The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-14

REV. /. D. HUsToN.-Cp to this time
we have refused to even notice the serious
charges against this eminent divine. and
mainly for the reason that we know so
well how a mans reputation depends,
alas! too often u"on the breath even ot.the
slanderer.
"All our advantages are those Of fortune;
Birth. wealth, health, beauty. are her accl-
dents
. . the rest was nakedness.
And lusts. and appctites. and vanities,
The universal heritage. to battle
With rs we may, and least in hunblcSt STA
tiOnS.
Where hunger swallows all in one low
want.
And the original ordinance. that man
Must sweat for his poor piltance, keeps all
passions
Aloof save fear of famine"
But here was a clerical scOundrcl VIII
had license to 60 forth and preach the
Word of God, and in doing so he did
charm the people who heard him. once
or twice he preached in our W tow OF
Winchester, and we were not alone in our
admiration of his abilities. His mind had
power over matter, as did the mind OF
Arbaces, the dark and deyilish Egyptian.
And he published and edited the Hone
Circle. a religious magazine. in Nashville.
He made money. and hunger and want dld
not swallow up his passions. lie won the
love OF his congregations wherever he
went. Here is where his congregations
erred, in that they fell into u hero-wor-
ship. They could not pardon one tor not
trusting implicitly so eloquent and so pol
ished a preacher. And when he went TO
Baltimore. with regular credentials from
the Kentucky Conference, he kept up his
afftctation of s%anctity and suavity, a al IN
obliged his Evolutionary tricks in the pull
pit, such as dropping his melodious voice
almost to a whisper at the end OF a clause
as if too full of godliness for utterance.
Men ofthe world. who are more charitable
to the church than the churci, is to them'
were not so easily deceived by slcl' un-
manly affectation, but said nothing lest
they might be called s%coflers. But the
cllurrh-people believed him Il saint. Ihey
had faith in him. and wept wheel bis voice
became tremnl0us with affected tenier-
ness. And now, if they will learn that a
profession of some religious dogm;'-h
they will learn that a p%retence OF Deihg
commissioned by God to save souls
should he 10 reason for permitting SUch
professors any more intimacy IN the'r
families than is permitted to men OF
moral standing outside the Church. the
lesson of DR.. Illusions infamy VIII
not be lost. We will cease to be de-
luled by men who have "stolen the livery
of Heaven to serve the Devil III.
In the language Of an exchange: III u
hard to believe that Il minister OF the "os-
pei. who hiul made himself so popular
wherever he was known, liould be gully
Of 50 d,mnablc crime as that OF the Sc
duction Of young and innocent girls; D"t
such seems to he the crime OF Huston.
and his victims were the pupils OF the
Sunday school of the church of when nc
was pastor" Nevertheless those men VINO
are every day denounced from the pu'pi
as despicabie sinners because they exercise
the free agency God gave them ana remain
outside of ANY church. have commenced u
retrospect and find that the Faith WHICH
was to save the world has been the m'ahs
of ruin to Thousands OF families through
the fundamentally Of men who were 20
base as to affect piety for sordid purposes
There can be no question that religion
with a majority amounts simply to SUI
perstition. and wicked men take ADVANTAGE
of the opportunity thus afforded them ior
the carrying out of evil designs. we u'
not mean by these remarks to intimate
that the Methodist church. or any other
church. is to lie blamed because it held 10
Its bosom u monster. for all were deceived
But we do mean to intimate that too mnch
confidence is placed in these sanetimo-
NOUS people. Jim Fisk. In his open hber-
tlnism, was = better man than DR.. Huston