The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-02-23
sor POLITICS sur THE CHURCH

sor POLITICS But THE CHURCH.
Yon must know how to add and subtract,
to multiply AMI divide if you would solve
an equation. knowledge of only one quanu-
~ will never solve problem. ION will new
er know the time in which you live il you
have a head for religion alone. or politics
alone, or mechanics or chemistry alone.
What's nv life and what's the worlds li'e'
and why? The man ID farthest from the an
swer that hammers shoe sole. o. adjusts
xatch spring, or conducts law SUIT, or eiab-
CRATES legislative act, or fits out merchant
man. or buys ard sells houses, or writes
sermon without earing for anything beyond
the shoe.sole, or the watoh.apring, or the
lawsuit. or the legislative act, or the vessel,
or the houses or the sermon. And the men
are the next faf,hest from the answer that
rake an Adam NIB and try to make Eve,
that take an atom and try to make world.
That IS as far as tie most advanced OF those
who try TO give rs Philosophy of History
or of Life have got. Darwin will make you
g world out Of an egg, or Agassiz out OF one
of chain OF vertebrate. Draper will show
that all the generations Of men are living to
illustrate q Physiological Law; and Buckle
that it all resolves into question OF Protec-
ton and An,i-Protection; and Cousin that
there never would have been an ORIENT, and
Europe, and an America, bat for the fact
that they were to be the tb easre for the sue
cessiye development in three acts OF quad.
rilateral system of metaphysics. And ibe
fact remains that the world exists and men
live on, and the ova and the vertebrate, and
The physiological law, and the political phe-
nomena that engages Buckle, and the psy-
chology that Ceasin strdies, are the integers
OF en unsolyed problem-are individual fac's
in great whole of mystery that swallows up
your facts and your theories and remains i'm
pc ne,rable. Alter oil the study and specuia.
ton that has been, the end of it all is, that
we don't know. Ana the right to not know
is the triumph OF our much Wanted Progress
and Freedom 10 these late centuries.
Now, as in all the past, it is those who
come saving, Lo, Christ is here that men
have to fear For if men do not follow, they
are perseca.ed. and If they do follow. It's as
Jesus declared, they are slain of the sword,
or perish in the wilderness, for they be
false Chris.s that have led them away, The
dead bodies Of the victims Of error the
wrecks OF creeds that bestrew the ages
cree6s that we're thought TO be Heaven 8
ing here,ics, have made saints, and have
shone down through the centuries with the
luster OF the heroisrn Of conscious right.
and CLEAN as an anreole about the crown oil
msrtyrdom these bid Us beware OF Dog
ma'i3m.
Yet, ia these very days that are now going
past, the newspapers have been filed with
reports OF the proceedings in the trial OF Rev.
Stephen Ii. Tsng, of the Episcopal Church
OF New York, because no would Mt preach
the Gospel according to Stubs. Right Rev
erend pastor of the Church at New brunswick,
NeTJersey. The facts in the case are known
yet, following the Chicago Tribune which
sums them up TO our hand, we may restats
them: " The particular occasion upon which
Mr.. Tying siuned against stubbs was as fol
lows: A Mr.. Myers, member, IN New York
of Mr.. Tyng's congregation, with family o
eleven persons, resided in the summer at Nep
Brunswick, New Jersey, and did not Their,
report to Stubs within the rue fold, but in
terested himself in sustaining an Independent
Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Jane
Church, 10 the establishment of which he ha
given the handsome sum of $4,000. A
President of the Board Of Trustees of ST
James Methods, Episcopal Church, aud bay
ing given SIS, 900 TO get other preaching tina
that ef Stubs, Mr.. Myers invited Mr. Jyn
TO eoudnc. service, as best be could, in sal
church, and Mr.. Tying complied The lie,
erend Stubs, hearing what was in the wine
issued his bull prohibitorF. Mr. Tyns di
hot heed the taurus of Stubbs, but went {
with his preaching. Hence the grief au
rage Of Stubs, and the ecclesiastical trial
which ssubbs prosecuted Mr. Tying for preacI
ing the Gospel
Il was further to the grievance OF Stub
IS he charges agains, Dir. Tying. tina, the Ia
ter wore q bob-tailed coat And.
cou rse, u Gospel coming from man in a b.
tailed coat, cannot be any proper Gospel
ALL according TO Stnbbs. And all this is 1
in these ridiculous old days when devo
ssTnple.ons saw tears actually strear
ing from the eyes Of wooden yirgi
and blood issuing from the forehe,
Of painted chris,s i. is in these present Fl
and enlightened days.
We can conceive Of some poor townsm.
Of Rev. Mr.. Stubs saying to him. "wh
do men preach the Gospel for? Is itnot
save to Life men that perish in Error? Y
with a Humanity 10 be redeemed, with Il
sick to be healed, with the weak to be ma,
strong, with the cries Of those that are reat
TO perish, coming up Increasingly for aid u
sympathy, With CENTRALIZED souls enireatii
deliversnce, with parched hearts awaiting Il
showers Of beneicent charity tia. are
quicken them into the graces Of besntif
life, With the terrible demands that accordir
70 your Gospel the souls Of all living make
your hands, Jon Will no. preach unless il i
from consecrated pulpit, or save sonl Vi
less yoa are Ia canonicals. l. that Chris.
dospel or st. Paul's Gospel or any risl
oospel!' For the life Of US We don't kno
what answer the Rev. DR.. Stubs would mai
to that.
This isn't politics. Ba, as We minated ,
the outset, politics ism the only quaptityt Ii,
enters into the problem of life. There :,