Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-05-02
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We have on moro than one occasion
recently been obliged 20 notice the
prostitution Of the pulpit 70 the dirty
work of the political nrena, and we
regret now TO be obliged TO call attcn-
ton TO another Illustration of the man
ncr in which The people are Influenced
to infdolity from the sacred desk
During the recent session ofthc Pitts.
burg Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which was held at,
Massillon, Ohio, the "Committoe on
the state Of the country" made report
as follows. lit
"The state Of the country is at the
present time peculiar and anomalous.
The war for the preservation of the
Union has closed, but the conflict has
not terminated; it has only been
transferred from the field to the TO-
rum; from the camp 10 the council.
Ideas, not armies, are the forces which
now confront each other, and the real
issue is whether treason shall recover
what it has lost in the field or wheth-
er the sublime truths expressed in the
Declaration Of Independence shall
have a distinct and emphatic recogni-
ton and application in the recon
struction OF the government and its
future administration. Your commit
tee, therefore, offer for your adoption
the following resolutions;
ReSolUed, lst That We heartily and
emphatically endorse the action of
the Thirty-ninth Congress on the
question Of reconstruction, and APP
prove the measures adopted for the
final settlement Of that question.
Resolred, I'd. That, believing chris.
tianity to be the basis and bulwark of
civil liberty, We hail with Joy as
among the auspicious signs of the
times the Congressional temperance
and prayer meetings.
"Resolycd, 3D., That as righteous.
ness exalteth nation, but sin is a
reproach to any people" we will not
cease to pray for our rulers, and will
give our influence and suffrages to
elevate to Offices of profit and trust
men of unbending moral integrity"
The Thirty. ninth Congress, thus
endorsed by the Pittsburg Conference
Of the Methodist Church, will live in
history as the best representation of
infdelity and legislative brutality that
has bad an existence in any part Of
the world in the last fifty years; and
its acts, thus approved by the organ
of the Methodist Church, will find a
place in the annals Of the world beside
that of the Jacobin Assembly which
cursed France and drenched the
streets and alleys Of Paris with the
innocent blood Of the people
Ii il had not been for the moral re-
s!raint Of the people, who, although
blinded and deceived, still keep watch
over their rulers, the Thirty-ninth
Congress would, probably, in its
frenzy, have declared that there was
no God, and that the Radical party is
above the Constitution and laws OF
the land. 1t violated every pledge
that was given TO the world during
the progress Of the war, and, setting
the supreme law OF the land at de-
fiance, it provided for the establish
ment of military despotism over ten
sovereign States OF the Union, whose
people are now suffering the pangs Of
hunger without ability TO procure
food. And this is the body of men
whose conduct aud action is "heartily
and emphatically" endorsed by the
Pittsburg Methodist Conference. Spirit
of Wesley, look upon this degrade
tion ,--Edstoa Sentinel.