Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-23
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
Boston contains 10 churches, divided
denominationally as follows: COngrega-
tional, thirty-one; Roman Catholic,
twent-nine Methodist, nty-eight !;
Baptist and Unitarian, twenty-six each !;
and Episcopalian, twenty three. There
arc seven Jewish synagogues.
A sO-CALLED wit was once talking
to one of our wise professors. As for
me-" he said, 4" L do not believe what do
not understand" "Do you understand, "
objected the professor. how it is that fire
will soften butter, and harden an egg ?"
"No, SIR" Yet you believe in N ONE
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In 1878 there were in England and
Wales, with population Of "a 200, 900,
eight hundred divorces granted while in
the same year there were six hundred di-
vorces in Massachusetts,, with . popula-
tion of 1,7S3,OOO, and four handred and
seventy eight divorces in Conn ccticut,
with much smaller population.
In direct contradiction of Joseph Cooks
late temperance sermon in England one of
his most enthusiastic newspaper friends
says 1--WE do not believe there is in
America or Europe one scholar of the
first rank who would say that the Lords
supper was instituted with non-alcOholic
(Which we suppose is meant by 'nonintoxi-
cating) wine."
THIS morsel of seasonable advice is
markedly to the point at this juncture,
though given by the World: ''The expert
enco of the last 12-month should warn our
esteemed Republican contemporaries
never, never, under any circumstances,
however censurable, to find fault with and
abuse any Republican whatever. There is
no knowing when they may have to sup
port him with the widest enthusiasm for
president or senator or something.
DIR. FRANKLIN CARTER, transferred
from the German professorship, at Yale,
to the presidency of Williams, in his in
augural made an earnest plea for the
study Of the Hebrew theocracy in the col
lege course. DR.. Carter urges that the
great reas on for the study of Greek and
Latin in the colleges is that the student
gains possession Of the great ideas which
shaped the civilization of the Greeks and
Romans and he insists that the moral
ideas of the Hebrews are worth more to
the world than the constructive ideas of
tho Greeks and of the Romans, and, there
fore, more worthy Of study in our col
leges.
VERY Rev. JAMES A. COCHRAN, d. D.,
in The american Catholic Quarterly Recie,o,
on the new Revision, devOtes considerable
space to proving chat the earlier English
translation corrupted the text, for the
purpose of attacking the Catholic faith,
and that even King James, $ version retained
many of these odious mistranslations. or
the revision he says:
"One of tho greatest benefits conferred
by the revision on the English Protestant
world, though very few or none seem to
realize it, is that all the wicked transla-
tionI, whether by Justification of meaning
or by Interpolation, or by foistins OF
CLOSES into the text. have been ruthlessly
swept away by the bosom of the reviscrs.
And why Solely on the ground that they
were cOrruptions. Tkey do not explicitly
say that they were ssc!ariGn cOrruptiOns,
nor need We insist on their saying it but
they recognized them as such, and every
honest man, every friend of religious
truth must be thankful that they have
with unsparing hand driven these unhOly
revelation. This proves that their honesty
was wholesale, not partial or interested"
The New York Independent scornfully
rejects as moOnshine John Burroughs
justification of the "elusive quality" and
"dim escapes" of Walt Whitmans poetry.
And then to show that it knows what
good poetry is when it sees it, the Lndepsn-
dent publishes in it's first column a most
marvellously original piece by "George
Lansing Taylor D. D.. of Ridgefield,
Conn.,, on the subject of Fifty Miles an
Hour, " prompted by Mrs. Gartield's rail-
road ride to Washington, July 2, 1881.
The following are some sample verses
which the Sweet Singer of Michigan or
Eusebius Hershey would not blush to
own:
Engineer lie bold and true!
Test your arts consummatc flower!
Put this little woman through,
Fifty miles an llOur!"
Fifty million patriot hearts
Weep, and rage and curse, and pray
Save, y God, our president!
Shield his wife and speed her way"
Engineer. not this for you;
Yours to stand O braZen tower
And put this one weak woman through,
Fifty miles an hour!
"Ten hours time to Washington.
You must cut It down to six!
For our Garfield's hero soul
Trembles on the shores of Styx!
Grim Charon's bare CRATES on life's strand:
But Love 8 hall snatch his lifted oar,
For Love can bear the fearful strain
OF fifty miles an hour!"
Strong men, bare -br0wed, cheer the train,
Like Q thunderbolt hurled past!
Women's tears tall thick as rain
Shook from rose-tree by tho blast.
From Heaven to ca earth With WisS richer ns~ dover.
Angels watt this true wife through,
Fifty miles an hour!
Philadelphia halls the car,
Like q meteor on its road
Baltimore, thrilled at its jar,
Waves It on, with prayer to God!
Venus's chariot, drawn by doves,
Fluttering from Loves myrtle bower,
Changed to steed Of steel and fame,
At fifty miles an hour!
In view of the fact that doubts con-
cerning the permanence of the American
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