Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-07-23

only God she worships--woald crush Out
aations, and tie zhroas Of God Himself.
Awaks then nay people ssesps ous from
among thea j" Asir asaehiags are the
poisouof pssoe ID soelal happiness. Aiy
teachings are "pesee on earth and good
viii 70 man 10 their tsaohings are strifss,
theft, murder, and civil war among brssh-
Feni thsy profess 70 BE- my followers thsy
ara not~~thsy are Of their massar, the dew
a-inadsiss they mqsslaas and psr~aet my
wsyss and Gods holy word hypacrises
they profess Gods holy religion and teach
doctrins Of Devils and inEdelity 70 me,
my words, and to nay Father. The man
who thna denisa God and this word Is
AN NFIDEL. Let the ministers Of GODS
word proclaim to my people the sphols
council Of Him, a. revealed in the holy
Bible. Teach my afflicted people 70 obey
the laws, and my words; and TO follow
no other teachings, as the only means By
which they can be delivered from the aw-
ful calamity which now overwheImns them
By reason Of the in6del Clergy Of the land,
with which it Is cursed. Let not the trut
minister Of my Gospel say in his heart,
''If | preach obedience to the laws under
which live, that shall become ohnox.
iouH to the charge Of taking part in The
political struggles Of the day p no, no,
The observance Of the laws is among ths
first principles Of the christian religion
and therefore are to be $mOng the 6yss
and most earnest teachings of nay chosen
ministers TO my distressed people.
II for this the [inadel) Clergy prosecute
you, and maliciously Islander you, count
it gain for you shall come cut Of the
aery trial like the three intended victims
Of Eebuchadnezser, the 'sfourth'' shall
be found walking" With you, and he,
1.-THE son OF God) shall protect you from
81 harm ; nor shall your raimsnt be IN
in the least effected By the over heated
ordeal.
Besehsr.- have said that abandon
ed the doctrines Of Moses laws your
teachings relative to slavery, because |
believed . paramount good viii result
from such course, to-wit' The sleya-
ton Of the eolored races to political,
and social level with the Anglo Saxon and
white races after which intended to re-
sumo the Bible teachings, at least those
parts which command obedience 70 the
Constitution and lava Of M country
Already tbs sender mind of the childEeS,
the youth, and the softer sex By long and
unseasing labors Of the clergy, and sbs
acting under their direction, in u
day school, lecture room and pp -. = , oDH
lily second our views, Log = a. '- -
amouni Of good that Or -. 'D' 70, ' :
eGectedi we hare : ~ A~''
dition Of d. easFaseo the SOCIAL con
~ -. - free African, almost equA
IA Of the Anglo Saxon American race
we have freed an enslaved church, open.
ed the doors Of its pulpits, made them tbs
very oracies of politics, abolitionism, uni.
versal emancipation, and liberated il
from the narrow puritanic doctrines of il
unwise and superSsitious founders. It'll
no longer circumscribed il ID freed from
thralldom of old fashioned one idea rali-
gion. We hsve done much towards equal
ming the races, !. 6. the Anglo American
and African races. Il would not SPEAK
of the Aborigines Of the country. fhsy
are inferior, God made them SOL W.
have accomplished even more than we IN.
ticipated. Already the black youth ar,
taught in the same school and admitted
TO the contest for the reward in the sans
class with the white in the Sunday School
Celebration, they aspire 10, and receive
the honors of bearing our National en-
sign at the head of the procession, 70 the
exclusion Of the white youth, what filter
emblem Of oor doctrins?) This Cypress.
ed race are no longer" excluded from the
hailowed limits Of the family circle of the
citizen. The American, the full blooded
African, and the Quadroon, meet upon
equal terms at the festive board, and
around the Preside; and the stalwart
Eshiopean proudly leads to tha hy1nanaal
alter the fair and blushing Anglo Saxon
American maiden. With such fruits be-
fore me, is 1t expedient TO retrace my step,
and teach old fashioned conservative non
ansat9amatioa doctrine .1~
To be continued. L.