Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-04-19

DEAR JOURNAL One need not leave
his own door yard to find out what is GO
ing on in the wide world. Men are alike
the world over. Whether you 60 East
through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Maine, or West towards the Pacific, the
genus homo is one and the same. The
ladies are all in fashion with a string in
the left hand, holding up puckered skirts
and costly trails. The men are busy dis
cussing greenbacks and AZ ever making
money. To oul.do and out-Rhine in
church and state Is the order of the dav.
The tallest spires and the biggest pile
draws the multitude. It's big thing.
Nothing but big thing is worthy OF note.
4 tramp, OF burglar, or defaulter is
both gentleman and christian, who has
enlarged idens and belongs to all the Or
thodox churches and the best families,
provided he only makes big thing of it.
Morals, not to Hay religion, have we'll
nigh departed this life. II is the fashion
now 10 smile on all flesh. Beecher's heav-
Ell takes we'll, and Beecher's hell hurts no
body. Men kill, steal and get drunk, and
when they get tired, to change the order
OF exercises, they cry reform, Just for the
fun OF it. The biggest sinners and the
poorest devils shout and clap while
Moody and Sankey sing with tho the null
titude, Jesus of Nazareth Paaseth By"
National treaties are broken, savings
banks collapse, the strongest safes become
the sport Of gun-powder, and men stare
at each other as if life were but trick.
The biggest fist, the biggest canon, and the
biggest satan, transformed into mn angel
OF light, command the minds of the people
and sway the popular will. All along the
railways are glaring posters--"Beware OF
pick-pockcts Look out for gamblers
who seek TO rob the unwaryW When lie
gets hAme, every christian man thanks
God that he has neither been robbed nor
killed, and every inadel when ho leaves
home wishes there was God to protect
and bless him on his journey.
Social life is the same East and West.
Maine has caught the contagion of Chi
eago and Utah. Many wives, by divorce,
II not by acquisition, is the order OF the
day. To steal by the Wholesale il the style
OF gentlemen only thieves do that kind
OF business by retail. Our courts have a
big bundle Of crimes now on the docket
kogues catch rogues, and rogues let rogues
go. Since hell is nowhere, ianrderers are
"S'N =" -tohO AOi 10 Dt IldIuOn-
ed out after prayers aud a due amount Of
singing Of hymns. A man aud a horse GO
2:4O or they don't 60 at all, aud the women
do not lag far behind. The young men
mean to be ahead. Houses Of assignation
are looked upon as safety valves 10 the
social evil. A smart Young man now says,
cold man." cold woman :" and his father
and mother beg pardon because they did
not die last year. After dear mother has
gone under the sod, and father looks Ms il
he was going that way, the children begin
n social chat about the money, and Just ms
soon as death permits they enter suit to
prove before a. u the world that our dear
father was a lunatic, because in his will he
gave Bill more than jim, aud besides left
a bcqnest 10 the Bible SUciety. The Ten
Commandments by common consent have
been abolished. Slfmge that such mus
~ old co le should have lasted so long I |
" Thou shalt not steal, F" "rhon shalt not |
kill, Then shalt not commit ndu ultery."
What bother lat ns have plenty Of /
room. There ought to be space seGough |
between heaven and earth 10 lot n man |
shake himself aud to move about easy.
What pity 10 be under the bondage Of |
law Flow beautiful 10 zee astute ID. Ds |
hunting all through the pages OF their
Bibles without being able TO find such a
place M hell-nOt even the smell Of brim-
stone! A heavenly state, sure!
ES-RoUTE.