The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-26
Tr1E 11n1Es: RICHMOND "a. SUNDAY. AUGUST 26 1900.

MOND VA. SUNDAY
ed to resign. Pastor Hindman was Torn
cry Republican, but latteriy ne n l,;
followed Mr. Rryan's leadership IN p ,o,la
TICS. a majority of the congregatio ton M
majority OF the people of Lincoln. ~
Republicans, but it is denied that politics
has entered into the church.
MT. BrSan's name has not been cor
aected with the controversy in ps
spllal way, but friends of DR.. H1iluiii'.ti
believe Mr.. Bryan will champion his pas
tors retention
Tar as can be learned are worldlinesS az
lack of proper attention to pastoral o''-
Ties. bnt no specifications are gwen
Mark Twain. who will soon return TO MS
home in Hartford. Conn, thus, answers
friend. who asked him if he did not ENJOY
travelling: NO: I don't | do 1t tor the
sake of my family If I had my way / q
settle in one spot and never move IN lact,
I can't understand how any writer can pc
persuaded to move of his own accord Old
bi;fiyan was in luck when they threw MN
into prison. If l had been in his place
they'd never have got me out
Augustus st. Gaudens. the famous sculp-
tor, is III in the Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston. He has been there for
about a month. having come from Paris in
July to have an operation performed. MI
St Gaudens left this country ABOUT a year
and q half ago TO devote his time almost
exclusively to the work OIL MAKING the
great equestrian statue of General sher-
man, the commission for which he received
several years ago. The statue IS now
practically finished and the model OF it IS
on view in the Paris E.xposition.-New
York Sun.
a Chincoteague correspondent OF the
PHILADELPHIA Record relates the following:
While Lottie and Willie Racer. aged four
and five. respectively, were playing IN
field near their fathers house yesterday
a big bald eagle swooped down upon them
The little boy pluckily tried to defend his
sister. but the bird fastened its taions III
the little girls dress and started away with
her
The thin material of Lottie's white frock
gave way under the strain and she feii
about twelve feet to the ground, stunned
but not seriously hurt.
At that moment the father OF the chill
dren was running shouting to their rescue,
and the eagle took flight
Some wears ago a man ran UP a OIL OF
5000 in the fremont House, Chicago, and
then ran away without setting 1t. Inc
trunk which remained in his room was
unusually heavy, and when opened dltei
his departure was found to contain Specl-
mems Of ore, brought from the gold and
silver mines of Colorado. where, presum-
ably. he had lost all his money. After
waiting out the legal time Mr.. Gage sent
the contents of the trunk to an assayer,
who returned two bits of metal valued at
more than 500 in excess of the bill, after
deductinS his own fees.
OUR RELIGIOUS CONTEAEPORA-
RIES.
The inspiratio of the Scriptures is an
essential dogma of the Christian faith.
Our Lord used it as weapon of defense
against Satan in the
INSPIRATION OF wilderness. 1t IS
THE SCRIPTURES. written is our
shield in the hour
of temptation Arguments in contradic-
ton of revealed truth may sometimes ap-
pear overwhelming. and beyond our ca
pacity to refute. 1t is a timely refuge to
remember that the alternative is utter
s1senticsm Christianity discrcdited IS
the extinction of hope.-Central Presby--
teran
That Sunday observance as it is pop
uarly called, is in more or less danger in
our country no careful reader of the
papers and observer
DESEC RATION OF of current events Will
THE SABBATH. deny. In fact, III
many parts Of our
country it may hardly any longer be
spoken of as Tin danger" for it has near
Nv passed away as a public institution y
few wears ago men spoke hippantly OF the
puritan Sabbath as an unpleasantness.
if not an evil, and now and then some be-
lated waderer in the fields OF information,
or some Rip Van Wrinkle, just rousing
from his protracted slumbers. will stu use
the expression as though it applied to
something now in existence. But if there
be such thing as puritan Sabbath
lingering in our land anywhere. 1t is care
fully hiding itself away in some secret
and secluded corner and waiting: judi
ciously. for more propitiors occasion for
displaying itself In its place there has
come something very different, and up
parently of no kin to it-a Sunday that
is largely given over to pleasure, eXcur-
sions. diversions of many kinds. and N
some places even to commonplace ana
hard work.
And Christian people. to a very large eX-
tent seem crriously slow to take in the
fun significance OF such change as this:
what it means to Christianity and the
Church They seem to fail to recognize
that in certain way the work of the
Christian Church and the observance of
Sunday stand or fall together. lnroad
after inroad is made on the sacred cher
acter OF the day, and not a word is sad
or a protest entered. Papers that cry
sshorror and destruction if some state
or municipality make miserable little
approximation to some starving local char-
ity will see this awful desecration going
steadily on and utter not word IN He-
| Tense of the cause Of the Lords day
Southern Churchman.
There are certain technical terms of the
olosy very repulsve. We hear it from the
| lecture desk that God loves men with the
love OF "compiacency.'
| ."rHEY MAKE And such stuff, when
| GOD A HON. the IlDle Is SfOdHill7