Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-09-03


It reported in your paper-issue OF
august lss- 1873.
1 cannot say that I ever met you,
and l know nothing further of Brother
McGrath, personally, than whit I saw
when. In the cold and stormy wintry
weather 1t White Pine, l beheld him
and heard him upholding the banner
OF civilization with the least amount
OF dogma, beside the open graves OF
dead mlners-dead miners, whose
weary lives In the wide and open fields
of temptation aud dangerous labor,
had worn themselves away following
the fieeting shadow Of n great hope
long deferred.
How near to the boundary Of mar
tyrdom this new departure may draw
Mr.. McGrath's adventurous feet, l
know not. That 1t must put him to
tho test. I well know, when | think
abroad into the worlds dogmatic his-
tory, to find that nothing Is so strong
In the bitter unkindness as what we
call religious prejudiee-that prejudice
which looks for nothing good outside
the hlgh picket fence OF us own tehets'
Yet there Is good IN the world outside
OF anything that ever enanaeea usIeSs-
lehsm or Rome and there was good
In the world before the tragedy Of Col
,gotha was enacted ; aud probably
shere VII, oe goou anu iigaeous uH
inSs IN the iar iu.ure Oh 10 wo,iu
when the divided anu segregated Iailn
OF our mmeoias ahcessols snail 70 az
completely iost as Is the = ,aisl'
OF Ihe great CONTRACTOR wno 4Ssseu 'ne
Uuliu'lS VI y.Iuu Vi o"e'p'
'"y rSs t.ns ~ ,ha vorL.rs ~
Ing LIQUIDS WIN ,h,,,~ anshi,,om
attn Is .ne.r g.eSt nI"n
Geaa, a"d Srnm o,har Void
anusna.nn ra,in;o,s anS m,,,,srv
ynqa 49,, o 49,. an ~
wiose ass.kn rS.. 80
M, ' anN o,,,,S ,hav no no. n.n ,hav
not, hof so.i INC os' ,,Sh,aa"s
tue g.eh. Pronose,s VI .,su. gus
or rlgnt aoIng, eau tneIa uoo'
srlnes Imply anu
iney may say; .ne ",uleu On mt'
iorces "hiSl ,oliow Cnfls.inn m1
SQUARES over tne woriI 70 .o,cioiy ~.
teriere with otner people oeilelS, Chat
OBJECT Is 10 spreau Tue gospei,
TIN earth remotest nation
mas h0Afa ''sSsiAn nA
But In such cases there Is no evidence
that the end justihes the means. And
II earth's remotest nation does not
banker alter Messiah's name, or MA
hornets name. or n name OF Gnada-
ma, or oil Joe smith when presented 10
them, what right-particniarly D
North American rlght-has the ioi.
Of n or any OF these faith
weavers to first send missionaries aud
then arms, and then trading-posls
whereby to fasten, In self-supporting
missions, faith upon n people who
have not asked for 1t. ASK and ye
shall receive" Is undoubtedly good
and fair doctrlae. promotive OF we'll
; hut "exist, and we'll ring It
In oil you," Is the doctrine of dogma.
10 teach. and by faithful example en-
courage well-doing and fair.doing and
truth-doing, Is not a matter for great
organizations aud high : crowned
churches to-day any more than it was
when Socrates taught that doing we'll
and wisely In this life promised doing
well and wisely In some other life no
more than. 1t did when Christ amid
the crush and battle Of great organiza-
sions, preached that man, simply as
man ana woman. asiue ron MS OF ner
nationality or tribal relation. was the
highest ooJeGt OF human care: ~
word, that all human goodness' ooth
national and Individual, grows from
the cradle upward, through local do
mestic teaching anu example; n NOT
from the seat OF organized power
DOWNWARD 70 lhe crauie.
II Brother MeGrath mas found a 10
cality; II which ne can ock the crnuie
OF righteousness 70 the music o. tne
simple psalms Oh wel!-uo.ng anu .a.r,
doing and trutn-uoing' ms nead Is y
when ne resolves ~ auhe.e w sno
work that Is before him. lhat Is 70
say. his head 10 level, IN the opinion OF
siniul . sinner as ullves tue ousty
roads rom one sin,ui town 20 anosner
In the very. sinful state OF NEVADA.
have tried 70 Know, and' 40
not know auout IL, tne,e 70
nothing the United States need: 20
much AS a livening up, an awakening,
OF her knowledge OF pain right anu
wrong, outside OF dogmatic tenets.
That Is to say, We all want to be, or
need to be encouraged to tell the truth,
write the truth, act the truth, and live
the truth, one to another-no matter
what organization, religious, social,
or monetary loses or gains by 1t. 'Ths
truth will last when the organization
has persisted.
Our politics, at times come down
on us, like = spring freshet from a
wooded mountain stream, crowded
with floating lies-whole lies, half
lies, fractions and splinters OF lies
drifting and snrging to and fro. Over
this flood the church bells toll and toll,
aud echo and re-echo In circles far
away. What Is the use Of tolling over
the flood? New drift will come down
with the next spring flow. The bet
ter way Is, to come out Of that meet
Ing house, take of your coat, gather
up your AZ and 60 to chopping up
stream.
IL understand Brother McGrath,
he has concluded to encourage chop
nIn0 nm CfrnQm m The Rnn thnt ha