, 1869-02-05

Our Catholic brethren have set Us. at least
one good example their churches are no
silent as The tomb on week. days. Their wor
shippers do not do up all their religion o,
Sunday. |! may be only for a few moment
they stop ia through that open church door
on weekday, to kneel and lay down burden
too heavy elre to be borne. 1 like the Gus
tom. l should rather say, I like the remiu
der, and theopportunity thus afforded them
and / heartily wish that all our Protestan
churehe, c;uld be thus opened. If ricl
Chrstiahs object to the promiscuous use o
their yelvei lushious and gilded prayer,books
at least let the aisles and the altar be free 70
those who need God on the week -days-fo
the poor, the tired, the teupted-for thos,
who shrink, 10 their shabby habiliments. frou
the Sunday exhibition Of fine toilettes an,
supefne Christianity.
We're | minister, and obliged to preacl
to paiers and diamonds aud satins. on Sun.
day, [ think l should haze to ease nv hear
in some such way as this, to make nv pasto.
raj lie endurable, else my Office would seem
to P the most hollow of all mockeries
18th rich and the poor meet together, and
the lord is the Maker of them ALL" should
be iscribed outside my church-door, had |
one. l could not preach to those paniers
and heir owners. My tongue would be para.
lyzetat the sight of those kneelipg distor-
tionof womanhood, bearing such a resem>
blame to organ grinders monkeys. am
not are that | should not grow hystericaI
ovent, and laugh and cry 10 the same breath,
instad of preaching. can never tell what
Vensny disgust would take; but am sure
it INST have some escape-vslve. You may
say hat such wOrshippers Heaven save the
mar y need preaching too. tell you that
Woren, so given over to "the devil and all
his forks" are past praying for" having
eye, they see not; having ears, they hear
not, They are ossi6ed-impervious they
are )ead,sea apples, full of ashes. There
now feel better.
hving alluded to our Roman Catholic
frieds, allow me 10 ask leave of them to have
thecross surmounting all our Protestant
chuehes, unless they have taken out paten.
for he same. 1t is lovely to me, this SYM
bolas ] pass along the streets 1t rests my
hea to lok at it, amid the turmoil, and din,
andhurry, and anxious faces, aud sorrowful
face, aud, worse than all, the empty faces
tha l meet. say to myself, there is truth
ttei; there is hope and comfort there, and
thiitangle of life is not the end. When
am Protestant minister, the dear cross shall
be tumy church, and nobody shall stay away
from because they are ragged or poor, or
becaue the cushions are TOO nice. Oh,
like Gtholicism for that They are nearer
heaveIthan Protesiants on this point.
atvery glad for the Protestant noon>
day pper meetings, wheresOever held. One
may Re a great spiritual need on other
days ian Sunday. One may happen in
there-if such things are happen, which l
doubt an there learn that need, and the
way tsatisfy it. The devil is cunningly and
wisel lpusy every dag aud every night in the
week why should good Christians think to
eircuTent this skillful diplOmatist ia one Z
-onSunday onlyY The devil makes easy
all th paths leading to perdition. Christians
makehard and difficult the road to heaven,
withtheir 6ne churches, and fine worship
per-, and empty preaching once week.
AndAll around US pitiful hands arc out
strehed, and hungry hearts are waiting for
the wing Christian word of help, temporal
and piritual; aud men and women go down
intohe malstrom of despair. folly and sin
andVe open our churches aud let aceH dressed
Chrtians in to pray for them on Sunday.
I kko has no1l
Moiay, or Tuesday, or 4th of July, or any
thi1 you will, but not "Sunday." That
oncmeant something. FANNY FERN.