The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-08-28

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Christ"
Again, we would refer Mr. Conrod to the e.
1 pistle of Paul to Philemon, from which we learn
that the great Apostle sent back to Philemon his
his master and by way Of some ancient UNDER
ground railroad, had escaped to Rome where
Paul then was
And what will Mr. Conrod say to this, from
l Timothy, ch.:
''Let as many servants as are under the yoke
count their own masters worthy of all honor,
that the name of God and his doctrine be not
blasphemed
'And they that have believing masters, let
them not despise them, because they are breth-
ren; but rather do them service, because they
are faithful and beloved and partakers of the
benefit. These things teach and exhort.
'If any man teach otherwise and consent
not to wholesome words, even the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ. and to the doctrine which is
ing. but dotng about questions and st,!tes Of ,co,ds
whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil sur
Musings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt
minds and destitute of the truth, suppos,ng that
gain is goodness: from such withdraw thyself."
| 1--WE cannot help thinking, just here, that
when the Apostle wrote these words, his pro-
phetic vision looked down the vista of time and
beheld the Rev. F. w. Conrod standing in the
pulpit of the Lutheran Church of Bedford,
''proud, knowing nothing, but doting aboutques-
| nd cfr,fa Of r1c tyho ap-
Wy, strife, rangs," &C., &c. But we Danish
the uncharitable thought and hasten to conclude
our search of Holy Writ, lest we find still less
aattering portraits of our political divine.
The portions Of scripture which we have quo
ted, show that God commanded His chosen peo-
pie to buy slaves, that He enjoined upon the
slaves the duty of obedience to their masters,
and that He ordered through the Apostle of
Christ that these things should be taught and
exhorted. These scriptural facts ought to be
sufficient to convince any reasonable mind that
it is not Gods design to destroy the institution
of slavery, either by means of this war or any
other. Besides the whole history of His deal
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collective capacity, teaches us that two races
never lived together upon conditions of social
and political equality. One or the other has
always been uppermost. One Or the other have
always been "hewers of wood and drawers of
water" And so it will be to the end of time.
Not all the preachers on the face of the earth,
if every one of them were a Peter the Hermit,
with the mailed legions of the Crusades at their
heels, could be able to destroy that eternal prin
ciple of nature which makes the inferior race
subject to the will and control of the superior.
There will be serfs and slaves till Gabrieps trump
shall sound for we are told in Revelations, 6
ch., Is ", that when "the heaven departed as
a scroll when it is rolled together" ''the kings
of the earth, the mighty men and every bapd-
man, and every free man, hid themselves in the
dens and the rocks of the Mountains THERE
fore, since there shall be bondmen even at thA
-. ---3r,usIs men rs-
| frain from their mad and vain attempts to pre-
vent what God himself has ordained. BE ST.
lent, ye babbing hypocrites, and hold your peace,
ye garrulous fools who wear the ''livcry of the
court of heaven" but wilfully or ignorantly
serve the Devil rather than the God of the BIZ
ble
But, we close by expressing our amazement
at the fact that a man of Mr.. Conrods reputed
piety and learning, could so far forget his posi-
tion as a preacher of the Gospel of Peace, as tc
desecrate the sacred desk with partizan har-
angue upon a political topic in regard to Which
he knew the congregation to which he was preach
ing, was divided in sentiment Nor can we al
together acquit the resident pastor of the Lu-
theran Church, of having conspired with Mr.
of his congregation, for he must have known
: what the tenor of his friends discourse was to
be. But if these Reverend gentlemen observed
the effect which this political sermon produced,
they were, doubtless, sufficiently punished
They must have seen and felt the indignation of
many of their hearers. They must have no.
Christ-less Abolitionists to grin and sneer al
4 Democratic members of their flock, and to go.
ry in the chagrin of their neighbors, rather than
g to think of and sorrow over their own SINS
: And as they looked upon the scene of smother
n ed anger and discord, they must have felt them
, selves the duplicates of those money-changer:
s and dove-sellers whom Christ drove out Of tht
: temple, and must have heard the whisper of {
: still, small voice, sit is written, my house shall
It be house of prayer, but ye have made it a der
d of thieves" We can only say in the Language
of St. Paul, "Now, / beseech you, brethren
!, mark them which cause divisions and offence
Il contrary to the doctrine which ye have Learned
and avoid them. For they that are such sery