The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-12-25
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question" 1t resolves the whole matter in
three points. lst-That when gentlemen
come from distance 70 lecture in Cadiz
they should not be criticized. End, That
such criticism must necessarily be an at
tack upon the laGies who invited the afore
said gentlemen to lecture, and Srd-The
editor endeavors 10 take nac positions for
Col. Clark-make him say exactly the re-
verse of what be dit say. No doubt in his
next he will deny that Col. Clark lectured
at dW The first two propositions are too
FAoli.h TOR notice. The editor of the Re,
p"Jlnas can hardly be the author Of them.
They must he the production of his dssocii-
ate Nlitor, Rev. Melsy, who has been doing
the henry writing, and while assaulting FL.
| der Nowcomb for the alleged crime of re-
porting lectures, has been acting in that ca
pacity him,e''t.
The Republican attempts to tell its read
ers what Col. Clark did say. aud in doing
40 puts iss ''foot into it" decidedly. The
report in the Sentinel was correct, but, for
the sake of argument, we will use the dec
laration Of the Republican, which says that
Clark said that the Interests of Church
and State were inseparable ," Well Col.
Clark also conveyed an idea to his hearers,
that if any man would vote the Democratic
ticket who was professor Of religion, he
was a christian in Church and Devil at
the ballot" Now put the two together -
If the interests of Church and State are dis
tinct and separate, two men may belong 10
the same Church--both be Christians--and
yet each vote different ticket. But if the
interests of Church and State are ''insepa>
rable' such a state of facts could not exist
and both remain Christians. So the Re-
publican in its attempt to lift the veil''
from Col, Clark only Jumps from the fry
ing pan into the fire." But falsehood will
not relieve Col Clark from the odious doc
trino Of wishing Church and State united.
Why his Church has practiced that doctrine.
Witness the crpulsion nf Christian gentle
men from its communion for no other red
son than that they belonged to another than
the then dominant political party. We
have the evidence in our midst.
The Repnbicm still thinks scri ,ture
should be expanded phystologicnlW W.
should like the talented editor, or his Rev
ossoci;ate to give few samples. Now brine
in your friends from the ''rural districts.
Let us hear of it.
There is no use in any man seeking tc
paliste the sins Of the political Clergy. =
The great depression in religious, interes
among the masses is due to them.
, There is no denying the prevalence of I
dangasous moral epidemic. The regula
physicians, while they bawail its existence
admit that thus far their treatment of TIL
disease has been Intellectual. Aud now,
we are TO believe that it is not their scienc
OF faithfulness that is at fault, but that tn
malady is of character which deGes all sci
ence and faithfuness, what course have W
but to discharge the physicians and sit dow
in our sins, with all the tremendous portent
that attach to the incurable condition?
There we're those who several years ag
: pronhesied that the extraordinary cffori
I which the clergy were making to awake
. the people to sense of their political cor
= dition would have the effect to diminis
:, their force when they should thereafter a
= tempt to arouse them to a sense of their IT
liguous responsibilities. 1t was said tht
the former was a descent from their trl
. function, degradation of their Office, a
= abdication of their power in the line of the
legitimate calling-that the avocation of
. ra-ty agtator wa incompatible with tn
!, of teacher of religion, and that the hab
% of blowing the trumpet of savage war woul
unfit the party for producing those gent
tones with which the gospel of peace shou
. be proclaimed. But our fellow citizens an
d brethren of the clerical profession 1cfed al
n gury. Men of God, as they were, or, ;
y least, as they assumed to be, they had n
e donb4 of their authority to repeal the natu
II al laws of cause and effect, or of their tit
J. to require of the Almighty dispensatic
ls of those laws in their favor; and hence, tt
lr more solemnly they were warned the mo
a. obstinately they persisted.
rs The great fac: of our social condition
- that crime prevails as it never prevailed b
Il fore. War is productive of crime. TT
If naturally insubordinate are cultivated I'M
'e felons by the influences it creates and Il
'e practices it permits. One of the inevitab
le results Of war is destitution IN the lower o
ir ders of society, and thousands become del
Ie redators for the want of legitimate pow
!, to procure the means of subsistence.
d loosens the bonds of society every wher
IS and makes men Indifferent alike to the
d legal and their moral obligations. By Il
l. multiplication OF offenders, it reduces II
II gnomy Of conviction and punishment
l. is and has been, in all ages, the great ma
is educator of the world: initiating men
those habits of active barbarism which con
binc the worst vices OF both the savage ar
. the eiviliz3d condition.
). The clergy Of the north knew this. Tht
- did not hesitate, now and then, to adm
;. that war was a great evil-leading men
the commission Of those sins and Grim
!. which are especially fatal to that spirtu
!. we.being which it is. as they affirme
i their divine mission to promote aud secure
:. and sending thousands to their final a.
, count. their consciences blackened with o