Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-17
SUNDAY READING.


1t was originally published and edited by the
Rev. Doctor Cummings, learned and very
tevout man, and q shining light in the Con
2;regational Church. The paper is now edited
by one |. T. Warren who filings out as his
motto the words eff forget thee, O Jerusa-
lem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. -
We hardly know why Mr. Warren chose this
particular sentence for his motto. 1t was the
Psalmist who said those words; and why Mr.
Warren thinks them appropriate to his calling
and election we are a5 a loss to guess. We
have heard a great deal laid about That
blessed word Mesopotamia'; and there IS no
doubt that people 10 like to roll under their
tongues such resembling and rythmical SEN
tcnces us are 10 be classed among favoIite QUO
tations, just certain young men and boys
like to "spout' lines from Shakespeare and
the other poets. After all, it is barely posi-
HE that Mr.. Wvrrens right hand hash much
cunning to forget. Ps~hars. however, if he
could forget or forego some Of his narroNness
of belief and hard bi-otyies he would he
happier man and make those about him feel
more pleasantly We note that The Christian
Mirror, rejecting like unto faithful glass
the doctrines of the Stout old Calyinists, ar
raigns Mr.. Beecher for his heresies and re-
bukea him with an unsparing hand. As for
example, in reviewing some of Mr. B recent
utterances us given to the world through the
columns of the Christian Union. the Mirror
employs the following language: "His objec-
tions to future eternal punishment are what
have been reiterated by skeptics, infdels, and
errorists, ever since Christianity was given to
the world. 1t is an old device of unbelief to
draw up the soul-harrowing pictures of persons
plunged in4o flames and torntented by devils, |
and to ask, Chow would you feel to think |
that your child were to be doomed thus2" |
What do all such pictures prove! Just nothing |
at all. The actual world in which we live con-
rains the elements for innumerable such pic
lures as these, in regard to which one might
ask, "How would you feel if you were assured |
that your child or friend were to be made to
suffer thus The truth is that the whole uni
verse has a Background of Mystery"-not
alone of possible mercies but of actual and
positive horrors; and no reasons but poorly
who flies thither to find the one, but shuts his
ayes to the certaintiesof the other. To the
wicked God IS consuming fire, and it was
IN apostolic hands these terrnrs of the Lord
by which men We're persuaded The one suffi-
.'ient answer 20 all these frightful suppositions
IS that if any human soul is finally and forever
lost it will be because it was so appointed by
Dnerring Wisdom, and Goodness, and this
TACT made apparent will command the appro-
val of all but those who are themselves rebels. "
Now if this means anything it means hold
ing to the faith of what goes by the ugly name
If Infant Damnation" which, not profanely
speaking, is Hell with a vengeance We are |
Tree to confess that we canuot see how one
may accept any of the promises laid down BY
alvin and not proceed to just these lengths. {
The fact is that Mr.Boecher represents class
If emotional people who, as the saying is.
have got religion, but who shrink, coward c
ike, from the inevitable conclusions of the a
ogic of their doct rine b
Further along in this review of the Mirrors Ii
: the following amusing bit of sanctimonious- o
hess; 1.-The theme is a fruitful as well as a
ad one, but we forbear to follow it. As we P
ook occasion to say when the reports of Mr. r
IS late sermon came to us, we have no fear G
rom all this for Gods truth Forever 0 II
ord thy word is settled in heaven" Christ n
as spoken in human language, and neither
he words nor the meaning he intended by II
lem will ever pass away. They will remain e.
'om generation to generation declaring ever o.
ne immutable principles of his law; that he III
merciful and gracious, long-suffering and
Dundant in goodness and truth, and that will h,
y no means clear the guilty This ''Hot III
ospeller' has 10 thought Of letting off the
licked with any weak assurances of a chance
) escape. And it is held by not few that
lch hard-hearted religion as this is COM go
'rt to its Possessors. And we suppose it ur
ust be, else they would try and be rid of it.
But we can and will get away from this bit las
r subject far enough to let Alice Cary sinr Ire
us, in her sweetest measures, of ~ ~
TIE FISHERS OF GALILEE st
There fishers with nets in their hands sex
And they walked and talked by the seaside sands he
Yet sweet rs the dev7s TALL. 81,
me words they spake, though they spake so low -
Across the long, dim centuries flow tel
Ana We know them and all con
A$, know them and love them all. CT,
Seven sad men in the days of old pal
Ar Iona IL.