, 1885-06-30

Laramie City, occupied the pulpit of ST,
Marks Episcopal church iu~his city and
delivered a fine sermon, taking for his
text the 9th verse of the 18th chapter Of
Hosea, "Oh, Israel thou hast destroyed
myself, but in me is thy help"
The reverend gentleman said hat the
people of this world should blame them
selves for the larger part Of tho unhappi-
ness which they suffer from. They make
a mistake in seeking the feverish excite
ment of what they fancy to be amusement,
rather than to seek a better kind of enjoy
ment in the rational pleasures of home
and family and friends. They walk in
the dim shadows of the valley rather than
the Chamber to the glories of the sunlit
hills, They seek amusement BY gas light
rather than in the health giving sunshine
OF day. The best and purest happiness
any II can have is that which comes
from a life of godliness, Christianity, in
tegriiy and industry, and these will take
those who live hat way to a better life
beyond. Too many live as if they thought
they would never die, and too many die
as if they would never live again.
OF course these are only a very few ofthe
excellent points upon which the reverend
gentleman made a brilliant sermon and
which sent his hearers away deeply i'm
pressed with the force and wisdom of his
words.
Rev. A. X. Packard, of Greeley, spent
Sunday here.
The music at the Presbyterian church
was unusually excellent. Mrs. Ed. Chase,
of Denver, sang Il solo, and there were
other new and pleasing features.
The boy choir at st. Marks church is
rapidly improving and the boys are learn
ing to be more at home in their places.
The Denver Tribune Republican SAYS a
second Congregational church has been
organized in Cheyenne, of which Rev.
MIR. Bonnell is to be the pastor.
The next annual session of the Colo
RADIO conference of the NJ. Il. church
will at Pueblo on July l6, in
stead of August 20, as previously in
tended.
The attendance at all the churches was
good last Sunday, especially was this the
case at st. Mark.
The festival to be given at Library hall
to morrow evening by the ladies of St.
Marks church will probably be the last
one of the season.
a great many members of ST. Johns
church will go to Greeley on the 4th with
Irish Benevolent Society," excursion.
The building committee of the A. NJ.
+. church of which Rev. S. w. Bird is
pastor, is composed of NJ. w. Moore, A.
Galloway, H. C. Jefferson, Chas. Russell
and d. ID. Moore.
At a called meeting of the board of
trustees OF the First Congregation church,
held June %, at the office of Judge ,Ino.
Slaughter, it was moved to proceed at
once to raise by subscription the amount
necessary to Fquidate the entire out
standing Indebtedness Of the church, said
subscriptions to be paid in three Install
ments, viz August 1885, April 1886,
April 1887.
AT the Presbyterian church the pastor,
Rev. r. L. Field, took for his text, LET
thy peace be as a river, = and from this he
spoke freely and eloquently and literally
sometimes POLITICALLY. He said that the
Christian peace is like the flow of a
mighty river, whose current grows stronger
and swiiter and deeper as it nears the
open sea Of Gods love. The surface
might be moved and shaken with winds
of grief and adversely and physical suffer
ing, and the waves wash over and shut
out the light of life, but the undercurcut
would still move on grandly and esistless-
ly until the bosom of the great ocean of
peace was reached.
With regard to a literal heaven or a
literal hell, the speaker said 81 do not
believe that there is a thinking Christian
here who imagines such a thing. l do
not believe that anyone will reach the
Celestial city through one of the twelve
gates Of pearl, and walk on streets of
solid gold, and stroll about with palms in
his hand and play upon a harp. 1t would
be fine music that some Of us would make
on a harp who do not know a single note
on earth. What we read of a paradise is
a picture drawn by the imagery Of orien-
tai poets; it is meant TO depict the happi-
ness Of eternal peace, and the horrid pic
lures Of hell are fanciful mirrorings of the
disgust of the sinners life after death and
the unhappiness to which the ungodly
will be heirs.