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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27

The Annual Meeting Of the Wis
consin State Horticultural Society
will be held at Madison, in the
Agricultural Rooms on the 1st Cd
and Sd Of FEBRUARY next commencing
Tuesday evening, at y o'clock.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul and
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Companies have agreed to return
those who attend the Convention at
one-third the usual rates, and it is
thought other companies will grant
a similar favor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27

preparation on the part of the teach
er would free him from the textbook,
allowing all time and thought to be
spent upon the class and pupil.
According to the programme, a
Glass Exercise in Mental Arithmetic
followed ~ Subject Fractions = the
exercise was conducted by Mr.. Car
penter; members of the class were
called upon to name the different
kinds of fractions defining them and
placing examples upon the board
showing the different operations to
which they could be subjected.
Discussion in regard to the class to
which mixed mum bers belonged was
decided by a demonstration proving
them to be fractions. "Whole units"
were mentioned but not defined.
The adherence to form in solving
problems was recommended as ex
acting close attention, an exact state
ment being required; several exam
Piles were read by the teacher and
analysed by the members of the class,
the one first called upon did not near
An Exercise in Practical Arithme-
tic conducted by Mrs. Young upon
Reduction of Fractions was next in
order, the propositions stating the
general principles involved in the use
| of fractions were called for by the
teacher.
Examples illustrating the use of
these principles in performing opera
tons upon fractions were placed up
on the board and explained.
A demonstration of changing the
form of a fraction without altering
its value was requested blythe teacher
in reply an illustration was given
showing show instead "why" the
work was done.
Supt. Flett gave a class explana-
nation in regard to inverting the
terms of the divisor. During the
first recitation the members who were
not present at the opening of the
meeting arrived.
j Recess followed Glass in Practica
Arithmetic.
| Immediately after recess recita
ton in Physical Geography-Sub
Iject, Currents, was conducted by Miss
Lieber, Miss Patten being absent.
The course Of Currents, their tempera.
ture, their causes, their effect upon sur.
rounding regions, and benefits deriv.
ed from them were we'll treated of by
teacher aud members of the class
| The direction of the currents was
traced upon maps, when it seemed
that authorities differed.
| An exercise on the Mexican War,
Pres. Yule Teacher, closed the work
of the afternoon. Some interesting
points were brought out in the desire
of the South to gain more territory
in the slave region, that the North
should not acquire the balance OF
Ipower was given as a cause. The
independence of the disputed terrific
ny was questioned. What consti-
tutes independence answered differ
emily by different nations. The num-
Der of troops employed and the cost
OF the war were compared with the
same items in the war of the Rebel
lion. At the beginning of the Exer-
else Pres. Yule called for volunteers
to do the work during the recitation.
but three or four responded, the re-
mainder were probably too timid.
Following this motion to adjourn
was carried.
LOUISE NJ. Houston,
| Sec'y pro. tenn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27

There will be a meeting of the p. d.
T. A., in the Bulmore School House
(No. 81 Somers, on Saturday February
5, 1876, commencing at one o'clock ?. M.
PROGRAMME. = ALGEBRA, Binomial
Theorem-C. M. Smith; Primary Read
ing-Miss Patten; Oral Grammar.
II. Flett; Civil Gov. Executive Dept
Miss Stocker.
J.W. YULE, Pres.
JESSIE PETRIE, Sec'y.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27

who is Deacon ISAAC Clark That is a
question which has been tb1ust at us several
tines since our issue Of last week. in which we
printed the list of officers of the Congregational
Church. We own we ought not TO have blundered
upon the name OF ole so well known and so high
~ respected as the aenior officer OF the Congrega-
tional Church, Deacon Silas Clark.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27
TIE WEATHER.

The following is report of the state OF the
weather for the past week:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-27
sECRETARY's REPORT
OF THE

COUNTY ASSOCIATION MEETING HELD AT
LIBERTY, JANUARY 81, & %, 1876.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-07-26
Hard Times Abroad.

