The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-03-26

asking them only to remember that il
Is an extract from published sermon
by the leader of New England Metho.
dism, and that Mr.. Haven confidently
claims DIR. Eddy as co-laborator and
| Charles st. Church in Baltimore as the
chosen scene for the beginning of the
great reformation in Maryland: re-
formation in which mulatto complex
ion is to be the sign and seal of the in
visible grace. The first part of the ex-
tract will be read with disgust; the
last paragraph with horror:
THE REV. GILBERT HAvEN's SERMON.
We promised in our last to give a
fuller specimen from the sermon of
the editor of ZJoa's Herald that was
contained in our first extract. We do
this in justice to Mr.. Haven, inasmuch
as We characterized the entire passage
as 'wild and foolish talk ~
I'VE shall be attracted to this hue
because 1t Is one of Gods creatures.
and a beautiful one too; because, chief
ly, we have most wickedly ioathed
and scorned it. He will have his re-
venge, and will yet compel us to dis
Germ the loveliness of this most abhor-
red virtue, and to become enamored of
1t. The song of songs may have a
more literal fulfilment than it has
ever eonfessedly had in America; and
the illegal but divinely implanted adj
miration of Southern Solomons for
black but comely maidens be proudly
ack uowiedged and honorably gratified
in the life of Northern and Southern
gentlemen.
"But this law rests on no mere quip
of the fancy, nor is it rebound of a
vehement passion, as wrongfully right
as it had been wrongfully wrong. 1t
is the grand under tone of all marriage.
1t is the Creators mode of compelling
the race to overleap the narrow
boundaries of families and tribes, into
white blood, so called, invariably de-
generates.
Not like with like, be like with difference,
is the law of marriage. The light COM
pleAioned turn to the dark, and the
dark to the light, as day to night aud
night to day. the tail seek the short
and the short the tall; the same the
large and the large the small. Oppos-
ite temperaments also thus incline to
each other. Bishop Morris says that
he can select husbands and their wives
in large company by this law of like
and difference.
DR.. Holiness ten-lovers dangling in
silken moose on the fatal trap of Cupid,
being asked the color of the eyes that
caused their ruin:
And ten accused the adarkor hue .
The last five Of these victims We're un-
doubtedly blue-eyed swains, and the
first of brown complexion.
"By this law only will yellow haired
Germany and dark-skinned France be-
come one. Only thus will the medi@-
val feud between light-eyed England
and dark-eyed Ireland come to an end.
Let their youths follow their instincts,
and the differences that now seem bar
riers of eternity will become magnets
of eternity. Thus, too, will our divi-
dings cease. The lightest and darkest
of the children of Adam and Noah are
divinely planted together in this land
that they may, by obeying this law
which God has planted, work out the
perfect oneness of the race of man.
ALREADY, too, our romancers and
poets, the imaginative forefyers of the
sloWer-footed fact, are putting this
strange future into their fascinating
tales, and all the greedy crowd of nov
el-readers are finding their richest
morsels favored with this celestial
truth. The stage makes an octoroon
heroine, and wins thousands to the ad-
miration of color on the boards which
they still falsely profess to detest in the
parIor. Mrs. Child, in her Romance
of the Republic, gives vivid portrai-
ture of the wrongs and rights of this
married life and love, in conflict with
the curse of caste. Anna Dickinson
wakes yet bolder, and, in her What
Answer p shows how inevitable, how
beautiful is this true affection, despite,
nay, including this difference of color.
And the hour is not far off when the
white-hued husband shall boast of the
dusky beauty of his wife, and the
Caucasian wife shall admire the sun
kissed countenance Of her husband as
deeply and as unconscious of the pres
ent ruling adherence as is his admira-
ton of her lighter tint. Desdenona
was as deeply fascinated by Othello's
visage as was he by Desdemona's.-
That hour is not coming-it already is.
| Not few of these marriages which
God has made, and whose validity
man, in few instances, has reluctant.
ly acknowledged, are already filling
homes with happiness, and both pro
phesying and leading the way to the
future unity and blessedness Of A
merica. Amalgamation Is Gods word
declaring the oneness of man, and or
daining its universal recognition
Who art thou that fghtest against
! God ?"
The passage in which reference il
made 70 the complexion of our Lord,
is the following But equality at th'
polls is not the only work laid upor
the coming government. There mus
be such disposition of its patronage
such steadfast expression of its con