Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-08-26
PA RITES.

Gentle reader, perhaps our subject ought
to be expressed by another word, say
whales These parts and fragments do
well enough in their place. But this get
ting things out of joint or disiointed is, to
use Il very common word indeed, dreadful.
Just see how it works in church and state,
in each and both, in one and the other,
here and there, now and then, evermore.
Oh, dear! how sour and ugly those fellows
do look at each other. Will he bite
Which one? Oh both together. The on
ly question to be settled now is alter they
have bitten each other, which can bite the
hardest. The church bites very hard some-
times and so does the State. The politi.
clan oftentimes takes out big chunk of
flesh and so does the church man. But
there is difference. II you take partic.
ular notice You can see the difference in
the bite, not in the size of the chunk OF
flesh, but in the mode of setting the teeth
and tearing out the chunk not in what
each wants to do but in the way of doing
it. One wants to hurt the other-to make
a bad wound-a deep wound, one that will
tear in pieces the party to which he be-
longs The one who il a politician makes
a rough onset. AS much Ms to say this bit.
ing is in the direct line of my business.
Everybody ought TO know that always
bite when can get hold. The church
man in gingerly, pious sort of a way,
bites precisely as if it were not quite right
to bite. He tries to pray about it and he
says, o Lord this fellow is n bad fellow and
ought to be bitten and 80 | bit him. Dear
Lord he belongs to that heretical church
over the way. II he had only belonged TO
my church | would not have bitten him.
But this biting is not the worst thing that
sects and parties are the means of doing.
| While engaged in biting and devouring
one another, great evils and wrongs multi
ply and abound. Just suppose the com
munity. church and State, churchmen and
politicians, would all unite heart and hand
10 run over every evil and right up every
wrong. How long before intemperance
with the long list of its attendant evils,
stealing, under forms Of law and its hydra
head OF evils and all other kinds OF evil
| would be uprooted and come 10 an end
Let the community as whole go into the
work of reform and see how soon the sun
shine Of prosperity would shine in upon
our churches and radiate the whole domain
covered and protected by the "union" oil
these United States Union? Ali is mol
that word misunderstood IL not the idea
chimerical? Is il not an impossiblity? Car
Democrats and Republicans. Methodists
and Baplists, Presbyterians and Congrega
tionnlists and every other sect or parts Of
sects, one and each and all be moulded and
formed into one harmonious whole? NJ,
brother do yon look in wonder and admIra
ton ut the magnitude OF such a transfer,
nation? 1t would indeed be grand
mouding-a glorious formation. II car
be done. II will be done. This cutting
things all to pieces must stop. There ha'
been too much waste already. The people
OF these United States are going to make
big bon6re-a conAagration large enougl
and hot enough to burn mp all party and
sectarian lines--a cremation that will leave
nothing but ashes pure and simple. Thes'
ghastly sinking corpses must be burnt up
The people have 30 decreed. They canno
be buried deep enough in the ground tt
conceal the iniolerable and fatal stencil.
YANK.