Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-22

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ate the running OF amusements and
retreats according to the idea Of
newcomers Of any nationality, or M
our own unprincipled hcodiums. n
has fearfully demoralizing influence
on the younger portion of the commu-
nifty, and for that matter has bad
effect upon everybody. It deadens the
moral sensibilitics and entirely blunts
conscience as regards reverent yespec.
Tor the seventh day.
lt Is said that IL IL no worse TO run q
theater or beer garden on Sunday than
a newspaper, but there Is vast differ
ence between the mission of the latter
and the two former. Theone instincts
and enlightens, while the highest aim
OF the Others is TO amuse. a.
PRESIDENT s-oro.
| President Soto and party of Hondu-
ras has gone East. He made quite a
favorable impression while in tile city,
and IL Is predicted among commercial
men that there will be quite trade
spring up between the sister republics
IN consequence OF the visit. Chicago
can use and distribute tropical fruits
aud mahogany in great quantity from
Central America and send in return
the various products of the North
west.
CHICAGO HACKMEN
Are enterprising. A dusty and weary
traveller arrived over the Lake Shore
and wanted to go out over the Rock
Island railroad. He had hardly real
ized that the train had stopped and
that he was not still travelling at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. when he
was accosted with: Hack Sir? Hack,
won't you have hack?n How far
is 1t to the Rock Island depot?n "Mile
and half, sir, step in and I'll take
you there in "A jiffy," said the enter
prisirg cab driver nudging bystand-
ing driver not to give it away. The
traveller innocently stepped in,
slammed the door, and was driven
around a block, and set down on the
other side of the building which he
had just left. The two railroads use
the same depot.
AoNE-wHEELED SHAY.
AChicago man has invented a one
wheeled gig. 1t is attached to the
horse by means of buggy shafts, and IL
is claimed the thing will be absolutely
safe and can only upset or tip ov,r
when the horse does the same thing.
The inventor claims greater speed and
also that the continuance can readily
allow horse anywhere, What next?
A SMOKE CONSUMER.
For n long time people occupying
the dwellings and business blocks con-
tiguous to the several branches of the
Chicago river, have been seriously in
convenienced by the dense volumes of
soft coal smoke that issue from stacks
of innumerable tugs both night and
day. AS long as there was no remedy
for it however, the annoyed citizens
submitted as gracefully ne they could,
but the matter has received the atten-
ton of the health commissioners, in
ventors and the city authorities, and
after many abortive efforts 10 find
smoke-consumer, one has at last been
secured, and now the trouble comes in
getting the tugmen to adopt the in
vention. 1t is stated that soft coal
smoke is more deleterious to throat and
lungs than the damp breezes that
come from the lake. The experiment
of using coke on railway engines in
the city has met with success, and
may be generally adopted, but it is
more likely that smoke-consumers
will be used.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER.
Chicago is frequently favored with
call from this great preacher On last
Saturday he delivered lecture at the
Arcade Theatre, Pullman, to a large
audience. 1t was advertised as the
last he would give in Chicago or Vi
entity, but ] suppose its like the an
nual farewell tours that are taken by
other public people.
On Sunday he preached a sermon
on the subject of intidelity. There
was hardly public announcement
that the Plymouth church apostle
would preach, but an hour before the
doors were opened there were nearly
enough people to twice Ill the church,
the capacity of which was about
$500, and the number that managed
to crowd in formed only a small irac-
ton of those who tried to. The SER
mon was one of characteristic fire and
eloquence. He.started by saying: III
am going to satisfy you that there is
no such thing as inildelity In respect
to Christianity and there cannot be.
1t is impossible in any rational man.
q1ent, @w6rM meM M Ibaygz been
have thought themselves infidels be-
cause the church declared Them so to
be; but there is no such thing They
were not infdels to Christianity, but
only to the machinery of the Chris
tian church. Il. christianity Is
living condition of the human SOUL
1t is not what a man believes, but
what he does. 1t is very desirable
thing that mans belief should have
direct relation to his character and
conduct. But whether it does or not
Christianity consists in the sovereign
ty of love in the individual heart.
1t is state Of mind. 1t may have its
implements, 1t may have It's
various organizations and institutions,
but none of these themselves are re-
ligion any more than the plows and
harrows are wheat; no more than
trees and pruning knives are pears and
apples"
Church trappings and creeds he says
are useful IN their way but are not re-
llgion. He likens religion--true
christianity, and church ceremonies 10
the human heart and the rest OF the
body. You can take away limb after
limb and the man can still live; take
away some part of the brain-for there
are a great many men who seem TO
have no use for theirs-and he still
lives. You may still more diminish
the body, but let no man pass his hand
over the heart. And OF religion as IL
exists in its historical condition, you
may take away that ordinance, that
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