Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-12-17
SUvDIr SCHOOL UNION IN
POLITICS.

IL 1OAys
Our friends, the Northern Methodists-
and long may they wave, especially that
keen-eycd, raz)r-facsd ons that visits
Staunton periodically to put up at public
auction the property Of the Metho list
church here by dscree Of a Federal court,
seem to have Il many-sid d mission on.
earth. The cross which they bear seems
to be composed Of various bits Of cd Is and
ends, and the end sticking uppermost ] lsi
now is the nomination of Gen. ULYSSES
CHANT, a valued and consis.en: member
of the persuasion by virtue of his attend
ance-between drinkS-On divine worship
at the chu:ch of Rev. DR.. NEWMAN, III.
edlfice, we my remark by way If an auc~-
tiOneer's pa ent 10 sis. at once ''.eAllv eli y
bic and truly valu .ble both for b auty an,
location" in W,s'iin stm ..lty. At tn
lose of the war its r..liI i, lab IFS We
confined to "A different feel II n: cl,ietl
the military and civil Ourts t.
Ugh mark of the calm. s..' before the
,.ing the 8 izure IT v,riOu, thur h s l.
pro ,erty OF thu southern M-ts,Oslsts: b..
Ill will b. gla to rear III from tins a
sravating depar ment o hrotherly low
they have turned to President making.
Admiration of the personal piety of ou'
bloved President, that eminent Son of
the Church whose missionary labors at
Long Branch and among the wicked at the
race-conrses of New Jersey have been con
lucted amid the direst heat Of the s0lstice
with but the slender covering Of All um-
brella held by the prosecuted "BAB," has
1t last found expression at a joint meeting
If the Northern Methodist preachers and
the Northern Methodist Sunday School
Union in the famous city of Boston. The
,pe see MS to have been laid by; Professor
WILLIAM WELLS, Of Union College, Who
.ver he is and Wherever that is, who made
!. few remarks about tbs value Of BIS
dARCK's national education plan as soIn---
ming tn vt would be of service to the
United States in the changer which is
threatening them and their free institu-
ions from Papacy:" and then Bishop Gill
,ERT HAVEN, of Atlanta, Ga, turned on
he stream A bishop Of the Northern
fethodst Church i'll Georgia! We think
We see him now-one of those truly repre-
s,ntative m n with great local popularity
It home! The Bishop said that the Pope
,aving recognized the Confederacy as u
ration during the war, the white people of
he South would "welcome his followers to
lese Shores" bnt-;nd We must say the
In{n &c hn
ed by the people Of the North will neve.
t ike blow against constitutional liber
~. And he add d that there were three
lred lous4ad members of the N ,rth-
Urn Metho list Churcn at the South who
lpf reciate their liberty and those VIII
ave it to them,'' AMI would never betray
he people Of the North. And having
leined his constituency, he proceeded
o put up his candid ate. H. sud tina
'the indictments OF the 8 ruth know til Il
hey were defeats by one ~ IN; that man i
Resilient GRANT, and if the peopla Throw
i'm over at the com n.l.l Of TIL. politi-
ians. they will rus it, ''aad then h.. added
With pions fervor, pray, brethren, that
'resid mt 'GRANf may be reelected y
V lille the meeting did not exactly compl,
With the request of the Bishop. th.y di
+ methiny that will be more acceptable t.
1e beloved brother at W .shinYton; the,
unanimously and With great apJlau>
lopted a resolution that they "had heard
sentiments advanced by Bishop HA
ZEN with great pleasure an | hearty a.
+, r,val."
When the good Bishop DoGaE T, of
(. Fir .nia, a somewhat different bishop
'nm Brother HAVEN, spoke, with several
,ieInbers of his Church at tt e: General
Conference Of tbs Methodist Church South
,st Spring against reunion with the North
RI Methndists, many of us thought hi
,-ed ID a little enlightenment on the SUBJ
,ct. We don't think SD now. The Metho
list Church South is not rich in this
snrld's gonds thou yh it is in work ana
liff-ring, nor is it likely to come into the
secession its own again at the liandso
5 Northern brethren; but there is M
Inptatipn on earth, no allurenentS il.
re shape of Church power that could IN.
ice them TO Carry the cross of CDrls
to the field of politics as e Church a;
e North is doing. The world is not pa
lent at seeing this medd'ing by CT urcl,-
nen, as such, with the affairs of the coum.
~. Theya stretching the altar CLOTH
yer so mlny worldly affairs that it viii
nap. What would the country say il tA.
hundred Roman Catholic priests were t.,
ssemble Tomorrow and adopt resolution.
savoring particular Presidential candi
late? or Bishop JOHNS or Bishop GLIB
aoNs or Bishop DoeGErT Of Virginia
mo lid urge their tlocks to "Pray. breth-
rrn. that President So-and-So may be re-
lected?" Think ever it