The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-12-07
THE PULPIT VS.. aEE STAGE.

The Rev. Mr.. Bentley on last Sunday
evening indaiged the members of the Young
Mems Christian Association with some re-
marks strongly cOnGemuat0ry of the Stage
and the actors profession. In last evening 5
BuII-tin, Lawrence Barrett replies IN a
carefully written half column to the reverend
rpntIeman's attacks, and defends the art
dramatic and its professors with con>ideTa-
bic vigor, if not with Judgment. Mr. Bar-
rstt replies in the '.yOu too style of argu-
Iner;; b1, il may be said for him that the
pos i,i0n of the respective professions Of the
actor and the preacher nowadays leaves
scarcsly any other course TO adopt Both
mus. be conscious that neither Stage nor
Pulpit fulhll the office claimed for /; /; and
BarYet, Is right when he saws the former
has ceased to be ..high moral teacher. 1t
would be hardihood, after Formosa and the
Black Crook. to elair. tris. Ifthe preacher
were equally caLIId. he would cease TO STYLE
himself -. servant Of God while standing
in pulpit soiled by the pitiful fripperiss OF
a political gasconade. Rev. Mr.. Scudders
last election speech was a sample OF the
modern gOspel-preached-not to call sin
ners to repentance, but sinners TO vote The
only good arising from the discussion be-
tween the actor and the preacher Is, that
j. gives to each little nOtorie,y- Mr..
Bentley pieases the Young Mems Christian
rett's defence is good thing for the New
California. Like the Arkansas woman.
when her husband was In fight with bear,
the public ''6Ou't care which whips
We find the above IN tie San Fran
cisco Call. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that it was in that paper that we
found such sentiments so expressed. A
paper which was capable Of switching
toe swill Of '.Ny Policy" is degraded
enough TO DO anything nasty This
miserable cry Of the pimps. and black
guards Of the Copperhead press against
such good men as Thomas Starr King,
Hor.tio Stebbins, Henry Ward Beecher,
Bishop Simpson, the Rev. Bellows and
the other good men who had the hon
esty and patriotism 10 preach crusade
when such preaching was needed TO
stir up the blood of church going peo-
pie, aud to assure them that the Devil
was not the only duly licensed fighter
OF the nineteenth century, what was
being done by the sniyellers of the
rebel press? Weren't they bowling
because Dr.. Scott was obliged TO quit
PRAYING for JEFF Davis; and weren't
they mp,iug TO excite the sympathy
of all their fellow hypocrItes By lying
about Ben Butler because, while be
made the women of New Orleans quit
euptying the offal of their chambers
upon the persons of Northern officers
aud their wives and children, he said,
in response to q mockiug request of the
cbivalry Of that polluted city TO be
allowed 10 pray for "tbe Confederate
authorities" that he didn't think it
could DO much harm to pray for them,
although be deemed them past pray
ing for;-didn't these liars then attempt
10 make it appear that the Govern,
ineut Of "Abe the ape" was merging
itself into hierarchy What Church
was j. that, all alone, attempted to
break this Union to atoms? No: the
Church of England, for it was too lily
proppei upon its own pins. Not tne
all that it could carry, weighted down
by the carcass OF Macmillan. Not the
Greek Church; for Russia was playing
so ski!lful double game as to fool US
into a maudlin friendship for herself
and the bald barbarism CT her institu-
tons. But the Pope Of Rome did rec.
oynize the Southern Confederacy-and
he did it ia bis temporal capacity; and
if any intelligent being thinSs that the
rete, press ard the rebel people were
not glad to have that kind of political
reaching" from the Vatican he is
woefuliy ignorant and unsophis,ieated.
For Gods sake don't everybody who
ever read anything remember where
1.-THE Methodist Church South was
instituted Isn't it part of history
taat hut tor the Efforts of Hughes and
the Catholic Church would |
have been hurled, in a mass, long be- |
f ,re it was, against this Government ?
! hink of these things and then reflect
upcn the illimi,able impuderce, the |
iafinite brassof these whining trihers |
WAC have taken il upon themselves TO