Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-01-06
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Still Better Tidimss from Kanka.
....... 81. as keR.

In our age of progress, we are so much
accustomed to changes, Improvements and
wonderful inventions, that nothing surprises
us. Who would have thought half a GEN.
fury ago that steam and electricity would
revolutionize the whole world in less than
fifty years Who knows yet what will
result from more accurate knowledge OF
the wind and its currents used as a pro.
polling force Next spring the broad ocean
will have been crossed on Eolus' wings, in
less time than the feetest iron horse can
ever do, supposins track laid on old
ocean's bosom. But all these wonders
dwindle away into mere insigniticance when
compared with the astounding changes
which took place in less than two months in
Kankakee. The Gazette of that place
in speaking of the saints, said, "they were
so shttess and improvident, their intelli-
gence so limited, and their ambition SO low,
that a half worn and Anticipated garment
and a few of tie necessaries Of life would
proseIyte them to almost any religious be.
lief" So they were two months ago no.
body could contradict the statement, for the
Gazette spoke Of things which, it knew and
could see every day. But, oh, power of
tie word of God what inetamorphosis |!
they who only cared for a mess of porridge
and fiddle, are now earnest inqurers, into
theological problems. They WHO could not
read their A B G, now not only peruse the
Bible, but also DIS Gus, and solve philosophi-
cal questions which would puzzle an &C:
complished scholar. A Stubborn woman
who stuck up for her priest with more
good will than knowledge Of the cause, is
dumbfoundel in one instant and. changed
into fountain OF tears, which fowing for
two h ,urs, dig before her ap, abyss from
which she recoils in time. The progress of
true pety is not limited to the people Alone
but Of three able priestly deba:ers, two ct
least are hopefully converted and the other
The whole settlement is struck
with ainaze,nent at. the apdacity of the
Romish church, whose daring usurpation
they sclemnly .analhematize. ;, They have
found out that the seven headed beast has
been guilty of an enormous, crime, one
hich was never remarked before, but one
Of a villainous magnit lde she has pre-
su,ned to NEEDLE with the second command.
,nent !! In fine the saints have become snii
saints; they glto meeting, twice
a day and three tim on, tho Sabbath, to
get out of the cold, thus warmipg inner and
outer mar. Hut whence does. this sudden
light come Who is the author of this WON
dertul change lie is neither .""Dr." nor
Rev" nor elder, but. Of that intelligent,
useful, broad -shouldered and. somewhat
class, called in Vulgar style
colporters. Book pedlars; would be more
elegant, for colporter is French word
which lnnans neck carrier, and consequently
implies that the requisites of,an animal of
this class are strength of neck, broadness
Of shoulders aud strength Of arms But
our co!porter is not one Of the vulgar sort; 2
he is model colporter, he is, q. learned col
porter, he is an able colporterly debater-
Having long carried son much information
on his broad back, some, Of :tsgot in his
braias through the cracks Of his head, aud
Guiding the place unoccpPied, sank deep
roofs and grew fnto a large tree of knoml-
edge under which lie fights the soldiers of
Rome Wherever he goes, he !. knocks Ro-
nanism into splinters; the .drags out of
Rome, men, wcmen and priestlya debaters;
,hews Christ, sells Bibes, halds pray er-meeta
ngs. carries his pack, visits the cures and
performs wonderful spiritual cures. Who
AN foresee the good that such a man canl
iof The N. Y. Observer has bis eyes ON
hat great good man and hes revealed Ito
he world that, what the divines. of Kanka-
zee and vicinity could not DO in three years,
. colpprter has accomplished in q few days.
The pions are in ecstacy; they are shedding
ears of jnbilant tharks and. partly realizing
lie crowd Of benighted Romapists whom
be good man would hopefully convert, they
exclaim Glory be to God! In
rider to further the great work those good