The times., 1892-04-22
TIE Times.


List of letters remaining uncalled for at
the Owosso post Office for the week ending
April 10 1892: Mrs. w. Bishop, Matte
Burger, +. w. Clough, Joseph Fritsch, Mrs.
G. Keer, Fred Williams, Joe Slyman, LII.
Shaw, Geo. Remer, Mrs. Maud Ryan, Grant
Parshall, j. j. Price, Lee Anderson, j. L.
HOlley, Nicholas Meyers, Lottie Seser.
I Drops: John Horton, James Scott Geo.
Thomas.
Durand Express: The senate committee
ON public buildings and grounds has report
ed bill for the construction of public
building at Owosso to cost $4,000. We
hope to see it built. We, the people of
Shiawassee county, very naturally feel a
pride i'm Owosso. 1t does us good to see her
humping herself for business enterprise and
knocking out more pretentious places. She
is booming buttercup in our admiration,
and we all 'rah for OwOsso every time.---
The Owosso light infantry is becoming quite
proficient i'm drill. 1t is Co. G of third regi-
ment. If this item was being written by
some person ignorant of military terms, in
stead of saying infantry he would write it
foot" and speaking of cavalry he would
say ''horse." 1t is dead sure sign that such
an individual was never a soldier in an
American army. But we were speaking of
the Owosso light infantry. Yes, it is fine
body of men, and our chief commercial city
is justly proud of ''Co. e."
Union Signal The saloons OF New York
City have been closed on Sunday at last, as
a sequel to the agitation started by Rev. DIR.
Parkhurst. The ball he has set rolling is
one that we rejoice in. Politics in the pull
pit is at Naturalization pitch, and the Pres
byterian denomination, conservative beyond
peradventure, has begun the tune. A
Boston preacher spoke TO the point last Sun
day when he said, Religion is not an i'm
practical affair, to be put on and off like
suit of clothes. When you say that minis.
ter who is called to his high and noble call
ing, ought not to take politics into the pull
pit, you must keep right on, to be consist
ent, and say he ought to say nothing about
social sins, sins against society, sins against
the home life. sins In commerce, sins in
amusements, sins i'm professional careers,
but turn his attention only to theology. 1t
seems really as though it were time to un-
derstand that minister's are men, that the
pulpit is thing of this life, for the purpose
of dealing with the affairs of this life. The
pulpit has to deal with life, and it should
not lose its grip on life If ever there was
need for the pulpit to begin crusade against
sin i'm politics. that day is here. When it is
necessary for us to get on our knees
and plead with officials sworn to defend and
enforce the laws, and they reply: DO it
yourself; it is not my business; when Con-
gress will spend thousands of dollars in try
ing to lay pipe for coming election, in
stead of doing its duty; when the
saloon, which has not single reason
for its existence, but an eternity of facts
and truths against it, shapes our laws and
rules i'm our politics; when men must buy
their way into Office by money and pledges
which. COMPEL silence on questions which |
partan to the uprooting of vice and the
bringing in of virtue; when the rum-soaked |
and criminal misrule of our large cities is a
matter of comment the world over it is time
for the pulpit to join with the fearless press
and speak against the cursed thing until for |
very shame darkness gives place to light. |
When sin has been driven out of politics |
the question can be eliminated from the pull |
pit. 1t has to deal with sin in all its |
ramlfcations, and it can never stop until
the dawn of righteous rule bids its lips be
stiled." All honor to Dominic Parkhurst
Let this thing go on until New York and
Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, and
all the rest of our large cities are freed from
misrule. And let all the people say Amen.