The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-06-13


Mems Christian A association Of New
York City, at the Cooper Institute,
on Monday night. The Rev. DR..
Hitchcock OF Union Theological
Seminary presided. We make the
following extracts:
The tests for preaching the gospel
down South were-Can you lie with.
out any conscientious scruples2--
Can you drink mean wbIskey by
the quart? Can you boast Of your
ability to lead men on to victory in
the rebel army? Many of his audi.
ence were no DOUBT Episcopalians.
One Of their Episcopal bishops, the
Right Rey. Hon. Mai. Gen. Leoni-
das Polk, laughter who had
cooked hat and epaulets on his
shoulders, aud sword hanging by
his eide, was about in the swamps
Of Corinth, drinking mean wbiskey
by the quart, and taking the name
Ioi God in vain; that is what the re-
bellion has brought him to.
The Methodist preachers In the
South we're entitled to more consid.
GRAFTON than those Of any other de.
nomination, for there was more una
nimity among them. They were
nearly all, without any exception,
rascals. GGreat laughter and ap
plause They had nearly all pitched
in. and when but the other day they
held an annual conference fifty miles
above where reside, in the town Of
Greenville, on the railroad, the ven.
cradle Bishop. James o. Andrews,
the man who split the turkey in two
when the General Conference was
held in 1874, presided. | know all
about that, for | electioneered hard
for him in 1882. They were hold
ing an annual conference, and n
faction Of preachers, to distinguish
themselves, to render themselves
more acceptable to Secession fami.
lies in which they were boarding,
brought him upon the carpet, he at
homo some fifty miles distant; for il
ho had been there, it would have
been about the last thing they would
have done.
No parliamentary rules Of Bishop
Andrews cou!d have choked him
down; when they mounted him, he
would have mounted them, and
when Greek met Greek then came
the tug of war.
They denounced him and his pa
per, and clamored for hanging him.
And such clapping as was then
there never was before, and the
Bishop enjoyed it as well as any
body else-as well as he had enjoy
ed the hospitality Of bis house, for
he had been there many times.
Fountain F.. Fitch, an old Pre-.
siding Elder of the Conference, O
man who had been in every Gener,
al Conference, for thirty years, who
went to Europe with Bshop Soule,
who had one or two sons in the reb'
ell army, was o chaplain OF Nash.
vile regiment, and he made it a
practice to get drunk, carrying q
bottle with him; he drank to excess
and swore proiusely, but preached
every Sunday faithfully to the sol.
diers. and in his discourses told them
actually that the canse in which
they were engaged-and he only
gave him as specimen OF all de-
nominations fighting Tor the inde'
pendence of the South fighting to
keep back tho Abolition hordes OF
the North, and repulse the hordes ol
Lincoln-was SO good and 30 holy a
cause that II they died in this cause
they would be saved in heaven, even
without grace. Great laughter and
applause, One of them. the Rsv.
DR.. Baldwin Of the Methodist Curch,
Senator Pickens being in front of
him knelt down, as was the Metho
dis: custom, one Sunday, to pray
30 Lord" said he, "we thank thee
for having inaugnrated this Revolu.
ton" Judge Pickens rose up in his
seat, and, taking his hat, says he,
"G-d d--n such a prayer to
hell" Loud Laughter
A Il verend, OF the Baptist do.
nomination, ibis name escaped our
reporters, the reporters table having
been placed q great distance from
the speaker,) at the head ofthe Dap
list Publishing House in Nashville,
when the Union army approached
Nashville, and he found his neck in
danger of the halter, took to his
heels, and AZ he was running ont OF
Nashville in a sulkey nine or ten
miles an hour, | was going in under
flag of truce. lie is now heading
a regiment OF rebels, arn,ing them
with pixies.
A gentleman, (Dr Pearson, Presi
dent Of Columbia College, Ken
tucky,) gives an account Of DR.. NJ ,r
tin of your town. He graduated q,
the Union Theological Seminary
here in New York.
Parson Erownlow-You didn'l
lully graduate him at your college
he is now taking lessons under the
devil, TO my personal kho wledge. -
[Groat applausc.] lie is a New
School Presbyterian, resident o.
Knoxville. Until he became Sc
cessionist, he was gentleman and