The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-12-01
Just as l Am.

/: Just as / Am. !:
Do you know what I think? No?
Perhaps you care less. Cuts no ice
what your opinion may be. I am of
the opinion that there are just lots of
church, people in this day and gener-
alton who are actually stumbling
blocks to the worlds religious prog
ress. They are just like whole lot
OF old pine stumps, that are in the way
OF the clearing process. Reason?
Plain as the nose on your face. They
are denominationally hidebound, in
fact so awfully afflicted this way that
a part of their circulation is checked.
You can see these hidebound critters
most anywhere you are mind to go.
They really feel as if they were the
Lords selects who are to pass judg-
ment on the rest of mankind; but alas.
how greatly disappointed they will be
when they alight from the elevator at
the gates of Zion and find there are
no reserved seats for them and that
1.-THE little church around the cornern
is just as good as the marble edifce
or the brown stone front. or the
pressed brick structure. Every ones
religion is or ought to be sacred
matter and something with which the
world has no business to NEEDLE. but
the trouble is that so many mistake
creed or dogma for religion, and 90
about petting and nursing their creed
and gloryfying ''our church, in about
the same manner that a Chinaman
worships an idol. In some respects
they are practically no better than
the idol worshippers. The world is
thirsting for true Christian liberalism,
and for that brotherhood of man that
amounts to and means more than
merely a pretty sentiment expressed
| at the banquet board. Down with
barriers, down with clannishness, both
social and religious for that matter.
Cast aside the stumbling blocks and
make way for true human progress.
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/ A bureau of information. That
covers the whole ground, landscapes
and all. If you ever want to seek
information just tackle an old bureau
that has been in use a number of
years. Its contents will stagger a
blind pig, and discount an old Curl
osity shop one hundred per cent. Any
thing from pin to a.sportrait can be
turned up and down. Old print
selections, letters, discarded false
teeth. camphor, family records, baby's
rubber doll, post-style and out-grown
garments, letters and documents of all
kinds, smelling salts, and a list of
articles too numerous to mention.
What collection! '
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Error is written in letters of scarlet.
while right is written in white ink. At
least you would think so to hear some
people walk about the earth comment
ing on and magnifying error. I
have been within the shadow of the
sanctum and printing Office number
of years and have observed those ill.,
proportional specimens of humanity
who always see the errors while they
pass over truth and the right like a
lot of scared sheep. I warn you
look out for the fellow who always
sees error and lets his big, red, flannel
mouth loose.
have no time for the woman who
wears a pair of male trousers and.
mind you, keeps close in touch with
the tailor's style. You may have
noticed her many times in your
travels, for she is found wherever the
human race congregates. have lot
of sympathy for the poor man who in
an unguided moment led his trouser-
wife to the altar or the justice of the
peace. It's all right if fellow knows
what he is getting, but, alas, if he
lives to find it out some day. I am
not saying word about the plucky,
Woodworking woman who because of
an indolent, old soak of husband,
or a wife beaten, is forced to run
domestic affairs. All honor to such
a woman. She has an awful burden
to carry through this world. In
the survival of the 6ttest the human
hogs and brutes seem to have great
staying powers.
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How comforting it is to see people
grow old and not try to defeat Nature
by resorting to all kinds of artificial
devices to make themselves look
young, and who accept the decree of