Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-13
SUNDAY READING.

subject might, in all timeliness, venture upon
discourse which should have bearing upon
that other and more infrequent charity, the
charity of thought and conclusion, which
suffereth long and is kind. The lack of its
abundance becomes evident too often; for the
ear of curiosity is too much open to the voice
of calumny; and the names of good men and
women are held all too lightly these days of
critics, comment and accusation. One may
not refer, save in weakness, to the existence
of an earlier and purer period for mankind
has gained no new traits by the coming of the
age of steam, types and electro magnetism.
Facilities are vehicles and fertilizers, not the
means and methods of propagation. Steam
presses have merely widened and deepened
the channels of defamation. Hoe and Bull
lock have taken the place of Paul Pry and
Mrs. Grundy. The places where love Of
gossip may be gratifed have been enlarged
and made more abundant The appetite is
not new one. 1t has simply been increased
by artificial tOnics and over stimulation. Pin
neys assault is not of an unusual character.
Prostitutes and the loose characters of both
sexes are relentless and implacablem their re-
iteration and enlargement of all the bitter
SANDER of the times. Crime always justlies
itself by discovering crime in others. There
is more Joy in the Penitentiary over one fair
reputation swamped in crime than over the
conviction of ninety and nine horse-thleves
with no reputation to lose. Somehow Nature
prompts this recourse early in life Children
caught in the act of disobedience or detected
in naughtiness invariably drag in the first
playmates name that comes uppermost Such
illogical efforts at self-eXculpation are always
recurring. Perhaps the charity of thought Is
a result of large education and experience
Certainly those who have lived through a
son of SANDER without becoming embittered
and hardened against their kind, these having
suffered innocently, or if not innocently, with
over-severity, learn to harbOr and to practice
charity These are they in whom this quality
has been purified by long suffering and made
kind by a bitter knowledge of its priceless
ness Christianity must be consistent and
decorous if it would not give occasion for the
structures of the unconverted. The Jewish
Times furnishes list of no less than forty
clergymen who have fallen from grace within
the last past twelvemonth. The superiority
of the new over the old faith must find lar
ger exemplifcation, or the scorn of the I'M
godly will give tongue to its sinful glee
Either this or we must lessen the volume of
our professions and relax the rigOr of our lines
of restraint. Shall the elect not find refuge |
in the subtleties of Monsignore Galleottos |
policy The Church takes note, he tells his
pupil, that mems hot desires sometimes prove
too strong for successful resistance; and as he
informs Philippe,
at shuts its eyes
To human nature s frail necessities.
If it be done in seemly secrecy,
Andwthout scandal shall we peepto see
Our brother weakness
1t is evident that our lives must be up to
the full measure of our pretense of purity if
we would escape calumny and even then
Hamlet tells us we shall not escape Possibly
it is mistake to insist upon mixing our reli-
gon and our morality. Perhaps each suffers
by having too much to do for its fellow. The
unregenerate will fight back and there are
some very good churchmen who grow impa-
tient under temperance sermon from the
pulpit. These deny that their smaller vices
are i'll any parsons keeping A religious
weekly lying before us says with tone which
is intended to reassure itself and its sect, that
50 The Paine Memorial Building in Boston is
advertised to be sold at auction at mortga-
gees SALE" This conveys the hint that Tom
Paine and his intidelity have had their day in
New England. Possibly that free thinkers
views have got so good foothold as that
reminder of his teachings and example is no ..
longer needed. 1t is in the time of peace that
forts are dismantled In this time of war,
when the green flag of the Prophet has been r
lnfurled and flung against the Greek cross of t
Northern Faith, it is not uninteresting to be e
old that at the celebration of the Easter Ser :
rice in the Russian Church, in New York in
presence of the Grand Duke Alexis and his
comrades of the Imperial fleet, " The cele-
orant was dressed in full canonicas, compris- d
ng blue and gold sticharion over which was a
lung an epitrachilion, an explanation on his u
,reast, and epimanikiens on his wrists. " b
N our April number of "The Nineteenth Il
century" Gust receivedD, we find what the b
ditOr of that magazine chooses to call a Mod II