Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1886 — Queer Old Hymns. [ARTICLE]

Queer Old Hymns.

We stumbled a while ago, says the Christian Advocate, on the following in one of Newton’s hymns: The kine unguided went By the directed road, When the Philistines homeward sent The ark of Israel’s God. Lowing, they passed along, And left their calves shut up ; They felt an interest for their young, But would not turn nor stop. This is worthy to be remembered with Isaac Watt’s verse: He spake, and stright our hearts aud brains With all their motions rose; Lot blood (lie said) flow round the veins, And round the veins it Hows. It was an old Oriental doctrine that women have no souls. More enlightened philosophy concedes that they have purer, finer, more exalted souls than men. But they arc too Ofteu contained in feeble, sutlering bodies, which hamper and retard their full development. For all those painful ailments incident to the sex, Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” is the best specific In the world, and is sold under a positive guarantee that it will do all that is claimed for it. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. Dislocating an opium joint is not a painful operation. The dangers of Whooping Cough are averted by the use of Ayer’s Cherry PecteraL The carte before the horse—a hippographio dinner The color produced by Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers always gives satisfactioa