Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-08-10
The Clergy.

Copperhead Editors complain, that the
Clergy, of the North, will urge upon their
people to be loyal and to stand by their
country in crushing out the Shareholders
rebellion.
o. 1t is contrary to the rules ofthe Church
they say, for the Clergy to instruct their
people respecting the wickedness of dis
loyalty to the Government.
These faultfnding Copperhead Editors
will be delighted in reading the following;
The Right Rev. Bishop Elliott recent
ly delivered a sermon upon the occasian
of the funeral of the Right Rev. Bishop
General Polk.
The Atlanta Appeal says:
cat the close of the qeeply interesting
remarks, Bishop Elliott left the desk and
turning his face to the North, said:
eIp the name of the Episcopal Office, in
the name of the blood like that of Abel,
called aloud from the ground for ven
eence on those who lend the sanction Of
the church to the crusage against reli-
gion; in the name of desolated homes and
blackened root-trees, of desecrated
churches, and alters profaned, and the
holy sacrament trampled in the mire; in
the name and by the authority of God,
and by the chanting spell-word evoked
from the presence of the mangled and
martyred dead-in His name who closes
for this hour the list of prelates muir
dered."
Thus did the Bishop ummon such OF
the Episcopal Bishops and clergy OF the
North as have urged on this war, to meet
him and their victims, alive and dead, at
the Judgment Bar of God, there 10 n
wer.
"We do not regret the great gulf,
which war has placed, separating us from
such men, who were once in the commu-
MON of our beloved Church."
Few there were that did o thrill as
the Bishop concluded, And may God
have mercy upon them in that day."
We presume that High Church Copper
heads would not call the sermon of Bish-
CD Elliott's a political sermon, but the
preaching of the pure gospel.
These fault finders groan terribly when
ever such patriot Christians as bishop Nc
nvaine or Bishop Potter happen to utter
a patriotic defamation in their prayers.
We turn from the rebel TRADE of Bish'
r op Elliott, and contrast it with the bold
l and noble declaration on the state o.
l the country passed by the Prostestani
Episcopal Convention of the diocese o.
: Pennsylvania. A few bigoted High
Church Puseyites bitterly and vainly op
posed the u~tterance of such comprehen
sive and bold sentiments, but true chris
tians and noble patriots were not to b
inundated by threats; the following
d. outspoken loyal declaration was yictori-
: ously passed.
r "Whereas, There exists in this country
an organized and armed rebellion. whose
purpose is the destruction of our nation
al Union and the preparation of negro
l slavery,
"And uhereaS, This rebellion has mort
and more assumed a character of barbar
GUS fanaticism and murderous ferocity or
f the part of the enemies of the nation
therefore in view of the causes and char
acter of this struggle,
"ResOZUed, That we hereby declare oul
unfaltering allegiance to the government
of the United States, and that we pledge
it our willing devotion and service, and
that as a body of Christians, we will ever
pray that in Gods own time and way
this rebellion may be put down; that op-
preston and slavery in all its forms, may
be done away; that freedom of body and
mind, political and religious, may every
where prevail; that the emancipated ne
groes, whom God in his providence i:
committing to our care, may be the OBJ
lject of our liberal and Christian regard
and instruction, &c.