The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-29

HENGsrENBERG --Hengstenburgh sup
ported the religious and political reaction
with less enthusiasm, but with more
knowledge and ability, than the impetuous
Harms. The Bible is adorcd by him 10
the materialist sense Of the ancient Jews,
and with the savage intolerance Of modern
Catholic inquisitors. His vocation was
journalism. Insulting, shameless, libel
Gus, and brutal, he pursued all free.think-
ers into the retreats Of private family life,
dragged them forth 10 the pillory, relying
upon the completely of the political an.
thorities, and there, holding them silent
and defenseess, cursed, bufeted, and in
suited them. If you imagine a Ncnilo,
without his talent and his style, you will
have faithful image of this evangelical
writer. lie spat upon classic literature,
full, as he said, Of pagansm he con-
founded democracy with 3emsgogv he
called modern France frivolous and tri.
fling he denied all authority to reason
and all virtue to right ; declared coutem .
porary science more fatal than the cholera
morbus he called the theology Of sen,i.
ment a rehabilitation of the iesh-and all
under the banuer OF the stgictest Luther.
anism and with the 6rmest Intention to
restore pure religion Apd the religious
reaction was not enough for him he also
sustained the political reaction in its most
insensatc form The c. mmandments
committed sn uUpsrdouabe neglect in
ordering US to honor father and mother
without adding equal respect to the king
and the queen, because, in the opinion OF
this pious Christian, the king and the
queen are our parents they have given
US their blood they have nourished us
at their breasts they conducted us
eternal peace in death. He thought it
was usupportable tyranny to be obliged
to pray for the Chambers, according to
the precepts Of the constitution and the
| orders Of the king, aud, above all, for the
popular Chamber, born Of free thought
and political revolution, grudgng their
tribute to the monarchy and exciting pas.
slons among the people, full of reiormers
who are all crazy demagogues. The
clergy ought only TO pray for the Upper
House, for the Lords, for those country
gentlemen who preserve the sanctity Of
land, those icudal cavaliers who maintain
the slavery of the soil, those romanticist:
who worship the Holy Alliance, those
Luthesans who would set fire in all the
universities to the images of the goddess
Reason, aud all those philosophers which
are her false and corrupt priests. The
separation OF church and state is the worst
of errors The kings need the church as
the heaven where the sceptre Of their au
thoriiy is shaped. Tie church needs the
kings as the ministers who shall open fol
i, With their slaves and their sabres the
road for the temporal dominion of the
world. These insensates could give them
selves up to these follies and deny th,
/ free conscience without understanding
that they were denying God, could sup
pres iree-will without seeing that they
were suppressing man. Their rage, thei
maduo--, thcir denial of right, their
barbarous conspiracy for oppression
showed with what reason, with wha
right and truth, the eighteenth centur,
had uttered and sustained the saving prin
eiple Of the absolute incompatibility be
tween intolerant churches and moderl
liberties. II EMILIO CASTELAR,, in Harper'
Magazine