Arizona citizen., 1873-05-17

| the CelG GDfateQ OIQ Cnr1SlldL-DdHltl 1 DTew-he who once ruined the pastor and deacons of his own church iu a stock operation did 1t deliberately l too, just as I told you partners in any
 other pursuit here will go outside and put up jobs to bust each other. And l yet We are all honorable men. Judas
 was more honorable in trying to test 1 the partnership or the Savior with the
 Father of us all. I could not help
 thinking of Daniel and the resurrec-
 ton ceremonies that were to and did
 come off yesterday at Trinity. It was
 the biggest thing l have yet seen and
 heard ill the way of sacred music and
 ceremony. It was an episcopal outfit
 and of course the sermon was of
 secondary import. This was specially
 good, being only fifteen minutes long,
 and n effect t appsaro- like au at-
 tempt 10 warm up cold hash with g.
 se.ies of taIlow candles. a banning
 out of 8 dogma at both ends But l
 felt sort oi exhausted before 1t was
 all though-tuaiug in my overcoat a
 siE-shooter in one pocket and 90 cork
 screw in the other. Joaquin Miller
 called New | orK g great city or small
 theives which may account for my
 going heeled in day light to church.
 fearing some one might want my re-
 maining two dollars and half more
 than l did. Last night I heard my old stand by, Beecher. It was all I
 wanted in the way of preaching: he only stated my own ideas better than 1 could-to the effect that one can be as good outside of a meeting-house
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 want to be- Bat here is a terrible struggle gong ou now between the thinkers and the painters in religious -a4is. the one side try to paint hell ou tine sky for all outside their doors, and heaven alone on the wallso their Sunday residences. The other school, with all the peryersity of J. Billing mule, refuse to paint the devil blacker than he is, and, to (again quote J. B., insist that the best judges of color will fail to tell negro's soul in heaven from that of any other. But such men as Theodore Parker, (gone in, and H. W. Beecher, (extant,) have compelled the old birthstone peddlers to mix 1t largely with molasses; and then only children and lackadaisical vonnn women are inclined to buy 1t | Geographically. In this connection ] ! may remark that can get no word 1 from the "wicl,edest man in this i city. ! am afraid he has gone the ] way of Orville .alias " Awful, '') !. Gardner the reformed prlze-1ighter of l some years ago. The story is SO old 1. that It may be new to some of you. | He was preaching to some of his old 1 chuIns at the Bowery theater, one Sunday night. He was about getting in the life and sorrows of the Savior when half rotten potato 1 came down from the gallery and left
 it's mark on what was left of his nose. He turned 1t off on to the trials of Jesus and said, He "knew how it was Pretty soon 9 stale tnrrin nit our modern hero under the belt Still. he added that the man of sor- -0ws was ever thus imposed upon while gojng about doing good, and no ! amount of decayed vegetable matter .ouId turn his stomach while battling or the Lord. He went on with his iiscourse for a few moments when an ,gg not characteristic for extreme reshness splattered over his christian zed clean shirt-front and made it look ike cross between a smallpox flag md perfumed diaper. This last act vas a little too much even for the nner bosom of our Reformed, and he aid with some deliberation approach ng to vigorous climax, as follows ( My brethren and friends, I will be trough with this Jesus talk in just i've minutes, and if I can find the ellow who threw that egg, I'll break lis head or he can shoot me for a
 -" So with our Christians, eformed and otherwise, on Wall treet, and who listened to the strains at old Trinity yester- lay. To-day they are heard to out wear the wickedest man" on earth, nd direct it all against the fellow who Y eat them at the bull and bear game ' he dav hefOra w f