Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-20
A MODERN SERMON.
On a Text Not Selected From the scriptur,

A NUDEkN SERMON.
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on 9 lext NOT Selected From the Scriptures.
The following, says an English paper,
exhibits the method upon which the aver
age parson constructs his delectable dis
course:
Brethren, the words Of my text are:
old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cup
III 49, 70 &c get her poor o DOG 2; bone;
~ bare nen sn' ~ .ncrc 'ne cupooafo "as
And SO the poor dog had none
These beautiful words NV dear friends
carry With them q solemn lesson nr,.
pose this evening L, analvzc their mean.
ING. and attempt to anniv = lofty as +
az be, to our every day life
odd Mother Hubbard, she went to the cnn-
board, - - q - ~
To get her poor dog bone
Mother Hubbard, you see, was old;
there being no mention of others, we
may presume that she was alone; wild
ow-a friendless, old, solitary widow
Yet did she despair? Did she sit down
and weep, or read a novel, or wiring her
hands? No! she went TO the cupboard.
And here observe that she went to the
cupboard. She did not hop. or skin or
run or INN, or use any nerinatetic arti-
fca. che snlelv and werelv wont - tho
cnnhoard
We have seen that she was aid and
l,nely. and ,ro nov, f,,r+her 600 +ba+ shr
was moor For. mark. the words are ssthe
cunboard, Not zone Of the cunboards
or the RIGHT hand cupboard, or athe left
hand cupboard, or tie one below. or the
one under the floor. bnt inst the cun.
hoard The ono humble i;ftla cunboard
the moor woman nosssessed. And why
did she 90 to the cunboard? Was E f.
brino forth Golden gnhlets nr pl;tar;nn
precious stones. or costly annarel OF
feasts or anv other a+tr,hntas II was,+h
X was to ref har moor doo ) homo, Not
on,v wos tha yv;fon ,,oe 3 M hor 49,.
tho sola mon &c Nor otr., los ,,o ~, +oo
W. can amap,na tho scone f Tbo n No..
doc cronch;ng - thn CORNER lool;nn w;st-
fin a. Tho soi;+oru cn1l,oord ~ bo ~.
and oxracto+;on yonha ~ o,,an = ~
+bo,,rnl NO ara ~ a;s+,no+Ia IA 49, =
was not half onen ~ s;ar - o,,on - for
tho moor doc -. ~
Int Oh !, II,
- bare, - 49, ~ sp'0NlN !" -
And SO the poor dog had none
"When she got there!' You see dear
brethren, what perseverance is. You see
the beauty of persistence in doing right,
She got there. There were no turnings,
and twistings,. no slippings or slidings,
no leaning to the right or faltering to the
left. With glorious simplicity we are
| told she cot there.
uAnd how was her noble effort reward
| ed?
uThe cunboard was bare.,, If was hare
There was to be found neither apples.
nor oranges. nor cheese-cakes. nor penny,
buns, nor gingerbread, nor crackers, nor
nuts, nor lucifer matches. The cupboard
was bare! There was but one, only one,
solitary cupboard in the whole Of that
cottage, and that one the sole hope of the
widow, and the glorious loadstar of the
poor dog, was bare? Had there been a
leg of mutton, a loin Of lamb, fllet Of
veal, even an ice from Gunter's the case
would have been different. the incident
would have been otherwise. But it was
bare. nv brethren. bare as bald head
bare as an infant born without a caul.
MANY Of YOU viii probably saw. with
all the pride of worldly sopbistry-ssTbe
widow, no doubt, went out and brought
dog biscuit All, no! Far removed
from these mundane desires, poor Mother
Hubbard, the widow, whom many
thoughtless worldlings would despise. in
| that She only owned one cupboard, per
ceived-or I might even say saw-at
once the relentless logic of the situation
and yielded to it with all the heroism OF
that nature which had enabled her with
out deviation to reach the barren cup
board. She did not attempt, like the
stih-necked scofers of this generation, to
war against the inevitable: she did not
try, like the so-called men Of this science,
! to explain what she did not understand.
She did nothing. The poor dog had
none!' And then, at this point our in
formation ceases But do we. not know
sufficient? Are we not cognizant Of
enough?
| Who will dare to pierce the veil that
| shrouds the Interior tate of old Mother
Hubbard, her poor dog, the cupboard. CT
the bone that was not there? Must we
imagine her still standing at the open
cupboard door? depict to ourselves the
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