Year: 1875

Ugnify IN New York churches TOR an honest
and thorough revival Lavender kids are bad things
for wrestling match


Some Of the papers are discussing the elocution OF
| the pulpit So far have observed there rs no
such thing as eocuon In that particular spot 10 dis
cuss When We want hear good reading we 60 10 the
theatre; and when we need illustration OF all the
worst mannerisms combined listen to a clergyman
reading hymn The Bible isn't much OF book II you
Judge by the way in which most clergymen read il.
Read properly ought 20 start tears, but read with
draw il starts only yawn Ministers, al general
rule are the worst elocutionists in the community


Rev Mr. Savage promising Unitarian minister o
Boston, has made attack orthodoxy which
renders his appropriate. His logic Is peculiar.
He orthodox men, but hates their principles We
always thought that were the result OF their
principles but here is problem for theological nut
crackers How can system be false and the men
who represent il true' Az there's the rub, gentle
Savage


The example Of Moody and sankey seems to be
contagious In India the Christian natives have
formed "Kurrapucker Singing Society" Kurrapucker
is ideal name for whistling organization, and VIII
probably be borrowed by tho ambitious youth In our
Sunday schools This Hindoo society haa been very
successful in spite OF its In holding neghoorhood
meetings, and It's members have many hopeiui con-
versions as the result Of kurrapuckering III


Or. Parker, Of London, whom those or tho Alliance
will afectonatey remember, has said so many bright
things in his day that they ought to be compiled IN
volume with the title star Dust" He has been in
vited 10 preach tho Established Church; but, on
looking over the OF uniformity, finds that the cul
prit who guilty Of such offence liable TO suffer
'three months Imprisonment In the common jail,
and sends the inviting clergyman response to the
effect that he never takes winter vacation he must
decline the invitation.


Mr. smyth an Englishman has written book upon
1.-THE Bible and Evolution, = in which we find very
curious argument against Universasm, and equally
curious statement concerning Calvnism. The latter
Is the doctrine of the Survival OF the ttest applied
souls The former cannot be true because teaches
"the survival OF every ybody-the ht and unfit alike
Darwin and Calvin pitch their voices by the same tun
lng-fork After that Mr.. Darwin ought TO become
good conservative orthodox church member, and the
hard things which have been hurled at him from the
pulpit require apology


Rev j. NJ Buckley has written a very interesting
book on christians and the Theatre" He proves
concusvely to himself at least that no professor of
religion ought to attend the theatre Well IL is pity
that Shakespeare written and still we some
times think that if ministers would drone less and de-
liver themselves according to the rules or the
dramatic they would enlven their and not
detract from their dignity. To our mind the drama is
just really demanded by human nature for its recre
alton churches for It's education The theatres
of this city constitute very mportantvcnt for the pent
up nervous energy OF the people, and II ministers
would control the theatres instead Of denouncng them
they would do more to save the young than they can at


The revival meetings in Philadephia have been seri-
ously affected by the weather. Il is very singular
fact that religion seems to make man porous, and
light shower percolates to his inner parts aud
cold IL lS equally CURIOUS
Or the opera has precisely the opposite eject and
seems to enamel man so that even driving storm
can do him no harm. So many colds and other
troubles caused by dampness have IN the distant past
OF course been caught at church on rainy days that
people have become wise and stay at home Besides,
an operate cold IL Is TAKEN yields at once to
incidence this at any is the popular idea while


religious cold-ths, too, Is apopular preudice-is Of
So serious nature that no one ought TO venture to
church when the clouds are threatening.


