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BY TIMOTHY.

 

Jlfessrs. Editors:

In the September number of the COLLEGIAN you
have an article on religious debates, by G., that is
so remarkable or curious that it deserves a notice.

1st. Gr. sets out by saying that: “Christianity
exhibits her thousand sects, and each sect thinks
itself infallible.” Now there are two objections in
this that I think Mr. G. cannot prove. 1st. Chris-
tianity does not exhibit her thousand. No. He
cannot prove that it exhibits one sect in the scrip-
tural use of that term. 2d. There is no sect
claiming infallibility unless it be the Catholic
Church and her Pope.

2d. Gr. says: “If my maker has given me an in-
ferior mind, a mendacious witness, and it informs
me’that I am in the right way when I am in the
wrong, what am I to do?” Do! cease to look
into your mind to learn what is right, and hear
the “sayings of the savior and do them.” This is
a great trouble with many. Instead of looking
into the Bible for information. on. religious things,
they look into their own minds and consciences.
God says “this is my Son, hear him.” The holy
scriptures are given for correction and instruction
in righteousness —not ourminds.

You say in one breath that religious debates “do
some good,” (he; in the next, that they “have been
of incalculable benefit.” Then in a third, they go
so far as to decide men’s “eternal destiny by the
strict rules of logic.” The virtue of debate gains
rapidily in your mind by reflection. But in the
last statement that “Logic decides men’s eternal
destiny,” is a new gospel to me. I thought the
gospel of Christ was the savior of life or death,

' not logic.

4. Mr. G. next changes his subject to an en—
quiry: Who are the members of the Church of
Christ? and says: “All true, honest and sincere
followers of Christ constitute his church, and will
inherit eternal life.” The first part of this sen—
tence every person of all churches believes, I sup—

 

 

pose. But the latter, upon consideration, Mr. G.

will admit to be conditional. But after laying
such a noble platform, my friend stumbles on to a
broad guage road, and says: “It matters not to
what denomination of Christians they may belong,
if they have conscientiously selected the course
they believe to be right, using all the means that
has been placed in their power, they must be right"
Well! Well! Bro. G. where did you learn such
theology? From the Bible College? No. I know
they do not teach there that, because a person is
honest and does the best he knows, that therefore
he is right. My dear sir, what is right in religious
matters? Is it honesty? An infidel may be hon—
est. Is it sincerity? Any person may be sincere
in any thing he undertakes. Is it to act consci-
entiously? A Jew or Mohamedan or Mormon
may be all that. Will these things make them
Christians? But you qualify this declaration by
saying: “They must use all the means that have
been placed in their power.” If they do this then
there is no doubt but that they will go right, and
into the right church. God’s “means” do not mis-
lead the people. The great trouble is they will
not or do not learn his means so as to do their
duty, and for this God will hold them accountable.
It is a sin to be ignorant of the will of God. All
are commanded to hear and believe the gospel.—
But you say “it does not matter to what church
they belong.” - Suppose some of these churches
are not of God, but simply societies of man’s cre—
ation. Does it not matter whether we be in them,
or in the sheepfold of Christ, in which there is
salvation, as says the great teacher? No dogma is
more false than that the conscience guides uner-
ingly right, and I do not think that G. will de-
fend it.

5th. Next! Gr. says that “debaters allirm that no-
body is right except he thinks just as they think,
nor will such be saved.” I believe that G. is as
much mistaken here as above. All debaters and
preachers that I have ever known, believe and
teach that there is some truth taught by all de-
nominations of Christians. And as to their opin—
ions -of their chances for heaven, nearly all cle-
nominations have some hope, that although others
differ with them, and do not do all the truth, yet
doing much of it with a good purpose, they hope
for the best. This is the current Protestant feel—
ing I believe.

6th. Our youthful Theologean next springs the
subject of Christian unity, and says that his idea
of it is expressed in the following language, after
a lengthy quotation from some person, we have
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they (the Evangelical Christians) should not
(agree) and it was wise in the great head of the
church to leave these things, non-essential, (forms
of church government, &c.,) as he has, that the
different denominations may, by a holy rivalry, stir
each other up to good works.” A little further on
G. says: “lVe venture to say that there are no
nations on the earth that entertain feelings of such
bitter rancor towards each other as the various de-
nominations of our county.”

