The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-10-25

ourseIfhappy IN becominGa child like ON
three or Jour little girls. you would at once
il You have any charity n your hearts
say thar our home, ut least, iSaApOt where
expressions Of tenderness gusl ont with
out sensations Of awkWardnesS, and
without any dread of ridiculc. No ones
| but loved and loving ones, and God, are
Watching rs. and we are not afraid. And
here at home we try to double all pleasure
divide all pain. And ii we have not
gone TO church, we are not afraid that
our low 0ithiS earthly home, and the lit
tie chores we attend to o. sundays, VIII
keen Us from that other home in the SOL
emn deep Oftht eternity above. suppose
we hat zone to church to -day--cM bono :
We might have heard II sermon upon the
Trinitv-mi.ht have heard some good
man attempting to explain that WHICH is
utterly in~cXplainahlr, and his effort being
a n~ullitv would have acted with harm
rather than good upon OWSet. And right
here we would say that the widest posi-
bic charity should be exercised from the
pulpit upon this my S%terious Subject-bc-
cause very often those who are lUudeSt in
their ceuSure> of others will be found to
entertain very loose opinions themselves:
that the Trinitnrian. on examination, Will
prove perhaps to be Il Fri -%tlielSt, worship
pinI three gods. Let us deal tcnLcrly
with what we think errors on II subject so
profound and difficult. II we deem our
selves right. let us be thankful for olrown
~blessedncSs. Let Us not give to the mis-
fortune of those who are in error the "ad-
ditional sting of illiberal and unclristian
yituppratiOu." We say to those who OBJ
iect to rs writing our Sunday Thoughts,
that we could OBJ, ct to their Mn-written
Sunday thoughts. bu5 we are charitable
and would not have them expose the devil
IN his muItitudinouS forms.
But wedo not wish to lrngthen out ou'
Sunday thoughts. We said in last weeks
Journal that we would publish this week
an article in regard to the coming circus
and m%enageric. winch we HAD written Tor
last weeks paper. but it was too long for
publication. Well. we have torn it up.
We are afraid to publish what we wrote.
There is not enough charity III this world
to induce us to be BOLD in the assertion OF
what we think. All! it men coUH be
made to comprehend the exceeding beauty
of charity! Bending Over the universe,
and encircIing it as with wings of heaven
~ glory. the mercy of The iniinitcGod EN-.
braces all His creatures, but Mty cannot
ltdIH' W w 'lNlNIlN'' 'i'' 49, ~ ~
against dust" sometimes we think that il
every person in this world was dying, eX-
ceptolirseli, we would then see that they
could feel a charity they never felt While
life vas full OF hope tor many more
years on earth
Well, all this il irrelevant and diScon
nected is to what we are going to say III
lieu OF the article We tore up about the CIR
Gus which will exhibit here next Monday
We rciterate what we said last weck-thal
we have no puff to write tor the show
We never had Il word with any represent
ative of it.. and already our foreman has
contracted for the pay we are to recciv,
for the advertisement in our paper.
But the show is coming. We shall bt
surprised if the pulpit does not resOIn'
next Sabbath with anatlIemlS up0n e.
cuses and m]ena9crieS. Look out Tor lon-
%harangues upon the sin Of visiting them
and see, too, IT YOU do not hear Soinct!lin.
about the money they take lrOm ourcOnntl
-becauSe this last appeal OF money l.
potent one to the pocket. and "Mannlol
wins his way where scrapiIs might DIES
pair" But we hope our puIpitS III W IN
chester will not be 50 Inconsistent. liIcl
want sinners to come to repentance art
do not damn them at once. 81. itcircuNc
are an EVIL. leu us MOI ualln tncIi' Dul u.
to convert them into good.
A circus or an animal show Iced not b'
immoral. Our experience tells us that o.
II public day in Winchester, or else
where. we can see more immortality thai
we have ever seen at clrcuSrS ana mcniSe'
rics. We hear men curse. see men DRUM
and see them light see them cheat AM
wrong one another in Il thousand ways
Atcircuse. We see something of this sort
somct:mcs, but does it necessarily follow
that weare contaminated? Must doctors
because hey 30 to see Il patient, necessari
" catch the patients disease? # minis
ter, of Christ. sU-caliel, 20 to see the good
ONLY, what work have they to do? Mus
they not minister TO the wicked? Now
in icircus we see skilllul riding. Is Their
harm i'm this? We hear the clown and w
laugh at his wit. which. we grant is Otter
stale. l. there harm in this! Then VIII.
do we vet up home shows and concert
and 30 them with our flmilirs? 10 hay,
pleasure, and meanwhile help along SOM
charitable object. And right here W
vauttoc call attention to the fact that it /
~ easy for us to cOndOne and even applaud
Things done by ourselves and damn tll
same when done by Others, forgetting AM
ignoring the fact that Uods sun SHINE
upou all alike. And right here. too, w
would remind those who talk about TN
T money IL big show takes from our coun
ia. that they are inconsistent, to say III
least. Ten to one each person. VINO tina
comnLaius. would. il he could lawfully
take just rs much. And surely we sen
amt of our county, through merchant
mainly. at least Il hundred times NOR
money than il taken away by these tray
xIur- Npt wa ppulI moi tllnk Il