The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-31
Spirit Of the Religious Press
UNBRANDED WINE FOR COMMUNION.

CNBRANDIED WINE FOR COMMUNION.
The i',c.ac Cmrhmpa dtters an earnest
call for pure, unbranded wine,' for Com
munion purposes. II is in favor Of Ter
mented wine, and not an uniermenteJ de-
COTTON from grapes or raisins but is oi
opinion that wine which contains mo,
much less than p per cent OF pure alcohol
Is too strong, is too Intoxicating to fifty rep
resent the blood OF the crucifed Retleemer.
"We were present." says the editor, met
very long since. at one oil our Target
churches, ON the occasion of the Holy
Communion, and, there not being the ex.
Pects.i number vi COMMITMENTS present, 4
quantity Of wine was left and the clergy
and others were called upon tn consume it,
The result was, he says. "a decided alcohol
ie sensation;' and vet the sexton said il
was the best wine to he obtained in the
Market"
MORAL ,.HAHNNIrES.
Rev. Dr. Rambler, in the Christian az
Wo.k, tells is of ''tho>e bran-brea.l theorists
and pea soup dieiers who car,e near rr,iuc-
ing Horace Greeley to 4 nIere dagger oi
iath, aud says there are "moraI Graham
ties As we'll, iew III whom he hits oil ~
follows; ''Some make their Incorporate
temperance their hobby, and there are
Others whose hobby is the introduction Ut
the little monosylable Goi into the United
States Constitution. There are Others still
who deal in violent phillipics against dresS,
luxury ami pleasure. VIII" think the world
Is fast going I" the bal, yet who 10 not Al
lure it to a better life 10y any special beauty
or sweetness eli there own" Such asc,ti-
eisnI, he thinks, only causes rea,.tion, and
tend ." increase inst. al of diminish The evil
1t d-ploreS.
ONE DoIS Enough.
The Elnmiser and h,onioi, Baptist. ex-
presses the healthy opinion than nIanv
Christian parents err IN druggin" their
children with repeated Sunday school SET
Vices, whereas Zone good weekly d,,se oi
Sunday school IL enough The F"tmtn-r
also ohircjs I" allowing Baptist children to
attend PRESBYTERIAN Sun.iay-sehools, since
experience shows that in suci, cases the bad
heaven If Presby teri ani-m' IL often iounl
to be working in the little oncs' The
Pre>by ierians understand this very We'll,
AMI :" refrain from sending their children
to Baptist schools, even in places where
81. l. L.. al. Al
'thev would take to the water in short or
DER
OFF AND on.
Speaking OF lngersolfs Ghost" Rev.
Dr. Storrs expressed the opinion that there
are many persons Who have not firm,
Constant AMI abiding faith in these invisible
powers, but half believe in them OCCASION
ally now and then, oil and on according To
circumstances Of time, place, company,
etc, and he relates the case of a prominent
officer in the naval service who, having
spoken As though he hal lurking faith in
ghostly apparitions, was asked by a friend
ii he really had. "Not bit Of it, in the
day time" he replied, ''but in the night
must confess that ] feel little doubtful
THE RELIGIOUS PRESS Of INGERsoLI~
4 writer in the Christiaa iir,ra,. calls
Colonel lngsrsol: "the great high priest Of
intellectual AMI moral anarchy AMI says:
I" lie would make . popular preacher for
>ome pnlpits ii he could be persuaded to ts
pious enough to pray. His Eight to Seven
would take we'll iOr Sunday evening lee
ture. 1t is more mysterious and less pro-
fame than some church advertisements We
have just clipped from the Sunday papers.
Ii Mr.. Ingersoll would learn the
Catechi>m and learn to pray in public on
Sunday, he might receive call from some
Of our fancy Christian churches. Let him
but obtain ordination papers and he may
select his text from TIE Age OF Reason
the Vedas Of Uncle Toms Cabin To ill
the church il the test OF talent nth the
many churches VI
The Monitor aud G~g,iiaR saws that "few,
IL any. Catholics attend Colonel Ingersoll's
lectures. They we're all Protestants, who
crowded I" hear and applaudied him to the
skies" 1t does not wonder that ''the Sec
tartan preachers were alarmed" and hasten
Ell n attempt reply, but is Of opinion that
MIR. kpgers"ll had by far the best Of the
discussion. Some Of the sO-ealle,l replies
were discourteous, some were simply vitupe-
rat,ve. others were merely sympathetic APP
peals ON behalf Of Christianity; all We're
marked BY an ab+ence OF fair aud logical
argument" The Moaiior reckons Seven
Tennis oi the Americans who are not Catho-
lies are in essential sympathy with I"ger-
soll, but not one Catholic.
A sABBATARiAN CoUNrEkBLAsr.
Rev. T.. $. Todd, warns the readers Of the
Christian Idfocote against "misuse Of the
sabbath" by reading ire Sunday morning
papers. One who does this, ke says. "has
turned has thoughts into chanel which
must make ihe,ixy spiritually barren tohim.
lie has opened the gates for the very
thoughts and influences which it should be
his aim to keep out. And the current Of
worldly thoughts once started sweeps ON
through the day. Can such man honest
ly JOIN in singing,
Ib,~fr.. ting thn,a.htS AMI cares remove,
Ani hx our hearts aMi hopes above
The Christian man or woman who seeks
culture OF soul and hearts cannot afford tn
give up any part Of the Sabbath to the dsi-
ly papers, for j" so doing he virtually sur
render. the whole" Brother Todi's count
srblsst will probably have ~ little effect a.
that Of King James against tobacco.
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