The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-12-12
MORSELS FOR SUNDAY.

Nearly million and a half Gospel books and
New Testaments printed in twenty-five languages
we're given away at the Bible stand in the Paris
Exhibition.
Bishop Bedell, in circular to the clergy and
laity Of the Diocese Of Ohio, recommending that
the Day OF IutercesSIon this year be observed on
Advent Sunday.
Vice is very prolific. A lie hates to be alone
and must have company. He who tells one is
sure to tell another to cover up the first, and a
third to cover up the first two. After that he be.
comes accustomed to 1t and stops counting.
The statistical returns of Methodlsm for 1879
show that the number of Methodist cOmmuni-
cants In the world is 44s9 S77, with lO4175 local
andtraveliDg preachers, TheMethodist population
is estimated at 90 100000. Tho Methodist Episcopal
Church reports 1888 7S3 members, l2 $50 local and
1908 ltineTant preachers. The gain Of members
is about 900 for the year Other branches of the
denomination bring up the total in the United
States to S96 999 members 26642 local and % 1876
itinerant preachers.
The words Immortal SOUL" "deathless spirit"
"disembodled soul, /" "disembodied spirit" "eter
nal torment" "eteral suffering In conscious mis-
cry" eternal misery" "unending misery" "un.
ending torment" everlasting woe" "endless
woe" "never.dying SOUL" and all their kindred
words are words that never, In a single instance
are found in the Bible, But from the copious
manner in which these words are passed to us
from the pulpit, and through the press, we should
without reading, suppose the Bible full Of them
The word Immortal" occurs but once in the
Bible.
We seldom have the modification Of agreeing
with Talmsge. But when that performer resigns
his connection with religious college by reason
Of his greatly enlarged pastoral duties" and of
1.-The new Christian work" which he is about to
undertake we feel that he Is right He has In
truth greatly enlarged the sphere Of pastoral du
ties as that sphere was understood before his
time, and he has entered upon work which is Ger.
tainly new for prOfessedly Christian minister
and perhaps even newer than It, is Christian. II
is an unquestionably good thing that Talmage
should have as little as possible to do with the
education of youth.-Net0 York World.
Nobody can imagine the spectacle of Jesus
Christ the author Of Christianity, as stipulatng
for certain terms before consentng to deliver his
sublime sermon on the mount We do not evince
this example from any spirit of irreverence
quite the contrary, But II it be true that the
greater part Of mankind are standing upon the
brink Of everlasting damnation, and that many
may be saved by preachers who devote their
lives to the work, then 1t becomes the duty Of
those preachers who profess to be followers of
Christ to work night and day, In season and out
Of season. without regard to salary or to any form
oF 10 20 tbot bo
lives onlyito save souls lfthe greater part of the
world stand In danger Of eternal damnation q
consistent follower Of Jesus Christ has no right to
add to the number In 1t by becoming the father
Of children who are not less likely to endure the
tortures of hell than the rest of mankind" "-NeiO
York Telegram
A writer In the New York EUdageliSt pays his re-
spects to Colonel Bob Ingersolls lecture on Burns
and excoIiates the lecturer numerically, saying
In conclusion: His wholesale structures on re.
ligion, like his condemnation of a whole depart
ment of literature, are as worthless and as base
less as a deaf mans denial of music because he
has not the ear 10 hear It, And this ia the charac
ter of very much OF our modern criticism OF spir
itual things. 1t comes from men who are not re-
ligious, men In whom the spiritual elements are
dormant and oVerlAid, men who lack the quail
ties Of spiritual training required to see and fee
the sublimity and worth OF divine things. There
is great deal Of legitimate and honest and use
ful criticism Of creeds and doctIines and demon
nations and rituals and movements-the Incl.
dents and accessories Of religion. But the bla
tant denials and destructive assaults on religion
it'elf Of which there are so many, are unworthy
the name Of criticism and merely show the ignO-
rance the limitations, and the spiritual destltu.
ton Of men who make them"