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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-21
SELF

BY F. W. FABER.
Oh, could go through all lifes troubles singing
Turning earths night to day.
If self were not so fast around me, clinging
To all do or say.
My very thoughts are selfish, always building
Mean castles in the air;
l use my love for others for gliding
To make myself look fair.
1 fancy all the world engrossed in judging
My merit or my blame;
Its warmest praise seems an ungracious grudging
OfPraise which might claim.
In youth or age, by city, wood or mountain,
Self forgotten never; tt-
Wheree we tread it gushes like fountain,
Its waters flow forever
miserable omnipresence stretching
Over all time and space,
How have run from thee, yet have found thee
The goal in every race
Inevitable self vile imitation
Of universal light g..
Within our hearts dreadful usurpation
Of Gods exclusive right!
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MIR. Beecher and his Theologv

"ho LIS thSOlOSy.
The press of the country has been
dealing more industriously than usual
with Mr.. Henry Ward Beechers theol.
ogy, and his lapse into absolute Rational
ism has been announced with so much
certainty, and with such an array of quo.
tation from his sermons, that he has
found it necessary to depart from his
usual Indifference to public opinion, and
preach a, sermon in which he undertakes
to inform all interested in the questions
what he is, and where he stands. This
sermon he delivered in Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, on the morning of last Sab
bath, and it has been reported at length
in the daily journals of New York. 1t
is perhaps as definite statement of his
doctrinal belief as he will ever make.
HIS most important declaration is that
IN which he afirms that he heartily en-
braces 1.-THE sublime simplicity of the
Apostles Greed" He repeated this
Greed and announced his. steadfast adj
herence to it. Such Confession of Faith
certainly takes Mr. Beecher out of the
lists of the Rationalists.
But in the further unfoldings' of his
views Mr.. Beecher indicates points where
he decidedly departs from the old evan
gelcal faith of his fathers, and gives color
to the accusations made against him.
We can only note two which are of
special Importance.
l. Mr.. Beecher believes in the in
spiration of the writer's of the Scriptures,
but only in the sense that Scripture
is not thereby made the sole and final
authority In matters of doctrine. In
splration, in his view, is not closed-it
is continued; truth is still sprouting.
growing and bearing precious fruit in
the minds and lives of His people and
while the light vouchsafed to the indi
vidual is only for the comfort and guild
ance of the individual, and without au-
thority upon the conscience of others,
yet when such truth has gone through
the experience of multitudes, and has
approved itself, not special and personal,
but wide and universal, it becomes of
value and binding authority, though it
has no command in Scripture, and thus
the truths of Scripture are to be dis
covered, understood and taught accord
ing to the moral sense of Gods people
in in every age enlightened by the Holy
Spirit. ;"
The common Protestant doctrine, that
nothing can be of binding authority
which is not taught in holy Scripture, is
thus set at naught, and a wide field
opened for the Introduction of "sprout-
ing theories, which can be justified only
by the experience of multitudes.
2. Mr.. Beecher believes in an atone
ment-but in atonement of moral in
fuence. "The life, teachings, and death
of Christ, he says, "were simply instru-
ments by which the heart of man might
be interested and affected"
The scriptural words, precipitation,
Justification" ransom, &c, seem to
have no meaning for Mr. Beecher. The
vicarious death of Christ. is definitely re-
jected, and another substituted, which is
so defective and unreliable that we do
not scruple to say that it makes Mr..
Beecher's gospel another gospel
PRESBYTERIAN.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-21
The Duration of Christ,s Life

This is now generally confined to 80 or
33 years. The difference of one or two
years arises from the different views on
the length of His public ministry. Christ
died and rose again in the full vigor of
early manhood and so continues to live
in the memory of the Church. The de-
cline and weakness of old age is inconsis-
tent with His position as the Renovator
and Saviour of mankind. Iren@us, other
wise Gas disciple of Polycarp, who was
disciple of st. John,) the most trust
worthy witness Of apostolic traditions
among the fathers, held the untenable
opinion that Christ attained to the ripe
age of 40 or so years, and taught over 10
years, beginning with the thirtieth ) and
that He thus passed through ali the
stages of human life, to save and sanctify
"old men, as well as "infants and chill
dren and boys and youths" He appeals
for this view to tradition dating from st.
John, and supports it by an unwarranted
inference from the loose conjecture of the
Jews when, surprised at the claim of
Jesus to have existed before Abraham
was born, they asked Him "Thou ait
not yet so years old, and hast thou seen
Abraham" A similar inference from
another passage where the Jews speak of
the "46 years" since the temple Of Herod
began to be reconstructed, while Christ
spoke of the temple, his body, John ii
20) is, of course, still less conclusive.-
The Presbyterian ReUie1O.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-21