W’hy, my dear sir, the more “bitter rancor” we
have, the more “holy rivalry” of course. In the
first part of your papervyou advocated such divi«

sions, but now you are for union with Christ who, i . . . _ . __
Jcct of Christian union. After all you seem to

prays that “all that believe on him through the
apostles might be one.” And Paul, who taught
the ancient Corinthian church to “speak the same
things,” to be “perfectly united in the same jUC g-
ment.”

That’s right, my young brother, contend for the
“unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.” I
am glad to see you improve so rapidly.

7th. G. next says: “Debates do not tend to pro-
duce Christian unity, but division,” why then op-
pose them? They are the very thing to get up
“hitter rancor and holy rivalry.”

8th. I think G. is very reckless in the assertion
of the “bitter, rancorous” feelings of the denomi-
nations towards each other. I, for one, do not
believe it. We see them worship together. Many
of them commune together at the Lord’s table.
They call each other brother and sister. They
are social and respectful. This is the general

character in America. Hostile nations are un-

social, disrespectful, unkind, and fight each other.
You are wide of the mark, my brother. In many
things they agree, and in. some they do not agree.

I believe there is much sympathy and kind feel-
ing in the heart of every child of God towards
any and all that he has reason to believe loves the
Savior.

One more consistency, says G. “since divisions
are inevitable, why notin order to have a greater
degree of harmony, unite upon that one grand
central thought of christianity, Jesus is the Christ,
the son of the living God.” Now it puzzles me to
know how we can all unite on this or any other
thought, if “divisions are inevitable.” Indeed
such a union you taught in the beginning of your
paper had better not be. It would distroy all that
“holy rivalry necessary to stir each other up to
good works”

Poor old Paul was an old fogy for branding the
ancients with carnality for divisions. 7'

After this proposition for union on the one foun-
dation, you again change your subject and en-
quire, “if a man believes this proof, with all his
heart, and does, as far as his knowledge extends,
comply with the will of the Savior, is he not a
good Christian?” Ask a Mormon if he believes
this proof, and he will tell you yes, and he says he
lives as near right as he understands, and that he
beleves and does all the commands of J 0. Smith
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Universalists, the Swedenborgian, and many or all
others will say the same, are all Christians.

If the Jew made void the law of God by his tra-
ditions, may not Gentiles do the same thing of the
gospel? If the Jew worshiped God in vain by
teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men,
may not the Gentiles be guilty of the same vain,
worship.

Mix an alkali and an acid, you destroy the orig-
inal qualities of each, and make a new compound.
Mix Judaism, Paganism and the gospel, and what
have we? It may be many that are honest, pious,
devoted Pagan-Jewish-Christians.

In your conclusion you again return to the sub—

love it notwithstanding your “idea” is against it,

and give us a good exhortation, showing that you '

have made wonderful progress in a few minutes
time. >

Now my friend G. I vill take leave of you and
your “creed, as comprehensive as the arch of

heaven,” and your “charities, bounded but by the

circle of creation.” This big creed and extensive
charity show a good heart, but we have no right to
give away the things of our master without his
consent. then he says “he that hears these say.
ings of mine and does them shall be blessed,”
we show a spirit of rebellion if we say: “He that
hears these sayings of Christ and does a part of
them, or something else in the place of them, shall
be saved if he is honest and sincere.

“To the law and to the testimony, if a man
speaks not according to this, it is because he has
no light in him.” '

 

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Man likes to be called great. He will spend
his life in ceaseless toil to obtain the applause of
his fellows; and though this struggle may bring
nothing but disappointment and bitterness of
soul, he will never relinquish it. He fancies that
he sees the goal of all his hopes, almost within
his grasp, and with his eye fixed upon that, he
hurries on, regardless of everything else, till he
stumbles into the grave, and that, too, in most
cases, with his object unattained. The reason of
this is obvious. He pursues the wrong course to
gratify his desire. This arises from his having
an improper conception of what true greatness is.
Man can never succeed in anything he does not
understand; but inthis case his misunderstanding
does not grow out of the fact that he can not know
what the legitimate course is, but that he will not.
This to ‘cibly brings to our minds the old maxim,
“\Tone are so blind as those who will not see.”

