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4 CHRISTIAN HERALD. * musician and armour-bearer, but his three brothers being in Saul’s h e e ame f r om bra father wi t h bread and parched corn for them, and an offering of cheeses to their captain. As he reached the battle field the mighty Philistine came out of his army and repealed his challenge. David’s offer to fight in the name of the Lord of Hosts was rejected, but his persistence caused him at last to be brought before Siiui... wfeLjasumgsd.v* youth’s audacity. But David stood handsome and courageous and withal so modestly before him that Saul, in his distress, could but say> “ Go, and God be with you.” He religious consciences of Beecher and Talmage called loudly upon them for a. suriaon- w h«4e-th+d^ *1 muld tell their congregations how to vote. They obeyed the call cheerfully and benignantly. We have no dopbt they both felt that they spoke as by divine inspiration. But what a strange confusion ! What strange inconsistency and contradition Both men, speaking in the .name and by the authority of the Great Redeemer. Both inspired by the same religious zeal, Talmage, in his most earnest wav, tel lino- t.lmxpXeXa. TovoteTf o rM r. K Hen< 1 r e x7 t h e D em - ocratic candidate, and Mr. Beecher, in his conscientious manner, telling them to vote for Mr. Low, the Re publican candidate. Comment is not needed. wuv-» •'ri I heavy armor, but it was too large The above we take from the for his slight figure, and he laid it State Rights Democrat, of Albany ; aside for his shepherd’s staff and and while comment may bg unneces- —fronFa political point of view/ used in protecting his father’s sheep nevertheless we are constrained to from the wild animals of the moun make a brief one for the benefit of tains. Goliath’s contempt found those who profess Christianity. vent in the sneer, “ Am I a dog, We are a little curious to know that thou comest to me with where that rule of conduct is to be staves ?” Then, like an ancient found which can consistently allow Greek, with whom he might have the ordinary professor of religion to learnedx.the art of war and his wrallow in the modern slough of his gods that the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field should have the youthful shepherd’s flesh. He reckoned upon his own strength not seeing that it was the God of Israel who should guide the small pebble thrown from David’s sling. The combat was a short One, for the first small stone struck the giant’s forehead and he fell; the Philistines fled, and David, with the head of the giant, cut off by his own sword, came, led by the cap tain of the hosts, and laid them both at the feet of the king. Thus was the boaster laid low, while he that had God had victory. * ♦ * room which our church could com] mand held all this beautiful dle^ground of K entucky. —Nr^ra have but three churches in FayetJ county, the site of Lexington. J is well to study this problem. From this it would seem that od good Bishop haa got the cart befort the horse. Instead of what he ¡J pleased to call “ Campbellism ” bJ ing a thing of the past, it appeaj that Methodism, which at an early day possessed the first talent in th -fôoinjal fluence in pointing out the right itself become the thimg of the pasJ way to the people and warning while the “ Campbellism ” of whicJ them against the wrong ? But if he complains has actually take] they are from the devil, then how possession of the “ beautiful midi can any Christian assist in building ju .'I" ■ ■ ' ) "■ . .. them up? does he account for all this, if th Now we take about as much in “ champions of Methodism have terest in the political sermons of ably vindicated its doctrine and & Boec1mr_an.l Talmage in their re-a Wtenr- specti ve pulpitsas~we~do in the have not cared to capture.” Old political and excited harangues of three Methodist churches in Fad • I the Christian of the pew, in the ette county, whereas the churchy workshop or on the street corner— of Christ are thickly planted ail that is simply none at all. The over the county and State, aw lesson we wish to impress on our their strongest colleges are locate readers is that there should be a in Lexington. If their “ challeng decided letting up all along the line ings ” in the interests of Apostoli of _ professed Christians We pro _ cause there is nothing left word tics is a positive curse and hin challenging; and as to their “ vaunij drance , to the cause of Christ ings,” their, religious neighbor! whether iu the pliTpit“bf in the many of whom write for the pJ pew; and just so long as Christian pers, take a large share of that ol men and women allow themselves their hands. The truth is what bl to become ' excited partisans and denominates Methodism is requil engage in the heated political cam ed to be respectful ancTcdurtcocI paigns of the day, just so long will in Kentucky; and it is only when the churches of Christ suffer from rrfen write for papers that do not] the evil consequences. That rule Circulate in that State, that they! which demands moderation or si venture to apply to those who cod lence on the part of preachers, is tend for the Bible alone such offenl just as applicable to those Christians sive nick-names as “ Campbellisnil not preachers. thought that Christians were to be come active in political matters in (iTder to elevate and purify poli tics.” Is it possible- that the preacher is to be deprived of his part in the process of purification ? Does this writer believe that mod ern politics is from God, or from the devil ? If any part of the po litical movements of theday. are from God and for Christians to participate in, then is not the » the same time demand that pad locks shall be put on the mouth of the ministry. ~ If it is true, as this editor con tends, that “ nothing retards and checks the propagation of religious truth more than politics in the pulpit,” it might be said with a good deal more force that nothing retards and checks the propagation of re ligious truth more than politics in the pexo. While it is true that “ nothing will more certainly arouse political and religious animosities than political sermons,” it is equally true that nothing will more cer Selections and Comments. tainly arouse political <pd religious J. C. Keeler, a Methodist Bishop animosities than political hearers. of Kentucky, has an article in the The Christian of the pew, though a PREACHERS IN POLITICS. deacon, elder or whatever other Pacific Methodist, of San Francisco, in which he says : Nothing is more foreign to our position he may occupy in the For years this has been the system of government than that church, can write politics, and talk stronghold ___ of Campbellism .... . i—-a peo- there should be a union of church pfc at < * — orie thncnreadyto challenge arid state?^^^ N and politics till his hand trembles, his every man for an argument upon checks the propagation of religious truth more than politics in the pul lungs become sore and his head the hope he may profess. Mean pit. Nothing will more certainly dizzy; and even the women can while the champions of Methodism arouse political and religious ani feel called upon to step forward in have ably vindicated its doctrine mosities than political sermons. We the advocacy of their respective and have silenced many a battery are sometimes told that political political movements with the zeal which they may not have cared to capture. The vauntings and chal questions have such important mor al bearings that they call for public of Pauland the eloquence of Cicero lengings of Oampbdlism are a notice from the clergy. Just before supported by their political and thing of the past, though it has the election in New York the other lordly colleagues, while the Chris many strong places and a large day the importance of the election tian of the pulpit is to observe membership in the State, probably larger than elsewhere. of Mayor in Brooklyn called for the profound and prolonged Yet this same writer in tile very political sermons form the clergy, silence of Adam ’ s grave . ’ What next paragraph says: and we have an account of two such strange confusion, inconsistency sermons from two of the most noted an early day the first talent ¿¡vines in the United States The and contradiction b Why, we in the pulpit and in the school —-----------------------------♦ • ■ I O ur P anama M ission .—In refer ence to our Panama Mission tbi Christian Home. Journal, edited by Bro., W. K. Azbill, one of oJ missionaries in Kingston, Jamaica says: We have undertaken a missiol on the Isthmus of Panama esped any for the benefit of Jamaicd who have gone there to labor alow the line of the proposed CanW V\ e have the encouragement of tM Canal Company. Being the fid Jamaica religious body to ask, d asked for the freedom of the en camprnen^s for any missionary who may go from the Island, an) forother privileges and accomm°j dations, all which -were kindl] promised. We have tha aid of tH American Christian Missionary Sd cieties which guarantee an adequaM support for our Missionaries, have the services of a man in tM field who has the true Mission^'! spirit, as well as a thorough know/ if I 0 II r t a 1 î
