The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-02-13
The Dead Thing.

SINKING SPRING, o., Jan. 80, 1878.
EDITOR News Il was greatly
amused to-day, in reading a moon
struck effusion in the Gazette of the
9th inst, entitled "ReU. Z. DE "
Peak on the Christian Union
Church." Said efusion finds pater
nifty in one "Kzise." "Kise is {
stranger to me, and, Judging from the
tone of his uncalled-for TRADE, he il
also stranger to gentility. 1 was
informed, however, by a colored gen
tleman, that he is very moderate
prophet in the Insurance Company o.
Southern Ohio. Be this true or not
he has proved himself "hero in the
strife" by his assault, therefore he
should have Excelsior" stamped up
on every fold of his coat-tail
For aught I know, Klise may
be the real name of somebody; per
haps not But to preclude the posi-.
biity of being personal, I have yclepl
him "Ihe Nan Of ,Stra,O"
The Man of Straw says: awe
have been frequently amused at the
various efforts put forth by creed
bound churches in opposition to the
Christian Union and were it not that
those unacquainted with the G. u
(cue, the tail Of a thing "are misled
by their statements, we would not be-
stow upon them passing thought. y
I submit it to any good judge
Does the spirit of his pieceindicate an
amused condition of mind? Think
you he was in ':fInny mood 2"
Was his soul as calm and angel-ike
as Divine's should be? Verify not.
True to nature, the state of his mind
was identical with that of the vulgar
snob who is the hero of the ballad,
"LocksIey Hail." The hero being
greatly disappointed when his cousin
was welded to some one else, bestow-
ed his EXTREMIST objurgation upon all
who had aided the miserable result,
and then aggregated the whole affair
by saying
"Cursed be the foul apprentice, who his loathsome
fees did earn;
Cursed be the clerk and parson CURSED BE THE
WHOLE CONCERN"
Shame on such spirit Could
any one be more unlike Him, who
wore the crown of thorns, in whom
heprofesses to glory? '.Man of Straw,
remember, I pray you remember, the
aphorism "Q'sem Deus cult perdere
priats deme1atat."
Inrespect to ''ereed6oat'ad churches" |"
I have to say, church unbound by a
creed, isnot a Church, but a moral no
madic tribe, as unstable as water, and
cannot excelno succeed. Isa "creed-
bound" church so tightly bound as a
protessedly religious organization,
which is politically bound; the ae-
nowledged foe to human freedom
and equality of rights; the patroness
of tyranny? This being evident, I
cannot blame my assailant for wish
ing to veil the character of his pet
and petty organization. Let her be
known and she must be despised-
Drag her to the light look upon her
blank and deformed face witness her
malicious throes, her intrigues, her
impiety, her narrowness, and you will
certainly turn from her; firm be-
lever in the doctrine of total deprav-
ity.
Again, "The Man of Straw" says,
''The Christian Union is not church. !"
He certainly did not mean to utter
such a sentence. But whether he
meant it or not, he stated the truth.
1 have never yet graced her with that
dignity, nor shall 1 until my mind is
enfeebled by disease or age.
Again, "The Man of Straw" says,
the organization ''is union of Chris
tians." Why not assert a well-known
fact, and say, it is union of defeated
politicians, disaffected religionists, as
pirants after ecclesiastical honors not
to be plucked by them elsewhere, and
persons expelled from the various
churches of the land? I believe it
can be proved that large majority of
her membership left the NJ. E. Church
because of their own illiberaEty.-
They cried disunion until they got out
of the Church, then as by magic they
began to cry "UuiOn." >" Yes, union by
coming to us, by thinking as we do.
Yet this is the people who clamor
about "creed-bound" churches, free
thought, and free speech! Not only
is her membership largely made up
of the aforementioned classes, but
her ministry is manufactured from the
same stuff. Many ofherministers were
unacceptable Local Preachers in the
NJ. e. Church many more sought to
hold such a relation to the same
church andfailed Devil-ike, because
they could not rule, they made an eff
fort to ruin. Vain attempt! I won
der if "The Man of Straw" did not
leave us T.? or was he informed that his
resignation would be acceptedl I
wonder if he was not ambitious?
beware ambition
Heaven is not reached with pride, but with sub
missionl"
Again, "The Man of Straw" says i: