Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-12-20
E Irrational E RELIGIOUS

A prayer III t;ing was struck by light
ming in Pennsylvania tie other day. Ihi;
looks like Il mist ike.
If a Christian woman could change
her sex would it change her religion? Ger
tairly; she'd be We. then.
New Orleans Picayune: The old Ter
Commandments were so person i th
modera reformers have been Obliged to Sc
up new rules on a different alley"
1t is a bad plan to divide sermon into
too many lle'ils. for this reason: iii It ther.
may beconsiderablc difficulty on the par
OF the congregation in finding ears for al
of them.
Said one man to another. ''If it wasn
Sunday how would you take for that lum
ber:'' IF it wasn't Sunday, Id tell you,
was the proper reply.
Col. Ingersoll has been challenged by
Rev. DR.. Gregg. of Dublin. to discussion
of the questions involved in the In.crsol
book entitled The Gods
There are 373 churches in Rome. OF
which 800 are Catholic. 1 Protestant and
1 Jewish. There is one Protestant church
to every 5000 OF Tie popula'io
A clergyman, WHO did not believe il,
going outside Of lis own denomination to
distribute bis charities was solicited by a
hcgggar for aims. My hrotlicr.' said he
''are you Higll-Churc,l?" "Ncver was high
in my life" returned the beggar rcproacll-
fully; never drinks nuthin at all, sir"
A head equal TO the greatest events.
.inda hca t superior to the strongest temp
tsiions. are qualities which may he pos
scSsed so secretly tilit a mans next door
neiylbor shall not discover them. until
some unforeseen occasion calls them forth.
An Irish clergyman once broke off the
thread OF his discourse. and thus addressed
i;is congregation: My dear brethren. let
me tell you that am just half through my
sermon; bit, as perceive your i'npatirncc,
will say that the remaining half is not
more than Il quarter AS long Us that you
ave heard"
Bakers Syria and Egypt under tie
LIST Five Sil'ans s.iys: '.A Sc!lOoln;is-
trr's testimony is no, valid in a Mollan'l.n
,,oHrt Of law. l,ec:'ils. j! is believed that lie
,n st lave Jccl mad before he unAerl O oil.
10 leach children; or tie Children must
i,arc driven him crazy by I. . noise they
| made repeating their lessons aloud al at
the saline time.
David liume observed that all the de-
vout persons lie had ever met with We're
melancholy. On this Bishop Horne re-
marked. this might pioi,iIiy !,c; for. in the
.i,,sl l-ls.e it is most likely that he SAW
very few. his friends and acqn'intances be-
iny of another sort: and secondly. the
sight Of him would make 4 devout man
Look melancholy at any time.
The Rev. DR.. Talma.e told some re-
narkablc stories at the late Suniiy school
convention in New York. Among them
..Some men never learn ioY to phrase i
prayer. A horse was running away will
man. He grabbed hold Of The sides OF
tie wagon. and lie said: %. Lord make
lis thankful tor the mcrcies We are about
to receive
1t is TOO bad. but we suppose it cannot
he helped. Christopher Columbus is not
to I've saint, at least not in this world. The
Roman Catholic congregation 4, Rome has
pronounced against his canonizatioa as
such. But we suppose if lie is a sain,
where he now is. he is satisfied.
Horace Clark once told Commodore
Vanderbilt. lis father-n-law. that it WAS 4
pity he did not have a college education
did you have college education. IIor.
ace:" asked Vanderbilt. "Yes. sir" well
| Horace. | don't think could afford tC
swap with you." the old man replied, Will!
roguish twinkle in his twinkle in his eye
| The Buddhist religion is the one most
extensively accepted in tile world. having
| in round numbers. 340.O0O.GO0 ;itlllercnts
There are not mere Roman Catholics in
The world than people Of all other religious
classes. The total number of Ro n:ir
Catholics is about 2OO.OOO, 900, against So.
ODO.OOO of the Greek Church. 100000. .ON
Protestants, and G.5O0.OGO of other Orient
al Churches than the Greek. OF the |. 400.
OOO. 600 people in the world. about l 900.
O)0.OO0 are not Christians. but. with tllt
Exception OF tie 6.OODOO0 Jews. are wha,
IRE called hcatliens. 1t will be observed
from this that there is still a great field len
for the spread Of Christianity.
-R.iph Waldo Emerson addressed. q
wears ago. a literary society. during Com
nenceinent. at Midi ehury. Vermont, ana
when he ended the President called upon
clergyman to conclude the service with
! prayer. Then arose Massachusetts, min.
lister. who stepped into the pulpit Mr.. En-
trson had just left and uttered Il renirka-
| Die prayer. Of which this was one sentence:
I'VE beseech thee. O Lord. to deliver lis
from ever hearing any more such tr;inscen-
nial nonsense rs we have just listened to
from tllis sacred desk" After the bene-
| fiction. Mr.. Emerson asked his next neigh
or the name Of the officiating clergyman
nd. when fslteringly answered, with gen
lie simplicity remarked, "lIe seemed a very
,onsciei t Gus, pla.n-spoken man."