Show RIGID christianity CHICAGO is a great city in many ways it is somewhat noted for its divines also for its anarchists its boodler sits pig killing its 19 pork packing its political methods and sensational sat ional sermons its churchgoing church going folks desire also to be specially celebrated for extreme piety and rigid recently there has been quite a disturbance over the desecration of the sabbath by a tobacco using pastor he violated the sanctity of the day and the tender sensibilities of his congregation by purchasing pu r c h asing five ft ve cents worth of tobacco and being found out it does not appear whether he dropped a nickle in p slot and received a plug in return but it seems his nerves were disturbed by contemplating the wickedness of the world and denouncing the sins of the times and he hadbo had to resort to a chew to quiet them gum was not sufficiently sedative so he went for the weed if he had chad been too attentive to adoth ads Is wife or committed somer some other venial of rense be might have managed to procure a coat of whitewash to cover up his fault at little cost but to invest a nickel in tobacco bacco or chewing gum organdy or andy vAndy an the sabbath day was too SW tally awful to escape the severest censure this is an advertisement of the rigid character of chicago christianity and how particular it is even in small things and of course is not hot suggestive of its condonation of shocking immoralities nor of df the sharp sayings of a certain great teacher conveyed in the allegory of the mote and the beam |