The Newberry Herald

OF Fairs.

The Presbyterian Index says: "We are more and more convinced that the system of fairs for benevolent purposes is fraught with evil that it tends to the encouragement of extortion; deceit and vain display; that it sets young and indiscreet females to bantering and bargaining with young men in a way that is not favorable to that style of character most lovely; that it does not encourage the spirit of benevolence, but of gain; and for these and other reasons, we believe that a more excellent mode might be adopted for the purpose of raising funds, for religious objects." Rev. Dr. Huntington, at the recent Episcopal Missionary meeting in Providence, said: "Once let the people get poisoned with the wretched falsehood, that, in order to carry on the work of the Church and meet its costs, they must contrive some round-about device of sale, or fair, or pic-nic, a mixture of merchandise, cajolery and merry-making, by which the few shall be deceived into parting with more than they want to give, and the many shall be educated into the worse delusion of supposing they are not to surrender anything to the Christ who died for them, without an ostensible equivalent taken back, and you strike at the root of all Christian charity while the name is on your lips. You cast up a treacherous highway for the Lord's feet. You hide out of sight the central reality of sacrifice, which is the giving up to God of that which cost the selfish heart something. You eat out the heart of the Church to extend its outward prosperity." Christian Neighbor.