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Show SpriiiRville Letter. IMt.or Uanueu i Occasionally a number of your spicy llttlo paper drops In among my reading matter, and It plemes me to learn of the intelligeiicn and enterprise of the city wlieie onco I had n homo and intelligent worthy friends many of whom llko inyjelt In the sar and yelhm leaf and many have pasbed to the great bcond O.i taking a cursory ghiucs at tlio category of dea old frieu la of church memory, it I plea in; to note, that tho "up and downs" attendant upon tho footitpso time although tliry may huvo c insider-ably insider-ably shaken ts u,i at tiniiliinds m win d'starb d our uiullihrimn, ut the tcnu .if ourway In Joitling njainstcauh other in the path of progress has rather tended co strengthen than retard our progiesa, and thankful should ve ba that nothing In tlio successivo ttps of an cvontfii! nistory has had the eUVct to disrupt our ncrcd rjlations nuJ to truth. And let us hope that where any may hao been so uufoitumitu ns to fall Ubldo that It may ho only for a seanon, and that n joyous return to Until and former (landing In tho church may forcvei olilltcrutc the memcrv ot our separation and reunite tho friendihip mid iu-oolatlini iu-oolatlini of the jntt. Ha man of ihuriicterciiiiassocinte with the profane, tlio Sabbath breaker and tho debauched without lovverlug himself in tlio tcalo of ' I... .- manliood. Tlirotigh such nfnenl i some ot tho sons of our departed si h have fallen from tho pinak.k of tiuo manhood to degradation and ice, lut let it bo hoped not to ruin' l'ojs, us certainly ns impure nir produced diueu o so does bad company engender vice i' ul and debase tho lofiletst eenllniciu Wvcda ul ays rctari! t)m urOAtli ol crop), liowe.er xloiibto the ciops, nud the longer the weedu take root and grow tho more dilllctilt it is to uproot tlieui and thu inoio tho gooil ciop sulleisly tin in. Thu eociety of the Milgiru nlunjs debusing Hotter taUu lliu lowest scut among thu good and the p .10 than to be ivi to popular with the corrupt The lou- ol good coeiet u lien unco cultivated loathes thusiuku of pollution us nu epidemic, lliuo tho courage to tover connection v. I'll tho most agrtcuhlu nciiuaintancva wheiievti it appears iitue is wnntlug in them One w i iter says, "He Hint doen n base tiling for a friend liiinn tho golthn thiend that tics then liturta lcgetlnr " A woid nbout heels l'iopecls foi water looked gloomy until the iccent rain whleli has rcvivnl nil henits ho largo a belt nrea t'lilli fur much wiibr nud tends to diminish tho supply. W 0 continue to pprcad out wnter over new arena and unless nutiiro supidlea an inereasti ive miii-t gu up thcanuu mid reiervoir which will require cost, nud the construction of it new rouduatlre li.iter would ilestio the old one. Tim future will ib something in thlf juatter orthuemps must miller Wesulleied prior to the Into rainfall. Zion's lining jons, will, hovveter, prove rrju.il In cwy cniergcni'y, mul thbii'linds innro will tlud n homo in .ion ovon If the heavens havo to (hoi forth rnln t3 rami tl o giniu to ftcd them. Cliailesl). i:aiis Sprinsville.Julyia, 1SU5 1 IT ' "" ' |