Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-21

savages. Nay, more, while the ances
tors of these very savages were slave
and fugitives from the strong arm o
the Chinese Emperor.
Cause: the influence of the Church OIL
the affairs of State. In the thirteenth
|, century, Tamerlane and his successor.
having overrun central and western
Asia. turned upon Hindoostan, and Sc
up magnificent government at Del
} hi, the last real representative of which
dynasty Of sovereigns was Arunzebe
The conquered were Brahmins, anC
Buddhists, the conquerors were Mus
sulmen. Is it necessary to recount the
number of pyra mids of fheads offered tc
the leaders Of the invaders as CRATE
full homage, the merciless exactions
the disregard of all rights, the invalid.
itv Of all promises, between the faith
full and the infidel, the cruelty, the dis.
regard of all the ties and duties of hu.
manity? The cause was the fanati.
cism and the influence in matters of fa-
natic priests. The effect was to 50 en-.
ervate the conquered as we'll as their
masters as to enable Colonel Give, the
petty officer of pri vate trading COM
pany, at the head of nine hundred En-
glish and twenty-four hundred Sepoys,
to overthrow an army of sixty thous-
and men, at one battle dethrone Sura-
jah Dowlar, dictate terms to a nation
| of thirty million people, and add to othe
| territories of corporation more area
and more numerous subjects than were
contained in the petty island where
was situate the Home Office.
Frederick the Second, the wisest, the
ablest, the most powerful of the long
line of German Caesars, Was again and
again crippled and prevented in carry
ing out his plans of government, in
ruling his subjects; his successor on the
throne of the two Sicilies died OH the
field of battle, and Couradin perished
upon the scaffold, at the command of
the ferocious Charles of Anjou; all that
the temporal schemes of spiritual
Lord might have fruition.
Charles of Anjou lived to hear the
knell of the Sicilian Vespers, the wire
being pulled by Peter of Arragon, at
the connivance of the Bishop of Rome.
Who does not admit the woes and
wrongs attendant upon wars stirred up
by religion, by the connection of relig-
ion with matters of state policy? Who
forgets the wars which ended with the
edict of Nantes, and who forgets the
consequence of its revocation by Louis
XIV, the Grand Monarche, the great
est Charlatan of his age?
What ails the ''sick man of the east"
other than his inability to shake off the
diseases fastened upon his vitals and
fostered for centuries by the theories
expounded from the Koran?
That power once ruled supreme in
Spain, held half of France under his
sway, was all-powerful in Sicily, had
splendid establishments, an army of
fifty thousand men in sight of Rome,
overrun Austria, and made the princes
aud potentates of Europe tremble on
their thrones; now, not one SO lowly
as to do him reverence.
10 look at the pages of the History
of England, we come nearer home.
Mitred Abbots and Bishops sitting in
the house of Lords have ever been
found, when the king was on good
terms with the Church, the willing
tools of unscrupulous power. Witness
Wolsey, Laud and others. AT other
times, the,- have stirred up factions:
risings, and seditions.
The Church of England advocated
the test-oath, and for centuries no
Catholic could hold civil or other Office,
and atheist as he was, and his name
as it will, to remotest time as
a historian and essayist, Thomas Bah
bington, Lord Macauley, deserves the
more honor that he exercised his
bright intellect in advocacy of the re-
peal of that act.
and only q short time since they rallied
to defeat the deceased wife's sister
BILL"
To come nearer home still. Who did
not feel disgust at reading last year
that tho hat was passed around, and
collections made in Church, in Iowa,
not to relieve suffering thousands, not |
to convert the heather in far countries, |
not to be used against the infidel at
home, but to strengthen the ..hands of
a political party?
Who doubts that the late war was
thousands of men slain, wild |
ows ana orphans made, millions Of |
money wasted, by and through the |
preaclings and teachings of fanatic
priests on the one side and unseemly |
from the pulpit on the 9TH
er; while, had these elements been alb
sent, the same end had been reached |
without all this disaster?
These are instances of the connec-
ton of the church with matters tenn
poral, and they might be multiplied
fsd inffnatalns. Can any one fail to see
and appreciate the evils attendant up
On that connection? Not: only to the
citizen and the government, but also
upon the church?
Is it part of the duty of the Church
To mingle in things temporal, in view
Of the exhOrtation, "Submit yourselves
unto the powers that be, for they are
of God?" In view of the fact
that Christ refused while on earth to
set up kingdom of the world, and rule
over it, as the Caesars then did?
No sir, it is contrary to the spirit of
to sit in judgment on your
fellow man, to prescribe temporal laws
for his guidance, and to mete out pun
for his sdisobedience.. Your du-
" is to convince him of his error, ap-
peal to his conscience OF right aud
wrong, to strengthen him in his good
Intentions, to yourselves live in the r
performance of those things which you
sxhort, not judging those who differ
With you harshly, as some do, not say
ng by words or deeds that you only
ire right, and all others are wrong.
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