Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

Tuesday, Jan., 31st. Senate,— The funding bill was farther discussed and amended. House.— The resolution requesting the President to obtain a list of American citizens confined in English prisons, was adopted, after which the remainder ol the sitting was spent in committee of the whole on the public calendar. The cpmmlttee rose without action, and the post route bill was reported and passed. * Wednesday, Feb., Ist. Senate.—A bill was reported favorably appropriating 815,000 to supply thejpeople with pure vaccinevi rus. The funding bill wa further discussed. House.— A resolution setting apart the 27th of February for Garfield memorial exercises, was adopted. The most of the sitting was spent on committee ol the whole, with Mr. Calkins in the chair, on the postoffice appropriation bill. The committee rose without action. Thursday, Feb., 2nd. Senate.— The proposition to confer the franking privilege on Senators and Representatives was indefinitely postponed. The funding bill was further considered. House.—A number ol bills were reported from committes and referred to the Committee of the whole House. The House then went into Committee of the whole the postoffice appropriation bill. Eeb., 3rd. Senate.— The bill to extend the northern boundary of Nebraska, was passed; also the Sherman funing bill by the decisive vote of—yeas 38; nays 18; A bill to authorize the Postmaster General to delegate certain authority, was passed; also a bill appropriating $?00,000 iora fire proof War Department building ;also the Honse bill admitting goods for Kansas colored people free of duty. Adjourned til Monday * HousE-The bill releasing the Philadelphia and Reading Railway from certain taxes was considered without action. Monday, Feb., oth. Senate,—After the routine of the morning hour, the resolution against the repeal of dension arrearage legislation was considered without action. House.—A number of resolutions were offered and referred. Motions to suspend the rules and pass certain bills, failed for want of a two-thirds vote.

The Indecencies of the Bible. DeWwitt Talmage. Mr. Ingersoll goes on says there are indecencies in the Bible. He dares Christians to read certain parts of the Bible in their families. He takes up the Bible from his lecturing desk and says he will read some things, and then, with an affected blush, says there are some things he dare not read in the presence of families. His delicacy and modesty overcome him. My reply is, there are things not intended to be read either in the family circle or in the pulpit, but, nevertheless, they are to be read. I can'go into the office of any physician in Brooklyn and find on his table medical journals and bis library books that the physician would not think best to read iq his family, vet they are good books, valuable boobs, indispensible books, pure books, and no physician would be worth the Dame of physician who did not own them. Now there are things in the Bible which are merely the anatomy of.sin, showing what a lazar-house of iniquity the heart is when unrestrained ; loathsome description, from the reading of which one rises with a Erofltable disgust and horror. Not to e read in public, but in private. One rises up from them not contaminated with the evil, but as one comes from the dissecting room, more intelligent than when he went in, yet in no wise enamored of putrefaction. There is a Byronic description of sin which allures and destroys, while the Bible description of sin warns and saves. Do not denounce the Bible as unfit because there are some things not to be read in the family, unless you denounce all medical journals and books. They are not fit to read in the family.