Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-09

Up on one or HE sermons.
LAS VEGAS, N. M, December
2nd. 1894.
Rev. H.. J. H--y:
Dear Sir--I listsnad with CONSIDER
able interest to your sermon of last
Sunday, Ia which the home life of the
Claypool family was a prominent
feature. l also listened with much in
to your remarks about the evil
influence which a certain class OF story
papers exert upon the younger men,
bers OF tho household, and | accept as
true all that you said about those
papers. l also agreed with what you
said about the absolute necessity which
exists for parents to furnish good and
wholesome reading for their children,
but II you expect that boys and girls
OF from ten to sixteen years Of age will
be interested, to any great extent, 10
some Of the class OF papers which You
call s'church papers, you will Ger.
tainly be disappointed.
A copy Of the New York Christian
Aduocdte was handed me as I was
passing out Of the church, and I have
examined it, honestly and carefully, in
order Il ascertain just what it contains
that would be interesting and instruc.
tive to . boy or girl Of the age l have
mentioned, and since my examine
ton Of the paper, l have no hesitation
in saying, there il not a single article
in that particular number Of the Adro-
cate that would interest young persons
OF the age named. Please look through
the paper with me, and then judge
whether my opinion in regard to the
Adcocate is correct or not:
Page ! is wholly editorial matter
and not one of the subjects treated
would interest young persons.
Page Q: "Criticising Cod" "The
Sky Changed" "Frightful Leak. I"
"a Canard Exposed" ssAppeal with
Reason 1.-THE Holy Communion
"The Rising Tide ct Too much Faith"
misleading Repentance"
Page s.: "Notable Culminations."
"Deaths of Prominent Divines." Gam
of the General Missionary Com
mittees." "Who Wrote the first Four
Of MosesP" Four columns to
prove that Moses wrote them,-some-
thing that few persons who think for
now believe.
Page 4: 1.-THE Spiritual Life" two
,olumns, then "various Topics" A
ong discussion Of "Whether Women
hall be Eligible to the Electorate and
conference OF the M. e
Church." Two closely printed columns
II reading matter, in small type.
Pages 5 and 6: .Aunual meetings
# General Missionary Committees"
even columns, mostly small-typs read
ng matter.
Page Z: "The Christian Life,' or
Experience OF Methodist Ministers of
he Last Century"
Page 8: "About certain ministers
vho preached on certain days" elm
notice to pastors and Sunday
chool officers, reduction in price OF
he Berean lessons for 1885" "An-
liversary OF the American Sunday
school Union" "Epworth League
Young persons might
be interested in this last SUBJ
ect, ifthey happened to be Methodists
Page 81: metropolitan District"
"A Snow Festival" Then follow
lotices of, or references to-, about a
lozen M. E. churches near New York
1ity. Then several similar notices
bout the churches OF the middle states.
Page 10: Ths whole page taken up
nth notices in reference to the church
8 in Nav England, the west and the
outh. "Deaconesses," "Orphanage,"
Corner Stone Laying Educational
York in I~adiana,n and "The Indus
rial Christian ALI lance"
Page IL: missionary Experiences
. North China" "The Sunday
chool Lesson for December 2nd,
followed by one and a half
ages Of obituary notices.
Page IL: "Literature," that is,
ook reviews, or criticisms of new
ooks, closing the page with over two
of 'sads
Page IS: "Wise and Otherwise
II brief extracts, jokes that are sup
osed to be funny and witty. Are
leyP Here il q sample: Mr.. Podg.
II see that old hen just come out
the cellar, what has she been doing
own therep" Mrs. Podgers sf guess
les been laying In coal y The rest
the page is "ads" one and ons-half
in length, from s.Pearline"
''Ivory Soap" to the swell Bred
irl in Society" to appear in the La
es' Home Journal.
Page IA: "Health,n one and one.
columns. The rest OF the page
ads"
Page Is: "Drainage Of Highways"
The Law on the Subject" followed
house and farm articles. such as
Storage and Marketing Cabbage"
Feeding of Bees" show to
approve Bad Butter" followed by
o and one-half columns of "ads," !
osing the page vita some "Recipas 2
Page Is, the last: "Brief summary :
the news of the week." preceding |
8 day of publication. This "Sum- |
.ry," followed by three columns Of
'ds," beginning with "Royal Baking Z
wder'' and ending with "Carpets.'
Now, Brother HI, il you will
out q single article in the number
the Aduocatc that was given me, with Y
} possible exception Of the "Eoworth
ague Thanksgiving,' that will inter-
, instruct or entertain young persons, :
I'LL be very grateful to you. l fully \,
with you that parents ought to al
nish good. wholesome, instructive, p
reading mAttar for their II