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The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
tten! All the troubles and disasters which followed the departure of the Church from the emphatic counsels of her founder, in hankering after temporal authority, are written upon every page of secular and ecclesiastical authority for many dismal centuries. This is not the fault of Christianity, but of that defective and fallen nature of man, which, even under the best influences, it is so hard to raise from the dust and plume for a heavenward flight. There was but one righteous man in Sodom, and there seems to be but one left among the clergy of the North who comprehends the true genius of Christianity. We are not surprised to see him denounced and abused by the Northern press, as any man must be who dares to speak the truth and withstand the evil passions of the multitude. But the whole civilized world will do him honor, and his name will one day be reverenced by those who are now heaping reproaches upon his head. We had long known that Bishop Hopkins was the ablest of the