West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-05-11
am Mr.. Haven't you heard
me preach ?" 81 have heard thee
try" was the quick reioinder

am Mr. -. Haven't you heard
me preach ?" II have heard thee
try" was the quick rejoinder.
From Northern Christian Advocate
"Let young men remember these
points: Profanity is a violation of
State laws; is punishable on the
same ground as filthy conversation !;
is generally indicative of impure
morals is repulsive to every woman
of moderate purity and is the un-
failing sign of defective intellect"
From Methodist Recorder, Pitts
burgh: During special efforts for
the conversion ofsouls, pastors, very
properly, urge upon sinners the
Importance of Immediately coming
to Christ. This they should do, but
they must avoid leaving the i'm
preston that with the close of these
special services the offers of the
gospel cease"
w. P. Paxson, Superintendent at
the Southwest for the American
Sunday-School Union, in a recent
address at Boston, stated that Mr..
Oliver Bennett, now living in
Massachusetts,, formerly of st.
Louis, had given $1,000 a year for
twenty years for the support of
Sunday-school missionaries in the
West, and that this money had or
ganized, 1920 schools, with more
than 10000 scholars.
From California Christian Adro-
cate. ave are used to being bored,
but a small gimlet the other day
beat us. A fellow sends us poem,
and tells us we may publish it if we
send him 81 and he wants it re-
turned if we don't use it, We shall
not return it unless we get the
stamps, but if he will send us 81 we
will try to hire a boy to read his
poem before we put it in the stove.
That is the only way to get it read
on this coast"
From the Peoples Paper, Boston /:
Gan Irish gentleman, pointing to a
young man, once said: us he an o.
O." What do you mean by O. p
i mean was the reply, is he out
and out for Christ? This lis what
all ought to be who bear Christ's
name. When all who belong to
the Lord one says, are willing to
speak for Him, willing to work for
Him, willing to die for Him, then
Christianity will advance, and we
shall see the work of the Lord pros
per-"
From The Congregationalist: $50
far, therefore, as the matter lin
temperance is one of hereditary
tendency, there is a scale of degen-
eracy which runs thus: Moderate
drinking, drunkenness, mental inn
becility, and idiocy. 1t is not a
pleasant look, even from the upper
step of this stairway And if this
is true statement of the case, as
we believe it is, there is something
here which will bear to be thought
of when pleas for moderate drink
ing are prominently put forth be-
fore the public"
THE FEAR OF GoD.-We are not
of that number who believe that
thoughtless and lethargic man has
been greatly damaged by his moral
fears. 1t is the lack of a bold and
distinct impression from the solemn
objects of another world that is ruin
ing man from generation to gener-
alton. If we were at liberty, and
had the power to induce into the
thousands and millions Of our race1
who are running the rounds of sin
and vice some one particular emo
ton that should be medicinal and
salutarv to the soul, we would Sc
lect that very one which our Lord
had in view when he said, 81 will
forewarn you whom you shall fear
Fear him which, after he hath |
killed, hath power to cast into hell
yea, | say unto you, Fear him."
If we had the power, and were at
liberty, we would instantaneously |
stop those human souls that are
our avenues, intent only |
upon pleasure and earth, and would
fill them with the emotions of the