The Placer herald., 1864-03-26
Church Meddling with Politics.

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he Louisville True Prcsby terian contains
the following causic remarks on the above
subject:
If the church continues this ntermeddling
with things of the State, how long will i, be
till the State will meddle with the church,
sample of this was recently seen in Glas
gov, Kentucky, where the military authori-
ties sent the national flag into the Methodist
Conference, with the demand that ea
minister should salute it. But this treatlu.
an cclesiastical body AS though it were "a
political body would never heve been thought
OF had 1t not been for the common political
man9uvering of preachers. If as eccesiastics
they invade political ground, they certainly
may be expected to be invaded in turn.
The church thus sets an example danger
Gus to herself as well as to the country Her
nature, her policy and her intentions are all
more easily learned by the public from what
she does than from her creed. And who,
that has been stud yng her these past few
years in the light of what she has been
doing, would for moment dream that she
was not of this world-that she was in her
nature and appointment purely spiritual
and ecclesiastical boiy-a great institution
of peace set up in the world to that end?
AS they have listened to her in her puIpits,
and as they have looked in upon assemblies
and caught the tone and object of large
portion of her debates, and read her long
and labored political acts-as they saw her
worldly temper--more eager, more ardent
and more warlke than military men-who
of them all thus learning the nature of the
church from her acts, could believe that the
great Head and Teacher of the church was
the Prince of Peace? Such IA conclusion
from such premises would be impossible.
But this is not all. Going into the armies
OF" this great war, they find companies, regi-
ments, battaons and divisions headed by
Rev. Captains, Coonels and Generals
Christ said, MY kingdom is not of this
world;" but what can be more of this world
than beading armies and fighting battes.-
They have left the pul pit to take the sword,
and thus give their highest testimony to the
supremacy of the world over the kingdom
of Christ. Paul said, God forbid that |
should glory, save in the cross of Christ"
but these men seem to say, God forbid that
we should glory, save in the art and practice
of war" The same Apostle said, "Woe is
me if preach not the Gospel" but these
men say woe to us if we are not found on
the battle field and in the slaughter of our
enemies.
The love of the brethren is one of the
evidences of Christianity, but when Rev.
military men meet in battle and strike each
other down in death, have they not abandonl
ed and falsified all their ministerial engage
ments an! professions? What a strange idea
of the Christian religion would heather
get by Witnessing all these things, The
report which he would carry home would
be a terrible carcature of Christianity, and
a powerful obstacle to its reception, where
such a report was known and believed
The Wind River Mines--More Discoveries.
Accounts are constantly reaching US of
new mineral discoveries on The outskirts of
those last previous y announced. Having
connected our discoveries on the south with
the ancient workings of Mexico and having
pushed out eastward until we have reached
the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains,
where the mneral-bearing strata dips be-
meath the great Mississippi basin, our mines
have nowhere else to 90 but northward
along the great chain, which forms the back
bone of the continent 1t is along that track
that we are now pushing on to form con-
Meeting link with the gold fields of British
Columbia. The discoveries in Idaho Terri
tory and along the southern waters of the
Snake river, in the Boise region are now
we'll known. Our hardy pioneers are still
pushing on, and the last heard from them
they were prospecting, and successfully too,
the tar-oif Wind River mountains, upon the
north waters of Snake river. A late mum
mer of the Portland (Oregon) Times states
that Mr.. +. }. Lawren had recently arrived
in that city, and "reports that a valuable
mineral district has been discovered about
800 miles above Boise, on the head waters
of Snake river. They are termed the Wind
River mines, and they are most likely
located in the spurs of the mountains bearing
that name. great many have gone from
Boise and that vicinity, and have written
back that the diggings are far richer than
those of Boise ever were" The Wala
Walla Statesman speaks of considerable
excitement about these new mines. Hundreds
were leaving Boise for them.
S. r. Scientific Press.
According to the New Haven Register,
Connecticut is turning i,s attention from
wooden nutmegs to fish hooks. These hooks
have hitherto been made abroad and by hand,
but New Haven man has now invented
machine which "chews up steel wire into
all sizes of hooks, and spits them out as fast
and as perfect as pin machine"
There is considerable complaint by the
farmers and distiIlers in Kentucky against
the order prohibiting all distIing Of grain
in Kentucky. They have represented their
grievance to Gov Branlette who has APP
pealed to General Schofield to rescind the
order 1t is believed that Gen. Schofield
will revoke the order and give the Kentuck