noble patriarch-whose abundant and
most acceptable labors In the Church,
testify to his undiminished mental vigor,
and whose life and services are among
her richest treasures. J.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-21

THE MIRACULOUS KNOCK MoRTAR.-
Credulous Catholics have been making
the most out of the case of the Brooklyn
girl who was reported to have recovered
her voice, lost to her for several years,
through the drinking of water in which
was dissolved bit of the precious mortar
brought from the Chapel of Knock, to-
day the most famous resort of Catholic
pilgrims in Western Europe. Now re.
port comes Of another case quite as re-
markable, and from the same city of
churches and sensational preaching. The
story is that boy was suffering from
large sore at the ankle and heel of the
right foot. Physicians had treated him
in vain, but an application of holy Easter
water in which some of the cement from
the Knock Chapel had been diluted eff
fected cure in one day. This furnishes
more matter for faith by the superstitious
and examination by the doctors Erans-
iaer and Chronicle
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
The Way to Health.

The only true way to health is that
which common sense dictates to man.
Live within the bounds of reason. Eat
moderately, drink temperately, sleep
regularly, avoid excess in anything,
and preserve conscience "void of Of
Tense" Some men eat themselves to
death, some drink themselves to death,
some wear out their lives by Incidence,
and some by over.exertion, while not .
few sink into the grave under the eff
fects OF vicious practices. All the
medicines in creation are not worth .
farthing to man who is constantly
and habitually violating the laws Of his
own nature. All the medical science in
the world cannot save him from q
premature grave. With q suicidal
course of conduct he is planting the
seeds Of decay in his own constitution.
and acceleratine the destruction of his
own Hfe.-ExcSGsp0s.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
The Texas Boy Who Is Training for
q Giant.

Jack Shields is Texas boy, eighteen
years old and seven feet tall, who is in
training to be the giant of the future.
Some time ago he ran away with cir
Gus that exhibited near his fathers
home at White Rock, Hunt County,
Tex, but as he was employed only with
the canvas men to drive pegs and pull
stakes, he soon recovered from the show
fever, and returned to work on his
fathers farm. A few weeks ago G.. B.
Bunnell, in securing for curiosities for
his several museums, sent for Jack
Shields, offering him salary which
seemed large to Texas farm boy. Sew
eral weeks ago Shields, wearing long
ulster and carrying a valise, entered
Buunelrs museum in Brooklyn, ready
to begin life as curiosity. He looked
about with all the curiosity of a rural
visitor at the other curiosities, and
awkward'y took his place upon a ped
estal, where he is to stand and show his
height.
'Father said I wouldn't stay way
from home more'n three weeks" said
the boy; but he has been on exhibition
longer than that, and has fairly started
life as curiosity.
1--WE are training him to be giant"
said Agent Starr of the museum, "and
we think that he will grow to be the
tallest man in the business. He needs
watching. Having been accustomed
all of his life to lower himself to talk to
his companions, and to allow his arms
to hang loosely by his side, and to
spread out his legs, he is yet rather raw
and awkward for the giant business;
but now he has got to hold his head up
and keep his feet together and throw
his shoulders back, to keep himself in
shape, to take flesh, and get more
height"
Shields is lean but not angular, with
such long legs that he seems like boy
on stills. His father is nearly seven
feet tall, and his brothers and sisters
are all nearly rs tall; but they are older
than he, and seem to have stopped
growing. He doesn't think that he has
got his growth. Shields place in the
museum is next to the "What is itp''
and the Leopard Boy, whom he regards
with great curiosity. He is SO unused
to his own position that, when Light
ming Calculator Hutchings begins to
lecture about him, his face is covered
with bushes, and he acts like big
awkward boy in . drawing-room
r. Sam.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
French Poultry Raising.

