Show r t i f H HENRY henby ay WARD BEECHER in a teena recent sermon the text of which wa from zachariah for how great is his hia goodness and how great is his hia beauty gave his hia congregation a not very flattering idea of theiu thein themselves selves and their neighbors in their character as christians he C gaid said that when wo we looked at spiritual beauty we could not avoid being surprised nt at the meag reness of spiritual attainments among men christians christiana were barbarians yet they resemble the savages in this respect be he was naked with the exception of a piece of cloth round his loins but though nak edhe would have a string of beads round his neck and would be quite tickled with this bauble of beauty 11 this description is a very truthful one but wo we presume his hearers applied his remarks to every so eo called eail call christian denomination but their own and to every BO so called christian mem naem ber but themselves icso if so called christians are as mr beecher bays says barbarian yet why do they assume so many air of superiority over their fellow men who do not believe as they do W why hy do they erect a shrine at which they would compel the whole human race to worship under the pain of or their displeasure and damnation we are glad to hear of mr beecher making such an avowal we hope he believes it and that he has succeeded in making his 4 congregation believe it too we have known for a long time that so called orthodox christians were no better than barbarians and in some respects not so good for barbarians generally will vill let their fellow men worship the deity to suit themselves which is greater liberty than the generality of the orthodox christians of the present day are willing to permit boutwe have always remembered the anecdote of the religious zealot who while on his knees praying was willing to acknowledge his wickedness and mea mes meanness uness aness in the most abject terms yet was read ready y to fight the man who having overheard him pray charged him with some of the sins he confessed on bis hia knees he had committed modern Chri ehri stains are willing once in a while to acknowledge to one another that they are spiritually naked and destitute and take credit for their humility in making the admission as though it ift were a very meritorious thing to do but bup bu they get angry when others make such statements about them we hope thesis this thib is not the case with mr beecher but that he sees the of more clothing of more spiritual beauty and attainments and that he remembers that godly sorrow repentance to salvation but the sorrow of the world death 21 SINCE sinchi the close of the rebellion the there rebas has existed in morgan county north alabama a de deadly a dl feud between a union league and a yu ku klux band the organization of the latter band was on the ground loo too league held secret cabals and had determined to establish itself the supreme arbiter orthe of the country and to override all who opposed its progress now the ku klux are accused ot of having met at dark hours and in squads and poured down upon the unprotected and the weak at the dead hour of night and either murdered them in cold blood or whipped them to death such was wa the reign of terror that they produced reduced rod gis that no jio man dared to raise his voice against the innumerable outrages committed by them lest he should share the fate of theat the others hers the terrorism of the ku klux erod irod produced what is known as the anti ku klux kluz ux the one the deadly and uncompromising enemy of the other these bands war among the sand mount mountains I 1 s within a short distance of somerville Somer villo and decatur alabama and lose no opportunity when it offers itself to dispose of one another the they thoy prey pney rey ney alike ailko on union men and rebels and dispatch them without mercy it is rule or ruin with them they now fight openly and woe unto the antagonist that falls alls into the clutches of the other without protection A judge of morgan count county on his recent arrival at decatur at haaf haff past 2 in the morning and while en route to the house of his son in law was met by three assassins and shot dead in his tracks the assassins then nned fled to parts unknown either party would think it humiliating for the other to ask a compromise and it is said to be doubtful whether whither this war will eyer over cease without the interference of united states troops the strife has resolved itself into personal enmity of the most deadly nature ania arid the sherIff of the county go has laas reported himself unable to enforce the law gen crawford has been called U upon on for troops to suppress the hostilities prat what is to be the end 61 this feud no OPO ono I 1 can imagine |