Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-19

Yankee. He was before the time Of
sewing machines, wooden clocks and
wooden nutmegs, but he made tho best
Of his opportunities. He whitfield sticks
until he wrought an invention that made
his fortune. He had all the traits Of
live Yankee. He was knowing. inquisi-
tive, acouisitiye and disquisitive. He
was like q Puritan fallen from grace.
Jacob would have made good Barnum,
only that jacob repented and Barnum
has net. A Yankee, if placed on the
Alps, would draw map Of the country
and sell t afterward. He would, If told
that = man had swan across the Allan
tic, say he was that man. Jacob, like
Yankee, WAS Il good financier. He made
capital out Of his brother Esau when
he was starving. and so it was in all his
transactions. The preacher then went
on to describe the life of Jacob, from
the time of his securing the blessing
from his father Issnc until the day of
his death, following him in all his ram
b!ings and transactions, and finally
drawing the moral from the story that
it is the duty of man to love his brother
IS himself, and that if he has hatred
in his heart he should cas-. it out and be-
come reconciled before approaching the
Judgment seat of God. Be, said he, ia
cohlihe, and give up all ill-gotten goods,
so IS to be able 10 meet the approval OF
your brethren.
We are prepared fox the further state
ment Of the reporter, that ''the speaker
was frequently interrupted with applause
and the stamping OF feet, which the po-
lice were requested TO stop" We should
like to see more freshness and less dron-
ing in the pulpit, but The good old sleep
compelling sort of preachments is bet
ter than Mr. Norgsn's effort at making
a sensation.
Mr.. De Witt Talnaga at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, making the disclosures re-
garding Mrs. Belknap a tex. for
sermon upon the follies of vain women.
spoke of some of the softer sex as gay
~ arrayed in a very hurricane of milli-
merry" Just a trife sensational itself,
that.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Speaking Of the emotional style of
doing things in the churches. we repro
duce the following:
A letter in the Atlanta Herald says o!
the revival at Fairburn, Georgia: There
has been such an interest manifested
that the whole, surrounding country
has f1ocked to the church, and Brother
Wright, in his remarks last night said,
"Fairburn was labelled for Jesus" and
he wanted them to strike that out and
say, Campbell county for Jesus" and
then he wanted them to strike that out
and say, Georgia for Jesus"
OF practical Christianity the Herald
makes the following item;
Some benevolent ladies of New York
have provided a course of instructive and
entertaining lectures for the shop girls
of the city. This is better argument
for the divine origin of Christianity than
q folio volume. The world is overstocked
with theoretical religion. There is
enough on hand to last for a couple of
to come. But of practical
religion-the kind that leaves an invit-
ing fire in the crate, puts on its wimble-
ton and carries loaf of bread OF q word
OF comfort to the tenement house on q |
cold winter night-the demand is greater
than the supply. A noble life contains
the only unanswerable argument in favor |
OF a revelation.
The same paper asks. with concern:
The Methodist, while it holds the bal
ance between bishop and minister, thinks
Mr.. Tibbles. as secular reporter, does not |
come up to its ideal Of fl occupation for |
q Methodist pastor. But who shall now |
draw the line between what is secular |
and what is religious reporting? The |
so-calied secular papers give many more |
columns OF religious news every year |
than the so-called religious papers do. |
And besides, an interview with bishop |
can hardly strictly be called secular re-
porting.
A contributor to the Herald, with a
keen relish for polemics. takes up Mr..
Moody's averment that you cannot be
baptized into the kingdom of God, ana
in the course of his letter he says:
In Romans, VI. 3, 4, find tnat Paul
has the audacity to differ from Mr..
Moody, who SO confidently declares that
;. you cannot be baptized into the king
dom of God" Let US hear old fashioned
Paul: know We not that 80 many Of
Us as were baptized in Christ were bap-
Tied into his death? Therefore, we
we're buried with him by baptism into
death; that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory of the Father,
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