The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-06

and the platform, it is to be feared they
are hardly less SO in the meeting house,
ana there they are doublv offensive, if
not unpardonable There can be little
doubt that many man whose life is
thoroughly selfish cheats himself into
the belief that he is pious because he
parrots with ease the phrases Of piety
and orthodoxy. The number of such
pet phrases and cant terms whick are re-
peated at this day, apparently without
thought OF their meaning, is large and
Increasing. Who ever attended a mis-
sonary meeting without hearing "the
Macedonian cry" and an account Of some
little interest,"" and Fields white for
the harvest?" Who is not cary Of the
dirg dong Of "our Zion" and the sole
csm of Gin our midst" and who does not
long for verbal millennium when
Christians shall no longer "feel to fake"
and grant to giye?" "How much I
regret" says Coleridge, chat so many
religious persons Of the present day
think it necessary to adopt a certain
cant of manner and phraseology as a to.
ken to teach other! They must impr0ce
this and that text, and they must do SO
and so in d pT0yerful way and so on.
A young lady urged upon me, the other
cay, that such and such feelings were
the n1nTr01O Of ali religion; upon which
recommended her to try to walk to Lon.
don on her marrow-bones only" Many
persons have very erroneous ideas of
what constitutes religious conversation.
That IS not necessarily religious talk
which is interlarded with religious
phrases, or which is solely about divine
things but that which is permeated
with religious feeling, which is full Of
truth, reverence, and love, whatever the
theme may be. Who has not heard soms
souls talk Of the most worldly things in a
way that made the nearer feel the cleo
trio current of spirituality playing
through their words, and electrifying bis
whole spiritual being? And who has
not heard other persons talk about the
diviness things in so dry, formal. and
soulless way that their words seemed Il
PROCLAMATION, and chilled him to the core?
When Lady Tow nsend las asked if
Whitfield had recanted, she replied,
''No; he has only canted" Often, when
there is no deliberate hypocrisy, good
men use language SO exaggerated and
unreal as to do more harm than the
grossest worldliuess. We have often,
in thinking upon this subject, called to
mind a saying of DIR. Sharp, of Boston,
a Baptist preacher, who was q hotor Of
all cant and shams "There's Dr."
said he, about the time Of the first meet
ing of the Evangelical Alliance, "who
went all the way to Europe to talk up
brotherly love. If be should meet a
poor Baptist minister in the street, he
wouldn't 5speak to him." Nothing is
cheaper than pious or benevolent talk
A man may have heart overlooking
with love and sympathy, even though
lie is not in the habit Of exhibiting on
his cards. %. Good Soul, Philanthro-
pist," and was never known to unfold
his cambria with the words, Let US
weep" 1t has been truly said that when
good mon, who have no great religious
fervor, use fervent language, which they
have caught from others, or which was
the natural expressio of what they felt
in other and better years, they cannot
tell whet q disastrous impression they
produce upon Fkeen and discriminating
M nds. The cheat is at once detected.
and "the hasty Inference is drawn that
all expressions Of religious earnestness
are affected and artificial. The honest
and irrepressible utterance Of strong
conviction and deep emotion commands
respect but intense words should never
be used when the religious life is not in,
tense"
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The destiny of the sovereigas who have
ruled France has been strange one.
It is stated that with the exception of
Louis XVIII; no. one Of the French
monarchs has died at The Tuileries Louis
XVI was ouillotined at La Place de la