Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-08
many Sabbath. keepers Of the W. E.


ing of He'll Gate op the Sabbath. he
took his Disciples and walked through
corr field on the seventh day. contrary
to the Jewish church law, and contrary
to that Law He plucked the ears OF corn
and did eat; He told his hearers that il
their oxen or their asses should fall in
the ditch upon the sabbath day. it was
the part of mercy and right to help them
out; He denounced the hard-hearted.
unsmilipg priesthood who devoured
widows houses; He had no restraint OF
his scorn and SARCASM for the Pharisees
who made show Of their religious zeal;
and He told his deciples that the Sab
bath was made for man and not man for
the Sabbath. We suspect that He had
graceful, winning way Of saying
things, and have NO doubt in the world
that He loved fun and music and frOlic
and could tell and enjoy good story. A
man who liked little folks as much as
Christ did must have been fond OF
laughing and romping and taking and
giving his joke. As We say. His ofiense
was, that he exposed and laughed at the
long faced. solemn priests and Levi'es
Who had corner on religion in Jerusa-
lem and the precincts and towns under
its jurisdiction. He was lighting an old,
corrupt, rotten oiig.rchy; and He caused
a popular uprising against it. He was
an aRitator and reformer; but, ss we
earnestly believe. . keen. observan'
humorist as we'll. Why not, then. If
this is the case, encourage . more GENIAL
and iehtsome manner in the pulpit?
Wby be forever dealing with error and
pretense and hypocricy and sin with long
faces and melancholy manner? Let
as learn TO fight The Devil with the most
effective weapons always remembering
that persuasion and the arts of pleasing
are quite as effactual as hard arguments
and solemn doctrinals. Perhaps even
salvation itself would be none the less
acceptable if the sinner could be per
| suaded that there were occasional
| seasons of fun and recreation and laugh
! ter aud jolly reunions. interspersed with
the harp playings and hosaDnah shout
ings within the gates Of Paradise; for GER
tajnly it would seem as if those good
souls who love fun will be considered
quite as much as they who prefer their
Heavenly existence fashioned upon 40
iron clad pattern of rigorous so'eml,y Of
demeanor and bilious severity of inter
| course. In short, let US enjoy our re-
ligion and take it with genial cheer. if so
we may. entertaining belief that it is
righ, to be merry and jovial and mirth
full, even beyond the shadowy river.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Says brother press preacher of the
| secular sort:
The Germans of the West are
thoroughly rationalistic. notwithst"nd-
ing Christianity has made great progress
among them They ridicule the Sabbath
and every form of religious worship,
and yet there is no class that sets more
store BY the day or worships more de-
vouily their god than these same Ger
mans. Every Sabbath thew lay aside
their ordinary work and spend their
lime in boat racing or shooiing matches:
at balls. theaters and festivals. They
Worship far more zealuusly their 60"
than the msjori,y of our Chris ian peo-
ple do the one living and trne God
Albeit the latter find fault with them fol-
their zeal, they do not show them by ex-
ample and life the better way.
Continuing in like strain of comment
this worldly wise man in the pulpit says;
A short time ago Chicago Christina.
in a revival meeting, was aked to lead III
PRAYER. H. did SO, and Mt the close of
the services he found note pinned to
his coat with these words written in IT:
Your prayer has led one soul to God
The Inferior asks: WAS not this sUf
| ficiept reward for 80 small an effort?'
We fail to see where the effort came In.
or whv it should be rewarded. unless the
pions Chicagoans expect reward for
every prayer they make. In this sec
ton we pray without pay or reward. be-
cause it is a pleasure and We love to
do it.
A correspondent Of the Herald. telling
Of what he saw at q Centennial camp
meeting at Ocean Grove. New Jersey,
and referring to the extraordinary be-
havior Of one OF the teachers Of the faith
| relates the following:
At one of those higher life meetings
couple of young ladies sought tho e1pe
rierce concerning which SO much is said
aud written and so little known. They
"tumbled down in the straw" to use
the common phrase here. and one Of
those sauctifed fellows, with rudy
cheeks and sunset hair and beard. ap--
preached to give the necessary counsel
to enable them to lay hold of the bless
ing" Seeing some personal adornments
ON the ladies this sanctified boor burst
out in language substantially as follows:
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