The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

GENTLE AND HEBREw.-Thc Jews of tho presen
day. in the exercise O; their religious rites, kee
OH the even tenor of their way, and seldom engag
in controversy cit .er doctrnal or other, will
those not of the household OF Abraham, unlcs
thcv deem themselves attacked. An occasion o
this exceptional kind occurred in Cincinnati OF
Saturday last, when tho Rabbi, I. NJ. WISE
preached a sermon to Il crowded congreg ation il
the Hebrew Temple, corner of Plum and Eighth
streets, in which ho reviewed the disc ,nrst
preached at the opening of the General Assombl.
of the Presbyterian Church, III the United States
in tie Central Church, Cincinnati, May 1Gth by Il
L. STANTON, D. D., Moderator of the last Genera
Assembly, OH the text: For I determined rot t.
know anythiu. among you, save Jesus Christ, ane
Him cruclietl." Rev. Mr.. WISE announced for hi:
text the last three verses of Micah, ending thus
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and thu
mercy to Abraham. which tllou hast sworn untt
our fathers from tho days of DID,"
''1t was very appropriate to-day" he said, ''tt
consider these words, when he had read in yester
days prints attack on the whole house Of Israel
On iberality Of views, Oh deists, philanthropsts
humantarians, q wholesale attack, covering will
its breadth all who do not subscribe to the view
Of the author of tho same. Tt was especial.
proper that this should be considered, when VIZ
were told By the brother that We could not tcacl
ono single DOCTRINE with truth, out Of all in which
we had believed &C., &c.
"Ihs brother actually called forth tho doctrine
| OF Church alb we State that bloody doctrine o
Jesuits and Popes, against which mankind hnt
been struggling for the last eight centuries
through which nations had wadcd with blood.
wars, which deprived men of the liberty Of speecf
and oven of thought. 1t was the same terrible
doctrine against which Martin Luthcr contended
against which Professionalism had been struggling
for wears. bane to mankind, q curse that hat
cost us so much blood. Such was tho doctrine
that the Church should ovcrrue the State. Isracli
experience had been that Of misery, always undc
the rule of priests.
ministers, he sad in concluding, should tcacI
and preach. They should care for the sick. visi
the poor, comfort tho afflicted, toach tc and truth
break loose from forms and dosmas. teach onl.
such doctrines as could stand the test Of logic
with their self-evidcnt truths Lot them do thc'
duty in the name OF God and leave politics a:.t
save souls; that was their vocation; to improve
public morals.
'sThc SwcjcnbOrgian, tho Unitarian and the HUI
manitarian were not so bad by FIR as this speech
had depicted them. They were possibly just a:
good men as tho brother who had spoken"
The foregoing is abridged from the Cincinnati
Commercial, OF tho 10Th.
ADVERTISING ExrRAoRD1SARY.--Mr. Robert Bon
ner has been writing to his old friends iii tht
Hartford Courant Office, and says: I'VE have JUS
commenced operations OH the now building wlllcl
am erecting. 1t will cost INC nearly one hundred
and fifty Thousand dollars. besides siXty-six thou
sand dollars that paid for the ground. 1t Will
flro-proof throughout. This is pretty big opera
ton for all ex-journcyman printcr--a graduate
the old Courant Office; but can afford it, was
compcled-not very reluctantly, howercr-tt
swear to an income of tritlc o! over two hundred
thousand dollars for tho past year. We printed
three hundred and ffty-two thousand Ledgcr'
this wcck-trst edition. They aro all gonc ant
Yesterday ol dcrel twenty thousand more. How
many in addition, We shall want cannot toll, al
the orders from country dealers are coming i'll al
the timc."
Paragraphs like tho foregoing, varying some
what with the locality may be seen by the huE'
dred and Thousand in tho papers Of The country
II is understood that these items aro inserted ms
advertisements and paid for. MIR. BONNER cvl
IDENTIFY understands human nature, and has an i'm.
plicit belief in the scriptural saying: "To them
that have shall be givon.' Tho Ledger is Il most
thorough representative of the Yankee character
With PARTON and FANNY FERN, and HENRY WARr
BEEcnER, as the leading writer's, and ROBERT Bon
NER to run tho machine We have ont-and-out Z
Yankee institution as could well bo imagined. Mr.
BEEcuER's novel will be failure. Tho third num-
ber is inctlaby heavy being transccndcntal dis
cussion between u JEAN PAUL kind Of doctor anu
a stupid Massachusetts Puritan preacher. Ninety
nine out of every hundred of the readers of tho
Ledger will prefer SYLvANus CoBD, Jr., and MAR,
Kyle DALLAS, and will not read again the dull trasl
of the Plymouth parsun.
Mr.. PARTON makes his money easy, copying
every week an article out of biographical diction
ary, and putting his name to it as author. tiis
sketch of Madame ROLAND, last week, was conf
plete failure. FANNY FERN continues TO advocat,
women's rights The Letgcr is well adapted ful
the Northcrn country. but contains nothing u
make it desirable To any class of readers that w
know of i'll these parts.
General Wade Hampton contributes rcgularl,
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