Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-23
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
SUNDAY READING.

The weight OF q Tear.
pair Of scales before him rich man sat and
piece q Soia-a widows s.l-Aud unto hes
Your coin is ast the proper weight. 50 take it
Or sell i, me for half is worth-it laeksa single
grain
With fearful eyes the widow said. 20. weigh it.
SIR. once more;
pray you be no, so exact, For drive me from
your door.
Tears are Of no avail "
The Second time he tries It Il just bears do~s
the scale
sa. little guessed sh.s rich nss. vhe hsld his
gold 20 dear,
That tie extra weight tass bsrs Il do~s had
been the widcx's Tear.
Life 10 beautiful night in which, a.
some stars 60 down, others rise.
Il took ave hours and half to conssxase
Bishop walsh 1t Toronto
The new Baptist church Il Masshastswn
10 TO De ready for use about the 2Osh Of
December.
Friendship Is never beset with such peril
40 when IL triss to blend csnsure with ad-
vice.
The Universalist Society Of Cavendish.
Vermont, has chosen . Miss Damon Is its
pastor.
"Ma,' said an iaquisitive little girl, twill
rich and poor folks live together when they
GO to heaven ~
The Cincinnati Hebrew Relief Society
has spent over $12 900 this year for the
benefit Of the poor.
All Of us who are worth anything spend
our manhood in unlearning the follies or
expiating the mistakes Of our youth.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool
has created On excitement in that city by
| preaching against low nccked dresses.
lis little troubles that wear the heart
| out. II 10 easier to throw bombs shell a
mile than feather, even with artillery.
Daniel Drew will give . million TO his
newly established Methodist theological
school at Madison, N. j.
Anticipated pleasures often prove, when
they arrive, to be no pleasures just ~ to-
IN 0rrow, when it comes, isn't tomorrow.
There are now $50 Young Mems Chris
| ttou n SBOCtotOuo VI Tue CuttV0 CtotVs WIN
. m, mbership ef $4,000.
Grace Church, New York, 10 begging for
q rector, Offering $l5, 900 gear salary, and
house rent free three have already declined
| the call.
A Dubuque county Sunday School Union
just held shows that there ere in that ooun-
| " 335 officers and teachers; 1881 scholars;
average attendance 1851; number Of vol
umcs in l:beAsi.s &. $50 number Of CONVEX
sions 81; contributions eo92.
Josh Billings says ifa man 10 going TO
make business Of serving the Lord, he
likes to see him do il when be measures
onions, a. we'll - when hs boilers hsllslu-
var.
II viii give thee" 10 very good "Here,
take it," % better.
Msesrs. Alexander T. Stewart, r. L. 4
| A. Stuart, James Brown, Joseph Sampson,
II. y. Olaflin L Co., Fred. Msrqusnd, W..
&. Dodge, w. Z. Dodge, Jr., and Lorinq
| Andrews, have subscribed 3lO,0 900 each to-
ward the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton building fund. The total subscription
has reached $2lo,s27.
An old gentleman of Webster, Mass,
has ordered gravestone frem marble
cutter Of tias town. Ths epitaph is as fol-
love: "Who never sacrificed his reason
ct the altar of . supefstitious God, who
never believed that Jonah swallowed the
| whale"
As the purest steel 10 tempered and
wrought to perfection, in proportion to the
| fiery ordeal through which il passes, SO adj
| versity aionc can call forth the real virtues
| Of individuals OF nations. Few men or ma
tons can stand up under great prosperity.
| A Coon SrGGEsrroS.-The Erie (Pa Ga
zette suggests that the church pews in that
| city be placed upon pivots, 80 that the &C.
| cupsnts may not he obliged 10 strain their
nscks every time somebody comes into
| church.
A minister in tbs south part of the State
10 holding . written discussion with min
lister here, on the time Of the second coming
Of Christ. Tho former holds that Christ
will soon come, and then all things will be
wound up, while the latter holds that the
second coming Of Christ took place at the
destruction Of Jerusalem and the dispersion
Of the Jews, and the cons qusnt establish
ment Of Christianity, nearly eighteen hun
bred years ago. One or the other Of these
expounders of the Scriptures must be
slightly" wrong. Laurence (Kansas)
Journal. Nov. 18th.
Constantinople has / 900. 900 population
800, 900 Christians, and oil the others Mo
hammedans Of the most bignied character.
The Moslems generally occupy the old city,
ancient Byzentium. while the Christians oc-
cupy the larger part Of Pera, and are scat
tered through other suburbs.
| The other day. the Pope visited the
wounded soldiers at the military hospital Of
San Spirito, and, after consoling them with
paternal soiicituds, &c said. laughing =
"Truly it seems - If the arch angel Michael
has let slip the devil, whom he had under
his foot. If some pious soul does not re-
capture him, he will be too strong for us.-
Let US hope, then, my children, that such a
coed friend wall soon appear.
| A story is told Of . country gentleman"
Who for the flrst time heard an Episcopal
clergy man preach. He had read much Of
when he returned home, hc Was asked If the
people were stuck up. "Pshaw no." he
replied, why the minister actually preach
ed IL his shirt sleeves -
| PREpEsTINATIoS.-AM Missouri paper con-
tains the following, which will pass without
much urging: ss rvf
"Do you believe in prcdcstination ?" said
acap'An Of Aississippi steamer to Cal
whistle clergyman who happened to b
travelling With him.
"Ofcourse do" st&E
"And you also believe that what IL to b
win be - t
"Certainly.n
swell, am glad TO hear IT," .,.~
sWhyY sa&
Because intend to pass that boat ahead
in fifteen minutea. II tbsrs b any virtue in
pine knots and loaded safety valves. 30
don't b alarmed, for il the bilers amt TO