Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-26
NUMBER l64.


great cause Of dyspepsia In ministers Is eating too
| soon after preaching. For two or three hours the
TIDE OF nervous energy has been setting In strongly
towards the brain, and It cannot be suddenly turr-
ed towards the stomach but the mental effort has
occasioned feeling Of faintness or debility about
the stomach, and morbid appetite; and If food Is
taken at all largely there is not the nervous ener.
gy there requisite to effect its digestion, for the
brain will be running over the discourse.
recent number of the Church Review de-
nounces, under the head Of /" Dissertation and
Wicked Prostitution" those Episcopaans in the
larger cities who expend "their time and care and
resources In devising changes of raiment for the
altar, decorating II as child It's doll, writing
learned disquistions upon altar-cloths, piscinos,
communion-vessels, the pix, painted windows and
baptislnal fonts" Not knowing the essential con-
nexion of these articles with the religion Of the
Gospel, we do not know whether the Reviews re-
buke is or is not deserved.
Ministers turn queer summersets, and Mr.. Hor-
ace Mann has apty said that circumstances alter
principles as well as cases. Here Is q sample: A
Oaiforpa miner died, and having been much
respected, it was determined to give him regu-
lar funeral. digger in the vicinity who, report
said, had once been a powerful preacher in the
United States, was called upon to of6cate; after
drinks all round" !" the party proceeded with be-
coming gravity to the grave, the officiating minis
ter commenced with an extempore prayer, during
which all knet around the grave. So far was well
but the prayer was unnecessarily long, and at last
some ofthose who knelt began, in an abstraeted
way TO finger the loose earth that had been thrown
up from the grave. II was thick with gold : and
an excitement was Immediately apparent in the
kneeling crowd. Upon this the preacher stopped,
and blandly inquired, " Boys what's that Gold |"
he continued, "and the richest kind Of diggings--
the congregation are dismissed |" The poor miner
was taken from his grave and buried elsewhere,
while the funeral party, with the parson at their
head, lost no time In prospecting the new digging
Rev. DR.. Rowland is reviewing Rev. Theodore
Parkers religious writings, in series of articles
in the New York Evangelist. The doctor cites as
one Of the errors underlying Mr.. Parker's teach
ngs, his declaration that he that worships truly,
BY whatever form, worships the only God. He
hears the prayer, whether called Brahma, Jehovah,
Pan or Lord, or is called by no name at all
each people has its prophets and it's saints and
many swarthy Indian who bowed down to wood
and stone-many grim-faced Calmuck, who wor-
shipped the great god of storms--rnany Grecian
peasant who did homage to Ph9bus Apollo when
the sun rose or went dOwn--yes, many savage
his hands smeared all over with human sacrifices,
shall come from the east and the west and ait
down in the kingdom of God with Moses and
Zoroaster, with Socrates and Jesus--while men
who call daily on the only living God, who paid
their tribute and bowed at the name of Christ
shall be cast out because they did no more"
In Rome there is the Seal Santa, or Sacred Stair.
case, taken, 1t is asserted from Pilates house In
Jerusalem 1t has had house built for 1t, and the
marble steps are covered by wooden ones, which
have several times been worn away and renewed
Penitents ascended this stairway upon their knees
only, at the same time meditating as the instruc.
tons say, upon the Passion of our Lord. They
come down again, by either of the two parallel
flights, and in the ordinary way, upon the fiat of
the foot. There are twenty-eight steps, and for
every one ascended, late Pope granted seven
years indulgence, grant which has been made
permanent by his present Holiness.
writer in one Of the religious papers, speaking
OF the chanticleer and the eagle on the spires Of
churches, says that they we're used as national
signs throughout the Roman empire, until the per-
manent establishment of Christianity and the in
vention of the cross by Helena, when that sacred
symbol, to great extent, even in France, sup
planted the national one, though the Gallo cock
has maintained his individuality more tenaciously
than his rival, the royal eagle of Rome. A. the
time Of the Continental Reformation, thousands Of
spires, by this simple sign, proclaimed the indepen-
dence of Cs-Alpne and Gallican Church, and led
those honored men who framed the Frank Protest
ant and Genevan Churches, seeing the abuses Of
the cross on every side, to sgain adopt their ma
tional emblem as the crowning point of their viii
lage spires.
II would appear that missionary effort among
the Chinese on American soil Is much less success
full than in China ITSELF For example, the Rev.
Mr. Speer missionary to the Chinese In San Fran
cisco, has chapel which cost him $40 900, incud-
ing room for school and dwelling, yet only doz-
en- attend the regular Sabbath service, though Il s
performed in the Chinese language; and in answer
TO question asked Mr.. Speer, by one who visited
his church, to how many among the thousands
Of Chinese In San Francisco professed Christianity,
NJ. Hpeer stated the number to be tourl This "a
ccrtainly adscouraging missionary field.