The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-29
Rising SUN items.
HAVE YOU SEEN IT9

The centennial offering: wherein you
may write your name for one dollar-pro-
ceeds to 60 towards the direct liquidation
Of the church debt. A novel plan, and
originated at home as means of raising
funds, and to avoid the annual nuisance,
the annual fair. Happy escape, and hence
no one should hold back for moment
when Brother w. II. B. r. r. calls, but
write your autograph at once and record
your name, to be laid up among the az
chives of the church as an evidence that
you lived during this grand Centennial of
American Independence, when your chill
dren and children's children turn over the
dusty pages of this beautiful volume in
the uncertain future. Yes; write without
faltering. The object is good, while to
make an effort to switch off the canvasser
is useless. We were there and tried it.
NOT IN THESE PARTS.
Chicken thieves, that one of our neigh
boring papers tell us about. And it is an
astonishing fact, too; for in the estimation
of some of our Chester county friends, it
is impossible for much to 60 on that is evil
unless Maryland is represented. Having
the qualification of getting a great deal of
credit when merit belongs to us. Not long
since the great Baltimore Central, "a sprout
off of the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore), run an excursion to I" Moody
Il Sankey" meetings. After humiliating
begging, and bonded guarantee for fifty
passengers, on one days notice, the great
I" I am" sent his little team down, and we
sent off nearly hundred, who had to pay
one-half as much to get to Oxford and
back as all the rest of the trip; and yet we
find in print that ''the last excursion start
ing from Oxford was the largest ever sent
over the road" Moral.-Patronize your
own county and get credit for what you
merit. We know the Bdrrens are north of
Mason s. Dixon's Line, if some do not.
"wHAT MEANS THIS ANXIOUS BUSY
THRoNG %
The messages that came across the great
Atlantic some months ago, heraldng the
news that two of Americas sons were rails
ing all England to a sense of duty that
every man owes his God, had their influence
with the Christian Churches of America,
and that influence has increased daily ever
since. But when these two great Evangel-
lists came to our neighboring City of Broth
erly Love- their influence and spirit appears
to have fired the surrounding people for
hundreds of miles away. And in our
town at noon and at evening, no matter
how deep the mud, how damp or dark the
night, a busy throng crowds the capacious
basement of our church with anxious audi
ences long before the hour of service
During these series of meetings, the elo-
quent appeals, the untiring efforts and I'M
remitting labor of our Pastor for his high
forsaken their dark and sinful paths and
turned their faces heavenward. We only
express general sentiment when we say,
our church work here is welding a great
influence for good with the general public,
and it may be, this unseen and indirect
harvest may be manifold larger than that
of the altar place. For this vast amount
of good accomplished, we gladly ascribe
the praise to our Great Redeemer; but we
are not unmindful of what is due to His
faithful Ambassador in our midst, whose
fervency and zeal for the welfare of our
people has won for him the universal hope
and prayer of generous public, that Con-
ference will confer him unto us for another
year.
WE LIKE THE PLAN.
And so does every one, unless it be some
bigoted sectarian, of having a general,
whole souled coming together of all sects
of the Protestant Church in one grand
united effort for good-a union prayer
meeting composed of ministers and laymen
from all denominations, such as our illus
trious Moody & Sankey" instituted and
carries out so successfully. This is surely
the golden key Of success, and we see by
the public press it is working gloriously
and manfully in many sections. Let the
different churches lay aside for the time
the less important issues that form sects,
and on the broad principles of the Church
of Christ, WOO the wicked from their idols
and then let them choose their own path
among the many cherished ones that lead
to Gods kingdom; i. e., the different
churches JAwN