The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-03-04

LII. SWEET,
Treasurer and Librarian.
Communicated.
MEssRs. EDIToRs:- read care
fully, the article Of Vindex, concerning
the "Church Case" and thinking it
open to criticism, with your permission
will notice some points, and advance
some ideas in connection with them.
First: No act Of immortality is laid to
the charge of Mr.. Maurer. He seems to
have become dissatisfied with certain
"positive arrangement" Not stated
what that was, unless it was to keep all
other christian ministers out of the
church edifice, in view Of exercising
their ministerial functions. If Mr..
Maurer saw that he and his brethren
had done wrong in thus narrowing
down their christian liberties, it was,
no doubt, right for him to agitate the
matter, with all christian zeal and earn
cstness, till he saw reform, or lost all
hope of amendment on the part of his
brethren or until he should be expelled
from their midst, which is most gener-
ally the case in all such conflicts of right
against wrong. "Conceived the idea.'
The thing must have, at first, been for
eign to their minds generally, that it
could possibly be right to allow any
other "religionist' to hold forth, &C.,
sat such times.n 1t would seem Thu
this certain John G. Maurer" had no
idea of encroaching OH the time OF "his
minister" but merely to have a change
Of diction at such times, &c. But as our
friend V. is a believer in the Bible, he
can read in Isaiah, INK, last verse,
'They that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmur-
ed shall learn doctrine" and thus hope
that Brother Maurer will come to the
knowledge of the truth as taught in the
Bible.
Secondly: One charge Of rather a
grave nature is laid against him, de
fled the authorities Of the church. and
called his minister liar" Here again
our historian is lame. 1t is not said in
relation to what. 1t may be that the
"authorties' needed defying; and
moreover the minister may have lied.
That would neither be new, or uncom-
mon. For let it be remembered that
the Bible, to which q reference is made
in the article under consideration, says,
the "scpenM day is the Sabbath Of the
LOrd thy God,' and we have seen min
listers get down on their knees on the
first day Of the week and tell the Lord
that THAT was his holy Sabbath. What
would you call that friend V? Suppos-
ing | were to get down OH my knees on
Monday, the second day of the week,
and call that Sunday, what would the
whole congregation call that? V. says
"all good morals flow from the Bible"
Agreed, SO all our acts must be found to
be in harmony with both the spirit and
letter of the Divine law which is called
moral-the ten commandments Or
der that oar morality be right. Ifin the
history of this lease" V. has given us
the true version, and oN Of it, it seems
exceedingly strange that the council :"
could not have "left him to his fate"
after their church duties were discllarg-
ed. "Why go to law before the un-
believers" This was wrong in the
Apostles days, and is not right now.
Why drag him before the inquistorial-
thus it went with Rome! O! lamenta-
BILE day: when church and state shall be
again united. When the "two- horned
BEAST shall exercise all the power of
the first beast before him." See Reve-
lations, 18th. Had the reformers of the
sixteenth century held their peace at the
first embargo Of the "church council -
or hid their heads at the first thunders
from the Papal Vatican; we at this day
would still be far down in the wilder
ness of error and confusion. But as
friend V. has spoken, or written, of the
Bible, state and church, in conjunction,
in writing out the history of this case
will he be SO kind as to answer me the
following questions: Seeing that church
and State ignore the Bible Sabbath, and
recognize the Sunday, by what author
ity do they do it? Is it not rather no.
ticeable feature Of the cease" that the
offense amounted to S., and the bite of
the illegal gentlemen" to over 800? Let
us look these things squarely in the face.
JESSE DoRcAs.