Speaking of the present unsatisfactory
condition of business affairs throughout Eng
land, and particularly in London, the last
number of the Saturday Rsview philoso-
phizes in this strain:
"London is less gay because London is
less rich, and that London should be so far
less rich as to have begun to make its econo-
mics evident means much in the current his
tory of the country. The wealth of the prov
inces is poured into London, and when Lon
don shows the pressure of dull times there
can be no doubt that times are very dull
throughout England. 1t is not that any
great calamity is weighing on the country,
but number of small adverse causes have
produced a large unfavorable result. We
are not in the midst of commercial crisis,
and if trade is more limited, it is sounder
than it used to be. People are not so much
ruined as hit, and the number of people who
have been hit in various ways is enormous.
Large losses have been sustained by the hold
ers Of foreign bonds, and many who have
been accustomed to live merely on precari-
GUS incomes have found their resources sud-
denly at an end. But this is an element in
the general aggregate of impecuniosity yhe
Importance of which may be easily exsgge-
rated. London is not much affected by the
mseries of Turkish and Peruvian bondhold-
ers, and it is not until the home trade and
home revenues are affected that economy
becomes transparent 1t is because steady
people are suffering, that London shows
signs of Distress
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-07-26
SELECTED FOR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
"a CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIE
SIGHT"

Between us and His visible presenee-be-
tween us and that gloriied Redeemer who
now sitteth at the right hand of God-that
cloud still rolls. But the eye of faith can
pierce it; the incense of true prayer can
rise above it; through it the dew of blessing
can descend. And if He is gone away, yet
He has given US in His Holy Spirit nearer
sense of His presence, closer Unfolding in
the arms of His tenderness, than we would
have enjoyed even if we had lived with Him
of old in the home of Nazareth, or sailed
with Him in the little boat over the crystal
waters of Gennesareth. We may be as near
to Him at all times and more than all when
we kneel down to pray-as the beloved dis
ciple was when he laid his head upon His
breast. The word of God is very nigh US,
even in our mouths and in our hearts. To
ears that have been closed His voice may
seem indeed to sound no longer. The loud
noises of war may shake the world; the
eager calls of avarice and pleasure my
drown the gentle utterance which bids us
Follow Me;' after two thousand yers OF
christianity the incredulous murmus OF an
impatient scepticism may make tscarcely
possibly for faith to repeat, without insult,
the creed which has been the regeneration OF
the world. Ah, and sadder sven than this,
every now and then may b. heard, even in
Christian England, the nsolence of some
blaspheming tongue which still SCOTS at the
Son of God as he lies in the agony of the
garden, or breathes His last sigh upon the
bitter tree. But che secret of the Lord is
with them that fear Him, and He will show
them His covenant. To all who will listen
He still spesks. He promised to be with us
always, even to the end of the world, and We
have not found His promise fail. 1t was
but for thirty-three short years of short
lifetime that He lived on earth; it was but
for three broken and troubled years that He
preached the gospel of the kingdom; but fol
ever, even until all the Aons have beer
closed. and the earth itself, with the heavens
that now are, have passed away, shall every
one of His true and faithful children fine
peace and hope and forgiveness in Hi
name, and that name shall be called En-
manuel, which is being interpreted, Gol
WITH U.s." AZURE.
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The Preachers Vacation.

The clergy are, as general thing, happy
now in prospect of rest. Pity for those
whose salaries are SO small that they cannot
pick up their wives and children and 60 any
where. July and August should be idle
months to all who can by any means afford
such idleness. The old Hebrews rested one
whole year in seven but that was before the
world had much in it to be done, and when
living was cheap. In our day a year of rest
would bankrupt the nation; but pieces of
idleness should be sought aud taken in the
days when the dog.star rageth. Especially
should the dwellers in cities seek vacations,
for there the mental and physical strain is
greatest. And as beings of taste the dweller
in city needs to 60 out in the country once
q year to find his God. The city has no sun
rise or sunset, has no sky, never puts up a
rainbow, has no quiet twilight, has no morn
ing birdsong, knows no patter of rain on
shingle roof, sees no harvest field, and thus
has no Creator except the brick.layer. Men
should 90 out into the country once a year to
find God. In the city they hear of him by
the hearing of the ear, but in the country
their eye seeth Him. Chicago Alliance.
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FoR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
CATHOLICISM AND THF FOURTH COM
.MANDMENT.

