Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-28

men will not be excluded from the benefits
of Gods loving and merciful discipline.
He believes that we may and should pray
for those who have passed away from this
life. To do so seems to me the spontaneous
impulse of every kind and loving heart"
He takes hell to be, in its paramount in
tention, "a grand reformatory institution
with discipline benefcially designed to
lead men through pain to penitence
There are many mansions in heaven, we
are told; and doubt not there are many
mansions i'll hell. Every dweller there
Will be put into the one he ought to be put
into-the one that is best fitted for him."
The doctor says IN another place that,
while God hates SIN, He loves sinners. He
regards as monstrous what Calvin, Jeremy
Taylor, Barrow, Jonathan Edwards, Spur
geon and Gardiner Spring have preached
and published about hell Such views are
shocking to humanity and totally incon-
sistent with every conceivable notion of
God. DR.. Henry was formerly a Congre-
gationalist; but has long been an Epis-
copalian, though not now, 1 hear,
in the pulpit, having retired on
account of his advancing years. Why
is it that the mere fact of being or
having been, clergyman produces such
A COMMUNAL DISPOSITION?
A celibate clergyman is very rare, and
clerical widower of long standing almost
unknown. Many of the men who have
grown notorious for bigamy, trigamy and
quadrigamy in this country have been
preachers, and have abandoned their pious
calling to devote themselves to matrimony
in excess. The champion polygamist, a
former Methodist divine, has lately been
arrested near Bennington, Vermont He
bears the name, at least at present, of
John Mclean, and is reputed to have had
no less than nineteen wives, most of them
living For thirty years he has been en-
gagged IN the most active conjugal transac-
lions, having gone from State to State with
no other intent than to get a new spouse.
He has usually chosen women of some
means but when he could not obtain these
conveniently, he has been gracious enough
to accept them without dowry or financial
prospects. 1t is reputed to have been his
ambition to visit each of the thirty eight
States in the Republic-we think there are
thlrty-elght, or there were at last &C
counts-and marry In every one of them.
The cause of his arrest was the kidnapping
OF child of his last victim, formerly
widow, Mrs. Bette w. Fullerton, of
Lynchburg, Virginia. He had secreted
the child in barren, desoate place, some
thirty miles from Bennington, and it's
mother, in company with United States
Marshal, had visited the spot, and found
it, almost starved, in cavern. The much
married and much marrying scoundrel has
been committed to Jail. acquisitions for
him have been issued by any number of
States, and he is likely to have brisk
campaign of trials He is about SO, good
looking, agreeable in manners, and ex-
tremely voluble.
VARIETIES.
1t is noticeable how many of the promi-
inent clergymen here are foreigners, or at
least Europeans. DR.. John Hall is
Scotch-Irishman DR.. William H. Taylor
is an Irishman Lewellyn D. Bevan is a
Welshman Robert Collyer is North
Englishman DIR. Thomas Armitage is also
an Enelishman, and several others are
from beyond the sea. The truth is that it
is hard nowadays to supply the pulpit
with American preachers. The educated
part of the nation does not at this time
tend to theology.
The hberal-minded people in this vicin-
ity are indignant at the manner in which
the case of cadet Whitaker at West Point
is conducted. Most of the cadets are
tyrants and brutes, and always have been.
1t is amazing that not one of the whole |
number seems to have spark of true gen.
erosity or chivalry, otherwise it would |
have been displayed toward prosecuted |
young man whose sole crime is the color of |
his skin.
New Workers are generally indignant at |
the advanced price of gas and ice-two |
necessities. They are longing for the cleo |
trio light and some artificial method of
freezing water.
Despite contradictions, there is reason to !
believe that VIM. H. Vanderbilt does con- |
template early retirement from active man.
agement of railways. He can hardly afford |
to retire, however, as he is probably not |
worth more than S60,000,O 200.
The stock brokers are reported to have |
made more money in the last eight months |
than they have ever done in any similar |
period since the formation of the Ex- |
cnange.
Building is more active just now in the
upper part of town, it is said, than during
any spring for the last nine or ten years.
Part or the whole of entire vacant blocks |
are filled or filling with substantial hand
some residences. New York is growing |
rapidly in every way.
The money lost here in trying to estab-
fish amusements must amount to great |
deal annually. In the place, for example,
where the Bijou Opera House, In Broad
way, now is, there have been, within two |
years, at least ten different kinds of amuse-
ment, and they have all failed, sinking |
some $250000
Five or six theaters will be open the |
coming summer, as it is thought the town
viii be full of strangers during the warm
months. CHAURERr