The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-12
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Politics I'm the Gospel.

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Politics I'm the Gospel.
This is modern decoction. To it GU
pious ancestors were entire strangers.
is not healthy, but an exceedingly insalu
brious distillation. 1t is extremely intoxi
eating, producing nervous irritation, anger
strife, frenzy, and much dispute amonl
those who are brethren, leading to secia
ruptures and even church dissolutions.
1t makes the gospel minister, who drink
and loves it, as boisterous as one of BaaP
babblsrs, and to below, at times, from th'
pulpit loud as Basham bull. Its effect
on the clergy would be really funny wer'
they not really serious, Were the pul
pit, stage, the house of God theatre; ant
the holy Sabbath day of secularity, th'
ranting of these clerico-politieal dsclaimer:
would amuse, if they did not profit, every
beholder. But to call such stuff the gospe
is1aninsult to the truth. And certain are
we that could some of our fathers who list
tened 20 the rich, solemn, Scriptural utter
snce of the pulpit in the days of Chalmers
of Scotland, Hall, of England, or Edwards
of America, rise up and hear what new
comes from the Sacred desk as the Gospel.
they would Immediately detect therein
"uncertain sounds of most radically dan
gerous character. 1t would be to them
"another Gospel" than that which they had
heard, believed and obeyed in their day,
such as Paul forbid any one, even an angel
from heaven, TO preach, on pain OF Gods
eternal anathsma.
Tho effect of this new gospel--this gos
pei according to Greeley, Cheever, Chapin,
or Beecher on the mind of those who hear
it, is truly deplorable. Being the gospel OF
hate and not the Christian Gospel of lone,
its tendency is to beget envy, strife, hatred,
iealousies, divisions and all that long cata-
losue of denominations which Paul fore
warned Timothy would be the result of the
teaching of those who Caught otherwise"
to him, on the subject Of slavery, and trcm
which all true Gospel Ministers are exhort'
ed by the divinely inspired Apostle to turn
away" go.
1t is granted that the term 'political" is
quite indefinite in It's modern acceptatlon;
so that one may affirm and another deny
the same discourse to be Of political char
acter. And whilst We are free to confess
that it would not be wise TO subject the
ministry to any stringent rules as to what
they must, or must not say in their sermons,
On civil affairs, yet in great many places,
The pulpit has become so grossly belligerent
md partyised, as to be a real offence to the
pest and wisest of men in both Church and
State. Hundreds and thousands of the
most intelligent, worthy, and exemplary
Christians in our land, have been offended,
nsuted, and slandered in the most shame
ul and wicked manner by these frey zealots
q their Sunday harangues, misnamed SER
mons; and when such in any way dared to
express their dissent from such teachings
coming from their spiritual leaders, they
must be twitted by these self constituted
monitors as wincing under the truth, or as
having their guilty consciences disturbed
BY the power Of these heaven-glven ad-
nonitions and warnings against their
supposed Copperhead and Pro Slavery
1slinouenoies as the case may be! Such
liatribes are offensive, because they are
abominably false, coming, as they do, from
the vilest party passion in the bosom OF the
utterer, not from his Christian principles
and conscience as public teacher. Per
baps Wheeling and vicinity are as free
from this species of clerical demagosuelsm
IS almost any other city or community, but
eyen q short distance from US preacher"
NAV be found that make it a point, no dit
ference what text they select, to denounce
in the most vulgar and abrupt manner, dem,
ocrats as such, conjuring up in their heated
zeal false dogmas, charging these upon the
marty. and then denouncing all who IN their
views hold them. And then, when any lett
the church because Of this, it was asserted
that the faithful preaching of the truth al
vav, tended to purge the church of false
msmbers. How ridiculous, shameful and
sinful such conduct is. Such ministers
and assure the reader they are more nj
merous than, perhaps, he Is aware-are
disgrace to the pulpit, and are sinking 1t be-
meath the contempt of an indignant com
munity. Indeed, some personsgo to church
nova days to hear those pulpit phlllyplcs;
and if they hear them out they go away
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his hearers that conscience was hlsner
law and safer guide on slavery than the
R;bler-"thst whatever his conscience ad'
monished him to be right on this matter he
would do it, despite the constitution or any
hnman law" And another said last week
to the writer-"He felt slavery to be the
greatest 81 wrong on earth, aud the slavehoid ,si
er to be the greatest vlllaln' anu, 'nere,o,e'
II mattered not to him what Paul was sup
~ nosed to teach in the Bible on this subject,
pr our fathers in the Constitution;-ootn
must 90 overheard if they stood IN the way
Of the removal of this monster sim" Ano
what these divines called conscience anu
..feelingn in them, was nothing but the mos'
bigoted, party passion 10 A.,
Are such scenes to be followedY are
they to be countenanced2 Are they to De
regarded as ministers Of the gospel Of Ch''sl
What direct antagonism there is betweeI
such and the Holy Ghost. Please rea'
what it says
"Let as many servants as are under tn
woke count their own masters worthy OF al
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