Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-11-02
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SUGGESTIONS, DoINGs, FACTS, ETC.

a ktM Which, uSSuLACo "a bAAb[ eao
wrong, and yet tolerates it which
attempts only to check and regulate
it, without utterly prohibiting it;
which aims to derive a revenue from
it for the purpose OF government;
which makes that which is morally
wrong, legal, is one of those things
in human affairs with which the
throne Of God can have no fellow
ship.-Reu. Albert Barnes, IN q Ser
mon on The Throne of Iniqadty."
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Gentlemen, cannot permit ques-
ton Of mere revenue, tosbe consider
ed along side of a question of morals;
but give me sober population, not
wasting their earnings in strong
drink, and I will know where to get
my revenue.--G Gladstone to the Byeac-
ers of London. .
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To sell rum for livelihood is bad
enough, but for whole community
to share the responsibility and guilt
of such traffic seems worse bar
gain than that of Eve or Judas
Horace Greedy IN 1855.
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The Rev. Scott F. Hershey, Phi
D., who lectured here recently, when
on his tour of one month to the west,
has jotted for the public good some
facts and impressions of the growth
of the west. Among other things he
states that domestic morals are ola
higher tone in some of the western
than in the eastern States. Kansas
and Iowa have a surprisingly low
per centage of divorce cases. The
gentleman, after finding adverse and
conflicting criticism on the temper
ance question, as we all do from the
press, with respect to the workings
of temperance laws and movements,
says: "'That was prepared to find
temperance in q bad Mix "The
progress of temperance sentiment,
and the advance of temperance leg
islation in soma portions of the west,
since a previous visit, was most graf
flying to me, and beyond what | ex-
pected to find" He attributes the.
low per centage of divorce cases in
Kansas and Iowa, to the temperance
reform in those States, and this after
having visited towns, cities and vii
lagos, talked with ministers, saloon
keepers, hotel clerks, as well as pol
ice, business men and farmers, and
examined jails, prisons and asylums,
to satisfy himself on such matters.
Such facts ought to convince ms of
the truth, and on the side of truth
we ought to find our place, when du-
ty calls us for our work.
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The Untuersalist Record, publish
ed in Newark, N. j., has an editorial
on New York's $4,000, 900 Cathedral,
which contains this reference to the
denominations
1--WE have no representative church
in this country, or if we have, it is
not the Episcopal Church. More
than any other that church "hath a
foreign air." 1t is one of the small.
er of the leading sects. 1t is essen
TALLY church of the cities, land
largely of the eastern cities. It's
cords o. sympathy stretch backward,
across the ocean to the land of its
birth. More nearly than any other
the Methodist Church is representa-
tive of nineteenth-century American
religion. Not only by it's moral earn
estness, by it's democratic spirit and
its aggressiveness, by it's directness
and business-like methods and good
humor, but even its doctrinal failures
at logic, its Theological patchwork,
it is representative of this energetic
time OF transition, this hurrying age
of fact and change. Calvinism be-
longs to the past. Universalism be-
longs to the future. Methodism is
of the present, and has the right, If
any church has, to erect the building
which shall introduce the religion of
the 10Th Century to the students OF
the twentyninth. The Methodists,
however, would not build an $8,000,-
600 church, If they had $l00,000,000
to spare. They would erect thous-
ands of chapels all over the world.
They are intent upon winning this
world to christ, not with superb
architecture, but with moral sconvic-
tion and conviction of sin. They are
not concerned to startle the future
With a display of fine art, for which
religion shall be taken as the excuse.
They are quite content with houses
of worship which shall be comforta-
BILE, not offensive to taste, roomy, in
which multitude can hear the