The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-01-05

L YIN EINiIN0 AT En- L Ill
CLOSE OF THE INSTITUTE.
"The crown is fallen from our heads
Woe unto US that we have slnned. t.
Jere. SIG.
Our young friend J. Wesley johnson
of the Herald, has frequently grieved hin
sore that we have not written more
"Evening Sermons" and more religious
poetry. We are glad to note Johns inter
est. He has attempted to follow oul
teaching, but he isn't built the right way
While we have studied the humbleness OF
Paul, he has striven to emulate the ex-
ample of Jezebel; While we have endeav-
ored to learn of the character of Christ,
he has studied the Democracy of Satan.
John is willing pupil, and already we
may say he fills the editorial CHAIR well.
TBut not the editorial hGt.] In view of
his admiration for a bold, fearless and
righteous paper like the Standard-and
and in nearly all of the States of the Union
Johns party attempted to destroy, we
feel it incumbent upon US to offer our
young friend such religious consolation
as we can. in this time of depression. Our
congregation will permit us to digreSS
here for a moment to give bit OF local
history: One year ago, two or three men
with j. Wesley at their head-under-
took to assume control of the Teachers
Institute of this county, and succeeded in
controlling the organization. There was
to be distributed some fifteen dollars
worth of printing. and John supposed
that when he should pull the string his
little men would jump and rush to him
Herewith. The Institute was too big a
thing however to be run on the basis of a
monkey-show, and it so happened that
the Executive Committee consisted of
men who could not be controlled by the
wooden-headed John. Mr.. Ripley john
son, who did most of the work, and who
is one of the fairest and grandest young
of the Institute. This was bad enough
for John, but in the organization for this
year, the Institute kicked John clean over
the Court House. 1t may be supposed by
this time that John was in a fine humOr.
On Saturday Mr.. Ripley johnson called
at the Standard Office, and in very gen
tlemanly manner asked for our bill. We
furnished receipted bill for seven dol
lars, and he promptly paid it, and went
his way He next called at the Herald
Office where bill of eight dollars was
presented Ripley stated that the bill
was to have been seven-ffty, but John
contended for the extra half-dollar. Rip
ley suggested that his recollection might
possibly be as good as Johns, whereupon
John assaulted him. Ripley-without
permitting John to hurt him, paid his bill
and went straightway to the Mayors
office, swore out a warrant, and had the
man with the religious name arrested.
Mayor Jones fined John to the aggregate
of $40. So, in assaulting man for fifty
and lost the other twenty, and seven dol
lars and fifty cents besides. John came
out with the Institute thirty cents ahead,
while the Other. papers got at least seven
dollars apiece. This is less gate-money
than was ever secured in fight before.
But to resume our discourse: John is
school teacher, and had crowded himself
into the program for talk or two at the
Institute, regarding the training of the
young The next day after the Institute
closed, he appears in the police court and
pays fine for assaulting one of the best
teachers in the county.
But as to the consolation. In jeremiah
5, 81, we find:
Turn thou unto thee, o, Lord, and we shall be
turned; renew our days of old.' =
The Institute has turned John, and it
will take dispensation of Divine Provi-
dence to turn him back again. There is
no desire to renew him as of Old JOB
doubtless foresaw this calamity of our
dear young friend, when he cried:
''My bowels are boiled and rested not.''
That indicates, as we understand it,
that fellow is hot. But let our dear
Bro. reflect that Job treated this case in
this way:
"Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly up
ward" s
Wherefore light given him that is in misery,
or life unto the bitter in spirit?"
After spasmodic jump at eight dol
lars, the loss of a weeks time, the travail
of two or three powerful speeches, and
the securing of but thirty cents, our
young friend should read what Jeremiah
says of his case: u
'Thou hast made the off-scouring and refuse
in the midst of the people,,
1T is good for man to bear the yoke his YOUTH.
II was derision to my people, and their song all
the day.
Remembering mine afliction and my misery, the
and the gall.'
And good, patient old Job, crying down
the ages for our dear Bro. johnson, said:
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my
flesh of brass?''
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass or
loweth the over his fodder?'
The last passage is quite applicable; it
is the grass and the fodder. The "pale
gray ass" broke into the educational field,
and in attempting to eat all the thistles
therein, got jagged. When Ripley john
son attempted to choke him off, then was
the kicking and braying done.
The Scripture saith:
From him that hath not shall be taken away even
that which he hath.n
Acting upon this Divine Injunction,
the magistrate, assuming perhaps that
our dear young friend had no sense, took
away seven dollars and seventy cents.
We don't like the picture. This good
friend of ours had assumed an intellec-
tual and moral-yea, and fnancial-lead-
ership, in the Institute, and from that
scene of manly men and bright-eyed and
beautiful women, stepped into subordi-
nate position in the Mayors Court. Su-
bordinate--in that the Mayor was the
Court and this dear friend of ours was
the prisoner.
Rut this assault will never Occur again.