New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-29
a GOD MADE TO ORDER.

| 4 GOD MADE TO ORDER.
liz all ages Of the pagan world Il has
been customary to construct the gods to
suit the special emergency Of the orators.
A deity was on hand for every passion,
emotion or aspiration Of ambition. In
case another was wanted he was imme-
diately created, clothed with the proper
attributes of divinity. and certified to a
credulosas world rs the proper article.
The Christian world has attempted to re-
form TIE customs and manners of anti
guilty to some extent. The fashion has
obtained under the new dispensation OF
acknowledging but one God. though he
appears in as many different characters as
there are sec.s that profess to adop: him
as leader. In the beginning. we are
told. God made man in his own image.
after his own likeness. etc. In ous day
this has been reversed. and we have re-
turned to the pagan habit o! making
God in our own image, according
to our own passions. seiiishness
! and greed. and holding him to strict ac-
countability for the manner in which he
discharges his divine functions. The oc-
| casion Of the recent riots has been seized
upon by al uptown preacher to introduce
the Deity to his hearers in i new character.
| In sermon delivered the other day he
claimed that the special champion of thc
White Leaguers was this new creation O.:
his. He led the embattled hosts that fired
ON the Metropolitans. gave the victory to
the right side. Of course. and only retired
upon the approach Of the. United States
troops! \ God for two. days and half
may be satisfactory to those who have no
great faith in the endurance Of heavenly
things. but We have been taugh: to be-
lieve He is the same always -yesterday,
to-day and forever. He is not likely TO
lend himself to spasmod;c effort to over
throw State government one dag. and
retire the next before regimen:
OF regulars. Nor would the praise
lavished upon hin, .: the extra ses-
sion Of half dozen White League
churches compensate Him for tie trouble
OF throwing whole city into confusion.
We regard these claims to Divine pzotec-
ton which have been pu: forward by Mr..
Markham and other political parsons as
simply prepos:erous. if not blasphemous.
And that the good God. the creator OF the
heavens and tie earth. and ali the Uni
verse which surrounds us. has len. him.
self to policy which has for its object
the degradation Of one-haf his creatures
in this State is totally disproyed by His
subsequent abandonment Of the wax upon
the adyen. Of General Emory. .Ir. Mark
ham may have found OF created a god Of
his own, one unknown to us. but not very
constant in the cause he has been assigned
to assist. Where he is now we leave
for his inventors 70 say. The good
old prophe: Elijah. were he here.
nigh. possibly indulge in lis IA
cet;ous remarks which were so oppor-
tune upon similar occasion several
centuries ago. Ee might dispute with
Mr.. Markham the genuineness Of the God
he has set mp on this occasion. And. as he
has disappeared from the busting scene.
and can nowhere be found, nor his pres
ence any longer felt. nigh: say TO the
misguided shepherd Of Lafayette Presby-
:erian Church: 'Cry aloud; for lie is
god; either ne is talking. or he is pursu-
ing. or he is on q journey. or peradventure
ne is asleep and must DC awaked.''
How indecent i: is 70 drag the Divine
character into the s9uabbles 0: political
place hunters. any nainiste. who puts
such {: low estimate upon heavens ma
jesty ought to be scourGed from his pulpit
arid the Kisses Of his indignant hearers.
And yet such has been the blaspLemous
habi: Of certain preachers here TO. many
years. We can tell these L;gots that there
is but one thing that prevents their con-
duet from hardening the hearts Of men
and leading them in their despair TO say
there is no God. and that is the well
settled belief that they who preach such
doctrine as Mr. Markham announces
have no god eScep: Of their own manu-
eacture.