The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1899-11-11
The Church and the. Cigar.

AilOuHh IL may meet Wltl ulSlp-
probation from some good church peo-
pie there is much to be commended in
the opposition of Il minister at Meeker,
Cole. to give series of smokers
during the coming winter. There APP
ipears to be considerable amount of
practical religion in the plan. The
Stiarch of today gets too far away from
the individual, in many instances. 1t
Is not near enough to the human heart
to hear its beating and to understand Its
wants. The church lacks that sympathy
which is necessary to draw the people to
1t and thereby accomplish the good
which is its mission. Long distance
theology fails to reach the heart, how
ever strongly it may appeal to the brain
Men are not urged to goodness by cold
argument alone. Logic may convince
them, but it requires something more to
make them live in accordance with the
convictions thus derived. A touch OF
the emotional must be added-not the
Irrational emotion of an excitement
that deprives them of their faculties of
4 reasoning and leaves them in state OF
religious intoxication, which must pass
of, but the healthy emotion that height
ems their judgment of what is right IN
conduct.
Whatever may be the hygienic OBJ
jections to the use of tobacco. it is GER
tain that cigar creates comradeship.
Men somehow get closer to each other
under the curling smoke. 1t may breed
| physical disease in some cases, but 1t
mikes for good fellowship a unison of
heart and mind. 1t is one of natures
Itouches that makes US akin.
The psfnister Of the gospel WHO can
asSabhsh camaraderie between him
self and the men whom he wishes to in
fuence has accomplished half his object.
II be has FIRST brought himself in touch
with them he will find them much more
receptive. They feel that he is human
like themselves, and therefore they will
give greater heed to what he has to say
to them.
The Meeker minister will find that he
can reach and move more hearts in a
single evening through the companion
ship created BY a fragrant Havana than
he can in month of sermons from the
puIpit.-Denver Times.
| THE minister referred to in the above
d our popular Little Minister" Rev.
Handel of st. James church.
| The British army in South Africa, 1t
teems, has failed in one of the most es-
sential respects. 1t requires the pres
ence there Of some gentlemen who un-
herstard the most marked attributes OF
tbe mule, and who understand how to
reason with that mule when he becomes
impenitent, and how to circumvent his
plans when he takes on certain i'm
pulse to visit the hills of the near vicin-
ity and to 60 ahead at double quick and
to carry, IL needs be, along with him
any little thing like ammunition wagons
or batteries of artillery. Chicago was
burned by the exploits Of widows
COW, and 1t seems battle was lost-two
regiments and battery of artillery
captured-simply through the idiosyn-
cracies of a mule He has done such
things before; he is liable to again. and
the only way to check him is to have
over him an intelligent superior to his
own; = mind-reader that knows in ad-
vance what under certain circumstances
he will be sure to try to do. The British
government should make requisition
on Pike county, Missouri, for artists
who know how to entertain the long,
cared creatures when they are taking on
fixed ideas of deviltry and to divert
their attention by the same means that
doctors sometimes resort to, in order to
distract the attention of sick man by
applying a counter-irritant in direc-
ton opposite to that from which the
pain proceeds.-Salt Lake Tribune.
New York lawyers lost some fat
fees when the Vanderbilt heirs decided