The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-21

to the fold who were rushing down the broad
road that leads to destruction. But while the
revival was going on at the Academy,
new evangelist appeared in Brooklyn in
the person of DR.. Monck. Now, while Dr.
Monck is an evangelist, he is not.consdered
orthodox, because he is an old timer and
| believes in miracles. DR.. Pentecost believes
! in prayer and belieres it will be answered.
Dr. Monck believes in prayer but he gets
his answer right on the spot; in short, DR..
Monck cures by the laying ON of his hands.
| No matter what your ailment is, DR.. Monck
can fix you up just as good as new i'll no
time-in fact personal attendance is not nee
have to do is to enclose in an envelope your
address and fifteen or twenty dollars-don't
forget this last feature or the charm won't
work. On receipt of this billet DIR. Monek
will send you q handkerchief or bouquet,
on the smelling of which, hey, presto ! fly
all your ills disappear in a wink. 1t is only
a few months since DR.. Monck came an en-
tire stranger into the City of Churches he
hired a little hall, preached extra sanctiti-
cation, and announced the curing of all of
'ifes ills by the laying on of hands. People
began to flock in, and in less than five
months he had made money enough to pay
nearly $4,000 in single day advertising bis
numerous cures and challenging investiga-
ton. Last week DIR. Monck hired the
Academy of Music as soon as Brother Pen
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not consistently hold his revival meetings
in the afternoon in the same building which
DR.. Monck would occupy at night. l con-
fess can not see why these saints should
not agree; they both profess to serve the
same Master, but there is a slight difference
as to their methods. DIR. Monck prays and
so does DR.. Pentecost, and both for the
same thing. DR.. Monck has done nothing
that l ever heard of that should call his
Christian character in question; he cures
the halt the lame, the deaf and the blind
by prayer, and this is considered such an
offense by Brother Pentecost that he will
not preach under the same roof with him.
| 1t is quite evident that the millennium is
not yet come. Meanwhile Dr.. Monck has
the best of the controversy, for bis receipts
amount to several hundred dollars per day,
his balance sheet showing better financial
result in week than Brother Pentecost d id
in five months. If any one out your way
has the rheumatism, OF neuralgia, q bro
ken leg, Or u dislocated neck, just send
twenty dollar bill to Dr. Monck and l will
give you my personal guarantee that if you
don't get rid of your neuralgia you will get
rid of your twenty dollar bill. If that is sat
isfactory send it along.
There is trouble in tho camp of Salmi
Morse, the Passion Play man. Captain
Williams, the clubber, swooped down on
him on Tuesday night and stopped a repre-
sentation of his .play@Ior the benefit of the
French orphan asylum. War broke out as
soon as the announcement was made the
entire company rose in revolt, and for a
time it looked as if the rebellious Jews were
going to hustle him down into the valley of
Jehosophat Up to Tuesday night he had
always talked as though there was a million
of dollars behind him. Cost was not tho
question he merely wanted to give the
people sacred intellectual treat. Now it
! appears that the bottom has dropped out of
the bag; ballet girls, fddlers and the chorus
have not been paid he is in arrears many
dollars to Judas Iscariot, and $500 cash
would scarcely settle his bill with Pontius
PLATE. John the Baptist owes SITS for
| I,,ar,] jiuunrs and cip.ra and q number of
other sacred historical characters are very
much in arrears for larger ard other neces-
sary expenses. 1t looks now as ifthc Whole
affair was in The last state Of collapse SO
suppose we may say Vale Sami Morse.
Both Brooklyn and New York arc CON
vulscd at the present time about their city
governments. 1t is getting to be settled
conviction wi tn thinking men that the pres
ent system of ward represen tation has i'll it
something so intrinsically vicious, that
system will ever cure it. There are men i'll
the Boards of Aldermen in both cities who
if they had their deserts would be serving
the State in prison. There are wards in
New York and Brooklyn where a prize
fighter or thief would stand a better
chance of election than DR.. Crosby or Pro
fessor Barnard. The present constitution
of either Board is IL burning libel on Demo
cratic or Republican government. The
Brooklyn Eagle, the great Democratic or
gan of Brooklyn, has taken a noble stand
for self-government. and If the people Of
that city would only follow its counsel it
would make very little difference to the
lovers of good government which party was
in power. To regenerate its party and
bring it up to the highest standard of human
virtue, is the task it appears to have set
itself; and it has q God-specd alike from
Republicans and Democrats.
This week marks the end of a man about
whose long life clusters the pleasantest and
holiest memories. Peter Cooper is dead,
and this simple announcement will carry
more grief to millions of hearts in this land
than would the death Of any other man i'll
the United States. No one will ever know
the amount Of good he has DONE or the ex-
tent OF his benefactions. God blessed him,
and he endeavored, with all his might, to
repay the blessing with interest. No more
uuseltish man ever lived than Peter Cooper
he vas never so happy as when helping
.ethers-in fact, doing good to his fellow
creatures was the supreme pleasure of his
life. There are thousands i'll this city who
will miss him for in all this land he scarce
!
honest, charitable and just, his example