Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-21
A CRUSHED CAMPBELLITE.
HIS SAD EXPERIENCE WITH BROTHER MBTBo
pIST-How SERMON THIEF CORRALED
THE BURIAL BUSINESS OF BOpIE-
THE CHRISTIAN CHARITY OF THE
"APPBAL."

| eSterQaV afternoon Wnen Iile Douie stage
came in a man with meek and lowly aspect
got out and came directly to the APPEAL office.
Afrer enquiring for the editor he seated him
self in a chair, and folding his hands In front
on the butt of an umbrella rested his chin on
his knuckles and assumed the unmistakable
air of a man with grievance. his dress
and general appearance conveyed the idea that
he minister of the gospel, who, III his
endeavors to wrestle with iuiquity, had been
the under man in the tussel most of the time.
| Hard work and poverty had kicked him from
pillar to post, and his ministrations in a Sec
| ton of country given over to worldiines and
| sin, had not been attended with any marked
success, He might have dropped d seed here
and there which sometime may bear fruit
worthy of the harvest but while that seed
is being quickened to life, the planter must
eat and clothe himself all the same, The re-
porter took off his hat ont of respect to the
mans misfortunes and dispair, the lines of
which were traced all over his face and stamp
ed in every movement of his body.
ALABoRER IN THE VINEYARD.
He made several movements Of his lips and
then began
d" understand that the SUNDAY APPEAL is
a sort of religious newspaper-that is, it gives,
in connection with its chronicles of secular
events, little of the leaven of the true gospel
You are quite correct, nay good man. The
APPEAL, in it's character of religious journal,
has long welded powerful influence upon the
morals of the coast"
"This is indeed forbidding soil for the
planters of the true vine"
I'VE, too, have found it So
at is hard to meet with opposition from
the scoffers at the truth, but to"
IS Meet with Gaping and chicanery in
side the fold of the faith is overwhelming"
Almost exactly what was about to say |
when you interrupted me- Our experiences
must have been almost identical.
81 hope" said the reporter with sigh,
50 that your experiences have not been as bad
as mine.
TIE PLAGARIZED SERMON.
81 met a brother Methodist in Bodie |
myself am Campbellite. We were both at
tracted to the spot by the report that Death,
he master of US all, was reaping a golden
harvest We came there to minister to the
wants of the dying.
" For the coin of the living
The good book says that the laborer is
worthy of his hire, and the funeral fees are
lot uEwelcome to the palm of the exhorter.
L" The APPEAL has never received cent for
is labors in the vineyard its sustenance is
lrawn entirely from the patronage of the
Worldly" {
But to continue. | formed partnership 3
With my Methodist brother, and to save ex-
0 preach alternately at funerals. l showed E
i'm over dozen first class sermons had =
Tritten on purpose for obsequious occasions. d
hey were fall of melancholy, gloom and tear 2
illness, with an occasional sprinkling of brim-
tone for an audience of hardened sinners r
lie said he had no written sermon, but de- d
ended solely on his inspiration from heaven. =
Veil, the next day there was a funeral. He !,
as in when the corpse's brother called, and "
ook the job and the $40 He said he would g
o the preaching and praying and | could u
lrow in the amens at the proper intervals, and ~
lie next funeral | could take entire. D
Here the man paused and looked as if his \
ind was filled with unpleasant recollections.
Well l concluded to take along my little
ack valise with my sermons in it, so that if -.
ere Was an extra funeral on the ground !
uld take charge, and sure enough there was -,
,e SO | left him and his funeral in the r
,rtheast corner of the graveyard and went !.
it'll the other procession. | made prayer 49,
soon as / got my money, and it seemed to -;
Ike with the crowd. Then | opened my car Is,
t-sack and was about to pull out my crack -
scourse when found that the sermons were u
gone and the sack filed with lot of Con -
essional documents bearing the frank of R. J.,
Daggett. l made a few extemporaneous 6
marks, but such are not my forte, and they
i fiat. | got the corpse out of the way as
on as possible and went over to where my
rtner, Stebbins, was preaching. Would ''
u believe it, he had seven funeral parties ~
rraed and was preaching to big audience oe
,m my batch of sermons 2 -,
GO We would" o"
&C He deliberately went through nine of
em, and when he had finished he passed va
ind the ha, and collected $500 cash That pr