Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-25
Communicated.
THE REVIVAL.

DeGr Comet hat has become Of your
religious editors or more properly speak
ing, "that excellent gentleman who some
time since had charge Of the theological
department of your paper" For his sake,
as we'll az that of the community, hope
he has not forsaken his good work and
gone after flesh and the devil. The
progress of the Revival going on should
be noticed from day to day, as we'll to
keep up the record Of contemporary his
tory, as TO aid the movement itself; fol-.
like all mundane things, it needs the help
Of The press to push it along. Many per-
sons who are plously inclined, think there
is falling off, cooling down, back
sliding from grace, because tho late Sab
bath evening exercises at the horse watey-
ing have been discontinued; but this is
not 30. The publication by water has
only been temporarily suspended on ac-
count of the condition of the Mississippi
river. The stream has fallen SO rapidly of
late that it has loft its margin DOGGY, and
the purifying quality of water is counter
acted by mud. a joint stock company is
talked Of to pave this way to grace with
plank and platform. / think it would
pay, with toll gates. Thanks 70 the in
ventive genius Of the age, there are other
ways open and the revival is going on;
the ball is in motion and growing hourly
more intense, more sincere, more vigorous
in the faith of life to come. am sorry
indeed TO say, that as yet, it Is almost en-
tirely confined to tour colored fellow-eiti-
zens;" but it ought to and will spread
when the weather gets cooler. That am
not endeavoring to mislead the public in
reference to this interesting subject, which
touches SO nearly our latter end-let the
skeptic go round to Church or Fifth street
any night in the week, Sundays not ex-
cepted, and witness the movement. The
spirit is at labor with the flesh, shocking
and shaking it into sense of its inse-
curity. Converts are suddenly seized and
shake all over, and some-after looking
about to see what they shall do to DO
savsd-kick over the benches. There are
ainners in the vicinity of the churches as
elsewhere, who complain of the frequency
md length of the exercises, and some 20
as far as to declare them nuisanees; but
this is what is expected Of wicked world.
After all, ia there anything of more real
consequence than the saving of souls
Hardly. All souls should be saved to
commingle 10 endless felicity as
white spirits and black,
Blue spirits and gray"
A good feature and new has lately
been introduced in the Fifth street estab-
lishment. A colored Philadelphia phre-
nologist has been there feeling heads and
furnishing charts at the moderate price of
twenty-five cents. There is an evident
advantage in this to the profane aa well as
the religious world. Applicants for eter-
nal life should know what they are good
for in this, that they may take that road
to endless felicity in which they are least
liable to stumble. Some poet has said )
"The way to heaven lies through this !
earth" If this be true, is not the service |
of the phrenologist eminently important
to discover to each the best place to go in,
and to furnish a chart to enable all to steer
against shoals and quicksands
May I ask again Dear Comet, what has
become of your religious editor? Has he
gone to Texas or Is be deada have seen
no obituary. Very truly yours,
1915 y , Q. 7.