That the Romish Church is rather liberal
with its licenses and irdulgencies in regard
to the commandments of the Lord is fact
too well known to the Christian world at
large to need any particular mention. But
it seems that it has not yet reached its CHI
max in this respect, and there is no saying
where it will stop unless God ere long inter
poses his strong and mighty arm. Fhe d.
rectors of the Philadelphia Centennial who
for some months past permitted thousands OF
men to work at the centennial buildings from
morning until night on the Sabbath day, did
not, however, dare have the affrontery to
keep the gates open on Sunday, condemning
such an act as unchristian and ungodly.-
But now the celebrated Roman Catholic Pre-
late, Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia,
steps to the front and argues that it is not
only not wrong to do so, but that it is even
right and desirable that the gates be kept
open on Sundays. He says: "Among the
innocent recreations for the body and the
soul I know of none more innocent than q
visit to the Centennial during the afternoon,
where the poor and working classes land
these are the most numerous among us) are
able to recreate themselves for few hours.
+ + Indeed, believe that it will have
blessed effect; that it will prevent many dis,
orders that are continually increasing on the
Lords day." And this he says after a
lengthy argument to the same effect. l will
make no further comments on this reprehen-
sible speech, but submit the above to you
for further remarks, and to your readers as
a matter of reflection. S.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-07-26

COPS PLAN FOR Your LIFE.-Never COM
plain of your birth, your employment, your
hardships; never fancy that you could do
something if you only had different lot and
sphere assigned you. God understands your
own plan, and he knows what you want bet
ter than you do. The very things you most
deprecate as fatal limitations or distractions,
are probably what you most want. What
you call hindrances, obstacles, discourage
ments, are probably Gods opportunities;
and its nothing new that the patient should
dislike his medicine, or any proof that they
are poisonous. No. truce to all such pa
tience. Choke that envy which gnaws at
your heart because you are not in the same
lot with others; bring down your soul, or
bring it up, to Gods will, and do his work,
in your lot, your sphere, under your cloak Of
obscurity, against your temptations, and then
you shall find that your condition is never
opposed to your good, but consistent with it.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-07-26
FoR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
ADDRESS OF PULPIT TO PEW.
No. 4.

Hoping that you will be benefited by the
suggestions already made in your efforts to
aid your pastor, allow me to say word with
regard to talking to your pastor about has SER
mons.
1. Am I editying my people ? is ques-
ton that is often asked by faithful pastor
in moments of self. examination. How is it
to be answered? 1st. In practical sermons,
by their fruits. If he is endeayoring to
awaken among his flock an interest in For
eign Missions, and the contribution to that
cause is increased, he has practical answer
to practical sermon. His people "reduce
to practice what they hear" I'd. He may
have before him this object, to wit: The
comfort of some desponding one. Suppose
his object is attained. Think you not it
would "help, aid and comfort" him to know
that you have been blessed in that respect
If so, tell him of it, and if you have no IA
vOrable opportunity of telling him, he will be
pleased to receive a letter from you to that
effect. Sd. OF course the aim of all sermons
ought to be instruction; but the pastor may
have in view some particular phase of error,
or misapprehension, in regard to certain
truths or doctrines. If you have been In
structed by his discourse, you might tell him
of it without any very great injury to him
or yourself. Try it and see if it will not
give rise to such conversation as will ben
eft you and him. 1t may give you the BEN
eft of another sermon.
2. Well do remember these words in the
charge given to a young minister when or
dained. "You must be student. Try to
keep abreast with the religious thought of
the day. But by all means study y0~r peO-
pie" By cOnversing with your minister
about his sermons, you may frequently give
him an insight into your spiritual necessities
which will enable him "to feed you with food
convenient for you"
8. You must not indulge IN TOO 1requent
encomiums of sermons. A young brother
once said to me, "Did you ever preach
an Indifferent sermon before Mrs. L l
never did, and wonder after what she tells
me, whenever she has an opportunity of talk
ing to me about my sermons, that | have not
been called to some grand church" Mrs.
L. had her set complimentary phrases which
were repeated sad naaseam'.
"Your sermon to-day did me SO much
good. I've been so much benefited by your
preaching of late; and have often wished to
tell you, but did not know whether to do so
or not" This was the sincere feeling of a
hearer, spoken with embarrassment, but it
made the pastors heart leap for joy. One
soul was benefited by his preaching.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-07-26
The Temple Of Jerusalem.

