The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-11-12
IN CONTEMPT.

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voice Of SANDER Is for TIE moment
husbed. Perhaps no campaign has
ever before felt the foul contamiha
ton Of the slanderbr's touch as this
one has.
Certainly no eampaign has ever
known SANDER arise from such
sources and.backed by such authors.
There has been no filthy wits.
pers at which the better portion Of
mankind shuddsred that there has
moi been found soIneuDworthy fol.
lovers Of the sacred profession to
give II credit.
The ISLANDERS themselves have
excited only loathing, the remnrka.
bic prominence in which the clergy
have figured can but excite a vide
spread alarm in every christian
mind.
Unworthy Of their calling may
be these people, yet still the sacred
chilling must receive some portion
ofthe disrepule that belongs to It's
ministers.
From the landing ofthe Pilgrim
Fathers down to the present time
there has been in the American
mind a deep reverence for the sa.
cred class whose lives should bring
them in close contact with the pure
in life and who minister to the In.
finite.
To this high regard for the min.
listers Of religion, the cause Of
Christianity owes not a little Gifts
progress. *.
BY the separation ofchurch from
state, religion had been supposed to
have been freed from the corrupt.
ing effects Of politics.
Yet the American people behold
to-day a body Of men, whose sole
prominence arises from the fact
they should minister to the Creator,
digging, ghoul,lik, into the lives
Of public men for hidden rotten.
ness, and giving the Endorsement Of
their profession to the carbon they
have found.
The contempt with which the
honest mind regard these men,
must be mingled with alarm when
it sees a clergyman denouncing in
the midst Of a large body of his fel.
low clergymeu, the greatest Christ
ian body in the world, and placing
it on level with the drunkenness
When it sees 200 clergy
men assembled to do honor to a
man, who, however brilliant may
be his mind, and magnificent his
talents is still by the language of
his own letters the most corrupt
politician Of the day.
Surely the time has come for
church and press TO rebuke this
rising evil. The fevered poison
which Has run unchecked through
the political mind should stop ere
it reaches those whose sacred Office
makes them mediators al the
throne Of grace.
The great protestant and catho.
lie denominations which hand in.
hand have built up this Christian
country, cannot afford to have their
work endangered by these un-
servants.
No man in this land to day but
will say that these political clergy.
men have cast disropu'e on their
order, and though they stand but
one in ten thousand the whole suf.
fer.
'Twere best perhaps that the
'lergymen stand entirely aloof from
it were best that his dis
course be free from them.
In every church these are men of
different political parties; the
clergyman who enters into the 20.
litical strife, alienates from him his
Pensioners Of the other party, and
the influence which he should
WELD is lessened, The clergyman
who have entered into this cam.
paign itisacknowledged have done
evil not good.
To the great and countless mum.
bers of clergymen who have stood
lloOf ii becomes 10 irown down on
this growing evil.
The cause Of Christianity should
be free from even the whisper Of
reprOach. And naughs of political
passion should enter Into the words
Of the priest who kneeling at the
throne Of God points out to man
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