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Bodgeville, - wis.
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The Bible and the Times.
Has the Bible any intimations in it concerning the strange
tunes tvehve m ? Were the upheaving and com,notions,-the
swaymgs to and fro of the kingdoms and nations of this nine
teenth century, known to the Infinite One ages upon ages ago?
Has C.od, m the JSooh, said any thing by which believing men can
know something ol the whereabouts of the world on the voyage of
its dost.ny Is there no due by which it can be known, even if
but dimly, the stage in its route towards its end, that this earth
has come to on Us journey? There are prophecies, are they all
fulfilled f or arc they now being fulfilled, and are the times we
live in but the opening of a grand drama, grander than any hith
erto in the Divine economy relative to the human race and the
accomplishment of God’s great purpose concerning man ?
Men who believe in a veritable God—an actual God that rules
supreme in the universe, cannot fail to have questions of this sort
coming up before their minds in these momentous times, for the
age is pregnant with something, something wonderful, and al
though we see on the surface of things men figuring in their puny
way, plotting, devising, arranging, disarranging, marching, coun
termarching, setting some up, setting some down, slaying and
being slain; yet at the back of all this, or rather, high over all
this, a believer in a veritable God can conceive of an agency at
work, who, amidst all this, in the dignity of his matchless power
and wisdom, is bringing to pass his grand purposes long ago pur
posed, and perhaps, long ago foretold in prophesy, if we only
could that prophesy read and understand.
The most remarkable of all centuries is this nineteenth centu
ry ; in no age before, at least so-it seems to us, has the elements
of darkness and the elements of light—the principles of virtue and
the principles of villiany, stood forth confronting one another in
battle array so close and so determined, contesting the right to
rule ; never before, as we think, did right and wrong so fiercely
grapple with each other for the ascendancy as they do just now,
and never was the destruction of property and the destruction of
human life sacrificed to such an extent as they are now, in a ter
rible contest as to whether the principles of order, of right, of
humanit}’, or the principles of tyranny and despotism shall gov
ern. There have been civil wars before, but a civil war of ex
actly the same type as the one now raging on this continent, has
never been before. This involves questions of prodigious import
ance, not to this nation merely, but to humanity in every nation,
and the magnitude of the means used to carry it on is without a
parallel.
“Rome, in the days of her power, arrayed her armies against
each other under the lead of Caesar and I’ompey. Rut at the bat
tle of Pharsalia in which the fate of the Republic was sealed,
Pompey commanded an army of only lorty-five thousand foot and
seven thousand horse; while that ot Caesar, who gained the vic
tory, was only about half as large. In the conflict that arose
after the death of Julius Caesar, between Brutus and Cassius on
the one sid g anti Antony and Octavius on the other, when
the largest Roman armies that had ever been seen were marshal
led against each other, each party led to battle about one hundred
thousand men.
England has been the theatre of bloody commotions. In the
reign of Charles the Ist, a civil war raged with fury. At the
battle of Marston Moor, when the most numerous armies met that
were engaged during the war they had hut twenty-five thousand
soldiers on a side. Cromwell. entire army, by which the nation
was subdued and kept in subjection, amounted, on the whole, to
only about fifty thousand men. The revolution of 1088, by "hmh
the dynasty of England was changed, was accomplished hj >n
liam, the Prince of Orange, with an army of fifteen thousand i
History has recorded these revolutions and war scenes as gieat
events, hut the record of this American civil war will throw a
this in the shade. Over one million of brave, determined, well
armed men arc engaged in active hostilities against each other in
this contest. The federal government has called into the held
and had in actual service, seven hundred thousand men, and is
now calling out three hundred thousand more. The insurrec
tionists have had nearly, if not altogether as many, and such ap
pliances and instruments of destruction were never before called
into service to demolish and destroy. A while ago forty pounder
cannon were considered formidable, but now we hear ot one hun
dred and three hundred pounder guns. Y hat weapons of dcs
tr chapter in the Revelation by St. John, is a remarka-
WcXpiJ: bit possible that in that all™ is had
to the scenes and commotions passing onithe earths
snirits like fro<rs coming out ol the mouth of the dragon, w hat are
l hov but hounholy dSctrincs and foul theories propagated by
Lw wU" concerning God,, a revelation and human
responsibility! the monstrous fanaticisms' .J^'s
tious pretenders to religion, m morinonis i., . a ted by
and spirit-rappingistns; ‘he abotmnabk propagated j,
black hearted pol.ucu is b „„„d to respect. If
rights on this cai th that anotn cnomrh—polluted and
these spirits are not unclean enou • no t foul for,
Polluting enough, then the hot cm “s P ‘ be found there
rake it through and what things more unclear hu .
