Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-22
A SUNDAY SERMON.

ereCteu many months ago IN the S1nCthfH
.anctorum of the MORNING APPEAL, grow
dusty and neglected through dsuetude. And
the Preacher, he has grown sere and rusty by
lack of practice, as it were; and while he fain
would renew his ancient relations with his
Flock, he is conscious that, while the spirit
uoveth him to speak, there is confusion and
dullness in the head Thoughts, like school
boys becoming vasrant by long trusntage, are
hard to gather together and discipline and
restrain. Aud so, the temper with which one
approaches his ubject-or his want of a sub
lect-is like that of sailor who has had too
extended and frolicsome "shore day, and
goes back to the routine of his duties with
lasstude and sense of returning slavery.
The Chaplain on the quarter deck, even, after
many pleasant nights on land with the Bishop
and the local priesthood is, warrant, almost
as much off his legs poor Jack himself.
And So, brethren, your Shepherd Graves your
indul5s ice if, instead of discoursing to you of
things pclemical, he talks to you in neigh
borly way of matters physical and metapnysi
cal-somethlng in the way of the socabeN
and the relations and motives and attributes
of men and things-llaking religious consid
erations secondary and Incidental. Thus, for
example, is that much Wanted quality called
Responsibility, which is, or seemeth to be,
the upper ply of the carpet which Is woven OF
the materials of society. "Chariy, ut can
not be too often repeatedly, ''sutfereth long
and Is kind" but of Responsibility it is to be
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which is not so inherently beautiful and
surfing and tender or 80 long suffering Too
often, indeed, is this an arrogant and lmperl
GUS quality, setting itself high IN the mart
and within the temple, seeming to the critical
and lose-observing mind to be a commodity
which. taking the highest seats i'll synag"gues
and rooms in teasts, crowds to the wall its
neeker and humber sisters and mistakes
itself, ah SO grievously, for that largest and
truest and most courageous quality of man
kind, self-respect. And SO Of that inSeparable
companion of Responsibility, Appearances
the ape of refinement, of sensiblity and OF
taste. The tailor is responsible for many IL
mans damnstion-the loss OF that sweetest
of Heaven where the Angel of Good
Qualities has q pleasant sub-regency, and out
If which are excluded as by flaming sword
Of ouenchless wrath, the snubbish, the im.
pertinent aud the vulgar. The Venerable !
Bede, (nost excellent orthodox authUrlty) |
declared that there were no less than one
hundred and forty four Thousand different
kinds of punshments in hell; and if hell be |
thus divided up into grades and specaties,
why may not Paradise be- thus subjected to
congregations and settings-otfl No, my friends;
you can not sin against good taste more
cgregiously than by the assumption of the
virtue of Refinement in the speciuus guse of
Appearances. Not any airs Of superior nice
ness will cover your ignorance of the blessed,
uulearnable arts of genuine good breeding
for we'll polished boot may hide a stocking
which is soiled, aud the sleek hat may cover
head within which there is coxcombery,
meanuess and stlf-coucelt To bo SIRE, the
the counterfeit of good manners,
while it may be a cause Of contempt
to ths discriminating, is better than self-con-
scious and shameless boorishness; though it
is to be doubted if anything Can be regarded
an improvement upon ones native instinct
and incorporating to be earnest iii desire
GO be regardful of the feelings and failngs of
others NtscitMr non ut is your true gen
tleman; and as of those artihcialtes of so
ciety, so of Religion, or, rather the profes-
sion of it, which too often is but the orode
Imitation of golden Piety. If they who pirate
of The Better Glasses, and arrogate to them
selves sense and attitude of superiority
would not justify those social rebeilions which {
are constantly coming up out Of the ground 4
where the seeds of resistance are sown, they
will learn that that which is truly Respect
able feels and shows respect for others; is t
not selfish; is not grasping; doth neither {
mock nor sheer, nor work any in Justice
Darby in his blouse and joan i'll her Jeans are {
your real gentlemen and lady in the presence /
Of supercillieus manners and misworn silk a
into the boiling sea to save fellow life at {
The risk of his own, is better Christian than a
the sauntering Levite and the unmoved
priest who stand idly by, making no move t
o wrast 8 human lie from the merciless
waves And it is not all powerful Of self
this Responsibility which plays 8;
10 large part in the movements and seeming o