The wordls idea of (true) greatness is as false as '

it is pernicious. It is true that at different pe-
riods it has shifted its ground, but, sad to say, not
for the better. There never was anything in it to
develop man’s better nature. It only panders to
his pride, and leaves his principle to perish. On
every page of. history this truth is inscribed, in
characters that need no interpreter. How often
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hands are recking with the blood of millions, and

whose heart is black with crimes innumerable—~—
How often is the man of worth crushed beneath
the feet of the eager crowd. who rush after their
blood—stained, sin-polluted hero. Time would fail
me to tell of the men who have been raised to
undeserving honor; whose virtue was self-interest,
and whose honesty was the caprice of an unholy
inclination; or of those who have scaled the hights
of fame on the fallen forms of their fellow—mortals.

But there is another class of men. of whom I a

would speak, who are not all devoid of merit. I
mean literary and scientific men. They have
wielded a mighty influence in forming the charac—
ter of the people, and in elevating mankind to the
plane he now occupies.

It is no part of my present purpose to enter
into details as to the part they have performed in
improving the mental and physical condition of
man. It will be conceded by all that they have
done a great work; what I wish to say is this:
their character as mere literary men and scientists
does not constitute them truly great men. True
they might become such, but other qualities are
requisite besides those possessed by them as mere
scholars. But are their labors for the sole aim of
improving man socially, morally and spiritually,
of directing his thoughts upward from that which
passes away to the changeless and the eternal? or
is self the most prominent personage in all their
hopes and aspirations? Undoubtedly the latter.
Perhaps there are exceptional cases. These are
not contemplated.

This is true, as well, of statesmen. Each tries
to excel, and to send his name down to posterity
laden with honor, which were unknown to any of
his predecessors. Now it is admitted that it is
an honor for a man to improve on what has been
developed before, if done with the proper motive.
But here comes in the hypothetical “if.”

We can not then find true greatness among those
who imbue their hands with the blood of their
fellow-creatures, nor yet among scholars and
statesmen, merely as such. It embodies higher
and holier principles than can be claimed for the
characters mentioned. It has, too, a loftier aim than
these, and does a grander work. But among the
rich and the noble it is rare—~more frequent in the
humbler walks of life. If I were asked to define
it, my answer would be, as the shortest and most
appropriate I could give: It is the incarnation of
holiness. This I conceive comprehends the entire
essence of true greatness. Mere pomp and show
are foreign to it. Honor and fame are not neces—
sary to its existence. Wealth rarely contributes
to its development. Independent of all these it
rises grandly above them. Its possessor may not
be known outside his own little circle of friends,
yet when the master “cometh to make up his jew—
els” he will shine as the sun in his Father’s King-
dom. His labors of love and noble self-sacrifice
will never be forgotten by him who knoweth the
hearts of men.

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It does not come from without, but from within,
and manifests itself outwardly in deeds of love
and mercy. It counts not the applause of men,
but desires to go through life, like the monster, re—
lieving the needy and comforting the afflicted. Its
retiring modesty is one of its chief attractions.
There is something so sublimely sweet, so glo-
riously beautiful in a holy life, that it seems to lift
one away from earth and give him a foretaste of
the society of the eternally blest. The charms
that cluster around it, are as much superior to
those of the self-styled great, as the brightness of
the sun is to the glow worms transient spark.—
The man who pants for this as the “hart for the
water brooks,” is the great man. He who fixes
his eye on the jeweled walls of the new J erusa-

3 lem, and is animated by the hight of purpose that

was in the Savior, and who “ruleth his own spirit,”
is the true here. And when an Alexander or a
Czesar shall have ceased to be remembered, even
among the things that were, he will live on in ever-
lasting youth and unchanging glory.

Then the greatness to be desired is greatness
of soul. The honors to be coveted, are the fade-
less and the immortal. The deeds with which to
make your memory green, are those that fit man-
kind for the eternal mansions.

M. J. FERGUSON.

 

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How few of the young men now—a—days who are
seeking wives, care to inquire whether the wo-
men they propose to marry ever adorn theirfin-
gers with thimbles, go to market, or are of that
rare class amongst the women of this age and gen-
eration, “good housewives?” Anna Dickinson hit
the nail on the head in her lecture—“A Struggle
for Life”——when she asserted that nine-tenths of
the helplessness, distress and shame of women
could be properly traced to unwise tendencies of
parents, who labored to teach their daughters
everything but that which, in an emergency or in
married life, could be made practically useful to
them.

