The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-07
TALKS AGAIN
He Rings the Changes on the Condi-
tiOn Of Smoke.
The Missionaries, He Thinks, Work Too
Far from Home.
WANTS EN- TO COME FROM CHINA

@n ~ SO"C hO" Univ
And Try Their Hands on Some of the FraiI
and Fall In Ones Round About
This Classic City.
But good my brother.
Do not, as some ungraciOus pastors do.
Show one the steep and thOrny way to heaven
Whilst, like a puffd and reckless hbertine.
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede."
IN HAMLET
Our individual opinion, in regard to
certain fakes and frauds, may not be
worth as much to political helots and the
rabble generally, as would be an Ophir
gold mine-rubies and diamonds are Do
verbally valueless to swine and idiots
nevertheless, the logic Of homeless facts
carry the balance of power in their favor
and the proposition remains the lawless
gem of brightest ray. 1t is a familiar,
and at the same time hackneyed ques-
ton Of the moralist and would be re-
former, that we live in an age of excit-
ing wickedness that if it were not for a
few of those same precious saints, scat
tered at random among the vast horde of
reprObates, the pathetic fate of Sodom
a I'd Gomorah would be ours in short
order. On the other hand, we are told
by the advocates of a different creed
those who view things from a plastic
standpoint-that this is the period for
which the seers and prophets, of the i'm
mediate post deluvian age, sighed their
of centuries away! Those who
monkey in the political arena, truckle to
the multitude with an idolatry worthy
of success, were. it not for ~hypocricy so
glaringly apparent to those whom they
debauch. Then there is another
clique-soi disant christians, too-who,
with the t1attering JUNCTION of Bill Fife,
pray for the conversion of the heathern
N distant chimes supplicate an all-wise
luty to bless both them and theirs, and
yet tolerate hat gate of sheol-Smoky
In effect they say "Give us,
)mnipresent wisdom! grace to do thy
will, and deprive US not of Smoke, SUI
,remely divine Smoke !' Probably had
We lived in the prophetic age the mantle
If prophecy would have fallen upon our
houlders but then, our wisdom would
ave been lost to an unappreciative
World. We hold that prophets are hon
red only in their own country, alas
some celestial being, from glory's
beyond starry chaos, visit earth
n this the boosted nineteenth century of
hristian civilization and should that
iVine messenger have the audacity to
reach a doctrine which condemned the
idiosyncrasies as now practiced
Y some members Of the church militant
that misguided waif, though commits
toned by deity himself, would meet the
ate of the Great Jew, of the long ago
he meanderings of time must not touch,
or change u established institutions
re are wise in our bigoted conceit, as
ere the Pharisees in the day of Judas
'cariot-nOthing short of heaven in our
way,..and the scintillating beatitudes
f the Hollow. can, or would suffice the
lner cravings Of the average saint of
1t seems that our compatriots
ave devoted a good deal of time to the
udy Of the higher criticism otherwise,
puzzles US to keep up with the moral
les in their present shape, and still es-
lpe atheism. My christian friend, did
ever give the proposition a moments
If not, where are you at?
L. d. VANN. !
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a five room house and good stables
rye lot. W. r. Murray, Durham.