Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-11-23


in the government of this great and
growing country. They certainly
have come into existence as a united
body for such a time as this.
We agree with Justice" in the
Martinsburg Statesman of last weeks
issue, that the days have past for Sec
tiOnalism and sectarianiSm, but just
"opposingism to wrong in all direc-
tions we favor. We have long won
dered that this great country is so
slow to rise TO the point where there
shall be no North, no South, no East,
no West. The war has past % years
since. The whole nation and especial
ly the South has risen to a greater at
titude than could have been conceiv-
ed of 40 years ago. Yes! Yes! Let
the very terms, the I'D. Yankee"
the Bloody Shirt" the "Carpet
Baggers," and Libby Prison." and
similar sectional phrases become OBJ
solete. Let there be no strife be-
tween us, for we be BRETHREN" and no
brethren around the common board of
united home, let us bury the hat
Chef, work only for the common veal
of this honored nation, and declare
against any more family feuds, and
let even our political movements be
provoked by holy aspirations for the
best possible government. Let all,
without the bitter partisan spirit de-
nounce wrong in any government, and
duly credit and exalt the right and
helpful in all governments, and prove
as people to the whole world that
we have risen above the petty, the
mean and grovelling, ofthe weakling,
and impure, and selfish, to the enob-
ling, and purifying, and exalting, in
dividual and national loyalty, only
now seen in ideal, but much needed
and much desired by the increasing
intelligent, moral and christian force
of this great commonwealth.
Yes, and denounced sectarianism
we agree with. AS parties in the
government of of the country are ne
cessary, so we agree that the denomi-
nations of the church, such as Presby-
terians, Lutherans, Baptists and
MethOdists, are necessary. But with
the narrow spirit of sectarian bigotry
that talks, works, and teaches in the
spirit of the phrase, 'W We are the
church and heather all BESIDES" we
cannot favor, nay, to US it is an evil,
that we cannot connive. The differ
ent portions of Christ's Church, or
members of his body, need not addi-
tions from other portions of the body
to increase the size and inference of
the general church, but each need the
scions or gratis that Paul spoke of
from the wild olive tree,-the out
standing, the unsaved and unhoused /;
such brought to Christ, and added to
the church, by any denomination
mark the oppression of the church
upon the domains of sin. Sectarian
increase by proselytism from other
evangelical churches is no mark of
victory over the world, but it may be
mark of narrow churchly bigotry
that is more damaging than common
dable to the church that does it. There
will always be commendable reasons
for changes of church relationship on
the part of many, inter-church marri-
ages, locality of home, and a failure
to feel at home though one has united
with church, are among justifyable
reasons for change, and happy are
we that the day has come, when we
can be cordially commended, and
that by letter to another church home.
In extracts from seventeen leading
papers throughout the country, about
equally divided between Indepen-
dent, Republican and Democratic, /
find fifteen of them most positively
favoring the Australian Ballot Sys-
tenn; two are opposed toit. They are
the Augusta, Ga. Dem.) and New
York Star (Dem.). The Nashville
American, Boston Post, and Boston
Globe, all three Democratic papers
most positively favor the system.
The gist of public opinion is that the
system is come to stay, and will be a
great blessing,-a God send, for pub
| lie morals and good government. CIV
ing to each voter the privilege of abb
solute secrecy, and making the mat
ter of bribery in its results, to the
briber, an unknown quantity, and
thus makes bribery an unpaying in
vestment, so it must die a natural
death. If the foreign countries can
send US such blessings, let them send
some more,-yet there is room, and
let US for our own good, know enough
to use them gratefully.
MormOnism claims to be reveal.
ton. and that it has authority for its
peculiar tenets from even God him.
self. We certainly have revelation
in the sworn testimony of those gen.
tlemen who have been Mormons unit
recently, before the authorities of the
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