The Leavenworth weekly times., 1870-09-08
tF'Scsss the Nation. !

FTsss the Nation.
He believes that "relisicn is no: the
gloomy and formal thing" that ii is made
out to be in seminarics. IN scn,irariss, pale,
knock k-kneed Young men, with long hair,
hollow chests, and bad di.cstions, eat Gra-
ham crackers, and read Jonathan Edwards,
and practise the writing of elaborate scrno,ls
and never take walk, and are afraid cf a
horse, and wear black cs,,s, and blush PAIN
fully when Young women lock ut them.
No; religion is a cheerful thing. 50 he
wears m,istache. lie ss,ys nothin. forl,i.is
the ievOutcst follower of Christ to keep his
liver in good order; and that, if \ fast lrct-
ter cosHlucss tO that effect, why he shall get
one. lie holds that the weaker brcthern are
very weak, if they think hi glass If wine is
wVn-e for him than their str"n. coffee is for
them. Why should not sinner set forth
Ia his fellow sinners tho infinite merits oi the
Savior, without tying up his neck in white
muslin? So he valiantly turns down his
shirt collars; and his conservative ,lcaccns
are lucky il he dccs not wear Il ncck,ic of
some light shade, and smoke cigars ia tine
outskirts fthe village.
When he meets the intislcl tailor, he des
MT pass by him with an air of mingled pain
and rebuke which CAUSES that ill-tcmperpsl
little scWlndrel To blasPhene more hideously
than ever, and Ia lawl out To his s,d-eye,i
wife, a believer ypkesi with AN unlrlicvcr,
that there goes another of her Internal hyIp-
crite ParsUns. TN the contrary, he stops
genially at the shop window; goes further in
pointing ont errors in our version uf the
Scriptures than Tcm Paine himself, the
tailcr's favorite author; gets his measure
taken Eur 4 c,ai makes the little blasphcmcr
think to himself, well, anyhow. this aim one
Of yonr hollow -clcstcl croakers like oil Smith
or:young Skimp. or that Mcrkes; I~ints out,
then, that though this and tI,a, and th"I-
sand more errors NAV ls alleged by the
scofer, and freely admitted by the believers,
the eternal truths of the Bible are still as
near the tailor's soul, and of as tremendous
10 il, as ever; gives the tailor's
son a lesson in hoxinc; leaves the tailor in
the shop, and going into the back
parlor, pray- with the tailor, wiEe-ma a
dry set PRAYER like Skimp'., but a heartfelt
talk with his Father, which the tailor hears
through the dur; and h. comes ont, gets a
light for his cigar from the inhdei's prI~,
recommends him 10 procure such AMI such y |
brand Of tolaccv, and gees awsv leaving
Skerticns hadly staggered, and on III. high |
IV~Ns W dUI
li"Is attendance at ''evenin: meeting
The Live Man in the ministry never
breaches; he talks Christ is not to him an
he says, but his fesh-am'- blood
brU,her, who loves to I've addressed fan,il-
iarly. So, when preaching and praying, he
is MT averse TO little slang-Provi'ic'i it is
not Of the kind called sermoncse. What
harm is there in a joke from the pulpit? In
4 IL II
gentleman with more bloUi than brains; with
more ability to talk Haently than capaci,y for
about as spiritual minded ~
sock broker, and not 20 we'll n,annere.l; as
earned As magazine writer; As witty a~ i
ophmorer; as noisy a. a stump speak
r; as displessing person to any
sody who likes spiritual and moral teachers
% he men Of clear heads and clean hearts,
s any vverssvs, sh.f r.au well I,p conceived .,f