Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-12-10
Illinois.

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Judge Lawrence upon matters of local in
terest in which his "loyalty" had been
questioned, thus concludes -
l know nothing in which have failed
in my obedience and demonstrativo loyal.
" as Bishop in the Church of God
These things at least I have done. / may
have left many undono 10 the estimate of
individual feeling, and if questioned by
that might be obliged to answer as the
good Bishop Griswold once did to n rude
inquiry in a stage coach, "Whother he
thought he had religion p "Not much,
sir, to boast Of"
But have felt more and moro in times
like those through which we are passing,
that for the present and the future, there
was q growing necessity to guard with
more vigilant rcticence the conservatism
Inherent 10 certain orders Of society which
constitute the great reserve force of order
aud equity, truth aud love, when society
is tossed by the demands and impulses Of
a temporary convulsion. Leading in this
solemn reserve force is the judiciary aud
the Church, and | am grateful TO find my
own humble conviction sustained SO fully
by the prudential agreement oil your learn.
cd bench. What you feel as Judge,
feel as Bishop, aud on the same princi-
pie have | urged the same on my clergy.
have charged that our vows and Offices
and the sacred claims upon usshouId deep.
} Gu our sobriety, chaste0 our influences.
seperate US more from the world in mani
tested consecration to the cure and love Of
souls. l have felt that the "stil small
voice OF the pulpit in the midst of the ez-
hausting din without Of the "fre, the earth.
! quake, and the storm, }" should be that OF
the pure, simple, tender, all applying
Gospel. That the House Of God should
be Sabbath refuge for the weary and
tossed, the excited and intense, where
the depressed might find peace, and the
rgitated find roposo where all may be
drawn in quietness and strength to it,
shadow as that Of great rock in weary
land" As the impulse of patriotism be
came our common air; as the great topic:
Of national duty, anxiety and partisan
strife have been so popularity discussed,
as the passions oil the worldly nature a:
well as the principles of the truor, have
been triumphantly secured for the sys-
tens Of relief which bcIevolenoe has con.
trived for the woes of war, have felt that
still less was there need that the pulpit
should be absorbed in the popular i'm.
pulses. have craved more and more
devout socIusion, and that the Church
should stand, even if lonely and reviled,
the intercessor with God, the CONSIDER o
the harasaed the teacher of all the Chris
tian gracos, to subduo waywardness anC
restrain ex cess, bow in peniteuce and in
spire with truth and be the living mode
through the uphcaviDg aud aac,uation O
the conventional and temporal, of the
klnglom and laws which are eternal.
la the Scottish Church ia by.gone time
it was made. the duty Of its clergy to preac
during the year some sermons on th
times. 10 the Convocation, all present
en- q certain accession reported the fulfil
mont of this duty except Leighton, an,
when rebuked for the neglect ,Le cou'enc
himself with the reply 4: "If all the goo
and talented are preaching lor the Times
one poor brother, at least,moy be permit
cd to preach for Eternity.'
l remain, with high consideration, you
obedi- 1T servant.
HENRY j. WuITEuoUsE,
Bishop of the Diocese OF Illinois.