The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-30

lnen Is obvious. Had this been care
fully observed, how much less we
should have heard of the great things
we had done-of the great Babylon we
had built, of our vast superiority in la
| tent wealth and influence, but rather
should have referred all 10 that dispos.
ing power, which pulleth down one
kingdom aud setteth up another.
If we would bring an Offering. It
must be purged of the old leaven OF BIT
terness and malice. But the Offering
was also to be ammo nted. Rm sure i
need notinform you that the Hebrew
word here translated Amounted. is in
other places transferred in its native
language, and native beauty, Messiah
the Christ, thetruly annointed for you
and me. Yes, there must be something
in the old Hebrew Offering pointing him
forward to Christ, and in yours, the true
Israelites, there must be something
pointing backward TO Christ, and that
something must be your Christ-like
whatever questions are agitated and
however much we may differ with re-
gard to men and measures, let us. ever
strive 10 calm to soOthe, to allay,
to check the deed of violence, 70
charm down the spirit of party
Christ like spirit That brethren may diff
fer and be brethren still, We may diff.
fer and shall differ, and we may ex press
that difference, bnt now let us not for q
moment forget that we are the disciples
OF Christ, and let His spirit ever regu-
lale our actions. And this does
not simply that we must abstain
from the frank and fearless avowal or
our principles. Freedom of speech is
your birthright. The deed which cor. .
Veys 1t was written In the blood OF your
fathers and lately has been again sealed
beside the sepulchers of your fathers
your brothers and your friends. Let
US however remember that the deed
which conveys 1t, limits also lis free
don, and that the line which separates
between liberty and Righteousness is
but line and easily transgressed.
Freedom of speech is far from freedom
to misrepresent, vIllify and slanderd;
and the sacred character of freeman
and, christian fur finishes not q safe
asylum from the tongue and the pen OF
the slanderer,,t than which, not even the
dagger of theiassassin is, more fatal to
the peace of a community. II Is a fact
that will forever rebound to the honor
of the christian oh nIeh5 and its divine
founder that dts mem bers, though
everywhere oppressed and persecuted,
for three successive centuries were
nowhere found implicated in those
tconmotiona which agitatedi the pro-
vinees, nor were they even accessory to
those treasons, which. during the slime
period s9ioften denied the capitol with
bloodUif 59IH9 ~ bas b:oa sls.,,s Is q ~
| We have far more to fear from
passion, from prejudice aud fro M
Ignorance, than we haYeto fear from
disease and adversely; but when the
church of Christ shallarise in its true
lChTist-like dignity. -It shall say to these
waves Of passion, and pillows of pre-
judice, Hitherto shall ye,come but no
further, 4 and here shall your proud
waves be stayed. "seWIth the spirit, /
trust, of the text, we have come MP
here this morning 10 bring onr thank
offering to Jehovah, and we have mnch
over which We can rejoice. We rejoice
that when great questions were Eitat-
ing our wisest states: men, and appar-
emily to no purpose, as d IL 70
shame the boasted wisdom ofs man
who discarded Christi like principles OF
solutions, and discarded divine require.
ment in government, God snatched
thepfoblem from their hands, and by
a mysteriouslY.a but wisely sdifeoted
Providence, solved it; and solved 1t
forever! WeTej6tce, too In the success
| of the government, because we deem Il
the success OF correct principles We
rejoice in 1t, too, because wesee In IL the
success of that churchii which In It's de
| yinely appointed discipline, and God
/ given government furnished Thomas
ever the lovers Of Church OF State mo-
nopoly may view IT, no Baptist should
ever look upon It with fndideTeneeS or
be found among It's Eenemies. We re-
joIce, too, In the prosperity Of the ma
don-that peace Is within our borders,
and-prospeEity In. our palaces; that we
no longer hear the confused noise OF
warriors, nor see garments rolled in
blood EAndif shall Initiate the exam
I pie and Be governed by the principles
Of Christ, the day viii be Tar distant
I when the scenes OF the past lew years
4 Will be re-enacted. We. reJoice too an
the abundant harvestsWhich crown the
Y labors OF the husbandman; in the alb
ksence of epidemic diseases which have
4 in previous years almost depopulRted
i some portions. of the country. As de-
Il nomination, there is much for which