Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-11-09
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
SUNDAY READING.
Rlng the De0 0Ofe1y.

hing tue cci .sAN.~ - 49,
some one is resting from sorrow and sin.
Hsn,y where earth's conflicts enter net in
Joyous as birds. when morning IL bright.
Whep the sweet eunbes NJ have brought IN their /
light
Weary With sowing and never 70 reap,
veaYv with labor and welcoming sleep
Some sre's departed 70. Heavens bright shore. |
Ring the bell softly there's Grape - The door
Ring the bell sefsiy, there's GRAPE on The door
ANGELS we're ssxiossiy longing 10 meet
One Who walks With me in Heavens bright
Loved ones hsv. whispered shas some one 10
Free from earth's trials, and tskiag swee, rest.
Yes there is one more in angelic bliss
One less 10 cherish, sod one Tess 70 kies;
One more departed to Heavens bright shore.
Ring the bell softly. there's Grape on the door
hing the bell ssfA., there crepe on the door
Utah has church property worth $780,
900.
There is quite revival among the reli-
gious community in Philadelphia.
The Latter Day Saints of Council Bluffs
are building church.
The Christian Worker Is the name OF
new union religious paper to be started in
Milwaukee.
A man of the world may have enough OF
the world to sink him, but he can never
have enough to satisfy him.
We do not easily discover our faults
the clearcst eyes do not see tho cheeks be-
low, nor the throw above.
Not that which men do worthily, but
that which they do successfully. is what
history makes haste to record.
The Cleveland Leader says that city has
forty-three Protestant churches, with an
average attendance of fifteen sheussnd
seven Romish churches, with twelve thou
sand astsudance and Two synagogues. with
three hundred and City attendance.
A drunken fellow had wandered into
Sunday school, and taken seat among
the prim scholars, when the teacher accost-
I'd him with "Why. james, do you know
what condition you are in "Ysah'm III
tn gall 7 bitnss. N tn bonds of 'niluity.
Ask INC some bar queshns."
NAxg OF rBE DEIry.-It 10 singular that
the nAns II God should b spelt with foul
letters in almost every language. II y
in Latin, Deus; French. Disu; Greek.
Zeus German, dott Scandinavian, Odm;
Swedish, Codd; Ilebrew. Adon, Syrian.
Adsd: Persian, Sypa Tastarian, ldgs ;
Spanish. Dias; East Indiana. Esgi or Zeul
Turkish. Add; Peruvian, Liam; Wallach-
Gin. Zens; Etsuvisn, Chur; Tyrrhenian,
Ehes: Irish, Deb Crotian, Doga; Mag
yarisn, Csss Arsbisn, Ala Dalmatian,
Rogt.
COP Gowns brother And sister were
playing in the dining room. when their
mother Get basket Of cakes On the tsa-ta
bic, and went out.
.;How nice they look T. said the boy,
reaching to take ons. His sister earnestly
objected, and even drew back bic hand, re.
peating that il was against their mothers
direction.
"She did not count Them" said he.
"Dut perhaps God did," answered ths
sister.
So be Withdrew from tho temptation, and
sitting down. seemed to medit.te. "lou
are riEht," replied he, looking at her will
. cheerful yet serious air "0od doe
count for the Bible says the hairs OF oul
head are all numbered.
Rev. Robert Laird Collier, pastor Of til.
church Of the Messiah, Chicago, delivered I
sermon last Sunday morning, in his church
on 1.-THE Lessons Of the late Opera HOUSE
Meeting" The text will be found IL
Matthew, XVI, 8; "Can ye no. discern thu
signs Of the times?"
Mr.. Collier said that the meeting ct thu
opera house ON last Sabbath evening sur
prissd no less the friends Of tho movemen
, than ito enemies. Such popular demon
STATIONS are not unusual among those con
nectsd with the liberal cause. He remind
, cd his audiencs that oil the people in tina
vast audience were Tot in doctrinal sympa
thy with either Universalisn or Unitarian
ism; but they were OF oil sects and repre-
scented al shades OF doctrinal opinion. frou
high Calvanism to Atheism. 1t should nc
b. thought that the churches will nue.
augment their numbers by such popula
denominations. The growth Of . churc
IL distinctivsly church work, . growt
within the church, rather than the resul
Of popular enthusiasm. People so
church, not so much where their intellet
tual convictions are met, as whe,e the
social needs arc supplied. The speaker b,
lieved he spoke within the truth when h
said that At least one third Of all the mer
bers of evangelical churches were as tho
oughly with the new movement os MIA ow
1
.. churches because their social wants q,
Z supplied there, because. by family ties, b
tradition, and friendship they are proven
ed from leaving them.
The meeting at the opera house does M
mean tbs. the people generally are going
give up their orthodoxy and accept Iibcr
views. Liberty does not grow fast. LII
sralism il not plant of rapid growth, lii
tho Madeira vine. but, like the oak, j
grswth 10 slow, aud steady, aud strong, IN
it lasts for centuries.
But what did the opera house meetir
meant First, it means that the people q
in the posture Of inquirsrs. This has n
always been 80. In oil religions and Z
times, the priesthood has comprised Il
men who have pI esented the most obst
cles TO broad and free inquiry. The INA
of the people care comparatively nothir
about doctriual matters, and inquiry 10 n
|. vented by three considerations. Il 10 pr
: vented by forcs-by the force Of arms,
persecution, aud of legal enactment.
: England half the people are disssntsss, b
ATE compelled by law to help support
ligion they do not profess. So il ID vi
the Pops Of Rome, add thsse has alwa
been in the United States . party desire
! Of restricting religious opinions b. legal .
sctment. Mr. Collier attsibuted the e,
that in the Constitution there l. no re
gious bias, to The occurrence that On I
, COMMITTEES that drafted it were Adams Z,
Jeffersoe, the oasa Uuitasiaa, and ~ OF
er . free thinker. The reverend speak
\ was in faver Of total sbstinsnee from liqu
drinking Is beverage, but be was oppos
70 nsking pschib;eosy liquor IN. A .
had . right to be dfunkard il he chose
= be one. He had . right to violate She 81
bath IL he chose Nevertheless, the spes
er deprecated such violation.
Another means OF suppression Of free
= quiry 10 that Of moral pressure. Mr.. Coll
= illustrated this point by = reference 4
sermon preached . few weeks since b.
, Baptist clergy man Of this city, 10 prevs
people from attending tho late Uoitari
gathering That speaker was reported
have said that the Cnitarians had no
speet Coz Jesus Christ, and would - lief {
Hin Mr. ~ to apply that title TO man
Mr.. Collier characterized The statement
n false, and its ntterance showed that
person who made il Was either ignorant
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