The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

m a t THE HKHaWD Chicago captured national convention. SATURDAY, JANUARY , 23*02. ir. IT. l iL A l l l , Editor aw l Prop'r r PRICE * 1,35 PER ANNUM. A t Opera House MeCorkle sisters- Next Thursday night. Reserved seats.on Sale at Stormont & Co's. Stove \vo,od un?l all kinds o f coni at Mitchell's. • • . Dr, Homan was in Dayton Wed­ nesday on business, Dr. Snider and John McLean made n business trip to Day Ion Wed nesday, Miss Mamie Irvin, who has been "visiting triends iii Hamilton, returnee home.Wednesday evening. The MeCorkle sisters, who recently gave an entertainment here, wil. appear in the opera house next Thurs­ day evening. Their program will he entirely changed. Do not fail to go if you love music. Miss L uira MeCorkle as a whistler is not excelled. I f you did not hear her when she was here in September do not fail to attend the entertain ment at the opera house next Thure' day evening. Those who have been .so fortunate as to hear her will all be there, 4 - ■ - —-— rr —-rrr The A .M . E. church has been bo torn up over a debt that has been hanging over it that they couh not even hold a revival hie year, ant a s last Monday night was the . time for the annual election o f offices a new board o f trustees was -elected contesting o f '. Ed Spencer, Martin Daniels, James Gains, Bob Pigg, and Mrs, Badger. Ed. Spencer at once made a short speech regarding the debt and agreed i f a subscription .paper was handet him, to secure cuough money to pay i t off. This was done and Ed went to his white friends and on Thursday night was the proud possessor of receipt in full for all the church owee for which he is very thankful. They can now go on with their revival. A number o f witnesses from here testified beiure the Clark county grand jury last week in the Creswel abortion case, but the jury failed to find an indictment. Many people who are acquainted with the case sensure the jury and prosecutor but without cause. An indictment wouft call for a trial and acquital wouh inevitably follow without more testi mony then was presented there, In the first place, while all admit a crime has been committed, no person has yet been able to prove where it was committal, whether in Clark or Greene county, ami until that is proven ueithercounty can take charge o f the case, We belie /e it can be proven, hut i t has been so long since the crime was committed that it will take au expert to ferret out the truth and his services can not be had unless he is paid. One hundred and forty doHafs has been subscribed for that parjiose, but it has a string to it, so to speak, as it can only be paid in case o f conviction, and a professional detective" can find work to do where the pay is surer and better then it would be in this cose. The officers have gone iw fitr, i f not further in the case than their duties call them, and can not be blamed for lack o f evidence and if any thing more is to be done it will rest entirely with those who fee) Interested in tiie matter. From now on it will take money. Are you in­ terested in bringing illegality party or parties to justice? I f so, how much ate you interested? We are interested enough to double our present sub­ scription and allow all to be used to employ a detective instead o f offering it as a reward in case o f conviction. the democratic The car wheels ground up another suet o f Cedarville hiail yesterday, Mrs. Rilea Stormont is considered dangerously ill. ______ Judge Dakin and Chae. Ridgway, Sr., of Yellow Springs, were in Cedar- ville yesterday, * Miss Hattie Nagley of South Charleston, is visiting her cousins, the Misses Sallie and Mollie Nagley, east o f town. . ____ The predictions o f the physicians tjiat cold weather would decrease the number of cases of la grippe lma been varifietl. ___________ Don’t forget the MeCorkle sisters at opera house next Thursday night, Those who heard them wheu they were here before will bear then again. I f you failed to bear them do not miss an opportunity. Seats on sale at Stor­ mont & Co’s. A singular accident occurred to the down mail at this place last .Monday morning... The train- was rushing through at a high rate of speed as the mail pouch was thrown off and the sack rolled under the cur wheels am was cut to pcices. Inside was a smal pouch containing only letters and it was caught by the"sucking current o f the cars and held there until the train reached Xenia where it fell off as the train slowed up upon entering the cor­ poration. The mail in the outer sack was almost completely destroyei having been scattered all along the rail road a t this place. Friday night o f last week, the offi cere, o f the Grand Army and Woman’s ‘Relief Corps were installed for the coming year, John D. Harnard o f Xenia, acting as installing officer. The following are the officers o f the G. A. R.: A. Jackson, Commander; John Tarbox,S. V .O .; Lewis Gilbert J . V. C.; James Murray, O. P.; John McLean, Quartermaster. For the W. 11. C ., Carrie Cline, President; Mrs; Dr. Stewart, Treardrer; Lena Gilbert, Secretary; Mrs. Jno Phillips, conductor; Mrs. Jas- Muaray Assist., Conductor. ______ jaunty Treasurer Johnston, Pros­ ecutor Trader. and Deputy Auditor Hooven were in Columbus yesterday to see Governor McKinley" about the application o f J , II. Wolford for a position on the board o f penitentiary managers, Mr.