The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-12-02
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lighted also to save them from their
/ so7T'o2rs.
The pews of our churches ought
to rest on pivots, SO the occupants
can see who comes in without
strainir9 their necks.
Iowa has some five thousand
more Mcthodists than all the other
| Protestant denominations i'll the
State put together.
\ S;ouelD BUSINESS PRINCIPLE.
several of the principle firms. i'll
/ Chicago have refused to advertise
i'll sunday newspapers, believing
that this practice tends to prevent
t the proper Observance CT tie Chris
tan Sabbath, and is thus injurious
! not only To tie moral and religious,
| but to the business interests OF the
city.
TIE LAST or ttAETIl.-A few
friends will 60 and bury us afiec-
ton will rear a stone aid plant q
few flowers over our graves IN a
brief period the little hiilock will be
smoothed down, and the stone will
fall, and neither stranger nor friend
viii! be concerned 10 ask which one
Of the forgotten millions OF the earth
was buried there. Every yestige
that we ever lived upon earth will
have vanished away. All the little
memorials OF oar remembrance
the lock oi hair encased in gold, CT
the portrait that hung in our dwell
ing, will cease to have interest
to any living being.
\ lady says She knows a man
| that prayed night and morning,
preached on Sundays, and was q
rich farmer beside. lis wife MIXED
tie cows III all sorts Of weather, cut
most Of the wood, b;lilt the fire,
churned, economical, and died OF
consumption. lie put n weed on
his hat, tried to resign himself to the
'sdispe:isation Of Providence" | when
he lad ought to have been tried for
womanslaughter in tie first degree,
and sentenced to chop wood and
milk cows in the rain all the rest OF
his lie.
\ PRAYER FoR EpIroEs.-Rev.
Charles %55ysey having been con-
demned by the Episcopal church for
heresy has commenced to found a
religion OF his own III London. lie
las drawn up prayers, cut up the
APOSTLES and Nicenc Creeds, and
made up an original programme OF
exercises which hc presents as pure
extracts Of the Gospel. One OF his
Litanies contains this beseeehment :
"Ihat it may please Thee to help
all literary persons and editors OF
the public press, that they may use
all their powers in the cause OF
truth and righteousness, and rise
above the praise and blame OF
men,"
Those who may differon the most
essential ami distinctive doctrines of
the Christian faith can unite in this
prayer.
ArHEIsM.-Gne of the most pain
ful proof of weakness Of the Partisan
cause is the dying words Of General
Henry, one OF the Communist lead
ers, who was captured and executed
by the government. Being offered
a Catholic priest or Protestant
5oaste,o', hedeclined, saying, II be-
lievc in no God; none Of us do.
We are of the universal atheistical
republic. Why should l see a
priest %.
1t is as impossible to preserve good
looks with q troop of bad passions
feeding on the blood, a set Of low
loves trampling through the heart,
and q selfish, disdainful spirit en-
throned in the will, as to preserve
an elegant mansion with litter OF
swine III the basement, a tribe OF
gipsies i'll the parlor, and owl and
vultures i'll the upper apartments.
Badness and beauty will no more
keep company than poison will con-
sort with health or an elegant carv-
ing survive the furnace fire. The
experiment ofputting them together
has been tried for thousands o1
years, but with an unvarying re.
suit.
ORIGIN OF THE ROSES. On a
a certain time, at Bethlehem, there
was beautiful young girl who was
charged with crime, and sentenced
to be burned to death. They led
her into a field and piled fagots
around her, and set them on fire
But she being innocent, prayed
while they were burning, that some
wonderful thing might take place
to show that she was INNOCENT And