The weekly Placer herald., 1854-06-03

printed with your next sarmint, as Pm
certain the flock wi be delighted with q
sight at their Deacon again. II this artist
makes any more such wonderful llcks I'll
send 'em to you, to show the congrega-
ton, cause my bowels yearn for them.
BY Deacon Truefaith Grimvi>age, a
faithful Brother, unto Prnisegod Stiggins:
Greet ye one another-especialIy the sis
ters, with the kiss of charity. Grease be
with you all Amen!
t. GRIMVlSAGE, Deacon.
Charity.
And now abideth faith. hope, charity. these
three; but the greatest Of these is charity.
Corinthians xii l3
.Uy Beloved Flock: | took the liberty
of quoting the above extract from letter
from my respected (but now defunct) geo
adiutor" St. Paul; written by him TO the
benighted critters Of Corinth Ca large town
situated south east of the Russo Turco-
Franco Anglo difikilties somewhere
about the year \. ID. 900. The people of
COrinth were much given to building mag
nifcent meeting houses, where they wor-
shipped all manner of indecent looking
gods and goddesses, and the Corinthian
style of architecture being rather cOs-tiye
they neglected to exercise the virtue Of
charity according to ST. Paul's notion
thereof; consequently he wrote them a
letter sixteen chapters long. My brethren,
your are doing business pretty much after
the Corintihan order, and am after you
with the coach whip Of correction and
have taken the above text for the snapper
You are worshipping gods tilthier than
old ClOacina-and she was the dirtiest Old
apology for goddess in the whole PAN
theon.
My brethren, your vices are beyond
computation, and if you have any virtues
don't know it. There is one, however,
that you have not got aud that is the King
pin of them all, CHARITY. So far from
! having that, you don't know what it
means. 1t does not mean to write your
name with grand flourish at the mead of
subscription, with one dollar at the end
Of it and then pay $500 to see the model
artists; nor pay one dollar a month to a
charitable society and cheating your land
lord out of your board bil or contrib
uting to the purchase of food and shelter
for people burnt out Of house and home,
with money which you borrowed and
never mean TO pay. Sweet is the voice
of gratitude to the ear Of the cheerful
giver, but sWeeter is the sleep of an hon
est man. My brethren, there is other
charity than that which consists in giving
money to the needy, and that is charity
for the faults and foIlies, vices and errors
of our fellow men.
w hen we ook around US, through the
green goggles of Pharisaical elf-hoiness,
and feel our sanctifed smelers assaied
by the foul stencil Of human corruption,
let us remember thar the Great God hath
made ''no man perfect; no not one"
1t pleased him when he created all
things celestial, terrestrial and internal, to
make an assortment We are Informed
in Holy Writ that he made several styles
of angels, some were so bad that he was
ashamed Of them and kicked them out of
heaven. Upon earth he made men Of
every shade-of white, brown, red and
black; some he made terribly green, and
some get awfuly blue, but that is their
own taste and not the makers. Finally
he stocked hell, and if my old crony Bill
! Shakespeare was right, he made 'black
spirits and white, blue spirits and grey"
On the whole brethren think there is
sense in the old adage "t takes AL kind Of
men to make a world" 1t pleased him to
place in the breasts Of men different pas
sions and desires, different ideas and
and views Of the same subject To some
he gave noble and holy gifts, and others
he made most u full mean. But he crea-
ted us all, physically and morally, and he
gave to some the power and the intel ect
TO see that which was good and that which
was evil, and through tbs Tongues and
pens of good men he laid down for men
laws and rules of life, which to obey or to
despise is to merit his appreciation or his
awful wrath. But my brethren, the pow
er to judge he reserved for himself alone;
to US he has said "Judge not lest We be
judged" Therefore say, be charitable
in all things, more especially toward the
weak points of human fraity. DON'T
stand on the side hill of life with your
trowsers stuffed into your boot'legs ever
ready to lend a kick posteriors TO any
poor devil who gets started on the down