The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-02-14

Lord 1 will praise thee; though thou vast
angry with me, now thine anger is turned
away, and thou comfortest me-" Now, sir,
there is nota word in shis opposing choirs,
much less Improvement in singing. We are
in favor Of that Improvement In singing
that will employ the whole church of God.
For this important part of divine service
should not be monopolized by few, and
! that few the wicked, to whom God hath
said, "what~Esst thou to do to declare my
statutes"
Second: That ''piled into the Ladies'
Sociable of the Congregational church
rough shod." 1 neither knew of, nor men
toned the Ladies Sociable of the Congre-
gational church" But IN speaking of the
ungodly, in tie language of the first Psalm,
l said: "The ungodly are not so, but are
like the chat which the wind driveth
away. Sisters, this is the kind of society
some of you choose. In place of going to
prayer and class meeting, you go to the
Sociable-or whatever fashionable name
you call it here-half- religious and half
dancing institution, and miDgle with the
ungodly, who always get the better of you"
Now, sir, am slow to believe that this is
the kind of Sociables that the christian sis
ters of the Congregational church have es-
tablished. We assure them that we did
not even think of them in that connection.
Third: We deny that the Methodists,
east or west, hold such Sociables as we
spoke of, and call upon you for the proof
Fourth: We made no "attack'' on the
Congregational church, or any of its insti-
tutions. We obtained their church in which
to hold Methodist Quarterly Meeting, and
we say that it was "magnanimous' for US
to discuss the propriety or impropriety of
the above mentioned customs. 1t would
have been cowardly in us not to have de-
clared the whole counsel of God, as we I'M
derstand it, simply because We were in their
church. In conclusion we say that, with
this religious denomination we have no con-
troversy, believing them capable of manag-
ing their own affairs. So far as we are
concerned, the attempt of the EMpoRIA
News to get up a ''muss" between them
and us, shall fail.
Yours truly, MARX ROBERTSON.
If those who feel that they were hit by
the Elders ministerial slaps when he preach
ed the sermons referred to last week, are
satisfied with the above ingenious expla-
nation, we have no right to object. 1t is
a little singular how unanimously people
misunderstood him.
The Elder says he ''neither knew of nor
mentioned the Ladies' Sociable of the Con-
gregational church." and little further on,
quoting his own language, addressed to the
sisters: ''In place of going to the prayer
and class meeting, you go to the .Socia6le
or whatever fashionable name you call it
observation-disclosures and halfdancing insti-
tuition" AS there is no other institution
here called a "Sociable' but that of the
Congregationalists'. great many good peo-
pie, who are ordinarily quick of compre-
hension, fell into the error of thinking that
he meant that "Sociable' and no other
They will be glad to know that he didn't
mean what he said. They will undoubted-
ly accept his apology. He says he didn't
know of the Soeiable. From what we had
heard we were of the impression that he did
know of it, and talked of it previous TO his
,....-... I'D Sd, i
He denies that the Methodists, east or
west, hold such sociables as he spoke of, /
and asks US to prove it. He don't say
what kind he meant. How can he expect
US to prove what we know nothing about? /
We. know that the Methodists, both east
and west, hold the kind of Sociables we
spoke of. @ go Esai ara
A word about the "muss''' to use his
classic language-which the Elder says we
are trying TO get up We have lived here
several years, and he has preached here con-
and we are willing to leave it to
our citizens which has been the most eff
fcient in getting up 'musses" in the diff
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