The weekly Placer herald., 1854-04-15


ginning and the ending. You have had
the first part, and | will now make it
more lucid 10y giving you the ending.
SanctimOnOusness when honestly as
sumed is us,ially ca led fanatcSm, Il term
commonly applied to the belief in Joe
Smith and all such jugglers, If people
honestly believe in an absurd theory, and
conscienti"u>y practise it, it is no part of
your deacon's duty to scoff at their relig
ion or wound the devoteeS feelings by an
exhibit of his contempt for their hesotted
fanaticsm. If any Of you conscrntously
wor>hi, II haboon, yon are to lie respected
in that faith 50 long AS no injury results to
other people and the deIu>on continues.
All things are as God wills it, and the
time WAS when, u grim, savage, unrelent-
ing set of reIigonis,s were necessary to
the establishment Of Il permanent footing
upon this continent, in order that this
glorious republic might rise up and the
rights and dignity of man become respect
ed, and on the 9th Nov. 1920, such
crowd landed upon the rock of Plymouth.
Stern and seIf-sacrifcing zealots, perse
cuted until they fled their homes, they
hesitated not to Danish and pursue, even
tn death, those among them whose faith
should deviate from their own. The very
principle they thiIsted for at home, toler-
alton, they denied to others when in
power, and yet from this stock has sprung
the most liberal government on earth. TO
such have nothing u say, they are hon
est, and we'll ween that
"faith fanatic faith once welded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last y
Sanctmoniou>ness when assumed for
effect has sometimes been denoninated
Hypocrisy Now, hypocrisy scarcely ex-
pressed the offense that | am commenting
upon, because we are all more or less
hypocrites, and we can't hep it; society
forces It upon us. For instance, Brother
Jones meets Brother Brown and inquiries
after his heaIth,-how his wife and family
are, and how his crap looks? Brother
Brown proceeds to answer him in all due
honesty, and detains Brother Jones an
hour or more, whereat Brother Jones is
tempted to sin, and actually does think
"darnn it what a bore" Now the truth Is
Brother Jones WAS not AS much interested
in Brother Browns affairs as be assumed
to be, hut Brother Brown would have felt
bad if he had not been asked those ques
llOiISs w ely tuCII SuPtJ'SC A'SiVt o'pNo
meets Sister Snodgrass; they ightway
embrace and kiss, but they can't help
noticing what horrible way each other
has of putting up their hair, and the ugly
bonnets, to say nothing Of various other
little matters of sIander, very delightful
to repeat to the next person they meet.
Thus ordinary poiteness forces us to he a
little false or be thought stiff and naughty,
or extremely boorish. It's your somhre,
smooth, long visaged saint, tina. arrayed in
"a robe of seeming truth and trust hid crafty
Observation, and secret hang with poisoned
Crust, the dirk of defamation
And mask that like the gorget showed
Dyevarying on the pidgeon,
And for mantle large and bread
He wrapped him in religion"
Those are the cattle Pm after; you'll
know them by their sleek specious man
ners, sidelong glance, and the nasal cant
ing sycophantic tone Of voice. On for a
whip to place in every honest mans hand
TO
Lash the rascal naked through the world" I"
Brother Stlggins will now pass round
the hat, and | take this occasion to remind
the congregation that we are in debt for
six pounds of candles, and that more Hght
is net needed IN the church.
am requested to say to the antiquated
unmarried portion Of the sisters. that in
singing they Sqneal so loud AS seriously
to effect the nerves Of some of the con-
greyation. Il. GRTMVISAGE, Deacon.
A gentleman travelling inside q coach,
was endeavoring with considerable earn
eslness, TO impress some argument on a
fellow passenger who wns seated in the
same vehicle, and who appeared rather
dull Of apprehension; at length, being
slightly irritated he exclaimed: "Why,
sir, IT'S as plain as A b G." "rhat may
be- quietly replied the other; "but a.l
De Fl"
A viSter at Niagara Falls was asked
if he knew what the little steamer that
, goes under the fall, was made of? "Ot
wood and iron, suppose ?" was the re-
ply. "No, sir,.' said the interr"gator,
very cooIIy, "She is maid of the MisI' "
Smart fellow that
A student of Latin, being confined to
his room by sickness, WAS called upon by
friend. "What, John," said the visitor,
"sick, chi" eyes," answered John, "s'c
sum"
Susan Nipper says the Russians have
an awful responsibility resting on them for
killing the Turks-for every Turk who is
killed leaves dozen widows.
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