Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-14
SUNDAY READING.

DIer should STICK TO his last. In press re-
port of a recent interview had with Senator
Conkling he Is reported as saying that he
- thinks there is too much sentiment and too
little real work on the part of the admins
tration, and that it is time that attention was
paid to the actual necessities of the country,
and that little minor questions, as to whether
a postmaster speaks i'll caucus, ght be
left on the table for future time. - Now this
way of thinking is in the line of the old axiom
quoted above. Mixing things is fatal to eff
fectiveness. Successful men achieve their
successes by having and keeping one object
IN view and persulng it. Andso with parties;
and SO with religious sects and teachers. In
christendom, the one great force is the Ro-
man Church. Outside of that church, pro-
Tossing christianity, are innumerable antago-
nistic sects. The greater number of these
sects are comparatively small in point of mem
bership. Nearly all, however, besides being
engaged in promulgating their special dogmas,
are also more or less identified with certain
reform movements. The preaching of
Temperance in the use of drinks and the
so-called Temperance Societies is almost inva-
riably part of the self-appointed mission of
these doctrinaires. In other words they mix
up sentiment and "morals" with polemics aud
the preaching of piety. On the other hand
the Romanists, to employ one of the phrases
of the day 60 attend strictly to business" 1t
is not only one thing at time, with them,
but only one thing, and that thing all the
time. They simplify their work, take one
object for a lifetime pursuit and stick to it.
1t is the logicallest institution ever devised by
mortal man, is the church of Rome. 1t not
only makes everything bend to itself and its
necessities, but it sacrifices everything of its
own to the sustentation and steady advance
ment of Mother Church. There is a profound
and subtle philosophy underlying this Jes-
uitry. There is always human standpoint
maintained in looking to the perfection of
the organization of the Church 1t deals with
men as by first principles. 1t treats itself as
an observer of the most effective system ever
known or conceived of, at the same time never
admitting any possible flaw to its title as
divine institution. The line of inheritance, |
the apostolic succession, (Which is title, in
precisely the same light that titles to lands |
and houses and other properties are held and
owned,) is always maintained There is no
self doubling, no shamefaced half admissions
Of error, no disputations with laymen, no
g REVEALS, no experiencing" of religion.
The membership of the church is as broad as
the church itself; and nothing is lost to the
church through any neglect on the part of its
subjects. The priesthood and not any par
ishioners, the altar and not any pews or pew
holdings, has undisputed sway 1t is admi-
rable, is this strength and perfect logicalness
of organization and discipline. There are no
entangling alliances with any such purely So
cialistic and profane things as "morals. The
Church concerns itself with its members Or
thodoxy and not with their habits; it claims
their souls and not their bodies. And the
soul being an intangible thing and inconverti-
bic, the claim of ownership is not disputed. !
And this is not compromise of principles
1t is, rather, a resolute determination not to
permit first principles to be compromised by
extraneous matters to be its equal
in point of consequence The Roman Church 9
will always dominate the christian world so
long as it adheres to its simple, unauthorized l
methods. AS Conkling says, there is too L
much sentiment Tor sentlmentality rather),
in the course of the Administration. Faith U
without works is dead; and professions are ?
nothing but wind, unproven by actual prac- Il
ice. Poetry is delightful result of the hu- o
nan mind, working at its best: but the best II
If poems would be but poor substitute for "
he Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitu- u
ion. Directness of purpose is resistless P
engine in supper. of great cause; for the u
greater the cause, the simpler. There was I"
10 place for distractions in the discussion of p
he slavery question. The Abolitionists were B
light. They demanded the unconditional
reedom of the slaves. The shareholders were
light; they hanged the Abolitionists! The is
ne was as plain as the two sides of monu- R
1ent or the opposite notices of a shield. So "
nth creeds that are worthy the name, Com fo
lexity is mathematics or metaphysics, (Which M
re nearer alike than is generally thought ed
o be effective one must choose the simplest pl
lethods, in all things. Effort, spread broad au
lst is effort wasted. The cobbler must stick M
his Last and not on to the lack nlane or the de