Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-16
SUNDAY READING.

Doubtless it is great pleasure for tn
pastor, just returned from trip Il
Europe and the Holy Land, taken ii
behalf of an attack of Preachers sor
throat, to renew his relations with hi
heck, and again, after an interval D
rest, stand face to face with his congre
CATION and minister unto them the word
of piety. peace and comfort. The fresh
ness of q returning friendship; the yea
for labors renewed; the soiieitude tG
close up, as for as may be. the gap made
by absence and separation; these over
come that sense Of mingled diffiaenct
and laziness with which the nawly-re-
turned wanderer finds himself more OF
less embarrassed. And if the preacher
who occupies pulpit hath these ex-
periences and emotions, why may not
the Editor, returning from the distract
ing scenes of new or strange order OF
things, also have them: As We have
many time said, before. the editor is
no less a preacher than the minister OF
the gospel. Indeed, his congregation is
wider than any sect-wider because
more various and polyglot. We return
to our Sunday Readings" with sense
of pleasure and earnestness. The office
and exercise are pleasant and profitable,
refreshing and congenial. This is none
tho less SO in view of the fact, we'll OBJ
served, that the customary seventies OF
the Puritan Sebbath as one finds them
observed in the older States do not seem
to have brought on a higher average of
happiness and content than We Of q
freer community enjoy; tho it must be
confessed that tho weekly decorous keep
ing of the Christian Sabbath brings on
appearances aud shows of order which
are edifying to look on. Indeed it is
the superior and more perfect civiliza-
ton and more general signs of enlight-
epneut and culture in the Eastern
States which would seem to justify their
accompanying exhibit of punctilious
church going and compliance with the
formulas and fashions OF a more exact
ing religious department than that to
which we are accustomed. But ones
instinct of sef-assertion and Importance
brings him to reflect that the long lines
of elegln. houses, the parks, the pave
ments, the gardens and fountains and
rare trees of Eastern Cities betoken and
bespeak the presence Of wealth among
the few, and not prosperity and happi-
ness among the many; and the presence
OF many beggars and the squalor of the
less elegant streets remind one not to be
deceived by the pleasanter appearances.
The more gorgeous cathedrals are often
attended by such hopeless victims OF
poverty and want as are strangers to the
humber places of worship of newer and
less crowded communities. So, indeed,
there seems to be fair average all
round. Here we witness something of
that fair average. This is the poor
mans country. If We do miss the lawns
and flowers and splendid pageants Of
the Atlantic cities, we have health and
and the earnestness and
sincerity of close acquaintanceship and
the commonwealth OF near nelghbor-
hood. We are nearer nature than the
dwellers in the older States. Their S IS
the privilege to be closer than we are to
the efforts and results of culture and art. |
But the wealthy are the exclusive few. |
Wealth, gotten by work among and con-
tact with the people is one of the condi-
tions of q newer civilization like our
own. Here . man must support his
prstensions with some native. virile
qualities of his own. There the citizen
of wealth finds protection in the num-
bers and influence of q class. The aver
age Of frankness il larger here, as well
az the (apparsnt) average of vice. We
are moro outspoken people than they
Of the East; We swear more and are less
we drink and gamble more
openly and. as whole people, more
generally; but We are reader with the
hand Of help and friendship and charity.
Here, - one likes to feel, there is more
native manhood and less Of instruction
and experience in the equivocations and
.vasions of manner and habit. Their
,edliness is better decked than ours:-
,urs not passing for more than its assay
valus and only to be taken at its intrin.
no worth. A oompromise between *
ernsls and 'true inwardness" would
70 the handsome thing. +
The great Centennial Fair presents
moral and educating aspects which may
vsll claim our recognition. Tho cosmo-
,olitan influence of long life in these
'aciic States has a value which all who
ave profted by it are quick to acknowl-
dgs. This il IN influence which not