Il is probably no exggeration to say that
more has been writtel regarding the Temple
at Jerusalem than j respect to any other
building in the k.own world, and unfortu-
nately, it may ,e added, more that is wild
and untenable This last popularity arises
from several causes. First, because all the
earlier resprers were entirely ignorant OF
the urou.d on which the Temple stood, and
Of the beal circumstances that governed its
construction. 1t was not, indeed, till the
spe. was surveyed by the late Mr.. Gather
yood, in 1888, and his plan published on a
sufficient scale in 1862, that restorerS had
such map of the ground as would enable
them to adjust their measurements to the To-
cality with anything like certainty. Though
that plan was wonderfully perfect consider
ing the circumstances under which it was
made, it has since been superseded by that
made under the direction of Capt. (now Ma
lori Wilson, R. E., in 1S64-5, which leaves
nothing to be desired in this respect 1t can
be depended upon almost to inches, and has
been engraved on scale sufficiently large
for all architectural purposes. A second
cause of the wildness of the restoration hith-
erto attempted is that the Temple of Jerusa.
lem was quite unique. Not only had the
Jews only this one temple, but, so far as we
know, it was entirely of their own invention,
and utterly unlike the temples of any of the
nations around them. 1t certainly, at all
events, was quite unlike the temples of the
Egyptians or Greeks. 1t may have had
afinities with those of the Babylonians OF
Assyrians; but, Notwithstanding all that has
been done of late years, We know so very
little of what the temples of Mosopotamia
were that these hssdly help US even at this
day, and the assumption that this might bt
so was of no use whatever to early restorers
Having thus no aualogies to guide them, ant
as it is literally and absolutely true that mo-
one stone remains on another Of the Temple
properly so called, it is not to be wondered
at that early restorers failed to realize th'
truth and INDUCED in fancies which were
utterly untenable. In nine cases out of tel
their object was to produce building which
would be worthy of Solomon, in all his glory
rather than sober production of the very
moderate building described in the Bible
Contemporary Review.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
THE LORDS DISCIPLINE IN HIS HOUSE
HOLD.

1t is as necessary now, as in Achan's day,
that believers should be made to walk in the
paths of righteousness. And the Almighty
is sure to accomplish this by discipline as
severe as the case demands. When love and
gratitude will not suffice, the rod must be
used. Righteous Lot by his worldliness cut
his descendants off from the people of God.
The devout Eli neglected his duty, and
brought upon himself shocking death
David never lost his hope, but he lost on one
occasion favorite child. and on another,
seventy thousand of his subjec
1t is grand thing to be saved, and yet
one would hardly like to be stoned into sal
walton, as Achan in all probability, was.-
Persons may have hope for the future, and
yet be csreworn, be disliked, be bankrupted,
be imprisoned, be hanged. There is suffi-
cient difference between the earthly estate of
Christians, to keep US close to God, if we
only realise that he maintains discipline in
his household. 1t is not a small matter,
where one tries to restrain the excesses of
the world, after guilty association with it,
to have it said insultingly, this fellow came
in to sojourn and he will needs be a judge"
1t is not small matter to have ones chill
dren drift away among apostates. 1t is not
small matter to lose all sense of divine pro-
lection, and be made to cringe before wicked
men. 1t is not a small matter to be looked
upon as a backslider, and possible hypo-
critic. Christians assured VF Gh0ir oolrsSiUl.,
have prayed when under the rod as earnestly
as ever sinners prayed; and with all their
hopes, have found it an evil thing and bitter,
that they had forssken the Lord their God
Men however allege that the Almighty
often favors the worst more than the best
They are deceived by appearances. Happi
ness is something in the heart, and strangers
know neither what makes it, or mars it,
Hence we cannot always tell who is being
rewarded and who is being chastened. Th'
Almighty can make cross out of anything
even out of gold, and He can make crown
out of anything, even out of thorns. More
over, we do not know who is offending God
some very good people may be doing it, ant
some very soft-spoken people, and some yer.
, old and respectable people, and some peopl
who are the very last we should suspect
such thing. 1t is not for us to brini
? charges, but God knows, and the wlsest an
: most venerable are liable to fall under hi
J displeaSure.
And it is important for us to observe tn
= cloud as promptly as possible, to observe
/ even when it is little cloud "like man
+ hand" Some maintain that it is right 70
:. them to do certain thing, and are utterl
: unmindful of the fact that God is strikin
\ them every time they do it. "If We Judg
ourselves we should not be jadged'" If "
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-07-26
Machine Revivals.