Young men are as frequently to blame as fool-
ish fathers and mothers, and they look for bril-
liant, not useful women; forgetting the that what
are termed “brilliant accomplishments” are those
which are soonest forgotten by their possessors,
and which, in domestic life, generally carry with
them the fewest and shallowest of real enjoyments.
The performance of a difficult passage on the
piano, or the faultless execution of a graceful
movement in the dance, is well enough in its way,
but it is wretched compensation for sour or heavy
bread, badly cooked steaks, sloppy coffee, slovenly
dressed and untidy children. It does not of course
necessarily follow that a brilliant woman is a poor
housewife. Far from it. We have known those
who excelled alike upon the piano and gridiron;
who plied the broom as gracefully as they twirled
the tiny sunshade; who were as neat and as clean—
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or promenading Chestnut street; but these were
the exceptions, not the rule. Such women are
rare birds—met with once in a while, and once in
awhile only. Send them to market, and teach
them to be able to discriminate between a beef-
steak and a vcal eutlett, and to know the differ—
ence between a turnip and a head of cabbage;
teach them the coveted art and mystery of good
bread making, palatable coffee making, and the
thousand and one other little items of culinary
knowledge and practice that go to make up the
good housewife, and young men, you who are on
the hunt for partners in life, be advised, and in
making your selections, have a sharp eye to those
domestic qualifications to which the old French-
man’s ward gave such decided preference.
H. D. D.

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So much has been written and said about the practice in—
dulged in by young men, of standing in and about the doors of
out churches, during, and after service, that what we expect to
say will not, we fear, amount to much, or be considered with
any weight by those who are guilty of the practice. They
have been spoken of in the pulpit, written about in the city
papers, frowned upon by the good old elders and “Managing
Agents” of popular boarding schools, and still they persist in
blocking up the street and crowding the church door with their
ungainly figures, and ugly faces—in fact they have become
case-hardened, bomb-proof, and copper-bottomed. The sound-
ing of Gabriel’s trumpet wouldn’t scare them away. Even the
appearance of Neil Hendricks fails to have any effect upon
them. What are we to do with such beings, or are they be-
ings? What are they? What are they made of, that they
can so deliberately force their ugly appearance upon and be-
fore a disgusted public, even after they have been plainly
told that their room is more desirabie than their company.—
But coming down to the seriousness of the offense, permit us,
kind reader to express our opinion upon the practice. It is a
notorious fact that the majority of those who indulge this
habit, are either students or young men of the city, whose life
and conduct have forfeited for them the respect of those, they
insult, with their presence.

In this article it is our desire to reach the students of Ken-
tucky University. It is with them we have to deal, and if we
can effect any change in their course in this respect, we shall
be satisfied, for we have long since given up all hope of ever
seeing any reformation in the conduct of the other class. Now,
in all seriousness, We ask you young gentlemen, to reflect for
a single instant, upon the figure you cut. Not only would we
ask you to look upon that picture, but we have another we de-
sire to present. For what purposes are our churches used?
Do We go there to air our good clothes, show our handsome
faces, and stare pretty girls out of countenance; or, do we go
there to offer our songs of praise to God? Following this line
of" thought but a short distance, and what is your conclusion
of duty. Does it lead you to commit the offense of which we
speak? Assuredly not. Then what is the inevitable conclu-
sion forced upon us, but that these hangers-on go there, for
no other purpose than to make exhibitions of themselves. If
such be the casein God’s name we ask you to stay away—
fer aside from the sin you commit, your presence there is an in-
sult, to the congregation, and no man with one particle of self-
respect will ever be guilty of forcing himself where his pres-
ence is revolting to common decency. Think carefully over
this subject, young gentlemen, and we think you will coincide
with us in our views, and join with us in our efforts to break
up this disgusting spectacle. F

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My lady is lovelv, my angel is good;

For this have I worshipped, for that have I wooed
The beautiful being who came from above,

And blightedmy path with the lustre of love.

With grace, sports she limbs like the fleet-footed fawn,
Which springs o’er the hills at the shadow of dawn;

While her bearing is stately, and saintly the sheen
That gambols in glory o’er a face so serene.

