, 1884-04-06
SUNDAY SERMONS.
The Peoples Popular PuIpit--Preaeh-
ing and Praying by Press
and Preacher.

any iedSheTs
The press is the most popular preacher
of the present day. 1t not only promul
gates its W views upon things spiritual
and temporal, but it records the thoughts
bright and dull which fall from the lips of
the clergy. We aim TO present in these
columns their brightest and best views,
giving them for what they are worth with
out any endorsement, depreciation, com
ment or criticism whatsoever, recognizing
the pertinent fact that there are many
men of many minds whose intellectual
pabulum must be after the style of their
physical food, largely varied to suit the
circumstance Of the particular case.
Then, too, we present the views of other
learned men the divines, editors, lecturers
and philosophers. All of them have
something to say fresh and original which
will bear close inspection whilst the atten-
tive reader is taking his Sundays siesta
beneath his own imaginative vine and fig
tree. 1t has to be imaginative as vines
and FIG trees do not flourish in Wyoming,
the soil and climate precluding their fe-
cundity. However, the metaphor is good
for it has been used previously and quite
frequently. Yet a mans rickety shanty.
his modest cabin or his p%alatial residence
may be regarded as the fgurative fig tree.
Then, too, o. a bright, beautiful Sabbath
morning, there is no place like home.
sweet homel' until the church bells sweet
ly chime, and then the sanctuary a good
place to while away an hour in close com
munion with the souls innermost recesses.
But those who don't go to church will
find our excerpts, here, brief but precious
sermons which though they may be diver
gent in the line of thought, yet are full
of fine food for fruitful reflection.
All Science has done is to show the
world lis orderly and rational
Goduin.
There never was a time of special OF
portunity in this world when some dissen-
tient and discordant voice was not heard.
-Christidn AdUocdte.
We have read of wooden seeds, so per
tectly made as to deceive the h~usbandman-
But there never was one so perfectly made
as to deceive the soil.-Rer. Richard Cord
ley.
Any church had better die and be bu
RED out of sight-as so many have had
the grace to do, If it does not intend to
take the lead in all needed reforms.-The
Uniuersalist.
If the great American people fully re-
allied the immense benefits the Roman
Pontiticate conferred on the world, they
would be as DESTROYS as the most jealous
Catholic to see Leo XIII. restored to pow
er.-Nep York Tablet.
Only by f%easting at the fruits of liberty
can the masses be educated to a worthy
use of their political rights; only through
the dreadful lessons of experience, do men
and nations become self-concious, prudent
and wise.-Bob. Ingersol.
When the people understand that the
number of laws, the passage of which a
legislator obtains, is not the measure of
his excellence, the unhappy fecundity of
the brains of our manufacturers of stat
utes may be checked. Nation.
knowledge, like the blood, is only heal
thy while in brisk circulation. Its work
is to supply the veins and arteries of our
mental life, thus continually being trans
formed into new thought and fresh ac-
..
tivity. 1t should feed our whole lives,
making them richer, happier, more pow
erful, more valuable. philadelphia Led
ger.
In order to make successful wal upon
intemperance the alliance and corporation
of temperance men and women should be
secured. But when total abstainers are
instructed that they must deal their heav-
lest blows against these unwilling allies,
we can only deplore the mingled folly and
fanaticism of the advice .-The Austrd-
lasidn.
A lying tongue is the assassin of char
acter, the most important thing in human
life while he hat sheds innocent blood
merely destroys the body-the house in
which the real man resides. A liar then
is worse than a murderer. He strikes
with a deadly weapon and hurls his j~avelin
at our higher nature.-Rev. Mr.. Froth-
inghdm.
There will never be another great dis
tillery built in the United States. Those
now in existence have pooled their in
%terests, so that over one half of them are
idle, Many of them will never blacken
heaven from their sooty stacks again
and no capitalist is so foolish as to invest
his money in a dying business The In
dependent.
The few unhappy pessimists among us
may mourn over a wicked and perverse,
not to say unscholastic generation; but at
the same time this great republic is march
ing at the head of the procession of the
powers of the world, and propose to allow
no nation, east or west, to throw the dust
Of superior progress in its eyes.-Indidn-
dpOliS Journal.
Little Joker is the best smoking
tobacco.