Year: 1875

any Church can say what il viii and what il won't do
When the Church King Senate and people all IN one
the imperial 1--WE" was wen enough, but of late years
that very important part Of speech known as YOU has
been discovered ana when that ''you" happens 70 oe
Bismarck il is easier to yield than 70 hght


Isn't il curious what an all-absorbng energy some
people who possess only idea and who are not quite
sure Of that haves Dr. Cumming the man whose chief
employment to be 10 TX the date oi the worlds
destruction and TO miss Il every time says that Moody
is spoken Of in the Old Testament and this makes II
douby certain that the mortgage this planet 70 be
foreclosed very shortly 'Brcakers aheadln has been
the cry Of this tnan on the lookout" for the last
twenty years.


The Christian Register OF Boston, ventures the
seron that there are or orthodox who
are really liberals but who do dare preach their
honest views This a charitable way OF judging men,
to say the least; but it to to ask "Do you
know this TO be so, or do you only guess tSn Fit is
Of fact give the names; II it Is only
ton without proof Why 'hush my babe, lie stll and
sumbcr p


Somebody has asked Mr. Beecher through tho col
umns OF the Christian URion 'what flies rats and
quoes were made torS and the Brooklyn pastor con.
fesses that he don't know iew more questions like
that and the whole body Of theology would be de-
stroyed


II is very doubtful even now whether Moody and
Sankey will come 70 New York this winter. The Hip
podrome rented simply the strength Of hope.
Some people say that i IS not the Lords fault, and
Others insist that II Is not the fault OF the evangests
Where the trouble lies only the clergy know and they
Won't tell


The position OF the Baptist denomination is Just now
an anomaly q the man ofthe. world who has insane
idea that religion and common ought TO have
some distant relation TO each other AZ least Tho
Long Island Association, which boasts of It's close
munton, aud which consists Of about forty churches,
has added 70 It's membership just twenty nine people
IN the last year. which averages about quarters
church.
open communion has added in the same length OF time
about 200 members There either something very dead
about close communion something very lively about
open communion Alter all, the principle of "chary
toward ALL and malice toward none" proves not to be
seriously Objectionable even in religious concerns If
ministers would only It, but they don't, and the
world goes to the Park Sunday until the quarrel is
settled


What pity that we were not. all rocked IN rosewood
cradles THIS matter Of being born awful acc-
dent, 10 which il is hard TO reconcile one's self Here
we are, for instance sharpening our quill nib pouring
the dreary doings OF Presbyterian synods and
Uuversalst revvals while the Prince of Wales Is
ming through the rapid hours the dulcet Of tho
BANJO and soaring the ghost Of seasic1ness with the
meloious voices Of his minstrel company, 1t may be
hrst class privilege to be born at all, and we don't
wish 10 be understood as ungrateully going back on
that important fact but sometimes think IT just
BIZ OF pity that we not consulted TO the best
place TO oe born IN.


The Southern newspapers have started a new theory
Of population AS the Tartar tribes flowed like river
from the high land Of Asia TO the plains Of Russia some
centuries since the negroes bound eventually
flow from the watershed of the North into the swamps
Of the tropics That is the poetical way of putting IT.
but the practical way TO say that the black
pums always settle in the bottom Of the dish and that
the coored population by the same law viii settle in
Georgia and Alabama IN the next twenty years. What
would life be without theory


DR. John Hall is the energZing element of New York
Presbyteranism. His name is the synonyme OF
strength and he is looked upon OF the
safest men IN the religious community Cautious to
degree, and perhaps little too conventional TO suit the
popular taste, whatever he ndorses is to be
tirely respectable and dignhed In person he is both
tall and large Something six feet high,
he appears TO be just bit mortified physically
at his own proportions and has hence acquired
soop Of the shoulders which pretty nearly brings him
down the level Of ordinary His diameter bears


proper relation 10 his height and proves TO the casual
observer even that he Is man OF endurance and
power. His bearing, while not exactly oppressive,
business He has time for trnes and patience
with bores Life assumes somewhat grave asnect TO
his mInd and he is intellectually inclined TO look upon
its duties severely and rgidy. As preacher he has
undoubted power. With bold, clear, ringing voice
he throws his periods the arthest of his large
church and does 1t without effort His sermons are
always sermons and not essays Never caring TO be
only logical strong in the mere argument of his dis
course, he evidently gives the larger part OF the
labor OF preparation TO the endeavor TO the feel
ngs and TO persuade the hearts OF his hearers Never
impassoned in utterance and wanting, perhaps, in
those frequent bursts of eoquence which have given
Chaplin his reputation and which mark the labors Of
Beecher, he reads pretty high ground all the time and
easily carries his congregation with him. His pecu-
arity is his strict adherence the textual method
the letter of the text the fields and pas
lures new of general literature Never hashy, dsdain
ing anything that approaches sensation and abhorrng
excitement you always know where to find him and
about what position he will take given subject
Altogether he is greatly admired by his own
congregation and entirely respected by