The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-05-04
An .WlnI Rebnks to the Clergy.

deals some terrible blows a, the head of the
bloody inidsl ministers Of the United States
who have literally turned our churches in
10 dens Of ts;sces. 1t says:
We foudly thought ths, poised upon the
iruth, animaiet By the grace, and obliged
by commands OF her glorious Head, the
Church would have bulwsrk against the
rushing tide OF evil. We ihoughl she would
be an oasis in the desert, where weary
travellers might refresh themselves We
! thought she wosld be al island in the sior
my sea, where Shipwrecked mariners
might find safety and shelter. We did not
expect TO hear ia her solemn Assemblies
the voice OF human anger, much less oi
| satanic malice. We believed that in the
hour oi civil commotion, when Staes were
isundefsd, and armies met in the shock oil
bsltIs, she would lift up holy hands with
Out wrath and doubling, and implore her
msslerto drop from heaven the olive branch
! OF peach that she would gather her sons
and daughters about her and say to than
"My children love one another" that she
would lay one hand upon Epnrsim and the
I
| We need not say how sadly we have been
disappointed. In spite Of her boasied con-
version and fiIe!iiy to principle, this once
vensrated body, al one bound broke every
bond OF Iuih aud charity, in eject renoun-
! ced her allegiance TO her great Head, and
allied herself with his arch enemy. She
has ;nrned asido from her masters work,
1 nd m k,.vh, ~.
hundreds OF her pulPiis, is engaged in pro-
pEgating political idsas aud in sounding the
| dread tecsin Of war. Her ancient schools
Of tho proPhets-wheFe lnger the memo-
ries and Fe2ose The ashes of the illus;rious
desd-hsve been perVerlsd to the advocacy
OF = cruel war, and OF goddess and inhu-
man AboiIicnism Her most widely cir
culated nswspaP per, that used TO howl so
franiically Whenever an Episcopslian was
appointed TO chsplaincy in The army or
navy, is now the whining OF Ihs secular
power that lords il over Gods heritage and
IS rejected, in dsgus, by Christians, and
even loyal men, on The ground that it is no
longer religious paper. Her Oldest Omar
tstiy Review now receives its inrpiFaiion
from disappointed military commanders,
who falling OF success in the field, have be-
come ''ihe communicating intelligence" OF
absured politics and impIacicabs CAM
Paigu
Her clergy in many instances vie with
each o:er, not in fidelity 10 God aud the
souis OF men, but in devotion to parry aud
in zeal for the carnage OF baule.
Amid this furious bsbbie OF. politics and
war, We look in vain Tor the Magna Chsra
of ths snnrncIalion. "Glory TO God in the
highest: On earth, peace, good Will to
men. Il is appalling 10 see the Church OF
God spue from her mouth the Gospel c:
peace, aud bswl hetsef boarse in s,i:nulai-
ing the ferocious passions of men, and in
cannonizing the red-hsndlsd fiend of the
battle field Where is her former hatred
| Of Aboli,ionism. now that she is causing
her own children 10 pass through the FIRE
10 Moloch, and gloaing over Ihe prospect
of servile iusurrecton What shall we
say OF The distinguished Mr. Yau Dykes
sermon on that subject, aud who now lift
up their hands and roll their eyes in pious
horror at the sin oil slsvery1 Sha! we say
as the world says OF Them, that they have
either been practising Gross deception all
their lives, or are. now oaseiy yielding 10
unmanly fear, shall we adopt the humlliat-
ing charge so freely made, th%tss body,
the clergy OF this country hays been less
reliable, more unwilling 10 sacrifice their
i positions 10 principle, more shnf1lng and
cowardly and blood thirsty, than any ether
class in it
Shall we repeat the smear, that rather
than give up their places andjIheir salaries
they will preach and pray under tho dicta-
iion of a turbuIant faction in their churches;
or the bitter teunt Of the soldier, who on be-
ing re proved by one Of them for swearing
replied, al will not De reouked by you,
sir
have exposed my lie for three years in
this war, and but for the preachers ihsrs
would have been no war p' We desire to
bring no railing accusations, neither TO
Judge any man but by the fruits 20 shall
know them, and the fruits Of all their iabms
is that they, The Church, and reiig ION itself
are brough, into contempt among men.
The Lord Jesus seems 10 have averied HIS
face, and the spirit of Grace to have de-
parted from the scene OF stn.e and ianstl-
cism' and bound in The foiis Of tie dsvil,
and exposed TO the hooiings OF ths word.
nothing is left 10 us but dead Faith and
az Apos,ale Church"
SENSIBLE MA&IMs.- Never lasie an aiom
when you are not hungry il is suicidal
Never aire servants who go in para "a
sisters, cousins or anything elss.