New-York daily tribune., 1863-12-31
C0rPEHp,EAD CHRISTIANITY.


GOPPE.naEAD CHRISTIANITY.
The Democrats" OF Ohio arc 20 have a
New Gospel preached unto them by a brace o..
Apostles rejoicing in tho names Of Edison B.
Ods and Virgil Il. Shaw That they may ac'
complsb this ecclesiastical phenomenon, Olds
aad Shaw have addressed an cpistle to Gov
Mcdary. begging him to summon, at an early
dag, in conjunction with said Olds and Shaw,
"a State Convention for the purpose OF devils
ing some plan for A new Church organization,
in which Democrats may enjoy the privilege OF
hearing preached pure Gospel unmixcd with
Abolition fanaticism." Medary responds thai,
he is gratiicd, and be invokes all Dem
ocra.ic professors aud confessors, where they
are in the majority in any church, 70 see to
/, that Magiaen Devils are expungei. and that
the control Of the church is placed in hands
which will not disgrace the religion such
churches profess" We would suggest. if our
profane suggcstions might be permitted, kind
of composite OF eclectic faith, which shall CON
tain elegant extracts from variety Of creeds,
and embrace whatever il tenderly savage,
swee,ly bnrbarors. deliciously cyucl and vir,u-
ousy brutal ia al religions ancien. and modern.
A. TIE As.vrm B,lus. in this holy scheme,
will probably be The central deity. the new
Ohio faith will. donbie,, inculcate the offer
ing OF cn;ll.en in sacrifice. From Egypt
nigh. be borrowed that pious reverence for
the ba,tin.lc which c.lses The people sill
upon the bank. o. 'he Nile according "a
wnhin-ou) 20 ory out, Tho stick came down
from heaven. blcssing from God" while
IN Mcd1ry's meeting houses. swibc will be Of
fcrcd - the moon. and liJAtions Of "old rye
poured ont 20 B.cchus-those animals and that
Agii being common and cheap IN Ohio Neither
must Messrs. Olds And Shaw forget tha, the Moab
ties were descended from the eldest daughter o!
Lot. and were greatly given 70 thc offering up
OF rams. Out of respcc, FOR th, Ammoniics. a
niche mus' be kept ia the tcmp!o for Moloch,
who must haze also oforings Of nour-bes,
Gencsee--of turtles. OF sheep. oi rams. Of calves.
Of oxen. ani of-ohiidrcn o., Of respect iur
the Ph.l,'incs, room should be- found for IN
imsgc Ot OLD D,gol, out of reverence for the
>yrihns. le, there be 4 statue Of Rimm,n; ont
Of regard TO The Phrnic.ans, Cronus.
Ladies and gentlemen Of the new sect. A. they
cannot, in The Land Of Pork, be expected 10
abstain from pig like the Jews and Mo,!emi.
will. We suppose. refrain from beef like The
Egyptians. only McdIy, Olds and Shaw now
ani then having steak upon the sly, after the
manner Of high priests Of old From the Old
Te amcnt will be borrowed single sentence
Cursed be Canaan" from the New, one
single chaptcr-thc Epistlc Of Paul 90 Philemon.
Greece viii contrijutc Baochu5, and Rome a
MarA From The Aztccs will come further
slaugh,erous suggcs,ions, while chastity will
be derived from Brigham Youngs new and
naughty religion. But we VIII give no more al
vice. Fully satisfied ~ W. arc Of the ability o.
meliry md his friends TO found religion from
which both fllth and works shall be vigorously
excluded. while Whatever things are false, what.
ever things are dishonest, whatever are unjust,
whatever things lrc impure. whatever thing
are of evil report, shall be ancc'iona'ely IN
clulel-ani very much we should Ike TO hear
the Rev. Mr. Meliry preach his first sermon
For our own part. hunanly speaking we
cannot sufficiently commend the prudence o!
this movement We have long thought tha, it
must be extremely painful for dcyotces Of the
Mcdary s'anp-humln. we suppose, they must
be. for DO they not wear coats and pant.iOons,
aud ca: with a iorl. very painful indeed for
them to go to church, 10 be told that all mcn
are brethren, equal in the sight Of God They
arrive at their conclusions quite honestly. They
reason thus. We know that We are not equal
with homes. men. bu, we also know tha. we arc
superior 10 "niggcrs" Therefore all men arc not
equal. Therefore we VIII have new church,
in which a sinner can worohip comfortably with.
out having his sins impudcnty thrown IN his
teeth. What Is The us, OF po,ioa.ng religion
If you cannot enjoy it
We mus, say that we regu1 this mavenicn'
a. A sub..an,iaI surrender OF the Christian argu.
men. in support Of Slavery. There are many
meeting houses and many sccts iE Ohio. numcr-
our forms of faith and various shades OF ec-
cesias,ical polity-Presbyterians Methodists,
Lutherans, Roman Catholics. Uni'arans, Cal.
vinis,s. Universlisis-and here arc Governor
Mcdary. aud Edson B. Olds, and Virgil T..
Shaw, who cannot find single lonesome little
chapel III which sllyeholdng is scrupulously
sustained, but arc absolutely compelled to set
up a private Ebcncscr. separate establish
mont, an altar Of their own. But Mcdary must
not Nv discouraged. MoLAnmed for long