than such doctrines, and wha , tb ere than the instiga
man right and human weal can . 9 Verily, the “unclean
tors and propagators ( j f such and thei r slime is poisoning the
spirits like frogs are let 100 t batUe is but begun,
habitations of men. The end _• 3 : opened the shifting
the drama is but opened, and now that it u blood
scenes must go on, the earth ‘ . j P an | t b e Eternal has said
severe purgers, but they arc ’ „ and righteousness, e.
that he “will thoroughly P'> r Let CTCry bo
riglit principles, will spring up helierc and look up, for the
Merer in n rentable God hope, am “JJ “ t WM Jill is, and
of redemption daydraweth nigh •,‘ h e f„me„tiarc utterly crushed,
must rule till all enemies to u. g . , f or b j s church, it is
to open for it a brighter day-
|3r*How wonderful that better than'we; we
how to love our children, be < , tb ey are no worse than
know how to love our friends, btcai- 0 f blessed spirits
we; but how Christ car. stoop from out t beßtormw , with ten.?-
to love us, who arc begrimed parts of humanity, that s
tation, ancT wrestling with the> lo* > P g from the foundation of
past our finding out. 1,1 _ too far away for us to see,
the world ; and because heaven was t hag alw ays been
came down to earth to do the B Qn eart b was not an ®® cia
doing profusely above. Chi everlasting state ; a dip
mission ;it was a development of an d attributes
bring within our horizon t * -ehend; —God’s pilgrimage
which otherwise we could no Y . wo lf-smperiled fold,
earth as a shepherd, in searchk of.h* ,£ s ten der as thus
when I look I say toj^ th , n? if he was
and yet on earth ? u w hat is he now in tbe lull
when imprisoned in the lies > — £ eec her.
and largene ii onn du mb
Kindness is a languag® 1 ut alI spea k kindly.
s P Sk, but the dumb can understand.
a REPUBLICAN AND family NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP THE PEOPLE,
DODGEYILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1863.
Tlic Scriptural Idea of Religion*
Religion, in the common acceptation of tho term, is a word of
great import and extensive meaning; and, perhaps there is not
a word in our language tliat contains more importance than this
w °rd, religion ; and yet it is but seldom wc find it in the Bible. |
Nearly all systems, however, of belief and worship are brought
before the world under this head. If a man worships the sun,
moon, or stars, he thinks his worship is an act of religion ; if a
number of persons unite their devotions in worshipping rep
tiles, or some phenomena of nature, it is their religion. Go into
any part of this world, no matter how remote the country or bar
barous the inhabitants, and you will find that all men have an
idea of religion. But, however much it may vary in its form, or
differ in its name, its creed, or its external operations upon the
human mind, there is but one kind of real, pure, soul-saving and
God-glorifying religion in this world. And if wc would under
stand its nature —its effects or its designs, we must consult tho
blessed book, and seek the holy spirit to dwell in our hearts, and
the man that gets his idea of religion from the Bible, and lives it
out in all the departments of human life, will be a religionist of
tho higher order.
