Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-11-11
Ladies Correspondence.
mother Racy Letter from Sophronia!
FAYETTEVILLE, Nov, 1851.

God without reverently touching his
hat, and when he apostrophized our
Creator, be always removed it from
his head
Be not alarmed, my dear frien d, at
this opening; for I am not about to
grieve your tender heart with 4 IT,
rade 0fabuse Of the thoughtless, and
blasphemihg portion Of the other
sex. No, no; | leave these revilers
with Him whom they SO unwisoly
offend -hqmbly hoping that as His
mercy is 0 yer all his works, it will be
extended to them.
Ny present bu siness is with those
from whom any lack of reverence
for Deity tells u pom the multitude,
with great and perilioious effect. l
allude to The treatment of God in
hisow temples, by his own professed
people, and by those set apart to
minister therein.
You, my Amanda, know how care
]ful the NAL es of our own congregation
ever were to uncover their heads on
entering our dear little church, and
how irrevefant it vas always deemed
lfor any to replace their hats, on leav-
ling, until fairly beyond its portals.
But here ii is no uncommon thing to
see the pre- acher stalk into the holy
sanctuary with hat on head, as if
about to select a steak for breakfast,
at a stall id market house.
AS / scorn to caricaturc, and love
plain truth and simple justice dearly,
| will admit that the male portion Of
our congregations do conleseend to
uncover previous TO the commehce-
ment Of divine servide; but many of
them mot all, I am happy and proud
to eagerly ! match their beavers
the moment it il CONCLUDED, mount
n
them on their daputs, and rush to
the doors, as thou gh ashamed, or i'm
patient Of keeping Gods company
Surely there something very
wrong here "a screw loose some-
where" as I often hear the men say
o thou loved play mate Of my child
hood, and companion first, then cor
respondent ofmy naturer years, may
not the cause Of This pitiablc irreye-
renee be traced I'm It'll It's source shall
be found in Unbclief? Would such
a course be pursued if preacher and
people, or preacher alone, or people
only, really believ we'd the doctrines
preached believed themselves, in
very deed, in the immediate presence
of the Most High2
The subject brings to my memory
an ahecdote which is told Of a Scotch
who was sent by the Eng
fish government to France to repre-
sent his country there. He took |
With him a favorite servant, who was |
J follower of Calvin, and p member
IF the Presbyterian Church. Saw
hey, the servant, had, for years, list
sned at conyen ticles among his native
Hills, and elsewhere, to the word as
.xpounded by Rome's bitterest foes;
md, consequently had inlbibed great
lislike for all modes of worship DIFF
oring from hi ) own. Never until
low bad ho bee abroad. His preju-
ices against the Catholic Church
Tere such as to render it doubtful
18th his nlastd + whether lie might !
OF commit some blunder that would ;
rove fatal, or Rt least be greatly in
lrious to the business which the |
.rown of Grdat Britain had with |
hat Of Fnncel
Being willing to crafty The Fr4ne-l t
y any means i his power, and anx- S
us also to obFiate the results he j
ared from 81 wney's {lisrelish for
9th them aud all other CstthoIicsi
IS master took him on d visit to the +
lapel Of the royal family. Tae sol t
nn tones Of magnificent organ, t
lie mellow and sweet voices of tlieS G
loristers, the highly decorated +
,use, and above all, the silent, re-
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