* Wolford lives in Cedarville, and would mnke a splendid member o f the board, but Major Mc­ Kinley has his eyes elsewhere. He told our gentleman that he did not see how he possibly could appoint Mr. Wolford, which practicrlly is a decline- tiontodoso. We are sorry that Greene County gets left, bnt, of course, the Major has to do the best he can, and having something less tbnn a hundred thousand applications for every place with pay attached, can’t give to all that come.—G azette . Bert Squires is in trouble again. It has been learned that he was the person who entered the Kyle school house aLd stole the pictures hanging on the. walls. He sold them to diff­ erent parties iu this vicinity. He was serving a work-house sentence having been sent down by Mayor TowuBley last week but Was brought hock by Constabla 0 roes to answer the more serious charge o f house-breaking. He waved examination and Was bound over to court, He o f course denies the charge and explains the way the pictures came into his possession by saying that he was walking homefrom Xenia and met a tramp near tlie East Point school house, who had built a fire there and was camping out and that he had the pictures. Bert claims that lie Saw a chamcefor a speculation and purchased them, giving him a dollar and ten cents for the entity col­ lectiin. His storymay be true but to prove it will bgdfr* trouble, 'tie- sides, the r e p u t t i j ^ B k already bears will go a great lU H p r o r d t convin­ cing a jury tent f c f f it d a hand in purloining the pictures. P a u l i n a o r H y m n * , Contrary to former expectations we again hike the quill in hand. ■Our motive is uot to stir up strife or cause discord; hence we have waited two weeks that all feeling might sub­ side. Our object is to cause greater mrmony. This time we write with jacuities all awake Having just read. “Quis in a swoon” we happened to meet the elder brothers of" Psalman and Hyman deceased, and overheard a friendly dispute between them some­ what ns follows: Psnlnmn.—Why is it Hyman, that "when Christians iu different churches are living iu peace, and are all working together as they are iu Cedarville,” as Psalm (Singer well says, that you and your friend Quis throw a hymn-siz­ zling bomb among us? Do you not believe that our deceased brothers are united in heaven? Hyman.—Certainly, and it is to produce the same spirit o f union ■be­ tween us on earth that I would like to submit for your careful consideration wime thoughts suggested by Quis, vision, if you will promise to keep perfectly sweet. Psalman.—Here is my hand. But tell me why this question was raised, why this opposition? Hyman.—You mistake, we do not oppose your mode o f worship, but simply defend our own. We freely admit that the siugiug o f psalms is scriptural. . But you and your friends will not udiuit that we have any di vine authority for singing hymns o: human composition. Psalm Singer says "we are making a mistake.” Be cause of your convictions, which believe to be erroneous, you remember that during the Woman’s Crusade one of your principal .workers refugee to meet with the ladies to pray for the overthrow o f the,saloon because they Bang a hymn o f praise. You also re­ call when you left the house o f mourn ing while a hymn siugec was leading in prayer. You know too that the W, G. T, U . is uat as generally 'sup ported as it would be if an pccasiona hymn were allowed to be sung. Then during the union meetings o f the churches there would be a larger attendance if there were more hymn singing, for many outsidera and others say they take no' pleasure in psalm singing. Again it is an open secret that wiien a move was ou foot to hold union meetings once a quarter oi the four young people’s societies o f the town, one of the churches bitterly objected on the ground that one nigti in the year the meeting would be hell in a church wlfere, forsooth, a hymn might be sung and their young peop • be tempted to ring. Now in your un­ biased judgment, Mr. Psalmau, do these things tend to uuity, and are they entirely free o f the sectarian spirit o f former ages? Psalnura.—That raises the vital question. We must not do evil that goodmay come. Point me to one "Thus saith the Lord” for singing a hymn o f human composition, and I will yield the point. Show any falla­ cy in the cogent reasoning o f Psalm Singer ami friend Kyle. Hyinan.