Smyrna times., 1880-03-24


locals calls attention to suitngs, cloths,
casHimSres and general merchandise.
ID. W. Trumpellsr calls especial atten-
ton to his $3.50 pants and $l5 suits made
to order.
Payne G. Green, 323 North 2nd ST., Phil
adelphia, calls attention to his carpets, oil
cloths, window shades, &c.
John f. GSldsborough a valuable horse
for sale.
James Daley, real estate bought and ex-
changed for PHILADELPHIA and Canada
property.
c. G. Blatchlsy, the celebrated Blatchley
pump.
lMPRovEMESTS-Will II. Thompson,
corner of Union and Commerce streets, has
given his house new coat Of paint, and
Is erectiNg a rev poarch covering the
entire front Of his residence. Joseph
Smlthers Is erecting large stable in the
rear OF his dwelling on Pearl street. VIM.
M. Bell is giving the store occupied by the
Messrs. Mogear new coat of paint. Also
Mrs. Rachel Hoffscker the residence Of Dr.
Ashcrait, and Wm. w. Nelson his newly
modelled residence. Some improvements
have also been made at the residences of
JAS D. Wilds and Mrs. Speak man at " Bel
ment." The johnson building is to have
its front burAished with Il new dress of
paint, and David Richards, on Frazer ST., is
also improving his residence with the paint
brush.
The Two HANDs.-Towns like indvid-
uals are subject to two modes of treatment
in their growth-the law OF progression
and the law of repression. When the
latter gets hold of a town its fate is sealed
The two controlling hands are very differ.
ent; one opens, the other shuts. When
the latter takes Il tight grip there is very
little life left, or room for playing of the
vital forces. The srasplng hand is con
csrMed only for the pocket: the open
hand looks to the prosperity of com
munity. The forMer may take hold of a
community with force such as to close its
maih arteries of trade and traffic and thrust
aside railroads, steamboats,, manufacturing
establishments anything that does not have
its terminus into u single pocket, without
regard to the voice OF protesting con-
munity. Money so used or its power so
wlelded is 4 positive dstrIment to a com
Muhlty. The OpRn-handed man is not so.
lie Is willing TO receive what the interests
OF trade is always ready to accord, fair
equivalent, vatuc rcccired There is no
corRerng. The demands of place have IL
voice and that voice is heard. Many places
in opening up the Great West were on a bar
entirely as 10 circumstance and position
only as they were controlled by an open or
gripping hard, and one has gene up to the
dignity OF city while the other is still AN
obscure village simply because one was con-
trolled by one hand and the ether the other.
The one would stlmulate trade and swell the
Volumn OF the population by offering
superior advantages, the other would re-
press it by taking every incipient enter.
prise by the throat. The town that has
oRly open handed mon in it is on the sure
road to fortune.
REV. j. L. UMsTED's DIsCoURsE-.On
last Sabbath Rev. j. +. UmSted delivered
according to preyions announcement, in
the Presbyterian Church, n discourse en-.
titled The Mission OF St. Patrick in
Ireland, and its consequent results in the
formation and SuccesuIng history of tue
Ancient Irish Church, with notice OF
early ChrlstlaAity in the British Isles" >"
The house was full and the congregation
! listened with marked attention and interest
to the speaker for more than an hour. As
Mr.. Umsted does not desire the pubica.
ton OF the discourse at present, wanting
1t Tor future use and deliverance, we give
as far as possible a synopsis of it.
Alter Il brlRt reference to St. Patrick as be-
longing to the Evangelical Christian Church,
and not to the Papacy at all, he said it was
necessary to &c back in history and give a
brief account Of :" Early Christianity in the
British Isles" which he did tracing its IN.
PRODUCTION to Jeseph Of Arimathea, who
with eleven other disciples OF St. John, were
sent from the east for this purpose. Their
successors were the CuldSes, which term
signifies according to some servants Of
| God, by Others "meA OF the recess" or
cell-men" from their dwelling in cells in
seIi-denIal and Selt-suppOrt, and in retire
ment for prayer and meditation in order
the better as Luther to preach the word
Ihe Culdees, he maintained, were simple
presbyters who not only preached the Gospel
IN Britain, but carried it before the middle
OF the second century into Caledonia. He
| quoted several authorities to this end, as
on other points in the discourse both
Protestant and Papal, showing that the
Culdse churches were simple Presbyterian
churches in worship, doctrine and form
that st. Patrick was Culdee, and introdu
csd among the Irish the pure faith and
simple worship of the Scottish, or Culdes
Church, as it waS generally called--that St.
Patrick was not only SCotchman, but a
good Presbyterian, that he organized ia
Ireland 365 churches, ordained over them
800 Presby ytSr bishops as Pastors, and 5000
elders-slmilar to the Presbyterian institu.
ton OF our day, a minister or bishop for
each church with his session He dis.
claimed his connection with the Romlsh
Church altogether, that the claim set up
by Romanists was to be classed with the
absurd miracles said to have been performed
by him-that st. Patrick, COLUMBIA, and the
Culdees were not transformed in.o Roman
Catholics until after they had annihilated
the Culdess by persecution and this for
purpose to unity the church.
Mr.. Umsted gave an accouRt of st. Pat.
rick. his birth, kidnapping, education, life
and labors to the end, and showed that he
left behind him the purest church in all
chrlstendom, and which was the light of
Europe for more than seven (7) hundred
years, when Henry II with the sanction of
Pope Adrian Nv, made conquest Of Ire.
land with merciless slaughter, Adrian giving
MS sanction for the purpege as he expressed
It, to extend the boundaries of tho church"
among the Irish who had followed the
doctrines OF their early teachers, and had
never acknowledged the Holy See" Thus
was suoverted the ancient Irish Church, its
institutions oyerthrown, which st. Patrick
had founded and his real teachiags, and
stamped cut the sparks of truth which he
eRklndled both in Ireland, and on the con-
tiRent-all this under the sanction of the
Pope of Rome and that church, which
strangely clairns hM as one of its saints
Mr.. Umsted quoted from Dr. Walsh,
Episcopal bishop of Ossory in Ireland, St.
Patrick's first appearance before the chief
OF Tara, which manifested the simplicity,
the wisdom, and grandeur Of the man, and
how by the conversion Of portion of the
royal family under the preaching Of St.