St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-06

take no part in the political movements, as they
regard the constitution OF the United States an
immoral document and they cannot swear to
support it. One of the objects
for which appointments are made on the
members OF their presbytery is the constitu-
tonal fund, and the amount required is 81 90 per
member. This is for agitating the question and
having inserted in the constitution the name of
God as the ruler of nations The denomination
is not on the gain in this country, as their views
are not popular. But they are persistent in
their purposes. asked an intelligent Christian
man who belongs to them if they lost many of
the young from the church. and he said not. We
are, said he, pretty strict with them and are not
troubled with dancing, drinking and the forms of
vice that prevalent. l had the privilege
OF enjoying the hospitality of one
OF these, Mr.. L., an intelligent religious
Irishman who has raised large family
and is in old age enjoying pleasant retirement.
i found q well filed library of books on general
subjects with sufficient sprinkling of Calvinis-
tic works to preserve them from decay. f-4s
After breakfast the family assembled for wor-
ship, each member with Bible and psalm
book. We sang the XVIIIth psalm through the
twenty-ifth to the thirty-second stanza after the
old gentleman had read it aloud for us-Scottish
version. 1 had some trouble with the twenty
sixth verse
''Thou gracious to the gracious art,
To upright men upright;
Pure to the pure, forward Thou kyth'st
Unto the forward wight"
And my friend explained that skyth'st'' was
Scotch word that meant ''showest thyself,m and
wight meant mean man. That is God will deal
with us after our own fashion, do to us as we do
to others. There was something a little Eludlcous
to an outsider in the twenty ninth verse:
'By thee through troops of men l break
And then discomft all;
And by my God assisting me
over leap WALL
But the psalm was dovotely and well sang by
the whole family, led by the voice of an intelli-
gent daughter We read the first chapter of Le-
viticus clear through, and led in the prayer, all
kneeling. do not know when have enjoyed
more instructive and impressive family
worship. Nothing was hurried, and all
took part. And the thorough reading of the
chapter about customs and types was becoming
and free from that false modesty that keeps
clear of all scripture that is descriptive of some
ancient customs.
am told that the Covenanters are pledged to
maintain family worship morning and evening;
but that among some of them, as among us,
there is growing up a carelessness, yielding to
the Entertainments Of modern civilization.
The Methodists, aggressive as usual, had in
vaded this old Covenanter's home-a gentle
man of refinement and culture. teacher,
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daughter and made her his wife. /
do not blame him, for such ladies'
are not very plenty. The father
is willing in this as in other things to submit to
the decree of God and rejoice in the union of
these Christian hearts.
Religion is permenant, but the forms are chang
ing, and think the cavalry better adapted to
charge the enemy of to-day than the slow going
and poorly armed artillery of covenanters whose
wheels are heavy with the dried mud and forms
of ancient creeds and methods. Yet it is well to
see, now and then, the implements of warfare
with which grand execution was done in ages
past T. MCCLARY,
Pastor NJ. E. church, Saltwater, MINI.