Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-28
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
SUNDAY HEADING.
The Perpetual RellGien.
~ HORACE surrH.

R.liaiors-frcm the soul deriving breath
Should know no death;
Yet do they perish. mingling taeir remains
With fallen faass;
Creeds esnons. dogmas. councils. are the
wrecked
And moulded Masonry of Intellect.
Apis. Osiris paramount Of yoie
On Egvpts shore
Wooden aud Thor, tsEough the wide North
With blood oatpoured--
Jove and the multiform dIyinities,
To whom the ras.P nations bowed their knees
Lo they are cast aside, dethroned, fosiorn.
Like the world chic ish dolls which but insult
lts eye adult, Il
Or PROSTATE scarecrows, on whose rags re ueso
With scorn proportioned to our former dresd.
Alas for human reason All Is change,
Ceaseless and arrange;
All ages from new systems, leaving heirs
To cancel theirs;
The future will but initiate the past,
And instability alone will last.
10 there no compass then, by which TO steer
This errine sphere
No tie that rnsy indissolub!y bind
To Cad, mankind
No code that may defy Tines sharpsst tooth.
NO nxeu, lmmutonIe, uneHfluK tutn
There 10, there is. One primitive and sure,
Religion pure.
Unchanaed ii spirit, though its forms and codes
Wear myriad modes,
Contains all crceds within it, mighty span
Iae tots u God Displayed IN lots q MN!
This is The Christians faith when rightly read;
oh may il spread,
Till earth, redeemed from every hateful leaven,
Makes peace with Heaven;
Below one blessed brotherhood OF love,
One Father worshlppei with one voice above
Keep yourself from opportunities and
God will keep you rom SINS.
Every man magnifes injuries he has re-
csived and lessons those he has inflicted.
Woe to him who smiles not over cradle,
and wesps not over . tomb.
Anger adds to rebuke neither grace nor
force, but love does both.
Dull men are TO be closely studied Their
qualities, like pearls. lie out OF sight, and
must be Owed for.
The repentance that 10 delayed until old
age 10 but too often . regret for the inahil-
to commit sin.
Cicero gives expression to Q beautiful
thought when he says, II 60 from life as
from an inn. not ~ frsm home"
The Methodist churches Of Boston are
generally enjoying season Of unusual 70
ligious interest.
Silence il the safest response for oil the
contradiction that arises from impertinencs,
vulgarity, or envy.
The Chinese have saying that an IN
lucky word dropped from the tongue can
not b brought back by . coach and six
| horses.
Benefit your friends that they love you
still more dearly; benefit ysur enemies that
they may become your friends.
Ex-Governor Henry S. Foots, Of Tonnes
see, Was recently received into the commu-
MON Of the n. E. Church, Nashville.
| The church property Of the Roman Cath
oliss in Lsavenworth, Kansas, 10 estimated
a 1475 900, while that Of oil other Chris
tisn denominations in that city 10 lsss than
100000.
I've influential curates of the Diossass
Of London, recently announced BY letter 70
the Bishop Of London that they bad jsined
the Church Of Rome. It 10 said that many
other clergy men Of ths same Diocsass are
about to take the same step.
| The remarkable revival in New Albany,
Indiana, 10 stia in progress. Since its CON-
meneemsnt about 607 persons have been
added to the Msthodist churches, and l75
to the Presbyterian church. The United
Brethren and Christian churches have also
shared largely in its fruits. The Ledger
says the saloons Of the place are very poor
| iy patronizsd, on account Of The number Of
their patrons who have been converted. All
the policemen in the place have signed the
temperance pledge.
| Bora GRsAr AND LirrLE.-A great and
learnen atheist once met plain country
man going to church. He asked him:
Where are you going?'
"To church, sir"
"What to do therey'
ITO worship God"
"Pray, tell me whether your God 10 .
great or little God"
| "fis 10 both, sir"
How can he be both p
| "He is 90 great, Sir, that the heaven Of
heavens cannot contain him, and so httts
that he can dwell in my POOR heart"
The atheist declared tina, this simple an
swer Of the countryma had more effect
upon his mind than al he volumes The
learned doctors had written upon the sub
jsct.
The Fulton I'D Democrat says: "Ons
Of our town clergymen, last Sunday, opened
services by reading a. length very full
and correct local price current how much
-four, butter. mea', lard, eggs, etc., were
worth /: end the price o: shoes, Goth, prints
L n
expansion or comment. But the most
ob,use sou! IN tho congregation understood
very well what this uuusual procedure
meant. The congregation took the bin,
and responded with a liberal dona,lon.
The following prices are paid for music
in some Of the Chicago churches: The
Second Presby terrain Church, which has the
finest qusrsette choir in the city, appro-
pria;ss $3.75o. Of which 81 400 Is paid to
the contralte. Mrs. Mattisob. The oreanist
receives 5000, the sophano $500, aud the
tenor and bass each $500. The Trinity
church pays $4,000. tho First Prssby tsrian.
$4,000, ST. Paul's Univsrsalist, -, 500, and
90 on. The First Baptist church has huge
choir Of some fifty singers. with the largest
organ in the city, and the music 10 very i'm
prsssive. The leader receives s., 900, and
the organist $500, which covers the whole
expense.
BEAUTIFUL ALLlGosY.-Mr. Critteuden
was engaged in defending man who had
been indicted for capital offsnse, he closed
his effort BY ,hs following striking and
beautiful aliegory:
When God in his eternal council couceiv-
ID the thought Of mans creation. he called
to him the three ministers waiting son-
stantly upon HE throne, Justice. Truth aod
Mercy. and thus addressed them:
.Shall W make man :" Then said Ina.
tiss. 20, God. mako him not, for be N
trampls upon thy lave" Truth made an.
swes also 20, God, make him not for hs
will polluts thy Sanetusries." But Merev
dropping upon her knees, and looking %
through her tears. exclaimed. 20. God
make him I; would watch over him vi,h
oil my care through ell The dask rsAhs
throssh which he may have - trad r.
Then God made man. and said tohim 20
man, thoa art the child o: Mere,-ro deal
with thy brothers"
The jury, when he had finished were II
tears. and against evidence. and What must
l hnvA hnAn fhase