Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-02-21
GOD AND THE CONSTITUTION
A REVIVAL or QUAKER. BURNING PURITAN
isM.-THE Pious cokclAvE At
CINCINNATI.

cities OF fanaucS-Wc nave ntllneI
time, space nor inclination now; but
to rescue from partly forgotten OBJ
liyon the infamous deeds of the Eng
lish radicals, in the times of Charles
and the Cromwells, and TO contrast
them with their lineal descendants,
the present radicals, and to further
illustrate the character and anteee.
dents of the very pious gentlemen
who it would seem have succeeded in
entirely reforming their own natures,
and are now engaged in christianiz-
ing the Constitution OF the United
States, we will avoid all mists and fan.
cies of fabulsts, and coniine ourself TO
pure undefled and naked truth.
The reader of history will recollect
that soon after the revelation in Ger.
many, called the "Reformation" by
those who have been taught from their
earliest infancy to hate tho SEQ OF
Rome, together with "all and singu-
lar" (as the layers say), its rites and
obscrvances, there rose up in England
from tho very slums of its population
mixed and nasty sect Of crrorists
called puritans, because they claimed
to be the only par excellence, tho an
ointcd Saints of the Lord, and that in
; their purc and precious carcasses was
deposited all the cleanliness Of piety
, and principle in the world, 1t will
strike somo as strange, yet it is nev
erthelcss true, that the spread Of thciI
disease of the mind was confined al
most exclusively TO the defendants oI
the drunkards, thieves, robbers and
pirates of Scotland, Angland and Sax
: ony, who some centuries before had
without provocation, invaded tho
island of Britain, and despoiled and
robbed the inofIcnsivc people there o.
their lands. Those invaders were The
descendants of the Goths and Vandal'
Of antiquity. II is due 10 the better
class OF Enrlandcrs, TO say that they
were not afflicted with this foal dis
ease. Following the Pickering light
of their own ilumined will, as thcii
only ruide to holiness, and disregard
;nc oil occlcsiasticnl authority. the,
20 rv
withdrew IRON the chnrch OF EhSlanu
o,d or,,onized themselyes into bant
ofindeuendent pietists.
The en,lv German reformers con
tended that Sunday should be obsery
od os !, alwovs had been in tho chris
linn church as n dav of rest and re
o,o,,;o, b,, ,hese ;u,cnselv holy
g clarified sconred blcached Simon
nnra rcrormod reCormers tanght tha
that blessed day of rest must be KEEP
4 as the ancient Jews are presumed L
; have kcpt their Sundays. In fact
thev wore so seeminoly sanclimonioui
,hat thov ,riod 70 enforce II cessation
of The laws of nature ON Sunday.
:, Master Barnaby. in this form gives
a ,leasing illustration of their ausler,
sballowness. which somc great painte
has immortalizcd:
: aTo Barnaby came I, profauc ono
i,a"gius musri 'ng ar NJ. Z P' pa, en MoU@Sv.
For killing ofa mouse on Sunday" g.
They walked about in solemn, scri
GUS quiet, and with eyes in imitation
of dying bovine baby, neither talk
!, ing with or like men OF this wickci
world. They inflicted upon their un
baptized babes the strangest and mos
b outlandish names that could possbl,
y be coined from tho Imagination Of Z.
< crazycst Bcdlamito, We give fo,
- of ihcm. Tbcv wore os common
Is among those swinisb clodpoles as Joh
a Smith and Betsy Brown among u.
n Parise the Lord Bareboncs, Splitter
bolher.wrcstlo. with.thc.Lord Cantnl
n Seek.thc kingdom continually Dur
a derbcad, Zcul.ofthc.land, busy, and S
forth and so on.
These people werc not only too hol
TO belong to any church. then in cS
II is,cnce. but thev were TOO wiso 1
. their own eonceit ma well os too holy
% TO como under any moro earthly ooy
!. ernment. and therefore rcnouoced a
h allegiance to thcir SOVEREIGN and b,
10 eame de focto hcrclics andrebols claim