Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-15

Rev. Peter Pennot is real parsonage or
the NOM de plume of some ambitious
shame.face; and SO We are not quite sure
bat that in the expressing OF an opinion
about the merits of what We read in the
space Of five minutes in Chapter OF
.'Achsah" we shall expose An ignorance
and lack Of taste quite preposterous
and shocking. We quote as follows:
Owen Rood Was tall. straight and
nineteen. Miss Anna Vax'y. his aunt
on his mothers side OF the house, was
taller, straighter, and sixty. They had
in their hearts but one sentiment IN
common; they hated each other cor
daily, and had done so from their first
acquaintance. they differed upon al
most every subject. In disposition they
were a. mike rs in personal appear
ance. Owen Rood was liberal in his
views, bound by no creed or dogma.
Anna Vsxly was narrow minded; slave
to the covenant of her sect, and with
that extremely unpleasant but by no
means uncommon way OF cOmpIacentIy
asserting the sure dannation OF oil who
did not believe, or profess to believe, as
who called himself a nationalist. Anna
Vaxly was Q bigot who called herself
Christian. There are plenty like Miss
Vaxly. who believe that when they have
walked through the waters of baptism.
and gone through the formulas of church
membership. they have gained the rish!
to bind themselves up in their assumed
goodness and judge mercilessly OF all
who happen TO hold different tenets of
faith. All people OF strong char
acter have a HOBBY. and Anna Vaxiys
was conversion. She believed that peo-
ple put on religion. rs they go into FITS
Steps Of golliness vas trick OF liberal
i.m,-in her way OF thinking. To be-
come . decent member Of society re-
quired: First, conviction; second. con-
version. A man to approach God, must
first call himself a siDfnl worm. and
afterwards miraculOusly created Saint.
We guess that Rev. Peter PenEot is a
female free.,hinker- who is still in the
throes Of sen,imentality and the TO-
nautical age of life. Either that. or
vehement fresh alumnus of one Of the
lesser s.cta,iaD colleges Of rural New
England. Who else but one OF these
would find o boy of nineteen entitled to
be quoted for his "views" upon religion,
and worthy TO be pitted against his
Calyanistic old maiden aunt of sixty?
Indeed We fee! very sure that this self
styled Rev. Peter Pennot is strong
headed young person who, if she hives
to be sixty, and don't quit the bile-s Sc
creting business Of writing novels with a
relieiously shaped moral, will herself
develop into a veritable Ann Eaxley in
the inhexible intolerance Of her ossiiied
CONVICTIONS. Possibly, however. We had
better read further in Achsab, even at
the risk of faring worse, or what would
be more humiliating, to have to retract
aud reform these hasty conclusions OF
ours.
The sweet Ioyeliuess Of human things;
that which is attractive and softeninS
and promo,ive of the terderer charities
of life; those things which make this
worlds highways and byways seem not
barren of flowers and pleasing fruits and
fragrant heritage; that which is pleasing
to the mortal eye and enrapturing to the
mortal sense; those objects and diver
sions which make this world as full OF
the sunshine OF hope and glee and ninth
and light heartedness as the morning
beams of genial spring time are made to
seem to the mating birds: these welcome,
cheering ephemeral influences are not
stimulated by the religion which finds
embodiment and eXempiifica.ion In the
Miss Ann Vaxlys Of this brief earthly
pilgrimage. 1t is hard, terrifying,
comfor.less, bitter belief. narrowing and
increasing in narrowness; but it is not
without certain sturdiness aud innate
strength; not in airy sense g ven DER to
unmaniy weaknesses or the evasions OF
the doubter. There was no shadow OF
pusil.animity abont John Calvin. His
dogmatism is as self-respecting and firm
as it is stern and unloading i'll its un-
wagering line of logic. Jaundiced Ann
Vaxly is an unlovable, sour oil maid;
but she is never an imI ertinence. Owen
Rood Is an impertinance; for his atti-
tude is an intrusion and an otfense in
the eyes of those to whom his respect
full, listening silence is due. And We are
afraid that the Rev. Peter Pennot is like
wise to be classed among the imperti-
nences. An earnest, intelligent bigot is
more to be tolerated and respected than
the fiippancy of . self-declared, beardless
skeptic. We are not at all reconciled to
the doctrine Of the future punishment of
80 intangible thing as the soul of man;
but if anybody-or any soul-ought to
be punished through An endless night OF
doom it is the impudent hedge'ingj who
is spawned in the realm of "Achsah'
and baptized in the waters of an untime-