Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1890 — CRAINS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CRAINS OF GOLD.

[From the Ram's Horn.] The most beautiful glass eye evermade cannot see anything. The first question at the sepulcherwas, “ Why weepest thou ?” The sweetest bread ever tasted, is= that cut from the loaf of toil. God clothed man. Man stripped! Christ, and gambled for his raiment. Make your long prayers in privateand your short ones in public. Everytime we try to deceive-God, our chances of being lost increase. Real wealth is that which cannot betaken from you by man or devil. The happiest people are those who willingly suffer most for others. It is not an easy matter for God to get His arms around a man who already has his arms around a bag of money. It makes no difference what we are. The most important of all things to us is what we will permit Christ to be. All the preaching that ever has orever will be done may be boiled down into three little words—“ God is love.*” We know how much trouble the devil caused Job, but God alone knows how much trouble Job caused the* devil. When we get to the end of life, we shall find that the only things we havereally lost are those we tried to keep. Don’t be in too great a hurry for results. You can’t raise an oak tree md get a crop of acorns in a few minutes. The devil is always ready to walk, xrm in arm with the man who says, “I don’t have to join church to be a Christian. ” * Wearing his hat on the back of his. head is one of the ways in which a., young man, can tell everybody he doesn’t know much. If the women who went to the sepul;her had waited to find somebody toroid the stone away, they would not ■ have started.

lhe man who goes to heaven on flowery beds of ease will find himself in a mansion of not more than one room when he gets there. The fact that God used the ravens tofeed Elijah should teach us that we can derive spiritual help from the most-' common-place resources. Christ didn’t say, “Stand still, and I will give you rest,” but “Come untome.” There must be a change of front, and a forward movement. If* moderate drinking is allowableand respectable, what’s the reason moderate stealing or any other kind of; qualified meanness is not commendable? The only way you can persuade some people to join church is to convince-, them that it pays. Do this and you * could n’t keep them out with a shotgun. Did you ever notice how carefully people pick their way over a muddy street crossing? Christians ought tobe just as careful as to how and where they walk. « Gcd’s way of blessing is to give everybody all they can carry, and chargenothing for it, as Joseph did to his brethren, when they came to him after corn in Egypt. Singular, isn’t it, that when a man gives his wife a dime to buy a box of hair pins or <» gum ring for the baby, it looks about nine times as big as it does when he planks it down on the counterin exchange for a little bitters for the stomach’s sake.

A Colored Priest. The only person of African descentin America who has been ordained tothe priesthood of the Roman Catholic

Church lives in. C h i c a g o—Rev. i Father Augustine’ Tolten. He was born a slave in Ralls County,. Missouri, April 1,. 1854. He obtained his freedom in 1861, and went toQuincy, 111. Reworked for twelveyears in a tobaccofactory in that city, beginning at 50 cents a week,.

boarding himself, but rose to a position of trust and good wages before theend of his service. While working by day he obtained a common school education at the parochial school of St. Peter’s, where Sister Mary Eustacia, a. Sister of Notre Dame, took great interest in teaching him and encouraginghim. He began the study of Latin under the tutelage of Father Wegman in 1873, and in 1«75 went with a priest to Marysville, Mo., to assist in theservices there. In 1876 he returned toQuincy, and finished his classical studies at St. Francis College, and on the 15th of February, 1880, started toRome. He was admitted at the Propaganda - in March, and at once began a six years’ course of studies—two of philosophy and four of theology. April 24, * 1886, ae was ordained a priest. He returned to America in 1886, and held at the Sisters’ Hospital, Hoboken, the - first Romish service ever celebrated in this country by a negro. He then returned to Quincy, where he was madepastor of St. Joseph’s Church, a congregation of colored people, July 25,. and labored there four years. Nov. 9, 1889, he was called to Chicago by Archbishop Feehan, and since then has been in charge of St. Monica’sChurch.

Wedding Anniversaries. Somebody gives out the following asa correct list of wedding anniversaries:: Three days, sugar; sixty days, vinegar; first anniversary, iron; fifth anniversary, wooden; tenth anniversary, tin; fifteen anniversary, crystal; twentieth anniversary, china; twenty-fifth’ anniversary, silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton; thirty-fifth anniversary, linen; fortieth anniversary, woolen forty-fifth anniversary, silk; fiftieth anniversary, golden; seventy-fifth anniversary, diamond. “Rambo’s eyes seem to be perfectly sound. I don’t see why he wears thosegoggles.” “He does it to protect his. eyes from the glare of his nose.”

AUGUSTINE TOLTEN.