The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-03-19

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I)lslNrBH EsrEp Philanthropy. -.
There IL 60 much IF this cheap com
modify now days, that IL is almost
too common to possess sufficient nov.
city Ii any new phrase, to make an
interesting article Of. However as IT
is a favorite theme with us, we must
be indulged this morning, to deseant a
brief epistleatory paragraph, to the
''r Gentles, on very striking feature u
the science, as presented to us night
Or 80 ago, at one Of our Christian
churches
We never question The motives"
Of any man, who gets up IN The pulpit
or elsevhere--a stranger III the conn
nlanity, to tell the people how he has
toiled for The good cause Is
ready TO lay his life down a sacrifice,
to his principles----how his bosom
heaees and swells like the mountain
in labor" with philanthropy how,
altogether disinterested he is, III all his
motives. This sounds very well and
there il no objection to It, unless his
profanity goes SO far as to embody II
in his prayers. What we have to
complain Of, for our citizens, is this
that any man IL permitted to stand In
the pulpit, whose motives are not
kncwn---at least to the presiding minis
ter7
This IL often done. Every now
and then, some "disinterested philan-
throphist ''--actuated by The purest
motives Of christianity aud the love Of
truth, comes along here, protesting to
know more about eur wants than we
do ourselves gets an audience tcgeth.
er without previous warning, and then
not satisfied with passing round the
hat--sends round paper and pencil,
that the ladies may cay, how much |
their lords shall pay. This il decided
ly wrong--even suppose for a moment
that The money thus obtained, goes to
the object for which Ii Ii intended "a
bare and naked et,pposition) The
aean Of raising funds, Is one not foun.
ded IN reason or justice, and when
man comes to beg in tlis manner,
who is unknown to any one In the
community, Il is an imposition to
give It the mildest possible expression
We like the object and intent of The
Missionary societies, we like The oh.
jeot' and intent Of the "BGievolent
shirt making association" we like the
Sunday school Union, aud any other
union, having for its object good
itention. 10 IL because We like them
that We object to having them abused,
BY persons not having authority to do
SO, Of all the many several ways Of
raising the wind" by itinerants. this
IL perhaps, after all, the least cputa-
ihle,
ErThc Comet Of the fth contains |
a notice Of the removal to that city
.of our late citizen DR.. r. II. Day
= gentleman long and most favorably |
known by almost every man, woman ,
and child within the limit of the par.
ish of st. Mary--ay, and far beyond
it too, The doctor was decidedly pop- |
ular here, politically and profession. /
ally, and this popularity was in both !
instances earned BY a close attention !,
to business united to a clear head, an
excellent Judgement. and--bctter than :
ail-an honest heart. We earnestly q
wish him, as he well deserves, pro. \
fessionally success in his now home--l
not that We wish sickness and disease
that the doctors wallet may distend a
Its hitherto fair proportions, thanks to Ia
the : health ct our parish D but that 4