Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-05
SUNDAY READING.
March ;. 1876

notwithstanding the storm wnicl uas
prevailed during the past week and the
Aorrid condition o. the streets, the rel!-
cious outlook in Carson is quite salts
factory. ! prominent relIsioner. we
Use the term as stage men do that OF
.lriyer. q gentleman of parts. whose ill.,
tzless i'll religion is expressed by flashing
and carsing at the leaders and pulling
them down ba,d or the bits, tells US
that the Carson people are being Chris
tianized like heaven The Episcopalians
md Catholics ale bringing Len; 10 bear
upon the letharsic, the Methodists are
stirring up the backsliders. and the Pres
hyterians are gathering the p-edestinated
nj, their attractive little Church. We
rus. the Influences may be lasting, more
- than the Moody * Sanksy business.
IS oar Preachers. at least TO not ape
those ecs,atic revivalists.
We can hardly conceiYe o. anything
more ludicrous than that o; 4 preacher
apIng Moody. And yet the CiriSijGg at
H'Jrl is the authority for the following:
Some have an idea that if they get an
edition of the bible like AIr. Moody,
they viii be magnetic and empowering.
so they get n copy OF Bagster's edition.
with black soft cover overdropping the
edges of the leaves. They carry It IN
;heir hands conspicuously- They flourish
j. III religious meetings. They lead-pel-
II tie margin. and all the time feel that
they ere getting more and more like Mr..
Moody. The great evangelist has all
Impressive way OF reading IL a whisper
10 luquIrers IL the side r0OL, here and
there Il passage from II open Bible. he
Toes It well and successfully; but forth
with these cOpyIsts, IL T. crowded room
NJ inquirers, must get out their Bible.
,0.i over the leaves, and 10y the INSULT
lent gas-iisht begin TO rea.l 10 Tie seek
ing soul.
IA exchange says:
We shall watch with Interest the 10
man Catholic papeEs, and sh;.l! expect 20
AeaE Of jubilee, appointed by the Pope,
over the death snd burial o. the ultra
Protestant opposition TO the vereration
Il relics Moody and Sankey have lei.
Philadelphia, and their rides az the de
pot building, in which they preached,
have been sold at auction The torres
-Issl t.y the reyivalists were sold, bring
ing. some of them five anI some five dol
..ars and 4 half apiece. The platform.
pulpit, pulpit carpet, etc, were sold FOR
Sl2J. The chaI.s on which Moody and
9aEkey Sd, Were sold f1r So each.
We aye sarteitei with all this tail, and
:. IS Of piece with the Beecher side Of
the business. Oar Centennial var has
;l.J,s iar been, all over the land. :. carni-
al OF. crime. One TcsuI: Ct the iate way
IS harvest Of fraud, violence aHd rob
asry.
I'll wars have p.oducal il, and there
i 70 exception 70 be expected il Amer
Ia. Seldom IS not Z nisnomer for New
York and San Francisco. In Church
and State 4 viekeiness AID knaverv
have been revealed which few years
ago would have frightened the most apa-
tletic. "Y;ce has rot ever paid viItUs
the poor compliment OF hypocrisy or
concealmeut; detected corruption has
not had the grace to blush: and the well
known tricks are played by men who
have been branded before the public
With the brand OF knavery and false
hood, with an innocent faith in them
which IS in q sort sublime" 1t is nat
TIral and pious that good men should
seek a remedy; should band together TO
stem the current. But how: Where IS
The remedy: Bacl. East the churches
seem to find themselves unable TO pan
out" anything rich, and 50 re read that
several hundred Of the ab!est preachers
in the country confess their heiplessness
and ask NJ. Moody 10 take the business
IN hand for them and superintend the
great Hippodrome mine, Just as the
California preachers did last year with
Hammond. But does it work? We
have seen several OF these experiments
,ried- It don't look the square thing !
for these men who are paid high salaries
Tor running their churches, shifting the !
by an imbeciie folding OF |
he hands, and advertising Kinks and |
while in the columns fol-
Owing these which tell Of the immense