Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-08

memorial day by the Grand Army of the
Republic, and the preachers will improve
the occasion next day to point their NOR
ais.
THE Philadelphia newspapers ale quite
interested in a real bunker love feast
which the brethren in that city have cele-
brated in their meeting house ON Marshall
street, below Girard avenue. Their me-
tropolitan services were as simple as those
held in Lancaster county barn.
The Patriot has discovered that ga num-
Der of pretended Democratic newspapers
have not been informed that there was
Democratic peace and harmony conven-
tion held in Harrisburg last week." Con-
sidering its proximity to the convention
the Patriots ignorance is the least excus-
able of them all.
In the judgment of the New York 7ri-
bune first in the order of chances would,
seem to be the nomination of Mr.. Blaine
on the second ballot. Next in order is,
perhaps, successful union upon Mr.. Sher-
man of all the elements in the convention
opposed to Blaine. The third probability
is the nomination of dark horse by
movement like that which brought about
the success at Mr.. Hayes in the Cincinnati
convention. Mr.. Washburne and Mr.. Ed
munds, from the smallness of their original
strength, must be put in the category of
dark horses, and it might be extended to
include Mr.. Window, of Minnesota, Cen
eral Harrison, of fIndiana, and General Gar
field, of Ohio.''
WHO has better described the railroad
hotel breakfast than w. d. How
ellis in "Their Wedding Journcy?"
"The peppery and muddy drausht
which impudently affected to be
coffee, the oily slices of fugacious potatoes
slipping about in their shallow dish and
skillfully evading pursuit, the pieces of
beef that simulated steak, the hot greasy
biscuit steaming evilly up into the face
when opened and then soldering into
masses of condensed dyspepsia" And of
those who furnish it: "The people who
serve the public are kindly and pleasant in
proportion as they serve it well. The un-
just and inefficient have always that con-
sciousness of evil which will not let
man forgive his victim or like him to be
cheerful"
A NEW memorial font, the gift of Mrs.
S. S. Moon, in memory of the late Samuel
Stewart Moon, has been placed in st.
Marks church, Philadelphia. 1t is of
handsome red Victoria marble, with shafts
Of Mexican onyx, bases and abaci of the
caps of yellow Sienna marble, and folia-
ton of the caps of pure white Vermont
marble. The bowl is of Tennessee mar
BILE, and the whole stands on pavement
of Minton tiles. On the tile floor of the
dais, at the east end of the font, which is
placed near the tower entrance to the
church is memorial "Brass" about by
2 inches in size, lettered and ornamented
in red and black in the old church style.
The legend reads:
A Memorial of SAMUEL STEWART Moon,
BOrn--Died-
Into Thy hands commend my spirit:
For Thou hast redeemed me, y Lord"
The Lutheran O6serrer says: "Should
the shepherds of flock be changed SO fire.
quently that the sheep would neither know
their voices nor follow them, the unity,
safety, and nurture of the flock would be
endangered. A change in the head of
family resulting from the death of parent
and the substitution of a step-father or
step-mother, is sometimes fraught with
incidental disadvantages to the household,
but if such changes were to be repeated
every few years, it is probable that in
most cases the children would become
dissatisfied and leave, and the family
would sooner or later be broken up. And
evils analogous to those just mentioned are
the legitimate results of unscriptural views
of the pastoral relationship, the frequent
recurrence of ministerial changes, and the
large number of short pas
torates. that characterize the development
of our church at the present day.
The New York Obsercer says: "NOw,
we do not say that making merchandise for
charity is wrong. We do not say that
fairs are wrong. If there is no gambling,
no rattle or lottery, direct or indirect, open
or secret if goods are sold, no matter at |
what price, provided no deception is prac-
ticed, it is right to have such sale and to
make large profits for charity If
we look into the nature of the fair for
charity, or the charity concert, or charity
or any other scheme in which
the sale of something is to be made for the
sake of profit to be applied to charity, we
see that the selishness or self-love of the
party is appealed to this is the essence of
the rattle or lottery the hope of getting
not the pleasure of giving some
thing, is excited, and the purchaser is not
but made worse by the indul-
,ence of the passion that prompted the
purchase. If money is thus coaxed out of
;he selfish and stingy, it may be said that
t is good done, it is foraging on the ene-
ny, it is reaping where we had not sowed.
But it is aotcharity, not benevolence."
ONE of the prettiest towns in Pcnnsyl-
vania is Media the capital of Delaware