The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-12-19

columns for the folio wing in defense
Of true christianity.
What l have seen and heard: I
have seen and heard of those who
were considered as fathers in Israel,
or patterns of piety, or followers of
Christ,-wilfully on the holy Sab
bath absent themselves from the
place of worship, gather in groups,
and the topic Of conversation would
be: II wont hear such a man
preach :" Il wont pay red" Il
wont worship with such a brother" :"
They called me ''butternut," ''cop-
perhead,'' &c. They may drop my
name; I cannot fellowship those
woollies; they are ripe on the mig
ger question; their political views
differ with mine; they must think
and act politically as 1 do if 1 fel-
ioNSulp Will Gaelh.
To-day where are they? We find
some Of them members Of an organ
lied society under the title Of the
"Christian Union," and DR.. Keller
their minister; and they are highly
gratifed to know that there is a
christian organization free from po-
litical harangues, where mems chris
tianity is not measured by their pol
itics; now they are going to seek
that which was lost, and bring again
that which was driven away, and
bind up that which was broken, and
[ say "amen'' to that the Lord help
them to prepare for themselves sack
cloth and repent in ashes, that the
Lord may have mercy on them.
had hoped that the love of Christ
constrained them (the ones referred
to with an ardent desire to labol
for the exteniion Of His Kingdom
that love and pity for the perishine
souls Of their fellow creatures would
have induced them to exhort, sing
and pray, as they did in days Of
other years; but, alas! when perse
cution arose, they hung their harp
upon the willow, utterly refused te
associate with any Christian Asso
citation, unless Democrats (our kind
if you please. The holy bible
might lay for months on the boar(
prepared for it in the house built an6
dedicated to God to worship in, ane
no matter to them. They utterly
refused to hear or support the gos
pei, and now, will relate in thei
,'experience,'' how they were depriv
ed Of sanctuary privileges-of chris
tian association for several years
when the gospel was preached within
gunshot Of their doors, and they re
fused to hear it. / say, the Lore
have mercy on such self-righteous
ness; I have no confidence in sucl
christianity. Once, while listenin,
to Keller trying to preach, the infer
ence I gathered from his discours
was: they were the Christ It the,
were the Right-and other denomi
nations were as the wicked Jews
"Well." I thought, ''if their way wa
Christ's way, it must be anothe
Christ than the one spoken of i
the New Testament. When Chris
was on Earth, He told His Disciple
that false teachers and ante Christ
would arise and say ''Lo! here i
Christ; and 10! there" and woul
deceive, if posi- bic, the very elect
but from such they should tur
away. The Lord help me from sue
turn away. I know there is a divin
reality in the religion Of Jesu
Christ, and to-day the language 0
my heart is:
II love Thy Church, o God !!
--~ Her walls before Thee stand
To her my tolls and cares be given,
Till tolls and cares shall end"
And the aim and object of ever
true Christian will be to glorif
God; to attain His moral likeness
to diffuse peace and happines
where'er they move; when they sc
omens of contentious and confusion
arise in their society, church or v
cinity, with the love Of Christ i
, their hearts, stimulating them t
, greater eXertions, to a more vigol
Gus effort to quellif possible the in
pending storm; and if fpossible pro
the tottering interests Of the church
: and although the storm may al
| proach-may beat fierce upon thel
i-yet they will stand at their pos
' nd as their trust is In God, the