The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-03-14

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j. . favorite theme with US. we must
be INDUCED this morning. 70 descent :
brief epialsasory paragraph. to the
Geutlss, On avery striking feature of
the science. - presented to Ne : night
or 80 ago, It one Of our Christian
churches.
We never question the motives
Of any man. who gets upin tho pulpit
or elsewhere stranger in the COM
munity. to tell the people how he has
toiled, for the good cause--and is
ready to lay his life down a sacrifice.
to his principles--how his bosom
heaves and swells like the mountain
in labor" with neutrality-suspicious..
altogether DISTINGUISHED he is, in all his
motives This sounds very well; and
there is no objection to it, unless bis
profanity goes SO far as to emb ody it
in his prayers. What we have to
complain Of, for our citizens, is this
that any man is permitted to stand in
the pulpit, whose motives are not
known--at least to the presiding minis
ter? se
ibis is often done. Every now
and then, some "disinterested philan-
throphist '-actuatcd by the purest
motives Of christianity and the love Of
truth, comes along here, protesting to
know more about our wants than We
do ourselves gets an audience togeth-
er without previous warning, and then
not satisfied with passing round the
hat-sends round paper and pencil,
that the ladies may say, how much
their lords shall pay. This is decided
ly wrong-even suppose for a moment
that the money thus obtained, goes to
the object for which it is intended, "a
bare and naked suppositbn.) The
plan Of raising funds, is one not foun.
ded in reason or justice, and when
man comes to beg in this manner,
who is unknown to any one in the
community, ,,~an =1urpusa,rv,.- ~
give it the mildest possible expression.
We like the object and intent Of the
Missionary societies. we like the OBJ
ject and intent of the benevolent
shirt making association" we like the
Sunday school Union, and any other
union, having for its object a good
tcntion. It is 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 she wind" by itinerants, this
is perhaps. after all, the least reputa-
bic.
NOBLE BLooD.-Dickens, in his
Child's History Of England, gives the
following slap in the face at some Of
the greatest of the nobility of Eng
land. In Charles the Seconds time
be says: 1.-THE whole court was great
crowd of debauched men and
shameless women; and Catherine s
merry husband insulted and outraged
her in every possible way, until she
to receive those worthless
creatures as her very good friends,
and to degrade herself by their COM
panionship. A Mrs. Palmer, whom
The King made Lady Castlemaine, and
Duchess Of Cleveland, was
one Of the most powerful Of the bad
about the court, and had great
influence with the King nearly all
through his reign. Another merry
ady, named Moll Davis, a dancer at
he theatre, was afterwards her rival. |
30 was Nell Gwyn, first an orange girl
md then an actress, who really had
,ome good in her, and Of whom one Of