Wilmington journal., 1875-02-05
CRUCIFFING CHRasT,S RELIC
ION.

CRUCIFFING CHRIsT,S RELIC
Nearly two thousand years ago
Jesus of Nazareth, the head an.
founder of the Christian religion
was crucified on the Mount of Calvary
His death gave life to others aud tn,
revealed religion he bequeathed to th,
world has pierced to every quarter O
the habitable globe until in this da,
and generation christianity ard en-
ightenment are synonymous terms
The Messiah preached many things
among others the sublime virtue ot
charity and His coming was heralded
by the song of angels tPeace on earth
good will to men" How fruitless
was his death, for some at least OF
those in this country who call them
selves protesting Christians and
whose glorifying of God consists
in maguifying themselves, is
made evident by the following
account OF the proceedings at SO
called religious meeting held under
the shadow of Plymouth Rock. The
participants IN this meeting were not
politicians, they were preachers they
were not even Of the rank and file of
the Church, but they were among the
leaders of those (verily "blind leaders
of the blind - who sit uuder their
ministration week after week aud look
up to them as the e1pounders Of
the word of God-that word which
says love your enemies" and again,
" resist not evil, and still again that
impressive command which has echoed
through the world, Judge not that
ye be not judged" They are of the
same religious faith, of the same ma
tionality-many of them united by ties
of kindred, read from the same Bible
and preach the same truths, even sing
the same songs of praise, to the self
same God, as those in the South whom
they denounce, and for whose de-
struction they call for the sword
and the torch. They know moth
ing of that charity which He
taught; of that tove which the be-
loved disciple makes the one glowing
theme of his discourse to the Church
he who cleaned on Jesus bosom - at
the Last Supper that long suffering
and for rbearance towards one another
that kindness, that meekness of heart,
that lowliness of spirit taught by Him
as essential virtues and cardinal points
IL His followers. They are the Christ
killers of the nineteenth century, and
as &c the Son of Man was lifted up IN
the wilderness, so do they cruelty the
religion left by Him az a most precious
heritage to the world Is it
wonder that the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, composed
OF Christian men and women
who are taught-and who live up
to their teachings-to ''pray for them
which despitefully use you and perse-
cute you" will not enter into al alli-
ancs with such men as these men
who ''use their religion to cloak their
righteousness" and who continually
'crucify the Son of God afresh and
put him to an opea shame?" But-let
all read for themselves
At the regular weekly meeting of
the Methodist preachers of Boston
and vicinity, held at Wesleyan Hail,
Tuesday afternoon, the recent diff
culties in Louisiaua were discussed at
considerable length. Bishop Bowman
gave an account of what he knew
about the treatment of the colOred
people of Louisiana, narrating a mum
ber of instances IN which they had
been shamefully abused, and deprived
of life even. BY invitation, Rev. b.
l. Ives, of New York, addressed the
meeting.
He said we are undertaking now to
coax the devil out of the miserable
whelps down South, when nothing but
strychnine and cannon ought to be
used. He rather agreed with Phil
Sheridan's declaration during the war,
''that If he had owned hell and Texas
he would lease out Texas and live in
the other place" DR.. Ives admins
tered q castiRation to the church, de-
claring that there is not paper Ill the
Methodist Church that dares discuss
the civil rights bill, and asks that it be
enforced. He said he believed the
meanest rascais III the South were IL
the Methodist Church South. He de-
clared himself Radical of the strong
est kind, and he said ne believed the
more he hated the rebels of the South
tn more he loved God.
He declared he believed that the
spirit now rampant in the SOnth has
got to be crushed out by another war,
and lie longed for the appearance of
some colored man able to become a
leader among his people, welding the
sword and torch. He said the Blsh- |
ops ought to come out publicly and
declare the whole truth about the
treatment of the colOred people in the
South, but he didn't believe they
would. If they did he knew they
couldn't return to the South, for If
they did they would be hung but he
animated that it was no worse to hang
Bishop than minister, but he sug-
geSttd If 1t was done 1t might wake up
the people quicker than anything else.
He thought the Bishops were too
tehuef-hearted, and they reminded
HIM OF the man who wanted to cut off
his dogs tail, but was too tender
hearted to cut it off where it ought to
be, so he cut it off an inch at time
The speech of Mr.. Ives was received
with frequent demonstrations of APP
proval; some of his most radical utter
ances exciting considerable applause,
mingled with laughter
The population of Colorado, says
the Nashville Union, according to the
census of 1860, was "a, ,277. That of
1870 gave it 80, 864 At the same rate
o. increase it would now have "a pOpu-
iatlon of something over 4l,0Q0. We
have IN Tennessee two counties, Da-