, 1875-02-28
BREVlTIES.

The vilest sinner maj. ay.return-eTerythng Save
| an umbrella.
There is nothing 20 ngidly catholic as IN UNI
breIla-it keeps lent the year round
| 4 poor little fellow in mission Sunday
school, when asked his ida OF Heaven. replied !:
"a good warm fire all day.
4 Sunday-school bog complains OF the dila-
torineas Of the officers Of the echool in procuring
Minister Schenck's new work On !" Draw Poker"
/ for the elibrary.-Norristo,cn Herald.
"Johuny, my son," said pious parent, keep
| that commandment especially which forbids you
! to coyet your neighbor's ass. There isn't more
than iackass Or Two within hundred miles Of
ug."
Vermont clergymen arc never permitted to kiss
tho ladies' they hare just made brides Tho dear
creatures put up their hands with the remark ::
s'There, thatu do. I've seen you fellows
afore."
A colored congregation in Dayton have decided
to forgive their Clergyman for betting on three
card monte and losing S99 Of festival money
One OF the deacons remarked sVe is all hu-
man, and de game is very enticing."
John Gordon, Kentucky hotel-keeper is not
ashamed that he never prayed in lis life. He
does not reflect probably upon the wisdom Of
Falstaff, who said: '.ShaN I cot take my knees
in mino inn ?''-N. Louis RepaIlican.
Old Deacou Roberts was weiked up to 9 high
state Of enthusiasm in d revival. lie was e1-
horting the unconyorted to Zee from the wrath
to come before it was too lato for, said he,
the Lord is hero now, and He may not be hero
again for twenty years."
"Why," eaid country Clergyman to his flock,
do you always sleep in your Dew when an in
tho pulpit, while YOU are nil attention to every
ply, Il when you preach. Tn snrs alls right but
[ cannot trust stranger without keoping good
lookout"
"yes, cir" yelled . preacher in q Dakota
church enc SUNDAY morning, :. THERE'S more IT,
ing and swearing and Stealing and general devil
try to tue square ipch in this here town than ali
the rest of tho American country" and then the
congregation get up and dumped tho preacher
out Of the window.
And now thoy aro endoavoring to provo TINT
Pilgrims Progress" was the work Of G Dutch
man. the London 4t1euUuna presenting the
theory, but We shall not believe it. To use the
beautful language Of metaphor, he treads upon
tue corns OF cur literary pridc who interferes
with our Bunyau's.
Some hypocritical wiseacre has recently
knocked all the stuthng out OF the beautiful hymn
beginning ''By cool Siioam's shady fili, how fair
the Lily grows," by discovering aud announcing
that every circumstance Of soil, climate, aud con-
dition reuders it impossible for Lily to grow
anywhere near eiloam-
a plous hTe-company IN Maine has God guide
Us u for its motto< and. when He doesn't guide it
to the hydrant till the opposition engine has ia
ken tho water, tho ferT7d remarks OF it's ueiu-
bers. and the merry clatter Of spauners and anou-
key-wrenches on helmets, make up tout ense,n-
Die altogether without parallel since the battle OF
Agiucourt, or the fs int between the Monitor and
Merrimac.
Tho Newburyport Herald 7cates that recently
a benevolent gentleman from Vermont applied to
Boston gentleman foraid in sending a Vernon.
missionary to Turkey. Ihe reply was az follows:
- hays invested much in Vermont ae:urities>
and lost many thousands by the acts of your mil
road men. sustained By the people and the Courts.
I h.vs also lisod in Turkey, and had much inter-
course "3th her people, wuull fat rather give
my money to send Turks rs missionaries to ge1-
mont
1SCoSGRUTTtEs OF HTMNs.
h'eekty Iserieu.
In the course OF recent lecture on "Congre-
g2tional Psalmody," the Rev. DR.. Allan noticed
some OF the incongtuities that usedt occur by
the awkward divisions in repetition lines. For
instance "s Love thee batter than before was
divided 'sLove thoe bet-;" s'My poor polluted
heart" became 81 Ny poor pol-;" - Wo'n catch
tho Aeetin. hour" Was sung ''Well catch the
flce-;;" "a And take thy pilgrim homo" became
And take thy pill" 81 And in the pious he de-
lights Vas sung * Ana in the pi- and in the
pi-;" and st Send down salvation from On high"
became ''Send down sal-;" 4 soprano In one
case sang " Oh for man." and the chorus re-
sponded :" Oh for mansion IN tho skies." In
one case the soprano modcst1y sang s. Teach no
to kiss :" e'alto took up the strain, Z" Teach
me to kies." while the bass rendered it quito pro-
sale by singing - Teach me to kiss ths rod