The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-11-26
CHURCH LOCALS
AND RELIGIOUS NOTES OF GENER.
AL INTEREST.

We see it stated as a fact, that
three persons, in Connecticut viii
lage, were badly frightened by a
chimney swallow recently. About
midnight they we're aroused by a
peculiar noise inside a large sheet
iron stove. Their alarm was so
great, that one of them was thrown
into commissions, from which it is
feared she will never recover. When
the store was opened a harmless
swallow, which had fallen down the
chimney, was found, as badly
frightened as the human inhabi ,
tants. The writer adds: The an
noyances of life, which almost kill
us, are often as harmless as the
swallow. If we could fully under
stand them we would smile at our
folly and alarm.
The one ministry of religion, is
not only to save US from "convul-
sions," at the strange noise Loor
swallow will make, when lost in a
stove, but to arm us agains. fear, in
the presence OF fierce and real faces.
Davids prayer was, 20 Lord, I be-
see"h Thee deliver my soul" This
prayer, heard and answered will
bring deliverance, to the life, in all
things else. 1t matters little about
the body, when the soul is delivered
when one is really at rest in God.
1t is often said, that men do not die
from overwork, but from worry.
Men worry and fret and see danger
and fall into commissions" from the
strange noise of an imprisoned swal-
low. 1t is because God is so far
away from them. 4os
AND it such fear can come, from
such simple cause, what will it be
when the real alarm shall sound
At midnight the cry will be heard
"Behold the Bridegroom cometh
| go ye out to meet Him." Then
shall man long and cry and beg fol
death, in vain. Prayer will be
made ITO the rocks and the hills to
fall on them and hide them from the
Lamb" But there will be no hid
ing place and no arm of deliverance.
"The hail shall sweep away the
refuge of lies and the waters shall
overflow the hiding place." Men
laugh at such warning now. They
pour scorn and contempt upon
Gods word and boast cf their BRAY
cry now, and yet whistle in pass
ing graveyard, or fall into "con-
vulsions" at the strange noise Of a
swallow. Poor sin-deluded nor.
tails! ''the laughing stock of devils
and the source OF tears to angels.
Rev. j. H. Patton, pastor elect Of
the Presbyterian Church, will be
installed next Sunday morning a,
II o'clock. Rev Geo. T. Goetch~
ms, of Rome, will preach the SER
mon and PROFOUND the questions.
Rev. d. L. Buttolph will charge the
pastor, and Rev. J. w. Baker will
charge the people. Public cordial
ly invited to be present.
THANKSGIVING service will be
held to-day (Thursday) II a. m, at
the Presbyterian Church. 1t has
been changed from the Baptist
Church because it was feared there
would not be room for the people.
The sermon will be preached by
Rev. MIR. Dobbs, pastor of the Bap-
fist Church at Gainesville.
If the people would respond to
this call of the President and of our
Governor, as they ought to, not on
ly from respect to the chief magis-
trates and long custom, but from
duty to self and to each other, there
would not be room in any one
church, or in all of them together
for the worshipers. But this they
will not do. So many are forgotiul
ct Gods claims, SO many ungrateful
for all good bestowed.
THoUGH it rained all the morning
and though only small congrega-
Jion gathered at the Methodist
Church, yet for spiritual power and