—They speak with strong convictions, but I fear their study has l>«en on one side o f the question. I take it for granted, they are still searching for truth. The statement made by Quis that the “Redeatner rang a hymn with his disciples” (Matt. 26;30. Mark 14;26) is in perfect har­ mony with the Bible. Psalm Singer reminds us that “psalm’’ is Used in the margin. a There is no authority for it, hence it is omitted in the more critical new version. One who is acquainted with the Greek language, in which the new testament was first written, informs me that there are two Greek words, one meaning psalm and the other hymn. The second won! is used in both these passages. Why wits it preferred by the inspired writer? The only answer given to the statement in Quis’ vision that Paul and Silas rang hymns is that o f Mr, Kyle, that “ there were no hymns o f human composition in ^existence then nor for tliree centuries after­ ward.” He forgot that Homer 800 B. C. wrote hymns. Clemens Alex* andrinutt 160 A . D. wild- the worship o f Egyptians was chiefly singing hymns. He himself composed a hvmu to Christ, left to us complete. Bftr- desanes. in the Syrian church o f the second century, wrote 150 hymns, Arrknes, born 100 A. D ., the Stoic \ I FURNITURE. HOW WE HAVE GOT YOU Next week will be bargain week To those buying Furniture such as Bed room suits, Parlor suits, *folding Lounges, tables, Booh case, Safes, Rockers, Chairs in fact anything in the furniture line, Also Monarch Furniture Polish best in the world all at exeedingly low prices. Call and see us as we mean business. BARR &MOBTON. "Whatever psalmB and hymns were written by the brethren from the be­ ginning,, celebrate Christ the word of God by asserting his divinity, hence, it appears that it Was au ancient cus­ tom m the church to'compose psalms and hyarns iu honor o f Christ.” No­ tice, Psalman, that these were o f hu­ man composition, both psalms and hymns composed by the brethren from the' beginning of. Christ’s church. Bingliam, an excellent authority, re marks that it was in ancient times no objection against the psalmody of the church that she sometimes made use, o f psalms and hymns o f human com- position, besides those of, the sacred and inspired writers. It has been demonstrated that there always were such psalms and hymns and doxolo- gies composed br pious men and used in the church from the first founda­ tion o f it, (i. e. the Christian church) nor did any but Paulus Sumosatensis take exception to tlie use o f them” " It is evident,” continues Bingham, •‘the ancients rande no scruple o f us­ ing .psalms or hymns o f human com­ position.” Here Hyman repeated an eveniug hymn which Basil in the 4th century described as 'very ancient, handed down from the fathers.’ We read in the beBt biblical cyclopedia ever published: "In the jail nt Phil-1 Paul and Silas sang hymns unto It was, in fact, a veritable singing o f hymns.” Quis. [We have not the space to publish this communication in full this week. — E d . . _ _ _ _ _ Just the thing -for the snow-—two horse sled at Mitchell’s. The only Lehigh coal in town at Mitchell’s. New Crusher at Ervin’s elevator crush all kinds of feed on Tuesdays and Fridays. Five bushels and un­ der 25 cents. Over 5 bushels 5 cents er bushels: Ervin & Co. BeBt cigars in town at Ben Ridg- ways* 1 UIBRY Should you philosopher, one o f the best writera o f his day,'Said, “ I f we are intelligent creatures what else should we do, Itoth in public and private, than to sing hymn to->God?” This philosophi hints that intelligent creatures a m r - . hymns, and that we inay worship God while a t our secular work,. But, Mr. Psalman. you once reproved me tor singing a psalm While ploughing. Eusebius, an early church \historian, quotes this saying o f 200 A . I).; New styles in box writing paper at Ben Ridgway’s. Choice candies at Ben Ridaway’s. Blank books and and account books at Ben Ridgway’s. Graham Flour nt Bull’s Window Glass and Putty a tBu ll’s The finest line of fresh and salt meats in thecounty at C. W. Dean’s Buyyour winter boots o f 8tormont and Co. Smoke Wright’s Cigars, for sale at Bull’s. Lamp chimneys and coal oil at Ben Ridgway’s. Milton’ Keys has re' In Millinery we have TRIMEMUTS From 75 eta. to $1.50. t * 1 ntrimiiedHats From 25cta to 50cts, RIBBONS One third off FRAMES We desire to closeout our of Winter moved his shoe shop to his {entire stock f " room next to the Nee Miiu Fob 18tIl. bet property on Mam st., where he will bo glad to have all customers call. Happy nOOaier*. Win. Tltuiiious, Postmaster o f Ida* vllle, lad ., writes: “Elertrio Bitters has (lone more for me than any othei medicines comoiiicd, for that bad feeling arising from Kidney and Liv­ er trouble.” John Leslie, farmer amt stock innn, o f saute■place. says: “Find Electric Bitters to lie-tlie Iwst Kidney and Liver medicine, made mo feel like a now man.” J, W, Gardener^ hardware merchant, same town, says: Electric Bitters is Just the tiling for a man who is all run down and don’t euro whether he lives or dies; ha found now strengihj good appetite and fell just like he had a new icawe ou life. Only 5#V, a bottle, at n i v ’s tteui: > «. 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