The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-11-13
Religious Rumbles.

From the New York Herald
For some years past, in the physical
world and its surroundings. in meteoric
showers, tornadoes, drouths, inundations,
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, we have
had a succession of startling ations
we'll calculated to shake ths the
stoUtest believer in the durationS sha-
ky planet.
During the same period, in the Old
World and the new, we have had success
sion of political perturbations and revou-
tions equally surprising, aud lhey are still
going on. Nor have the religious systems
of either of the four quarters of the globe
escaped the consequences of the general
upheava.s and changes which have marked
these dstu; bing forces in mind and matter,
in things visible and things not seen. Some
philosophers. especially the Millerites, con-
tend that all these wonderful phenomena
portend the near approach of the day of
judgment, while others, through brighter
medium. fancy they can see the day break,
or the "staF in the East" which is to ush-
er in the millennium. But there are still
others who hold that we are in the midst Of
those disorders and convulsions, material
and moral, of that awful epoch of thous
and years, during which tbe devil is to be
let loose upon the earth.
Looking at the stubborn facts around US
in reference to the moral aud religious as
poets of the time, we are rather inclined to
this theory of the devil, and his thousand
years, and yet we have an abiding weakness
for the millennium. Pro slavery and anti
slavery, our late Southern institution of
slavery, in its despotic power, split up the
most powerful churches Of the country, or
made them subservient to its decrees.-
! Since the extinction of slavery these divided
and demo ralized churches are coming, or
trying to come, together again; but they
are making rather slow work of it with their
endless twaddle upon church quibbles, rid =
/ dies and conundrums. We have, for in
stance, National Convention of the Protes
tant Episcopal Church-High. Church and
Low Church-in session in this city, the
largest and most imposing assemblsge of
the great guns of this church, We believe,
that has ever been known IN the United
States; but from its proceedings SO far, on
oanons, and rules and regulations, and clap
trap and nonsense, there is no sign that it
will give the privilege to the Rev. DIR. Tying
Jr., to preach the gospel in Methodist
meeting house without the special permis-
sion of Scrubbs, Dodds or Scroggs.
The belligerent propensties Of the shin
ing lights of this Convention, moreover,
were brought out into pretty bold relief yes
terday in some lively wranglings and squrb-
blings on verbal and ritualistic enormities
very perplexing to outside barbarians. In
fact the white chokers" of this Episcopal
sanhedrim. in.their hot debates upon stupid
distractions, eclipse the Democratic rOughs
of Tammany Hall, although the Doctor OI
Divinity piously restraints the old man Ad-
am within him from pitching i'm ia
Captain Rynders.
We pass from this close religious corpo-
ration of the Protentant Episcopal Church
for the present to the Unitarian National
Conference, also in session in this highly
favored metropolis. Here we find the dool
open to the members of all sorts of church,
es, and without distinction of sex, race ol
color" The first motion on the meeting 0
the Conference the other morning was tina
the representatives from the African Meth
odist Episcopal Conference be admitted t
seats on the platform, which was cordially
adopted. Then, again, in the course o. the
day Bishop Payne. black man) of the Al
rican Methodist Church, had expressed hi
thanks for the reception gwen him and hi
faith and people, Mrs Amy Bradley whit
, woman was Introduced. She made an ap
? peal for money IN behalf Of the forty thoue.
l aud white people in North Carolina who cal