The question before us is, wiiat is religion ? How shall wc un
derstand it? What are its claims upon our general character rel
ative to this world and the world to come ? In answer to these
questions wc would say, religion takes hold upon every man’s
faitli in God. The fundamental principles of every true religion
ist is his belief in tho being and perfections of his Creator , man’s
universal departure from a state of rectitude and happiness, a
sense of obligation to God as set forth in the scriptures, piety in
the soul regulating and giving character to his actions among
men, the performance of all his religious duties, a system of
theology comprehending all the doctrines of Jesus Christ, and a be
lief in the truth that every person will bo rewarded according to the
deeds done in the bod} r ; these principles seem to be indispensable
in the faith of every man who claims to enjoy true religion. A
man may do many good things in the world, and have no respect
for religion; he may exhibit a certain course of conduct that
would he praisworthy in the eyes of the best of men ; hut no man
can have the approval of God upon his good deeds, unless he re
cognizes and believes in God. Men are sometimes considered to
he first-rate characters, who are what others would style infidels;
but nothing can have the sanction of religion, or he in any way
associated with it, unless it is done in faith of, and love to a per
fect, just and holy God. And yet, there arc many of this class to
be found in almost all communities. It is a pity, one is almost
ready to say,that these liberal and kind-hearted souls would regu
late their kind-heartedness in faith and love to Jesus Christ, and
then, by so doing, they would secure their eternal reward. “For,”
said Jesus, “inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto mo.” It will he seen then,
that faith in the divine character, and an unshaken confidence
in God form a very prominent part of true religion. “He that
comcth unto God must believe that he is.” But the religion ot
the Bible means something else besides faith. James says of
faith, “if it has not works it is dead, being alone.” It has a more
extensive and powerful claim on man than merely his assent or
consent to the truth. It takes hold upon the entire being of every
man, so that whatever may he his qualifications, natural or ac
quired, it is his imperitive duty to devote them to the interest of
religion. “Ye arc not your own, hut ye arc bought with a price;”
therefore it is not for man to say, he will do thus and so with the
g ift s God has bestowed upon him, hut rather heed the Apostle’s
admonition, and glorify God with his body and spirit which are
his. And, as all talents and gifts are from the Lord, it is his
will that they be employed in his service. If God has given man
powers for thought, it is mans dut} to call all his thinking fa< -
ulties into exercise to advance the divine glory. If ho has the
gift 0 f tongues or speech, it is right that his tongue be used to
build up God’s cause and defend his truth. If a man thinks it is
more natural for him to work with his pen, and in this way he
can do most for God, he can work in that sphere. God has work
for all kinds and grades of talent in Ins moral vineyard, and there
is no cause for being idle m the market place. If, in the order of
providence man has been blessed with an abundance of wealth,
let not that man think he is excused, or that God has no claim on
his uronerty. Wealth, as we undcstand it, is a talent, and God
holds man responsible for the usefulness of that gift, as much as
for any other favor or blessing he confers upon him.
What an old Letter did.
It was in the month of Juno. Mr. N arose in the morning,
ami saw that it would boa rainy day. To this he had no objec
tion The cornfields, meadows, and pastures needed moisture.
As the day wore apace, time began to hang heavy on Ins hands.
He went to the barn. It was quite empty, and there was nothing
odo there He went to the tool-house everything was in order
there He went to the wood-house; all the wood had been sawed
snlit and piled in the winter. He went into his house and sat
} ’ v,; s hat on perhaps to delude himself into the belief
that'he was 'going °somewhere. It was hard work to do noth
in?rhore was a shelf in a remote corner of the room, so high and
- 1 Of excess that the dust was allowed to accumulate upon
Mr N. chanced to look toward it and saw a pai t
f“ 0 n d old maeazine He stepped into a chair and took it down,
of an old magazine. i between its leaves.
f," waTwrittim by bis daughter who
He took it up ands It was written when she was
h . ad tTvITInWS of and contained an account of her con
about se\enteen y e * hUe gbe was away from home, pursu
•CrSrr\TudSs at an academy in a neighboring township. It was
in :i to her mother but contained many expressions of affec
addressed to hu > desire that he might become interested
tion for her father The writer witnessed a good profession for
in the great salvation lh* wn cr w g
a pilgnin upon the earth. The
father was still with outintcre.vui j; recollections 0 f his
When he saw th e handwriting oi Hiding the letter in
loving daughter cam 1 that he might not be seen to
his bosomuhe Dar again Rnd wept oTer
weep. There he rea her fether might become mtcr
it. The expression of ... r hi s heart. He retired in
ested in the great sava. ion prayed as he had never
to a dark corner m the “'theVuse his eyes were red
prayed before. When (he SUl . prised look of his wife by
putting her hand, and soon her tears were m.ngted
with his. a b o ut to retire, he said to his wife.
That night, as -they . Rible and pray ?” She complied
“Can’t you read a chap di ffi cu it y . The next morning she
with loving voice. “Hadn’t
handed him the volume< and with faltering tones
you better read . still more faltering tones, followed the
read a chapter, and w - that time family worship was estab
reading with prayer. |r ma de a pnblic profession ot
iijhed i“ prayersK daughter answered seven years
ailefshe was in glory?
