Show ELDERS correspondence to bishop E D woolley from his son elder frankiin franklin t B bolley oot ool ley rowdy RIDGE ohio april 16 we have had bad but latie lutle rain vain as yet though sufficient for money la Is scarce and times are pretty tigh tight among farmers tanners and ana the smaller men choh all are looking forward to enthat that good time coming when their god got goi will come out ol 01 hib his ending place and they shall shai behold his bis shining face tace and kliten to the merry as he dances a hornpipe in their tre breeches echeV i pockets pocket they are expecting nine fine ames so booss sooss soon goon bithe nithe s the present art pressure assure wears off oil and cannot anliot blie I 1 ot of sorrow sorrows but rather fancy it Is the ending some really suppose that the Is becoming c D m ing more united and very near to the time when they will mcbeat beak beat their swords into plowshares and ana ther their spears into pruning hooks books and when they shall ball not learn war any more r i the minister yesterday ald aid paid that it the children continue to improve for two or three generations as they are mw improving they would effect this desired object 3 I 1 thought lord elp vie pie he improvement but deliver bethere me I 1 thou thought hot hof ol 01 what ft hat the poet sald said mine alne t mine beyts eyes etes are dims dim t r cannot see set I 1 did not dot bring mine spec with lib jib moe roe I 1 thought their eyes were not only dim but blind and their specs csom were of leat leather ieather berj or else they might see sec that chev thi v were w ine ire going backward and not forward and were only preparing themselves for tor the great battle of armageddon and I 1 think that when his hit majesty sounds the trump of war var ft ar and sends out dut his office sp s he will bave bare hav hai e a numerous army aray of recruits irom irom among christians 1 and divine despite their peace principles and broth i erly love they ara pursuing the fleeting shadows of this life re gard lessof to which we are all hastening i I 1 blind and deaf to the signs of the approaching kingdom for tor which they unceasingly pray prax and to the warning to voice ice which bids them pause und anil kingdom ere it is too late but they are BO so blinded bythe by the god of this thu world and led astray by and aud their own super dillons til lons that they do not know inow the voice vole voie q oj the good 1 shepherd when lie calls to them they have ha va such pure morals morais such high and exalted conceptions of righteousness such pure and holy philanthropy that the almighty is left far behind ID in the dacej race cast into the shade entirely and the christian world have become so 0 o perfect so ao civilized and enlightened that they almost regret that they have the bible at all their adear ministers ate shocked at the actions of the I 1 bible worthies and almost wish the account of them i was lost the them up so hard about the i god of the hebrews tb that at they are almost ashamed at hims himy him and would be biad blad glad giad to get rid of all hal hat that bal part of th the bibie bible they bave have made great improvement improti ement upon the thie codell code of morals which the lord delivered to the jews andi ani and rather 1 imagine the lord was a little tinged with withold cold coid foghis 1 and about half halt civilized civilize dJ hence he alloN allowed ved some to hav have 1 several wives wires punished adultery with death deala would not j permit a bastard bast arof arct to enter the congregation of ili III the lord to his seventh generation made the the boother brother raise up seed uto the dead visited the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those that thit I 1 hated him and cursed the whole posterity of and made them servants of servants is to their heir b brethren i nineteenth century christians blush aubuch at buch auch bar barbarity barfty and injustice they are too enlightened to be guilty of r uch such monstrous proceedings no thought they indeed calet let every man laveine have one wife and if thatis that is not enough go to bohose those that sell and buy bless the dear little offspring it his f fault ault thit that that Is it his father Is rich he be ought not to suffer because of his parena fault dro noi that was a law to the old jews ca a schoolmaster to bring them into the perfect we enjoy in this enlightened age and to kill a man for so small ail ann offense offence would be as barbarous as unjust and it if the lord loril iid ild did lid condemn a race oi of people to perpetual servitude our unbounded philanthropy would reverse the decision and let them free probably he was in a passion passion at the time and now his his hib anger Is cooled I 1 lie he will repent it if not we wintry will try and liberat liberace libe rafe them for we know it Is cruel and unjust and incompatible with the attributes of an all wise and ga gol god and was so long ago and when the world wat wal wa young before befort they begun to have such definite ideas of ot thee rights oi of man and before it was clearly knan n thit that ati A men are afe are ara born free and equal I 1 li ii was excusable at that time considering their ignorance but bat now is no apology I 1 tor for it ac c ac these are some of their idias ideas upon the past liast and present r so 0 ir dr as 5 I 1 can gather from their precepts and examples for the future they have hav hai e a hope of progressing in a multiplied ratio they contrast contract the present wl th As pasi past and with great self complacency congratulate themselves u upon pon the vork they have accomplished the progress they have made from the barbarism of ahe he ages to the full light of the present glorious civilization and look forward to the future with the expectation ol 01 improving in a multiplied ratio foi for they dd not consider themselves quite perfect yet but they are going now upon tipon their chown own hookjr hook hool and no doubt will succeed most admirably as we ve think they have done wonders already and ire almost prepared for that great last change which them into the presence of him whom they list to obey I 1 |