, 1874-12-20
SUNDAY EEGS.

The New York Observer prints the follow
ing letter from q California Indy to the Pres.
byterian Board of Home Missions: ~
| I inclose yo1 <1.75 for ths Board Of HOME
Missions. This money Was saved IS follows: few
wecks SEQ resolved that all the eggs laid by my fowl
Sunday a,ould he so. and tho money put into the
| Treasury Of the Lord. The incioscd IL Sunday egg.
money. Being the wifo Of homo missionary send
1t to yon for the Board Of Home Missions. It will b<
| followed by similar donations hereafter.
| There is something very touching and
pathetic in the thought that the Presbyterian
hens belonging to this good California lady
devote one day in the week to laying pious
eggs for tho Home Missions. As the Obserre1
indorses both the hens and the eggs, it es-
| tablshes the abstract right of hens to work
Sundays, and we have little doubt that here
| after these particular hens will cack1e louder
| than ever as they review their religious lays,
/ md will pride themselves over the other
worldly hens of their neighborhood, whose
eggs, instead of contributing to the cause of
Homo Missions, either hatch unconsccrated
chickens, or garnish the tables Of the children
of this world on undevout toast.
It seems pity, however, that these eggs,
laid for such n cause, by such deyout hens,
born Of such kindly spirit Of benevolence
and devotion to our native heathen, should
be destined to go into the channels of worldly
trade and finally land in ungodly kettles and
fry-pans, without anything to distinguish
them from the fruit of other hens who do
their Sunday work without any reference to
the character of the day or the necessities Of
the Home Missions. There should be some
way of indicating these eggs. 4 hen engaged
in laying eggs for the Presbyterian denomi-
nation should be Us sacred as the white COW
of Bir1nah, the cat in Egypt, tho wolf that
sucked RoMuLus, and the goose that saved
Rome and her eggs. As other denominations
will 60 into the business Of Sunday eggs now
that the Presbyterions have commenced,
there is still more need for these distinctions,
Us Prof. PATTON, for instance, would not
want to cat eggs laid by Prof, SwNG's hens,
and eggs laid by ROBERT CoLL1En's hens
would give DR.. K1rTREDaE the dyspepsia.
There is another point of interest in this
Sunday-egg business The Observer, speak
ing Of the Home Mission business in general,
says:
This Is q very pretty instance Of Christian beuev-
o1ence and having mentioned it, We have only to add
that not onchaK tha amount pledged to the debt
Of Homo Missions and sustentaton, ty individuals
and presby 1T the Last Assembly, has been receir
ed yet. Not one-haf tho money actually pledged!
This shows how little dependence call bs placed
oral pledges made when men specially excited.
To these delinquent and untrustworthy
presbyteries and Presbyterian individuals
we commend these patient and devout Cali
fornia hens engaged SO quietly and unosten-
tatiously on Sundays giving up their SUBJ
stance, and even Offering up their hopes Of
posterity upon the altars of. Home Missions.
VIII not these unfaitlful subscribers have
pangs and qunl1ns as they contemplate the
picture? Go to the hen-coops, ye sluggards,
and consider the ways of Dame PAErLET! It
is little less than m Outrage upon the hens
that they should be expected to make good
the deficit Of lazy Christians.