Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-11-02

if you return non-committal answer, a
acknowledging being will announce that
he has settled it in his own mind like this :
and then proceeds to unfold plot that
makes the blood run cold in your VEINS
and chills the marrow in your bones. AS
he Celebrates his theory, the listeners
hair, whatever its previous style OF dress
ing, is apt to arrange itself la Pomp idour
and obstinately affect that fashion to the
end OF the tale, while his eyes protrude
from their sockets until they push the
glasses off from his nose. Though lar
from nervous ordinarily, he quits wo k an
hour earlier then usual in order to reach
home before dark for fear his wife may
have heard the story and feel airaid-so he
says. But when two people, each with a
different but perfectly logical explanation
of the occurrence, meet, the sound OF
clashing opinions can be heard for quite
distance. Each tries to prove the fallacles
of the others theory while clinging stub
bornly to his own, and both work them
Ives into great state Of excitement be-
fore they finally consent to separate, beng
mutually agreed only that it is utterly i'm
possible to reason with some people.
Every now and then some pastoral voice
SCUM a note of warning with regard to
church cordiality and, while to all appear
ances the warning is sadly needed, appar-
emily it is rarely if ever needed The
rather peculiar lack of cordially that
seems to be characteristic of so many
DO lies of Christians strikes with a most
depres ing effect upon the stranger who
ventures within the modern temples to
worship. Whether he is a member in good
and regular standing of the church which
he frequents or poor sinner hesitatingly
seeking the way of truth, his existence is
recognized on'y by an usher, who per-
functorily shows him to seat and leaves
him to work out his own salvation unaided
and unhindered. If he accomplishes this
much-to- be-desired object in spite of the
benumbing influences of the icy atmos-
phere in which he gropes for light through
the mist of his own breath, there may be
ejo;cing in heaven, but the saints on
earth will show only the most polite indif-
ference. They will favor him with Gu
rious stare once in while, and ask each
other behind their hymnbooks who he can
possibly be, but as for putting forth the
slightest effort to make him feel at home in
the Household of Faith" they never will
They have their own little circles of ac-
quaintances and no time to devote to "all
these new people," to whom it is strictly
the pastors business to attend This style
of treatment is of course calculated to
make newcomer feel all the repose of
manner exh bited by cat in strange
garnet, and under these circumstances he
is very likely to become constant CHI arch
goer. The poor man is apt to ascribe the
general aloofness to his poverty, and has
been known to opine bitterly that if the
poor Gennesaret fishermen should return to
earth unhera ded and unknown they would
be completely ignored by the majority of
the church memb rs. In reality poverty,
or position, has but little to do with this
lack of church cordially, which is princi-
pally due to lazy Indifference, conspicu-
ously absent in those dens of iniquity that
are crowded to the doors.