Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-28
Political Preachers and their
Falsehoods.

ne clerical mountebanks who during
the late political struggle disgraced the
pulpit and brorght great injury to the
Church, and corruption into politics, by
the libels and fanaticsm they belched forth
in lieu of holy ministratons, are now en-.
dcavcring to excite public pity and COM
misseration by declaring that they have
been abused and that the Democratic party
has taken stand against the Church.
ln regard TO the first charge, we have
only to say that it is void of truth except
ing SO far as that the public contempt and
abhorranco Of their fanaticism and hypoc
ricy was pretty freely expressed ,and their
evil effects were counterbalanced as far as
practicable.
Iu regard to the second charge, we pro.
nouncc it wholly and wiskedy false. The
Democratic party is now and always has
been the strong protector of religion, Of
whatever creed or in whatever form pro-
fcsscd or practiccd. 1t is the high and rev.
erential regard in which the Democratic
party ever held and now holds the cause
Of pure and undefled religion that Undue.
cd its memters to denounce the infdel by
pocrits who under the garb Of preachers
undertook to convert the pulpits of the
churches into political rostrums and from
them to food the country with doctrines
of hatred, malcvoencc, violence blood ,mur-
der, plunder, thieving, oppression, tyran.
ny, fanaticism and ufdelity. 1t was to
save the church from pollution that the
Democratic party took the stand it did ;
and that result, under the boneAcence OF
COP, it will yet accomplish to the extent
that nothing but His word, His law and
His mandates will issue from what ought
to be a sacred shrine-a shrine that pal
pably should be DEVOTED to sacred things,
and that is as palpably corrupted and de.
basel when any other are introduced into
it.
Statesmen and politicians, too, have long
been aware Of the bascness and rascality
of the generality of those who for sordil
reasons abandon sacred cause for {
, worldly one. They well know and dreat
! the loose morality that these false guide
almost invariably infuso into politics.
While they scorn their base PRACTICES, de
test their corruption, and fear their evi
influences, the honest statesman and pol
, itician is forced to warn the public agains
the hypocritical cant of the demagoguc whC
C comes before the political public in the garl
e Of minister of the Saviour of men, with
serpent concealed under his cloak. L
i denouncc and successfully oppose corrup
e lion,i is necessary to denounce those whc
t practice it.
a In the two preceding paragraphs til
e political preacher and the public will flu
}, the reasons why Democrats oppose foiti
r cal gasconade from the pulpit and the me
IS who practice it, If they choose to inquir
further they will also find that the Dem
# ocratc party believe that the faithful ez
pounding of the Scriptures is field ampl
y comprehensive to ocupy the whole of th
IL most expansive human intellect. Suc
|, being the fact as to the great, / is mpos
IS sible that the mere pigmios who by huma
g grace succeed to the ministry shouldss b
n profitable in either when they undertak
d to instruct people in both sacred and poll
'cal duties. The mind that can scar Gel
l. comprehend either must become lost whe
y it fOolshly undertakes to grasp both, an
are therefore mere vehicles Of blunder, e
t, ror and false teaching in both.
r. Let no man be deceived by the subt
10 pleading of the false teachers who in ii
OF livery of religion have become the me,
IS pedlars or fanalicism, and falsehood, al
a. tho engenderers of strife and all wicke,
a ness. CEintOn Democrat.
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