Build of English. Women*
In a remarkably practical and wcll
wriiten article by Dr. R. T. Trail, pub
lished in Hygienic Teacher , he discusses
the comparative “ vital stamina ” of
Americans and English women thus
sensibly :
“The better vital development of the
English, particularly of the women and
children, has long been a subject of re
mark with travelers; and we have been
in the babit of alluding to this subject
in our lectures on the health and diseases
of women. Hence, when the opportu
nity presents, we could not help study
ing this subject with much interest.
We trace the great differenc that ex
ists in this respect aud it is even
greater than wo had supposed—to two
sources, the greater amount of sleep
and the more exposure to the fresh air.
English mothers expose themselves
aud their children to the air often and
freely as a matter of habit, while Ameri
can mothers exclude themselves and
their children from the fresh air as
much as possible. On the cars, on the
boats, in the omnibuses, in the hotels,
everywhere, we notice the almost univer
sal attention paid to ventilation. No
where did we sec an English woman
shut a window for fear her baby would
“catch its death of cold,” and none ot
the babies seemed to have colds. All
that we noticed seemed to be remarkably
good matured. It is almost impossibe
to travel on a train in America where
there are several young children, with
out hearing continually the cry of dis
tress from some of them. But we heard
nothing of this kind in England. We
do not absolutely know from actual ob
servation and cxperiance that an Eng
lish baby ever does cry, or can. Eng
lish women are generaly less irritable,
less morbidly nervous than American
women, for the reason already assigned
—more rest, more sleep, more quiet —
and the circumstance, of course, has no
small influence on the organization and
temper of their offspring. And we
think this view of the matter is fully con
firmed by a comparison of the waists of
English and American women. The
effect of early and abundant exposure to,
and exercise in the open air, is to pro
mote free breathing, enlarge the capacity
of the respiratory apparatus, develop the
vital organs, expand the chest, and en
large the waist. And the vital resources
of any woman, or any man, or any animal,
other circumstances being equal, may bo
measured by the dimensions of tho lower
part of the thorax. The (Englishwomen,
as a general rule, will outmeasure the
American several inches. This rule is
well exemplified in the German woman,
who exercise much from early childhood
in the open air, and who do not lace their
vital organs out of all symmetrical pro
portions to the rest of the body. On
board the Bavaria were half a hundred
women and girls from Germany, not one
of whom had not a round, full, well de
veloped chest, so much so, perhaps, as to
he regarded as decidedly ungenteel by the
wasp-waisted fashionables of upper ten
dom in New York, Another circum
stance that tells in favor of better diges
tion and more enduring vitality with the
English, is the habit of eating more
slowly. So far as diet itself is concerned
there is not very much to choose. But
the American people eat almost as soon
as out of bed in the morning, swallow
their food with very imperfect mastica
tion, and then hurry to bussiness; all of
which tends to a precocity of brain and
muscular activity, witn the inevitable
consequence of early decline.
Pictures.
A room with pectures in it and a
room without pictures, differ about as
much as a room with windows. Noth
ing is more melancholy, particularly to
a person who has to pass much time in
his room, than the bleak walls with
nothing on them, for pictures are loop
holes of escape from the soul, leading
to other scenes and other spheres. It
is such an inexpressible relief to a per
son engaged in writing or even reading,
on looking up not to h|ve his line of
vision chopped off by an odious w bite
wall, but to find his soul escaping, as it
were 1 through the frame of an exquisite
picture, to other beaxftiful and perhaps
heavenly scenes, when the fancy for a
moment wry revrl refreshed and delight
ed. Thus pictures are consolers of
loneliness ; they are a relief to the im
prisoned thought; they are books, they
are histories and sermons, which we can
read without the trouble of turning over
the leaves. — Downing.
S@“A few days since a town crier
took in charge a lost child, and pro
ceeded to hunt up his parents. On be
ing asked by a lady what the matter
was, he replied; “Here’s an orphan
child, ma’am, and I’m trying to find its
parents,
To™ S :|9" e ; , . oi . I *' r Pf r
( it paid m advance.
From the State Journal..
