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Excerpt from Political Rights of Ministers; A Sermon Preached on Fast Day, April 6, 1854, And, the Times, and the Men for the Times; Sermons Preached on Sabbath Days, June 11 and 18, 1854
This we believe would be the general testimony of all those men who have had the fairest and most extensive opportunities of judging of the feelings of the clergy on the subject of popular education, which has such a high place in the affections of a free people.
In the Temperance reformation, the clergy have taken the lead from the onset. When the rallying cry was first heard, the ministers of the gospel were the foremost to banish ardent spirits from their side-boards and dash the poison to the ground. The name of Beecher and some of our older ministers are indissolubly connected with that mighty movement, which has turned the earthy hell of the drunkard into a retreat of domestic affection, and a home for every social virtue.
The Anti-slavery cause has ever found in the ministers of the North its warmest and safest advocates. When a martyr's blood was needed at Alton, a minister stood forth as the victim. When the prisons of Baltimoreneeded an inmate to groan, pine away and die there for freedom's holy cause, a minister was found to leave his family and home to die for truth. And in the last con?ict with slavery, when the names of those who defame and abuse the clergy are forgotten, ministers of Jesus Christ will stand in the front of the battle, to contend for truth and righteousness.
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