Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-25

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Your Makers praises spout;
UP IRON the sands We rodlings peep
And sag your tails about
= Old Dr.. Strong OF Hartford. whose anne is
s,iH rrai-e in IRE churchr- hs,i an uufcrtarim,
habit of saying amusing things when he mean,
IL not Once when be was presiding an a meet.
ing of ministers. and wishing one OF them to come
forward and offer sPrayer. be said:
"Brother Cotton.
OF Bolton.
viii you step this way
And prayT'
To which Mr. Cotton immediately answered.
without intending 20 perpeiraie any Of the anne
sort:
'Myiear Mr. Strong.
lou do me very wrong
.4s1o BE- making rhyme, SEA -
AT such solemn time.
Aud then DR., Strong added:
I'm very sorry TO see
That you re just like me-
The GOOD nesi would not, for the world. have
made lests on such OCCASION; but they would
plead ihe - De excuse for their rhymes that the
boy did for whistIing in schosl. Il didn't whistle
SIR: il whistled ITSELF
- The Bishopo of oxfard has recently preach
ell a sermon on the death of Prince Albert, ad-
vancing the idea that the calamity was a chas-
tisement OF ProsIdence and the Public ODiaion.
new london weekly, alludes 70 the prelate and
the sermon in these choice words:
That g.oysling sensualist, oily Tartuffe, and
sanctifed hypocrite--Epicurus's own hog in the
sacred fold--tne Bishop of Oxford, bv way of
blistering the Queens grief. informs her aud the
nation that the death OF. the Prince Consort Is
provoked "by the national sins" Would the
smooth prelate kindly explain ,cAy death is to be
understood as a mark OF Divine dispeasurel To
our apprehension. his sleek and soapy Lille. his
very existence among us. appears the most con
spicaous scourge OF our sins.
TOBACCO AND LoNeEvirY.-A writer in the
Christian Ambassador says: $50
The accounts given by your correspondents of
aged persons yet living. remind me OF a veteran
and bis help meet" on whom called in 0swe-
60, New York. last summer. His name j. Peter
Rozell. He was born in Brooklyn, New York
in 1883. and consequently il now one hundred
and eight years of age. He is living with sec
ond wife, who is seventy three years old. By
MS hrst INFRINGE ne nau hfteen chficren and by
his second ten-making In all twenty five chi.
dren. The eldest child now living is eighty two
years old. This aged friend enjoys comfortable
health. visits his neighbors. sight aud hearing
good, and has used tobacco one hundred years.
"A revival of religion is progressing in the
Wayne street Methodist EPISCOPAL Church We
hope IL may continue until the whole people are
ctnistaDized and would suggest that in their de
vot'on they forget MOTTO ask Gods aid in arrest
ing thedreadfui Internecne war now affecting the
cGrns.y, and his interposton to save those insti
tutions through which we guaranteed the
right to worship Him unmolested. as conscience
dctates.-Forf Wayne Times
When Ben Franklin suggested to his father
to say grace over a whole barrel of pork at once.
in order to save time and breath. he was only en-
deavorng To practically illustrate his we'll known
idea OF economy in all things-sacred as well as
profane