministry to advocate what be would
hinsslf dssounos or would he have
pssespt and example walk hand IN bands
Hi h the former W are not mistaken !;
mths latter, We may soon expect to hear