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OBSERVATIONS.
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The Dunkards.
The German Baptists or the Dun
kards, who are now holding their an
nual session in this city, are an hon
est and very industrious people, with
an unique reputation for forc-hand-edness.
They are farmers, like the
Boers, whom they resemble in ap
pearance as well as in manner of life.
They give the streets the sound and
the aspect of a populist convention.
All the middle-aged men and they
seem to be a middle-aged people
wear whiskers, sunburned and un
pruned. Shrewd, if of guileless mien
they look as if they were quite capa
ble of making good bargains. As
preachers they are archaic. They
remind me of the old circuit riders
Edward Eggleston describes so graph
ically in his stories of Indiana. The
theology that is ancient to us is vital
to them and they enforce their opin
ions by threats of fiery punishment
after death. They are a truly rural
people. One of their number who
occupied a local pulpit last Sunday
said, in referring to Lincoln, that it
was "a vast city." The young men
and women seem to take the custom
ary pleasure in each other's society.
They wander about the intricate
streets of this great city in couples
like university students. They go in
squads, either for protection against
kards were the only sort the alms
houses, penitentiaries, and most of
the insane asylums could be closed up
tight or converted into factories or
young ladies'serainaries.
Creed Revision.
The Presbyterian assembly has at
last voted to revise the creed. There
is a Presbyterian rigidity of feeling
and opinion that can never be re
vised. A Presbyterian by birth is
apt to remain a Presbyterian for life.
Occasionally a minister or a layman
decides that his own modern power
of reasoning is superior to a formal
set of opinions ratified a matter of
several hundred years ago, and more
or less grudgingly received since then.
It is only occasionally that this hap
pens, because a Presbyterian born
and bred is one both by election and
his own choice. Presbyterianism is
a state of mind, a temperament, a
deeply fixed point of view. For a
long time presbyterianism has re
mained without signs of growth from
the outside and disturbed from the
inside only by the ineffectual com
motion caused by the withdrawal of
some extra-thoughtful minister. The
revision of the creed will doubtless
lessen the number of these withdraw
als, but presbyterianism will con
tinue to attract and hold the uncom
promising, the rigid, the intensely
pious, the conservative, the tenacious
believers in the old, the ancestral, the
authorized. If it were not for the
Presbyterians and such as they, so
ciety would lack enough continuity
to make the connection between the
past and the present intelligible and
interesting. A complaisant, easily in
fluenced generation has not made
epochs. If it were not for the rigid
vertebrae of the presbyterians and
their like, the whole body would lack
form, expression, and uprightness.
Jew, gentile and catholic as well
as all the various forms of protes
tantism are parts of the body social
photographs he make.8 are his ex
hibit, by the display of which cus
tomers are either attracted or repell
ed, as the case may be. The man who
sells likenesses naturally selects
display the most beautiful or
most celebrated ones he possesses.
Yet it is truly annoying for diffident
fiances of illustrious women to be
hung before their time in public
places. Doctor Freeman lias not,
perhaps contemplated, as he should,
the embarrassment it is to a rising
young physician to be chiefly Interest
ing to the world and even to his
friends, as the husband of his wife.
Doctor Burnett was not built on a
large enough plan to continue to oc
cupy a secondary place in this world,
and to shine in a reflected light.
Therefore he said farewell to Mistress
Burnett and has since been identi
fied as the man who was once Mrs.
Burnett's husband. It is fortunate,
snubbed, if any one in his audience
rose to deliver a message fresh from
above. Notwithstanding the extem
pore characteristics of Quaker ad-
for dresses, they do not complain of poor
the preaching and every member of the
parish is present every Sunday, bar
ring sickness or unavoidable domes
tic accidents. The speakers are not
often moved to address their brethren
on politics or on any other secular
topic. They interpret the Scriptures
and conduct. The practice of expect
ing that only the freshly and im
mediately inspired will speak, dis
courages criticism, for how can the
truly pious cavil at the spirit when it
is only using a human medium to ex
press itself? If inspiration in one
denomination discourages criticism
and attracts a large audience it might
be a good plan to insist on inspiration
in the preachers of all denominations.
