The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-06-20
From the New York World.
AErIghtfuI Example In Missouri.

Presbyterian divines were never, that We
know, regarded as diciples Of Epicurus,
! though there are hints thrown out here and
! there in what one reads of Chambers and
! Hugh Miller, and other Scoth worthless,
which tend to justify the belief that in
! Scotland, at least, men eminent in the Kirk
have 81 metimes had fine practical notions
! about what Dr. Franklin, in a letter to the
! Able Morellett, call "a pleasing miracle,
| styled punch" D." But in our most reveren-
| tial and ascetic conceptions of the Prcsbyte-
| rian theory of life, we had neser imagined
| that a General Assembly of the Presbyte
rian Church would consider it the seyerest
| chastisement they could inhct on a man, to
throw him down stairs into the arms Of an
enthusiastic mob of ladies'.
Yet such, it seems, was the deliberate
sense Of the General Assembly now in ses-
sion at St. Louis. The remarkable fact
sees the light in the letter of a correspon-
dent of the Netc York Times The said
correspondent, after ling the story of small
battle which took place in that august
body between the loyal ard 'disloyar'
members thereof-(we had ignorantly sup
posed that Christian men owned but one su-
preme loyalty" to their Lord and Maker)
goes on to say that solemn retraction of
some particular 'ement made by one of
the "diSloyal'' divines was demanded by
the ''loyal' majority of the body
The offending members, who bore the
sturdy Scotch name of Furgeson, seems to
have been warm, too, with the "perfervid
Scotch temper, and stuck to his statement
like Habakkuk Mucklewrath himself
Thereupon 'the Rev. DR.. Krebs moved
that he be expelltd.' The motion was
carried, "and. " concludes the narrator with
appalling solemnity. 'the miserable man,
thrust 0ut of the house, feel into the arms of
the fair rebels ,oho left the galleries to meet
him at the door and c1o,1n him loath their
lomqb."
Now. we have no doubt that is a very
delightful thing TO sit one house with "Dr
krebs' and loyal" General Assembly of
Presbyterian divines. But we must frankly
confess that to the unregeneratc mind the
calamity ofbeing thrust out" of such q
house and such company would seen to be
rather mitigated than enshanced by the
circumstance of falling into to the arms Of
fair rebels, and being straitway crowned
with laural' by the same. If the example
OF. the General Assembly in this case should
hs generally followed, we fear that ''dislcy-
atty may be rather encouraged than put
down thereby. The narrator of the doom
of Furgeson of course does not see the
thing in this light. On the contrary, he
assurs us that it ''is the general opinion
that, in the action of the Assembly, a black
gurrd, excclling even that prince of black
guaids who fills the gnhernateri2l chair CT
Tennessee. has met deserved fate.
1t is a hard thing to say Of any man that
he is worse than ''Paron Browniow;" but
it will be a long time, we think, before any
number Of General Assemblies" can sue
eeed in convincing mankind at largr that it
is the deserved fate Of an eminent black
guard to be embraced by score of lovely
young ladids, bathed as to his temples With |
Farina cologne by the whitest Of hands, and |
crowned with laurel under the smiles OF
beauty.