Smyrna times., 1880-04-21

average pocket.
PEEsoNAL.-Jacob Raymond, jr., left on
Monday for Bridgetown, N. j., to take
situation in a store connected with the |
Cohansey Glass Co.
S. Edgar Wright also left the same day |
for Philadelphia to take a situation in a
domestic and foreign fruit store.
Rev. VIM. b. Gordon was absent from |
his pulpit on Sunday being called away
suddenly on Friday by the sickness Of his
wife while on a visit to Onancock, Va |
They will both return the last of this week. !
Rev. j. 7. Umsted is absent this week,
attending the session of the Presbytery at
st. Georges.
Rev. S. L. Baldwin, ID. D., and family
from Feoehow, China, arrived at New
York on Saturday for a sojourn in this
country to recuperate impaired health.
Mrs Baldwin will be recollected as daugh-
ter OF the late Rev. II. Jerman, marrying
Mr.. B. while residing in this town eighteen
years ago. The deblitating climate of China
has greatly reduced Mrs. BIS strength
Jas. w. Spruance, who has been on a
prospecting tour in Kansas and Texas for
the past ten weeks, returned few days
ago. He speaks in the highest terms of
the future prospects of Texas.
Miss Gertie Bunnell will read at Middle.
town on Friday night.
The Wilmington Ne,Cs has the following
reference to one of our citizens: "The
Governor has shown wisdom, and will receive
the general cemmendation of all classes of
citizens, by his re-appointment of James II.
Groves, Esq, as superintendent of the free
schools of this State. Mr.. Groves has
shown himself most admirably qualified for
the position.
DR.. John G. Dawson, who graduated a
few weeks since at the Chicago Medical
College Homeopathic has we learn deci-
ded to locate at Milford to persue the prac.
tice Of Medicine. We wish our young
friend abundant success, and congratulate
| the people of Milford in securing citizen
of such fine character.
Rev. w. G. B. Lewis, son of Rev. w. G.
B. Lewis, of Middletown, is now the mana.
! ging editor of the Silver Cliff, Colorado,
Daily Republican, a newspaper of recent
birth.
The ToRN.UP DAYs.-There are two sea-
sons in the year when the male gender
are especially tout of sorts, ts,"-Spring and
Fall. The women say that some are out Of
sorts all the time, but we are not speaking
of those chronically SO disposed, but the
usually amiable and considerate. Weneed
/
has to go through it but once to have an
indelible impression on his memory. These
bright sunny days are sufficient to sound
the note of warning that the conflict is
about to begin, and through the larger half
of cur country the bucket and brush will
soon be summoned to its special mission
The average American woman does not
believe in the existence of dirt unless she
can see it. She does not see the impalpa.
BILE denominations which hang suspended in
the air, and therefore does not disturb
them. This is especially the case in farm-
houses, where the effluvia of half rotten
potatoes banked in the cellar all Winter,
of swill, of garbage and of the barnyard
mingle during these moist Spring days
with the scent Of the first wood blossoms
The worthy country housewife, too, has u
habit Of Theoretically sealing the windows
and doors of her unused rooms as soon as
they are cleaned, so that the stagnant pol
luted air has plenty of time to decay, if we
may use the word. There are chambers
whose spotless purity would make Shaker
blush, in which the air was absolutely heavy
with invisible contagion, productive cause
Of the frequent outbreaks of malarial and
typhoid fsvers. A writer who seems to be
practical on the subject says: awe have a
with the air in and about house, and
when it is clean keep it clean. If that il
, done, moths and finger marks on the doors
will count for but little. But with the
majority of domestic managers, dust is the
enemy which they work to conquer
closets are rooted out to the bottom, car
pets shaken, paint scrubbed, clean wall
; paper pasted on top OF the old, and white
wash daubed on ceilings and fences; while
all the time these very walls, paper anC
plaster are saturated with foul smells anC
excretions imbibed through the air; and il
I all probability, a neighboring pigpen, al
: uRceaned pit or waste-pipe without tral
food the atmosphere night and day Will
impurity, which contains the germs Of dis
ease and death.
THE LAY.ELEMENT-THE GREAT Power o.
: TEE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-On the above sub
ject the Rev. 7. II. Haynes preached
sermon of strong and clearly defined
d thought on Sunday last to full hous
from the following passage BE watchful
and strengthen the things which remain
$ that are ready to die."-Rev. 80.
l. After the statement that there were tw
= sources of power in the church-the divin
. and human, and that the text referred I
the latter he proceeded to define the apo
l. tolic church, the chief characteristic bein
J that every person brought into it felt ths
he was an authorized agent to save some o
. else. They were co.laborers in the gres
l. work of the Master, each considering hin
n self commissioned to proclaim the news
salvation. He showed hew in the cours
q of time this individual mission contracte
u to the priest the Prelat0, and finally int
a the pontif who held the priests in ssrV
| 4.,l. L. l.. e L
continued until the "dark ages" when th
If pulpit was thoroughly enslaved. Whe
- the pressure was no longer sndurabl
a Martin Luther arose to free the churC
r from the tyranny of the Vatican, but b
n fight only was to liberate the pulpit. I'll
os pew was as much q slave to the pulp
of under Luther as it was under the miniol
"a of the Pope. The laity had no voice. II
n reformation was only partial. 1t was n
or until John Wesley arose that the peopl
n the laymen of piety and talent were allowG
n, the privilege to use their Goo. given talent
= Wesley contended for the privileges of Il
ss pew and making the membership a C
Of ordinate part of the aggressive arm of Il
~ church. john Wesley, said the speake
~ was greater man than Martin Luth
ID because Luther, simply liberated the pulp
NJ while the latter liberated the pew, an
of made it possible and practical for eve
mo- member to have part in the work
he may seem strange said he, that !, rspi
a ssnting the pulpit should say so, but Il
an liberty of the pew has given more force
!. the practical liberty of the gospel than W
"a possible under the pulpit, while the latt
was enslaved. 1t restored christianity
the effective apostolic method The da
ur of the Ph@bes and the Decreases were
I'm stored. Every man was made to feel
Yas had something to do, and the work was
ast divided up between stewards, lay tsache
ds class leaders, &C., that the most Of them h
Of q particular place to exercise his taller
he and usefulness. He warmly commend
Ids the polity OF the M. i. Church in tn
in. marshallng its membership in the p
he gressivs work of Christianity and that,
ate said, was now the study of the 9th