Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-18
WILMINGTON. DEL. AUG. is, 1874.
elimination of Sin in the Church

If there was one sentiment more fully i'm
planted by the christian church than another,
it was that man should have but one wife
and that wives should cleave to their hus-
bands. Those whom God hath joined let no
man put asnnder, and the twain are one !;
were so well understood and received such
universal appreciation throughout all the
christian denominations that even morality of
the world outside Of the church has always
been shocked ut the fall of any citizen from
this position OF society
When the small band of woud-be Reform
attempted to set up another doctrine
their free-love; woman's rights and woman
suffrage; and spiritual fanatacism; for they
were all held by the Plymouth Church fac
ton. The world stood amazed. And had not
Plymouth Church been a political church, run
by Radical politicians and a Radical preacher
catering to a Radical newspaper, the free-lov-
ers and their abominable advanced IDEAS
would long ago have been denounced by the
whole christian church, and also by the press
generally.
But the great sore, us Beecher well terms
this horried association has ut last burst F.;
and is dischargn9 q volume of shame and
corruption that is sckennr TO every real gem
tleman and lady. whether they are members
Of church or not.
1t is of such glaring character that the
reader can neither be deaf to il nor blind to
it. He is not only compelled t. read it, but
also to hear il discussed. And what 1t theme
for the youth? DO you think Beechcr gull
typ is the question put by our unshaven
gent in the presence of those of the Other sex
not older than himself. Guilty OF what?
Can the imagination be checked As we'll
might an attempt he made to wall up Vcsuy.-
us when the mountains crater is diseharging
its red and flaming lava. Says Beecher:
1T is time for the sake of dccency and If
public morals that this matter should lie
brought to an end 1t is an open pool of cor
ruption exhaling deadly vapors. For six
weeks the nation has risen up and sat down
upon scandal. Not a great war or a revolu-
ton could more have filed the newspapers
than this question Of domestic trouble. mag
nified thousand fold, and, like a sore spot on
human body drawing to itself every morbid
humor in the blood. Whoever IS buried with
it, it is time that this abomination be buried
below all touch or power of resurrection
Beeeher never uttered truer sentiment
than the above contains. But this pool Oh
CoIIupllOn, OF winch ne Is III part the centre
and the source, "exhaling deadly vapors. >
cannot "be brought to an end" 1t must flow
until Plymouth Church is emptied Of the sill
that has grown up in it. fostered as it was b,
Beecher, Tilton, Woodruff and others. 1t i
saddenins and distressing TO every truly vir
tuous man and woman; and none who woul
advance morality and inculcate true relieio
can help feeling that the Brooklyn disgrace
is a stumbling block to the young, and
stigma and shame that will stick to the Pl,
mouth congregation for years to come Thu
church dare not assent to Beecher's guilt.
would be to assent to thing that may hay
no stopping point. Already the question
asked, SIS Tilton the only man who has TIN
been wounded in his home ?" Who sha
answer?
But the worst of this is the feature tn
follows; and We should not wonder to he!
of numerous cases like Beecher's in onr c
changes. Like great murder Is followed
scenes of lesser note; and great fires seem b.
to herald others; so will this great Sore '
fear, be the fruitful source of others yet Ii
known