The Connecticut Observer, And New York Congregationalist

From the New York Messenger.

SOME THINGS I DON'T LIKE.

Mr. Editor:—I don't like to see professors of religion going to the Post Office on the Sabbath for papers and letters. I think they should wait until Monday.

I don't like to see Christians visiting, walking or riding on the Sabbath. The example is bad.

I don't like to see persons come into the church after preaching has commenced, and leave before the sermon is over. I think they wish to attract notice.

I don't like to receive a visit on the Sabbath. It is an encroachment on my hours of devotion.

I don't like to see preachers of the gospel, travelling on the Sabbath. They would do more good in the pulpit.

I don't like to see the children of pious parents bathing in the river, gathering fruit or wandering in the fields on the Sabbath. They should be restrained.

I don't like to hear a preacher tell his congregation that he will dismiss them in a few moments, and then detain them an hour. He deceives them.

I don't like to see any person take a religious or any other kind of newspaper, without paying for it. It is fraudulent.

I don't like to see people wearing fine clothes when they are five or six years in arrears with the printer. They should pay at least once in five years.

I don't like to see a tale-bearer or a busybody in other people's matters, coming to my house to slander a neighbor. I have frequently heard that a dog that will carry a bone will take one.

I don't like to see a young man frequenting the theatre and tavern. I fear for him.

I don't like to see or hear a man preach more than four hours. One is enough.

I don't like to see a congregation neglect prayer meetings. That congregation will not flourish.

I don't like to see a congregation that never pays their preacher. They will never prosper.

I don't like to hear a preacher whose strength is only in his lungs.

Fault Finder.