Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-03-29

hearing him say: "Lue. YOUR praye
is as good as the average, but, b
Jove, l didn't think it was in you. :"
Olympia Youth, (enamored of tn
daughter)-" l beg you for the han
of your daughter. l cannot live with
out her."
Olympia Pa" Glad to hear il
l can't live with her. Name the day
young man, and o Lord, let it b
Olympia Youth (backing off,
"Um-e-please give me time t,
reflect"
Rev. w. A. Stevenson, pastor O
Cherry Street Presbyterian Church
Seattle, in a sermon headed Les
sons of the Thaw Trial." recent,
said:
Poor Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw! l d,
not know whether to pity or censure tn,
child. She was but the victim of he
mothers cupidity and mems playthin;
for the hour. Maidens, beware of tn,
smooth-tongued, well-dressed, too-nic,
fiatterers. They will work your wreck
and ruin. Permit advances only from
one of your own plane, and nearly you
own age. Let all others wait till yot
have weighed we'll their motives.
Sow thought and reap an act;
Sow an act and reap a habit;
Sow habit and reap q character;
Sow a character and reap a desliny.'"
Mothers, cut this paragraph out
and have your daughter read it; COM
init it to memory. 1t is q warning,
and a truthful one.
IN take a sailor along with me
the next time l buy marine paint.
Ing" said an Olympia citizen the
other day. {" 1 bought two pictures
recently, and yesterday my old friend
Captain Monroe had q look at them,
and said: by ginger, in the first
picture we've got trading schooner
in charge of a tug towing away from
q rock-bound coast through a fearful
tumble of sea. The schooner's main
top must be gone, and all sails are
lowered except her stay-sail, which
is kept hoisted, though she is towing
head-on to the gale. Why that hoist
ed staysail? All hands, suppose,
are drunk" In the second pic
ture," continued Captain Monroe,
the principal boat, an eigteen-foot.
er, is racing, yet has no flag flying.
That's as incorrect as it would be
for you to go to dinner party minus
a shirt. The crew of this boat are
getting in the spinnaker, and, il
they lower away, both spinnaker
and boom will be in the water, for
they have neglected to let the boom
go forward. But know what the
trouble is with them. They, too,
are drunk"
Even the church has its sensations.
The latest is DR.. DOwnes' declara-
tion from a Wesleyan pulpit, that he
believes in period of probation af-
ter death, and that before he dies he
means to drag this subject before the
Methodist Church. To tell q con.
gregation that he does not believe
that man 8 eternal destiny is fixed at
death is like q theological bolt from
the blue. The Rev. DIR. Downes is
the editor of Great Thoughts, a publ
cation known near and far, and re-
sides in London, England. He told
the congregation, before whom he
made the above statement, which
was in q sermon on God is Love, ~
that no man would be damned etern-
ally without q chance, no man would
be lost until he had had the revela-
tion of Christ's body and of Christ's
atonement. No man will be lost,
he added, until he has looked Him
in the face and said, / will not have
Thee" DIR. Downes had not, he
said, come to this conclusion with
out having thought and agonized
about it for years, but he was firmly
of the opinion that the great hope
was in the belief that the reforming
and mediatorial work of Christ was
continued in the unseen world.
y y \
Two Pictures-Which 10 the Orifinal?
A Tacoma minister declares that hell
is a place Of strong drink, tobacco, base
ball, theaters and peak-a-boo waists.
80, Death, where is thy sting ?"-
Walla Walla Union.-P.-I.
A Kansas editor says that minister
declares hell is place of strong drink,
tobacco, baseball, theaters and peek-a-
boo waists, and asks: "Oh, Death,
where is thy sting?"-Er.
The Kansas editor may be altogether
too sanguine. If these things are clear
ly in view, they may be Inaccessible,
and that would be nearly H-ades, as
all sinners will admit.-WAsHINaroN
STANDARD.
If q Kansas editor wrote the above,
how is it the paragrapher of the
Walla Walla Union palms it off as
original? Anyway we challenge the
Union to produce its proof as to the
declaration being made by q Tacoma
minister.