The Grange advance., 1874-12-01

States. Last fall, Immediately after
harvest, in passing through the richest
section of Goodhue County we found
that the most prosperous farmers made
it practice as soon as their wheat was
in shock, to commence hauling out ma
nure. We found that farmers who
we're treating their land were not only
getting larger crops but that their farms
were yielding larger profit for the la
Dor bestowed, showing the fallacy of the
idea that manuring would not pay the
cost in immediate results. In manur-
ing the benefits should not be measured
by the increased profits Of one or two
years The keeping up the land, which
will tell in crops ten years hence should
be taken into account.
Singing fishes. whose music resembles
the playing of number of organs and is
sofull of mysterious and fantastic sounds
that the listener feels himself seized by
kind Of momentary intoxication, have
been found by one NJ. Dufosse off the
the coast of France. A musical aquari-
utn has been suggested as an accom-
paniment to the singing Of the Gagged ca.
nary birds.
Carl Schurz, in his recent lecture
at St. Paul and Minneapolis, walked up
some ofhis church going hearers by the
idea that the reason why the efforts of
reformers were not more successful, was
because they overlooked the necessity for
the relaxation and amusement among the
working classes, which by the way in
cludes nearly everybody in this country.
There is no doubt that Senator Schurz
holds one extreme Of which the old Pu-
ritans and all who would square the
lives Of mankind by the old Puritan's s
rules have held and now hold the oppo-
site extreme. When the learned Seua-
tor says that the IS millionaires would do
more to reform society if they would
grant bequests for the establishment
Of gardens and concert halls rather than
for churches and MISSIONS we think he
is fully as much in the wrong as those
who claim that the only way to keep
Sabbath is to keep it within the four
walls Of an over crowded, poorly heated
and worse ventilated church, to sit in
straight backed seats and to listen to
heavy sermons on the doctrines of eter-
nal damnation, the last judgment, the
benefits Of baptism or on the character
istic doctrines Of the sects and no more.
There is nothing in the teaching of the
Great Teacher, who lead his disciples
through the fields of corn on the Sab
bath day and taught them by the side
Of the river or lake and on the noun
tains, that would favor the one idea
more than the other. He led the peo.
pie out of the crowded city to the gar
den and through the fields and taug ght
them lessons from the flowers, the grow
ing grain, and the birds, and fed them
on bread and fish, but He did not find
| it necessary for their relaxation to make
them drunk, nor to set them to indulg.
ing in any violation of the laws of nature
or of the laws of God.
There is nothing human that is per-
feet, and We think that it is as we'll to
admit that churches made of human
beings are imperfect as we'll as other in
stitutions, and to try and improve. The
tendency is and has been to make the
church pleasanter and more attractive
place, and to make music a more impor
tant feature in public worship, and
when the preaching is made less weightJ
and more like teaching, in which the
hearers participate as learners, instead
of being held off at arms length as cul
prits under .sentance receiving public
reproof for their crimes, and innocen
sociality is no longer tabooed, and. in I
word, when the church is made NOR,
ike a home in which all are nlaced AM