Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-03-06
DAILY DEMOCRAT


The irst Methodist church 10 Massachu.
sstts was established IN 1891, snd there
are now 2Tl churches.
Let 10 try and correct our ewn short.
eomings, ard thus We viii best promote
the neral elevation Of others.
Rev. Smith, Of the Cedar Falls circuit, .
week ago last Sunday, rode thirty.two
miles, preached thres sermons at his sever
I'll appointments, administered the ordi-
nance Of baptism, received two into the
church, married . couple, aud then went
home singing "welceme sweet day Of
rest"
n The chips 60 cut. With the tide 70 sail in
fsr>eG Watsrs asd - visit strange ports.
SO it 10 With %. whsa ~ have asesd our
part In the drans Of life, ~ unnoor our
boat and slip quietly out With the tide 70
sail over stracgs sees until ~ tousA at the
port il TIE Dsautiful Land Whsse eur bost
will be mocIed forever. The tides nay
cone in and 70 out, bat " will 20 out No
more. The pilgrimags 10 over and the days
are one unsnding summer.
PasyupIcR. man 10 oorU Or less
marrow; every maa ~ be grew older hard.
ems into some prejudice. He did not
know they were prejudices; il he did, he
would shake them of and tread them under
his feet he thought them the most solid
and precious and permanent things in the
world; but It vas not wise that be should
be permitted to stereotype them, and be
able 10 transmit them to future generations.
EFFECT o. COMMUNICATING, 1 am
persuaded, would more strongly bring be-
fore Us what . new power Christianity VAS
in the world than 10 com pare the meaning
which 20 many words possessed before its
rise. and the deeper meaning which they
obtained % soon ~ they we're assumed BY
il % the vehicles Of its life, the new
thought and feeling, enlarging, purifying
and snnobling the very words which they
employ ed Trench on the study .f Words.
No 0osPEL ros 1ns PooR.-Ths upshot
81 oil this 10, that. - yet. ws have not
found the way 70 preach the Gospel - the
poor Either II is not the Gospel, o. it 10
not preached. The Gospel means "glad
t,ding.," good news and that cen hard
~ be called "good news" to the poor and
miserable, which only tells them how they
escape from an everlasting damuation Of
which damnation they, but for this very
OVsRVs Va 6vvo ov"es wVN.u "SvSa Ass'~
heard whisper. The Gospel preached to
the poor by Remish prissts does not, It
seems, make them more helpful, Intelligent
or rational. The Gospel preasAsd to the
poor BY the Protestant ministers does not,
% far 10 appears, make them mere indie
pendent or humane. What their ASSN
ance Of heaven may b. none can say.
Thsir earthly condition rsoaius the hatd
problem it always was. From psuperism,
turpituds, vice and crime the Gospel Of the
Church rscoils. What 10 to b dossi
Shall the peer have no Gospel preached 70
thsmi Shall they b left in their isnor.
ance, equalor and wrstchsdnsssr Where
10 the Gospel Of lesei Whore 10 the Cos
pei that tells men they ere the children Of
God, aud jeint>heirs with Jssus Of tbe
heavssly state! Where 10 the Gospel
which proclaims that the earth 10 homo,
existence . moral privilege, life school-
the Gospel Of sympathy, fellowship.
brotherhood Whore is the Gospel Of ets--
nal cheer, and hope, and promise, the Cos
pei Of forgiveness. the Gospel Of attraction ,
10. B. rockingham.