Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — The Mistakes of Moses. [ARTICLE]

The Mistakes of Moses.

Tlie St. Louis Christian Advocate says: You attended the lecture, did you, and heard all about the mistakes of Moses now that he is dead and cannot talk back to yoa. A living ass can kick a dead lion. — Moses, when he was alive, and after he was eighty years old, commanded an army of six hundred thousand men for forty years, tho’ encumbered with all their baggage, their wives and little ones, and gained splendid victories, emancipating, organizing and giving them laws which have stood the scrutiny of more than thirty centuries and which now *form the basis of tlie government under which we of this] country live. It would be interesting to hear su-. h a man as Moses was, on the mistakes of a colonel of cavalry whose military exploits were confined to a single engagement, in which he was wc rsted and taken prisoner by a boy, aud when exehanged, resigned his commission and turned his attention to “the mistakes of Moses.” Quite interesting. “But he overturned the Bible.” Did he, indeed? Young man, listen: We have lived a considerable while, and during life have heard of the bible being overturned, refuted and demolished many times. Every few years somebody starts up and overturns the bible, and it is like overturning a rock that has been shaped into a perfect cube, turn it as you will it is always “right side npwith care.” Then when we read history begin ing away back at the time of Celsus or earlier, and trace the history of overturners down to the present, we find the work of every one of them has come to naught; and judging the future by a knowledge of the past, the works of such men will always come to naught. There are more bibles in the world

to-day, read and believed in by more people, than ever before since the world was, and the number is increasing more rapidly. It might not be amiss for objectors to be a little less openmouthed and less positive in their assertions about the bible; if for no other reason than that of concealing their own ignorance. »— New York World: The republicans of Ohio in convention proclaim : The right to vote accorded by the constitution of the United States is the concern of >he whole people. The republican judges of the supreme court declare: The right or privilege of voting is one arising under the constitution of the state one not under the constitution of the United States. U. S. vs. Susan 13. Anthony. Neither the constitution nor the fourteenth amendment make citizens voters.—U. 8. vs. Cruikshonk. The fifteenth amendment does not confer the right of suffrage; that comes from the states.—U. S. vs. Reese. The republicans of Ohio should not provoke a conflict with their own suprem e court. Chief Justice Waite may sit down upon Fofaker and Foster in an unpleasant manner. Some people do not put faith enough in old proverbs. The Albany (Shackelford county, Texas) News indicates one: An old gun barrel has been lying around this office five or six months and made to duty as lever, handspike, etc., wa ; thrown on a pile of. burning paper by the devil, and scared him out of a year’s growth by going off and blowing up the ground near his feet. Fortunately it did no damage, 1 ut only serves to show that a gun is dangerous without “lock, stock or barrel.” A New YorK Sundry-school teacher told her pupils that when they put their pennies into the contribution box she wanted each one to repeal a Bible verse suitab e for the occasion. The first boy dropped in his cent, sa ing, “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.” The next boy dropped his penny in the box, sayir g; “He that giveth to the poor lendetli to the Lord.” The third and youngest boy dropped his penny into the box, saying, “A fool and his money are soon parted.”— Truth Seeker. The capture of Jeff Davis in the disguise of a sun-bonnet and woman’s shawl, has long been a pet theme with sundry republican newspapers. It seems a pity to smash the Yankee tradition, but Gen. Grant says in his autobiography: “Mr. Davis when captured was wearing a dressing gown without the shawl or sun bonnet.” - A candidate from Texas for Federai position was asked at the examination in Washington the other day: “B&w many heads has thi Government ?” the reference being, of course, to the Executive, Judicial and Legislative, he wrote his answer as follows: “Old Dave Culberson, our Congressman, when he vas on the stump laid fall, said ttyerewere 120,000 of the darned rascals, and I want one of their places.” ■ H - * # Good Time for a Tariff Picnic. —As there are now over sixty thousand iron workers out of employment, it wouL' be a good time for the tariff orators to enthuse them on the benefits of protected industry. —Harrisburg Patriot. ■ ■ ■ ■■■"— It Beaus on the Farmer. —An examination of the tariff shows that it is a cunningly devised scheme to make the agricultural classes pay tribute to the American manufacturer, while in return the farmer receives nothing at all—Philadelphia Record. Glaze the bottom crust of fruit pies with white of egg and they will not be soggy.