Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-06
SUNDAY READING.

coming death as if it were a greater misfor-
tune than death which comes after protrac-
ted season of disease and decay. This view Is
the result of an unwelcome shock, quite as
much as anything else. Also, somehow, we
associate sudden death with train of averta-
BILE circumstances and if we find hearty,
generous liver dying as Mr.. FELTON, died, the
other day, we are prone to entertain self
assuring thought that we who live more stin-
gily are more likely to exc out longer period
of existence, exemplifying our own superior
prudence and the negative virtues of the tenn
perate and the abstinent. The pharisaic in
chnation is difficult of repression, and we find
ourselves yielding to it before we are conscious
of the self injustice of our own uncandor and
narrow mindedness. That there are those
who cannot, save at the very gravest peril in
cur the risks of an Epicurean fashion of living
or even venture upon the very lightest courses
of artificial stimulation is only too true; but
without genial lives in this world there would
be but little genial effort, in any of the higher
walks. They who mount into the loftier
realms of literature, or, if not the loftier, the
more heartful, are those who sustain and or
nament such festive board John B. Eel
toms was; and if, as the cant saying goes,
they pay the penalty of their highly seasoned
habits, what knowledge has any living man
which entities him to pronounce sudden
death a calamitous ending to him who has
thus easefully gone his way into the Fathom-
less Mystery We are not at all certain that
euthanasia is not blissful corrolary to life
which has had the enviable opportunity and
capacity for enjoying, to the full, the choicer
viands and more generous associations and
comprehensive of high living" g 1t is not
all of life to live nor all of death to die, says
some mortal mans, oft-quoted sermonlzing
lines But the "Good God who made and
loves us all " did not withhold his hand from
the processes which make wine and laughter
and heartness and good cheer. Also His
hand is in sudden and merciful death as well
as in the infection of lingering and wearisome
disease. There is wealth of existence as
there is of the grosser and more tangible things
of this world ; and it is not given to us either
to choose or to condemn rightly to envy,
the happy conditions at which we find it i'm
possible to arrive Not alone was the
Presbytery of Air" given to the ungracious
business of churchmauling the heretical and
crotchety minded Brother. They have way
of doing the like o'this in the Jarsies At
New Brunswick, in that State, Rev. John
Miller has been fetched up with rigorous
hand for questioning the immortality of the
soul and denying the Trinity. If the Protest
ants are rightly named, or, rather, If it be
right to be Protestant at all, surely Bro
Miller may in all conscience, earnestly protest
his beliefs and disbeliefs. His soul is his own,
to speak after the manner of the profane; and
if John cannot, in the nature of things, be- |
lieve his soul to be immortal, who shall say |
him nay7 And if the doctrine of the Trinity |
no longer commands his honest credence, why |
should he not speak his doubts, like man.
But the trouble with Mr.. Miller is that he is
attempting to turn his back upon the very es-
sence of the Presbyterian faith. He should
not emulate the example of those politicians
who denounce the fundamental conditions of
their party while accepting Office and honors
and the highest emoluments at its hands. If
he can no longer believe that New Jersey
man has an immortal soul to save or lose, and
if the Trinity is repulsive to his powers of be-
lief, how can he, as an honest man. ask the
Presbyterians of New Brunswick to continue
him in their payl They, good souls, suffer
themselves to be taxed and pay pew-rent for
the sake of hearing the creed of John Calvin
sustained in all it's infexible and unlovely
logic; and if there is no thought of immortal
ity in Mr. Miller, there are, in his sceptical
estimation none to burn, and there's schism.
If the soul is not to live forever, then are
Heaven and He'll unattainable and gone into
the shadowy realm of the myths Parson
Miller should, in all consistency and fairness -,
resign or repent him of his heresies, accepting
with meekness such reproofs and corrections
as the frowning Presbytery may prescribe. i
Religious ideas and emotions bring on queer /
Just at this present juncture /
Catholic France is as strenuous in it's denun- d
,iation of the ultramontanes as ever Bismarck a
was Gambettas denunciation of Clerical in n
in the affairs of the State was loudly r
spplauded and the Chamber of Deputies, by n
vote of 361 ayes to 121 noes adopted reso- O
ution declaring that " The Chamber, consid-
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