Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-10-29
SUNDAY READING.
A PremOnitiOn,

Robert Collyer, in a sermon at Saint Louis,
thus spoke of the experience of the day pro.
ceeding the great fire: ''And don't know that
on that Sunday anybody had any great alarm.
[ don't understand it now that we should not
have taken instant alarm. 1t seems to me now
that it was impossible some such feeling should
not have taken possession of the whole heart OF
us; but, do you know that it Is the general tes-
timony throughout the city the ministers mad
never remembered a SABBATH for q long time past
in which the congregations had so crowded the
churches, in which the worship was so sweet
and deep, and full of grace and OF the divine
favor. And don't remember in all my minis
try any Sunday which passed over my head IN
which my enjoyment of my services were so
deep and full, and which, between you and me
| thought l had done better in preaching:
Laughter / have had no idea how should
have selected for my morning. sermon a subject
closely connected with a text in one of the Cos
pels: Think you the men on whom the Tower
of Sloan fell were greater sinners than
any in Jerusalem 2 In the evening what should
I take, toe, but Paris as | had seen it in July
how degraded, how pitiful Then we sung the
doxology and every body went home
A CHICAGO JEREMIADE.-Mr. w. ID.
| Bancker has brought from Chicago to New
| York a curious memorial of the great fire.
| Among the ruins of the Western News
| Company's establishment, where an inn
| mense stock of periodicals and books was
reduced to ashes, there was found single
| leaf of a uuarto Bible charred around the
edges. It contained the first chapter of
the Lamentations of jeremiah, which
opens with the following words: How
doth the city sit solitary that was full of
people! How is she become as widow
| She that was great among the nations and
princess among the provinces, how is she
become tributary! She weepeth sore in
the night. and her tears are on her cheeks;
among all her lovers she hath none to COM
fort herr And that was the only frag-
ment of literature saved from the News
| Company's great depot. Chicago Tribune.
Thy PRAYERS AND THINE ALMs.-A
farmer, whose cribs were full of corn, was
accustomed to pray that the wants of the
needy be supplied ; but when any one i'll
needy circumstances asked for little OF
his corn, he said he had none to spare
One day, after hearing his father pray for
the poor and needy, his little son said to
him: $1,000
'Father, I wish l had your corn"
"Why, my son. what would you dc
with it? y asked the father. The child
replied:
II would answer your prayers"
We can answer our prayers Oftener than
we think. With regard to the poor, Jesus
saws aye have the poor with you always
and whatsoever We will we may do them
good.n How many answers to prayers de-
pend on our Willingness to do good.
A person in high life once went to Sir
Eardly Wilmot, at the time lord chief JUS
tice of the court of common pleas, under
the impression of great wrath and indig-
nation at real injury which he had re-
ceived from person high in the political
world, and which he was meditaitng how
to resent in the most ettectual manner.
After relating the particulars, he asked Sir
Eardly if he did not think it would be
manly to resent it. "Yes," said that en-
| inent man, "it will be manly to resent it
| but it will be God-like to forgive it." The
| gentleman declared that this had such an
instantaneous effect upon him that he
came away quite different man and in a
totally differenttemperf from that in which
! he went