Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-23
TIMELY TOPICS.

New York city, and edited by Lyman Abbott,
D. D., in which is published weekly the ser
mons ofthe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, says:
1.-THE first chapter Of Genesis is poetry. It is
to be classed with the Psalms OF David, not
with the book of Chronicles or Kings. It is
the language OF worship and Imagination, not
Of observation" On which an exchange
quietly remarks: 1--WE believe Bob Ingersoll
holds the same view.n
PLEASURE seeking has reached an abnormal
stage Of Development Rest and recreation
are not simply the objects sought after, but
the qualification of artificial desires, and
compliance with fashionable edicts. In the
rush for summer indulgencies, il camel can
go through the eye of a needle. the entice-
ments to the qualification of animal appetites
and carnal propensities may be successfully re-
sisted and the soul kept unspotted from the
world. When the moral sensibiIities are be-
numbed, the trifes and frivolties of the
hour rule the corr let and the life.
The spirit of misrule, anarchy and blood
shed is abroad in the world. As q sample Of
the fendish, bloody. minded anarchical spirit
now 80 widespread, the following manifesto Of
secret nihilistic cenelave is here given:
1.-THE spirit of revolution is abroad. Every
efete and equity monarchy in Europe totters
on its rotten foundations. Brethren, awake!
arisel and now labor with us to help on
the wise ways of Providence and
to advance the good cause. Thus shall
we, in solemn, secret conclave, continue with
augmented force to give emphasis of dagger,
fire and sword, and of other available re-
sources of civilization to our ancient, merci-
less and unrelenting enemy, to destroy whom
we shall use, while life endures. every means
within the reach of human efforts :" In the
same spirit the recent assassination Of Caven-
dish and Burke is warmly com amended. What
is this but the very spirit of the pit, now all
too prevalent, in weakening and undermining
the very foundations of social civilization
A DEvoUT theologian gives the following
discriminating and very interesting view of
the Lord Jesus Christ, as portrayed by the
four Evangelists: The four gospels give four
different views of our Lord, one supplement
ing the other, and all being needed for CON-
prehensive knowledge of the Master. St.
Matthew is the gospel of the kingdom. He
ham, the Son and Lord: according to prom
Use. st. Mark treats of Christ in his relation
as servant. He is not called Lord: and the
miracles represent him as ministeriDg to
others. The spirit of Mark is the spirit of
consecrated service. St. Luke brings out the
relations of Jesus to common humanity;
breaking away from mere connection with
the ewish nation, and embracing the whole
world. Luke's genealogy goes away back
of David and Abraham to Adam, thus linking
Christ with all mankind. Next we have St.
John giving the fourth view, that OF the di-
vine nature of Christ. His Godhead is
brought out. The atmosphere of the book is
divine. All who deny Christ's divinity dis
like and assault the gospel of st. John.
CAN the words of Paul, "Lovers of pleas
ure, more than lovers of God" be proper
ly inscribed on the lintels of the doors of the
houses dedi Gated to so called divine worship,
at the present day? Modes of very question
able pro priety are resorted TO by many
churches of the present day to raise money
for church purposes. In many of these
modes, no element of Christian character or
religious life can be dIscerned. Recently in
the city of Pittsburgh, Pa, a novel resort of
raising hurch funds was resorted to. The
mode was to wrap the girls or young ladies
in sheet, and strike off ach one to the man
who would bid the highest for her as a part
ner for the evening, no one to know whom he
Lel @bo harc ~, n1,,da
and the veil removed. The Des Moines, Iowa,
Register, secular journal, is authority for the
statement that the same mode for raising
church funds is being adopted at Clear Lake,
Iowa, the great center of Sunday school as
sociations of that state. The Regis
ter predicts that this mode
of rails ing church funds will become popular,
especially in churches where an occasion of
great hilarity is desired, The Register IN
concluding Its notice of church "high old
time" in an edifice solemnly dedicated to the
worship of Almighty God, indulges in the
following mildly singing remark, which
ought to awaken in every womanly breast q
thrill of assailed purity, and kindlc a burning
blush on the cheek of every modest girl solic-
tied thus to be "sold" to men of
whatever character as partners for the even.
ingi" The remark of the secular journal al
luded to is this ITO be sure it is asking
good deal of modest, womanly, refined girls
But then church sociabes are always doing
that" If church sociables" are always tax
ing the medesty of young females to raise
money for the church, the sooner church
sociables are abolished the better, if not the
churches themselves, which tolerate UGH in
decently suggestive orgies. Where are the
pastors, and, more especially, where are the pa
rents who have any proper regard for the
purity and modesty'of their. daughters, and of
famale character, that they tolerate or permit
such practices.
A FEW years ago DR.. Knapp put forth q
work on Astronomical Etiology," or "Star
Prohecies," concerning coming storm disas-
tiers on the earth from 1881 to 1855 The
"ChicagO morning Ne,rs' of late date in
dulges in the following remarks and sugges-
tions in regard to the "Era of Tornadoes:"
ut has been literally prophesied that the
years 1881, 1882, 1883. and even up to the year
1885. would be characterized by the existence
of meteorological disturbances of an unusual
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