Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-18

NOT. walking uedftilWe-ANt5
Can we walk alone.
JUDGE BLACK is reported as having saId'
in his argument before the congressional
judiciary committee, that the territorial
legislatures have the right to make WnS'-
ever laws they please concerning the mar
rving of wives,"-that is, they may per
NIT polygamy if they please. Judge BLACK
confonuds riqht with power. They have
no RIGHT TO do wrong. And it is great
abuse of words to put such ideas as his
into the common mind.
Tur Rev. Dr.. Potter, in accepting the
call TO the Dudley Street Baptist church,
Boston. wrote: 81 have heard no divine
voice say 90. I have had no vision of
duty: I did not expect them. have sim
plv asked the Master for a clear head, a
candid Judgment and open mind, with an
honest desire to know what is best for me
and mine. That may sound selfish, but
men are only for e day, churches are for
all time. The field belongs to the same
owner wherever one may toll"
WHrg John Wesley was in the eighty
fourth year OF his age he wrote the life Of
Thatcher. vicar Of Madaley. He says: I'm
the work I dedicated all the time l could
spare from in the morning till 5
at nirht. These are my studying hours;
1 cannot write longer without hurting my
eyes" One would suppose that fifteen
hours day for q man over eighty years
old would he quite enough for day
work. He finished the book in month.
The Young writer's and preachers of our
day would hardly attempt such perform
ance. And it would be hardly safe or wise
to try.
TIE ROMAN Catholic priests in Italy ap-
pear to worry along on exceeding meager
salaries. There are about 10000 of them
in all Italy. Of these about 1000 receive
less than $50 year, and some OF them as
small an amount as $50. Those who arc
in high ecclesiastical station are much
better paid, yet even their salaries are,
with few exceptions, far less than would
be considered the proper thing for clergy
men in corresponding station in this coun-
try. But it must be remembered that
priest with no family IS not called upon to
make as heavy OUTLAWS for domestic ex-
penses as the Protestant clergyman who
has a wife and half dozen growing chill
dren. The monks and nuns in Italy num-
Der not far from $4,000. They receive pen
sions, which are about enough to support
them in a tolArable degree of comfort, and
their duties do not exact of them great
deal Of hard work.
HERR Mosr, the champion Of social and
political chaos, is shrewd worldly-wise
apostle of disintegration and has a sharp
weather-eye to the main chance "the re-
compense of rewards" that of making
money out of his deluded followers by his
lectures, advocating the disintegration
and unsettling of the foundations of civil
and social life. In letter recently writ
ten TO gentleman in st. Paul he explained
his method of operations, and that gentle
man, disguised with the man and his
scheme, has given it to the public. Ac-
coraing to the terms submitted IN this let
ter Most asks for every speech or lecture
delivered $3.50, with travelling expenses,
hotel expenses, demonstrations, such as
bouquets, receptions, entertainments, etc,
to be paid by the societies" asked to in
vite him to any city. He, however, pro-
poses to be liberal with those who will
make a season engagement with him by
Offering to deliver ''three lectures for
5000"
The MorqUiam: True religion has suf-
ferad far more harm from the ambitious
folly of a host of self-constituted cham
pions than from all the attacks of its open
foes One of the most ridiculous of these,
as one of the latest, is a ''boy- orator and
boy-Iecturer of eighteen, and philosophical
champion against atheism and intidehty,"
whose advertisement has just reached US.
When churches engage such champions"
and thereby seem to make Christianity
responsible for all the nonsense and self
eonceit displayed by them, it is no wonder
that men who know what long years of
study, what maturity Of thought, are re-
quired to treat intelligently such subjects
as "The Pre- Historic Ages" 1.-The Relation
ship of Life to Matter" etc, become impa-
tient and disguised. The idea Of a spoiled
boy Of eighteen beng set up to explain
them. and to do so in the name of religion!
The congregation that allows Christianity
thus to be brought into disrepute incurs
great guilt, becomes a stumbling block in
the way of the truth which it processes to
uphold. The sooner the Christian church
ribs itself of all such humbug and quack-
erv the sooner Will it free itself from the
need of any defenders.
TB1FLEs light as air, are to the jealous
combinations strong as proofs from holy
writ. The jealous too often make the meat
they feed on, and direst events often result
from the week and Insanely jealous. Here
lisa case in point. A contemporary says: A
young man in Bedford, Pa, has vowed
that neither love nor jealousy will ever
drive him from the beaten path of truth
and right. Last week his
sweetheart was sleighing with
his rival and he determined to be re-
venged. When the rival and the young