Sheep and w 001.
Messrs . Editors :—As there has been,,
for the last year, much experiment upon
the subject of sheep and wool growniug,
I wish to say a few words in regard to
what my sheep have done, and then let
every intelligent farmer judge if sheep
and wool growing do not pay as well or
better than other branches of farming.
In the fall of 18(30, I brought from
Vermont 74 full-blooded Spanish Merino
sheep, the best I could get from some
of the finest flocks. Since then I have
purchased from Vermont 26 more, mak
ing 100 in all. From that flock and
their increase, I have sold bucks to the
amount of 8622, ewes to the amount of
8278, and wool to the amount of 8534,
making in all, 81434, and I have yet on
hand ray this years clip of wool, 924,
lbs., and 123 sheep of the best part of
our flock, being, aside from what I have
sold, an increase of 23 sheep above the
original number, besides my last spring
lambs, 47 in all. My sheep are heavy
shearers, as facts will show. I have a
buck lamb, 14 years old, from which I
clipped 13 lbs. 12 oz. of leng, beautiful
wool. His weight is 73 lbs., being one
pound of wool to pounds of carcass.
Some persons object to the Spanish
Merino, on account of their small size,
but is it not better to get large fleeces
small sheep, than to furnish from 25 to
50 per cent, extra feed for large sheep,
and get no more wool? I also sold a
buck lamb to one of my neighbors, Mr.
Brown, which sheared the same, 13f
lbs., and I have several other labms
which sheared from 10 to 11£ lbs. each.
The 123 sheep, as I said above, sheared
924 Dos. of clean, washed wool, making
an average 7-| lbs. per head, 100 of
which sheared 800 lbs.; 42 ewes of the
100 went 7f lbs., and 28 of said ewes
averaged 8|- lbs. per head. My sheep
were all washed as clean as could be in
clear running water, after being well
soaked in a long rain, except some
eight or ten. My sheep have only oc
cupied at most 39 acres of land, as fol
lows : 25 acres for pasture, 10 for hay,
and 4to raise their grain. Now r , broth
er farmers, what branch of agriculture
pays bettor than this?
Leeds Center, Columbia Cos., Wis.,
Aug. 4th. 1862.
Waggery.
Some time ago. on the Sabbath day,
we wended our way to one of our churches,
and instead of a sermon, heard an ad
dress upon some missionary or other
benevolent subject. After the address
was concluded, two brethren were sent
around with the baskets for contribu
tions —Parson L-= , who was one of
the basket-bearers, taking the side upon
which wo sat. Immediately in our front,
and upon the next scat, negligently re
clined our friend Bill H , a gentle
man of infinite humor, and full of dry
jokes. Parson L extended the bas
ket, and Bill slowly shook his head.
‘‘Come, William, give us something,’*"
said the parson,
“Can’t do it,” replied Bill.
“Why not? Is not the cause a good'
one ?”
“Yes; but Irm not able to givo any
thing.”
“Poh! poh! I know better; you must
give a better reason than that.”
“Well, I owe too much. I must? be
just before I am generous, you know.”
“But, William, you owe God a. larger
debt than you owe any ono else.”
“That’s true, parson, but then he
ain't a pushing me like the balance of
mg creditors .”
The parson’s face got into, rather a
curious condition as ho passed on.
Mutual Forbearance. —The house
will be kept in turmoil where there is
no toleration of each others’ errors. If
you lay a single stick of wood on the
grate, apply fire to it, it will go out;
put on another stick, and the will burn;
and a half dozen sticks, and you will
have a blaze. If one member of a family
gets into a passion, and is let alone, he
will cool down, and may possibly be
ashamed and repent. But oppose tem
per to temper, pile on the fuel, draw in
others of the group, and let one harsh
ansewr be followed by another, and
there will be a blaze that will enwrap
them all.
Never Swear. —We had a kind
neighbor who sometimes used profane
language when he was angry. One day
his little daughter came in, leading her
younger brother, and .to his
mother said, with a grieved expression,
“Mother, little bub swore; little bub
can’t have any wings when he dies lo
fly up to the good place. Poor little
bub!” and the little girl began to cry.
But the boy looked up to his mother’s
face and said : “But father swore, too.
Pan’t he have any wings when he dies ?”
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