The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-18

killing and hog-work in this neighborhood.
Enough men are generally invited to do
tue killing in a short time aud very early
in the morning. Dinner is prepared while
the killing is being done, and it is only
nine or ten O'Clock it is partaken of, when
cutting up and working up begins in such
a lively manner that by time for an early
supper all the work is finished-his hog
ship, that was a living, moving creature
in the morning, is now lard, sausage,
serapple and picked pork-the work is
over and a good time has been had by the
~neighbors.
There will be considerable changing
among the farmers in this township the
coming spring. Some who are sick Of the
business will %relinquish the profession alto
gether and try their hands at something
less laborious if not more lucrative. Many
others, who are not yet forced to the point
Of quitting from the discouragements of
the past, and who are not quite willing to
embark in some enterprise, will change
places with some fellow-farmer and try it
yet another year. Among the former class
is a prominent politician, now occupying a
high county official position, who most
emphatically, yea, yehemeutly, declared
on election day III our hearing that if Gen.
Harrison should be elected he would never
farm another year. So we see that if for
no other reason than to keep his record
good for truthfulness, he must stop.
Revival services at the Methodist church
at Pennsville are still in progress, but with
very little encouragement to pastor and
members, who desire TO see a large in
gathering of the unsaVed.
a few Sabbaths ago the Rev. w. V,
Louderbough, of the Presbyterian church.
Salem, preached a sermon reviewing the
work OF pastor and people during the five
years he had then been pastor of the
church. He expressed himself as reason
ably well satisfied with the result of their
labors, yet while some members ofhis
congregation, past the meridian of life,
who had sat under his preaching all this
time and to whom he had made personal
appeals to make a confession of religion
and live a life of faith upon the Son of God,
were still, apparently, unsayed, it prevent
ed a full measure OF satisfaction, and
pressed home to the minds of all interested
in the salvation of souls the conviction
that Gods Kingdom must be enlarged by
enlisting the young-those of an age more
susceptible to religious impressions. We
were much pleased with some suggestions
advanced respecting the way to make tie
attendance upon church service generally,
to those who seldom or never go to the
house of God. more attractive. And, first
of all, he would unhesitatingly make the
pews free, so that all who desired to enter
the church might do so without feeling they
might intrude or get in a seat where some
one might say, by their actions. that you
have no business here. Secondly, and not
the least important suggestion, was that a
cordial and friendly welcome to ALL and a
social interchange of salutations generally,
50 far as practicable. should be practiced by
members OF the congregation. While we
believe the Sunday newspaper is now do
ing more than any other one cause to him
der church going, yet we believe, too, that
the GOODNESS and indifference with which
persons, supposed to be a degree lower
in the social scale than those at the head
Of the church work, are often received by
them, is a serious obstacle in the advance
men ofGod's Kingdom. The church, of all
places, is to our mind the place where
social lines should not appear, and where
there should be a commingling Of social
elements that would naturally, and per-
haps properly, divide outside of the
church. l..