The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-04
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1879.

Terms $500 Z Year, Ds.os for SIX Months.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER !, 1879.
The following is the State Greenback
Ticket.as It now stands:
Governor-William Meiglen, Of Fill
moro county.
Lent Governor-Dr. j. NJ. West
fall. Of Olmsted county. -.
SECRETARY of State-A. L. Lane, OF
1Iennepin county. NJ.
Treasnrer-Joseph Goar, of Nlce
county.
Ayers, of Washington county.
The printers are in luck. Not long
since it was announced that a printer
had drawn q prize Of $4,000 in the
Louisiana lottery. And now comes
the announcement that two p, inters in
tho Philadelphia Record office have
drawn two prizes in the drawing which
took place on the 18th of August.
One Of these prizes is for $4,000 and
tho other Tor - ,5aO
Rev. D. X. Willard, Of the Presbyte-
rian Church, preached a sermon on a
recent Sunday evening in which lie ad-
mitted that 1.-THE Church had signally
failed to do the work it was designed
to do and that lie Twas not surprised
to hear that the Church was sinking
into contempt with tile multitude"
The sermon was no doubt designed
to arouse the noddins Presbyterians to
moro vigorous work.
Tie Rev. stated a fact which we
have often stated in the ADVANCE,
and for which We have been literally
''cussed" and discussed. 1t is true,
however, and we like to see ministers
as we'll rs editors hew to the line, let
the chips, etc. The salt has lost its
SAVIOR, the light of the world has de-
generated into q tallow Dip, the once
blazing furnace is neither hot nor cold
and Christ is spewing it out, But the
new church is coming in. Romanisln,
which St. John saw as the Beast, and
Professionalism, which he saw us the
Image of the Beast, will soon meet the
fate foretold in Revelation. And then
the true gospel will shine forth again.
COUNTY FAIR.
The Agricultural Meeting on Satur-
day decided to hold County Fair this
fall between the lst and 10th Of Octob-
er and the Executive Committee will
proceed at once to make preparation
for this our first County Fair.
Mobiles county can make rs fine
showing Of stock rs probably any new
county in the State, and Of course all
those who have anything superior to
exhibit, whether Of live stock, or farm
products will be OH hand. We hope
that the farmers will have the pride
and enthusiasm to take q lively inter-
est in this matter and make the First
Fair Il decided success.
ANOTHER ONE
This time it is Rev. Dr. Joseph p.
Thompson, the distinguished New
York clergyman. The woman's name
is DeL.nd, the wife of ia II. \. DeLand,
u Michigan printer. Mrs. DeLand
went to Europe to cultivate her voice
for singer, had letters to DR.. Thomp-
son and thus the init macy began. Tie
details rs published are more interest
ing than in the Beecher-Tilton case or
the more recent Bishop McCoskry case
1T Detroit.
This is only another one III the long
list of several hundred cIergymen who
have been published in the past two or
three years rs having been criminally
intimate with women.
Dr.. Thompson's friends say he is af-
fected with "softening of the BRAIN"
This is peculiar name for it, but it
does not change the fact. If DR..
Thompson were Il Spiritualist we
should call this sort Of conduct ''Prac~
tical Free Loveism'';; but as he is cler-
3yman we shall not sickle about terms
and will agree to call it "softening of
the brain" or anything else, so that we
can get ut the facts. Free Loveism
in theory is bad enough, and we do not
wonder that it is abhorred, but Free
Loveism in practice is still more to be
Ablorred.
DR.. Thompson breaches against Free
Loveism in theory but INDUCES in it
III practice.
Next!
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has recently issued circu-
lar directing attention to certain Su-
preme Court decisions of great interest
to those settled on government lands.
The Commissioner says: