Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26

draw crowds of hearers. These steady
going church goers are critical listeners,
and will not tolerate less polish than
their cultured MINDS and esthetic tastes
have been educated to enjoy. Now,
! while it is a fashion for very earnest
Christian people, who do not see imme-
diate fruits in these so called fashiona-
BILE churches, to hold them up to view,
as hypocriticsl professors. who go TO
the house of God, as an old poet says:
Some just for a walk. "':
And some to laugl, and talk;
Some to sleep and ned.
But few to worship Cod
Yet, in a broad survey OF The many
instrumentalities employed for the sal
Walton of men from his %three-fold enc
my, 1.-THE world, the flesh and the devil"
| have answered these carping fault
finders by the Inward question, How
is it that so many Christian missions
find such noble support in this modern
Sodom? and, who are the faithful work.
ers found in, Sunday and weekday
evenings in the streets and byways,
carrying the gospel of peace and good.
will to the poor andill.aressel masses?
1 am glad to answer, these earnest,
warm~hearted, self-sacrificing mission
aries and Bible readers, are the same
quiet, attentive, unresponsive
pants of uptown pews, where reverend
doctors of divinity mould and educate
these lay-preachers for labor in the
home field OF Christ's blessed kingdom.
DIR. James M. Hing Is a splendid spec
linen OF a man, who finds time to give
attention to subjects Of great impor-
lance in public life, and used his con-
| spichous position of influence as chair
man of the executive committee of the
Evangelical Alliance, to address a pow
erful argument to our legislature this
winter, against the so-ca1led "Freedom
of Worship BILL"
DIR. 2arkhvlrst, Of another denomina-
ton, sways a multitude Of intelligent
people, by his quaint utterances Of
truth adapted to city follies. y -
The English are better organized than
we are, the people there maintain their
rights better than we Go in this country.
Quoting from amember of parliament,
on this subject, who said, that although
he favored license, he recognized "the
right Of the people to determine for
themselves what is most conducive to
their own interest" so said the father
of the Maine law, the people Of Ameri-
ca must have the right granted them
to express their convictions by the "bal-
lot in the ballot box" I think it has
been demonstrated that we, the people,
will bear our share Of this Responsible
ty when opportunity offers.
A practical demonstration of the
power of religious sentiment in this
wicked metropolis, was exhibited with
in a few days, when a strong force of
worhmen withtheir pickaNes were seen
on broadway, tearing up the paving
stones and laying down a track for the
new surface railway. The projectors
of this enterprise had employed hun
dreds of ouT strong sineWea laborers to
hurry through the work on Sunday, but
an injunction was laid upon them, and
the policemen are now proud to say,
"'Ve" stopped this violation of the sa-
cred law Of the Sabbath day. Thus we
move on toward the millennium. Let
whlte-ribboned ENJOYS march on with
the grand army under the orders of our
great captain. SARAH A. NiCCLEEs.