Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-09-10

accept,) and then, when call was MADE
for me at Wilmington, Delaware, last JAM
uary, and so on, till you finally made the
assault in May last at the General Assem-
bly,. All these efforts were purely wantOn;
all being based upon that Bethlehem SLAM
der; and l have been able to trace up their
sources mainly to few enemies in Phila-
'delphia. But why should such things be?
and what can you and the other persons
concerned expect to gain by them? Why
should there be such studiousness in retail
ing with illiberal and malignant exultation
every thing which a set of distillers, and
liquor-sellers, and counterfeiters, and what
not, have invented for the purpose of arrest
ing the faithful efforts of minister of
CHRISTI Even those most prominent in the
effort to perpetuate these ISLANDERS have not
ventured openly to accuse me of being
bad man. There must be some motive for
it; andwhat is it? God continues to bless my
poor labors in his vineyard; and what then
is the design of these assaults? l refer the
matter for solution, to His word and Provi-
dence who has bought me with his blood,
and who will show that he knows how to
sustain and protect me.
'You have often publicly spoken of your
son, and of his flial care for you in your
old age. Any father might be proud of
such a son; and may this his lovely and
beautiful example be held in everlasting re-
membrance, But, Dr.Junkin, consider how
lie means and the leisure which God thus
sweetly places at your disposal, have been
employed by you to enable you to go all the
way to Cincinnati to do-aOhose aeOrk ?
Whose oeork Is IL, DIR. Junkin, that you went
there to do, when you made it your chief
business to SANDER and assail in the grew
ously sinful manner in which you attempted
it, the reputation and standing of christian
minister? And this without any valid
ground for the procedure; and with no
reason except what malevolence itself might
have suggested 1 admonish you, my
brother, that God will not long continue
such mercies, to have them thus abused.
And it is my duty in connection with this
exposure of your guilt thus to admonish
you. To good man there is no possession
on earth, not even life itself, so truly pre-.
cous as influence and character; and though
you have often taught this truth, see how
you have now descended TO trife with it in
this wanton manner. If you can explain
or defend what you have done, come forth
now and do it; or if not, do what you cat
to repair the injury. Delay not for the
sake of that Gospel which must otherwise
be dishonored, so far as your example is ca
pable of bringing dishonor upon it. Let il
not be said that you, like Mr.. Barnes, art
willing to evade such issues after you have
raised them.
"Yes, Dr.Junkin, you have greatly sinnet
poses, has suffered Inc to be assailed as wa
at Bethlehem; but while was then suffer
ing, and ever since He has sheltered an,
protected me in so loving a manner, and sus
tained me with his blessed presence SO ia
beyond all previous experiences of his good
ness, that L have felt no apprehension unde
his guidance; but have been enabled mos
joyfully to acquiesce therein; knowing that
whatever his people are called to suffer here
He exacts of them less than their iniquitie
deserve and knowing too, that in due tim
He would make all his purpose heroi
! manifest.
"You were bound, on every principle {
honor and integrity to have known the trut
in respect to the accusations of my enemies
| before you attempted to reiterate the
T stroke; for it is fearful thing to tampC
with human character and influence, whic
are consecrated to God. You might easil
have seen, that God, for some wise, but thu
t fur unknown, purpose, has stricken me wit
+ "the hand of the wicked, which is hissword.
But instead of attempting to ascertain I'll
truth in the case, you have preferred,
/. the way narrated above, to smite him who
God has wounded. Have you ever consi,
: cred how God himself regards an act Ill
, thisY Turn to Ps 50, and note the fearf
catalogue of its denunciations "Let the
I table become a snare before them:" " L
/ their eyes be darkened that they see not
: "Lat thy wrathful anger take hold of them
< "Let their habitation be desolate -. &C., q
!, These are not the utterances of resentmel
r on the part of the sufferer, but the Divir
statement of the penalty which had been i
i Cured, and which must ever be incurrt
8 by the course of conduct there specific
And what is that course of conduct th1
: displeasing to Him who says "vengean
d is mine, will repay" Turn to verse 2
r and you find it stated in these words: "F
a then persecute linn ,ohom Mou hast smitte
2 and they talk to The grief Of those aohO
Il thou hast rounded" Hence, d" "iniquity
a added to their iniquity,' and they shall "n
n be written with the righteous" Is not thi
e Dr. Junkin, the real nature of the gu
k which you have incurred and are you st
unwilling to confess and forsake it 2
IS "By refusing the full statement of VIII
e you had been alleging against me at t
d General Assembly, and by thus compellil
me to endeavor to ascertain it from the
n to whom you either directly or indirect
g conveyed it, (sOme of whom, am sorry
d say, evinced a greater willingness to he
| and report to others what you said, tn
10 to inform me of it las they should have dom
10 you put it out of my power, with any degi
ID Of Justice to myself, to confront you beft
$. the Presbytery of which you are memb
al and | wish the Church and the public
IN know that this is why have been compel
n to adopt the present method of correeti
IN the slander."
~ In reference to the opposition in the fl
% Presbyterian Church of this city, DR.. Ian
nm thus speaks
Id oYou also, at the same time, introdu'
and endorsed the statement of one or m
Ter OF the disloyal members of the New Cas-
rts Presbytery, that this Bethlehem story '
am the ground of the opposition which the {
his loyal minority in the First Presbyter
rd Church of this city, made to my call
M Pastor. A history of this opposition