The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-07

she had been murdered otFeiaAy. withcut q
word Of evidence against her, by the best
Government on which the sun ever shined
Now, is that the way 10 '--pread Scriptur raj
holiness over these lands l. that III keep
ing with the Give branch the Doctor waved
over the Southern General Conference a.
one Of almost innumerable sparks OF lufef nal
FIRE famed by this eminent wholesale SANDER
er Of the South OF course he feels the pulse
Of his patron. and ministers agreably to his
diagnosis OF their demands, aud that only
proves The greater peril
The outcome OF all this land this is but one
/ journal Of hundreds just as violent, unjust
/ and eruel) is hatred, contempt, distrust, avoid
/ ance. II feeds inidelty, it emb 5ldens IL and
/ propogates it II makes II respectable and
! gives value TO its sympathy
/ SuppOsing now. a Southern gentleman were
/ sick in New York, and needed kind and
! gentle friend to sit By him through hl- last
/ night, send his last words TO his family, close
/ his eyes. cross his hands. and lay over bis
/ cold face vail, and 50 conclude his kind Of
( fees.
Suppose only two men could be found who
/ might perform such a service. One, a Christ
/ ian minister by professiou-and an editor OF
/ some semi ralI gious, Bipartisan paper
/ the other. Col. Robert G.. Ingersol. One,
/ Joab-like, who with honeyed words of saluia-
/ ton inquiries. Arr thou in health. my broth
err and with stilleto thrusts through his
/ brothers heart like a sayage-the other, a
/ strai ght-forward hater of hypocrisy and
! shams-a man Of an ugly, but honestl y-ac-
cePted, creed-sympathriic, kind, generous,
/ brave, consistent 10 his convictions ana above
persecution.
/ Which of these men would the sick man be
/ likely to select 2'' Col. Ingersol of course.
/ Anybody would; even Southern Clergyman
assuredly would.
! From our standpoint the rabidness Of the
/ Northern and Eastern Protestant Church, by
| its downright injustice, unchHrItabieness,
malignity and violence-by its departure
| from sacred things, its political ambition, its
/ violent and indiscriminate pursuits of the
| South and its purpose to crush rs out-has
| laid the broad foundation for aggrarlInlsm,
communism, infdelity and other namcless
| lsms in their own midst, that Will make their
! hearts ache some day it they have sensIbiilty
/ left to feel.
An honest, outspokeu Eastern periodical
/ gives utteranccs to the following words IN
/ conf rmation Of my theory
we believe 1t to he susceptible of demon
/ stration that the late extraordinary AMI de-
plofable increase of crime. an increase more
! palpable every day, crOWdlng with IT'S record
] the columns of the public prints, and siCken-
/ ing the soul with its endless detail and nov
/ eIfy of horror j. largely due to the growth of
| materialism, or what is termed iufidelity, and
! that mainly in reaction from the skcptIcal
/ drift of the time lies the path OF wholesome
reform The fruit of unbelief among the up
/ per or wealthy classes Is sensuallty. Those
! classes get 10 worship instead of their Maker
! the pleasures of the moment. Among the
/ poorer and less educated ranks OF society the
! cant and poison of living only for the day Is
! even more directly disastrous. The rich can
CRAFTY their passions without, as rule an
| in the legal sense, coming III conflict with the
rights OF Other2. But the needy unrcstralH-
! ed by any fear of future account and think
/ ing only to eat and drink since tomorrow
| they die, drive straight on to crime That this
| is no He assertion can be abundantly proved
! A careful survey Of the murders, suicide and
| other great felouies committed in the chief
! cities Of the United States during he last ten
| years shows that heavy fraction OF the per-
fro Ia mil on
1t has long been the desire of some of the
| chiefs of the Church, outside our borders, to
! ally itself with the Government, and run the
machine in the interests OF ienomlnalonal-
| ism. The proposition has been made to me.
