The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-01

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| husband and six sons. We confidential
ly whisper to Anna Dickinson to marry
some good man and me care of him
Give it up ladies'; there isnot one Of
you who knows huw'to - place an elab-
crate policy on stabls basis. p,.,o sg..-
SIGHT AND SOUND IN RELIGION.
The pomp and circumstance of the
religion of Rome have about them a
charm irresistible by some characters
and inspire all who .understsnd their
meanings with q certain kind of awe
that is at least in the semblance of re-
ligious sentiment Grand cathedrals
Of the church, adorned by the mostpr
| cious treasures Of the artists and sculp-
| tors art, rise on every hand IN every
land where Christian feet often wander,
and through their painted windows
streams what Milton has called "the
dim religious light" We pity the
man or woman who can enter any Of
these cathedrals-temples erected to
what their constructors believe to be the
everything God--enter them and not
feel something Of that awe which always
proceeds worship, and fingers in the
heart after earnest devotion like stains
of sunlight upon the clouds when the
SUN has gone down in the west. The
pictures in them are visible prayers, and
in their vast recesses Turk the angels
Of our infancy, when the world was peo-
pied by FAIRIES and heaven was all about
US. To the devout they seem to be the
material home Of true Religion, and
even those who hate what they call the
! Scarlet Woman, but believe in the
Christ, cannot, if their faith be honest,
refuse to recognize in these decorated
structures a recognition Of the same
God at whose affairs they profess to wor.
ship. The magui6cence andssplendor
Of them have upon, the heart something
y. Of the effect which is produced by a
tumult among the material elements
y They challenge our wonder, compel ou1
attention and awe us like night anC
storm and darkness, when the lit lax,
4" shines phosphorc sea, or like grand
landscape spreading from our fee, som
Der or bright, but wonderful in thu
$ multiplicity. of its beauties and in it
: grandeur They speak to the hear
through the eye.
The Methodist church cannot an
does not care to boast Of venerable an
: Vastly buildings. 1t has no St. Peter
: no" st. Paupsl h 1t affects tsim
plicity in form, and finds betwee
bare walls a warmth of religious de
/ votion that exeites the establishment 0
the uninitiated beholder. "Christial
faith" says Hawthorn, ais CRANE
: cathedral, with divinely picture'
:; windows; standing without, you ca,
:; see no glory, nor can possibly imagin
.d amy; standing within, every ray o
= slight reveals 9 harmony of upspesk
able splendors." Looking at tn
!. To Methodist church from the outside
"a. there is little beauty visible, but tn
faithful of the church declare tina
: standing within, they behold stream
ing into it glories unspeakable, which
unlike the light flowing through pie
tured windows, can never fade ava,
And they believe this. No one VIII
has observed the intense earnestnel
of Methodistical worship can doul
= that they do. This fact was deepl
,ti impressed upon our mind by the seer
lie. we witnessed in the Methodist churcl
Use room last Thursday, when the COME
ence now in session in this city partoc
of the sacrament of the Lords Su
per. There was an intensity in I
~ ceremony that was impressive. 7
-, venerable bishop had prepared the W
'A' by a few eloquent words-had fill
the minds of his audience with q Sci
ar Of the solemnity of the occasion, a
the had aroused them into religious fery
rant Amens, and Glorys," and snatc