Year: 1876

generation II It comes Of itself IL can be trusted but
II II has to be bosered up by resolutions passed after
debate you may as we'll wait "for more convenient
season"


It's not regarded good taste TO use the word dev'
even in theological conversation II has unpleas
ant sound, and seems 10 point 10 future prospects
with too much vividness Whenever you have occa
sion speak Of the benignant gentleman referred TO-
call him the Superintendent Of Cremation whose Office
is down below.


Religion is a beautiful thing when you get it unadu
terated Some people have a great deal more than
they think they have others great deal less than
they profess to have II is something that comes OF
ITSELF like the blush of the rose and can't be painted
on We heard the other day OF a woman who spanked
her two children for coming home from the revival
meeting without having "gotn religion and the Incl
dent seemed a fair criticism the mechanical ele-
ment in some revivals


Minister'S not proverbal for their docility
but generally little rapid in motion. This anon
ally began with the Of Eli about 165 years before
Christ and has continued without break ever since
The average however is very well maintained accord
ing to the theory Of Mr.. Buckle Ministers alto
gether good and their altogether too bad;
thus If they should be aggregated, there would be
found sufficient virtue for very fair lives and posi-
bly, enough OF the other element to keep both from
being saints.


The Methodists have been getting excited over the
condition of our amshouses. They have across
ugly facts in the way OF careless nurses, who
forget TO give their patients medicine and of drunken
and quarresOme nurses whose patients found dead
through neglect The Methodist says that the Randas
Island founding institutions are 'a great deal worse
than Catholic protectores.n The reason is obvious
When the Catholics TO found institution they
care TO look after It and see that the original intention
is carried out When Protestans found institution
they lay the and then let the whole thing
Catholic
minister its affairs with one half the criminal neglect OF
the Randall's Island institutions would-but such
supposition is impossible, for whatever else may be
said Of them the Catholics are peculiarly faithful TO
such trusts as these.


his political escapade in Boston ought to be warning
TO the clergy Some of the papers have spelled his
title with small b, hoping by this crushing sarcasm TO
penetrate to the quick but the reverend gentleman
seems 20 be pachydermatous and such barbs SIMPLY
glance of without woundng Others famiary call
him ''Gil an abbreviation OF his first name and
sumo toward him certain camdrdderfe which must
make him hope that he will not be judged by the com
pany in which he is found The Southern journals
have fairly touched the boiling point in their tropical
fervor Of expression. The English tongue is deporably
deficient In the fiery adjectives which they are i'm
patient to hurl Their criticisms though lacking
what in smooth courtesy, sufficiently pungent and
forcibe TO make the Bishop wish that he had either
brided his tongue that memorable OCCASION else
died in his early infancy. Ne suor ultra crepiddm is
good motto, 1t means, when freely translated that
third term politics not the in which clergy
show their talents to best advantage John
Trumbu poet of the last century, anticipated Bishop
Haven's tate in these Hnes:-


as muskets contrive IL


And, though well aimed a duck or plover


Bear wide and kick their owners


daily prayer meeting is held in an upper hack
OF a tenement house A score or so are invited,
ana compose probably tho worst dressed audience in
the city Yet they sing tune, but pray in such bad
grammar and such good spirit that led to
wonder whether rhetoric has as much to do with an
acceptable prayer have heretofore supposed.
Peter Dwyer, who leads the meeting is not much OF
preacher, to be sure; but when you remember that
few months ago he at the tail end of minstrel
troupe and that every night or two he managed to get
the whole neghborhood into row, then Peter with
his calm, subdued speech seems TO be really eloquent
We may know that the revival has arrived when
find such meeting in such place, and it must be
pretty nearly time tor the Hppodrome to be ready for
Moody and Sankey.


DR.. jeffrey, a prominent member of the Baptist Pas
tors Association is taking his turn at a hot water
bath He is apparently an open communIonist but of
very mild pattern, for he goes only far TO say
that he would not prohibit uninmersed Christian
from sitting at the Lords table Still he is suspected
OF being olcoor, and committee OF eleven have been
appointed TO examine and catechlse hlm and find
how deep the heresy runs There seems to be the ut
most freedom in some churches to think just you
told and very little charity for any honest think
ing of your own. So goes the world


Mr.. Murray told the Boston minister's assembled for
the purpose OF hearing his paper the other day that
the best handbook for clergyman the Bible. This
Is somewhat novel, but sti good advice. Preachers
apt 10 presuppose on the part OF the hearers
acquaintance with Biblical topics, and wander
vaguely through the realms OF gttcrng generates.
They will do good when they TO the very
complimentary conclusion that reading the Bible is
nearly lost and then begin tell the people
what it is all about and what II is all for and what il
enjoins as duty Blazing rhetoric is very well in It's
place, and we have felt, when we have listened to
splendid sentences, in shver all over, as though a
centipede running up and down spinal column
but a simple sermon backed and illustrated by noble
character is all as satisfactory peacefully and
deliciousy satisfactory, the jingle OF gold in the
pocket, honestly earned


Here at any rate practical result Of the revival
In Gloucester Mass, the religious interest has cumi
mated in temperance society made up mostly OF sailors
When religion grappes with the Gloucester fishermen
it has hard work. but noble one before it There is
courageous class of in America than these
coarseSted but oftentmes large hearted men, who
the risks Of winters gale on the Banks for the sake
of goldfish When the revival succeeds in getting its
seine around them, they delight get II around
school OF mackere then shall sit at the feet OF Dr.
Cumming and read the prophecies about the end OF the
world IL Of the noOlest signs Of the times, how
ever that the soft side of Jack Tars heart has been
touched


If there is any thing more delightful than
another ii is church quarrel There several last
ing benefits resulting from II, to wlt:-First those
who are pondering on the duty OF joining the'church
enabled TO make up their minds at once-not TO do
IT, second, the nonchurch goers, those who
eternaly hunting round to find good excuse to stay
at home, discover one in the chickering's and contro-
versies Of the elect, and third nhdenty, which is like
the vulture that the from afar enjoys a
rare feast such dignhed business TO be engaged
in when set Of wardens take the locks of the
church doors and put that the rector's
key won't ut and the other set OF wardens take the
new locks OF and put the old ones again that the
rector's key will ht Religion dies through the win |
dows In spite of the stained glass when the officers
have wrestling match IN the church. counterfeit
ten dollar bill has certain prccarious value IN dis
honest bands, for poor fool may be found who
will take 1t for genuine money but qnarrelsome
religion its counterfeit character on its face
and worse than worthless.


Mr. rockingham is certainly original thinker. |
He told his people last sunday morning that they ought
TO have great respect for n1des they men
OF moral courage e., they say what they think 4
when it is very unpopular TO think So This reminds
US OF the man who killed his father and when asked !
by the judge what he had 20 say, replied al hope Your
Honor will not be hard me, for you know Pm a poor
orphan" nhdelity sits on the limb Of the treo saws
the limb OF, and then when il comes tumbng 10 the !
ground claims our admiration for moral courage Mr.
rockingham also says that he belongs to school OF
n6dels who recognize themselves Imagination.
feeling, emotion and the poetic sense. They do not /
pray, they aspire. All, yes, they beyond praying
like common folk; but then they aspire aud that
must be great privilege Whether they do this three
times day, when the OF the world is saying grace
whether they have set times when they peculiarly ,
aspire, whether they aspire all the time is not yet
known. Neither is ii exactly known what it is TO as
pre- whether II acts on ;he muscular sys-