The Portland daily press., 1863-04-20
A Religious Curiosity.

The following resolutions were offered and
passed at a society meeting of the Old Church
at New Preston, Conn.,, almost under the shad-
ow of Old Yale. Considering the classic To-
cality from which they emanate, and the strong
probability that the doctrines enunciated have
been submitted to and approved by Fernando
Wood, vailandigham and their associates,
while on their recent stumping tour TO en-
tighten the electors of Connecticut in
regard TO their duty towards their beloved
brethering," who are guilty of nothing bu
treason, disloyalty, rebellion, and all the I'M
told misery that hangs like pail over our
fair land; we feel safe in recommending them
for adoption by such sensitive worshippers as
happen to be SO situated that they must neces
sarily hear from their pulpits warm utterances
of loyalty and love for our institutions, ac-
companied with holy and earnest uenuncia-
tons against secession and its sympathizers
We are glad to believe, however, that the num-
Der is small in our community, and growing
beautifully less:
Resoired, That in view of the fact of our Fore
Fathers depriying themselves Of ihe comforts K
necessities of life in many cases to provide per-
manent Fund of S., 900 or more for this the first
Ecclesiastical Society of New preston the inter-
est of which to be used for the support of the
Gospel truth that only, & for no other per-
pose And knowing the fact that considerable
portion of sd interest has bin paid out for the
last few years for other perposes being for the
perpose Of instructing q Educating our grow
ing population to hate and despise n large Dor
ton otour beloved brethering in an other section
of this United States brethering OF our own
q. L.. Al IL
in the end TO destroy desolse this once most
prosperous happy Union 4 to trampe under
our feet the old constitution which our Fore
Fathers fought bled and died TO establish & to
set at naught the highest Tribunal of this United
States q TO establish one man power which
(for shamel we have lived to see accomplished
& knowing as we do well know that the people
of not only this but of the whole New England
States have been miss led by these men who
ought 70 be above suspicion or elce this County
would never have undergone the change il has
for the last years a change which our children
nay our Great Grand children never can live to
see repaired 4 knowing we do that these
blood thursty creatures are still thurstng for
more blood, As Beecher sd not one month since
he was for Var 10 the Knife War redr than
blood then thanked God for the present Civil
War the same speach has recently been made in
tins House In view of all these facts we not
only feel it a duty we owe TO our Fore Fathers
who subscribed to our fund q to our Maker
who knows all that this Resolution with the ac-
comparing one be passed and placed upon the
Records ofthis society.
Voted that the Pulpit Committee of this
Society be instructed and they are hereby in
structed that whenever they employ Minister
of the Gospel to preach in their Meeting House
on the Sabbath day they shall first inform sd
Minister that he is employed to preach the Cos
pel-truth according to Bible doctrine Christ &
him crusihed that only That he is strictly
requested & prohibited by vote of this Society
from delivering any dscourses of any descrip-
ton upon the subject of the Present War & that
he shall not allude to the matter neither in
prayer nor summon.
We are informed that at subsequent meet
ing the same society instructed their Pulpit
Committee not to allow meetings ofany descrip-
ton in their house of worship con the Sabbath
or weak days, except those that are strictly
religious