St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-10
Sunday. CHATTER.

The New York churches that are pa
raded in the papers as giving unfriendly
salutation to visitors of lowly mien are
sensitive enough to tine imputation to
attempt defense. They claim that the
visitors are merely curiosity seekers,
who go to the fine churches as part of
the municipal elephant, and come in
such numbers that they would crowd
out the regular attendants who pay for
the seats and service, if they were ell
couraged. There are little brown
churches around the corner that will do
for the strangers. Still, it is noted that
if the visitors are sleek-looking and got
ten up in artistic style, according to the
approved fashions, there is less diff
Guilty in finding seats for them. 1t the
defense is good in the light of Chris
tan theories, the reserved seats should
be filled by somebody. Christ preached
to curiosity seekers and converted hun
dreds of them. But the people who
sustain the church undoubtedly have
some rights to its privileges, and it is
questionable if they should deny them
selves for casual corners.
III I'll
EDWARD ATKINSON, the social phil
OSopher, raises the question as to
whether the greater harm results from
liquor or bad cooking. His impress
sons evidently tend to the latter con-
clusion. If the disordered digestive
apparatus and torpid liver, dyspepsia.
etc, are due to bad cooking, it is not
fai hu{ hot hn linn
as much in need of legislative attention
as the alcoholic combinations that make
SO much trouble. There is very high
theological authority for the statement
that no dyspeptic can be Christian.
Take preacher whose stomach is sour
and his theology will be full of I'M
comfortable pictures and menaceS.
And where you find man with chronic
indigestion or trouble with his liver,
you will prefer to let him enjoy his own
society until his machinery runs with
out creaking. On the average, in a
social way, the man who has looked in
the glassware too long will be chosen
for fellowship and general association
before the GROWER who is the victim of
bad cooking. There are a good many
things for cancellation'in the equation
TIT
While good many people suppose
that the exposure Of so much tricl{ery
and fraud in connection with spiritual
phenomena, as they are termed, has
about dlssipated all faith Ill the char
acter claimed for the manifestations, ex-
cept with few cranks, there is no dis
turDance of the convictions of the mass
of the votaries of that system, if it is a
system. The practical features, how
ever, have not kept pace with the al
legged possibilities. The recent De
BARR case in the East seems to indicate
line of development that could be
worked to advantage. The spirits told
her she was to marry MARSH, but by
some oversight forgot to notify the man.
This was perhaps due to overconfi-
dence in the lady as a medium of deS-
tiny. 1t is said that matches have been
made in heaven. II the mediums have
access to communicative parties in that
region, and can get reliable information
in advance of the persons concerned, it
will be seen that wide field for useful
ness. as well as profit, would be opened.
1t would dispel doubts and scatter sun
shine about the ways of those cropping
to matrimony.
While two of the New England states
have just ordered special elections to
vote prohibition into the constitutions,
another is trying to amend its constitu-
ton so as to eliminate the prohibition
clause put there with great flourish
two or three years ago. There seems to
be no doubt that the people would now
vote it out with as much enthusiasm as
they voted it in. The case shows the
folly of trying to imbed in the funda-
mental part of the political fabric
measures that are but experiments. Al
though the best minds of the times have
been for several thousand years trying
to evolve from experience and philoso-
ply the political and social science that
will best meet the needs of the race, the
lawmakers and constitution builders are
still feeling their way to results. They
go forward in blind paths. and then re-
treat, to make equally futile ventures
in other directions. If there has ever
been political aud social system even
approximately perfectin its adaptations
to the needs of man, its combinations
are among the lost arts.
fHf
The sweet-voiced and graceful-man-
nered wife of Gen. BooTH,- of the Sal
Walton Army, wins the hearts of those
she reaches with her eloquence and
sweetness of speech, enyironed by rare
beauty. Her philosophy, even when
presented away from her charms Of pres
enee. provokes less dissent than might
be supposed in the halls of culture.
Possibly she will make the parades that
seem to the judicious like burlesque
acceptable as primary stage of re-
ligious development.
HTT
The historical fact brought out by
Rabbi HESS in his address Friday