Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-08-08

So long as "Gush" was merely the
dislastefu! thing il must ever be to people
with good common sense and proper
hardness Of intellectual iiber, men could
afford TO smile at it in contempt, but
"Gush" gone rotten as ithas in Brooklyn
Is something calling for q decidedly
deeper md stronger disgust. In tho light
thrown on the daily lives and CONVERSE
ton Of a high-strung course of the
worshippers of sweetness and light,
possessed of that spurious charity which
eondones ofsnses before they are repented
Of, and thinks crime can be cured with
pretty words or kisses, one grows sick of
the sentimental twaddle they pu. forth
and concludes that "While souls" ard
"White liyers" are nearly allied, and that
the worshippers of truth in the abstract
think It as pro.ane to let it cross their
lips as the Jews did the name of the
Most High.
Heaven knows there is enough Of gross
ness and sin in all ranks Of society, and
that chastity is not yet the most con-
spicuous virtue of masculine humanity,
but the roughCr sinners have yet left them
the grace to know they sin, and have not
drowned shame In an ocean of fine
phrases. But out of it all may happy
come, for Il time q little wholesome and
necessary plain speaking in which the
old fashioned ideas of party and virtue
shall be set forth with more disiinetness,
and men and women be taught that safety
lies III the love of ole man and ore
woman for each other, and that cxpan-
sion and initiation are as bad for the alIee.
lions, as for the currency. The proiauc
man Just now feels like cursing icon
geniality'' and damning "aflnitles,' ard
turns with a satisfaction he surely feels
in religious reading 10 such sound, CID
fashioned orthodox talk as the following,
which We extract from some editorial
advice the New York CJSrp,r has lately
been giving to ministers;
The establishment of such relations Ne.
tween pastor and his flock as shall secure
only ia the domestic circle is an evil Of
fearful tendency and unspeAkable danger.
| Ministers are censurable in high degl &c
who encourage their people, men or women,
to come to them with family matters or
secret sores. Some men arc themselves
gossips, and delight TO get and give all they
can OF social news AMI the more the secret
the richer the prize They encourage reve-
latiOna when their ears should be deaf 10
everything approaching to scandal. All
judiciouB pastors discourage familiarity on
the part of their people, especially OF the
female denomination.
For this way lies the danger. A silly
woman, pious perhaps, hut very soft and
| shallow, hears the stirring words Of hc'
| eloquent pastor: Is reused warmed. soOthcd,
eXalted-she thinks cdbff-and straight
! way she believes him to be the man sent 10
do her good. She goes to his study 10 tell
| him SO how much enjoyment Fhe finds in
1 his words or She writes him u letter and
9ouIs out her little soul full of tWaddlt
ibout her gratitude for what her dear pas
or has done Tor her how She " is Tilted
| lpH by his instructions how she loves
lim as friend given to he her guide aud
I comfort, and SO on, and 30 On, more and
worse, running into a mawkish sentiment
, | Ality-A stckentng man-W olBhip, dlsguetiu5 q
every seueihle person, but very neciat 10
vain, worldly preacher who seeks only q
make lis lcarera " feel good" such pcO
pie never go to their pastor TO ask "W nai
, | they must do to be saved :' IL is 20 tel
| him how good they feel how he is " cNtlt
ing them, Ming them with jos, yea @
4 | and love- We cannot 20 into Particular
. ! without offending the Tastes of every reader
? ! We make our meaning plain. We wish q
, lie understood as saying that what worldly
, preachers and sentimental women cat
. | communion Of suul' and "kMIrcA eVifltl,'
b | "mutIal help' and holy uy mptthy," ans
% I words iu the same strain 10 not religion r.
. 1t Is net even religious. 1t i8 OF the earth
4 ! earthly. 10 is catuAl conceived in sin.
f II is simply the lower nature, the huma