The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-03-05

We make the following extract from Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stoves serial, 'Ihe Minis.
ters's Wooing.' in the Atlantic Magazine for
January -
sWell. Doctor said Mrs. Brown, who, as
q householder Of substance, felt conscious
right to be first to open conversation witn
the minister, people are beginning to make
noise about your views. was talking to
Deacon Tinmins, the other day, down GU
the wharf, and he said DR.. Stiles said 1t was
entirely new doctrine, -entIreIv so,-and Tor
his part he wanted the good old ways.'
'They say SO, do they: said the Doctor,
kiniline up from in abstraction into which
he SEEM to be gradually subs!dng.-
.Wel!. let them. had rather publish ncw
divinity than any other. and the more Of il
the better, fit be bat true. should think
it hardly worth while 70 write, if | had moth
veg nctC TO say
.Wau,' said Deacon Twitchell, his meek
face fushiny with awo Of his minister
doctor. there's all sorts Of things SAID aoon;
vou. Now the other day was at the mil
with load Of corn. and while was await
M. Amariah Wansworth came along with
l.is'n: and 50 while we were waltin, he says
= me-, why. they say your minister IS get
IN to be IN Armcniun;' and he vent on u
teli;n, how old Ma'am Badger told him tnat
vou INTERPRETED some parts Of Paul sEpl5tIes
clear on the Armenian side. You KNOW
Miriam BaIcer's II m1stcrhand at doctrine,
and she's most an uncommon C"lvInISt.'
That 1 1cs no; fri3htcn me at all, said
the sturdy Doctor. Suppose do inter
pc. sons texts ike the Armenians. Can't
Arm;nsans have ANYTHING right about them:
Who wouldn't rather be with the Armen.-
ans when they are right than with the Calvin
lists when they are wrong?'
That's it-you've hit it, Doctor said
Simeon Brown. That's what always say.
say. don't he Crore it? and how are you
Going to answer him? That gravels 'enl.'
.We!l,' snii Deacon Twitche.l, Brother
Seth,-you know Brother Seth,-he says
YOU DENY depravty. He's all for lmputa-
ton Of Adams sin, you know and have
talks with Seth about it. every time he
comes to see me anl he says if he did not
sin in Adam, it's givin' up the ground alto
gether: and then he insists you're clean
wrong about the nrcsencratc d0ingS.'
Il wish Seth could talk with you some
sine, Doctor. Along in the spring, he WAS
down Ae.yin' me to lay Stone fence, 1T was
when we was fencing off the South pastur'
lot-and we talked pretty nigh all day; and
it reilly did seem 20 me that the longer we
talked the softer Seth grew. lie is mas
ter hand at readin' and when he heard that
YOUR REMARKS on Doctor Mayhem had come
out, Seth tackled up O purpose and come
I'D to Newport to get them, and spent all his
time last winter, studyn' on it, and maxim
his remarks: and tell YOU, he is a tight fel
low to argue with. Why, that day, what
with LAWN stone wall and what with arguln'
with Seth, como home quite beat out
Miss TW!tche!l will remember
sThat he was = sud his Ne.pmcet. Il
'mcrnber when lie come home, says |.
Father. you seem clean used up; and
stirred round lively like, to get him his tea.
But he lest went into the bedroom and laid
down afore supper: and says to Corinthy
Am, THAT'S thing ha'n't seen your
Inther do since he was took with the typhus.
And Corinthy Ann, she said she knew 'twa'n't
ANYTHING but them old dectrines-that 1t
was ALWAYS SO when Uncle Seth came down.
And after tea father kinder chirked up a lit
tie, and be and Seth sat by the FIRE, and
was a beginning it ag'in and | jest spoke
out and said, --"Now, Seth, these ere things
doesn't hurt vow; but the Deacon IS weakly
and if he gets his mind riled after supper,
he d0n't sleep none at night. 50 says |,
you'd better let the matter stop where
they be; cause, say /, 'twont make no
difference for tonight, which onye's got the
right one reckon the Lor;l'll 90 on his
way without you and We shall find out by'm-
*, what that is.'