The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1878-08-02

Bro. B., with all due respect, We must
say. as regards good society, your observa'
ton is wholly false. No class has ever en-.
loved such Immunity from merited chas
tiscmcnt for IL errors a. yours. And had
preachers been treated ~ severely A. other
professions, and their dogmatism and err
rors properly rebuked, Il Is safe TO assert
that to-day the status Of Christianity would
he elevated one thousand per cent. Bro. B.
thinks Ne "have been doing the scenting
for all Rentuckians," yet he scents finely,
and Ne "super-excellent olfactories" are
terribly nauseated that the corrupt people
elect partisan trustees, and they select some
pet TO teach, and the children get only the
name Of schooling. You scent too Low Bro.
D. Elevate your olfactories and get q
Whit Of larger game. All, you are afraid
Of the theological odor surrounding the high
er Offices Here the pets, not Of the "cor-
rupt people" but Of a corrupt Church, have
usurped the Offices that belong to the pro-
fessional teacher, and by their incompetent
cy have yiiiated the whole system. And
you, led not by your good common sense
Of justice and right, but church prejudice,
would go back on the record Of your life,
and at the same time infiict monstrous
injustice on the professional teacher.
All have heard the efforts Of the clergy
to trace their genealogy back to the Apos-
ties. And you, Bro. B., remember with
what glowing eloquence and ecstatic de-
light you have often expatiated upon prim-
tire Csrisiidnity- urged Apostolic prue-
tees. Acts vi, toe. Here we find that
The Apostles would not even attend to the
tables, that Is, dispense charities, saying,
at is not reason that we should leave the
word Of God and serve tables" Again:
"But we will give ourselves continually to
prayer, and to the ministry Of the Word"
Now, sir, where is your Wanted Apostolic
practice? Why, when church prejudice
demands it, you can jump over the tables,
under them, straddle them, any thing to
get the loaves and fishes, which by no INV,
human or divine, belong to you, but to the
hard working professional teacher.
For shame, Bro. B. Repent, therefore, Of
this, thy wickedness, and pray God, II per-
haps the thought Of thy heart may be for
given thee" Now, sir, let il be distinctly
understood that we are not making war
upon the church or preachers when in the
line Of their Christian duty. Nor have we
any "man" in view. We profess, and try
to be christian, and were we to consult
our personal interests, and preference, we
Ger tainly would not write these articles.
But we have seen the church for thous-
and years drenching the world in blood
that il might secure dominion over the
State; and now, when driven from this
monstrous pretension by an outraged peo-
pie, it claims the right to rear our children
in its hot beds of prejudice and hate, and to
superintend and stiae by its partisans our
Common School System. All that we ask,
and what we contend for, Is, that the church
and preachers shall attend strictly to their
spiritual business; and that the honest pro-
fesional teacher shall have the right to
belong 10 the church of his own choosing
without being made the target for other
sects. And as the ministry claim all their
sacerdotal Offices and gil them from their
own membership; so should teachers, from