Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-11-02

since the ADVENT OF Reverend Mr..
Thompson In Eureka, and by reason
Of his noble work in spreading the
gospel, we note in certain circles quite
n change for the better. The moral
tone Of portion of our residents, the
church going heads of households, and
the upper stratum Of society has al
ways been at a high standard, and
with the occasional lspses, habitual to
erring man, such as a harmless game
of pedro for four bits a corner, the in
vestment In a pool at a horse race, or a
little caroase with the boys when the
wife was away on a visit, church dis.
cipline is well maintained. Even
these sins set lightly on the conscience
ola Base Ranger, and for his evil
causes during the week, he atoues by
the sincerity of his Sunday devotions,
and condones the offenses by dropping
an extra dollar in the collection plate.
VI course, this class are not in need of
any special missionary efforts, and il
Is not to this salt of the earth to whom
we refer. Our attention was called to
the elevating influences attendant on
the distribution of the Holy Scriptures,
and the interest developed by the good
seed that has fallen In what would
naturally come under the head of
stony places, by our contact with a
grouTe of hardened sinners who fire.
quent the FL Dorado saloon. The
staple of conversation in that resort
has heretofore been stage robberiss,
deeds of violence, "reminiscences
of border life, with an occasional
e%quivocal story thrown in to add spice
to the talk. Imagine ON astonish-
ment last evening as we dropped into
the saloon, to hear an animated dis
cussion on the gospels and their word.
ings. Dick Guiberson, in the role of
Sunday School teacher, was seated on
the top OF a step ladder, giving out
connundruns extracted fror.. various
parts OF the Scriptures, and reading
selections from affecting and inspiring
chapters. The class was composed of
Wyman, Clark. Ayers, Kellogg,
Josephs, Blair, Ed. Kicker, Ross, and
other prominet night owls. The por-
ton under consideration was the
Prodigal Son, and Dick was relating
with great enthusiasm, how the
snoozer, as he termed him, jumped
the ranch, and went OFF into the Terri.
tories, got broke, went To berding hogs
in order TO make a raise. got TO copper
ing the wrong card, lost every turn
out of the box, couldn't get trusted
for grub. and was in such a
id hard streak hat he conclud-
ed to emigrate and fall back on
the old man once more; in fact.
ranala RI ~ phnn nn hfa Svata,, He n.t
that far with his version of the parable,
when Kellogg Clipped in and said he'd
read the Bible through forty years
ago, and he would bet the drinks that
there was no such incident to be found.
Dick had a dead thing on winning, as
he had devoted all of the day previous
to reading the gospel according to st.
Luke, and he triun phantiy turned TO
the page. Kellogg claimed the bet, as
Dicks wording WAS lot exactly the
sarne as the Apostles, but on the ques-
ton being left to Bony Ayres, hs de-
cided that Dick had got the sense of
il, and had oaly taken the liberty of
trsnslatiug 1t into ordinary language.
Everybody drank, and the Biblical
discussion on. Blair called for a
reading of the parable Of the wise and
and foolish virgins, and said, by way
OF comment. hat IL was u derned
shame that the girls got left out in the
cold, just because they forgot to look
after the coal oil. Kellogg said that
what interested him most of anything
WAS the miracle of turning the water
into wine. He knew all about turn
ing whisky into water, and bad water
logged many a customer, and lost sew
erai paying patrons, who were carried