The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-12-19
c. K. MARSHALL ON TIE POLITICIAN
IN THE PULPIT.
{ New Orleans Plcayune.''

Is familiar to all we'll informed Ameri-
cans. Heis personally acquainted with
nearly all the leading public men of
country. His fertility as an inventor,
his learning as divine, his zeal as a
Christian, his eloquence as an orator,
have combined to make him famous
the land. During a long |
and active life he has been careful stu |
dent OF the national situation, and his |
utterances are consequently entitled to |
respect, SO far, at least, as that subject
is concerned. Recently, in q long letter
to the Courier-Journal, he agued ex-
the mischief which Is being
done to the cause of Christianity,
philanthropy and the Union by the
extreme partisan and sectional attitude
assumed by the Protestant religious
press in the North and East. The
Picayune has only space to publish tho
Doctors statement of the question in u |
condensed form.
DIR. Marshall begins by contrasting |
the pulpit of to-day with the pulpit of
forty yearsago. Then only was preach |
ed ssChrist and Him crucif1ed." Now
sermons are preached in which the |
name of Christ never enters, even by
indirection-ranlk and bitter political
discourses, ISLANDERS upon the Southern
people, incredable outrage stories, ar
guments for a third term aud eulogfes
upon Grant. Such is not the case In
the South. Southern people will not
tolerate political preaching but South
ern men dare not attend church In the
North for fear of insult. Recently the
Doctor was o guest of hOspitable
family in the North. At break fast on
q Sunday morning the lady of the
house asked him whether he would
/ ,.1k 4,oor 1.or In iafear ff,of 1oxy Tyo
replied, "I would like to, but South it
was never permitted to preach politics
or negroes" He was assured that this
particular minister never did anything
of the sort. He went, aud Has luck
would have it, the minister unsheathed
his sword and marched through the
South with an open commission from
God, as he thought
To deal dannation round tho land,
| On each he Judged foe."
The Doctor thinks that infidelity is
the immediate product of that sort OF
preaching. "Christ is too tame a SUBJ
the weak. But stalwart pity demands
the arrest, indictment, trial, conviction
and crucifixion of the South"
] The Christian Advocate, prominent
organ of the Methodist Church North,
was once what it's name would imply;
but now it is a politico-reltgious jour-
nal, with an ambition that Grant
should be the next President, and that
the Methodist Church North should
become the National Church. Take
the following from DIR. Fow1er's pen,
and DIR. Marshall's comment:
"There has been an election in Ohio.
The verdict of the jury in Kcmper
county, Miss, has been reversed.
Gully goes free but the murderous
|spirit that demanded the release OF
: this Barabbas has been sentenced by
the ballot of Ohio. Sherman, who has
condensed much of the property of the
poor into the Golfers Of the rich, need
!, not claim the honor. Blaine, wh'
gave away the record of his life IL
}, striking the Chinese, need not CLAIM
: the honor. Cornelia Chisholm's soul
g by the side of the soul Of John Brown
!, is marching on. 1t made its presenc
e felt in Ohio on the 18th. It may b
expected to report at every Northern
;: election till murder shall be an OUTLAY
! in every State of the Union."
The Doctor is, think, a little wrong
) in the ompanionship of Miss Chisholm
, The latest Intelligence 1 am able L
, obtain says she had met Mrs. Surrat
on her journey and the good and saint.
ed old lady cOngratulated MISS COrneila
,, on having been accidentally shot, while
), she was murdered officially, without q
word of evidence against her, by the
best Government on which tho sun
. ever shined.
The outcome of all this is hatred and
avoidance between the people of the
, sections, and the propagation of infidel
ity.
= If a Southern gentleman were dying
! in the North, the Doctor asks, woult
.. he choose to entrust his last message t.
wife and children, and to close his eye.
and fold his hands, a Christian ministe
;, and an editor Of a politico-religiou
y journal of the type described, or a mar
= like Col. Robert g. Ingersoll-a mar
of an ugly, but honestly accepted Greco
;. sympathetic, kind, generous, brave
consistent to his convictions and above
persecution "Col.IngersoIi, OF course
l. Anybody would; even Southern
It clergyman assuredly would"
d The Northern Methodist Churcl
q cherishes deep and sometimes al
e outspoke political ambition. Bfshol
!. Haven, lecturing in Walla Walla, wa
"a thus reported: