Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-01-05
SHORT SERMON.
Number II.
BY REV. PHILANDER BoMBsHELL.

My Brethren, after long interval, have
come again to enlghten my anxious flock. -
Upon the present occasion shall discouse
to you from the following expressive text
suggested by the poet Addison:
Have not cause to rave and beat my breast?'
My Brethren, the heart of man is placed
in the breast. Since it is established as
physiological fact that beating the breast
where the heart is located, affords relief t
the afflicted heart similar to that given b,
groans and tears we can very well under
stand the wise arrangement of nature il
placing the heart in that convenient locality
for beating.
To rave affords relief to the aggitated
heart, imbues others with the spirit of he
who raves and stirs them up with righteous
indignation.
Then, in view of the many surroundings,
and in the language of my text, "have |
not cause to rave and beat my breast ?"--
Let us see. Nearly two millions of disloyal
Copperheads in the North, sympathisers
with rebellion and enemies to the colored
people endeavored to defeat the Government
at the election. When God sent the flood
to destroy the inhabitants of the earth he
mraculously saved Ham that he might be
the father of a numerous and chosen people,
who would possess all the virtues, be en-
dowed with divine purity of nature, in
whose composition no guile is infused who
are loyal, trustworthy and intelligent. No
christian will be slow to see the binding and
holy Obligations resting upon him to look
well to the comfort and happiness of the
chosen descendants of Ham. 1t is our
christian duty to honor and love them nor
is there any other way by which we can gain
admittance to the paradise above. The dis
loyal Copperheads, of whom l have made
mention, are continually, in the wickedness
of their unholy nature, declaring that white
people are as good as those who have sprang
from the genealogical tree of Ham, and in
many instances they sneer at them and stig-
matse them as interiors, and some unwashcd
wretches even go so far as to say they are
only fit for slavery. When l see the designs
of Omnipotence thus attempted to be frus-
trated, and evil is intended to a race that was
created on purpose and is destined to become
polished saints in glory, ''have not cause
to rave and beat my breast?"
People were all originally colored, but
some who became desperately wicked were
frightened with hthecondemnation that awaits
them until they become white, and so they
have remained until this day, walking mon
uments ofman' slost estate, while the colored
people are the spared mementoes of man S
original purity. While the government is
striving nobly for "God and Liberty" that
this chosen people may be placed in their
proper sphere, the disloyal Copperheads are
throwing obstacles in its way by discourag-
ing conscriptions, objecting to taxation,
pleading for the Union of 1887, which was
"a league with hell and covenant with
death y and viewing these things, have not
l, who can stand up in public places and
proclaim my righteousness to all the world,
"cause to rave and beat my breast. y
When white persons addorn themselves
in costly raiment and seek to become objects
of popular admiration, they are compelled
to scent themselves with rose water, musk,
and other perfumes before they are fit to
place on exhibition; but nature, in her
lavish kindness to the colored people, has
given them a strong and undying odor.-I
When disloyal Copperheads turn up their
wicked probosises at the sweet-smelling
savors bestowed by nature on her chosen
"havc | not cause to rave and beat
my breast?"
Our Father Abraham, who dwelleth in
and whose features color and
every act stamp him as the chosen instru-
ment in the hands of Providence to restore
the free Americans of African descent" to
the estate of which they have been robbed
by whited Pharisees, is doing all in his power
by proclamation, by plans, by suggestions
for constitutional amendments, by inestim-
able expenditures of money, by hurting on
the enemies of God s favorite race immense
armies and using all the instrumentalities
can command to accomplish the
holy purposes But while he is doing so
the disloyal Copperheads are crying for
peace, well knowing that there is no peace,
nor can be none and talking about weeping
widows, fatherless children, national bank
ruptcy, MANNED humanity, burthensome
taxation, disintegrated nationality, rivers of
blood, millions of new-made graves and all
such disloyal outgivings of perverse and
wicked natures. And in view of the multi
piled fiendishness of the disloyal Copper
heads it becomes every christians duty ''to
rave and beat his breast. y
My beloved brethren know from the