Division of labor is found to work adj
mirably in French poultry affairs. With
us we have usually no other idea when
we embark in the business than to hatch,
rear, fatten and kill the fowls on the
same farm, while in many parts of
France each of these things constitutes
a distinct occupation; nay, there is very
frequently fifth, namely, the carrying
the birds to market. To take the Hou-
dan district for an example, as that is
region more entirely given over than
many others to poultry rearing, the
acouves1rs-a local term for those per-
sons who employ themselves in provid-
ing young broods-will sell their chick
ems at twenty-four hours old, sending
them to the fe,nsiere who has bespoken
them snugly covered up with flannel in
little fiat basket, for it is found that
they travel much better at that age than
later. as Dame Nature has provided
them with sustenance for their first en-
trance into life, and they need nothing
until the next day. Madame, on receiv-
ing the consignment, unites the little
flock at nighttime to one of the same
age which is already in charge of hen,
who receives the new corners with great
affability, appearing proud of the sud-
den and mysterious increase of her lit
tie family, and when they are of an age
to be fattened, Madame either takes
them to market herself or sells them to
q dealer. They are next transferred to
another person, who makes her business
of the engrais. This one may either
merely fatten q few fowls at time,
keeping up a relay of them all the year
round, as she may happen to be sup
piled with provender, or she may pos
sess quite an extensive yard, and buy
largely from the surrounding neighbors.
When the birds are ready, they are
either taken again to the market or con-
signed to the travelling dealer; but in
any case they are sold alive, and con-
veyed by the last-named individual to
certain villages where dwell the tueurs
de profession, who kill, pluck and
prepare each bird for the poulterer's
stall in the extraordinarily short period
of one minute. Sometimes this last
performance takes place at the halles,
where it may be witnessed by those who
find pleasure in such exhibitions. It is
considered very important, in order to
preserve the fine flavor of the bird. as
well as to insure its keeping for proper
time, that it should be plucked and
drawn as soon as it is killed. This is q
point much insisted on by the purvey-
ors of the famous poulardes du Mans
and other high-class poultry, although
little understood with us; but, indeed,
we are exceedingly behind-hand in the
niceties of rearing and preparing poul-
try for market-witness the yellow,
skinny specimens we are not ashamed to
see and to purchase. Mag
0zi7ae
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
THE PARTING DAY.

/.
Some busy hands have brouRht to lirhA
And laid beneath my eye,
The dress wore that afternoon
You came to say good-by.
About 1t still there seems to cling
some fragrance unexpresSed.
Inc ghostly OdOr of the rose
wore upon my breast;
And, subtler than all flower SCENT
The sacred garment holds
The memory of that parting day
Close hidden in its folds.
The rose Is dead, and you are gone,
But to the dress wore
The roses smell, the thought of you,
Are wed forever more.
That day you came to say good-by
"a month ago! 1t seems yearO
How calm was! l met your eye,
And in my own you saw no tear.
You heard me laugh and talk and Jest,
And lightly grieve that you should 70:
You saw the rose upon my breast,
But not the breaking heart below.
And when you came and took my hand,
1t scarcely tluttered in your hold,
Alas, you did not understand!
For you were blind, and l was cold.
And now you cannot see my tears.
And now you cannot hear my cry,
A month agoY Nay. years and years
Have aged my heart since that goO1-hy.
Atlantic MOnthla,.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE

