Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-04-19

led the congregation in song by means
of a small baton which he waved to and
fro, but which he did not offer to play
on.
burst forth, into song. could not
help it. People near me looked around,
struck by my strange, wild melody.
Some seemed startled. Others were Yisl-
bly, affected, and would have repented If
they had been encouraged, | think. Con
viction could be seen on their faces; also
remorse and sorrow for the past.
One man read u newspaper during the
early part of the service. | could hear
an usher near me cussing him for his
lack of reverence. "Hell of way to do
in church, isn't itY' he seemed to NUT
ter, as the man went on reading about
the baccarat scandal in England, and of
how a bright little child in Michigan had
recently been boiled in a kettle Of hot
maple sap.
Before and all through the services
the rattle of the lesson leaf or celestial
menu, if l may be allowed that term, was
very disturbing, especially to those who
desired to hear and criticise the prayer.
| | would suggest the leather covers used
in restaurants sometimes for these hymn
slips to deaden the sound and keep them
clean. They would not rattle them
selves or the speaker so much then.
Professor Swing sis great big brainy
man." He does not get his sermons from
the worn wax cylinders Of his mind, or
reel off the thunken thoughts of men now
dead and turned to dust. He is a big,
broad man, in the shade of whose mighty
think works, to use a simile of his own,
the little poison weeds Of doubt and dis
trust die out and disappear. Great
minds like great trees get all the sun
light, and the breeze, and the ozone, or
whatever it is which they require in their
business, and at their feet the little
measly jimson weed of schism and
those things curl up and die. Meantime
far above, and refusing to monkey with
the trivial dogmas and the pallid, noxious
growth below, the brave big tree losses
its grand old arms about, and the birds
come there and build their nests and
spoon around in the early spring, and
thank God for the beautiful and the bully
old universe, 50 free to use temporarily
and then return in good order to the
Creator.
David seemed to know that was there
and so he spoke well. l applauded him
once with my umbrella, but was re-
preached for it by a heavier set man thar
| am, 80 did not carry it to excess.
b Speaking of General Sherman PROBES
sor Swing said: "What a glorious thing
h it is for us that God never repeats him
self! He gives US u man equally grea
70 in some ways for the one we have lost
% but never again the same arrangement
\. of talents What a grand man was Gen
" eral Sherman \ character like his ha
an eternal monopoly Of itself.
"The perfect man has the affections
i, the understanding and the will equal.
,f balanced. The scholar is apt to cult
" vate his understanding at the expense o
Al his will and his affections" Thus he be
a. comes a bloodless, fabby hungerer 70
an more books, more problems, more t
n read; a loveless, abnormal man, 10
Il sided copartnership between a wabbl
10 will, a weak affection and cerebra
r. tapeworm. (The language is not Pro
70 fessor Swings; only the idea, the though
n germ. The word painting is mine.)
a So, likewise, the drunkard and the Ill
n. ertine allow the affections to run ava
ar. with the will and the understanding
while the stubborn man permits h
No will to ride with Mexican spurs over h
II affections and his understanding. L
has frmness and that is all. He do
,at not love anybody nor know anything
,er He is the great anthropoid jackass of II
nj. age in which he lives.
,er The congregation united in repeatir
70 the Lords Prayer. the big organ warm'
no up to its business, and the congregation
eli including the bright young prima dom
oh who pens these lines, went softly an
of plunkingly home in the rain, still r
membering the closing hymn Of Il
n, morning:
nj Earth has many cool retreat,
: Many a spot TO mem'ry dear;
Ut Oft we find our weary feet
by Lingering by some fountain clear;
Osi Yet the purest waters flow
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