Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-28
DAILY DEMOCRAT.


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SUNDAY READING.
EVENING BRINGS Us H0M8.
Upon the hills the viud is sharp and cold.
The sweet young grasses wither upon the void.
Ard we. D Lord. have wandered from Thy
f,id;
But evening brings us home.
Amcag the r,e.s we stumble. aud the rocks
Where the brown lichen whitens, and she fox
Watches the straggler from the scattered
But evening brings US home.
The sharp thorns prick u.s. and our tender feet
Are Gu, snd bleeding. and the lambs repeat
Their pitifui compls,nts-0 rest IS sweet
When evening brings us home.
We have been wounded BY the hunters darts,
Our eyes are very heavy, snd our hearts
Search for Thy comipg-when the light de-
parts
And evening brings us home.
The darkness gathers. Through the gloom no
Rises TO guide Us. We have ~andered far;
Without Thy lamp We know not where Ne
At evening. bring Us home.
The clouds are round US. and the snow-drifts
thicken,
o thou dear Shepherd, leave US not to s'cken
In the waste night = our tsrdy footsteps
Al evening. bring us home.
A Young Mems Christisn Association
has just been organized 1t Roxbury, Mass.
The Jewish Maimoni es College at Phil>
adelphia, is 10 open IN October. The full
course will embrace five years.
The NMwegians in Minnesota are un>
usually interested in the erection OF church
ed fices. Most Of them are large and well
bull.
In Ave years about one hundred New
School Presby terrain churches, aided BY
missionary funds. have become self sus.
tanning. and all haze houses OF worship.
The American Board of Foreign Missions
reported deficit on the first Of August. Of
s24. .26 in donations. In ieoacies there
has been . gain Of l6,7sl.S9.
Nineteen years ago Bishop McDougal
went IS the first missionary to batswak.-
Since then . Christian church Of 1000
Dyaks and Chinese has been gathered, end
four churches built for them.
Mise Josephine Lsphsm. Of Woodstock,
Ohio, has been licensed to preach By VIM
chester Association, Unitarian. Of that
State. She 10 graduate Of Antioch Col>
lege, and ciassmatc Of Olympia Brown.
A long faced long haired individual called
| at hotel In Cleveland, Wednesday, and
told the proprietor be wanted supper,
lodging, and breakfast, and he would be
rewarded in heaven. The trade was NOS
effected.
The Kansas State Conyention, Baptist,
states that there are only seven white
churches in the State that have pyeachiug
every Sunday, two that have it twice en-
Sunday, thirteen once . month. Two As
socistions, having from four to six churches
each, are without single pastor.
Speaking Of home runs - that was 40
esrnes, prayer offered by . young deacon.
who, fresh from game Of base ball, steps
ped into the weekly prayer meeting. He
was called upon to pray, and in winding up
start for home run TO glory, dort US BY
the devil be caught out on the ay."
Henry Ward Beecher says tina, one Of the
reasons Why ministers exchange pulpits Of
Sunday, is that people would "recacitrate
under the high doctrines" of the regular
psstcr, and SO stranger is procured to do
"the dangerous preaching" Quilp suegests
that it must be . spurious gospel that il
dangerous anywhere.
A young man named James Harding, liv-
ing near Saransc, ich.. dislocated HE Jaw
while yawning in church, 10 that il fell on
his neck. \ physician was called in who
set il in its proper place. but il fell three
times. and finally had to be securely tied up
to keep it in position. This is an awful
warning to church>goers.
The following quaint idea from . negro
preacher is worthy the imsI ination Of Jsre-
my Taylor. We never read . hsppier lis
lustrAtion: abe whole OBJ Gods relation to
Us am like do wheel. DE Lord Jesus
Christ am do hub, de Christians am de
spokes, and de tire am dc grace OBJ God
binding EN- oil together. and do nearer We
get TO dc hub de nearer We get TO each
other"
One Of the preachers st the willimantic
camp meeting, on Tuesday, said: "There
slts brother p, who used 10 be one
Of the rneanest men in this section Of the
country, but the grace Of God took hold Of
him aud shook him sll to pieces" A hear
~ amen" was INDUCED in by the csngre.
CATION, and the voice Of the man referred to
rang clear and loud above the rest.
A young preacher who had just started
on his travels - an itinerant, was one evs>
ming holding forth on the deluge, and after
describing the manner in which Noah built
the ark and filled it with animals Of every
kind, by pairs, closed in solemn tone,
thus: You must know, my dear hearers,
that it Was on arduous task for Noah and
his sons to get . pair Of rhales int the ark"
Some time ago there was crazy man
confined in the Preston jail. with whom the
people Of the village took pleasure in con.
versing, from time to time. On enc occa-
sion very pious lady called on him. Is che
said ito talk religion" The crazy man lis
tened TO her very patiently for some time,
when he interrupted her - follows: look
here, Mrs; you think you ha,s reli-
gion, don't your" 'Well, yes. sir, pro-
Tess 70 have" Well, now, Mrs. --,
YOU are the worst fooled woman eve saw.
You have got worms; that's whsts the mat>
TAR 9TH vouc Mrs eudd eplv left