Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-04-28
CLEARFIFLD, PA.
From the American churchmAn.
ANOTHER NEW GOSPEL.

1t is moro than eighteen hundred
years since the Lord sent forth His
apostles commanding them TO ''preach
the GOSPEL to every creature"
The command, 10 its fullness, has
not yet been fulfilled. There are
many thousands of men in this conn
try, and in all Christian countries as
well. who profess to believe that this
command is resting upon them in a
peculiar sense. They are the Clergy
of the various denominations of Christ
ians, They profess that TO them has
come the apostolic charge and that it
is their business "to preach the Gospel
TO every creature"
But being preachers mainly, having
secuted any such notion as that they
are priests being takers, that is, by
profession, the first requirement of
their business is that they talk inter
estingly. That hard necessity presses
on them all ;be time. They must
attract and please, and tickle the ears
of their hearers.
And the Gospel they claim they
have been sent to preach, has become,
at least as they preach it, an old
story. 1t has ceased to attract and
amuse. 1t does not "draw" any
longer, when proclaimed in its sim
plicity.
In their view Of it, it is, perhaps, a
very narrow matter, and is soon ex-
hausted, at all events it fails to attract
"full houses"
SO a sort of necessity forces many
preachers to find new Gospels. They
are on the lookout for something
startling. A brand new sensation"
Of some sort is a real boon. Political
questions, whcn new, are good in some
localities. Whilethe war lasted, "W ar
Sermons were, for while, as popular
as could be desired. But the war
became a stale subject after while ;
even the fate of Jefferson Davis failed
to be attractive in the pulpit view OF
it and the proclaimers of new Gospels
were thrown back on the old everyday
sensation Of Railroad Slaughters," !"
or "Steamboat' Explosions and their
Moral Lessons"
These, however, are tame at the
best, and an ingenious gentleman
somewhere down East has found an
elegant new pulpit sensation, a beauti-
full new Gospel of his own, which is
the very last and newest, and, being
such. he is bound to make the most Of
it, and proclaim il TO some purpose.
1t will not be his fault If bis pews are
not well filled for some Sundays.
This new Gospel is the Gospel Of
Amalgamation, or the duty ofall white
men to marry black wives, and of all
white women forthwith TO get negro
husbands :
The discoverer of this new Gospel
is Rev Gilbert Haven, a Methodist
Minister who edits one Of their news
papers in New York, we believe.
He has brought his new Gospel into
the pulpit, and thence into the papers,
and we find n report Of il in the lnde
pendent, and also in the Northeastern
Christian Advocate. The latter paper
says ''it is a specimen Of beautiful wri-
ting and most courageous avowals"
Our readers win not expect us TO
give them many specimens from this
extraordinary production We can
assure them Mr.. Haven appears to be
very serious about his gospel, and
also very learned in all matters per-
tanning to love and marriage. So
rapturously does he paint the happi-
ness OF a man who is blessed with the
possession of negro wife, that one
really hopes he is not married himself,
and so is left free to crafty his high
imaginations.
He, like all men with new gospels,
accuses the rest of us of many sins.
He calls this prejudice which prevents
white men from marrying black wo-
men, aud rice versa, "a leprosy." He
saws sit lies deep Within (Lcprosy
is skin disease, and always lies Nth
out, but we must not be too strict with
the rhetoric Of these gentry)
He adds: