Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-17
4nmrnaI aud Gumrfer,
The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
 lished In Connecticut.
WHERE CAN SHE COZ

WHERE CAN SHE cor
 Wintersville, Ohio, is all torn up this
 spring. There is glorious revival of re-
 ligicn in the Methodist church there. The
 efforts of the Rev. Mr. Newlin have been
 wonderfully blessed. Many have seen the
 error of their ways and have found peace
 in believing. Backsliders have slid back
 into the church, and there has been gen.
 eral glow of religious excitement. But the
 warmth of the Wintersville revival has
 experienced Q chill and it's brightness
 has been darkened by shadow. The
 chill and the shadow have come be-
 cause of the action of several inmates of
 the county infrmary. They knew they
 were sinners, and they wanted to be saved.
 They were told that salvation was free, that God was no respeeter of persons, and
 that all they had to do was to repent and
 believe. They "wsIs forward" at one of the meetings and followed the directions. They were apparently saved, but their salvation, which, according to the bible, was rejoiced over in heaven, has made trouble in Wintersville, Ohio. Some of the people who are not obliged to live in the county infirmsry objsot to being saved with those who are, and one ''lady" has calmly and firmly remarked that she doesn't associate with paupsrs here and doesn't want to hereafter.
 This "lady" knows what she wants. If she goes to heaven she wants to find good society there. It wouldn't be heaven to her unless she did She hasn't yet lived in g poorhouse or an inirmary, and she doesn't mean to. She looks upon those who do live in such places as unfit to live on the same earth with her or to enjoy the same heaven. She doesn't sse how God can consider them in any way con- nected with her, and her idea appears to be that if he does she will feel obliged to decline whatever invitations to go to heaven may be extended to her by any of his agents. It cannot be denied 1 that she has 8 clear idea of what | is due her, but 1t looks as if she had taken her position without that careful thought which so important 8 | decision as she has made seems to require. | If she has read her bible she must know | that the paupers of earth, who do not | move in good society here, may move in the best society of heaven. It all de- | penda on their moral and religious quality, and not on their money, their airs and | their clothes. And the plain intimation is | that the good society of heaven may not l be chiefly composed of those who figure in | the 1owly, the poor in spirit, and those | who are more particular about being good | than on securing the approval of the good society of earth are the ones that appear to have the best outlook for entrance into the | good society of heaven.
 So if this Wintersville "lady" goes to | heaven she will probably be compelled to associate there with some who didn't have enough to sat and wear while here below. | We doubt if even the meek and lowly | founder of the Christian religion came up | to her standard while on earth. It Is quite | probable that he would have been scorned | by the good society of Wintersville, Ohio, sven as he was by the good society of | those among whom he lived and worked. It was the common people who heard him gladly, and most of his followers were poor and plebeisn. We don't really see what the | 'lady" is going to do or | where she is going to go. We do not think | the society in heaven will suit her, and | some irreverent person has said | that all the best company is going the | other way, she would probably not think | it good form to openly associate with dev- Ills. Possibly she won't have her way about 1t, although she now evi- l dently intends to. But wherever 1 she goes or dossn't go, her attitude is a bold, an honest and au interesting one. It is the attitude really held by of her Christian sisters, who want nothing to do with their ''infsriors" iu this world or any other. Perhaps they won't be obliged to have any thing to do with their 'InfeIiors" in heaven, but if the bible Is true they are likely to be surprised by their own rank, or lack of rank, in the good society of that glorious place.