The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-12
CHICAGO, June %, 1877

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CHICAGO, June %, 1877.
This is the month of graduates.
When the old designations of June
and July are cast away, let there be
carved out of their remains a month
which shall be known as that of the
graduates. All that one hears is the
voice of orator There are rehearsals
at home, and final performances in
church or college hall. There are
fathers who have Wrinkled their br0Ws
in correcting their daughters essays,
and mothers who have vexed their
souls IN cone )cting their daughters
graduating dresses; for dress is as
necessary to graduation as a speech is
the body must be attended to as well
as the mind. The great Methodist
University of the Northwest, and all
the other institutions, are sending
from their educational ovens fresh
patches of more on less baked. The
florists rejoice, for bouquets and bas-
kets of flowers will have to be cast
upon score of stages and platforms;
the milliners are content; the tailors
anticipate a demand for dress coats :;
the hackmen hope for wet weather
and business; there is activity all
along the line of graduation-day in
dustry, and one sees it with pleasure,
but shudders at the idea Of hearing
the flood of talk which has caused this
revival of trade.
An effort is now making by some of
the ministers to induce Moody to re-
turn here in September, in order to re-
sumo the work which he left in the
beginning Of the year, for the purpose
of going to Boston. The cause of re-
ligion has slackened somewhat since
his departure; some of his converts
have relasped, and there is no longer
that intensity of feeling which was 50
marked during the Tabernacle servi-
ces. But there is quiet, formidable
opposition to Moody's return. 1t man.
ifests itself openly among the Bap-
lists, but is shared by all the promi-
nent city evangelical ministers The
ground assigned is that these Taber-
nacle services tend to disintegrate the
churches, and to call church members
away from their local, special, religious
associations; but in reality it is the
old contest between the regulars and
the volunteers-the trained, official
clergymen and the volunteers; between
sectarians and one who is bound to no
sect. The leading ministers do not like
to be overshadoWed, put in the back
ground, dictated to, by a man who has
no regular commission to preach.
They did not like it when Moody was
here before, but were compelled to
yield to an irresistible pressure. So it
is doubtful whether the evangelist will
conduct fall campaign in the city
where he rightfully belongs. He will
not come unless the call is unanimous,
and he can have absolute control. It
is doubtful whether jealousy will per-
nit him to have either.
Let us call off our dogs of war, we
say, and bid the base ball boys come
home. Even the engaging of some of |
the relics of the defunct Cincinnatians |
cannot save them from standing at the
foot of the list, and so why should they ,
waste their time down East, when !
they can make money by playing with I
second-class clubs at the West? There
need be no fear of the Chicago club
up. Pecuniarily they are all
right. The rent of their grounds is
paid for the year, all salaries have been
settled up to date, and there is a mod
est little sum in the treasury. But there