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 showed improvement; they wore an aspect so pleasing that it proved an inducement to the young to resort to them. This house alone stood as it does now on the exterior, like an antiquated relic of gone by days, remembered as a place where amid the musty memories of the past it is remembered however venerated it may be regarded, yet it was not in keeping with the progress of the times when progress is the watchword, in fact "the lamp now that burneth" and shines so distinctly athwart our pathway. True, the old church always retained a hold upon the respect of the community; its character for order and consistency unquestioned, and among the churches none are regarded as retaining more of the simplicity of Christian requirements in their externals than this old church, for there are many in it whose regular attendance for worship to this house is proverbial, and as it is in attendance, so in everything else; in dress, in general conduct, in temperance, in worship, in conversation, avoiding all show of parade, avoiding all of those trappings and harness lately introduced into the Church of Christ in the forms of bills of fare, such as fairs, mental feasts, suppers, or teas as they are called, and those destructive ones under the significant head of "great attraction;" then follow theatrical displays, as Sabbath School exhibitions—the majority of pieces spoken taken from dramatic writers, not from God's Word, neither Christian writers nor poets; these are too tame for those training in these schools of Christ. The very dress in which many appear is the drapery of the stage, the glitter and show of the theatre—by no means the simple, neat, becoming one of the Christian, which, in order to be consistent and sincere in profession, should be observed. Against all these outrages this old church is set, from