Her golden-tinged ringlets the soft breezes move,

And from her bright eyes darts the lightning of love;
T\Vhile there plays a sweet smile on her roseate lips,

As the zephyr on flowers when the honey-bee sips.

Her mind is a well-spring of wisdom and wit—
A casket of gems which ever emit
The heart-cheering rays of light and of love,
As pure and as warm as the beams from above.

Her heart is a temple, where spirits divine,
With softest embraces each other entwine;
Where sin is a stranger, and hate is unknown,
Where faith, hope and love are blended in One.

An angel of mercy to Gentile, to Jew,
Her lily-white hand oft’ dries the death dew,
Which dampens the brow when death draweth nigh,
As the earth is bedewed when the sun leaves the sky.

The tread of her feet, as light as the swan’s,
E’er followeth fast where suffering goes;

But her garments, as white as the fleece of the South,
Unspotted she keeps from the slanderer’s mou’ h.

Theincense of prayer and the incense of praise
From her heart-altar rises in soul-stirring lays,
While she offers thereon as a fit sacrifice
Her body alive to the God of the skies.

And thus is she lovely, and thus is she good;
For this have I worshipped, for that have I wooed
The beautiful being who came from above,
And blighted my path with the lustre of love.
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By request of the editor elect of the I’ericlean
Society, we furnish an editorial for this number of
the COLLEGIAN, and have concluded that a few
thoughts relative to the fairs would not be out of
place, as they seem to have been uppermost in the
minds of our people during the past three or four
months. The old, the young, the white, the black,
all ages, all colors and races and classes, have had
their heads and hearts set upon the fairs.

These annual shows, or grand gambling resorts,
have so engrossed the minds of the Whole com-
munity, that, at least, one third of the year is con-
sumed in making preparations for them. On these
occasions vanity gluts itself, and, as is usual,
mothers fawn in caressing adulation. around Mam—
mon’s sons, while their daughters stand the ready
victims to be sacrified upon his altar. While f: —
thers are engaged in rubbing their stock, prepar-
ing it for their sons to gamble upon, when it enters
the arena of contest, mothers, wit 11 the Bible in
their houses, not in their hearts, with the history
of Mary and Martha before them, are rubbing,
varnishing, slicking and ribboning their daughters
for exhibition.

Old mothers, lend this boy your ears, and he

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will tell you a truth or two. Little editors will
never do it, so long as you feed and wine them so.
They will hang around your table like death about
its victim, and think they leave you indebted to
them, if they should mention in their weekly sheet,
at whose table they dined during the week of the
fair.

The fair, from my stand—point, seems to be one
large card-table, the largest I ever saw, where
mothers stake their daughters; heartlessly play
them 01f to Mammon’s sons, regardless of where
their affections may be placed, and thus rob them,
not unfrequently, of peace, happiness and con-
tentment. It is useless to conceal the truth,
mothers, I must tell it to you. The highest card,
or rather the heaviest purse, wins the greatest
beauty. It matters not who holds it; worth, merit
and morality, are the lowest cards in the deck.—
Drunkenness, gambling and swearing, when back-
ed by Mammon, are all trumps. O Mammon!
Well may preachers preach about thee, and teach
the world to hate thee, and at the same time love
thee so ardently themselves.

In dwelling so long upon the god Mammon,
some persons may be disposed to censure us with
adeparture from our subject; but if they con-
sider, only for a moment, the object and end of
fairs, they will readily perceive that they are
money. Stock-holders erect amppitheaters, tem-
porary and permanent, for the sole purpose of
wringing the almghty dollar from the poor work-
ing classes of our country. The improvement of
the stock is the professed, but not the real object
of fairs.

It is not our purpose to censure fairs in them—
selves, but the mode of conducting them. Fairs,
if rightly conducted, w uld receive our hearty
sanction. ‘We cannot fancy a more attractive ob—
ject of vision and contemplation than the farmer,
with wife and children, wending his way to the
fair, to while aw: y a few hours in social enjoy—
ment. If fairs were rightly conducted, he could
do this, without the fear of his daughter’s or his

son’s corruption. A fair should be free from drink— !

ing—saloons, gambling, lotteries, prize—shooting,
and everything that is calculated to corrupt
youth. llow delightful, how divine, are the en-

joyments that are free from sin! \Ve are p