St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-03
SUNDAY SALAD.

In a world where there is so much of
the SOunding-brass and tinkling-cymbal
kind of charity there is something abso-
lutely refreshing in the character of
work that is being performed ty the
Bethel mission in this city. One ounce
of practical charity is worth tons of the
sentimental gilt-edged kind that is too
frequently dealt out. Following the
suggestion of the wise man who adj
vlsed that bread be cast upon the
waters, with the assurance that it would
of the Bethel mission have determined
to construct Bethel home on the bosom
of the great Father of Waters.
In this floating mission house the home
less will find shelter, the hungry will be
fed, the destitute shall be cared for, the
unemployed shall find employment, lit
tie children shall be gathered up from
the streets and provided for and edu-
Gated. and it will be a Mecca for those
seeking advice and consolation.
An especially commendatory feature
of the Bethel barge will be its compare
tive Responsiveness. The money con-
tributed will not go to rearing a stately
mansion with its costly walls and eX-
penSive OrnamentatiOn, with nothing
left to put bread in the mouths of the
hungry and to provide medicine and
nurses for the sick. Every dollar will
be expended in direct charity. The
Bethel home will be in the line of char
ity practiced by the Savior when He
healed the sick in the open streets and
fed the multitudes on the mountain
sides.
1t is to the credit of the general Meth
OdiSt conference that when ballot stuff
ing was detected in the late election of
bishops no attempt was made to cover
up the rascality for fear that its expos
ure would hurt the church, Now ev-
cry effort should be made to discover
the rascals who did the ballot stuffing.
There is no criminal law that would
reach the ballot thieves, but in vindica-
ton of its own good name, the Methodist
church must hunt the raScalS down and
turn them out of the church. A person
VINO would stuff ballots in a religious
convention would steal the copperS that
held down the eyelids of his dead
grandmother.
Rev. DR.. PAXTON, of New York, who
Is JAY GOULD'S pastor, stood up in the
general assembly of the Northern Pres
byterian church at Philadelphia the
Ollicl udy anu pIdycu NOu W cuISe Tue
day when the negro was first brought
to American shores. Just as if God
didn't know His own business best If
God made the negro, He certainly ought
to know what to do with him, without
instructions from DR.. PAXTON. 1t is
true the negro is disturbing element
in both the Presbyterian and Methodist
churches, but that isn't the negro's
fault. The churches are fighting over
him, but he is not fighting over himself.
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If the preachers can't get along with
the colored man here on earth. what are
they going to do with him when they
all go to Heaven together? There will
be no kitchen in Heaven to put the
negro in: no Liberia to colonize him in;
there will be no Mason and DiyOns line
up there with which to draw sectional
boundaries between the churches, and
take it all together, there is going to be
a lonesome time above us for some of
these preachers who are everlastingly
kicking up dust in opposition to an
organic union of the Northern and
Southern churches.