| Show 41 A BURLESQUE olt Itt RELIGION LIGION tue THE of the nth dinst as san an evidence of the distress swA which cli cil MOB most t newspapers have been under draws attention to an editorial ial in the last issue of the new york cho christian advocate t p ld ea 1 ing methodist organ in america in which two and ia a balf half columns column are devoted to a pathetic appeal I 1 for continuous subscriptions ipton As a specimen of the tho style in id which that paper and the thi society which it represents works the fears and sympathies of of the roll reil religious 1 g fuk fua public we make a few notations the editorial is addressed to totham that non renewing sa and b tates lates we have a ort sort of invested right in yau you have havn in oun bur p prayers every eveny day since we met i i i itis it is the price of the subscription that the editor beems to have llad had I 1 in a i ills his mind while prahl praying in f for or th the e bubb briber in whom he claims a bort sort of or invested right as ag a yearly of gash says say she lie fie i your mother tead t bp the advocate before you we reborn were bornand ant ani 4 read it many a day aishe as she rocked and hummed you to sleep she bh has gone late home to neav leav enThis years year I 1 a advocate may guide your sour feet safely to the same bame he heaven viven brother can you ablord to hush these memories and quench fc bi light for 2702 2702 from this it would appear that the young man mein whose mother hummed him to sleep to the drowsy tones of the christian ad can get to the bame same heaven as his maternal parent patent for the cheap investment of how could he resist a renewal of his subscription little littie fear of retting setting into some other heaven than his to others or of going to that sulphurous phu rous roua region of never dying flames which the methodists maintain uain tain in all its bottomless extent in spite of the greek roots of farrar farrar or it the he new departures of A american me melcan Ican dt divines Villes vilies if he will only send to the chrisa christian an advocate the i ridiculously iball sum of he further davs j if you allow your christian advocate to be stopped and all others should follow your example of 61 courtie you would utterly stop the publication of religious papers and litera abandon tue field for the arch enemy brother can you afford aff ord to td strike civil society such a fatal blow for 2 7 40 here is a terrible condition of things all to result from the ole stop I 1 page fage of the christian advocate and lis its lis failure allure to receive that ma maglo magio gic 2701 1701 all religious literature t to b by i 0 gut lut utterly terly at stopped aped and civil society society uto to be slain tor for the lack of 12 2 ay juat is it a fact that all religious papers are dependent for weir ex ci stence on the continuance of the 0 christian advocatt or are we to understand tand land that the methodist I 1 e organ at gotham is the only ous paper extant was vaa there no t civil society in existence before the advent of the christian advona advocate td dand fand rand at its demise from atrophy 1 caused by the lack of nutriment in the form of will civil society expire simultaneously what a dreadful ul reflection for fon the non 1 renewing subscriber to think that whis retention of has haa ha wiped out ic every anti antl satanic barri barrier enand erand and left a clear field for the arch archenemy enemy to s N devastate and devour by lly all ali 11 means be should send on that potent Just another extract one little boy walks to school nee once nce a week and saves his car fare tare that his mother may have the christian advocate god is tain awn lain to honor that lad in time and 1 almost certain bertaln to glorify him in eternity bl ahja Js not this reducing I 1 the price of or fc salvation t a ruinously low figure f A certain divine honor in this life y aud aud and almost certain glory in the ae next all fora for 2 70 what little boy bos of proper religious feeling would think of riding in a street by pedestrian fedes triin exercise antt antl the ad ot of to be expended in ld a chretian advocate he be c can inse inbe anse secure such present hocur and und future glorification the first Impress impression lod lad produced by these theme aphea appeals is of laughter whey they deeni teem like the tie broadest land of burlesque 11 athe th e 11 fi next is 14 oge oae one oue of disgust and alid r of r oon mon they sound liko like blasphemy and shameless impiety ifo wonder that people scoff and rail mil at the vals vais vuly d teah deac hera of aiom the pulpit and the press tv they alternately threaten and cajole the public d lor the eminently purpose of getting money preachers of bf ibe the hame came denomination as t jahe christian advocate 6 editor and with equal 9 have traversed I 1 hu ho united states wit solemn faces and ant mourning over imaginary evils evila in utah E UP pie rie by ly threats of consequences jf if becu pecuniary wary oary 1 ad were not forthcoming and anu bright hued of divine divin favor for dollars do donated bated havo hava succeeded in ga gathering in much eash cash and scattering many false they area are a disgrace to their cloth tind and bring reproach on warth worthy and sincere laborers in the cauer of bf human redemption demotion demp tion 1 hueh buch liter ilter aryland clerical ims ins imposture ought tolle toile to be discourage raged dby by right minded d f malione ma lions ad and the tho hest best means meang bf suppressing it is withhold id td the ile lio luc tuc lucre re is 14 ab be e boje bf of these pers fers persistent I 1 fm importuners ort oft finers finerA ra and if that is hat forthcoming they will soon retire from the nield field and se seek 1 ek more profitable pastures the world would be the better for tuell arence absence and the cause of tru erell gion glon would by their silence be lie saved savea from great reproach I 1 |
