The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-05-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

QUIPS" BY "QUIZ."  A Constant Reader of this column was at the Haub y Tabernacle on Sunday morning, and heard a sermon which purported to be a discourse on 'God prospering the work of Hezekiah.' quiz dcn't know whether the preacher's name was Mills, and therefore can't tell anybody, but Constant Reader avers that the rev, or irreverend gentleman said much about one-handed folks, of course with a special reference to religious work; and also uttered a trifle on Sunday school teaching as a hobby. Quiz cannot swallow pills of some kinds, no matter what kind of a Mill makes 'em, especially if they cause a feeling that certain useful departments of religious labour are followed one-handed, as a hobby, and without the slightest sympathy with other equally important efforts in the same line. It is known that there are missions and "so-called Missionaries," home and foreign, but that they are necessarily opposed to the Ministry and onesided specialists, was a revelation left to be made in these days by Mr. or Rev. —. It is a queer bird that dirties its own nest, and there is no wonder that a "Reader" asks for evidence and instances in proof that Sunday school teachers, and home and town missionaries are specialists and opposed to the ministry and other kind of Christian work? Quiz is pleased to say that he cannot give a single instance; but then if statements are made, somebody making them should be able to substantiate them a little.  N.B.—How frequently do we see the most immoral and unbearable persons put on the cloak of pretended virtue and indignation when they avish to accomplish some wicked purpose or to encompass something that would not bear open scrutiny for a moment with honourable men ? How many times does history repeat itself in the evil machinations of men in their hellish designs in the worst form of cant and hypocricy—in the most poisonous and vicious arts under the cover of friendship? How often do we observe persons who, whilst claiming that they are only working for our good, stab us when they think they can do so without detection? These traits of human character stand forth as unexplainable, except upon the ground that the principle of life is represented by two faces—good and evil—and the class we have dew' ibed is of the latter face. It is impossible to believe the Great Sovereign Power was the author of such mean and despicable traits as we have in this district seen exhibited by several who think themselves men!  I thought he was a gentleman," said a friend of mine the other day, as he crammed a copy of a daily newspaper into the ctal scuttle, adding, but appearances are deceitful." My friend was right. It is not every man that parades the streets of Hanley ; bowing and scraping to each whipper-snapper he meets; shaking fists with, and unctuously patronising Conformity and Nonconformity alike; rofessing Liberal and Tory politics by turn; taking tea with dissenters nf the most pronounced views, and visiting Roulet° kiss the pavements, and returning with the cry, "Verily it is a holy city," de., de., whe is worthy to be called a gentleman. In an old •olume I have read that "A faithful witness will not lie; but a false witness will utter lies," and "lie that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth slander is a foci." In the same old book I also learn that "Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him ; when be speaketh fair believe him not for there are seven abominations in his heart." Verb. sap.  My old philosophic master. Khrizty Direr, Y.P.. sends me the followihg Spring Bios.  --- A stroke ov fun to sum men it at diskompozin as a stroke ov piralysis. A wan iz a fool to kommit suicide bekause he limit find work for wilin hands tu du. El tunes ar hard and wurk it none, let him enter the paradisical rejun or the tramp rather than the tartareau rejun of the devvl.  Nothin erthly must giv old 13eelselmb more real, genuwine, downrite pleasure than to git sum of those anile siners intu his bake oven. Now eckstaticAlly he must set his Lops to work koalin—no,sulphurin up, so as tu git the tetuperature up to a komfortable bite for the reception of the old eusscs. Ye gods! trot infinite pleasure it must be tu be a level when the krop or old imches and roues is large.  Mr.s ut-'em-all if people don't admire your And If your robe of many eolnrs do:. I , much lately " Quiz" e in't hip i ,  • .. • a,ya aud ‘vner,:otei t:tx . read .juips by Quiz and the • • ;dt rmine not to listen to tab, couerading honourably, for  • .tnd alaore all I,2lllember tLat "He deviseth to do evil .51.111 be called . . , person."