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bytery, his teaching and influence should he deemed so dangerous to the interests of Presbyterianism, that the President of Centre College, his father’s friend, and professedly his very particular friend, deems it necessary every other Sabbath to journey from Danville to Stanford, and gather the dozen malcontents of Mr. Barnes’ congregation into a Methodist church and preach to them while Mr. Barnes is preaching in the Presbyterian Church.We recite these facts, more in sorrow than in anger, simply as illustrative of the spirit which now prevails in the Church, and the extremes to which it carries good men even of that sort who imagine themselves, and whom the public imagines, to be rather amiable and moderate men. It has been the favorite strategy of our radical brethren to hold up before the people, as the authors of the present strife in the Church, certain witnesses for the truth, whose “bad spirit,” whose “Larsh language,” aud whose fierce iconoclasm alone has stirred up division. But here is the case of one of the most modest, amiable, and earnest ministers of the Church, who, simply because his conscience compelled him to bear witness to the truth, and the order of Christ’s house, and because his heart revolted at the merciless decrees agaiust his Southern brethren, has been persecuted and made to suffer even more, perhaps, than the boldest of the opponents of the Assembly.The Lowries and Dr. W. L Breckinridge and Humphrey, pass for very amiable and moderate men; and no doubt think themselves such. But we remember that it was the amiable John—-“the disciple whom Jesus loved”—concerning whom the Saviour said, “Ye know not what spirit ye arc of,” who was first to propose to “call down fire from heaven as Elias did;” and who said, “We forbade him became he folloiccth not with us!” The Christian public will yet learn that “bad spirit” can lurk under the placid countenances of the amiable Johns as well as flare out in the words of impetuous Peters and Pauls.
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Louisville Free Christian Commonwealth
Louisville, Kentucky, US
Thu, Mar 07, 1867
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