It is-well for all Christians to remember
at the present time, tlas organization can oe
carried too far in relation to the Church ano
the efforts of the Chuph.a The work OF the
Spirit, the hour and upment OF LIS comlhg'
cannot be placarded snd advertised as can
the entrance of cirqt into city. We
must confess that we ID not sympathze over.
much with the elaborate 5uman preparation
which is being talkedI in many places in
connection with the wd of the Holy Ghost.
Christ likened the Spirit to the wind that
bloweth where it listetf,. and you hear the
sound thereof, but cainot tell whence it
cometh, or whittier it goth; go it is with the
Spirit. You cannot tiephe wind to the gar
ments of any man and sad1to on the strength
of railroad track from city to city. No
more can you the Spirit God. We have
no idea that the Psntccoitsl season was pre-
ceeded by flaming handbips announcing to
Jerusalem that Peter Won preach on such
q day, and on such d ses;act; or that the
apostles took lessons in Aisertising them
selves and their mighty work from some Jew
ish Barnum; or that the number of CONVEX
sions day by day was heralded by Roman
couriers, which represeit the modern tele-
graph, through the length and breadth of the
land. God is not in tho thunder which all
men hear, or in the lightning which all eyes
see, or in the tempes which makes the
hearts of men to quake. Now, as in the old
time, the faithful and visiting. soul hears him
in the "still, small voice
The worst thing that could befall the
American churches would be realized, when
the idea should be received by them, that
revivals depend upon tie presence of this
or that man, or upon the creation of this or
that machinery. Christerganized nothing
He relied upon no combination of human in.
strumentality to get th, ear of the people,
His life was SO honest, Els words so truth
full and sweet, that He became, in and of
Himself, magnetic enough to draw crowds
unto him; they heard him gladly. His
method remains unto tbs day the best ever
devised. Go to work quietly in your own
parish, brother; visit tie sick, the poor, the
lowly. Preach the truh in season and out
of season. Be Constant in prayer; rebuke,
reprove, exhort, above III, pray for and rely
on the help of God, anil feel confident that
your work will not bein vain in the Lord.
Every pastor should b' his own evangelist !;
every church choir Sankey. No outside
help is needed. You ae not unassisted, for
He has said: "I will pray the Father and
He shall give you anothr Comforter, that lie
may abide with you fOrser. > Golden Ru1e.
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How CHEERLEss.-At a recent funeral in
Peoria, there were no religious services, but
at the grave the following words were spoken
by Col. Iugersoll, family connection :
"With morn, with noon, with night, with
changing clouds and chapgeless stars, with
grass, with trees, and birds, with leaf and
bud, with flower and blOssOming vine, with
all the sweet influences of nature, we leave
our dead. Again, FAREWELL
On this the Interior we'll says: "But how
shall he fare well who fares not at all II
Mr.. Ingersoll is right, his dead is as utterly
gone as the shadow of summer cloud which
has faded away. Try who will, with al the
aids of science and philosophy, he cannot
avoid confessing the truth of immortal life
Our dead 20 from US, but no man lives who
can persuade himself that they have passed
out of existence