Since writing the above a weekly just out of
| the mail brings the following:
| Bishop Haven is che iRlitator of jesus re-
! ferred TO- ana is indOrsed, of course, by sever
| al millions of Northern MethOdists.
| He was lecturing in Walla Walla, and utter
| ed the following sentiments:
| 1.-The Bishop took pains to say that those in
their Church no made apologies for the sem
timents uttered in their papers, were doing 4
| work to their injury, As that all their editors
were chosen by the Church to do just what
| they are doing in heralding the sentiment OF
the VI. l.. Church on a II questions whatsoever.
| He claimed theirs to be the National Church,
and that the, editors of their papers were elect
! ed to carry out the National idea of politics
| "A centralized government and conquering
and crushing of the South which believes in
| the doctrine of Stote hiyhfe.
| And now, a | write, comes the New York
| Christian Advocate, of Nov. g, with an ed:to-
rial on the South that flows along its many
! columns like the red lava OF a volcano.
The editor says:
eve (the Methodist Episcopal church, claim
! the South because The republic, which We have
! recently saved by Methodist conscience and
| Methodist bayonets o. now demands at our
| hands another salvation be Methodist faith.
| Born with the Republic. the Methodist Episco-
pal Church has become the guardian OF Amer
| lean liberties.
What will other churches and non-church
| communities say TO thaR Is not that what
! Rishop Haven claims also, and that the
church viii follow its leaders, Very signif
| can't
Listen again:
We claim the South because it is trampled
| by sin (No sin in New Yorkl) Its coarse and
| bloody despotisms are TOO public to need illus
| tration. While the Gullys go unhung and
| Dixon is unavenge1 CHE other day he said
| Ohio's vote had avenged Dixonl and Hamburg
| Butler has seat in the United States Senate
and DIR. Blackburn, who fought women and
children with smallpox virus, occupies Gov
ernor' chair, and the hero effort Pillow, who
buried prisoners alive, has seatin Congress
the crimes of this bloody land can not be hid.
Would Jesus have said it in that way Tel
US, Doctor.
To the South such views and plans are ut
terly repugnant. Still, the influence of the
Church in the South as whole, is inadequate
to resist the outgrowth of impiety, contempt
of sacred things, neglect of public worship anC
violation Of the Lord day, which grows apac'
in the North and East. For one, | believe thu
age of skepticism, gross irreligjOn, commun
ism hatred, violence and the reign of phileso-
phi1 meterialism in the higher walks of sOc
ETY. has set In ard is daily asserting itself by
strides of aggressiveness full OF fearful pre-
sage to all true lovers of God.
And for this advancing cataclysm the Prot
estant pulpit and press, North and East, arr
mainly responsible. Think of Protestant
pulpit devoting its diseourses to the election
: of Gen Butler in the orthodox city of Boston
| Then think of the thousands of sermon
preached to elect President and twice tel
thousand TO inhame the sensitive passions 0
! eager listeners against the South on ever!
Sabbath for years together. How precious ar
the glad tidings of GALL
There is another epoch-another upheava
! rapidly advancing, if Protestant church peri
: | odiL ais can he regarded as reliable authority
, IF Is THE ROMAN CATHoLIg QUESTION. Owe
and again the church ournals have told II
I that Eomanism is laying broad its founda
tons and adroitly adjusting its plans TO oh
tain the government of this continent. o
course they are. This is, and, ever has beel
r chief aim of its zeal. And are not tn
, wicked perversiOns of the pulpit and press o
Professionalism to the persecution OF the South
and its ambition to have, in some fits branch
es, "a national church. doing the sam
thing?
l well remember when political sermon
? yoe1d not, for moment have been tolerate
in Protestant pulpits. Now, to fearful de
| gree, without them the pulpit is deemed stale
e not up to the age'-"not abreast with III
| times
1 Meantime Romauism is silent, but not idle
She has no curses for the South. She sees it a
: il is and hopes for a better day. Her pulpit
never ring with heartless denunciatiOns {
e Southern people per Sc. From her Cardina
| down to the humbest priest, only words c
I sympathy for our faintness, WEAKNESS an
5 woe, or grief and pity for our sins and short
b eOmings, are heard. Her church journals ute
e no maledictions against US, as the Soutt
| What damaging contrast
But now, mark my words. When the hnu
comes for the Romish Church to assert hersel
and strike for the mastery-as she must do,
: true to herself-and every pulpit aud pres
4 shs oyns, and ali she can purchase and con
h troll, with the billions Of gold that will f0'
$ from over the seas and from over the hill!
e and from over all the world, into her Golfers
y then Protestants, having set the example, wi