Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-05-13

| professors Wcrc-SOtnc OF them nj least-sec-
Ond 10 few, if any theologians in the country,
and they drilled ms well and certainly
studied well. At the end Of six weeks we
had learned just one thing, and no more, and
that was, that we knew nothing about II,
could know nothing about 1t, and that nobody
ever did know anything about II, and never
would nor could know anything about it, be-
cause 1t was hidden mystery Of godliness-
not only inexpressible and indefnablc by hu-
man language, hut utterly incomprehensible
to human thought And 10 prove that 3 Ich
| an unnatural incOmprehension did belong 10
the christian system we were instructed to
present, on being examined for license TO
preach, but two passages of the whole Scrip.
turc. And our professors assured us there
were but two which Uniarians might not COM
bat with much success
And now, Sunday school scholar, teacher,
or church member, of any dcnominat.o l.,
guess II you can, or dare which those two SUI
per potential passag ar that, like stipend
-ous Corinthian columns, uphold the whole ia
brio of evangelical christian faith For, re-
member, the doctrine of the Trinity compre
hcnds il all, from turret down to foundation
stone. What do you suppose those two al
mighty utterances can be TO prove n theolDg
icai doctrine or dogma, on which hangs sue
pended the salvation or damnation of u uni
verse? Well, probably shall have to tell
they are these:
love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Ghost, be with you ALL"
And this
"GO we, therefore, and teach all nations
bapliZing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
And now You know all that know of the
doctrine of the Trinity And know all that
at least two theological seminarics ever
taught on that, 10 the worlds apprehension,
most important most wondrous and solemn
subject that ever bcwildercd the human mind.
have said nothing of the most remarkable
element in the christian scheme. ! only re-
| ierred TO the birth of God under those surpris.
ing circumstances, but have not spoken of his
death. For. under the christian system, the
one eternal, everything God of the Jews,
must not only become three in form and fact
and office and work, but sne-thrd of that in
finty must die rs well as be born. Yes the
infinite must die at the hand of the finite -
But let that pass tor what has man not be-
lieved? What cannot this poor world be
made to believe, and be made tn do and be
made to suffer, in the name of religion and Of
/ God?
Come, now, TO the modes and forms of wor-
ship.
The Jews had circumcision, the Church has
water baptism, though splintered into forty
pieces, at least about the quantity of water
and how, to whom and at what time TO be
NJ Piled.
The Jews had the passover, the Christians
their sacrament of bakers bread and gr0cer's
winp which they call, not the body and blood
of the Jewish Paschal Lamb, but of Christ {; a
type af cannibalism, is it not? painful to com
| template.
Here is one sanza from the sacramento
hymns of DR.. Watts, sung in most of the Con
grrgational Presbyterian churches Of Amer
lea, until within the last thirty years, and il
great numbers of them TO the present day
MY flesh is food and physic too
balm for all your pains;
| And The red streams of pardon flow
From these. my pierced veins"
The Jews had a Sabbath, the Church has &
Sunday, though both Luther and Calvin re
pudiated it in the strongest terms. The Jew.
had synagOgueS and temple at Jerusalem
Christians have cathedrals, chapels churches
every where; and costly and magnificent too
| up To the extent o. their means TO rear them
though their poor more unfortunate than the
birds and the foxes, have not where to lay
their heads and the most high dwclleth moi
in any temple made with hands, however
costly and magnificent, or by whatever jew
Christian or Pagan, builded; and King Solo
mon, at the dedication his temple exclaims
"Bchold even the heavens, and heaven o.
heavens cannot contain the! how much les.
this house that | have buildedw ~
And rs 10 the priesthoods, what form Of re
ligion ever teemed with them like the Chris
iany
Israel had twelve tribes. Christ choose
twelve apostles. But the different orders o
priesthood, as found in the various Christian
denominations, would far exceed those num-
bers multiplied into each other. And all O
them deemed important to the growth of the
Church and the salvation of sinners; as all
are to be considered who are not OF the
church. Important they are in the first place
to interpret ed illustrate the scriptures
which have sometimes been called So plain as
that he who runs may read; and so easy Of
comprehension, as that the wayfaring man
though Il fool need not err there in.
AMI such truly The scriptures should be
should always have been, il they are indeel OF
such stupenduous consequence to mankind.
And then ths priCs hood are held of mos
indispensable use for both birth and burial
purposes, in many countries, and in some
churches of all Christian countries. And fol
weddings, too, how hard to do without them
And there must be ministers for chapans-
Government needs good many chaplains
the army needs them, SO does the navy. Con
gress too, holds them indispensible-spend
whole days, and dollars by thousands, in get
ting them elected. State legislatures deem i
risky TO legislate without them, and generally
appoint and pay them, particularly in the old
er States, and even then do not always get on
very well. In the Mexican war time, the min
islersr in large numbers absolutely wranglet
with the government because it was suspected
Of lavoring some denominations more thar
Others in nlaEing appointments.
1t mattered not 10 any of them that thci
Holy Bible read Love, not kate, bless, no
butcher your enemies" That was nothing
The State provided chaplains TO pray for goOC
luck; the chaplans ranked in position, pay
and rations with captain of cavalry, enesst
the Office was even worth fighting for, anC
many ministers clamored to the government
for it, in the recent, as well as in remoter wars
Jesus taught, call no man your master, anC
be- not ye called masters; but what rs every
reverend clergyman but masyer withOu
ranking as a captain of cavalryg
The gospel has been supposed to hold
perfect equality also between the sexes Ii
some demonstrations woman has by permis
sion, privileges which she does not enjoy il
others but in none is she held 10 be the full
equal and complement of man. In the Ma
h0metan church, ii " slave becomes n cOnver
and Processes Mahometsnism, he or she il
forthwith emancipated. But on ouV southern
plantations, If slave was converted TO tia
faith of his master, instead of liberatng hins
she Rsastep only raised the price OF him. Ii
our Chrlstfanl churches, the most ef them, thu
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