Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-08-19
What Is a Gentleman.


| have known men Of the toughest ex-
terror. who had been accustomed all
their lives to follow the plough and to
look after horses, As thorough gentlemen
in heart rs any nObleman that ever wore
ducal coronet. | have known them
as unseltIsh. | have kown them as
truthful. have known them as tender,
have known as kind, ! have known
them rs syapathising; and all these
qualities 90 to make what | understand
bv the term a gentleman. 1t is 4 no
bic privilege which has been sadly pros
tituted, and what | want to tell YOU is,
that the humblest man in Leeds, who
has the lowest work in life to do. may
vet. if his heart be tender. and pure, and
true, be in the most emphatic sense of
the word, gentleman.
ISsuRING CHURCHES Hon. John
owen. of Detroit, writes as follows on
this subject to the Nor'h- Ufaern ~
vOcaie: Fora long time whenever |
have seen notice of the loss of 4 church
building by fire. | have been careful TO
inquire rs TO whether it was insured or
not, and | am forced to the conclusion
that trustees of church property are
guilty of great neglect in regard to the
important trusts committed to their
keeping-they fail to meet their respon-
sibilities. We are very careful to protect
our own property, but act rs though
higher power would take care of the
Lords. Upon this subject our people
want even more than line upon line.
They should be constantly reminded
that church property must be kept in
sured; it'it is not. and the property is
burned up how it cmbarraSses our min
listers. who are generally put forward to
raise money, to build anew the waste
places; and then again, how il helps to
start anew if, after i fire, We have few
thousand dollars ready to build upon!
NY attention is called to the matter
Just now, because we have recently lost
two churches III our State by fire, with
out any insurance. There heve been
a number of instances recently where
churches have become a total loss by
fire or storm, for want of insurance
The very general belief that the Con
gresham of to-day is 4 mnch worse
sort of person than the Congressman of
long ago may not be entirely correct 1t
appears from an incident related in re-
Gently published volume entitled "The
Domestic Life Of Thomas Jefferson,
that ourreyoutionary torctathers in Con
gress assembled had their little items
of incidental expenses, many of them
quite as queer as those which astOnish
the constituents Of today. The follow
ing story is related by Mr.. Jefferson,
concerning the first Continental Con
gress:
"Delegate Harrison OF Virginia, de
string to stimulate, presented himself
and friend at a certain place where sup
plies were furnished Congress, and or
dered two glasses of brandy and water
The man in charge replied that liquors
were not included in the supplies fur
nished Congressman.
"Whv, said Harrison, what is it,ther,
that | see the New England members
come here and drink z
"Molasses and water, which they have
charged as SfaiiO",ry, was the reply
Then give me the brandy and water,
quoth Harrison, "and charge it as
fuel"
STRICT CoMMUNIoN.-The Rev. J. a.
Chambliss, pastor Of the 2nd Baptist
Church, Richmond, Va, made the fol
lowing announcement t. bis congrega-
ton on Sunday morning last
For the future, ! cannot undertake 10
maintain and dtfend he practice Of
strict communion as il noW p-eun'' IN
The 3meGcnn Baptist churches. | have
settled in this conviction, that our Sa-
yiour desired and enjoined that His dis
ciples, every one saved by His death,
should commemorate that death in the
ordinance Of the supper to the end Of
time and that while He also desired
and eDjoined that every disciple should
be immersed as the first act of obedi-
ence. He did not make the ordinance of
baptism that one who should consaen-
tiously err in judgment as to the man
ner Of observing the latter would be
thereby disqualified and prohibited from
observing the former. In other words,
that one who providentially or consci-
entiousIv is unbaptised may still COM
memorate that death by which he feels
that he has been saved.
The Charlottesville Intelligencer re-
calls attention to the following interest
ing fact 4:
within three miles Of Charlottes-
vile, and almost at the four points Of
the compass, at one time belonged to
men who will always occupy prominent
places in American history. Monticel
10. the home of Thomas Jefferson Pen
Park, where lived William Writ Mon
roe Hill, the property James Monroe,
and Franklin, which at one time belong
ed the Benjamin Franklin. /"
The Ku Klux trial, at Memphis, last
week, before the United States ComInis-
sioner, in which four men were arraign-
-xuI