The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-11-09
Observation-Disclosures and Social.

man, who was sometime since tried and
condemned for Acrcsy, which he had
been industrionsly advocating, has
commenced to found 4 new "Church'
of his own in London, The services,
says the New York Express, arc read
out of a revised praycr-book, stripped
of every sentence that would prevent il
harmonizing with q pure Thcism. The
Litany and communion services are en-
tirely omitted, The Gloria Patri, re
Deum, Doxolog etc, are very much
shortened. The Psalms are carefully
expurgatcd. The new litany contains
the following beseechment:
That it may please Thee to help all
literary persons and editors Of the pub
lie press, that they may use all thcil
powers in the cause Of truth and right.
cousness, and rise above the praise and
blame ofmcn.'
This is novel, but it is certainly very
good.
The Express adds that Mr.. Theodore
TiIton, the great New York preacher,
is also anxious to found n new sect, il
not q new prayer book. FIom being
the editor once Of q religious journal
Of the straightest sect, he has drifted
down to pretty much the same level
of inidelity with the eX.Rev. Mr.. Voy-
scy, only touching q slower deep i'll
advocating out.and-out "frec love" In
one OF his lectures he says:
How could Il man swear before the
altar to love and honor u woman when
he did not know that she would cont:n-
lie to be lovable and honorable? Ma,
ture's ideal marriage, vas the mono
ganic union Of one man and n wo.
man through love. Without love it
was not marriage, and when love
ceased TO exist, then no more marriage
abidcs between them, want the EN-.
blem Of the law to be liberty, not its
symbol 4 chain. | would have mar.
riago to be a civil contact put in wri-
ting, signed by the parties and by wit
ncsses, with terms religious, terms pc
cuniary, terms industrial whatever else
may be thought desirable. 1t should
be dissolved like any other contract
by mutual consent,
Just such stuff as this is making the
pulpit Of the North worse than ridicu-
lous. Such preaching is positively
criminal, and Mr.. Tilton deserves pun
ishmcnt therefore just as much rs the
Mormon in the practice OF poligamy.
1t is of the same Calibre as the pOliti-
cal preaching which has so long dis,
graccd the churches north--the same
sort that sent the Bible and Sharp's
rifles to Kansas, and helped to bring
on the war. We hope the Southern
pulpit will forever cschcw such ridicu-
lous vagarics, and follow the teach
ings Of Holy Writ. Why, we read
daily Of all sorts of maledictions pro
nounced in prayer, and ii ever Satan
was disguised IS an angel of light
it was when wrath and uncharitablc-
ness were yelled under that fair form.
The dca of lifting ut some in prayer
is awful, but we have seen such, heard
such, very often in late years. Minis
tiers in the favor of Radicalism have
INDUCED such wickcdncss quite freely.
They pray at the bystanders rather
than 10 the Almighty. And we do not
hesitate to say that Thursday, 3Oth of
this month. which has been set apart
by the President as q day for general
thanksgiving, will witness the desccra-
ton of many a pulpit by political
preachers praying God to bless the
government Of U. S. Grant, and bring
the rebcllious southern people to re
p%cntance. They will forget the muir
ders daily committed in northern cities,
the theits Of government officials, the
outrage committed by the Government
upon the people ofSouth Carolina and
Texas the adjustment of the lIabeas
Corpus, for political purposes really,
under the plea of necessity-all these
things will be overlooked, and Ku-kluX-
ism be invcighcd against to the disgust
of honest people, but to the supreme
delight, doubtless of those who think
this the chest government the world
eve saw" and Cant a second Wash
ington. AS for our part, the idca of
Grant setting apart a day of general
Thanksgiving is insulting and ridiculous,
but-"lct us have peace in our march
to dcspotism.
Both Democratic and Republican
papers Of South Carolina dcprecate the
proclamation Of martial law in that
State, and declare that no necessity
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