Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-31
Does our Duty to Almighty God Require
of us Disobedience to The Church.

with a very large part Of the more
intelligent and thoughtful men and
women Of the country
Where is Christ? Is he in g The
Church" or without The Church ~
II within, then where? Where, Oh,
Where is The Church, if by ber
frrits we may know her?
But, is not Jesus rather outside
"Tbe Church" down among
the delvipg masses of land and sea
How shall we be made living branch
es of the body OF Christ so as to live
and be in communion with him
Such questions were propounded
whilst reading the trial proceedings
in case of"The Church" against Dir.
Tyng-the action being brought vir.
tually for preaching Jesus in church
undress, within Methodist or dis
scnting meeting house, contrary to the
laws Of said church.
The decisions in the case outlaws
UNCONVENTIONAL religion, except Of
the Protestant Episcopal school,
which is held to be alone apostolic
and lawful and further, the decision
divides the body of itself in two by
disOwning the low church liberal
part, commonly supposed to contain
the soul and brains Of the America
Anglican Episcoracy, There are
only Methodist meeting houses-be>
cause the Methodist church is not a
church, therefore, cannot have what
belongs to a church visible, dedeca-
ted, consecrated house OF worship
wherein an Episcopal Doctor of Di
vlnity may by the help of good eye
sight alone read ny INNS aud pray
ers and sermons from books OF
the established. consolidated only
true church.
According to christian etiquette
at least, if the Methodist church be a
christian institution, having a bible :
like code of laws, doctrines and ordi-
nances, or these all sufficient so that
souls may be saved whilst acting in
strict adherence to that church, then
surely was DR.. Tying right in enter.
ing a Methodist meeting house and
therein Offering prayer and preaching
Christ. This is true, logically aud
scripturrally speaking, just as clear
ly true as that rivers flow and forests
rise.
The case of DR.. Tying is one in which
disobedience to "The Church" is a
first holy duty in view ola full and
perfect obedience to Almig hty God.
Christ and the apostles preached in
Jewish synagogues, on board ships,
by the sea side. on the porches of hea
then temples, &c. Jesus rode into
} Jerusalem upon an ass and then
preached in the streets. And from
accounts he and the apostles had on
strange garments at times-strange>
~ plain, and they took but little ac-
count OF what they ate or drank or
wore on their backs; John had on for
raimont the skin of wild beast, pro.
badly on account of his poverty, !or
they were ali excessively poor and
were such men to appear these days
we think there would not be church
in the land to entertain them, except
the Catholic which has nav like
the wolf, capable of dispo ing of any
thing in or out Of nature, But even
the Catholic could not allow Jesus
and the apostles, not even st. Peter,
o preach in their meeting houses. Yet
not a whisper is anywhere recorded
of reprimand from aLy quarter on
account of the place, dress, manner
or conduct OF these first preachers of
But on the contrary,
their records do show their works
and deeds to have been etficacious
and acceptable to Almighty God,
however unepiscopal and uncanoni>
cal according to modern views
PRAY, how would Jesus have appear
ed, or Paul clad as a modern bishop
or rector and deserving in Rome or
Athens the false gods whom the peo>
pie ignorantly unworshiped ?
One Of the prayers in the Episco,
pal service book reminds us Of the
promise that where two or three are
gathered together the Father will be
in the midst Of them. But the Faith
er must needs violate some Episcopal
law in meeting with two or three in
a Methodist meeting house; at least
DR.. Tying would violate such law, so
that certainly both God and Dr. Tying
would have to be reprimandcd for
meeting together in unepiscopal
ground Nobody complains that Dir,
Tying did not pray earnestly, sing
sweetly and preach powerfully, but
only that these were not done in full
Episcopal millinery and within con-
secrated ground. Two hundred year g
ago the Episcopal clergy had to wear
wigs according to canonlcal law
But the practice went ont of use, and
now the law, if a law at all, is obsolete
along with wigs. Pity the aummery
and some of the usages of that church
could not follow the course of wigs
and 90 out forever
The writer OF this 10 40 clergyman
nor a Methodist, though q believer in
that pure doctrine of Luther, iustifi,
cation by faith alone. and of grace
which is the gift of God, and having
no respect for the external man nor
tor his dress. And if a mans calling
be to preach be may obey God by
preaching anywhere in or out Of
doors, in low places or high and be,
fore any kind OF audience, clad nc
difference how. Especially should a
man go out and preach to the uncon'
verted-thc ,9holo requiring no phys.
ician.
ES@ Fail not to be at the
Election on Tuesday, April Z.
EGYPT AwAKE.-They are trying
to bnild railroad from Shawnee
town, on the OHIO river ABOVE Cairo,
TO some point on the Illinois central.