The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-13
TIE DALLAS HERALD THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 1881

fungus known as John Kelly, with his
Tammany Hall organization. BY means o
Various tricks and maEipuations, hc Is
enabled to control about 10000 votes in
New York, principally In New York city,
the rin-ralf and scum of the party,
and with those 10000 votes he
manages TO make immense money
in every canvass and to elect
or defeat anyone helpless, as he de-
feated Hancock in New York for president,
and Robinson for governor. He is opposed
to Mr. Tilden, the head of the democratic
party, in New York, because Mr.. Tilden is
honest and refused to be dictated to by him,
Kelly, when he, Tilden, was governor
Not only do we see these unseemly wrangles
in the political parties of the country, but,
also, for Christianity and religion, we see
them in the churches. The conference of
the Methodist church of Illinois has been
in session for some days past and the
ministers who belong to that conference
have been wrangling and INDUCING in
ordinations and recriminations over Dr.
Thomas of Chicago, who is charged with
heresy. DR.. Thomas, it is alleged, claimed
in private conversation and, perhaps, in
some of his sermons, that he did not believe
implicitly in the Methodist doctrine of
and eternal future punishment-that is to
saw the scething sea of hell and damnation,
preached by Methodist ministers. For this
alleged utterance charges were preferred
against him. and the conference has Tor
some days been wrestling with the subject as
Jacob wrestled with the angel. 1t is per-
haps well enough for every church organi-
cation to maintain its peculiar religious
tenets and articles of faith even unto the
trial and dismissal if necessary of any min
lister or member of the church who may
gainsay them, but it should be done decor
ously and privately and not in broil and
contention in which unseemly epithets are
handled, and ministers of the gospel ac-
cused of living and SANDER. Just such or
gies do religion harm, make worldly men
despise it the more, and give handle to
the Knockers and unbclievers to assail
the cause of christianity. A minister OF
the gospel. the man who breaches
Christ andHim crucifed should be so cir
cumspect in his walk, so consistent IN all
his acts, in his language, and above all IN
his behavior that the respect he wins for
himself will beget respect Tor his Gaining.
If preachers abuse each other in their pub
lie church meetings, show anger and bitter
ness, and use harsh language toward each
other is it not calculated to disgust laymen
and sinners? Let political parties wrangle;
let their meetings be but as gatherings OF
bowling Dervishes, but by all means let
church members and preachers dwell to-
gether in peace, and if differences of opin-
ions arise among them, let them be discuss
ed in moderation, in evenness of temper, III
a spirit of brotherly love, in gentleness and
meekness. Too often we see ministers,
preachers. in this church, that church or
another, who dabble in politics, who preach
political sermons, thereby belittling
the sacred cause ofreligion Only last year
a preacher in Brooklyn, New York, was
elected to congress, and few weeks ago IL
became incumbent upon him TO renounce
either his ministry orpolitics, and he re-
nounced his ministry. This was blow at
the cause in which he had labored, and it
would have been better for that cause had
he never espoused it. A minister of the
gospel, carpet-bagging political divine,
who lived for while in the south, hurting
anathemas from the pulpit at southern
rebels and traitors, is spoken of for posi-
ton in President Arthur's cabinet, and two
or three preachers have been in the United
States Senate, Pomeroy, of Kansas, and
Harlan, of Iowa. both convicted corrup-
tionists. 1t seems inevitably the case that
when a minister gets to mixing politics
with his calling, that he goes by the board,
and Injuries the cause of religion more than
all the assaults of all the infidels in the
country.