The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-15

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want with my lot?'
ibid YOU ever know man who
liked his business-liked it so well
that he wanted his son to follow it.
Don't he declare by everything sa-
cred that it's a dogs life? Maybe
he is a doctor. He will tell you he
is just killing himself to save other
people from dying and he is not APP
preriated; that if his patient recov-
ers it was a case of Uis medicdtrir
naturae, and he get well in spite of
the doctor. If he dies it was a case
of malpractice. When he sends IN
his hill everybody complains. Maybe
he is pluinber. Even he is not sat
i-fied with his bill, nor anybody
else.
There is one place where you
would think the voice of the sruu-
bier would be huShed. | don't
blame a man 81 much II, in the rush
of business, in the excitement of the
streets, he loses his temper and lets
loose his tongue. but when he shuts
up hiI ledger. and di4mi-sps his
clerks he ought to flee "a a bird to
the mountains and meet his wife on
the doOr-tep-just az he did when,
she was a girl. He ought to eaten
up his children and 60 to the nursery
and play peek-a-boo with them and
he a boy again and have high Old
time. Instead of that he storms
around What Is the matter with
the beefIteak? 1t is not fit for dog
to eat-needs a buzz saw TO cut it,
AT the store he has to be a gentle
man. courteous and polite.
or he will lose his custom. I in.
sist upon it, that woman has right
to the same lover-like attentions as
when you came to court her, and ca
corted her, sent her bon-bOns and
wrote all manner of little ditties on
gilt.edged paper smelling of musk,
and making a door.mat of yourself
in generally. Now you make door
mat of her.
"People grumble at the way God
made the world, and grumble at the
Bible and the plan of salvation. l
had very bright girl in my Bible
class once, who said to me: DO you
think it would be right for man to
hitch horse to carriage; tie him
to an iron post and then lash the poor
beast because he would not go?' l
said no. well, isn't that the way
the Lord drives US? Don't he re.
quire of US impossibilities :" Il guess
NOT Don't he require me to do
what he cannot do" Mo- Didn't
he give me depraved nature p
Yes, guess So Didn't the Lord
make me and give it to me" No,
the Lord never made the like ofyou.'
We'll, who did make me?' L guess
the devil.' She rather liked that,
and said. Il suppose you think that
is "'answering a fool according to his
folly."
"Then men grumble because the
Lords people don't live right. The
Lord knows we don't. If Christian
people lived a thousand times better
than they do the world would still
grumble. When the Lords people get
to grumblIng, however. l feel bad,
especially when they grumble about
the preachers, It's 80 hard to preach
to please everybody. Either its the
length of the sermons. or the loudness
oftneir delivery. How shall he carry
himself in the pulpit, and what shall
he preach about? If he breaches the
gospel and takes an old fashioned
text and treats it in an old fashioned
gospel way, then he is an Old timer
would have done we'll enough hun
dred years ago or in the back kwoods,
He has not read the reviews, nor
Robert Elsmere. nor Bellamy. He
don't keep progress with advanced
thought. That makes me tired. 1t
reminds me of that curious family
they call the crab. Even now and
then the crab gets too big for his
clothes. What does he do? He
stretches himself and bursts out of his
clothes. What is he then. He is a
soft crab and erawls back ward. That
il advanced thought. AS far as the
heavens are above the earth, 80 far
are my thoughts above thy thoughts.
ana if the world should hast million
years Gods thoughts, as gathered in
that Old book, will still be the adj
vanced thoughts of the world. Then
the choir and the music. Every
body grumbles about the music. No
doubt these high-toned choirs do
sometimes take too much upon them
selves and have to be brought down
from their perch. And yet, notwith.
standing all that, l think it is great
deal better than the kind of singing l
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