The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-28

on IUOk weary, libpetIS, aim -"
keeping Lent too strictly!'
"Yes; my wife has let the nurse go
home for rest, and the baby is sleeping
with us"
The st. Louis Christian Advocate says
that 16 to /, so far as the church is con-
cerned. means: sixteen men loafng on
the streets, talking politics on prayer
meeting evening to one found at the
prayer-meeting.
One would think that the carpet-bag-
ger and scallawag days are fast return
ing if they would stop and think who
now have charge and are running the pie
counter of the radical machine in this
city and county Some of the ring lead
ers then are the same ring leaders now.
Wilmington Messenger.
A number of papers of interest to
Methodism have been discovered lin two
boxes at the Wesleyan Conference office
in London. Among them are forty-four
letters of John Wesley to his brother
Charles. and eighty by Selma. Countess
of Huntingdon. the founder of the sect
known as the Countess of Huntingdon's
Connection. written to Charles Wesley.
John Horrigan, known as Praying
john" of Ellis, Kan, has made it
practice for many years TO go out on the
prairie at sunrise and at sunset, no mat
ter what the weather or season or his
condition of health, and there to offer up
prayer His knees have worn away the
turf and hardened the soil at the place
of his devotions.
A curious feature of the controversy
over the story of Jonah and the whale Is
the assertion of so many clergymen that
the Bible nowhere refers TO the fish as a
whale. whereas in the twelfth chapter
and fortieth verse of ST Matthew are
these words of Christ: ''For as Jonah
was three days and nights in the whale
belly" etc Doubtless this is a faulty
translation: but such as it is, it must
be authoritative for average readers who
do not know the original
The Last Resort.-The Young Parson
Il tell you | am discouraged, sir. | don
seem to stir up a bit Of enthusiasm III
my parish. They listen to me in sort
of perfunctory way, but l know IN max
ing little or no impression on them
What can | do
The Old Parson-There is just one
thing left for you, after you have tired
everything else.
And what is that?
Pitch into Jonah's whale.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
All the Same.-At one of our large
North Country churches recently, fash
al 90 rntf
one of the private pews.
The verger. who is known TO be a very
stern old chap, Immediately hustled up
to her and said
'.I'm afraid miss, you'll haze 70 cum out
O. that: this is a pail pew
"Sir" said the young lady. turning
sharply around, do you know who |
am? I'm one of the Flies"
II dinna care" said the old man, ''if
YOU are the big drum you'll haze to cum
."-Edinburgh Scotsman.
Mr.. VIM Il. Curtis writes from Wash |
ington TO the Chicago Record ''The
President is evidently a little bit nervous
about the effect Of the Dingley bill upon
the future of the Republican party. He
has spoken to several callers on the sub
iact but has been very cautious in his
criticism. and what he has said has been
more in the way of inquiry than com
ment He asked a member of the House
Yesterday how the bill was received in
his district.
"Do the people in your part of the
country think the duties too high?"
Most decidedly" was the response
Have you talked to Dingley about it?"
eyes. but you might as well talk to a
stone"