Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1873 — Nunday School Literature. [ARTICLE]

Nunday School Literature.

New Carlisle is proud of a female billiard player. Hebron has a young 8»n; ’lts a new newspaper. Let it thine for all. Wheat in Carroll county looks splendid and farmers predict a large yield. Cerebro-spinal meningitis is prevailing to an alarming extent at and near Mishawaka. The cosjporaftiom <sOllOOll of Ligrtiiier Itift'e contracted for a hook and ladder truck Oosting S2OO. Sixteen or seventeen persons joined the Presbyterian church at South Bend last Sabbath week. The Winamac Odd Fellows have decorated their hall with a bran new set of emblems, costing abont SIOO. A wagon manufacturing company of South Bend has shipped one of their wagons to the Vienna Exponitioiiw •- - - • The Crown Point Register has a two thousand dollar job of printing from Congress, and indulges in a bran new dress. —7—-. - - c Mr. W. A. Patrick resigned the sheriffalty of Newton county last: week, and Jira Skinner was appointed in liis Stead. A ham, a few cigars and fifteen cents in money was what the burglars got who went through a store at Kentland last week. The Michigan City harbor will have the benefit of SIOO,OOO government appropriation expended on its improvement this season. The Winamac Democrat thinks it is about time the Knox Ledger man was getting “some new shoe pegs toprint the home side of his paper on.” The St. Joseph Valley Register, of South Bend, 28 years old, has recently been enlarged. Thirty-six long well filled columns weekly for only $1.50 per year. Up at Plymouth the hoys are turning an honest penny by harnessing up the public dogs and making them work to wagons and sleds as beasts of burden. The Herald says there is some talk of locating the new passenger depot on the opposite side of the river from Monticello, but thinks that would be too absurd. Esq. Fountain W. Ham, a well known citizens of Jackson township, Newton county, was stricken with apoplexy and died suddenly, week ago last Saturday. Mr. Leander Gewoorors, of Hobart, buried a wife and two children on Tuesday of last week, a third child died the same day, and the fourth and last was sick—all with cerebro spinal meningitis. Morris Myers, aged 20, got disgusted at the hash and sand at Michigan City last week and put one leg into Charon’s canoe to visit the further shore; but a meddlesome doctor collared the unhappy youth and he still diets on sandy bash. A splendid black horse and one of the best carriages ever manufactured by a celebrated company in that place, are to be presented to Hon. Schuyler Colfax, by the citizens of South Bend, as a testimonial of their appreciation of his political career. An enterprising individual at Columbus, Indiana, has issued a “confidential” circular to liquor dealers in winch he proposes for the modest sum of $2 to send full instructions how the sections and provisions of the new liquor law may be dodged and no license or other expense required to do business.” 1 The town board of Winamac recently contracted to have four public pumps put down in convenient parts of town. The pipes are two and a half inch, and the pumps will be so constructed that hose can be attached and have handles for four persons to pump at once. They are warranted to throw water 150 feet and to be anti freezing. It will only requires the- modest sqm of $1,880,000 to pay for postage stamps for. the use of the several departments of the Government during the year 1873. Don’t it begin to Joofcas though the abolition of the franking privilege Was dot going to work muck of a “reform” in the matter of expenditures?

Ebwobs -Unwk: —The Sunday school panels, tracts, etc., left at your office.) ast’Wcek, were not so much for ■pdtstfttefi and private reading as for ‘inspection and examination. They ' were called forth by your reference to the subject, and quotation from the Winamac pemocrat of the week before. Glad you found time and space to give this important subject so much attention. Your criticisms are admissible. Should have been pleased if you could have found room for some of the good of which you speak—perhajw you may hereafter. As there is evidently much that is good in Bunday school literature, it may be hoped that the general effect of such reading will be favorable. This is much more than can be said of much of the reading matter at present placed in the hands of the young. Such literature, not that for the Bunday school only, bul all literature for the young, “from the fact of its coming directly in contact with tender, plastic, uninformed minds, ought to be pure, earnest, and above all else, strictly truthful.” Pity that it is not so now, but as it certainly is not, let the work of pruning and sifting go on. Those who are most deeply interested in the proper moral and religious training of the young will not be slow to welcome every available help. * Let us have more and more of the True, the Pure, the Beautiful, the Good. More of such writers, talkers and workers as Mr. Raymond, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and scores and hundreds of others, whose earnest, truthful and beautiful words the world will not soon let die. It. F. R. F. scores close, but isn’t mindful of the chalkline. “You’re another” never seemed good logic to us; but still we presume it would not be amiss to look after our own lumber yard part of the time.