Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-03-13
OWN JUNIATA COUNTY, PENN'A, MARCH IS, 1867.

wei as the fight 10 ccnlef once upon
monbers OF the secular class, the Pope
prfcsscd to aave sufficient authority to
deprive the King of the former right,
and determined to wrest it from him
Henry The " opposed this arrogant pre-
tension. A struggle ensued, the Emperor
id not succeed, ,nd for his opposition
Gregory excommtnicated him, and ab-
solved his subjects from all obedience to
his authority, Tie Popc's influence
reached the Nbleman Of tie Empire"
in whom nc we, lodged, the military pow
or and they inconformity with the wishes
of his "Holncss," assembled and re-
nounccd thci allegiance, announced the
Empire" aflan end, and declared that
the Empcrc should so into retirement as
private 0tizeD, unless he was absolyed
from the Accommodation within the
ear. IJrccciye pardon and reinstate-
ment as near as possible to his former po-
ston, the Emperor in the dead Of winter
re0lvcd to 90 in person to Italy, ard there
su Iicate as a true churchman the pardon
Of he Pope. He went, and in the gar5
Of peuitencc, without shelter or food, for
thee whole days and nights, implored
forgiveness. At the expiration OF which
tine he was received into the bosom OF
the Church. the Pope, however, reserving
cetan political questions concerning the
Kings Royal dignity. As to kissing the
lo,t, or "odoriterous toe, as the reporter
pus it, was simply an act Of alteration, paid
no to the Pope as man, but through the
Plpe, as director, or head Of the Church
Militant, to the "Releemer OF Man. and
Trough history We learn that he was not
til only Royal parsonage who paid this
adraiion. We could give a number il
necessary. And at the Pope's Coronation,
P-riarchs, Archbishops and other Church
di:a;.aIics pay this alteration. Now, we
sec no analogy no resemblance. either il"
,iS acts or spirit between the unfortunate
Emperor and ourscif.
We are not and never have been at va
rance with the congregation referred to.
Some Of its members we know, and be-
tween them and US, no feeling exists that
may not properly exist between men,
We and the Pastor Of this congregation
arr not at variance we are not even per-
sonaliy acquainted with each other, and
it lie we're at this moment to make his
appearance, We could not know him.
Certainly, in order to create the slightest
analogy, a difference, an autasonism,
would have to exist between the Munster,
including his congregation and ousre!f,
and we should occupy the position of the
peritent suppliant Surely, no man OF
the commonest discernment, could make
such botch at illustration, o. analogy.
BY this very Illustration, this would be
Yedantic reporter another time demon
stra;es his deficiency in judgment.
lie now passes our "brain spawn"
through the "lires OF analysis" but
strange indeed as it appears, instead Of
coming out of this fry ordeal, charred
and broken mass, the truth Of what We
said appears more clearly, By contrast
with the dross, of his cwn base metal in
his own cruci.le, aud the only one of the
three injured or burnoa, is our friend
"uazlett." Indeed it is somewhat re-
markable that amidst so much verbiage.
nothing appears to acquit him from the
charges that Justice made, and which
every honest liberal man felt to be true,
that he had violently without just cause,
assaulted with his pen, respectable Min
iSter.
He puerilely claims the right of criii-
cism but failed to give to the particular
productions, to ghich we refer, the dig
nifty of criticism, and confined himself
chiefly in them, to that kind of abuse,
Characteristic, ofprejudice and bigotry.-
In his late weak effort to cover up his
iIeanness, he tells US that he said nothing
derogatory to him, (the Minister,) Oh
calculated to cast slur upon his char
acter, further than was the legitimate re-
suit Of his own acts This is nothing
short Of re-afhrniins Of the whole OF
his former article. He simply tells Us
again what he told Us in his former article
by inference, as clearly as anything can
be told by inference, that this clergyman
IS one Of that class, who would
''Steal the livery of the Court Of Heaven
To serve the devil in"
Let all decent men read his article it
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