The Reverend Byron Beal has re
considering the number of justly dis- ceived advice from the editors of Ne
tinguished married men in the world, braska, in response to his request,
that most women are content to Their counsel has been various, but
shine as wives and to be referred to invariably they have advised him to
as the real cause of a celebrated hus- avoid sensational topics and .i sensa
band's success, his inspiration, and tional manner. The Quaker custom
sure-footed Indian guide. If wives of waiting for inspiration is imprac
were given to getting mad about be- ticable. When a modern "ongrega
ing referred to as the wife of an au- tion assembles, somebody mus-t speak
thor or statesman or in ventor.the Hall orsingor pray. I l i no excuse that
of Fame would contain only the tab
lets of repudiated men. A woman
who has left her husband because he
was too celebrated is unknown to
history. To be sure there was the
wife of Dickens who left him because
he grew too conceited to live with
comfortably. Fame was the cause of
his big head and his big head dis
pleased his wife who gave up trying
to like it after a while, and chose
separation from her children rather
than his daily demonstration of ego
ism, which got on her nerves. Doctor
Freeman may be one of those rare
people, so little conscious of their
deserts that nearness to a very bright
light, and that light his wife, does
rrt -vTrtrl lunt Tint, flint, ic nnf.
and must be functionally and persist- .. . ,. ,,, Mm
, ... ... -J-. masculine nature. The future Mrs.
ently active to prevent torpidity,
Face Rights.
Doctor Freeman, the futur of Miss
MaryE. Wilkins, the novelist, threw
stones at his own photograph dis
played in a photographer's case in
the post office at New Brunswick, N.
J. He had previously written the
photographer threatening a law suit
and expressing a profane surprise
that hfs photograph should be thus
exposed for advertising purposes.
Afterwards, and before the photog
rapher had time to remove the pic-
the wicked men of a wicked city or
because they are used to the gregar- ture, the fiance was confronted by it,
ious pleasures of a church sociable and enraged, so that he went into the
and the two's company and more's a street, gathered some stones, like
crowd advice does not mean Dun- David, returned and cast them at the
kards. They are vowed to plain at- case breaking it and destroying the
tire and perhaps that is why they do photograph. It has been decided
not impress one as handsome. Al- that a photograph once taken and no
though not progressive, they make other definite bargain having been
.the average contribution to the made, the photographer can display
wealth of the world. And if Dun- it and make duplicates of it. The
Freeman, born Wilkins, will need be
careful to restrain both her absorp
tion in her work and her gratifica
tion in its results. Doctor Freeman's
pre-nuptial manifestations are not
sufficiently sustained to warrant a
conviction that he is proof against
the universal masculine instinct here-in-betore
referred to.
Preacoing.
Quakers, christian scientists and
some other sects do not employ reg
ular preachers. Quakers assemble
weekly and await quietly the moment
when someone of their number, in
spired for that moment, shall arise
and immediately transmit the re
ceived breathings to a receptive audi
ence. Christian scientists employ a
reader, though I believe that it is
within the conventions for any one
who wishes to speak to do so. All
other church congregations would be
shocked and the minister would feel
the singer may have a sore throat or
that the minister is not in good
preaching form; he must preach and
the singer must sing. We are a com
mercial people, and as for waiting for
inspiration, what do we agree to pav
them for, if not to preach and sing on
Sundays, from-half past ten to
twelve?
Bishop Leonard of Ohio announces
that his people do not want sensa
tional preaching, by which he says
he means discussions of the topics of
the day or politics, civic questions,
social themes, or ethical theories.
He says the people want "Instruction,
guidance and inspiration on the sub
ject of sin-fighting and sin-killing."
There is nothing surer in the ecd
than that people will get what they
pay for. If instruction in sin -fighting
is what a parish wants it is certain
to be taught the very latest
maneuvres. If he can do so consist
ently with his conscience and his
calling every minister aims to please
his congregation. Moreover the aver
age minister Is better authority on
the needs of a given congregation
than the bishop of the diocese who is
inclined to generalize in a large way
after the manner of bishops.
Success.
Mr. Schwab, who is said to receive
a million dollars a year for his ser
vices to the steel trust, has been ad
vising boys how to succeed. It is
very doubtful if he receives the mil
lion dollars per annum and it is no
concern of mine if he does. There
are certain qualities a boy must pos
sess in order to achieve place, wealth
or fame. The personal equation is
the element of success, else it would