1t is in order now to haul out and
spread manure. The spring rains will
carry its fertilizing matter into the soil.
To make mint sauce chop fine half
a cup of mint and add to it q cup of
vinegar and q tablespoonful Of sugar.
Never, on any account, eat piece
Of uncooked hog meat. It is dangerous to
do so on account of trichina that may
be lurking therein.
"A correspondent of Western pa
per recommends an ointment composed
Of equal parts of lard and gunpowder
as . remedy for scratches in horses, to
be used daily until cured.
"A child should never be allowed to
60 to sleep with cold feet; the thing to
be last attended to is to see that the
feet are dry and warm. Neglect of this
has often resulted in dangerous attacks
of Group. diphtheria, or fatal sore
throat.
Avoid getting into the habit of tax
ing medicine for every little ailment.
It is not only very expensive, but it is
useless and harmful. When sickness
comes nature will nine times out of ten
bring you out all right, if there is care
about diet and q little good nursing,
though OF course in the treatment of
some serious maladies physician should
be called in.> You certainly have OBJ
served this fact among Your neighbors,
that those who are always swallowing
medicines appear to derive no benefit
therefrom. and that the more they take
the more they seem to need. "Throw
physic to the dogs" -Erchamge.
"A farmer sends to a Canadian jour
nal his method of ventilating q cellar,
which is as follows: Build bin of
brick or stone from the bottom of the
cellar up to the hearth-stone, the size of
the hearth; leave hole at the bottom
to admit shovel for taking out ashes,
and one near the top for ventilation; in
sert CRATE of two iron bars half an
inch apart between the hearth-stone and
fireplace, in length from corner to cor
ner. l built the original one twelve
years ago, and would not dispense with
it on any consideration. It keeps the
cellar pure. gives the chimney a
draught, dispenses with the daily lift
ing Of ashes, and prevents all risk of
fire from hot ashes. If for ventilation
alone the CRATE is sufficient.
"A writer on fungus growths says
their cost to the agriculturist is many
millions of dollars. They blight his
fruit trees from the seed; they blight
his grain crops more or less every year;
they blight his fruit from the bios
som to its end, pursuing it with a
determined hate; they mildew his beans
and peas; they impair his corn and po-
tatoes; they poison his hogs and disease
his cattle; they destroy his loved ones
often with insidious disease; and then
rot out his store houses, his dwellings,,
and even fastening upon himself chains
at last, as fit ground on which to ripen
their spores for deadly work on others.
No pest is so deadly, none so insidious
in its workings, none so varied-meet-
ing us everywhere, under almost all
conditions. Insignificant in them
selves, their very obscurity gives them
the best opportunity for doing us injury.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
WIT AND WISDOM.

The man who exploded with laugh
ter probably didn't know it was loaded.
Boston Transcript.
=" Fifteen-ball pool'' is rather a
fashionable game, but the Commercial
44dcertiser says it is nothing to " fifteen
block fool.'
The Car shoes his horse with silver.
baltimore NeWs. And the farmer
wife Shoes her chickens with an old
apron.--N. Y. Express.
He told her that he loved her,
In tones so soft and mellow;
But she said she Couldn't marry him,
For she'd asked another fellow,
(fhiS ia leap year.)
-Stsibcnpue Herald.
Some person has invented new
game, called the Fifteen Block puz-
zle, and it is funny the newspapers dom
say something about it.-Norristovn
Herald.
In the stomach of a Pennsylvania
cow, recently killed, were found seven
teen wrought-iron nails. She had cow
hide outside and oxide inside Boston
Transcript.
The total cost of the Zulu war is
Is, $4,000. The total gain is--pshaw!
we have mislaid our memorandum.
What did you say the total gain was,
Mr.. Observation-Disclosures journal.
Washington never told lie, but if
the gem puzzle had existed in his day
we fear that he might have-have said:
"Oh, I've done it lots of times. but
can't tell just how" -Portland Adver-
tiser,
1t is claimed that man never loses
anything by politeness, but this has
proved to be mistake. As an old
Philadelphia lifted his hat to a young
lady the wind carried away his wig
Philadelphia Chronicle.
Before Fanny Fern married James
Parton she wrote, in a description of
Broadway: "Here comes James Par
ton, who doesn't believe in the devil."
George d. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal, copied it subsequently, and
added: "Ah! Fanny, that was before
he was married"
When Connecticut mans wife
claims to be too sick to go out and split
the wood, he stands it about three days
and then tells her that the stores have
got their spring bonnets on show, and
when she gets back, all out of breath
from fruitless search, he says if she's
able to race three miles to look after
bonnets, she's able to split that wood.
Women are too much the creatures of
impulse.-B0stO,s Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
To make sweetbread croouettes

