, 1874-12-20

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OF courao lr. Pentecost complied with a re.
quest which vergcd 60 clogo upon peremptory
| order.
| SUNDAY READING.
Dr.. John Hall Gays that in England people arc
divided into chu1chmcn and d1ssenters, but that
in America they might properly be divided into
churchmen and absentera.
| "a home without children is liks Heaven with
out angels" says deacon. We just want tc
have him got out OF bed four timns night for =
month, to keep the baby's lcgs covered up.
An chronological numismatolosist wishes to
| know ii tho coin known as an angel (from the
root not Of all cyi1, but Of the Greek 'Asselos'
Was equivalent to lone sent."-Indpends7.
John Henry, whose first {and only born has
just been to /. toy-shop, says twas tin trumpet
that knocked tho stuffng out Of the walls OF
Jericho. and mighty good reason for it, too.
| The clergy OF schenectady have addressed u
circular to their parishloners, requesting them
| TO die at such tlmeB rs 1nay make it convenient
to ba buried on sono other day than Sunday.
| Detroit Free Press: a Chicago man Owls a
| dog which knows when Sunday comes. He
| knows 1t because on that da; his master always
gets down his fish polo, aud leaves tho house by
| the back door.
What is tho use Of giving boy Is cents to 60
! to Suuday-schoo!, when he can buy half dozen
| fsh-hooks for 1214cents: Economy, s.ys Solo
mon, il ono thing, and e1travagancs another
| Brooklyn Argus.
The mserics Of life begin to oppress US As
/ soon as We 1eare our cradles. I.ereea Troy
boy, for instance, asking hin mother, Efter shad
| dinner. "where did God find Nil the bones to
| mako the first shad of2"
"a eacrilegious burglar recently broks into m
/ Eipacnpa1 Church Henderenn Er sytd stn1a
"tEo parcsols, 4 mirror. and table-coth," and
| old-fashioned Protestants say they kno3 what
| Hitcslism would lead to.
1t Bungtown they have had tah1eau OF the
| Prodisn1 Son. The scene OF tho prodiga1 feod-
| ing tie swine was represented by ! pork-mer-
| This part of tho programme was highly succoss-
| full
| Six young ladies of Philadelphia who had their
missionary contributions stolen from their pock-
| ets in church, got mad and marched out Of the
| sacred edtce exclaiming: Now, let them little
nigger babies in Africa buy their own soothing
| slrup."
| There is one facl to be observed in reference
| to tho wickedest young man III the neighbor-
hood, theinfluencc of Which no amount Of Sum-
day-achool preccpt can overcome and that is tho
fondness With which al the pretty girls 'spoon II
| on him.
The rerlval at Waukon. Ia, under the dircc-
tion Of the Rev, Miss Leonard. has walked on
until it has resul:ed IN twenty-five conversions.
As only oDe Of those young men can marty Hiss
Leonard, it is to be feared that the mar fall
from grace.
So nondrous good are the 1aity of Casey
County, Ky, that the only person found bad
enough to put in Jail since last June is clergy
man aod, in his case, 1t it had been IN New
Jersey, there would only have been church IN
vcstigation.
Milwaukee Netcs Tho best of Christians oc-
casion.l1y have rags to eoll and it greves us to
state. also, that the best of Christians will
sometimes roll an old 1at-iron up in Il ragged
shirt and chuck it down in tho bag just to give
it ballast.
mother" said little urchin. whom he came
homo from church, II have heard such 4 smart
preacher. He stamped and made such noise,
and then he got mad he shook his hat8 at tho
folks, aud there wasn't anybody dared to so up
and fight him."
A little boy once brought eggs for the contri
bution-bo1. When asked how he camo by the
Offering, lie confessed to having tied up q uogh-
boris hen to his bed-post, - and" said he, tn
unphantly, :" them eggs is mine, for she laid
'em in my straw bed"
"My very d-o-a-r children" said a travelling
sunday-school gimlet, II love you 30 much, I
could talk all day to you, but time forbids but
II hopo be WON'T" said ros:loss, ret-headed
boy. He'll talk US to death, Won't he, jim"
spurgeon was right in saying that "cigar
WAS thing for which to thank God, but when
somebody gave him Connecticut 3-center he re-
marked: "You can't expect me to be thankful
for cigar II the devil made it," This only shows
the folly Of man assuming to give an opinion,
who ia no judge OF tobacco.
Johnny aared himself trouble but lost marks
in his definition exercise yesterday. Ho got
bfavely through ''presbvter." which ho found,
by looking it out, to be one who had had the lay
han frrf fh1
word was s. etissenter,' and in an evil moment
johnny. without turning Leaf in his dictionary,
wroto " one who has had tho dysoaterJ.'
When tho Rev. DeWitt TaImaso gets through
with bis theatrical sensation he had better turn
his attention to Nevada Justice iately appealed
monte men who had swindled a traveller, and
who refused to do so,- SAYING that the odense
came under the head OF 'Diapenaa:ions Of
Providence" aud tha: he hadn't Jurisdiction.
The Rev. D. Williams. Il minister of Llanvr-
tyd, Wales, died recently. and another minister
OF which the following is tho cream: He
died in his harness, and his buckles were uu-
done Us noiselossly IS the angel unbarred and
unlocked the prison in which Peter was con-
OF deceased person that he has ''pes5cd in
his checks" or ''petered out; let ua say that
he has q undono his buckles-'
4 pleasing Incident is told to US by clergy
man who haa just returned from . health-ttp
He relates how baggage-nan on ! far Western
railroad was SO i,npelied by force OF habit that
he began to knock, sud kick. and jana the trunk
OF m elephant, mcnagetlo company having ths
beast On z aa.-car. The force Of habit was Eluo
strong, and the heap Of blood and bones beside |
tue track demonstrated that for once, in rail-
road encounter tho trunk lad the best Of it,. As
above remarked. this incident comes from tho
lips Of Clergyman lately returned from Vest
ern trip taken for his health.
4 Detroit wom2n called at one Of tho book |
stores the other day, and said she would like to
take n look at some !" chro-noea," aa she ranted |
to find something to picaso Harvey, who had |
wozked On the farm Iii suuuer, and should be |
rf3ei rail-