The record-union., 1895-03-11

into which there entered no ray of light.
To live in the full enjoyment of good
liver, to possess and use faculties of ordi-
nary power, to hear and see and feel and
speak, make it absolutely impossible for
any man To pass through life attending
absolutely to his own business. 1t is a
natural craving for an unnatural some
thing which keeps US poking and prying
and medjling and messing with our
neighborS' affairs. "Nobody's business
is every body's business" says the old
saw, and the old sawyer was right. And
there are a thousand motives which
prompt us to look little after the affairs
OF our friends and enemies and discuss
them. representation is one; that is,
protection of selfish interests. If body
engages in any sort of labor, muscularsor
mental, plebian or professional, he will
find that he can't go along minding his
own business. He will unconsciously
| tread on some other body's corns, which
have been trodden before, and still other
bodies will tread on his corns, and there
will be three bodies asking each other, in
outraged tones, why they can't mind their
own business.
To do good work in the Lords vine
yard the laborer must mind everybody's
business, and 1t is a good thing for him if
the sanclty of his calling affords protec-
ton from those whose sinful corns are
very, very tender; but there is one class
of men who are oftener than any other
class told to mind their own business,
whose efforts to do good meet with less
appreciation, who are considered by the
sinners and silurians the pest of the
earth, because they are forever holding
up shams and exposing evil, and knock
ing down Pecksniffs, and stirring the
depths of society until the pollution and
corruption of 1t SINNERS to the top.
They are cursed and maligned, and yet
they go on without fear or hesitation, and
the words that flow from their pens and
are given to the world through the edi-
torlal columns are concerning every
body business, and every body profits by
them, and swears at them because they
are faithful laborers in the worlds vine
yard.
The ajority of the sO-callad Christians
| of to-day are heathens. Recent events,
in which religion has played a principal
part, and in which certain active parts
were taken for religious principle, have
provoked the above statement, which,
being entirely my own, is, in my Opin-
ION, correct. Christian, [ believe, is q
follower OF Christ, not merely human
being who has renounced savagery and
paganlsm ana accepted the Bible as the
W ord OF God; man who lives in imita-
ton OF the example of Christ. How
many of the Christians Of the present
time practice daily Christianity? How
many are there who are willing to admit
that any road which leads to heaven, be
II Methodism, Unitarianism, Roman Ca
tholicism or any other ism, is not suffi-
ciently good for the weary pilgrim?
Christianity, seemingly, has faded
much, and the manifestations OF its pres
ence in the hearts Of the Christians of to-
day appears more of the shadow than the
substance. We have forgotten the old
scripture, and have excused the forget
ting with the old axiom: "IemDOYa Dl2t-
tdHtitr, ct nos ntltamlT IN lLIS" We
have ceased 10 worship God direct: we
worship now only His gifts-we have
taken Gods gifts and enacted idols. We
are drifting back into heathenism, little
more learned, a little more aristocratlc, a
little more inclined to think that when
we appear before the judgment seat God
Will look at our bapk-DOok and give us a
check for reserved seat in the dress
circle.
And It's all mess, this multiplicity of
ways and means of getting to heaven. The
Christian who VOWS that no man shall de-
liver lecture contrary to his own belief
is dragons tooth, and, like the dragons
teeth In the fable, they shall war together
and eXtermlnate each other. There is
only one way to worship God, and every
man on earth follows that way according
TO his times and the condition of his
mind, but he who tries to force others to
do as he does, believe as he believes.
preach as he breaches, will have truth
or TWO to learn. AS the civilized world
exists at present, IL Will not be easy for
man to scourge his fellow-man into a
change of heart, nor would it be advisable
Tor the people of other cities to follow in
the footsteps OF Savannah.
Bills after bills, covering almost all the
points Of the human compass, have been
brought before the legislators OF the
country, and yet there Is one bill that I
have not seen mentioned in the papers
perhaps because no such bill has ever
been framed, or, II 1t has been, because
the bill, II made law, would knock out
a little profit in amulutude OF journals.
L would like very much to see the pub
Acatlon OF quack advertisements unlaw-
ful and punishable by a heavy fine AS
things are now, it is unlawful for any
person 10 send obscene literature through
the mails or have it in possession, but il
Is not unlawful Tor papers to accept and
puDiiSh advertisements for quack doe
tors, who reap a harvest from the unso-
phIsucated by making them believe that
the natural heaIthtulness of youth ia a
/ horrible symptom of a dreadful fate The
advertised cures for premature old age
nave maze more men prematurelY old
than any other means. The credulitv OF
the young and inexperienced is PLAYED
upon by quacks with immense NJ. i. IS.
which oftener signify Messenger of Death
than Doctor of Medicine. The harm that
/ Is wrought by these vampires is incalcu-
liable. false testimonials, which are IL
lustrated by false pictures, are given, and
IN many cases letter addressed to the
I person who is supposed to have been
/ cured is received and answered by the
/ quacks themselves.
/ Again such advertisements ara not
decent They are not the sort of litera-
ture one would like to bring into his
own home to be read by his children. In
one issue OF paper which pretends to be
family Journal, l counted twenty-seveD
of these obscene advertisements, and the
greater part Of themwere illustrated with
hIdeouS cuts Of men who had ruined
. themselves. And yet we do not often see
such horrible, ghastly caricatures OF hu-
manIty IN real life, and when we do meet
them we can generally discover that thew
were born mentally or physically incom-
peteut, or had passed through the hands
OF the qua0ks. 4. Y. HoFFMAS,
y Fly in the Beer.
If a fly drops into a beer glass. saws
FhcgeHde Bt0etteT, one who has made a
study of national characteristics can
easily tell the drinkers nationality bv
his action.