To make sweetbread croquettes,
lard green sweetbreads, say four Of
them, and brown in butter; have about
. half pound of cold tongue, which
chop fine; chop up the sweetbread. mix
well together with chopped parsley,
half small onion. and add little pep
per and salt; break three eggs and use
only the yelks, and add some of the
gravy the sweetbreads were cooked in.
Make tho sweetbreads into round forms,
roll them in bread crumbs, and fry in
very hot butter. Let them drain in
brown paper before serving.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
VEGETINE.
PREPARED By
H. b. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
vegetine is Sold by All Druggists.
Why don't you Paint With autts !s'shs Psia.l
SEE WHAT PEOPLE WHO

SEE WHAT PEOPLE WHO
HAVE USED 1T SAY.
Hoiston Salt and Plaster Co.,
Saltvilie, Va, Feb. goth, 1880.
SAY: 1tgives US pleasure to state
that your paints have given the
most perfect satisfaction. We
painted two houses with CUTTA
PERCHA PAINT, some two years
ago, and are 50 we'll pleased with
Il that we sha use your paint on
some twenty Of our houses, occu-
pied by our employees and man
ayers.
send for Sample colors and
Price List to
CUTTA PERCHA PAINT CO.,
ClGvElAN0, o. CHICAGO, H..
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6 Became Sound and Well.ss
uAwCrwusc CIR Mr0N na

"Became Sound and Well.ss
HATCHER's STATION, Ga.
b. v. PIERCE, N. D.:
Dear Sir-My wife, who had been Ill for
over two years, and had tried many other
medicines, became sound and well by using
your Favorite Prescription. My niece was
also cured by its use, alter several physicians
had failed to do her any good.
Yours truly, THOMAS J. METHvN.
"BEsT OF ALL"
BALTIMORE, Md, March 5th, 1879.
DIR. r. v. PIERCE:
Dear Sir-My family have used your Favor
tie Prescription and 1t has done all that Is
claimed for it. It is the best of all prepare
tions for women complaints. recommend
1t to all families.
G. 8. WATERMAN, Druggist.
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From . DISTINGUISHED clergyman.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10, 1879.
have known of several persons who re-
garded themselves as greatly benefited, and
some of them as permanently cured Of dis
eases of the kidneys and urinary organs by
your medicine, Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure. l have known, too. of its use in
similar cases by physicians Of the highest char
acter and standing. do not doubt that it
has great virtue. j. E. RANKIN.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01

The Veterinarian for February has .
very comfortless article on trichinosis.
1t draws attention to the extremely
small amount of knowledge we have
of the extent of prevalence of trichin@
in home-fed pork, to the certainty Of
this form of parasite infesting largely
American pork, and to the difficulty Of
discriminating trichinosis in man from
enteric fever and acute rheumatism.
From these considerations it argues
that trichinosis is probably Of more
common occurrence among human be-
ings in this country than has hitherto
been conceived, and suggests the neces-
sity of some steps being taken by the
Government or the Legislature to in
sure some greater degree of safety in
this matter than now exists. Our con-
temporary confesses that it is much
easier to advise than to act, but inert
ness under such circumstances is unjust
ifiable. Scientific american.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
VEGE'lINE
For Cancers and Cancerous Humors.
The Doctors Certificate.
READ IT.

ASHLEY. WASHINGTON Co., ILL, Jan Il 1874
M b. X STEVENS:
from . Rose Cancer on my right breast. which grew
yery rapidly, and all my friends had given me up to
die, when heard Of your medicine voxotine-recOm.
mended for Cancer and C0ncerous HMusors. l COM
mencod to take it. and soon found myself beginning to
feel better my health and spirits both felt the benign
influence which 1t exerted. and in few months from
tho time commenced tho use Of the vegetne. the Can
cer came out almost bodily.
CARRIE DEFORREST.
Icortify that am personally acquainted with Mrs.
DeFTeG and consider her OF very best women.
Or = II. FLOWERS
ALL DlsKAsEs OF THE BLOoD.-n vEaHrIN8 will
relieve pain, cleanse, purify and euro such dsoaSee
restoring the patient to perfect health after trying DIFF
ferent physicians many remedies suffering for years
u It not conclusive proof, you sufferer you can
be curedf Why Is this medicine performing such great
cures? works In the blood In the circulating hud.
It can truly bo called the Great Blood Purifier. Tho
great Of disease originates In tho blood and
medicine that docs not act directly upon it. to purify
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01

For sore throat, gargle with Piso's Cure,
mixed with little water. Relief Is instant.