Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-08-01
POLITICS AND THE PULPIT.

We have no doubt that a rigorous
landlord, having sharked it all the week,
screwing and gripping among his tenants,
would be better pleased to doze through
an able gospel sermor on divine myste-
ries, than to be kept awake by a practi-
cal sermon that might treat of the duties
of Christian. A broker who has gam
bled on a magnificent scale all the week,
does not go to church to have his prac.
teal swindling analysed and measured
by the New Testament" spirit. Cate
chism is what he Wants-doctrine is to
his taste A merchant whose last bale
of smuggled goods was safely stored on
Saturday night, and his brother mer-
chant, who, on the same day swore a
false invoice through the custom house
they go to church to hear a sermon
on faith, on angels, on the resurrection.
They have nothing invested in those
subjects: they expect the minister to be
bold and olhordox. But if he wants re.
spectacle merchants TO pay ample pew
rent let him not vulgarize the pulpit by
introducin commercial subjects.
A rich Christian brother owns largely
in distillery, and is clamorous about
letting down the pulpit to the vulgarity
of temperance sermons. Another man
buys tax titles, and noses about all the
week to see who can be slipped of neg
lected lot. a mechanic who plies his
craft with unsclupulous appliance of
every means that will win, he too wants
doctrine" ON the Sabbath, not these
secular questions. Men wish two de-
partments in life-the secular and the
religious. Between them a high wall
and Opaque is to be built. They wish to
do just what they please for six long
days. Then stepping on the other side
of the wall, they wish the minister to
/ assuage their fears, comfort their con-
science, and furnish them a clen ticket
and insurance for heaven. By such a
| shrewd management, our modern finan
ceirs are determined to show that Chris
tian can serve two masters, both God
and Mammon, at the same time.--ReU
H. ". Beeeher.
ASTONISHING Fears" Those ale as
tonishing feats," said an ardent admirer
of the sports of the ring to Mrs. Parting.
ton, at the circus last evening" aston
ishing feats - Yes" said the old la
dy. d" So they are astonl hing feet, and
considerable legs, too, to judge at this
distance" She looked at Ike, who sat
by the curb watching the clown with his
eyes full of wonder and his hands full of
peanuts, and she reached over to his hon
or the mayor and asked him if he
thought "the revolving by the whole
troup would have a dilatorious tender
ness on the boy" He assured her with
great urbanity that he did not think 1t
would. " All !" said she as she handed
her snuff box to Lee, at the door. "This
riding is different from what it was in the
country, when was girl, whe we had
to ride double ON a pillory. But what
agility they show 1t seems as if they
were set on springs like a feather bed,
and that every bone in 'em was made
of whalebone" She stood looking at
the horsemanship, and pronounced it
the best sequesIering performance she
had ever seen, said that Mr.. SIaut beat
Herculaneum himself for strength and
that the whcle was worthy Of the highest
paresoric.-BostOA Post
In commencing business, young men
should make up their minds to the .o.-
lowing facts, that their profits will always
be little less than they anticipated,
while their expenses will invariably be
duced sight more.
TIE more a man is enyie;l, the less he
is spared.