The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-12-26
RANDOM THOUGHTS
BY THE EDITOR.

BY THE EDITOR
l take the following from the Exami
ner and Chronicle, Baptist paper pub
lished in the city of New York 1t is
one of the ablest and most influential re-
ligious papers in the United States:
Daily journalism is a deep mystery, and the
more we study it the more we don't compre-
and den of crime.be ransacked, and spread out
from day to day before all classes of people?
preston fhs.n that everything, N morals and
in business, is growing woI1e and worse, and
the better. But while all this carton gathering
and peddling are going on, the suppressed fact
morality and piety in the world as there is to-
day. At no previous time, since Cain murder
and women on the eaIth-so many incoTrupti-
BILE men in business, or So much human happi-
where the quietest things. A dozen deeds of
rowdyism and rascality make more noise in
the Monday papers, than q million of people
who give their Sunday to worship and deeds of
love,
Exactly the same objection could be
made to the Bible, that is here made TO
the daily papers. Talk about the mis-
takes of Moses, and all the others who
wrote the Bible, and yet there are mil
lions of people, like myself, who believe
the Bible, taken as human production,
lays down the best system of legal
and moral precepts ever given to the
world; and yet, from the writings of Mo-
ses down to those of John upon the
Island of Patmos, the whole Book is a
recital of the most fearful crimes. Moses
records with particularly how the first
man who was born into the world brutal
ly murdered the second, and that his
brother, and without any apparent cause,
provocation or excuse. According to
the idea Of our Baptist cotemporary,
Moses made mistake. He should have
suppressed the fact of the murder, and
only extolled the piety of Abel. But if
a mistake, it is not the mistake of Moses,
because he lived hundreds Of years after
vealed to him. If it is a mistake to
make the crime public, let God bear the
blame in this instance, at least.
There is popular belief that when
the ostrich is closely pursued upon
the sandy deserts, and it finds escape i'm
sand, and thinks that because it cannot
see its enemies. therefore its enemies
cannot see it. That seems to be the idea
of our new theorists.
Now propose to quote a little of the
current news of the day, in order to show
the moral condition to which our coun-
try has arrived, as shown in the daily
papers. There is a good deal said in the
New Testament about the kind of fruit
certain trees will produce, and the kind
of water found in streams running from
different kinds of fountains, and these
figures, or illustrations, always appeared
very plain to me; but then I am told
that I do not understand these matters
as the good people do.
One of the reporters of the Cincinnati
Gazette, in finding out what was going on
in the city on Sabbath night. thus tells
of church fair:
JEFFERSON HALL.
This well known hall of Twelfth and Main
was open last night, as it has bee for number
+ of nights, for promenade concert and fair, foG
theran1, at Main street and McMieken avenue
AT IL o'clock last night the hall had in it some
men and women of the Congregation. The
greater number, however, were yolng men and
p The usual articles to be found at church fair
were ON sale, and b Tidc1, bar in one corner
patrons So Of D this at the he time named p were he
young boys. who seemed to be amusing them
selve } by pushing each other about until one
was thrown down. Then rush would be made
for the bar, where the victim was made to
Wheel Wheel of fortune at five CEN Chance. There
was music, but the hall was too much crowded
for dancing.
Now here are few of the crimes re-
Gently committed, as recorded in the
daily papers Some days there will be
recorded three or four outrages, the ma
ture of which are too disgusting to be
even mentioned in so respectable paper
as the Standard.
The n. Y. Sun has this:
Margaret Boyce supports her husband at 43
Hester street. although he drinks and is pow
erful man, VINO constantly curse and blutally
ner Sn Weh her
ment was in the room. Boyce demandt mon-
IL the II man @ fed ed Then Boyce fell upon his wife
in a Jealous passion, knocked her down, and
face was terribly Scared by the blows, the SIGHT
of one eye being destroyed. She was sent to
the Chambers Street Hospital.
And this:
On Oct. 6, as Mary Lyons, a respectable do
mestfc, was hurrying to early mas, she was
followed by John Carpenter, drunken labor
er who purJued her into st. Francis Xavier's
Catholic Church, and stabbed her, almost al
the foot OF the aItr. On being arre5ted the
desperate said that he suppC- d the woman he
had stabbed was his wife. week alterward,
while confined in the Tombs, Carpenter at
tempted - commit suicide by cutting his
throat with ble-knlfe. he had always
borne bad reputation and had persistently
ill-treated his wife, who, since his arrest, wrote
letter to District Attorney Phelps urging him
to press the against her husband, as she
was in fear of her life while he remained out OF
State Prison. On being arraigned in the Gen
eral Sessions yesterday. Carpenter offered to