p. 107 | THE PULPIT NOT FREE.-

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 19, 1861

THE PULPIT NOT FREE.—

At the recent Unitarian convention in Massachusetts, Rev. Mr. Pierpont expressed his sentiments on the freedom of the pulpit with great boldness. No man who is a man (he said) can stand in a Unitarian pulpit and speak out his whole mind. If he attempts it, there will be found three men in his congregation who will use their efforts with success to unhorse him. One shall be a manufacturer or seller of intoxicating drink, and another a political trader, and the third interested in some way in cotton. He alluded to his own labors as a pioneer in the West; but maintained that there is everywhere a want of freedom on the part of the preachers. They cannot attack sin that now exists, but are only allowed to denounce the Scribes and Pharisees. He would thank anybody who could see how there can be a free pulpit to tell him of the way.