The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-06
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~ FAulY kxraoior. The Uaised Hss0yter
ian throws ont . hint on this point that DE-
serves confederation:
We need ali through, this country more
truly religions families. Wehave many men
and women, Who 70 to church and arc dill
rent in attepding to church mateafU, Who fai
Of making their houses Boshe1g, diDei1gaehed
By the devotioas than are thsre rendered t.
God. There Is looseness in family manage
ment nowadays that must be very striking
to those Whose memories run back to the
practices ofA past generation.
Indeed, family worship 10 not half - uni
versal among Christians - i was in times
! past and whore it il kept mp, there u light
ness and Cal . essness about It, IN many Inv
stances, that would have been shocking to
our more devout fathers. All the restraints
of home are loosened, and - consequence,
there is not that pious influence radiating
from Christian homes that wss % efficient
half century since. The Sabbath il looked
upon more % day Of recreation and carnal
enjoyment than o. time for devotion, and
church attendance as an act OF propriety
rather than a. duty We owe to God.
We are not prepared to say what il the
cause If all this. Possibly there 10 no one
cause which il cbarseable Of producing It
all. Very likely il is due to the general re-
laxation We end on al hands, and the dispo.
sition that exists to make religion % near OF
kin as possible to the pleasures and gratihca>
tons Of common worldliness. 1t 10 some
times said that our modern modes Of Chris
tan activity have something to do with it.
We strive to do nearly all in the church
We organize societies, start agencies, get up
various organizations, and by means of them
try to do everything. The children are taken
from home, and their training is given into the
hands Of strangers, and parents feel free
from much of their responsibility. The BIZ
ble-class and prayer-meeting are intended to
instruct young and old in the doctrine Of divine
truth, and afford opportunities for relating
Christian experience and sharpening up re-
ligiOus faith. The various meetings Of one
kind or another are all for the purpose Of do
ing by wholesale what was once effected by
private effort.
FINE LANGUAGE FOR MIsIsTER.-A cor,
respondent Of the Missouri Democrat, writ
ing from Weston, Missouri, says:
You are perhaps aware that the Missouri
Conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church South is in session here now. Last
Of Central College, located at Fayette, Mo. |
His subject was education. he is trying TO |
raise 500, 900 - an endowment. His re-
marks on the subject were very good, and |
we're appreciated; but when he went out Of
MS way to attack our free school system he |
sadly Murdered. He said our free schools |
were mere political engines for men to ride
nto political power on; - that "they taught
,r teach children to read and write, but at
he same time teach them to cut my throat"
md said other violent things. When he came
0 speak of the war he said "We were
,verrun BY horde Of spoon thieees from
hiefdom, thieves from the kingdom ofthieves
fellows who would steal anything from .
liver teaspoon 10 lady's gold watch, up to
he ecclesastical thieves who stole Our
hnrches''