Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-02-02
AUSTIN CORRESPONDENCE.
AUSTIN, January 80, 1879.

satiOn at last; one of more significance than
the authors intended or looked for We have
three churches here, an Episcopal, a Catholic
it is Cornish. There are here, also, some
pretty talented people who run an x. Y. T.,
an amateur minstrel and a literary club;
who now and then, for their own amusement
and to relieve stagnation, give exhibitions
and distribute the proceeds invariably among
the churches. These contributions have al
ways been thankfully received and gratefully
acknowledged, till recently the Cornish breth-
rem have had revival, and by a system of
loud prayers and hell fire and birthstone per
suasion, number of children and few shaky
old backsliders have been warped into a pro,
stationary state, and the zeal and feryor of
the church generally run up to fever heat.
Under this calOric pressure, when the mana
gers of the recent masquerade made a divi-
sion of the proceeds, ten dollars fell to the
share of Brother Grail (for the express use of
the Sunday SCHOOL,, conscientious and
talented young man, not yet quite broken in
to camp life. But Brother Grail has two or
three props-regular old stitfs-who fired with
holy zeal and armed with the Discipline of
the church, have passed series of resolutions
requesting that in future no donations
from 'Unchristan" and "Ungodly' enter
tainments be sent to them, as they will not be
received. being contrary to Gods law and
their convictions of Christian duty. The
u n IL,
churches in Austin, especially the NJ. E.,
live by the liberality of men scarcely one of
whom are members and the most liberal of
whom are the saloon keepers and gamblers;
men who pay for pews and sittings, and who
would be ashamed to contribute less than
four bits to a collection. This support is
gladly received, though coming from con-
demned sources, and no protest Is ever en-
tered. Many of these men, true to the mem
DRY of early teaching and pious parents, want
to see their young ones taught as they were
taught, and therefore support the Sabbath
school and the church; and on the approach
of Christmas there were no more liberal re-
Sponses to the calls of the young ladies' beg
Si"o1
whose places, filled with, perhaps, rude miners
and teamsters, gamblers and all that sort of
nomadic stiffs, they could enter with IMMUNITY
and depart unmolested and with generous
subscriptions. Pauls great secret of success
was his being ''all things to men. If his
Il7tt-}te were beef eaters, so was Paul; If
;ney were vegetarians, Paul lived on vege-
tables; if wine drinkers, Paul no doubt
,dupted his advice to Timothy and took a
little VINE for nus stomach $ sake and the
man who wants TO succeed in a Nevada camp
must leave some of his first principles be |
hind. 1t is better to lay. II possible, 8
formulation of good works than to try t"
build from the roof downward; just what
any one does who attempts to overlap all the |
settled habits of long lives, and ask to
drop at once into sancti6cation Now, in |
stagnant, staid Austin, where there are no
and but limited round of !
social life, and especially where every one
knows every one else; where private worth is
respected and poor, isolated wandering sheep |
are not quite ostracised, and no one casts a
stone at them anu especially where men anu |
women of doubtful character never encroach |
upon the domain claimed by purer class, is
there anything reprehensible in all Y. 7. Z.
Club giving a chaste public entertainment
which affords amusement far superior to the
exhibitions usually gwen by wandering
troupes; which educates and refnes the par
ticipators, and in which nothing but Chaste
language and refined sentiment is heardl Or
if few young men fit to fill up the hours
which would else be spent in saloons, perhaps
at the faro table, in rehearsing some songs,
and q string of amusing scenes, and III order
- give the town some amusement, give q
public entertainment and donate the proceeds
to the use of church or Sunday school-where
is the wrong; where lies the SIM The man
ayers of our recent masquerade, which was
attended by members and probationers, divid-
ed the proceeds az usual among the
Sabbath schools, aud as there was only
ten dollars for each, and u revival in
progress at Bro. Cralls, the Cornish breth
ren resolved, that being contrary to their
ones-and the law of God
10 engage in such exhibitions, church fair
otteries exempted, hereafter all donations
coming from such sources would be rejected.
The committees of the minstrel performance,