The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-06
The Man who Goes out.

The business ola clergyman, We believe,
is to impart moral and religious inslruc-
ton. He is called pastor or shepherd. and
the congregation are called sheep or flock.
1.-THE auditor of y sermon is to be told
merely what he already knows, or what
pleases his ear aud initiates his self COM
placency, SO that he either goes to sleep or
diiates with u snug rapture III his pew. the
inevitable conclusion is that he might as
well be listening to the last new vocalist, or
to lecturer upon hydrostatics. Recently,
In several of exchange papers, we read that
sundry sheep Of sensitive turn Of mind,
offended by kindly illusions in the pulpit
to the late President, have taken their hats
and left the fold. 1t does not help matters
that other sheep, equally irascible, have
threatened to tar and feather the sensitive
seceders, or have actually done it. There
this style of procedure which we do not at
all approve. We think man who goes
out of church because he cannot swallow
the sermon affords a spectacle of such en-
tertainmont to his fellow creatures that he
better deserves a small remuneration in
postal currency than the feathery balmage.
He who can at all cheer the public mind
in these somber hours should be consider.
ed social benefactor; and to our minds
there is something exquisitely grotesque
in that impassioned procession of on
down the aisle and out at the door. If q
person who faints during divine service
thereby becomes quite a public character,
how much more is he who makes q loco
motive exit and affords food for . weeks
conversation in the village deserving Of
some mild testimonial? Lynch him!
Who thinks of lynching the low comedian
1t the theater?
A few days ago q week and wicked
stage player achieved an infamous immOr-
Atty BY numbering the President. The
Man who Goes Out of Church would be
shocked probably TO be told that he is in
fluenced by the sanle theatrical mania in a
lower stage ofdevelopment which impelled
the arm Of Wilkes Booth. He 10 exceeding.
" angry-he wants to make y demonstra-
tion--and he succeeds in demonstrating his
own folly. He never stops TO think what
dreadful waste Of money, TO say nothing Of
temper, he is guilty Of He hires man to
to him. Ifhe were sick in body, would he
treat his Doctor in that wayf He might
make screwed face ct the ipecac or tho
jalap, but he would take II, especially be-
cause he would know that he must pay for
It. Yet he contracts with . clergyman to
doctor hin soul, and forthwith repudiates
The preferred physic which y On essential
part Of tho bargain. We should call this
respect and love for children.
We should not have thought this subject
worthy Of particular animadversion u It
bad not included the great question Of Free
Speech. We have thought 1t one Of the
9ravest misf0rtunes Of the war that the
Government or the people should have
thoueht it necessary to restrain tho frssst
eratulate the country upon the fact that
mere minimum Of such restraint haa been
found sufficient. Az psaco advances, and
the great public danger becomes less ana
lees, W shall expect to see the nation re-
turn to = practical recognition Of all those
vital and fundamental principles Of liberty
which have heretofore been our pride and
our boast We no more want mental than
We wanted personal Slavery. some mobs
may be better than others; but..there never
wac a good ono yet. To US "a much ~ to
any one disloy atty il disgusting. We have
40 more love than others for pig headed or
sel6sh-minded OF craven-hearted men. It
- exquisitsly provoking - who should
know 1t better than We do2-when bah
Of God. that Shareholders are your only
true martyrs and confessors, that the Con
stitution is violated by the very attempt to
put down Rebellion, that the lamented'
Lincoln was tyrant, that peace is worth
any price, and that the Rebels are merely
guilty Of justifiable homicide. IL is very
provoking, indeed. But tar and feathers
VIZ not better matters. Inc uOD1e spiN
which burns with indignation at such pet
y and pusillanimous bigotTy should scorn
al meaner methods OF persuasion and
leave the fool to his FOLLY and the knave to
~! nest statutes for such cases provided.-N.H
Henry Heynemau of Boston, who was 20
anxious for notoriety that he made VOW
70 walk from Boston to Warrington when
Richmond was captured, started Monday
morning, and will go BY way Of Spring
neld, Hartford and New York. In good