The IndepeHdent this week and tender in It's
words Of farewell to Dr. Fniton- II certainly gives
him very handsome lift out Of his old and into his
new posiLop. Ihe lnstr4nept with which the help s
given faS 6e somewhat Objectionable indeed It would
naturally be so to man OF the Doctors nervous and
sensitive temperament but the fact Is very apparent
that The Independent thinks thai almost any field of la
Dor s more desirable than Brooklyn II speaks Of the
Doctors eccentric manners his oceanic of
gush and his Fultonc ideas OF veracy" Rhetoric
no further GO Aner that he will have to mount one OF
his tidal and float of to more pacific shores


Dr. Talrnage is given to excessive profanity. He be-
came very much excited last Sunday morning. and
SAID put tho Bible out OF the schoolsf By the
strength Of the eternal God it shall never be doncl"
When n mans head Is as hot as that cold water ban
dage is good thing The reverend teacher who gave
utteranoe TO such sentence could commit any crime
and discharged the ground Of emotional insanity


Applet0as journal has the first Of series OF articles
on fEonvulsve Religion" BY stretch OF the imagn-
suppose that reference is made to the present
revival movement The author is quite right In de-
nouncing that excitaon which has sometimes
passed under the name Of religion The consequences
would be very serious, for instance II should be
visited By that epidemic which prevailed throughout
the West known as 1.-The jerks" Think Of the utter
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audiences should be taken In this way simultaneously
The apparent difference between such state OF things
In which each would be striking toward his neigh
bOr but not at him, and rs class riot would be very
slight These demonstrations seldom occur except in
country places, where there is plenty OF room. But
there Is little need to anticipate such calamity. We
have not seen the first nervous twItch yet not
among tho clergy, and however badly the people may
be affected by and by they cool that Moody
and Sankey find u difficult 70 get up steam enough 10
Tie bthoasa grows facetlous over the report that
haoe Efp1 md hard div
control editorial rsbes because this work has been
done. not through the ordinary channels Of white
neckte and a grave ~ d., but by layman in the en-
poy OF a secular paper. Mr.. staney's successes have
been regarded with commendaton by most Of the re-
igous press which has happily lost sight Of the means
IN the fact Of Mr. Stanley did not start
out with any express Instructions to preach the Gospel
but 10 find the Of and the latitude and
longitude Of mountains; but II II should happen to
come IN hts way speak a word though ayman, and
possibly an at that for the religion in
which be educated does the Methodist think there
Is any special harm IN III Stanley has travelled all
round tie sources OF the Nile and taught King htesa
/ the Ten Commandments neither Of which facts will do
l any serious Injury 70 the ordinary Norm American
/ Christian, ID our judgment


Dr Pendeton who is one Of those Baptists who have
water on the BRAIN says that II by accident he should
\ nnd himself IN an ordalning council in which Pedo.
Baptlgt was sitting, he would certainly withdraw ~
What will men 81 That stamp do when tney shune of
this mortal cof They won't be happy IN heaven, be-
cause Il - said here shall DO sea- and If So
there can bo immersion, and a. Tor gentle ram IN
heaven that wouldn't DO, because that would be equiv
II
n ton No they can't 60 70 heaven, that is evident,
because there water there, and they won't care


70 20 70 the other place though they ought not 70 OBJ


ect because the people in that section would be all
Baptlsts II they could The only chance for these mai
contents that u the Introduction Of purga-
tory into their creed, not 50 much a. theological dog
ma a. a geographical fact and ace or popular resort


DR.. Talmagc has organ OF h0petulness which viii
make biz Uranium valuable 70 the phrenologiss after he
has On shed his work IN the flesh He begins an edto
rial by the assertion that 'We need second deuge


We hasten 10 our wardrobe look over our stock o
/ umbrellas when Il suddenly occurs 70 us that the
| Doctor Is a very funny man, and that BY dcuge hc
doesn't mean 10 water IN the most distant way


but something else he then predicts that when the
sad deuge comes whole nations will literally be con


vertcd IN day He then gives play, We may say


somewhat free play, 70 bis lmagination the ample


storchouse whence he takes many of his weightes


facts and says that By and BY We shall have such lce


grams these flashed over the yires.-"Chna borr


unto God England and India saved Greenland 70


deemed II rather cool TO include poor Green


land. Now. that these peoples VIII all ultimately cOm,


TO faith cannot doubt but isn't II pretty heayy
| davi In brtnu luIia and land IN ngal