The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-31

fully, and in the long run economically.
unless there are heads and hands enough
to do the necessary work"
The Examiner (Bapt) says: THE tramp
preacher is apt to see what others miss.
1t may be hard to find arguments which
warrant the minister in occupying Q
strange pulpit on every Sunday of his va
cation. and vet. is it not well to change
about occasionally? We need to know
what the old voyager calls the strange
glory to which travel lifts us AZ all
events, the comet has more to tell than
the fixed star, and it is certain John Gilpin
never ceased to talk about the one famous
occasion when he did ride abroad Every
preacher who comes back from his vaca-
ton should bring his notes with him He
does well now and then in the course of
his rambles to sit in the pew and see how
things appear from the big end of the tel
escope. He may get hints as 10 the order
or conddct of the service; he may learn to
look at gesture and attitude from the
point OF view of the congregation, and If
be be very wise, he viii perhaps be in
cIined 10 believe that it is quite as hard TO
listen well as it is to preach we'll"
Here is bit of professional criticism
from "Farmtonn OF the Adraace. II like
sermon which begins somewhere and by
straight road goes somewhere. I do not
like sermon which begins anywhere, and,
after going everywhere. ends nowhere
Most of the sermons which hear have an
order OF thought. Yet sermons which are
disorder of thought do good. Most peo-
ale regard the immediate impression
OF q sermon more than the logical
arrangement, and 10 most. the immediate
impression does not depend upon the
logical arrangements. l know a doctor
down in Maine who has two medicines, one
he calls the heart regulator the ether,
the liver holster / asked him once what
each was made of. The heart regulator
said he, is made of everything
upon the upper shelf OF Smiths
| drug store, and the liver holster. of
| everything on the lower shelf These
medicines have 8 local reputation as ex-
cellent remedial agents. So sermon
| which has q bit OF politics, a dash of N.Y.
| thology, q hint of the railroad accident, an
allusion 10 the patrIarchs. quotations from
Emerson, may yet be a very good sermon.
/ should not recommend the heart regu-
lator' or liver holster Possibly also /
should not recommend this method OF
making sermon"
The Hatchman (Baps) says: "The Tylb-
unc of last Friday announced at length the
| plans of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller for found
ing university in New York city with an
endowment of s., 00o. 900. to be under Bap-
| fist control. This announcement was at
| once commented upon by the journals of
| leading cities. and IL is safe to say that half
| the reading people of the Eastern states be-
leve that the Tyibune's report was trust
worthy. We expect that the religious pa
| pers this week will swell the chorus
of congratulatory comment. But Mr..
Rockefeller stated last Saturday that there
was nothing in the report. and declared
! that the announcement was news to him.
/ No good and much harm is done by the
| publication OF such news If Mr.. Rookie
/ Teller should be devising liberal things in
the way of fostering education, it cannot
be helpful to his plans to have such state
ments made. Some one has evidently
| biundered pretty seriously in Civ
ing this news TO The Tribune. 1t
is very good way to discour
4 age a man in benevoience to forestau the
announcement of his plans. or TO attribute
/ TO him purposes of which he is ignorant.
| The Christian Inquirer (Baptist) says:
"The sale oil the printed edition of the En-
| cyclopedia Britannica has occasioned q
| great controversy. A wholesome fear OF
the law has caused some to desist from.
| aud others, with afuller understanding of
| the rights of property. to abandon lis sale.
/ Ii is rather surprising, therefore, that the
| Dapust BOOK concern at Louisville, N.Y.,
| should be found advertising this monarch
| of eyclopadias.' and offering phenomenal
| opportunity to those who will subscribe
| for it. It rightly calls this the book sensa-
ton of the year and probably before long
| Messrs. Black 81 Co. will give this book
concern such sensation as will greatly
enlarge its conception OF the meaning OF
that woSl."
The Jesgisa Voice says: Religious in.
difference is the bane, not only in Jewish
circles, but also and sta more so among
the various Christian denominations. But
that is a poor comfort to US. Jews nave
had the personal experience of the effect
of q steadfast religious life, and hence re-
lgious indifference with them has, invari-
ably. direct bearing on their mode and
manner of living. 1t is thy life and the
length of thy days has been said of the
Jewish faith in its bearing on the life OF
H.. t..