The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-28
SENATOR BRICE'S FAMILY,
There Was no Sunday Musicale
Statement from the Old
Presbyterian Banner"

The regular Washington CORES.
pondent of the Presbyterian Banner
Of Pittsburg Pa, the oldest religious
newspaper published, contains the fol
lowing statement of general interest
There are some correspondents fo1
the press who apparently find great
comfort in being sensational, and
Washington is encountered With a
number OF these. Some do not hesi-
tate to falsify rather than report the
truth: they are sensational to an ex-
treme, even to the sacrifice, of facts.
My attention has just been called to
sensational letter in the Chicago
Sunday Herald of January 81, writ
ten by their correspondent in this city,
and which appeared in more than one
edition of the issue of that date. The
tenor of this sensational article leads
the reader to the conclusion sthat the
author, while professedly alarmed at
the desecration of the Sabbath by
what he calls ''the society crazed peo-
pie in town. 2 willingly takes the lib
erty to state thing which is not true.
He took the occasion to say that SEN
1ator CALVIN S. Brice, of Ohio, and his
estimable wife, had issued cards of in
vitatlon to their friends to attend a
musicale and dance at their residence
on last Sabbath evening. 1t is suffic-
lent to say that have no less author
ity than Senator Brice himself, for the
statement that he and Mrs. Brice, and
their daughters, neither give nor ac-
cept invitations for Sabbath, and that
this bas been their rule in the past
and will continue to be their rule in
the future. That the Senator and his
wife have adopted rule against en-
tertainments of this kind or any simi-
liar to it ON Sabbath, is not surprising
when it is remembered that the Jun
ior Senator from Ohio is the son of
Presbyterian minister, and that his
home training was Of the best, His
father was for many years during his
life reader of the Presbyterian Ban
ner whose columns have always spoken
distinctly in defense of the Sabbath.
1t is worth while Just here to re-
mind your readers, s,of how right royal
ly Mr.. and Mrs. Brice entertained in
their residence the several commission
ers to the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church, and their ladies,
in 1898. This was such a beautiful
and kindly act, planned and conduct
ed on a brilliant and elaborate scale,
that the commissioners went away de-
lighted with the cordial treatment
which they received in the Senator's
Washington home. While the pastors
and officers of our churches cordially
welcome members Of Congress. who
attend more OF less upon the services,
it is at the same time saying among
them that little reliance can be had
upon these gentlemen, as rule. for
pecuniary help, in the way Of pew !
rants or contributions. There are :en:
eeptions, of course, ald Senator Brice
is !. one Of these, a fact interesting to !
the church going people of the Cap
itai.f l. -
No man in, public life has grown in
popular esteem more steadily than
Senator .Bsiee. !Wheh>he was elected
.otthe Senate from Ohio be was known
IS 2 phenomenally successful business, !,
nan, who had amaised large fortune,
n an incredibly short time. He now
'anks among the leading men Of. the